Answers to reviewers' questions or statements:
treyalexander63917: Yes, those two will appear and yes Peter will meet some other spider gods when he goes to earth.
justafan: No the symbiote is more like the one from the comics.
gunman: How Peter survived will be explained and well it's not as glorious as it sounds. There is one more Fury that's lusting after Peter that will be revealed after this arc and it'll come as one hell of a surprise for Diana. As for them being Darkseid's Furies, no they aren't really unworthy since they are considered Darkseid's elite troops and frankly Darkseid can care less if his children and some of his Furies are in a relationship with each other, so long as they don't try and seize the throne from him, all is well.
Chaos Sorcerer: No Peter doesn't have the Void in him and as for what it was that Hera sensed in Peter, that will be explored later on but it's part of the reason why Peter of all of Darkseid's children was chosen to be Diana's husband. Yes more Marvel alien races will be appearing and some cosmic heroes like Quasar. Aside from Warbird and Psylocke and one other Fury there will be two other women that will grow attached to Peter aside from Diana, one already is the other will be shown when he heads to earth.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel, DC or Dead Space characters seen, mentioned or used in this story.
"Take cover!" Diana yelled as she used her armor's bracelets to block the second blast fired from what appeared to be a possessed Lemenus.
The force of the plasma blast sent Diana skidding back several feet while Psylocke sent a wave of psionic energy towards the exoskeleton garbed Fury.
Lemenus narrowed her glowing eyes and braced herself for the impact, gritting her teeth when it slammed into her with enough force to cause some of the plates of her suit to crack and send her sliding back.
She was about to fire back with her plasma rifle when Diana appeared before her in a blurr and rammed her face into the lover of Kalibak.
KOOOM!
Peter held in a wince as he saw Lemenus get sent flying back by Diana's blow, and crashed through a wall that seemed to cause the entire hallway to shake.
"Ugh…" Warbird groaned in pain as she gripped her head "What the hell hit me?"
Peter gently stroked the side of her face "Lemenus blasted you with one of her rifles, she must have the setting on high if you weren't able to completely absorb the hit"
Warbird shook her head and with the aid of Peter climbed back to her feet and sent a glare towards the hole made by Lemenus "Allow me to return the favor!"
It was then Diana turned towards them "we need to move now, if Lemenus has been possessed then it's likely Grail and Barda have as well"
"Along with En Sabah Nur" Peter said grimly.
"What do we do?" Psylocke said with a frown "We're outgunned and likely outnumbered"
Peter hummed at that as he cupped his chin for a moment before looking towards Warbird "Your ship, does it's com system still work?"
"Possibly" Warbird said with a frown "But something is blocking it's signal along with the ships"
"We're on our own then" Diana said as she turned back towards the hole Lemenus made and could faintly hear the alien woman's exoskeleton suit starting to power back up "And Lemenus will be up soon"
"I think I know a way to get a signal out" Peter said as a plan began to form in his head "But honestly there's no real guarantee it'll even work and even if it did, the help we'd get will be…less than desirable"
"What do you have planned?" Diana asked as she placed a hand on her hip.
"First we're going to need the com system from your ship and likely mine and Sabah's, assuming it's still intact"
"It was" Psylocke said as she folded her arms under her bust.
Peter nodded at that "Good. Betsy, I'm going to need you to go back to the hanger and retrieve both ships com systems. The transponder should be in the main communications terminal"
"Understood my lord" the purple haired telepath gave Peter a small bow before she hugged him, much to Diana's surprise and Carol's ire "Stay safe Peter…"
"I lasted this long, I think I can last another few hours" Peter joked as he patted her back "Now get going we wont have much time before we either end up like the crew or worse…like my siblings and the other Furies"
Psylocke nodded before she drew her sword and channeled her purple psionic energy through it and raced down a dimly lit hall that will lead her back to the hangers that housed their ships. Peter watched her go for a moment before looking towards Carol and Diana.
"Okay, while she goes and gets the com systems, Carol I'm going to need you to head down to the ships generator and jump start it back up. Also try to see if the ships Mother box is still operational"
Carol frowned "What are you planning to do Peter?"
Peter took in a shaky breath "I'm going to try and send a message through a Boom Tube, well it's a lot more complicated than that but that's the watered-down version of it"
Diana stared at Peter with some doubt "Can you pull such a thing off?"
"Guess we'll see" Peter said with a grim smile under his mask.
"What about you and…your wife?" Carol said the last part with a hint of revulsion aimed towards Diana who responded with a scowl of annoyance, she was truly getting tired of Carol's attitude to her current situation.
If she could she'd gladly let her have him and return to earth to be with her real family, not this twisted lot.
"She's coming with me to this ships communications control room on the far side of the ship, sadly there's a lot of these monsters between us and there so I'm going to need help getting there…plus there's a mutated Buuden guarding it and I don't think I'm really strong enough to kill it on my own, hence I'm bringing Diana here" Peter said in a tone that broker no argument.
Carol didn't seem to particularly like the sound of her love being around the earth heathen but she knew better to voice this, at least at the moment as it sounds like Lemenus is up and about again.
"Very well my lord" Carol gave Peter a bow before glaring at Diana and quickly flew down the hall towards the lift that will take her to the ships lower levels where the generator was located along with the mother box the ship uses.
"Man, she really doesn't like you" Peter snickered as he gestured for Diana to follow him.
"So I've noticed" Diana said sarcastically before she remembered what Peter said "What kind of Buuden is at the communications room?"
"Small one, adolescent" Peter said with a shrug "More suited for labor then combat like the ones you've seen in. But given it's changed like a lot of these things…well it may end up being more difficult to kill"
"Fantastic" Diana said with a sigh.
"Hey don't worry honey, your dashing husband will be here to help you this time" Peter said as they quickly made their way down the halls, distant roars of the undead crew echoed through, both behind and ahead of them.
"Forgive me if I don't feel relieved" Diana said as they passed by a hole that suddenly had a Parademon jump out, it was similarly altered like the others they've both seen, but the skin was a darker hue and had red veins pulsing through it's body.
"RRRRRRRAGH!" the Parademon roared as Diana grabbed it's fist and quickly tore off it's arm before kicking back into the hole it leaped from.
Peter, with his Venom blasts, blasted down the tunnel for good measure and was rewarded with the screeching roars of the undead Parademon. Peter stared down the hole with narrowed lenses and made a 'humming' sound.
"What is it?" Diana asked as she heard numerous other undead members of the crew approaching.
"These Parademons…their starting to change, evolve for the lack of a better term…interesting" Peter said as he felt his sixth sense flare and looked to see multiple Parademons, all similar to the one he and Diana just bested approaching along with several none altered former slaves.
"Shame I can't study these things in depth" Peter said as he readied his venom blasts "Something like this could be a real boon for Apokolips"
"Then I have even more of a reason to ensure none of these things survive" Diana said as she raised her sword and charged at the undead crew members with a savage war cry.
…
Psylocke had just made it to the hanger that housed the ships that both parties used to get to this floating nightmare when she was suddenly attacked by an unknown assailant. They attacked from behind and sent a powerful kick towards Betsy's back that caused her to scream out in pain as she felt one of her vertebrate nearly break from the force of the hit.
She landed in a roll and came up just in time to narrowly dodge a fist from imbedding itself in her head before she sent a punch, coated in psionic energy into her attacker's core, sending them sliding back.
Betsy narrowed her eyes at the attacker, they were clad in some sort of black armored top, black leather like pants, armored boots with a knife on the right foot and what looked to be some sort of broad sword on their back.
She also noticed that her attacker was female and possessed shoulder length black hair and green skin with yellow eyes, but these seemed natural unlike the possessed yellow color Lemenus had.
Betsy snarled at the woman with her blade raised "Who are you to attack one of Darkseid's Furies!"
The woman narrowed her eyes at Betsy as she drew her sword "I am the herald to your false god's demise…and your executioner little girl"
She than leaped at Betsy who growled as she blocked the sword strike with her own, creating a series of sparks as the alien metals clashed and echoed across the dark hanger, both assailants unaware of the multiple eyes of the former crew watching from the shadows with a dark twisted hunger.
…
Carol gritted her teeth in rage as a large mass of flesh in the shape of tentacle emerged from the ceiling and tried to crush her. Carol sent several proton blasts at the mass of gore and narrowed her eyes when she saw that aside from burn the rotted flesh, it was having little to no effect.
"Of fuckin course it won't work, why should I expect anything less" Carol hissed darkly as she side stepped the tentacle and coated her hand in photon energy and rammed her fist into the side, creating a small explosion that severed the end of the tentacle, which in turn caused it to growl before receding back into the shows of the celling.
Carol smirked at this and was about to move when she stopped dead in her tracks at the approaching figure ahead of her.
"Oh for the love of the Source!" Carol groaned out as Barda, with glowing yellow eyes smirked at Carol with her ax glowing and at the ready.
"Make us whole…" Barda echoed out with a voice that was both hers and not hers at the same time before she broke out into a run with the glowing blade raised over her head.
Carol braced herself as one of the physically strongest Furies raced towards her with the intent to kill her or worse.
…
KRAKOOOOM!
Peter let out a yelp as he was smacked away by a large brute that was composed of what looked like four Parademons and right into a wall, the metal giving slightly as Peter's body made contact with it and was just barely able to grab the large gapping maw from biting him.
Peter growled as he used this moment of physical contact and began to electrocute the undead monster with all the energy he could muster at the moment.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHH!" the brute roar as it's body began to burn from the millions of volts of divine empowered electricity coursed through it's rotting body.
"Yeah you like that, well have some of the too!" Peter yelled as he had his suit mental form a waldoe that created a small canon on the end of it and blasted right down the brute's throat, causing it to let out a choked gargle before it's throat and back were completely blown apart, coating the wall, Peter and the ceiling in dark blood.
"…Was hoping for that to not happen but better than being dead I suppose" Peter said as he pushed the mass off him and looked to see Diana fighting two other brutes without her sword, having it been already imbedded in one of the brute's arms.
The brute that didn't have a sword jammed in one of it's limbs growled at Diana and took a swing at her with it's large armored arm only for Diana to duck underneath it before leaping into the air and ramming her knee into it's head, decapitating it and sending it flying into the wall while she landed in a crouch and turned to see the other brute charging her when suddenly-
TWIP!
TWIP!
Two lines made of web ensnared the brutes shoulders and with all of Peters strength he pulled the large mass of corpses and rage to a stop. Diana used the moment to leap on top of the brute's head and grab one of it's arms and then ripped it off, showing the wall and floor with puss, blood, and bone.
"RAAAAAAWWWWW!" the brute roared in rage and tried to throw Diana of it only for the amazon to grab it by the upper jaw and tear it's entire upper head off with a sickening rip.
The action also had the effect of dousing Diana's legs and torso in blood, much to her disgust if the look of revulsion on her face was anything to go by.
'By the gods, this is the foulest thing I've ever faced' Diana thought as she tossed the head aside and leaped off the swaying mountain of flesh before it landed on the floor with a wet thud.
Peter watched as Diana brush some blood off her armor as she ripped her sword from the dead beast's arm and turned to see Peter looking at her.
"What?" Diana gave the man a confused frown.
"That…" Peter said as he looked back and forth between the now dead brutes "…Was one of the hottest things I've ever seen!"
Diana rolled her eyes at her husband's statement "So glad to know that me tearing things apart in a bloody fashion gets your blood pumping"
"What can I say, we all have our desires…I'm sure you have your own dark fantasies like I have mine" Peter said with a shrug.
"I'm sure my fantasies are nothing compared to the likes of your twisted nightmares" Diana said as she wiped some of the blood off her blade and continued down the hall she and Peter were taking.
"Hey they aren't all that bad, sides you want twisted nightmarish fantasies then speak to my brother Valboon when he gets back to Apkolips for the wedding between my father and Mortalla in a few weeks" Peter said as he followed after his wife.
"He sounds like a true charmer" Diana said with a frown before she realized something about Peter's statement in regards to the wedding "Peter, are all of your siblings going to be at the wedding?"
"Yeah, barring the likes of Orion for obvious reasons, why?" Peter looked at her with a frown.
"…Is there anyone I should avoid by chance?" Diana questioned.
"What do you mean?" Peter asked.
"Are any of them like…Grayven?" Diana questioned and had to repress a shiver at the look of lust in the larger more powerful son of Darkseid's eyes.
"Oh…yeah, sadly at least four of them may try something if only to either get at me because I apparently pissed them off in the past or because well your attractive and well…" Peter trailed off.
"I thought your father doesn't tolerate his sons forcing themselves on a woman?" Diana stated.
"What he doesn't know won't hurt them and even then several of them have a healing factor on par with the likes of that bounty hunter Lobo, so even if he dose find out and puts them through the littersl grinder, they'll just put themselves back together and work all the harder to not get caught next time"
Diana's eyes narrowed at that "If they try something…am I allowed to defend myself?'
Peter scoffed "No, I expect you to just sit or stand there and take it, of course your allowed to defend yourself. One brutal beating or castration from you and they'll avoid you like they avoid Grail after she first came to Apokolips, hell my half-brother Zunn still flinches every time he sees her!"
"What about your other sisters then?" Diana pressed as they stopped at what looked like a lift that will take them to the level that housed the communications room, after that it was a straight shot to their destination and one step closer to getting out of here and hopefully destroying this place "Are they vulnerable to some of your brothers…forceful advances?"
"…No, all of them know that Grayven and Kunla are a thing so they won't even dare and as for the other two…none of them are willing to risk father's unrivaled wrath if they try anything on those two" Peter said as he and Diana stepped on to the lift and quickly selected the level they want.
"He values them that much?" Diana said in slightly surprise to hear how protective Darkseid of all people is to some of his children 'I suppose even the god of evil has some measure of good inside him…'
"Uh…you'll see why when or if we get back to Apokolips" Peter said as the lift came to a stop and the doors opened…to several child size creatures that were pale, possessed no eye sand possessed large claws on each hand.
One of the small pale figures saw Peter and Diana and let out a loud screeching roar before it and the rest charged towards the two.
"Hmm guess I finally found out what happened to the Zenzians" Peter said as he blasted at several of the small creatures with his venom blasts "Was beginning to think they were all wiped out or eaten by the larger ones"
Diana kicked one away and grabbed another by it's throat before snapping it's neck and throwing it into the wall with enough force to completely shatter it's body.
Peter watched the bloody spectacle paly out and was about to make a comment on Diana's brutality when he felt his sixth sense flare and he heard a familiar humming sound.
'Uh oh!' Peter thought as he quickly tackled Diana to the ground just as a beam of blue and purple energy shot past them and tore through the re-enforced haul of the Agooma. Diana stared at th4e damage for a moment before looking to see Peter was lying on top of her.
Peter's lenses bore into her eyes for a moment before he spoke "Uh…Hello"
Diana's response was to toss Peter off her and look to see something that filled her with a sense of dread.
'You've got to be kidding me…'
Peter shook his head and turned towards the source of his sixth sense flaring and paled at the sight of En Sabah Nur, eyes glowing a sickly yellow, approaching the two with one of his hands morphed into a canon that was still humming from his earlier shot.
"Make…us…whole" Sabah said in a dark tone as he raised his glowing canon towards the duo.
"Ah shit…" Diana said with wide eyes.
"You and me both" Peter said as he quickly grabbed Diana and leaped out of the way just as his older, more powerful half-brother opened fire.
…
…Ninety-three million light years from Aegis-VII… Apokoliptian dreadnaught 'The Subjugator'.
"I fail to see why I have to get involved dear brother" a light but dark male voice echoed in a room with the only light being that of a hologram that displayed the towering form of Kalibak "After all, me and Peter get along as well as Father and Uncle do!"
Kalibak snarled at his younger half sibling "It is father's orders, if either Peter or his wife Diana perish, it will end the alliance between us and Earth"
The figure, who was garbed in a sort of black armor with a hood pulled over his face, leaving only his glowing white eyes and mouth to be seen when he spoke.
"Annnnnnnnnd I should really care why?" the figure said in a drawl.
Kalibak growled at him "Think of it like this dear brother, what do you think father will do to you when he finds out it was your inactions that cost him such powerful allies and one of Apokolip's top scientists and on top of that En Sabah Nur and Grail?"
The figure went silent at that for a long moment before speaking in a resigned but resentful tone "Grrr-Fine! I'll go and save poor little Peter and the rest, but no this Kalibak what happens to them before I get there will not be my responsibility!"
Kalibak narrowed his eyes "Get it done Zunn…or save father the trouble and throw yourself into the nearest Black Hole"
Kalibak's image then faded, leaving the now identified Zunn alone in darkness before he growled and quickly turned and made his way to a wall that opened up and revealed a bridge of one of Apokolip's few dreadnaughts, with the creation of Mother boxes and Boom tubes, space travel in warships was slowly becoming redundant for their military forces, after all what use was a warship when you can teleport your forces on to the planet your attacking or into their warships defending it?
Zunn paced the slightly crowded bridge before looking towards the front that housed the navigation officers that piloted the half mile long warship "Helmsmen! Divert our course to Aegis-VII! We have to save my poor dear siblings and their whores or risk Darkseid's wrath!"
"Yessss master" the pale amphibian like Parademons at the helm said before it and several others like it typed in a series of commands and the ship began to turn.
Zunn made his way towards a seat and sat in it with a huff "And to think I'm going to miss out on the subjugation of an entire civilization, this trip better be worth it!"
…
And done.
So it looks like the group trapped on the Agooma is about to get some reluctant help in the form of one of Peter's half-brothers, Zunn, the New God of Genocide and Slaughter.
Next chapter, Peter and Diana face down En Sabah Nur and try to get to the com room to signal for help while Carol and Betsy deal with their own problems in the shapes of Barda and the unknow attacker and we uncover a little more about the mysterious artifact that is housed on this ship.
