Answers to reviewers' questions or statements:

justafan: Hate to say it but Peter didn't really let the beings he did experiment go after he was done with them, he more or less passed them on to be terminated or sent them off to the Parademon processing plants. You aren't wrong in that someone did help insure that Peter didn't go too far down the very dark road that his own father and many of his siblings have, who it is won't be seen until we get to New Genesis and we delve further into Peter's back story and Darkseid's rather tense relationship with his brother The Highfahter, but just saying it's not his mother and it's part of the reason why Peter has a very low opinion of new Genesis because honestly that place really isn't all that much better compared to it's dark counterpart, it's just prettier to look at

gunman: Peter's actions later in the story will make it very hard for Diana to actually look him in the eye, let alone consider him a decent person and as for Diana, well nothing stays innocent or pure on Apokolips forever I'm afraid. A bit more of what's happened on this ship will be explained this chapter but a lot of it will be left ambiguous intentionally, we'll get a good idea of what's happened but never the full story, all anyone will know in the end is the mysterious artifact was found and things went south before anyone could blink in the worse way possible

Boomer1125: no but I do have plans to have the Green Goblin to appear

blackmoon FierceGods 15: I have something planned that'll test Diana in a similar fashion like that but not yet. As for making this a harem, starting to lean towards it

JJChandler: I might introduce a few of Galactus's old heralds at some point in this story

Hivedragon: Peter will begin to grow in power over the course of the story. The other Fury that will be lusting after Peter is a DC woman but she's not Mad Hariet, well not a Fury in general but hey she's got the personality and the skill to be one so I'm making her one for this story.

Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel, DC or Dead Space characters seen, mentioned or used in this story


Zunn held in a yawn as the Subjugator had finally come out of light speed and the Agooma laid before him over several hundred thousand miles away. The ship casted an ominous presence over the barren world it had set to harvest

"Report" Zunn said as he stood up and approached a Holo table that brought up an image of the Agooma and the planet it orbited in a red and orange color

It was a Parademon that answered, "No communications… power to ship is dead"

Zunn snorted at this "They really need to provide better protection for these damn things or get better crews. For the love of the Source I could be in Allderia right now butchering people by the thousands and doing unspeakable tings to the planet's innocents, the women especially because by the gods they have some of the finest looking women I've seen in years, but nooooo instead I have to 'rescue' my siblings… weak and ungrateful worms the lot of them!"

Zunn took this moment to scan the Agooma's figure on the holoscreen before he shrugged "Fire a torpedo towards the aft section and we'll give it an hour for a response. After that I'll consider going aboard and seeing if my siblings are dead yet… not that I'll be complaining if they are especially Grail. Damn bitch deserves every ounce of horror this universe has to offer and more for rebuffing my attraction to her for En Sabah Nur of all people"

It was then a figure in a grey and brown robe stepped forward and spoke in a raspy tone "But masssster… lord Kalibak ssssaid-"

Zunn interrupted the being by reaching over and grabbing them by the throat and brought their struggling form near his cloaked face, his eyes seemingly burning with cruel amusement "What big brother doesn't know won't hurt him… or more importantly me, so we wait"

Zunn tossed the robed figure away as the Parademons shot a torpedo off towards the Agooma, hitting it in the aft section and tearing a hole in the mining vessels hull causing it's fuel to begin to slowly tickle out along with parts of it's hull

"And now we wait for some sort of response" Zunn said as he sat back down in his chair and pulled out a small knife and began to idly toy with it as he mentally countered down one hour while a woman entered the bridge

Zunn turned his attention to one of the six Furies that he had under his command and scowled as he recognized the person, another one of his father's Furies that has taken in interest in his sniveling weak half-brother Peter, seriously what does he have that Zunn didn't?

"What is it?" Zunn asked with annoyance as the armored woman came to a stop before him

"Are we not going to investigate the ship to make sure your siblings and their people are alive still?" the woman asked with narrowed eyes while placing a hand on her armored hip

"They have an hour to respond, after that by all means take a detachment and see to it" Zunn waved her off as he resumed toying with his knife

The woman's eyes glowed red for a moment before she took a deep breath and turned on her heel and made her way off the bridge, the ground trembling slightly as her feet connected with the ground a little harder than necessary

Zunn watched her go for a moment before he rolled his eyes "Fuckin Krytonians… bunch of damn drama brats the lot of them…"

Not that he'd ever say that to her face, he isn't that stupid to piss off one of his father's most powerful Furies…

Peter had just slammed into Grail's body, knocking her off Diana when the ship suddenly lurched and Peter nearly lost his footing and face planted right into his wife's bosom "What the hell?!"

"What was that?" Diana asked as she stood back up and retrieved her sword from Peter's grip and brought it up in time to block Grail's ax from cleaving her head in half

"Felt like we were hit by something" Peter said as he sent several venom blasts at Grail who responded by using her ax to deflect them as she kicked Diana away and shot at Peter with her Omega beams

"Uh oh" Peter said with wide eyes as he leaped out of the way to avoid being vaporized by the deadly Omega energy, which was easier said than done given how small this corridor was compared to the others he's had to fight in

Grail growled in her attempts to kill Peter before suddenly she was drawn into a headlock by Diana and slammed into the wall

THROKK!

"Grail, as much as I'm enjoying this I would prefer you regain control of yourself" Diana said as she slammed Grail's head into the wall again, denting the hull

Grail elbowed Diana in the gut before kicking the slightly winded woman away and shot her Omega beams at the flying form of Diana "Make us whole!"

Diana was just narrowly able to bring up her gauntlets to block Grail's beams and was sent flying into the wall. Diana gritted her teeth as she felt the metal burning and beginning to sear her flesh. Grail began to steadily advance on Diana when suddenly Peter grabbed the sides of her head and gave her a full dose of his venom blasts, shocking the new God-Amazon hybrid and forcing her to shut off her Omega beams in response

She turned faster than Peter could respond and grabbed him by the throat and lifted him into the air and began to tighten her grip on his neck, causing him to let out a choked noise as he struggled to free himself before his throat was crushed. Grail was about to ram her fist into Peter's chest when Diana grabbed it and rammed her elbow into Grail's shoulder joint, breaking the bone with a loud crack and forcing Grail to drop Peter

Grail snarled at Diana and sent a kick into the woman's torso which was grabbed by Peter who then sent a jab into grail's throat followed by a heeled kick into the face by Diana

THOOOOM!

Diana and Peter watched as Grail was sent flying down the hall by Diana's hit and slammed into the bodies of multiple approaching undead Parademons… being led by En Sabah Nur

"We can't win this, let's go!" Peter said as he handed Diana her sword back and the two quickly sprinted down the hallway towards the communications room

The possessed En Sabah Nur watched them go before turning and letting out a dark grunt, the undead and altered crew members around him gave chase to the duo as Grail stood up and quickly followed while the larger child of Darkseid turned and made his way back down to the cargo hold

Diana casted a brief glance over her shoulder to see the undead crew gaining on them, traversing the walls and ceilings like demonic locust with Grail slowly knocking others aside as she sprinted after them. The daughter of Zeus and Hippolyta casted a brief glance towards Peter

"How much farther?"

Peter was about to answer when he suddenly felt his precognition flare up, causing him to groan "Oh for fuck's sake-"

KRAKOOOOOM!

The entre hall ahead of the duo cracked and buckled before it collapsed and a large figure dug it's way up and snarled at the two. It was the Buuden that Peter mentioned earlier and Diana had to hold back a gag as the stench of it's rotted flesh and the others that seemed fused to it hit her

It's body was a bit elongated and it's tail had morphed at the end into what looked like some sort of bony stinger. It opened it's jaws to reveal what looked like a secondary set of teeth inside it along with what looked like mandibles protruding from inside it's throat

"Huh, it's gotten bigger since I last saw it" Peter stated as he and Diana continued to run towards the roaring undead monstrosity

He built up his venom blasts and sent a powerful blast towards the undead Buuden, hitting it in the face and causing bits of flesh to fly off it while Diana blitzed the monster and sliced off one of its arms before lifting the stunned creature over her head and throwing it down the hall towards Grail and the undead crew members

Grail narrowed her eyes at the mass of flesh coming towards her and leaped over it with ease while the undead Parademons behind her were less fortunate and were crushed under the beast's weight. Grail landed in a roll and threw her ax towards Diana who responded by ducking under the deadly projectile and caught the knee that was hoping to make it's home in her face

Diana grunted as she pushed Darkseid's most powerful daughter back before she sent a flurry of punches and kicks towards the hybrid that were either blocked or made their landmark on the possessed princess before Diana finished her assault off with a powerful uppercut the shook the entire hallway from the force of the impact

Peter watched as Grail was sent flying through the ceiling and likely the next several floors by Diana's punch before he gave out a low whistle followed by a slow clap "Damn… keep this up my dear and I may start to fall in love with you"

Diana glanced back at Peter with a frown "Forgive me if I feel less than flattered"

Peter scowled at the woman before he looked down the hall to see the undead Parademons crawling and tearing their way through the dismembered Buuden that Diana threw at them earlier

"Come on, the communication's just up ahead, the doors should be more than enough to keep them out" Peter said as he sent a powerful venom blast towards the horde of undead alien foot soldiers before he and Diana resumed their trek to the communications room

Betsy held back a pained yelp as Ganmora's blade slashed her across her shoulder, spilling her blood on to the ground before she responded with a swipe across the green skinned woman's face, scaring her across the left eye and causing Gamora to let out a savage roar of rage as she lunged at Betsy who blasted her back with a telekinetic pulse

Gamora rammed her blade into the ground to keep her from flying into the darkened parts of the hanger that were currently being inhabited by the oddly observant undead mutated crew members of the Agooma

Gamora barred her teeth at Betsy before she ripped her blade from the hull of the ship and raised it towards the purple haired Fury with narrowed eyes "Hmm you've lasted longer than most who've faced off against me, congratulations…"

"Thank you" Betsy said before she created a psi-blade and aimed it at Gamora before she caused it to extend towards the green skinned woman at rapid speeds, forcing Gamora to block the piercing psionic energy with her blade before she pushed back and lunged at Betsy who was just able to throw up a shield in time to block the slashes from Gamora

Gamora seeing that her blade wasn't getting far enough decided to resort to simply punching into the shield with brute force and reared her fist back which began to be covered in some sort of shadow substance which quickly began to harden and flow down her entire arm before slamming it into the purple energy. Betsy's eyes narrowed as she felt the force of the blow

'That's not possible, I've studied this woman's feats before and yet she's exhibiting physical strength far beyond what she's reported to possess!' Betsy thought as she felt the blows from Gamora increasing in both frequency and strength. Her eyes narrowed as she made out bits of tay mysterious shadowy substance latch on to Betsy's shield and seemed to be eating away at it

She then inhaled deeply before she pushed the shield that Gamora was on away from her and towards the slowly creeping darkness around them before she quickly sent a powerful mental probe into Gamora, this time proving to be successful…

Betsy suddenly found herself standing on some sort of barren planet, the sun in the sky a pale white color and the air felt cool on her skin. The telepath searched her surrounds for any possible signs as to where she was before she suddenly saw the image of Gamora standing before a hooded figure, Betsy slowly began to approach the two and picked up bits of their conversation

"-Father, Thanos won't be pleased that I left his service" Gamora stated in a neutral tone

The hooded figure she was speaking to scoffed before replying in a light but utterly dark tone "I care little for what that false god feels, soon he and many others will burn…"

Gamora nodded at this before speaking "What now then?"

"For, there's a distant planet that the New 'God' of Apokolips's forces have taken an interest in. There an ancient relic lies and wait, retrieve it from his Parademons and kill anyone that gets in your way"

"What is this relic?" Gamora questioned the figure

"Something that if used properly can bring even 'Gods' to their knees…" the figure said before Betsy felt herself violently pushed out just as the figure began to turn towards Gamora and show her his face

Betsy let out a pained gasp as she was forced out of Gamora's head as said assassin landed in the darkness, surrounded by numerous mutated crew members of the Agooma before she suddenly lashed out with her blade, cleaving many of the growling and roaring creatures into bloody pieces before she grabbed one of their bony appendages that she sliced off and threw it towards Betsy who was too distracted by the pain in her head to properly dodge it and found herself impaled int eh leg by the jagged alien bone

"AAHHHHH!" Betsy screamed in pain as the bone tore through her leg and caused her to collapse to the ground, clutching her bleeding limb as Gamora tried to rush towards the downed Fury only to be intercepted by more of the undead crew members all shouting, 'Make us Whole'…

Carol gritted her teeth in pain as she was sent through several levels of the Agooma from a blast of Lemenus's plasma rifle set to it's highest setting possible. The energy burned into Carol's skin and leaving a series of second and even third degree burns on the upper part of her legs, left arm and chest

Finally after crashing through another floor, Carol came to a painful stop on to what looked like several undead Parademons that had been melded together into some large abomination that she couldn't identify even if she bothered to.

"Great, it'll take hours to wash the stench out and I won't have Peter there to help" Carol scowled in disgust as she pushed herself up and glared up into the hole that she made and saw Barda fast approaching

Carol leapt out of the way as the larger woman made landfall, causing the ground to crack and fracture as Carol charged up her Photon blasts and prepared to unleash holy hell on the woman when suddenly she was blasted at point blank range in the back, causing her to scream in agony as the energy hitting her was burning her faster than she could try and absorb it

The blonde-haired Fury was slammed into the wall from the force of the energy blast as Lemenus landed beside Barda and slowly approached the smoking form of Diana as her shooter emerged from the shadows and watched the three with blank eyes

Carol moaned in pain as she raised her head to see who shot her and paled at the sight of En Sabah Nur with his plasma canon primed and at the ready

'Great… now I have to contend with Peter's brother and I'm in no shape to face him, let alone with the aid of Barda and Lemenus!' Carol thought with growing fear as she looked around for a possible escape before an idea came to her that might work

Carol waited until Barda and Lemenus were right on top of her before she used her Photon energy and morphed it into a small sword and swung it across Barda's face, causing the larger woman to growl in pain as she backed away clutching her smoking face while Lemenus made to lunge at her only to be blasted away by carol's energy blast and right into En Sabah Nur who grunted at the Fury's impact against his frame before he brought up his canon to blast carol only to watch as the woman rocket towards a nearby hall and out of his sight

En Sabah Nur narrowed his glowing eyes as he lowered his canon and had it change back into his hand while Barda released her face to show a large burning slash across her face and Lemenus picked herself up and removed a piece of metal that had melted into her side from Warbird's blast

The three stood there for several moments before an unheard command called them back towards the cargo hold along with numerous other mutated members of the Agooma and the few survivors that were possessed by the unseen and unknown force…

"They've pulled back" Diana said with narrowed eyes as she and Peter stood outside the communications room, having just arrived when they saw that their undead pursuers had stopped before turning to leave

Peter watched the undead crew members vanish through various holes in the hull of the ship while the large variants made their way further down the hall before turning from his sight

"Hmm… that's not good" Peter said with a slightly troubled expression "From what I've learned, when the seemingly unstoppable enemy turns and leaves so suddenly, it means whatever's pulling it's strings has something else in store for us"

"Then lets hurry and call for aid" Diana said as she sheathed her sword and followed Peter into the communications room… and nearly vomited at the stench and sight that awaited up within

Along the far wall that housed a floor to ceiling and wall to wall window was a large mass of bone, blood, flesh and Olypmus knows what all seemingly melded into some sort of large pulsating object that had numerous appendages trailing across the floor like roots that began to dig into the metal along the walls and floor around it

"W-What… is that!" Diana said as she cupped her nose in attempt to halt the odor it was giving off

Peter followed her glance and stared at the mass of gore before shrugging "Oh that, that was once the operator of this place. Imagine a giant slug but with three heads, six eyes on each head, twelve arms slash legs and covered in slime and you have yourself a Veebrivan"

"A Veebrivan?" Diana said with a questioning look

"One of the first races my father ever enslaved eons ago on some black water planet that had massive plasma reserves in it's crust" Peter said as he made his way to the communications dashboard "This ship had it as their Communications officer"

"Why?" Diana asked as she looked out the window as something caught her attention

"Don't now, maybe because the captain of this ship didn't want to waste manpower on something like this. Veebrivan's are more of a light labor force anyhow…"

Diana made a sound at that, Peter couldn't tell if it was out of disgust or agreement as he tried to set up the coms unit so when Betsy and Carol get back, hopefully, he can send out the distress signal. After a few moments Diana spoke

"We have company…"

Peter paused in his task and followed Diana's gaze to see a massive warship in orbit not too far away from the Agooma. Peter's eyes widened as he recognized it as one of their warships

"A dreadnaught… sweet!" Peter said as he returned his attention back to the dashboard and began to make a few adjustments "Huh guess I won't be needing that mother box to call for help, with that Dreadnaught so close I won't have to strain this ship's systems to make a call"

"Do you know who captain's that vessel?" Diana asked ass he turned towards Peter

"Eh probably a Fury at the very least. My father will never trust a slave or a Parademon to command a Dreadnaught" Peter said as he typed in a few more commands and waited for the nearby vessel to respond to the Agooma's call "Let's just hope it's someone I like…"

Several seconds passed as Peter stared a screen that popped up over the console before Diana came to stand by his side to see who will answer while making sure to keep the room's doorway in her line of sight. After several seconds the call was answered and Peter's hopes of it being someone he liked answering were crushed like the millions of world's that gained Darkseid's notice

"Oh shit…" Peter muttered in annoyance while the figure responded with a large grin

"Peter! I was just thinking about you" Zunn said in grim amusement

'Yeah… I literally would have almost taken anyone else but him!' Peter thought ruefully as he took a deep breath and began to explain the situation to his half sibling


And done.

Next chapter the finale of the fight aboard the lost Agooma with the reluctant aid of Zunn and his Furies