1Story 8: Dooms' Day
Not even a week after Amp's arrival, and his take down of Juggernaut, things were ready to become active again, and even Forte was edgy...well...edgier. They could all feel something was up, without even looking at the scanners. In the Café, Magus himself had made a rare appearance, but typically, was brooding by himself.
However, he was not to be left alone entirely..
"Hey there!"
Magus bore a classic, anime style mark of annoyance, as he tried to ignore his unwanted company, but it wasn't to be, as they sat at his table, to talk to him more directly.
"Aw, come on. You could at least say hi." Goku sighed.
"I have more important things to place my concentration on, other than idle talk."
"Oh really? Like what?"
"...The black wind blows. An ill omen, at best. And the flow of magic, it's different here...like the convergence of worlds. The power and scope of the mystics has been amplified here..."
Goku just stared, silent, before he blinked, then sweatdropped.
"Um...sorry, I don't understand.."
Magus sighed, and got up to leave.
"What I mean, is that all who wield magic, have a deadly advantage of accessing the many shapes and forms of it that have appeared here. Even my magic, what I thought the pinnacle, has become absurdly stronger.."
Goku then knew what Magus meant.
"Ooohhh...wait, that's not good, what about the bad ones?"
"...I'm surprised you don't consider me as such." Magus replied, before leaving the Café.
Story Divide
During this, in the labs, the anomaly scanning devices, which had been silent, now began to blare violently. Lucca shrieked in surprise, before trying to check the cause. She was stunned at what it was...
"That...can't be right..."
What she saw, was a new country appearing, but not just from one world, but many. It was being pieced together and blended, from several worlds. And it was very unstable, as multiple counterparts of various pieces all appeared at once. There were copies of the same buildings, and several versions, all of the same being that ruled it.
"Oh dear god, this is insane. How can so many things occupy one space!"
CD ran in, as did Forte, both waiting to hear the report.
"So what's the problem now?" Forte asked.
"One country's appeared here, but from several places at once. It's like it's trying to make them ALL the version that appears. And it's dumped copies of people and buildings there. It's some place called Lat...La...Latveria!"
CD went quiet to think.
"Where have I heard that name before...?"
Story Divide
Meanwhile, at that country, the air itself was crackling with energy, as the land was trying to stabilize, to accept this change. From the still forming tower of a massive castle, a young man, in armor and a green coat with a hood, with brown hair, looked over the chaos.
"What in the world is happening to my kingdom?" he asked, watching.
"It is MY kingdom! Who are YOU to usurp it?"
The youth turned to look, to face a similarly attired man, but one whose coat was closed, his hood up, and his head covered by a metal mask.
"Who are YOU?" The youth demanded.
"Doom will suffice."
"Nonsense. Are you some sort of imposter! I'm the only Victor Von Doom!" The youth shouted, sparks crackling around his right gauntlet.
"Silence, both of you!"
The two stopped, and looked, to a third similar man, this one in a green tunic and cape with a hood, also in armor.
"Doom allows no man to mock his name! Begone from my castle at once!"
"You're both out of your mind. I'm the master of this land! I fought with every breath in my body and bled myself dry to-"
"Excuse me, but Latveria is my domain. And you all have the name wrong. It's Victor Van Damme. Doom suffices though, it's what that media-hungry foursome got me labeled."
The three looked, to a fourth, in tattered green shroud, with goat-legs, but also metal.
"What kind of madhouse is this!"
Story Divide
"YOU MEAN DR. DOOM'S APPEARED!"
Forte and Lucca both stared at CD, wondering who the heck he's referring to.
"Who?"
"Dr. Doom. Practically Marvel's enemy number one. If we've got to deal with ONE of him, we're in trouble, but an ARMY of Doom!"
"That sounds...very corny." Lucca noted.
"Yeah, really..." Forte muttered.
"Look, just get Goku and some other heavy firepower over there, right now. Seriously."
"...Overkill, but fine." Forte stated, heading off.
Story Divide
Back in Latveria, things were already heating up. The four Dooms, the Young Doom, the Classic Doom, the Movie Doom, and the Ultimate Doom, all were fighting to try to prove themselves as the 'real' Doom. They also were experiencing the boost to their magical prowess, as each, a force to be reckoned with in magic already, were now monstrously so. And the kingdom was experiencing this, from the battle being waged.
"What kind of monster are you, trying to pose as Von Doom?"
"I told you, it's Van Damme!"
"Ha! Pathetic! You sound like some vain movie star!"
"Stop it, both of you! I have a score to settle with an insolent whelp, and I don't have time to bicker with cheap imitations!"
"I don't know what kind of trick Reed is up to now, but it won't work."
Lightning flashed across the land, lasers raked the air, metallic quills flew about, and watching it all, was a strike force waiting to take them down. But wisely, they were keeping their distance..
"We ARE going to stop them, aren't we?" Mirai Trunks asked the others.
"I think we should let them wear themselves out for now. At least until they blow off some steam." Goku replied.
"I don't know...that's a lot of power they're throwing around to let them keep at it..." Superman commented.
"I sure don't want to get in the crossfire.." Forte added, "I volunteered to see how corny this was...I didn't except this."
As they watched, they both saw Ultimate Doom be blasted out of the castle, sparking like mad, and crash into a hay cart, igniting it.
"That's unexpected. CD told us he might be the strongest version of them all." Mirai Trunks noted, checking a hand-held scanner, "That's Dr. Doom from the Ultimates universe, according to Lucca's mini-scanner."
"Then who do we have left?" asked Forte.
They were answered, when an electrical blast wiped out the tower, shooting the masonry in all directions, making the heroes rush to avoid being pummeled. Superman was rushing TO be pummeled, since he could take it, in order to block the stone from causing much harm. This left the remaining three on an open floor at the tower, in a three way battle, between a young Victor, Dr. Doom in his classical appearance, and the movie interpretation of Doom. Two of which has sparking hands, crackling with electricity. The third had his arms crossed, unamused with this fight.
"Face it kid, Von Doom or not, your little spark shooters not going to match up to me."
The young Doom grimaced, and clenched his fist.
"I'm not going to fail because of you. You can't even take the fact the world seems to be going berserk around us seriously!"
"As opposed to a child who thinks he can play with the big boys because of a fancy suit?"
The third Doom growled in annoyance, and waved a hand towards the two.
"Enough of this! We're getting nowhere in this ceaseless banter!"
"You're right, I'm shutting up this clown right now.." The young Doom stated, before waving his hand at the Movie Doom.
This, followed by the floor raising up, and forming a hand to grab him and restrain him.
"Argh! What is this?"
"Magic. Something you seem to lack. Youth or not, I have an advantage over you."
"Why you little-"
He was cut short, as the hand drew off the electric charge inside this Doom, before throwing him at Ultimate Doom, who was climbing from the burning blaze, before both are taken out by the impact.
"Think they've thinned out enough yet?" Superman asked, slightly sarcastic.
"Yeah, I see what you mean now. Let's do it." agreed Goku.
They then headed to the remaining two, ready to fight, while the two Dooms faced off.
"Now it's just us.." The young one stated.
"Not quite accurate." The elder one noted, gesturing to the coming heroes.
The young one turned to look, as the heroes gathered, ready to fight.
"Tch...of all things. On top of being taken from my world."
The elder Doom remained silent to this, as the heroes waited.
"Well, will you surrender, or do we have to fight?" Goku asked.
"Surrender? Do you realize who you're talking to!" Both Dooms declared.
"We know EXACTLY who we're talking to." Mirai Trunks responded.
"Then you should know I'm able to stop you all!" The young one declared, "I've fought my whole life for my goals, and no unrefined fools are going to stop me. Not you, not that dragon, not even other versions of myself."
"Looks like we're fighting it out." Forte growled, and grinned, "I was getting bored."
"No, this fighting ends now!" The elder Doom declared, firing powerful flares from his gauntlets, blinding them all.
Forte roared in fury at being blinded, and the others struggled to avoid running into each other. It was several minutes before they recovered, and by then, none of the versions of Dr. Doom were to be found.
"Where'd they run off to?" Superman wondered.
"Gah! CD warned us not to take our eyes off ANY of them..." Groaned Mirai Trunks, "We blew it!"
Forte growled, reaching to a communicator, and used it to call CD.
"This is Forte. There's only four of them, but we lost them."
Story Divide
As the heroes were hit by their failure, the four Dooms were recovering from the ordeal, now aboard a flying airship, in one chamber.
"Well, that went well.." The Movie Doom muttered.
"It would have been an interesting challenge if I were still conscious. I didn't expect you two to attack me at once when you were bickering." The Ultimate Doom added, glaring at the Young and Movie Doom.
"Oh pipe down, I'm not fond of the outcome either." The young Doom informed them, head resting on hand, in a bored pose, but more annoyed.
"You have little reason to regret the outcome, you're the one most like myself, and the one I feel most appropriate for being Von Doom's right hand." The Classic Doom stated.
"You're forgetting, I AM you! We're ALL the same being, give or take minor changes! This is the EXACT reason I despise M Theory! You lose your individuality, your true sense of self, because with an unlimited number of universes, they're bound to have copies of you!" The Young Doom retorted, slamming his metal-clad fist onto the meeting table, which surprisingly, withstood the impact.
"You do have a point. I feel disgusted knowing I'm cut from the same cloth as countless others just like me." Ultimate Doom agreed.
"Quite." Classic Doom also agreed.
"I hate to think about it." Movie Doom noted.
"But...it would be an interesting notion, for a combined force of us to work towards our common goals." Young Doom suggested.
"Unacceptable" was Movie Doom's response.
"Hear me out. We each have similar goals, which seem to conflict. But consider this. We're very like minded. We should be able to agree on our purposes."
"You mean like your vendetta against a child?" Ultimate Doom inquired.
"Watch your tongue. The three of you have your foe in that foursome. I just happen to come from where they don't exist. That 'child', as you put it, was the one who got in my way. Besides.." Young Doom stated, glaring at the Ultimate and Movie Dooms, "Neither of you have suffered the same loss I have...correction...WE have."
Young Doom backed away from the table, as the Classic Doom, kept a stern look at the other two.
"Indeed. Both of us have fought practically since infancy for our ends."
"However, that doesn't mean we don't respect the fact you are the same as us. We are all the same person, borne from different circumstance." Young Doom added, "Instead of fighting for control, of what is essentially our homes thrown together, we should pool our intellects, our minds, towards the goals we hold common. We're too equal for fighting to be practical anyway. As for my own vendetta, what good is it, when the boy in this world isn't the same one who scarred me."
"Well then. For dominance?" Ultimate Doom suggested.
"And power." Movie Doom added.
"To end the prejudice against our nation" Young Doom stated.
"And for vengeance. Your foe, like ours, is bound to appear." Classic Doom declared, ending this meeting...
"So...are we a 'Legion of Doom'?" Movie Doom asked.
"I think we can come up with a better name then that...it sounds like something you'd find on Saturday Morning television." Ultimate Doom remarked.