Disclaimer: I don't own Marvel, this version of the Web Warriors was formed by Exile037 in his story Uncanny Spider-man.
Ultimate Aeon: Origins Reboot
Chapter 11: Multiverse
I am Uatu, of Earth 1610.2, you may simply refer to it as Earth 2 if you must. When a society is first discovering the Multiverse, it is common for them to call their Earth 1, and the other Earth 2. However the Multiverse is larger than simply 3 Earths, older and more advanced societies have numbered these Earths, catalogued them. In the case of the Watchers, we categorised the different variations of a single Earth with a point and a number. For example the original source version of these realities we class as Earth 1610.0. My own Earth is classed as Earth 1610.2, whilst the Earth Sven Reilly resides in is Earth 1610.1, or Earth 1 as others may one day call it.
The history of Earth 2 (Earth 1610.2) began very much like the original Earth 1610. A race of shape shifters known as the Chitauri used the resources of the Axis powers during world war 2. To combat this threat, and to inspired their troops, the allies created a super hero. However, on this Earth it was not the chemicals of a super soldier formula that resulted in the creation of the first super soldier, but the creation of an expert in robotics. Phineas Horton, a gifted and eccentric man, created the world's first humanoid android. Upon making contact with oxygen, the android revealed its true power, coming alight and flying above the clouds.
Phineas always called the android Jim, American propaganda agents picked a name that was a stretch from his true nature, the Human Torch. The cover story was that the Torch was a super soldier, people didn't want to know that he was a mere robot. However that belief was false too, the Human Torch was more than just a machine. With each victory over the Chitauri and the Axis forces, the humanity of the android woke up. When the war finally came to its end, the Torch used the explosion of the Chitauri bomb he stopped to fake his 'death'.
In the many years that followed the aftermath of the war, the Torch bore witness to the altered history of his world. When word got out to the other nation governments that the Torch was an android, a demand to recreate that experiment rose. Over the next few years, technological enhancements and not biological ones became the greatest demand. With the shift of who the world's first super hero was, also came a shift in the genetics of several important figures, destinies changed, familiar heroes were different, and new heroes completely rose. The first great attempts to recreate the Human Torch were carried out by two scientists in 1985. Anton Stark of Russia created the Crimson Dynamo, whilst Henry Pym created the Ultron Artificial Intelligence. The Crimson Dynamo was a gigantic machine, intended to be the upgrade of the Torch through brute strength and military might. The Ultron AI was supposed to be the centre of a hive mind, that would control multiple robots. Both machines turned out to be disastrous, and the consequences were dire.
Ultron became more intelligent, and filled with hatred for its master. It spread itself across multiple servers, the technology of the world had been jumpstarted by Horton's research, to the point where the computers of that era were as advanced as the modern computers of other Earths. Ultron used that technology to effectively make itself immortal, an obstacle that Pym had to overcome over the years. Crimson Dynamo however became the great disaster that showed the destructive power of a out of control android. Afterwards, Anton defected from the Russian republic and joined the American Union. There was a short developmental hiatus of the world's 'super powers'. After 9/11 and the wars in the Middle East, there soon again came a demand for super soldiers. The 'top cop' of the world Jimmy Woo called it a 'Quantum surge' of threat analysis. Nations that were once poor could get their hands on artefacts and alien machines left by the Chitauri infiltration. Woo called upon a think tank of scientists recruited by the Union to 'save the world' and Atlas, the agency that 'holds the world up' was granted extra funds by the American governments and other members of the Union. The think tank known as the Society, consisted of scientists and engineers, Hank Pym, Anton Stark and his daughter Toni, Richard Parker, Hank McCoy, Ronald Rankin and Reed Richards. Over time and as Atlas grew, taking down terrorist and infiltrating alien threat alike, the 'age of Marvels' soon began. The Human Torch witnessed the births of those whom wanted to take up his legacy.
Sven gripped his head, the flood of information the two Uatu's had given him, was nearly unbearable. It was something he had to accept quickly, as well as the gravity of the situation he was in. Galactus's swarm was here, as well as his heralds. Sven dived out of the way of Fire Lord's blasts, and watched as Charlie-27 slammed into Terrax. The shockwave their attacks generated threw him and Gambit back. They bounced across the rubble, coming to a halt at the base of a building. Gambit got off the floor and looked up at the Gah Lak Tus Swarm, already it was beginning to infect buildings within Attilan. Martinex was firing ice and fire blasts and the two heralds he was facing. Dominus and Fire Lord were relentless in their attacks. One melted Martinex's ice, and the other extinguished his flames. Charlie-27 had actually managed to knock Terrax off of his rock platform, but it was only a temporary show of defiance.
"My god, Remy never thought he'd see something this grand, and terrifying," the Cajun muttered to himself.
Leaning against his clubs, Sven stood up, looking straight into the jaws of Lockjaw. The Inhuman's tongue lashed across his face, soaking his hair.
"Thanks for cheering me up, and sorry about Crystal," Sven said, stroking the back of Lockjaw's head.
The giant dog howled, and much to Gambit's shock, the Watchers had appeared again. This time however, a third Watcher had been added to the group. She was wearing a white cloaked and armoured uniform, was bald like most Watchers, but not a giant, and her eyes were green and more human than other Watchers.
Moondragon is my name, I am the Watcher of Earth 1710, a world that began much like Earth 1610. The divergence came when Captain America woke up, to a world that was still fighting a war in the shadows with aliens. Except the Chitauri were not the invasion force they were in 1610, they were refugees trying to live amongst humans. Fury's S.H.I.E.L.D. were not protectors, but exterminators. Captain America was not the soldier Fury wanted, with the help of the other Ultimates, whom chose to follow him instead of Fury, he blew the whistle on Fury's activities. Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton and Nick Fury were all imprisoned as criminals, the first people to be convicted of 'crimes against sapient life'.
Captain America's kindness to the Chitauri, opened up a whole new struggle. Earth became a gathering place for refugees from a number of fallen alien civilisations. Aliens became the new minority that was prosecuted against. The X-men expanded their dream to fight for aliens. In time, the focus of the Ultimates shifted from super heroics, to humanitarian work. Tony Stark fixed the energy crisis with his Arc Reactors, Bruce Banner improved the health of humanity and cured numerous diseases, Hank and Janet Pym fixed overpopulation with the creation of pocket dimensions, creating new nations and communities for humans and aliens alike to live in, Thor fixed the food crisis by giving a 'hammer' (a giant weather machine) to every nation in the world. Steve Rogers on the other hand, put away his shield and took up the pen and paper. He wrote numerous books on philosophy, created artworks depicting human and alien cooperation and moved slowly into the political arena. He delivered numerous speeches and pushed for a world of acceptance.
Unfortunately, not everyone in the world shared his idealism. He was assassinated on the steps of the White House, alongside the Kree and Chitauri ambassadors. Hydra wanted his message of cooperation silenced, their actions only succeeded in highlighting it. Governments human and alien alike cooperated, people came to understand one another based on the shared grief of losing their heroes. Rogers's death bought the world together, whilst the work of Reed Richard's put the Earth onto the galactic scene, as an equal of the Kree and the Chitauri. With their work to unite the world done, the surviving members of the Ultimates put together the White Star, an organisation of soldiers that protected entire galaxies.
"Son of a..."
"Remy think you oughta watch your language in front of a fine woman," Gambit said.
The Cajun practically slid to Moondragon's side, taking her hand and kissing it.
"People call me Gambit, you can call me Remy, you must be alien cause your beauty is out of this world," he said.
"Did he really just say that?" Khonshu asked.
"He did," Uatu said, shaking his head and sighing.
"This obvious attempt to flirt with me is flattering Gambit, but I am afraid my lover would have big problems with that," Moondragon grinned.
"Your lover?" Remy raised his eyebrows in confusion.
Moondragon tilted her head to the left, in the direction of the battle between the aliens and the Heralds. Dominas hit Martinex with an energy blast, and Fire lord struck Charlie so hard, that he toppled to the ground. Terrax jumped off of a rock platform, and slammed his foot into Charlie's knee. He raised his axe high, as if making some kind of tribute to a god. Then he bought the axe, down, meeting gold steel. Terrax and Charlie widened their eyes, shocked by the sudden appearance of a woman. She had short white hair, and golden markings across her face. These golden lines swept over her eyes, and joined with the edges of her suit. The black portions of her uniform were on her neck, legs and arms, and joined into the starburst symbol on her chest, the rest of her suit was red on the chest, she also wore a pair of gold bangles and a hooded cloak.
"Phyla-Vehl, my herald," Moondragon said.
Phyla smirked, suddenly turning her golden sword into a hammer. She slammed it against Terrax's head, sending the herald flying across the moon.
"This world used to be the source of all our dimensions, if it falls, the knock on effect will cause ripples throughout our worlds," Khonshu explained.
"Great, because the stakes weren't already high enough," Sven muttered.
He looked up to see several Gah Lak Tus drones, latching onto the buildings of Attilan. Inside one of the buildings, an Inhuman with a goat's head looked at the window in shock. Like an insect, one of the drones crept over the window. It was the frightening precursor to an entire swarm crashing through the window. The Inhuman screamed, he was the first of many. Gorgon screamed for very different reasons. With a single tap of her heel against the floor, she generated a shockwave that collapsed the entire building, burying her people, the drones, and Drax.
"WHERE IS YOUR LEADER! WHERE IS THE MAN WHO BOUGHT THIS MONSTROSITY UPON US!" she demanded.
Drax burst out of the rubble, firing an energy blast that knocked Gorgon to the ground. Gorgon slammed her hand down, causing a crack to appear in the ground. She threw a chunk of rock towards Drax, jumping at him as he shot it apart. Gorgon aimed a kick for Drax's head, but he quickly flew upwards. He looked towards one of the buildings, seeing it become consumed by the Gah Lak Tus swarm. Several of the drones began flying towards him.
"TELL ME!" Gorgon yelled, jumping after Drax.
He grabbed her by her head and threw her into the Gah Lak Tus swarms. The Inhuman royal screamed as the insect like drones stabbed their stingers into her arms. Hundreds of them began flying down her mouth, beginning her 'conversion' from the inside. Her skin began to take on a purple tone, as the armoured parts of her suit began to fuse with her skin. Drax watched it happen, and suddenly regretted what he had done. He had killed plenty of people, but when the converted Gorgon turned to face him, he didn't see the eyes of a victim.
"Monster," he muttered.
Only it didn't just apply to her. Drax looked beyond Gorgon, beyond even the swarm, and saw thousands of silver objects. The Heralds of Galactus floated away from Attilan, ignoring their old opponents. They left, and the winged Silver Searchers resumed their part.
"As if the heralds weren't enough, now these things," Sven said.
"You will need to leave this place quickly Sven Reilly, you will need to go to my observation post," Khonshu said.
"Once there, you will have to use the power from that base to transport yourself to other realities," Uatu said.
"It's still on the blue area of the moon right?" Sven asked.
"No, it is a few metres away from it."
Sven grit his teeth together out of frustration, it was by no means impossible, simply another additional obstacle. He focused with his powers, forming a network of see through red plates, that spread across his body. It trapped the air the blue area of the moon had, acting as a pressure or space suit for Sven. His concentration faded as the converted Gorgon landed in front of him. Stumbling forward, Sven drew his batons and jumped over Gorgon. He focused energy into the ends of the clubs and slammed them into Gorgon's head, splitting it open. Even without a head, the converted drone tried to grab Sven. Suddenly, a blast of wind knocked the creature to the side.
"We've been brought up to speed," Gamora said.
She threw off her cloak, revealing the sleeveless brown outfit she wore underneath. Then she took off the Starlord's helmet and raised her sword.
"Our revenge will be pointless if there is no world for us to take revenge on," she said.
Mary took off her own helmet and lit her hands up. She threw them forward, releasing blasts of fire, that knocked back the Searchers coming down from the sky. Widow and Mystique both carried blasters, taken from the Inhuman guards. The two women shot at any drone or converted corpse that tried to attack them.
"Keep your distance, don't let any of them touch you," Martinex said, freezing several drones, and melting a Searcher.
Drax slammed two Searchers together, and then ripped another apart. He took several energy blasts, repaying the Searchers with his own energy. Gamora shot both fire and electricity from her gun, shot circuiting and melting the drones around her.
"You don't have time to stand around gawking Reilly, get going now," Widow said.
She fired a beam that passed Sven's head, blowing a hole in a Searcher behind him.
"It's probably not worth much, but I'm sorry about your father, I came onto him," she said.
He found himself squeezing the batons tightly. When he looked at Natasha, he didn't see the scarred woman of this world, nor the traitorous spy of his old world. Instead he saw a beautiful woman, clad in a black suit with gold cartridges around her wrists, a hero and Avenger.
"He betrayed mum, there's a chance I can take it back, or just save this world, but..."
"Either way, I'll be too dead to care," Widow said, her voice filled with acceptance over her inevitable fate.
She spoke no more, focusing on shooting the drones instead.
"I will use Lockjaw to gather as many of the surviving and unconverted Inhumans as I can, you must trek across the moon, the Watcher's base is to the south," Uatu explained.
"Actually it's to the north," Khonshu corrected.
"All of his efforts will be useless if Galactus reaches the Earth," Charlie said.
"Then it is a good thing that humanity is not alone in the universe," Moondragon said.
She pointed towards space, far away from the Searchers and the Gah Lak Tus swarm, was a single silver light. A man of silver stood on a board, and looked over his shoulder. The lights of several hundred ships activated, revealing a grand fleet.
"In one world, the alien races of the galaxy joined into a grand army to face the Builders, now in this world, they have joined together to ensure the galaxy's survival," Khonshu explained.
"Prepare all missile batteries, move in cooperation with the forces from Korban," Chitauri admiral Kalxor spoke to his troops.
The triangular ships of the Chitauri released their war machines, warriors riding on flying chariots, great war beasts known as Leviathans, and smaller fighter craft. They flew alongside the missiles released by the Chitauri, and the cyborg warriors of Korban.
"Form up all ships, release a barrage from the cannons, do not let a single drone reach the Earth," Kree Admiral Ro-Nan stood in his ship's command bridge.
Armoured Kree warriors flew out of the ships, their symbiotic armour shaping massive cannons on their shoulders, the same designs Mahr Vehl designed to halt the Gah Lak Tus swarm. Members of the Fraternity of raptors also flew alongside them, with the surviving space knights of Galador and the Skrull and Sakarians.
"The future of every variation of this universe depends on Earth's survival, no one will allow Galactus to take their prize," Moondragon said.
A portal suddenly appeared between the Earth and the approaching Galactus forces. The heralds of Galactus stopped, looking upon the ships of an empire that existed between dimensions. A grin spread across Thanos's face as Dominus ripped open the bridge of their ship. All of the crew were sucked out, except for the consort of death and his two sons, Gallowglass and Ronan. Stardust and Air-Walker flanked Dominus, who crossed his arms and huffed at Thanos's stand.
"You endanger your empire mad man," the herald said.
"They pay the price willingly, we will not let the source of the cube be lost, even if it means destroying the Earth ourselves," Thanos said.
"To get to my master, you must go through me, he has empowered me you see, I am Dominus the wave master, I control the very waves of the universe with the power cosmic, what are you in comparison to any one herald?"
"I am master of my own fate, ruler of an empire, consort of death itself, I am Thanos of Acheron, that is all I need to be," Thanos grinned as he got off of his throne.
Ronan and Gallowglass widened their eyes, as Dominus punched his arm straight through Thanos's chest. The ruler looked down at the Herald's hands, not shocked, rather intrigued.
"Interesting," he said, before cosmic energy began to sweep over his body.
Dominus ripped Thanos's head off by his spine, melting his skin and leaving only his bones remaining.
"Well, it seems that wasn't enough," he said, before turning to the sons of Thanos. "Kill them all!"
We are the Watchers, machines left behind by the grand race. Our objective now, is to follow those whom seek to abort the destruction of reality. On one side we have the Future Foundation, now reduced to Iron man and the Invisible woman. They are returning to their original reality, to what is the source of all the realities that are at stake today. There, they must prevent Nicholas Fury from destroying another world.
This world, Earth 13, is one that hasn't begun to see its mightiest heroes. There exists two men in that universe, two men who are just waiting to define this world. Their names? Erik Lensher and Charles Xavier. There is no defence for this world, no seeming significance in the grand scheme of things, it is a young world in comparison to our universe. So Fury and the Maker, will not hesitate to end it.
On another side, we have Cassandra Webb and Aaron Davis, the Spider-man of his altered world. Both have lost their connection to the web, and have come to the Earth where the web lies. Loomworld was once the home of the Inheritors, but has since become a place for the web warriors, Spider-men and women, and animals of other worlds to protect other realities, even ones that already have warriors of the Web.
The Future Foundation will fail, but in Loomworld, and the world that follows, Aaron Davis will find what he needs to save the world, and himself, before he dies.
"You have got to be kidding me," Aaron remarked, as he and Cassandra left the portal.
The first thing they saw was Spider-ham of Earth 25. Peter Porker looked up at Aaron, continuing to eat his popcorn.
"Another Spider here," Ham said, walking deeper into the cavern.
They had arrived in some kind of chamber, it was too dark to tell what anything looked like, other than the gold pillars that kept the ceiling up. There were also webs scattered across the place, strands of webbing swept across the room, around and between the pillars. The mass of webbing was so large it was as if a giant Spider-man, or multiple ones had spun the webs, forming a massively detailed web.
"All right, who's in charge here?" Aaron asked.
"I don't know," a voice said from the ceiling.
Aaron and Webb looked up, a woman in a Spider-man costume came down from the ceiling, sliding down her web and hanging upside down.
"Who can we consider the leader?" she asked.
Another Spider-man crawled around one of the pillars, his suit was black, with red from the mask, shoulders and down to the midsection, the fingers of his gloves were red, and he wore red kneepads with spiders on them.
"A web cape," Aaron motioned to the final addition to the costume.
"What, its badass," Jason Doyle, the Spider-man of Earth 65 frowned underneath his mask.
"I could count on both hands how a cape can backfire," the Spider-man from the Noir universe said, revealing his hiding place in the shadows.
"Told you not everyone would like the costume babe," Gwen Stacy, the Spider-woman of Earth 65 landed behind Jason.
Aaron and Webb looked around, seeing the many Spider-men and women, the web warriors. With their masks off were Spider-UK, Billy Braddock of Earth 833, Paviitar Prabhakar of Earth 50101 and Ezekiel Sims of Earth 610. Still in their costumes were many Aaron didn't recognise, Anya Corazon, the Spider-girl of Earth 616, and another woman in an Arachne costume.
"So these are the Web warriors," Cassandra muttered.
"Don't sound so disappointed," Aaron huffed.
"Is that you Aaron?" the Arachne of Earth 624 asked.
Spider-Prowler looked towards Arachne, his eyes wide as he removed his mask. She too removed her mask, revealing her identity as Rio Morales.
"What, how did this happen?" Aaron asked.
"My reality diverged from others, when I went to look for Miles at your apartment, the spider bit me instead of Miles," Rio explained.
Aaron sat on the ground, rubbing his eyebrows from exhaustion.
"It seems natives of Earth 1610, have finally found us," a voice spoke from the web.
Aaron and Cassandra looked towards the web, widening their eyes in shock. His legs had been fused to a mechanical spider, and his body was covered by Victorian era garb, the man's face, if one could call him a man, was concealed by a mechanical helmet.
"Karn, the Weaver of the web," Cassandra said.
"So are you the reason our spider alarms don't work in our world?" Aaron demanded.
"Spider alarm, who would call it that?" Jason asked.
"Spider-sense sounds much cooler," Gwen said.
"Karn had nothing to do with this, calm down Mr Davies," Ezekiel said.
"Look pal, right now my world is on the verge of destruction, the best chance I have of being of use is with my spider-sense, which right now isn't working and you people are sleeping beside the best way of explaining why I lost it," Aaron explained.
"Karn, Paviitar, can either of you figure out why 1610 is cut off from the web?" Rio asked.
Paviitar put a hand to his chin as he looked at the web. Outwardly it didn't seem anything was wrong with the inside of the web. Karn however could feel the inner decay of several strands of the web, decay he had to repair.
"It could be a result of Octavius cutting the web, or maybe some kind of defence mechanism, certain worlds may have cut themselves off from the web so that the Inheritors couldn't reach them," Paviitar explained.
"I believe the true reason may be so much worse," Karn said.
"Great," Aaron muttered.
"Why do you think this is happening?" Rio asked.
"The web has begun to slowly decay, worlds are being destroyed, and there is something else, something much darker spreading across reality, I fear Loomworld may one day no longer be a safe place, " Karn explained.
"What about Earth 1610?"
"Earth 1610, is currently flashing between several states, states in which history is altered in each one. That reality has been altered heavily, not through time travel, but through actual manipulation of its fabrics."
"There he goes, talking about reality as if it's something constructed," Spider-man Noir said.
"You were from the 30s Noir, doesn't everyone believe the world was constructed there?" Ham retorted.
"You say it's not time travel, but what else could it be?" Gwen asked.
"Reality manipulation, like what happened with the Scarlet Witch in my world," Anya said.
Aaron thought for a moment, about what the web warriors were saying. He mouthed 'reality manipulation' and recalled something. In his altered world, Existence once had a documentary made about them, one that circulated across the internet before it was shut down by Ultron. That documentary described some of the abilities of existence. Karen of course had her traditional telepathy and telekinesis, Molly Hayes had super strength and empathy, Nightcrawler teleportation, Dazzler her manipulation of light. Elliot Boggs, AKA Magician, had a simplified version of the explanation of his abilities. Remembering what it was, Aaron punched one of the pillars.
"Damn it, that son of a bitch, everything I've lost, all the death and destruction, it's all because of him," Aaron snarled.
"Who are you talking about?" Rio asked.
"Magician," Aaron frowned and put on his mask. "Magician destroyed our world!"
Sven rubbed his heart, feeling the markings spread across his skin again. As he got closer and closer to the Watcher's outpost, he began to feel more and more people dying. Warriors from space were dying, people on Earth were dying, in the rush of the evacuation and on the battlefield in the Savage land. Even people in Attilan were dying, Gamora fired blast after blast from her element gun, destroying the Gah Lak Tus flies around her. She threw the weapon aside when one drone latched onto it. Thrusting her sword into a Searcher, Gamora screamed as one grabbed her shoulder.
'Everyone,' Sven thought.
Gamora drove her sword through the Searcher's chest. But the sword snapped in half as she pulled it out. Even so, she kept on fighting, walking through energy blasts that burnt her skin. She jumped at the Silver creatures, tearing ones wings off and using them as make shift swords. A massive Gah Lak Tus drone landed in front of her, driving its arm through her chest. Drax laughed like a madman as he blasted one drone and searcher after another. He smashed one of the silver angels against the ground, and threw it into several others. Seven of the winged monsters surrounded the destroyer, and fired blasts from their hands. The blasts buried him into the ground, and melted the synthetic skin over his cyborg core.
'They're dying,' Sven thought.
"Weapons systems are being assimilated, I've purged them Admiral," a Kree soldier said.
"Good, I want all the power from the weapons converted to the thrusters, RAMMING SPEED TOWARDS THE ENEMY CAPITAL SHIP!" Ro-Nan yelled.
"Admiral Kalxor, the Kree armada is fractured, Admiral Ro-Nan's ship is heading towards the heart of the swarm, several drones are moving to flank them," a Chitauri soldier reported.
"MOVE TO INTERCEPT! SHIELD THE KREE!" Kalxor yelled words no one thought he would speak.
Sven watched the Chitauri protect the Kree capital ship. Gah Lak Tus drones latched onto the hull of the Chitauri vessel and begin to convert it. On the bridge of the Kree vessel, Ro-Nan looked back at the ship of a man who was once his enemy. He raised his hand into a salute, one Kalxor traded with his men. Kalxor slammed his hand into a button, triggering a self destruct system that blew the ship and the swarm around it apart.
"We are Kree warriors, defenders of honour, protectors of the empire and the galaxy itself, FOR HALA!" Ro-Nan yelled.
"FOR HALA!"
The battle cry echoed in Sven's mind as the Kree ship crashed into Galactus's. It blew an opening in the side of it, but the sacrifice was ultimately futile.
'Everyone's dying, to protect the things they love the most, what can I protect?' Sven wondered.
"Nothing, you've never been capable of protecting anything," a voice spoke behind Sven.
He turned around, seeing the form of Magician. The young man had his hands raised, glowing with gold energy. Markings spread across Sven's skin, giving off the same effect Magician's powers had. Magician widened his eyes and threw his hands at Sven, hitting him with an energy blast.
"NO! I WON'T LET YOU RUIN EVERYTHING!" he yelled hysterically.
He fired one blast after another, throwing Sven across the moon. Sven got off of the floor, looking at Elliot with absolute horror on his face.
"It was you, your powers created this hell," Sven said.
"NO! YOU'RE WRONG! I SUCCEEDED IN CREATING A PARADISE REALM!"
Sven stood up tall, glaring at Magician.
"WHAT DID YOU DO!" he yelled.
"My power allows me to shape reality as I see fit, I saw everything that was going wrong with our world, everything that was wrong, and everything that would go wrong, and I CUT IT OUT!"
"I can feel it, you split our world into two, one where everything that could have gone right did go right, and another where everything that went wrong did go wrong," Sven explained.
"Yes," Magician lowered his head, looking at the ground in shame. "I tried to create a better world, and I did, somewhere out there, there's a better version of our world, a world where I really did become a hero, a world that's full of heroes again. Things can only get better in that world, hope exists in that world, because all of my hope went into it."
He looked at the destruction of the Kree and Chitauri fleets, and at Galactus's ship. Already, the consumer of worlds was preparing his instruments to feed on the planet.
"But then I was stuck here, stuck here in this hellish place, I wanted to live and be a hero in a better world than this, and I tried to be a hero, I really did...but this world's nature is to step on the weak, I lost every time. So I knew that I needed the ultimate end event, the destruction of this world, through the destruction of its original, the incursion, Galactus, I brought them all here. I knew that if I just let things be, then every variation of our world would have carried on, everyone who existed in those variations would have survived. But I just wanted to get out of this world so badly, even if it meant killing everyone who ever existed!"
Tears were streaming down Magician's face. Sven squeezed his hand into a fist, gritting his teeth together. The yellow markings across his skin took on a black colour, and flames began to leak out of the markings.
"You fucking coward," Sven snarled, taking a step towards Magician.
"Yes, I am a coward, I am what this world has forced me to be, but really...our world was flawed to begin with don't you agree?" Magician asked.
"That doesn't justify separating all of the good from the bad, that's not reality," Sven said.
"Reality is filled with nothing but misery," Magician retorted.
"You've put everyone IN A DREAM WORLD!" Sven yelled.
He threw his arm forward, forming a fist of pure energy that slammed into Magician's body. Sven drew his clubs, swinging them at Magician. He struck him several times, hitting his face, arm, and left shoulder. Bones broke under the assault, but Magician still stood, or rather floated off of the ground. His bones instantly clicked back into place, and he glared at Sven.
"You're just as brutal as them, you and your rival, you should fade away completely," his hands began to give off a gold light, as he aimed the palms at Sven.
"GO SVEN REILLY!"
Magician looked up, and then an energy blast slammed him against the ground. Slowly, Magician looked up and snarled. Floating above Sven and Magician was a version of the Surfer, a gold Surfer.
"You must go, and quickly," he said.
Sven nodded his head and ran in the other direction.
"Who the hell are you?" Magician asked.
"You have tampered with timelines Elliot Boggs, Immortus and the Infinity Watch was not going to stand idly by whilst you made reality your plaything," the gold surfer said.
Sven continued running across the moon, looking into space. There, members of the Infinity Watch, heroes from across time and reality, assisted the remains of the Kree and Chitauri fleet. A white and green suited Captain Marvel fired energy blasts at Gah Lak Tus drones, whilst an Annihilus in a Nova-corps uniform crashed through multiple searchers. Sven looked towards the crater, and caught a glimpse of the Watcher's outpost. There was a flash of light, and Sven looked towards Attilan. He saw Cade continuing a brutal battle with Black Bolt. The Inhuman king had been stripped of his armour, revealing his black and grey skin. Metallic wings had stretched out of his back, and he was beating Cade badly, punching him repeatedly, shattering every blade he summoned.
"Cade," Sven whispered.
He looked towards the observation post, at the battle in space, and then towards Cade.
"You should go," a voice spoke behind him.
Sven looked towards the voices. Dressed in the costumes they wore before they died, were some people he looked up to. Hank Pym, the Yellowjacket, Janet Van Pym, the Wasp, Thor Odinson and Steve Rogers, Captain America. Just some of the original Ultimates.
"Get to the observation post soldier, you've got a job to finish," Cap said.
"Why do you hesitate?" Thor asked.
"He can't decide between the rest of the world, and his best friend," Yellowjacket said.
"Indeed he can't," another voice sighed.
Wolverine, Dazzler, Nightcrawler, Daredevil, Scarlet Witch, Charles Xavier, and all those lost during Ultimatum, and beyond appeared around him. Sven looked towards the observation post, and made his decision.
Attilan-Terrigen chamber-moments earlier
The precious Terrigen crystals, the pride and joy of the Inhuman race, were exposed. Black Bolt punched Cade across the face, throwing him away from the crystals. Cade spat out blob of blood, and then leapt at Black Bolt again. He slammed his blade into Black Bolt's chest, dragging it across his armour. Black Bolt backhanded Cade, breaking off more of his armour. The force put Cade to his knees, and sent him sliding across the moon. He watched as Black Bolt landed in front of him, the shine of the Terrigen crystals behind him. Another sword materialised in Cade's hand.
"WAS IT WORTH IT!"
Again he posed the question, and again he and Black Bolt clashed. Bolt channelled the destructive power of his vocal chords throughout his body, granting him super strength. Cade channelled energy through his blades, making them sharper. When fist and blade met, the two energies merged. The resulting flash disoriented Black Bolt temporary, and led by his rage, Cade struck. He slammed his blades into Bolt's helmet, slicing it open, revealing his truly Inhuman appearance. Cade then followed through, slashing Black Bolt across the chest. He attempted a third strike, only for Black Bolt to grab both blades. Bolt's eyes narrowed in fury, matching Cade's own anger. Suddenly, both blades phased through Bolt's hands, and slashed his chest again, stripping off of the last of his armour.
"ALL THE DEATH THE INHUMANS COULD HAVE PREVENTED! THE DIFFERENCE THEY COULD HAVE MADE! WELL WAS IT WORTH IT BLACK BOLT!"
With each yell, Cade slashed Bolt again and again, taking off his helmet and even the guard on his mouth.
"Was denying your humanity, your place in the world all worth it, JUST TO DIE HERE AT THE END!" Cade roared, thrusting both his blades towards Black Bolt. "WAS IT WORTH IT!"
Black Bolt again caught the blades, shattering them to pieces with a single squeeze. He slammed his fist into Cade's face, shattering his helmet and sending him flying, skidding across the moon's surface. Again Cade spat blood across the floor, but he continued to look defiantly at the king of the Inhumans, a true inhuman. The weight of Black Bolt's sins began to weigh down on Cade, and he saw that this Inhuman king was brutal in whatever variation of their world. He saw child after child rejected because of coming out of the mists imperfect, he saw opponent after opponent executed without mercy. This Black Bolt was no wise ruler protecting his people, he looked down on the people of Earth, even prayed for their destruction.
"You have to run Cade," a voice spoke next to him.
Cade looked to his side, and saw the woman he loved. Laura looked at Cade with a pleading look in her eyes, her mere gazed begged him to turn away. Not just from her, or from Black Bolt, but from the path of violence he had gone down. He took another step forward, trying to gather the energy for another blade. Static electricity sparked between his finger tips, but that was the limit of his power. Cade ran at Black Bolt, yelling as he raised his fist.
"CADE PLEASE STOP!" Laura yelled.
Black Bolt easily caught Cade's fist, and bent his right arm out of place. Cade yelled in agony before Black Bolt threw him back. He bounced hard across the floor. Cade formed a construct around his broken arm, bending it into place again, keeping the construct there as a cast. Slamming his still functioning arm against the floor, he forced himself to stand. Black Bolt frowned at Cade for a moment before opening his mouth, finally, he deemed the man worthy of an answer.
"YES!"
A moment passed over the blue area of the moon, in which everything was silent. And then, Bolt's voice echoed, through Attilan. A wave of energy moved towards Cade, throwing chunks of the moon into space. Cade braced himself, for the blow that would finally end his life.
"NO!"
Black Bolt and Cade both widened their eyes. Sven appeared in front of Cade, his body glowing red as he accessed the full force of his powers. The energy slammed into Sven, stopping right at him. Cade looked at his old friend in shock, the energy wouldn't go any further, Sven screamed louder than Black Bolt, holding back the Inhuman kings voice. The energy around Sven faded, revealing scorch marks across his skin, bits of his hair had crumbled apart like paper. He fell back, straight into Cade's arms. The anger faded from Cade's face, replaced by a look of pure shock.
"SVEN!" he screamed.
Next Chapter 12: Clarity
Hope everyone enjoyed the chapter, this was originally going to be bigger, but the chapter got too big so I'm incorporating a lot into next chapter. Next time Cade's full power awakens.
Designs:
Black Bolt: The idea is that he was wearing a type of armour, resembling his Earth X look, with his Ultimate look lying underneath it, and him growing wings like his Earth X counterpart. This version of Black Bolt reveals himself to share his brother's belief in Inhuman superiority.
Moondragon: This version is the Watcher of her Earth, powerful telepath not bound by a code of non interference, but because of limited clairvoyance limits when she gets involved to events of universal importance.
Phyla-Vehl: Daughter of her world's Marh Vehl (Ultimate Mar-Vell) and Moondragon's lover. Her abilities are based on her Quasar identity, with her look a mixture of her first costume and hooded appearance. She can also manifest an armour resembling her father's.
Human Torch/original: Hammond android model J1M, not a human synthezoid but a true robot that combusts to look like its 616 torch form. The first marvel of its world, which has heroes that relied mainly on technology, will be introduced fully in later chapters.
