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Ultimate Aeon Origins Reboot

Chapter 15: Battle for a reality

Earth 1610-the true world

Fury adjusted his eye patch, the Watcher's eye allowed him to easily see through the fabric, which he had become accustomed to, as if it was a piece of his face. He looked towards his troops, the Ultimates, as far as he was concerned they had more than earned the right to call themselves that. Nick looked at the scar on his hand before putting his glove back on. The Maker stood on a floating platform, with numerous holographic screens around him. He had on his metal helmet, which provided him with a data feed to his home made city. The former member of the Fantastic Four provided each and every member of the task force with a watch counting down the estimated time of impact. A fleet of helicarriers, repurposed for space combat had been prepared, as well as the Iron fortress Stark had used against the Liberators.

"Its beginning," Maker grinned.

New York, a fitting place for the end of the world. Fury looked at the Gamma unit, nodding his head for them to begin their part of the plan. The sixteen man squad injected themselves with Tyrone Cash's formula, expanding their muscles to Hulk size. They did this just as the image of the other Earth appeared in the sky. The city of New York rumbled with the sounds of panic, everything went red, and the rockets of the Helicarriers and iron fortresses boomed.

"Sir, a report from the Iron tech crews," one of the Helicarrier crewmembers turned to Nick.

"We've lost propulsion and weapons sir, EVADE NOW!"

"ALL CARRIERS HARD TO PORT!" Fury yelled.

The helicarriers collectively turned, dodging the beams fired by the converted Iron fortresses. Subsequently, the weapons of the carriers targeted the flying fortresses.

"Sir we've lost control of our weapons," the same crew member reported.

"No we haven't," Nick said, tapping his harness.

The Tactigon allowed him to link with all of the Carrier weapons, and the Watcher's eye allowed him to aim all of those weapons. He didn't need his crew questioning his orders, he pulled the trigger, and fired upon the Iron tech fortresses. With a sniper's precision, he destroyed the cockpit of each fortress, killing the pilots whom had been loyal to him. Nick paid no attention to the bridge crew as they looked at him with shock in their eyes, instead he looked at the small army flying towards his Helicarrier.

"Stark," Nick snarled.

There he was, or at least Stark's original grey, red and gold armour, flying in the middle of a legion of Iron men, the Iron Legion.

"You take my inventions and turn them on an innocent planet Nick, you didn't think I wouldn't have a way to override them?" Tony asked over the radio.

"And did you not think I didn't have a way to trump your move Stark?" Fury retorted. "Upload the Ultron program, send it out over the wireless," he commanded.

"No, Fury tell me you didn't," Tony gasped.

"Oh I did what I had to, and if you were sober Stark you would understand," Fury said.

Iron Man looked at the Legionnaires surrounding him, taking a moment to process just how helpless he was. Still he activated the weapons in his wrists and shoulders, blowing apart three Legionnaires before they began hitting him with repulsors. One blast after another struck him, tearing off a piece of his armour, blowing off limbs until there was nothing left of him. Fury widened both eyes as he received another possible future.

"Target the Baxter building, I want the future foundation eliminated before they can launch a second attack," Fury said.

A screeching sound suddenly echoed through the speakers. Fury squeezed his hands into fists as objects began to appeared around the Helicarriers. They were Machine Men, the linked and sentient bodies that all shared the consciousness of Danny Ketch. Two more objects appeared over Fury's Helicarrier, a Fantasticar and Iron man, bound in his Future Foundation armour.

"I am sober Fury, and let me tell you something, I'm wondering why the hell I didn't go sober years before, my productivity and ability to plan has gone up by 200%," Tony bragged, diving down through into the bridge of the Helicarrier.

He grabbed Nick by his neck and fired a repulsor blast, knocking him out of the bridge and onto the deck of the Hellicarrier. The Fantasticar landed, and Sue, the Thing and Human Torch ran across the deck and into the halls of the Helicarrier. Invisible Woman wiped the blood off of her nose, rendering all of the Machine Men invisible had been difficult, but no means impossible.

"The Future Foundation, did you really think I've put the Anti-matter bombs on one Helicarrier?" Fury asked.

"What makes you think I came alone?" Iron man retorted, landing in front of Fury and aiming the palm of his hand.

"Coulson's crew won't be enough," Fury said.

"That's why I bought some Ultimates," Tony smirked, before hitting Fury with a repulsor.

A S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinn jet landed on one of the carriers, when it opened, Coulson's team emerged. On another Helicarrier, a black cloak appeared, when it shrunk it revealed not just the teleporter Cloak, but the other New Ultimates, Spider-man, Spider-woman, Dagger, Bombshell and Shadowcat. A third carrier saw the remaining X-men arrive. Jimmy Hudson popped out his claws as armoured S.H.I.E.L.D. agents ran out onto the deck. Storm threw her hands forward, creating a wind vortex that threw the men back.

"Move forward, we need to find those Anti-matter bombs," Ororo said.

Colossus changed into his metal form, and began tearing through the deck of the Helicarrier. He landed in the middle of a cargo bay, and threw one of the crates into the shocked agents. After following him down, Iceman sealed the exit behind them.

"Okay, slight delay on us being stopped, what now?" he asked.

"I'm not as familiar with bombs as my dad was, but I can work out where people aren't hiding, there's a lack of people in this direction," Jimmy explained.

"Somehow I think people won't want to be in whatever room the bombs that can destroy entire planets are," Rogue said.

"Wait," Jimmy said, sniffing at the air. "We're getting dangerously close to where people are, one smells like...a cat," the son of Wolverine looked at the path ahead in confusion.

A rocket suddenly flew down the corridor, slamming into Jimmy and sending him flying back. Colossus ran in front of his team mates, bracing himself as he approached the powerhouse of their attackers. Power Man's eyes were glowing their usual red colour, and his other Defender's team mates were behind him. Piotr and Luke slammed their bodies together, both trying to bring the other to the ground. Their blows caused the entire Helicarrier to shake, alerting the crew of where the intruders were.

In between the Helicarriers, Ultron controlled Iron legionnaires clashed with the Machine Men. They would stretch their limbs, tearing off the heads of the legionnaires, before getting shot by other another legionnaire or one of the gun ports on the Helicarriers. On the second Helicarrier, Coulson's team went on separate paths. Coulson, May and Simmons ran towards the cargo bay. Simmons kept behind the two veterans, both protecting her from the guards that tried to intercept them. Meanwhile, Morse, Hunter, Mac and Fitz began running to the bridge. Hunter and Mac fired assault rifles at the bridge guards, whilst Morse engaged several in hand to hand. She swung her escrima sticks against their heads, and kicked their backs.

"What's the status Fitz?" Coulson asked, bringing an agent down with an Icer, a gun with bullets that contained a non lethal neurotoxin.

"We're still trying to get through to the bridge but I think they might know what we're planning," Fitz explained.

"Hopefully Stark's plan will work," Hunter muttered.

Tony continued his fight with Fury, both had reduced the top deck of the command carrier to a ruin. Iron Man fired a gatling gun on his shoulder, which Fury countered with a shield. The Tactigon shifted, wrapping coils around Fury's body that shielded him from Tony's energy blasts. Fury pulled his arm back, the coils of the weapon formed a hammer around his hand. Bashing Tony with the weapon, he sent Iron man flying. Immediately recovering in midair, Tony fired the Uni-beam on his chest.

"You think a physical fight will stop me Stark, I have an entire army behind me," Fury said, blocking the attack with Cap's shield.

He then threw the shield with his enhanced strength, beheading Iron man. The head rolled towards his foot, the lights on the eyes blinking as it looked at Fury.

"Yeah well, I've got a Hulk," the robotic voice stated.

Fury widened his eye as the helicarrier shook. He turned around, looking at the object that hand landed on the deck. His muscles had expanded, the veins across his grey skin throbbed, and his red eyes glared at Fury. The Hulk roared before charging towards Nick. Fury created multiple gun batteries with the Tactigon, hitting the Hulk with an unforgiving barrage of blasts.

"Your productivity may be up Stark, but I still have the Watcher's eye and the Tactigon, which means I can counter all of your plans," Fury said.

He formed two fists and punched Hulk across the face, knocking out a few of his teeth. Hulk flashed a bloody grin before grabbing Fury by his foot and slamming him against the floor. He slammed the general into the floor multiple times, shattering the battle armour the Tactigon had created.

"Did the Watcher's eye show you that puny General?" Hulk asked.

He threw Fury onto the ground, stepping over him. The Tactigon suddenly glowed purple, sending multiple spikes sliding through Hulk's body. Fury yelled as he charged the Hulk's body with energy, overloading his nerves and filling him with an excruciating pain. Hulk grit his teeth together, grabbing the Tactigon harness. Fury increased the power flow, hitting Hulk in the face with several miniature blasters on his shoulders. He received a vision with the eye, of the Hulk's body falling apart. But then the vision changed, the Hulk's skin turned green.

"Watcher's eye shows possible futures Fury, but future always changing," Hulk said.

"And so do plans," a voice said above Fury.

Floating above Fury was the War Machine armour, the War machine armour that Rhodes wore as part of his Avengers. The plates of the bulking armour suddenly began to break off, flying onto the Hulk. Eventually the Hulk was covered in Iron man armour, with Rhodes flying away from both in his Stark designed War Machine armour. Driven by both his rage and the electrically charged armour, Hulk tore the Tactigon apart. Fury fell to the floor in shock, watching as Hulk tore the weapon to pieces. The pieces of the War Machine armour then fell off, revealing the Hulk's now green skin.

"You've lost your best weapon Fury, stop this now," Tony said, landing behind Fury.

He was wearing his Iron Patriot armour, and even picked up Cap's shield.

"If we don't do this, our Earth dies, I've seen it," Fury said.

"The future is always changing Nick, come on, if you do this you truly will be a monster."

"That's where you're wrong Stark, I've always been a monster, we're all monsters, RICHARDS NOW!" Fury screamed.

Portals suddenly began to open, revealing the ships and flying soldiers of the Maker's world, his children of tomorrow. On the capital ship, the Maker looked at the warzone and smirked.

"Begin our ascend into orbit, it's time we destroyed an Earth, after that, we'll conquer home," he said, looking between his two targets.

Fury suddenly kicked Cap's shield out of Tony's grip. He swung it towards Tony, only for a familiar sound to fill the air.

Thwip!

The shield was pulled from Fury's grip, webbing them wrapped around his wrists. He looked towards the new arrival, who flipped in midair and landed in a crouch, holding Cap's shield. The lenses on his mask narrowed at Fury.

"Hey everyone," Peter Parker, the original Spider-man said.

Hulk and Iron man stepped up either side of Peter, and the trio looked up at the children of tomorrow. Peter adjusted his grip on Cap's shield, Hulk slammed his fists together, and Iron man charged his repulsors. The heroes stood ready to take on an army.


Dark side of the mirror

Ben Parker thought he had seen everything, that the death of his family and witnessing the worst aspects of humanity had numbed his sense of amazement. He thought there was no wonder left in the world. But seeing the avatars of Earth facing the Heralds of Galactus, was something that filled Ben with both wonder and terror. The sky flashed as the Phoenix and Firelord threw fire at one another. Air Walker threw blades of pressurised air at Ghost Rider, whom drove her hell car across the city. She crashed through walls, moving as an unstoppable force. He chain and sickle weaved between the crumbling buildings, clashing with Air Walker's scythe. Jumping out of the car, Ghost Rider wrapped the chains around Air Walker and threw him down onto the streets. The herald stood up, and the hell car crashed into him, dragging him across the streets and into a building. Inside that building, Rick dodged energy blasts fired by Stardust. She summoned water from the ground, hitting Rick in the back and sending him flying out of the building.

"Earth must not fall, or all of creation will follow," a voice came out of Rick's mouth that wasn't his own.

Captain Universe flew up, grabbing Stardust's spear. Rick looked at the herald before opening his mouth and firing an energy blast that turned Stardust into water. The remains of the herald struck the ground, but then instantly reformed, crouching on the floor and clutching her chest in pain. Terrax pointed his axe towards the city, bringing down a shower of meteorites. Nightcrawler grabbed Ben and began teleporting from one building to another. Both widened their eyes as the buildings they left behind crashed into one another, causing a domino effect that made the other buildings fall.

"Must go faster, must go faster," Ben said.

"I know, Gott I know," Kurt said.

He teleported to another building, this one out of range of the domino effect. But not out of range of the meteorites. One fell onto the building, causing the roof to collapse and throwing Ben and Kurt down to the floors below. Ben fired his grapple gun, using it to slow his descent. He then ran out of the way of falling debris, jumped through a window and grabbed the fire escape of the nearest building. Nightcrawler himself teleported onto the streets, continuing his search for Molly.

"MOLLY!" he yelled.

Two figures then hovered over him, flames flashing across their bodies. Nightcrawler looked up at the Phoenix and Fire lord in horror before they clashed. Wings of fire blazed behind them as their blasts collided, setting the buildings beside them alight, Nightcrawler teleported away as the flames rained down on the sidewalk.

"MOLLY!" Ben yelled, jumping in surprise as Nightcrawler teleported beside him.

"World War 3 going on in the savage land, whilst Armageddon is happening here," Kurt said.

"Wrong!"

Ben and Kurt slowly turned to the shadows, a giant of a man then walked out. His body was covered in blue armour, metallic tubes on his gauntlets connected to the belt, the buckle of which sported a silver A. Kurt gripped his head as he looked at the man's face, images flashed before his eyes of a man in similar red armour, of a battle between the Phoenix, and something else. The man's skin was grey, his eyes red and blue markings ran across his cheeks and around his mouth. Kurt widened his eyes as the man stepped forward.

"I prefer, Apocalypse," the great mutant said.


The light of the mirror

"You don't realise what's going on, what will happen if we keep this up, you're asking us to eliminate one world," said Captain America.

"In order to save every other variation of it, if you're anything like the Cap on my world, I know that together we can figure out a way to stop this, without having to resort to violence," Carol explained.

The Ultimates of two worlds had finally met. Except deep down, Sven knew that the Ultimates of his new world existed as a result of Magician's power. He had created a world where everything had gone right. Unfortunately, a world was then created where everything hadn't. But one world was filled with people who truly existed, another was a dream world. Cap looked between his Ultimates, and the ones of 616, and Sven wondered if Magician's ideal vision of Cap wasn't the brute from the original world.

"You're right, let's start working together," Cap said, shaking Carol's hand.

'It seems Magician's dream of a better Cap is too good,' Sven thought.

He then looked to his other self, the man took off his helmet again, revealing the facial scarring provided by a lifetime of fighting. The age gap wasn't that grand, but the experience was. The older Sven looked at Sven and Faith together with an envy, but also an understanding, that they had to let one another go.

"NO!" Magician yelled.

The heroes looked up at the god like being as energy glowed in his hands.

"Don't you people see, they intend to put an end to everything, everything we've built will fall, and from those ashes a worse world will be built, we have everything we've ever wanted here, why would we give that up?" Magician asked.

The Ultimates exchanged glances, all of them thinking on what the man had said.

"Mutant rights are better here than they ever have been, do you intend to send us back to those days?" Magneto asked.

"It sounds like they intend to destroy this world completely," Cyclops said.

"Scott, they said every variation of this Earth will be destroyed," Shadowcat said.

"And maybe those variations are places where we're still fighting for Xavier's dream, maybe Xavier's dream is impossible in that world, maybe you and Peter aren't together, maybe most of us are dead," Angel explained.

"All correct, there's nothing worth saving about those worlds," Magician said.

"Fortunately, you don't speak for all of us bub," Wolverine said.

"Wait," Blue Marvel raised his hands. "There's no need to fight, we can figure out a way to end this without having to destroy this world," he explained.

"But at the same time we must be willing to face reality, this world is a construct of Magician's," Black Panther said.

"Wow, your counterpart can talk," Valkyrie said to the Ultimate Black Panther.

"She's even blonde," Chavez muttered, earning a glare from Carol and Sue.

"This isn't a situation we can solve in seconds, we need more time," Reed said.

"We're hours away from global destruction, to save this world we would have had to have had months to come up with a plan," Giant man added.

"If our world doesn't cease to exist, then other variations of our world will also stop existing, one perfect world does not outweigh several hundred variations, whether they are good or bad," Beast explained.

"You make it sound like a triage," Susan said.

"It is," Beast retorted.

"I disagree McCoy, it's a simple case of sacrificing every other place for ours, survival of the fittest," Mystique said.

"Good to see most versions of you are the same Darkholme, I know what choice Rogue and Kurt will make, the right one, are you going to fight against your children?" Carol asked.

"They're not my children!"

"Well that takes away all of your depth," Aeon muttered.

"And who says we're going to side with you? Especially if you intend to destroy our world?" Rogue asked.

"Marie, they're offering a way to save us without destroying our world," Bobby said.

"Yes, if we keep pushing we'll leave them no choice," Colossus said, with Kurt nodding in agreement.

"We won't cross that line," Blue Marvel said.

"Even though we may have to," Black Panther said.

"ENOUGH!" Magician yelled.

He fired an energy blast, knocking Carol across the street.

"We all know that this is only going to end one way, if you're not with me, then you're against me," the reality manipulator conjured several swords and sent them flying at the 616 Ultimates.

Blue Marvel easily crushed the blades, whilst Cap stepped in front of Black Panther and deflected them.

"We're with you, do whatever you have to save those other worlds," he said.

"Sorry Cap, but I'm not throwing away my happiness," Giant man said as he grew.

"Damn it Hank," Wasp muttered.

"KILL THEM..."Magician's order was interrupted, as Aeon fired an energy blast into his chest.

"That's not a very saviour thing to say," he said.

Thor immediately called down the lightning, hitting Aeon and Blue Marvel in the back.

"NAY! I WILL NOT GIVE UP THIS WORLD OR THE WORSHIP I HAVE GAINED!" Odinson roared.

Carol suddenly flew into Thor, moving as fast as a bullet, and hitting him so hard that the other heroes were knocked down. Magneto raised several pieces of metal, sending them flying at the 616 heroes. Cyclops hit Chavez in the back with an energy blast, and Valkyrie swung her sword at Black Panther. T'Challa's 1610 counterpart deflected Valkyrie's blade with his wrist claws.

"We've worked so hard to protect this world, we can't stop now," Reed said.

"I agree, as always Reed," Sue said.

Thing attempted to tackle Blue Marvel, only for Colossus to intercept him. The metal and rock giants rolled across the floor, trading punches. Invisible Woman trapped Blue Marvel in a force field, and Reed wrapped around Spectrum. Monica changed into her light form, forcing Reed off of her. Sue raised her other hand to trap Monica, only for a blast to hit her in the chest.

"Ali, why would you give up on this life?" Angel asked, shocked by his girlfriend's actions.

"They're right Ali, if this world is just a construct, we can't sacrifice other, real worlds for our survival," Dazzler explained.

"We're real, I know I love you," Angel retorted.

Sabretooth sudden roared, grabbing Dazzler by her neck and lifting her off of the floor. Angel widened his eyes as Ali's neck broke under Victor's grip.

"KILL EM ALL! AND LET GOD SORT THEM OUT!" Sabretooth yelled.

He jumped at Shadowcat, only to pass straight through her. Kurt teleported, dodging the swipe of Toad's tongue. Beast jumped and kicked Sabretooth across the face. Wolverine drew out his claws and attempted to slash Cyclops, only for a metal beam to hit him in the back.

"I'm sorry, but I must protect this peace, no matter the cost," Magneto said.

He threw his hands forward, sending a flurry of metal spikes at the betraying X-men. Shadowcat grabbed Rogue, phasing her through the projectiles. Nightcrawler teleported, and flipped in midair. He teleported again, dodging a few more spikes. Bobby created an ice shield around himself and Angel, who cradled Dazzler's body in his arms.

"Do you see what you fools are doing?" Magician asked, firing energy blasts at the 616 Ultimates.

Aeon formed shields in his hands, deflecting each blast. Carol, Spectrum and Chavez flew around them, and Blue Marvel took the blasts. He was about to counter with a blast of his own, when a wave of fire hit him from behind. The Human Torch threw one fire ball after another at Blue Marvel.

"You are sending this world back to the hell it once was," Magician said.

"Not by choice," Iron man retorted, hitting Magician in the back.

Chavez ran towards the Thing, punching him away from Colossus. She cracked her knuckles together before jumping at Valkyrie, dodging the swipes of her sword and punching her. Blob yelled, annoyed by Wasp repeatedly shooting him. Giant man attempted to grab Cap and the Black Panthers, but all three proved too fast and acrobatic for him.

"EVERYONE STOP IT PLEASE!" Sven yelled.

He widened his eyes as an energy blast flew towards him and Faith. Suddenly, Quicksilver ran into them, picking them up and running them to a safe distance from the battle. He then ran towards the X-men, throwing Wolverine and Cyclops away from one another, redirecting the battle Storm and Jean towards the ground. When he rushed off, both women slammed into the grass, messing up their hair and staining their costumes. Quicksilver ran around energy blasts, ducking underneath Thor's flying hammer and jumping over Wasp. He bought his fist up and slammed it into Mastermind's face. Then ran towards Beast and Nightcrawler. He began grabbing and attempting to redirect the spikes his father had thrown. Nightcrawler again teleported and Pietro ran to catch the spike heading towards him. But he was too late, to him, the spikes slowly pierced both Beast and Nightcrawler.

"NO!" Pietro yelled.

He gripped his side, wincing as he felt the shrapnel in his belly.

"Everyone's dying," Sven said.

He held Thane to his chest, trying to calm the baby's cries. Faith lowered his head and put her hand on Sven's shoulder.

"That may be what needs to happen," she said.

Sven looked at his wife in horror, and then behind him. Aeon stood there with his head low.

"I'm sorry," he said, his eyes glowing as he began to approach the couple.


Earth 1610

Spider-man, Hulk and Iron man were jumping, and flying across the Helicarriers. Peter would swing between Legionnaires and Machine men, throwing Cap's shield with more strength and accuracy than the original wielder would. He beheaded Legionnaires, and took out the battle harnesses of the children of tomorrow. Hulk landed on the helicarriers, causing them to tilt, all the while smashing the groups of Legionnaires he held into the ground. Tony flew between the children of tomorrow, hitting them with repulsor blasts and missiles. He ejected from his armour as one of the soldiers thrust hits blade into the Iron patriot armour. The armour then broke apart, flying in separate directions and hitting the children one by one. A black and silver version of the Iron man armour covered Tony, and he flew into the fight again. Guns locked onto his shoulders and arms, and Tony began shooting the children of tomorrow around him.

"We're outnumbered," Tony said.

"NO SHIT!" Jimmy yelled over the radio.

He took several slashes from Hellcat, attempting to hit her back with his claws. She jumped over him, digging her nails into his back and throwing him across the room. Colossus and Luke Cage slammed their fists together, Luke pushed Colossus off balance and then punched him across the face. Iceman and Hellstorm clashed in a confrontation of fire and ice, metal around them melted, or froze. Black Knight swung his sword down on Rogue and Storm, forcing both girls to dive out of the way. Storm shot electricity from her hands, hitting Black Knight in the back. He turned around and hit her with his shield. Nighthawk grabbed Rogue by her neck and slammed her into the wall.

Meanwhile, the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. continued fighting the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. May kicked one man across the face and tripped another onto the floor. Coulson got another agent in a choke hold and knocked him out. He took out his Icer and emptied the clip until every guard that blocked his path was down. On the floor above them, Hunter and Mac charged onto the bridge, taking cover as bullets flew towards them. Hawkeye took an arrow out of his quiver and knocked back his bow. He aimed at the agents, but hesitated, wondering if Fury truly was doing the right thing.

"Hawkeye, put down all enemy combatants quickly, lethal force is authorised, we need to put an end to this now," Fury said over the radio.

Clint grit his teeth together and looked out of the window. Iron man tore off a Legionnaire's head and took several blasts in the back. A helicarrier was falling towards the ocean, and the Hulk jumped onto another Helicarrier, only for a gang of gamma enhanced soldiers to pile on top of him. Spider-man stood on a Machine Man, swinging a legionnaire like a morning star into his enemies. He then hammer threw the drone away and ran down the Machine man's outstretched arm, jumping and firing web lines at the Gamma soldiers. The Hulk then punched each one back, grabbing the last of them and throwing them at the bridge of the Helicarrier.

"Release the Deathlok troops," Fury said.

Hatches on the decks of the helicarriers opened, and cyborg soldiers stepped out. A whole regiment stood in front of Hulk and Spider-man, raising the blasters on their wrists. They began firing, pelting the Hulk and forcing Spidey to hide behind the shield. He blocked one blast after another, only for one to hit him in the belly. The force threw him onto the floor, singing a bit of his costume. Iron man suddenly landed beside Hulk, his guns blazing. When the weapons were taken out, he used his repulsors, clearing a path for Hulk to run through.

"Hawkeye, where are Coulson's agents?" Fury asked.

"At least half are trying to take the bridge sir," he said.

"Put them down Barton, the Liberators have already found Coulson himself."

Fury looked through the eyes of his mind controlled Liberators. Coulson, May and Simmons had to go through them to reach the cargo bay.

"How are the Liberators alive sir?" Hawkeye asked.

"A project from the late Hank Pym," Fury said.

At that moment, he gripped his head, seeing images of Hawkeye dying.

"You mean, the Jocasta project," Hawkeye said.

Images continued to bombard Fury's mind. He saw an Earth blowing up, he saw Helicarriers shooting one another, Agent May being ripped apart by the Abomination. The visions stopped with him being on a desert, a brown haired man pointing a gun at his back.

"The Jocasta project was a way to repurpose the bodies of criminals," Fury said.

"No it wasn't, Hank wanted to use it to bring back Janet," Hawkeye retorted.

Images haunted Hawkeye to, but they weren't literally, just his recollection of Janet and Hank's horrifying deaths. He remembered meeting Swarm, repaired as Red Wasp.

"You wasted that, on them?" Hawkeye asked.

"I didn't waste anything Barton, now follow my orders!"

"You could have bought back Janet, could have bought back so many better people," Hawkeye muttered.

"WE NEED THEM! NOW STOP COULSON!"

Hawkeye shook his head and fired his arrow into an agent. He then pulled out another arrow and sent it flying through another agent's eye. Noticing the Ultimate's change in allegiance, Hunter and Mac popped out of cover and began shooting the other agents. Bobbi and Fitz ran onto the bridge, Bobbi jumped and kicked an agent, throwing him onto a console. Fitz ran up to one of the computers and began typing at him. He bought up the Helicarriers weapons and began to target the ones that didn't have super heroes on them.

"Targets locked, time to deal with the Ultron AI, uploading virus," Fitz said, inserting a disc into the computer.

The Iron legionnaires suddenly began falling out of the sky, and the Helicarrier fired at the neighbouring carriers.

"Science beeatch!" Fitz said, throwing his fists up.

"Target the City ships, we can't let them reach orbit," Bobbi said.

On the lower deck, Hurricane dodged the shots from Coulson's Icer and punched May several times, before throwing her by her leg against the wall. Coulson slid underneath the Abomination, shooting the Icer at his groin.

"Okay, that's useless," he said, barely dodging Perun's hammer.

"Fitz, the liberators have cybernetics like the Deathlok troops, that might apply to anyone else under the General's control," Simmons said.

"You're right, New Ultimates, X-men, Fantastic three, have you encountered anyone you shouldn't have?" Fitz asked.

"Definitely," Miles said, dodging a vibration blast from Quake.

Dagger threw light blades into Wonder man's chest, and Bombshell hit the Tigra with one of her blasts. Shadowcat and the Vision were engaged in a game of cat and mouse, chasing one another through walls. Cloak was barely able to teleport away from the Black Knight's energy sword.

"We've definitely encountered people we shouldn't have," Sue said.

She was shielding herself, Ben and Johnny from attacks launched by robotic duplicates of the dead Ultimates.

"We could bring down the Jocasta project legion the same way we did Ultron, by bouncing the counter signal to each carrier," Simmons explained.

"Yes, except this time we're not destroying them," Fitz said.

"BETTER HURRY UP!" Iceman yelled as Hellstorm hit him with a blast.

Fitz uploaded the program, bouncing the signal from one carrier to another. Deathlok troops suddenly turned on the agents under Fury's command. But more importantly, the West Coast Ultimates, the Defenders and the 'resurrected' Ultimates were returned to their original selves. Fury saw all of this with his eye, and let out a string of curses.

"Prepare a transport for me, Reed keep trying to get to the other Earth's atmosphere," Fury said.

He walked down to the hanger, where a Quinn jet modified for space travel was waiting for him. An Anti-matter bomb had already been loaded onto it. Fury climbed into the piloting seat, gripping his patch as the Watcher's eye flared. He was again bombarded with images of portals appearing across an Earth. His eye widened as he looked at the path ahead. Standing there were the heroes, everyone he had manipulated, the heroes of his Earth. The Liberators and Ultimates actually stood together, Tony stood with the robotic duplicates as if they were the originals. Two Spider-men stood together with the other young New Ultimates, whilst the Falcon had arrived to aid the remaining Fantastic four and X-men. Most surprisingly of all was the presence of Coulson's agents.

"It's over Fury, it's only a matter of time before we stop the Children of tomorrow too," Coulson said.

"You may have increased your numbers, but there's still no hope for you, the forces of the City are massive, already they'll be hitting orbit, none of you are fast enough to stop them," Fury explained.

"That's where your wrong, cause we've bought friends with us," Susan Storm retorted.

High in the sky, the ships of the city were faced with obstacles of their own. Fury saw the portals open in the sky, and the emergence of heroes from other worlds. The 610 Avengers flew around the Maker's capital ship, hitting it with energy blasts from all angles. From Earth 65 came the small force that Spider-woman had gathered. Rick Jones-Hulk released an atomic blast from his chest, hitting the soldiers that flew around him. The blast tore a hole through the ship he fired at, Iron woman then flew inside and fired the heat lasers on her wrists, cutting apart vital spots on the engines. The 65-Aeon landed on the deck of one ship and raised his hand, multiple blades appeared around him, shaping together to form one giant blade. He crashed the blade through the bridge, crushing it and knocking out the pilots through an attack on their souls.

"All right web warriors, ATTACK!" Ultimate Spider-man yelled as the Spider-mobile/tank crashed onto one of the city ships.

Spider-men of various worlds jumped out of the tank, filling the air with the familiar 'thwip' sounds of their web shooters. Spider-man Noir fired his revolver, shooting a city soldiers in the head. The Spider-man of the year 2211 tore apart a soldier's battle harness, whilst an unmasked Peter Parker with the Falcon's wings webbed up another. The Spider-man mech Leopardon and SP/dr smashed their fists through the deck of the ship they were on. The armoured Spyder-man then fired blasts of energy from his armour, hitting the inside of the ship.

"All right Web Warriors, time for a retreat, great, now I'm doing it," Spectacular Spider-man muttered.

Earth 610 Avengers struck like an organised military unit. Fighters like Terry and Peter hit the soldiers, whilst Hyperion and Zarda respectively tore and cut their way through the hull of the capital ship. Captain America rode across the ship on his bike, rebounding his shield off of his enemies. Falcon then caught the shield in midflight and dive bombed a soldier. Thor threw his hammer through the bridge, hitting the Maker and knocking him into one of 610 Susan's barriers.

"It's over Reed," she said.

"Oh I don't think so, we have more than the basic military force on our side," Reed smiled.

Fury however grit his teeth together in anger, squeezing his hands into fists.

"Damn you people, for taking it this far, HELA! MEPHISTO! I ACCEPT OUR DEAL!" he yelled.

Portals of fire suddenly appeared around the heroes, and demons from Mephisto's realm flew out, swarming the heroes. Then appeared portals of pure darkness, followed by the emergence of Undead Asgardian warriors, and the winged Valkyrie.

"I'm sorry," Fury said, before pulling a trigger.

The gatling gun on the jet rolled, cutting through the Captain America and Black Widow duplicates.

"FITZ!" Mac yelled, as a bullet struck the man's chest.

"NO!" Simmons screamed, dropping at Fitz's side.

"Ty, we need to," Dagger gagged as a blade slid through her chest.

Cloak looked at his girlfriend in horror, before grabbing the Valkyrie who stabbed her, and sending her into the dark dimension.

"Oh god, Tandy, hold on," he whispered.

May gripped her side, falling into Coulson's arms. He put pressure on her gunshot wound and looked at the other heroes, the Thing's arm had been broken off, Power man was holding a bullet covered Nighthawk and the West Coast Black Knight had been completely destroyed. Fury however didn't care, at least not enough to stop himself from flying forward. Peter's spider sense blared as he jumped, holding Cap's shield forward and crashing through the Quinn jet. He slammed into Fury, throwing him off of his chair and punching him across the face.

"HOW COULD YOU FURY! HOW COULD YOU!" Peter yelled.

He punched Fury again and again, the lenses of his mask growing wide as the man took a hold of his wrist.

"I'm doing what I have to do Peter, I was so glad to find out that you were alive, you can still be our world's greatest hero," Fury said.

"Not if I have to answer to you," Peter retorted, before Fury threw him to the back of the jet.

Peter stood up and fired a web line, only for Fury to grab it and pull him into his fist.

"Auto pilot will still send us to that other Earth Peter, we'll travel along the Incursion point, you haven't stopped anything," Fury explained.

"I can still stop you now," Peter said.

"That's how it started Peter, this modern age of Marvels started with you, and unfortunately it'll have to end with you," Fury said, drawing a knife from his belt.

Peter held Cap's shield in a defensive stance and charged towards Fury.


Earth 610

A roar echoed through the streets of New York, a roar of pain and anger. Marching across the street, was the black and gold armoured form of a being that possessed both the spirits of vengeance and heroism, he was both Aeon and Deathblade. But there wasn't just a darkness in the boy's eyes, but in his soul too. He walked through the streets, twisting his head around and yelling in agony. Purple flames appeared in his hands, and when he threw them forward, they blew up several vehicles on the road. Then he yelled, creating a shockwave that shattered the glass around him.

"Wow, that is a powerful burp," a voice spoke from one of the rooftops.

The young hero didn't expect the berserk monster to hear him, or to even look up at him. Miles Morales quivered slightly under his mask. Even with his friends Ganke and Judge beside him, he guessed the fight was going to be tough, his spider sense was warning him of danger being in the very presence of this monster. Ganke shivered slightly, even with the strength the gold and silver armour he wore, he was still afraid. Likewise Judge was scared too, the computer on his black and purple armour told him that the berserker was giving off more and more dark energy with each passing second. Respectively, the three teens were Tarantula, Prodigy and Hornet, the 'Slingers' of their team the Young Avengers. The Dark Aeon snarled before jumping upwards.

Next Chapter 16: Battle for a reality part 2: Ultimate Marvels vs. Ultimate Evils