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A few days ago I watched Captain America Civil War...for the third time :)

I can honestly say, it has the best version of Spider-man seen on film, and is one of the best films Marvel has released so far :)


Ultimate Aeon Origins Reboot

Chapter 16: Battle for reality part 2

Earth 1610-Dark side of the mirror

Magneto checked on his people, the refugees, humans and mutants alike. Fortress X was buckling under the pressure of supporting the population, but it wouldn't be this way for long. Erik had faith that he could get the Fortress to Galactus's ship. Gambit's heroic sacrifice had made it ripe for the taking. All there was left to do, was for Magneto to raise the fortress up. He walked into the main control centre, removing his helmet and placing his hands on the control nodes. The mutant energies of the great machine Xavier, flowed through him. Erik let out a yell as the mutant energies sparked around him. He raised his hands, thus beginning to raise the fortress. The mutant defenders cheered as the blasts fired from the Latverian tanks futilely flew up at them, only to fall back down again.

"Father," Polaris gasped, seeing the great strain it was putting on her father.

She wasted no time in joining her father, touching his shoulders, and magnetically drawing some of the energy into herself. Polaris added her own commands, precision and control over metal to the raising of the fortress. If either one wavered for a moment, then the fortress would fall and the millions left would die. Both father and daughter gripped one another's hands tightly, and together pulled every bit of power into raising the fortress. Down below them however, in the Savage land, the silver and gold armoured Lord Doom looked at the great fortress in disdain. He pushed several buttons on his gauntlet and smirked beneath his armour.

"The time has come," he said.


Earth 1610-Fading light

Sven looked at his counterpart, Aeon, a hero on his world. Yet he was suggesting something, that Sven knew he couldn't do. Something Faith seemed willing to do. He stepped in Faith's way, ready to fight the older man. Aeon removed his helmet, revealing the saddened look in his eyes.

"If your Faith is anything like mine was, then I know you don't want to give this up, and I know she will," he said.

"Shut up," Sven shook his head. "Don't you go putting ideas in her head," he said.

"Sven, there's no other way," Faith said.

"Then it's their job to find another way," Sven retorted, glaring at his counterpart.

Aeon lowered his head and sighed in defeat.

"You're right, we should be finding another way, tearing ourselves apart to find that other way, which is why I'm not going to let this happen, I may not be a scientist like Adam or the ruler of a country like T'Challa, but I know what the right thing to do is. And I am not going to lose another wife and child," he explained.

Sven and Faith widened their eyes slightly. The older Sven however simply smiled and put a hand to his ear.

"Carol, can you break up the fight, I have a way to save this world," he said.

"Have you found something all the other egg heads haven't found?" Captain Marvel asked.

She and Iron man were engaged in an aerial shoot out. Down below, the first Ultimates had been broken apart. Giant man was taking blasts in the face from Wasp, Hawkeye and Black Widow were engaged in close quarters, Cap was blocking energy blasts from Cyclops and Wolverine was fighting both Black Panthers. Aeon however remained calm, red marks glowing across his face.

"At the moment your Earth impacts with that other Earth, I will fuse the two planets together," Aeon said. "Both worlds will become one, and everyone will live!"


Earth 1610-Orbit

Peter knew that the only reason he could hold his own against Fury, was because of his superior strength. Fury himself though was unrelenting, coming at Peter with everything he had. Spider-man knew that Fury fully intended on killing him now. There was nothing left of the man he respected before, or perhaps that man never truly existed. Fury dragged his knife across Cap's shield, and tried to snatch it from Peter's grip.

"I can do whatever a spider can remember?" Peter quipped.

He rolled back, throwing Fury against the wall. Then he threw the shield, bouncing it off of the walls repeatedly, and hitting Fury in the face repeatedly. Rather than go down however, Fury struck back, grabbing the shield and brandishing both it and his knife. He ran forward, attempting to slash Peter. Peter pulled his head back, only for Fury to backhand him with the shield. Adjusting his footing, Peter grabbed Fury's knife hand and blocked the shield with his left. Fury kicked the wall, pushing himself and Peter into the wall behind him. He slammed his elbow into Peter's gut and reversed his grip on the knife. Peter moved just in time, the blade snapping against the wall. He smacked the back of Fury's head with his elbow, knocking him to his knees.

"You can still stop this Fury, you nobody else has to die," Peter said.

"It's one Earth or both, do you think things would be different if this Earth had our technology?" Fury asked.

"I don't think it's our call to make," Spider-man retorted.

He fired a web, hitting the shield. Fury pulled Peter towards him, and thrust forward with the shield. The force of the blow threw Spider-man against the wall.

"It's always been my call Peter," Fury said.

Spider-man looked at Fury for a moment, squeezing his hands into fists. He suddenly tore his mask off and glared at Fury.

"AND WHAT GREAT CALLS YOU'VE MADE FURY!" he yelled.

"Building up the Ultimates into an army and antagonising other nations, thinking Thor was the traitor, buying all that 'evidence' that just happened to appear when Thor started talking about his brother Loki, invading another country, pretty much guaranteeing retaliation from those who weren't going to take your shit, believing Cap was the traitor...hell pretty much suspecting anyone but the ex-Russian spy, who was a complete bitch. Making a spider slayer to stop me, when I've only ever been taking out bad guys, working with Doom to get Intel on other worlds, invading the said world just to avoid getting caught."

"Cheating on your wife, using Hank Pym's Jocasta project to bring back anyone but the person he originally intended it for, unleashing the Red Skull, getting hundreds of innocent people killed, letting Gregory Stark double deal with other nations, jumping at the chance to attack Danvers and get your director status back, which incidentally you get, and still shit happens, that your presence as director pretty much did nothing to avoid or lessen the impact of. Oh and I also happen to get killed during that time!"

"So tell me Fury, on what Earth could you possibly be the guy who makes a difference?"

Fury remained silent after Peter's rant was over. He then slid open one of the compartments, revealing a rack full of guns.

"There are still many other Earths Peter, I'm sorry," he took out a grenade launcher and aimed it at Peter.

Peter's spider-sense blared as Fury fired the weapon. He shot a web, latching onto the grenade. Without hesitating, he flung the explosive back at Fury. The general weaved his head to the side, widening his eye as the grenade flew at the jet controls.


A Marvellous world

Marcus could hear a grand explosion, one no other person on Earth could hear. He heard it over the roar of the ocean waves. Standing on a cliff face, overlooking the sea, Marcus had contemplated his life, this world and the future. The wind blew at his long hair and beard. He had lived on this planet for twenty five years, yet had always felt like an outsider. His father had instilled in him a belief, that the world wasn't ready to meet a person like him. Yet, Marcus heard everyone's cries for help, and the bad things that happened in the world.

Genosha was in a state of civil war, and had been for the past seventy years. People had grown up with a government seemingly dedicated to the ethnic cleansing of those that didn't match the government's vision. Though when that government was overthrown, many called for the violent isolationist approach of the previous government. The West only escalated things with their 'peace keepers', even charities in a small way added to the conflict.

Disasters were happening across the world, ones without explanation really. Singularities appearing in Africa, tsunamis striking Asia, Volcanoes suddenly appearing where they didn't use to be. In New York debris fell from the sky, and creatures called 'Moloids' rose up from the ground. A dragon like monster rampaged through Tokyo, and saucers were flying around Mexico. Yet, years from now, Marcus knew that the world would either try to deny what had happened, or control it, as they did his kind.

The least he could do, was try and help where he could. Even if it meant shattering another planet.

WDRA-World disaster response agency-VTOL-Vertical takeoff landing craft-Egyptian Airspace-Two hours from collision

"Triskelion, Watcher's on the wall have located possible landing zone for Outsiders," the commander said.

He was a brown haired man, dressed in combat gear and desert camo. Behind him, his fellow soldiers checked over their weapons. One of them, a muscular man with a thick moustache, and a bowl hat on his head, loaded several cartridges into his shotgun styled weapon. He cocked the weapon and placed it on his back. Dugan looked at the commander, a man who was only seemingly younger than him. He'd fought in World War 2, with the legendary Invaders. Dugan's 'immortality' was owed to the fact that he was a machine.

"Please verify," the metallic voice, belonging to the commander of the Triskelion, echoed over the radio.

"Call sign Howler, authorisation code 616, Watcher's on the wall have located possible landing zone for Outsiders, we've spotted possible landing craft," the commander explained, his voice quick, showcasing how much the protocol annoyed him.

"Howler, is it an O-8-4?" the Triskelion commander asked.

"Jesus Carter, it's a VTOL modified for space travel, I think we can pretty much guarantee Selvig's theory on this incident is correct," Howler said.

He huffed as the commander chided him, but barely paid attention.

WDRA Headquarters-Washington-200 miles below Lincoln memorial-Codename Triskelion

Margaret 'Peggy' Carter shook her head at Howler's lack of dedication to protocol. But the man's dedication to his job, and his effectiveness on the field, those were things Peggy would never shake her head at. Part of her wanted to be out there, but looking at her reflection on the computer screen, she acknowledged that she would only be a liability. She appeared to be in her seventies, but was much older. What gave her longevity, was nowhere near as effective as what made Howler such a good soldier, it eclipsed even the super soldier serum that empowered her long lost lover.

"Agent Hill, I need Doctor Selvig in here now," she spoke into the radio.

"Yes Ma'am!"

A few minutes passed and the door of the command centre opened. Doctor Erik Selvig walked onto the platform Peggy stood on, flanked by Agent Matthew Hill. The veteran agent looked at the displays of disaster areas with the same nervous expression most of the agents had. They all had family at stake, though in the case of Hill, his daughter was right in the middle of it. Peggy had to have trainees sent into the field. In fact, she wondered if she would have to drop the facade that was the 'World Disaster Response Agency' and simply announce to the world what they truly were.

"I never thought that being right would make me feel so awful," Selvig said.

"I need clarification Dr Selvig, Stark-Tech satellites managed to record these images," Peggy said, bringing up the photos on the main screen.

They showed the blurred and faded image of another planet, getting closer with each shot. Selvig looked at the images with the same horror everyone else did. Even the renowned physicist and expert in theoretical sciences was at a loss for words.

"I understand you have family and friends in danger Dr, so for their sakes, tell us everything you can," Peggy said, calmly approaching the Doctor and touching his shoulder.

The contact was enough to snap the man out of his daze. He nodded his head and walked up to the computer, taking control of the main screen. Opening a paint program, he began to draw numerous circles.

"Physicists have speculated and debated the existence of multiple dimensions, as we already know, the universe is a wide place, so what if there are other realities?" he spoke as if he was at one of his lectures, drawing lines between the circles. "These other worlds occupy the same space as ours, but vibrate at a different frequency, and so we can never see those other Earths."

"Sounds like the science fiction books my niece used to read," Peggy commented.

"These other Earths could be identical to our own in many ways, and far different in others. For example on that Earth you could be an elderly lady, living with a family, or a Carter family as you recognise it may not even exist in that world," Selvig explained.

Peggy nodded her head in understanding, taking over on the computer and bringing up the image of the other Earth, and the map that showed the numerous disaster zones.

"So tell me, why can we see it now?" she asked.

"That's where I have only theories Director Carter," Selvig rubbed his hands together, and sighed in defeat. "Perhaps someone on that Earth, or perhaps even on our own found a way to match the vibrational frequencies, and have thus doomed both worlds. Or this is a deliberate attack of some kind, perhaps the technology on that world is so advanced that its possible for them to conquer other worlds. Then there's the even more terrible idea...one I pray isn't true!"

"Don't keep us in suspense Doctor," Peggy said.

"We believe in a big crunch, the breakdown of the universe as we know it, maybe the 'multiverse' itself has begun to break down," Selvig said.

"To hell with that," a voice echoed over the radio.

"Howler," Peggy bought up the image of the WOTW's (watcher's on the wall) VTOL.

"Focus on coordinating peacekeeping and rescue efforts Carter, something tells me we'll be getting the answers," Howler said.


Earth 610

Miles's spider sense was blaring, so loud that it actually hurt. Whatever the black armoured creature war, simply being in its presence was a danger. He jumped off of the building, followed by Prodigy and Hornet. Ganke removed a metallic disc from his belt, it immediately grew into a hover pad. Hornet wings slid out of Judge's back, and his hands shaped into a pair of sonic cannons. He fired blasts of pure noise at the creature's back, pushing it forward slightly, and crumbling the floor it stood on. The monster fell through three floors of the building, causing those inside to run and scream.

"Nice job Hornet, now it's my turn," Prodigy said.

He jumped off of his platform, crashing through the window. Ganke chanted a few words, and moved his hands, forming magical runes of energy from different realms. The runes suddenly flew at the armoured creature, latching onto its back, and spreading across its body, taking the form of purple cracks. Tarantula fired a web line, wrapping it around the creature's waist. With a tug, Miles pulled the creature out of the building. He flipped in midair, and then slammed his feet into the creature's chest, sending it falling to the ground.

"Well, that was easy," Ganke said, jumping back onto his platform.

"A little too easy," Judge muttered.

Ganke and Miles both looked at their friend.

"What?"

"You just had to jinx it," Miles said.

The lenses of his mask narrowed, and his enhanced vision zoomed in on the crater left by the creature. It stood up, growling as it raised its hands. Then it slammed them down, sinking itself deeper into the ground. It roared, the mouth area of its helmet opening line a jaw. The roar was so loud, so angry that it the three boys felt their hands shake. It looked up, the purple cracks on its armour fading, and the jaw sinking back into its helmet. The armoured creature stood there, looking calmly up at the three heroes.

"Something tells me he's about to...AND HE IS!" Miles yelled, his spider sense flaring.

The armoured creature jumped upwards, slamming its fist into Hornet and sending him flying into the clouds. It landed, leaving another crater in its wake. The black eyes on its mask glowed as it glared at Miles.

"ALL OF YOU GET BACK!" Miles yelled at the people in the building.

But instead, the creature fired an optic blast, into the ground floor. Moving its head, it swept the beam through each floor, leaving a trail of melted glass. Miles jumped, narrowly avoiding the beam. Ganke jumped off of his platform, his cloak flapping behind him.

"Okay, time to do this the old fashioned way," he said.

He punched the armoured creature across the face, knocking it back slightly. Prodigy followed with two more punches, one to the gut and a second to the face. Pulling his fist back, Ganke charged his fist with energy from another world, drawing on what Stephen Strange Senior was teaching him.

"Eat your heart out Iron fist," Ganke grinned.

But quickly gasped, as the creature easily grabbed his fist. It growled, bringing its face closer to Ganke's. He threw another punch, only for the creature to grab his left hand. Bending his arms, the creature forced Prodigy to his knees. Tarantula suddenly appeared behind it, and stuck his hand to its neck.

"Okay, this is the part where you act like you've been kicked in the balls," Miles said.

Static electricity suddenly threw Miles away from the armoured creature. Then Ganke screamed, as he was lifted off the floor and slammed repeatedly against the road. The creature swung him into the ground, into lamp poles, fire hydrants and parked vehicles. Slamming Ganke repeatedly into the ground, the creature left a Ganke shaped silhouette on the road, before stepping away from the groaning teen. It raised its hand, charging its fist with a black fire. Suddenly, a blast of energy slammed into the creature's chest, making it stumble back.

"GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Hornet yelled.

He put his arms together, forming a cannon connected to his chest. The barrel of the cannon rotated, and began to expand. Judge fired, covering the creature's chest and face with energy. He widened his eyes as the creature began to walk towards him, moving its hands through the energy. It shoved its fist into the cannon, causing an explosion that blew off Hornet's chest plate, and sent him flying back. Miles rubbed his head as he got up off of the floor, trembling as he looked at the creature.

"Well, at least this place seems clear of civilians," Miles muttered.

The creature jumped upwards, diving towards Miles. He braced himself for impact, but widened his eyes as a thread latched onto his back. Suddenly, Miles was pulled away as the creature landed. He landed on his back, rolling backwards until he stopped at the feet of his saviours. Aaron narrowed his eyes at the creature, his costume partially matching Cheyenne's. The Talon and her father both analysed their opponent as he began walking towards them.

"Ever sneak into warehouses, take some other gear?" Aaron asked her.

"Stealth and finesse is more my thing, plus these," Cheyenne drew out the claws on the fingertips of her gloves.

"Disappointing, me? I don't limit myself to stealth and finesse," Aaron stretched out his hands, squeezing them into fists.

Suddenly, energy blasts flew from his hands, slamming into the creature and throwing him into a car. Cheyenne looked at the Spider-man's gloves, shocked that they had Shocker's gauntlets on them. Aaron raised his eyebrows as the creature stood up, clicking its neck into place.

"This isn't going to be as easy as we thought," Cheyenne said.

"No shit," Aaron muttered.


Earth 1610-The true world at war

Sue saw them, Coulson and Cloak, both holding the people they cherished the most in this world. Despite the war and chaos going on around them, they took the time to say some form of goodbye. For Susan though, she had to settle for gripping Ben's hand. He squeezed her hand in his human form, but he wouldn't settle for that. They embraced, their foreheads pushed together. The wreckage from destroyed city ships fell on top of them, bouncing off of the barrier Susan had created.

"This, truly is the end isn't it?" she asked.

"We can still try to at least clobber the people responsible," Ben said.

His body became bigger, and his skin changed into the familiar orange rocks that people remembered. Sue nodded her head in understanding, looking across the carrier to her brother Johnny. He was already in Human Torch form, looking up at the version of him from Earth 610. Flying upwards, Johnny flew in front of his counterpart.

"Ready to heat things up?" he asked.

"You bet," 610 Johnny grinned.

The Human Torches increased the heat they generated, flying around one of the city ships. Grabbing each other's hands, they increased their speed, leaving a trail of flames behind them. They flew around the ship so fast that its armour began to melt. Above them, Falcon dropped the 610 Ben Grimm, who changed from energy, to rock form and crashed through the ship, coming out of the other side like a missile. On one of the Helicarriers, the 610 Cap led an attack against the demons and children of tomorrow. The Jimmy Hudson's of both worlds cut their way through waves of demons. A Vengeance demon suddenly landed in front of them, only to be knocked off of the carrier by a shockwave. Quake released another shockwave, pushing back the children of tomorrow in the air.

"The least we can do, is avenge everyone," Tony said.

He pushed a few buttons on his gauntlet, far away, in the tower of the Future Foundation, a hatch opened on the roof.

"Preparing to activate Natasha," he said.

Plates of black and red armour flew from the building. Tony created numerous holographic screens, activating numerous projects he had formed over the years. On the streets of Brooklyn, an entire building opened up, shocking the people who had lived there.

"Activating Hank and Janet," Tony narrowed his eyes at Richard's capital ship.

It had already reached the atmosphere, despite the efforts of the 610 Hyperion and Power Princess. They were both surrounded by children of tomorrow, one cutting them apart with her sword, the other tearing them apart with his bare hands and blasts of his heat vision. Reed widened his eyes slightly as a hologram of Tony appeared in front of him.

"I bet you patted yourself on the back when you and Fury looked at the Jocasta files, when you did what you thought I didn't," Tony said.

"Of course, I've always been smarter than you Tony," Reed said.

"Arrogant until the end," Tony shook his head, "Activating Steve, you see I'm not some copy cat, and I'm not as callous as people think I am. Hank gave everything to stop the Multiple men, and do you think I was really the kind of man to just abandon his last request?"

Reed didn't answer the question, but it clearly shocked him, his mouth just hung open as Tony continued pushing buttons on his gauntlets.

"Activating Matthew, you didn't think I was only drinking and going to parties in all that time did you? There is a lot more to me than that, there has always been a lot more to me than that. Tell me...all that time I was drinking, why do you think I never got drunk?"

"What are you getting at?" Reed asked.

"All those times you saw me with a drink, and yet I was never drunk, why do you think that is?" Tony asked.

Reed bought a hand to his chin, his mask slid aside and he looked at Tony's hologram in shock.

"Activating X!" he grinned.

In Westchester, the graves of certain X-men, suddenly began to slide open.

"It's easy to underestimate a man whose drunk all the time, it's easy to think 'this man is no threat, this man, couldn't possibly be smarter than me,' now I'm going to admit something people already know, that I'm an egomaniac, I like proving myself to be the smartest, and when people underestimate me, it gives me plenty of chances to prove how smart I am."

Suddenly, Tony crashed through the front of the ship, wearing his hulk buster armour. His face plate slid down and he grinned at Reed.

"I'm also a futurist, so when I see a system that can be used, to effectively resurrect someone, do you think I'm going to use it for one person, and just keep that person the way they are? No, over the years I had plenty of time to get additional data, to make some upgrades, to scrape some DNA off of furniture, or off of bed sheets," Tony winked.

"You didn't," Reed growled.

"Yeah, I admit that was a little creepy of me, but the end results, were Mighty!" Tony smiled as he raised his hands.

"Allow me to present, back and better than ever...the Ultimates! My IRON ULTIMATES!"

Tony's voice echoed through the ship as hatches were hacked open. Children of tomorrow in the hanger, looked to see a winged figure floating in front of them. His gigantic metallic wings stretched outwards. Purple smoke suddenly appeared behind the engineers and a three fingered hand smashed into their faces. An purple energy sabre even cut their weapons apart, and blasts of yellow and red light threw them against the walls. Several of the engineers ran away, only to stop as they saw a metallic figure drew out a pair of metal claws. Reed looked at the surveillance records in shock.

"Your men in the hanger are already becoming intimately familiar with the resurrected X-men!" Tony said.

The X-men had returned, but different. Each one was a cyborg, preserved flesh contained within a metallic shell. But unlike the Iron man armours, they moved like humans. Their faces were expressionless, but they still fought with the same abilities and tactics as their namesakes. Cyclops's eyes were covered by a silver version of his visor, optic blasts flying from it. Angel sported a pair of metal wings. Nightcrawler had three fingered hands and three toes, and even a prehensile tail. He disappeared in bursts of purple smoke, smashing heads against walls. Wolverine was as short as he always had been, his head was shaped to resemble his hair cut and his body repaired itself even after damage. Dazzler and Psylocke both had female shaped bodies, the latter had wires of purple hair sticking out of the back of her head, and wielded a pair of purple energy sabres. Beast's form was blue like Nightcrawler's and the unique body shape the original had.

"X-men, you call them the X-men?" Reed asked, looking at Tony with doubt.

"They are, in both body, mind and spirit, they are the X-men in every way that counts. But more than that, they're Avengers!" Tony said.

"Avengers, bah, an outdated and utterly useless concept, fight to protect or avenge the innocent, how can you when you have all those rules holding you back?"

"But that's always been the beauty of our Earth Reed, what you didn't see, we were the kind of people who were willing to kill to protect the innocent, or avenge them, but we wouldn't turn into complete monsters to do it," Tony explained.

Outside of the ship, the smaller frigates of the city were suddenly slammed together. The cyborg Giant-man grabbed and tore ships open. His body resembled a metallic version of his Giant-man suit, and his head resembled his Ant-man helmet, with glowing red eyes and antennas sticking out of the back. A smaller, bullet like cyborg flew into the fighter ships, blasting holes in their pilots and flying out. The cyborg Wasp's form resembled her second black and yellow costume, her wasp wings were metallic and a rocket pack propelled her forward, like Giant man, her head was based off of the Ant-man helmet.

"I find that ironic, considering the kind of team mates you had, and considering what they have become," Reed said.

"That's rich coming from you Richards," Tony countered.

On the engineering deck, both guards and engineers were faced with a great resistance force. An energy shield slammed into faced, returning to the arm of the cyborg who wielded it. The Cyborg, of rather the resurrected shell of Captain America, sported the familiar blue, red and white colours, the familiar helmet with the A engraved on it, covered a mouth less face and glowing white eyes. A more feminine shaped cyborg suddenly landed on one of the guards, breaking his neck. The resurrected Black Widow had a feminine face plate and red hair, sported her symbol on her chest and had the cartridge styled gauntlets grafted onto her wrists and heels. She jumped, widow biting four guards at once. A billy club slammed into the heads of several engineers, rebounding off of the walls until returning to its wielder. The Cyborg Daredevil's body was red, black and silver, and had no eyes, the iconic D's were engraved on its chest and a small pair of devil horns were on its head.

"Engine room secure, dickhead," Black Widow said.

"Yeah, Nat hasn't quite forgiven me for bringing her back, which kind of makes me wonder how Hawkeye will react," Tony scratched his head sheepishly.

"You really think your army of copies will be able to stop us?" Reed asked.

"Oh I don't think Tony, I know, that anything could happen. Maybe your little bomb works, maybe it wipes that Earth out, or maybe our Earth is destroyed, but when that does happen, it'll all fall back on you and Fury. On whatever Earth, there is no version of this where we all say 'all right, you did what you had to, lets carry on'. We may not be able to save the Earth, but we'll damn well avenge it, and that's the beauty of our Earth, we do things other versions of us wont...which means our avenging, will be a lot more brutal!"

Tony slid his face plate down an fired his Uni-beam, hitting Reed and throwing him off of his command chair.

"FIRST KNIFE!" Reed yelled to his bodyguard.

The agile and brutal combatant jumped towards Tony, only for a cloak to appear in front of it. The Thing, Reed's Ben Grimm emerged from the portal, punching the first knife in the face. Reed narrowed his eyes as the Thing, Invisible Woman and Hulk emerged.

"Clobbering time," Ben growled.

"HULK SMASH!"

The Gamma charged Hulk jumped at Reed, grabbing by his neck and throwing him through the wall, and out into space.

"Hope to see you never Reed," Sue said as she sealed the breach.

"Ship secure, hacking weapons now, targeting ships of the city, open fire," Tony commanded.

Reed floated in space, watching in shock as the weapons of his capital ship were turned against his allies.


Earth 1610-Fading light

Sven looked at his older counterpart in shock. The man seemed so casual in what he had suggested. Despite his request to his girlfriend, breaking up the fight was more difficult than it seemed. It was as if the fight was forced to keep going.

"You know what'll happen if you do that," Sven said.

"Better for me to cease to exist, than for there to be another world in which my wife and child didn't make it," Aeon said.

"You mean..."

"Yes Faith, I've been where Sven is right now, I lost you and Thane, or rather they were both taken from me. A loud of other people died too, and everything I did to protect them failed, I know there are some things beyond your control, but this, this isn't beyond mine. I can help you save your world, and be with your wife and son," the man explained.

"Except, everyone on your Earth will have lost you, Carol, all of your friends and family," Faith said.

"They'll be in pain for a while, but ultimately they'll understand why I did it, this is the only way," Aeon said.

"No, not the only way," a voice said above the trio.

The two Sven's and Faith looked up. Floating there, clad in her red and black Ultimate's uniform, was the Scarlet Witch. She levitated Quicksilver's body beside her and floated into the middle of the group.

"I know how to save the world, I am a nexus being, I control not just probabilities, but all of reality. My abilities are virtually the same as Magician's, he broke our world apart, let me be the one to bring it back together," Wanda explained.

"No!" a voice growled above them.

Aeon slid his helmet across his face and narrowed his eyes at Magician. The man had revealed his true self, a brown haired version of the armoured Beyonder.

"Let's continue this after we're free of interruptions," Aeon said.


Earth 1610-After Ultimatum

He was a killer, that was how Tony felt about himself. After chasing Ghost from one end of the world to another, recovering his stolen armours and killing Ghost, his grandfather, and Justine Hammer, he ended up in a bar. He didn't even know or care what the name of the bar was, only that they served something he could get drunk on, and they didn't mind him talking to his own head (it was a long story even he had trouble figuring out sometimes).

"Here's to us Tony, the futurist," he said, before tilting the contents of his glass down his throat. "The genius who took a metal suit into a fight with Magneto, the futurist who couldn't see a disastrous registration act coming, the hero who saved...well, actually he didn't save that much," Tony shook his head, staring at the alternate version of himself (or the head of one anyway). "Was your life as disastrous as mine? Did you get a cancer you can't seem to die from, an ego that can't be satisfied, an armour that's meant to protect but actually can't protect at all?"

"It could be worse, you could be like my Iron man," a voice said to Tony's left.

He looked at the young man standing in front of his table. He had dark hair and was dressed in black clothing that included fatigues, a jacket and gloves.

"Listen I'm kind of drunk so if this is to do with super heroing, I'm out!" Tony said.

"Not an option I'm afraid," the teen said.

He took an injection gun out of his pocket and suddenly stuck it into Tony's neck. The billionaire suddenly vomited onto the floor. Tony coughed and then raised his head.

"Wow, that feels great, there are hangover cures in your world?" he asked.

"Actually," the youth began, taking a seat and turning the alternate Tony head away from him. "That'll fight off the effects of the drinking and whatever else you've been taking, just until I can say my peace, then you can have your killer hangover and afterwards get to work," the teenager explained.

"Okay, I feel like I took speed and coffee, what exactly did you give me?" Tony asked.

"Pay attention!"

Once Tony was quiet, the youth continued.

"I didn't just come to you from another world, I came to you in the past, I've traversed time and reality to see you Stark."

"That's no surprise considering I've been talking to my own head for a while now," Tony said.

"My name's Virgil, Mr Stark, and I've come to you with a warning, in a few years, your Earth is going to crash into another Earth, and you will be the only thing standing between Reed Richards and the destruction of a world that still has yet to meet its marvels!"

Next Chapter 17: Battle for reality part 3: Dark Aeon and evac


Virgil finally enters the battle, hope everyone enjoyed the chapter. Some info below

Marvellous World: The world that will be the focus of a future story one day, it doesn't yet have famous super heroes in it, but it has faced its struggles and has its own protectors:

World Disaster Response Agency: An organisation established to respond to disasters of the kind that has affected the marvellous world. In secret however it is a branch of another organisation.

Watchers on the Wall: Commandos with special abilities, or who have been enhanced some way. Howler leads them, he fought alongside the Invaders and is the younger version of an important Marvel character.

Peggy Carter: Director of the WDRA, was part of the scientific reserve and fought in World War 2, fell in love with Captain America, took an experimental super soldier serum that slowed her aging.

The Iron Ultimates: based off of the idea presented in the Earth X series, in which Tony made robotic versions of dead Avengers. These Ultimates were bought back with the Jocasta project and upgraded with Stark tech. Design wise they resemble the Cyborg ninjas from the Mortal Kombat X series, with colour schemes based on the Marvel heroes. They're not android copies, but the resurrected versions of the dead characters.

Next time Dark Aeon of 610 continues to batter the heroes of that world, whilst the battle between the heralds and the Avatars continues.