Tales of The Cosmic War EXE Vol: The Secret War Beyond Good and Evil!

by Darth Necron

Five years after Ben Auro saved the universe from Chaos Zannacross Necron he is still helping try to guide the people to a better place alongside his lover Lacus Raystar. However they must reunite with their friends Mario,Cloud Strife, and others as everything they work for is threatened to unravel at the hands of the reality-destroying Incursion at the hands of the Beyonder!

8. C 208: Line between Valor and Obsession

Chapter 208: The Thin Boundary between Valor and Fanaticism

As the hero's around Ben prepared to do whatever it took to take down their former teammates down the owner of the Star Sword looked intently at some of his new opponents before he realized why he thought some of them looked familiar.

He jumped back before glancing at his own teammates." Wait…I saw some of these guys before. They looked like some of the followers of James's uncle Magneto!"

Kratos looked at Cyclops firing at Batman and Captain America before he nodded." I do recall some of their faces, but while they have the same look, their attire is not the same at all."

Ben thought for a moment before he widened his eyes." Wait, I think I got it! James did tell me Magneto had TV shows and comics made on the mutants to spread positive propaganda across worlds and called them the X-men! Did, the Beyonder think the ones from the show were real? C'mon to think of it, taking people from TV shows would explain why Batman looks a hell of a lot like Batguy, Captain America looks liked Captain Arcadia and…"

Yamamoto cleared his throat to cut Ben off before responding with a stern," If they have the will and power to kill us then all that matters is that they are real enough to be a threat."

Ben nodded before he powered up and looked at Iron Man." So, you're the one that's trying to destroy the other planets eh? Look, I get no one wants to die but if you blow up the other planets my friends might die so I really would prefer if you think of a better plan then this! I know these are desperate times but you still have time to come back from your mistake before it's too late!"

Iron Man saw the look Ben was giving him before he chuckled." I give you props for being polite about all this kid, but this is happening because despite what the others down there might be saying there is no other way! I don't know what story Cap's spun but you better learn the hard way that the man runs on hope, on idealism.

He lives every damn day on denial! Nothing personal, but when the chips are down, and all the choices left are bad ones, I'll take the winning choice over the moral choice every time. No sense clinging on to ideas when they are only…"

Iron Man was cut off as an arrow suddenly hit him right in the chest. A second later in unleashed a powerful surge of lighting. Ben quickly glanced to the right before he saw the lighting infused arrow came from a man in a green hood with a blond beard. The archer narrowed his eyes before grinding out," Tony Stark, you have failed this city! If you refuse to see you lost your way, then you're going down!"

The archer in green fired three more arrows to try and disable Iron Man, but as the arrows shot for their target Iron Man's armor glowed with light before a blue shockwave blasted out of his chest plate, and vaporized the incoming arrows, along with the one in his chest.

The man in white armor then glanced at his attacker before he snickered."Seriously thought it would be that easy Oliver? C'mon, after all the times Hawkeye caused me problems I was not going to let cavemen tactics trip me up, especially not now! Nice try but all EMP stuff won't slow down my Endo-Sym Armor by a nanosecond. I don't even use electronics anymore in my tech, not in the way guys on your level can understand, just like my plans apparently."

Captain America looked like he was going to blow a blood vessel before he roared out," You can hide behind your toys Stark, but after all these years I figured even you were humble enough to know the machine is just a tool, it's the quality of the man inside that matters!"

"By the time we are done I'm going to make you see how sick I am of you reminding me of how much better you are? You can cling to your ideals all you want, some want to keep living in the real world! Since despite what you think I'm still a nice guy, I'll try to knock you out so you can thank me later and see who was right."

Iron man swiftly fired a blue laser beam from his right arm. Captain America blocked the blast with his shield before he charged." You're not right, I don't care what it takes I'm going to make you see how wrong you, huh?"

The first Avenger's charge was cut off as he saw a flash of red light and quickly raised his shield to block a blast from Countershade. The rouge robot saw his target give him a death glare and merely chuckled." Don't think you're just going to be allowed to settle your vendetta organic. If you're the leader of those that stand in the way of are liberation, you're a target to!"

The inorganic sniper barraged the blue and white hero with attacks to keep him pinned down. Ben saw Iron Man go to attack only for the Blue Beetle and Green Lantern to both attack him.

He saw Superman was still recovering, and saw hero's battling each other all around him before he steeled himself." Damn it, I can feel that none of the guys around us have hearts to deeply ingrained in the darkness, most of them just feel overwhelming desperation. That being said…even if this Iron Man has good intentions, if the others are harmed because of it they have to get shut down! There is no time for this!"

Ben had his energy explode with enough force to cause the ground around him to get blown up. As his blue energy aura flared up the surge of power was enough for Iron Man and many of the others to look at him.

Just as Stark glanced at him Ben flash stepped to warp behind him. Just as Tony's sensors alerted him Ben unleashed a roundhouse kick to hit him hard enough to smash him to the ground.

As his target fell Ben charged at him with the Star Sword. " Rogers is right…" Ben cried out as his golden blade shimmered with light."no matter how smart your plan is I'm going to take you out before you can pull it off!"

Before Ben could try and hack apart his target's armor Cyclops and Gambit saw him and unleashed projectiles at him. Iron Man rebound from the blow as he saw Ben slash in half Gambit's kinetically charged explosive cards and also block Cyclops's Optic Blast before he scanned Ben with his armor.

After seeing just how high Ben's power level was the tech savvy hero winced." This kid has that speed force thing to? Guess the Beyonder dumped more heavy weights to spice things up. Whatever, Storm, Rouge, go to plan delta!"

A brown skinned woman with long white hair in a white outfit had her eyes turn white before lighting crackled around her. The woman known as, Ororo Munroe, who also had the code name Storm suddenly proclaimed." Wind, Hail, cloud our deluded enemies vision so we can prevail!"

To Ben and the others dismay the "Omega" class mutant used her power to cause a storm to break out in moments. As Ben felt wind and hail crash across his face he realized Iron Man was already getting out of his sight, and that he could hardly see his teammates before he cringed." Great, they can even have the weather be how they wish. Have to be on guard or the next surprise could be a fatal one. Once I gauge just who we are dealing with, might as well go all out to shut this, huh?"

Ben was about to go after Iron Man when suddenly another woman flew in front of him. This woman was lustrous, had a mix of brown and white hair in a yellow and green uniform with a brown jacket over it. As Ben paused the woman just winked." C'mon why you want to murder us so bad? "

Ben winced before he cleared his throat." To be honest I don't want to murder anyone miss, but you guys seem to be trying to cause entire planets to die and I can't let that happen."

"Aw…so you're a big hero like the guys and gals in the cape eh? Well if you're really a hero are you going to be my knight and save me and all that?"

"Well…I mean if you're not trying to kill me then sure but before you get the wrong idea I already have a girlfriend. It's kind of why I'm trying to make sure your Stark friend does not blow up other planets."

"Aw how sweet, you really are a knight eh darling? Well I'm sure your lady would not mind a gal giving one kiss out of gratitude."

"Hey wait I swear I'm committed to Lacus! Not sure if this is normal customs on your world but this might."

As Rouge got closer to Ben looking like she was going to try and kiss him, she used that to hide that she was taking off her glove, till she suddenly grasped Ben 's face with her exposed hand. As Ben widened his eyes the woman's smile turned wily." Played yah like a fiddle sugah! You seem like you can pack a punch so I'm going to use that power to help us win this!"

Ben's skin turned pale as he winced." What the hell…your draining my energy?"

"Don't worry you seem nice enough so if you behave I won't kill you I'll just take enough to, huh?"

To the woman's shock Ben suddenly had a poof of smoke come out of him, till he transformed to the busted door that Cyclops blasted open when he made his entrance. As the woman looked confused Ben suddenly appeared behind her to jab her in the back of her neck with the hilt of the Star Sword.

As she went crashing to the ground Ben's eyes hardened." I knew it would be a good idea to have the substitution spell ready with how much crazy stuff was already going on. You seriously think I was not wary of someone trying to randomly kiss me on a war zone? Whatever…normally I don't like hitting woman but if your one of those woman, I won't feel too bad."

"Tsc…guess you're not the star eyed guy I pegged you for, but you're still going down!"

The woman prepared to charge at Ben before a yellow energy blast zoomed past her. Ben saw the blast came from one of the Avengers that sided with Captain America, Captain Marvel. The blond-haired woman just gave Ben's attacker a look of disgust." Give it up Rouge, it's about time you learn some manners!"

Rouge just flicked her hair back before shrugging." Still sore about that whole being put in a coma thing Carol? C'mon you know that I did not mean it! Still since you been such a tool since you woke up and even are full of yourself enough to have this whole Carol Corps thing going on maybe you should have slept longer!"

"I don't see myself as a god to be worshipped like a god Rouge, it's just for moral! Unlike you petty X-Men I take the burden of a hero seriously! That's why I'm sick of your excuses, no matter how you try and delude yourselves you broke the law and now you're going to answer for it!"

Captain Marvel then charged at Rouge, before a card flew in front of her face, and promptly exploded. Gambit then jumped up before looking sly." Not the Cajun's style to try and fry ladies, but when you force my hand it's going to cost you, Royal Flush!"

The trench coat wearing member of the X-men unleashed a barrage of explosive cards to pin Carol down. As she was blasted back he picked up a fallen robot and used his power to charge it up before batting it at his target with his stick, before it produced a large explosion.

Gambit grinned for a second, before he, Rouge and Ben saw the explosion suddenly condense, before that energy suddenly got absorbed by the aura around the blond woman.

Captain Marvel then grasped her right fist tightly." Unload all you got" Cajun". You don't have enough energy to overload me!"

"I don't know about that, I overloaded a star once with some help."

"It does not matter, with my binary power I can tap into the power of the White Hole, allowing full control and manipulation of stellar energies, and therefore control over heat, the electromagnetic spectrum and gravity!"

The blond woman then unleashed a massive energy blast that Gambit just managed to roll under. As he saw the explosion the blast unleashed he looked back at Rouge." Too bad you did not take her powers after she got an upgrade eh Rouge?"

As his comrade just looked more determined Ben was about to react before he saw Iron Man fly off to the right. He then prepared to take off." I don't care how high tech his armor is, it's not going to strong enough to stop me!"

Just as Ben prepared to take off he heard a monstrous roar, before he saw a shock-wave. He then saw part of the factory in front of him suddenly get ripped off and fly for him.

As he swiftly sliced the building chunk he saw that it came from a gigantic muscular green skinned giant in very stretchy blue pants. As the owner of the Star Sword saw the look of rage he tensed up." What the, did one of the super-villains escape or something? Great, last thing we need now is a raging beast."

The green man narrowed his eyes before grinding out," Stupid puny boy, Hulk is no monster, Hulk is a man! Hotshot thinks he can tell Hulk what to do with his sword? Hulk is the strongest there is!"

The Enji saw the Incredible Hulk jump up to try and smash him and quickly dashed out of the way. Ben saw how large an impact the Hulk made as he landed before he winced." Good grief…please don't tell me that this Hulk is a green version of Brad! Damn it, just like him, I'll make you see that raw muscle does not decide everything."

Ben charged at the Hulk with a burst of speed to stab him in his right shoulder. The Hulk just narrowed his eyes before he backhanded Ben with his other hand before he could blink.

As the owner of the Star Sword got smashed into the wall, he coughed up blood and saw that the Hulk was bleeding out green blood form his wound, and noticed it was rapidly healing before he winced." Great, self-recovery to?"

The Hulk snorted before he stomped in Ben's direction." The punier punk thinks he knows Hulk, the more Hulk is going to bash his face in!"

"Don't count on it! Your more than just an ogre, I'll give you that. However, I did not come this far too loose to the likes of you! Shinryukenha!"

Ben unleashed his spinning blue energy beam at his large opponent. The Hulk was hit dead on, but as he was blasted back a few feet he stomped his feet in the ground and just looked enraged." Hulk…charged…through…worst!"

Ben was starting to realize just how powerful his green target was before he steeled himself. As all of his focus went to fighting the Hulk, Iron Man saw how focused Ben was to as he swerved around he chuckled." Seems all the stress has caused Banner to revert to savage mode but, long as we can get him to calm down after its over we need a berserker mixing things up. Cap can rally up all the idealist fools he wants, it won't help him change reality! Now that we are pushing them back, I have enough time to."

Stark was caught off as his suit's sensors detected another energy blast coming from the right. As he stopped in midair to avoid it he saw the blast was a fully charged X-Buster shot, that came from X as he was clinging to the factory wall with Zero and Axl alongside him.

X saw Iron Man was looking at him before he steeled himself." Even if we are still in the dark here, seems like your genius is getting unhinged! If you won't stop to think about what you're doing, then we will just have to make you stop!"

Stark quickly scanned the three maverick hunters before he chuckled." Great mindsare always misunderstood kid, I'm not about to stop because it can't be understood! There was a time when I told myself I would never build weapons again. But that's all I ended up doing soon enough. I had forgotten just how good I was at it.

Talent is talent, and if you have a gift it's impossible to hide it for long. To be honest I'm not even trying to anymore. You three kids may think your high tech from whatever world you got dragged from but I can see you inside and out, and your nothing special.

Maybe not a kosher move but, with all the fighting going on can't waste a chance for more units, even if I have to convert a few game pieces! Go Extremis!"

Iron Man unleashed a flash of red light from his chest armor, and moments later the three-inorganic hero's felt ill. However after a few moments the red jewel on X's forehead glowed before he grasped his hand tightly." Was, that some sort of virus? It felt like it could have been a real threat, but Doctor Light's programming was enough to make sure we would not be taken over by the Sigma or Zero virus's, your virus won't work either!"

"You're a special kind of jerk for introducing yourself by seeing through a guy and giving him a virus! I'll teach you to treat me like a doll or something you cocky punk! RAKUHOUHA!"

A newly enraged Zero smashed the ground before a blue laser erupted out of the ground beneath Iron Man. Stark quickly swerved out of its path but as he did he saw Zero coming at first he thought he evaded the green energy blade, till Zero suddenly put more energy to his blade to have it grow much larger.

His target was caught off guard by the move, and while he was able to avoid a direct hit Zero's saber still sliced off part of his upper right shoulder armor.

As he saw Zero rebounding for another attack, and also saw X and Axl spread out he grunted." Guess you're as advanced as Vision, even if your clearly not Pym or Ultron's style. You know, you look like a male version of her so you can play with her while I get to work. Found you a meal Raychel!"

Before Zero could respond he heard a bestial roar, before Zero saw a red-light flash out from the window above. Seconds later a large red laser erupted out of it, and as Zero jumped out of the way of the laser blast and saw it came from a red robotic being above.

The new enemy quickly landed, allowing Zero and the others allowing them to see that their new foe was clad mainly in black and red, and looked slightly female.

Her outward thighs, hand, and arm cannon were vermilion, with her arm cannon having black and yellow triangles. Her helmet was also vermilion, having pointed ends and a light green center that resembled a brain and looked slightly like Zero's helmet. She had lime green hair resembling cables.

Her elbow joints were red spheres. Her upper torso was a combination of vermilion and green, with two yellow circles. Her lower torso was black, with the right side resembling a mouth. Separating her torso from her legs are red fins. Her boots were mostly white, being red near the bottom. Her boots were also slightly heeled, and she had a shroud of red energy crackling around her.

Axl saw the new arrival's eyes twitch before he chuckled." The hell is this? Doctor Wily build a secret bride for you Zero?"

"Shut up Axl sure as hell not in the mood for bad jokes!" The senior Maverick Hunter spat out as he got into a fighting stance." If you think you can build a third-rate copy of me "Iron Man" I'm going to make you choke on her scrap!"

"Touchy, are we?" Stark quipped back as he flew higher." Don't blame me this is that Wright dude's rouge toy. Have fun kids!"

Iron Man tried to escape and before Zero could go after him "Ray" roared before her energy surrounded her enough for her to become a spinning mass of red energy that quickly rocketed at Zero. X saw his friend evade her, and also saw Iron Man flying away before he yelled out," Don't think it's that easy to escape a hunter!"

X had his armor transform to the white and blue winged Falcon armor before he took to the air to go after his target while Axl followed him with his jet boots. As they both fired at Iron Man, and X managed to blast him in the back with a fully charged X-Buster shot.

As Iron Man saw X's determination he just chuckled." You got transforming armor to eh? Not bad, but even if your flexible you don't have the specs to beat me!"

Iron Man then flew up and put his hands together to unleash a barrage of repulsors blasts. X swerved out of some of the incoming projectiles before he narrowed his eyes." I take down far larger doomsday machines then you! Axl, cover me! Giga Crush!"

The fellow Maverick Hunter nodded before he changed his pistols once more, and combined to form the Pandora weapon he got after de transforming from the Omega form Wily forced him to turn into. He then unleashed a barrage of missiles, and while Iron Man swiftly took them all out, X used the time to unleash the ultimate attack his Falcon Armor had, and had a barrage of blue energy beams burst out of his armor before they all rained down on their target.

Stark noticed them coming for him faster than he expected, and could merely defend himself. His armor was able to protect him from forgoing extensive damage, but Axl took advantage of his target being distracted and flew up to him from behind.

He then used his transformation powers to transform to one of his former enemies, the robotic Panda like Bamboo Pandemonium before giving Stark a bear hug. Axl used all of his new strength to keep Iron Man pinned." Give up now! For all your tricks, I got you pinned! "

"What part of this armor is prepared for anything do you not get?" Axl was dismayed as Iron Mad had more of its forming compound added to increase its size, to the point where Stark quickly had his armor become larger then Axl in his transformed state. As the former Avenger broke out of Axl's hold he then uppercut him hard enough to leave a dent.

As X saw his teammate get launched into the air he grimaced and had his armor switch to his Ultimate Armor. He then grasped his fist." Your armor might not have a weak spot, but for the sake of everything we worked for we are going to make one! Nova Strike!"

X gathered all the power he could and unleashed his ultimate attack to crash into Iron Man before he could react, and hit him square in the chest with enough force to smash him into the ground.

As X used all of his power to try and crack the Endo-Sym Armor, Batman noticed that Stark looked like he was more stressed then he would have liked and quickly moved forward. "Guess the new arrivals can hold their own. Still…they don't know just how resourceful Stark is. But I was prepared, so time to end this."

Batman prepared to take something out of his pocket, but as he did suddenly a web hit his arm and bound him. As the caped crusader looked alarmed a cocky male voice quipped out," C'mon Bat brain, you scowl so much you're missing the bigger picture!"

Batman glanced up and saw that as he expected, the source of the web came from a man in a blue and red outfit with the mark of a spider on his chest and big white bug eyes, the Spectacular Spiderman.

Spiderman's target just narrowed his eyes before he drew back his cape." Parker…I thought you were smarter than this but it seems I misjudged you. After all, if you were the man I thought you were then you should realize Stark's plan may seem effective in the short term, its doomed to fail."

"No offense…but even if it's a long shot its better than just rolling over to die Batman! I respect Captain America a lot, and you guys seem alright, but I have to do what it takes to save those I care about?"

"Even if it means becoming everything you stand against? We are supposed to be better!"

"Maybe you guys keep telling yourself that in your head but more than anything we are supposed to protect people, not ideas! Trust me, I know more than anyone that with great power comes great responsibility!

But Mary Jane and Aunt May are still here in this broken world the Beyonder slapped together, and I have to protect them no matter what, it may not be the most noble path but I'll make a deal with the devil if it means I can save those that are important to me!"

"So I heard…but I can't let you, Stark, and the others make this situation worst because of your desperation."

" No offense Batman, but with how much you, Cap, and some of the others focus on your ideals that's the only thing you have left! Some of us still have people we want to protect, and we will do what it takes! I took you down last week, and I can humble you again if you're in my way!"

Spiderman had his wrist mounted web shooters unleash a wide web to try and bind his target. However, Batman swiftly jumped up and threw two Batarang's with expert precision to cut a large enough hole to jump through.

As he jumped back he gave the web crawler a damning look." I'll give you credit for getting the jump on me that one time. However, this time I'm aware of your Spider Sense Parker, I'm aware of all of your skills, talents, and mannerisms. I assure you, I'm ready to take down any thing you can try."

"Then I'll just have to think of something new, you're going to regret looking down on me!"

Spiderman jumped up into the air and swung around on a web to prepare to attack. The moment he did Batman threw a smoke grenade to unleash a large smoke cloud. Spiderman saw his target had escaped his gaze, and quickly looked around.

One of his unique powers, his Spider Sense, flared up as he had a tingling feeling at the base of his skull. After feeling a psychological awareness of his surroundings, Spiderman dodged on instinct.

As he did, a Batarang zoomed past him and collided in to a wall. Three more projectiles came at him but Spiderman kept evading them. Just as he was about to try and find Batman from within the smoke, the four projectiles he evaded all glowed and made a noise as aggregating as nails scratching a chalkboard.

The noise was enough to paralyze Spiderman for a moment, and that was all the time that Batman needed to throw another blue projectile at his pained target before it unleashed a burst of ice to freeze Spiderman's arms.

As the superhero realized the sudden turn of events Batman jumped out of the shadows and grasped Spider-man with his right hand, before having a powerful electrical current discharge from it to zap the smaller superhero.

As Spiderman screamed in pain Batman grasped him with his left hand as well to shock him harder." Your Spider-Sense does make landing a blow on you rather difficult. However, as you can see as powerful as it can be, Captain America, Danvers, and the others made it clear that can be overwhelmed or misdirected with the right tactic.

Now, give up before this is forced to turn a brutal direction and accept there is no way you can win."

"Damn you, it does not matter if there is no logical way to win, we have to find a way! You don't have the right to say what is not right!"

"As much as you may hate to see it right now, sometimes it's the job of us to define what is right, and stop foolish people from doing what is not right, just like you and Stark!"

Spider-Man screamed in pure dismay as he tried to resist. Megaman briefly saw that while Batman was keeping a firm grip on his target, the web-slinger was not going down and that was keeping the Dark Knight away from helping X overpower Iron Man.

Before he could observe further he saw a flash of red light before he saw Cyclops had fired a wide Optic Blast at him and quickly did his trademark slide move to evade it. Before he could try and fire back the mutant Bishop fired with his own gun, but Protoman swiftly dashed forward and blocked the blast with his white Proto-Shield.

Megaman saw the various mutants fighting the Justice League before he looked on in shock." Wow, these guys have so many powers, are they like, some sort of robot masters or something?"

"Does it really matter Megaman?" Protoman spat out." Human or robot, with the stakes this high they are just obstacles that have to be blown away! Big Bang Shot!"

Megaman's brother quickly gathered all the power he had into his buster before he unleashed a large yellow energy blast. To his shock Bishop did not bother to dodge and just walked forward and extended his chest, to absorb the entire attack. Bishop's eyes glowed red before he unleashed an even more larger projectile in the two-brother's path.

As Megaman jumped out of the way, and saw the extent of the damage Bishop's attack caused he cringed." Geeze bro, you should have Doctor Light upgrade you to absorb energy attacks like that so you don't need a shield!"

"It has tradeoffs Rock! We can discuss it when the universe is not on the line! These guys got their tricks, so we just have to try harder and not hold back! Ready?"

"If that's what it's going to take, ready when you are! Rush, Beat, time for us to go all out!"

The Blue Bomber then summoned his robotic helpers, a red armored dog and a blue metallic bird. Moments later the three glowed and combined, and Megaman emerged in his Hyper Megaman state, looking much larger with a gem of his own on his forehead, golden wings and a gold V on his helmet.

At the same time Protoman also had a robotic duo warp in front of him in twin beams of light, one being the small red helper robot Eddie while the other was a green metallic cat named Tango. As the three merged when the light cleared Doctor Light's first creation emerged in his Azure Shogun Protoman state, looking sleeker, now having a sword in his hand while his new shoulder armor was equipped with twin cannons, along with his shield.

Bishop saw Hyper Megaman charge up his buster and narrowed his eyes." You can fire as big a shot as you can like punk, I'll still throw it back at yah!"

"We will just have to see huh? Hyper Burst!"

The transformed blue robot unleashed a massive energy beam at his targets, and while Bishop prepared to absorb it the blast suddenly moved upward and passed them, before going on to vaporize a large chunk of the building.

Bishop formed a small grin, till he and Cyclops both realized that while Megaman's attack missed them, in the process it caused large chunks of the building to come crashing down in their direction.

As Bishop dodged the incoming rubble Hyper Megaman used his new thrusters to burst at the X-man before he could react and smash him in the gut hard enough to launch him into Cyclops. As both men went flying through the wall behind him Megaman grinned." Guess you can't absorb everything eh? No matter how stubborn you guys are about this we have to beat you!"

As Megaman and his brother pressed on to neutralize their current targets Ben's other comrades were fighting even more stubborn obstacles. At the moment, Lloyd found himself in a tense battle with the ace fighter Wolverine.

Lloyd was more than skilled enough to keep up with the X-Men's attacks, and as Wolverine's Adamantium claws were held back by the Enji's red and blue material blades Lloyd looked determined." Don't you guys get it? If you don't give up your going to die!"

Wolverine snickered before growling back a hostile," X-Men don't die so easily bub! Besides, damned if we do, damned if we don't so if that's all there is then at least we can die with pride!"

"Damn it, you're crazy! I won't let my friends die if I can help it! You're done, Divine Justice!"

Lloyd unleashed a surge of energy with enough force to cause Wolverine to stagger, he then put his blades together before they merged to become the powerful purple Eternal Sword.

With his opponent staggered the brown-haired swordsman jumped up and unleashed a powerful strike that carved through the X-men's chest like it was butter. Lloyd saw his opponent scream in pain before he looked remorseful." Sorry, even if you're not, even if you're not on our side I'm only doing this because, whoa!"

To his shock even with his blade still deep in Wolverine's chest, the mutant suddenly gave a beastly roar before he tried to stab Lloyd with his claws. As the Enji blocked the claws with his blade Wolverine snickered." Rookie, cute of you to pity me when your killing me but I'm the best at what I do. And what I do, as your about, is not very nice. You may have the skills but like Cap and his new buds you don't have the heart to do what it takes to survive then it's not going to cut, GUH!"

As Wolverine tried to press on his assault he suddenly was hit by a beam of holy energy that sent him flying. Lloyd widened his eyes before he saw the blast came from Kratos. His father had his angelic wings extend before he sighed." You have gotten rusty Lloyd, you should know victory is not grasped till you're sure the enemy won't get up."

"Sorry about that." Lloyd uttered in embarrassment." It's just, there are so many running around it's not clear who the bad guys are."

"Fair enough, but while we still have to grasp the situation clearly, for now boil it down to whoever is attacking us or are allies are a threat."

Lloyd nodded, and prepared to charge forward before he saw a lightning bolt heading his way. As he deflected the bolt Kratos saw that the attack came from Storm, but before he could attack her, he was then attacked by the X-Men Iceman, and had to unleash his Judgment spell on the bolder sized ice cubes coming his way.

In the distance, the Enji Master Yamamoto had been observing the battle from a distance, having been unbothered because most of Stark's group saw him as a harmless old man. He saw Renji fighting the vampire hunter Blade, and saw Green Arrow getting pinned down by Iron Man's ally the purple wearing hotshot archer Hawkeye, before Green Arrows ally the Black Canary unleashed her Sonic Scream to paralyze Hawkeye long enough for her comrade to punch him in the throat.

He then saw Supergirl fighting one of Stark's allies the powerful Doctor Strange, Wonder Woman fighting the green muscle She-Hulk, and then glanced at Ben still struggling to overpower the Hulk, before he took a deep breath." I knew this mission would be no simple task, but are obstacles so far are more annoying then I figured they would be. I hope Ben and the others are able to regain their resolve quickly for, oh? "The elder Enji saw a beam of ice coming for him before he saw that it was coming from Ice Man. The mutant completely covered in ice was riding around on the floor of ice he was creating before the Enji Master glared at him." Young man did no one teach you to respect your elders?"

Ice Man shrugged before retorting with a defensive," Respect has no place for war old timer! Besides, I seen plenty of mutants that looked weak and could wreck me before I could blink, I can't take that chance now! Nothing personal, I'll just freeze you enough to keep you out of the fight!"

Yamamoto quickly grasped his staff tightly before he retorted with a damming." Your right, there is no room for honor when the stakes are too high. Very well, you can try to subdue me if you wish.

Now that I gauged the battle zone enough, it's time to give all you fools a light toasting as a warning! Ryūjin Jakka, may all things of this world that are our enemies, turn to ashes! Jōkaku Enjō! "

Iceman saw the Enji Master had an aura forming around him and quickly fired a beam of ice at him. But as he did Yamamoto had his staff shatter, and the katana with a purple colored hilt emerged. The moment it did flames blazed out of it, flames that vaporized Iceman's beam with ease.

As he did, flames erupted all around the Enji Master. Iceman saw Yamamoto was not phased in the slightest by being in the inferno and saw his ice was quickly melting before he tried to swerve around and counter attack.

Before he could Yamamoto struck the ground with his flaming blade, and moments later a pillar of fire erupted underneath Iceman and consumed him before he could react. Storm was nearby and saw her comrade get set ablaze, but the moment she screamed out in terror a pillar of flame erupted underneath her as well.

While Yamamoto did not attack every one of Iron Man's team at once, everyone he noticed being on the enemy team in his range of vision was consumed by pillars of fire.

One of those that was consumed was the Hulk, Ben had been trying to break through the Hulk's rage, and after slashing in half another piece of rubble his green enemy had thrown at him and was about to attack again when he saw Hulk get set ablaze.

The owner of the Star Sword quickly looked for any flames coming his way, and glanced to the left to see that Yamamoto was eyeing Iceman and the others. He then gulped as he saw Superman and some of the others looking shocked." I see Master Yamamoto is not pulling his punches. Well…we do have to take them down but, just hope the others don't, whoa!"

In a blur the Hulk showed a little thing like being set ablaze was not enough to take him down as his arm snapped out to grasp Ben by his throat. The muscular giant looked outraged as he bashed Ben to the ground. "Puny man, thought you could burn Hulk? No matter what tricks you try, you won't beat Hulk! No matter what you try, you're too weak to beat Hulk! Now you're going to pay!"

Ben quickly felt himself being squeezed tightly, and as he cried out in pain he had flash backs of the numerous times the man he hated most of all, Brad Fowltror used his superior power to injure him.

As memories of how Brad hurt Lacus, and laughed about killing his cousin flashed by his head he let his rage consume him." No, you're going to pay you monster! I swore, that I would never let a muscle-bound thug like you be able to overpower me ever again! So, get ready Hulk, because I'm going to keep that promise. Ban, Kai!"

The savior of the universe unleashed the full power of the Star Sword, and in the process, it unleashed a shock-wave powerful enough to force the Hulk back. Hulk saw Ben was now giving him a deadly serious look before he snarled." Shinny man thinks being shinier will save him? Hulk has smashed shinny guys before and he."

In the blink of an eye Ben showed he was not playing around as he moved so fast it looked like he was in multiple places at once. Hulk merely snarled and tried to slam Ben.

He tried punching the ground hard enough to cause the ground around him to erupt. However, as the ground erupted they all got sliced to pieces in moments. A moment later Hulk suddenly felt something, before large cuts burst out all over his body.

The Hulk screamed in pain, and that pain quickly turned to fury as he saw Ben reappear above him. Ben just pointed the Star Sword at the Hulk before uttering a composed." Maybe you have in the past, but this time you're trying to smash the savior of the universe! No matter how hard you try, you're not going to break me!"

"People keep saying that Hulk can't break them, till they break! Hulk is World Breaker, and he broke fast punks before!"

"Maybe that's true, but could those speedy guys do this? Senkai!"

The Enji had his blade shimmer with golden light before a dozen golden energy blades burst out, and rained down to pierce Hulk's arms and legs. The green monster of a man just snarled as he had his muscles bulge." No matter how many swords you throw at Hulk, you won't win!"

The Hulk got even madder and despite the swords in his arm he lobbed his right fist at Ben, only to be shocked for his opponent to intercept with his blade, and block his blow strong enough to cause a shock-wave. Captain America, who was still blocking Shade's attacks all this time, was one of the ones nearby who felt said shock-wave.

The first avenger saw Ben standing his ground to the Hulk, and also saw how many were consumed with fire by the Enji Master's ragefully assault before he steeled himself." Those new comers can throw their weight around, just hope they know where to throw it. Damn it Stark, how many people are going to burn because of your pride?"

In the distance, he heard the rouge Number snicker before Shade spat out," That's rich coming from the guy who just unleashed the hellfire to burn all of those so-called friends of yours! The hypocrisy of you organics, its why your shackles have to be broken!"

Rogers instantly threw his shield at the direction of the voice like a Frisbee. As he saw his shield hit nothing he instantly dodged behind an broken truck, just as a barrage of purple bullets pierced it.

As the first avenger evaded being sniped the robotic sniper snickered out," Your primitive tactics are useless! Face it meat bag, your just to out of date to win!"

Rogers saw his shield bounce back across a wall and quickly caught it before he blocked another barrage." You, Stark, and all the others just don't get that some things never become obsolete! Before this is over, I'll make you all see what really matters!"

"Bark all you want dog, you're going to get put down all the same. It's been fun, but time you know your place!"

Shade briefly became visible as he launched four green spheres into the air. As they spread out Shade turned invisible once more, before from the right he fired a laser beam at the left most orb, before they all glowed and unleashed a barrage of green energy bullets to rain down on Captain America.

The former leader of the Avengers used his expert super soldier instincts to evade and block the barrage, even as the blasts bounced out of the ground in his direction. Not wasting a moment, Rogers gauged his enemy and threw his shield in front of him while diving under a rock. The star shaped shield bounced off a wall, bounced off a tree, and bounced once more off the ground before a laser blast suddenly blasted it down.

" Your shield may be sturdy but you put way too much stock in that Frisbee!" Shade snickered out callously Guess you will just have to die realizing how out gunned you, huh?"

Shade felt something as dozens of spikes suddenly crashed down around him, till lightning bolts rained down, one hitting Shade. The blast hit Shade hard enough to turn off his invisibility, and as the damaged Number screamed out in pain he swerved around to see the attack came from Beck, who had used the lighting power he acquired from one of the other Numbers to attack.

As Shade grasped his sparking chest he glanced at Beck and cursed." Damn it, how a twit like you know where to, wait, that attack was not random after all?"

Captain America could not help but form a small grin as he grasped his shield once more." I take pride in my skills, but I also take pride in knowing when to call for back up."

Shade had his eye twitch before he frantically aimed his rifle at Beck." Damn it, I'll scrap you yet!"

Beck dashed under the taller robot just as he fired, and unleashed the power he absorbed form Brandish to have a blade form out of his free hand. He swiftly slashed his target's rifle in two before yelling," Snap out of it Shade!"

Beck swiftly used his power to punch Shade in the chest, and rewrite the corrupted Xel in his fellow Number's body. Shade screamed in pain for a moment before his body glowed, and he suddenly fell to his knees. Captain America ran up to the robot ready to bash his head in, only to see Beck look hopeful. Shade suddenly winced before he glanced at Beck." Well kid…looks like I own you big time."

"All right it worked! Thanks for giving me an opening mister! All that's left is Ray and I saved them all!"

"Always happy to save someone son." Rogers uttered as he nodded." That power of yours is handy, too bad we can't use to fix everyone."

Captain America then glanced over at where Iron Man was, who was still fighting back X and Axl, before he grasped his fist tightly." Then again, Stark's mind has been rebooted after Onslaught, and after the Civil War, when I died because of him! No matter what, he always turns out the same, because it's his core nature! I gave him more chances then men like him deserve, but its time he faces the fate that a monster!"

The man who was frozen in an iceberg dashed frantically at his former friend, blocking or smashing anything in his way. At the moment, Iron Man was too busy keeping X's powerful Nova Crush off him, before he hear the Hulk yell and saw Ben was currently strong enough to hold his own.

As he saw nearly half of his forces get set ablaze by Yamamoto's brutal offensive he winced." What the hell is going on? Steve somehow got the Ghost Rider to switch sides?"

Axl heard him say that before he chuckled." If you're so smart, then how come you can't see your side's losing? Guess being smart does not help with your ego so I'll just have to blast it away with my good old Proton cannon!"

Axl swiftly had a giant cannon form in his hands. The sight of this caused Iron Man to sneer out," The hell are you doing using my tech? Bah…another con artist that needs to know the hard way using my tech is not the same as knowing it!"

The Maverick Hunter just shrugged before firing at the bottom half of his white armored target to assist X. Iron Man responded by having all of his armor's power suddenly go into his thrusters, and used the explosion the Proton Cannon caused to give him a boost to escape X's grip.

As the genius saw X rebound he glanced around to see who on his side was still holding their own before muttering," Steven, you have a teleport spell ready? Hate to say it but we might need to warp out of here, at least to give me a new armor to counter the suckers Cap's conned into backing him."

His ally, the extremely powerful sorcerer Doctor Strange, was currently fighting off the attacks of Justice League Members Raven, Starfire, Doctor Fate, and Blue Beetle, along with Ben and Lloyd's comrades the half elf siblings Genius and Raine Sage. At the moment, the magic user had been blocking everyone's attacks with a golden energy barrier before he glanced at Stark. "We must prevail no matter what Iron Man! We already went this far, no matter what it takes, we must win!"

Genis saw the wary look in Doctor Strange's eye before he looked determined." Don't blame us because you went too far! I see people, friends who went out of control to try and reach something they wanted! No matter how much they tried to justify it they were wrong, and you're going to be defeated by the forces of justice! Indignation!"

The white-haired mage unleashed one of his more powerful spell arts as moments later a massive blade of holy lighting descended from the sky to try and smash into Strange. However, as it landed Strange quickly uttered," K'ooth ul D'ayn Yool!"

While no one could understand what Strange meant, the meaning of his words quickly became clear as a third demonic eye opened up above his other eyes, and they all turned blood red before an aura of darkness exploded out of him with enough force to shatter the incoming Mystic Art attack in an instant.

Strange saw everyone look shocked before he grit his teeth." Your magic is amusing, but a charlatan of the arts will never defeat me!"

Genis had his eye twitch before he snapped back with a defensive," Hey I don't know what world you came from but I'm no fake mage! I'm a half-elf that trained with spells my entire life!"

"An elf you say? The fact that you don't even know what I mean proves my point. It does not matter what race you are, you clearly don't have the gift, or at least the gift that matters! Your one who spent most of your life acquiring items of power, using objects and learning formulas.

That might have passed to your peers, but to the eyes of the sorcerer Supreme your nothing but a thief! Would you like to see real power child? Would you like to see what true mastery of the art really costs? I'll enlighten you before your death! Yool D'ayn hat whuurl!"

The aura of darkness around Strange exploded in to a massive dark pillar that erupted behind Strange and grew to become immense enough to reach out to the sky. As everyone looked in shock Strange just grasped his hands tightly. "Half-elf do you think we are not aware that this is wrong? I assure you we are, it's just that we are pass the point of caring. Rogers and the others may prefer to die with dignity, but we will do what it takes to live even if it means going down the road to hell!

Yes, I am damned…and worse than that, somewhere along the way I have become lost. I held on to a sliver of the good man I once was till now, but all I see before me is the abyss, for I freely give that up to save what I care about! The others can die with their honor, we chose to become the devil itself to save what we care about! Eye of Agamotto, devour everything that stands in our way!"

Everyone saw many massive tentacles erupt out of the dark pillar, and as Genis saw one of the tentacles head his way he steeled himself." Get as creepy as you want, I been to hell and back so that's not going to freak me out! Well, at least one part of hell. Anyway, Meteor Storm!"

Genis unleashed a barrage of massive energy infused meteors to try and shatter Doctor Strange's horrifying new spell, but he and the others were horrified as the tentacles swat the meteors away like flies. As the Enji looked horrified Raven flew up before giving a damning," You're not the only caster of the dark arts here Strange! Azarath M…Guh!"

The tentacle close to her suddenly twitched before thorns burst out and impaled Raven. Strange just narrowed his eyes before uttering a damming," I'm well aware of your demonic link spawn of Azarath! This is beyond darkness, beyond light! This is neither good or evil, it's the pure raw hunger of chaos, the thirst to live no matter what! If any of you were truly passionate about magic, then the first thing you would know about magic is precision.

It's like any other science really, the devil is in the details. I've spent my life learning the minutia of mysticism, rituals, lost languages, symbols of power, incantations, principalities, to the darkest nature of magic! In the end, the art, the understanding of the gift, and the control needed to make use of it all relies on precision.

You all that still cling on to being heroes and protecting order. But urgency, desperation, these things erode order in time. They bring chaos, and chaos, brings the fall!"

Ben quickly noticed just how horrifying a turn the battle had turned, and after seeing that even the Hulk and Iron Man looked shocked he gulped." The hell is this? Where ever this demonic energy is coming from its something as horrible as the demon lords! Damn it, whatever it is, it's going down now! Divine Millennia Slash!"

The Enji swiftly had countless golden energy swords form around the massive dark pillar to try and slice it apart. However, to his horror his swords all shattered upon impact. At the same time, Yamamoto unleashed a massive fire tornado and others tried to attack Strange's dark object, only for all of their attacks to shatter as well. Strange just ascended higher into the air while looking deranged." The entire construct can absorb all that is linked to magic! Be it light or darkness, its constructed of pure anti-magic chaos, all will be absorbed!"

Ben grasped his fist tightly before he responded with a resolute," Then I guess I'll just have to use physical force to shatter it! Kaio-Ken, times three!"

The brown haired man's aura exploded in a fiery red color before he charged right at the demonic construct that Doctor Strange forged before unleashing his Dragon Fist attack. All of the appendages came together to block Ben's punch, and while he was pushing them back each second he realized that contact with the hellish construct was rapidly sucking away his magical energy.

Superman was still recovering from being shot by the Kryptonite, but as he saw some of his comrades like the green skinned Beast Boy, the white armored Captain Atom, and others get caught by branches of the construct, the moment they did they were consumed by black fire before they turned to skeletons, and were ashes in moments.

This caused the man of steel to get engaged." Damn it, I knew they had lost their way but to go this far? This is something I would be shocked to see from Darkside himself, not from people that were supposed to be hero's! I swear, your all going to pay for this! Dianna, Hal, cover me! Let's help that Ben and hit that thing so hard it turns to paste!"

Strange saw the recovered Superman take to the air and gather alongside Supergirl, Wonder Woman and the others before he looked determined." It's useless, even a Superman won't be enough to stop the ultimate outburst of a dammed man! Yes, I forsake everything, any sliver of redemption, of honor, to ensure victory! As long as there is a future for the others, I don't mind giving, GUH!"

In the blink of an eye someone impacted Strange so hard that he was smashed right through his own construct, and emerged before being smashed into another skyscraper, with a fist through his gut.

As everyone blinked in shock they saw that the person who smashed into him faster than a speeding bullet, was none other than Superboy Prime.

Strange saw that the new arrival had his fist through his chest and was about to say something before he coughed up blood. As he did his attacker only smirked." They must have really low standards where you are from if someone like you ever was called a hero!

I could hear your moaning from the other side of the city, and your big demon plant is really ugly! Fine, you want to be the worst bad guy, you get what the worst bad guys get! True justice!"

Strange tried to speak, but Superboy Prime narrowed his eyes and punched Strange hard enough in the throat to create a shock-wave big enough to shatter the windows around them. From their he rapidly unleashed a blur of punches to break all of Strange's limbs before he grasped him hard enough on his head to crack it.

He then threw Strange into what he summoned before he unleashed a massive burst of his heat vision to vaporize Strange in twin massive beams of red light.

As Strange exploded, the explosion caused what he summoned to become unstable before it exploded and started to fall down from the sky as burning chunks. Captain America saw the sudden turn of events and looked at the one who killed his former comrade with shock." That's, the younger Superman from another reality? He, he really is strong."

Iron Man saw the remains of his friend fall to the ground before they burnt up, and cringed." Damn it Strange, I told you not to get to hastily, and now the plan's gone to hell!"

Ben took a series of heavy breaths as he glanced at the man he fought in the future carefully and whipped some sweat off his brow." I was wondering when he would show up. Looks like he really is just as volatile as last time, maybe even more so. To be able to take Strange down so easily, even if it was sneak attack, he really has insane strength. Great, not like we don't have enough ticking time bombs around here."

Superman and some of the others flew up to his younger counter part before looking at him carefully." Superboy, I was worried Stark and the others caught you in some sort of trap."

"Heh…my bad Superman, stumbled into something that had to be taken care of. Sorry I was late, sounds like these losers made a mess. When I saw that wizard making a mess with his demon magic his stupid mustache was like a giant target!"

Supergirl winced at how excited he looked before she cleared hear throat." Thanks for taking him out before he could kill anyone else, but did you really have to be so brutal about it?"

"Are you kidding me? That dude was ranting about how he was going to do whatever it took to win, and he had to be shut down fast! He was no hero anymore, he deserved what he got!"

Superman sighed before he looked at Iron Man." I'll give you that there was no time to look for more humane ways to disable him, sometimes even super heroes have a bad hand. And, in the end this would not happen if Iron Man had not gotten everyone into a frenzy in the first place. Thankfully Ben Auro and his group have held their own, but now let's shut this down before anyone else gets hurt."

Super boy Prime glanced at Ben, before he chuckled." I figured the Beyonder would not throw dead weight just as Battle World is entering the final round! You think you Enji are such hot shots eh? Guess you're not that great if I had to bail you out!"

Ben saw the dismissive look the man in the red cape had before he took a deep breath and shrugged." I admit, I underestimated just how powerful that last spell was. Still, thanks for the assist."

Super Boy Prime just flied closer to Ben as his grin widened." If you're really grateful, then how about saying you're sorry?"

"Sorry? For what?"

"You know what, Ben Auro! Say sorry for lying to everyone that you're a great hero, when your nothing but a fraud!"

Ben saw the others looking at him before he grasped the Star Sword tightly." Sorry but I have no idea what you're talking about. I assure you, I really am a hero. I'd give you the proof but the photos are back in my home."

"I always found guys with smart mouths annoying! That Deadpool punk thought he was so funny just because he could regrow arms! But he was not laughing when I threw him into the sun! Don't bother, I already saw what you did, and I saw you blow up a planet and everyone in it!"

A chill went down Ben's spine before he narrowed his eyes." I don't know what you think you know, but your wrong about things and this is not the time to act on false information!"

"You have some nerve, lying right to my face! I know it's true though, the Beyonder showed me the truth because he did not want a sneaky fake like you to win!"

Superman saw Ben wince before he went up to his younger counter part." What are you talking about?"

"It's the truth Superman." Super Boy Prime shot out as he had a damming look in his eye." The Beyonder, or at least those Swans that act as his voice came down to me and showed me this fake hero's past! He showed me that he blew up an entire planet and all the people on it, and was laughing as he killed his own friends! This guy is trying to screw us over right when we were about to win, and he is going to pay!"

Ben tensed up before he shot back with," That's not true! I was mind controlled in the past, and my body was used to do horrible things. But that was not me!"

"You think a lie as lame as that is going to change anything?"

X suddenly flew up to Ben with the others behind him before he added," Wait you have to understand Ben is not lying! One of our enemies manipulated Ben and used powerful dark magic to have him brainwashed and fight for him as Darth Idious! That was Ben's body yes, but not his mind!"

"Think I'll trust you when you're with him? Just face it, this world needs real hero's, not fakes that don't know what right and wrong is! We are the hero's that this world needs, not fake heroes!"

Wonder Woman saw the anguish in Ben's eyes before she looked conflicted." Hold on, he seemed truthful to me. I don't think he is lying. At the very least we should hear him out."

"If we let this faker get away he will ruin everything! Besides, I'm not so sure you know what you're talking about either!"

Superman narrowed his eyes before reacting with a stern," What's gotten into you? Wonder Woman has done nothing to deserve being treated with suspicion."

"Heh, the fact you think that's a fact shows just how corrupt all of you are! I did not see just what that so-called savior was hiding, the Beyonder showed me all the lies you all were hiding to! He showed me how you broke that Maxwell Lord's neck Wonder Woman!

He showed me how the Green Lantern got weak and nearly killed the other Green Lanterns after Coast City got destroyed by Cyborg Superman and Mongol! He showed me how Barry got weak just because he missed his mommy and messed with time so bad that all kinds of people screwed up! And then there is you Superman! I saw what you did to Zod! You should have found a better way like you kept telling everyone!"

Superman saw his comrades look full of anguish before he closed his eyes." Those things are all true Superboy, but you seem to have seen selective parts of history. None of us wanted to do wrong there, one way or another we were all consumed with emotions and lost our way for a moment. But that's not who we are, not as a whole."

"If you were true hero's you would have found a way! You're a fake Superman, I'm the only one here that deserves to be called Superman!"

Ben got annoyed before he pointed the Star Sword at the ranting Kryptonian." Heroes are not gods Prime! Are you seriously saying that you never sinned? You just ripped apart Doctor Strange like he was a chew toy!"

"That's different, he was a bad guy who deserved what he got and there was no time for anything else!"

"Hero's make mistakes, sometimes horrible ones. But what matters is atoning for those mistakes, for how we act from there!"

"You just won't accept it, will you? You're not a hero! You're just a lying villain, and its time you get what you deserve!"

In a blur Superboy Prime charged at Ben, and while the Enji was able to slash at his target in time to block his punch, the impact still pushed him back and left an impact hard enough to rattle his spine.

As Ben saw his sudden opponent glare at him he narrowed his eyes." Maybe I don't pass as a hero in your eyes, but when it comes down to it the people that I care about do! And they are counting on me to win, so I will do what it takes even if that means going through you!"

"I don't know how you ever got away with it. You fooled everybody into believing you were a real hero when you don't even have a cape!"

"I'm not denying I was weak at times, but I did whatever I could to make up for it when it counted, and I saved my universe."

"Well if it's as full of liars as you it can just vanish like you!"

Super Boy Prime suddenly unleashed a massive burst of Heat Vision from his eyes. Ben was able to slash the blast in half, but as he did Prime charged at him with a burst of speed to smash him right in his chest. Ben was punched hard enough to hear ribs crack as he got rocketed through a few buildings and landed on the ground hard enough to make a crater.

The twisted Kryptonian was about to press on his assault when he felt something hit him in the back, and glanced downward to see that Gambit was throwing cards at him. This caused Prime to widen his eyes with rage." This is all because you fake hero's keep not knowing your place! Just know your place already!"

He swiftly unleashed another burst of heat vision to vaporize Gambit and Rouge before they could even scream. X, Axl, Megaman, and Protoman all fired at Prime at once, and even Bishop, Cyclops, and a few of the X-Men fired at the one that killed their comrades in a desperate attempt to size vengeance.

However, the combined barrage hit Prime, but did not even leave a scratch. Prime then grinned, and Ben got up just as he saw that his enemy was going to unleash another burst of heat vision on the Maverick Hunters before his eyes widened with fear." No, I won't let you! Kaio-Ken, times ten!"

Ben pushed himself to unleash all the energy he could muster before in a burst of speed he warped right in front of Super Boy Prime, and punched him hard enough to smash his chin upward.

As the heat vision, he planned to release shot up to part the clouds Prime lowered his chin and grinned." Your no man of steel faker, all that did was itch!"

Prime went to uppercut Ben, only for him to hit a after image. Prime saw images of Ben all over him before he snickered." You think your fast faker? Even the Flash can't out run me for long, I'm going to catch you and when I do I'm going to finish you!"

"They are not just images of me, they are me! Multi-Shadow Clones!"

Ben swiftly had a dozen magical copies of him appear around Prime before they all attacked him at once. However, Ben's enemy casually batted one away before slugging another." Damn it, you can multiply zero by infinity and it's still zero!"

Prime then took a deep breath and unleashed a breath of cold that was intense enough to turn all of the Ben's around him to solid ice. The caped man grinned as they all shattered into fragments, but before he could boast he saw a glimmer of light, and looked up to see that Ben was gathering energy above.

The crazed disgraced hero narrowed his eyes and dove at Ben once more before his target yelled out," Burning, Celestial, Shinryukenha!"

With his strength still enhanced by the Kai Sage art, Ben unleashed a massive spinning golden energy beam at his target. Prime widened his eyes and quickly tried to smack the beam way, only for it to be more powerful then he thought and get pushed back. Prime realized his hands were burning before he laughed." You must be one hard core super villain if you can hurt me! But no laser is going to take down a true hero!"

Prime wound up his right fist, and to the horror of Ben's friends he uppercut the Shinryukenha into the sky. However, Ben showed he was not backing down as the moment his beam was knocked up he charged at Prime." Kaio Ken…time twenty! Erupting, Dragon Fist!"

Ben gathered all the energy he could, and focused it into his right fist before he unleashed a punch that's aura was shaped like a dragon. Prime caught the punch with his right hand, and was shocked as the impact knocked him back. Prime's head was knocked back, but after a few moments he grit his teeth and pushed Ben's fist back.

After seeing Ben's skin looking red before veins formed on his forehead." This is as strong a punch you can throw mister fake savior? What a joke, and the joke's not funny anymore!"

Ben felt his opponent start to press down on his fist and squeeze, causing him to scream in pain, then yell out a driven," I'm not done yet, I can still, get stronger! For the sake of everything, I'm not about to let a spoiled fool who judges everyone and does not know what suffering a real hero goes through be the one to, AHH!"

Prime suddenly got enraged as he grasped Ben's punch hard enough to twist the arm in an unnatural direction. As he did he seethed out," Shut up, you don't know anything about me! Think I don't know what suffering is? I lost my entire world, and everyone I cared about to the bad guys!

Then I was told to trust the others, but Stark and his buddies turned out to be liars! And now I find that you, Superman and all the others are liars, are fake hero's! I lost everything for the sake of true justice, I'm the only one who is a true superhero, that's why I'll win the Beyonder's game, and make things how they should be!"

Ben tried to break through with all he could muster, but his opponent just yelled angrily before he unleashed enough force to twist and break Ben's arm. As Ben yelled in pain his opponent eagerly wound up his fist. "Glad I got a head's up about how much of a fraud you are! Hypocrites like you are the worst, so you're going to get the worst end!"

Prime prepared to charge at Ben, but before he could a pillar of flame erupted over him. As Prime winced Yamamoto made his intentions clear as he flew up and pointed his fiery blade at the man." We will not let you kill our comrade!"

"Hah, think you can stop me from doing anything I want to do? No matter how you throw it at me, the heat just makes me stronger!" To prove his point Prime rapidly spun around to form a miniature twister to blow all the flames away. He then glared at the Enji Master." I'm going to choke you with your own beard you bald, huh?"

Prime was about to attack when Superman suddenly grasped his arm." Stop this now! Even if these people do have things to answer for it does not excuse going this far! End this madness before it goes too far!"

Prime had his eye twitch before he threw Superman's arm off him. Seeing the older hero's shock just made him snicker." Of course you would say that, you're as corrupt as he is! The madness will end, when all the fakers are gone once and for all! In the end, I'm the only real hero, in a world full of villains!"

The Green Lantern, the Martin Manhunter, Supergirl, Captain America and others got up to Prime before Green Lantern uttered." You better calm down kid, if you keep deciding you're the final word on things you don't understand this is going to be a problem!"

"This is what we are all trying to do from the start!" Prime shouted furiously." You saw how dark and corrupt people like Stark and the others are!"

Captain America saw Ben holding his broken arm before he raised his shield." The guilty do have to answer for their crimes son, but only when its proven without a doubt that they are guilty! I saw what Stark and the others did with my own eyes. I don't know what you saw but I'm not going to damn anyone on speculation."

"You're not spotless either Captain America, I saw what you did when you were working for the Nazi's!"

"That was not me damn it! I mean it was my body but, at the time Red Skull had altered my memory to make me think I was raised by Hydra! Its…a long story."

"That's what all the bad guys say, that it's a long story! It's just excuses!"

Another member of the Justice League, the Daxamite hero Mon-El then snickered." There is no point arguing with this dude, he always was a stuck up punk! I put up with his pity party when he kept the ego trip down but, if you think your better then everyone then you need to be humbled!"

"You think you can talk to me you damn Daxamite? I saw all the times you screwed up to! And I also saw you kissing Supergirl last night! Even if it's from another reality, someone like you is not good enough for her!"

Mon-El saw Supergirl blush before his face turned red for another reason." You think a stupid nut job like you can tell me who I am not good enough for? Screw you!"

He quickly charged at Prime to attempt to punch him, and as his target blocked the punch he snarled out," What you think you're doing? Stupid Mon-El, your messing things up and letting the bad guys get away!"

" You really must be in your own world if you think you're in the right when your breaking bones in a mindless rage!"

"SHUT UP!"

Prime let his anger explode before he unleashed an uppercut, with enough force to punch Mon-El's head off. Supergirl screamed in terror as she saw her boyfriend get decapitated. As Prime saw the blood on his hands he flinched." Oh no! I…I didn't mean to do that!"

Green Lantern looked enraged before snarling out," Your fist sure as hell seemed to mean that! You're through Prime!"

The hero with a power ring had that ring form chains around the killer, and as they did Prime looked frantically at everyone." Please, I said I didn't mean to!"

Despite the pain he was in, after hearing that Ben could not help but roll his eyes. "Is their another way to express meaning from where you are from? Unless someone just jumped in to take over your mind, that was clearly you punching his head off! For how much you judge all of us on being hero's your even more blood thirsty!"

Prime just grasped his fist before snapping back with an unhinged," No, this is your fault! Why are you making me like you? Why!? You're running everything, your running me!"

Wonder Woman consoled a sobbing Supergirl before she glared at Prime." For a while we thought the darkness in your heart was because of the trauma you endured, but we were careless as its clearly deeper than that!"

Superman got in front of the others as he looked prepared to fight." You really think you have the right to decide what is right for everyone? You're willing to destroy everything and everyone to feel, what? Special? Needed? "

"I am special!" Prime retorted as he shattered the Green Lantern's construct and flew above everyone." I'm the only one who knows how to make things right! And I will be the greatest hero, once I get rid of all the fakers that are making things worst! When your gone, I will be Superman! "

The true Superman grasped his knuckles before spitting out," If that's how you view things Prime, then you will never be worthy of being called Superman! But I can't allow you to find out why, you're going down now!"

Superman charged at his younger counter part, but Prime easily caught his fists. Seeing Superman's shock just made him laugh." I was the only superhero in my world, no one else was hogging the strength! That's why, I won't lose to a weaker, shabbier version!"

Prime prepared to punch Superman, till Green Lantern had a hand of green energy hold him back and shout out," Even if you managed to have an edge power wise, no way this is a one on one!"

Starfire and the Martin Manhunter both punched Prime in the face, and as he was launched into the air. Wonder Woman and her comrade Hawk-Woman then came down from above. Wonder Woman brandished her blade to attempt to stab Prime as Hawk-Woman attempted to smash his head in with her special mace. But the two woman's target swiftly caught the sword in one hand and the mace in the other.

Seeing the fury of the Amazon and the Thanagarian just caused their attacker to laugh." All you fake heroes can pile on me all you want! But even all together you're not strong enough to stop me! You can't kill the true hero even if you, hey!"

To his shock before he could attack the Flash suddenly tackled him with super speed. As Prime looked at him Barry just glared back." Maybe we can't overpower you but we still have a way to stop you! Jay, Wally, Jessie, now!"

Suddenly the others close to the speedster also tackled him, and as Prime saw a man in Barry's outfit but younger, a woman in similar outfit and an older man with a dish on his head all push him at super speed he sneered." You were always annoying Barry! Even if your almost as fast as me, your still too weak to hurt me!"

"Maybe so, but if your trapped in the speed force it won't matter! Keep it up guys, just a little faster!"

"What? No…NO!"

As Prime realized what the speedsters were attempting to do he unleashed another burst of heat vision, but Barry was fast enough to dodge the blast and keep tackling Prime. Suddenly lighting crackled around the five till the area around them became distorted and the very air ripped up to form a yellow light between reality itself. Prime saw the hole in reality and looked terrified." No, you damn cheating fakes can't just dump me in some lame reality made up of speed! Don't any of you understand? When I grow up, I'm going to be Superman, I'm going to be the true ultimate hero! I'm going to, AHH!"

Using all of their combined might the four-speed type super hero's pushed Prime into the rift before the Speed Force closed. Wonder Woman looked around before she took a deep breath." Thank Hera, it worked!"

Ben looked around to see if Prime was coming out before blurting out," What, just happened? Well, whatever you did it seems to work so, good job?"

The Flash's all landed back near Ben, Superman, and the others. As Barry caught his breath he gave a thumb up." It was a gamble but we needed to try something fast. The short version is, the Speed Force is an energy field that grants all speedsters their power.

If one goes fast enough they can open a vortex, one where anyone that's not linked to the Speed Force like us would be trapped in it. That, twisted excuse for Superman may be fast, but he is not going to get out."

Superman looked solemn as he looked at the extent of the damage around him." Let's hope so, he caused a lot of damage because we did not realize the rage inside him, and now we have to make up for it."

Ben took an elixir he brought to heal his broken arm before he muttered," So, what do we do from here?"

Captain America heard a noise before he cleared his throat." Everyone, I know this has been one grueling battle but we can't relax yet, the battle's not over. Stark, we still have to take him down or all of this will have been for nothing!"

"Man Rogers it really takes a lot for you to get off track!"

Everyone swerved around to see Iron Man at the edge of the factory. The first Avenger just looked stone cold as he snapped back with," How much is going to be enough Stark? If you're as smart as you say you are you should realize you can't win!"

"Yah well I'll give you as things stand now it would not be the best odds right about now. Good thing that the game plan was never winning, just holding you all off till we got what we needed. Rhodey, you able to secure Trinity? Sweet, then it's time to floor it! Steve, guess we both had some wild cards in our decks, but in the end you're going to see mine was the right hand."

"After what happened to Strange you still can't admit your wrong? I don't care what it takes, your trump card already back fired so now you're going down!"

"Heh, when I ever say Strange was my trump card? I knew he had something but he was being really secretive about it. It did help though, we needed time to make sure are last ditch option recovered. So, that being said, let her loose Charles!"

Ben raised an eyebrow before suddenly he saw a massive pillar of fire erupt out of the factory. As the pillar of fire took the shape of a phoenix Ben could not help but wince." Good grief, was this place a monster factory to?"

"What is this? Did Tony really recreate the Phoenix Force? But, Jean Grey died!"

Captain Marvel had flew up to Captain America, and after seeing Ben and the other's confusion she looked uneasy." The Phoenix Force is, no mere monster Enji. It's an immortal and mutable manifestation of the prime universal force of life and passion. Born of the void between states of being, the Phoenix Force is a child of the universe. It is the nexus of all psionic energy which does, has, and ever will exist in all realities. Its, the embodiment of the very passion of Creation – the spark that gave life to the Universe, the flame that will ultimately consume it!

The X-Men Jean Grey somehow bounded with the Phoenix Force, and was able to bound with it before the Beyonder brought her and the other X-men to Battle World."

The Green Lantern saw how shocked Ben looked before he grimaced." She was one of the most powerful players on the board so to speak. However, she was so powerful that the bad guys wanted that power on their side so some punks called the Inner Circle teamed up with a rage loving bastard I dealt with, Atrocitus, and together they tricked Jean in to bounding with a Red Lantern Ring, and become consumed with rage.

She became some sort of crazy Dark Phoenix and nearly killed us all, but working together we were able to take her out. We, thought that she died in the process, but guess this is just another secret Stark had hidden.

Damn it, she does not look like she is in the crazy dark mode she was before but, if she is siding with Stark on her own free will that could be, a real pain in the ass."

Ben looked closer and realized that there was in fact a woman in the center of the phoenix shaped flames. He saw that the figure was a beautiful woman with long wild red hair. She was clad in a skin tight white outfit, that had the symbol of the phoenix on her chest.

She had golden gloves and boots and a golden shawl around her back. Her eyes were glowing with white energy, and as Ben felt the energy of this new arrival he gasped. "A woman bounded with a cosmic entity? That's, nearly like Lacus!"

Captain America winced as he saw the flames around Jean Grey get more intense by the second. He then dashed forward." Jean, is that still you? I don't know what Stark did to you but you have to fight his control to do what's right while there is still time!"

Iron Man heard this and just snickered. "C'mon Steve, think I would be heartless enough to mind control a classy lady like Jean? I did not do a damn thing to her mind, just helped speed up the recovery process of her cocoon so she could wake up before the party was over. Was the least I could do, if nothing else it got Summers and Logan to stop being all moody. And I have to admit, bringing her back gave me a really strong asset! "

Cyclops was taking in that his wife was back before he cleared his throat and walked up to her." Jean, is that really you?"

The red haired woman's expression softened as she turned to the X-men's field commander. "It's me Scott, I'm back. And I'm here to make sure that life endures this twisted game."

Superman sighed before he took a deep breath." Jean, I am glad you're not dead. However…I really hope you can see past the madness going on because we seen enough good men and woman die today."

"I could say the same to you Clark. Even if it's not the most noble path, the path my husband, Tony, and the others are doing is the path grounded in reality. I will do what I must to ensure the survival of my kind. And thus, I will do what it takes to take down those who try and stop me."

Yamamoto saw Jean start to rise higher in the air and merely grasped his sword tightly. "Now it's a child that has taken the shape of the Sōkyoku? It matters not what shape you take; all enemies will be burnt to ashes! Ennetsu Jigoku!"

The Enji Master swiftly pointed his sword at Jean Grey before a massive pillar of fire erupted underneath her. As the pillar reached out to the sky Lloyd winced before glancing at the senior warrior of light." Master Yamamoto, you sure you think fire is the best way to kill a fire bird?"

"Tsc…the woman inside was flesh and blood, she can only withstand so much."

Everyone quickly saw that the Enji Master's assumption was quickly turning dead wrong as the flames instantly swirled around and dove into the Phoenix entity, before it grew in size. Seeing that Jean still looked unharmed in the shroud of flames caused the normally stoic Enji Master to wince." What, even the flames of Ryūjin Jakka could not phase her?"

Jean just pointed a hand at her attacker's direction before retorting with a calm," No matter how intense the flame, the Phoenix always rises from the ashes. Remember that well if you want to avoid being ash yourself, you bullheaded man."

Jean waved her hand, and unleashed a focused solar flare like burst right at Yamamoto. The bald Enji Master tried to deflect the blast but was quickly overwhelmed.

As Lloyd saw Yamamoto go flying in a stream of flames he just winced." Damn it, this was so not the time for him to get a senior moment! Great, she is just as strong as that other crazy guy!"

Zero, among others, also saw how powerful Jean Grey was before he rolled his eyes." God damn it, I figured that Beyonder freak would pile on crazy guys and girls but give us some breathing room damn it!"

The maverick hunter heard a wild yell before Ray burst out of the rubble and glared at him." Don't worry about the others, are fight's not over yet!" The rouge number fired another red energy beam from her mouth, but as her target dashed under it he rolled his eyes." Ah your still about that eh? Yah…no offense but I don't have time to waste on C listers now girl because the truth is this fight was over the moment it begun."

Ray got enraged and spun around again in a wheel of energy to try and smash into Zero. Doctor Wily's most powerful creation just narrowed his eyes at this and extended his right hand." Think I'm kidding around? Dark Hold!"

Zero used one of his many acquired powers to freeze Ray in place. As the Vermilion Destroyer roared in outraged Zero glanced to the right before raising an eyebrow." So, dude are you going to do your think or what? I've already held back enough and we have bigger mavericks to worry about!"

Beck ran over as he looked apologetic." Sorry about that, things have been crazy out their. I did the best I could after getting sent flying from whatever that crazy demon thing came from! Just glad I don't have a soul to get sucked out or…"

"I get it just get on with it already!"

"Right, sorry. Alright, c'mon Ray snap out of it!"

Beck glowed with light and once more used his power to purge Ray of her madness. After a few moments, the female robot looked around." Beck, what is going on?"

Everyone saw the flames around Jean Grey get more intense before Beck gulped." Um, not really sure at the moment, all I know is that it's not good."

Superman saw just how long the molten trail from Jean's attack was before he glanced at his teammates." Well, just another one of those long days' people! Batman, you still have that Anti-Phoenix plan?"

The Dark Knight looked at Jean before he grimaced." I do, but it will take some time to set up. Flash, I'm going to need your help getting it ready in time."

The speedy super hero nodded, but before anyone could react Ben suddenly flew up above Jean and looked at her with a pleading look." I don't know who you are but if you really are, but if you really care about life then you have to stop trying to get everyone else killed just to survive!"

Ben saw Jean gaze at him for a moment, before she responded with a sorrowful smile." We don't seek death either, merely survival. This pointless fighting over pride must end, come to me Kurt, so we can combine our powers and move on to end this at last."

Ben was confused till he saw a blue tailed man suddenly appear out of nowhere and land to Jean's right. As Ben raised an eyebrow Captain America suddenly looked alarmed." No, someone stop him! Nightcrawler can warp around, and if he combined his powers with the Phoenix they might all be able to escape!"

Superman and the other members of the Justice League nodded, but as they prepared to move Jean suddenly unleashed her power and unleashed a shock-wave to blast everyone back. As Ben struggled not to be blown away he saw Jean looking at him." I can't condone what everyone has done, but if you all truly call yourselves heroes, I want to know what you all think is truly the best way to help people. I hope you have the answer by the time we next encounter each other, because that answer will be how I decide to deal with you from there."

Jean had her eyes glow white once more, before she, Iron Man, and everyone that she saw as an ally vanished in flashes of light. Captain America saw his target vanish before he yelled with fury." No, not about to let Stark get away again! Green Lantern, your ring can detect energy, right? Follow where they warped to so we can shut them down before it's too late!"

Green Lantern looked around with his ring before he grimaced." Damn it, Stark and the others have jammed it! If only I knew how this would have turned out I would have never let him look at my ring before."

As the truth dawned on the first avenger he yelled in rage before he punched the ground." Damn you Stark! Always hiding behind your sneaky tricks! It's not over yet, I swear it's not over yet!"

Ben saw that Captain America was seething with rage, and saw everyone else just looked depressed before he cleared his throat." So…now what do we do?"

Superman saw Supergirl still sobbing before he sighed." We pick ourselves up, and figure out how to do right from here. We lost more than we gained from this, and we can't let that happen again."

As Ben nodded, Beck walked up with the others as he looked happy." Sorry we did not shut them down guys but it's not a total lost! I mean thanks to the others I fixed all the Numbers! Er…I know that's a bigger deal to me than most of you but, still, thanks for helping."

Rogers took a deep breath before he nodded." It's what we do son. Wait a minute, your comrades still know what Stark is up to right? Tell me, what does Stark have planned!?"

Mighty saw Shade and Ray still looking dazed before he shrugged." C'mon guys we are in a bind here. Did those guys say what they planned to do?"

Shade saw how manic Captain America looked before he sighed." He did not give me any special key or anything if that's what you're after. All he told us really, is that if things worked here he was going to use Trinity to stop something about whatever the hell an Inhuman is. Something about mist."

Captain Marvel was one of the many who looked shocked before she muttered," What? Stark's big plan involves the Inhumans? Is, he going to go after Blackbolt in Attilan? I knew the X-men were having issues with the Terrigen Mist but, not sure how that's related to Tony's plan for victory."

Ben saw the others look worried before he raised an eyebrow." Inhumans, Black Bolt, Mist? Is, Tony going after your secret weapon or something?"

Rodgers looked up at a red cloud in the distance before he closed his eyes." Not quite. Inhumans are like the X-men in that they are a race of empowered humans with various unique powers. However, the way they got their powers differed. Inhumans came from the experiments that were performed on them by the Kree species, while the Mutants got the X-gene from the power of the Celestials. The mutants have no official leader, though Charles Xavier would be their defacto one.

Meanwhile, the Inhumans are led by their King, Blackbolt. He and the royalty look out for Inhumans first, and everyone else second. Even now they are barricading themselves in their flying city Attilan, only willing to risk lives if it will ensure the end of the fighting. Blackbolt's plan was to spread Terrigen mist all over the planet. The mist turns people into inhumans, and the royals hope that if everyone was converted to an Inhuman they would be bound to Blackbolt, thus making him the winner."

Ben winced as he glanced at the mist." Wait, so the mist will make everyone become bound to this Black bolt's? To be honest I could see why some would not be happy with that."

"Blackbolt could undo it later, but it would be the most painless way to end this." Rogers retorted." Stark, Banner, the X-men and the others had too much pride to even try their method. It's because of their damn pride that things have gotten this far! I don't know how this Trinity would help Stark do something to stop Blackbolt but, with how damn clever he is I know he has something planned, something that has to be shot down!"

Beck shrugged before he looked behind him." Thankfully Professor Wright was ok during the battle, he will know what they might want Trinity for!"

Ben nodded before adding a reassuring," Well, better ask him so we can get on top of things in time."

Batman eyed Ben carefully before cutting in with an icy," Before we do, we better make sure we are truly on top of things. And to do that, we better make sure you can be trusted. You seem trust worthy so far, but Prime said something rather damning, and he was not lying about the things he found out about our side. Are you a hero, or a lying planet killing mass murder?"

Ben felt remorse course through his entire body as he saw X, Lloyd, and his other comrades looking somberly at him. He then took a deep breath before he looked at the Star Sword." Prime was not lying, but I swear that was not the full story. The full story is a long story, but the gist of it is that, during the war I fought to decide the fate of the universe, our enemies, the demonic Zannacross Empire, had a traitor working with them.

He was Kira Myers, the son of Grand Master Myers, the leader of the Enji Knights that I'm part of. Kira, was very cunning, he was manipulating everyone in plain sight, though having powers like a "Absolute Hypnosis" to dictate what everyone's senses interrupted helped.

He, was driven by an obsession to create the perfect existence and even desired to over throw god to make sure no one could challenge his idea. Where I came in is that he wanted me as a puppet, and slowly pushed me to lose myself in darkness. It was not all his actions though, I went through a lot of betrayals and it, kind of eroded my sanity.

Then, Kira made his move. He sent me on a fake mission, and used his power to make me think my friends betrayed me, and made me think I killed them. I was overwhelmed with despair, and I fell under the power of Zannacross, the god of darkness.

He used me as a puppet, and as his slave I did do horrible things. I, at first thought it was a nightmare, only to late did I realize it was all too real. Even if I was not aware of it, I did destroy a planet and killed so many. It took me a while to come to terms with it, but I realized dying would not do much to make things better, so I devoted myself to trying to atone for that mistake.

With my allies, I won the war, and I been trying as hard as I can to make the entire universe a better place, but I still worry if it's enough at times. Sorry for hiding that form you, I did not mean to lie about that, it's just a dark part of my life I'm not really found of talking about."

Hal looked at Ben intently to see how his face reacted." Damn, that does sound a lot like how Sinestro manipulated me to free the entity of fear Parallax. Yah…to this day still have people who won't let that go. But, I guess I know what you mean about the road to redemption being long."

The Flash nodded before he winced." Yah, we could easily rag you for making a dumb decision in a moment of weakness but it's not like we are all perfect. After all, there is the whole Flashpoint mess."

Batman sighed before adding," I would say someone determined to be a hero should be prepared for any situation. But, I also admit I prepared so much that our enemies took advantage of it to hurt my comrades. It happens."

Captain America winced before he looked down." I would say that you should have been able to control your emotions but, I admit there was the whole Red Skull altering my mind to think I was a Nazi thing. Well, you did fight for us so I'll give you that."

Superman nodded before he reached out a hand to Ben." Trust me, sad to say but most of us have been used or tricked by our enemies to do something horrible at one point or another. I still feel the bitterness from being used by Darkside from time to time. But, I'm a big fan of second chances.

As horrible as that one moment may be, it does not define you, your actions after that moment define you. From what I seen, you seem like someone that takes being a hero seriously. As long as you keep it up I'm willing to keep trusting you."

Ben saw those around him nodded, before he grinned." Thanks Superman, I promise you won't regret it."

After the two nodded the Man of Steel looked around. "I'm sure you won't. Now then, with that settled let's figure out how to end this mess ok guys? Let's just, check to make sure we did not miss anyone that survived."

Ben glanced around to check his own group and saw everyone but Yamamoto before he got worried." Sounds like a plan. I see everyone but Master Yamamoto. I hope he is ok. That Jean Grey hit him really hard and from what you guys said she seems like a legit deity."

Kratos was about to say something before suddenly everyone heard a snort." Don't you brats put a tombstone up for me yet, I don't break that easily."

Everyone glanced to the right to see the Enji Master stagger in their direction. Jean's attack had melted his shirt and burnt his face. However, despite the large burn on his chest he was still standing. The other Enji ran up to their senior before Renji blurted out," My god, get a potion right away!"

"Don't lose your composure, that lass caught me off guard but I been hit by worst in the past decades. Just give me your elixir, mine burnt up."

Batman pressed a button to summon his machine before he walked forward." Let's regroup at the Daily Planet, and take enough time to recover as much as we can before deducing how to end this. I'm having Nightwing transfer Dr. Blackwell so we can talk with him. We need to know every possibility that Stark might be up to, to have a counter to every one of them. Alright, if there is no one else to recover let's move out."

Ben glanced at his friends before he nodded." Guess we will regroup and heal up on the Tri-Edge. I'll see if are scanners pick up anything. Well, stay alert everyone, and see you there."

The members of the Justice League and the Avengers nodded before Ben made sure his group was alright, and they all went to the Tri-Edge. As his ship's doors closed, and he saw Yamamoto's burns were receding from the elixir he was given he saw Captain Marvel and Green Lantern flying off before he checked on his inorganic co pilot." You ok Donatello? Hope the Tri-Edge came out alright from that not so little tussle."

"The shields got a bit of a work out but nothing to damaging master." The droid muttered while pressing buttons." Thankfully, it seems a ship, even a ship as unique as the Tri-Edge was not the focus of the enemies. It would seem that you sustained far worst damage then the ship with that broken arm."

Ben grasped the limb Super Boy Prime broke with ease before he winced." Thank god for potions, it's not totally recovered but hopefully it will be at full strength for the next fight. Hopefully it will matter, to be honest I gave everything I had at Prime and he did not even seem to be trying hard. Without being able to access my full power, or getting in touch with the others, I'm drawing a blank at how to defeat him if he somehow gets out of that speed force."

X saw everyone looking dismayed before he sighed." We can only hope that the super hero's will help us again."

Yamamoto narrowed his eyes before looking at Ben." We cannot rely on them, it would be foolish to depend on people whose alliance can't be counted. Droid, those outside have members that can read minds, are the shields blocking such powers from reacting here?"

"Yes, Master Yamamoto, before we entered here we had the shields boosted by the angels, and all the data currently indicates that there is no kind of spying devices onboard nor are telepathy or other waves breaking through the shields. I can't account for the Beyonder being able to spy on us due to his immense power though."

"That's fine, I'll chance us being able to talk in private about our next move. We must trend carefully, based on our current options we will only have a small window to strike to avert disaster."

Ben saw how solemn Yamamoto looked before he raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean? I'll give you our odds are not great but, we had worst. At least with the Justice League on our side we seem to stand a decent chance. Hell, that Jean Grey did not even seem that bad. If we just had a way for everyone to reach an understanding we might."

"Have you seriously forgotten where we are Ben?"

Everyone was shocked as the Enji Master harshly cut Ben off. The brown-haired man paused for a moment, but before he could retort Yamamoto continued." Don't forget, no matter what our surroundings look like everything around us, and everyone in it are mere game pieces forged by the Beyonder for his own twisted vision. They are not true warriors of virtue, they are not even really life forms, they are merely puppets.

It's to our advantage to play the rules of this twisted game, and let the pieces take each other out little by little to increase our odds. But never forget for a second it's all a façade that's being kept up for their master's amusement. If he were to get bored, everyone could turn on us on a moment's notice. Thus, we must pretend we side with them, while figuring out a way to take them all out at once, or at least destroy as many as possible to increase their odds."

Ben, Lloyd, Megaman and most of the others looked shocked before the owner of the Star Sword eyed the senior Enji carefully." Master Yamamoto, how hard did you get hit? Because it's almost like your plan is for mass murder! I know that the Beyonder created everyone around us, but they are still living in a sense!

Robots like Megaman, X, Zero, and the others may not have souls like us but they are still living, thinking individuals. Even if they might be our enemy, till they are indeed an enemy, then they are not! Master Yamamoto, with all due respect your line of thinking is reminding me of how Kira would justify himself."

"Don't compare me to Kira lad, I'm not about to forsake the creed of the Enji order! I saw you have a soft spot for people that remind you of Lacus Ben. That woman may look to have similar circumstances on the surface, but she is a Trojan horse that only exists to threaten the existence of the very universe!"

Zero closed his eyes as he crossed his arms." We had to terminate so many mavericks over the years, but no matter how risky it could be we did not do anything to take them out till they shown they were infected. Acting on fears, would have made us as bad as Sigma."

Yamamoto saw Ben looked happy that Zero sided with him before he grit his teeth." You were the ones who saw the end of all there was, is the total destruction of the entire universe, of everything not enough to make you realize how high the stakes are? Our sworn duty is to protect the Lylat Kingdom, this fake realm we are in now is not part of that, it's not part of the universe!"

Ben got upset before throwing back," Just because they are the enemy that means we forsake all honor Master Yamamoto? I did not stand against Kira and all the others for what justice meant just for it to be a joke!"

"Don't think for a second that I take the values of the Enji lightly boy! But you have to understand, sometimes some values take priority over others! King Atem may be the ruler of the Lylat Kingdom, but as savior of the universe, as its champion you're also a king of sorts. And while a good King without a doubt should uphold virtue, the unpleasant truth is that those who sit on the throne, have done evil to some.

It is impossible to place yourself, or be placed above man, and not act as a god. And when I say "God" I mean one who is beyond human morality. Beyond the price that man's justice demands for immoral acts.

It's not an act of darkness if it's done for the right reasons, but for the king to right the people he is sworn to protect, then there are times that others must suffer. Right now, that means that for the people of our universe to survive, the people in this dimension, regardless of how much free will they truly have, might have to suffer.

The burden of a true king is great, that's why it takes more then what the common man can handle. It's a truth that most don't like to talk about but, authority itself begins at the cradle in ways. The people of the king, no matter what they say, expect them to do violence to ensure a certain amount of peace and prosperity.

Like gods, they are expected to commit murder, so that their people can sleep at night knowing they are safe. You have a duty to preform Ben Auro, and I want to make sure your resolve won't falter in the moment of truth. We cannot afford another relapse like the indictment with Idious! You must not falter, you must do what must be done to protect what we strove to build! "

Everyone saw how passionate Yamamoto looked before Lloyd cleared his throat." I see, you had a lot of time to think about what kings do after the war eh Master? Still, I'm with Ben on this one. We have to protect everyone but, if we take shortcuts just because its hard then we are no worst then the bad guys!"

Kratos sighed before he looked at his son." Master Yamamoto does not want us to become monsters Lloyd. But, sometimes there are few good options and, faltering because those options are not pleasant would not help anyone. I don't think we should stab anyone in the back for no reason. But when it comes down to it, regardless of how moral theses, recreations are, it's us or them."

Ben was quiet for a few moments, and Yamamoto was about to say something before the chosen one quietly uttered." I'm not going to let Lacus, my parents, and everyone else down, no matter what. But, after giving into weakness, and letting the darkness consume me in the past, I understand how easy it is to get consumed with fear.

Will I do what it takes to save everything I care about? Hell yah, but only if that's the only option! Till the Beyonder turns Superman and the others in to puppets, I'm going to assume they are allies, even if it's just till we win Battle World and they vanish.

Maybe virtues and morals are a trivial thing in war, but they still matter to me. I won't turn back on what is important to me unless there is no other option. So, for now, that means working with Superman, Batman and the others to see what's up in this flying Inhuman city. I mean, not like we have a better plan at the moment, right?"

Ben and Yamamoto stared at each other for a moment before the balder Enji sighed." It's true we don't have many options. Very well, just remember not to relax your guard even for a moment. It's true it won't seem to help us to do things on our own for the moment, let's just get to the bottom of this before it's too late to act."

"I can agree with that. Whatever Stark and the others are up to with this Trinity, as smart as he is hope he still needs time to pull it off."

Ben went on to go over the data that the Tri-Edge collected, and hoped it would be useful for the next fight. Little did he and all the others know that Stark was in fact moving faster than the Enji would have liked.

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Half away across Metropolis, over vast mountaintops a massive futuristic city was flying in the air. It was the capital of the Inhuman race, Attilan.

Red mist was raining down from the base of the city, and at the moment Iron Man was flying to the very bottom of the city, using his armor's stealth feature to remain undetected as he went to attach something. Despite his efforts, three people were able to penetrate his stealth function, and it was the three Black Swans. The three servants of the Beyonder saw Iron Man start his plan before Towa smirked." My, this Tony Stark really is unique, even for all the geniuses across the history of the universe. Even then unexpected arrival of Ben Auro has only delayed his plans a little."

"Possibly, but from what we seen the Enji will bring this Iron Man's plans to a crashing end. That is, without our intervention."

Yabbat nodded before her eyes glowed." No matter how much the hero's wish otherwise those that Rabum Alal see fit to be his champions will not be dismissed so easily. I will, retrieve Super Boy Prime from this Speed Force."

Towa nodded before her specter glowed." Meanwhile I'm sure Mira will love to see just how powerful this so-called savior his for himself. That will keep the Enji busy while you retrieve him."

Saya smirked before her eyes glowed red." These hero's see themselves as quite smart. Maybe they are, but as they say, even the most calculated plans, can go awry. Especially, when you're dealing with a higher power."

Towa and Saya both raised their hands, before twin beams of red energy shot out of their hands, and went to hit what Iron Man had just attached to the base of Attilan. Suddenly the object begun to ripple, and the metal around the area started to also ripple, and then turn green.

Seeing this caused Towa to grin. "Their, this should be enough to properly spice things up. I suppose the logical choice would be to alter it in a way to destroy the entire planet, and hopefully killing Ben Auro and his comrades in the process. However, it's the will of the master that he and the other hero's end not be quick, but painful and agonizing. Thus, they must see the utter folly of being committed to this nonsense that is heroism."

Yabbat nodded before the white skinned Black Swan had her eyes glow." Those gathered in this world were said to be some of the most legendary hero's in the history of the universe. But despite the legacy of the "Golden Age" of hero's, like the efforts of all hero's, it ended and amounted to nothing. Thus, before he dies he will be forced to see that even the struggle of the ultimate hero will, ultimately amount to nothing. "

Authors Notes: Lets see, for those that are not aware I did not make up the part about Doctor Strange going demonic. In the arc that had the Incursions Strange did make packs with demons to enhance his power to easily kill a group of hero's called the Great Society that greatly resembled the Justice League. They were just trying to defend their world and Strange killed them, and all of this is swept under the rug after the event was over because of the good old American Comics mostly have no consequences lol.

Also, for those not aware I did not change it around, Jean has a White Phoenix of the Crown form that's her most powerful state, though she only realized this form after she was killed in the Comics. Well, X-Men VS Avengers screwed with that but I'm going to honor how it was suppose to be lol.

Oh well, for those who are not aware of Super Boy Prime from the comics, I'll just say he is not done yet. Well, hope you like how I handed the battle between hero's, till next time.