*Time Square, New York City* I appeared in an abandonned New York City, along with the rest of the Avengers Army I had created, in front of Reshef and the small army he still had left(Phoenix, some Skrulls, and a handful of assorted aliens whose races I couldn't identify). This was it. The battle for Earth.

"Avengers. I see you got my message," Reshef greeted us.

"What can we say? It sounded like a fun party," Quicksilver(Speed) said.

"This is actually your funeral," Phoenix corrected him coldly.

"Right..." I started. "Avengers... AVENGE!" I called the team to action.

I started fighting one of the Super Skrulls. This one was like the original Super Skrull, it had powers of the Fantastic Four. I dodged a fire blast and attempted to punch him but he raised a force field before I could. His shield was still up when my spider-sense went off though. It wasn't him. I was yanked away telekinetically.

"You owe me a boyfriend," Phoenix glared at me with glowing yellow eyes.

"Hey Rach... long time no see," I replied casually. "You do something new with your hair?"

She shook her disappointedly as she said, "You sure chose a nice time to develop a sense of humor." Out of nowhere she punched me in the jaw. She didn't have super strength but I was guessing she used some TK in the hit as well because my jaw hurt a lot.

"I didn't know that Reshef taught you to fight dirty... I mean come on, what chance do I have against you, Phoenix Force and all, when I can't even block a punch? Scared of a real fight?" I asked hoping my trick would work.

She hesitated, "Like I'm afraid of you. You're afraid of me, I can tell. It's all you're thinking about."

"Oh really?" she started to focus and strain until she realized she couldn't read my mind. The nanobots that made up my costume prevented her from getting inside my head.

"Joke's on you," I grinned under my mask. I headbutted her in the face and broke her concentration entirely, releasing me from her grip. "Come on Rach, you're supposed to be smart. You know that the good guys always win."

"ARRGH!" Phoenix screamed as a fiery aura in the shape of bird surrounded her body. She started throwing a psychic fire at me. I dodged them as best I could but still managed to get hit by two of them. I shot a webline at her but she burned it before it got within a few feet of her.

"It's not too late! You can be good again, Rach!" I tried to convince her as a fire blast flew past my head. I was getting closer to her now.

"What makes you think I want to?" she shot back. "After Reshef took me you guys didn't try saving me! You didn't go after me! You abandonned me!" she screamed and managed to knock me against a building with her energy.

"We didn't choose to," I struggled to my feet. "We couldn't track Reshef's ship. It would be impossible for us to find you... you could have been anywhere and we had to deal with the problem of the mutant decimation. You have to be able to understand that."

"No! I don't understand why my own father would abandon me!" she hurled two cars at me. I jumped over one and kicked the other in a different direction.

"If you guys REALLY cared then you wouldn't be the only one fighting me now!" she screamed as she held me in the air with her telekinesis. "You're just trying to save yourself... it's not working!" She slammed me to the ground then crushed a truck on top of me.

"Who said we didn't care? We're just running a little late for the class reunion, that's all;" Iceman said as he approached with Pixie, Surge, Rockslide, Anole, Mercury, and Collosus.

"Oh well. Looks like Jason got crushed for nothing," Rachel sighed casually.

"Good thing I didn't get crushed," I said as I phased through the truck with Kitty who had saved me. She waved at Rachel.

Phoenix looked at each of us.

"Come on Rachel... it's not too late. You can do the right thing," I tried to convince her.

"Even if I wanted to I couldn't! Not after what I've done," she said. As we tried to approach her the fire around her became larger. "I killed my father."

I knew Cyclops was dead. I didn't know that Rachel had killed him. Hearing her admit to it though was something else. Cyclops wasn't a very close mentor to me. I'll be honest about that but I knew he was to the others. He mattered to all of us. Finding a way to forgive her for that would be nearly impossible for them considering how much I was struggling to find something to say to Rachel.

"Reshef..." I tried to start. "He... he brainwashed you, Rach! It wasn't your fault!"

"YES IT WAS!" she screamed and sent debris flying in all directions, knocking the other X-Men away, except for Kitty and I who phased to stay in the same spot as we started. I nodded to Kitty to start moving.

"Rachel stop it!" Kitty screamed. "Just surrender now... give up and we'll fix this. I know we can't bring back Cyclops but it doesn't have to be like this!"

"SHUT UP KITTY!" she yelled and managed to unphase Kitty then cause her to collapse on the ground. She got inside her head. The flames burned but it wasn't real fire. I knew that much. I grabbed Kitty and moved her away from harm. We needed a new plan.

"Try distracting her... I'm gonna get close and try... something," I told Surge. Next I ran over to Pixie, "I need some help."

Surge sent a current of electricity at Rachel that didn't even get close to touching her. Rockslide and Collosus picked up a few cars and tossed those but they were disintegrated. "STAY AWAY!" Rachel yelled at us as she fell to her knees and covered her face in her hands. I noticed she wasn't attacking us as much. She was trying to keep everyone away.

"Just get me close to her," I told Pixie. She nodded and grabbed a hold of me before we teleported several times. I felt her let go and found myself in front of Rachel.

I was surprised to see that the fire wasn't entirely around her. There was a good amount of space for me to stand in front of her where there were no flames. "Rach..." I knelt in front of her and held her hands.

"Go away... I swear I'll..." she was sobbing.

I pulled off my mask. "Rachel, look at my face. It's me, Jason. I'm your friend... you saved me once, remember?" I titled her head up and forced her to look in my eyes.

"I... I..." she stammered. "I didn't mean to do this... any of this... I thought I was doing the right thing... but then the Phoenix Force... it made me do all those evil things for him..."

"It's okay. Look, I know you've done a lot of bad and evil things but it wasn't your fault. You can make up for it. Help us. It's not too late."

"Jason..." Rachel buried her face in my shoulder. "Beat him..." She screamed again and the flames and chaos around us subsided. She was unconscious. I picked her up and moved her to an alley where she'd be safe at. I then rejoined the battle that was ensuing.

Reshef's remaining soldiers were powerful. He knew this was coming. I thought we were weakening him and that this would be easy but it wasn't. He may have been outnumbered but he wasn't outmatched. Sure, we took Phoenix out of the battle and she was his strongest assett but the remaining ones were nothing to lightly.

"Shit!" Hawkeye said as we fought one of the Super Skrulls. This one was a mix of Spider-Man, Beast, and Wolverine.

"What?" I asked as I shot a blast of webbing at the skrull.

"My gun's out," she told me.

"Gimme, it's still got one more shot left," I told her.

"What?"

I grabbed it and threw it at the Skrull's head. It looked like it hurt him pretty bad. "See?"

It took a lot more than a gun thrown to the head to take down the Skrull but we managed to do it. The problem was it took a lot out of us. All of us. All of Reshef's soldiers were defeated but he was still standing and he didn't look tired at all.

"How are we gonna beat him?" Captain America asked.

"Teamwork... a lot of teamwork. Everything we've got left," I answered as I struggled to stay on my feet. Before I had a chance to say anything else Orcos, Liaria, and Luxzaria charged at Reshef. They started slashing at him with their swords and staffs but I noticed they weren't going for his actual body. They were going for his arms. Reshef managed to overpower them after a few short moments and sent them all hurtling to the ground one after another.

"Iron Men! Let's go!" Threever declared as he and Iron Man led an army of unpiloted and damaged armors at Reshef. A distraction. I ran to Orcos, who was closest to me, and kneeled next to him.

"Jason... he's vulnerable... you can defeat him now..." Orcos explained.

"What?" I asked. "What did you do? How can we kill him?" I asked.

"His shields and reabsorption ability come from gauntlets he wears. We damaged them. He won't be able to prevent you from touching him. He still has natural abilities but he's not a god... not anymore," Orcos explained before passing out.

I looked to Reshef who was swatting away armors like flies and knew that this fight wouldn't be easy. "AVENGERS! Those of you who can still fight assemble here!" I called.

Captain America, Hawkeye, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Ms Marvel, Vision, Armory, Surge, Rockslide, and X-23 were the only ones able to make it over to me. Others attempted but were hit with scraps of armor that were thrown to the ground until finally Threever and Iron Man were defeated. Reshef looked weakened but no bout he was still powerful. I quickly explained a plan to my team and hoped it would work.

Surge, Armory, Vision, Ms Marvel, and Scarlet Witch started shooting blasts of electricity, energy, fire, and magic at Reshef. He managed to dodge it at first but was finally hit. After the expelled all of their energy Quicksilver grabbed me and I started shooting webbing as he ran me in a circle around Reshef. When we finally stopped I was ready to throw up from getting so dizzy but I knew that we had accomplished this part of the plan. Wrapping up Reshef.

I fell to the ground and lifted my mask enough so I could throw up while Hawkeye shot three adamantium tipped arrows at Reshef, Captain America threw his shield and Rockslide threw X-23 after them. The first thing to hit was the shield, in Reshef's neck. Next was the three arrows: two hit him in the chest and the other hit him in the forehead, right through the brain. Finally X-23 hit. She slashed at him and cut open his chest and pulled out a heap of organs then decapitated him. She threw the organs and head into a pile that was then zapped into dust along with the rest of the corpse by Surge, Armory, Vision, and Ms Marvel's combined attacks. Scarlet Witch cast a spell to make the remains disappear. Reshef was dead. The Earth was saved. We had won.

After defeating Reshef we had a lot of cleaning up to do. We needed to figure out how to re-organize the superhero community to prevent something like this from happening so we started working on what we called "Avengers International" which would basicly become the United Nations of the superhero community. The heroes of the U.S. met with the government to discuss the terms and conditions of what would happen with us and what would happen with the Superhuman Registration Act. Steve Rogers managed to talk them out of us being forced to reveal our identities and became the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. shortly after.

Orcos, Liaria, Luxzaria, and Threever reminaed on Earth, since they were either wanted on their home planet or their home planet no longer existed, and became a team of their own in Canada called "The Visitors".

Funerals were held for each superhero killed during Reshef's reign on the anniversary of their deaths over the next year. As deperessing as it was I knew it was what we had to do. We needed to say goodbye to the heroes that had gave their lives.

Stature, Armory, Xavin, and Komodo formed New York's Fantastic Four team. We had offered Stature a spot on the Avengers team for the U.S. but she refused. I guess she still wasn't ready to reconcile with the rest of the former Young Avengers. We had a similar rejection from Crimson Warlock who said he wanted to avoid the spotlight.

Shadowcat set up a new X-Mansion outside of San Francisco. Lucky for us we were a le to reverse Reshef's effects on the mutant population before we destroyed his ship. Hundreds of former mutants were re-powered and hundreds of new mutants had their powers manifest. We will probably still face the prejudices that we faced before but Kitty's strong. She'll be able to handle anything that's thrown at them and I'll be there whenever she needs me.

The Iron Man that Threever designed an A.I. for, Chase, and Old Lace moved to Japan and joined Big Hero 6, Japan's Avengers. I wasn't sure who the other three members were. I heard they were local heroes.

Captain America, Hawkeye, Quicksilver, Ms Marvel, Scarlet Witch, Vision, and myself formed the U.S. team that operated from outside of Miami, Florida. Rebuilding Earth's defenses and superhero community was a difficult task but we had managed the basics of it. All that was left now was to defend the Earth. It was our turn. We weren't the Young Avengers anymore. We're the Avengers. The second generation.

The End

Writer's Note: Thanks to everyone who read my story. I'm extremely happy to have finally completed Aracnor. I had the entire ending planned for quite some time, it was just a matter of writing it. I'd greatly appreciate it if you were to review my story and let me know what you thought and how many parts of Aracnor you read. I plan on writing some stories for the second generation and would love some suggestions. I'm most likely starting with The Avengers but if someone would like to see me write Fantastic Four, X-Men, Big Hero 6, etc. let me know. Once again, thank you for reading my story.