Hey, everyone! I'm back with another chapter of Ultimate Allience What If...?! Let's begin!
I DON'T OWN ANYONE IN THIS SERIES!*
Watcher: Time. Space. Reality. It's more than a linear path. It's a prism of endless possibility. Where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities, creating alternate worlds from the ones you know. I am the Watcher. I am your guide through these vest new realities. Follow me, and pounder the question. What if...?
It was night time in the city, and the Watcher was watching someone pull up in a car.
Watcher: We have watched, how one moment, one choice, can ripple across space and time, giving birth to new stories, heroes, whole universes. But what if it's the wrong choice? What if the best of intentions have very strange consequences?
Turns out, the person who was pulling up was Dr. Steven Strange, getting her girlfriend, Christine Palmer.
Christine: Evening, handsome.
Stephen Strange: This? I just pulled it out of the dryer. Whereas you, stunning.
Christine: I'm only going for dessert. You promised me Creme Brulee.
Stephen Strange: [chuckles] I suspect we can do a little better than that.
Christine: Hmm.
Soon, the two went off to Steven reward ceremony.
[engine whirring]
Christine: Just let me hear it. Come on, I know you prepared something. You wouldn't just wing it. It's just me.
Stephen Strange: Okay. Uh... [clears throat] "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, fellow doctors-"
Christine: [groans] No. No. Stop. I'm already asleep. Come on, cut the preamble. Just get straight to the heart of it.
Stephen Strange: But all I said was, "Good evening."
Christine: I think you should just rush the podium like a contestant on The Price is Right. Screaming and high-fiving, and cheering, and something crazy.
Stephen Strange: [confused] Price is what?
Christine: We need to celebrate.
Stephen Strange: We are.
Christine: You performed a radical Hemispherectomy. Successfully.
Stephen Strange: Well, that was the plan.
Christine: Yeah, well, I would call that quite remarkable.
Stephen Strange: [chuckles] Well, I would say the same about you.
Christine: [chuckles]
They then came behind of a semi-truck, and Steven tried to go pass it, when...
Christine: [gasp]
When he was about to pass the semi-truck, another car came infront of him!
Christine: Stephen!
He then did a trick to put him back behind the truck, safely.
Stephen Strange: We're okay. You're okay.
Christen: [sighs]
But not knowing, another car crashed into them, causing them to crash and killing Christine!
Stephen Strange: [gasp] [breath trembling] Oh, no. No, no, no, no. Christine. Come on! Christine!
Watcher: In this universe, Stephen Strange didn't lose his hands... ...but his heart. Grief-stricken, Strange sought answer across the world and in the mystic arts.
Steven Strange: "The Eye of Agamoto, cradle of the temporal singularity discovered by Caglistro, manipulation and alteration of timelines." Time travel.
Wong: What are you doing? Tinkering with time can weaken the very fabric of the universe.
Ancient One: We protect reality. We don't threaten it.
Watcher: And when the treat came and The Ancient One was lost, Stephen Strange stood tall. The man of science became the Sorcerer Supreme.
Dr. Strange: Dormammu, I've come to bargain.
Watcher: Yet despite all he'd gained, Stephen Strange could not let go of the past.
[flashback]
Christine: [chuckles] Sorry, but this is now my favorite T-shirt.
Stephen Strange: [chuckles] Then I'm gonna have to take it back.
Christine: Hmm, I'd like to see you try.
[flashback ends]
Wong: [walks in] Oh! I see we switched to the cheap stuff. How long has it been?
Dr. Strange: [sighs] Two years, tonight. What are you doing up?
Wong: Ah, needed the little sorcerer's room. What are you doing?
He then notices Strange holding the Eye of Agamoto and thought of what he was doing.
Wong: Hmm... We'll, I'm going to start to kettle. I suggest you join me before you do something reckless. [walks away]
Stephen then thought of something. He use the Time Stone to travel back in time to the moment.
Christine: Evening, handsome.
Dr. Strange: Uh...
Christine: Something wrong?
Dr. Strange: I, uh, I think I might have just had a mild cardiac event.
Christine: A heart attack, Doctor? Well, buck up, Strange. You promised me Creme Brulee.
Dr. Strange: Say the word, Christine. And I will give you the world.
Christine: [chuckles]
Back to the moment...
Christine: Oh, let me hear it. Come on, I know you prepared an acceptance speech for tonight.
Dr. Strange: I haven't. I'm gonna wing it. I'm gonna run up to the podium like a game show conestant. Cheers and screams, high-fives.
Christine: [chuckling] Seriously? Are you teasing me? Okay. No, you said it. You have to do it now.
Dr. Strange: Only if you're by my side.
Christine: Wait a sec. Have you ever even seen a game show?
Dr. Strange: There's a first for everything.
Christine: [chuckles]
Dr. Strange: What?
Christine: I don't know. You're being delightful. I must owe someone a muffin basket for this personality shift.
As he was about to turn, he thought of Christine, and decided to stay put.
Dr. Strange: Maybe... Maybe you make me happy.
Christine: [chuckles] Well, this is shaping up to be a night to remember.
Suddenly, the same crash came into the moment, sending them flying to the same spot and killing Christine!
Dr. Strange: [gasps] No, no, no! Not again. No! Chrstine! [breathing heavily] [inhales sharply]
He then used the stone again, to return to the moment.
Christine: Evening, handsome.
Dr. Strange: Your chariot awaits.
Instead going to the semi-trucks spot, he went a different direction.
Christine: Oh, we missed our turn. Isn't the bridge that way?
Dr. Strange: Taking a different route. It's okay. We'll be fine.
Christine: [sees truck] [gasps] Stephen!
Then a truck came crashing into them, killing Christine! Then he went back to the moment. But no matter what he did, it always ended up killing Christine.
Christine: Stephen. Something wrong?
Dr. Strange: [breath trembling] Why does this keep happening? Aren't we allowed to be happy?
Christine: Maybe I should drive. Yeah?
He allowed it, knowing he thinks it will be different this time.
Christine: Hey, are you okay? Do you wanna talk? Maybe put on some music?
Dr. Strange: I only want you. You're the only thing that matters.
Then the crash came, but it still killed Christine! Soon, he crawled out of the wreckage, sad and angry.
Dr. Strange: [breathing heavily] No! [panting]
As he sat there sad, the Ancient One came through a portal.
Ancient One: Good evening, Dr.Strange. Are you having car trouble?
Dr. Strange: [grunts] Why are you here?
Ancient One: To help you. This is where ot starts for you. With the death of Dr.Christine Palmer. So overwhelmed by loss, you will seek answers in the mystic arts. In me.
Dr. Strange: Help me bring her back.
Ancient One: I'm sorry, but I can't No one can. Her death is an Absolute Point in time.
Dr. Strange: Absolute?
Ancient One: Unchangeable. Unmovable. Without her death, you would never have defeated Dormammu and become the Sorcerer Supreme, and the guardian of the Eye of Agamotto. If you erase her death, you never start your journey.
Dr. Strange: I'm creating a paradox.
Ancient One: You're risking the universe. You cannot reverse an Absolute Point.
Dr. Strange: Nothing is impossible. You taught me that. I only require more power.
Ancient One: The greatest sorcerers of the past could not reverse an Absolute Point.
Dr. Strange: You don't know that. Books have been lost. Libraries destroyed.
Ancient One: Stop torturing yourself, Stephen. There is no hope here. Christine is gone. You cannot save her.
Dr. Strange: No. [grows a serious face]
Ancient One: Stephen, this path only leads to darkness and the end of this reality. Please do not do this, or I will be forced to stop you.
Dr. Strange: [pants] You'd have to find me first.
The Ancient One then blasted him with her powers, sending him to a jungle.
Dr. Strange: Whew. [notices a man standing in front of him] Uh, excuse me. Hello, excuse me. I'm looking for the Lost Library of Cagliostro. [as he stare at him] [confused] Library? Hello? You know, books? Reading? Knowledge?
The strange man then smirks and walks away.
Dr. Strange: Hey. Hey! I'm talking here. Where are you going? [sighs]
He then follows him when he notice an ancient ruin in front of him.
Dr. Strange: Hmm, no door. Clever. [uses his magic to get to the top] Hello? Anyone home?
He then notice a symbol on the floor and threw a rock at it, and sees it disappear.
Dr. Strange: Hmm, quite a welcome. [uses his magic to get rid of the symbol]
After that, he walked in. As he did that, more symbols appeared, making him fall through the floor.
Dr. Strange: [falls] [screams] [grunts] [breathing heavily] [notices the stranger]
?: [laughs] You have to be the strangest-dressed sorcerer I've ever seen.
Dr. Strange: Uh... [clears throat] Yeah, it's Armani. I've come here for Sorcerer Cagliostro. According to legend, he knew how to break an Absolute Point in time. Where can I find Cagliostro?
?: Well, maybe here, maybe there. Maybe nowhere.
Stephen Strange: Wonderful. You're cryptic. Please tell me you're not Cagliostro.
O'Bengh: [chuckles] The name's O'Bengh, librarian for the books of Caglistro. Come, this way, Sorcerer Armani.
Dr. Strange: No, it's Strange.
O'Bengh: Not any stranger than any other name in this world.
Soon, he took Strange to the Lost Library of Cagliostro.
Dr. Strange: [gasp] The lost books.
O'Bengh: [yells] Friends, we got a visitor!
Dr. Strange: Friends? You mean there are other sorcerers here?
[growling]
Turns out, his friends were Bagheera, Baloo, Kaa, Akela, Vihaan, Nisha, Gray Brother, Bhoot, the wolf pack, and Mowgli.
Dr. Strange: Whoa! Your friends are animals and a boy who looks like an animal?
O'Bengh: When you put it that way, yes.
Kaa: Indeed, man-a. [hisses]
O'Bengh: How long will you be staying here?
Dr. Strange: As long as it takes.
He then started to pull books off from their shelfs and reads them.
Dr. Strange: Okay. Transmutation, telekinesis, teleportation. Interesting. Time manipulation. Bingo. [opens book] "The power required to break an Absolute Point in time is immense, and nigh impossible to obtain." [scoffs] Yeah, no doy. [turns page] A-ha! "Gain the power through the absorption of other beings." Absorption?
He then created a Saion circle to summon something.
Dr. Strange: [sighs] Here we go.
He then summoned a tentacle monster.
Dr. Strange: Whoa! Uh... [clears throat] My name is Dr. Stephen Strange. I brought you here because I need to borrow your powers. Do you mind sharing a tentacle or two? [sees a tentacle on his leg] Please?
The monster then strated to throw him around, until slamming him to the ground!
Dr. Strange then wakes up to see Bagheera sitting and looking at him.
Dr. Strange: [gasp] How long have you been looking at me?
Bagheera: Long enough. Why do you want this, man?
Dr. Strange: I just want Christine back. [sees O'Bengh walk in] What happened?
O'Bengh: Mystic beings do not bargain. Their powers are not meant for man.
Dr. Strange: The Library isn't enough. Those beings have what I need.
O'Bengh: Is she worth the pain? A man does not suffer like this for his own glory.
Dr. Strange: Every moment of it.
O'Bengh: There is a fine line between devotion and delusion. Love can break more than your heart. It can shatter your mind.
Bagheera: Indeed. [the two left him]
Dr. Strange: Uh-huh. And in which book did you read that?
O'Bengh: [chuckles] No book, Armani. Life taught me.
Strange thought of what he said, and realises...
Dr. Strange: Mmm, maybe O'Bengh's right. If they won't surrender their power, I'll take it. Let's start small.
He then summon a gnome and absord it.
Dr. Strange: [gasp] All right, what's next?
He then summoned a insect monster with a cape on.
Dr. Strange: Nice cape. [takes its cape] But I draw the line at bugs.
He then sended it back throw the portal, and then summoned a demonic crow and absord it.
Dr. Strange: [panting] [sighs] [chuckles] More.
He then summoned a dragon, a two headed goat, a skeleton demon, and a bat demon and absord them all. While he was doing that, Watcher was watching him.
Watcher: He's on the wrong path. I could warn him, intervene, but the fate of his universe is not worth risking the safety of all others. Beside, I doubt he'd listen.
But he heard him said that, and looked around to who said that.
Dr. Strange: [heard something] [echoing] Hello? Who's that?
He then got back to work on absording powerful beings, and it took him years to do it. Until...
Dr. Strange: Time to meet an old friend.
He then summoned the tentacle monster back to where he stands.
Dr. Strange: Hello again and goodbye.
Turns out, he closed the gate and abosrd the remaining tentacles, becoming Strange Supreme! He then goes to O'Bangh to see him lying in bed, dying, while the animals and Mowgli watched.
Strange Supreme: O'Bengh, what happened to you?
O'Bengh: [coughs] Time, Sorcerer Armani. [coughing]
Strange Supreme: [about to use Time Stone]
O'Bengh: [stops him] Put that away. You used magic to remain frozen for centuries. I chose to live.
Strange Supreme: But I can reverse this. You will live longer, forever.
O'Bengh: Hush! Even in our world... [coughs] death is part of the plan.
Strange Supreme: I can;t accept that.
O'Bengh: [chuckles] [coughs] I know, I know. But maybe the other Strange will.
Baloo: What?
Corrupted Dr. Strange: Other?
O'Bengh: [chuckles] Can't you see? [coughing] You are only half a man, living half a life. [dies]
Watcher: It was true. He wasn't alone. He wasn't even the only Dr. Strange in this universe.
Turns out, we see the other Dr. Strange looking at the Time Stone, when Wong came in.
Wong: Well, I'm going to start the kettle. I susgest you join me before you do something reckless. [walks away]
However, instead of using it, he let it go.
Dr. Strange: [breathing deeply] Um, you're right. Enough living in the past for one evening. [sighs]
The next day, Dr. Strange went outside and see that his street was started to disappear!
Dr. Strange: What was in that whiskey? [notices portal] [readys up]
But who came out of the portal was only...
Ancient One: [echoing] Hello, Stephen.
Dr. Strange: No... Wait a minute. You're...
Ancient One: [echoing] Dead? Yes!
Dr. Strange: So, this must be...
Ancient One: [echoing] A psychic impression sent through a splinter in reality? Hmm.
Dr. Strange: Uh...
Ancient One: [echoing] Yes. Just think of me as an echo.
Dr. Strange: Huh. Well, I was gonna say that this must be the end of the world.
Ancient One: [echoing] [chuckles] That, too. You always were a perceptive one. Bit I fear we don't have much time.
Dr. Strange: Then who's causing this?
Ancient One: [echoing] Well, you are.
Dr. Strange: How?
Ancient One: [echoing] When Dr. Strange, you used the Eye and vanished into the past, I couldn't follow. I drew upon the power of the Dark Dimension to split the timeline, to split you.
Turns out, she did that!
Ancient One: [echoing] Allowing for two of your possible timelines to occur in one universe.
Dr. Strange: Two timelines? I doubt that's the simplest or smartest thing to do.
Ancient One: [echoing] Exceedingly dangerous, actually.
Dr. Strange: And now I have an evil twin?
Ancient One: [echoing] More like misguided. If the other Strange succeds in reversing an Absolute Point in our universe...
Dr. Strange: You mean saving Christine.
Ancient One: [echoing] You cannot save her, Stephen. The resulting temporal paradox will destroy this universe. Our time is running out. I fear the only sorcerer strong enough to stop Dr. Strange is... [gets close to him] you, Dr. Strange. [disappears]
Soon, he was getting ready to fight his evil counterpart.
Wong: Okay. Wait. So... [chuckles] the fabric of reality is breaking, and only you can stop it because you are causing it.
Dr. Strange: [blows] Let's be honest, we've benn through weirder.
Wong: But do you want to stop him? Weren't you in love with this Christine?
Dr. Strange: I... I think I have to. At the very least, to save you.
Wong: Mmm. The Guardian Vishanti heavy-duty protection spell. [casted it on Strange]
Dr. Strange: Knowing me, I'll need it. [grunts]
Wong: How would you find him?
That's when the two started to sense something dark around them.
Dr. Strange: He's found me. [sees portal below him]
Wong: Oh, that's not great.
Dr. Strange: Nope, it's not. [falls into the portal]
Wong: Good luck. [disappears]
Dr. Strange: [screaming]
Soon, he was in a place he hasn't been to.
Dr. Strange: Hello? Hello? [echoes]
He then sees the ring around him. As he about to touch the outside, there was a wall holding him in the circle.
Dr. Strange: Where am I?
He then sees somekind of monster in the shadows, and came out of the shadows was...
Strange Supreme: The question is, when are you? Do not be frightened, old friend, for we are one and the same.
Dr. Strange: [shocked] What happened to you?
Strange Supreme: I needed you alone. No need for Wong or The Ancient One. They wouldn't understand. They never knew her. We knew her. We loved her.
Dr. Strange: You can't bring her back. The world out there is breaking.
Strange Supreme: Don't you dare lie to me. I am you!
That when monsters started to appear around him, shocking Dr. Strange!
Strange Supreme: [breathing heavily] How many nights did we sit in the Sanctum Sanctorum, Time Stone in the palm of our hand, knowing we could go back, gathering the courage? Well, I had the courage. I spent centuries, sacrificed everything for Christine.
Dr. Strange: [sighs] And now can you save her?
Strange Supreme: No, Stephen. [grabs his other self] We can.
Soon, Supreme teleported the two to the crashed car.
Strange Supreme: Our powers are diluted, split between us. But once we become whole again, we can save her.
Dr. Strange: We can't.
Strange Supreme: You don't believe it's possible. But you will see.
Dr. Strange: The Ancient One warned us. If we save Christine, we destroy the world.
Strange Supreme: [sighs] Itold you, she doesn't understand. We love Christine.
Dr. Strange: This isn't love. Look at this. This is arrogance. This is our need to fix everything. It's what drove us to study the mystic arts in the first place.
Strange Supreme: And look where we are.
Dr. Strange: Deranged.
Strange Supreme: I will be whole again.
Dr. Strange: No. Your marbles are long gone. The world, however, still stands a chance.
Then Supreme started to try to absord him, but the spell was protecting him.
Dr. Strange: You can't save her. She's dead.
Strange Supreme: [grunts]
Soon, the two strarted to fight!
Dr. Strange: You need to let go.
Strange Supreme: I've gone too far to turn back now.
Then, Supreme started to use his new transmutated powers to fight his other self, and it was working! After fighting for a bit, it ended up with Supreme destroying Strange's cape and much of the spell. Then, Strange blasted him with a powerful blast. Then, Supreme created a illustion of Christine of Stephen together.
Christine: [sighs] It's so good to see you. [chuckles]
Dr. Strange: [sighs] Christine?
Christine: Mmm? Stephen, you promised me Creme Brulee.
Dr. Strange: I know.
Christine: We can be together again. Stephen, I love you. I love you.
But he realise what would happen if he did that, and said...
Dr. Strange: I wish that was true. But you're... You're not her.
He was right, the "Christine" was actually Supreme! Then, he broke out of the illusion and almost got all of Strange's spell. But when the slammed into the ground, the spell was all gone, except for one symbol.
Dr. Strange: [breath trembling] You can't do this.
Strange Supreme: But we must. [moves symbol off]
Dr. Strange: No. No!
Soon, he absord Dr. Strange, became whole again, and uses the Time Stone to fix his love.
Supreme Strange: [screaming]
As he did that, his universe iwas about to be destroyed! Soon, he revived Christine, with his monster body showing.
Supreme Strange: Christine? Christine.
Christine: [wakes up] What? Oh...
Supreme Strange: It's me, Christine.
Christine: [gasps] Oh, my God. What's happening? What's happeneing?
Supreme Strange: I brought you back. i saved you.
Christine: No, this is... This... This isn't real! This is... No, this is a nightmare! [screams] No, no! Leave me!
That's when Christine started to disappear too!
Supreme Strange: No. I can fix this.
Christine: No! Oh, my God! oh, my God! No! Get away! Don't touch me!
Supreme Strange: Uh... Uh... Christine.
Christine: No!
Supreme Strange: Christine. No!
Christine: No! [breath trembling]
Strange Supreme: No! This wasn't supposed to happen.
Christine: Stephen. No. Stephen.
Supreme Strange: No. No.
Christine: What is going on?
Then, the universe started to collapes of itself!
Strange Supreme: No!
He then started to cast a spell slowing the effects down.
Strange Supreme: [sees something] You... You can stop this. Please, fix this.
Turns out, he was talking to the Watcher.
Watcher: The same way you fixed Christine?
Christine: What?
Strange Supreme: I was wrong. I...
Watcher: You were warned.
Strange Supreme: I know. But the world! The world shouldn't pay for my arrogance. I read about you. Sensed your presence. You're a god. You can undo this.
Watcher: I'm not a god. And neither are you.
Strange Supreme: Then punish me. Not the world, not Christine.
Watcher: Honestly, if I could fix this, if I could punish you instead, I would. But I can't intertere. You, more than anyone else, should understand that maddling with time and events only lead to more destruction. [leaves him]
Strange Supreme: No. No!
Christine: [groans] What?
Strange Supreme: I didn't mean for this to happen! [grunting] [pants]
Christine: [gasps]
Strange Supreme: [screaming]
He then manage to create a prison for himeslf, but he still lost Christine.
Strange Supreme: Christine. Oh, no.
Christine: [breathing heavily]
Strange Supreme: I'm sorry.
Christine: Stephen. What did you do? [disappears]
Strange Supreme: No, no, no, no, no. [sobbing] I'm sorry. I am so, so sorry.
Watcher: One life, one choice, one moment can destroy the entire universe.
End