With A Snap
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Chapter 49: The Mission
EARTH M-199999
AVENGER COMPOUND
Tony was looking over the plans. They were a work of genius, and though he certainly had a hand in them, he wasn't the primary source. Alexis had some experience in portals and the Doctor… well, Tony would find it difficult not to bow to her genius. The woman seemed to be working on five things at once and have her mind wondering about something else.
Missy had an edge to her, something about her made Tony uneasy. There was a guy from Latvia that gave him the same weird feeling. Both were brilliant, but it felt like if Tony ever gave either a reason, they'd stab him in the neck. The way the Doctor glanced at her, Tony wondered if Missy might.
Though he had to admit Missy was near if not just as smart as the Doctor.
Tony looked over the plans, "You sure this device is going to stabilize the space-time shifts?"
"Yeah, its pretty elementary stuff." The Doctor shrugged.
"I better take another look," Missy tugged on the plans, "Your worst grades at the academy were at temporal studies."
"No, my worse grades with Psychic Studies. I was average in temporal studies."
"Yes, and as a timelord, you really shouldn't be average in that." Missy huffed, "Wow, I sounded like your mother there."
The Doctor frowned and looked ready to start something.
"Timelord?" Tony spoke up, trying to prevent a fight.
"Our species, deary." Missy gave him a side glance, "We are timelords, well, Timeladies."
"Yeah, about that." Tony asked, "You guys said you were aliens. So that's your species or people?"
"They're gone now," The Doctor admitted in a hushed tone, "Just us, Jenny too sort of. Not even my Tardis made it after the snap."
"Tardis?" Tony asked, "That is your ship."
"Not just a ship," The Doctor motioned in the air, "Timelords isn't just a name. It what we are. We lord over time, protect it."
"Sometimes muddle with it," Missy gave a wry smile,
"We traveled through time with our Tardis. Our ships, but they are so much more than that. We grow them; they are living beings." The Doctor flashed back to the Tardis dissolving, feeling it's a pain, and for it reaching out to say goodbye.
"You have always been so sentimental with your Tardis." Missy mused.
"So, you talked to it?" Tony asked her.
"I talked, she could rarely talk back. The Tardis has an 11th dimensional mind extended across all of time and space. It gets tricky to talk. But we managed it once, she had been given a body and we talk for once. But that didn't last, a body like that couldn't last."
The Doctor smiled sadly.
"Too bad, we could use a time machine now," Tony tried to joke.
"Oh, time travel isn't an issue," Missy waved her hand, "together we could cobble together a rudimentary time machine. That boy with the coat seems to have enough knowledge I wouldn't be surprised if he had a time machine stored away somewhere."
Tony's eyes bulged, "Then, why don't we do that. We can go back and stop this before it happens."
The Doctor shook her head, "It doesn't work that way. Time doesn't want to change; it can fight back, especially when you are trying to change your own history. That would be a paradox, and the consequences could be dire."
Tony laughed exhausted, "Half of all existence is gone, how could things get any direr?"
Missy rubbed her eyes, "And what if we fail? Let's just play along, shall we? We travel back before big purple snapped his fingers? What would we do? I mean, from what I hear he was already a threat before he got his rock collection. And by the time you heard of him, he had two and was near impossible to stop."
Tony clenched his teeth as he readied to argue when he remembered the fight on Titan. Thanos didn't have all the stones, but he nearly killed them all.
"And let's say we do stop him from snapping? Let's say it all goes perfectly. A round of applause for all," Missy continued, "Will it matter? You are making a big chance? I can't say I'm 100% sure of this universes law or any differences, but time usually doesn't like big paradoxical changes. That usually result at best a new timeline. Which means it will all be for naught?"
The Doctor sighed, "She's right, new timelines would mean the old one continues by itself. And if the snap worked its way…." She lowered her head, "It would mean-"
Missy snapped her fingers, "It would still happen. These shiny bobbles affected every reality. If one reality with those stones happens then, it doesn't matter if in the new one you win because you still lose. The first timelines snap will still affect your in the new one. Tell me, can you go through it again, to watch it all play out again?"
Tony remembered Peter, holding him when it happened. "No, I can't."
"It's better to try and fix it from here." The Doctor told him.
Before anything else could be said, a portal formed, and Alexis walked out, pushing a black and silver pushcart carrying all sorts of equipment.
"Welp, I'm back," Alexis announced, missing the tension in the room.
Missy smiled, "Oh, did you bring back some toys?"
"Something like that," Alexis smiled.
The cart dissolved into black dust that wafted around him before settling into a pile. The dust then reformed into a small black and silver robotic platypus. The platypus was purely mechanical; bits of his face would shift and move almost but not quite like a human face. It was firmly a platypus face, but the bill seemed to mold its self to be more expressive than an actual bill should be.
That's when Tony noticed that blue and silver robotic monkey had been following Alexis. The monkey's face consisted of a digital screen displaying a cartoonish and straightforward monkey face.
"These are my familiars, assistance, creations, and generally friends." He motioned to the monkey, "CPU," and then motioned to the platypus, "and Darkhelm."
Missy just looked at Alexis, "Really, that's what you named them?"
"I was 11," Alexis sighed defeated, "I thought I was cute at the time, please move on."
"I like my name," CPU spoke softly, his voice sounding a lot like a British version of his creator.
Darkhelm nodded and let out a hum.
The Doctor moved over to the robots, "Oh, nanobot constructed machines. What are they? A unified hivemind," The Doctor pulled out the sonic screwdriver and scanned them.
Darkhelm hissed and for a split second reverted to dust. He turned into dust and swirled around Alexis before reforming on his shoulder.
"Yeah," Alexis informed her, "Ultrasonics can sometimes mess with the connections.
Darkhelm just huffed in the alien direction.
"Sorry," The Doctor apologized, tucking the sonic away. "It's very impressive you made them at age 11."
"What are they running on?" Tony asked, "Is that an AI?"
"I like to think of us as Actual Intelligence," CPU responded.
Alexis nodded, "They passed the Turing Test, they think for themselves. They feel. They have their own moralities and can disobey me if they want. They just agree to help me out."
"How?" Tony asked, having a few fears since Ultron and remembering Vision.
"Did you use your own brainwave as a base?" The Doctor guessed.
"Yeah, not the whole thing," Alexis shrugged, "But bits and pieces that developed on their own,"
The Doctor nodded, "A lot of people tend to do that for a first AI."
"Probably help that you were so young," Missy added, "When people make AI, they tend to pick up on their worst factors. Things they try to hide away grew and well, hello SKYNET. A child would have a lot less of those hidden issues to deal with."
Tony decided not to say anything about Ultron.
"Why don't we get to work?" Tony clapped his hands.
EARTH DC-63038-A-96
METROPOLIS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Lex Luthor, criminal genius, rolled up his sleeves as he entered his hidden lab. He pushed off the wig he wore; it was vanity item if he had to admit it to himself. But he was alone now; there was no reason to wear it.
Otis and Tessmacher had both been among those lost to the phenomena. He paused to look at the Daily Planet, which reported nothing; there was no real news about what happened.
"Shame, Kent usually runs a tighter ship."
He ignored it for now and went to his computer to start working. Superman would not save the world this time; it was up to him. He had already made leaps and bounds more discoveries than the world on the phenomena.
He human after all, he'd be there to save the day, and if he could benefit, get a country for himself all the better.
His computer was currently monitoring spacial anomalies. Lex had discovered at the same instance that everyone vanished space seemed to ruptured; the barrier between universes had weakened.
His computer blared as it detected another anomaly.
"The blazes?"
There was a flash of light, and two men walked out of the light.
"That would be us,"
"Neat alarm, old-timer."
Lex looked up; there were two young men, both bald.
One was tall and fit; he wore a white suit and black gloves.
The other one was slender and a tad shorter, he also had a black beard.
Lex's eyes widened, "Lenny?"
"Lenny?" The shorter one looked confused, "What? No."
The other man shook his head, "This will sound a little hard to believe, but we are you."
"I know," The other one shook his head incredulously. "I know, we don't exactly look alike. Besides a few factors," his finger drummed on his second, "Its just a lot of little factors that can change our appearance the farther away from the base timelines we are."
The other Lex just told him, "If you want some verification, look at your computer. You've already found out about the weakness in the walls between realities."
Lex looked over the screen, "The moment you came in, there was a spike in extra-dimensional energies."
The Lex in the black suit smiled, "A bit older, but you're still Lex Luthor. The rest of the world still hasn't figured the first thing about this phenomena, but your already chipping away at other universe aspects."
The Older lex just asked, "Fine, let's say I buy that you're Lex Luthor. What are you doing here."
The White suit Lex said, "There is another Lex, he beat us to the chase. I figured out what's happening. He's searching across the multiverse for people to help."
"And who better to come to help than another Lex Luthor." The other Lex smiled, he took out a small disc-like device and a tap, a swirling portal formed, "Want to come with?"
ETHERIA S-RPP-1113.03
FRIGHT ZONE
In the throne room, the Horde scientists were studying the portal as they waited for everyone to return. A few Horde soldiers were there to guard them.
They were all getting a tad restless without someone there telling them not to leave or what to do.
The gate sparked into life as a portal formed in the center.
A tall purple man stepped out of it; even present felt a surge of power through the air and a deep pressure filling the room.
The Horde soldier raised their guns at him.
"PROTECT! PROTECT!"
Two Daleks raced in front of Thanos to protect him; their weapons began to ready.
"No! No! Weapons down!" Catra jumped in front of them. "That's an order!"
Along with them, Vexus, Sari, Davros followed both back to 100% thanks to Thanos.
"Things have changed," Catra warned them, "This is Thanos, he's in charge now. He's the new Hordak."
"What?" A soldier let out.
Thanos wriggled his fingers, and the stones glowed, the pressure in the room tripled, and the soldiers almost collapsed.
Catra just told them, "He's in charge now. Thanos is our lord. All the respect you had for Hordak, you now give him. Go! Tell everyone we have a new leader! And anyone with any questions come to me!"
The Soldiers ran off.
Catra just turned to the cowering scientist, "Get him all the data we have on the portal, everything!"
The scientist moved to the remains of the robot. Emily was and poured through all the data.
Thanos looked at the stones at his hand; he had believed that the stones were limited to his universe, but they had so much more power than he imagined. There seemed to be no real limit to their power; as he looked at his scars, he knew the only limit was on himself.
"I guess that's your now," Catra motioned to Hordak's throne.
"It is," Thanos smiled to himself and sat on it.
Vexus, Davros, and Sari moved to the computer and quickly inputted the data they had gathered from their worlds and the worlds from the others.
Catra bowed before him, "Is there anything you need?"
"No," Thanos looked on, "You've done well,"
"What?"
"Your former leader vanished, yet you've held this small kingdom together with your determination. It's very admirable for someone so young."
"Uh, thank you."
"We are ready!" Sari shouted, her hands opening up typing at incredible speeds. The large screen in the middle of the room filled up with all the data.
Catra and Thanos were the only ones that didn't pale at the results.
"That's…" Vexus was at a loss for words, "really bad."
Davros, who'd built some very destructive weapons, was humbled, "This will reach everywhere."
"There won't be any place to hide or… to be safe," Sari mumbled out.
"No," Thanos corrected, he pointed to data about Hordak's portal.
"This dimension, Despondos, has gone through a similar process. It began to shatter and collapse from within. The dimensional membrane adapted and became more malleable because of it. Weakened like all the others, but it's holding better."
"Like healed bone," Sari guessed, "once it heals it a little strong."
Thanos nodded, "yes, and because of that, this dimension will hold longer than others."
"What's going on?" Catra was already nervous about them talking about the incident where she nearly killed everyone.
Thanos got up from his chair and told her, "You just saved your world; you have just given me the means to save everything that will ever be." With a smile, he patted her head, "You have done well."
Thanos looked at the stones; he had maybe one snap left in him. He'd be lucky if he got two with all the extra damage using the stones was adding to his body. He needed the right moment.
His lips curled up; the data was telling him the moment was coming soon.
The Utopia he had dreamed of, fought for, killed for, lost so much for was so close to becoming a reality.
"I am inevtiable," Thanos said to himself, he knew that all this was a certainty that his victory was assured.
EARTH M-199999
AVENGER COMPOUND
The Science Team was working on the gate. The team consisted of Tony, Bruce, Scott Lang, Nebula, Rocket, The Doctor, Jenny, Missy, Jack, Alexis, CPU, and Darkhelm.
Tony had his drones bring literal tons of material and equipment to the compound. CPU and Darkhelm turned into piles of goo and quickly began to absorb and reshape the materials to build most the gate. They just needed blueprints, which they made ahead of time. The other worked on some of the details, fix wiring, install computers, and other things while the robots built around them.
Rocket was fiddling with some wire while Tony and Nebula worked on some of the circuit boards.
Jack, the Doctor, and Missy were taking apart of the Dimension Canons they brought along with some of Alexis' tech. Scott, Bruce, and Jenny were using the Quantum Tunnel to not only help provide power but using a lot of the Pym tech to improve the gate. Most of it was based on what the others saw from the Quantum Tunnel.
Alexis was working on the controls and connecting a large tower he had brought in.
"Okay! Ready!" Alexis shouted as he pulled out some strange item.
He held out a bronze orb; it had three sets of dots circles set in three interlacing triangles. He pressed down on the dots.
"Okay, go." The world whirled around them, and the group watched as it faded around to be replaced by stars and galaxies.
"What did you just do?" Jack asked, trying to feel out if the machine he had been working on was still there.
"This is what I'm calling the Infinity Orb."
"You are not good with names," Rocket let out.
"Yeah, moving on, This is something I got years ago. I was messing around with wormholes and accidentally shot me out of my universe. I didn't end up anywhere, I maybe it was an empty universe or some outskirt of void or something. I was ready to give up and just float on for eternity but this cloaked figure showed up. They gave me this orb and told me I could use it to get home." As he said home, things around them changed, the stars shifted and shrug into a small orb surrounded by darkness. Then another ball formed and expanded, filling the room. A little blue orb glowed before him.
"It's a map," The Doctor realized.
"Yeah, it's a map to the multiverse, the most comprehensive one I've ever seen. It seems to update. It seems to find new timelines, new dimensions and everything. Don't ask me how it works. I've had it for years and barely figured anything out. It helped me get my remote working and more of my dimension-hopping tech."
He clicked on those buttons, and the map faded away, and everything returned to normal.
"It's a map; you could have just said that," Tony smirked.
"Yeah, but that wouldn't be near as fun."
Tony took the orb and studied it, "So we just have to hook this up, and we should be able to go where ever we have to?"
"That's the plan."
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They got closer to finishing the gate.
There was four actual pathway around the massive machine, a stairway up to a large, almost glass-like platform. The various smaller gates would allow them to travel to various worlds at once and allow travel through them as well.
The platform would be used for large groups or any large object they might find. He was already wondering if they would need a hatch in the room; those beastly bots said they could change the roof if he wanted.
That still left one problem yet to solve.
How do they know where to go?
"Yeah, I thought about that," Alexis admitted, he tapped the top of the tower. "This is, well, it holds, it's hard to explain. It holds a program I named Scout; in case of a large emergency, the program would be released and locate every one of my friends and allies. It's smart; it's got a big of magic and can pretty much use any means to communicate with someone. I've already programmed it if we can beam him into the other universe and have him search the other universe for people that can help."
Missy looked over the screen at the details displayed before her.
"Hm," Missy hummed, "Okay, that is a tad clever. "
"Well, help me get all the way to clever."
Missy pointed at herself, "What do you want from me?"
"The Doctor told me to be careful around you."
"Did she, really?" She leaned on her hand, "Whatever did she say?"
"That you are a manipulating psychopath that might stab me in the back if it suited her."
"Not inaccurate, a bit hurtful."
"But you can help someone that manipulates people has to know how they work. And I can see that you are a genius."
"Tell me something else that obvious,"
"Help me give Scout of what kind of people we should search for. I can spread him out through about 1000 locations at once, but he needs to know what to look for."
"Hm, I suppose that would take some narrowing down. We do need a bit more brainpower, some muscle, some nifty powers could be useful."
"Plus, we will have to recruit some of the people. Go to them and persuade them to come with us. Maybe they don't have the means to get here."
"That would make sense."
"And I'm sure there are people who can slide between universe already on their way here or will eventually make their way here."
"We can redirect them here, to some extent, like redirecting an airplane to this airport."
"Yeah, but how about we get some messages out and get those planes to come directly here. If some people that can help already got the means, we just got to direct them."
"Would certainly save us some time." Missy smiled, she gently slapped his face, "Deary, go make me a cup of tea. I'll write you a nice little algorithm for all that. I've got your notes here that should be everything I need minus that tea."
Alexis huffed, "Fine, how do you take it?"
EARTH BBB-1509
HELLSALEM'S LOT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Leonardo Watch could only watch the TV repeat the news; no one knew what was happening. There were more people lost than they could ever accurately account for.
How many of his friends were gone?
Was his family okay? His sister? He'd tried to call so many times, but they couldn't get a call through.
So, he just sat at Libra's office. A god had come and told them that soon everything would end. That it wasn't their doing, but it would happen all the same.
Leo sat defeated; there was nothing to do; they had already lost.
Suddenly his eyes burst open, and he saw something. A swirling doorway of light, and two figures hidden in silhouette.
He could hear a voice, this was new, sometimes he'd glimpse things, but he didn't get audio. It was Riga El Menuhyut's voice," Find them, the Curator of Secrets and the Lady of Time."
Leo forced his eyes closed and found himself breathing hard, "Okay, who the hell we're they?"
EARTH DSN-2000
MIDDLETON, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
"Dad!" Kim ran and hugged her father.
"Kimmie!" James Possible hugged his daughter back.
It had been a rough time for all the Possibles; the twins had both vanished. They hated thinking, but that might have been a blessing, this was hard enough, but to lose your twin might have been too much. Better for them to go together.
Ann was still working at the hospital almost 24/7. There countless hurt during accidents, and they needed help.
But James wondered if it hurt Kim harder, her two babies and her Ron, someone who'd been with her entire life just vanished. No fight, no warning, he was gone.
It's not like James didn't miss him either, he'd known Ron for years, and he was like a third son at times.
"Kim!" Wade walked by, breaking up the moment between them.
Kim worked up a smile, "Wade good to see you in person." Kim hesitated, but she had to ask, "Please tell me you have good news."
Wade and James exchanged looks before Wade spoke up, "We are working with people around the world. We are turning every stone."
Her smile faded, "…so, you don't have anything."
"It's not … its a small idea," James admitted cautiously.
Wade spoke, trying to pick his words carefully; he didn't want to raise her hopes, "We might have one idea. How much do you know about multiverse theory?"
EARTH ML-9115
PARIS, FRANCE
Gabriel Agreste sat on his sitting-room coach with his wife, Emilie Agreste.
Emilie smiled, "He's so beautiful, isn't he?"
Gabriel looked at his son as he played the piano, every note-perfect. At the moment, nothing else mattered, he was with his family, and everything was perfect.
There was a pain his head, and without realizing it, he reached for something in his pocket.
Emilie asked, "Is everything alright?"
"Yes," He waved her off, "Just a little tired; let's keep listing to Adrien."
He ignored the pain, in his pocket tie Adriene gave him his last birthday and his wedding ring. With the power of the Peacock miraculous, he created amoks and used them to inhabit the items. It's magic made sentimonsters, in this case, the family he had lost.
The peacock miraculous was broken, it hurt the user, and he was using it to create a very realistic sentimonsters. It pained him, and if he waited too long, it would likely kill him.
That didn't matter now; he had nothing else to live for.
He went down a terrible path, he hurt many people, he just hoped to bring his wife back, but this new incident took his son and robbed him of any chance to save them.
There was no reason to go on.
So, for one last day, he would allow himself to get lost in this fantasy.
To have one last day with his family.
He smiled as he enjoyed his son's music.
PLAINS OF TIME DSN-2010-LFLD-2
OMNITRAXUS HOME
Rhombulous used the dimensional scissors to travel to the Plains of Time, more to the point Omnitraxus home. Since he was gone, there was no one left to tend some of the creatures that he kept there.
In all honesty, he didn't know how many of those creatures survived. Half the universe had up and died.
He couldn't help but look at the stump that once held one of his snakes. His other snake hadn't talked much since then, not that he could blame him. Omni, Lekmet, even Reynaldo were gone. Hekapoo was still around, but… her daughter Seraph was gone. That one hurt them all.
Rhombulous was thrilled to find out he had a little niece, and now she was just gone.
He knew the usually strong and confident Hekapoo was crying, she was crying a lot, and he didn't know what he could do to help.
All he could do was take care of Omni's pets. Creatures lost between the timelines and other dimensions. Omni's home was a massive hall decorate with all the stuff that randomly ended up in the Plain of Time.
As he made his way to the zoo, he paused.
"What?"
The snake on his hand spoke up, "That's never done that before."
On a lone pedestal sat a bronze looking orb, with nine dots organized to make three interconnected triangles.
The dots were goggling, and it looked like it was humming.
EARTH AT-314
GRASSLANDS, LAND OF OOO
Finn Mertens was sitting alone in his new home. He thought moving out would have been so awesome. This was weird; there was nothing for him to fight.
In front of him lay the note for Prismo, they could use to go to his place. Finn used it in hopes of finding out what happened, or maybe wish everyone back. That didn't work at all.
Finn only found The Cosmic Owl, and he was just as confused as everyone else. Worse, he confirmed that Prismo was gone.
Right now, Simon was in the Candy Kingdom working in Bubblegum's lab trying to find anything. He took the Enchiridion, but that didn't seem to help much.
Marceline was going around trying to find anything on the magic side of things. Her dad had gone missing, so he wasn't helping. The Wizard City was mess, whatever happened hit them harder, half their people vanished but the magic users were freaking out. The stronger they were the harder they were hit, they said they felt something and felt sick.
Finn's mom was keeping track of the human's settlement. They had vanished just like everyone else, and they were freaking out.
He was supposed to be the hero, but he felt so useless. Jake was gone, and a bunch of the puppies.
There was a knock on the door. The door swung open, "Finn?"
"Huntress Wizard?"
"Yeah, I wanted to check up on you."
"I'm okay."
"You're not, none of us are. Some mysterious force had taken half of everyone and screwed magic over. It's okay to admit your not okay."
"i- I- just couldn't help anyone, there is still nothing I can do."
"Finn, there nothing we could do. You don't have anything to blame yourself."
Huntress Wizard was trying to be understanding, Finn used to have family all around and now was alone. She was trying to be helpful but didn't know exactly how to do it.
"If you want to be alone I understand, I'll leave if you want."
"No!" Finn let out, "I like talking to you, I always have. If you don't mind staying for a while."
Huntress Wizard smiled, "I don't mind,"
EARTH SE-51204
DEATH CITY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The world was a mess.
Maka Albarn leaned back on her sofa. The apartment was quiet, both Soul and Blair were taken in the Great Disappearance. Kid, DWMA, nor the witches had any clue what happened.
The witches were left stunned after all of this. No meister had a beat on anyone who vanished. Those who used soul perception just saw the souls vanish in a weird orange light.
Maka was lost.
Black Star, her father, Stein, Patty, Soul, Blair, and so many others were just gone. She didn't know what to do. What could she do?
There was a knock at the door, lazily Maka peered through the door with her soul perception to see if it was worth getting up.
Her eyes went wide, and she ran to the door.
Maka opened to find an older blonde woman standing in the doorway.
"Maka?"
"…Mama?"
"I wanted to get her sooner, but then everything happened and-"
Maka didn't care, she hugged her mother tight, and her mother hugged her right back.
EARTH M-199999
AVENGER COMPOUND
Tow days, it only took them two days to make a massive machine to travel across universes. It was up and running. In theory, if anyone tried to jump, they would be rerouted there. Hopefully, they would come in peace and willing to work with them.
As everyone gathered in the conference room, Missy stood up in front of them.
"Okay, no need for applause, but I've done the hard bit."
Alexis coughed.
"And, yes, some help from Mister Needs the Credit. We altered the Scout Program. We've already started to have it search through various worlds. We've already begun to get a list of possible worlds."
"That's good," Steve spoke up, "You said you could message them. See if they are interested in helping."
"That's the thing," Alexis scratched his chin, "I've inputted my information on magic and tech, they need some help to get here they should have it. We can even go to them and bring them here."
"And I think that's where we should start," Missy smirked, "Do a proper test run, and here is a perfect chance. We've found two worlds with people that might be very useful. The problem that we can't message them. It might be interference; maybe the machine isn't working properly. Before we try and send more messages, I think we should test that."
Steve pondered it, "Okay, take it a little slow. Make sure everything is working before we go larger."
"These two worlds are very interesting. I've taken the liberty picking teams."
"World TMNI-404: much like your standard Earth. The point of interest is in a small city-state in Japan. There is a city in this world that's not located in any of ours. It's called Academy City. From what Scout managed to uncover, the city is around 50 years ahead technology-wise from the rest of Earth. It seems to specialize in psychic powers; it has a program to help develop it in students. There is a teenager there who seems to have the ability to negate unnatural forces."
Tony listened carefully, which could be very useful when facing Thanos.
Alexis mused out loud, "I am working on some recall devices. If we work on it tonight we should have it done by the morning. I have some things that we should add."
"Translation?" The Doctor surmised.
"Yeah, my universal translator is a bit lacking."
The Doctor smiled, "I think I can help with that. If you can get your Scout to do a little more recon for languages, we should be able to fill in some gaps."
Missy smiled, "I'm so glad you two are so eager. I'm suggesting we send you two and Mister Stark to this world."
"Why?" Tony blurted out.
Missy just sighed, "As much as I'm worried about leaving you three on your own, I believe you are the best to handle this situation. Its a world with technology that we are unfamiliar with. We should send in some big brains that might be able to keep up."
Alexis shrugged, "I know you're playing us but"
"We are doing it." Doctor added.
"Yeah, we are," Tony said, he was eager to see a world with more advanced tech.
"Goodie," Missy twirled, "The next world, ALA-221….I'm going, to be honest here. We haven't gathered that much information. This world seems to be a tad primitive, pre-industrial maybe just staring-"She turned upside down a print out of the information, "They might have radios."
"Okay," Natasha asked, "why is this world so interesting?"
"People can manipulate elements. Very classical greek ones, fire, water, air, and Earth."
"Pyrokenisis." Scarlett raised her hand," that's not uncommon." Her hand glowed as flames erupted around her.
"I knew it,:" Missy said proudly, "the air is warm around you and the hair around the back my neck tingle from that psychokinetic field around you."
As the flames died down around Scarlett, Steve only remarked, "Okay, why didn't you tell us you say you could do that?"
Scarlett shrugged, "Didn't ask."
Natasha turned things back on topic, "Okay, so we have a world filled with people who can manipulate these elements."
Missy clarified, "Well, not everyone but a large number. And usually only one. But there seems to be one person who can manipulate all four. Some big old spiritual leader they titled the Avatar. From what I've gathered, he's packing a wallop."
"Who did you have in mind for this one?" Steve asked her.
"Miss Fire Starter there." Missy motioned to Scarlett, "someone who can relate to them. Then my dear Jenny."
"What?" The Doctor interrupted.
Missy ignored her, "And Miss Romanov." Missy just smiled innocently, "Since we can't gather all that much information, I felt three people who were very resourceful and used to traveling and blending in should be very useful here."
Steve thought about it; this seemed like a reasonable plan. If they could recruit some help from these worlds, they'd be in a much better chance against Thanos. Plus, those picked by Missy seemed eager enough to take on the challenge.
"Is it safe?" Steve asked.
Missy let out a breath and nodded her head, "It's mostly safe, the science behind it is sound. We are fairly certain that the signal is getting through, we haven't tried to send anything solid through yet. There is a small chance that everyone will be shredded at the atomic level. It's hard to say, the walls between reality being all out of sorts make it hard to say anything for sure."
The Doctor sighed, "Yeah, it's safe. It's the same tech that I used to travel here."
"If you're all ready to take the mission," Steve told them, "Then let's get ready to carry it out as soon as possible."
Author's Notes: Okay, this is going to be a busy week for me. So i had to make this a bit shorter. Anyway, stuff is getting going. I hope this showed you all at least one thing you would be interested in. The snap continues to shake things up and so we see it affect some of the worlds. The recruitment drive will soon get started. So let me know what you guys thought and what you liked. I will revisit some of the worlds we have visited.
So, because I feel someone will ask. Lex Luthor from the comics is recruting other Lex's. He's the Arrowverse Luthor, Smallville luthor and the Gene Hackman from the old superman movies.
Not all of them because at last count we had over 70 worlds! I'm not doing all of them. There are well over 200 potential characters here! No let me do what I can handle. Anyway review and I'll get to the answers.
Q&A:
Madhatter886: yeah but how many of those are there?
Hbarrera98: Thanks. Yeah, dude gets a bigger and more dangerous army.
CalvinFuji: Well he's got a plan and he is going to be traveling around.
adrogoz: Yeah, seems like a pretty obvious mix.
Maximum Rhapsody: Yeah, you gotta be a special kinda nuts to see people die and say yeah I want some of that. They don't like following him but the other choice is death so not much of a choice.
darthwolf: Neat I didn't know that about the voices. Neat.
DeltaGamer: Yeah. the stones are different here. They have a much wider reach. I mean, that's how this whole multiverse story is getting going.
edboy4926: Okay, Lord Zedd from the Power Rangers. Davros and his Daleks from Doctor Who. Catra from She-Ra. Vexus from My Life as Teenaged Robot. Sari Sumdac from Transformers animated, well her evil universe version, from the Shatterglass universe. Frieza from Dragon Ball. Vilgax from Ben 10 series. Hela from the Thor movies. Anubis from Stargate SG1.
iRougue III: I'm trying. I'm trying.
CapitalClassShip: I've watched those videos. I never thought about them when I wrote this but neat.