Epilogue: The End is Near
Manhattan, New York City. Earth-616.
BGM-Mega Man Zero OST-The Ruins of Lab (Remastered)
A calming night encompasses the city that just survived yet another dimensional disaster. Its citizens are enjoying the peace and quiet, as does the Foreseer that lives in her apartment building and binded to her spider-like life-support system. The mysterious Madame Web has been keeping watch of recent events since summer's beginning, and has seen into the future of who and what will cross her thread on the Web of Destiny. "Watcher." The Clairvoyant announced, sensing the arrival of her guest.
Materializing into her living room is Uatu the Watcher, who asks his fellow watcher of the universe, "How are you feeling tonight, Madame Web?"
"I am fine, thank you. Grateful that we once again survived a crisis." Madame Web replied.
"Your predications up until now have proved true. Now we have reached the unknown that I fear the outcome of." Uatu voiced his concerns about their world's future.
"Have the others accepted your invitation?" Madame Web asked.
"I see them arriving as we speak." Uatu sensed cosmically.
Seven more individuals then appear in the apartment. Powerful beings from other universes. Such as Tikal the Echidna and Chaos Zero of Mobius. The Brother Gods of Remnant. Divine Dragon Naga of Ylisse. Forge God Dyntos of Skyworld. And Ingrid of the Capcom World. All of them were called here by Uatu to discuss what fate has in store for their worlds.
"Never thought I'd be back in the Big Apple so soon. I really like this world. Hello everyone." Ingrid cheekily greeted everyone.
"Greetings, Code Holder Ingrid. First I want to thank you for your assistance in the recent crisis. Did Sonic the Hedgehog and Ruby Rose meet your expectations?" The Watcher asked her.
"I say they passed them with flying colors!" Ingrid smiled, with that same proud grin given to Madame Web, "Your Champion didn't too bad himself.", before she sternly frowns, "Still, their chances against what's to come are slim. Ultron Sigma is nothing compared to what is coming."
"I sense our young friends still have one trial left to complete in hopes of gaining the skills necessary to confront their ultimate challenge." Madame Web read the future.
"That is what this meeting is all about. Always feared the situation would grow this dire."Tikal frowned worriedly.
"Heh. It's rare for the greatest of our worlds to represent and meet like this. The multiverse must be facing a real pickle." Dyntos joked.
"Indeed." The Watcher uses his cosmic powers to project holograms of the Exo Eight's current locations, "All eight Exo Stones now share this reality. Seven of them contained on this planet that have no doubt beaconed the end of all things."
"The Mad Titan…" Naga remarked, calmly aware of Thanos's legend, "He is in possession of the last Stone?"
"Correct. The Star Stone. The power that ensures the existence of parallel dimensions and has been his greatest weapon in his multiversal conquest of destruction." The Watcher explained.
"One Stone alone has threatened multiple worlds on several occasions these past months. If the Titan were to obtain all eight, all life in the cosmos will be expunged permanently." The Brother God of Light stated solemnly.
"Even I have limits on how much I want to destroy." The Brother God of Darkness grunted in disgust at the Mad Titan's undying appetite of destruction.
"Seems Thanos is more of a god of destruction than you." Ingrid teased the dark god.
"Take that back, Code Holder!" The Dark God retorted angrily.
Chaos growls stoically, saying something that can't be understood unless you're a god like Dyntos that can understand his language, "Chaos is right. What is the plan to stop this crisis? Even my best creations can barely counter one Exo Stone."
"The heroes of our worlds are planning to form an alliance when the time comes. Maybe we should join them." Ingrid suggested.
"Perhaps if we can combine our resources. Lord Dyntos's inventions with the Chaos Emeralds and the Fire Emblem…" Tikal suggested.
"I fear the keys to our survival lies only in the Exo Stones." Madame Web commented.
"The mortal heroes have just acquired five, right? Then I suggest we steal the other two from the so-called Masters of Evil this instant." The Dark God suggested.
"No! I reject that idea! The Masters of Evil have grown too powerful! I alone barely survived my encounter with Doom when he was inexperienced with the Heart Stone!" Uatu argued, claiming his plan is too risky.
"You wasted time talking rather than destroying! My brother and I will erase them swiftly with our full power!" The Dark God retorted arrogantly.
"Your full power could destroy this whole world like you once did Remnant! Gods of another have no such authority!" Naga scowled upon joining this argument.
"No. But we do have a responsibility over the actions of our creations. Such as the woman named Salem." The Light God refuted.
"Your immortal creation did do a number on my universe with her giant symbiote." Ingrid frowned disappointedly at the Brother Gods.
"I apologize. As the humans would say, 'Desperate times call for desperate measures'. I will do what is necessary to right this wrong. If perchance we do not survive, I wish you all good luck." The Light God said to everyone in this meeting.
"This is madness! At least work alongside the Dimensional Avengers!" Madame Web retorted, pleading for the Brothers to reconsider their risky plan.
"They have done enough this day. Let them rest." The Light God responded calmly.
"You said it yourself that they are not ready, and when they are, it may be too late. Thanos is coming. Mere mortals cannot stop what comes next. For better or worse, their fate rests in the gods' hands." said the Dark God, teleporting away alongside his elder brother and leaving behind their allies that are disappointed with their hasty actions.
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Castle Doom, Doomstadt. Latveria.
BGM-Dragon Ball Legends OST-Eerie Atmosphere
"What do you mean they 'disappeared'?" Doctor Doom asked from his throne.
With Ultron Sigma destroyed thanks to their brief alliance with the heroes, the Masters of Evil returned to Latveria to attend their own meeting in regards of future plans. Which required the assistance of Doctors Eggman and Octopus, both who have been missing since the Nega Wisp incident. The only lead to their whereabouts is the two lackey robots they bothered to rescue from space, Orbot and Cubot. "It's like we said. We were just minding our own business floating in space aimlessly when we ran into this weird gassy alien that they disappeared into a portal with." Orbot formally told the Latverian King.
"They seemed really happy about it too. Said something about 'time' and wanting to eat it." The dimwitted Cubot added.
"Doom has little patience for whatever petty scheme those two are hatching. I am giving them one last chance to redeem themselves after their failure with the Wisps. The Mad Titan draws near. The Masters of Evil MUST be united to counter his impending arrival." Doom said so coldly that he terrifies the lackey bots.
"I will, uh…try calling them." The intimidated Orbot tasked himself.
Right as the lackey robots leave to a corner, Grimadoom and Juri enter the throne room. "And where have you two been?" Albert Wesker questioned their enforcers that have arrived late to the meeting.
"In Antarctica. Or what's left of it." Juri quipped.
"Did you obtain the Satsui no Hado?" Doom asked if they completed their objective.
"Nope." Grimadoom casually answered.
"No?!"
"Akuma was way tougher than I thought. He really gave me a workout. Thought I was gonna die. Two of us are already looking forward to our next scuffle." Grimadoom snarked, being ambiguous on who won that battle. Doesn't mean anything against Doom's boiling fury at his disobedient son.
"There may not BE a next scuffle! You should've obtained the Dark Hado from Ryu when you clearly had the advantage!" Salem berated her child.
"It's not nice to spy on people in the middle of their fighting. Who needs the Dark Hado anyway when my own power has grown significantly? Thanos won't stand a chance." Grim claimed through his usual overconfidence.
"For your sake, you better be right." Doom threatened his own creation, "Do you still have the data from S.I.N.?"
"Perfectly intact. Everything from BLECE to Psycho Drive, all in one disk." smirked Juri, showing off the data disk in her hand.
"This is the technology that will allow us to harness and control the Exo Stones?" Jedah questioned, as the disk is handed to Doom.
"Upon completion of our own device. One superior to the heroes' Exo Buster. But the key is to building it without raising the suspicions or attentions of our enemies, most notably Thanos. We must be smart. That is why I had Wesker secretly steal technology from Abel City so we can begin work on Project X Zone." Doom proclaimed, revealing they used the heroes, and in some ways Ultron Sigma, to further their goals for multiversal domination.
"Merging worlds should suffice as the perfect distraction." Wesker smiled sinisterly.
BGM-Super Dragon Ball Heroes OST-Confrontation of Critical Situation
Suddenly, a powerful energy triggers Grimadoom's Spider-Sense that is too noticed by Doom. Intense beams of light and darkness were fired out of nowhere targeting the Masters of Evil that are swiftly shielded by a barrier conjured by Doom's Chaos Stone. This pathetic assassination attempt was acted by the Brother Gods in their all-powerful dragon forms. Which meant nothing to both Grima and Jedah as they swim through their attacks to smash them out of the air.
"The Brothers…?" Salem exclaimed in shock at her gods' sudden arrival.
"You dare invade my kingdom?" Doom coldly threatened the otherworldly deities.
"Mortals, you have been fools. We have been watching you from our dimension. You are playing with power beyond your command. Power from the cosmic gods. And now you plan to imbalance our worlds further by merging them?" The God of Light interrogated, fiercely breathing divine light that Jedah easily cuts through with his scythe.
"You are mistaken. True balance can only be achieved once all worlds are one." Jedah claimed.
"We are on the cusp of accomplishing what you tasked Ozma all those eons ago. To unite the world in time for their gods' judgement. And we deem you unfit to live in our new world." Salem mocked, engaging her own gods with the Nightmare Stone that pushes them to the defensive.
"Insolent cretin! How many times must you repeat this defiance against your creators?!" The furious Dark God then combines his magic with his brother's to unleash a massive beam of planetary devastation that Salem simply blocks with the Nightmare Stone.
"Don't pretend you don't know why. I am your immortal mistake. You cursed me in order to understand the importance of life and death. And now I do and you're upset about that? Perhaps you are jealous that I will succeed where you failed since your worthless birth." Salem continued her mockery of the brothers while using the Nightmare Stone to erupt demonic spikes from underneath them to mortally impale them.
Though immobilized alongside his brother, the Light God has reached his limit of tolerance as he angrily retorts, "You are a mistake that we will correct this instant! Did you think that without the Relics that we would stand by and let you-?!"
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But then, silence. Quiet suddenly fills the room after the Nightmare Stone was used to eradicate Light and Dark both. Erasing them out of existence before Salem's cold eyes who wasn't even trying in their brief battle. They had it coming. It was because of those arrogant gods is why Salem is immortal. Why she became a harbinger of destruction that wants humanity to suffer as she has suffered for ages. Now they are no more. And the Witch couldn't be any happier or looking more sadistic about it. "Shall we get started on the project?" She smirks at her allies, shrugging off her gods' deaths as nothing more than a minor nuisance.
Her allies either stand impressed by her win or amazed by her power beyond gods. Nonetheless, a shocked Orbot quips, "…I think I speak for everyone when I say, yeah, alright. Let's get started.", prompting the villains to begin their work toward the completion of the terrifying project that will change the multiverse forever.
Back at Madame Web's Apartment…
"The Brothers have fallen." The Watcher proclaimed somberly to his otherworldly peers, having used his cosmic awareness to confirm their deaths.
The facepalming Ingrid sighs, "Those children…What were they thinking? They let pride and impatience get the better of them when we should be working together."
"I sympathize why. Time is of the essence and we are in desperate need of a greater power to disrupt the Titan's plans for us. At least we have determined the enemy's strength. Sacrifices are…inevitable in war." Naga expressed sadly.
"The final battle hasn't even started and we're already losing. Madame Web, what should we do?" The concerned Tikal asked the psychic spider.
"I think you should ask him that." Madame Web responded vaguely, gesturing to a new arrival that she foresaw coming to this multiversal meeting.
BGM-Marvel Future Revolution OST-Mystical Mage (Doctor Strange Theme)
A new guest begins to emerge from the shadows with a cosmic figure that attracts the curious attentions of everyone else in the room. They appear to be a human male in a black cosmic suit with red boots and cape and likes to wield a cosmic staff. His mere presence gives off an aura that is extraordinarily powerful yet too mysterious to decipher even for Watchers like Uatu.
"You came." The Watcher said, calmly familiar with this Golden Gladiator.
Naga suddenly gasps in shock upon noticing the orange Stone on his forehead that feels like it connects him to every soul in this universe, "That on your forehead. An Infinity Stone…? Who are you?"
"My name is Adam Warlock." He politely introduced himself to the group, "Greetings and apologizes for my tardiness. I was in deep meditation reviewing our options in the Soulworld when I sensed the Brothers' death."
"You've come to offer help?" Ingrid asked.
"Not help. Hope." Warlock announced, claiming that he and he alone knows what is best for their universes if they wish to survive the Exo War that threatens all realities.
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KFX Here: The Road to Exo War RX has begun with the reimagined introduction of Adam Warlock (based on his Infinity Countdown attire from the comics). I'll see if I can give him a bigger role once I get to that remake. But that is officially it for this storyline. Now onto Generations RX!
Spider-Sonic Prime: I don't know. Stories like The PHANTOM Menace and Ends of the Earth might get the remake treatment.
superjoeyf721: It's been stated in the Darkstalkers games that Demitri uses an aura to help him survive sunlight. And the idea of W.E.B. originated from the "Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure" attraction at Disneyland, as part of their Avengers Campus area.
Braewriter of Rewriting: Cyclops was referring to the Marvel world when he said that.
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