WEB OF REALITY
Madame Web was monitoring the current state of the Multiverse from within the center of the Web of Reality. Meditating in a large open space surrounded by those working around her, she sensed that something wasn't quite right. However, her meditation was interrupted by Noah, who was busy building something, while Eli assisted in calibrating a satellite that would send out deep scans throughout the Multiverse.
"You're telling me that you can't do this yourself?" Eli asked as he typed on a keyboard. "I mean, aren't you technically a god or something?"
"This isn't for me," Madame Web said, walking h around the area. "it's for you guys. With all these threats, we need someone who can see for me."
Noah asked sarcastically, "Do you plan on dying soon?" as he finished tightening a screw.
Madame Web sighed. "With the Dark Multiverse in play, anything is possible," she said. "Especially now that the multiverse is beginning to slowly unravel."
"I'm sorry what?" Eli asked.
"It's a slow problem," Madame Web assured him. "Things are slipping through, things that don't belong here."
"What kind of things?" Emily asked as she looked over the blueprints.
Madame Web began to respond, but she shrieked and fell to her knees, feeling her headache worsen. She screamed as the entire crew of the Warriors rushed over to her aid, wondering what was wrong with her.
"What? What is it? What's happening?" Noah asks in concern.
"The...there is something wrong." Madame Web exclaimed in agony.
"Something's coming," Eli took a guess, "something big if it has this kind of feeling on Madame Web."
"I've got the same feeling," Emily whispered, feeling the agony Madame Web is going through.
"I'm going to Earth-S," Eli said as he grabbed a breaching device and quickly opened a portal to Earth-S. "There are a few anomalies there I need to check out; maybe it has something to do with this."
Emily said, "I'm going to go speak with Director Parker." She created a portal for herself to walk through. "He's known Madame Web the longest; he should know how to help us."
Emily then quickly opened a breach. She had a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach and had to make sure Earth-616 was okay. However, no matter how much she tried to reassure herself, she couldn't shake the feeling that something was very wrong.
Earth-S, The SHIELD HQ/STAR labs
Eli exited the portal and entered the location where the Earth-S team was supposed to live. But when he exited the portal, he discovered smoke, fire, and alarms going off everywhere. There he saw Coulson lying on his side in front of him.
Eli asked, "Coulson, are you all right?" as he ran over to him.
He was shocked when he turned the body over, revealing that the other half of his face was an LMD. The LMD's face was sparking and trying to move, but it was too badly damaged to move anywhere.
Eli spun around, his ears picking up the metallic sound of a gun being cocked behind him. Immediately, he put his hands up and didn't even attempt to make any sudden movements. Slowly turning around, he saw that it was Jemma Simmons who was aiming a pistol at him.
Eli asked, "Jemma Simmons? What's happening?"
Simmons didn't respond; instead, she just aimed the gun at him with shaking hands. Eli froze and raised his hands, wondering what had happened.
"Jemma," Eli tried again, but Jemma interrupted him.
"Shut up, you stupid machine," Jemma shouted as she waved the gun in its face.
"Easy, easy!" Eli said as he took a step back, trying not to slip on the robot. He wasn't sure what was going on, but didn't want to make it worse. "I'm not a robot. Promise."
"Prove to me you're not an LMD," Jemma demanded. "They can replicate memories, so that won't work."
Suddenly, a seismic wave blasted through Eli, sending him flying against the wall. Daisy emerged from the darkness, her hand outstretched and ready to blast him again. Crawling out of the rubble, Eli groaned in pain as he slowly stood up.
"Ouch!" Eli exclaimed, rubbing the spot on his head. "Okay, what's going on here?"
"He's real," Daisy gasped out in pain. "I could feel his bones."
Eli grumbled as he stood up, "I felt it too." He looked around. "Now what the hell is going on here?"
"Something has replaced our agents with LMDs," Jemma said, looking around. "Who is this 'you' that you speak of?"
"Oh, yeah, we never officially met in this reality," he said, completely forgetting about it. He walked over to them and offered his hand for them to shake. "Eli. Member of the Warriors of the Multiverse."
"Right, Cisco and Barry mentioned you. They said you helped fight against Batman and his Dark Knights." Daisy said as she shook his hand. "What brings you here?"
"Madame Web was worried. She had learned that there was some sort of attack on the multiverse, and sensed that it was originating from this place." Eli explained as he looked around the area. "I came here to check out what was going on," he said. "Figured she was just worrying about nothing. Looks like I was wrong."
That's when an LMD version of Mack appeared, with half of its face melted off, walking down the hallway wielding a shotgun axe. The LMD was struggling to stand and raise its gun towards them, but it still tried its best.
"LMDs?" Eli asked in surprise.
"Yes," Daisy confirmed with a sigh.
Eli double-tapped his glasses and donned his Iron Man suit. He took aim and fired a repulsor blast at the LMD, decapitating it. "Where are the others?"
Simmons replied worriedly, "We don't know. We think they're in something called the Framework."
"I thought that was something Director Parker was working on," Eli said, confused.
Jemma tells him, "Cisco said he was helping you with it, along with your alternate self." She continues, "LMD Fitz was talking about it to me when he was trying to replace me."
Daisy said, "We need to get to the Zephyr. We need to get out of here."
"No, you can come with me back to our HQ," Eli offered, gesturing towards the portal. "It will keep you safe from harm."
Daisy said, "I'll grab Cisco and Caitlin," then she ran off down the hall.
CHAPTER 2
WELCOME TO WEIRDMAGEDDON
Earth-616
Emily quickly exited the breach and saw that she had entered a world gone mad. She watched as agents ran around trying to make sense of the madness that was going down. Cypher floated ominously above Washington D.C., where the entire city could see it from every direction they turned.
"What's going on here?" Emily asked as she stepped out of the portal and onto the city street.
"Bill Cypher," John Constantine said from behind her. "He's opened a portal straight from the Dark Multiverse and is unleashing his madness on this world."
Emily asks, "Who? Also, how is that possible?" She wonders how it's possible for him to anchor something like that to this or any other world with Madame Web's safeguards in place. "He shouldn't be able to anchor himself to this dimension."
"He corrupted Parker," Constantine warns her. "Manipulated him, and now he's using him as an anchor. They're all free because of it."
"We have to stop him," Emily said worriedly. "We need to rally the heroes and lead an assault."
"Good luck with that," John said, lighting a cigarette.
"I need to get to the others. I have to find Director Parker," Emily said. "Where is he?"
"His body is in that thing," John said as he took a long drag from his cigarette before pointing to the pyramid.
"What do you mean by his body?" Emily said worriedly.
"Cypher took over Parker," John said as he threw away his cigarette, "Cypher said that his mind was fine but you can't trust anything that golden Dorito says."
"Wait a minute," Emily said, "Cypher's infiltration is limited to this world, isn't it?"
"No," John said. "It could cross into any universe in the Multiverse if this continues."
"I've got to get back to the Web!" Emily shouted before she opened a breach and jumped through, John followed her.
The Center of Reality
The Warriors of the Multiverse were gathering together with the others that Eli had rescued from SHIELD on Earth-S. While Eli helped the SHIELD agents settle in, Iron Specter was helping ease the tension on Madame Web while Emily filled them in on what was happening. She showed them a holographic projection of what was going on in Earth-616 and they saw the chaos ensuing.
"I have never seen anything like this," Emily said in terror.
"So... Bill Cypher has attacked Earth-616 and has infiltrated the ranks of Earth-S with LMDs in order to...do what exactly?" Alice asks in confusion.
"Conquer the multiverse, what else?" Eli didn't see any difference between this guy and the Batman Who Laughs. "I mean, come on, we dealt with a guy like this just a few months ago. Remember? Pitch Black?"
"You mean the guy we lost to?" Emily reminded him.
"It was a staged loss," Eli defended.
Noah wanted to get them back on topic. "Okay, so the LMDs are...what? An army?"
Madame Web shook her head. "I don't think so," she whispered, focusing on what was happening on Earth-S. "They went through all of this trouble to keep what happened to them under our radar. I think they need something from the originals."
Specter asked her, "Do you think he's after information?"
"He's looking for information on our Warriors," Madame Web nodded. "And he only has access to the lower-level members. Barry Allen knows everyone, his speedster brain helps him retain all knowledge, which means..."
"Great," Kyle said sarcastically, "that just means there will be someone else we need to deal with." He figured that they would have to face another villain soon.
"Our base is crawling with LMDs," Daisy said as she approached their little roundtable. "We think they may be keeping the real versions of our friends in something called the Framework."
"The VR world that Cisco and Ned were working on?" Eli asked, recalling their work.
"That may be where they're keeping Director Parker," Constantine said, Alice brought him along to help explain.
"What happened to the Director, exactly?" Eli asked.
"He evidently made a deal with the devil," Constantine said cryptically.
"What do we do now?" Alice asked Web.
Madame Web said, seeing that as the first step. "We'll try and find a place to take care of the wounded SHIELD agents. We can't stay here though; this place has been compromised. Let's go."
Madame Web then created a portal large enough for them to walk through. She stepped into it and disappeared while the others began to slowly follow. Daisy and Simmons looked at each other, unsure of what to do as Cisco and Caitlin quickly walked through the portal without hesitation.
EARTH-616
The Warriors all made their way out of the portal and got a look at where they were. They exited right outside of the Triskellion where they saw Bill Cipher laughing maniacally as the skies turned orange and a giant rift appeared in the sky.
"Oh, it's happening! It's finally, finally happening!" Bill cheered as he gained his true form. A physical form. "Physical form? Don't mind if I do!"
He suddenly transforms into a true pyramid, as the entire team inside and out looks on in fear. The team watches from the Triskelion in fear of what will happen next. A lot of bad ideas are entering their heads as they wonder what is going to happen now. They then see a flash of lightning and look to see Bill as a black 3D pyramid in three separate pieces, each having a set of arms and spinning in opposite directions with his hands on fire.
"Hello, all of you one-lifespan, three-dimensional, five-sense skin puppets!" Bill said in a deep voice before turning into his original form, which was still dark and high in the sky. "The God of Destruction is back! For one trillion years, I've been trapped in my own decaying dimension, waiting for a new universe to call my own. My name is Bill, but you can call me your new lord and master for all of eternity. Now, I want to introduce you to the gang of interdimensional criminals and nightmares I call friends. Do you want to meet them?"
"No!" exclaimed everyone in the city almost simultaneously.
"Too bad," Bill tells them as the portal starts blasting out balls of fire, each one representing a monster or villain from throughout the multiverse. "She's a 9,000-year-old magical Queen of the Norns. Give it up for the Enchantress herself: The Enchantress!"
An extremely beautiful tall Caucasian woman with a voluptuous yet toned body, long blonde hair reaching down to her waist, broad shoulders, green eyes, and wearing pink lipstick flies out of the zone. She wears a green Asgardian skin-tight suit, leaving her shoulders bare, and a matching mini skirt. She has green arm sleeves that reach almost to her shoulders, black tights with green circles on the sides, and a green tiara.
"His neck was snapped in multiple realities, but that didn't stop him. Give it up for General Zod!"
Zod is bald, with a stylized beard covering part of his mouth. He wears a black shirt under a set of dark gray armor, featuring large shoulder pads with glyphs carved into them. His silver-bladed gauntlets are worn over black gloves, and he wears a dark yellow belt with a circular pattern on it. Zod's baggy black pants are tucked into his black boots, which have silver linings along their cut-offs.
"He likes long flights through the night, making weird monologues, and has a real thirst for killing gods. Say hello to Black Adam!"
Then a giant bolt of lightning came zipping from the sky and crashed into the ground. Revealing him in his all-black outfit, with a yellow lightning bolt emblazoned on his chest. He wore a giant black flowing cape with a hood attached to it, and had two pointed ears protruding from his head.
"You know him, you love him, he's the man who can never die! Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the Reverse Flash, AKA Eobard Thawne!"
Eobard Thawne, aka the Reverse Flash of Earth-Prime, was recently seen being killed by the Legends of Tomorrow. But now he was back to life. He took in a deep breath and chuckled at the chaos being caused.
"Ah, it's good to be back," Thawne said with a laugh.
"Say hello to the man who will constantly remind you that you can't lock up the darkness! It's Professor Zoom!"
Hunter Zolomon, aka Zoom of Earth-S, has appeared and taken in his first breath of air. "You thought this was over, S.H.I.E.L.D.?!"
"And now here comes the worst of them all. The man out for blood - yours and mine. Give it up for Bloodwork!"
A pile of blood fell from the sky and splattered onto the ground, revealing a naked man beneath it, all of his veins visible and bulging out. The man then stretched out and attacked a squadron of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, corrupting them into his own soldiers.
Ramsey Rosso told the agents, "Now you are part of the family."
The agents, who had been corrupted by him, started to attack and corrupt their fellow agents. Bill then comes down to the others as they are all wound up together.
"This is our town now, boys!" Bill told all of his crew as all the people of the city began to run in fear. "It's time we did a little redecorating. I could use a castle of some kind!"
Suddenly, a portion of the earth rose up, revealing a pyramid in the sky. It appeared to be a normal pyramid, but with a darker appearance and what seemed to be blood oozing from it, as if it were a river.
"And what about some bubbles of pure madness?" Bill asks, as bubbles emerge from the rift and float through the city, causing the craziest imaginable things to happen.
"This party never stops! Time is dead and meaning has no meaning!" Bill proclaims as everyone watches in amazement as the clocks and watches suddenly stop. "Existence is upside down, and I reign supreme!"
Dozens of warped, strange creatures emerged from the rift in the air. They began to torment the innocent civilians, while agents and officers struggled to fight back, but most were quickly defeated.
"Welcome, one and all, to Weirdmageddon!"
Everyone inside the Triskellion was worried about what to do when they saw the wave of energy heading towards them. However, a breach opened as Madame Web ran through and joined forces with Iron Spectre. They summoned their combined energies and began sending a beam of energy that shielded the entire planet. Meanwhile, Constantine focused on the more down-to-earth threat as he summoned a powerful force field using his powers to protect the building. It was their only defense, and they couldn't allow it to fall to the weirdness of their new reality.
When the wave passed over them, it left the Triskellion intact, and there was now a forcefield keeping the entire world safe. Well, so to speak. Now the weirdness would be contained to the world it had been started in. But they needed to find Director Parker if they wanted to complete the reset and stop Weirdmageddon.
"Thanks," Peter-38 sighed in relief. "What was that?"
"Simple protection spells around the building," Madame Web explained to them, placing her hands in her coat pocket. "Just strong enough to keep the weirdness out there. Keep everything normal in here."
"And we created a dome to keep all of Bill and his weirdness contained to this world," the Iron Specter explained, detailing what he and Web had been doing. "This is a dangerous situation. Bill Cipher is a dangerous foe."
Madame Web quickly informed them of what he could do. "He can rewrite reality and shatter universes at full force," she said.
"We have to stop him before he finds a weakness in this barrier and breaks free," Specter stated as he looked out at the chaos.
They heard the screams and terror from all of the people on the streets and became worried. They might be safe, but the rest of them weren't safe enough to withstand this invasion.
"Okay, if we're safe, what about them?" Morgan asked.
"We couldn't protect them all," Madame Web said sadly.
"No," MJ said, getting everyone to face her as she stared out the window. She hadn't said a word since Peter was abducted, and she seemed to be growing more frustrated with the thought of everyone in danger. "Our priority is protecting the people, that hasn't changed," she told the Avengers from her world. "Web, reinforcements?"
"We have already sent the Warriors to collect the Secret Warriors and bring them here," Madame Web informs her. "Once that is done, I will enforce the force field surrounding this world, making it a barrier for everyone until we are all accounted for."
"Nothing can get past the barrier, and nothing can get in unless we allow it," Specter explains how their barrier works.
"Okay, well, until they show up, let's get out on the streets and protect the people." MJ stated as she cocked her gun. "Avengers, assemble!"
EARTH-118
Elsa was wandering in the castle halls after she and Peter came back from their date-night. They had a fun time in New York, just enjoying each other's company.
They couldn't really find much of a babysitter for them though, Elsa not really trusting most of Peter's friends (Logan, Johnny, Bruce) to watch over her.
Yep, her.
Four years ago, Elsa gave birth to Mary Parker. Their sweet and beautiful daughter. They would've gotten Kamala to watch over her, but she had a date of her own back in New York as well. Which they will not admit saying they stopped and kept an eye on the two. They trust Kamala fine, but it's the boy they wanted to keep eyes on. But he seemed like a good kid.
So, they were left with Olaf and Teresa. Anna and Kristoff were on a trip to Paris for their anniversary. They were informed by Teresa and Olaf earlier that that they put May down a while back and they were met with the sight of Olaf and Teresa on the couch cuddled up and sleeping.
"How long do you think we have?" Peter asked Elsa, the two of them having the same idea of how to end the night.
"An hour. Maybe less." Elsa said as she grabbed Peter and walked backwards before pulling him in for a kiss and making it to their bedroom.
The two quickly made through the room and were about to start removing each other's clothes when they hear an "EEEEKKKKKK!" coming from Mary's room. Quickly, the two stopped what they were doing and ran into the room.
Once they reached it, they were met with Mary being incased in a gigantic bundle of webbing going around the room. Sighing in relief, they saw that Mary was just doing her thing with messing around with the Spider-Man gadgets. Peter was relieved, but Elsa was a little angry.
May looked exactly like her dad, the face, her hair color, but she got the eyes of her mother. She had pigtails like Anna, as the two of them were hairstylists for one another a ton of the time.
"I'm sorry." Mary muttered in shame for herself.
"Be right back." Peter promised as he walked back to their room and Elsa looked to May sternly and angry.
"I was just trying to make daddy's gadgets better." Mary explained herself to her mother as Peter came back with the web dissolvent and started to free his daughter and cuddled her as she began to cry. "Please don't be mad."
Peter then softly began to pet May to calm her down. "I know you're a smart kid. And smart kids are impatient." He then took Mary and placed her on the bed while Elsa walked over to the other side and sat down with their daughter in the middle. "I was like you when I was your age."
"So was I." Elsa admitted, remembering how she used to use her powers when she was a kid. "We know how you feel with these powers you have."
Mary started to dry her tears and let out a few more sniffles before drying up. "So...you're not mad?"
"Well..." Elsa looked up to Peter as he knew they both had the same thought.
"Don't go that far." Peter was sorry to say and scuffed up her hair a little.
That's when Mary and Peter's senses went off and a giant bright light consumed the room. Elsa got up and got ready for a fight as Peter grabbed May and shielded her. Mary then started to become afraid for her parents and the Symbiote recognized this and got ready to attack by starting to cover her small body.
"Keep it under control." Peter warned his daughter as she started to force the Symbiote back inside of her.
Over the years, they discovered Venom survived and bonded with their daughter before she was born, meaning there was no safe way of removing him from her without killing Mary. But it also seemed that May was the one in control, not the Symbiote. It has no power over Mary for some reason that nobody has learned why yet.
As the light cleared, the two were shocked when they saw it was their old friend Alice Dean, the member of the Warriors that Madame Web have taken under her wing to protect the universe. But the last they heard; they were all missing. Yet again, that was five years ago.
"Hey, look at this! It's my favorite couple in the multiverse!" Alice said with a grin as she raised her hands with a smile. "Did you miss me?"
"Can't say I did. Because I know when you guys show up something big is going down." Peter stated.
"Sadly, that's true." Alice had to admit he was right and was going to go into detail when she saw Mary. "And who might this be?" She asked with a squeaky voice as she walked over and kneeled down to May. "What's your name?"
"Mary Iduna Parker." Mary answered, a little scared of the stranger who appeared in her bedroom.
"Hello, Mary. I'm a friend of your parents." Alice said as she ruffled her hair. "Wow, you're adorable."
"Alice, what are you doing here?" Elsa asked, happy to see her, but needs her to get to the point.
"Right." Alice got to the point quickly as she got up and left Mary alone. "A lot has happened since the last time we saw each other, and we need to catch you guys up fast. Because the end of the universe is at stake. You know, again." She then used her powers to open a portal back to the universe she just came from. "We're gathering the Secret Warriors. Peter's in trouble."
Peter and Elsa looked back to one another and then down to Mary, knowing they're not getting a babysitter over to the castle this late. Meaning they now had to take Mary with them on their mission.
Peter asked, "What can we do?" eager to help save his friends.
Earth-46
Noah quickly made his way to Dragon's Sanctuary and landed right in the middle of the open area. However, it seemed to work in his favor as he looked up and noticed that Hiccup, Heather, and Hope were standing right in front of him with their dragons.
"Well, that made my job easier," Noah admitted as he stood up.
"Noah?" Heather was surprised to see him again.
"Hello again," Noah said as he looked at the small family. "I'm sorry to say, but we need your help again."
Earth-2
The next morning, Courtney and her family were sitting down for breakfast when there was a knock on the door. When Pat went to answer it, he was surprised to see that it was the Crocks standing on the other side.
"Hello, neighbor," Lawrence greeted Pat with a smile.
"Good morning, Mr. Dugan," Artemis said with a smile.
"We brought muffins," Paula said, holding out a basket.
Pat wasn't sure what to say about that and looked over at the group. All of the criminals who had helped fight against A.I.M. and MODOK were now sticking around.
Courtney was just as confused. "What the f-?"
Then suddenly, a breach opened up in the middle of the living room, grabbing all of their attention. They looked over and noticed that it was similar to the ones they had seen before, the ones that Cisco and others had opened during Battleworld.
Kyle was the one who arrived in their world and looked around to see where he was. Noticing Courtney and Pat, he realized he was in the right world. "Good," he said in relief. "I made it."
"Kyle?" Pat was surprised to see him.
Courtney was a little worried to see him. She asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Gather up your troops," Kyle said, not wasting any time on details. "It's time to go to war again." He then opened a portal to the Sanctuary. "Get them through this portal. I need to ask Doctor Strange to call upon some new help."
Courtney attempted to get some answers, "Wait, what's happening?"
"Explain later," Kyle said as he ran through the other portal. "Just get everyone into that portal and get to the Triskellion."
EARTH-200: METROVILLE
The criminals ran into their getaway cars, holding duffel bags of money slung over their shoulders, and fired bullets at the pursuing police officers. They drove with wild abandon, believing they had escaped scot-free with their heist. Unaware of the dynamic superheroes on their trail.
"All right, Mr. Incredible," Peter reported to Bob. "I have a visual on the robbers. They are heading down Fourth and Second. What's your ETA?"
Bob was maneuvering the streets of Metroville in the Incredibile with his wife, Elastigirl. Their children - Ultraviolet, the Dash, and their youngest son, Jack-Attack - were along for the ride.
The group of heroes has also gone through some changes when it came to their suits over the years.
Peter's new suit design is inspired by athletic wear and compression clothing. The most distinctive feature of this suit is its white spider symbol. Although it maintains the classic red and blue color scheme, the suit showcases a large white spider on the chest rather than the traditional black one. The spider has long legs that reach the narrow blue trim of the suit. Peter's shoes have also been updated with a sneaker-like design, replacing his old knee-high boots.
The suit is equipped with several technological advancements to increase its overall efficiency. It has a built-in camera, radio, and communication system. Additionally, the mask's lenses can squint inward and outward. These lenses feature an augmented reality (AR) heads-up display system, enabling Spider-Man to analyze his surroundings in great detail. He can also see his web fluid and his precise location on a global map.
Violet's new suit was somewhat similar to the one she wore when they first met, but there were a few changes. Her super-suit consisted of a red unitard with black pants and an 'i' insignia on the chest, along with an orange belt, black gloves, thigh-high black boots, and a black eye mask. She also didn't wear her orange headband anymore because she had shortened her hair, making it just above her shoulders. The biggest change in her suit design was the addition of an all-black skirt with a red trim at the end.
Helen wore a slightly different version of her original suit, with the main design being exactly the same, but the major difference was with her appearance. She recently cut her hair, so now it fell just below her ears and curved slightly upwards at the back. She also modified the suit so that there was a miniature Pancho on the upper half where the insignia used to be.
Like his wife, Bob too did not have many changes in his suit; all he had was a shorter haircut and a goatee on his face.
It was the younger members of the group who had the most drastic changes in recent years.
Dash now sported a different combed-back hairstyle with a newly designed suit. The boots and gloves may have stayed the same, but the belt was a bit bigger, adding some extra support to the stomach area. However, the main difference between this Dash and the others was the color scheme. Instead of the same red coloring that the others had, this Dash now sported an entirely black background around the "I" insignia and from his chest over to his shoulders. The rest of his suit remained the same as it did all those years ago.
Then there was Jack-Jack. The youngest of them all, who's finally been given his own unique costume. He sported the same costume as before with the insignia and gloves, along with the pants. However, he now wore a new mask that covered his entire face, save for his now full head of hair. Despite the years passing, he maintained the same hairstyle he had as a child. His mask was an all-red mask that left open his eyes for the new goggles he wears. These goggles aren't anything special, but they have a green tint to help with the dozens of powers he possesses.
"It should be about five minutes. We're on Traction and Elwood. Keep an eye out for them until we get our Spider-Man." Bob replied, keeping track of the GPS.
"I'll do you one better," Peter tells them. "I'll lead them towards you."
He then walked back a bit, to get a good start. Then he ran forward and jumped off the building, diving bombing down towards the street below. Swinging over the street, he continued his pursuit of the fleeing robbers' car.
"If they're on Traction and Elwood... then that means I need to... okay. Got it." Peter thought to himself as he swung in front of the car at the light on Falcon Creek and Dynamo. He ended up startling the driver, causing him to swerve left and head down Dynamo towards Traction.
"I diverted one of the cars down Dynamo. It should be heading towards Traction. The other car kept powering down Falcreek. You catch one, I'll catch the other one," Peter relayed back to the Incredibile.
"On it," Mr. Incredible replied, as Peter heard the familiar sound of the rocket booster firing on all cylinders.
Peter swung after the other car. Getting out two of my new spider gadgets, web mines, Peter threw them out ahead of the car, watching them slide across the road before the car drove over them.
The mine latched to the ground, each firing a web line up onto the car and forcing it to a screeching halt. The smoke from the car's burning rubber grew thicker and thicker as the driver kept trying to floor it. He landed on the hood of the car and stared inside.
"Hi, fellas! Yeah, I think your tires are just begging you to stop hitting the gas," Peter quipped.
The robbers freaked out and immediately shot Peter through the windshield. He simply watched as the bullets ricocheted off his suit since they mostly aimed at the white parts of his costume.
"Yeah, nice try, guys. I had that part taken care of like two years ago," Peter joked again before jumping off the hood and landing beside the doors.
Immediately, they all tried to escape the car, which he stopped by webbing the doors shut so they couldn't get out.
"You know what? Words to the stupid. If you're going to rob a bank, don't do it in broad daylight. Or at night… You know what, just don't rob a bank in general. Okay?" Peter joked as the police surrounded the car.
"They're all yours, officers," Peter said as he jumped onto a light post and started swinging over towards Traction and Elwood, watching the Incredibles take care of their car full of robbers.
The car was smashed, and the tires had been rapidly thrown off to the side. This led to their being apprehended on foot in an alleyway. Two of them were being held by Elastigirl while the last two were being restrained in a force field by Violet.
When Peter saw Violet, ooh, he got an idea. He hung upside down from the fire escape and used a line of webbing to gently lower himself down, while still hanging upside down. He was lowering himself down right behind Violet. When she turned around and saw him right behind her, her reaction was priceless!
Ah! Dang it, Spider-Man! Why are you still so immature?! You're twenty-three, for God's sake!" Violet nagged Peter in surprise.
"Glad you could make it, Spider-Man," Helen greeted with a smile.
Peter spun around to greet Elastigirl next. "I got my guys wrapped up quickly," he joked to Elastigirl before slowly rotating back to face Violet again. "And come on, Vi, you know my immaturity is just part of who I am."
The trick about her hero's name being Ultraviolet is that Peter can still call her Violet without giving away her identity since it could be considered a shortened version of Ultraviolet.
"Still!" she argued with him. It was honestly fun watching her get flustered. "You don't spy on someone like that!"
"Says the one who spied on me when we first met six years ago," Peter joked playfully.
She gave Peter a glare, which made him chuckle. Then he saw her get a look on her face...a look nobody was familiar with...at least not on Violet. This look he knew very well from Dash, for it meant that Violet was about to mess with his head.
"You know, there's something I've wanted to do for a year now," Violet said as she walked up to Peter.
Peter tilted his head in confusion as she grabbed the bottom of his mask. She then peeled it up to reveal only his mouth and kissed him. Peter's brain just fully stopped working for a moment as he tried to process what had happened. When Violet separated from him, she still had a cocky smirk on her face.
Helen had a proud look on her face. "Atta girl!"
"Well, then! That has to be the... third time in my life that I have been caught that far off guard." Peter joked with a stutter, but he wasn't kidding.
"Guess you're not the only one who knows how to surprise someone," Violet quipped as the police arrived to arrest the criminals. Once the police drove off with the robbers in their cars, they knew they could talk freely without fear of being discovered.
"There are surprises. Then there's that," Peter said as Mr. Incredible, Dash, and Jack-Jack all ran up to the two of them and laughed.
That's when an orange light started to illuminate the area, and they looked to see what appeared to be an orange portal opening that led to a place where the entire sky was dark orange, with the chaos surrounding them at every turn. A figure emerged from the portal, clad in robes, wearing an eye-shaped necklace, and sporting a large red cape with a collar.
Edna Mode would have a field day with this guy.
"Spider-Man, Incredibles family," Joey said, addressing them all. "I need all of you to come with me."
The Incredibles and Peter all looked completely confused as to what they were seeing and who this kid was. He just appeared out of nowhere, and now he demanded that they follow him into a strange portal.
"Sorry, who are you?" Violet inquired.
"I'm Joey Zarick," he said. "But in my world, they call me Doctor Strange. My world is Earth-2. And we need your help."
"Help with what?" Peter questioned.
"To fight a battle that holds the fate of the multiverse in the balance," Joey explained to them why he had come to their world.
EARTH-616
A few of the JSA and Avengers members had just arrived and landed right in the middle of the streets. The portal was trying to aim them towards the Triskelion, but due to the barrier, their portals weren't working at full capacity. Peter and Mayday were the two who landed in the streets, looking over the world in chaos.
Mayday, aka Maybelle, aka the future daughter of Peter Parker and Michelle, had never seen the world she was born into. Standing there, she watched as the chaos began and half of Washington had already been taken down by these strange monsters. Peter-2 noticed she was dumbfounded and quickly tackled her to avoid an attack, dragging her away towards the Lincoln Memorial to escape the attacking city.
"This is exactly how it happened," Mayday said to Peter-2, her voice trembling with fear as they crouched behind a pedestal. "This is how it starts, and it never stops. Once my dad is taken down, there's no one left to stand in the way."
Peter-2 placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Hey, we'll fix this and rescue your dad."
"How?" Mayday asked him. "I've seen the future; this is exactly how the apocalypse starts. Then it spreads out throughout the multiverse before consuming everything."
Courtney then came in and blasted the monsters coming at them. "Hey, we need to get to the Triskelion. That's where everyone is meeting up."
"Yes, we are trying to. My doppelganger's daughter is currently having a panic attack," Peter-2 stated as he gestured to Mayday, who was becoming increasingly annoyed by her father's doppelganger.
"Shut up," Mayday demanded, giving him a playful punch on the shoulder.
Both their senses tingled at once, prompting them to scan their surroundings for any signs of danger. However, nothing seemed amiss; the threat was already present. They heard a groan, as if someone were just waking up, and turned towards the Lincoln Memorial statue.
"Ahhh!" Peter-2 shrieked as they watched the Abraham Lincoln statue wake up and stretch his limbs. The birds with three heads on each body started to coo and poo on him as he swatted them away.
"Blast these pigeons and their incessant cooing!" Abraham exclaimed as he flicked one of the birds off his shoulder. "All right, then." He stood up and that scared the three of them as they ran ahead of him. "Time to see the state of this great nation."
"Wait!" Peter-2 exclaimed. "Mr. President, sir! You don't want to go out there."
"As I always say, leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today." Lincoln continued walking.
"Sir, you're going to freak a lot of people out," Peter cried out in an attempt to stop him.
"Freak?" Lincoln asked as he looked down at them. "I assure you, good fellow, I am no freak."
"What?" Peter asked, looking over at Mayday and Courtney, who both shrugged. "No, I didn't mean you were a freak," he said, "I just meant-"
"Come here," Lincoln said as he knelt and picked Peter-2 up by the back of his suit.
"Wait, whoa!" Peter exclaimed as he was lifted off the ground. "What's happening?"
"If anyone here is freakish," Lincoln said, "I'm afraid it's you, dear boy." He smiled. "You are very small. And I mean even for a regular-size human."
"What?" Peter asked, feeling like he was about the same size as everyone else he knew. "Why? Why would you even say that?"
"I must be honest," Lincoln said proudly.
"Oh, right. Honest Abe," Peter said, understanding now. "Sorry."
"Would you be so kind as to put the little man down, Mr. Lincoln, and take yourself to your seat? We have work to be done to save this nation," Courtney said to him.
"Now you're starting to sound like a literal patriot," Mayday informed her friend.
"You have a can-do attitude," Lincoln said with a smile. "I shall do as you ask." He stated as he lowered Peter and let him down. "You know, it's that very can-do spirit that has defined this remarkable nation of ours." He said as he started making his way back to his chair.
That's when a breach opened for them to be brought directly to the Triskelion. They saw this on their ride home and ran through the portal, leaving Lincoln talking to himself.
"One time in Gettysburg," Lincoln said, noticing they had already left. "Oh."
They made it to the Triskellion, where they found the entire place in a frenzy. Everyone was trying to rush into action without their director. None of them had any idea what they were supposed to do; although they were trained for the craziest scenarios imaginable, this was far beyond anything they'd been prepared for. All they could do was hit the streets and use evacuation protocols to minimize the casualties in this impending war.
"Whoa," Peter-200 said, looking around at everything.
"This is pretty amazing," Violet said as the two ended up walking around the building. "But there are way too many Peters here. I'm getting sick of seeing your face."
"Hey, Peter." One of the guys said as they walked past.
"Hey, Peter." Another guy said as they strolled past.
"Hi," Peter waved, unsure if he knew who they were. "There are a lot of people who know who I am."
"You get used to it," Ava said as she approached them. "You must be the new people."
"New people?" Peter and the Parr family asked, looking at each other.
"I know all the Secret Warriors," Ava said, knowing she needed to bring everyone up to speed. "J'onn, catch them up."
J'onn then approached them and chuckled. "You're new?"
"Uh...yeah," Bob confirmed. "Who are you?"
"My name is J'onn J'onzz," J'onn introduced himself. "Now, please hold still... this will only take a second." Then his eyes began to glow as he prepared to enter their minds.
As Hope stumbled, trying to avoid the foot traffic surrounding her, she bumped into the wall. "Whoa! Sorry." She stepped back, only to end up colliding with someone else. "There are so many people here!"
"Hope, hey you need to stay close." Heather kept her daughter close to her. "Come on, just stay with us."
"Hey, Heather," Kara said as she and Peter-38 walked past, carrying their twins toward the daycare.
"Hey, Kara." Heather greeted back.
"You guys know all of these people?" Hope wondered.
"Yeah, we all go way back," Heather said, not wanting to explain what had happened with the Red Death to their daughter.
"We'll explain everything later," Hiccup promised his daughter as they followed the Avengers somewhere.
The group was led by a few of the Avengers from around the world. They were shocked to see the size and scope of the room Peter and Ava had been working on during the end of the last Secret War.
"This is a big place," Daisy-S commented as she looked around.
"Thanks to all of you for answering our distress call," Ava said, standing at the head of the table.
"You make it sound as if there was really a choice," Heather commented.
"Yeah, it's like giving Ethan Hunt a choice. Is it really a choice?" Aster agreed.
"Nevertheless..." Ava then looked and noticed a few missing world leaders. "Where are the others?"
"The Dragon King Hiccup and Queen Elsa are absent," Alice explains why the two aren't here to help. "It seems that they're currently at war with Berk or something like that."
"We left M'gann, Violet, Terry, Natalie, Daniel, Cessily, Roberta, Maggie, and Armando on our Earth to keep an eye on the Syndicate," Caitlin explains to them.
"We thought it would be best to keep some of our members here," Courtney explained. "Beth, Cassandra, and Phoebe are protecting Blue Valley; the others have gone their separate ways a while ago."
"Well, that's a bit of a shame," Peter Snow admitted. "So, what exactly has been going on?"
"This is our newest enemy," Ava said, and then used the surveillance cameras to show Bill Cipher what had happened just a few moments earlier.
"His name is Bill Cipher," Constantine informed them of his name as he lit a cigarette. "Also known as the God of Chaos."
"He doesn't look like much," Tina admitted as she looked at the photo. "What is he?"
"A fifth-dimensional being from the Dark Dimension," Madame Web informed them. "He somehow managed to sneak into Peter Parker-Couslon's head some way."
"How is that possible?" Barry-1 asks her.
"Exhaustion, mental instability, it could be a dozen of other things knowing Peter's luck with the multiverse." Madame Web sighed as she thought of it. "But someone had to have made a deal or something for him to make Peter into an anchor for him and tear the fabric of the universe."
"Okay, but how did he escape?" Peter-38 wonders. "There must have been something that caused this to happen. How did Bill Cypher manage to escape from his own universe?"
"That's where we come in," Jemma-S tells the group. "Hunter Zolomon made a deal with him. In exchange, it seems he got the minds of our friends and their knowledge."
"With that knowledge, getting information on Earth-616 would have been a breeze." Eli was able to put it together himself.
"And since he was from another universe, he was able to go around undetected." Noah sighed and rubbed his head. "I am getting sick of these guys," he muttered.
"Where are the Legends?" Frost wondered, noticing that none of them were in the vicinity.
"Something is up on Earth-65," Madame Web explains to them. "I couldn't get in touch with them, but they can travel here using the Quantum Realm, so they shouldn't be too hard to bring over."
"But why would he take Director Parker?" Peter-118 asks the big question. "Out of everyone that he could have taken, what makes him so special?"
"Because Peter knows about every strategy, every weakness, and even the location of every hero and world in the multiverse." Michelle went with the most obvious reason. "He is the strongest strategist in the known multiverse."
Madame Web informed the heroes, "He's been part of this fight since he was five years old. He's been trained by Black Widow and Hawkeye to fight, survive, and withstand the cruelest of circumstances. He can escape from anything, anywhere, and not even bat an eyelash."
Elsa-118 wonders, "Where could he keep someone like that and have them not escape?" She knows Natasha and Clint from her own Earth. Anybody they trained could escape anything.
Morgan thought about it for a moment and then told them. "The Framework, Daisy, you said that's what those robots called it, right?"
"Yeah, Simmons said that the Fitz robot said our friends were taken there," Daisy-Skye confirmed as she rubbed her head. "Yet again, I wasn't paying much attention. What with the whole trying to survive the Terminator situation."
"That's what we've been working on here," Laura said, looking at Cassie. "Have there been any recent changes to it?"
"A few ripples, like someone had messed with the code," Cassie confirmed. "I just thought it was nothing and wasn't something worth worrying about right now."
"Or maybe someone else added a multiversal connection," Kate Bishop-616 said, following along with what she was saying. "So, now the Framework connects to the multiverse?"
"You can plug anyone from the multiverse into this Framework, combine them into one world, and they would believe that to be their reality," Ned confirmed. "Unless you know you're plugged into the Framework, you can't even know you're in a fake world."
"What better prison to hide people in than one they don't even know exists?" Morgan shrugged, looking to the others for their thoughts.
"Okay, so what do we do?" Flash Thompson asked as he looked over to MJ and Ava. "What's the plan, boss?"
Ava thought about what they were going to do and also knew that she needed Peter. She wasn't at the level of being a leader without him right now. "We need to get Peter back," she said.
Tommy asked, "How do we do that?"
Suddenly, baby May appeared as she came swinging across the room and smacked into the wall. Everyone wondered where she had come from when Doreen ran into the room.
"Sorry, sorry," she said as she ran over to grab the baby. However, May had already started to climb up the walls. "How was I supposed to know she had a web-shooter?"
Caitlin-1 groaned as she turned to look at Peter-1. "I told you that you would regret giving her that web shooter," she said.
"Sorry," Peter-1 sighed as he went to leap onto the wall, reaching out to grab his daughter. "Come here, honey. May. Come on. Come here, baby. I'm gonna get ya!"
Mayday let out a squeal of delight, while Ava sighed and rubbed her head, watching this unfold. She wasn't in the mood for anything involving babies at that moment.
"Wait, when did her powers manifest?" Kara wondered.
Caitlin-1 explained, "It happened just the other week." She continued, "We think since she's the first official Spider-Child, and her DNA doesn't need to entangle with other powers or abilities, these manifestations occurred sooner."
Peter-1 finally reached Mayday on the ceiling and picked her up. "Okay, yeah, that shooter was a mistake on my part. I just thought it looked cute on her."
"Did you have to make it functional?" Ashley asks. "Changing diapers is a chore with that thing."
Peter-1 shrugged as Mayday dropped and Ava quickly caught her. Peter-1 dropped beside her and sighed. "Sorry."
Ava asks, getting a little annoyed, "Can we wrap this up? I'm trying to have a serious conversation right now."
"You know, you are always the uptight one; what is up with that? Most of us have gone through similar experiences, yet you're always so serious." Peter-1 told her.
Ava sighed as Mayday sat down on her shoulder. "Look, the fate of the multiverse is..."
"You always lose me when you say stuff like that," Peter groaned as he walked around Ava, Mayday reaching out with a smile towards her dad. "You say 'the fate of the multiverse' and my brain dies! We get the gist of what we need to do. Fight the bad guy, save the day."
Ava then sniffed the air and gagged, holding Mayday out to her father. Peter sniffed the air and understood exactly what was going on.
You guys smell that? Mayday just took a crap." Peter-1 then quickly grabbed the kid and walked away from the table. "Yep, she's a Parker. Always choosing the worst times to interrupt."
"Wow, some things never change," Ronnie commented on his friend's behavior.
"Okay, so is there a real plan?" Peter-200 asks Ava and MJ. "I feel like that part was left out of the meeting."
"Yeah, you guys don't seem very organized," Violet agrees with her boyfriend. "How many times have you guys done this?"
"One other time," Caitlin-S confesses.
"I might have a way to defeat Bill," Constantine tells them. "I'm not quite sure how well it will work the second time around, but give me an opening, and I can kill him."
"We will hold back the minions," Ava promises him. "You take who you think you need, and take that shot. The rest of us however can't leave the people out there defenseless. Get ready, guys. We're moving out!"
"You heard her. It's time to head out," MJ agreed with her decision, knowing she needed to save Peter.
All across the Triskellion, the heroes were gearing up and preparing to fight back against the monsters in order to reclaim their city and take on the Triskellion. They were gathering allies, and even a few of the special agents were getting ready. These were S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who had been trained for situations like these.
"So, what's the plan? Like the actual plan." MJ knew Ava thought like Peter, who made a simple plan and kept the real plan to himself.
"We are going to take Cipher down, and get Peter back," Ava recapped the plan as she walked into Specter and Madame Web. "I have a feeling you're not going to help."
"No," Madame Web said sadly. "If we don't leave, then Cipher will be able to get his hands on us and escape our barrier."
"We need to think of the multiverse as a whole. Our powers will be too dangerous if they fall into Cipher's hands." Iron-Specter agreed.
We will keep the forcefield up, and keep anyone else from leaving or coming to this world," Madame Web warned them. "But you will be able to open portals from this universe within this building."
"Alright, then we'll take care of it from here," MJ assured the two of them, watching them open a portal and escape to the Center of the Web of Life. "You ever think that they are just afraid of a fight?"
"I kinda do," she said, "but it's probably best if they stay out of the way." Ava agreed and then eyed MJ. "You want to suit up for this one? Fitz-Simmons did perfect the project before they and Daisy left for SWORD."
MJ considered the notion and saw Peter-118 putting his daughter and Peter-1 putting his daughter into the daycare center of S.H.I.E.L.D. "My kids need me," she said. "I can't go out there if Peter is lost and there...there might be a chance that he might not come back."
"That might be a good idea," Courtney said, approaching MJ with Peter-2 and Mayday on either side of her. "Because we have someone here you should meet."
Mayday (Maybelle) then walked forward and began fidgeting with her hands, uncertain of what to do. She approached the mother she had never known and they both stood there, staring at each other. MJ immediately recognized the young girl standing before her and was shocked. Mayday gave a weak smile, looking down at her feet, unsure of what to do or even say.
"Hi, Mom," Maybelle decided to go with it as an icebreaker.
MJ let out a gasp as she dropped to her knees, pulling Maybelle into a hug. She then looked her daughter in the face, wondering how this could be possible.
"Maybelle?" MJ was shocked to see her daughter's eyes.
"I...I actually go by Mayday," Maybelle confesses with a shrug and a blush. "Sounds more hardcore in the apocalypse."
MJ was a little confused by that, and so she looked to her Earth-2 counterparts for an explanation.
"She came from the future," Peter-2 explains to her. "She saved us and our world from AIM. She helped us change the future."
"And I promise…I won't let it happen again," Maybelle said, with tears in her eyes. "I will help you save Dad."
MJ smiled and caressed her daughter's face. "Then let's get him back," she said.
"God, this is so cool," Peter-200 commented with a smile, looking at all of his alternate selves. They were all getting their suits on and preparing their gear to head out there to fight back. "I've always wanted brothers."
"You did? Why?" Violet asked.
"Hey. You have a brother right here." Dash reminded her.
Peter-1 rolled his eyes with a smile and bent down to fix his boots when his back started to hurt. "Oh, there it goes," he muttered. Lying against the table, he tried to crack it. "Ouch."
"Are you all right?" Peter-200 asked him.
"Oh, it's just my back," Peter-1 says to him. "It must be sore from all the swinging. Not to mention the time I spent trapped inside the ship of an alien computer. And then that was followed up by taking care of Caitlin and May."
"Ah, yeah. I get some back problems, too." Peter-200 commented. "You...you want me to crack it?"
Peter-1 thought of it and shrugged. "Yeah, sure. Give it a try."
Peter-200 then walked over to him, as Peter-1 crossed his arms over his chest. Peter-200 picked him up and cracked his back. Peter-200 put him down and Peter-1 felt a lot better due to the cracking.
"Wow. That's a lot better." Peter-1 commented.
"Right?" Peter-200 asked him with a smile. "Yeah, every once in a while, Violet helps me crack my back."
"God, what I wouldn't give to be 20 again," Peter-1 muttered to himself.
"How old are you?" Peter-200 was afraid to ask.
"I'm losing track myself," Peter-1 admits. "After 35, you sort of stop counting the years."
"Oh, god." Peter-200 was sorry to hear. "I'm gonna be doing this for that long?"
"Well, to be fair, he kind of stopped around 30," Peter-1 said as he pointed to Peter-38.
"When you have kids, you'll understand why I did," Peter-38 tells Peter-200.
Peter-200 became uncomfortable after hearing that as he and Violet had only recently gotten out of college. "Yeah. Kids."
"Hey, so what are, like, some of the craziest villains you guys have fought?" Peter-2 asked the room.
"Well, you've met some of them," Peter-1 commented. "But most recently, I had to fight the robot computer of Otto in a living computer. Following that up with fighting an alien."
"Ah, no way," Peter-2 admitted to him. "I fought an alien this year, too. And also crossed over to different timelines and alternate histories."
"Really?" Peter-38 asked.
"Yeah, one of them was an evil version of me," Peter-2 added.
"I want to fight an alien," Peter-200 said, almost as if he were complaining that he never had the chance to.
"I'm still stuck on the part where you fought an evil version of yourself," Peter-1 commented, focusing on what Peter-2 had said.
"I'm lame compared to you guys," Peter-200 commented, crossing his arms. "I mean, I fought against a bunch of guys in tech-enhanced suits given to them by this billionaire. Then I had to fight another billionaire who created a giant robot."
"Wait, hold on, can we rewind it to the 'I'm lame' part?" Peter-1 asked P-200. "Because you aren't."
"No, thanks, it's okay. I'm not saying that I'm lame." Peter-200 promises him. "I'm just saying-"
"Well, it's just the self-talk, I think we should look into that," Peter-1 explains. "Because you're amazing. Just take it in, build yourself up."
"Thanks," Peter-200 said. "Thank you for that."
"You are amazing," Peter-1 repeated. "Will you say it?"
"No, you know what? I kinda needed to hear that." Peter-200 said jokingly. "I mean that. Thank you."
Bill Cipher laughed as he watched the people try to fight back against his enemies while watching the chaos that ensued among the most powerful enemies in the multiverse. Zoom and Thawne tore through the streets, ripping through anyone they could manage to get near. The Washington streets began filling up with the dead bodies of officers. However, they were soon brought back to life by Bloodwork, who used his powers to control their bodies as his minions.
"Are you ready to wreak some havoc, boys?" Cipher asks his minions.
However, before anyone else could cause any more chaos, Flash sped into the area and stopped. He had brought along all of the Earth-Prime heroes with him, along with Daisy-S. They were the distraction for Constantine to get a shot. Everyone else was evacuating the streets to keep the people safe from harm.
"You have caused enough havoc for one lifetime," Barry exclaimed to the enemy.
"Well, well, well...," Thawne said as he stepped forward to take a closer look at his former team. "Would you look at this? It's like a blast from the past. The Team Spider-Flash back together again."
"Thawne?" Peter was shocked as he realized they were looking at the real Thawne. The same Thawne that they had fought time and time again. "Is that really you?"
"What's wrong, Parker?" Thawne asks sarcastically. "You didn't think that I would just sit by and miss how all of this turned out. Did you?" Then he looked over and noticed the kids. "Dawn, Tommy, Tina, I suppose." Then Thawne noticed the other new members of the Snow-Parker family. "And who are the new guys?"
"My name is Sub-Zero," Zero exclaimed in annoyance. "And I'm the one who's about to kick your ass."
"Oh, I love the spirit in this young boy," Bloodwork comments.
"And you are...?" Thawne looked over to VIVIAN.
"The name's Vivian," she said, charging her crystal. "But you can call me your worst nightmare."
"That's the best they've got?" Ashley asked, drawing her claws. "Let's just kick their asses."
"Enough talk!" Cipher cried. "I want action! Henchmainiacs, take them down!"
And just like that, it became a full-out war between heroes and enemies. General Zod took to the sky, where Kara and Karen flew after him. However, due to his time spent in the Dark Multiverse, Zod had been infused with even more sunlight, making him stronger and faster than both of them. Thawne put his scowl back on and Barry raced after him while Dawn followed her dad to take down his greatest enemy.
Daisy sent a shockwave to hit Bloodwork, but she was attacked from behind by his Blood Brothers. Barry sped off after Thawne the moment he ran away to do who knows what. Sub-Zero quickly shot a blast of mist at the Blood Brothers to take them down. The blast of mist was powerful enough to freeze a handful of the dead people walking, but there were always more coming back.
Back in the sky, Vivian and J'onn continued to fight to try and take down the Black Adam, which proved increasingly difficult due to their lack of knowledge of his strength and power.
"Teth-Adam," J'onn scanned his mind for his name. "You do not need to do this. Surrender or we will take you down."
"I was a slave before I died," Adam said, his voice a snarl. "I'll never surrender to the will of another again."
"Then you've made your choice," J'onn said, giving a subtle nod.
Vivian then flew into the vicinity where she dove right into Adam. Increasing her mass to be the same weight as a spacecraft, she dragged him down with her. The two of them fell down and slammed into the street, where Vivian then punched Adam in the face, smacking his head into the road.
Zoloman walked and saw Daisy, Sub-Zero, and Angelica were ready to fight him. "Quake. Been a minute."
"What the hell did you do to my team, Zoloman?!" Daisy demanded to know where her friends were being kept.
"Ah, so that girl actually did achieve her plan," Zoloman admitted he was surprised. "Don't worry, your friends are safe... for now. Once they outlive their purpose, well, let's just say they won't be living."
Daisy was now getting irritated as she sent a quake blast to hit Zoloman, but he only sped out of the way. Anjelica sped her way over towards Zoloman to try and hit him, but he once again got out of the way.
"When will you learn?" Zoloman asks them, his eyes turning black. "You can't lock up the darkness!"
Then Zoom sped over and shoved Anjelica into the wall, leaving an imprint in the process of where she hit. The Sun-Zero then tried to shoot him with a mist of ice to freeze the speedster in his tracks. However, that failed when Zoom sped off of Anjelica and came behind Zero, punching him from behind.
Mia then pulled out an arrow and shoots it at the Enchantress, who only raised a hand and froze the arrow mid-air. Then the arrow exploded but didn't do anything to harm the Enchantress.
"Did you truly think that would do anything to harm me?" Enchantress asks.
"No, but it would distract you." Mia snarked.
Ollie came up from behind and used his suit's strength to grab and stretch the Enchantress' arms out to keep her from using her powers. Then Peter-38 came swinging and gave his rockets a moment to boost up and knee her in the face. Frost came from the side and shoot her with a blast of mist.
Peter-1, Tommy, Tina, and Ashley were still fighting off all of the Blood Brothers that came near their friends to keep them back. Then they looked to the man responsible for all of it. Ramsey smiled when he saw them approaching.
"I must say, this family is very interesting." Ramsey compliments as he saw how the kids and parents worked together. "But...let's get this over with."
Then all of a sudden, he started to grow larger and his blood morphed around him. The Parker family needed to take a step back when they watched him enlarge into a gigantic blood creature.
"Anyone got any ideas on how to fight that?" Tina asks her family.
"Just stay together, and do your best not to touch him." Peter-1 decided to go with.
Tommy and Tina saw the attack coming and both fired a blast of ice mist to slow him down. But that seemed to aggravate Bloodwork, who turned his hand into a giant knife and went to kill them with it. Peter-1 quickly flipped to dodge the incoming hit from Bloodwork, shooting a web and using it to yank his hand into a nearby building. Ashley leaped and grabbed onto his head, then slammed it against the same building. Tina then shot a blast of mist to try and stop him, sending pieces of his blood everywhere.
Sub-Zero was working on getting back up after being hit by Zoom. However, when he was grabbing at the ground, he missed the small pieces of Bloodwork that were trying to escape, infused with him.
Behind the fighting in the streets, a star-shaped portal opened inside a bell tower. Out of it stepped America Chavez, John Constantine, and Courtney Whitmore. They surveyed the chaos and wondered what their powers could possibly do against a god.
"Okay, so what is the plan here?" Courtney asks since Constantine was more than lenient on the details.
"I am the one who stopped this monster before," Constantine explained as he removed his coat, laying it over the railing. "I used a spell, draining all of my energy, but it's powerful enough to reverse everything Cipher has done so far. But I only get one shot at it."
"Okay, so, for all of our sakes, don't miss," Chavez said.
"But I need your help," Constantine told Courtney. "I need you and your Staff."
"My staff?" Courtney asked, looking to Cosmo who glowed with worry. "For what?"
"To channel my energy into a single, singular blast," Constantine explains. "You keep it active, and I'll channel my energy into it."
Courtney wasn't sure what to say and went along with it. "Okay."
Constantine then placed his hands on the Cosmic Staff whilst Courtney aimed the staff at Cipher's back. Constantine helped keep it in the direct shot to his back and got ready to channel his power.
"Soahc fo tnaryt eht fo dlrow siht hcrocs ot dia eht em evig. Ees uoy gniht tsal eht eb erif siht tel." Constantine started the incantation. The Cosmic Staff was starting to channel his energy into the blast it was charging up. "Soahc sih fo dlrow siht hcrocs."
They were finally ready to fire the energy they had charged up in the Cosmic Staff. They aimed and got ready for the final blast to take down Bill. But suddenly, the bell in the building they were in was struck by a bubble of pure madness. The bell in the tower grew a face and laughed, even ringing itself.
"I'm alive now!" the bell said.
The distraction caused them to shake, making the staff lose focus on what it was aiming at. The blast flew through the air and missed Bill by a long shot. When the blast flew through the air, Tommy noticed it was heading right for his sister, causing him to panic.
"Tina, look out!" Tommy leaped down and grabbed his sister, just in time for the beam of energy to hit both of them.
"Guys!" Ashley cried when she saw her siblings get scorched. "No!"
Then the blast hit a building, sending debris flying everywhere. Their friends ran to avoid getting hit. However, Peter was frozen in shock when he saw his kids get hit. A piece of debris was coming down, and Barry sped over.
"Watch out, Peter!" Barry grabbed his friend just in time, but debris still hit them.
"No!" Dawn cried, running over to the debris and phasing through. She grabbed Barry and Peter, running them over to the Triskelion for care. Everyone else started to panic and ran off as well, seeing that they had lost some of their greatest players. "Hang on! We need help here!"
Turning back into the midst of the chaos, Bill immediately spotted where the blast had come from. His eyes settled on the clock tower, and he recognized the handiwork there.
Constantine saw that they had failed and froze in fear. "Ah, shit."
"Well, well, well..." Bill said with a cheerful laugh. "And here I thought that this day couldn't get any BETTER!"
Bill sent a blast of energy towards the bell tower, causing them to use the Cosmic Staff to create a force field around them. It was just enough to save them from the debris, but it wasn't enough to shield them from the dust. When the dust settled, Courtney and Chavez were separated from Constantine, who was being stared down by Bill. They had several giant pieces of rubble between them, which kept them out of his line of sight, so he didn't spot them.
"Good ol' Constantine," Bill said cheerfully when he saw him. "I've been waiting an ETERNITY to have another chat, face to face." Then Constantine was hit with a blast of energy and lifted off the ground by Bill's power. "It's been a while since we last met, hasn't it?"
"Not long enough," Constantine snarled.
"Aw, don't be so mad, Connie," Bill said, using some stupid nickname to mock the sorcerer. "It's not too late to join me. With those skills, you'd fit right in with my gang of freaks."
"I will never join you," Constantine proclaimed. "I defeated you once, and I'll defeat you again. You know I'll find a way."
"And I know a riddle," Bill stated. Then he raised his hands in surrender. "Why did the dark sorcerer do this?"
Constantine was a little confused as he raised his hands. "This?"
Bill then hit Constantine with a beam of energy from its eye, freezing Constantine into a shell of stone. Bill caught the statue and laughed. "Because I needed a new backscratcher!"
Courtney and Chavez were left in horror and shock when they saw the monster take the only man who knew how to stop him. They needed to get out before someone else spotted them and they got the same treatment. Chavez opened up a portal to the Triskellion and they ran back before Bill found them.
In the streets, the other heroes were fighting back against the enemy and all of the Blood Brothers that had been sent after them. All of their fastest members were evacuating the area while the others fought back to slow the monsters down.
"Ava, we've got a situation," MJ reported in.
Ava sliced her claws to attack a Blood Brother coming at her. "What's going on?"
"We've lost Flash, Winter-Spider, Spinneret, and Spider-Man," Caitlin-1 said in sorrow. "And everyone else from Earth-1 are injured."
As Ava realized that in her first attempt to save the world, she had already lost four members of her team, she glanced around and noticed Bob and Helen were helping guide the people to safe areas while Toothless and Windshear, along with their riders, shot at the Blood Brothers to keep them back. They were all being overworked in this fight, and every time they won, the enemy gained more recruits.
"Everyone, fall back!" Ava commanded. "Retreat to the Triskellion!"
Everyone did as she asked and all slowly began to make their way back to the Triskellion. When they all made it back to the building, they were able to enter with ease, but the enemies weren't able to enter thanks to the mystical shield keeping them all out.
This war wasn't going to end anytime soon; they needed a new plan quickly.
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Tommy groaned as he felt like his head had been hit by something hard and painful. He got up and noticed that he wasn't where he had been just a moment before. He found himself in some sort of mysterious, technological-looking area that resembled a ship. That's when he saw his sister standing beside him, and he rushed over to her. Upon closer inspection, he could see that she had a bruise on her forehead and a cut through her suit. She was groaning softly, so Tommy tried to wake her up.
Tommy shook his sister, "Tina, come on, get up."
Tina groaned as she started to wake up and looked around. "Uh... where are we?"
Tommy looked around and said, "I have absolutely no idea."
Tina wonders, "What happened? The last thing I remember, we were about to get hit by that blast from the bell tower."
"Oh, God, did we die? Is this Heaven?" Tommy asked as he looked around.
"You're on my ship," a voice echoed through the chambers of the area.
The two stood back to back, just as they had done in the old days. Before they had become members of the Young Justice League. They prepared themselves for whatever might come their way.
"Okay, ominous voice, spooky area," Tina joked as she looked around for the source of the voice. "Now I know how Dad and Uncle Barry felt on Brainiac's ship."
Tommy asked, "You don't think this is him, do you?" unsure if this was Brainiac seeking revenge.
"No, this ship looks completely different than the one he was on," Tina said confidently. She recalled what Brainiac's ship looked like when she had gone inside to rescue Karen from it. "This is someone new."
"Well, whoever it is, we're going to kick their ass all the same," Tommy said as he got ready for a fight. They watched as a figure started to approach, and Tommy gestured toward it for his sister. "Whoever you are, you've made a big mistake."
"You have no idea who you're messing with," Tina agreed, standing with her brother.
Tommy attempted to sound menacing, "We defeated Brainiac and the Syndicate. You're nothing."
"Brainiac?" the figure asked as he remained in the shadows. "Call me slightly impressed. If I hadn't accomplished the same task multiple times."
The twins then started to worry and wondered who this was. Tina stepped ahead of her brother and got ready for a fight. "Well, you're not the leader of Young Justice," she said.
"A member of Young Justice?" he asked as he stepped into the light. They could see his gigantic green robe that looked like something from Egyptian times, and a purple collar that went around his neck. He deactivated his holographic mask and revealed an unfamiliar face to them. "Have I killed you before?"
That one question struck fear into the hearts of both Tina and Tommy. They looked at each other and then back to this mysterious stranger, wondering exactly who he was. The biggest question of all: Where were they?
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Peter-1 gasped as he woke up and looked around, taking in his surroundings. The last thing he remembered, he was being crushed under a pile of rubble. Now, he found himself in a forest somewhere. He stood up and examined his attire; he wasn't wearing his Spider-Man suit, but rather civilian clothing.
"What on Earth?" Peter exclaimed as he surveyed his surroundings. "How did I end up here?"
"Likely the same way I did," Barry said, getting Peter to turn and notice he was there. "Where the hell are we?"
Peter said, "I have no idea," as they looked around. "Does it look familiar to you?"
Barry looked around and nodded. "Yes, there's something familiar about this place."
Then they turned around and froze at the sight they saw. Standing over some small campfire, was a face that neither of them had ever thought they would see again.
"No..." Barry whispered in shock.
"That can't be you," Peter said in shock.
"Ah, it's been a long time, guys," the man said as he approached the two of them.
Peter and Barry, however, lost their voices when they saw him. The man who had always been there for them was dead for years. He died to save their lives and the lives of countless others in the multiverse.
"Oliver?"
Standing before them was indeed Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow. He stood there right in front of them, giving them a heartfelt smile and chuckling at their shocked expressions.
"What in the hell did you two manage to get yourselves into this time?" Oliver asked his friends.