The six stood before the Citadel. For a moment, there was silence. Loki and Wanda had immense power, and Doom was an arrogant man, but he had ambition. He was cunning, and was a noble tactician. Even he had power that was unbeatable.
"So, you wanna do the talking?" asked Wanda.
"Ladies first," remarked Loki.
Wanda used her magic to blast the door open, and caused some debris to fall away so Maestro could fit in.
"You sure we're fully prepared for this?" asked Peter 3.
"Most of us," stated Loki, "except you three. Those symbiotes are weak compared to those of old."
"Say what now?" asked Peter 1.
A green light glinted in Loki's eye, and his hand shook for a moment.
Peter was confused. A tingly feeling rang throughout himself. He looked down to see his symbiote was growing white, with a few black accents here and there.
"I deem you," boomed Loki, "the Anti-Venom!"
Peter fell to his knees and groaned.
"Hey, cut it out," said Peter 2.
"You're hurting him!" exclaimed Peter 3.
Loki shook his head. "When one has great power, he is burdened to show it to others."
"Uh, what?" asked Peter 3.
Loki shook both his hands as green energy clouded them, and his eyes shone a deep green as his voice became deep, yet high.
"I deem... AGENT! I DEEM... CARNAGE!"
The older Peters gasped and groaned.
Peter 3 was being covered in a deeper black suit, while Peter 2 was being fully covered by a red one.
Loki regained his normal look as the others felt fine again.
The three Peters looked at themselves, feeling weary yet powerful.
"That was a little much," said Wanda.
Maestro laughed. "Loki deem again! Deem again! A-ha ha!"
Loki muttered and shook his head.
"Now, be wary. Even Doom was power that rivals mine."
The six entered the damaged Citadel, light peering through holes and the occasional drop of a weak stone.
Doom paced, reading runes of old while Love sat in her cage, feeling awfully bored.
Doom suddenly turned his head, and he lightly chuckled to himself.
"What're you laughin' at, mister?"
"It would seem... we have special guests."
Loki had gotten the layout of this place when he and Sylvie paid a visit to He Who Remains, and he knew that this was either going to be an ambush, or Doom wasn't so ignorant.
Maestro grumbled, kicking a rock as he walked with the others.
"SO!"
The Peters got in a defensive position, Loki and Wanda looked around and Maestro roared angrily.
"COME FOR A FIGHT, HAVE YOU?"
"Doom! It's pointless! Hand over the child and no harm will come to you," said Loki.
Doom chuckled.
"SUCH AN EMPTY THREAT! AND YET, SO POETICAL! ESPECIALLY FROM A GOD... OF LIES!"
"COME OUT!" shouted Maestro, itching to fight.
"AT EASE! WOULDN'T YOU FIRST WANT TO HEAR... MY DEAL?"
"Not interested!" shouted Peter 3.
"OH, YOU WILL BE! JUST HEAR ME OUT! WOULDN'T YOU LIKE... LOVE?"
Wanda shuffled nervously.
"PEACE?"
The Spider-Men seemed to consider this.
"TO SIT UPON A THRONE?"
Loki rolled his eyes.
"TO FIGHT ENDLESSLY, AGAIN AND AGAIN AND BE FEARED! YET RESPECTED?"
Maestro yawned.
"YOU MAY ALL GET THESE THINGS! WHEN I GET THE POWER OF ETERNITY, ALL WHO SIDE WITH ME SHAL BE BLESSED WITH ALL THEY WANT! YOU JUST HAVE TO HELP ME... AND BE ON MY SIDE AS THE MULTIVERSE BEGS FOR AN END!"
They all looked at one another, seemingly considering this deal.
"THE CHOICE... IS YOURS!"
"And what if we refuse?" asked Wanda.
"THEN YOU SHALL ALL SUFFER THE SAME FATE! DEATH! RUIN!"
Loki scoffed.
"We aren't all to suffer in your hellish threats... You will see that our will shall suffice."
Maestro yawned once more.
"No more talkie-talkie! Must smash!"
"SO BE IT!"
The Citadel began to shake, and they six looked about.
"He's trying to kill us," stated Wanda as she blasted the entire Citadel apart with her magic before it could collapse atop them.
Love was in her cage, scared and confused as the six strangers stood before her.
Doom stood beside the cage, Stormbreaker in hand.
"We'll ask one more time before I kill you," said Wanda. "Let the girl go."
Doom shook his head.
"If only you understood the power..."
With that, a green electricity seemed to surge throughout Doom as he shouted and aimed Stormbreaker at the group, blasting electricity at them.
Maestro ran forth and absorbed the blast, albeit with some roaring and struggle.
"And thus tomorrow, they die!"
The Kangs shouted and cheered.
"Now?" asked Thor.
"...Now," replied Kang.
Thor roared and leapt into the arena, surprising hundreds. He slammed Mjolnir to the ground, creating a massive shock of thunder that electrocuted all the nearby Kangs.
All were taken aback by this.
Kang flew out on his blue platform, staring at his three main enemies dead in their eyes.
Namor and Sam led the charge, and everyone else leapt in, attacking the Kangs and taking them off guard.
"Flame on!" shouted Johnny as he burst into flames and flew about the arena, shooting fire at the Kangs.
"Can I say it?" asked the Thing, bashing down variants that attempted to shoot him.
"No," replied Reed, quickly shifting his body to avoid being shot.
"Just one time?"
"Ben, you've pissed me off a thousand times with it!"
"I'm gonna tell Sue about that night in Latveria..."
"Shit, fine," replied Reed quickly.
"IT'S... CLOBBERIN' TIME!!" Ben shouted at the top of his lungs, leaping out at the Kangs and bashing as many as possible.
Kang landed right in front of Immortus, and the two gave each other an equally terrifying death stare.
Rama Tut raised his staff to strike Kang and the Centurion turned his hand into a blaster, aiming it at Kang's face.
"Leave him," Immortus said simply. "He's mine to finish. Deal... with the others."
Rama Tut and the Centurion gave each other a look before leaping down to fight.
Kang's armor came on, and he shot a blast at Immortus.
Immortus, however, was ultimately one to be underestimated. He opened his hand, creating a blue force field that held off the blasts, destroying them as they formed.
Wanda used her magic to destroy Love's cage and levitate her over to them.
"Oh! But our fun is only beginning!" exclaimed Doom.
A robot that looked identical to Doom flew in and grabbed the girl, flying to Doom and tossing her next to him.
"Like 'em? I call them... DOOM BOTS!"
Suddenly, millions of Doom Bots flew behind their master.
"KILL THEM! LEAVE THE MAGICIANS TO ME!"
And thus the Doom Bots flew at Maestro and the Peters.
Loki and Wanda flew at Doom.
"I challenge you two... to a duel!"
The debris of the Citadel levitated up and swept around them, enclosing the four to prevent any escape.
Peter 1 ducked and swung around, kicking a Doom Bot to Peter 3, which he gladly bashed with his bare hands.
Peter 2 used his webs to yank the Doom Bots closer, kicking them down and wailing on them while his Carnage symbiote used his strength and prevented him from holding back.
Doom threw Stormbreaker at Wanda, but she caught it and quickly threw it to Love.
The young girl had come to understand Stormbreaker's power and quickly grabbed it, attempting to open the Bifrost.
Doom used his magic to stop her in place, which she did not enjoy, thrashing and kicking about.
Loki countered with magic of his own, allowing Love to escape in the Bifrost, which destroyed a chunk of the debris.
"IDIOTS!" shouted Doom in anger as he shot his electricity at them, but Wanda blocked it with her magic.
Loki gave a sadistic grin as a machete appeared in his hand while a helmet appeared upon his head and the horns grew out.
"So, you wanna play with magic?"
Vision flew up, blasting mercilessly down at the Kangs.
Kate spun about, shooting her arrows to weaken some of the Kangs.
"The particles are still up there," said Scott.
"We can't fight without them," said Hope.
"Well, I've got a few," said Cassie.
Scott looked at his daughter in shock.
"How?"
"I'm a lot smarter than you think, dad."
"I've got your back," said the Iron Lad.
"Great," said Cassie, before she shrunk and ran through the battle.
Iron Lad blasted anyone who got in his way.
The young hero leapt up to where the two Kangs were fighting, and she dove into a silver pocket that was on Immortus' side.
"You cannot defeat me again!" shouted Kang.
"But I shall! And your death... will be delightful!" exclaimed Immortus, as the ten rings came out of the pocket, nearly hitting Cassie.
Immortus equipped himself and swung the rings, creating a massive shield to block all of Kang's hits.
Cassie leapt out of the pocket and threw as many Pym Particles as she could at Iron Lad, who caught them all and flew back to Scott.
Immortus got a good glimpse of Iron Lad and became distracted for a moment. Something about the young Kang was familiar to him. He simply couldn't put his finger on it.
Kang used the distraction to make a giant blast that disrupted the cycle of the rings, and before Kang could kill his alternate self Shang Chi leapt in, kicking Immortus down and preparing for another strike.
"Thanks, I appreciate it," said Scott as he, Hope and even Janet applied the particles to their suits, joining the fight.
Namor leapt down at the Centurion after he knocked She-Hulk out of his way.
He swung his spear and hit him backwards, but the cyborg expected his attack and created two blasters from his hands that shot at Namor, which the mutant leapt from.
The former king leapt about and struck Centurion in the face, aiming his spear right in between the eyes.
"What? Are you going to kill me? Go on. Show me the same mercy... that I showed your people!"
Namor's eyes went wide. This was the Kang slaughtered all he loved.
As Namor prepared to strike, Centurion shot a transparent shield that wrapped around Namor and caused him to shake violently.
Suddenly, a crescent blade was flung out and hit the Centurion in the back, causing him to shout out.
From a portal, Doctor Strange, Mobius and Moon Knight had arrived.
"Well, it's about time!" said Sam, struggling to fight Rama Tut with Elijah.
Moon Knight's personality quickly shifted, and he became Mr Knight, aka Steven Grant.
"Okay, okay! Um, this is way more uncivilized than Khonshu promised, don't you think?"
"There's no chivalry in a Kang," remarked Strange before getting into combat with the Kangs while Mobius avoided being attacked.
"Well, if they insist. Now, uh, where's this Rama Tut guy?"
Steven quickly shifted his personality back to Marc as he saw Rama Tut fighting off Bucky and Shuri.
The moon god's avatar leapt at the variant, his cape spread out, and he kicked him towards Bucky, who decked him in the face with his Vibranium arm.
Shang Chi had managed to regain his rings, and Kang, who simply couldn't share the glory of killing his other self, shoved him into a portal so he was brought back to the fight in the arena, along with the rest of the particles and Kamala's bangles.
Namor shook violently and busted from his binds, picking up his spear and charging at the Centurion.
The cybernetic Kang created a shield and blocked a hit while grinning evilly at Namor, who returned the cruel look and dove above the Centurion, kicking him backwards and using his spear to impale him from behind. The Centurion shook and yelled as purple electricity flew about his body, and Namor yanked his spear out.
Doctor Strange opened a portal nearby, sending some Kangs into a mirror dimension. Namor kicked the Centurion at the portal as it closed, decapitating him.
All that remained behind was a robotic, vibrating body.
"And that is what I call... mercy."
Wanda used her magic to hurl debris at Doom, who used magic of his own to destroy the stones and shoot them at Wanda, who was struck in the head and fell back, unconscious.
Loki appeared behind Doom and attempted to stab him, but Doom knew better. He turned aroundand blocked it with a sword that appeared in his hand.
"Savvy?" he taunted.
Loki smacked Doom on the forehead with his palm, knocking him a few feet back and shattering his mask.
Doom was severely burnt. The scars and burn marks on his face were so horrid even Loki stood in shock for a moment.
"You see what I've become? What my destiny is?" asked Doom.
"Yes. It is to die, as the monster you are."
Loki levitated a shard of the broken mask and brought it down hard, impaling Doom.
But he didn't die. He didn't even flinch.
He began to cackle as blood dripped down his stomach.
"I posess power you know not! Mischief-maker! Story-changer! Destroyer of all you hold dear..." Doom cackled as the mask came out, repairing itself and re-attatching to his face.
The blood seemed to reverse, going back into him as his wound healed itself.
The Doom Bots were decreasing in mass and number, as they were being demolished by the green, raging warrior and the Peters.
The remaining ones flew away, and Doom used his magic to make them disappear.
Loki threw a knife into Doom's thigh before he could escape.
Another Loki appeared, and he, too, threw a knife into him.
Soon, several more appeared, throwing knives at their opponent.
Doom shouted in agony before causing the knives to fling outwards, impaling all but one Loki.
"You can not defeat me here. Ta-ta," said Doom before fading into dust that floated away in the wind.
Wanda groaned and slowly got up.
"Did we just lose?" asked Peter 2, worry in his voice.
"Not entirely," said Loki. "He can not reach his full power, that much is accomplished."
"But where is she?" asked Wanda.