Heroes coming together Chapter 31: A meeting of Pantheons, a Flash + Avengers Crossover fanfic

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Chapter 31- A meeting of Pantheons

Earth-1, Keystone City

Leonard Snart had been through a lot. Seen a lot. Done a lot more. There was one thing he never considered doing though, something he considered such a taboo that he would be damned to Hell, or wherever his father would end up, for doing it.

Kill his team.

And he was starting to get tempted.

"For the last time: keep your stinking socks on your side of the room!"

"Hey! You weren't the one going down the sewers prepping our escape route, sissy. And you hogged the room with only the radiator, in the whole damn building!"

"Sorry, I thought Neanderthals liked to light things on fire."

"I'll tell you what I want to set on fire!"

If there is a God, give him strength.

Snart's head was buried on his desk, his hands rubbing his temples to ease the hundredth headache he had gained since they decided to open their new business. Well, he and Lisa did, Mick was still sulking about the change. That was probably why since the night they took down Vladek, they haven't stopped fight over every. Single. Thing. What's worse, they had not found a single job to keep them busy. Leonard expected the slow start, accepted it even, but what he could not handle was the war between his sister and partner.

"ALRIGHT!" Snart stood up and marched between the arguing pair, turning to the pyromaniac. "Mick, go to the laundromat down the street to clean your clothes, and pick up a spare set from the van." Next was his sister. "Lisa, if you're gonna hog the only heater in the only room we have furnished, then be kind of enough make sure the water and heating is working in the rest of the building. Do we have an accord?" Mick and Lisa stayed glaring at each other, earning a sigh from their resident criminal Mastermind. "Do we have an accord?" He repeated louder and firmer. Mick let out a grunt, Lisa let out a mumble of agreement before they went their separate ways. "Children." Snart muttered to himself as he went back to organizing what will be the operations room, if they can stop fighting for a minute.

The sound of Mick leaving the room followed by a loud growl, and a body thrown against a wall had Snart turn with his hand in sidearm, before he heard the voice. "JESUS, MAN! What's the deal?!" Snart lowered the gun and watched as the middle man stared after Mick as he left before fully entering the room. "What's with muscle man?"

"He skipped breakfast." Snart sarcastically said as he went back to hooking up the monitor while Lisa connected it to the computer. "What can I do for you, Jacques? Or should I say, what can you do for me?"

"So, you're really doing it. Leonard Snart is going legit."

"Well," Lisa interrupted, "more like legit-ish."

"Oh good, for a second I thought the world was going all backwards." Jacques joked earning a dry look from the Snart siblings. The middle man held up his hands. "Alright, all joking aside, I might have something for you."

"And you didn't lead with that?" The younger Snart joined her brother and Jacques at the conference table at the center of the room, where the latter set down a picture. Taking it in hand, Leonard and Lisa looked at something that would have made their less than noble, thieving selves think of not so selfless thoughts. It was a headdress that covered the whole scalp and down to the wearer's neck. Also, it was composed entirely of rubies.

"The Crown of Fire, made by King something and given to his Queen whoever, it was unearthed somewhere in Ecuador by this big shot media mogul's son. Anyway, the Ecuadorian people were pretty peeved, they see it as Americans stealing part of their history, and some of the more patriotic activists tried to steal it back."

"Let me guess, it didn't end so well for them?" Leonard assumed, and was proven right by Jacques' nod.

"All three of them were sent to the hospital, one might not walk again. This Fairfax guy, I'll tell you, man, he's got a superiority complex for the ages. Thinks he's like the king who made it, a conqueror." The Snarts exchanged a look before the younger sibling asked a question that's been on her since Jacques walked through the door.

"Why bring this to us?"

A shrug came from the bespectacled man. "Look I don't mind helping with jobs involving mobsters, or ripping off some rich guys, but stealing people's history, that just feels wrong. And I figured, I still owe you for Coast City." A smirk on her brother's faced confused Lisa.

"What happened in Coast?"

"Oh you know, the usual." Leonard answered vaguely before looking at the headdress again. "I think we have ourselves our first official job." He said with a smirk that Lisa matched.

The sound of grumbling and loud footsteps had the two siblings and fence look at the door and find Mick, taking a bite out of a sandwich in a Black Sabbath t-shirt, completely unaware of the importance of what transpired. "What?"

"Pack your bags, Mick. We got work to do."

Central City

"Oh you're so gonna get it!" Hotstreak aka Francis Stone roared as he fired flames at Flash and Static, the former running to avoid as the latter flew high up into the air.

"Francis, stop, we can help you", Barry tried to reason with him.

"I have all the help I need!" Francis screamed as he fired another fireball that Barry ducked to avoid.

"No use man, he was a piece of work before he woke up as a meta", Static told Barry as he came down, with Barry about to speed at Francis when a dark shadow popped up behind him and grabbed him in a chokehold.

Ebon!

"You're not taking anyone who works for me", Ebon snarled, when Static fired lightning at him, making him screech in pain as he fell down, letting Barry go, and escaped back into the shadows.

"I don't work for anyone!"

Hostreak was about to fire again when Barry ran and opened a fire hydrant, letting the water strike him as he was taken out, police sirens being heard nearby.

"Nicely done, like usual", Static praised his hero.

"You too", Barry praised the younger hero. "Sucks Ebon escaped though."

"One of us will get him next time", Static assured.

"Yeah", Barry nodded. "Just…be careful, okay?'

"I'll do my best", Static said before flying off.

Reaching near his home, Static got down from the saucer and opened his bag he'd retrieved, putting it inside, and then changing into his civilian clothes, putting the suit inside as well, before he walked to his house and opened the door, only to see Robert standing there with folded arms, a stern look on his face, Sharon behind him with a smirk.

"Busted", Sharon said gleefully.

"What time is it?" Robert inquired.

"Uhh…11 PM, sir?" Virgil said with a stutter.

"And until what time are you allowed to stay out?" Robert then asked.

"9 PM sir?"

"You're grounded for two weeks", Robert said as he walked off, Sharon smirking still as Virgil sighed.

Looks like he'd have to make time during breaks in school to be Static Shock for two weeks now.

A woman was walking her dog during the same night, when she heard a voice behind her.

"Hello."

She turned around, finding a beautiful red-haired woman, and behind that woman was a group of men.

"Uhhh….hi?" The woman walking her dog said randomly. "What do you want?"

Walking closer to the dog-walking woman, the red-haired one said. "Nothing personal."

And then, she pulled the dog-walking woman in for a kiss, catching her off-guard. Then she pulled back, and suddenly fangs popped out of the red-haired woman's teeth.

Before the dog-walking woman could scream, the red-haired woman bit her neck, draining her of her blood slowly as she died.

Looking at the dead woman for a few seconds, the red-haired woman then turned to the men with her. "Tonight, we shall get closer to wiping humanity out, and Vampires shall reign supreme!"

Earth-199999

The Bifrost faded as Thor landed, then twirled Mjolnir and flew forth, wanting to check on something.

Many thoughts plagued the mind of the God of Thunder. There were the Stones, but also himself, as he remembered the power he had felt in the Hell that he had been dropped in by Ultron.

Unknown location, a month ago

"Oh."

The Demons all attacked Thor, punching and kicking him, clawing his face, slicing him.

Thor let out a loud roar and punched one Demon so hard its head flew off, and then he punched another, and another, to the same result, before kicking another one as its chest shattered.

He grabbed one more and threw it into many, before a flying one decked his face, and another did the same, and then both tried to deck together but he grabbed their wrists and twisted, making them screech as he threw them down, killing them.

Then a Demon leapt on top of him, and before Thor could throw it off, more leapt down on him, dogpiling the God of Thunder now.

Thor groaned. "By Odin's breath, you smell worse than a Rock Troll!"

Letting out another loud roar, Thor sent them all flying up with his raw strength, then leapt up high, and as he was descending, his fist was reared back.

He managed to hit the ground.

Earth-199999, Present Day

Thor had no idea how long he'd spent fighting the Demons. Hours, days, weeks, months. The enemy were endless, and he rarely had time to breathe until he killed them all, but more always came.

All of a sudden, Mjolnir started acting up, glowing blue, with lightning discharging from the hammer. Thor slowed down to look at his trusty weapon, when a breach opened right upon him and he ended up going inside of it.

Earth-21, Washington DC

Clark had just begun to fly into the air as Superman, when Thor appeared next to him, causing the two to look at each other sharply.

"Superman?"

"Thor?"

"I am glad I have fallen into a friendly world", Thor sighed in relief. "I and Natasha were clearly lucky."

"How have you been?" Clark decided to make some small talk as they flew forth.

"A robot came to life and tried to destroy the world but we all stopped it, now the rest are expanding ranks", Thor explained to Clark. "While I believe something bigger is at play and am trying to follow up on some leads. How about you?"

"Went to the future, met this time-traveler who travels in a British Police Box with some other people, and also some high-tech alien robots. We saved the day together", Clark told Thor. "I'm on my way to get some information right now. Wanna join?'

"Of course, my friend."

As they flew forth, they arrived near an apartment, seeing a beautiful woman flipping a tank. Thor's eyes widened on seeing her.

She looked exactly like Lady Sif!

The tank suddenly exploded as Superman flew forth, saving the soldiers inside as he grabbed on and flew off. Thor was still shocked, seeing Lady Sif's doppelganger, who now stood in front of a blonde man, while a bald man in a suit and another old man in an army uniform stood in front of him.

Suddenly, Thor saw another man aiming a sniper at the blonde one, and as he fired, Thor flew in the way, spinning Mjolnir as the bullet was shattered, to the soldier's horror.

Superman flew down near 'Lady Sif' and the blonde man, talking to the army man. "General Lane, I sincerely hope you evacuated the area before you brought a tank into it."

"We did, Superman, we did", General Lane assured him, Thor now hovering over them as Lane and the bald man looked up at him uncertainly, the soldiers doing the same.

"Diana hasn't done anything wrong. She's only here to find her mother", Superman tried to defend her.

Lane retorted. "This comes through Bones by way of Presidential approval, son."

"I know that she is alive, and I know that either your military or your D.E.O. must have her!" Diana said angrily as she stomped forth.

"Then walk yourself in, and I'll take you right to her", Bones said to her.

"Is this a trick?" Thor asked at that moment, making all eyes turn to him, while thunder cracked in the sky and dark clouds gathered, unnerving the soldiers.

Bones was not moved though. "Who are you now?"

"I am Thor, Son of Odin, Prince of Asgard, the God of Thunder!" Thor declared while holding up Mjolnir as lightning cracked even louder, making the jaws of the soldiers drop.

"Thor….from…Norse Mythology?" Lane asked in utter shock.

Diana briefly bowed to him. "It is an honor to meet your, Prince Thor. We worship the Greek Gods, but we know of the Norse Gods and respect them too."

It was strange for Thor to see Sif's doppelganger saying she 'respected the Gods', considering Lady Sif herself was the Goddess of War.

She then turned to the blonde man. "Did you know anything about this, Steve?"

Thor was interested to hear this other man was called 'Steve' too, as this Steve replied. "No ma'am."

"For this price, I shall comply", Diana now said with gritted teeth, letting herself be cuffed now.

"Don't bother struggling, they're enchanted, courtesy of Doctor Thirteen down in R&D."

"If you keep your word, I will not struggle", Diana promised, Thor struggling not to go down and help her.

"Dammit General!" Superman snapped at Lane.

"Not now, Superman, choose your battles", Lane warned him before walking off. "I'm sure you'll find another way to handle this."

Thor came down, he and Superman watching Diana board the vehicle as Superman spoke to the other 'Steve'. "You just had a burn notice issued, Mr. Trevor. Now would be a good time to run. Lois. In the alley. Go."

Universe-208, the Negotiator

Standing within the bridge of Obi-Wan's ship, the Negotiator, Anakin's eyes were shut. His face was contorted as images raced past his mind at such a rate that he could barely understand it all. It was so much like before when Captain Rogers was found on Umbara, but this felt different.

Glowing white eyes.

The shadows of wings.

A cloud of thick black smoke.

"Anakin."

The Jedi Knight blinked his eyes open as he rubbed his head to ease the pain. Turning to the speaker, Anakin found Obi-Wan looking at him with concern.

"You sensed something."

"How did you know?" He asked as his old master joined him staring out at the vastness of Space within the Inner Rim.

"Because I sense it too."

Anakin did not like the concern in the Jedi Master's voice, it made him uneasy. "Last time I felt this, the 501st gained a volunteer. But this, it feels different."

"How so?" Obi-Wan inquired as Anakin clutched his head again.

"Like it's...coming."

Cody finished reading a report and joined Admiral Block in approaching the two Jedi. The expressions on their faces were grave, and in Skywalker's case, pained. Wary, the Clone Commander continued his approach, until a flash of blue was all he saw, and the next moment, the generals were gone.

Earth-1, STAR Labs

Barry and Cisco were playing against each other on a video game in a video game system they'd recently installed in STAR Labs to have fun during any breaks.

At the end, Cisco won and did a little victory dance. "Oh yeah baby! I got it!"

"One of these days, man", Barry muttered to himself.

Caitlin, Joe, Patty and Henry were watching the entire thing go down and chuckled, amused by the banter.

At that moment, the lights went out, shocking everyone in the room.

"Aw come on, man! I improved the security!" Cisco moaned.

A soft, female voice then whispered. "Flash."

They all turned around and saw two, crystal blue eyes in the shadows.

All of them were confused, except Barry, who smirked and said. "Never would have expected to see you guys again."

The lights flickered back on to reveal a beautiful woman with black hair and leather clothes, and a man with long hair.

"How did you figure out who I am?" Barry asked the two of them.

"Flash's scent is easy to get in this city, we just followed it until here", the woman revealed with a smirk.

"Right", Barry held out his hand. "My name's Barry Allen."

"Nice to meet you without the mask, Barry Allen", the woman said, shaking his hand.

"I'm sorry, who are you guys?" Cisco asked them.

"My name is Selene, and this is my husband Michael Corvin", Selene gave the introductions, then decided there was no need to keep the secret in, considering they'd come to ask this lot for their help. "I'm a Vampire!"

"And I'm a Vampire/Werewolf hybrid", Michael Corvin added.

A week ago, most of Team Flash would have been shocked. But after meeting Spike, they were less shocked than usual.

"So Vampires are real on this Earth, Werewolves too", Cisco finally said.

"Well damn!" Joe muttered himself.

Caitlin was shocked. "How is it that we have meta-humans running around, urban legends like Michael Myers, the Good Guy Doll that Green Arrow and Eliot fought, Jason Voorhees, then that Freddy Krueger guy that Green Arrow and Batman fought a few weeks ago, and now, we're just discovering Vampires and Werewolves are real too?"

"Good question", Selene had to say, then decided to explain. "For generations, Vampires and Lycans secretly waged war against each other. The Lycan leader Lucian was seemingly killed by a Vampire named Kraven, who became second-in-command to our Elders. I was part of an elite group of Vampire Assassins called the 'Death Dealers', and I hated the Lycans due to thinking they'd killed my family. During a clash with them, I discovered him", she gestured to Corvin. "Lucian, turns out, was alive, and he bit Michael."

"I'm guessing that means Kraven lied", Patty noted.

"He did", Selene confirmed. "So, I prematurely awoke Viktor, a hibernating Elder Vampire. I also hid Michael, while Viktor refused to believe me about Kraven's treachery, and during that time, he helped the Lycans track down another Elder and they killed her too. I got out of the mansion and captured the Lycan scientist Singe."

"But the Lycans captured me", Corvin revealed. "I found out Lucian was once in love with Viktor's daughter Sonja, but Viktor was furious when he discovered their affair and killed his own daughter."

"That is sick!" Joe said, speaking what everyone was thinking, all of them disgusted for good reason. Killing his own daughter because he didn't like who she was in love with?

"The Lycans were also slaves to the Vampires once, and the war began when they rose up against the Vampires to fight for their freedom", Corvin added.

"Meanwhile, Singe revealed that the Lycans wanted Michael because the Vampires and Lycans had a common ancestor, and Michael was a direct descendant, so he carried a unique genetic strain that'd make him a hybrid. Viktor killed Singe and mobilized the Death Dealers to kill all Lycans, including Michael. But I rescued him, and then Kraven and Lucian turned on each other. Kraven revealed to me that it was actually Viktor who killed my family and spared me because I reminded him of Sonja."

"He gets worse the more we hear about him", Patty commented.

"I got injured badly, and Selene was forced to bite me so I could be an immortal hybrid", Corvin then supplied.

"Viktor then arrived at the lair and confessed to all his wrongdoings, while also justifying himself, saying Sonja was pregnant with Lucian's child, an abomination to both species."

"Yeah, he can keep telling himself that", Cisco said in disgust.

"Not for long", Selene said. "Eventually, I managed to kill him, then me and Michael ran off together. Then, I planned to stop Kraven from killing another Elder Markus. But he woke up and killed Kraven and his men instead. Lorenz Macaro, the forefather to both our races, sent his men to investigate the battle at the Lycans' lair, and in Viktor's corpse they found a disk that matched a pendant worn by Sonja."

"The other half was with me after Lucian died", Corvin told them.

"Markus tracked us down but we escaped. We needed to find out why this pendant was important. I saw it as a child, but did not know its significance. We met an exiled Vampire historian Andreas Tanis, who revealed Markus was the first Vampire, one of the three sons of Alexander Corvinus, the first Immortal. Markus was bitten by a bat and metamorphosed into a Vampire, while William was bitten by a wolf and metamorphosed into a Werewolf."

"The third son remained human and gave rise to a descendant of mortals, including me, the first hybrid", Corvin supplied again.

"The first Werewolves created by William were feral and unable to return to human forms. William was destructive, so Markus approached Viktor, who was a dying warlord then, and offered to make him and his army into Vampires in return for tracking down and stopping William, and destroying those he'd infected. Viktor did not kill the brothers because he was led to believe that doing so would result in the immediate extinction of all Vampires and Lycans. Tanis also revealed that my father was the architect who built a secret prison where William would be imprisoned forever, and the pendant is the key. Viktor killed my family for knowing the prison's location, but spared me and made me a Vampire. The location of the prison was encoded in my blood. He referred us to Macaro for help. We left, and then Markus killed Tanis and found out our location by drinking his blood."

"Vampires can do that?" Caitlin asked in horror, getting nods in response.

"We visited Macaro, and found out he was Alexander Corvinus. He'd devoted his entire life to keeping this war a secret, and refused to help me in killing his sons."

"Then Markus came and impaled me", Corvin told them.

"Then he drank my blood and found out where William's prison was, and mortally wounded his own father, getting the other half of the pendant. He wanted to rule the whole world with his brother as masters of a race of Vampire-Lycan hybrids. At Alexander's request, I drank his blood and got enhanced to a hybrid's level, and then he blew up his ship, killing himself. Then I lead Alexander's team into destroying Markus but he'd freed William."

"That was when I woke up and joined the fight, and I killed William, and she killed Markus", Corvin finished for them. "And that's it."

"Drinking Alexander's blood also made me immune to sunlight", Selene revealed.

"That was….something", Henry had to say, absorbing the entire tale.

Caitlin noted these Vampires and Lycans had scientific origins, unlike Spike.

"It all makes sense, until the Particle Accelerator exploded, this world was considered normal, at least publicly", Joe pointed out.

"I'm guessing you two didn't come all the way here just to find out who I am and tell your backstory though", Barry noted.

"Speaking of, how do you know them?" Patty asked Barry.

"Sometime after the Singularity and Thawne, when I was working alone, I took a quick run and found myself in Budapest. A creature attacked me. It was physically stronger than me, but Selene and Michael appeared and saved me. I was shocked to find out Vampires and Werewolves were real, but they made me promise to keep their existence a secret, which I did." Then he turned back to them. "Now, why are you two here again?"

"We need your help", Selene confessed. "There is an organization of Vampires called Cult of the Blood Red Moon, led by a former friend of mine- Mary Seward. When I was still a Death Dealer, we used to team up quite a bit. She was disgusted when I turned against the Vampires, and we became mortal enemies. Now she plans to take over the entire world, and is targeting Central City first due to the amount of meta-humans here. So if she takes over this place, the rest of the world would follow in time."

"This is bad", Caitlin had to say.

"Well, we've dealt with bad before", Cisco pointed out.

"Took the words right out of my mouth", Corvin said, the two sharing a chuckle.

"We'll help out, don't worry", Barry assured her. "I'm assuming you can track Mary."

"Yes", Selene confirmed.

"All right then, let's gear up!" Cisco said with a silly grin, getting some looks, making his face turn serious. "I mean- let's gear up!"

Earth-21, Washington DC

"So, tell me the matter exactly", Thor asked Superman, both flying through the air.

"Diana is looking for her mother, the Queen of their nation, I believe. She has been missing for a long time", Superman told Thor what he knew. "She saved my mother from an attack earlier. We fought some harpies too. Whatever is going on, I think magic is involved."

"It is a good thing I am here then, I can help in this matter", Thor said with a smirk. "So, what do you plan to do next?"

"Some infiltration. You up for it?"

"I believe I will have to be."

Earth-205

Anakin finally stopped clutching his head when the pain stopped. It kept getting worse until it just faded away, for some reason. The Chosen One opened his eyes, and found his master and himself on the ground in what felt like ferrocrete. "What the-" Anakin stopped himself when he saw something black and metal driving to them. On reflex, the Jedi threw up his hand, and next, the vehicle was raised off the ground above the two Jedi's heads. Anakin peered at the drivers, two stunned looking men in what Anakin assumed was a landspeeder, but with wheels. Obi-Wan finally joined his former Padawan on his feet and looked up at the suspended vehicle held up by the Force.

"That was...unpleasant." The Negotiator said dryly, before looking at the two wide-eyed men in front of them. "Hello there."

Earth-1, Central City

Mary and her cult were on a rooftop, looking down at Central City, as Mary said. "Maybe we should take out the police department now. Would give us an advantage."

At that moment, a red blur ran past and knocked Mary towards the wood in the outskirts of the city.

"What the….?" Mary groaned as she got up, and saw the Flash in front of her, causing her to smirk. "Oh! Its you! Huge fan, Flash!"

Suddenly, a bullet was fired at Mary, striking her on the shoulder from behind, making her gasp, but she regenerated quickly, and turned around to see Selene lowering her gun, Michael standing next to her.

"Good to see you, traitor", Mary said mockingly. "Come to die?"

"No, come to kill, old friend", Selene said as Mary's followers arrived in the area too, having followed the entire thing to here.

'Cowards' by Black Light Burns plays

With that, Selene and Mary lunged at each other, both punching the other on the face as they fell down, and as Mary got up, Barry sped and punched her twice, but using her Vampire senses, she timed it right the third time and tripped him, making him fall, before Selene flipped and kicked her face, sending her staggering back.

As the other Vampires tried to move in to help, Cisco appeared with a Solar Gun, Caitlin holding its storage unit behind him, as he fired, and it struck two Vampires, disintegrating them both.

"Oh yeah, you ain't taking over anything", Cisco boasted to them, disintegrating one more.

Mary tried to strike Selene, who dodged and spun, elbowing her face, sending her back, then leapt and kicked her face, throwing her back once more.

She charged once more when Mary brandished her sword, causing Selene to brandish her own as both clashed, while Barry knocked down 2 Vampires, allowing Cisco to disintegrate them too.

At that point, one Vampire appeared near Cisco and knocked the gun out of his hands, then lifted him up by the throat and threw him down too, before moving towards Caitlin, smacking his lips while she looked up at him.

Then, Corvin grabbed the Vampire from behind and ripped his head off, and as a few more Vampires arrived to fight, Corvin plunged his fists into two of them, killing them too, then ripped his fists out and tore off one more's head, before punching another's head clean off.

During that time, Cisco crawled towards the Solar Gun, picked it up, and activated it again, disintegrating all the remaining Vampires except Mary.

Mary tried to take Selene's head off but she ducked to avoid and kicked Mary away. She tried to get up but Barry ran around her in circles and hurled a lightning bolt, damaging her as she gasped in pain.

Selene looked coldly at Mary for a few seconds. "Never forgive me….sister."

With that, she decapitated Mary, killing her at last.

It was over.

Earth-205

"Uh, hey, if you don't mind, could you drop us down?"

"And careful with the car." Sam's brother oh so helpfully said to the man with the scar who was holding them up with a gesture.

"You want me to drop you?" The man asked with a teasing smile on his face, before a light smack on the shoulder came from the bearded, older man beside him.

"Do try to behave yourself, Anakin." He said with a tired aggravation that Sam often used with Dean. The young, scarred man rolled his eyes before lowering his hand, and the Impala followed it until the tyres hit the road again. Sam and Dean quickly got out of the car, the former going to the trunk while the latter looked the two men up and down. Wearing weird, robe-like clothes, metal rod-things at their waists, honestly, Dean had no idea what he was looking at. "Sorry for the little misunderstanding."

"Yeah, we just have a hard time letting ourselves get hit by an incoming speeder." The younger one said lightly, and this time the older one rolled his eyes.

"...what?"

"Dean." The elder Winchester turned to find Sam holding the Geiger counter altered for any otherworldly visitors, and the thing was clicking like crazy at the two men.

"World hoppers?"

"World hoppers." Sam confirmed before returning the counter to the trunk of the car and approached the two strangers. "Hi, I'm Sam, this is Dean." He lazily saluted the two before his brother continued. "I'm not sure if you know about this, but have you ever heard of the concept of other worlds?"

"Yes, we do, we travel between them all the time." Anakin said to them.

The confusion and somewhat relief between the two rose up, but Obi-Wan felt the need to clarify as he approached, his hands raised in peace when the shorter, but older man tensed. "There is a slight deviance from your question. We know of other worlds because we travel between them, in our own galaxy." The confusion made way for shock. "However, I do believe we know of what you refer to. I am Obi-Wan Kenobi, and my rather impulsive friend here is Anakin."

"We know of people from outside our galaxy suddenly appearing with little to no explanation. It even happened to my own Padawan." Anakin supplied with his master.

"Pada-what now?"

"An apprentice, basically."

"Uh huh." Dean nodded. "Okay, I'm happy we did this, now you can go back to your alien homeworld, place, thing, and we'll keep driving." The man who was pulled from Hell walked back to his car, only to have the door close on him. A fury rose in him as he faced the two aliens, the older one lowering his hand.

"I'm afraid it may not be that simple."

"Somehow, it never is." Sam agreed with the man and looked at Dean, who looked ready to fight Obi-Wan for touching his car. Telekinetically. He really needed to grow up. "Look, all the times we've had people cross over, there's been a reason, and they helped us."

"...so maybe this Anna thing isn't so far-fetched." Dean summarized, Sam nodding in agreement. Damnit, why did the Demon bitch have to be right? Guess the three days they spent driving to Ohio might not have been a bust after all.

"Why would the Force bring us to you?" Anakin asked. This was different from when he met Steve, for one, the brothers weren't rippling in the Force, but the world felt different for sure.

"We can explain, but I think you're supposed to help us." Sam opened the back seat at his side, Dean on the other. "Will you come with us?"

A look passed between the two Jedi, of knowing and resignation. "I have a bad feeling about this."

"That's usually my line." Obi-Wan joked before both nodded to the brothers and approached the landspeeder. Hesitantly lowering themselves into the seats, they watched as the brothers closed the doors and returned to their places in front of them.

"If this place is like Steve's world, then Fives was right, never seen technology this primitive." Anakin whispered to his master, who sighed at his younger brother's words. Of course he would speak of the machinery and engineering, the younger knight was always tinkering.

"Hey, Scarface," Dean looked back at the man sitting behind his brother through the rearview mirror, looking less than amused by the nickname, "you do anything else besides the wavey hand trick?"

"Yes, I can do more than the wavey hand trick." Anakin stated in a dull tone. "And what is it you can do exactly?" He asked in turn with a hint of mocking that he once used when he was younger and still learning in the Temple.

"Insult my car again, and you'll find out."

"I might be curious enough to see that."

"Anakin-"

"Dean-"

"Please." Both the older master and younger brother said in unison, to their own surprise, Sam, even sharing a surprised look with Obi-Wan, while Anakin and Dean watched the two oddly.

"Look, whatever...planet, you guys are from," God, it felt weird to say that. Wait, did God create aliens too? Oh this was so confusing, but not important, "have you heard of Demons?"

Earth-199999, Island M, a month ago

The sun was setting over the island sanctuary yet much was still on Magneto's mind. His eyes drifted from his metal compound home, to the flora of the once barren island he had raised from the depths, all because of the power of Homo Superior. What they could do with so few in number, the possibilities of what the Mutant race could achieve was without limit.

The large footsteps belonging to a man of incredible size as well as the click clack of heels exited the elevator into the top floor of the tower. "Mr. Marko, Ms. Frost, I take it you have news for me?"

"SHIELD has retaken the Iliad. Jiaying and her lackies are dead or captured."

"Inhumans." Magneto scoffed at the name, finally turning away from his view to pace before his allies, both old, and in a sense, new. "The product of alien experimentation. A failed laboratory experiment, by the looks of it. A pale imitation to natural evolution. It disgusts me."

"You detest their existence, then why let them get so far in their scheme?" Normally, she would get the answers telepathically, but Magneto's mind proved far superior than any other she had encountered that was not psychic.

Hands held out, three metal orbs emerged from the ground and orbited the elder Mutant's palm. "Attempting to prevent the experiments' plans would acknowledge them as a threat to our own. I see them as nothing, merely another pawn in the way of the natural order." One orb floated out of Erik's palm, flattening out to form a disc, before the edges became serrated. "We have much more important matters to attend to. Until then, I would like to know why you think to hide like a rat," the serrated disc soared between the Juggernaut and White Queen, stopping inches away in mid-air, until the air shimmered, "my dear Mastermind?"

Mastermind stared at the blade with his hands held up in surrender. The giant of a man grabbed the shorter illusionist and lifted him off his feet to throw him towards the leader of the Brotherhood. "You should tell that dog of yours to play nice." The Mutant snapped as he pushed himself to his feet. A growl came from Juggernaut but a raised hand from Magneto halted his movement, and spared the psychic. "Good trick."

"Mastermind, answer the question." A playful smile was on Magneto's lips, but it was far from humored.

Straightening his brown overcoat, Jason Wyngarde looked at the telepath and bruiser before turning back to the Master of Magnetism. "Pietro and Wanda, they are getting...anxious." The smile dropping told Mastermind to continue. "Ever since Ultron's attempted nuclear apocalypse, they've wanted to take action. The training won't be able to satisfy them much longer."

"No, I suppose it won't." Erik recalled the saw, Mastermind leaning away from it as soon as it was close before the blade turned back into an orb. "It may be time to inform them the details of our plan."

"Hold on." Juggernaut spoke up for the first time during the meeting. "We've planned this since the day we found the Gem. Offspring or not, those two haven't shown the proper loyalty."

"Surprised as I am to admit it, he's right." The blonde telepath added.

A cold look was fixed upon them, and the three Mutants tensed up. They were surrounded by metal, and even if they weren't, they were face to face with one of the most powerful Mutants on the planet. The only one whose survival was assured was Juggernaut.

"They are my children. They will follow my cause, and our people's cause." Erik spoke with absolute surety. Had they suffered like they had said, then they knew the pain of being alone, and recognized the plight of the Mutants. A plight they too would suffer from had more been a witness to their unlocked gifts. Since the stories of their worst days were shared, Erik knew a bond formed with him and his children. He trusted them to make the right choice.

"You know," Mastermind started, Erik glancing at him from the corner of his vision as he took a spot in front of the holocaust survivor, "I do have ways to ensure their devotion." The illusionist Mutant offered with an unnerving smirk, that promptly died when he felt metal coil around his body, and three saw-blades pointed at his face. He turned to Magneto, and saw the face of a man ready to do anything.

"The minds of my children are not to be touched, read, or altered in any way. If I detect so much as a whiff of your handiwork, a change in attitude, a slight tremor in their voice," the metal wrapped around Mastermind's head as the saw began to spin and edge closer to his face, "not even Gateway will find what's left of you."

Just like that, Erik walked away, the metal returning to the floor and the saws condensed back into orbs floating around Magneto. Mastermind, sweating and huffing in fear, quickly made it to the elevator.

"That goes for you too, Ms. Frost." The telepath turned from the retreating Mutant to Magneto's back. She did not need to see it or read his mind to know the look he was giving her.

"I wouldn't-"

"Tell Sage to ensure the next phase is completed within the coming days. Our time is approaching." Sensing the dismissal, the White Queen left before Erik could do anything else. Exhaling through the nose, Erik turned his gaze down below the tower, where young Mutants, children, teens, or those reaching adulthood absorbed the last remaining rays of sunlight. Sensing Cain walk up next to him, Erik did not turn nor did he wish him away. On the contrary, since the day Erik had acquired Marko into his services, finding the Gem that returned his powers and increased the colossal Mutant's own, he found the nine-foot tall man's company to be refreshing. Quiet most of the time, with his own brand of humor, and a bluntness that is not unappreciated.

But still, he was no Charles.

"Soon, our world will expand beyond this island."

"Doubt everyone will agree with you."

"Why shouldn't they? After all, if recent history is anything to go by, a planet of Mutants is the only way to protect ourselves from what other horrors that may wake."

Earth-199999, Island M, Present Day

"You all know your duties?" The Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy nodded to the Master of Magnetism. "Good. Sage, contact Forge, tell him to begin."

"Yes, sir." The Mutant with the semi-transparent monocle over her eye began typing away to fulfil her part. Erik watched her work before turning back to his assembled teams.

"Gateway is waiting for you. Godspeed, my Brotherhood." With those words, the Mutants left, all bar Frost and the computer-brained Sage. The White Queen joined Magneto in watching the others go, when Wanda and Pietro approached. They bore protective suits specially designed for Pietro's speed, and to protect Wanda's more vulnerable body, with one alteration made by Erik, an intricate red tiara, similar to one their mother once showed a much younger man. "Wait for me by the portal." Frost glanced at the twins for a brief second, but followed Magneto's orders. Once she followed the other Mutants out the war room, the father turned to his children. "They suit you well, Forge must be commended."

"We want to join Juggernaut's team", Wanda demanded, not requested or asked.

Magneto lost his smile, opened his hand and his new helmet flew into his palm. "You have your assignment."

"To attack a school of children while the others go after the Avengers?" Pietro walked up to Magneto until they were face-to-face. "You promised us Stark."

"You misunderstand. I told you- Tony Stark is but one man among many that we will have to battle. This is not about revenge." The elder Mutant made to leave, but Wanda stepped in front of him.

"After what we shared with you, you would deny us?" She asked as anger seeped in her voice and her powers turned her irises red.

"When I revealed to you our goal, you accepted it without objection." Magneto's own eyes changed, glowing red from a greater power that Wanda and her brother could not understand. "We stand upon the precipice of a new age. One where Mutants can finally walk in the daylight and not look over their shoulder in fear of the men in suits who would come for them. Letting your anger control you may jeopardize everything we have built." Wanda's eyes stopped their glow as she and Pietro looked around at the now shaking room. Sage fearfully stopped her typing, praying that whatever wrath would come, she not on be on the receiving end. "I do not need anger, I need purpose, control. Think of everyone depending on what we do today. Tony Stark's time will come, and when it does," the room finally ceased it's shaking, Magneto's eyes turned back to their aged blue, "it will be on his knees as you stand above the rest of their kind as the new rulers of this planet." Donning his helmet, the man who survived the holocaust, experimentation, persecution, and the cure marched to the door, his cape flowing behind him, and stopped when his son sped in front of him.

"But-"

"No!" Erik finally shouted. His frustrations coming to a head as Pietro stepped back in shock. "I am your father. You may not name me as such, but I will not have you risking your lives in such a way." Laying his hand on the stunned speedster's shoulder, the elder Mutant turned so both twins were in his view. "This mission requires both scalpel and hammer, but that will not be you. Join Mimic and Avalanche, on the assault against the X-Men, your skills will be better suited there. The Avengers have met a speedster before, one far faster than you," Erik told Pietro bluntly and honestly before looking to Wanda, "and while your powers may be great, you lack the control and experience. One stray bullet, and it will be over. I have lost too much in my life, I will NOT lose either of you." Magneto walked by his son and intended to fly to Gateway. However, he stopped at the foot of the staircase, holding back his emotions. The thought of losing his children, it was more painful than he thought possible. Without turning back, he spoke to them, "Please, do as I ask." With that, he floated through the compound, the metal bending or warping to make way for its master as he joined the telepath at the only portal made. Nodding to the blonde, Magneto strove through with purpose, passing through the flaming edges of the portal, and into a wide, metal chamber, empty, bar the large, red gem that returned to Erik his powers.

The Gem of Cyttorak.

"They'll make the right choice." Frost said to him as the old man stared at the Gem. His mind may have been impenetrable with the helmet, but she knew enough by looking at his face.

"I know they will." Magneto turned around, White Queen following him through the automatic doors of the chamber, into the halls of the new base. "But now, our purpose is here."

New York City, Hell's Kitchen

He knew it was coming. Since the Triskelion fell and Helicarriers had fallen, he knew one day, they would come for him.

An old man in his 70s walked to his favourite chair and waited. The sounds of the boots on the stairs were getting louder, too fast to count. The keys hanging on the hook next to the door shook erratically, it was his first warning. How they marched up, that's how he knew who they were. There was no escaping it.

Now, the old man merely waited. It would be long, before they kicked down the door, and armed men flooded into his apartment. Two men kept their rifles aimed on him, but he merely waited for the man in charge. A great deal of annoyance rose up in him as he heard the sounds of furniture breaking, tables thrown over, plates and mugs shoved out of cupboards. All looking for the same thing.

That was when the man he knew to be in charge walked through his ruined door. A confidence in his walk that showed the kind of person leading this squad. Someone dedicated to HYDRA.

"Nice place. Cozy." He said with false sincerity. "But Hell's Kitchen, really?" The old man merely stared up at him, not even blinking. "You know who I am?"

"…"

A chuckle escaped him. Old geezer had some spine, that's good. "My name's Ward. When SHIELD fell, and HYDRA tried to slip through the gaps, there were certain…properties, that were handed off to trusted agents to hide until their superiors called them back." The old man just continued to stare up, unimpressed. "Get the x-ray, scan everything." Ward told one of his men.

The search went on. Two of the squad walked around the apartment, searching for their prize, and during that time, Ward never looked away from the old man, and the older HYDRA agent never shied away. There was an emptiness in his eyes, he lived for nothing else but for HYDRA. They were his purpose. His mission. Ward saw it all, he was devoted to the cause, but unfortunately for him, the cause of his superior and Ward's own agendas did not match.

"Sir, we have it." Glancing over, Ward saw two of his men pull out the floor panels, and another start up a buzzsaw for the safe that no doubt held what they were looking for.

Returning to the old man, Ward found that still, he said nothing, did nothing. If it wasn't for his moving chest, Ward would think he was dead. Dying in an old chair, alone, with strangers going through your home. That's a pathetic thought, one Ward quickly blinked away when he saw one of his men approach, with a small case opened up, and four vials of dark green liquid.

Abomination's blood.

A smile spread across Ward's face, no part of it sincere. "Thank you for your cooperation." Ward drew his sidearm and aimed. To his credit, like the moment he walked in, nothing phased the old agent. Ward could respect that. "Want to say anything, something for the tombstone?"

"Hail HYDRA."

BANG!

Ward watched the man's head slump down. It was a shame, the man was loyal to a fault, but unfortunately, he swore loyalty to the wrong sort. HYDRA doesn't need bureaucrats, it needed men of action. It was exactly why he was here. "Get the vials in the jeep, we need to go, now, before-"

A red and black blur crashed through the window before Ward could finish.

Daredevil kicked one man down, and as another tried to strike, he grabbed his arm while kicking another down, and twisted the arm, throwing the man down before punching him out, only to feel a gun to his head, and the Hydra thug was about to pull the trigger.

Daredevil quickly stood up, spinning around as he grabbed the thug's hand and twisted, while spinning, disarming him before smacking him with the gun, then swept his feet from underneath him, kicking him out. He threw the gun at Ward, dazing him, and running up to him, gave him a dropkick into the corner, knocking him down, then ran to another part of the apartment as he heard a Hydra thug there.

Finding the thug coming up at him, Daredevil kicked the gun out of his hands, then elbowed his face and kicked him out.

Two Hydra agents fired at him from the other end, as Daredevil rushed off and leapt over a kitchen counter, hiding behind it.

After some firing, they walked towards it to check, and found no one. They looked around, trying to find him, when Daredevil appeared, grabbing one by the throat as he leapt and kicked the other one out, throwing the first down and punching him out too.

With great annoyance, Ward let out a grunt as he pulled out a rod from behind his waist. "Goddamn superheroes." He walked to the center of the apartment, past the dead agent, to see Daredevil throw down another one of his men after elbowing and disarming him. That was when Ward plunged the rod down, as the top of the device shot and before the red/black clad vigilante could react, it exploded, sending out a blue shockwave that not only destroyed the apartment, sending furniture and glass flying, but also Daredevil.

Ward removed the Thunderstick from the floor and watched the vigilante struggle to get up, clutching his head. "Yeah, that's gonna hurt for awhile. Or I could do this." Ward drew his sidearm and fired, three shots, center mass, and watched as the Devil of Hell's Kitchen was thrown out the broken window. With enough time wasted, Ward barked at his men, "Get up, we need to go, now!"

Wheezing, coughing, and groaning was all Matt managed. The explosion made his senses overload, made worse when that man, a HYDRA agent, shot him. The force sent him crashing onto another rooftop, as if the pain from the landing wasn't enough, he could feel the bullets embedded into his chest. Melvin said the red of the suit was the least protected, guess he was underselling the durability of his work, otherwise those bullets would penetrate his lungs.

The pain was overwhelming, but Matt still forced himself up. Uneasy as his legs were, he managed to stand when the ringing in his ears eased up, and let him hear the start of an engine. Somehow finding the strength, Matt started running, leaping onto the next rooftop and tracking the HYDRA squad.

"He was good."

"If some guy in fancy pajamas can knock you down, maybe it's not his skills that are the issue." The man who shot him snapped at one of his own.

Matt's leg caused him to limp before the adrenaline flooded his body, pushing through the pain to sprint after them. Over rooftops, vents, climbing over ledges. That's when Daredevil encountered a problem: he was running out of rooftops. Running as fast as he could as the jeeps made a turn, Matt hopped onto a ledge and jumped.

With Daredevil out of the way, Ward sat back in his seat and expected smooth sailing. Of course, that didn't mean he would accept his squad's failure at the vigilante. They had a lot of work to do, work that Garrett would have done if he were around. His musings stopped something crashed on top of the car. "What the...?" Ward stopped when he saw through the rearview mirror what landed on the roof.

Daredevil.

"What does it take to kill these guys?" Ward asked aloud as he and his men prepared to shoot through the roof when Daredevil's fist punched through the driver's side window, his hand grabbing the steering wheel and fighting the driver, causing the jeep to swerve, throwing Ward and the rest of the squad off balance.

Daredevil jerked the wheel to the right, the car's tyres skidding against the road as he tried to somehow stop the long thought dead enemies of Captain America. That's when he heard it.

He didn't know what it was, but one minute, Matt was on top of a jeep, fighting HYDRA in Hell's Kitchen. The next, the lawyer/vigilante did not know.

The two jeeps emerged from a breach onto another road, but a sudden turn to avoid another car sent the body of Daredevil falling to the pavement, hard. Rolling to a stop, Matt tried to push himself up, but his hand gave way from the pain. He pushed again, and slowly made it back to his feet, but it was no use. HYDRA was getting away, the blood samples of a gamma monster in their hands. All the blind man could do was limp after them, and he did, for as long as he could, before the pain finally caught up with his body. "Arrrghh." Matt ducked into an alley to get off the street. He didn't have the strength to stay awake, he already felt his consciousness slipping away. Finally, his leg gave out, and all Matt could do was clutch onto the dumpster to stop himself from falling. Not again, he can't be found again.

As everything started to fade away, Matt managed to hide himself behind the dumpster, before falling unconscious. The last thoughts he had, a prayer to God that he could get out of whatever mess he landed himself in.

Unknown to Daredevil, from atop the building overlooking the alley, a man in a green hood watched.

Earth-21, Washington DC, DEO Base

Clark Kent entered the DEO Base alongside Thor, who was now in glasses, his hair in a ponytail while he wore a normal suit himself, carrying a pad and pen.

He now called himself Donald Blake, like Jane's ex she'd told him of once back in the day.

They heard Diana being tortured by Bones somewhere within the facility due to their super-hearing, causing Thor to clutch one fist in anger as he snarled. "Should have brought my hammer down upon him back there."

"Would have made things worse", Clark pointed out. "Besides, she made her choice. Now that we're here, we've to find her mother."

Thor narrowed his eyes on hearing a certain name pop out of Bones' mouth during the torture.

"Hades." The Greek God of the Underworld. He'd never met the Hades of his world, but he knew of him. He was a humorous but cold man, and a fair judge of the dead.

But if Bones was to believed, this Hades might actually be evil.

"Stay strong, Diana", Clark whispered, knowing she could hear him. "And hold on…"

"Mr. Kent?"

"As we look for your mother", Clark finished.

"We will find her, and destroy this Bones", Thor added, when the woman who'd called out to Clark stopped in front of them.

"Special Agent Cameron Chase", she said, holding out her hand, as Clark shook it.

"Pleasure to meet you."

"And you'd be?" She turned to Thor, smiling a bit due to how good-looking he was

"This is Donald Blake, my colleague", Clark quickly said as Thor held out his hand and shook hers.

"Here to finish that tour you began, I assume?" Chase asked Clark as she and Thor dropped hands.

"No offense, but I was expecting Commander Trevor", Clark had to say.

"He's on administrative leave at the moment", she said, leading them through the facility. "Aside from classified areas and our specific global location, Director Bones strives for a greater level of transparency with the American Republic than our predecessor had."

"Then you won't mind our asking- due diligence and all- why you've taken an innocent super into custody?" Clark inquired of her.

Chase looked at the two. "Now that is some classified information. How exactly did you come by that knowledge?"

"My fiancée's father was present at the time of arrest. Small world, right?" Clark covered smoothly.

"So you agree that she is innocent", 'Donald' pointed out, making her look a bit uncomfortable now.

"No comment", she said, the three coming across bald people in robes who looked like monks.

"I see. And what about these….are these monks?" Clark asked Chase about them.

"Employees. Pension and everything", she revealed.

"That's maybe a bit more zen than I was expecting", Clark noted.

"Hardly. They're a necessity", Chase replied. "Its no secret that things like aliens are real now. And perhaps Gods too, if that was actually Thor they met out there."

'Donald' smirked, as Clark said to her while crossing out all floors he'd x-rayed for Diana's mother on his paper. "You don't say."

"This will be the next media storm, if magick is not discovered first. We deal with 'astral threats' just below the radar on a daily basis", Chase said. "Our 'Celestial specialists' rotate out in shifts, chanting what one might call a spell. A certain harmonic frequency that resonates with the architecture to keep 'spooky things' out."

"Which might also help to keep them in?" Clark asked in retort.

"You're a clever one, Mr. Kent", Chase replied, then added. "And no comment."

"They are so much like black magic worshippers", Thor had to say about the monks internally.

"You'll have to forgive me, Agent Chase, but I think my lunch is coming back to haunt me", Clark then told her. "Unless you think your monks can help with that."

"While I believe some sleep that has eluded me for sometime is coming to haunt me too", Thor said. "I need to do something about that."

Chase gestured with her hand. "Third hallway to your right."

Clark and 'Donald' quickly went there, and when they were out of sight, Clark grasped Thor and rushed forth to Level B15, the Black Room, taking off his glasses and using Heat Vision to take down the keypad, causing the door to open.

Clark and Thor walked forth as Clark called out. "Diana, if you can still hear us, we just found the closet where the DEO keeps its skeletons. And it's a walk-in."

The room was full of relics and magical objects.

"Spells lie on everything here", Thor noted grimly, before noticing something.

"Did you find her?" Diana's voice came.

"I believe we have", Thor noted, looking ahead at a kind of big urn, as Clark looked at it too.

"She's in suspended animation", Clark revealed, as her mother was inside of it. "And very much alive."

Suddenly, there was a loud crash as a tentacle hit both Clark and Thor, sending them falling, while water spilled everywhere.

They turned around to see a large monster to whom the tentacle (and many other tentacles) belonged, and on one tentacle was a figure coated in a protective ball of magic.

"Pardon me…but I'm not interrupting anything, am I?"

Earth-199999, Upstate New York, Avengers Compound

"No, not happening."

"We watched your shit last night. It's my turn."

"Call Police Academy shit again. I dare you. I double dare you." Rhodey threatened as he held the remote away from Sam. His fellow airmen looked ready to lunge, before he felt the remote ripped from his grip, and he whipped his head around to find Natasha, flicking through the channels. "Nat!"

"Oh shut up, you both know you'd end up fighting on whatever you pick before deciding to watch Lethal Weapon. Again." The Black Widow gave them a bored look. Both men refused to acknowledge the truth of that statement, merely sinking into the couch, as Natasha continued her flicking. It was several moments too long for their liking before the screen finally stopped.

On a face they hadn't seen in years.

"Natasha…" Sam started as the redhead changed the channel again, and once more, the face of an old threat to the world returned to the screen.

"He's on every channel."

"It's more than that. Ms. Romanoff." JARVIS piped up. "He's broadcasting this message to the whole planet. Several satellites have been hijacked. I am attempting to find the source." Steve finally joined the three with Clint and Banner with him.

Throughout the Compound, agents and analysts paid close attention to the screen.

Magneto has returned.

"In these last few years, Earth has been faced with perils never thought possible. Aliens invade New York, wormholes to dangerous new worlds, monsters rising from the depths, and your own machines taking up arms against you. This world is under threat. Your arsenals are depleted, and the day will come, when the world will be powerless against whatever it is that comes next."

New York City, Baxter Building

The Fantastic Four could only watch, along with every other resident of Earth of the Mutant extremist spread his message. "However, there is hope. Across this planet, people have been gifted the power to combat these dangers. Mutants. Suppress us, ignore us, and kill us, it does little against the truth. WE are the future. Evolution has struck and it has chosen us."

The Playground

Within the Playground, Coulson and his team couldn't believe what they were watching.

"We are to inherit the Earth. We are to protect it. The next foe who dares to strike at our world will find a people bestowed with powers whatever otherworld enemy cannot hope to match our might. This is no threat, this is a fact, and I intend to show you. My brothers and sisters of the X-gene, stand ready, our time is coming."

"Oh come on. First Inhumans, now Mutants are back?" Lance Hunter asked with a groan.

Westchester, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngers

"The world will be under our protection, our powers given to us for this reason. Join me, join your Mutant brothers and sisters. Stop hiding, embrace who you were born to be. Fight together in a new world of our own making."

Storm clenched her fists as thunder boomed outside her office. The rest of the X-Men watched in trepidation. After years of silence, what was Magneto planning now?

"Get Jones, we need to find out where this coming from."

"I thought he was cured?" Rogue whispered shakily as she began to look at her hand in fear. Does that mean the cure doesn't last? Bobby saw her fear, and entwined her hand with his own, steadying her from the dread of her perceived curse returning.

"Whether he was or not, doesn't matter. He's back now." Storm said with steel in her voice as the magnetic Mutant continued.

"To those who have not yet awakened their gifts, fear not. The time has come. A new tomorrow has come, and it begins today."

Forge ended the transmission, allowing Magneto to stop staring at the camera and to the viewport. Never did he believe that his life would take him to this moment, to this place. Atop an asteroid, watching as Forge and Sage's work positioned them for their own purposes.

"At long last, the world will evolve."

Earth-205

"Angels exist in our galaxy, but that is merely a nickname. The Diathim inhabit the planet Iego, but do not resemble the beings you describe." Obi-Wan explained to the brothers. They spent the past hour listening to the Winchesters explain the current state of their world, and the urgency of searching for this woman, Anna Milton.

"Are you sure it was a good idea to listen to a Demon?" From what Anakin can tell, Demons are basically creatures of the dark side, tortured souls who've given up light and descended to all things evil. Does not exactly sound like someone they should trust.

Dean held up his hand in victory. "Finally, someone else sees sense."

A deadpan was fixed on Sam's face as he gestured to the two men sitting behind him and his brother. "You do realize they wouldn't be here if this wasn't important."

"He has a point." Obi-Wan added his two credits.

A groan left Dean as he realized something. "Great, I got two nerds in the car."

Earth-1, Central City, STAR Labs

"You have our thanks for your help", Selene thanked Team Flash genuinely.

"Yes, might not have been able to do it without you all", Corvin added.

"Ya know us, always saving the world!" Cisco quipped, sharing a chuckle with Corvin again.

"It wasn't a problem. Now, Vampires and Werewolves can remain a secret to the world, and if you need our help, you know where to find us", Barry assured the two.

"Indeed, we will meet again", Selene said, before walking away with Corvin.

"What exactly is normal at this point?" Joe asked jokingly.

"I don't know man. Guess we're gonna have to accept this as the new normal", Barry quipped as the rest of the team laughed.

Earth-205

The four were now driving to Anna's house, with Sam and Dean having met her psychologist in the hospital. Anakin and Obi-Wan hadn't gone into the hospital, as the brothers believed their robes would get them strange looks.

Sam had seen sketches in her sketchbook with texts like 'Raising of the Witnesses' and 'Samhain the next seal is broken', and she'd sketched one stained-glass window repeatedly.

Obi-Wan and Anakin had their eyes closed.

"Something...terrible has happened."

"Drive faster." Anakin urged Dean, and with greater unease, he did so, flooring the gas.

Very soon, they came to a skidding halt in front of the house. The Jedi were a blur out of the car as they entered the house. "Shit. They got legs." Dean said in shock at the speed. He and Sam rushed after them.

As they entered, they found the Jedi standing over two dead bodies on the floor, looking grim. These were Anna's parents, and their throats had been cut.

Obi-Wan knelt over the dead mother, as the brothers noted the cylinders in the hands of the Jedi. But they couldn't figure out anything else about them, and didn't know why they were important. Then again, these were aliens.

"I sense a darkness in this place. Whatever was here, it was evil."

"A Demon." Sam confirmed, noting the Sulphur on the ground near the bodies. "Whatever the deal with this Anna girl is..."

"...They want her and they're not screwing around", Dean finished.

Obi-Wan and Anakin looked around, Sam walking forth as he saw a family photograph and picked it up, while Dean picked up some addressed envelopes. "All right, so I'm "Girl, Interrupted", and I know the score of the Apocalypse, just busted out of the nut-box…possibly using superpowers by the way. Where do I go?"

Sam and Obi-Wan looked at the photograph carefully as the former asked Dean. "Hey, you got those sketches from Anna's notebook?"

"Yeah."

"Let me see 'em." The four gathered together, Sam turning the pages before stopping at one. "Check this out." It was a drawing of a stained-glass window. In the photograph, they found the family standing in front of a church which had the same window.

"She was drawing the window of her church", Dean realized.

Obi-Wan inquired. "What is the significance of this building?"

"It's a church, where Christians go to pray, sing, preach, all in His name", Dean said casually.

"With how often she's drawn it, has to be important somehow." Anakin piped up as they converged, with findings of multiple church sketches.

"If you were religious and scared, and had demons on your ass, where would you most feel safe?" Sam asked.

Earth-92, Sunnydale

"Owwwwwwww."

"Would you shut up?!" Warren snapped at Andrew. He was whining like a bitch even more than usual.

"I can't help it." Andrew moaned, struggling to lift his cast covered arm while reaching into the pile of trash. "Buffy was meaner than usual."

Jonathan dug through a pile with his cane, but whether he actually needed it or not wasn't questioned. "Yeah, you'd think we ruined her favorite dress or something."

"Clearly the bitch is starting to realize how much we threaten her." Warren would have smirked if the movement didn't cause his busted lip to sting. "Ever since Spike left, she's been getting sloppier."

"Hey, don't bring Spike into this." Andrew weakly protested as he moved to another pile. They may have gotten that shark Demon to steal that butt load of money, but Warren's genius started by diving through the garbage looking for spare parts, not just because the bullies threw him in with the trash. "He's cool."

"Whatever, just keep an out, we need to..." Warren trailed off as he froze, his blackened eye, half shut as it was, nearly widened to the same proportions as his uninjured eye at the sight before him.

"What is...oh." Jonathan joined his side, followed by Andrew. None of them could move, the only thing they could think of was to stare at the silver metal-covered machine in awe.

"Who would throw away something so awesome?" With an almost reverence in his voice, Andrew moved to stand at the foot of the machine.

Despite the pain, and the repulsiveness of his brutalized face, Warren gained a grin as he stared down at the empty, blank, optics. "Don't know, but it's ours now."

Earth-21, Washington DC, DEO Base, The Black Room

"Finally….." The magician snarled as he looked at Diana's mother in suspended animation, specifically at the Tiara on her head.

"After the Tiara, or just the jewel?" Clark inquired.

"Care to chronicle the beginning of the end of the world, do you?" The magician asked the two. "The jewel on the armor is the Eye of Ares." He fired blasts at both and Clark was hit as he hovered in the air.

At that moment, Thor held out his hand, and Mjolnir burst through the roof, Thor grabbing it as his armor appeared around him in a burst of lightning, and he crackled with it alongside his hammer while hovering higher in the sky.

"Who are you?" The magician asked, dropping Clark.

"I am Thor, the God of Thunder", Thor revealed, to his surprise. "What do you need the Eye of Ares for?"

"It was crafted by Zeus himself to keep his brother, Hades, separate from the mortal world. Trapped in a 'Hell' of his own making. Hippolyta here aided Zeus in subduing Hades. He rewarded her with an island on which to raise Amazons 'as wondrous as she'."

"Is that the legend you and the rest of Shadowpact stumbled onto back in World War II?" Clark asked as he picked himself back up. "Help Hades escape in search for eternal youth?"

"You've got a nose for news, Mr. Kent", Bones said as he burst in and fired at the magician. "I don't care what deal we all made with Hades in that reliquary under Italy. I won't let you end the world, Faust."

Felix Faust easily stopped the bullets with his magic as Thor charged with a roar, the monster trying to strike him with a tentacle that he struck with Mjolnir, making it screech as the tentacle retracted.

"I knew you and your boys captured the Amazon Queen when she brought the kid back from that island", Faust said to Bones. "And to think, she's been down here, under the river this whole time!"

Thor dodged another tentacle from the creature and struck that with lightning, making it screech in more pain.

"You were wise to hide the jewel from me, Bonesy, after you turned your back on the deal, it cost you your skin, your muscles…" He magically hurled the bullets back at bones just as Thor charged him, but Bones was hit, "throwing the stones at me just cost you everything else!"

He fell down, dead, as Thor brought Mjolnir down on Faust's magical barrier, cracking it a bit and making him stagger away from the blow.

Before Thor could strike him again, Faust struck his chest with a magical blast, and Clark's too, sending both flying back.

"Now, as for you, my little precious." Faust put his hands into where Hippolyta was in suspended animation. "This has been years in the making." He took the gem from the Tiara. "Let's not delay any longer, eh?"

He dropped the gem into the water. "For Hades!"

As the monster tried to attack, Thor brought his hammer down on its head once as it all crackled with lightning, sending it flying off.

"FEEL ASGARD'S WRATH!"

He electrocuted the water, damaging the monster even more as it screeched in pain.

But then, everything started shaking.

Out on the streets, the road split apart as people ran.

"What's happening?!"

"Earthquake!"

"Terrorists!"

A fiery portal then appeared, spreading out through the broken road, and then a giant, armored figure with a horned helmet came out.

"It is nice to see the stars once again." Hades, the Greek God of the Underworld, smirked, as he looked up at the stars, then at the broken street. "Such beauty in the Heavens."

DEO Base, The Black Room

Diana burst into the room, punching a monk out. "Get away from my mother!" She saw her mother's unconscious form, her heart breaking to see the strongest woman she knew in such a state, as she lifted her up in her arms, cradling her mother like she had cradled her when she was a baby. "Mother!" She could perhaps respond to her regal title! "My Queen, can you hear me?!"

Thor lowered his head, reminded of losing Frigga due to the sight before him.

"Faust!" Clark snarled at the magician.

"You will pay for your actions, evil magician!" Thor cried out as he fired lightning, and Clark fired Heat Vision, but Faust disappeared using his magic.

So, Thor and Clark knelt near the spot where Diana lay Hippolyta. "I am here, mother!"

Hippolyta then let out a hoarse whisper. "Diana?"

"Diana, I know you've been searching for her for a very long time, but we need to prioritize", Clark said to her.

"Indeed", Thor agreed as Clark lifted up Hippolyta, and he and Diana ran from the tentacle monster, Thor firing lightning at the water and electrocuting it again to cover their retreat. "Hades has come, and we must stop him first."

"Yeah, and magick and I don't get along at all. I'm a little out of my depth, to be honest", Clark confessed.

"Things magickal take their toll on the Amazons, as well", Diana confessed.

"Can we count on you to aid us, Diana?" Thor asked her. Sif would have aided them in this moment, regardless of any personal feelings she was dealing with.

Sighing, Diana confessed. "I…..do not know."

"With all due respect…" Clark ripped open his coat and shirt, revealing his suit with the 'S' symbol underneath, and he threw his civilian clothes off, before flying forth as Superman. "Figure that out…and fast!"

The monster came to attack one more time, and leaping up, Thor let out a loud roar.

"FOR ODIN! FOR ASGARD!"

Unknown location, a month ago

Thor now fought a Demon that resembled Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Hades. Only, this one was on fire. He was holding back two heads with his hands, using his boot to push back the middle one, flames leaking from their maws.

"This is reminding me too much of that time I got drunk fighting Musphelheim!"

He flipped the Fire Cerberus over, then leapt on its back, before breaking two of its necks, only for the third, middle one, to throw him off and bite him, engulfing him in fire.

Thor grimaced but stayed strong, his skin withstanding the teeth and fire, his armor holding up, though his cape was burnt off.

Thor managed to pull a tooth from the mouth and threw it into its eye. Then, he grabbed its upper and lower jaw, and pressed upon the upper jaw hard, breaking it, as the lower jaw was broken too, and the Fire Cerberus dropped, blood pouring out of it.

He staggered away, not paying attention to the corpse now, thinking on what to do now.

"Heimdall!"

The image he had was faded, and the voice was hard to hear.

"...focus...it lies...the hammer..."

Thor tried to do that, focus on his connection to the hammer as he held out his hand, but he heard roars and turned around to see hordes of Demons rushing him once more.

"I know you're Demons, but get a life!" Thor groaned, and clutched his fists, ready to battle them.

Earth-21, Washington DC, DEO Base, The Black Room, Present Day

Mjolnir cracked with lightning again as he brought it down on the monster's head one final time, killing it once and for all.

He turned to Diana. "I know how you're feeling. My mother died a few years ago, and I would do anything to have her back."

Diana looked at Thor in sympathy, unable to imagine how it'd feel for her if she lost her mother forever.

"But right now, you have a duty to the people of the Earth….to protect them from the evil of Hades and Faust."

With that, Thor twirled Mjolnir and flew off after Superman, leaving Diana to make her own choice.

Earth-1, Budapest

Selene and Corvin had just reunited with their daughter Eve, having left her in the care of someone they knew until now, as she asked. "So you two did it with Flash's help?"

"Flash and his friends, yes", Selene assured her. "There won't be any trouble of this kind for a while now."

At that point, they heard some ruckus going on outside as Corvin muttered. "Wanna go out?"

"Yeah, what else can we do?" Selene muttered, the two heading out to take care of this business, Eve behind them.

Keystone City

With the lack of resources their new office currently housed, Snart made do with what he had. It always served him well before. A bulletin board, tacks, and pictures. "Alright, our first job in our new line of work."

"Hm."

Ignoring Mick's grunt, Leonard continued. "The Crown of Fire." He pointed to the headdress made of rubies. "Stolen from the tomb of some famous king and queen in Ecuador by this guy," Captain Cold stuck up a new picture, one of a young, bearded man in a white business suit, "Abigail Fairfax." As expected, Mick descended into a chuckling fit, that quickly became a roaring laughter, slapping his knee and clutching his gut while the Snart brother and sister waited for it to end. Almost a minute later, a now red-faced Mick wiped away a tear. "If you are quite done."

"Wait...now I am."

"Thank you, Mick." The sarcasm did little to effect Heat Wave, but Snart carried on regardless, even as Lisa smacked the brawny thief's arm. "Now on the bright side, Fairfax thinks he's smart, hid the goods in an auction house that unfortunately for him, our own little swindler so graciously discovered for us." Lisa beamed at the praise with a sweet smile, one that had Mick rolling his eyes, muttering, "teacher's pet" under his breath. "Along with the building plans." Snart picked up and unveiled the blue prints for the auction house.

"If only it was only that easy." Lisa acknowledged. "The place has surveillance cameras, an electric fence, laser sensors, biometric scanners, and a great many, many armed guards."

"Nothing our loveable little hothead can't handle." Leonard smiled at his old partner. What he got in return was an unintelligible, guttural growl with his teeth bared. "That's the spirit."

"Gonna take more than spirit to through those countermeasures." Mick pointed out factually, and both Snarts agreed, he had a point.

"That's why I put in an order in advance." Leonard pulled out from under the table a duffel bag, Lisa unzipped it, and the contents had her hum in delight. "Now, you know what I say about plans."

Lisa started. "Make the plan, execute the plan-"

"Expect the plan to go to shit, wing it, grab the loot, get out of there." Mick paraphrased his own version, making the mind behind the Rogues sigh.

"More or less, now, the way I see it..."

A hand pulled up the zipper on the back of a leather-like suit. That hand belonging to a woman with short, dark hair, ran her hand over the material before a mask with goggles was offered to her. "You like it? I added a layer of Gore-Tex to the outer layer to make it so your heat signature is hidden." The speaker was a bespectacled woman who excitedly ran from the suited woman to a counter where she carried two gloves made of a similar material. "Try them on." The woman donned the mask, the goggled raised on her head, visually looking like ears before pulling on the gloves. She clenched her hands, and when releasing, sharp, metal claw-like spikes emerged. "Carbon steel, in case you ran into "trouble". The brunette with longer hair air quoted with an overexaggerated wink. "Just clench the pad in the glove to bring up or retract them."

"This is good stuff, Alena. Now I know why I hired you." The suited woman said with a coy smile as she pressed her palms, the claws retreating into the suit.

"Ah well, you know, it's not every day you get to work with a celebrity, especially one that worked with THE Batman." Alena said with obvious excitement as she ran to her desk, three monitors set up before her. The image of an auction house appeared on the center screen, the blueprints of said building revealed on the right, and highlighted areas of security and vents on the left.

A smirk graced the face of Catwoman as she eyed an image at the corner of the center monitor. "I don't think the Bat would approve of what I get up to in my spare time." Selina needed to eat, and pay Alena for the help. Fairfax had plenty of money, so what if he lost one decoration worth millions, not like it belonged to him anyway. Still, security, vaults, armed guards, Selina felt the excitement build up as she left the hacker to do her job. "This ought to be fun."

Earth-205

The Impala was parked near the Church, the glass-stained window visible, but Anakin and Obi-Wan stopped. "You sense it too?" The former student asked his former master, getting a nod in answer.

"Sense what?" Sam asked as the two Jedi stopped behind the brothers.

"Find the girl." Obi-Wan told them as he and Anakin made to walk away.

"Hold on, what the hell will you be doing?" Sam felt the same irritation as Dean as the older Jedi turned back and answered.

"Taking a walk." He said simply before leaving the brothers with Anakin.

"You're doing that thing again."

Obi-Wan looked at him innocently. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

The brothers entered the attic, their guns drawn.

Sam noted something. "Dean." He pointed his gun towards a hidden person, and they moved forth, putting their guns away. "Anna? We're not gonna hurt you. We're here to help. My name is Sam. This is my brother, Dean."

"Sam? Not Sam Winchester?" Anna's voice was heard.

"Uh, yeah."

Anna finally walked out of hiding, revealing herself to the brothers. She was a beautiful, red-haired woman.

"And you're Dean. The Dean?"

"Well, yeah. The Dean, I guess", Dean smirked.

"It's really you. Oh, my god", she said, excited, as she walked forth. "The Angels talk about you. You were in Hell, but Castiel pulled you out, and some of them think you can help save us. And some of them don't like you at all." She turned to Sam. "They talk about you all the time lately. I feel like I know you."

Dean inquired. "So, you talk to Angels?"

Anna shook her head. "Oh, no. No, no way. Um, they probably don't even know I exist. I just kind of... overhear them."

"You overhear them?" Sam inquired.

Anna confirmed. "Yeah, they talk, and sometimes I just... hear them in my head."

Dean asked. "Like... right now?"

"Not right this second, but a lot. And I can't shut them out, there are so many of them."

Dean said in realization. "So, they lock you up with a case of the crazies when really you were just... tuning in to Angel radio?"

"Yes. Thank you", Anna said gratefully.

Sam asked her. "Anna, when did the voices start? Do you remember?"

"I can tell you exactly - September 18th."

Dean was hit with another realization. "The day I got out of Hell."

"First words I heard, clear as a bell - "Dean Winchester is saved.""

Dean turned to his brother. "What do you think?"

Sam sighed. "It's above my pay grade, man."

Dean pointed out. "Well, at least now we know why the Demons want you so bad. They get a hold of you, they can hear everything the other side's cooking. You're 1-900-Angel."

Anna then asked the important question. "Hey, um, do you know - are my parents okay? I - I didn't go home. I was afraid."

Before the brothers could break the bad news, Ruby entered into the attic in a rush. "You got the girl. Good, let's go."

Anna was horrified on seeing Ruby. "Her face!"

Sam assured her. "It's okay. She's here to help."

Dean commented. "Yeah, don't be so sure."

Ruby urged. "We have to hurry."

"Why?" Dean asked.

Ruby revealed. "Because a Demon's coming - big-timer. We can fight later, Dean."

Dean immediately suspected her. "Well, that's pretty convenient - showing up right when we find the girl with some bigwig on your tail?"

Ruby said in annoyance. "I didn't bring him here. You did."

Dean was confused. "What?"

Ruby told the brothers. "He followed you from the girl's house. We got to go now."

"Dean." Sam pointed to a statue of Virgin Mary that was suddenly bleeding from the eyes.

Ruby knew what it meant. "It's too late. He's here."

Sam took Anna by the arm and hid her in a closet. "Okay. Stay in there. Don't move."

"Okay."

Sam shut the door, then took out a flask of holy water.

Ruby said. "No, Sam, you got to pull him right away."

Dean didn't want that. "Whoa, hold on a sec."

Ruby pointed out. "Now's not the time to bellyache about Sam going darkside. He does his thing, he exorcises that Demon, or we die."

Sam put the flask away again. The Demon burst the door open. He seemed to be in the body of an old man in a coat. He walked forth, dusting his hands.

Sam held out his hand and tried to exorcise him, as the Demon let out a coughing sound while his white eyes were exposed, then he smirked. "That tickles." Sam was horrified as the Demon shook his finger. "You don't have the juice to take me on, Sam."

He did a telekinetic motion, pulling Sam towards him, and then Sam went past him, being thrown down the stairs.

That moment, Anakin crashed through the glass as Obi-Wan ran up the stairs, catching Sam with the Force.

He set Sam down, with Ruby and the new Demon snapping their heads between the two Jedi.

"He doesn't." Anakin warned him as his lightsaber flew to his hand, and he let the blue blade come to life. The Demon, Dean, and Ruby's heads snapped to Obi-Wan and Sam, the former staring, when they heard the same hiss and the same glowing sword in the older man's grip.

"We do."

Earth-92, Sunnydale, Trio's base

"And...there!" Jonathan limped away from his computer and watched as the cables hooked up to their new android slowly started to power up the circuits. The blank optics and mouth soon began to glow red, and to the Trio's shock, the advanced machinery stood on its own, and remained standing, still like a statue.

"Holy crap." Andrew ran his hands down the android's arm, and felt goosebumps across his skin. "We have our own robot!"

"No." Warren risked the pain and grinned, looping up at the taller, non-organic being. "We have our very own murderbot." The former college student rubbed his hands in excitement. "Nothing I've ever built had weapons this advanced. That armor shell of his is stronger than steel. Doesn't matter who made it, it's ours now. You know what this means?"

"That someone is better at robotics than you?" Jonathan said dryly but lowered his head submissively when Warren turned his angry glare to him.

"No, you idiot. It means the Slayer is toast! She can't handle this much firepower."

"And so machine triumphs over magic." Andrew gasped like an overexcited fanboy, almost ready to wet his own pants. "It's like out of a comic book."

"Except better, because now, this town will be ours." Warren said with a smug confidence. "Nobody's gonna stop us now."

Jonathan limped closer to look at the towering robot. Well, six feet was towering compared to him. The amateur magician looked the machine up and down before finding its head turned to him. Before Jonathan could gasp, it grasped his head and twisted.

Warren and Andrew's glee turned to horror as they watched Jonathan's body drop to the floor like a sack of bricks. Hyperventilating, the duo of the former trio, found what they thought would be their murderbot turn its head towards them and march. Acting on instinct, Warren shoved a screaming Andrew towards the machine to slow it down while he ran for the stairs. The Demon summoner felt his head hit the metal body of the machine, his body recoiling and falling to his back. Now he could only look up and whimper as the red eyed robot merely stepped forward onto his chest, and stepped down. Andrew felt his lungs being crushed, he could not even cry out or scream, all he could do was weep and wheeze as the metal foot pressed down more and more, his ribs breaking from the pressure. Coughing out blood, the last thing Andrew ever saw, was another metal foot stomping down towards his face.

Warren tried to make it up the first few steps by the time he heard the bones start crunching when he felt something burn his leg, forcing him to trip, his face hitting the step. Crying out in pain, Warren held up a hand to his face, to find blood leaking from his broken nose. He turned back around, and regretted when he saw what made him trip. His left knee was a black, smoking stump. The pain didn't register at first...until it did.

"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Warren wailed and wept like a child, lifting what remained of his leg and rocking back and forth as the realization hit him as the glowing red eyes and mouth of the machine that he was supposed to be reprogram to kill the Slayer seemed to glow brighter while it loomed over him. "Wa-wait-wait! Pl-please! I can help you. Just tell-tell me what you want!"

The pleading through the tears did nothing. Whatever was running the android had it grab Warren by the head, it's metal thumb uncaringly piercing through his only good eye as blood mixed with the tears. Pain was a constant, and it only got worse when the grip on his head acted like vice, growing tighter.

"What I want...is your extinction."

The Ultron drone clenched its fist, crushing bone and flesh, sending blood and grey matter splattering over its exoskeleton and the walls. With the last of the organics eliminated, the drone accessed the surroundings, scanning the room and the technology it housed.

"Analysis reveals technology reminiscent of early 2000s of Prime Earth. Improvised advancements constructed by the deceased organics deemed...inadequate." The Ultron drone tilted it's head up as it made its move. "Connection to internet established. Ultron drone-5 dimensional travel successful. Commencing Phase 2."

And that ends this one.

Thanks a lot to HRwriter897 for his help on the Smallville 'Olympus' plot with Thor added. Imagine Jamie Alexander as Wonder Woman (obviously), Rick Cosnett as Steve Trevor, Danny Glover as Bones, Arden Cho as Cameron Chase, Jake Abel as Felix Faust, Lucy Lawless as Hippolyta (ironic due to Xena, LOL!) and David Boreanaz as the voice of Hades. Thanks a lot to HRwriter897, Stand with Ward and Queen and Bl4ckHunter for the castings.

And now, we finally see where Thor had been sent by Ultron- to the Underworld in 'Devil May Cry'. Now, if MCU version of Thor fought anyone on Nelo Angelo's level or beyond, he'd be dead quickly (comics Thor is a different story), but these Demons weren't as powerful, most of these were low-level, or not that high-level, like the Fire Cerberus. Still, fighting them all so much is what eventually unleashed Thor's true power and brought him closer to his EMH self. Thanks a lot to Brainstorm Sorcerer for his help with this part.

Meanwhile, 'Underworld' is also part of Earth-1. Only the first 3 films are canon here, though Selene's and Michael's daughter still exists, but films 4 and 5 never happened. Since Vamps and Werewolves weren't touched on in the Arrowverse until LOT (which won't happen here), this would make sense. And so, Barry knows Selene and Michael too, and now all of Team Flash knows them. Mary Seward is a Vamp from the DC Comics, and part of the Cult of the Blood Red Moon. Imagine Karen Gillan in the role, which is ironic due to 'The Vampires of Venice' in Doctor Who Series 5, LOL! Thanks a lot to gussygus28 for his outline for this plotline.

For Static Shock, now Hotstreak and Ebon are here. Imagine Peyton Meyer as Hotstreak and Wolé Parks as Ebon, thank you to Brainstorm Sorcerer and Stand with Ward and Queen for the castings. Hotstreak is down, but Ebon will be back. For Virgil's grounding, since he is a teen hero, I wanna show how a double life is impacting him, similarly to Spider-Man, and it shall carry on for a while.

On the other hand, Magneto and the Brotherhood finally begin their new plan, and everyone reacts to it. Wanda and Pietro have their comic suits now. While Agents of SHIELD is mostly happening in the background, figured a reference to the ending of Season 2 would be fitting here. Imagine Adam Beach as Forge, thank you to Brainstorm Sorcerer for the casting.

Then, Grant Ward is here, and has killed an old Hydra Agent for the blood of Abomination. Matt Murdock aka Daredevil tries to stop him, but they end up on another Earth, which is clearly Earth-1. I love Agents of SHIELD, its one of my favorite shows, with spectacular writing. But the writing for Ward post-Season 1 was atrocious, so something else will be done with him in here. For 'Daredevil', this is between Seasons 1 and 2, and for AOS, obviously between Seasons 2 and 3. Imagine Ralph Waite as the Hydra guy that got killed, thank you to Brainstorm Sorcerer for the casting.

And 'Supernatural' finally makes a comeback with 'I Know What You Did Last Summer', and both Anakin and Obi-Wan have been added to the plot too. This will be very important. Now let's see how the Jedi do against Alastair.

At the same time- Leonard, Lisa and Mick have been given a new job. 'The Crown of Fire' is from the film 'The Lost City', and this is mostly a reference. So Fairfax shall be played by Daniel Radcliffe because of that. Meanwhile, Selina Kyle aka Catwoman from 'The Batman 2022' as well as Alena Whitlock are after it too. Alena, if you remember, was a member of Helix in 'Arrow', and the first to approach Felicity. However, Alena's first recorded act for Helix is said to have taken place sometime in late 2016, so I'm just pretending that's when she joined Helix, and this is long before that. And because of that, she'll have a different path from canon.

Finally, the Trio from 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' have been slain in their very first (and last) appearance. I like Jonathan, and I do think he was the only one sympathetic out of these three, and I've given him redemption a few other times, but there was no feasible way he'd survive this, which is why he got a quick death, that was the mercy he received here. While Bastardrew and Warren got very brutal (and deserving) deaths. So, MCU Ultron is still around, and is going to cause more messes later.

Now, thank you very much to Brainstorm Sorcerer for writing for the Brotherhood, Ward, SPN/SW and Earth-1 Leverage plotlines, as well as the death of the Trio, your hard work for this story is very much appreciated, thanks a lot man.

Now, like I'd said, this story shall go on a break for 2 months, and we shall get back to it sometime in June, as both of us need a break. This will only have 9 more (very long) chapters, so keep an eye out. But worry not, this is not abandoned. Even if I had any intention of abandoning this fic (and I don't), we're too far along to really consider it now.

Anyways, hope all enjoyed and see you all in June with the next chapter.