Heroes Rising: Multiverse Mania
Prologue
The skies became blotted with crimson clouds, and dark lightning tore through the heavens striking the ground in thunderous booms that eclipsed even the pandemonium of terrified inhabitants of Earth attempting to flee from their inevitable doom.
As the universe faced its final moments, a singular figure appeared over the dying planet. Helpless and broken, the fearful civilians looked up, hoping for some miracle… praying that all this was just a nightmare coming to its end… knowing that in the end, no money or technology was able to save them.
Instead, they saw the face of their destroyer… of a man clad in purple armour, his face humanoid but cold and emotionless, lacking even the slightest of facial expressions, but his eyes flashed with crimson light… the same shade as the skies that heralded the death of their world.
Once, this cosmic being was a blunt instrument of balance keeping order in a universe on the brink of destruction. He feasted on worlds on random, its sole purpose to prevent the universe from stagnancy and overpopulation, driving the evolution of life and the universe itself… its name feared throughout the cosmos… GALACTUS.
However, he was banished from his home universe after he threatened that world's Earth… an Earth, home to heroes, sorcerers, and scientists, who were able to find a way to save their home from his insatiable hunger, but in doing so, created an even greater threat, to not just their world, but all worlds in all universes.
Galactus, however cold and heartless his actions might have been, was a part of the natural cycle of energy, matter and even life… an avatar of death and destruction, but also rebirth and evolution. While he may have spurred life forms of the universe to evolve, he had himself remained the same being since the dawn of time… But now untethered from his home world, he was forced to evolve.
Theoretically, his banishment to what the heroes of his world had termed the "Negative Zone" was the perfect solution… An all-encompassing world of anti-matter, with nothing for Galactus to feast on and no world to endanger…
They had thought it would put him in a state of hibernation or maybe cause him to die of hunger…
Except it did not.
For the first time in his existence, he evolved.
Driven by emotions and thoughts he had deemed befitting of lesser beings.
Anger.
Pain.
Revenge.
Survival.
He feasted on anti-matter… except it did not satiate him, it corrupted him…
Antimatter made his hunger infinite, and furthermore, gave him the ability to manipulate the 'Negative Zone' to break free again.
His objective was no longer to maintain balance in his home universe, to feed only when hungry… but to devour all worlds, till none remained but the void.
He was no longer Galactus, but the ANTI-MONITOR.
A/N: It is an idea I had for a while. My own version of multiversal team-ups inspired by Crisis of Infinite Earths and other stories of epic scale, but involving both the Marvel and DC characters, and possibly more later down the line.