Universe number 19999-441.
The battlefield of Wakanda.
Captain America, Black Panther, Falcon, Black Widow… and a group of Avengers heroes.
And then Thor, Groot, and Rocket, who arrived later, were fighting against Thanos' vanguard.
The battlefield was in chaos.
Beams of energy in various colors filled the plains of Wakanda.
Thor, who had just forged Stormbreaker in the land of the dwarves, led the charge, and with the courage of ten thousand warriors, cleared an entire path of the alien vanguard hounds and rushed straight toward the base commanded by the Five Generals of the Black Order.
"Thanos! Come out and die!"
Thor, holding Stormbreaker, leapt into the air.
Lightning and light exploded all around.
But at that moment, a cold voice echoed in everyone's ears:
"NoMorePower."
Everyone who heard it, heroes, villains, humans, or aliens,
lost their powers.
"Oh no!"
Thor fell from the sky.
Stormbreaker lost its thunderous glow.
Even Captain America, a product of the super-soldier serum, began to age rapidly!
The villain Black Dwarf lost his superhuman strength, and Proxima Midnight also lost her power!
Black Panther lost the energy of the Heart-Shaped Herb.
Vision lost his life as the Mind Stone lost its glow!
Also, in this universe,
countless beings with superhuman abilities lost them at the same moment.
Including those on Titan.
Spider-Man, Mantis, Drax, Doctor Strange, who were fighting against Thanos… all suddenly lost their powers.
Even the four Infinity Stones in Thanos' gauntlet.
Power!
Reality!
Space!
Soul!
one by one lost their glow and turned into ordinary pebbles.
"That's not possible…"
Thanos raised his head, his gaze as if piercing the cosmic barrier.
And in the endless multiverse, countless beings were experiencing the same.
...
Universe 1325.
Spider-Man, Peter Parker, was swinging on his web between tall buildings.
His opponent, Dr. Lizard, was climbing the walls like a lizard and hotly pursuing him.
When he saw an opportunity,
Dr. Lizard aimed at Peter, jumped, and lunged.
Moving at such speed, Peter's "spidey sense" didn't react in time, and both fell onto the roof of a building.
"Poor Peter~"
"You have no father, no mother, not even Uncle Ben."
"And now you yourself… are nothing anymore."
Dr. Lizard pinned Peter Parker to the ground with his claws, speaking the classic line of an enemy to Parker.
"Oh, man, at least let me breathe."
Taking advantage of the moment while Lizard was rambling, Peter Parker fired a web, grabbed a nearby beam, and pulled back.
"You can't escape, Parker!"
Dr. Lizard, seeing his prey slip away, immediately jumped after him.
At that moment, both were high in the air, tens of meters above the ground.
And right at that unfortunate moment.
The chaos wave arrived!
Peter Parker and Dr. Lizard lost their powers simultaneously.
One turned into an ordinary seventeen-year-old from Queens, and the other into a one-armed middle-aged scientist.
The only thing they now had in common — both were weak and vulnerable.
"No!"
The sudden loss of powers made Peter unable to hold the web,
and his entire body fell from a great height.
"Peter!"
Dr. Lizard also began to fall freely.
But as soon as he turned back into a man, his good side returned.
"I'm sorry!"
Dr. Lizard apologized to Peter.
Then
two dull thuds.
Spider-Man and Dr. Lizard crashed hard onto the ground.
"Aaaa!!"
People walking down the street screamed, then recognized who had fallen.
That same day, JJJ, the editor who hated Spider-Man the most, published the headline:
"Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Dies in Fall."
...
The same thing was happening in many worlds.
As if, in one moment, everyone lost their powers!
That cold phrase "NoMorePower" became a nightmare for every superbeing!
Anyone who heard it would lose their abilities instantly.
No matter who they were.
No matter where they came from.
Countless universes became ordinary, like the real world, dull, empty, without excitement.
Those affected universes no longer had anything to attract an audience.
Because there was no more drama.
No more uniqueness.
No more reason to watch.
"In a way… she succeeded."
Feeling the impact of the chaos wave, Aron was silent for a moment, then spoke.
If those affected universes were really a movie, comic, or novel,
then the revenues of those films, comics, and novels would be catastrophic.
Because the audience watched them for entertainment… and then suddenly, everyone lost their powers.
Superhero movies suddenly became ordinary, realistic dramas.
"I wouldn't be surprised if Thanos ends up in jail now."
Aron gently shook his head.
Then looked beyond the universe.
But the Lord of Chaos, Wanda, was no more.
She was dead!
Both of them were dead!
Aron knew very well that his bullet couldn't have killed her.
"She killed herself."
Aron realized.
"Aron!"
Suddenly,
Wanda from the main universe shouted.
Aron turned and saw endless chaos magic coming from outside the universe.
Then it poured into the body of a frightened Wanda.
Wanda had already seen powers of that scale.
She was terrified, couldn't move.
She only looked at Aron pleadingly.
"Aron, I… what do I do? I'm scared…"
Wanda was lost.
"Don't be afraid, it's her stake in the bet with me."
Aron reassured her.
Before her death, the Lord of Chaos teleported all her power into the body of the main Wanda.
Just as she promised.
"Alright… Cosmic beings don't lie to cosmic beings."
"If I could, I'd love to hear her say that herself."
Aron laughed with slight irony.
Even though he had just been deceived, now things had somewhat balanced out.
In the end, everything came to zero.
"What's happening? My magnetic wave is gone?"
"My magic!"
Not far away, Magneto from Universe 838 spread his arms, but felt no power.
Doctor Doom had also lost his magical side.
"I… my abilities…"
America looked at her hands.
Her power to open interdimensional portals also disappeared due to the phrase NoMorePower.
Everyone suddenly became ordinary people.
The only ones unaffected were those who never had powers in the first place, like Nick Fury, Tom's version of Iron Man.
Or those who have the ability to resist chaos magic, like Aron and Wanda from the main universe.
The only exception that didn't fall into those categories, was Diana.
"Why am I fine?"
Diana truly felt strong waves of energy,
but her power remained untouched.
"Could it be because I'm from the DC universe?"
Diana muttered.
"Don't think about it, let's go back."
Aron said and opened a portal to Universe 838.
He sent them all through it.
Only Wanda remained.
Because she…
could no longer return to any universe!
"How does it feel?"
Aron looked at Wanda, who was still absorbing the power of the Lord of Chaos, and asked.
"The feeling… terrifying."
"As if everything around me has become fragile, as if I could destroy it all if I wanted."
Wanda looked shocked.
The more she absorbed that power, the more she felt its horror.
That power far exceeded anything she could imagine, as if the universe itself had become small.
"That means you're feeling it correctly."
"Come with me."
"This universe will soon be too small for you, little fatty."
Aron said half-jokingly.
The Lord of Chaos didn't lie, she truly handed over all her power to Wanda.
Cosmic beings, truly, don't lie to cosmic beings.