(General POV)
Location the New Earth: New York
It was a awful time, the death of a great hero Iceman, announced officially across New Earth.
The ones most effected by this tragedy being the X-men, the Brotherhood, and the Defenders, they held a great honoring memorial parade in New York, in Iceman's name, the Avengers, the Defenders, and the entirety of the X-men were marching on the parade, and amongst the crowd, several mutants and grateful people that were save by the late superhero, and lastly hidden away were the members of the Brotherhood, who have come to also honor Iceman's memory, Magneto, Mystique, Pyro, and Arclight were out of sight showing their respects to such a heroic mutant.
Xavier, he was in the crowd as well, being the only X-men that has a secret identity, unlike many of his X-men, he sensed Mystique and other mutants of Erik's, which only meant that he was also there.
As the parade was happening, many other forces were taking actions to prepare for the upcoming battles, as many believe thanks to Mao's own saying, the mass Forsaken attacks will stop...for now, as the twisted games and broadcasts of Mao and his Forsaken, many gruesome and twisted kills, death traps, and polls have been going on from the last two weeks.
But as many mourned, others were plotting and preparing for what's to come next for the New Earth...
Location Manhattan; New York, Hell's Kitchen; High Class District-Fisk's Private Mansion, Personal Study
Fisk was ballistic,smashing everything in his study, the once pristine, expensive, and modern styled study was a huge mess.
Glass shards scattered allover the dark marbled floor, the bookshelf of the side was smashed and all the books were torn with pages tossed everywhere, and one of the windows in the study, was busted cause Fisk threw a table through it.
The expensive, dark wooden desk was badly damaged by Fisk's Fist smashing the left side, with pages messing the surface, and some glass also on top of it, Kingpin stood in the center of the study, his usually pristine white suit, wrinkled and messy, as he was panting in a angry tone.
Not soo long ago, one of his subordinates has given him a report of the damages, that he'd suffered in his operations, from the Forsaken attack...
Millions, millions almost reaching billion of dollars, even with a small margin of his empire destroyed, in percentile, he lost a lot of workers, merchandise, and more importantly his reputation!!!
Fisk, he has as always pride himself of having both respect and reverence from both sides of the law, but all his personally hired mercenaries were slaughtered by the monsters of the Forsaken.
And those same monsters, under the command of three bigger monsters, were responsible for all these damages, just thinking of this was causing Kingpin to burst into another fit of rage.
Cracking his huge knuckles, groaning angrily he grabbed his workdesk and after lifting it over his head with ease, Fisk threw the desk through the door, a housekeeper "yipped" as the desk barely hit her, Fisk came out his study, and apologized to his employee, telling her to clean everything up.
She nodded frightfully, and went quickly to work, as he left to another part of his private home, Fisk was still thinking about the huge loss to his business and reputation, with his troops originally meant to be used to increase his control over Hell's Kitchen, but also protect all his resources.
As the public was once on his favor, and actually welcomed his men, as they enforced his power, but also took down all that exposed him through the shadows, Fisk lost that image of a protector, and now the new upstarts!!
The Hell Street Kings, they were taking his reputation, power, and influence for their own, as they'd save the city even keeping his district mostly safe from the monsters, this felt like he was slapped in the face, by whoever is in charge of the HSKs.
Basically showing him that they can achieve what he desperately wants, and still be openly criminals.
Kingpin, he has had enough, he'll contact many, many associates and place a bounty on the leaders of the HSKs' but also whoever is in charge of that whole gang.
Calming himself down, he reached into his jacket's pocket, and pulled out a special burner phone, as he has to make several calls, and secure some decent muscle against the Defenders, but also this clear threat to his kingdom!!
Location Metropolis; Lex Corp-Secret Underground Research Site, Meeting Room
Luthor in his usual stylish suit and red tie, was sitting on the head chair of this makeshift office/meeting room.
Operating a secure computer console, he was reading reports on the current activity of the League, along with these other superhero groups like the Avengers, the X-men, and the Defenders, but also other rivals, Amanda was trying to secure Mr. Thompson for ARGUS, while this other man, name Nick Fury was trying to do the same with SHIELD.
Reading about SHIELD, enraged Lurgor quite a bit, cause once SHIELD managed to regain a foothold in the government, that they'd once had in their previous Earth, in the New Earth, they started meddling in his business.
Trying to bring down, his weapon arm deals...both legal and illegal, Luthor, he only thought of these people as imbecils!!
They never understood Luthor's struggle to obtain his power, influence, and wealth, all he has ever done was to secure his legacy, and force mankind to rise beyond the dependence of these foolish, selfless, and world condemning heroes.
Superman and his damned League was already too much in Luthor's opinion, and now multiple new variables that will doom this new world, that no longer has soo much alien hostility, as Luthor's satellites have been constantly scanning for life outside their planet, including on known and new registered worlds that should have alien life.
But fortunately the only aliens on the Milky Way, currently are the soo called superheroes of the New Earth, which have eased Luthor's anger, as he tapped the screen of his special console, changing to several images of potential candidates for his group, and registered members, which unfortunately only two are basically apart of the Legion, Joker and Black Manta.
With Joker officially apart of Luthor's Legion, Luthor was continuing to make moves and contacts with other...associates...hand-picked recruits, while Luthor he was glad that Joker was cooperative and was gathering some goons to work as cannon further for their operations, or they can try to handle a angry psychotic clown.
Aside that Luthor not only managed to schedule a meeting with Ra's al Ghul through Lady Shiva, but also started making progress with obtaining Black Manta's support, plus much needed information from said underwater enemy of the King of Atlantis.
Black Manta told him, that aside from having a goof business deal with the latest open Seas crimelord, Doflamingo Donquixote which allowed Manta to secure advance and powerful weaponry to battle the various underwater races of this new world.
Along with providing the Legion with information of a growing enemy, the forces of HYDRA, who have secured a underwater, Atlantean warlord name Attuma into their service.
As Black Manta has told Luthor, that aside fighting against Aquaman's forces, he was also battling against the followers of Attuma, and the fanatics of Namor.
Because of this Black Manta, he offered a partnership, along with making a meeting between Luthor and Doflamingo, since Luthor, he learned through Manta that Doflamingo isn't only a meta, but also the one that was providing the Hell Street Kings with their firepower and their concoction, the Red Haze.
This earned Luthor's interest, wanting to make this meeting possible, and talk to Manta personally to secure his cooperation 100%, closing his console, Luthor stood up from his seat, walking over to a large screen off the side of the large meeting room, which suddenly light up, and showed the schematic of a skull shaped, underwater base that he believes that will serve as a perfect representation of the doom for the League, as well as all other that opposed them, this schematic was making Luthor smile with excitement, now all he needed was commence this bases construction, as well as contacting these recruits.
As the screen showed images of Ra's al Ghul, Captain Cold, Black Arrow, Black Adam, and more which include a suggestion of Joker of all people, Luthor was also looking to recruit Scarecrow as well, his chemical and psychological expertise will prove quite useful to Luthor and the Legion...
Location the Void of the Forsaken, Castle Nightscream; Throne Chamber
Mao, along with his wives, Jinx, Lilithmon, and Cyn, as well as all his Infernal Lords, Sabrewulf, Golem, Nomu King, Abathur, Kothoga, Kefka, Doflamingo, and Blackmore in his human form were all gathered under Mao's summon to celebrate.
Not only have they gotten what they'd most desired, which was cause as much damage both in business and reputation to Kingpin, that made the HSKs actually become heroes to the eyes of the residents of Hell's Kitchen, but also insure that many would look away and allow the Blackmore to drain that city without resistance.
Plus the death of a superhero, has made the Forsaken even more notorious, feared and hated by soo many, the surge of negative emotions caused a massive spike of Chaos Points for Mao, making him quite happy.
They started up the hunting, death traps, and punishment games of the Chicagoan captive, that along with the raising of Blackmore and Doflamingo in their crime empires, as well the death of Iceman was a huge win for them.
Because of this victory, Mao called everyone of the Forsaken to enjoy this huge win, the maid drones were bringing a feast and drink for all the Infernal Lords and Mao's wives.
Mao took a glass filled with rum on ice, taking a swing with joy on his face, these things were the only thing to happen for the Forsaken, with the latest acquisition of Cyn and Jinx of the X-men's Blackbird, the Chaos System announced that the Void has grown to another level, granting the Void with [Double Production] increasing everything.
Food, resources, and even the unit production of the legions of various creatures under the command of the Forsaken, making things much better for them.
Mao stood from his throne, and went over to Kothoga, Doflamingo, and Kefka which were chatting...well the two other Infernal Lords were, as Kothoga was tearing into a slab of bloody meat, resting on the floor, next to Doflamingo and Kothoga.
When Kefka and Doflamingo saw Mao, they greeted their lord in their own way, Kefka in a flamboyant manner, while the Heavenly Demon just smiled devilishly, chuckling, as he bowed respectfully to the Lord of the Forsaken.
Mao greeted his all three generals, as he snapped his clawed fingers to call a maid drone, and tell the side ponytailed drone, to bring another slab of meat for Kothoga, making the eighth Infernal Lord happy.
They started to enjoy themselves, Mao contacted his system to show him his stats, wanting to see the hall of CP, that the latest tragedy against the entirety of the New Earth Marvel heroes, as a red transparent floating screen, with pinkish-white lettering appeared in front of Mao.
Name: Mao Race: Devil. Gender: Male. Title: The Fiend King. Chaos Points: 800000. Domain: The Void. Powers/Abilities 1.Devil Physical Strengths. 2.Hellfire Command. 3.Umbrakinesis. 4.Domain Authority: Void. 5.Black Fogmaster. 6.Horror From the Screens. 7.Telepath-Mid Rank. 8.Nightmare Mind Palace. 9.Demonic Magic-Infernal Alignment. 10.Item Conjuration. 11.Infusion Concepted. 12.Equal Exchange. Skills 1.Expert Level: Martial Art Fighter. 2.Genius Level: Magical Practice. Higher Tier Units Brides-1.Cyn the Absolute Solver. 2.Lilithmon the Demon Lord of Lust. 3.Jinx the Loose Cannon. Infernal Lords-1.Nomu King the Prime Nomu. 2.Sabrewulf the Eternal Wolf. 3.Blackmore the Malefactor of Evil. 4.Kefka Palazzo the Laughing Destroyer. 5.Abathur the Evolution Master. 6.Donquixote Doflamingo the Heavenly Demon. 7.Golem the Artificial Giant. 8.Kothoga the Brazilian Devil God.
All thing were good in his stats, Mao has a drastic boon in his bank of Chaos Points, Mao was quite happy with the 800k of Chaos Points.
As a drone, she poured another cool glass of rum to him, turning to Kothoga tearing a chunk of bloody meat, and eating in bliss, he told the Chaos System to show Kothoga's status, as his latest Infernal Lord was the only one that he hasn't checked yet.
Right beside the bloodied maw of Kothoga, the Chaos System screen appeared beside Kothoga, and Mao started reading said screen information.
Name: Kothoga Race: Chimera. Gender: Male. Title: None. Rank: General. Powers/Abilities 1.Augmented Size & Length. 2.Size Enhanced Physical Strengths. 3.Animalistic Traits. 4.Extreme Temperature Resistance. 5.Greater Fire Resistance.
Everything was going smoothly and he excused himself, making Doflamingo and Kefka waved off Mao, as he turned towards Jinx that was having fun with the minions, throwing her bear-trap grenades out the window, and watching the explosion with excitement and cheer.
Jinx "wooed", as the Browns, Reds, and Greens cheered and Mao even caught a minion say, "Mistress Boom the best!! More explosion!!!" and other stuff like that sort.
Mao chuckled, he walked over to Jinx picked her up from behind, making her yell out in surprise, before realizing her babe was the one that is lifting her up, and spinning her around.
With acrobatics that rival Harley Quinn, Jinx, she readjusted herself to strap around Mao's chest and started making out with him, making the minions more excited and cheer.
All Infernal Lords with the exception of Abathur and Kothoga...for their own reasons didn't join, as the rest of the Infernal Lords cheered them on, Cyn teleported beside Mao and Jinx, climbing onto them, and saying in her cute way, "Can I have some too? Please?" making Jinx and Mao laugh.
Soon the three were joined by Lilithmon as well, as the fun has just begun, and once all the celebrating, along with some other stuff that Mao has planned were done, he'll activate the first Core to trigger the massive reaction from all heroes and villains, on the New Earth.
Plus allowing Doflamingo and Blackmore to continue burrow deep into the world, becoming powerhouses of the criminal underworld that no one would dare cross,but for now Mao is more focused making out with his wives, drinking, eating, and celebrating!!!