(342/400 Power stones) For extra chapter!
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I had sat within this luminal space for an unknown amount of time and I was getting sick of it. Video-like visions swirled and twirled away within my mind as the force lightly caressed my mind. A green blur covered elements of the visions but cleared after I concentrated enough on them. All of them were nearly incomprehensible though...
Luke giving the Dark Hold to Doom, who then destroyed it. Then that scene switched to Doom stripping the book of its power and then continuing to fight his friends, Luke using an apocalyptic level of his power to match Doom evenly. The vision changed again and instead Luke and Doom held onto the infinity circlet and both stated their requests at the same time... The vision froze as all that followed was the smell of rot and decay.
Gulping, despite the fact that I had no body in this space, I watched as every hero was returned... But not as they once were. The hazy video blurred and stuttered as the husked eyes of Scarlet Witch whipped her head around with an unnatural alacrity, her neck twisting far past the point that a human could manage.
"A-Arggh-AHHHHHHH!" She pointed her finger towards the vision as she roared out in a guttural growl. The vision exploded outwards with the light of a million stars before my consciousness registered the pain within my muscles and the dread of what i had just experienced.
"ELSA!" Tony shouted aloud as I blinked my eyes rapidly.
"T-ton..." I coughed before I could finish speaking.
"Easy there jack frost, you've just been hit with a wish spell." Tony sarcastically commented as he helped me sit up, his metal gauntlets slipping under my arms and yanking me forwards.
"Tony... Warn Luke... Not to... Fight for control... of the stones..." I wheezed out as I did a self-diagnostic on all of the damage I had suffered. The level of damage was somewhere between horrifying and easily fixable; I started replacing some of the tissue damage around my heart and lungs as I analysed the permanent scars across my eyelids.
"Umm, okay...? Sure? Why not?" Tony mused loudly before tapping the side of his helmet and relaying my words... I ignored what he was doing however as I realised that some massive changes had occurred within my mutant genes... They were all crimson now and bathed in a liquid red that mimicked the sealed form of the reality stone.
'Holy fuck!' I stifled a gasp as I watched the red liquid surge through my body and quickly regenerate every single curable injury I had sustained. I would have scars still, but they would be limited to my eyelids and the jagged ankh scar just below my Adams apple.
"Elsa, we need to go help them. Luke is fighting him." Tony said as the rest of the Mighty Nein gathered around, having hushed conversations with one another. Jester was a few metres away carving a dick into the Eiffel tower.
"You guys go first. I need to heal a bit." I firmly stated as I felt all of my muscles slowly readjust and fix themselves.
"Sure, just make sure you're all right before you turn up. We don't always need you saving the day." Tony said before his face plate snapped back into place and he launched into the air with a miniature pressure wave.
"So how are we getting there?" Beauregard asked in a frustrated tone.
"Perhaps you could call one of your airships to come get us, Drecarios?" Caleb queried innocently, the Wizard slowly scratching his cat whilst he spoke.
"Go to my Fury, there is a droid within that will take you to Loki. Be prepared though... Doom is not an easy enemy." I said softly as my mind filled with hundreds of different visions, all of them growing more and more dire as Luke interfered.
The Nein didn't dally with me much longer, all of them rushing to my ship. I was glad, to be honest... It was the first time in a long while I just got to be by myself.
'I'm going to take a break after this fucking war...' I thought exhaustedly, sitting in the shadow of the Eifel Tower, surrounded by rubble and torn stretches of dirt.
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Apollo grimaced in distaste as he watched the FR1s grab a black-haired woman with pert lips and a rather devastating figure and drag her through the rubble of the underground bunker.
Warsaw, the capital of Poland, was a radiant pyre of warfare as the plasma cannons of the Hyperion and Chronos melted entire segments of the city. Doom's forces had infested every element of the city and all of the civilians had either evacuated or been conscripted into the man's forces.
The AI had no time to worry about property damage however as he needed something to bring the infinity stone wielder to his knees. The stones themselves were massively powerful and allowed him to do whatever he wanted, so to speak, with reality. There was just one thing that he couldn't interfere with... Multiversal travel.
Apollos plan was nasty, dirty and beyond everything else, viciously vindictive. He was going to send Cynthia Von Doom through a the Stargate back to their original universe and then use her as a chip against the megalomaniac that had hurt his father.
"My lord Apollo, the mother has been captured." The command droid stated through the army-wide communication network.
"Good. Initiate the evacuation plan for her. Then we set off towards Doom." The droid knelt and nodded its head as he cut off the communication.
Now it was time to bring brimstone and fire to Doom's home country.
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Luke deflected another blast of purple with the force, using force lightning to harry Doom before turning abruptly and stabbing his lightsaber at where Doom would be in less than a second. A spark of blue deflected the saber but not before a force push bulldozed into the shield and knocked the masked villain into the dead corpse of Vermithor.
"Using time will not work on me." Luke stated calmly, lowering his hood as he tracked the movements of his adversary... Not just within real space but through time as well.
"You are all like cockroaches. Skittering out from the corners of the world, attempting to be heroes for a matter you know nothing about!" Doom shouted, his eyes glowing an ominous emerald green as a massive pulse of magic bowled the rest of Luke's allies down onto the plain. Luke simply stabbed his lightsaber into the dirt and crouched down, being dragged only a few metres away before standing once more, his lightsaber extended in front of him.
"You have done all of this to wipe out a future threat. I can understand that. However, you went about this the wrong way. You could have simply destroyed the source of the problem." Luke conversationally spoke as he whipped his hand to his right abruptly, stopping a concentrated blast of power and sending it back at Doom.
"YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF WAT YOU SPEAK! YOU HAVE NOT SEEN WHAT I HAVE!" Doom boomed out as a wave of red, purple, orange, yellow, blue and green twisted into a spear mid-air and whipped through the air at speeds far exceeding sound.
Celerity blipped into Luke for a second as he scooted several hundred metres to his left, his right hand being held out as he absorbed some of the lance and channelled it into a force shockwave that ripped up and entire acre of the plain.
"This book I hold is the cause... I saw it. We must destroy it or this entire conflict is for nothing and what you fear will come to pass regardless... It will just have the power of the infinity stones instead of the heroes' powers." Luke monologued as he did several flips over the mini-pulses of red that had been sent at him.
"No, you do not understand! NO MATTER WHAT I DO DEATH WILL COME FOR US ALL! I CHOSE THE MOST PEACEFUL END!" Doom yelled out before the atmosphere of Earth turned 'off' and a vortex of space-time emerged in the palm of his hand, matter being sucked in and compressed until he launched it out towards Ciri, who was still recovering from the several broken ribs she had received from Doom.
Luke stretched his hand out towards her and pulled whilst also slashing his lightsaber back towards where Doom would be, the lightsaber grazing the side of the man's mask before he vanished a swirl of space-time.
"What you are doing now will lead to the end of this universe!" Luke shouted in annoyance.
"It is better to have the universe crumble into dust than have rot and virus consume every single soul!" Doom responded before emerging behind Loki, who had just recovered from his previous state. Luke pulled Loki down onto the plain and quickly dashed up to the stone-wielder, his lightsaber slashing in terrifying arcs towards his vitals.
"You are letting fear dominate you! It has lead you to give up on all possible solutions, to abandon Humanity and yourself to oblivion!" Luke shouted as he compressed the force within his hands, tightened it into a coil and then compressed it into the size of a pin-prick.
"YOU HAVE ONLY SEEN HALF THE STORY! NO MATTER WHAT WE DO, WE ARE CURSED BY DEATH HERSELF! IT IS EITHER A PEACEFUL DEATH OR A MESSY ONE! I CHOSE WHEN OTHERS FAILED TO." Doom slapped his hands together, creating hundreds of opalescent strings between his hands before pushing them forwards.
Luke thrust his unstable blackhole towards the strings and watched as creation and destruction overwhelmed one another and exploded into an enormous amount of sparkling lights that when they landed on the field, imploded and swallowed several hundred kilograms of mass into nothingness.
Gandalf stepped up once more, his staff held aloft. "Farther and farther does the corruption grow... Stifle it with thy yoke... Snuff it before it had a chance to further blow!"
The book strapped to Luke's side hissed and quivered as a red smoke started to sizzle in the air. The light of Varda was attempting to snuff the corruption of Chthon.
At the same time, Heimdal reared back at what Drecarios had just said and immediately ordered all of the forces of Asgard to attack Doom's city. Furthermore, he twisted his sword within its pedestal before pulling it out and leaping through the Bifrost. he landed next to Hela who was currently trying to assemble herself back together as the effects of the reality stone slowly wore off.
"We must stop this Doom from fighting Luke Skywalker." He intoned as she collapsed into a coil of flesh, the red energy softly shimmering off of her form.
"Go, guardian, protect, Asgard and, the universe." She stuttered out in pain before collapsing once again.
He nodded just as a flash of light passed overhead and Black Sabbath song started playing; Iron Man by Black Sabbath.
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Tony was done with today and just wanted it to be over. He had already been slammed into a seven story building and been blasted into several more. And now Elsa and the rest needed his help to stop a megalomaniacal reality warper from fucking up anyone within the chat... Oh and to get the people he snapped away back.
He sighed as he dropped speed and readjusted himself so he plummeted onto the back of Doom with both of his feet. Unfortunately for him, Doom saw it coming and simply vanished, his suited legs now buried half way into the freshy upheaved dirt below.
In the distance Asgard's army started landing troops within Latveria's capital whilst large energy beams carved Sentinels from the sky as they tried to intercept the troop barges.
"We really all need a holiday..." Tony muttered as he pulled his legs from the dirt, watching Luke take another strike and simply shrug it off with he aid of the force. He started firing on Doom when he could see him, having Jarvis start generating a predictive pattern based on the man's movements.
"Luke, you need to stop fighting him! Elsa said so... Anyway!" Tony shouted aloud before he started blasting again. Luke ignored him though and threw the Darkhold towards Gandalf whilst he went toe to toe with Doom.
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Apollo stared wide eyed, as the carriers moved in over the top of Asgard's perimeter, at the massive explosions and destruction rocking the plain before the city. Waves of coloured energy blasted around as if they were simply arrows strung from a bow whilst reality screamed at the constant yanking of Luke upon the force.
The AI was recording every single detail as all of his siblings slowly emerged behind him, all of them watching on as the final battle of this conflict started crescendoing.
"All FR1s will deploy within the city. Icewings will launch and harry Doom as much as possible. Hyperion and Chronos will provide support to the invasion force." Apollo commanded as Hermes watched the battle with unease stretched across his features. Artemis was glaring at Doom whilst Hestia looked uneasy at the amount of death in the distant city.
"I need to use his mother as blackmail. I will go down there." Apollo spoke up once more before fading into light as he appeared inside the positronic network of one of the Icewings, using the vehicle as a mode of transport for his holographic form; he was standing atop the plane.
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I sighed as I finally felt the regeneration finish and my body stop aching. Stretching a little, I felt the world shake in the wake of something massive happening. Throwing myself to my feet I reached out with the force and felt that same vision return to me, but instead of just Wanda, there was also Thor, Odin, Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, The Fantastic Four, Namor, Captain Britain, Black Panther and countless other heroes; including the X-Men.
All of them were dead, but still walking. Marching forwards and infecting every single human that stood before them or got anywhere near them. Flashes of Earth turning dead and barren filled my mind before other worlds started to flash by and they too morphed from full of life to dead.
"Fuck... it just had to be one of those universes..." I tiredly stated as exhaustion infected every single part of my body.
'There is probably no way to stop it. Lady Death has targeted this universe in order to consume it into her domain... Even the infinity stones can't really face up against her, unless the Phoenix force were to fight her for the universe.' I huffed as I watched the Nein get flown away in my Fury.
"Hermes, I want you to pull anyone who is hurt from the battle and quickly bring them to the New York gate. We're going to slowly start retreating." A flash of recognition and relief washed over me as my son started ordering several FR1s to gather Aegon, Vermithor and the other members who were hurt or unconscious.
'Guess there's nothing for it... I'm gonna have to go save some asses again...' Huffing once more I pulled on every energy source around me and created a Jedi Star Fighter and an astromech, the red energy within me powering the majority of the creation, oddly enough.
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Within minutes of getting the Darkhold, Gandalf destroyed the wretched artefact, the powers inside of it collapsing inwards upon itself until there was only a speck of darkness that quickly fizzled out.
The Wizard sighed at the release of tension as reality screamed once more. Looking upwards he watched as his companion, Luke, was holding onto a part of the circlet that housed the infinity stones. He was locked in a mental duel with Doom, neither of them backing down from their positions. This was the case until his companion shouted aloud what he wished for the stones to do, followed quickly by Doom.
"BRING THEM BACK!" Luke screamed out, as if his words would manifest the outcome.
"KEEP THEM DEAD!" Doom cried in desperation, his tone tinged with horror and dread.
In an instant every single stone shattered into dust as a massive tidal wave of power spread all over the Earth, sundering buildings and blowing people over. The world quivered and shook at the power of what had just happened whilst reality did far more than scream now... Now it wailed in despair.
A single minute of enforced silence was broken by the single note of cracking glass.
A crack formed in the middle of the air, leaking a sludgy, black, smog that seeped into the grass and dirt. Flowers and tall grass withered as it slithered across the ground and up slopes. Dread filled Gandalf as his staff vibrated in revulsion, urging him to slip between the planes of existence and merge once more with the great song, all in hopes of avoiding whatever this was.
"RA-Raghhhhhhh!" An inhuman screech billowed out of the crack as a crimson magic pulled at the edges of the crack, tearing it wider and wider. Every single living person took a step back as two hands emerged from the crack... Followed by the face of Scarlet Witch, Wanda Maximoff...
All of her features were rotten, dying and already infested with rot.
"Yeah... fuck that..." Tony declared before back up and grouping towards Luke.
Drecarios Frost- We need to leave, Doom is defeated...
[MISSION WITHIN MARVEL UNIVERSE 909 HAS BEEN COMPLETED]
[RETREAT IS ADVISED]
[DEATH HAS CLAIMED DOMINION ON UNIVERSE 909]
[MISSION REWARDS WILL CULMINATE IN ONE ARTEFACT/POWER/ABILITY]
[TIME UNTIL AUTOMATIC CHATROOM RETRIEVAL: 19 MINUTES 59 SECONDS]
[IMMUNITY TO REALITY STONE HAS BEEN GRANTED TO ALL CHAT MEMBERS]
Drecarios Frost- Run motherfuckers, run!
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