[hr][hr][center][img]https://s22.postimg.cc/6g8onsz41/6a8a04c0ca1b1adbb23631ae5dfd661b.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/GjazZAE.png[/img][hr][@BlueSky44][@Kirah][@Nallore][@Natsu][hr][hr][h3][color=84B4E2][b]EARTH 257 - 8:50 AM Nov. 15th, 2021 - Odinskeep, New Asgard[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr][center][B]T H E N I C E A N D A C C U R A T E P R O P H E C I E S O F I R E N E A D L E R, D E S T I N Y : R. E. T H E S E C R E T W A R R I O R S [/b] [i]They are nearing their end. What happens will break them apart, triumph or fail, it will not change. Their group will be forever fractured, their bond never the same again.[/i] [b]AND[/b] [i]If they fall, Genosha will share their fate.[/i] [b]AND[/b] [i]The file corruption will become permanent if they stay in our world too long. I see that one will be overwritten and lost forever. More, if they aren't careful and quick. They will need the aid of a powerful sorcerer - a scarred man with a metal mask - in order to return home.[/i] [b]R. E. U N K N O W N S U B J E C T[/b] [i]There will be a boy called no one. You will know him by the sins of his mother. Hers steel, his annihilation.[/i][/center][hr] The fight rages on with no end in sight. But just as the battle is being waged physically, a more sinister one has just been renewed. Some of our heroes had chosen to merge their memories and become an amalgam of their life in this world, Earth-257, and the one they had left behind, Earth-666. The others did not. Charles Xavier, while often claimed to be the world's most powerful psychic, is only a man. The barriers that he constructed in the minds of Matt, Cass, Oliver, Bonnie, and Flynn have fallen. The result is devastating and poorly timed. Matt now ONLY remembers his life as an agent of MI13, tasked with capturing a horrific and elusive serial killer. Cass now ONLY remembers her life as an agent of SWORD, the mutant adopted daughter of Director Hayward, raised to be a weapon. Oliver now ONLY remembers his life as a brutal serial killer, whose parents' death at a young age resulted in him being placed in foster care, where his cruelty unfortunately flourished. His lover and partner in crime, Niah, is perhaps the only person in the world besides himself who he believes to be real - to truly matter. Flynn now ONLY remembers his life on Genosha as the son of its founder, Magneto. The leader of its deadly X-Men, he loathes humans almost as much as the world hates and fears mutants. Bonnie's memories would have been overwritten as well, turning her into another agent of SWORD who would view mutants as the devil. But her mind was not just her own - she was hosting the goddess Athena. And Athena could do what Charles Xavier could not. Bonnie's memories remained unchanged, as her eyes flashed stormily. The eyes on her shield flashed as well, as she swung the mighty Aegis up towards the sky. Eight Doombots turned into stone, falling to the ground and shattering into rubble - but once more, sixteen more arose to take their place. [color=f6989d][i]I thought you said this had anti-magic properties,[/i][/color] Bonnie interrogated the goddess in her mind. [i]It does[/i], Athena chided. Bonnie turned her gaze at the sixteen new Doombots, waiting for them to begin their attack, but they remained frozen. She realized then that they were stone statues. The power of the Gorgon had spread through their replication process somehow, and while they duplicated, the new Doombots were little more than paperweights. Eight dealt with, several thousand to go... Up in the air, Amelia could hardly believe what she was seeing - there was a glowing [i]portal[/i] by Niah that she could not even stand to really look at. Each tiny glance Amelia took felt like looking straight into the sun. But she wasn't going to argue with Niah or even really ask her where she had got that from, science-y types were always pulling out weird things like this in battle. And Niah had gone on so many adventures that Amelia didn't even question it. For instance, Sparky was carrying around a teleportation ring - why shouldn't Niah have some sort of weird portal? [color=FFB795]"On it, mate!"[/color] Amelia answered. She sent a gigantic gust of wind, hundreds of miles fast, at a clump of about ten Doombots. The metal contraptions hardly stood a chance. Flying in the air, they were instantly blown down into the portal, disappearing on the other side. No Doombots emerged to take their place. [color=FFB795]"... Well shit. I dunno what that thing does, but I like it!"[/color] Amelia gave Niah a thumbs up. But even with the portal, this would take a lot of time with just Amelia blowing the robots around... Especially as it was unlikely that they'd just calmly let her destroy them all... Down on the ground with Doom, Doom was doing his best to fend off Sparky, Flynn, Raynor, and Cass all at once. Cass was proving easy for him - she kept on punching his armor, and as it was made of Uru metal, it hurt her more than it would ever hurt him. He tried to blast Cass away from him with what looked like a laser, but the laser was jammed or something, so nothing fired out. Raynor charged at Doom head on again, reaching out for his mask, trying to rip it away in order to expose some flesh, but Doom knocked him aside and Raynor saw stars. "Foolish beings! You think you can triumph against the might of DOOM?!" Then, on cue, thirty Doombots alighted on the ground, surrounding Doom and the four heroes. Doom laughed. Meanwhile at the entrance of the palace, whose doors were still sealed, Luminous had been robbed of her superspeed by Matt - for now [i](i.e., for 2 rounds of posting)[/i]. While she was a speedster though, her deadlier power set was that of the Scarlet Witch - her mastery over probability and chaos magic. And that one was still functional. Her eyes glowed blue as energy built up around her in a dense field, and Oliver and Maria and Matt would feel a pressure inside their heads, as if Luminous were attempting to entrance them... But then suddenly, it stopped. Luminous collapsed to her knees, holding her head in her hands. "Where... [i]where am I?[/i]" she asked, looking up at the trio. There was no recognition in her face. "Who... Who are you?" Luminous no longer remembered her life on Earth-666. She only remembered Earth-257.