Secret Wars (2)

This was a planet which could be seen slowly approaching their Earth from space. This was something that had never seen or happened before. A planet approaching another planet? What the hell is this?

T'Challa got the scare of his life as he saw this and everybody could already imagine what would happen if their planet and the approaching one collided. But then saw another thing that made his jaw drop even more. The approaching planet burst into an explosion. The planet was blown into pieces before it could even touch their Earth.

The video rolled as T'Challa came across a group of aliens who had just arrived. One thing led to another and T'Challa had to fight the group of aliens. Finally after much fighting, T'Challa was able to capture the leader of the alien.

Black Swan was the name of the leader. And later she was taken to the Illuminati to make head and tail of what the hell was going on. And when the revelations came, it blew the minds of the people.

The Earth before that was supposed to collide with their Earth was another Earth from another universe. This was an Incursion. This process had started from some time now and this factor of collision between two Earths had started because one Earth in one universe had collapsed. This process destabilised the multiverse and thus every other Earth was now facing Incursion. The only way to stop this Incursion was blasting the other Earth into pieces.

It was either you survive or I survive!!

There was no way out.

There were no options for them. The people in the Illuminati had a very ugly face and they didn't know how to handle the situation. The only way to survive was to kill everyone from other Earth. This in itself was a crime.

A massive war crime!! Not only would they be responsible for the death of the other Earth but also the other universe.

And then the Illuminati took the decision of following the ways of Black Swan. Blowing away the other Earth for their own survival. There was a general consensus about it among the members of the Illuminati. Everyone voted for it.

Except Steve Rogers. He was dead set against killing an entire planet. And thus Doctor Strange had to forcefully make his memories vanish.

The video stopped there as John brought everyone back from the illusory world. This was the starting story of Secret Wars (2) where the Beyonders came to have fun. This whole storyline was downright cruel.

All the people present were stupefied and didn't know how to react. According to John this was one of the possible futures. The word 'possible' was enough to run chills down their spine. But among all of them there was one person who was particularly very angry.

That was 616-Steve Rogers.

He looked at all the members of the Illuminati with rage and anger. Out of habit, he even had his iconic shield in his hand, ready to beat the shit out of all the members of the Illuminati, starting with Namor.

He was the one who was on board with this whole plan of decimating other universes and Earth.

"Calm down Captain. This is only one possible future. This has not happened yet." Namor said with a very meek tone. He could see all of them were not looking at him in very good eyes and any words he might misspoke would just send him to hell.

"Calm down? All of you. The whole bunch of you are rotten. No wonder John depowered us last time. You all have been sitting too high at your levels to even think of the general public and people living their lives. You traded one universe for another and you asked me to calm down?" Steve was seething as he said that.

"But this hasn't happened and we will make sure that every universe is under control. Mr. Jameson here has already seen this so I will speculate that he has seen the end story too. Isn't it right Mr. Jameson?" Namor asked.

"I do know the end story. I have seen how it would end. But now I am not so sure if the ending is what I have seen before. Future is always changing. Like Knull was killed by another person. It was supposed to be the work of venom and now we have an imbalance. This has already titled the balance of the multiverse. But now you know why I had prejudice against the Illuminati. I hope you will reconsider decisions that would bring ruin to all. I will tell you this, the decision of destroying Earth was not the solution of this Incursion and soon everything collapsed. So think twice before you make decisions."

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