Despair

/* For those who are saying John was being a hypocrite here for letting their Earth suffer, you are forgetting that their Earth has 198 mutants. 198 of the strongest mutants and Inhumans. Black Bolt would be enough to wipe out everything and Inhumans lived on Earth itself. So if the people wanted they could always be saved. */

The Avengers were desperate now. They couldn't even stop John. He just took off after throwing them in the pit of hell. Everybody was desperate but they felt anger too. Because John's words meant that Strange had done something incredibly bad in their universe.

"What did you do, Strange? What did you do? Time and time again he had gone against you. I can even feel pure disgust when he looks at you." Tony asked in a very angry tone.

"I don't know. I really don't know. I have never seen him before. Trust me." Strange gave his answer.

"That is impossible. He hates you. There must be some reason." Peter spoke up for the first time. He was still finding it hard to accept the reality that he had lost his spider powers.

"I really don't know.." Strange mumbled. For the first time in his life he cared about what another person thought about him. Because the other person was too powerful and his powers overwhelmed all of them.

"We need to convince him to give us the power back." Reed said.

"Convince him? A host of Phoenix Force? Good luck with that. I am gonna just to say it. We all deserved it. Let's go Scott. They won't be able to defend themselves now, forget about defending us which they refused. Bye." Emma said. It wouldn't be a lie to say that Emma rejoiced a bit inside after this sudden change of the Avengers.

John was right. They all have forgotten what it meant to be an Avenger. What that word actually meant. John's actions would now remind them. Emma and Scott left after that.

"We should have killed him when we had the chance." Strange mumbled.

"Kill him? Did you just see what he did? He literally made us a normal being. In a literal sense. I have lost my intellect and you your magic. He had just changed the reality itself. Do you have some death wish of confronting him? I doubt even Captain Universe would be able to stop him." Reed said.

"We need a plan to combat this. This can't go on. The Earth will go down in chaos if people come to know." T'Challa said.

"And how do you want to combat this? By telling the people that we lost the powers. Yeah good idea. I want to see how Dr. Doom would react to it and all the other villains. It's our fault that we are here. I am off too. John is right about us. We are just hypocrites." Steve said as he walked off.

After that Peter and others left too. Those who normally fought alone were the first ones to leave. Only Tony, Strange and Reed were left behind. They wanted to make the situation right, but they couldn't.

No ideas of theirs would help them now. They just sat at their place wallowing in despair in silence. There was no remedy for the situation.

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John just vanished from his place and he came to a random building. He felt liberated and sad too after what he had done. He had decided to do this the moment he came to know that this story was the House of M storyline.

He waited to see how everything turned out. He wanted to see if his butterfly effect had any change in the decisions of the Avengers. But sadly they still chose the same route. And he had to do this to show the Supreme beings how big of a mistake they made.

He just sat on top of the building and looked at the city in silence. Out of nowhere a bald man appeared behind him. John felt it but didn't turn his head as he knew who had appeared.

"Here to change my mind or under the orders of the Gods?" John asked without turning his head.

"I am not here to change your mind John. Just wanted to check on a friend. What you did has awakened the Exterminators. The Celestials are now rushing to contain them." the bald man said. It was Uatu.

"The Exterminators? Serves them right. They wanted to play Gods and so now they will suffer." John said outright. He knew what the Exterminators were. In the second iteration of the multiverse, the Celestials created a race to bring balance to creation. A race that lives in darkness and death. And now they have awakened.

Even though they were trapped in the prison made by the Celestials, being awakened was problematic to the whole of the multiverse. Uatu just looked at John in silence and didn't comment. He wasn't supposed to interfere but he felt John who knew so many things had the right to know this.

"Are you sure that what you did was correct? People will suffer now." Uatu said. Changing the topic.

"I don't know if what I did was right or wrong. I just wanted to do it. People here deserve to see how ugly the world is." John replied