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Prologue...

"Gentlemen, we have a problem," the Atlantan Prince of the sea, Namor announces to his fellow teammates known as the Illuminati.

In this group, there is Black Bolt, king of the Inhumans. Reed Richards, also known as, Mr. Fantastic of Fantastic Four. Professor Charles Xavier, also known as, Professor X of the X-Men.

The others are Black Panther, king of Wakanda, Captain America, Iron Man, and Doctor Strange.

"If it's another Skrull invasion, we're announcing to everyone in the Avengers, X-Men, and so on, not just in this meeting," Tony blurts out.

The other heroes just stare at him and back at Namor.

Namor blinked and then just ignored what Stark was saying. "As I was saying, and no it doesn't have anything to do with Skrulls... though I'd wish it was."

"Why?" Steve asks.

"Because during my rule in Atlantis, several of my men discovered this." He places an item on the table and it is rather a quite weird-looking object.

"Is that a snail?" Charles, T'Challa, Tony, Steve, and Strange asked simultaneously.

Black Bolt looked at the snail incredulously. Whatever Namor was going to present about this snail is either going to be so ludicrous and bizarre or something quite fascinating. He'd only wish any other Inhuman, Eternal, Mutant, and so on could see this thing.

"Well, at first that's what I thought it was until my men pointed out that it wasn't exactly a snail and what's worse is what they told me where they found it," Namor explains.

Namor continued, "It came from the sky." This scared some of the men. "My men witnessed it falling from the sky and into the sea."

"Is it a powerful object?" T'Challa asks.

"No idea, however, it was doing a certain thing... a noise if you can call it that," Namor added.

"And the noise being?" This time Charles asked the question.

"I think you're about to find out," Namor pointed at the snail.

"Purpurpurpurpurpur" The snail made the strange noise that Namor was just talking about.

All the men who thought it was some dangerous weapon jolted a bit and took a stance. However, Captain America decided to inspect the item a little closer and touched it.

"Cap, don't touch- and he touched it," Tony facepalmed.

"Gacha." The snail stopped the noise.

"A weird snail," Steve commented, thinking about possibilities as to what this object is.

"Weird snail, indeed," Reed said as he put his hand on his chin, hoping to study this snail more. Tony did the same thing.

"Are you sure that this is a dangerous item?" Xavier asked all the men in the room.

"Maybe, we assumed the worst," T'Challa pointed out.

"I'll take a look at it," Reed and Tony simultaneously said and looked at each other weirdly.

"Ok, looks like we're going to compete on who wants to take a look at the snail. I might suggest Xavier could read its mind," Dr. Strange suggests.

"Well, are we all in agreement?" Xavier asks all the men who all voted 'yes' unanimously.

Xavier nodded and started to read the snail's mind. However, his face said it all as he kept trying to read its mind.

"Hm, this is rather odd," Xavier started.

"What?" Reed asked.

"It appears this snail is also telepathic, but also not entirely telepathic. More like something to send telepathic waves. For what I don't know," Xavier explained.

"Well, if it's a new enemy on the rise, we got to be prepared for it," Tony points out.

"Perhaps it is best we all analyze this snail with the best technology we all have," Black Bolt's thoughts are sent throughout the men's minds with Xavier's telepathic power.

"You mean like take turns in the analysis, so that way we can verify we all have similar conclusions. Or finding anything destructive?" T'Challa asks eagerly and concerned at the same time.

Black Bolt nodded at this; however, he noticed something peculiar about the snail. He pointed at the snail and reached over to point out the cord that was sticking out of it.

"Is that a phone cord?" Reed asks now even more intrigued.

"It's a communication device," Tony points out while also being intrigued like Reed.

"Perhaps I should take to Wakanda to analyze this communication device of some sort and see what conclusions I can arrive at from it," T'Challa suggests.

"Indeed, that probably would be the best. First T'Challa, next is Reed, then Tony, and lastly Xavier with his X-Men," Namor also suggests.

"What about Black Bolt's scientists in New Attilan?" Tony asks.

"And Strange?" Xavier also asks.

"Hm, since the device isn't magic, I don't think I can analyze as well as our fellow scientists in this meeting," Strange said.

"After Xavier takes it, Hank McCoy, it'll be in New Attlilan anyway since Hank resides there, so it'll be a win for both of us," Black Bolt's thoughts said to the men's minds.

"Very well, gentlemen. I call this meeting adjourned," Steve said.

The men got up and resumed the promise of analyzing the weird snail device. What awaited them however was a journey to a world unlike any other.

In a different universe and in a certain Watchtower where the world's greatest superheroes reside for their annual meeting, the Justice League (mainly the big seven) come together to discuss any issues or problems and so on in order for them to be solved.

Right now, the members in this meeting are:

The Man of Steel, Superman.

The Dark Knight Detective, Batman.

Wonder Woman, Amazon Princess of Themysrica.

The Flash, Fastest Man Alive.

Green Lantern, Intergalactic Enforcement Officer.

J'onn Jones, the Martian Manhunter.

And lastly, Aquaman, king of Atlantis.

"Nice to see all of you. As usual per these meetings, we all give an update on what's happening in the world and foresee any new dangers coming," Superman starts.

"Anyone wants to start," Superman says to his fellow team members.

"Gotham is as usual swallowing itself whole with criminals on the rise. I've been taking care of it along with my partners; however, I am noticing certain disturbances with people describing something odd," Batman reported.

"And this odd thing is?" Superman asked.

"I've yet to investigate it, but Nightwing is on it, and I'll await his findings," Batman replies.

"Ok, anyone else?" Superman asks his teammates.

"Central City hasn't had anything new. Usually, stuff with the Rogues every now and then is just the only things that occur. Luckily, I'm there to stop them," Flash reports.

"Coast City has been protected and safe so far. As a matter of fact, in space, I've only been dealing with typical criminals you'd usually see on Earth. No Sinestro, Red Lanterns, and so on have been spotted or have become a threat to the universe as of yet, but I expect them to come," Green Lantern also reported.

"I've been maintaining Watchtower duty and haven't seen any threats alerted," J'onn reported firmly.

Superman nodded at the reports from his teammates. The only ones left are Wonder Woman and Aquaman.

"I have nothing to report as for whatever reason no enemy has shown themselves as of yet to be any serious threat," Wonder Woman reported.

"Ok, and that only leaves you now, Aquaman." Superman said.

Aquaman sighed and explains, "I think something is going to happen, badly. Not only for Atlantis but also for the entire world as well."

The rest of the League got concerned.

"How badly are we talking, Arthur?" Batman asked.

"Perhaps, it is best I show you," Aquaman places an object on the table, and it was an amusing object to look out. The rest of League simply raised its eyebrows.

Hal Jordan couldn't help but laugh at the thing Arthur just put on the table, "Pfft... hahahaha! Arthur, it's just a snail."

Aquaman and Batman glared at Hal, but he continued laughing. The rest of the League, however, wanted some answers as to what Arthur was presenting.

"This is an interesting snail?" Superman raised his eyebrow. "Can you tell us anything about it?"

"Aqualad and Tempest were on patrol until they noticed that snail and informed me of it. They told me that it came from the sky," Aquaman explained.

"The sky?" Wonder Woman questioned.

"We are talking from heights that Superman and any League member can fly up to. Heights that no normal criminal could've dropped that snail in the ocean. Now I do not know if this new enemy is intending on destroying Atlantis or the world or whatever it may be. It is best we investigate and analyze where this snail came from and why. We could be facing a new threat as we speak," Arthur explains.

"And how do you know it came from the sky and not someone who just throws stuff really, really far away like me?" Superman asked.

"From what Aqualad and Tempest told me. The height and direction they saw the snail fall couldn't have been from someone who could throw like you, Superman, my Atlantean scientists tested it for fingerprints, and none whatsoever showed up," Aquaman explains.

"However, they could not find out what exactly this snail does or its purpose," Arthur added.

"I highly doubt this thing could be a weapon, let alone have a purpose," Hal remarked.

"Well, whatever, we ought to be prepared for what's coming next," Batman said.

"Batman is correct if this new enemy we are to face is powerful, they might be capable of magic or something much worse," Diana added.

"That's the weird thing about this snail, Diana. It isn't a magical object," said Arthur.

"Not a magical object?" Flash repeated just getting more confused by the second.

"Have you confirmed it with Doctor Fate?" J'onn asked.

Arthur nodded and said, "I did; however, he could not pinpoint where it came from. For whatever reason, something is blocking the detection of where this came from."

"Then our enemy must be someone from across the Multiverse," Diana deduced.

Arthur nodded again and said "Most likely, yes. After all the multiverse is hectic, to say the least."

"Yeah, no kidding. Last time, we dealt with any multiverse crap almost all of us nearly died or just kept seeing weird stuff," Hal remarked.

"He's not wrong," J'onn whispered to Diana who nodded in agreement.

"If it's anything crazy like the multiverse, let's hope our newcomers don't overstay their welcome," Superman said while crossing his arms.

"I have another suggestion and I'm sure all of you would agree with me on this. Why don't we have J'onn read the snail's mind or have Green Lantern use his ring to scan where it comes from," Batman suggests as the others agree to this.

Superman gestures for J'onn to read the mind of the snail. J'onn proceeds as such and is a bit astonished.

"The snail is telepathic," he says to the league.

Everyone has shocked facial reactions, although Batman's and Superman's are the sternest of them.

"Do you want to take care of it, Hal?" Batman asked.

"Uh, sure..." Hal said hesitantly. However, as he got up the snail vanishes in a bright, white light blinding everyone except for Superman, who tried to see through it, only for him and the rest of the Justice League to vanish as well.

Now, where could they possibly have gone?

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Vanishments and Discoveries

Question came by the main room to discuss with the main seven of the JL about important stuff. Only for him to find them not there.

"How odd?" Question asked himself and started to look around for clues because usually the main seven have a meeting at this hour, day, and leave whenever they are discussing their issues, such as reports, conflicts, who to let in or off the Justice League, etc...

But this particular matter right now has to lead to one conclusion and one big one... the Justice League are gone, vanished into thin air. This called for immediate action and investigation.

Question came out of the main room like he was a madman on the loose. He ran past a lot of members, and they all looked at him like he was crazy (well technically to them he is).

He makes it all the way to the cafeteria and shouts, "Everyone! Everyone! I have terrible news!"

The Leaguers turn their attention to Question.

"The original seven! They're gone! They've vanished!"

Everyone is shocked and concerned as they all run over to the main meeting room of the original seven.

Supergirl was the first to arrive as well as Superboy. More and more start to come as they see they're not there.

"No..." Kara said breathlessly and a tear starts to shed from her eye.

"What happened? Did an enemy attack and take them with them while we were just doing nothing?" Green Arrow asked sporadically worried.

"I don't know," Question answers.

"Well, what do you know, Q?!" Oliver yelled at him.

"I said I don't know!" Question yelled back.

"Both of you stop," Elongated Man ordered. "All we have to do is investigate this room and track them or at least try to locate where they are exactly."

Everyone starts to worry, but they knew Elongated Man was right. And whomever this new enemy was, they'd wish they never messed with the League ever again.

"So, how was the analysis?" Reed asks T'Challa.

"No luck in finding out what this does exactly with the telepathic waves. However, I have been able to find out why it's a communication device. I believe it's using the telepathic waves to send out as a signal to another snail like this one much like how everyone has phones in our world," T'Challa hypothesized.

"Brilliant deduction, T'Challa..." he paused. "Wait, what do you mean our world? Are you implying what I think you're implying?"

"Yes, I have another hypothesis that this snail is not of this world... not even from our universe, though I've yet to verify that," T'Challa surmised.

"Already this snail has given us trouble. First, it came from the sky, and now it's from a different universe entirely," Reed amused.

"Hmph, indeed," T'Challa chuckled.

"Anyway, you deduced that this works like a communication device through these telepathic waves to another snail like this one. How were you able to find this out?" Reed asks.

"I tested the waves coming off the snail and found its frequency is similar to that of radio waves," T'Challa explained.

"However, I was under the assumption those waves move telepathically, ergo that it cannot simply be traced so easily and yet it was, so that is why I said, in the beginning, I have no idea why these even bothers using telepathic waves for something as simple as being a communication device," T'Challa added.

"Hm, I'll get to work on it then, but thank you for the analysis," Reed thanked him and T'Challa nodded and went on his way back to Wakanda.

And so, Reed began his analysis.

Flash groaned as his eyes strained to wake up, but as he tried to see what was going on, he could see his friends all asleep on the floor.

"Uhhh," was all he could say. He sat up and put a hand on his forehead and groaned from a massive headache he was having.

"I'm definitely going to feel that in the morning," he said to himself and noticed the others haven't woken up yet.

"Uh, guys?" Barry began. "Supes? Diana? J'onn? Bats?" He kept calling out for them to wake up.

This was no time to waste, he looked around to see he was in an inter-dimensional area unseen probably by humankind before.

"What the hell is this place?" He said looking around in either awe or creepiness.

"Guys, wake up!" He shouted to his friends and hey all started to groan.

Superman awoke and just uttered, "Flash? What happened? Is everyone ok?" He asks as he checks with his X-Ray vision on his teammates.

Everyone groans and wakes up from some sort of long nap they just had.

"Ugh, why does my head feel like it's pounding a lot?" Hal asks as he helps up J'onn and Diana on their feet.

Arthur also got up feeling that headache. It was a weird feeling in his opinion.

"By the gods, where are we?" Diana asks around as she, too, is in awe of what she is surrounded by.

"I don't know where we are, but when we do find out. We're going to have a serious conversation about the multiverse and its threats," Batman suggested.

"Duly noted," Flash agreed. The rest silently agreed and started to look for signs or clues on how to get out of here.

"I brought you all here," a voice says to the League.

"Whose there?!" They all shouted simultaneously.

"It is I," the figure comes out of the shadows to reveal the Spectre.

"Spectre?" Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman asked simultaneously.

"What do you want?" Diana asked boldly.

"A terrible fate awaits you all. However, we must wait for the others to arrive," he speaks cryptically.

"Ah, boy..." Hal mutters under his breath.

"Who are the others you speak of Spectre?" J'onn asks.

"I've been in contact with a being known as the Watcher, he shall bring his allies here to discuss certain matters that are to occur. For now, remain here. As soon as the others are here, we will discuss the matter at hand," he stated firmly.

The League was concerned and wondering what Spectre was talking about. Whoever the others are, they best hope they can be grateful allies and not enemies.

Sue came by to see Reed studying something, a weird snail she sees. She sighed, he and his work have always caused trouble even if it was the best of intentions.

"Reed?" She calls out to him. He stops his analysis and turns to see his wife.

"Oh, Sue... I haven't heard you come in. Anything wrong?" Reed asked as she gestured the time. It was 1:00 am.

"Oh wow, I really overdid it this time," he said worryingly.

"It's not your fault, Reed. I know how important it is for you and your work, but next time just watch the clock and be there for your family," Sue stated and kisses him on the lips.

Reed smiles and sighs. He starts to talk, "Thank you for the kiss. I shall return one to you."

Sue chuckles as her husband returns a kiss to her.

"You want to tell me what you're doing," she looks behind to see the particular weird snail with a cord attached to it.

"Or experimenting on? Please tell me you're not summoning a creature of the disaster from another dimension cause the Fantastic Four just took care of it this morning," Sue commented as she stared at the snail.

"It's something me and our Illuminati friends have yet to tell the rest of the hero community," Reed began. He looks directly at Sue's eyes and said, "Listen, Sue. I have promised to analyze this device... this snail in order make sure it's not a threat not just us, but also to our world."

Sue looks at him astonished and then back at the snail and starts to laugh amused at the idea.

"Hahahahaha! Reed!" She starts wiping tears. "Honestly..." She looks at him again and realizes he's serious.

"Sue," he said firmly. "I want you to know if this threat is dangerous, I love you as well as the kids."

Sue smiled at that and gave Reed a comforting hug.

The next morning came by and it was rather unpleasant for the FF. Ben Grimm, aka The Thing, was watching the news to see typical protestors protesting the Avengers Mansion, Baxter Building and other locations of other hero teams.

"Dah crap... more of these guys all over the news," Ben muttered under his breath. "We save their lives, and they see us as freaks and monsters."

Reed came by to get something from the fridge. "Morning, Ben."

He looks to see Ben not responding. "Um, Ben?" Reed called out.

"Huh, sorry Reed. I'm just watching the news as usual and yet these protestors are always on it. No offense, but couldn't they just protest the villains or Dr. Doom's headquarters?" Ben remarked.

Reed chuckled at that, "It's their right to free speech, Ben. Don't let them get to you and besides if they protested the villains of where they're located, it'll be a horrific battle scene and the villains would kill them all. Then they would need us to save them."

"You're right, stretch," Ben agreed with him, even though it was always on the news.

"I don't blame them for protesting after what happened between the X-Men, Avengers, and Eternals after that Celestial, Tony and Ajak made unintentionally to stop Druig, only for it to judge the entire world," Reed added.

"Yeah, those stupid wars the Avengers, X-Men, and Inhumans did a while back without communicating properly is what got them into those messes," Ben commented.

"I just wish we all could've been there and helped each other out instead of just being dickheads with each other," Ben remarked.

Reed nodded at that. "This is why my group is working on that, improving communication so that we don't do that ever again. That's why even though it feels like it was the end of the world with that Celestial judging everyone, we still managed to beat it."

"Yeah, wish I was there..." Ben stated fondly wishing he would've fought alongside everyone.

"And humanity has unfortunately not gotten over Eternals or Mutants having the power to bring back their dead. I don't even want to get into the ethics of that, but even then, the entire world was cheering for Druig to kill all the mutants for having such technology and yet the Eternals themselves have one," Reed states.

"Say, Reed, how do you know all of this?" Ben asks out of curiosity.

"Tony had been watching the Eternals for a while and was in talks with Sersi's friends. Her group and the X-Men along with the Inhumans have been working together on trying to meddle in the politics of it all. After all, newer threats are going to come by every now and then and we have to be precautionary," Reed said.

Ben sighed and shook his head, "I guess in this convo of ours all I gave to say is I just wish things would go back to just good guys bearing up the bad guys, instead of each other.

Reed sighed as well. It had been getting crazier every week or day or even year when a new villain tries to come and plot some obscure or extreme plan to take over the world. And yet the hero community kept fighting each other due to what race they are, and it has led to almost world-ending disasters. Mutants using the Phoenix being back everyone as a mutant, while noble led to Avengers' and X-Men's relationship fractured. Then, mutants were dying from Terrigen clouds only for Medusa to get rid of them after discovering why they were fighting her people. Lastly, Eternals waged war against mutants for being descendants of their enemies, the Deviants, granted it was not Sersi's group of Eternals that were waging war with mutants, it was their enemy Druig doing that.

Reed snapped out of his thoughts as he heard Sue and the kids calling out to him.

"Dad, you were thinking about everything again," Valeria said amused.

Reed chuckled at that and said, "Well, I wouldn't be your dad if I wasn't thinking about everything," as he pats his daughter and son on their heads.

Sue smiles at the sight and then turns to see the news announcement, "Breaking News."

Ben stops eating his cereal, Reed immediately makes his face very stern and serious, and Sue tries to listen and watch what's going.

"A very tall man with a weird yellow suit is seen walking around New York City, specifically Manhattan. However, police stopped around him to ask questions. The man, however, responded harshly and is seen firing energy beams from his fingers-" The news line feed is cut, and the TV goes static.

"Dad?" Franklin asks in concern.

"The Fantastic Four will deal with this guy. Sue, call Johnny immediately," Reed orders.

"On it," Sue did as she was told.

"Alright, it's clobberin' time!" Ben cheers as they all get into their suits and get in the Fantasticar.

As they fly towards the area to approach the new enemy, Johnny Storm flies by them and greets his family.

They land the vehicle while Johnny stops and hovers where they are.

"So, what the hell happened here?" Johnny asks bluntly.

They look around the surrounding area, destroyed and exploded police cars are everywhere.

Reed scans the area for any injured and so far, none have shown up, however...

"Uh, guys," Sue gets their attention to see the tall man approach them in a slow walk. Ben, Reed, and Johnny stay on guard.

The tall man stops his walk as he noticed the four individuals in front of him by a few feet.

"Huh... who the hell are you guys? And what's with the crappy costumes? Are you pirates?" The tall man asks.

First of all, that question wasn't what the FF were expecting, so it caught them off-guard.

"Eh, pirates? Sure pal, we are. And I'm the captain," Ben says sarcastically as he goes starts cracking his knuckles and neck ready for some smackdown.

"Well, you guys are probably the stupidest pirates, I've met," the tall man said.

"And why is that?" Ben asked back.

"You'll find out," the tall man replied nonchalantly.

Some people gathered around to watch the fight, however, Sue put a force field to block those people from coming and demanded they leave the sight immediately.

While some left, others didn't like that and just shouted insults at her. Sue rolled her eyes, ended the force field, and still demanded the leave the sight. They sighed and ran.

"Some people, man," Johnny commented.

"First they hate us, then cheer us on like we're in a tournament or somethin'," Ben remarked. He then looked at the tall, yellow-suited guy, and now that he realizes it. This guy has some kind of weird-looking face that is either serious or comedic, honestly hard to tell.

"Alright, gonna send some smack into ya," Ben said as he charged toward the tall man. The man just simply stared him down.

"Its clobberin' time!" He shouts with all his might as he raises his fist to hit the tall man, however, it was almost like something miraculous happened to him or rather something very weird. He was passing through the tall guy as if he was a portal.

After passing through the tall guy, he turned to look at him astonished.

"What the hell," were the only words Ben could utter.

The tall man didn't even smirk cockily or anything of the sort. He just said, "My turn." His leg turned into bright, yellow light and in a flash instantly kicked Ben Grimm across away from his team, hit across three buildings on the ground level before Sue could even manage to catch Ben in a force field.

"Whoa! Holy shit!" Johnny exclaimed seeing his friend get kicked that fast.

"Ben!" Reed and Sue shout as their friend got kicked across three buildings.

"Sue, check if Ben is alright. Johnny, you and I are going to try and see what this guy wants." Reed orders.

"I don't think this guy is in the mood for talking, Reed." Johnny quipped.

Sue wanted to be on the battlefield, but she could get to Ben quickly and invisible. She turns invisible and immediately runs.

"What do you want?" Reed asks the tall guy.

"And why would I tell you that, pirate?" The tall man replied.

"What the? we're not pirates, bro! Flame on!" Johnny shouts as he turns into his fiery form and charges flying head towards the tall guy.

Reed shouts "Johnny, wait! Stand down!"

"You control fire, but the guy who ate that Devil Fruit died two years ago," the tall guy said as he was a little confused about this new guy's power and lets the Human Torch pass right through him, and in flash much like Ben, he kicks with a bright, yellow leg. He kicked Johnny all the way into more buildings than Ben.

"Johnny!" Reed shouts as his brother-in-law got kicked in a flash, he also took note of what the tall man just said something called a Devil Fruit.

"Well, that takes care of one less pirate to deal with," the tall guy remarked as he turns to see Reed.

"You know that woman is still running, even though she's invisible," the tall guy said as he instantly raised his arm up and points with his index finger in the direction to where she possibly was.

Reed noticed this immediately and shouted, "NOOOOOO! Don't do it!" The tall man ignored Reed's cry as he emits a powerful flash of light from his index finger and hits Sue in the leg.

"Aargh!" She quickly drops to the ground and her invisible form makes her appear visible again.

"Sue!" Reed shouts in fear. This can't happen, not now, not ever.

"You!" Reed shouts at the tall man who doesn't even bother looking at him.

"Who are you?!" Reed demanded to know who this guy is and he is going to pay for his attacks on his family and friends.

"Well, pirate, your crew has some strange Devil Fruit powers. And I'm assuming your captain since you were busy ordering them around. How much is your bounty? 100,000,000? A 1,000?" The tall man said randomly on a tangent.

"I asked who you are?! And for the last time, we told you we are not pirates!" Reed said angrily.

"You really don't know who I am, huh... what a shock for you and your crew not to learn my name across these seas," he paused.

"The name's Borsalino, but pirates in the Grand Line fear me as Admiral Kizaru," Kizaru introduces himself as Reed stares at him, gritting his teeth in anger.

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Magik and the X-Men

At the X-Mansion, while Xavier is at New Attilan working with Beast on some project, they were never too informed about it. The mutant students watch in horror the news about some that just attacked three members of the Fantastic Four. The ones watching very keenly are Colossus, Shadowcat, Magik, and Emma Frost.

"Holy shit!" shouted Colossus. He was just shocked seeing the helicopter news footage of this new enemy. Whoever he is for him to attack the superhero family like that was just, well, it was not a forgettable feeling or experience.

"We have to help them!" Colossus demanded the other X-Men.

"Why aren't the Avengers helping them?" Kitty asked.

"They're probably busy as usual and the Fantastic Four takes care of guys like these all the time and he just whupped their asses," Magik commented.

"I'd say even if we were to help them, the government wouldn't take kindly to that," Emma pointed out.

"Do we have any other choice?" Colossus asked as the three women look at him and in silence agreed with him.

"Call the others, we're taking on this guy," Colossus said though he was doubting himself that the X-Men could take on this new fellow.

As the Blackbird flies off from the mansion, inside it, Cyclops was piloting it, Wolverine sitting next to him, and behind were Shadowcat, Magik, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Emma Frost, and Synch.

"So, what's this guy's power exactly? And how come the Fantastic Four of all people are struggling against him?" Synch asked.

"When I saw the footage, I assumed he's some kind of mutant on a rampage, if we don't stop him then the government will definitely come for him," Cyclops warned.

"Are we sure he's a mutant?" Emma asked.

"I can't answer that, but we all should confirm with him. Right now, Reed is talking down with the guy, if we can just arrive and see what he wants and possibly hope he's not a new Horsemen for Apocalypse," Cyclops warned again.

"Basically, all possibilities are endless," Wolverine remarked.

A concerned feeling spread through all of them, especially Kitty. She was wondering how Franklin and Valeria are taking this after seeing footage of their mother getting shot by that light ray beam and their uncle and friend just knocked out like that.

"But the Fantastic Four take on guys like this all the time. Just look at Doctor Doom." Emma pointed out.

"Ben Grimm getting kicked like that is not something you see every day, but also this new enemy shot at Susan Storm when she was invisible if you've seen the footage. No one unless having really good, heightened sense could possibly do that," Wolverine remarked.

The Blackbird lands near away from where the Fantasticar was. The X-Men exit out and are bit surprised Richards is still talking with the big guy.

"Ok, I didn't realize he's tall," Kitty commented seeing Kizaru up ahead.

"What's the plan, slim?" Logan asks.

"We approach him with caution and try to talk with him, much like what Richards is doing right now," Scott ordered.

Reed immediately notices the X-Men are running towards him, possibly trying to help him and think Kizaru is a rampant mutant. heck, he could be some rampant Eternal or Inhuman for all he knows. However, he wants to warn them because Kizaru isn't what they think he is.

Kizaru also took notice of the weirdo costumed folk approaching him. "My... my... more pirates have decided to show up," he remarked.

Hearing that they were so confused that Synch was the first to point that out, "Pirates? What does he mean? Like the guys that go "Argh!' or "Yo ho ho!'"

"Um, I really hope not." Magik said.

Reed waved at them to not come, and they took that warning and stopped approaching, but clearly not far away enough from Reed and Kizaru.

"I'm assuming this is more of your pirate crew, you guys must be bigger than I thought," Kizaru commented.

"No, wait. Don't attack them," Reed pleaded for his fellow heroes.

"Don't attack them? What kind of pirates are you that don't need attacking?" Kizaru tilted his head in confusion.

"Uh, Reed. What is this guy on about?" Scott asks as he's totally confused.

"I honestly don't even know," Reed said and then he remembered, "Oh, please check on my team if you can."

Scott nodded and ordered Colossus to check on Ben, Nightcrawler on Johnny, and Emma on Susan.

Reed thanks him and they proceed to negotiate with Kizaru, well at least try to.

"Let me speak with him," Cyclops suggests as he walks up to him. "Hello, mister, I don't know if you realize if what you're doing is wrong-"

"Wrong? That's very rich. I asked those people if they were affiliated with the World Government, and they just kept firing at me with their guns. So, I took them out assuming they were enemies. Actually, now that I think about you guys keep saying you're not pirates, yet you got strange Devil Fruit Powers I've never seen before, except that one fire guy I just kicked. And another thing is I don't know what island I'm on," Kizaru started going off on a tangent.

Cyclops, Reed, and the rest of the X-Men just stared at Kizaru in confusion, but nevertheless, they all thought the same thing, 'Is he slow?'

"He must be from another timeline or another world," Cyclops deduced.

"Or another planet and he could still be dangerous." Reed cautioned.

"Where am I exactly?" Kizaru asked the strange group he's seen.

"You are in New York City, part of the United States of America," this time Magik answered him.

"Are you affiliated with the World Government or not?" Kizaru asks nonchalantly.

"We apologize, but we don't know this 'World Government' you speak off. Here in the United States, we have our own government," Shadowcat explains.

"Don't know, huh... and you say you aren't affiliated with my government nor are pirates? Then what are you guys?" Kizaru asks.

"It's best you come with us, and we can explain everything to you, where you are and you can explain everything about where you come from," Cyclops suggested.

Kizaru just stared at them with barely an expression on his face. "Now why would I do that?"

This question surprised them. "Why would you do what?" Reed asks him this time.

"Come with you. For all, I know you could be criminals and I can only take you all out now and figure out where the hell I am," Kizaru reasons in his own way.

"But I told you we are not pirates nor criminals," Cyclops retorted.

"Looks like we're gonna have to resort to fighting," Logan remarked.

Scott sighed at that and realized there wasn't much of a choice now, was there?

"I'll just take you guys out and be on my way," Kizaru said as he charges the power of his light on his leg.

Magik, Shadowcat, and Synch took a fighting stance as did Wolverine and Cyclops, and Mister Fantastic.

"We need a strategy," Synch suggested.

"Oh, I got one alright," Wolverine says as he unsheathes his claws which surprises Kizaru, and charges towards Kizaru.

"My, you're a feisty little man," Kizaru remarked.

"Wolverine, wait!" Scott called out to him. "We need a plan!"

Wolverine charges toward Kizaru ready to sink his claws into his body. And he does immediately. He cuts off his charged-up leg, torso, and arms.

"Wolverine!" Scott called out again.

"Heh," he paused. "This guy ain't so tough." As he begins to walk away, he hears something that astonishes him.

"Like I said you're a feisty one," Kizaru said casually as he was chopped up and all over the ground although there was no blood shown.

"What kind of freaky..." Synch said with eyes widened.

"Oh my God," Kitty says with her fear in her eyes.

Magik wasn't scared, but it still surprised her. This guy has some sort of healing factor she thought to herself.

Wolverine was still astonished and stared at Kizaru. His body parts start to glow in bright, yellow light and reassemble back into his original body rather instantly.

"Alright, I'm done letting you attack me. I've seen enough and could just tell you're weak," Kizaru remarked.

"What you say, bub!" Logan spat.

"I'm saying this," Kizaru retorted and charges his leg again and this time kicks Wolverine all across New York City to the point where you couldn't see him, and then a large explosion almost nuclear occurs.

Everyone stares widely at what Kizaru just did.

"NOOOOOO!" Kitty yells out of horror.

Magik couldn't believe it. Wolverine could survive that explosion, but still... just how powerful was Kizaru.

Scott had enough and was ready for a fight. So did Reed.

They both nodded and ran towards Kizaru. Mister Fantastic stretched to wrap around Kizaru. However, he passed right through him, and his power surprised Kizaru.

"What the hell? You ate Straw Hat's Devil Fruit!" He yelled out of curiosity and concern.

"Now you are all dangerous to be kept alive," as he said that which sent a chill to their bones.

Cyclops prepares to fire a concussion blast, however, Kizaru said "You are going to fire that beam from your eyes."

Cyclops fires anyway and Kizaru fires a light beam from his index finger and the two blasts collided with one another.

Colossus found Ben Grimm and approached him with caution.

He appeared to be still knocked out, but Colossus wasn't going to give up. He lightly tapped on his shoulder. He wasn't going to give up not now, not ever.

"Come on, Grimm! You have to wake up!" He started to slam his chest in his metallic form.

"Come on!" He kept shouting in worrisome. There is just no way The Thing could be dead.

Ben instantly shot up, breathing heavily and roughly coughing. He kept blinking sporadically and noticed Colossus.

"You're alive. Thank God." He touched his shoulder and helped him up.

"I feel like I've been knocked into next Tuesday. The hell happened to me?" He asks as he touches his forehead, feeling some pain, and trying to shrug it off.

"That tall man kicked you very far away," Colossus said.

"Ah jeez... can't believe out of all the people to take me out, it's this guy," Ben shook his head.

"We're going to beat this guy. Come on, let's go!" Colossus waves for him to come by as they both ran off to go back to the battle.

Kurt teleported to where Johnny Storm was. He wasn't hurt too badly, but it didn't mean he wasn't still damaged or hurt from battling that crazy guy with a lot of power.

"Nein, Johnny!" He tried shaking him to wake him up. It wasn't working at first and Kurt felt a lot of guilt on him. Until in a flash, Johnny got up and coughed heavily.

"Where is he?" He asked in a deep growl.

"Johnny, wait a second. If you go back there, you will only suffer more pain and loss," Kurt stated.

"I don't care, Nightcrawler... I want to take this guy out... he's too dangerous," Johnny states firmly.

"What would your sister or brother-in-law or your friend, Ben Grimm, think of you? Acting so rashly like that against an enemy so strong," Kurt said trying to get some sense into him.

Johnny stared at the ground in pure contempt and anger. He took a deep breath and had to admit, Kurt had a way with words.

Emma approached Susan as quickly as possible, but she couldn't help but witness this light guy and Cyclops colliding their beam attacks.

"This is going to be so dangerous for everyone," she said as she laid down and saw Susan's leg was badly hurt and bleeding.

"Hold on, Susan. I'll take you back to our Blackbird and you'll be at the X-Mansion being treated," Emma said as she helped her up, but Susan winced at the pain.

"Susan, you got to come with me." Emma pleaded.

"I'm trying," Susan said back as she got up and hopped on one leg, with Emma's arm around her shoulder and helping her get to the Blackbird.

Back at the fight, things aren't looking good for the X-Men and Mister Fantastic.

The beams are still colliding between Cyclops and Kizaru.

"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRREGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" Cyclops yelled with all of his might into his optic blasts.

"You really are a bore to me..." He said as his beam splits into multiple beams and hits Cyclops in all parts of his body.

"Cyclops!" The heroes all shout.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Magik shouts as she summons her magic sword and proceeds to attack Kizaru who creates a light sword.

They clash intensely, although Magik gets more aggressive with every strike.

"You're a feisty one like the feral guy," Kizaru remarked. Though his thoughts dwelled on something. 'How is she able to clash with me, yet it appears she's not using haki? Must be using something else.'

"Oh, you haven't seen the last of me, buddy!" Magik yelled as she clashed with Kizaru even more aggressively.

Meanwhile, Shadowcat and Synch check on Cyclops with Reed trying to get contact from SHIELD or the Avengers.

"Are you alright?" Kitty asks Scott. He grunts in response.

"I don't think he looks alright," Synch commented as Kitty glared at him.

"You two! Get Cyclops to safety as I get in contact with SHIELD and the Avengers!" Reed ordered them as they nodded and proceeded to get their leader out of harm's way.

Meanwhile, Kizaru and Magik are still going at it with their swords clashing against each other.

"You're good with that weird sword of yours... however I have to ask how strong is your haki?" Kizaru asked although, to Magik, she thought he was asking that very randomly.

"I have no idea what you're talking about," she said as she proceeded to keep striking and clashing with Kizaru.

"Huh... how shocking... you're very strong," he complimented his opponent.

Magik didn't know what to say to that, instead, she just said, "Um, thank you."

They continued to trade attacks and blocks against each other. Kizaru, however, noticed Mister Fantastic and the others were getting away.

"Sorry, I must be headed to take care of your friends," Kizaru said as he disappeared out into a light form and was gone.

"What the..." Magik said just feeling astonished.

As Reed and the others try to make it to their vehicles, Kizaru appeared right in front of them.

"Ahh... shit..." Synch uttered out of his mouth.

"You're not going to hurt us!" Kitty shouted proudly.

Kizaru just smiled and said, "You are very brave people, I've met- huh?"

He saw an entire group of military men and a man with an eye patch and SHIELD uniform stepping out of one of the vehicles.

"Stand down!" He shouted in the megaphone.

"Or what?" Kizaru said back.

"Or this." The one with the eye patch, known as Nick Fury, remarked as he gets his men to throw a few gas bombs to knock out the tall man to sleep.

"If you think those are going to work on me- huh?" He noticed the girl and the three guys just left and he couldn't find them anywhere.

The gas spread all around and Kizaru started to cough and sneeze.

"What is this?" He coughed more and more until he went on the ground and went to sleep or rather knocked out.

Shadowcat appeared out of the ground with Synch, Cyclops, and Reed.

"Thanks for helping us, Fury." Reed thanked.

"No problem... now mind explaining to me who the hell this guy is?" He said abruptly.

"Well, it's a long explanation," Reed started as he saw Susan, Johnny, and Ben coming along with Nightcrawler, Emma, and Colossus.

"I got all day," Fury said.

A few minutes, Captain America and the Avengers (Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Black Widow, Falcon, Hawkeye, Vision, and Tigra) arrived. A certain someone gave them a piece of mind.

"Hey, where the hell were you guys!" Magik shouted out of anger.

Cap turned to see Magik approaching them. He sighed as he'd wish he was quick enough to get to everywhere all at once.

"Sorry, Magik... we got held up in the Savage Land as usual. When we came back something strange happened while we were flying back that took us a while. Which is why I'm going to announce all heroes come to the Mansion immediately," Cap demanded.

"Ok..." Magik was all she could say. She didn't want to admit it, but she was willing to hear out Captain America.

"How is everyone?" Iron Man asks as medics arrived to help with Scott and the rest of the FF.

"Don't you have an A.I. to point out where something is wrong with someone?" Kitty asked.

"That's who I was asking," Tony said back, rolling his eyes underneath his helmet.

Synch started to chuckle at the embarrassment and Kitty glared at him. "Don't glare at me. I'm not the one who asked a stupid question to Iron Man of all people," he said while looking away. However, he was concerned about his friends.

"And what do we about him?" Kitty went on to ask Reed gesturing to Kizaru's body lying on the ground.

"First, we'll have to figure out what his power is, exactly. And where he came," Reed said.

"Is he a mutant? Eternal? Inhuman?" Kitty asked.

"Don't know yet, but until we do. We need to have a serious meeting about this," Reed went his way to talk with Fury and the Avengers.

Nearby a damaged Wolverine heads toward everyone and they all look at him like he just went through Hell.

Falcon was about to say something, but Logan waved it off. "Don't even ask," Logan just said as he lets his healing help his body.

At Avengers Mansion, a lot of heroes gathered up for an important meeting, although some aren't Avengers, so they don't even know why they were called.

Captain America took to the center to announce, "Attention, everyone... I know some of you aren't Avengers, and I know during these past years we sometimes just never got along, however, something urgent has come, and no it's not Galactus or Thanos or any Kree or even Skrulls at this point. This threat is something much bigger than you and I."

This concerned a lot of people if the threat isn't Galactus, then it's something huge. Dazzler actually raised her hand, although she wasn't sure why she did that.

"Question-"

"No, questions. At least, not until I'm done explaining everything because, believe me, it's rather a doozy," Steve interrupted.

"I assume you all saw news footage of that tall guy known as Kizaru attacking the cops, the Fantastic Four and X-Men... what you don't know is the fact is why the Avengers weren't there. And here's the truth..." Steve began.

"As we were flying away after taking care of business in the Savage Land with Shanna and Ka-Zar, I started to receive visions... as did Tony... and let's just say they were rather unusual," Steve said.

"The visions showed us locations or rather islands, I should say, being destroyed, that Kizaru guy attacking what he was calling pirates, a few more about this guy in a straw hat. After receiving these visions, we contacted Doctor Strange to verify these visions and that's where this gets hectic," Steve said.

"The visions he said were coming from another world... universe... one stranger than our own and where that Kizaru comes from," Steve said as this surprised everyone.

"Wait, what do you mean another universe?" Dazzler asks abruptly.

"Some of us come from different timelines, but in this case, this isn't anything like that," Tony explained.

"I'm assuming some of you are aware of the multiverse theory, the idea of multiple earths existing at the same time, but without ever knowing they exist due to String Theory and frequencies where the earths cannot see each other. We have rarely any encounter with it except that one time when Doctor Doom tried to rewrite reality in his own way due to the Incursions that were occurring at the time," Tony explains.

"So, there could be like a universe where we are all different people and never meet?" This time the Eternal known as Sersi asks.

"Precisely, but there could also be one where we just don't exist at all," Tony says as that gave the rest of the hero community a bit of an existential crisis.

"Ahh... that's a little scary to think about," Hellcat commented.

"We understand your concern, however, it's important to note that we inform everyone on the matter," Tony said.

"And it's important that everyone knows about this before it gets out of hand," Steve said.

"How long have you two known about this?" Emma Frost asks.

"Not long, but the visions were like we said earlier stranger," said Tony.

"Whatever the new threat that's coming, we're going to be prepared and ready. And right now, SHIELD has Kizaru as he called himself taken into a cell where he is kept there and kept for questioning. We're also awaiting updates on any hero that has been injured, except for Logan," Steve said.

"So is Cyclops, Susan, Johnny, and Ben, alright?" Kitty asks.

"As I said, we're awaiting updates, however, while that's going on, we should also inform all of you on Kizaru," Steve said.

This time a friendly neighborhood hero, Spider-Man raised his hand, "Um, about that, Cap... I know you're going to just inform us about him, but I think it's also important to note that we could see the footage itself. If there are any?"

"Good point, Spider-Man, Tony." Steve gestured as Tony shows holographic footage of some battle parts, mostly of Kizaru's abilities.

"As you can see this Kizaru fellow has some sort of strange power that allows him to become light. Reed mentioned that his team kept trying to hit him, but it was like they phased right through him." Tony explained.

Some of the heroes were stunned to hear that but also seeing the footage made them wonder how someone could get that powerful. Kitty instantly brought up a good point, "So, his power is similar to mine?"

"Possibly, but like we said we don't have all the details," Tony replied.

Whatever comes their way, all the heroes knew they were going to be in a new battle like never before.

Chapter Text

Kizaru

"How long do we have to wait exactly?" Flash asked being a bit impatient.

"Until the Watcher and his allies arrive," Spectre replied.

"And how many allies does this Watcher have?" Diana asks.

"A lot, however, it is due to him not being able to interfere with any affairs in the universe, due to a sacred vow he has," Spectre said.

"While, the Watcher is busy getting his people, could you at least tell us what we're in for?" Superman asked.

"Discussing the matter at hand wouldn't work because we need the others as well to be informed, however, I can only give this answer as the world you will encounter is unlike many others," Spectre replied.

"World? You mean another universe?" Batman deduced.

"Precisely... but know this, that in this universe, the "D" will blow up a storm again," Spectre said vaguely.

"D? Storm? What on earth are you talking about, Spectre?" Hal asked.

"You will soon find out," Spectre said.

"Say is our world on pause like whenever we usually do this?" Flash asked.

"Unfortunately, due to the circumstances, I made an agreement with the Watcher on not doing that due to how severe the situation is," Spectre replied.

"Oh, ok." Flash said then blinked a few times and yelled, "Wait, what?!"

"I apologize if it's any inconvenience to all of you, but we cannot waste any time. The watcher will arrive with his allies," Spectre said.

As of now the Justice League just waited, though some were a bit impatient.

"I'd like to interview this guy," Maria Hill said bluntly. Alongside her were some of the best SHIELD Agents and they were going to get to the bottom of this "Kizaru".

"Well, from what Richards has told us, he seems to be a bit slow." An agent said while Hill raised an eyebrow.

"Like, he speaks slowly, not like his- never mind, he's in that cell where the power dampeners should be working on him." The agent pointed out while letting Hill enter the room where that Kizaru is still inside his cell, but she appears outside of it because it is a glass cell. Therefore, Kizaru could see Hill and speak.

"Alright, I figured we could start with introductions. I am Agent Maria Hill of SHIELD, which is an organization that works with the United States government and the UN. We defend Earth and its people from groups that pose advanced technological and sometimes supernatural or extraterrestrial threats. Now, it's your turn, who are you?" Hill began and asked.

Kizaru just stared at her blankly. From his perspective, he didn't know what to say as this world was all new to him. If they're not pirates, then what the heck are these guys in spandex for? And why should he tell this female agent about his world and all that? He's a Navy Admiral after all.

"Why should I tell you about myself? What do you expect me to do? Bow down and kiss your feet like your one of the Celestial Dragons? I'm a Navy Admiral and I'm going out of this place. Power or no power, I'll defeat everyone of you," Kizaru said nonchalantly.

"Huh, we're getting a live feed from SHIELD," Tony said and pulled it up on screen. It's the interrogation between Hill and Kizaru.

"Why should I tell you about myself? What do you expect me to do? Bow down and kiss your feet like your one of the Celestial Dragons? I'm a Navy Admiral and I'm going out of this place. Power or no power, I'll defeat everyone of you," Kizaru said nonchalantly.

"That big guy is Kizaru?" The Inhuman Crystal asks. In all honestly, she was a bit astonished of how tall he was

Cap and Tony nodded as everyone gathered to watch him get questioned.

"Ok, first off, you might want to be careful with that statement. We're not threatening you, we're just here to ask questions and get answers from you. And possibly get you back where you come from," Hill states.

"So, just answer my questions, in order to get to the bottom of this," Hill said.

"The key word being there, 'possibly.' Listen, I don't care that I'm in a new world or that you can take me back to my original one. But I'm never going to reveal my secrets to people like you. You have no authority over me, so why should I tell you everything?" Kizaru states firmly.

Everyone just thought Kizaru was being stubborn.

Maria now was just taken aback by this Admiral's stubbornness.

"Are you seriously that stubborn? We only want to know where you come from so that we can return you home, what part of that is the problem?" Hill questions.

Kizaru shook his head. "If I told about my world, I think you wouldn't even believe me."

Maria rolled her eyes, she's heard it all. Though what she was about to hear took the cake.

"Fine, if you can..."

All the heroes leaned in to listen to this.

"Wealth... fame... power, Gold Roger, the king of the pirates, attained this and everything else the world had to offer. And his dying words drove countless people to the sea. 'You want my treasure! You can have it! I left everything from this world has to offer at that place.' Those words drove men to the Grand Line in pursuit of their dreams. The world entered the Great Pirate era." Kizaru said as he adjusts his glasses.

"King of the Pirates?" Hill asks out of curiosity.

"Figures a world like yours never heard such a story," Kizaru uttered.

"And what is that suppose to mean?" Hill asks back.

"If this world were to be wiped out from existence either by my World Government colleagues or even by something else, how would your government react?" Kizaru states casually.

"You... What the hell are you talking about?! An invasion?! But we said we're going to take you back to your world and you want to invade us!" Hill shouts.

"Not an invasion... but if the World Government needs new territory or a new country to be affiliated against our conflict against the pirates then I guess so be it. Whose to say someone way worse than me won't figure out a way to come back here and conquer it," Kizaru said casually again.

Hill was a bit unnerved by this guy.

It's not just her though, Kizaru scared some of the more younger heroes. The older heroes just shook their heads.

"He can't be serious... if we let him go he'll just come back with his army and try to wipe us out," Spider-Man pointed out as the rest agreed.

"He is serious," the hero known as Daredevil said.

"I don't like this one bit," Hellcat muttered.

"Just who does this guy think he is? Genghis Khan?" This time the hero known as Luke Cage commented.

The recorded hologram ended as Hill left the room.

"Well, that was something." Tony remarked until someone spoke out.

"Something? This Kizaru guy literally is so powerful he took out the Fantastic Four and most of the X-Men!" Bobby Drake, also known as, Iceman said aloud.

Magik rolled her eyes though she couldn't blame Bobby feeling that way. Even though she was able to stop Kizaru with her magical blade. She also wanted to why everyone else couldn't touch him and yet she could.

"So far, Kizaru is in his cell where he belongs. And when he returns to his home, we will make sure and guarantee he doesn't return with an army ready," Captain America reassured the heroes.

"How can you be so sure? Guys like this would bring a lot of problems." Dazzler pointed out.

"We'll work it out with everyone. Reed Richards, Hank McCoy, and all of the top scientists will work to resolve this," Tony confirmed.

That was when Tony, Reed, Ikaris, Sersi, T'Challa, Namor, and other members of the Illuminati vanished into thin air.

"What the?! Where they'd go?!" Luck Cage shouts in worry.

"Is it some magic trick?!" Spider-Man shouts aloud as he tries to use his spider-sense.

Steve woke up and felt lightheaded. He shook it off and saw his allies on the ground.

The area they were in was a very darkened one. It is as all of darkness came here and never went away. You cannot see anything further away, but only the dark.

"Hey, everyone! Get up!" He shouts out of worry and approaches them.

Reed, Namor, Doctor Strange, Sersi, Ikaris, Black Bolt, Cyclops (who appears to not looking in great shape), T'Challa, Wolverine, Xavier, and lastly Tony were here.

After a few minutes they each got up, feeling lightheaded much like Cap was feeling earlier.

"Where are we?" Strange asks.

"I don't know and I don't like it," Wolverine said, sniffing around for clues or enemies.

"Is it another cosmic bullshit we have to deal with? Cause that's the fifth time this week." Tony commented.

"Well, I believe it's his doing," Steve points out as they all approaching them was Uatu the Watcher.

"Greetings, heroes. You are in imminent danger," he began.

"Aren't we always, Watcher," Namor said confidently.

"This time, it is much worse," Uatu said.

"How worse?" Tony asked.

"Please follow me and you will meet my colleague, the Spectre." The Watcher demands.

"The Spectre? What kind of name of a cosmic entity is that?" Tony commented.

"For once, I agree with Stark," Namor said.

"Add me as well," Logan said while getting a glare from Cyclops and Xavier.

After a few minutes of walking, it was like they walked through a portal and the heroes of Earth 616 saw seven figures along with an eighth who appeared to be all powerful staring at them.

"I've still not recovered from my fight from Kizaru," Cyclops said as he took a rest nearby.

"Greetings, fellow Avengers, X-Men, and Fantastic Four, I am the Watcher's colleague, the Spectre." He introduces himself.

The other seven (Justice League) look at the Earth 616 heroes in a bit of awe and wondered what their world is like.

"Now before we all get onto the topic of a terrible matter, let us all introduce ourselves," The Watcher noted.

Chapter Text

The Heroes' Meeting

The Watcher noticed something was missing...

"Ah, it appears I've forgotten two more people," The Watcher pointed out as in a flash of light two people fell out of it and landed straight to the ground.

The first to get up and groan from the pain was Spider-Man.

"Where am I?" He asked as he looked around to see the Watcher, Cap and his friends, and eight other people he didn't recognize.

The other one was Hank McCoy, also known as, Beast, who got up and also groaned in pain.

"Great Scott! What am I doing here?" He exclaims as he saw his friends and several other people he didn't recognize.

"I will explain in due time, Beast. For now, introduce yourselves so we can continue discussing the importance of the terrible matter," Uatu stated as Spectre nodded.

The Spectre starts, "What you see before all of you are heroes from Prime Earth and heroes from Earth 616. So please do not battle because of different ideals, ideologies, and so on."

Superman was the first to begin speaking, "I'm not sure why we are all here. But I'll be the first to say we are not your enemies. I assume you all are heroes in your world... your earth."

Cap and the rest nodded at that.

"Where I come from, I am known as Superman, and these are my friends. We are known as the Justice League and we protect our world from evil threats that dare harm it," he turned to his friends and said, "Guys, I think they're friendly."

Batman shook his head and introduced himself, "I'm Batman."

The Earth 616 heroes were confused by that introduction. Was that all he had to say about himself?

Superman vouched for his friend, "Forgive him, he's a bit paranoid when it comes to trusting newer people he meets. Actually, he does that with everyone."

Batman didn't comment on what Clark said but just stood silent and stoic.

Wonder Woman then introduced herself, "I am Wonder Woman and it's a pleasure to meet you all."

Next, The Flash introduces himself, "Hello, I'm the Flash, the fastest man alive."

"How fast?" Spider-Man asks and a tap on the shoulder caused him to turn around and he got spooked.

"Whoa!" Spider-Man said aloud as he sees Flash behind him.

The rest of the 616 heroes were impressed by Flash's speed and thought he was faster than Whizzer and Quicksilver.

J'onn introduces himself next, "I am J'onn Jones, the Martian Manhunter."

"Wait, like an actual martian? From Mars?" This time Tony asked a question.

J'onn nodded at that. All Tony could say was, "Intriguing."

Steve shook his head at Tony's antics. Some things never change.

Green Lantern introduces himself, "Hello, I am Green Lantern. All I can about myself is that basically, I'm a member of the Green Lantern Corps and the Justice League, however, if I'm away from Earth and in space, another Green Lantern from Earth will protect it, so I'll do the best I can against this new threat."

The 616 heroes nodded at that, plus it reminded of them of Nova and the Nova Corps from Xandar, and lastly, Aquaman introduces himself.

"I am Aquaman and I am the king of Atlantis," he said as Namor stared at him.

"Your world has an Atlantis? And you're their king? Hm, in our world we have an Atlantis as well and I am its ruler, Namor." Namor introduces himself proudly.

Arthur nodded at a fellow king, and he wondered what Namor's Atlantis was like compared to his.

"Well, thank you for those introductions. I guess it's our turn," Cap said uncomfortably.

"You seem uncomfortable? Something the matter?" Superman asks.

"No, it's just... I feel like you are very familiar, and I cannot put my finger on it," Steve said as he discontinued his thoughts on the Justice League being familiar to him.

The rest of the 616 heroes wondered what Cap was on about or feeling.

"I am Captain America; I fought in World War II and crashed a plane that landed on ice where I was frozen for many decades until I was unfrozen and saw the modern world. I now lead the Avengers as well other hero groups who try to help," Captain America introduces himself.

"I am Iron Man, a member of the Avengers. A genius as well to build this suit of armor," he said.

"I am Black Panther and I'm the king of Wakanda," he said as he silently greeted the other king of Atlantis.

"Hey, I'm Spider-Man. I work with the Avengers and am sometimes a member. I usually like to work alone though," he said as some members of the JL chuckled at that reminding them of a certain member of the team that also likes to work alone.

"Hello, I am Doctor Reed Richards, also known as Mr. Fantastic. I lead the Fantastic Four as not only they are my team but also my family and friends. I work with the Avengers and X-Men on occasion against threats that harm our world," Reed said.

"I'm Wolverine, I've been a member of the X-Men and Avengers. Much like Spidey, I too sometimes like to work alone. Because I'm the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn't very nice," Logan said with a smirk.

Flash and Green Lantern were a bit intimidated by Wolverine, not that they were going to say that aloud.

Batman was cautious with Wolverine. He made a mental note to see what he does exactly.

"Forgive him, he likes scaring everybody." Cyclops said as he got up from recovering a bit from the pain from fighting Kizaru.

Wolverine glared at Scott for the comment but felt amused to let it go.

"I am Cyclops, leader of the X-Men. Although, I may not always be with the Avengers on everything, especially with the handling of mutants in our world. I trust them as they trust me," Cyclops said.

The JL respected that and one of them (Green Lantern) proceeds to ask, "Mutants? Going to need clarification on that."

Wolverine looked to his fellow X-Men to explain. Only for Xavier to speak up.

"I am Professor Charles Xavier or Professor X if you want to call me that. I founded a school for mutants as they are people born with their powers. I made a school for them where they could learn and be themselves without being hated or discriminated against. Though people in our world have a blind hatred for our kind," Xavier explained as Logan, Scott, Hank and the rest of the 616 heroes looked down at the ground with grim expressions.

Some members of the Justice League wanted to ask more but decided not to pry any further.

"I am Beast. I am a mutant like my fellow X-Men. I also have many regrets in my life, and I hope to regain many trusts of my kind," Hank said sadly.

"I am Ikaris, a member of the Eternals. I've been an on-and-off member of the Avengers. I've fought many battles, including against the Deviants who are my people's enemies. However, not every Eternal in our world is good and has strived to ruin our world. As we get further in this conversation, I hope to explain more about what an Eternal is," he said while nudging Sersi to speak. He also felt for some reason Superman was much like him, but he didn't know why.

"I'm Sersi. Former member of the Avengers and an Eternal. Much like Ikaris said, I too have fought with the Avengers. And like what Cyclops said, I trust them as well, even if I didn't agree with them on everything," she said.

"I am Doctor Strange, master of the mystic arts," Strange said.

The last member, Black Bolt just stood there stoic and silent even as compared to Batman by some members of the League in their thoughts.

J'onn asked, "Does your friend not speak?"

Cap vouches for him, "Excuse him, he is Black Bolt, keeper of the Terrigen Mist, and the Inhuman king. Be grateful, he doesn't engage in conversation."

"And why is that?" This time Batman asks the 616 heroes.

"Because if he talks, and trust us on this, it triggers a massive disturbance in the form of a highly destructive shockwave capable of leveling a city," Reed explains as much to the shock of the Justice League.

Flash whispers to Hal, "And here I thought Black Canary's cry was the worst thing any villain could hear."

Much like T'Challa, Black Bolt also silently greeted the other king of Atlantis.

Hal chuckled at that while listening back to the conversation.

"So, Eternals, Inhumans, and Mutants are a thing in your world? Are they connected somehow?" Superman asks.

"Sort of, there's also Gamma Mutates, people that basically get their powers from Gamma Radiation, and Mutates. They are people that got their powers by an accident," Spider-Man explains casually.

"I see," Superman remarked.

"We have something similar in our world, although people with powers whether they're born or get them by accident are known as metahumans," Batman explains.

"Sounds like a better name than the ones we keep coming up with for everyone in our world," Wolverine chuckles at his own joke.

"Anyhow, now that we've introduced ourselves. Now what?" Hal asked the two entities that brought them here.

Spectre turns to look at Uatu, who nods back. "I shall explain as best as possible," The Watcher began.

"How many of you are familiar with incursions?" The Watcher asks as Namor, Reed, Tony, Steve, Black Bolt, T'Challa, and Strange as well as the other 616 heroes had all had their eyes widened.

"Not again," Reed whispers out of worry although Superman heard him.

"Don't tell me, Watcher that we have to destroy their world in order for ours to survive?!" Cap yells at Uatu in anger.

The Justice League were confused as Superman tries to deescalate the situation.

"Settle down, captain. What's an incursion? And why does it involve destroying earths?" Superman asked.

The Illuminati members all looked to Reed to explain everything.

"It's a problem. A huge problem to explain. Life and death. The birth and heat death of everything lie at the opposite ends on the timeline of the universe. We know that there is a multiverse of realities. An infinite number of earths, inside an infinite number of universes where any manner of divergent reality can exist... endless possibilities. However, I and my fellow colleagues have learned that somewhere on one of these earths, an event occurred that caused the early death of one of these universes. To sum up the point, this unnatural event caused a tiny contraction in the multiverse's timeline. Meaning it caused two universes to smash together at the incursion point of the initial event. They touched and destroyed each other, taking universes with them, causing yet another contraction in the timeline which in turn accelerated the smashing tighter of even more earths and their respective universes. The time when two earths begin to collide is called an incursion and every single one is exactly the same. Before they begin, there is a very short period of harmonic alignment, which allows the two earths to exist in the same space. The good news is that we can detect this when one does come, but the bad news is the time grows very short. Exactly eight hours is when an incursion lasts," Reed explained shocking everyone in the room, the exception being the Illuminati and Earth 616 heroes.

"At the end of those 8 hours what follows is extremely simple. Both worlds are destroyed along their respective universes as they smash together. Or one Earth is destroyed, which eliminates the incursion point between the two universes sparing them both. Eight hours. One event. Two possible outcomes." Reed explains while closing his eyes in the horror of dealing with another incursion.

"How long have you dealt with these incursions? Or at least do you know what causes them?" Batman asks while deeply angry about such a revelation. He wishes even to study more about these incursions to see how he and the Justice League can prevent one from happening and of course without resorting to destroying another world.

"The oceans have blood, yet again," Namor remarked, though not to spite the other earth heroes he just met, but rather in terms of regret.

"Enough to know it is a bad sign if that's why we were called here," Steve said while facing the Watcher.

"Incursions started because somewhere a universe died too early, causing the Multiverse to start contracting and universes colliding as the result. An enemy in our universe known as Molecule Man was shown to be the cause. In other universes, Molecule Men were planted by beings known as the Beyonders to act as bombs which would destroy the multiverse." Reed explained as the others react in horror.

"Dealing with the incursions led that to that other Battleworld being created by an enemy of ours known as Doctor Doom," T'Challa explains.

"The one where some of us were in the Life Raft?" Spider-Man realized as Reed nodded at that.

"That incursion led to Doom destroying the multiverse only for Reed here to restore the multiverse," T'Challa explained himself.

"Some people in our universe have forgotten about it, due to the multiverse being restored. However, Illuminati members didn't want to face another threat like that again. We restored our memories as well the others and agreed to never let something like that happen ever again," T'Challa added.

The other heroes of Earth 616 weren't just astonished, they were also very disappointed.

"When there's no other option, the hard choices have to be made. We cannot decide so much of the multiverse, it's nature is unpredictable." Namor states.

"I somewhat agree," Arthur said back, shocking the Justice League.

"You can't agree to something like that, Aquaman!" Hal retorts.

"And why not?" Arthur asks.

"Because there's always another way," Superman countered.

"I'm not agreeing with destroying another earth, what I am saying and agreeing with is that the nature of the multiverse is very unpredictable. After all, we in the League have plenty of experience with the multiverse," Arthur added.

In all honesty, the Justice League didn't know what to say to this horror. They've dealt with many multiple crises to the point where other worlds were destroyed by mad gods and aliens that wanted to end all of life. It seems not many were so lucky in achieving that.

"I cannot forgive myself for submitting to the necessity of necessary evil," Steve said. "I confronted them about it; however, I am just as guilty for joining and allowing such a thing."

"A group like this should never exist unless... you had no choice," Batman stared at the Illuminati members, but in all honestly, he didn't know what to say. Hearing about these incursions and how they cannot be stopped just gave him a sense of hopelessness. "Was there really no other way to prevent these incursions without destroying the other earth?" He asks in a heavy serious tone.

"We tried everything, make a new world, and help with beings known as Celestials to help us. The Beyonders simply just took everything out and if it wasn't for Doom, I think none of us would be alive today," Reed said.

There was an instant realization both heroes of different earths turned to see Spectre and The Watcher realizing what's really going on.

"Wait, are you telling me-" Superman started to ask.

"That the Beyonders have returned and plan to destroy the multiverse again?!" Cap yelled in horror.

"Not exactly," the cosmic beings responded.

"Then if it's not an incursion occurring, then what is it?" Doctor Strange asked.

"Be mindful, it is definitely an incursion happening, but here's the insane part. For whatever reason, this particular incursion has nothing to do with two earths, such as yourselves. But one earth that may collide with one of yours. Spectre and I seek your help to save it from destruction. It may also possible that all three universes may collide thus causing the chain of incursions to occur again," The Watcher explains.

"Do you want us to destroy this third earth then? And if not, why?" This time Diana asks the cosmic beings.

"It's not like we're going to agree to destroy it, there has to be another way. It just hasn't been found, yet." Hal said contemplating on what this new earth is like and what kind of enemies it has as well as seeing these new heroes in front of him.

"Hold on a minute. Watcher, the last time when the incursions occurred, they were caused by the Beyonders. How come this time it isn't them?" Steve asked.

"We do not know. However, I can assure every cosmic being is investigating this. As about this particular earth for whatever reason, no Beyonder is behind this," Watcher replied shocking the Illuminati members.

"So, what are we to do then?" Superman asks out of worry and concern. If any world is in danger, they were going to save and not destroy it.

"Did any of you detect any high-energy spikes in the past few days?" Spectre asks.

Tony, Bruce, Reed, and others shake their head. "Was there any object that looked like it came from another universe?" Spectre then asks.

Namor and Arthur immediately shout, "The snail?!" Namor stared at Arthur in curiosity about whether the snail he had also came from the sky.

"This thing?" Reed pulls out the snail he had been researching.

Arthur also pulls out the snail the Justice League was discussing during their meeting.

"Wait, what is this about a snail?" Sersi asks, just feeling bewildered by a snail from another universe of all things.

"It's not just any snail," J'onn began. "It's a snail from another universe, but we have no idea why it showed up in both of our universes."

"I don't see how it could be a threat?" Cyclops pointed out. Honestly, a snail isn't that much of a threat.

"I'm with slim on that," Wolverine said.

"I'm with both of them on that," Spider-Man agreed as wolverine and Cyclops looked at him and shook their heads at the web-head's amusement.

Spectre and Uatu look at each other and then back at the heroes, 'It's that earth' they both thought to themselves.

"Is there a concern about this snail? So far, the Illuminati agreed to do research on it." Xavier said.

"Indeed, there is a major concern," Spectre said. "Did any of you have someone from another universe come? And cause trouble?"

Reed and the other 616 heroes immediately nodded. Reed explained, "Yes, a man named Kizaru came to New York and almost took everyone out had we not been able to contain him."

"Kizaru?" Superman asks.

"I figured he wasn't from your universe," Reed started.

"He was like this really powerful, guy. From the footage, I saw he was firing light beams and you couldn't even touch him," Tony explained.

"He was something else entirely," Reed said out of fear. He didn't want to see any of his friends and family encounter a guy like that. Nor should these fellow heroes suffer through someone like that.

"Light? Like a lantern light?" Hal asks as the 616 heroes all raised their eyebrows.

"This ring of mine runs on light energy of willpower, I was wondering from the way you described this Kizaru that he uses the power of light," Hal explains.

"Not exactly," Reed answered. "It was like he was made entirely of it."

This perplexed the members of the Justice League, but they all decided not to ask any further questions because the conversation was probably going to reveal what this Kizaru figure is all about.

"Do you know something about him? And the earth he comes from?" Ikaris asks the Watcher and Spectre.

"Yes, however, this earth is unlike you've encountered before," Spectre started.

"Explain?" Batman was even more curious than ever to learn about this new world and to be quite fair, the Earth 616 heroes and Earth-Prime heroes have encountered multiversal threats before, how could be any different with this earth?

"The world he comes from is an unordinary one, very rarely does it exist across the multiverse." Spectre began.

"And what does that mean?" Flash asks.

"I'm sure Reed and the others can add to what Kizaru said about himself," Uatu pointed out.

"He kept mentioning pirates, that he's Navy Admiral of something called the World Government, and that all of us with powers were Devil Fruit powers," Reed recalled. "Though, I do not know what any of this means."

"Pirates?" Hal and Barry asked at the same time.

"He also was interviewed by a person we know. He mentioned a king of the pirates from his world known as Gold Roger. I think I can play the recording," Tony said as he pressed a few buttons, and behold a hologram of the interview of Kizaru and Maria Hill can be shown.

"I'm getting a lack of signal here due to wherever we are, so this part can be shown as much to you," he gestures to the League.

The League was a bit surprised by his appearance as he looked to be a very tall man wearing navy-like clothes. They didn't think much of it as Tony plays the hologram.

"Wealth... fame... power, Gold Roger, the king of the pirates, attained this and everything else the world had to offer. And his dying words drove countless people to the sea. 'You want my treasure! You can have it! I left everything from this world had to offer at that place.' Those words drove men to the Grand Line in pursuit of their dreams. The world entered the Great Pirate era." Kizaru said as he adjusts his glasses.

The hologram ends there due to a lack of signal, but it was enough info to convey to people who didn't see it.

"I didn't realize he was talking about that with Hill," Cyclops remarked.

"You were injured from him and in medical care and so everyone who wasn't at that fight was shown this," Tony explained.

"What about that is important though? What treasure are all these pirates seeking?" Diana asked out of curiosity.

Spectre and Uatu looked at each other and then back at the heroes.

"The treasure they seek is the One Piece," Spectre said.

"Great, more useless info that will lead to useless questions," Wolverine remarked.

"Oh, this one is rather interesting, Wolverine. You see only one man was able to get where that treasure is. That man being Gold Roger. As a matter of fact this world of pirates isn't like the ones in your world or even history," Uatu states.

"So, like what is this a universe where Blackbeard just takes over the world?" Spider-Man amused himself with his joke. The other 616 heroes just rolled their eyes at their ally's joke, though Captain America chuckled at the joke.

Spectre chuckled at that as well, though the League who know Spectre very well know that chuckle wasn't just for the joke Spider-Man just made.

"Well, can't reveal everything about this world at least not until you all find the source of the incursion. But to know about this world is know how to experience it," Spectre said.

"You don't mean?" Batman was worried about what Spectre was going to say.

"Exactly what I mean Batman... all of you will go to this world and find the source of the incursion before it happens," Spectre replied causing much shock to the heroes.

"Finding the source of incursion and saving it from dying isn't a bad thing," Superman started.

"But... not knowing much about this new world we will all go or what they can do and leaving our worlds behind is a bit negligent, don't you think?" Steve added.

"Your worlds will be fine as long as you go and we will inform them of the problem at hand," Spectre said.

"About this world, is there any magic?" Doctor Strange asks to which Spectre and Uatu shake their head.

"No magic? I think we all have a chance then. And no destroying worlds is going to change that this time," Superman said as he looks at the Illuminati members with a disappointed look while also stern.

"Believe us if we had a good option we would've taken it, hopefully, this time it won't lead to that," Captain America said as he approaches Superman and raises his hand.

"I don't know much about you, Superman. But I believe if we work together, stop this incursion, and save the multiverse from destroying itself. We might have a chance." Cap said. He sees a lot of himself and Spider-Man in Superman, he also reminds him of Hyperion for some reason and others like Hyperion such as Gladiator, Blue Marvel, and Sentry. However, he could tell Superman has truth in his words and he and his fellow heroes will help them stop this incursion.

Superman was reluctant to shake his hand but did it anyway. He can sense a lot of goodness and heart from Captain America. Incursions are a force of nature he wouldn't wish any universe to suffer from. He'd only he was in their world-saving it from them so that they didn't have to take such drastic measures.

"What else can you tell us about this world?" Superman asks the cosmic beings.

"Well, for starters, we believe whoever you encounter you must not reveal yourselves of where you come from," Uatu pointed out.

"And why is that?" T'Challa asked.

"This is a world of pirates and marines. While their technology isn't as advanced, mentioning the multiverse and your mission to stop an incursion might cause people of that world who have no good intentions to go out into other worlds and conquer them." Spectre said.

"Well, it must be obvious we must work with the marines on this. It could've been a misunderstanding with Kizaru that you guys are pirates because he deals with a lot of criminals," Batman pointed.

Spectre shook his head, if only Batman would see what the marines do compared to the pirates. "Should I show you certain wanted posters of a group of people from that world?" Spectre suggests.

That caught the attention of the more vigilante heroes. "Wanted posters? What is this, the mid-west?" Spider-Man amused.

"As I said earlier, this world isn't as advanced, communication is varied by newspapers and for criminals a wanted poster," Spectre said as he waved his hands and ten papers fluttered in the air.

Whoever caught one of the papers, showed it to the other person next to them to either look at the pictures of the wanted posters or read their crimes.

Batman was looking at the one he caught and showed it to Diana and Clark. It was a poster of someone called Monkey D. Luffy, as it showed a picture of a smiling young man with a straw hat.

"1.5 billion?" Diana asked astonishingly.

"I don't recognize the symbol here used for this world's currency. What is it?" Batman asks.

"The currency of that world is Beris," Uatu answered.

Batman blinked a few times after hearing that and then looked back at the wanted poster. Diana, however, was still astonished by the amount. While Clark was wondering why a guy smiling like that in the wanted poster has such a high bounty.

Steve had the poster of someone called Nico Robin. He also wondered what this Spectre is showing them. Are the wanted posters related, somehow?

Cyclops, Beast, Charles, and Wolverine, especially, stare intensely at Roronoa Zoro's poster. Though, Wolverine wondered why this guy was wearing a bandana.

However, it was the expression of Zoro's face that made Wolverine stare at it longer. The expression reminded Logan of himself. Of a new life he gained from being with the Avengers and X-Men.

Tony just astonishingly stared at Franky's wanted poster and just commented, "Is this guy a robot? I think I can take him on."

Barry and Hal look at Brook's poster and they thought the same thing, 'This is a skeleton whose really dead.' It reminded them of when they both died and came back to life.

Spider-Man just shook his head at Sanji's poster. "First of all, why does this guy have such a high bounty looking like that? Second of all, why is his 'Alive' and not 'Dead or Alive'? What does he come royalty?" He kept muttering questions to himself.

Black Bolt just looked at Chopper's poster and thought it was amusing. Although, it was only a 100 Beris, so most likely this animal is just a pet. Amusing photo nonetheless.

J'onn kept wondering about the long-nosed man of the poster he's seeing. Someone named God Usopp. Also, why does he look beaten up in his poster when he's supposed to be a God?

Namor shared a photo with Aquaman and T'Challa about the fish-looking creature. This one was named Jinbei.

Aquaman comments, "He might be like us from the Atlantis of his world."

"Indeed, I would gladly like to see this world's version of Atlantis," Namor smiles proudly.

Doctor Strange, Ikaris, Sersi, and Reed look at the last photo of a woman named Nami.

"I wonder what her story is," Strange said to himself.

After passing the posters around when Steve was given and sees the wanted poster of Monkey D. Luffy, He has a shocked expression.

"Something the matter, Cap?" Tony asks in concern of his friend.

"Look at this. You recognize anybody?" Steve shows Tony the poster and now Tony is shocked just as he was.

"What is it?" J'onn asked.

"This poster of this Monkey D. Luffy was from visions me and Iron Man have seen. It was of locations or rather islands, I should say, being destroyed, with that Kizaru guy attacking what he was calling pirates. However, a few more about this guy in a straw hat," Cap gestures to the wanted poster of Luffy.

"After receiving those visions, we contacted Doctor Strange to verify these visions and that's where this gets hectic," Steve finished.

"I confirm that the visions Tony and the captain saw were coming from another universe... one stranger than our own and where Kizaru comes from," Strange assured.

"Then, it's settled, we can travel to that world to find the source of the incursion and stop it from happening," Superman said confidently.

"Agreed, as long as everyone wants to join," Captain America said.

The rest of the 616 and Prime Earth heroes thought long about it.

"Well, it can't hurt to try as long as we don't fail," Sersi said.

Black Bolt just nodded in agreement.

"I'm in," Wolverine said though in his thoughts he knew he was going to have hell on this new world.

"I'll join as well," Cyclops said hoping to save the world.

"Well, it'll be great to see newer species and other scientific works of that world," Beast said happily.

"I'm with Beast on that," Reed also said happily.

"Ooh, ok, I'll join, but I really hope I don't get shot at again," Spider-Man said as the others look at him incredulously.

"I'll join in order to save our worlds from this one," Xavier said.

"As will I," T'Challa said.

"And I," Ikaris said proudly. He was hoping to get a new challenge from this world.

"Me as well," iron Man said proudly.

"I provide protection spells on all of you since this might be a long journey," Strange assured the heroes.

"Well, I will happy another Atlantis," Namor said smiling while wondering what Aquaman was thinking.

"Guys?" Superman asks his friends.

"Let's do it," Batman confirmed.

"We'll save the multiverse," Diana said proudly.

"Just like we always do," Flash said.

"It'll be the brightest day for that world," Green Lantern said.

"Indeed," J'onn said smiling.

"I, too, want to visit their world's Atlantis, so let us go and be heroes," Arthur confirmed.

Superman and Captain America approached each other and shook hands.

"Let's do it, Captain." Superman said.

"Gladly... AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!" Captain America shouted as his teammates got ready for action.

"JUSTICE LEAGUE, GET READY!" Superman shouted as they too got ready for action.

"Then it is agreed upon, we will send you to this world, but first inform your worlds of what's coming and then we will send you to that universe once they are informed," The Watcher said as they all vanished back to their worlds.

"That universe will begin a war like no other," The Watcher confirmed as Spectre agreed.

"Indeed, I do worry about another crisis occurring compared to the previous ones," Spectre said.

"You can come out now," Spectre called out as a familiar figure came out of the shadows.

"Greetings, everyone." The Phantom Stranger said as he tipped his hat in respect.

"Stranger, what are you doing here?" Spectre asked his colleague.

"I've come to warn you about a certain man," Phantom Stranger began.

Chapter Text

Wealth, Fame, Power

The seven members of the Justice League returned to what appeared to be the Watchtower.

"We're back," Diana pointed out.

"I'll check the area just to be sure. I get sick and tired of illusions from our regular baddies," Flash said as he ran around and came back.

"Coast is clear," Flash said casually as GL looked at him in bewilderment.

"Well, I assume everyone is waiting for us outside," J'onn pointed out.

"Oh, they must've been so worried," Diana said as she exited the meeting room. The rest pursued as well.

When they exited, they were greeted by an astonishing number of gasps and whispers as if they died. Heroes from every team across the world cheered the original seven's return.

"You're back!" Green Arrow shouted in excitement as he went for a big hug to Batman who just glared at him.

"Don't glare, we missed all of you." Green Arrow said nonchalantly.

"What happened?" Another hero known as Atom Smasher asks.

Superman looks at his friends and turns back to Atom Smasher and said, "It's a long story."

At Avengers Mansion, the heroes that disappeared reappeared in front of everyone who was busy searching for them.

"What the hell is going on around here?" The hero known as Night Hawk asked out of annoyance and bewilderment.

"I don't even know." said another hero known as Ultra-Girl, but she was glad they were back.

Spider-Man looked at his friends and simply replied with, "It's a long story."

"Wait... wait... let me get this straight," Booster Gold spoke up as everyone looked at him. "You're telling us that something known as an incursion is going happen, but you guys are going to prevent it with this other world of heroes you've met because they have experience with them? And the world you all are visiting is a world of pirates and marines?"

"That is what they said, sir," said Skeets, his robot friend.

Booster Gold ignored Skeets as J'onn responded, "That is correct, it may appear to be outlandish, but it is the truth."

"Question, how exactly or do we know why what's causing this particular incursion or does that other world of heroes know about it and is just hiding it?" A skeptical Guy Gardner asked.

"If they did, I would've detected it or we would've fought them about that," Batman answered.

"That doesn't help in which they could be lying to invade our world," This time Hawkman retorted.

"Just trust us on this," Superman pleaded. "A lot of us... we've lost a lot when it comes to a crisis, when the world always seems like its ending. I know in our hearts that we have made decisions that sometimes don't sit well with others. That doesn't mean we have to be at each other's throats about it. We're the Justice League, we will always figure it out."

"In any case, we will let any of you know if we are in danger and need help," Hal said to the rest of League.

The rest of the League didn't know what to feel to be honest. An incursion didn't seem extraordinary out of what they've seen in their usual day-to-day lives. Alien dictators, mad gods with a lust of power, it's all the same as they have triumphed over all of them. They are the world's greatest heroes.

"So, that's it? Another incursion?" Moondragon asks out of anger, but also inside her a little fear.

"That's it... and in case any of you remember the last time that happened, our world was destroyed. I think these other heroes have had experience with the multiverse," Captain America said.

"How long we got?" Luke Cage asked.

The heroes that visited the Watcher and met the new heroes from Prime Earth all looked ashamed and on the floor.

"We don't... know," Xavier replied as a lot of gasps could be heard across the room.

"Then how can we trust those other heroes from another Earth? What if they are the bad guys?" Dazzler asked.

"You don't know that." Spider-Man retorted. "They seemed very willingly to help us."

"A lot of times, we've made mistakes, infighting, and have joined into different factions because of ideology. We're not going to resort to that ever again," Steve began.

"We will handle this like heroes and win like them. Whoever our new enemy, they'll wish they never met us." Steve said as he raised his shield.

"AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!" He shouted as the others got hyped.

"Does he always do that?" Egg asks his fellow mutant friends as they chuckled. One of them (Magik) answered, "Yeah, I wish he'd stop including everyone as Avengers since some of us aren't."

Superman and the original seven said their goodbyes as they awaited to teleported back to where Spectre and The Watcher met the 616 heroes.

"Be safe, Kal." Kara said to Clark.

"Yeah, be safe." Connor said.

"Don't worry. I'll always will be, I am Superman after all." Clark said as they all hugged each other.

Meanwhile, Batman and his Bat-family had a talk.

"Utility belt?" Nightwing asked.

"Yes."

"Shark repellant?" Spoiler asked as a joke.

He just glared at her, and she said, "Sorry, I couldn't help myself."

"I got everything, just keep Gotham safe while I'm gone," Batman said as the rest of the Bat-family (Nightwing, Spoiler, Black Bat, Red Hood, Red Robin, Robin, Signal, Batgirl, Batwoman, and Batwing) all gave him a hug.

"Be safe, father." Damien said as Bruce acknowledged it.

Meanwhile, Wonder Woman hugged her fellow sisters, Donna Troy and Cassandra Sandsmark.

"How's the new Wonder Girl going?" Diana asked.

"She's doing fine," Cassandra paused. "We're going to miss you."

"Do not worry, sisters. All of us will come back and we will train harder than ever," Diana said as she hugged her proteges.

Nearby, The Flash looks at his fellow proteges, proud of them of who they are and the heroes they've become.

"Uncle Barry, please be safe," his nephew Wally who's also the Flash places his hand on his shoulder.

"Thanks Wally," Barry said back. As the rest of the Flash family give him a huge hug.

"You got that device in case that world doesn't have any Speed Force?"' Jay Garrick asked him.

"Yep, but I think I don't need it on this mission," Barry said being a bit cocky.

"Don't get too cocky, grandpa." Bart Allen said as Barry nodded. He knew Bart was right, whatever enemies this new world has, it won't be easy.

Even further down the Watchtower, the Green Lanterns just all stared at each other, however, it was out of worry. Hal began, "Guardians are aware of my mission?"

"Yes, surprisingly, they're ok with it as long as one of us keeps Sector 2814 safe," John Stewart said.

"How's Simon, Jessica, and the new recruit from Earth, what's her name..." He tries to remember. "Sojourn! That's her name."

"They're good. Guy and I will keep a look out in case anything happens. The Justice league has the full support of the Green Lantern Corps," John said as Guy nodded.

"Hal, just be safe, pal. If not, I'll find the guys that killed you and bring them to the Guardians," Guy said.

"When did you have a heart?" John asked in amusement.

"What? I can have a heart. I just don't show it as much compared to the bleeding-hearts," Guy said as he gives Hal a fist bump. Hal shakes his head yet gives one in return.

Another member J'onn gave M'gann a nice, touching hug. "Please do not do anything that would make me worry about you, uncle J'onn." She spoke.

J'onn placed his hands on her shoulders, "It is ok, M'gann. I'll be back like I always do." She had a worried face, but she knew he'd be back.

Speaking via hologram, Aquaman looked at his fellow people and proteges, Aqualad, Lagoon Boy, Tempest, Dolphin, and Aquagirl.

"So, that snail we found is the cause of all of this?" Tempest asked.

"I'm actually surprised, however, why can't we bring the Titans or Young Justice or even the JSA on this?" Lagoon Boy asked.

"It's good everyone wants to help, but who will protect our Earth?" Arthur asked back. Lagoon Boy apologizes to his king.

"I understand your concerns to help, but Earth needs its heroes," Arthur said as they all wished their king well.

"Yes, my king." Lagoon Boy said while bowing his head.

"We will do our best," Tempest said as well.

The heroes of Earth 616 give their hugs and goodbyes. Each one gave their gratitude and hope for the future.

Spider-Man patted Kamala Khan's head, she tries to swat it away out of annoyance, but smiled. "See ya, little one. As well as the rest of you," he said as he high-fives Miles, Hope Summers gives a tight hug, and his clones Ben and Kaine gave him a thumbs up.

"You guys, know how to save—," he paused. "No, let me say this, keep our world safe as usual," Spidey said as they all nodded.

Cyclops said his farewells to his fellow mutants as well as Beast and Xavier, though Wolverine wasn't much of a shaker, so he just did a slight wave.

"You think this world will hate mutants like ours," Beast asked.

"I highly doubt it, but worst comes to worst, we will defend ourselves," Cyclops said.

The Avengers said their goodbyes to Tony and Steve. Steve smiled at all the hugs he was given, while Tony gave a lot of high-fives, even if some of them didn't like him.

"Good luck you two," Natasha said. They both nodded and waved.

The Inhumans wished their king Black Bolt and Medusa gave a nice kiss to her husband. "Good luck, my dear." She said as he acknowledged her and gave Medusa one more kiss.

The Eternals (the ones that Sersi and Ikaris associate with) wished their friends well on a safe journey.

"Ikaris, you mind getting me a souvenir?" Sprite asks cheerfully as Ikaris sighed.

"What would you like from that—wait, I don't even know what I would get for you, since I don't know this new world that well." Ikaris said as Sprite pouted.

He noticed the pout and patted the kid's head. "But I'll find something alright." Sprite got giddy and cheered. The rest of the Eternals chuckled at this interaction.

Black Panther met up with Storm as she was just done saying her goodbyes to her fellow mutants and said "Ororo, I know I haven't been the best husband. And I know I haven't been the greatest man I could be, but I want you to know despite our divorce, I will fight to keep our world safe from this incursion."

Ororo sighed and bit her lip. "I wish we could fix our relationship, T'Challa. I know I also haven't been the greatest wife or queen, but I want you to be safe."

"You were always a great wife, but me... I..." T'Challa didn't know what to say, but they both put each other's hands on one's shoulders in hoping they be alive soon.

Doctor Strange met up with Wong, Scarlet Witch, Nico Minoru, and Magik. Magik and Nico gave him a tight hug, while Wanda wished him well on his new adventure.

"Thank you, all of you. The world needs to be protected from terrible threats and this incursion isn't going to be the last. When I come back, I expect the sanctum to be in one piece," Strange said as they all nodded.

"With this incursion, do you know how you can stop it this time?" Wong asked.

"That's the problem in which we do not know what exactly the cause is, and like we shared with everyone this Incursion isn't just with two earths, but three. It's not normal, so we must find out the source and get to the root of the problem." Strange said as they all nodded.

Reed hugged his brother-in law, Sue, his best friend, and the kids.

"I'll be back and when I do let's celebrate with going to a family night out," Reed suggested.

"Sounds good, pal!" Ben Grimm cheered as Johnny grinned happily that his family was back to being happy after so long.

Namor stared at all the interaction, he said his goodbyes while being at Atlantis and to the Agents of Atlas, however, he was mainly silent here in this gathering wishing everyone good luck. He only wishes he could consider humans his allies, but he has no place in this world, so he keeps quiet.

"You're silent, Namor, that isn't like you," a voice said as Namor checked with his peripheral vision whose speaking with him. It was Triton of the Inhuman Royal Family.

"I thought you died?" Namor asked incredulously.

"I thought so, too." Triton said.

"So, how are you alive?" Namor asked.

"Something happened when I died, I just somehow re-awoke myself from it. I don't know, but Queen Medusa explained that I was in a chamber that was contained immediately, but it 'resurrected me,' somehow. It's hard to explain because even I don't understand it myself," Triton said sadly.

"Death… it's not easy to handle," Namor said.

"Or grasp… in this life." He paused. "Despite our isolation from the world, Inhumans will help all of you all the way. And with that I ask how you think in this new world you're going to visit differs from ours?" Triton asked.

"They have an Atlantis and the world we are going to visit is filled with pirates. I want to visit it to see how it is. Do their people have a king? A queen? What are they like?" Namor said as Triton smiled.

"Pirates?" Triton asked out confusion. Namor didn't say anything to that, however, a realization hit him.

"You want to like the humans in that world as well," Triton deduced. Namor didn't reply, just watched the scenery of humanity in front of him.

"You still want to find your place without feeling so contradicted with yourself?" Triton deduced even further because he understands Namor compared to the rest of the heroes. All of them just think he's an asshole, but deep down there's more to Namor that meets the eye.

"Alright, everybody ready," Tony said as he looked around. Everyone gave a thumbs up.

"Alright, Watcher, we're—" The 616 heroes that visited the Watcher, Spectre and the Justice League got teleported to the same dimension where they all talked.

"—ready…" Tony finished as he sighed. "I hate it when he gets us like that."

Steve chuckled as he told everyone to move forward and meet up with the Justice League.

After a few minutes, they approached where everyone was, and Spectre waved his hands around and the wanted posters of those people, both Earth 616 and Prime Earth heroes had seen before, floating around in the air and some heroes grabbed the posters.

"These guys, again?" Flash remarked.

"This group is known as the Straw hat Pirates, they're making a name for themselves in their world," The Watcher stated.

"What about them is so special?" J'onn asked.

"Nothing unusual, however, your mission as we stated before is to find the source of the coming incursion, to prevent we must have all of you be in civilian clothes and hide your identities. If you cannot find the source, we will send the Straw hats to you, though they'll be blissfully unaware," Spectre said.

"When you say, 'blissfully unaware'? You mean…" Beast started.

"They are unaware of incursions, the multiverse, anything of that sort," Spectre finished.

"Great, more problems to deal with," Wolverine muttered under his breath.

"Maybe so, but if these are pirates, who's the captain?" Steve asked the cosmic beings.

"My money's on the Zoro dude," Spider-Man said in amusement as the heroes of both Earths rolled their eyes, exception of Batman, Wolverine, Superman, Namor, Ikaris, Sersi, Diana, and J'onn waiting for an answer.

"Be serious, right now, Spider-Man." Cyclops scolded him.

"Oh, I am. But something about these posters doesn't feel right to me. It's in my gut but does anyone get the feeling these pirates look more… what's the word… not-so evil…" Spider-Man pointed out.

That made all of them pause and have a realization.

"Wait a minute, you said that this world is of pirates and marines. And yet, you only showed us these Straw Hat pirates as if they are going to be our allies from their earth. Is there something going on that earth, you're not telling us?" Cyclops asked Spectre, who had a grim expression on his face.

To the League that expression said a lot since they know him better than the heroes of 616.

"Please, Spectre, what's the real problem with this earth?" Flash pleaded as they wanted to know.

There's something going on and the heroes wanted to get to the bottom of it. Spectre turned away from them still having that same grim expression. He witnessed it… all of it… while observing the multiverse with Phantom Stranger.

He turned to the heroes and spoke, "Paragons upon paragons fallen and risen. One world of items that could resurrect the dead, one world of those who collect souls from the dead, and let them live on in peace, one world where ninjas waged wars and battle to strive a greater peace, and many others continue to exist across the multiverse. However, this one is more… unique… a world where pirates and marines strive for their dreams and will…" He paused as that same grim expression was on his face. It was like he was saddened by what he saw.

"There was a moment in this world's history that changed everything… and trust us on this, do not ask about it on this world…" Spectre said.

"And this moment in their history?" Sersi asked as the others became intrigued by what Spectre was saying.

"The Void Century," Spectre said. The mentioning of that confused all of them even more. What is Spectre so worried about the League wondered?

"On that world, do not even bother asking about that," The Watcher warned.

"And why not?" Hal asked.

Now they both had grim expressions on their faces. To the 616 heroes that surprised them about The Watcher, and he literally watches over the multiverse.

"Cosmic being bullcrap," Wolverine muttered.

"Yeah, speaking cryptically isn't going to help," Spider-Man called them out though they didn't bother to respond to that.

"Please, heroes, trust on this, for the sake of your worlds, this world has yet to discover what exactly happened in that moment of history," Spectre said in a deepened, saddened voice. This astonished the League even more, especially the Trinity.

Wonder Woman wanted to know what exactly happened in this "Void Century" that's gotten Spectre and The Watcher, so freaked out about it. Plus, it must've been so horrible to witness.

Batman wanted to have the knowledge of the Void Century and wondered why in that pirate/marine world they cannot ask about it. It only rose his suspicions even further and a possible million questions he's thinking of.

Superman didn't care about the knowledge of the Void Century, but he was getting a terrible feeling about the whole mention of it. It was like a curse was struck by a magical witch or worse trying to work with Lex Luthor on something, such as saving the universe. He was hoping it wasn't going to resort to that.

"Many times, I've revisited that moment and when we say do not ask about it, we mean it. As as a Watcher, I cannot intervene, I cannot break my sacred vow. Spectre here and other cosmic beings have chosen to only help out in their worlds' dimensions they reside in. That world has no one to save it from itself," The Watcher said surprising everyone.

"What do you mean by that?" J'onn, Ikaris, Hal, and Tony asked simultaneously. This only increased the interest of this world to the heroes.

"That world has yet to have a savior," The Watcher said to them as they were getting a bit annoyed by the cryptic talk.

"Are you trying to say that these Straw Hat pirates are meant to save their world? But yet, their world doesn't have a savior, yet. What is the 'yet' in this conversation?" Beast asked.

"In a sense, yes and no. These pirates have gone through a lot, and we think your worlds will… take a liking to them. But be warned, the 'D' will blow up a storm again," Spectre cautioned.

"You mentioned that before to members of the Justice League… that 'D' will blow up a storm again, what exactly does it mean?" Hal questioned.

"In due time, you will understand. For now, let us put you into teams and work together to find out the source of the incursion," Spectre said.

Hal got irritated by his question getting disregarded but chose to not further think about the matter.

"Bunch of cosmic bullcrap…" Hal muttered.

"Team 1 will consist of Superman, Iron Man, Captain America, and Professor X," Spectre recommended.

"Team 2 will consist of Spider-Man, Batman, Cyclops, and Wolverine," The Watcher suggested.

"I'm not looking forward to dealing with tall, dark, and gruesome and the Canadian…" Spider-Man muttered under his breath, though Cyclops heard him and chuckled at that.

"Team 3 will consist of Wonder Woman, Sersi, and Dr. Strange," Spectre ordered.

"Team 4 will have Flash, Green Lantern, and Beast," The Watcher said.

"Alright! Yeah!" Hal proceeds to high-five Barry, who glared at him at the dire situation.

"Not the appropriate moment, GL," Flash scolded him for his immaturity.

Hal shook his head. "Can't have any fun around here."

"As we were proceeding," Spectre scowled at the Emerald Knight and the Scarlet Speedster for a bit.

"Team 5 will consist of Martian Manhunter, Black Bolt, and Ikaris," The Watcher said though he was annoyed at Green Lantern's antic earlier.

"So that leaves…" Namor said.

"Only us…" T'Challa, Reed, and Arthur said instantaneously.

"Team 6 will have Aquaman, Namor, Black Panther, and Mr. Fantastic," Spectre finished with the team set-up.

"Alright, now that we have our teams. Now what?" Superman requested stepping forward to the cosmic beings.

"Now the real fun can begin, first part of the mission is each team will go to specific locations in the Straw Hats' world. Team 6 will be at Saboady Archipelago," Spectre said. Team 6 took note of that and wanted to see

"Team 5 will be at location known as Reverse Mountain," The Watcher stated.

Black Bolt blinked a few seconds because he thought the name was odd and wondered why it was called that.

"Team 3 will be at Water Seven," Spectre said.

"Team 2 will be at Skypiea," The Watcher said.

"And Team 1 will be at the Lulusia Kingdom," Spectre said.

"What about us in Team 4?" Beast asked wondering why they were left out.

"You have the most important mission, you will be near a location known as Egghead Island," Spectre said.

"Ok, now that we have our locations. Disguises also have to be a part of this mission," Superman demanded.

"Especially with my outward appearance," Beast pointed out.

"I believe Doctor Strange should be able to help with that," Iron Man suggested.

"Who wants to be changed by my spell?"

None of them gave an answer.

"It will not harm you," he said disappointed.

Hank, Scott, Xavier, Logan, Steve, Ikaris, T'Challa, and Reed raised their hands.

Strange acknowledged this and casted a spell only letting Hank McCoy back into his original human-like appearance and gave him clothes, of course. Cyclops also was changed by the magic that gave him his sunglasses and regular attire. The same thing occurred with the others, especially Xavier, which got rid of his Cerebro helmet and gave back his bald-headed appearance.

Iron Man just pressed a button, and as his Iron man suit was nanotech revealing himself. GL just let the ring give his Hal Jordan appearance. Sersi manipulated her hero suit into something of a nice dress. Wonder Woman did her classic spin into a normal outfit. Superman just changed into his Clark Kent attire. Flash did the same thing. Batman changed into a regular casual outfit, leaving and hiding his utility belt. Spider-Man just changed into regular clothes, but he didn't feel comfortable taking off the mask, however, for the sake of the multiverse and Uncle Ben, he took it off.

Memories started to flush back to several 616 heroes, exceptions were Reed, Captain America but all of them say his name, "Peter?"

"Yeah, it's me," Peter said proudly.

"What did you—"

"I'll explain when we're done with this mission," Peter said.

The League found that oddly suspicious but decided not to snoop about it.

"What about you two?" Barry asked Namor and Arthur.

"If this a pirate world, most likely it'll be sea, so we'll remain there," Arthur suggested.

"Agreed."

"Alright, may your journey in this world be safe, and again if you cannot find the source, we will direct the Straw Hats to you," Spectre said.

"Perhaps, before all of you go. We could both show you something on the earth, you're going to visit," Spectre said.

"Is it going to something spectacular or horrendous?" Sersi asked as the rest looked at her either in agreement or incredulously.

"You'll see," The Watcher said as the scenery changed all around them. It was a town with an entire crowd almost like they were all going to see something in their lifetime. It was a vibe of adventure lurking all around these people and the heroes didn't know why they got that vibe. Though, one was about to admit it.

"This place reminds me of having strong sense of adventure," Wonder Woman commented looking around the area. She could see ships docking, lots of stores, and wildly different people.

"Yes, almost like reminds me a mix of the 1600s, 1700s, and so on…. Yet I feel there's…. something else going on," Captain America said.

"As if someone is going to die today?" Flash asked the WWII hero.

"Whoever is dying, it sure is bringing the attention of all these…." Hal noticed a man in wooden handcuffs. "…people." He finished his sentence as he kept staring at the man.

It was a heavy rainstorm, a gathering people showed for an execution, and the execution was for a tall man (approx. 9'0). The man had thick black hair and a short, thick neck. He also had a curved black mustache. The outfit he wore was a red captain's coat, a blue shirt and had a yellow sash around his waist, also a white cravat around his neck, dark blue pants, and what appeared to be black sea boots. To top it all off, he had very intense eyes, almost hard to look away from him.

"Who is that guy?" Flash and Beast asked simultaneously.

"Justice League, Avengers, watch closely as this is the man that we have told you about... this is the man known as Gold Roger," The Watcher said as they got astonished by the revelation.

"You mean we're going to watch his execution?" Spider-Man asked bluntly.

"Well, he must've done something terrible as a pirate, otherwise, why wouldn't he be handcuffed and executed?" Wonder Woman said.

Spectre and Watcher shook their heads at that comment but refrained from saying anything.

Roger was going to the top of the platform now and the heroes, they were moving up to where he was, hovering to be exact.

"Well, this is…" Xavier started.

"Freaky, I know." Spider-Man added to Xavier's comment.

"I was going to say intriguing, but freaky works just as well," Xavier said.

As Roger got to the top, a guard asked him a question, and this interested the heroes' interest.

"Have you got any last words?" The guard asked. What was said next surprised the heroes of both universes.

"Can you please remove this? It's bothering me."

A pause.

"He seems… nonchalant that he's going to die?" Sersi asked first among the rest of the heroes.

"Yea, either he doesn't care about his life, or he doesn't fear death," Wonder Woman added.

Spectre and Watcher said nothing of the statement Diana just made, but it appears her statement was predicting something to occur.

"I cannot do that!" The guard snapped at the Pirate King. In which, Roger asked, "Where would I have to run?"

That surprised the heroes a bit. Why was he so nonchalant about being executed? Something wasn't right here.

"You feeling what I'm feeling?" Superman asked Batman.

"Yes," Batman replied.

"He's too nonchalant," Beast pointed out.

"Almost as if he already knows he's going to die," Ikaris said.

"Well, duh, he's going to be executed," Spider-Man added.

"That's alright, I guess I'm my own for this one." He said, walked a little bit, and sat down, "Just hurry up and finish it." He was unbothered by all of this.

The two guards turned their spears and were ready to execute him. The heroes had all conflicting thoughts.

Superman thought it wasn't his place to decide who lives and dies. He and the Justice League aren't judge, jury, and executioners and that they should strive to be beyond that by letting other countries' governments decide that. He only wished he didn't have to see Roger's execution as he felt there's something off putting.

Spider-Man thought and felt even though this Pirate King was going to be executed, he wondered what his crimes are as this execution didn't even read off his crimes. Maybe, they do executions differently in this world, his thoughts added further speculation.

Batman had a similar thought compared to Superman and Spider-Man, something felt off about this execution and as a detective he was going to get the bottom of it.

Captain America wondered what Roger did to deserve this many people to see his execution. The way it seems it was almost as if everyone watching wanted his life to end on this day. He remembers Watcher and Spectre mentioning about the One Piece and Kizaru mentioning the story back with Maria Hill. Then he remembered what Kizaru said about the story and what Roger said that sparked the Great Pirate Era.

Wonder Woman felt perplexed or confused by Roger. She wasn't sure why, but she had suspicions that were arising the more she hears the Pirate King talk.

Iron Man didn't know what to think. At the same time, he was wondering why Roger was just so unbothered about himself dying. He made mental note to investigate this in the future.

Flash wanted to ask Spectre and Watcher about Roger, but he reserved it until after the execution was over. He felt weirded out just seeing everyone wanting to watch Roger's execution.

Sersi felt amused by just seeing Roger. He reminds her and appears that he could actually talk to the Celestials, heck, the guy looks like he's an Eternal himself. He just radiated raw power and awe.

Green Lantern was wondering about Roger's crimes and why he felt about Roger came across to him that he doesn't seem like a bad guy. So, yes, he felt this execution was rubbish to him.

Mr. Fantastic ran a million thoughts in his head. Roger seemed to be not a typical pirate he would see in his world's movies and history books, granted he's got the appearance down, but the personality struck him as someone who likes to go on adventures.

Martian Manhunter crossed his arms and didn't know what to feel. So, he keeps watching to see anything he could pick up on Roger. This world to him felt unusual and that's saying something.

Dr. Strange felt Roger had a lot of power in him, and he didn't know why. Perhaps, if he'd explore this world more, he'd find out, but for now, he'd watch this execution to see what happens next.

Aquaman wondered why this Pirate King was going to get executed without his crimes being listed. If he's a bad king, might as well let the public know what he did.

Namor had similar thoughts to Aquaman as well Captain America. Perhaps, this treasure that Watcher and Spectre mentioned must be so important, if that's the case, how come no one managed to find it, but only this Pirate King?

Ikaris just wanted to see the execution over, as he thought all kings fall over time, no matter how powerful they are. He's seen and lived it in the history of his Earth. Not much different here, though he did feel Roger was powerful and could easily escape, yet chose not to?

Black Panther had seen many leaders fall to demise, especially kings who were either just good kings or terrible ones that brought havoc to their country. He had an odd feeling like the rest of the heroes here. Though, he wasn't sure how to describe it.

Wolverine had also seen many executions in his lifetime, especially where he grew up and lived. Not much different here. Though from what he could see from this Roger guy, he seemed pretty powerful and yet he was going to be executed in front of all these people.

Cyclops kept getting reminded of how many mutants get killed on his Earth. It was a painful reminder, but he got through it, it wasn't much better seeing a human go through it. From what he can see, Roger doesn't seem like a typical pirate.

Xavier wanted to read everyone's here, the ones watching the execution, however, the attempt failed as this was only a projection of what happened. Nevertheless, he continues to watch.

Beast wanted to study this world more. He wanted to find out if there were any scientists in this world he could talk to and discuss more about this world. It seems interesting enough to spark a feud between pirates and marines.

Black Bolt was silent as usual, but his thought dwelled on the King of the Pirates. As a fellow king, he wanted to know what his crimes were to deserve an execution. He only continued to watch.

However, a man started to yell loud enough for everyone to hear him.

"HEY! PIRATE KING!" The man shouted. "TELL US WHERE IN HELL YOU'VE HIDDEN ALL OF YOUR TREASURE! IS IT IN THE GRAND LINE OR SOMEPLACE ELSE?! YOU FOUND IT DIDN'T YOU?!"

"Of all the things to ask," Flash said in bewilderment as the others too were just surprised by the shouted questions.

"You there! Shut up!" The guard snapped at the man screaming.

"THE LEGENDARY TREASURE! THE ONE PIECE!" The man shouting asked the Pirate King.

"I see where this is going," Spider-Man quipped, but as he said that Roger started to chuckle and then it turned into a major laugh.

Everyone stares at him in awe, except the heroes who were silent, but were somewhat stunned by the reaction Roger gave.

"You want my treasure?!" He began.

"Just shut your mouth!" The guard snapped again, only this time at Roger.

"You can have it! I left everything from this world had to offer at that place!" Roger's last words were said as the guard ordered, "Execute!" Everyone was stunned, Roger was stabbed by the two spears.

The heroes didn't know what to say until Sersi pointed out, "Wait, did he die with a smile on his face?"

"WHAT?!" They all shouted, except for Black Bolt, whose eyes widened.

"That's…" Wonder Woman didn't know what to say.

"… so metal." Flash added and quipped.

"I'm in agreement," Spider-Man said.

Superman pointed at the audience of this execution, they were shocked and awed by Roger's words and then… they erupted into enormous cheers.

"Are they seriously cheering?" Flash asked still in bewilderment, this world was too strange.

"Never did I see anyone cheer about something that wasn't about the person just being executed," Black Panther commented.

"This treasure must be so legendary to be found that everyone just got it confirmed by the Pirate King," Batman said.

A pause.

"Yeah, that must be why. The One Piece must be hard to find and if it's legendary, people of that world must've thought it wasn't real," Ikaris said.

The projection of Roger's execution disappeared, and they were back in the void dimension where Spectre and Watcher had taken them.

The heroes vanished and Uatu jerked his head to look directly into Spectre's face returning into the same grim expression.

"When they find out about the truth of what that world is like, how do you think they're going to take it?" Uatu asked his colleague.

"I don't know. I wish not to think about it. Even in its history, not a day goes by that I wish I haven't witnessed the Void Century occurring in that world," Spectre said still bearing that grim expression.

Chapter Text

Heroes vs. Admiral

"My queen, what is it exactly about this man that you needed me to come with you?" The member of the Inhuman Royal Family, Karnak asked.

"The Fantastic Four and X-Men are our allies, and they were taken out by the one known as Kizaru. Their top officials have asked you, specifically to see any weaknesses on him," Queen Medusa explained.

"And about this Kizaru… why did he attack them?" Karnak asked.

"Well, for whatever reason, he thought they were pirates." Medusa replied as Karnak had a confused look on his face.

"I am afraid I do not understand?" Karnak asked.

"He comes from a different world and yet by his own power was able to take out Ben Grimm, Wolverine, and Cyclops. He has scared the rest with his powers," Medusa explained to her cousin.

"Ah," Karnak simply said.

They walked in the SHIELD's Helicarrier's hallway as they did, they saw Strom and Frenzy walking by. Medusa tensed as she saw them.

"Medusa?" Storm asked in astonishment.

"Storm, Frenzy, I presume… what brings you both here?" Medusa asked also in astonishment.

"Not your business…" Frenzy blurted out.

"Frenzy," Storm glared at her. "Now is not the time."

Frenzy just looked somewhere else, clearly not in Medusa's direction after the conflict between Inhumans and Mutants, she couldn't bring herself to talk to the queen.

"Don't mind her, she still hasn't forgotten about the whole Terrigen Cloud incident," Storm looks down on the floor in saddened state, then asked Medusa, "We are here because SHIELD contacted us about this 'Kizaru.' Frenzy and I chose to escort one of our telepaths and in case there's no funny business."

"One of your telepaths?" Medusa asked and a thought came to her. "Oh, you mean…"

"That's right," a voice called out from behind as everyone turned to look from it came from. A blonde woman with a white, sexy clothing walked to them.

"SHIELD wants me to see what Kizaru is exactly or at least get the rundown from his mind." The mutant telepath, Emma Frost added.

"So, they want you and Karnak, which is why we are here." Medusa gestured to Karnak behind her.

"I'm assuming they want something out of this?" Karnak puzzled a few questions only to himself as Maria Hill came by and said the set-up was ready.

"You two are going to help us, not many times we get a chance like this, but it's the best chance we get. Not just anyone takes out The Thing, Wolverine and Cyclops and lives to tell the tale. Due to this precaution, Frost will read his mind to see anything about his world and Karnak will see and point his weaknesses to us," she explained.

They approached to where Kizaru's cell was and he looked at the new people. He rubbed his chin with his fingers and said, "My, what new people, I see."

"Ignore his talking, he's been getting annoying and talking to him has made him even more stubborn than ever," Maria pointed out.

"And you just want us to do the dirty work for SHIELD then?" Emma asked.

"May I remind you this man could be a threat not just to humans, but to your countries as well." Maria said as Emma just glared at her, not that she wanted to admit Maria was correct right in front of her.

"In any case, there should be nothing going wrong as long we get information," Maria said as she gestured for Emma to begin.

Emma walked a little closer and raised her hand to read Kizaru's mind.

"Hey, what are you…" His eyes widened as she tried to push into his mind and as she did, Emma's eyes shot wide open in shock and fear.

Kizaru put his hands on his head, what Emma was seeing was too much even for her. What she saw was, Kizaru terrifying pirates, his affiliation with the World Government, what he's destroyed with his power, most notably his fight with a group called the Straw Hat pirates, and the death of Portgas D. Ace at the hands of his fellow Admiral Akainu, whose now Fleet Admiral.

"GET OUT OF MY!…" Kizaru shouted in anger. It was the first time anyone saw him act out like that and then Emma fainted and gasped for air.

"Emma!" Storm yelled in concern. Frenzy also helped her up as the blonde woman was taking breaths

and she pointed at Kizaru who was suffering from a huge headache from Emma's mind-reading.

"This man is too terrifying…" Emma shivered and put her hands on her shoulders. Storm, Frenzy, Karnak, and Medusa all had their eyes widened.

"What do you mean?" Frenzy began. "What did you see?"

"It was horrible, the things he's done, so much pain…" Emma said as she started to tear up.

"I have no idea what you did, but I think—"

"Shut your mouth!" Maria scolded the prisoned admiral. She turned to Emma and said, "I'll see to you later… Karnak, your turn."

Medusa gave the order and Karnak approached Kizaru, they continued to stare at each other for a while.

Karnak's thoughts started to form a hypothesis.

'Light-based powers and yet he seems… No, he is very powerful and strong. There has to be a weak point, I could find. Perhaps, it is elemental. Relax, Karnak, just do your training as you have been doing.' He closed his eyes allowing his mind to flow his thoughts about only the weak points.

Storm pulled Emma aside by her arm, but the blonde woman refused and in anger glared at her, however, it wasn't really at her more so it was of what she saw in Kizaru's mind.

"Emma… you have to tell us exactly what you saw." Storm said as she tried to calm her down.

The White Queen closed her eyes as the memories of that world she had witnessed kept replaying in her mind. She didn't know how to tell it to Ororo or the others.

"I don't know… I can't really explain it… This man has done things and will do things under the orders of his World Government and when that happens, we'll all be… Oh God…" She paused and placed a hand on her forehead in frustration.

"Emma, relax… what will happen?" Storm asked in a calm voice. No answer. The woman didn't know what to do or say next, but she wasn't willing to give up.

"We'll all die at his hand and his government," she began as tears started to drop from her eyes. "It was so catastrophic what I saw. Destruction of so many islands…" Emma said terrified.

"It's best to leave her be, Storm." Frenzy suggested while being sympathetic for Emma's feelings.

Ororo agreed and left her be, meanwhile Medusa didn't bother to say anything. Her feelings and mind wondered towards a lot of things, her regret towards the Terrigen Cloud, how Black Bolt is doing on the other world as well as the other heroes, and so much more. She wanted to drift her thoughts elsewhere.

"Anything?" She asked Karnak.

"He is very powerful. I cannot seem to pinpoint exactly his weaknesses. Is there anything about his power I should know?" Karnak asked everyone.

"We know he has light powers and uses to make fire beams or make constructs out of them, think a sword." Maria added.

"And based on the footage of his battle with the X-Men and Fantastic Four, it seems he has intangibility, exactly like Shadowcat's power as no one could seem to get punch on him, except for Magik. She was able to fight him with her sword," Maria finished explaining.

Karnak put a hand on his chin and said, "That does seem to help a bit. Intangibility as a power seems frustrating, but everything has a weakness."

"I highly doubt you will find any on me," Kizaru said coldly as he stared at them almost on instinct ready for a kill.

"Let's put that to the test then," Karnak said as he closed his eyes again.

Out of nowhere, red alarms rang and everyone on the Helicarrier is in panic. Maria instantly asked for what's going on. Communications come through and Maria shouts for anyone to talk.

"Sir, it appears a signal has jammed us in the sky and we're experiencing a blackout. All prisoners' cells have been unlocked and their powers are working-Aaaaah!"

"Wait, unlocked?" She said to herself as everyone can see Kizaru start to glow and reappear out of his cell and smirked.

"Seems like you made a mistake holding me in there," Kizaru said with no expression on his face.

Anyone with powers were ready to fight off the tall admiral. Unbeknownst to them, Kizaru was using Observation Haki because he dodged an attack from Karnak. He disappeared and reappeared behind Karnak.

"Have you ever been kicked the speed of light?" He asked the man who can see weaknesses in anything.

His right leg glowed and, in a flash, he kicks Karnak so far, he hits him into another side of the Helicarrier where mainly guards are firing at prisoners escaping.

BAANNNGGGG! POOFFFF!

"What the hell was that?!" A guard asked in shock and fear.

"Isn't that the guy that's always with Black Bolt and Medusa?" Another guard commented.

"Never mind him, let's control some of these prisoners back into their cells!" A commander ordered.

Back with Maria Hill and the others, along with Kizaru, all of them were shocked as Emma fell to the ground.

"This is it… his power is too great…" Emma said quivering in fear.

"You'll pay for what you did to Karnak!" Medusa shouted in pure anger and attacked her hair against Kizaru, only for it to pass through.

Frenzy at the same time threw a punch at him, only for her to pass right through him.

"You remind me of a former CP9 agent that can do it, but you have none of the Six Powers, they can use." Kizaru commented on Medusa's hair ability.

Frenzy turned around and threw a roundhouse kick, and yet again, it still passed right through him. Simultaneously, Storm fired her lightning ability on the navy admiral. No effect whatsoever took place.

"My, my, how scary," he said casually while staring down at his new enemies.

"Don't mock us!" Frenzy yelled out of anger and threw another punch. It still right through him.

"He has a power like Shadowcat! He's impossible to defeat!" Emma shouted for them to stop.

Back with Karnak, he got back up and wondered where he was. "That kick he gave me... just what is his weakness?" He asked himself as he quickly ran back to where his queen was as well as the others.

Kizaru just stood there as if he was minding his own business. These new enemies to him were just weird, so he had several thoughts occur to him. His observation haki sensed the same attacks as always from the three crazy women.

Storm, Medusa, and Frenzy continued their attacks. He wondered why they had Devil Fruit powers even though, well, it couldn't be possible that they aren't using Devil Fruit powers, but something else entirely.

"Question, have you eaten a Devil Fruit?" Kizaru asked.

"What?!" Medusa, Storm, and Frenzy replied annoyed at Kizaru.

"Figured, it might explain your powers." Kizaru lit up his leg and kicked Frenzy so fast, Storm and Medusa couldn't see him.

"Frenzy!" Storm yelled astonished at the admiral's power.

"So fast!" Medusa gasped.

Frenzy went through the walls of the Helicarrier, the red alarm still ringing loudly all around, and the agents are in hurray to try and get super-villains back into their cells.

Frenzy groaned but wasn't in pain. In her thoughts, she was worried about this guy's power. What hope did she have against him, what hope did anyone have against him.

"THIS IS FOR FRENZY!" Storm yelled as she fired more lightning at Kizaru, but it passed right through him. 'Better escape this and try to find another location.' Kizaru thought to himself as the red-haired woman and white-haired woman kept doing their attacks on him.

"I'm bored with this," he disappeared immediately which astonished Medusa and Storm cause they both went in with their attacks.

"Where'd he go?!" Medusa asked shocked by the admiral's speed and worried about everyone on the Helicarrier.

Maria ordered "Find him!" She also announced everyone be evacuated and anyone with powers fight Kizaru. Meanwhile, Emma was still shaken up with fear.

Kizaru reappeared in front of other SHIELD agents, and they gasped in horror.

"How'd he get here?!"

"Who cares about that?! Fire at him!"

The bullets kept passing through him. Kizaru sighed at the sight of all of this. It reminded him that these agents were just soldiers like himself for the World Government.

"Since you are all men following orders-" He stopped mid-sentence and saw an unusual group approaching the agents.

One was female and two were males. ONe agent turned and shouted "It's Moonstone! Grim Reaper! And Lightmaster!"

"Freeze!" Another agent ordered the supervillains to surrender.

"And you freeze, too!" An agent standing in front of Kizaru shouted and raised his gun at him.

"How about no?" Moonstone said as she fired an energy projection to agents. Kizaru reappeared in front of the agents and countered it with his light beam.

"So fast!" An agent commented on his power. The two energy beams continued to collide until Kizaru disappeared and reappeared behind the three supervillains.

"I got this!" Lightmaster said as he proceeded to attack Kizaru with his light powers, but Kizaru's leg glowed, and he kicked Lightmaster across hallways.

"What the hell?! Who is this guy?!" Moonstone commented as she got into a fighting stance and clenched her fists.

"Take care of him and I'll take care of these SHIELD agents!" Grim Reaper ordered as he went into battle with them, but Kizaru fired a beam into his leg. Grim Reaper grunted in pain.

"That was—" Moonstone was about to comment if it wasn't for the fact Kizaru also fired an energy beam into one of her legs as well.

Lightmaster grunted and got up from the attack. 'What the hell was that attack? I can absorb light and yet he still… just what is he?' He thought to himself as he ran back to where the tall man that kicked him across these hallways.

"BASTARD!" He shouted with fury as he tried to fire a light beam across the hallway, Kizaru sensed it with his haki and fired back, the two beams fighting for control and dominance.

"I WILL NOT LOSE TO SOMEONE LIKE YOU!" Lightmaster shouted as he increased the beam's energy to be bigger. Kizaru shook his head and split his beam into multiple beams and have him Lightmaster in all other areas of his body.

"Hahahaha! I can absorb light, moron!" Lightmaster cheered on as he fired a beam from his chest at Kizaru.

They both disappeared and reappeared towards each other and clashed with their light beams. 'Never met anyone that use my power. Was this guy created by Vegapunk? No, it's impossible… these people have never heard of the World Government.' Kizaru thought to himself as he continued to fight Lightmaster.

Lightmaster fired from his chest a solid light arrow, however, it passed right through Kizaru, who simply was nonchalant about the whole thing.

"WHAT?! HOW DID YOU ACHIEVE SUCH POWER WITH LIGHT?!" Lightmaster exclaimed.

"Doesn't matter, I'm ending this now." Kizaru said seriously for the first time as he raised a hand and pointed with his index finger. The finger glowed and fired a beam. Lightmaster disappeared to dodge it, however that was followed by Kizaru throwing his classic to his face again going across the same hallways and making newer holes.

An agent nearby the fight was amazed and commented, "This guy is just a beast…"

"I don't know who the hell you are…. But we won't stop to defeat you!" Moonstone said as she struggled to get up.

"I don't know," she coughed. "If you're an Avenger or a SHIELD agent or a mutant, I will take you on."

She still struggled to get up, but Kizaru admired her courage.

"I'm not any of those things you mentioned, nor do I care about it," Kizaru began as his finger glowed and fired a beam, however, Moonstone was somehow able to dodge it and she fired back a beam at Kizaru. The navy admiral just fired back, and the beams yet again collided.

Several agents thought the battle was going too fast, so they held Grim Reaper at gunpoint, although he started to get up.

"Freeze!" One said as Grim Reaper unsheathed his blade and went in for the attack.

Kizaru noticed that and fired a beam, again with his index finger, at Grim Reaper's arm where he was carrying his sword, the villain screamed in pain.

"Why's that man helping us?" An agent asked to himself as Director Hill kept screaming through comms.

"Sir, villains released in sector-06, repeat sector-06, Lightmaster, Moonstone, and Grim Reaper have broken out," the agent responded. "Also, that tall man is also here! The one that fought against the Fantastic Four and X-Men!"

"He's at sector-06 and apparently Moonstone, Grim Reaper, and Lightmaster escaped!" She said aloud to Medusa, Storm, and Emma as Karnak started apporaching them.

"Karnak!" Medusa exclaimed.

"My queen, what has happened? Where's Kizaru?" Karnak asked as he saw he wasn't there.

"He got away from us, also Karnak as an order, tend to Frenzy." Medusa ordered and gestured to her location as Karnak went to her without question.

Karnak approached Frenzy and asked, "Are you ok?"

"Why are you helping me?" Frenzy asked bluntly. "And yes, I'm ok."

"Why not?" Karnak asked out of pure confusion.

"The cloud... the cloud that killed almost all mutants with M-Pox... why are you helping me, despite us being on different sides? Inhumans and mutants?" Frenzy asked as Karnak helped her up. They started to run and Karnak began answering her questions.

"My queen asked me to help you, I am in service to her, and we have no quarrel with your people. If you want my honest opinion, the T-cloud was caused by Terrigenesis bomb that blew up Attilan from Black Bolt's fight with Thanos, but he didn't know it was going to kill mutants. We all didn't know, and we tried our best to take care of it." He paused as this gave him an idea.

"Wait, that's it!" He exclaimed.

"What?"

"I believed I figured out his weakness," Karnak said as they both ran back which led to Frenzy being even more confused.

"What's his weakness?" She asked.

"His weakness, before I was assuming, he had none, but then you mentioned the T-cloud and that got me thinking, he has no internal weaknesses, but rather-"

"External!" The mutant woman exclaimed.

"Yes, if it's something outside, we have to figure out what it is exactly. I assume its elemental, in a solid, liquid, or gaseous form," Karnak said as they saw they were catching up with Storm, Medusa, Emma, and Maria.

Maria saw them and said, "He's at sector 06, let's head there and hopefully someone else arrives to help us," Maria pointed out.

"What about the bad guys that are escaping?" Emma bluntly asked.

"Deal with them as well." Maria ordered.

Kizaru shook his head and said aloud, "I warned them... I warned them all..." He stared at the villains grasping and begging for mercy. More of them came other than Moonstone, Lightmaster, and Grim Reaper and they cowered in fear of the admiral's power.

The supervillain, Radioactive Man, however, wasn't going to back down from the admiral. Kizaru still shook his head at his attempt of an attack. Radioactive Man fired a massive energy blast and yet again passed right through him.

"What the hell are you?" Radioactive Man asked as he continued firing the energy blast, though as it passed through the navy admiral, next through a wall, and lastly melting it making a semi-circular hole.

"Scary power," Kizaru commented.

"PAY ATTENTION TO ME!" yelled the annoyed Radioactive Man. Kizaru just stared at the melted wall, wondering what kind of world he was at, and suddenly he heard familiar voices.

"There he is!" Storm shouted as she prepared to fight him as well as the others. Kizaru stared at them all and shook his head.

"Look, I don't want to do this anymore. Just give up already." Kizaru stated bluntly as everyone looked at him with bewildered expressions.

"Give up? For what reason?" Medusa asked as Kizaru sighed again.

"I really need to get back to my mission to Egghead Island," said Kizaru as they stared at him flabbergasted.

"Egghead Island, sounds made up." Frenzy commented as she clenched her fists ready for another round with the navy admiral.

"Fine if you don't believe, I'll take you all out." Kizaru said as he disappeared, reappeared behind Radioactive Man, and kicked him with his leg causing the villain to be away from the heroes and them. He landed back to where his giant hole was made. Storm, Medusa, Karnak, Emma, and Frenzy had shocked expressions to his power. Meanwhile, Maria (although frightened) kept a stern expression on her face and stared down at the tall admiral.

"Now let's make this a fair fight," Kizaru stated as his expression darkened compared to the slow look the admiral usually gave.

"Wait, wait, hold on. You're an admiral, correct?" Maria began.

"Maria, what are-" Maria shushed Emma from questioning her.

"Hmm, yes, that's correct?" Kizaru answered.

"Then that means you are a soldier?" Right?" Maria continued.

"Yes?"

"Well, then, by that logic, you should abide by the law of the United States Government, since you are attacking one of our properties of it." Maria surmirsed as Kizaru stroke his chin as he was in thought.

"Did your command gave you the order?" Maria asked him.

"Well no... but I-"

"But what? You escaped and are now attacking agents that try to preserve peace. Isn't that what you signed up for? Peace for the world as an admiral?" Maria continued questioning and breaking it down for Kizaru,

"It's just you aren't affiliated with the World Government, so I don't know if you are good guys or bad guys, considering you had me imprisoned," Kizaru pointed out.

"You attacked the Fantastic Four and several of our friends in the X-Men! That alone makes you dangerous!" Emma shouted as Maria elbowed her.

"Ow! What?" Maria glared at the White Queen. She continued, "Look, we are not going to fight you any longer, since all it does-"

"No, I'm not going to plead with you on this; I want to finish my mission." Kizaru interrupted bluntly.

Maria was getting annoyed with him. "As I was saying our fight is wasting resources, such as the helicarrier here." She gestures to the surrounding structure.

"Normally, I wouldn't do this as director of SHIELD, but you have left me and my men no choice, soldier. So either, stop fighting and come with us and sort this out with our scientists. Or would you rather go back to the cell you were in?" Maria said glaring at tall, lanky man.

Kizaru tilted his head, put a hand on his chin, and thought about it. "Come with you or imprisonment?" He began as everyone looked at him weirdly or astonished.

Emma guffawed, Storm facepalmed thinking this is not going to work, Medusa bit her lip, Frenzy clenched her fists and teeth, and Karnak kept thinking of Kizaru's weaknesses, while Maria closed her eyes out of frustration, "That is correct."

He placed his hand back down and shook his head. Kizaru thought of his fate, reminding himself of his mission as he was on a ship with a member of the Five Elder Stars. In all of his life, he never expected to be in this world. A world of super-powered people like him only major differences from his world and this one. Flying machine-like vehicles, no World Government, etc... Just what was this world? They're not even pirates and are unaware of Devil Fruits. His mind flashed to two individuals...

Vegapunk...

Sentomaru...

"I'd rather choose imprisonment. You're not letting me away from my mission!" Kizaru shouted as he raised his index finger.

"Damn it! Everyone dodge his attack!" Maria ordered as his finger glowed and fired a beam. They all dodged as one beam exploded a floor. Fellow agents began firing their guns, but it was no use.

"I won't allow you to get away from me. And not away from my mission, so just submit before this gets worse." Kizaru threatened as Maria glared at him and her eyes darkened.

"You dare attack a United States government agent!" Maria yelled as she raised her gun at him.

"In my world, your government isn't a thing, so I choose not to obey it." Kizaru said as he started to point at Maria and fire at her until Emma Frost in her diamond form jumped in front of her and took all the energy, but she didn't absorb it only redirected to different directions.

"Interesting power..." He commented on Emma's power.

"Your mind is unclear; I've seen what you've done." Emma spat and gritted her teeth. Kizaru stared at her and asked, "What exactly did you see?"

"Not much, but I did see the Marineford War and that pirate that was executed- no, murdered would be the correct word. I saw the atrocities your government allowed... the people who suffered by your hands... why? What makes your government so special, huh?!" Emma spat with pure fury. The rage sparked in the White Queen that wanted to change herself from being a member of the Hellfire Club as she is now a teacher to mutants that need a chance.

Kizaru didn't say anything. His expression, however, went from the nonchalant to a more callous one. It was hard to explain, but something about it felt off, especially to Karnak, who noticed this slight change.

"The horrors... the destructive force... all your government ever did was serve those bastards... that bastard rulers you call Celestial Dragons! How dare you call yourself a man of justice when you serve terrible people!" Emma ranted and clenched her teeth. She pointed at Kizaru with a stern look, "Tell me, navy man, why do you serve such a government?"

Storm stared at Emma, she'd never seen her like this. It was astonishing to see her fellow mutant like that. But right now, Kizaru is the priority here, so shse didn't have time to think about Emma said about she saw in his mind. Celestial Dragons? Marineford? What did she in there?\

"You saw all of that," Kizaru stared directly at Emma. "I don't think you understand and I think you'll be in a surprise if you think this will be easy."

"That being?" Emma asked back angrily.

"I'm not the one that's in danger, you are." he said threateningly as he disappeared.

"Where did he go?!" Frenzy yelled.

He reappeared behind Emma and her facial expression was fearful and like a prey seeing its predator, she froze and slowly turned to see the tall man towering over her 5'10 body.

He pointed and fired a small beam to her shoulder, but her diamond form reflected the light, Kizaru noticed this and just for a light-beamed kick, sending Emma through the same area Lightmaster was before.

'It's not like I want to do this, but you all forced my hand.' Kizaru thought to himself.

"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Frenzy shouted at the admiral. "Just why are you doing this?!" She went for an all-out assault. It was no use at all, she still phased right through him.

'She doesn't have much experience with Logia types,' he thought to himself as he didn't even bother with her and walked away to a different direction.

"Where the hell are you going?!" This time Director Hill yelled out loud, demanding his presence.

"I'm not wasting my time with weaklings," Kizaru stated bluntly and still continued to walk. His observation haki had him froze, however, and someone powerful flew towards him.

"Oh my," Kizaru disappeared as the individual flew towards him. He had a yellow cape, brown hair, muscular, and a strong jawline. Kizaru reappeared behind him and asked, "And you are?"

"I'm Hyperion and you're done for." He began as he sped up and threw a punch. Kizaru let the punch come through him, but his observation haki showed a danger with this new opponent of his, so he disappeared and decided to take the fight elsewhere. Hyperion followed suit by breaking through several walls of the Helicarrier.

Meanwhile, as Maria and the others witnessed Hyperion fighting Kizaru, one of them (Medusa) asked "Which Hyperion is this one?"

"Who cares about that now? And you people with powers should know that these Helicarriers are expensive and cost the United States lots of taxpayer money." Maria commented as another hero flew by close to them and Maria's eyes widened.

"You?" She began as she stared at the figure in front of her. The others also had their eyes widened out of hope and despair.

"Sentry..." Medusa finished for them. Frenzy was astonished that he'd be here, she'd heard rumors about him, about his power and the Void. Storm didn't add anything to the conversation, but was pleased he came by. Karnak was adamant to a new ally in this fight against the navy admiral.

"We'll handle this," Sentry said to them as he flew away rapidly to the fight.

"What are we going to do?" Storm asked Maria. The director didn't know what to say to be honest, but she did hope Sentry and Hyperion could take on Admiral Kizaru.

"I'll keep eyes on the fight on those three, you guys try to help the agents escape and find Emma quickly!" Maria ordered as they nodded.

Medusa went along with Storm to find Emma, while Karnak teamed up with Frenzy as they seemed to get along very well to find Hyperion and Sentry in the fight against Kizaru. They went into their separate ways as Maria stared at her holographic video of outside.

"Have you heard about the rumors?" Medusa asked.

"What rumors? Hyperion or Sentry?" Storm asked back.

The Queen of New Attilan chuckled, "Asking a question with a question now?"

"Just get to the point," Storm rolled her eyes at the Inhuman Queen trying to be comedic, it reminds her of her time dealing with Spider-Man.

"I'd be lying if I wasn't saying it wasn't about both of them... but it is. Sentry is, well, let's say I heard about his power and the fight with the Hulk and yet he, himself, has to contain himself in his home because of his hidden power, another self, if you can call it. With Hyperion, I read on the Avengers' filing of him that there many of them from across of the multiverse... some are good, others are bad and some were created by magic or another way. The question remains..." Medusa began.

"...of which one will turn out evil?" Storm finished her sentence.

"Exactly, which is why we should be cautious." Medusa said as they started to notice up ahead was the White Queen laid on her back and holding her forehead. She was no longer in her diamond form and appeared to be fine for now.

"Emma!" Storm called out.

Emma jerked her head slightly to see Storm and Medusa approaching her. "Are you alright?" The Inhuman Queen asked, but Emma didn't say anything, instead seemed traumatized by something, or rather someone.

"What's the matter, Emma? Is something wrong?" Storm asked out of sympathy as she looked at Emma and then back to Medusa. The weather-powered mutant sighed, assuming it was about their species' conflict from back then.

"Look if this is about the T-Cloud incident-" Storm said, but Emma interjected. "It's not that." She said shaken up by fear.

"The tall man we are facing together, then?" Medusa asked as Emma nodded. Storm closed her eyes, it must've been terrible what she saw in his mind.

"Emma, you have to talk about you saw." She asked as she placed both of her hands on her shoulders.

"I can't..." Emma replied not looking at either Medusa or Ororo.

"Why not?" Storm asked as she tried to calm her down.

"It reminds me of our suffering... of humanity's true core... that admiral..." Emma began.

Kizaru exited outside and smirked nonchalantly, he felt he was finally free. As he stared down the hangar of the Helicarrier, there was lots of newer technology to be seen. No time to gawk at it as he was finally escaping, however, his Haki sensed two powerful opponents.

"Oooh... scary power coming by... better bail." He disappeared only for Hyperion and Sentry to appear in front of him. They chased after each other in rapidly and powerfully. Beams firing back and forth and it appeared there was no winner whatsoever.

Sentry's eyes glowed and fired lasers from his eyes, Kizaru formed a light sword to block it, but it exploded. He split into pieces as Logia type and then disappeared to reappeared way later. Hyperion flew to punch Kizaru, however, due to his intangibility he passed right through him.

"What the...?!" Hyperion exclaimed. Kizaru smirked and fired a beam from his index finger. However, it never managed to hurt Hyperion and he, too, smirked back.

"Buddy, you think your little beams are going to hurt me?" Hyperion asked as he flew fast towards Kizaru as Sentry appeared behind the admiral and grabbed onto him from behind using energy instead of not using it to see if it makes his intangibility go away and it appears it did.

"Huh?! You know Haki!" The admiral exclaimed in worry and fear for the first time ever. Hyperion flew at a fast pace, he clenched and raised his right fist and gave a good right hook to Kizaru's face.

He didn't want to kill him due to SHIELD's orders, but he kept punching him in the face to make sure a lesson was taught.

"He's been shown to be powerful... from his memories...from his world, but it's not him we have to worry about..." Emma said.

"Who then?" Medusa asked, wondering what is Emma so worried about.

"His government..." Emma said feeling chills down her spine when she said it. "His government is... so genocidal... brutal..."

Storm and Medusa looked at each other, then back at Emma in surprise. Just what did she see in his mind?

Kizaru still kept getting punched in the face by Hyperion and Sentry was still holding him. He didn't know what to think, experiencing a great pain, enduring a beating. A lot of thoughts was going through his mind. All the possibilities and the chances.

"Had enough?" Hyperion asked the admiral as he and Sentry landed on top of the Helicarrier and laid him down. Kizaru didn't say anything, just letting the light come through.

"Is he dead?" Sentry asked Hyperion.

"No, I can hear his heart beating," he said as they both stare at him sleeping peacefully in a way.

"He looks like he's rested after everything," Sentry pointed out.

"Yeah, the fight with the X-Men and Fantastic Four didn't do him in... maybe its the first time, he's fought guys like us." Hyperion said as he stared at the resting admiral.

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why didn't he go all out? He seemed strong enough for at least a few rounds and then some?" Sentry asked.

"Maybe, he was afraid of his own power. Who knows but he can rest now and not fight us?" Hyperion said as he pressed his communicator on his ear and told Director Hill that Kizaru was down.

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Justice and Warlords

It was quite simple day for the United States navy. Today, they were being visited by none other than Lex Luthor and Amanda Waller. It was like any other day; they inspect and give details of new weapons development that Lex or Cadmus are working on.

A lot of the navy men didn't care about this, but it was nice to hear from them once in a while. A strong intake from the man whose always wanted the best of humanity and the planet Earth.

Lex Luthor always had dramatic entrances and today was no different as he landed by helicopter on a regular navy ship.

"Gentlemen," he greeted several navy men, awaiting in front of him was the commander and Waller, herself. She hasn't changed as much as Lex thought.

"You were supposed to be here one hour ago. This is the first time you've ever been late to these meetings," Waller scolded him for the tardiness.

"I apologize for such inconvenience, I was busy with the dealings of LexCorp and Superman, but I digress as he never showed up." Lex said as Waller sighed and proceeded to their daily meeting with the commander.

However, a navy man came by the deck and shouted "Sir, take a look at this!" That confused all of them. They all headed to the control room, murmurs among the regular navy men were scattering around in a frenzy.

"What is it?" The commander asked.

"An enemy appears to taken out one of our ships. We received footage of the battle." The man said as the commander ordered to play it.

The footage showed a man with a large black sword swinging it around like it was child's toy yet very elegant and grace to it. Dozens of men screaming for help as they ordered for back up.

"What the hell is this?!" Waller screamed out of pure anger.

"Must be a new enemy," Lex began. "I'll notify the Justice League on this if I can get contact with their Watchtower and-"

"There isn't enough time as the man has reached a bay at Metropolis." The navy man said as everyone's eyes widened.

"What?!" They all screamed aloud.

From this perspective, Mihawk was wondering where the heck was he now? He was supposed to be meeting with Crocodile, but somehow found himself in a new sea and new land. Well, whatever, he'll find his way back and he even wondered when did the Marines get new ships... must've been Vegapunk's new technology he's been working. The old fool making dangerous out here on the seas.

As he docked his ship, people were staring at him. He glared at them and asked, "Something the matter?"

"Oh nothing, except it isn't Halloween, pal!" One guy with sunglasses and blue shorts said as he and his friends laughed. he was a Caucasian male with sandy, blonde hair and his friends was a Black male and another an Asian woman. There were also others Mihawk didn't care to perceive.

Mihawk took the comment as a sign of weakness and let it go. If he was asleep before and heard that, he would've done something, but now he will let it go. Instead, he'll do a new tactic.

"Besides, your snarky comment towards my appearance, you could tell where I am?" Mihawk demanded from the man that insulted him as the guy wasn't going to admit, he was very afraid from him.

"You're in Metropolis," an Asian woman answered his question. Mihawk nodded and thanked her as he went on his way.

At the Watchtower, Booster Gold was on monitor duty. Boy, was it boring. Nothing, but just screens, screens, and even more screens. Plus, there was that energy detection a few minutes ago- wait, what was the energy detection? Where did it occur? Why did it occur? So, many questions asked at the same time in his mind.

"What the hell is going on?" Booster asked as another League member came by.

"Something wrong, Booster?" The hero known as Elongated Man asked as he noticed something was wrong.

"Large energy detected from the Atlantic Sea, usually where the navy sail around, but what's weird is that it came close to Metropolis itself, might be even on it." The hero from the future explained as Elongated Man stared at him in bewilderment.

"What?"

"How long ago was this detected?" Ralph asked as he crossed his arms and scolds Booster as if he's a child.

"Hey, don't give me that look, J'onn gave me monitor duty. And second, it was detected a few seconds ago." Booster remarked as Elongated Man shook his head.

"Let's send in a few members to check it out and hopefully nothing bad happens," Ralph said as he walked away.

"Can I come along?" Booster asked as he heard Ralph shout back to him a 'no'. He sat back down and was saddened by the choice.

Mihawk definitely thought he was in a strange new world. He kept walking, people kept staring at him, and weirdly enough a lot of women kept saying he was hot and sexy. He ignored the comments as it was nothing to him.

"This is an unpleasant island. Too much noise and weakness," Mihawk commented.

Mihawk kept walking around and noticed strange vehicles moving on paths at high or low speeds.

"Hey, buddy. You missed a convention or somethin'?" A fat, white guy asked the warlord. He ignored his question as he followed everyone else crossing the street.

More and more people made comments as Mihawk passed by them. "Mommy, that sword looks cool!" A little boy said as his mother gasped and glared at Mihawk. He didn't care, he wanted to know where he was and why.

"Excuse me, sir?" Mihawk, using his peripheral vision, noticed a man wearing a blue uniform raising his index, lowered it, and then said, "Are you lost going to the costume party?"

Mihawk ignored the man, but the man, who was really a police officer, ordered, "Sir, I was asking you questions. You are carrying a dangerous item around scaring the public."

The former Warlord was not going to have it, he turned to the officer and glared at him. "You listen here, you wretched fool. I'm trying to find my way off this island and unless you know where I am going, then please direct me. Otherwise, leave me and my weapon alone." He turned and left the officer alone, who was intimidated by his words, but that didn't stop him from getting his gun, and holding it shakily.

Mihawk stopped walking. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," he said as he prepared with his observation haki for the upcoming bullet.

"Get on the ground!" The officer shouted nervously, shaking the gun in his hand.

"You don't want to do this," Mihawk grabs Yoru, but does not unsheath the blade as he waits for the right moment.

"I said—!" The officer shot the gun and in swift action,the crowd went into a frenzy, but Mihawk cut the bullet in half. The spectators were shocked. The cut-bullets fell to the ground as there weren't a lot of people filming this incident.

The officer was also shocked, "How the hell… How did you do that?"

The crowd stopped and kept murmuring among themselves.

Mihawk shook his head and said, "I told you before not to do that. But I sense you are not strong, and yet, this world is rather…" He turned around to look at all corners and then back at the officer.

He approached him and grabbed him by the collar. The officer yelped in surprise.

"Are you affiliated with the World Government?" The warlord asked as the officer looked at him as if he was crazy.

"World Government?" He blinked as Mihawk glared even harder. "You're not one of those conspiracy theorists, are you?"

The pirate warlord sighed and let him go.

"I'll have you know, mister. If you're one of those rogue metahumans, I'll have no choice, but to contact someone else–"

"I wish to speak with you no longer. It is clear your country is not affiliated with the World Government. Not the first time, I've seen that, but do tell, am I still in the Grand Line?" Mihawk asked, but got a lot of stares (mainly bewildered stares) from the people around him.

"Grand Line? Now I'm sure you're a conspiracy theorist!" The officer shouted and continued, "And another assaulting a police officer is against the law– Hey, hey, where are you going? I'm placing you under… arrest."

The swordsman didn't want to hear more babble from the authority man, but unbeknownst to Mihawk, he was not in his world any more.

'This world's energy is strong and formidable, yet no enemy has appeared yet. That man didn't know about the World Government, nor the Grand Line. Plus, there are these mysterious objects with wheels going fast on different pathways. It is quite clear, I'm not in my world. Or maybe I am, then how did I get here?' Mihawk thought to himself.

Amanda Waller got news media appearing on all screens. Lex was not amused at all.

"This new fellow in Metropolis could be quite dangerous," Lex remarked.

"Oh, you think?" Amanda said sarcastically and gave him the side-eye.

"Nevertheless, I think it's best we let the Justice League handle this." Lex said as he watched footage of Mihawk slicing the bullet from the officer that tried to shoot him.

Booster spat his drink as he watched the news media.

"Aw, crap…" He said as he kept pressing buttons to alert any members left in the Watchtower.

Several members came by: Katana, Guy Gardner, Black Lightning, Fire and Ice, and lastly Shining Knight.

"Did we… uh… miss something?" Ice asked, looking at the footage on the screen.

"What'd you do now, Booster?" Guy crossed his arms, scolding the hero.

"I didn't do anything, the footage just came now, if we hurry, we might be able to stop him." Booster explained, but Guy stopped him and asked him about what exactly happened.

Booster sighed, "Sword guy attacked a navy ship and now he's in Metropolis and was about to get shot by an officer, only to what appears he split the bullet in half really fast."

"Sounds like a challenge," Katana remarked as they all headed to the teleporters, Guy set the coordinates, and they went on their way.

Several police cars started to show up to Mihawk, he was getting annoyed at the siren sounds, and it reminded him too much of his days back then… when he was a marine hunter, though he never called himself that.

"It's been awhile since I've gotten the thrill of being chased again, only this time, not by marines…" Mihawk commented.

"That's enough, pal!" Guy Gardner shouted at the swordsman.

"Yeah, time to stop messing with the police and come with us, quietly!" |Booster demanded.

"We're not taking him in, Booster…" Guy reminded the hero.

"Oh, right, then what are we doing?" Booster asked.

"Strange outfits and yet you appear to be some sort of force… I do not understand your purpose? What are you, pirates? Marines?" Mihawk asked while the heroes looked at him perplexed.

"Strange outfits?" Black Lightning repeated and whispered to Katana.

"Pirates?" Shining Knight also repeated.

"Look, pal, we don't want any trouble. We want to know who you are and where you came from. And no, we're not pirates or marines. Guy's lost his marbles or something…" The Green Lantern said and muttered the last part to himself.

"You haven't heard of the name, Mihawk. I was one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, but that system was just abolished and now the world is wondering about the Three Great Powers and their balance. Have you also heard of the Grand Line and the World Government?"

"What is he on about— nevermind that… Listen, it appears you might be lost or from another world, let us help you figure that out before things get too crazy, ok. And you don't need to attack the cops or any marines." Black Lightning suggested.

"Why should I trust you?" Mihawk asked as he wanted to hear their answer.

Guy facepalmed and said, "You can trust us cause we're heroes, maybe, you haven't heard of us, the Justice League. Nice to meet ya, now, come with us or else…"

"Guy, you said not to escalate the situation," Fire said to him.

"I know what I'm doing," Guy said back to her.

"Or else what? You'll fight me." Mihawk remarked as he prepared his weapon.

"Yeah," Gardner looked around, "From the looks of things, you're getting your ass whooped by me and the others."

"And we'll definitely beat you." Booster pointed, made a fist, and slammed into his hand ready for action.

"Booster, don't escalate it like Guy is doing." Ice scolded the two men.

"I concur, sir." His robot, Skeets agreed, even though he hasn't spoken in a while.

"You two calm down and let's settle it back to square one," Black Lightning suggested.

"I think you better agree with your friends there," Mihawk said callously.

"Where's Elongated Man when you need him?" Katana suggested.

"Screw him, I'm going for it, if he isn't backing down!" Guy was getting annoyed already.

"So, what will it be?" Booster asked as Skeets was pleading not to fight the warlord.

"Since you are eager for a battle, let's do it." Mihawk uses his observation haki as Guy hovers to lunge at Mihawk with a green fist from his lantern ring.

Mihawk dodges as Booster fires energy blasts from his hands, Mihawk dodges it as well.

Fire and Ice attack with their fire and ice powers. Mihawk manages to dodge them and uses his haki well enough to not overdo or deplete it.

Guy imagines a sword and constructs it from his ring. "Let's dance, bozo!" He swings it as Mihawk blocks the attack.

"Your swordsmanship is weak," Mihawk commented.

Katana and Shining Knight nod at each other and then go for an attack. Mihawk swings Yoru back to block both Katana's and Shining Knight's strikes. He starts to get faster with the two of them.

'He's very fast,' both heroes thought the same about his swordplay.

"You two are weak as well," Mihawk commented. He strikes even harder and fiercer with Yoru.

Katana tries to aim for a vital point as does Shining Knight, but Mihawk blocks both of them, and they are surprised.

Black Lightning charges up and aims at Mihawk, but the swordsman dodges, however, one of the lightning bolts hits him.

"Ugh," Mihawk grunts and is surprised someone managed to land a hit on him.

"There's a little more where that came from," Black Lightning said as he charged and fired more lightning at Mihawk.

Fire and Ice used this time to attack as well, along with Guy and Booster. With one swing, Mihawk launches an air slash attack blocking the attacks.

In the beam struggle, Guy and Booster were having the upper hand, along with the others.

"What the hell is this strength?!" Fire exclaimed as they all tried pushing the slash attack.

"Keep pushing!" Guy ordered.

"AAAAaaaaaaaaah!" Black Lightning felt enraged and charged up more of his power against the attack.

The air slash eventually launched itself up to the sky and blew causing a massive sound like an explosion, but nothing was breaking or destroyed, just disappeared.

Ice makes an ice sword and decides to clash with Mihawk. 'Ice powers like the admiral? Did she take his Devil Fruit?' Mihawk thought.

However, despite a good effort, he breaks her weapon, and goes for a slash attack, but she blocks it with giant ice crystals forming from the ground.

Gardner makes a green fist and hovers quickly towards Mihawk. A flashback occurs in Mihawks' mind when Straw Hat uses his Gum-Gum power to make a giant fist during Marineford.

Black Lightning fires lightning at him, Mihawk, yet, again with one swing, slashes the lightning away, however, Gardner doesn't give in to the slash attack as it clashes with his green fist.

"HAVE… A TASTE OF YOUR OWN…" Guy changes the fist into a hand grabbing the slash and redirects back at Mihawk, "MEDICINE!"

Mihawk quickly counters it with his blade touching the air slash. He stares intensely at it and launches it back into the sky. Yet, again, it made the same sound and disappeared.

Fire flew around and launched her attack, but Mihawk dodged her. Shining Knight and Katana went in for the parry. Mihawk smirked at the challenge and clashed.

"I'll admit this, you are a formidable team. I would've thought you people were just rabbits trying to attack the wolf, but I was wrong. This is quite a challenge." Mihawk commented.

Katana and Shining Knight ignored his words and continued to attack Mihawk. Shining Knight continued his swings one after another, while Katana attempted to strike any vital point on Mihawk.

He wasn't having it and swung Yoru heavily with a heavy air slash on the ground. Katana and Shining Knight dodged it, but were launched away left (Katana) and right (Shining Knight) from the slash.

"What the hell kind of power does this guy have?!" Booster exclaimed as Skeets commented, "You better stop that, sir!" Booster shook his head and flew as fast as he could.

Ice formed another icy sword and clashed with Mihawk for a bit.

Meanwhile, with Booster, the slash was headed for a building. "Aw, crapcrapcrapcrapcrap..." He flew a little faster and got in front of the slash and fired energy into it to slow it down or redirect it somewhere safely.

"I won't let another tragedy occur under my watch!" Booster puts in more energy than ever before and the slash attack is dissipated. He pants until he catches his breath.

From a distance, Guy sees Booster did good work. "Proud of you, Gold." Though, he was also glad no one else heard him say that.

"Hey, Lantern! Focus!" Black Lightning shouted as he was fighting Mihawk along with Ice and Katana.

Mihawk, using his haki, slashes the ice and lightning attacks away. He only does it lightly, however, as he doesn't want to make a bigger air slash like the yellow gold guy flew by to stop it.

Booster flies back and continues firing energy at Mihawk. Mihawk blocks it with his sword. Unbeknownst to the warlord, Guy makes green chains, wrapping it around, and not letting him get away.

He is not surprised, but wonders what will happen next. "Listen, asshole, you did that weird sword attack to that building. What are you trying to do… KILL PEOPLE?!" Guy yelled at him, glaring down his 'hawk-eyed' stare.

"Not my intention," Mihawk said. "It's not my fault they are very weak, if they are caught in the attack."

"No, no, no! Do not justify that in front of me! If you have a problem, take it out on us, not them! Got it!" The Green Lantern shouted.

"Your anger is justified Gardner, however, let me have a crack at him," Shining Knight began.

"Who are you and why are you here?" The knight asked as Mihawk replied. "It's rude not to introduce oneself without saying your name first."

The knight sighed and thought the request was weird. "Fine, I am Shining Knight and this Katana, Fire, Ice, Green Lantern, Black Lightning, and Booster Gold. We are members of the Justice League, not sure if you'd ever heard of us. But you were swinging that dangerous sword around like it was a toy at the cops and us. Now what we want to know is why?"

"My name is Mihawk and I think this world is unfamiliar to me, like those things with wheels going around. I've never seen them before. I've deduced that possibly I may not be from around here… possibly this entire world… it's energy is different…" Mihawk began.

The heroes had mixed feelings, some felt Mihawk was pulling their leg, others felt Mihawk was being sincere.

"And no, I've never heard of your Justice League? That alone makes it seem like I don't belong here," Mihawk said as others looked at him, again having mixed feelings.

"You asked about this 'World Government' and another I don't remember, 'Grand thing' or whatever it's called. And what's with calling us pirates?" Gardner asked as Mihawk stared blankly into the sky.

"The World Government is… or was the organization I worked for as a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. Let's say it was where they hired pirates to enforce against, well, other pirates. Pirates who roamed the seas considered us to be government-lap dogs, but it was a balance of power for the once Three Great Powers. One of them being the warlord system I once was a part of. The other two being the World Government and the Four Emperors that reign the second half of the Grand Line known as the New World." Mihawk explained.

They didn't know how to take this information as one, it was a very weird, but interesting system that his world developed. Two, considering the fight, what was going to be done with Mihawk now?

"So, you've worked with this government, but it seems like you were just doing what you wanted, not on their orders?" Fire surmised the situation.

"Well, because of the abolishment of the warlord system that I've been on the run from them," Mihawk added.

"I see," Fire said.

"Why'd they abolish it?" Katana asked.

Mihawk sighed, remembering all the times the warlords abused their power and lots of cover-ups occurred.

"They abused the system and caused many problems for the government. Hence, the abolishment of it," Mihawk replied with a stern glare.

"OK, seems like these warlords were such a problem, why have them in the first place?" Booster asked, but was intercepted by Black Lightning.

"Hold on, let's have him answer all of these questions in the Watchtower one at a time and second, let's deal with the police," The hero gestured behind him as cops surrounded them and were awaiting an answer.

"I'll deal with them," Gardner suggested and as the others proceed to help with any damages and check for any casualties.

After one hour of assessing the situation with the police, a helicopter lands near the heroes.

"Hold it, hold it!" Lex Luthor appears out of the copter and runs towards the heroes. The press is all over him, but he does not answer any questions.

"Oh, great…" Ice facepalmed.

"Anyone, but him…" Katana commented.

Mihawk determined from those reactions that this bald man was not to be trusted. He took note of it and watched as the man approached them, but was stopped by Gardner.

"Back off, Luthor. This is League business." Gardner stated.

"I think you misunderstand; this man has attacked Navy battleships with a single strike from his huge, black sword. And the government would want to hear about this," Luthor stated.

"We're well aware of that and taking care of it," Gardner retorted.

"I see," Luthor began. "Then you say the League will take full responsibility for this man's actions against the battleships that cost over a billion dollars of taxpayer money."

Gardner's fists clenched, he glanced at Mihawk, and looked back to Luthor's face. In the Lantern's opinion, Luthor had a smug look on his face.

"Yes, we'll do press and everything… Now butt off, Luthor." Gardner said and left him.

Luthor smiled as he now has something enormous planned or rather can predict something bad is going to happen soon.