Back in New York, Audrey Hepburn had Henry reach out to UNICEF to restart her visits and humanitarian work around the world.
As the all-purpose assistant, Henry carried a briefcase, sharp in his suit, walking a step behind her. Guided by UNICEF staff, they were heading to a meeting...
Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf were two of Thanos’s most trusted confidants, pillars of his Black Order. Yet after being slain by Alex, the universe remained strangely quiet. No vengeance fleets, no counter-assault, not even the faintest ripple of reprisal.
Several days slipped by lik...
After returning to his quarters on Krakoa, Alex wasted no time. His figure had barely settled into the chair when he opened a comm link and called Captain Marvel.
The connection flared to life with golden brilliance. Carol Danvers appeared on the other end, her entire body wreathed...
“Henry, could you drive me to the library?”
From inside the house, Mrs. Hepburn opened a window and called out to Henry, who was still tending the garden.
“Sure, just give me a moment.”
He gave a playful kick to one of the terriers still bounding around beside him...
Although Black Dwarf possessed tremendous brute strength, being hurled from the edge of the atmosphere toward the ground below was no ordinary fall. Even for a being as durable as him, the sheer velocity and impact would be enough to pulverize most bodies into paste.
Alex knew this...
"This guy…"
Ronan’s expression twisted as he stared at the screen. The scene outside—the lone figure streaking through the void, breaking through their barrage—dragged an old memory back to the forefront of his mind.
Decades ago.
That woman.
Back then she h...
France. Paris, 2nd arrondissement. Rue de la Paix.
This street, with its quaint old-world charm, was also one of the most fashionable shopping streets in the world.
On the surface it was the very picture of French nonchalance and leisure. Garbage was swept to the side, chic ...
Somewhere along the French coastline, not a vacation spot, just a rocky shore at dawn. Naturally, there were no passersby or tourists around.
Soaking wet, Henry crawled up out of the sea. The greasy paint on his face and the hastily brushed-on water-based dye in his hair had long b...
"Starship?"
Thor’s brows knitted together, golden hair shifting as he turned curiously to Alex. His voice carried both suspicion and a warrior’s readiness. "Do you mean to say you know of people beyond Midgard—beyond Asgard itself?"
"Of course," Alex replied in an even...
Thanos knew better than to underestimate that world.
C53—Earth—was little more than a primitive backwater in his eyes, a speck of dust on the grand cosmic map. Yet for all its seeming insignificance, it was not without weight. C53 lay within Odin’s sphere, one of the Nine Rea...
For a long moment, everyone on the battlefield just… stared. The only sound was Joker’s gleeful cackling as he relieved himself on the blazing, Phoenix-possessed alien.
But his victory lap didn’t last.
Reality bent.
The stream reversed course midair, rushing rig...
Back on Krakoa, in the great council chamber, the air was thick with unease. Charles, Erik, Raven, and Hank were all present, waiting with visible tension for Alex’s return.
Though Alex had assured Raven again and again that Asgard posed no danger to them—that Odin himself coul...
Alex gave no immediate reply. His face was unreadable, his eyes calm, but inside his thoughts moved swiftly. Of course he knew Odin was right—Ragnarok was not merely a tale whispered in myth, but a truth written into Asgard’s destiny. In another branch of reality, he had already seen ...
Of course, Vuk wasn’t going to let some lunatic in clown paint mess up his chance to claim the Phoenix Force. He didn’t even have to give the order—his second-in-command on the warship already had.
Two D’Bari strike craft peeled away from formation, banking low. Their plasm...
Mind-to-mind, time flowed differently. What seemed like an instant to onlookers was, for Jean Grey and Charles Xavier, an eternity. A thousand conversations, a thousand lifetimes, all compressed into the span of a heartbeat.
And in the end, it was Xavier’s raw honesty—his willi...
"Heimdall."
Alex inclined his head slightly toward the golden-armored guardian, his tone calm yet carrying an edge of acknowledgment.
"So, Heimdall? Surprised, aren’t you? Didn’t think you’d be seeing me again so soon, did you?" Loki stepped forward with a theatrical sweep...
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Heimdall’s answer landed with a quiet weight, both unexpected and—if Alex was being honest with himself—not entirely surprising.
On one hand, Odin was exactly as Alex had anticipated: not so petty as to be shaken merely because his sons had been beaten bloody. The ...
Thanks to Beast’s constant tactical nudges, Magneto had figured out the best way to use Joker: whenever he saw a cluster of enemies, he’d just hurl the clown straight into them. Chaos guaranteed.
Keep him too close, though, and the chaos would be friendly fire. Honestly, the on...
The hulking alien beast that had been fighting alongside the invaders collapsed, cut down at last. And just like that, as if on cue, the rest of the D’Bari warriors abandoned the train and leapt back into the night.
The three mutants still brawling on the roof blinked in confusio...
Cyclops and Storm had been sent topside for a reason—none of their powers belonged in a cramped metal tube. Out there, on the roof of the train, aliens swarmed from the air, the treeline, even the mountain slopes. Holding them back was no less brutal than the brawl raging inside.
The next moment.
Alex’s figure materialized inside the prison of Krakoa with a ripple of displaced air, his arrival as calm and effortless as though he had merely taken a step across a threshold. Behind him, Thor floated helplessly, his body held aloft in invisible bonds. He thra...
“Hah!”
Thor bellowed, his voice rolling like thunder across the empty air. His body surged forward, cloaked in lightning that danced and cracked over his armor, every stride radiating the majesty of the God of Thunder himself. The ground trembled beneath his boots as if bowing ...
Outside, the thumping roar of helicopter miniguns still echoed through the night. But inside the train, what terrified everyone more was the sudden silence.
The gunfire from the rear cars had stopped.
Had the soldiers won? Or had they been slaughtered?
Their answer ca...
“My kid used to look up to you freaks.”
The sneer from a soldier snapped Super Joker out of his nap. He yawned, blinking blearily at his surroundings—and realized he was shackled to a reinforced prisoner’s seat alongside the others.
Everyone looked miserable, arms tw...
“Why are you—what are you even doing?” Beast stammered, stunned.
Super Joker licked pizza grease off his fingers, chewing noisily before answering.
“I dunno. Nobody invited me to the fight, so I figured I’d carbo-load on the sidelines. What, is it a crime to enjoy a li...
Boom!
Thor had never expected a mortal—much less a human from Midgard—to shoot searing beams of energy straight from his eyes.
The optic blasts struck him head-on. Thor staggered, boots gouging the ground as the force knocked him down in a spray of dirt and debris. For a...
"Alex, from what I know, there are at least five major forces searching for the Orb right now."
"And those are only the ones we can confirm. There must be countless others working from the shadows, watching and waiting."
Inside the great king’s hall, the air shimmered fain...
Even if the X-Men and the Brotherhood had no wish to clash, the U.S. Army was more than happy to make the decision for them.
The soldiers opened fire the moment they closed in—no warning, no restraint. It was a greeting by gunfire: loud, arrogant, and absolute. Charles Xavier bar...
"Forget it. Whatever agreement the other me reached with Asgard has nothing to do with me."
After a long silence, Alex finally came to a decision. His thoughts had circled endlessly, but in the end, clarity settled over him like calm water after a storm.
Since he had resolve...
Loki’s lips twitched violently, the corner of his mouth trembling with barely restrained fury. For a god who prided himself on elegance and wit, it was an uncharacteristically raw expression—pure, unfiltered rage aimed at Alex.
Heaven bear witness—Loki had walked the Nine Rea...