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. Guid...
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 ripp...
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 a...
“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 on...
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 pulve...
"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.
...
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...
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...
"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 it...
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. C...
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.
...
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 Asgar...
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. ...
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 pe...
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 ...
"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 ...
???
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 me...
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 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 muta...
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 n...
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 helplessl...
“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. T...
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...
“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...
“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 o...
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 kno...
"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."
Insi...
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...
"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 cal...
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.
...