Earth now was completely safe from the magical dangers and beings. All that was remaining was inhabiting the new moons. The governments were already in negotiation about acquiring land on the moons with Umbrella.
Since the Avengers themselves were responsible for the new moons, the land rights went to the Avengers and Umbrella Corp. This was the idea of Tony as he didn't like the idea of loss as they had to go through while cleaning up the old satellites. So real estate on the new moons was what Tony was banking on.
But he also knew that the land on these moons were more what the people could buy so he asked LexCorp to release the news that the aliens from the Nova Empire could come and settle here. The Lex Corp themselves could come here and establish a branch of them. Earth now was ready to accept alien people and technology.
Lex almost jumped into the offer. He had been away from Earth for such a long time and at the end of the day he missed his fellow 'planet-men', fellow humans. Though he now was a Councilman to the Nova Empire, at the end of the day red blood flowed through his veins. So when Tony asked if he wanted to establish a branch here, he accepted the offer immediately.
Many rich people from Nova Empire too got excited at the option of
The governments who were negotiating for the land were dumbfounded to see new players on the real estate business of the moons. They didn't expect that Umbrella would take such a bold step and even got ready to lease and sell land to aliens. Though they had been dealing on many projects on Mars, Umbrella never got into this particular business.
But now the game has changed.
The governments thought that by trying to be tough they would be able to acquire more land on cheap money and use them as resource mining but this was now out of the window. Whatever price the governments were paying the aliens were able to pay more.
They got really angry and even threatened to close the Umbrella Corp working at Earth by saying that Umbrella had done a crime by giving more preference to aliens instead of allowing the humans to live on the moons.
Of course Tony never cared and took them to the court for defamation. This case went on for a few months when everybody was settling down on the new Earth. As expected the cities and towns now had started expanding more. Thanks to the new form of automated fast cars and other modes of super fast transport, the long distance that had creeped up didn't feel too far any more.
Honestly if Umbrella now stopped working the whole world would go to a stand still. They had immense power now, more power than the governments could ever acquire. Most of the analysts predicted this to happen when the new world was being made but they could do nothing about it. The Avengers and Umbrella had too much power.
The power of God was not something that they could just gloss over like it was nothing. Nobody would want to lose their life even if none of the Avengers ever threatened. But the fear of super powerful people remained. It was fortunate that the only thing the Umbrella did was business and they would only retaliate when something went against the business ethics of theirs. This was a strict policy implemented by both Tony and John.
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Earth - 10005
As such huge changes were happening on Earth-199999, another Earth was facing a crisis. A crisis of their own making.
The crisis of the sentinels. Sentinels hunting down all the mutants. The mutants' numbers were reducing day after day as the sentinels were relentless in their hunt for mutants. The mutants from the school of Professor X or the X-men and the Brotherhood had come together to join hands and face this crisis.
Yes, this was the Earth where there were only X-men. The world which never had Avengers. The earth which was under the 21st Fox-Century until recently marvel acquired all the rights again.
The normal story that was supposed to happen was that Wolverine would go back in time, or rather the consciousness of Wolverine would go back in time and stop the emergence of Sentinels altogether. This whole time travel worked just like the Flashpoint. Only difference was that there was no running involved.
But due to John's messing with everything in the multiverse, the story here too didn't follow the actual line. Because their Earth had a visitor from another place. And as we know any small changes in a time stream could cause a butterfly effect. And this time too it happened the same.
When the visitor arrived at this world, she was all bloody and bruised. She landed right at the school of Xavier.
The person who arrived was America Chavez.
"Scott have you contacted the mutants from Egypt?" Professor X asked while rolling his wheelchair in a long tunnel.
"Professor, they are not responding. I have a very bad feeling." Scott replied while walking alongside him. Beside him were Wolverine and Storm. They were on their way to Cerebro. The huge device that allowed Professor X to tap into the minds of all the people of Earth, both human and mutant kind alike.
This could be said as one of the most powerful weapons that could wipe away everyone from Earth if it fell on the hands of a strong telepath like Professor X, Jean or Emma.
The Sentinels had started hunting mutants from the brotherhood and Magneto was on the run. Though the mutants studying in the school were still safe, there was a general fear for the government's plan. The US President has started the Operation : Zero Tolerance.
It was a project to bring all 'harmful' mutants under justice. Though the US President has assured that this operation was only for the mutants who are harmful to the society, any normal lawmaker could easily point out that the lines between peaceful and harmful mutants has always been blurred.
For this reason, the atmosphere in the school wasn't so happy any more. There was a general sense of fear. They had seen how brutal and cruel the Sentinels were and most of the mutants had no faith that they or the X-men would be able to hold them if they came after the mutants in general.
"We should have contacted Erik long before and killed this project before it could be launched properly." Logan complained.
"How do you expect us to stop a project which we had no idea about. And how do you propose we should have done it? By killing the men responsible? I am sorry Logan, I can never cross the line." Charles said.
"Oh yeah!! How about you and the whole mutant kind dying? How will you compensate for the deaths of so many people all over the world? Your stance of inaction has divided the mutant kind for such a long time." Logan argued back.
"Then we would have been better off joining the Brotherhood of Erik?" Charles said in a more pitched voice.
"Stop it you two. People are dying and you both are questioning the morality of each other." Storm shouted out loud to stop both of them from arguing. They all have been frustrated with what was going on and nobody had any kinds of solutions.
There was one, but Charles wasn't going to take that step and that was using the Cerebro to launch an attack at White House and stop the operation altogether. No matter what Charles wasn't ready to take this step.
They were going back to Cerebro because they needed to contact Erik and find out what exactly was going on with the mutants under him.
But the moment he was going to step inside the Cerebro he stopped. Charles moved his head and looked in the direction which was outside the school. He was astonished by what he 'saw' or rather felt when he looked at the direction.
There was a woman all bloody and bruised lying half dead and unconscious. She was in such a bad condition that if she wasn't treated fast, she would die.
"Storm there is a teenage girl on the gates of the girl. She is almost dead. I want you to take her to the medical facility right now." Charles ordered Storm with a sense of urgency. He didn't peep into the head of the girl but he could tell that this person needed help.
Storm was surprised by this and ran outside to bring this injured girl to the medical wing. Logan and Scott were surprised by this sudden emergence of a girl out of nowhere.
"Another mutant? Now they are hunting underage girls? In the countryside?" Scott asked.
"I didn't look into her mind, Scott. Her mind is on the verge of collapse. If I poke it right now, she might just die. Let her heal then we can get proper answers."
Storm meanwhile flew to the gate of the school where many mutant kids were looking at the unconscious girl from far but nobody approached out of fear. Storm seeing this was quite angry.
"You guys need to learn compassion. A wounded girl was lying in the premises and nobody even bothered to help her. We teach you to be a person of the society, not treat a fellow mutant kind as an alien."
Storm said as she took the girl in her arms and flew away. She expected that the injured girl was a mutant as she had appeared here out of nowhere and with all the problems going on with the sentinels it was almost customary that the sentinels might have attacked her.
Little did she know that this girl would change the whole future of mutants forever.
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