"Then what do you want us to do? Sit here and see our mutant brothers and sisters suffer?" She-Hulk asked.
"What Tony said is right. If we do anything it will just add fuel to the fire. People will hate us for it. After all the things that just happened, nobody would listen to us and just outright hate us." Strange said.
"But they are suffering. We need to stop this madness." Steve still insisted.
"Let's do a vote. Who wants to help the mutant, raise their hands. Who doesn't can refrain from that action." Strange said. And not surprisingly only two held their hands high.
Steve Rogers and She-Hulk.
Others refrained from raising their hands. And that included even the marvel universe's darling, Peter Parker.
"So it is decided, the Avengers won't participate in anything related to mutants until a concrete situation is reached." Tony stood up and said. Scott was angry seeing all this. They all took action against Wanda together. And now when the mutants were in dire need of help everybody turned their backs.
"John was right. He said we all act like Gods. He was right the whole time. We are nothing but hypocrites." Emma said as her voice croaked due to tears. All the Avenger members held their heads down. They couldn't refute it.
"We all are just public pleasing superheroes. Never for a moment do we think of our rights, our responsibilities." Emma said as she blamed herself too for this. Their own mutant kind was also in this whole plot.
The whole machine had been rolling for a long time. And now they didn't know how to stop it. The Avengers took this tough decision because they not only represented this small team but also many superheroes affiliated with the Avengers.
The main team took this decision after considering all the angles. All wanted to help but if the Avengers were involved many other people would get involved. Including the government and that would be more problematic to deal with.
As they were silent there was a clapping sound in the room. All got alert suddenly hearing this sound. The meeting was a closed one and nobody was allowed to come in. Everybody made sure of that but out of nowhere this sound came.
When all turned their head to the sound, they saw a man who was invisible before came to light. It was John who took off his cap of invisibility.
"John. Hey.. Umm.. I am sorry we didn't invite you to the meeting. We didn't have an address. Thank you for helping us bring all of the team together before." Tony said in a meek voice. Everybody was alert.
Nobody here trusted John. He had been saying that he came to meet someone but they have no idea who. First they thought it was Strange. But more than two weeks had gone by but he never showed up again on the doorstep of Sanctum Sanctorum.
And they always thought that John had an ulterior agenda. Especially now. He had shown up un-announced. The Avengers didn't even know about him. Even Spider - Man's senses failed to track him and Strange's magic too.
John finally removed the helmet for the first time. He didn't need his helmet anymore to stop the incursion from Emma's telepathic powers. Even though he hasn't become the host of Phoenix Force, having been chosen by it was already enough to get by with many things such as defence against telepathy.
The Avengers finally got to see his face. He looked extremely handsome (thanks to Gilgamesh's charm) and had an aura about him. The aura that only a King could possess. But what surprised them was his eyes.
Those eyes represented something else. Many here had seen the Phoenix Force before so they knew John was the host of Phoenix Force. This scared the Avengers more.
"You all did exactly what I expected. After mutants lost their powers, you chose not to interfere. You all care about nothing but reputation. No wonder the Builders went around destroying you all. You all deserve that. I feel ashamed to even think that I belong to the team of the same name. You don't even have the guts to take responsibility for your own actions." John said.
"What we do here is our matter. Who are you to interfere?" Black Panther said.
"You know T'Challa I expected better from you. Your own wife is a mutant. I expected you at least to raise your hand." John scolded.
"I have a kingdom to manage. I can't always take decisions from my heart." T'Challa replied but this time in a lower tone because what John said was correct. He couldn't even protect his own wife. Even though Wakanda was a closed country, it was still a country and had to deal with world politics.
"You are right. Now all you do is politics. You have lost your essence. Each and everyone of you. You have forgotten what it means to be an Avenger. Let me change that." John said as he used his omnitrix to turn himself to an alien.
An alien that would be just perfect for his next move
Alien X.
All saw as John suddenly changed into a new form. A huge man who looked weird. His body looked like it was made of small stars.
"What is this? What are you?" Tony said as he had a bad feeling. Before anybody could answer or react, John's new form spoke. A voice which sounded like it was a combination of three voices.
"NO MORE AVENGERS."
As John said that he swirled his hand. And immediately after that an invisible wave flowed outward. This wave spread to the whole of earth and then the entire universe. Like the mutants, the avengers were de-powered now. The people who had powers have now lost their powers. And the superheroes who had special sets of skills lost that particular skill. For example, Clint Barton (he came back to life again after Wanda said 'no more mutants' and this time it was permanent and his existence wasn't dependent on Wanda).
As the wave travelled every member of the Avengers felt it. Eternity, Infinity, the Living Tribunal, Cthon... etc. all felt this change that John just brought in the Earth-616 universe.
"What the hell is this? Is this some kind of joke?" Tony said as he didn't feel much. But when he tried directing his armor from his nano particles it didn't come out. John, who was in Alien X form, returned back to normal.
"I just depowered all of the Avengers. Including the ones who are in the universe right now. Since the mutants suffered this fate, why will the Avengers be left behind? Let you be in the same playing field as them." John said.
Peter Parker, Ms. Marvel, Black Panther all had felt it. They weren't sure what just happened but they could feel that they lost the powers. Peter fell on his knees. He had been with his powers for such a long time that he had forgotten what it was like to be normal. Reed lost his powers too and even his high intellect. Strange lost his magic, She-Hulk was back to normal. Steve Rogers was now back to the skinny guy he was before World War 2.
Everyone has lost what they were best at.
"This is impossible. What is this? What are you?" Strange said as he couldn't believe it.
"I just did what Wanda did to the mutants. She is a Nexus being, I doubt you even know what that term means. If she had done anything out of her limits she would have been taken away. But you all decided to play God. So here I am playing the actual God. Avengers will no longer be of service for this planet, this galaxy and this universe." John said.
"Why are you doing this?" Reed asked. They didn't even care anymore what John's powers were. After Wanda's powers nobody wasn't sure how far a human being could reach in terms of power levels.
"Why am I doing this? Because it's fun Reed. It's fun. I want to show you all how desperate the mutants are feeling right now. Let you feel how it is to be on the same level as mutants. Oh yes. I didn't de-power the villains. So now good luck with that." John said.
"You can't do this. The Supreme beings won't let you. You have tilted the balance." Strange said as he still couldn't believe he lost his magic too. He had memories of magic but he couldn't conjure magic. It was as if he lost access to all of magic powers.
After Strange said that all around them weapons started emerging from orange concentric gates.
"You don't get to talk balance with me, Strange. Definitely not you. I know more about balance than you can imagine. I am the Lord of Order. I come from a generation of beings who have advocated fighting Chaos. So don't come with your ignorance."
"But it isn't right. People like Doom, Thanos and others will come and cause havoc." Reed protested. That was all they could do now. Protest. They know that in fighting sense they have lost the power to confront John,
Since he said that he belonged to the Avengers, there must be a moral line for him. Reed wanted to exploit that.
"Innocents. Our universe is threatened by a being who is bigger than Galactus and your so called Supreme Beings have left us to die. The whole universe. They never cared about the innocents of our universe. Why would I care about the innocents of your universe? For all I care none of you are innocent. Just because a different kind of race lives with you, you all have chosen to discriminate. Now let me see how the people will handle the ugly ones. Aren't they so powerful while confronting mutants? Now let me see the power." John spoke at a stretch here. He didn't pull any punches while saying all of this.
"What? Your universe is threatened? By what? We can help you if you want. And after you have such immense power is there any power that can overpower you?" She-Hulk asked.
"I don't need your help when Strange here advocated the destruction of all. But that's a later story. For now I am off. Good luck with defending." John said as he wore his helmet and then vanished.
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