"But I don't think the general public likes us very much. What did the Council say?"
"Council doesn't even know that you are here. The governments has stopped meddling in all of our affairs now. There is an influence of them but they don't push their agenda any more as fiercely as before. Shutting off the sun has awakened the fear of God in many of them. Some of them reach high positions mostly because they can intimidate people well and are cruel. You have done the same thing but on a larger scale. Taking away the powers and saying such terrifying stuff has made them step back a bit."
"Hmm... Glad that they have some sense in them, or else I wouldn't mind infusing more fear onto them."
Fury got chills in his spines when he heard that. He actually didn't say another reason for why the Avengers were friendly now. It was fear.
Fear of John and their team had made them think twice of every decision. Even Captain America who normally speaks of fearlessness, didn't speak out when it was decided that the John's Avengers would not be treated with hostility. Sure, they had Sentry and other super beings, but on the other side they had someone who had full control over Phoenix Force, one of the Primary Gods.
One uncontrolled Jean was more than enough for them. They didn't want more problems from a potential ally. Especially now, when Knull was coming. They would need all the help they need.
"Avengers of both teams. I have some grievous news for all of you...."
John, out of nowhere, spoke out. His voice was not so loud but it magically resonated in the ears of everybody clearly. John proceeded to tell of the bigger problem at hand and the enemy had the Negative Zone under their hands. This was new information and not all of the Avengers were up to date with it.
Heck!! Even some of them had no idea what Negative Zone was and Reed had to come and explain what it was as he was the first person to go to their dimension and come back alive.
"So we have a bigger headache?" Eddie came with a glass of red wine in his hand after John and others made all of the people be up to date with all the problems they were going to face.
"Yep."
As they were talking Venom came out by itself and said
"There must be something for him to ally himself to another army."
"Do you think there is something else going on"
"I connected to the hive passively for a few seconds to look into his plan, and I can already see his aftermath and destruction he has been causing around while arriving here. Klyntar has amassed a huge army of symbiotes. From almost all generations. The ones like me are hiding and they don't dare to come out and connect themselves to the Hive. Knull has too much pride to ally himself with anybody."
"So what are you trying to say?" Wayne joined in when he saw Eddie talking with John.
"I am saying that he must be fearing something as he had allied himself to others."
"He didn't ally himself, he took over the Negative Zone." John corrected Venom.
"Same thing. Knull will still never use others as hosts and try to gain greater power to take over other things. There must be something for him to wake up this fast and try to take over everything in a hurried manner."
"So you feel he has other fears and is running from something? Why would the God of Darkness have fear? He has Celestials under him."
"No idea but I think you all should be ready to see his desperate nature. He has been in prison for quite a long time. He won't take this incursion lightly. Especially on the planet who proved to be his doom."
"Hmm. I will face him head on. The people of this Earth don't deserve to see an ugly war. Fury, does this Earth have bunkers?" Wayne asked while turning to Fury.
"After the Shia-Kree war, we have designed bunkers in all major cities. Do you want us to evacuate New York?"
"Yes. Do it. We only have 2 days, if my estimation is correct." It was Venom who replied to the words of Fury. Yesterday he connected to Hive for a few seconds to see the situation. It was dangerous but he still did it as he needed to see the situation. Connecting to Hive might mean under the control of Knull so he needed to get out of it fast.
Fury looked at other Avengers for approval. Seeing that all the major players nodded their heads at it, said
"The Council will not be happy about this."
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Fury went away to to talk with the Council while the Avengers were deciding of how to attack Knull and his army. They have two problems. Firstly, the bug army and secondly, the symbiote army. John would be fine in this but there would be millions of them out there.
For sure he would use his full power but that won't be enough because at the end Knull is still a God. His equal. Though he has the Alien X with Phoenix Force, but the reality changing powers be ineffective against Knull so all he could do was to weaken his army.
His army wasn't unlimited. There is a point of exhaustion for it and honestly, he didn't want to kill the whole symbiote army.
He wanted to control them. Control every symbiote and make sure that all of them were on the right path just like before. The Hive would need a master always and he could be that easily, instead of handing this over to Eddie, he wanted to take this mantle himself.
This would help him keep and eye on the major universes out there.
And only destroying Knull would he be able to sit in his position. So Knull was always the main target and the primary person of interest. Of course the army of bugs could not be overlooked. They needed to die or be sent back to the Negative Zone.
Fury had informed the Council that the Avengers were asking for public evacuation. Of course they were not so happy about this, but Fury patiently explained them the problem they were facing, which would make the Kree-Shia war look like a small toddler in front of it.
The Council understood the gravity of the situation and asked for emergency on the city.
"Why do we have to fight in the city?" A council member asked.
"We can do it on a open field for sure, but he would come for new hosts. And New York is one of the most densely packed cities in the world and it has its defenders. Knull being a God would love to trample on the superheroes while showing them how he was controlling the citizens."
"So you want the people to be bait while they are trapped in the bunkers?"
Fury didn't reply to this but silence meant that the Council had guessed it right.
"If people dies, it will be on your shoulders, Director. Be ready with a resignation letter if that happens." the council member said for the last time before switching off the video conference.
"What an asshole!!! I will resign anyway after this war. Skye can take over this mess and I will just retire." Fury mumbled seeing the arrogant expressions of them. Skye, the Quake was his successor as he had been grooming her for quite a long time. The most apt person was probably Captain America but he was too morally straight to take up such a easy job.
Skye had seen both the sides of the morals and like Mariah Hill, she was perfect for the job.
As these thoughts were going on and plans were being hatched at the Hall on how to counter attack, there was sudden announcement at the Hall. It was the Friday, the AI of 616-Tony who spoke. She said
"Sir, there is a person claiming to know the people here and knocking on the door to meet everyone here."
"There are many such people with wants to meet us, why bother with the notification?"
"But Sir he appeared at the main door out of nowhere. He never passed the security check."
This raised the eyebrows of Tony.
"Open the video."
And as he said that, a transparent screen appeared. There was a man with a disheveled face and mustache. He wore a pure white suit and pants and had a black overcoat around him. The whole dress of his looked like he was a person from an old age.
Like the age of the World War 2. He had a long black hair till his shoulder. The face was a handsome and manly one. His eyes looked like he had seen some serious shit in his lifetime. As the camera zoomed in on him, the man looked back at the camera.
All the people present in the room, felt like he could each see each one of them. This was a weird felling for many, but their instincts were saying that this guy is dangerous.
"Is this Knull?"
"No." Venom replied as everybody were seeing this image who were present at the Hall.
"Is he who I think he is?" Geralt was the first one to break the silence when everybody was looking at the image.
"Seems like it, but how is this possible. Isn't he just a sword?"
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