After getting introduced to each other again and knowing that he was the Iron Man of the universe, Erik smiled at first. The name itself was a huge nemesis for him. Erik was able to control metal, so Tony's suit would be useless in front of him. But he didn't know that Iron Man's suit wasn't just simple metal. There were no magnetic fields around it as it worked like a superconductor.
Though Erik trusted John and others, he had always been on the lookout if everything went south later. He wanted to know of their powers beforehand and make necessary preparations if they ever fall out in the future.
All was fine when it came to the members of the Avengers he had seen but Steve and John were 2 of them where he had no idea of how to stop them. According to Steve, he was powered by something called Uni-Power. And from the looks of it, he was way too powerful for any of the mutants and Diana too. Her strength and psionic powers too were incredible.
And then there was John. He was as enigmatic as it gets. He still had no idea of how powerful he was and what exactly his powers were. He had a feeling that if a war ever broke out between their Avengers and his Brotherhood, their Brotherhood would be probably erased on the first day itself. This itself gave me a little fear but the wheel has already started rolling.
If he gets back to his world now, he would be hated more now. Though for a few years, nobody would dare to say anything to him, but when the people would realize that there was no John , the humans and the Sentinels would hunt the mutants again.
And this time more aggressively. So all he could do now was bite the bullet and just move to the new world.
"So John, are there any limits in sending the number of robots and machines to 616?"
Tony asked as that again was his main reason for the call.
"No, why?"
"GAIA was saying that we could use the machines of hers to go and fight for us during the war."
"I will be able to provide 500,000 troops for this war against Knull if I operate 5 times faster than the normal manufacturing process." GAIA interjected in the middle as she showed up with her typical hologram of a woman.
John raised his eyebrows when he heard that. He didn't expect that help would come when it came to troops from an unsusal place.
"Yes, I can take you all away. IF it's not too much the Avengers would appreciate your help GAIA." John said.
"I am happy to help the Avengers. I will get back to work." GAIA said as she vanished. Tony too showed relief in his face. Umbrella had been working overtime and Pepper had a lot of work this week to meet the deadline set by the Avengers for the war.
"Who is Knull?" Logan who was beside couldn't help but ask.
"Knull, another major problem for us. Probably bigger than Annihilus." John said. The mutants were all dumbstruck that there was something more powerful than Annihilus. From what they had heard from Chavez, Annihilus was a world destroyer and this guy was saying that this Knull guy was a major threat??
What is wrong with the multiverse?
"What does he want?" Charles now had a solemn face. He had already decided to help Avengers during the Annihilus war but now he seemed like he had to be more serious.
"He wants the universe to be covered with darkness. It's us who have occupied his territory and he wants it back." John said in a solemn face.
"Occupied his territory? How?" Storm asked as she was intrigued. John then gave them a whole run down of the story of Knull.
"This is ridiculous. How can these things such as this even be born?" Erik couldn't help but ask.
"Some things are just born abstract. There is no proper explanation. You can say that the universe gives itself a sentience and along the passage of time many stories pop up." John said.
"We will help you in this war against Knull." Jean said as she was terrified to even think of a world where everything is dark and they are under the control of a single person with no freedom.
"You are welcome to help but remember your counterparts will also be in this war. We don;t have a good relationship with them, so be on the lookout." John said with a smile. He had a smile on his face. He knew that he would get help from them as his sixth sense was saying that Knull and Annihilus were cooking something together.
And it was only a matter of time before the mutants joined the war. These people would be quite helpful in this.
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