As the dust settled, Ultron looked at his chest and he found 4 Infinity stones missing... The Soul, Power, Time, and Reality stones were no longer embedded in his body!
Then he looked at all his enemies that were present here...
Thor, Cindy, Peggy, Erik, and the whole army of revived soldiers...
Before a tug-of-war for the Infinity Stones could occur, Erik stored the stones snatched from Ultron into Beelzebuth's stomach.
Ultron gritted his teeth.
'Is it over for me...'
"No, not in a million years!!!"
Ultron ran millions of simulations in his mind for a victory however, none of his calculations produced a feasible outcome...
Well, when even with all the stones combined he struggled to kill them off then what could he possibly hope to do with just two stones...
"Hahaha, Eirikyr, my man!" Thor laughed, slapping Erik on the back. "Why didn't you think of this earlier, the Metal Villain looks scared shitless now that you have taken his shiny stones."
Erik deadpanned, 'Separating the stones was the plan from the beginning!'
Ultron was arrogant, but he was no fool.
'Fortunately, the space stone is still with me. And with coordinates that I have saved in it, it can transport me in another universe too, and the energy stored in my reactors is enough to act as the excess power source for multiversal portals. This was a back up I never though I'd use. But I'll have to collect another set of stones from a different universe. And tactical retreat doesn't mean defeat anyway...'
He opened a portal but of course, Erik wouldn't let him escape. Erik ordered Thanos to use space stones and power stones to shut off Ultron's every attempt to escape.
Erik's telepathy which was obtained from Emma Frost's DNA was really helpful in giving off quick orders to his soldiers.
'I had ordered Thanos to steal all the stones he could.' Erik mused, 'And for some reason, he couldn't take Mind and Space stone from him. I don't know the reason for that but it does make the job of dismantling Ultron harder...'
"I'm going to engage Ultron directly," Erik announced. "You all, shoot him with your most powerful attacks when you can, without hitting me." With that, he leaped towards Ultron. Thanos followed too, obeying Erik's mental command.
Ultron glared at Erik and fired his laser blasts from his wrist at him, however, the later didn't stop. The next instant Erik's eyes glowed red and an optic energy blast that rivaled the Ultron's energy blast, shot out from his eyes.
An explosion occurred where the beams met, from the smoke Erik emerged closing the distance between him and Ultron in an instant.
Erik used the unsuppressed super strength in his muscles and delivered his full-powered punch on Ultron's face and even though machine blocked the punch with its arms it was launched straight towards the ground, forming a massive crater where he dropped.
Just as Ultron struggled to rise, Party Thor's lightning came crashing down.
"Take that, Metal Villain!" He shouted from the cliff.
Erik had cunningly aimed Ultron's fall to be near the resurrected Wanda and she once again attacked him with her chaos magic, but this time focusing her attack on the Mind Stone.
"Aaahhhhhh!!!!!" Once again Ultron's cries of pain could be heard throughout the landscape.
Meanwhile on the cliff, where the rest of the group was, a portal opened. Though it was nothing to worry about, it was just one of Watcher's.
Strange Supreme, Gamora, and T'Challa jumped out of the portal, ready to battle...
"Huh, you guys! It sure took you long. We were in a real pinch, you know" Peggy grumbled, but there was no tension in her voice.
"Why do you all seem rather relaxed? And did mean by WERE?" T'Challa couldn't help but wonder.
"Erik already took care of most of the things," Cindy told them the matter.
Strange narrowed his eyes, the resurrected army of Erik's drawing his attention.
'It must be because of one of his powers. It defies the laws of nature, yet somehow, nature supports this skill. It seems some aspects of the skill are locked or suppressed but the skill works in harmony with the universe.' Strange mused.
'If I had this power then that at that time...'
Then he might not have to resort to meddling with time. He could have just used this skill to revive Christine and his universe wouldn't have suffered.
However, what's done is done. And Strange, without offering any help chose to observe Erik's next move.
Erik landed above Ultron, he needed to separate the Space and Mind stone from Ultron's body as well. So, this time instead of ordering Thanos to steal the stone which for some reason he couldn't, Erik just ordered him to counter all the effects of Ultron's Space stone's and the barrier created by Ultron around his chest shattered.
Erik then called out to [Beelzebuth], creating a small vortex near Ultron's chest, and as expected, the next instant, the stone was stored inside [Beelzebuth's stomach ] with a chunk of Ultron's chest piece.
All this while, Wanda was keeping Ultron at bay by constantly firing a burst of Chaos energy at his Mind Stone. And even after Erik was done storing the Space Stone, he let Wanda continue her barrage.
And in a few more seconds, the mind stone cracked and exploded along with Ultron and a wave of fierce energy washed throughout the land.
Just as Ultron disintegrated into dust, all his bots fell limp on the ground. It truly was raining robots.
'Hmm, the job's done!' Erik nodded with a smile.
The rest of the guardians rejoiced as well.
Erik looked at the resurrected Wanda and smiled. He couldn't help but give her a hug, however, he reminded himself that she wasn't 'his' Wanda and then separated.
But he did store her in Beelzebuth's stomach. She was more powerful than his Wanda at home, well, she was 4 or so years older than Wanda at home so it was understandable.
He then created a massive dark globe and ordered all his resurrected soldiers to get inside it.
Strange's eyes widened when he saw Erik's Beelzebuth skill. Just like with his other skill, some of the aspects of this skill appeared to be locked. However, if strange could obtain this skill. He could easily unlock its full potential.
'When evolved to its maximum potential, this skill would be able to absorb anything and also create anything. I could create my own universe, and with the essence of Christine that I have stored inside me... Instead of a multiversal variant, I could revive my own Christine with the other power that he used to revive these undeads...'
As the army headed inside Beelzebuth's Stomach, Erik flew towards the rest of the group.
"Oh, you guys are back, huh? What took you so long, you missed all the fun." Erik grinned.
"Well, Ultron had destroyed Dwarf's dying star that functioned as the power source of their forge so it took us some extra time," T'Challa replied exasperatedly.
"I see..." Erik replied, but feeling something off. Couldn't Watcher open portals at any point of time? Then why didn't he just opened a portal for their return just after they left?
"Eirikyr," Strange spoke, his tone oddly serious. "What kind of power did you use to revive all the zombies here,"
"Well, it's just a power I was born with. Don't much about it." Eric replied casually, not wanting to reveal much about his powers.
"Your power is evil. It forces the dead to come back to life for your personal bidding. I have to take it away from you." Strange said, his glistening with malice.
For a moment, Eirikyr could only stare, dumbfounded by Strange's words.
Then his brow furrowed, a hint of irritation creeping into his voice, as he sensed Strange's malicious intentions, "Seriously? YOU'RE saying that? I know everything you've done, Dr. Stephen V. Strange. And you got no right to speak about good or evil."
"Strange, if you have any sort of issue towards Eirikyr's powers then let Watcher resolve it, let's talk about it with a calm mind." Peggy tried to mediate.
Erik knowing his full name didn't surprise Strange much, but Strange now understood that he couldn't really play it like a righteous hero. So, ignoring Peggy, he just smiled wryly, "You're right, Eirikyr. But I did what I had to for love and I'll do it again, every time."
Casting an eldritch spell, Strange hovered above the ground, black wings extending from his back, and a horn appearing on his forehead, "But that doesn't change the fact that I'll be taking away your powers."
'Ah, I get it now.' Erik pursed his lips, finally putting all the pieces together.
'So, pitting me against him is what Watcher actually wanted, huh... I thought that Strange had learned a lesson after destroying his universe. I did know that there would be another season of "What If", but could it be that Strange was a villain in that one? Well, who knows...'
As Strange shot out ginormous tentacles towards him, Erik could only sigh in annoyance and prepare his counter-attack.
'Honestly, I just wanna go home!'
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