Egypt, yesterday
Reed Richards enters a dark cave with two other scientists. The elder scientist is rambling on and on and Reed can't seem to get a word in.
"You see, when we unearthed it we realized that we weren't the first ones. Someone had been here previously about eight years ago. They had to have been grave robbers, but the odd thing was that the only thing they took was the body." Reed looks down at the old man and gives him a confused look.
"They only took the body? What on Earth would they want with it?" The other scientist answers Reed's question with a zealous energy of a five-year-old on Christmas morning.
"I know, especially seeing as what we found in the tomb." Reed looked down at him as they were approaching the entrance to the tomb.
"What exactly did you all bring me here for? I mean archeology isn't really my foray. I still think Dr. Storm is furious for you pulling me away from my research and you still haven't told me what I'm here for." The scientists open the door to the tomb and show Reed inside. His eyes grow wide as he sees highly advanced technology among the ancient Egyptian setting. He looks over at a machine that seemed to be technological but organic at the same time. One of the scientists brings him over to the wall right above the empty sarcophagus.
"All of the writing on these walls is in some unknown text we haven't encountered before."
"Perhaps it's alien in origin. It seems similar to the writings the Vision module had on its hull."
"That's what we thought, we were wondering if you could translate it for us." Reed looked skeptical, he had translated the Atlantians' language, but he had never tackled something like this before. Plus Dr. Storm would get furious at him if he worked on something other than his assignments.
"Alright Dr. Lykos, I'll see what I can do for you." As he was about to call the Fantasticar to come pick him up, the other scientist stopped him.
"Oh Reed, there was one thing we could read. It was in ancient Egyptian, but we processed it out. It read, En Sabah Nur: The First One." Reed looked back at Dr. Lykos and the other scientist.
"The first what?" The two scientists looked at each other and then Dr. Lykos looked back at Reed.
"We were hoping you could tell us the answer to that Dr. Richards."
Nick Fury's Harlem based headquarters.
Nick Fury sits in his office watching a screen on the wall across from him. He is smoking a large cigar while talking to Tony Stark on the screen. Stark and Fury have been bantering back and forth for quite some time now and Fury was getting frustrated with him.
"Listen Tony, I know you and the rest of the Ultimates need some space right now, but SHIELD really needs you for this Guatemalan mission." Tony sits back in his chair drinking a martini and gives a skeptical look back at the general.
"You know what happened last time you had us deployed on foreign grounds, the Ruskies would have a fit with this and you'd have another Liberators on your hands. Frankly Nick, I don't want to have to clean up that mess." Fury stared back at him, and then glanced down at some files lying down in front of him.
"Then you won't mind me using the government's new team of superhumans." Stark looked back up at Fury, he wasn't sure exactly what to say to this.
"You're using more super soldiers a month after the Liberators incident? No offense Nick but are you out of your mind?"
"Don't worry Tony; every super power in the world is implementing a team of their own. All of these soldiers had their powers preexisting, so you don't have anything to worry about. I was just wondering because I wanted your opinion on the War Machine armor."
"War Machine; how did you get the designs for that?" Just as Nick was about to answer, a loud siren began to go off in the room. Nick looked to see an emergency signal coming in from Chicago.
"Tony, I gotta take this, this is big." Nick was about to cut Tony off, he interrupted him.
"Wait Nick; keep me on, maybe I can help." Nick pressed a button and a news report from Chicago sprang up on screen next to Tony's image. Nick looked as a reporter who was obviously panicked began speaking at the scene.
"It appears that this large, object came out from under the ground. We aren't quite sure what it is, but we do know that apart from coming up in the middle of the city, it has done nothing so far." Nick turned to Tony's screen but saw that he wasn't at his desk anymore. A voice came out over the intercom and Nick recognized it as Tony's.
"Sorry Nick I think we're going to have to cut our meeting short, but if you don't mind I think the Ultimates can help you on one little mission." It shows Tony as he is being put in his Iron Man armor and contacting the rest of the Ultimates.
Sydney, Australia: the base of operations for the X-Men.
The scene cuts to Bishop, Pyro and Storm watching a news report of the incident in Chicago. Bishop begins muttering to himself.
"No, it wasn't supposed to happen for another ten years." Storm and Pyro both look at him confused. Storm reaches down and touches his shoulder.
"What wasn't supposed to happen yet Bishop?" He looks back up at her and shifts his tone from one of fear to one of command.
"Storm, get the rest of the X-Men, we need to get to Chicago now." Storm runs off to get the rest of their team and Pyro looks at Bishop.
"Um sir; what is in Chicago exactly?"
"Something I had hoped to never see again. Get suited up, we've got work to do." Pyro sprints off to get his costume and Bishop is left alone standing there thinking about what he was going to face.
"Damn."
Chicago
As the Ultimates arrive at the scene where the object arrived, they look around in awe at the construct. It had to of been 50 stories tall and had no windows or doors on it at all. Tony Stark walked up to it and began to examine it.
"It came up in the middle of Wrigley Field, ironic." He started looking around the construct as the rest of the Ultimates were checking out the area. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were talking a few feet away about the large object, Janet Van Dyne and Bruce Banner were also commenting on the vastness of it. Captain America was walking around asking questions of the various SHIELD agents around the area.
"Are you sure you got the city evacuated son?" The nervous young soldier looked up at the huge man towering over him.
"Well it's only been forty five minutes, so we haven't cleared Chicago entirely. We did get almost all of the larger buildings in the surrounding area clear. It's pretty packed on the streets though."
"Just make sure everyone gets out soon. When this thing does whatever it's supposed to do, people need to be out of the way." Cap walks over to Tony who is running some kind of scan over the surface.
"Any idea what it is Tony? You seem to be the expert on all of this." Tony kept on analyzing but spoke to Cap anyway.
"Well I'm not exactly an expert in this, but from what we've encountered of alien races such as the Chitauri and Kree, this is definitely alien in origin. From the shape of the construct and the tech that would be able to keep this on Earth hidden for so long, it kind of reminds me of Gah Lak Tus." Cap looked at Tony with wide eyes, they had just beaten Gah Lak Tus a year ago, he wasn't ready to fight it again. Tony kept on talking despite this.
"Of course it probably isn't Gah Lak Tus; it's just another giant space object wanting to destroy us in some way I suppose."
"Can you get a reading from the inside of it? Maybe do infrared or something?"
"That's just it; this whole thing is letting of its own heat source. It's like this thing's alive. And X-Rays don't work because of all of the lead in it. It's like whoever made it didn't want to ruin the surprise inside." Pietro walks over to the two and begins to talk to them.
"Any word on Clint? Banner told me he hadn't seen him since the fight with the Liberators and Janet hasn't heard from him either. Can't say I blame him though after what that piece of trash Natasha did to him, hope she rots for it. No offense Tony." Tony keeps on working and doesn't even turn back.
"Oh none taken Pietro, I've been over that Russian scoundrel for weeks now and I haven't felt better." Cap laughed and started taking.
"That means he's found some new gal, 'ey Tony?"
"Five actually, but the healing process does take time gentlemen so don't be surprised if more come." As Cap and Pietro turn to leave Tony to his work a large flash of light hits the sky and several individuals step out from a portal. All of the SHIELD agents draw their weapons and the Ultimates get ready for a fight. Wolverine steps forward and tries to calm them down.
"Watch it boy scouts, we're hear to help." Cap tells the men to lower their weapons and looks at Wolverine.
"What are you doing here Jim?"
"Thought we'd help out, seeing as you all are short a few members."
"I'd say the same myself, where're Summers, Grey and Rasputin?" Storm stepped forward.
"The team's under new management after the Professor's, demise." Janet walks up to Cap.
"Let them help Steve, whatever this thing is we're going to need some assistance with it." Before he can say anything two ripples begin to form on the side of the construct, out of them come two silvery metal orbs that float to the ground. The heroes all ready themselves for the two objects. The orbs stay motionless for a few moments and Pietro mutters something to his sister.
"Do those look like fathers to you Wanda?" Before she can answer him, the orbs begin to shimmer and disappear, leaving two figures standing there. One is draped in a long dark flowing robe, reddish purple smoke come out from the sleeves and bottom of it. All that was visible of his face were his yellow, crooked fanged teeth and his large protruding nose. He had skin of a dark pink color, and smelled of rotting flesh. In his visible hand he held a long sythe-like object, similar to the Grimm Reaper.
The other one stood a good foot taller than his companion. He was garbed in ancient Grecian armor, his helmet adorned similar to a Spartan's. He had skin of solid metal and glowing red eyes. In his left hand he held a battle axe similar to Thor's; on his right he had two foot long claws jutting out. The Ultimates and the X-Men all stood ready, waiting for their opponents to strike. Banner had transformed into the Hulk and Dazzler and Pyro were both sparking the air with their powers. Iron Man asked them a question out of his mechanical suit.
"Who are you?" The cloaked one smiled with his crooked teeth and answered in a terrible gravely voice.
"The bringers, of the end."
Reed Richards enters a dark cave with two other scientists. The elder scientist is rambling on and on and Reed can't seem to get a word in.
"You see, when we unearthed it we realized that we weren't the first ones. Someone had been here previously about eight years ago. They had to have been grave robbers, but the odd thing was that the only thing they took was the body." Reed looks down at the old man and gives him a confused look.
"They only took the body? What on Earth would they want with it?" The other scientist answers Reed's question with a zealous energy of a five-year-old on Christmas morning.
"I know, especially seeing as what we found in the tomb." Reed looked down at him as they were approaching the entrance to the tomb.
"What exactly did you all bring me here for? I mean archeology isn't really my foray. I still think Dr. Storm is furious for you pulling me away from my research and you still haven't told me what I'm here for." The scientists open the door to the tomb and show Reed inside. His eyes grow wide as he sees highly advanced technology among the ancient Egyptian setting. He looks over at a machine that seemed to be technological but organic at the same time. One of the scientists brings him over to the wall right above the empty sarcophagus.
"All of the writing on these walls is in some unknown text we haven't encountered before."
"Perhaps it's alien in origin. It seems similar to the writings the Vision module had on its hull."
"That's what we thought, we were wondering if you could translate it for us." Reed looked skeptical, he had translated the Atlantians' language, but he had never tackled something like this before. Plus Dr. Storm would get furious at him if he worked on something other than his assignments.
"Alright Dr. Lykos, I'll see what I can do for you." As he was about to call the Fantasticar to come pick him up, the other scientist stopped him.
"Oh Reed, there was one thing we could read. It was in ancient Egyptian, but we processed it out. It read, En Sabah Nur: The First One." Reed looked back at Dr. Lykos and the other scientist.
"The first what?" The two scientists looked at each other and then Dr. Lykos looked back at Reed.
"We were hoping you could tell us the answer to that Dr. Richards."
Nick Fury's Harlem based headquarters.
Nick Fury sits in his office watching a screen on the wall across from him. He is smoking a large cigar while talking to Tony Stark on the screen. Stark and Fury have been bantering back and forth for quite some time now and Fury was getting frustrated with him.
"Listen Tony, I know you and the rest of the Ultimates need some space right now, but SHIELD really needs you for this Guatemalan mission." Tony sits back in his chair drinking a martini and gives a skeptical look back at the general.
"You know what happened last time you had us deployed on foreign grounds, the Ruskies would have a fit with this and you'd have another Liberators on your hands. Frankly Nick, I don't want to have to clean up that mess." Fury stared back at him, and then glanced down at some files lying down in front of him.
"Then you won't mind me using the government's new team of superhumans." Stark looked back up at Fury, he wasn't sure exactly what to say to this.
"You're using more super soldiers a month after the Liberators incident? No offense Nick but are you out of your mind?"
"Don't worry Tony; every super power in the world is implementing a team of their own. All of these soldiers had their powers preexisting, so you don't have anything to worry about. I was just wondering because I wanted your opinion on the War Machine armor."
"War Machine; how did you get the designs for that?" Just as Nick was about to answer, a loud siren began to go off in the room. Nick looked to see an emergency signal coming in from Chicago.
"Tony, I gotta take this, this is big." Nick was about to cut Tony off, he interrupted him.
"Wait Nick; keep me on, maybe I can help." Nick pressed a button and a news report from Chicago sprang up on screen next to Tony's image. Nick looked as a reporter who was obviously panicked began speaking at the scene.
"It appears that this large, object came out from under the ground. We aren't quite sure what it is, but we do know that apart from coming up in the middle of the city, it has done nothing so far." Nick turned to Tony's screen but saw that he wasn't at his desk anymore. A voice came out over the intercom and Nick recognized it as Tony's.
"Sorry Nick I think we're going to have to cut our meeting short, but if you don't mind I think the Ultimates can help you on one little mission." It shows Tony as he is being put in his Iron Man armor and contacting the rest of the Ultimates.
Sydney, Australia: the base of operations for the X-Men.
The scene cuts to Bishop, Pyro and Storm watching a news report of the incident in Chicago. Bishop begins muttering to himself.
"No, it wasn't supposed to happen for another ten years." Storm and Pyro both look at him confused. Storm reaches down and touches his shoulder.
"What wasn't supposed to happen yet Bishop?" He looks back up at her and shifts his tone from one of fear to one of command.
"Storm, get the rest of the X-Men, we need to get to Chicago now." Storm runs off to get the rest of their team and Pyro looks at Bishop.
"Um sir; what is in Chicago exactly?"
"Something I had hoped to never see again. Get suited up, we've got work to do." Pyro sprints off to get his costume and Bishop is left alone standing there thinking about what he was going to face.
"Damn."
Chicago
As the Ultimates arrive at the scene where the object arrived, they look around in awe at the construct. It had to of been 50 stories tall and had no windows or doors on it at all. Tony Stark walked up to it and began to examine it.
"It came up in the middle of Wrigley Field, ironic." He started looking around the construct as the rest of the Ultimates were checking out the area. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were talking a few feet away about the large object, Janet Van Dyne and Bruce Banner were also commenting on the vastness of it. Captain America was walking around asking questions of the various SHIELD agents around the area.
"Are you sure you got the city evacuated son?" The nervous young soldier looked up at the huge man towering over him.
"Well it's only been forty five minutes, so we haven't cleared Chicago entirely. We did get almost all of the larger buildings in the surrounding area clear. It's pretty packed on the streets though."
"Just make sure everyone gets out soon. When this thing does whatever it's supposed to do, people need to be out of the way." Cap walks over to Tony who is running some kind of scan over the surface.
"Any idea what it is Tony? You seem to be the expert on all of this." Tony kept on analyzing but spoke to Cap anyway.
"Well I'm not exactly an expert in this, but from what we've encountered of alien races such as the Chitauri and Kree, this is definitely alien in origin. From the shape of the construct and the tech that would be able to keep this on Earth hidden for so long, it kind of reminds me of Gah Lak Tus." Cap looked at Tony with wide eyes, they had just beaten Gah Lak Tus a year ago, he wasn't ready to fight it again. Tony kept on talking despite this.
"Of course it probably isn't Gah Lak Tus; it's just another giant space object wanting to destroy us in some way I suppose."
"Can you get a reading from the inside of it? Maybe do infrared or something?"
"That's just it; this whole thing is letting of its own heat source. It's like this thing's alive. And X-Rays don't work because of all of the lead in it. It's like whoever made it didn't want to ruin the surprise inside." Pietro walks over to the two and begins to talk to them.
"Any word on Clint? Banner told me he hadn't seen him since the fight with the Liberators and Janet hasn't heard from him either. Can't say I blame him though after what that piece of trash Natasha did to him, hope she rots for it. No offense Tony." Tony keeps on working and doesn't even turn back.
"Oh none taken Pietro, I've been over that Russian scoundrel for weeks now and I haven't felt better." Cap laughed and started taking.
"That means he's found some new gal, 'ey Tony?"
"Five actually, but the healing process does take time gentlemen so don't be surprised if more come." As Cap and Pietro turn to leave Tony to his work a large flash of light hits the sky and several individuals step out from a portal. All of the SHIELD agents draw their weapons and the Ultimates get ready for a fight. Wolverine steps forward and tries to calm them down.
"Watch it boy scouts, we're hear to help." Cap tells the men to lower their weapons and looks at Wolverine.
"What are you doing here Jim?"
"Thought we'd help out, seeing as you all are short a few members."
"I'd say the same myself, where're Summers, Grey and Rasputin?" Storm stepped forward.
"The team's under new management after the Professor's, demise." Janet walks up to Cap.
"Let them help Steve, whatever this thing is we're going to need some assistance with it." Before he can say anything two ripples begin to form on the side of the construct, out of them come two silvery metal orbs that float to the ground. The heroes all ready themselves for the two objects. The orbs stay motionless for a few moments and Pietro mutters something to his sister.
"Do those look like fathers to you Wanda?" Before she can answer him, the orbs begin to shimmer and disappear, leaving two figures standing there. One is draped in a long dark flowing robe, reddish purple smoke come out from the sleeves and bottom of it. All that was visible of his face were his yellow, crooked fanged teeth and his large protruding nose. He had skin of a dark pink color, and smelled of rotting flesh. In his visible hand he held a long sythe-like object, similar to the Grimm Reaper.
The other one stood a good foot taller than his companion. He was garbed in ancient Grecian armor, his helmet adorned similar to a Spartan's. He had skin of solid metal and glowing red eyes. In his left hand he held a battle axe similar to Thor's; on his right he had two foot long claws jutting out. The Ultimates and the X-Men all stood ready, waiting for their opponents to strike. Banner had transformed into the Hulk and Dazzler and Pyro were both sparking the air with their powers. Iron Man asked them a question out of his mechanical suit.
"Who are you?" The cloaked one smiled with his crooked teeth and answered in a terrible gravely voice.
"The bringers, of the end."
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