The scene at this moment was as follows:
Bob, a Hydra grunt, was pinned in place by this terrifying spectacle, his legs trembling, not daring to move.
Deadpool was watching from the sidelines. After seeing the zombie head bite a Hydra grunt to death followed by several primitive men, he was simply loafing around.
Ka-Zar, as the warrior of the primitive tribe, had finished off those few zombies and was now eyeing the zombie head, which was currently gnawing on a corpse, with hostile intent.
Zombie Head was busy chewing the fresh meat in its mouth.
The primitive people were bowing in worship to these "miracles," having decided that the "immortality" the zombie head spoke of was the real deal.
And then there were Peter and Kitty, who were following behind and hadn't had a chance to intervene yet.
The atmosphere suddenly turned frigid. Deadpool put his arm around Bob and asked, "So, when exactly did you Hydra guys stumble upon time-travel technology? You can actually build a base in the Cretaceous period and bring in primitive men and saber-toothed tigers?"
"Uh, there's no time tech. This is the Savage Land. Dinosaurs have always lived here; they never went extinct."
Deadpool let out an "oh," his disappointment palpable. He had truly thought he'd traveled to the Cretaceous and could play with dinosaurs. To his surprise, that wasn't the case.
Oh, wait. Even if he hadn't reached the Cretaceous, he could still play with dinosaurs!
"Speak! Does Hydra train any Dinosaur Cavalry? Or Pterodactyl Cavalry?!"
Looking at the sword Deadpool had pressed against his neck, Bob was utterly bewildered. Why would Hydra bother with something so utterly impractical?
But for the sake of the blade, maybe he should just tell a lie—
"Of course we—holy crap, my communication device just got hacked!"
Meanwhile, Ka-Zar didn't have time to worry about the two idiots on the other side. After muttering a bunch of gibberish to his tribesmen, he raised his spear and aimed it at Zombie Head, preparing to strike. Just then, a strand of webbing stuck to Ka-Zar's spear, and Peter dropped down between the head and the warrior.
Upon seeing Peter, Deadpool was instantly overjoyed.
"Spider-Man! My dearest friend! My brother in arms! Are you here to play too? And why did you bring an X-Men chick with you?!"
"I'd like to know how you got here too, but that's not the point right now."
Peter turned toward the fierce-looking Ka-Zar. "Er, sorry, but first, I need to know where this thing came from. Otherwise, there's a good chance more of his kind will keep pouring in."
Deadpool yawned. "Buddy, the caveman can't understand what you're saying. You're—"
"You know what this monster is?"
Ka-Zar barked out in fluent English, shocking everyone present. Only Bob, held at sword-point by Deadpool, shrugged without surprise. "We taught them English so we could better observe and research their development."
Deadpool was stunned. "Shouldn't you have taught them German, Japanese, and Italian?"
"I didn't say we didn't?"
Ignoring the antics on the side, Peter answered Ka-Zar's question. "Yes, I know—or rather, I might know. But first, I need to test its multiversal resonance frequency... Earth... it really is 2149."
Peter frowned. Theoretically, Earth-2149 had been blown up by Doom and no longer existed. Logically, the loop should have resulted in a different zombie universe. However, the existence of this head proved that he truly came from a universe that had theoretically been destroyed.
So how did he get here?
Could there have been a temporal shift during the crossing? Did he actually arrive here before the explosion of Earth-2149, even though nearly a year had passed for Peter in the interim?
Peter couldn't provide an answer yet, so he crouched down, staying about two or three meters away from the head. "Hey, Zombie Head, how did you get to this world?"
"Huh? Why should I tell you? Ah, if you let me take a bite, maybe I really will tell you. Or maybe that little girl behind you—"
"If you don't tell me, I'll rip off your mandible, crush it, and toss it into a fire. And I won't kill you. I'll make sure you never have any way to chew anything ever again, and no way to die."
Zombie Head's eyes widened, and he spat out a curse. "What a vicious bug... the Spider-Man of our universe was much more moral than you."
"Morality isn't for zombies, friend."
"What's wrong with being a zombie?! Don't zombies have rights? This is racial discrimination! Careful, or I'll post this on Insta and Twitter and ruin your reputation! Everyone will know Spider-Man is a racist jerk whose love interests never include a Black person, a plus-sized woman, a gay man, or a gender minority! I'll cast you into eternal ruin!"
Zombie Head chirped and cursed so much that even Deadpool let out an exclamation. "My god, that's a low blow. Spidey! Take him out! I support you!"
Peter simply stared at the head. After a moment of silence, Zombie Head let out a series of dry chuckles.
"Fine, whatever. It's no big deal. Before I came here, I was at war with another group of Fantastic Four and Spider-Man. They ran into our universe's Latveria and made a huge mess... then suddenly, Latveria's shield collapsed. We were rushing over there, and then the entire surface cracked open, erupting with massive amounts of magma. It blew up!"
So Earth-2149 really was destroyed.
Peter nodded and continued his questioning. "And then?"
"Then? Then the entirety of Latveria was enveloped in a white light. The fissures on the surface sealed back together, and then New York City came flying over. With a thud, it merged with Latveria. We zombies looked around and found the whole world wrapped in a layer of white energy. All that was left of the world was the area around Castle Doom and a ruined New York."
What on earth...? Did some cosmic-level entity save the two most zombie-infested areas of Earth-2149 and stitch them together for protection? Who the hell would be that bored? Grandmaster? The Collector? Could it be the Beyonder?
All of those characters had motives, and without exception, their motive was usually just for the "fun" of it.
"Then how did you get here?"
"Me? Later, Zombie Strange found a way to cross universes! All we had to do was kill the Man-Thing to open a gate to the multiverse! So we found the Man-Thing. After a lot of us died and we killed each other, in the end, only I, Deadpool, made it through! Hahahaha!"
Hearing this, Kitty looked at the head and asked in confusion, "Then why do you only have a head left?"