The instant the spell activates, reality folds.
Doctor Strange had prepared for exactly one opportunity. The moment Derrick crossed Earth's magnetosphere while hyper-focused on mutant signatures, Strange released the spell he had been building since Mars fell.
A construct woven from:
°Temporal displacement magic
°Dimensional severance
° Identity-locked banishment runes
The sky above the Atlantic fractures like glass.
Golden sigils spanning hundreds of kilometers ignite in orbit.
Thor turns mid-swing.
"Stark… what in Odin's name... "
Tony's HUD floods with data.
"That's not energy… that's reality editing."
The spell activates.
Derrick senses it too late.
His entire nervous network was locked onto:
Mutant genetic signatures
Krakoa's psionic beacon
The remaining Omega-level energy clusters
Which meant he never noticed the magical lattice forming around him.
Then.
SNAP.
Space disappears.
No explosion.
No force.
Just removal.
For the first time since Mars…
Derrick feels something close to confusion.
His tendrils lash outward instinctively, trying to anchor to gravitational vectors.
But they find nothing, this was empty place.
Strange's spell didn't teleport Derrick.
It excluded him from the timeline.
Think of reality like a film reel.
Timeline: unknown zone...
Strange temporarily cut Derrick out of the strip.
Now Derrick exists between frames.
A place outside causal flow.
Derrick's body had evolved into a cosmic bio-singularity, meaning normal dimensional travel wouldn't stop him.
So Strange used a multi layered removal spell:
1. Temporal removal
Derrick's biological clock is detached from universal time.
Meaning Derrick cannot interact with events.
2. Dimensional Isolation
His mass-energy signature is shifted to a non-causal pocket layer.
3. Identity Binding
The spell targeted Derrick's specific genetic and metaphysical signature.
Meaning:
No shapeshifting escape
No cloning escape
No dimensional tunneling escape
Only one solution exists:
Derrick must become powerful enough to break reality's boundary itself.
For several seconds…
Nothing exists.
Then Derrick begins thinking again.
His mind expands through the abilities he absorbed.
Omega mutant powers begin processing the situation.
Abilities activate automatically:
Reality perception
Spatial awareness
Energy and matter absorption
Molecular adaptation
His tendrils slowly extend into the void.
Searching.
Testing.
Learning.
Then something horrifying happens.
Derrick starts evolving again.
His body realizes the environment has no physics.
So it begins creating its own.
Using the combined powers he absorbed, Derrick begins generating micro-reality fields around his cells.
A terrifying biological equation emerges:
Local Physics Field = ∑(Omega Power Outputs)
Meaning Derrick is slowly becoming a self-contained universe generator.
Inside the void, he begins constructing,
artificial gravity,energy flow and biological time.
If he succeeds…
He will no longer need a universe to exist.
Meanwhile on Earth
At the Sanctum.
Strange collapses to one knee.
Thor lands beside him.
"Did you destroy him?"
Strange exhales.
"Not even close."
Iron Man checks orbital satellites.
"No life signs."
"No radiation spikes."
"No matter displacement."
Tony frowns.
"That's… impossible."
Strange looks up at the sky.
"I didn't kill him."
"I removed him from the timeline completely."
Thor tightens his grip on Mjolnir.
"And if he returns?"
Strange answers quietly.
"Then it means he learned how to break reality itself and we'll need to figure out how to completely defeat him."
Krakoa
On the living island of Krakoa, the surviving mutants feel something change.
The psychic pressure that had been crushing them…
vanishes.
Magneto slowly lowers his head.
"Is it over?"
Storm scans the sky.
"I cannot feel him anymore, it's like he just disappeared."
Even the remnants of Orchis lose Derrick's cosmic signature.
Global sensors register zero movement.
But one mind remains uneasy.
Professor X.
Because in the psychic void where Derrick once burned like a star…
He can still feel something faint.
Something growing.
Outside the Timeline
In the darkness between universes…
Derrick finally understands what happened.
And he adapts.
Slowly…
Cells rewritingOutside the Timeline, relative months Passed
For everyone inside the universe, Derrick vanished instantly.
But outside the timeline where Doctor Strange banished him, time behaves differently.
For Derrick…
months pass.
At first Derrick was nothing more than a biological singularity floating in a reality-less void.
No gravity.
No particles.
No quantum fluctuations.
So his body did the only thing possible.
It became the source of physics itself.
Using the Omega-level abilities he absorbed from the mutants of Arakko and Mars, his biology begins rewriting its own universal constants.
His cells begin emitting localized spacetime curvature fields.
A terrifying equation forms within his evolving consciousness:
Where each Omega mutant power generated physical laws
Meaning Derrick is summing the outputs of multiple Omega powers to simulate a small universe.
Stage 1 — Self-Contained Physics
Within weeks Derrick stabilizes a micro-universe field around his body.
Roughly the size of a small moon.
Inside it:
Gravity exists
Energy flows
Matter can form
But it's not natural.
It runs entirely on Derrick's biological output.
Energy generation estimate:E≈10is to the power 36 joules/Second
For comparison:
Total energy output of the Sun:
3.8×10 to the power 36 J/s
Meaning Derrick is producing 10 billion suns worth of energy just to maintain his evolution.
Stage 2 — Dimensional Awareness
Months into isolation, Derrick's mind expands beyond the pocket field.
His new senses begin detecting dimensional layers.
Reality suddenly appears like a massive stack of membranes.
Universes vibrating beside each other.
His consciousness now perceives the Multiversal Frequency Spectrum.
Each universe oscillates at a slightly different cosmic frequency.
Derrick begins tuning himself to them.
He learns to touch other universes without entering them.
At this point, he is no longer just evolving biologically.
He is becoming a multiversal organism.
Far away within the bureaucratic labyrinth of the Time Variance Authority…
An alarm suddenly erupts across thousands of monitors.
Red lights flash.
Timeline analysts freeze.
One analyst stares at the screen in horror.
"Uh… supervisor?"
Another analyst responds without looking up.
"What now?"
The analyst slowly turns the screen around.
Timeline graphs show a massive causality disturbance.
But not inside the timeline.
Outside it.
TVA Monitor Reading
Anomaly classification:
EXTERNAL TIMELINE ENTITY
Energy signature:
MULTIVERSAL SCALE
Location
OUTSIDE CAUSAL SPACE
The analyst gulps.
"That's… not possible."
Behind them the door opens.
Loki walks into the control room.
He notices the panic instantly.
"What catastrophe have we discovered today?"
The analyst points at the screen.
A projection appears.
A massive energy mass floating outside time itself.
Growing.
Expanding.
Learning.
Loki squints.
"Is that… alive?"
The system processes further data.
New message appears:
ENTITY ADAPTING TO MULTIVERSAL STRUCTURE
Another warning flashes.
PREDICTED POWER GROWTH:
EXPONENTIAL
Meaning Derrick's power is growing with no limits and rapidly at that...
In TVA modeling, exponential multiversal growth leads to only one outcome:
Timeline collapse.
TVA Threat Assessment
Projection simulation:
If Derrick escapes the timeline exile :
84% probability he consumes entire timelines
63% probability he consumes universes
17% probability he destabilizes the multiverse
Worst case scenario:
Total multiversal ecosystem collapse.
The room goes silent.
Finally Loki speaks.
"Fascinating."
Everyone looks at him.
"That thing…"
He smiles slightly.
"…is evolving into something even the TVA cannot regulate."
Outside Time, Derrick's Final Stage
Months after his banishment…
Derrick finally completes the next stage of evolution.
His body is no longer a single organism.
It becomes a distributed multiversal network.
His tendrils stretch through dimensional membranes.
Each one gathering energy from different layers of existence.
Scientific approximation:
Neural processing capacity:
10 is to the power of x400 operations per second
For comparison:
Human brain ≈ 10 is to the power of 16
All computers on Earth ≈ 10²³
Derrick now thinks trillions of times faster than civilizations.
And then…
For the first time since his banishment…
He sees something.
A weak point in reality.
A seam in the timeline.
A path back into existence.
His consciousness focuses on it.
The pocket universe around him begins collapsing into his core as energy condenses.
Preparing for reentry.
Inside the TVA…
Every alarm suddenly hits maximum alert.
A final message appears on screen:
Copy code
ANOMALY BREACH IMMINENT
Loki slowly leans forward.
Eyes narrowing.
"Ah…"
"…now things are about to become interesting." themselves…
Reality forming around him…
A whisper of thought echoes through the void.
"If there is no universe…
I will make one."
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