Chapter 012: A Bird Problem.
"I have several plans to deal with the situation, most of them would take time to complete, something I don't have." Adrian did not lie, there are several divine artifacts capable of killing Galactus such as the Ultimate Nullifier, and the Infinity Gauntlet with the Infinity Stones, these two artifacts can kill him enough.
"Oh?" Doom, who was standing disinterested, looked at Adrian. "What do you propose?"
"First, let's make some information clear, as you should know, killing Galactus is impossible."
"Of course, he is a cosmic entity." Johnny spoke.
"That's not it." Adrian shook his head, and looked at Doom indicating for him to continue, after all, he is the one who knows the most about the cosmos in the room, at least that's what everyone thinks:
"It's not that we can't kill him or don't have the capacity to do so, it's that we can't kill him because of what he represents. Galactus represents cosmic balance, kill him, and the entire universe will be unbalanced and go in unpredictable directions, possibly causing a universal extinction event." Doom explained.
If Galactus is killed, the balance of this universe will be thrown into a literal blender, he does not want to end up in the dark universe, or God forbid in Marvel's zombie universe.
"Exactly." Venom nodded. "There are two ways to resolve the situation, kill Galactus, and put someone in his place, someone who can act as cosmic balance." He looked at the eight-year-old boy.
The implication of his look was obvious.
"No! We cannot do that." Susan immediately growled with a protective instinct, Reed and the rest of the quartet also agreed with her, even if Doom did not say anything, he would not agree either.
"The other option is to activate the nuclear option, the Jesus kid over there will go to a dimension where time runs faster and gets stronger, he deals with Galactus and turns him into his pet." Something similar already happened in the comics anyway, and this little guy, being Doom's son, must have even more potential than the original Franklin, which is ridiculous to be honest.
'Is this woman's womb divine or something?' Adrian genuinely wondered while looking at Sue, all her children are aberrations.
"He doesn't have that much power..." Susan immediately spoke.
"You underestimate him."
"You underestimate Doom's son."
Adrian and Doom spoke at the same time, they looked at each other for a few and nodded as if they had agreed on something and then went back to looking forward.
"...." Susan fell silent, she could not agree with Venom, but if even Doom agrees... She looked at her son, and thought about the name Venom spoke.
'Jesus kid... My God, my life is chaos.' She sighed.
"That kid won the genetic lottery, and came out of a divine womb, he is literally a cosmic entity in formation." Venom spoke in a clinical tone, as if he were just stating a fact.
"Mm." Doom nodded in agreement. "Doom's seed is strong!"
'Dude, stop! Look at Reed's elastic face, he has already turned green at this point!' Adrian thought jokingly, he really doesn't care either way, he is here to warn them about the problem, that way, they can help the planet not explode.
"Even so no! He needs to have a normal childhood." Sue was inflexible.
"Woman, he created a galaxy under a pillow." Venom rolled his eyes. "I don't know your definition of normal, but I bet that doesn't fit into it."
"...." Susan raised her hand to argue, but in the end she lowered it and remained silent.
"You have another option, right?" Reed asked.
"Call the Sentry, and ask him to do what I proposed before, but there is a chance he gets emo... And everyone knows what happens after that."
"......." An absurd silence fell in the room.
The Sentry is well known, he is an Avenger, but that's not why he is known, not long ago, the Sentry got emo, and became the Void, the transformation lasted only a few seconds, but those seconds were enough for everyone to agree to never provoke the guy.
Therefore the consensus of everyone was... HELL NO! Leave that guy alone. Calling him is like risking swapping one disaster for another!
"Honestly, who gives power of that magnitude to someone so unbalanced? He should be institutionalized to receive psychiatric help." Johnny sighed.
"I cannot agree more." Venom nodded.
Suddenly everyone heard the scream of a bird in the distance, along with a psychic explosion that made everyone's hair stand on end.
"What was that...?" Sue asked with visible discomfort.
"Jean Grey became emo, and now the Phoenix is loose... Honestly, heroes should look for a psychiatrist, if they did that more, most problems wouldn't happen." Venom sighed while walking toward the window, as he walked, a pool of sludge formed beneath him, and soon a motorcycle came out.
"Anyway, you already know what to do, the choice is yours." He got on the motorcycle.
Vroom!
The motorcycle transformed and became more demonic.
He glanced back. "I hope you don't choose to leave this universe, or I will go after you, and believe me... You won't like it." He threatened and snorted, he very much doubts they would do that, despite the problems among themselves, this group always solves the problem one way or another.
And even if they run away… He can run away too, after all, he has all of Reed's dimensional portal schematics in his head now.
He throws something toward Reed, the elastic man easily catches it, and sees that it was a black card with a phone number.
"Call me if you have a solid plan." He accelerated.
The motorcycle went from 0 to 300 in just 1 second, if it were a normal body, the rider would have already been thrown flying, in the next second, he broke the glass.
Johnny, Ben, Susan, Valeria, and Reed approached the window, and looked down.
While he was falling, Venom's motorcycle created black tentacles that pulled him toward the Fantastic Four building, he rode the motorcycle vertically for a few seconds until a black pool of black tentacles came out from beneath him and created a ramp that launched him upward.
He did a few flips as if he were in a motocross show, after flipping in the air, he landed standing on top of the motorcycle in the classic Spider-Man position, and then he laughed with adrenaline pulsing through his veins.
"THIS IS FUN HAHAHAHAHAHA! They have a flying sword, I have a flying motorcycle!"
Suddenly Venom's body began to glow golden, then everyone just heard the roar of the motorcycle followed by a thunderclap of lightning, and a boom from the sound barrier being broken, in the blink of an eye, he propelled himself in a straight line creating a trail of gold and black.
Of course this extravagance caused all the windows of the surrounding buildings to shatter, but did Venom care? Of course not!
"Physics does not exist for that guy." Valerie laughed, her genius mind had already calculated the absurdity of what she was seeing, and she could not understand how this was possible, at least not without fully understanding his powers, the lightning is easy to understand, what she cannot understand is that suit, his suit is very versatile, it looks like Spawn's cape.
"You have to admit that was very cool." Johnny spoke. "Can you create a similar motorcycle for me?" He asked Reed like a child waiting for a new toy.
Yes, he can fly, but flying normally is not cool! He bets Venom can fly too, but prefers to travel like that because it is cooler! And he understands that completely!
Valerie just snorted and did not comment, but she agreed with Johnny internally.
"I can think of something similar, but… I bet it won't be the same, the change in the motorcycle seems more like something related to his ability, perhaps something similar to what happens with the Ghost Rider." Reed spoke while looking at Venom's motorcycle when he summoned it.
"What an interesting design, it was made to function on all tracks, even on terrains impossible for normal motorcycles, I wonder what kind of material he used."
"Are we going to help him?" Ben asked Reed.
"No." Reed shook his head while walking away. "This is a mutant problem, and with that guy, I have a feeling that I don't think he will fail."
"Intuition?" Ben asked.
"Yeah."
"That's something rare coming from you." Ben laughed, he knows how logical his friend is in everything.
"… It's just envy, I think… His confidence in himself is intoxicating…" He whispered and confided to the friend who was close.
Even if Venom says nothing, his own actions speak for themselves, the way he behaves, the way he walks, everything has an intoxicating confidence.
It is a different kind of confidence from Doom, Doom's confidence usually comes loaded with an air of arrogance and ego.
Venom's is more centered, sharper, more intense. Reed feels a bit of envy.
"I wonder when I lost mine?" He sighed while thinking about the pending matters he has in his current life.
He looked at Sue and Franklin. 'Maybe it's time to start living again and make some things clear… But not now… Not when we don't know if the planet might disappear or not. The team needs to stay united for now.'
Ben did not speak, he is sure his friend knows when he lost his confidence.
"I will talk to SHIELD, they need to know what is happening." Reed's eyes narrowed, and a thread of determination and clarity could be seen, for a moment, he looked at the card Venom gave him.
'If I am going to create a group… Maybe I will call him.'
"...." Doom displayed a small smile when he saw his rival take a step away from that puddle of melancholy and depression.
'Come back soon, Reed, otherwise things won't be interesting.' Doom knows that Reed's current state is due to disappointments with Susan, something that Doom understands well, after all, Doom's affection for Susan died when she slept with Namor and Black Panther.
Doom is too egocentric and arrogant to put up with these things, one thing is him stealing Susan from Reed, after all, he is his rival, another thing is Susan herself not deciding what she wants in life.
Susan made her choices, and he respects that, but respecting and dealing with it are two different things.
A good example is She-Hulk whom he knows personally. He respects her for her attitude of knowing what she wants, she does not want commitment with anyone, and always makes that clear to her current lover, she just wants to go out and have fun enjoying her green body with whoever she finds interesting.
By having a night with her, at least you know what you are getting into. Indecisive women do not have Doom's respect!
Therefore, Doom's relationship with Susan now is like separated parents, something closer to indifference, he would not even come here if it were not for his son's potential.
"Do not talk about Franklin." Susan spoke.
"I know." Reed nodded. "But probably, he already knows."
"How?"
"It's Nick Fury, he has contacts with everyone, and the Ghost Rider is with him."
"Ugh, that old woman." Sue grumbled when she thought of the red-haired agent.
"I wonder what his suit is made of... I have never seen such a versatile substance." Valerie asked still looking at the horizon.
Doom snapped his fingers, and all the damage caused by Venom was repaired, a small gesture of gratitude on his part, of course, he would never admit that.
"That is not a suit."
"… Oh?"
"It is a living being that is intimately connected to him in a symbiotic relationship."
"… Do you know what it is?"
"Perhaps, I have an idea." Doom did not deny, but he also did not confirm, he encountered something similar in one of the dimensions he visited, but the form was completely different… They were similar, but not the same.
"Susan, we need to talk."
"I know…" She sighed, she can already imagine what they are going to talk about, and she will not agree, she perceives very well Doom's unspoken intentions, he wants to create another himself, or a weapon, and she will never let that happen to her son.
If Doom comes into conflict with her about this, she knows her team is by her side, after all, they are a family.
Ben left together with Johnny, what remained was only Valerie, she looked furtively around, seeing that she was alone, she whispered.
"Herbie... give me a 3D image of him."
"Yes."
She swallowed a little when she saw the image so close: "Do we know who he is under the mask?"
"Our scanners cannot go through his suit, all we get is static."
Electro's power, even if it is not being used, still runs through Venom's entire symbiotic body, and that causes extreme interference in the scanners, and since he kept their eyes activated the entire time, that generated another protective field, not that they know that, of course.
"… It's a shame." She sighed. "Well, at least, I have this..." She smiled to herself while looking at the 3D image in front of her.
…
"Jean don't do this!" The voice of a bald man in despair, while being lifted into the air by a furious redhead, very Darth Vader style.
"Jean do it." The seductive voice of a blonde wearing less clothes than she should.
"Jean nooo!" Scott shouted, but he was restrained by an Asian ninja.
"Remember what he did, Jean... So many years deceiving you... He took you from your parents, imprisoned your potential, all because he is weak and hypocritical... Jean, do it, kill him!"
As if seduced by Emma's words. Jean's eyes glowed, and in that instant a snap was heard.
Charles Xavier... Dead!
"Very gooood," Emma Frost smiled satisfied, finally that bald man is dead! And she has the Phoenix as a weapon!
"NOOOOO!" A colossal power came out of Scott's eyes toward Jean.
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