Before Jay's Disappearance, Dark Universe,

Steven Strange (SE), Tony Stark (SE), Thor the Thunderer (OE), Hulk (OE) landed on the Dark Earth when their eyes met with Steve Rogers (SE).

"Um, ok, be careful, this might be fake," Tony warned.

"Tony, it's me," Steven was looking everywhere but at them, getting an idea of the location.

Tony raised his hand, firing a missile that went and hit Steve in the face. 

Steve shook his hand, scamming the smoke, "Tony, there is no time for jokes."

"Ah, it's real," Tony smiled, "So you dealt with your copy?"

"Dealt? No. He disappeared in a portal, and I followed after him."

"There must be a reason why Dormammu called him back," Steven Strange furrowed his brows, readying his spells, "We need to be ready for anything."

Thunderer spun the Mjolnir, "I am ready for anything."

"Hulk!"

*BOOM*BOOM*

Steve jumped towards Tony and others, turning in the air, facing the two monsters that landed behind him, "Be careful!"

Steven Strange turned his eyes towards a blue humanoid body, shriveled up the skin, looking like a skeleton, holding a scythe in its hand. He wore a green cloak over its upper body.

The other monster was just torso and arms, with six cuts on the chest, like three pairs of eyes, the gap in its stomach, cut apart like teeth. There were claws made of bone, with a golden glow inside its body.

"Humans...Cosmic Conqueror doesn't welcome you," D'Spyze spoke, rotating the scythe at its fingers.

Tony's red and gold armor lit up with runes. Steven covered the four of them with magical armor, warning, "Careful. Their attacks might hurt your soul...quite permanently."

Steve raised his shield, covered by a magical golden Shield, "Then let's make sure about not getting hit."

"HULLLKKKK!!!!!" Hulk jumped before them, appearing in front of D'Spyze and Night Ripper, catching them with their heads, smashing against each other.

"HULK IS THE STRONGEST THERE ISSSSSSSSSS!!!!!"

Tony smiled, flying up high with a curved flight route to appear behind the two monsters, shooting his magic missiles that covered their bodies.

The two monsters slashed the fire and smoke apart, only to hit a shield and a hammer.

Snake-like dragons appeared, wrapping themselves around the two monsters, shooting fire out of their mouth. The fire covered the two, surrounded by thunder, attacked by magical lasers from Iron Man appendages and Steve's eyes.

D'Spyze and Night Ripper tried their best to reach five of them but got blasted out to smithereens before they even got a chance.

Tony landed, smirking, "And here I was expecting more."

He just said when he noticed the eyes of everyone looking at something behind him, making him sigh, "There is something more behind me, right?"

Steven Strange raised his head, looking up at something very tall, "Huh, you would love this."

Tony blinked, turning back, looking at War Machine in amazement, "Oh, wow. I want one."

It was no different than the ordinary War Machine armor in terms of armor, a bit bulkier, but not much. The thing that genuinely made it different was, "It's fucking height of a building."

"Captain, language," Tony joked, seeing the enormous War Machine that looked like his handiwork, "It's like a real-life Gundam."

Thunderer spun the Mjolnir, creating thunder and lightning, "Whatever it might be. I shall take care of it!!!"

He flew up, only to be hit by a red laser that pushed him back, shoving him into the ground, leaving behind a large gorge before disappearing.

"Yeah...Let's avoid that," Steven Strange looked back at Thunderer, turning his eyes towards War Machine, "Iron Man, this is your department."

"Of course, right, right, right," Tony took a deep breath, glaring at overgrown War Machine, "Can we run?"

"No," Captain America spoke; his eyes turned towards the ground, seeing hundreds of D'Spyze and Night Ripper rise from it.

"Now?"

"Let's go with...strategic retreat," Steven suggested when Hulk jumped in, "HULK! WILL NOT RUN!!!"

"Remind me why did we bring him?" Tony floated up, creating six appendages canon, collecting energy to fire.

"He can't be affected by Dormammu," Steve created a crater under his feet, using the force to blitz towards the War Machine, smashing the shield in its chest with full force. There was a shockwave, but the War Machine didn't even move an inch.

It tried to clap its hand, squish Steve Rogers between its palms, but multiple Steven Strange appeared, creating whips that held its hands, "Don't get impatient. This fight will be a long one."

"No worries," Thunderer the Thor walked over, patting Steve's back, "Captain can go all day."

"HULK CAN GO ALL DAYYY!!!"

Dark Earth, Distance away from Tony's group,

Reed Richards touched the soil, taking in samples to put in his tool belt, looking around, "There creatures..."

Johnny knocked on one of the mindless ones, making it turn and fire a purple orb of energy at Johnny, "Shit!!"

He transformed, his body covered in fire, soaring up in the air to dodge the blast, "Here! Take my gift of the first meeting!"

Johnny created a ball of fire, more extensive than his body which he threw towards the ground, covering the dark land burning down the mindless ones.

"Idiot," The Thing shook his head, taunting, "Did you have to tell everyone we are here the moment we came?"

Johnny came down, landing on the ground, transforming back to human form, "Heh, it's better than you punching them one by one and making us look like an idiot."

Reed straightened his knees, narrowing his eyes, stretching his neck forward to take some of the ashes of the mindless ones, "I would have liked to get a specimen that hadn't been turned to ashes."

"You might get that sooner than you'd like," Susan Storm narrowed her eyes as she opened a briefcase, taking out a spherical droid that looked like an eye.

Johnny raised his eyebrows, "You do know that electronics won't be working here?"

"About that," Reed smiled at Johnny, "You didn't hear because you were always goofing off."

Susan smiled, "I am friends with Janet, and when Natasha from other Earth was undercover, I became friends with her. Out of interest, I went to see Sokovia, which is said to be the closest thing to paradise on Earth. You have been there, right?"

"Right," Johnny grinned, "It's definitely different from any other city I have been to. Lots of fun."

"Well, when I visited them, I met Jay, who was curious about my powers. He offered to teach me a few things about them as thanks for helping him create the Heart of Innocence."

"Teach you? About your powers? You ok? Sis?" Johnny confusedly tilted his head.

Susan shrugged, "I thought something similar, but he said he was a master of telekinesis and wanted that power. In return, he would teach me to use telekinesis in ways I can't imagine."

Reed narrowed his eyes in a smile, "Even I didn't think that telekinesis has such depth. It's only recently that I have started looking at its possibilities with a much more open mind."

Thing rubbed his head, "Are you two going to keep talking or show us what you are talking about?"

Susan smiled, closing her eyes, creating a spherical forcefield between her palms, focusing when a white cross appeared on her forehead, "Micro Environment."

She spread the bubble, covering the four of them and the area tens of meters around them, letting them breathe fresh air.

Thing blinked, taking in the fresh air, "What is this?"

"A false environment. Ordinarily, it would be used to make sure that we can breathe in a harsh environment, protect us from long-ranged attacks. Even counter other fields, magnetic, gravity, and so on, depending on what we want. For now, it is so that the electronics work inside this field."

She created another one, covered the drone, connected the more extensive field with the smaller one.

Reed controlled the drone, which started moving out of the shield, giving them a live video of what was on the screen in the briefcase. Susan grinned in joy, "It's working."

"Eh...couldn't you always do this?"

"No, not really, not to this extent," Susan smiled, with a sparkle in her eyes, "And then, this is not even the extent of my new learned abilities."

Thing gruffed, "In short, you can kick Johnny's ass without even trying. If he does something stupid...which we all know he will."

Johnny clicked his tongue, "This is not fair; I want a power-up too."

"You wouldn't have gotten it if you had bothered to stay put," Susan looked at the video with a smile and frown.

Johnny squatted down beside Susan, whispering to his sister, "Say, I get Things. Why did he teach you? Is there something going on between you two?"

Susan shot a look at him, surrounding him in a forcefield, throwing him in the far distance, making Thing sigh, "That was too soon."

Reed chuckled, "We should focus on this."

He pointed at the purple centaur on the screen, with two curved horns, skeleton-like teeth, and glowing, sharp pillars attached to its arms, "He looks like he will be trouble."