Chapter Thirty: Requim Part Three.

Energy flowed through the temple and there was a loud humming that went through the air. Harry watched as Sinister stood in the background, a self superior smile on his chalk white face.

"At last, the great one, he returns, behold, the power of Apocalypse!" Sinister yelled at the top of his lungs.

Harry could feel the power, it was hard not to with the amount of visible energy flowing through air as well as the loud humming accompanying it. He tried to lock onto the source of the energy in order to find a way around it. The emerald eyes of Harry Potter struggled to focus as he tried to figure out what was going on.

'Okay, the power, I feel the power but….Jean are you picking this up?' Harry asked to the redhead through the bond link.

'Yeah, I'm picking it up,' Jean commented as she took a moment to focus on what was happening before her eyes. She heard the sounds of a hundred of dead souls crying out for help, their power having been consumed by a malicious force that had been alive all of this time and the redhead wondered how she was keeping it together with all of the sensations she was feeling. 'I can't….'

'I can't….it's horrible, these sounds, I can't believe it,' M'gann thought in a panicked voice, causing Harry to pause for a moment in an attempt to reassure her.

'Calm down, things are going to get rough but I'll do what I can to get us out of this alive, don't worry, you'll see,' Harry thought to the girls and all of the others.

"All will kneel before the might of Apocalypse!" Mesmero yelled with glee as he watched the swirling energy in the air gather onto one point in the room forming a cocoon as it began the process of reforming his master.

Harry locked onto the energy in an attempt to disrupt it but he was blasted back instead. He did get enough of a sense of it to know that they were in for a rough fight.

'Gwen?' Harry asked her and the blonde's interest was piqued. 'Does the technology seem….familiar to you?'

'Yeah, it does…Kang….of course…Kang's a time traveler…..this wasn't his first trip through time, Apocalypse must have gotten a hold of Kang's technology and used it to increase his own power,' Gwen remarked to Harry as he sped over to take out the latest batch of Marauders that showed up in one fluid motion.

Now that Gwen had the thread, she was able to figure out a way to counteract everything. The blonde frowned as Harry stood up straight and looked over his shoulder to give her an encouraging smile. The young blonde focused her expression intently on what she had to do.

Apocalypse broke out of the energy cocoon to stand before them in all his glory, he was tall with blue skin and glowing red eyes. Purple and silver armor swathed nearly every inch of his body except for his head and that was only the tip of the iceberg. He was truly larger than life.

"So, we meet again,"Apocalypse stated in an unearthly sounding voice that seemed to echo through their minds as well as their ears as he went face to face with Harry. "Har-Rell, it has been a long time but now I will make sure that you do not defeat me in the past by erasing your future."

"Good luck with that," Harry offered as he went at Apocalypse with super speed but an energy field manifested around him at the last second.

Harry put the brakes on coming to an immediate halt and took a step back, he had to rethink this strategy. What he was trying now wasn't working.

"You cannot hope to defeat me,"Apocalypse stated in the manner all villains seemed to do when they were certain of their own superiority, but was interrupted from continuing to speak further as an energy blast burst through the doors sending them hurtling open.

"Take him down!" Cyclops yelled as he ripped off his visor and nailed Apocalypse with a full force optic blast.

It had an interesting effect as Apocalypse was forced back a few steps as the concussive force of the beam exerted itself again him and Wolverine stepped forward to take advantage of his temporary distraction.

Apocalypse reached forward and nailed Cyclops with a huge super powerful punch. A huge punch caused Wolverine to be obliterated in the backwash as well. The energy blast was too much for the feral mutant to deal with.

"Take him out!" Kitty yelled as she tried to phase through the energy field but ended up screaming in agony instead as the field negated her ability and instead ended up shocking the hell out of her.

Harry super sped her out of the way before she could be destroyed. The brunette was dazed but otherwise seemed to be fine. Kara and Rogue tried to hammer through the force field. They couldn't even get it to budge slightly despite the force of their blows.

'Gwen, not to rush you but…'

'I'm trying….he's made a lot of modifications to the technology you showed me,' Gwen thought frantically. The Marauders hovered around her like ever present bees.

'What's he waiting for?' Wanda asked them.

Harry smiled as he figured it out. 'I'm not sure he's at full power, this was a back up plan since they weren't able to use Rogue as the third key.'

'Good, let's figure out how to take him down before he gets back to full strength,' Wanda thought as she kept the Marauders off Gwen's back so she could work her magic with technology. 'I don't suppose that sending a hex bolt at it would…."

'Well if you want to destroy reality than have at it,' Harry thought as he realized that in the chaos, Jax-Ur had slipped off into the night. Given that there were dozens of bodies in this chamber, it was easy to miss him.

'Ah good point,' Wanda thought as she closed her eyes and focused so she could feel the energies around them.

Apocalypse stood, ready, as he knocked Gambit and Pyro back into the wall like they were insignificant cockroaches.

Using his X-Ray vision Harry was able to find a weak spot in the energy field. Focusing a great deal of his magical energy into his right hand he fired off a punch which caused it to shatter like it was glass under the strength of the blow. Harry followed that up by grabbing onto Apocalypse. He could sense that he could blast everyone into atoms if he had the motivation to do so once he returned to full power. The emerald eyed wizard hoisted up his enemy and plowed him into the side of the temple, then keeping hold of him slammed Apocalypse back into the door.

"ANNOYING INSECT!" Apocalypse screamed out as he tried to pound his enemy into the ground but Harry dodged the attacks with swift precision.

'Gwen, not to rush you or anything but…'

I think I got something,' Gwen thought as she felt a slight headache coming on but she saw every piece of tech that was active around her. The technology present in this temple, it was nearly overwhelming. The blonde kept her head up and Harry gave her a confident gaze giving her the courage that allowed her to act. 'Almost there, so close, closer, closer, almost got it, and….here we go.'

Gwen saw the blueprints of the temple pop up as she tried to translate the binary code. There were a few different languages, many of them that she did not understand and she bit down on her tongue. She had to concentrate, if she lost focus, it would be over.

The X-Men, the Acolytes, and the Marauders were all taking a nap on the ground. Harry's team was just barely holding their own.

'I've got him held off, Gwen, you need to help me keep him in the box….'

Harry's expression faltered as he was blasted hard in the back and Apocalypse managed to escape the temple.

Without any hesitation Harry, Jean, Kara, Rogue, Kitty, and Wanda followed him through the portal.

'It's not going to be that easy, not for him,' Rogue thought through the bond link to them all.

X-X-X

Jax-Ur left the temple as he experienced the energy flowing in the air. As a man of science, he was intrigued by this event and he wanted to find out even more about what was happening. He made his way to the designated meeting place as he waited for the third and final phase of the plan to come to fruition.

"I take the plan went as you intended."

The monotone voice of Brainiac could be heard, as he stood, waiting.

"The plan is going perfectly," the man told the machine. Soon the man that would lead Krypton to a new age on this primitive mud ball would be released from this cage. He clasped his hands together and awaited to see what would happen next.

"Careful, Jax-Ur, pride comes before a fall, until the Star Child is finished off, it would not be prudent to toot your own horn as the statement may go," Brainiac warned him as Midtown High was now a ghost town after SHIELD cleared it out. "Using this Apocalypse has worked out well, the timing of his escape is perfect for it will distract them from our true goal."

Jax-Ur smiled, he had not intended to give his blood to release this extremely powerful force but losing a small amount was worth it to provide a necessary distraction.

"I see that your device is nearly ready, and the vessel is nearly ready as well," Brainiac commented to him. "He has no idea that he is a puppet, does he?"

Jax-Ur answered in the negative. "He has no clue whatsoever what he is; he's ignorant that he's a pawn."

"Ensure that is kept that way," Brainiac warned him.

"I will," Jax-Ur offered him, annoyed that he was being treated like an afterthought by this machine. It was on the tip of his tongue that if it was not for him, Brainiac would be a glorified pocket calculator, likely rotting in space with the rest of debris that was once Krypton.

He would release Zod but Jax-Ur would show his power and he would ensure that he was able.

"Remember who rescued you from the Phantom Zone, someone such as yourself would not last that long and if you make a mistake that messes up this plan, I will send you back without any hesitation, without any regrets," Brainiac warned the scientist in a cold monotone. "And if anything has happened to Kandor…."

"It is where I showed you it was left, in pristine condition, all of the occupants, perfectly preserved," Jax-Ur stated as he watched him. "Some of the greatest scientific minds in that city are preserved for Zod, all you need is to say the word."

"Only I have the ability to release them and they will only be released when Earth has been cleansed of these humans and all information is the domain of the true face of Krypton," Brainiac said as he stepped forward and began to check Jax-Ur's work. "Your calibrations are up to specifications, well done."

Jax-Ur closed his eyes in frustration, he wanted to wrap his hands around throat of the machine and rip it's head off. It was not as if this was his first day on the job, he had been around long before Brainiac was ever created.

"Estimated time for completion, one hour, twelve minutes," Jax-Ur offered as he ran over everything and paused for a second. "It will be done."

"Yes, it will be done," Brainiac agreed as he waited. "Do not mess this up or you will be returned to the Phantom Zone."

Once again Jax-Ur felt annoyance bubbling through him. It was true that Brainiac had freed him from the Phantom Zone where he could have been destroyed by the Wraiths after an experiment had transported him into the Zone prior to Krypton's destruction. It was funny, a version of the same device that he had used that sent him to the other side, would be the means to transport Earth's population off of the planet, leaving it ripe to create a brand new Krypton.

"Osborn needs one final dose before he is ready," Jax-Ur offered to Brainiac.

"I am well aware, I formulated the plan," Brainiac commented as the machine's eyes glowed brightly. "SHIELD is distracted as I have directed them to Apocalypse's present location."

"That will allow us to cripple the defenses so this Fury will not be able to put us down," Jax-Ux offered.

"All technology on this planet has a backdoor through SHIELD, and they brought a microscopic nano-tech Trojan with them to weaken their defenses further," Brainiac commented and Jax-Ur acted like this was not news to him. "Naturally, they thought of a way to cripple one of the primer defenses on this planet. It will allow them to take the resources of this planet much more easily. Unfortunately for them we'll be using it our own advantage first."

Jax-Ur did not say anything, he merely remained calm and he saw his creation looking up towards the sun.

"You do realize that once Har-Rell takes care of Apocalypse, he will try and meddle into this plan," Jax-Ur stated and there was an instant where Brainiac paused.

"There is a point seventy nine percent chance that he shall reach us in time, and if he does, I have a contingency in place, do not even being to think that I have not calculated everything out to perfection," Brainiac told Jax-Ur in his cold monotone.

Jax-Ur did not say much of anything else, all he knew was that they were dealing with a delicate situation. The scientist checked the calibrations and once again they were to exact specification. It was getting closer to zero hour.

"Stick with the plan and you will see history being made, fail and it's back to where you come from," Brainiac told him. "Zod will rise."

Jax-Ur nodded, Zod would rise, that was the plan. The man who could have saved Krypton from its demise would return. He would save this planet from Har-Rell and if the humans had a problem with that, well it would be hard to protest from a completely different dimension.

There was less than an hour before the device would activate.

X-X-X

Harry sensed the temple and knew that he had to get there first before anyone else.

'I'm the only one who can stop him,' Harry thought as he made his way to the temple. 'The X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, SHIELD, even my team, they'll give a damn good effort, but they'll be bloody crushed. The Apocalypse that we fought earlier was just a minor threat.'

Harry could see the temple and it was one of the three that had been set up. Of course, he knew where he was going. This was where Apocalypse set up shop, the strongest residue meant that he would be there. The green eyes of the wizard watched as he dropped down.

'Jean, Rogue, Kara, Kitty, Wanda, in position, but…..civilians are our first priority,' Harry thought to them, he was not about to risk their lives to save his.

Harry had died twice before and neither time was pleasant. He had a feeling that if he did not time this right, Apocalypse would rip him apart just as much as he could the next person.

The plan was obvious, he wanted to turn all humans into mutants.

Only about twelve percent of the Earth's population would survive and only a small percentage of those that did survive would retain their sanity. Sudden power drove people mad.

'Okay, let's do this,' Harry thought to himself as he interfaced with the Fortress. 'I think that if I time this right, I can defeat Apocalypse without lifting a finger.'

'Let's hope this plan works because I'm not fond of Plan B,' Kitty thought to him.

'Neither am I,' Harry offered. 'The scans that I got from Gwen's Extremis scan, I'm sending them to the Fortress, to compare them side by side with Kang's Technology. Apocalypse is a mutant but his armor is technology. Remove the technology, and we have more of a shot at beating him.'

'He's growing more powerful by the second, thanks to….thanks to the way that he was released from his containment,' Phoenix interjected. 'The blood of a Kryptonian is worth more then the power of a thousand mutants combined with that technology.'

'The blood of a Kryptonian brought him out, the blood of a Kryptonian can put him back in but he's got about three hundred and seventeen different defenses, with at least three different ways to kill us with each,' Harry thought. 'And he's evolving, varying them. SHIELD could drop their biggest weapon and it wouldn't even dent the paint job of his armor.'

'So, now what?' Wanda asked.

'Evolution is what my powers do, I'm going to have to evolve faster or pick out the one flaw within his armor before it evolves again,' Harry thought to his bonded.

'Harry, good luck,' Kara said to him.

Similar sentiments were echoed, the girls had a job to do.

The SHIELD agents laid out on the ground obviously indicated how well this was going for them.

"We can't put a dent in him, sir!" one of the agents stated and he fired against the shields in front of the pyramid.

Fury watched. "Get out the heavy weapons, do not let up!"

Har-Rell watched and waited a moment before he started to fly around the Earth at super speed to gain the necessary momentum.

BAM!

Har-Rell's magically enhanced fists impacted the shield causing it to crack from the impact.

"FIRE!" Fury yelled as he saw the crack was large enough his men could slip through an attack of their own.

Harry smiled, he was glad that they were firing because that allowed him to have an easier time against the distracted Apocalypse.

Not that it was going to be easy, things like this rarely were easy but Harry knew that beyond a shadow of a doubt he had to do what he needed to do.

He could win, he had that thought in the back of his mind. Confidence never left his mind, never left his thoughts.

His fists were raised in the air as he blasted high into the air and slammed down on the top of Apocalypse's head.

Har-Rell was inside and staring Apocalypse in the face.

"I know what you're trying to do and your plan, it won't work,"Apocalypse told Harry but the wizard's grin while subtle was still visible on his face.

"We'll see about that," Harry stated as he readied himself for the next part of his mission. He was going to go in there and get things done.

"You stand in the way of progress, therefore you will be annihilated just like all others who opposed me, it was a misstep on my part that I was placed inside that crypt the first time, it will not happen again,"Apocalypse claimed. "You should not stand in my way, together we can accomplish much."

"I've heard that speech so many times that I know it by heart," Harry commented dryly to the villain and then he paused. "Save it for someone who might actually be swayed by it."

"Insolent child, I shall use you as an asset, you will serve well as…."

Harry slammed his fist directly into Apocalypse's face but that only served to incense him further.

'Are you trying to piss off the second most powerful mutant in all of the universe?' Jean asked in an exasperated voice but Harry blocked the voices in his head out for now. He reared his hand back and nailed his enemy in the face again with a huge haymaker blow.

Harry's eyes started to glow and he sent heat vision out but it was avoided. He super sped behind his adversary.

'Are you getting these energy signatures, Mum?' Harry asked Lily back at the Fortress.

'Yes loud and clear, pretty crisp, we're locking onto him now,' Lily offered Harry. 'Would it help to tell you to be careful against whom you're dealing with?'

'Wouldn't hurt, but he's getting stronger,' Harry thought as he moved around and utilized a pair of heat vision blasts with swift precision which staggered him back. Harry teleported behind him and conjured several flaming daggers. 'He has a weak spot, he's taking a lot of care to protect the back of his head and neck. I see the energy field around it, he's diverting a fuckton of power towards it.'

'Attack his strengths,' Lara thought to him.

'Don't you mean attack his weaknesses,' Harry thought back.

Lara shook her head and decided that it was best to clarify what she meant. 'He's expecting you to attack his weaknesses, so go for his strengths.'

'So create new ones,' Harry offered.

'That plan is completely insane!' Kitty cried but then she paused and thought about it for a second. 'It might be insane enough to work.'

'It's got to be insane enough to work,' Kara chimed in as she managed to clear the path on the other end.

'Just be prepared to jump in if things get ugly but I've got one shot,' Harry thought as he locked the Fortress onto him. 'Take out the temple, it's going to cause him an inconvenience.'

'You've weakened the fields enough for the beam to get through, ready, aim, fire,' Lara offered Har-Rell.

Harry smiled, he had to drill this one through and do it now, otherwise there were going to be a few problems with this one. His eyes swam with even more frustration as he kept his head up and nailed Apocalypse with another punch.

He had to back him up into position.

Fury watched in abject disbelief and he muttered under his breath. "What in the name of Sam Hill is he doing?"

"Saving the world," Natasha offered Fury matter of factly. As if it was the most obvious thing in the world, and to her it was.

Apocalypse was about to take out Harry but a beam of red light erupted through the dome and engulfed both of them.

"You will bow beneath my feet!" Apocalypse yelled. "You cannot stop me, I'm eternal!"

Apocalypse tried to attack Harry but he was hurled off like he was nothing and to Harry, he was.

"You derived your powers from a Kryptonian," Harry offered to him with a smug expression on his face. "You got all of the positives, all of the strengths, along with all of the drawbacks."

Red solar radiation, it brought the mighty Apocalypse to his knees.

Sinister watched from the shadows, he saw his plan become undone. He slipped off; cutting his losses.

Har-Rell sped behind Apocalypse and knocked him down from behind. Despite depowering him on certain levels, Apocalypse still had technology at his disposal that he could use.

He jammed Kang's technology once before he could do it again. Harry smiled as he ran around Apocalypse who lifted an arm to block his punch.

The two locked hands with each other as Harry tried to overpower him.

"I will regain my strength before you draw your next breath," Apocalypse grumbled as he tried to enhance his strength to beat the Kryptonian in this knuckle lock battle.

'You'd be surprised how long I could hold my breath,' Harry stated as he vanished with a pop, causing the temple to explode.

Apocalypse was launched high into space with Harry flying up with him. The two looked like a pair of shooting stars that blasted high above the clouds.

Harry shifted focus and grabbed Apocalypse around the waist, twisting so that he was below him as they descended through the atmosphere at mach twenty-five. The emerald eyes of this young man burned with power as he tried to bring his foe closer and closer to the ground.

There was a loud explosion that echoed through the air as the green eyed wizard kept pushing his adversary closer and closer to the ground, driving Apocalypse back to the location they'd teleported from.

A loud boom echoed outwards as they slammed into the ground at re-entry speed, the force of the impact causing the ground to crater beneath Apocalypse as he driven into the ground. With a grunt Harry pushed himself up off the ancient Egyptian mutant.

Apocalypse was regaining his power and Harry knew that he had to wrap this one up pretty soon. He picked up Apocalypse and hurled him in the direction of the temple with a combined strength and magical attack.

Using his super sped Harry caught Apocalypse while still in mid flight and drove him into the temple. Leaving the two of them standing in the middle of a cloud of dust when they arrived there.

"FOOLISH CHILD!" Apocalypse yelled as he summoned the powers of the temple to him because he needed every advantage he could manage against his foe.

"Say that enough times, and it might someday be true," Harry commented as he blocked the energy blast fire off at him before responding with one of his own.

Eyes squinted, heat vision blasted outwards, and Apocalypse was driven backwards again.

'Got to get him through that door,' Harry mentally stated to himself as he pulled out a handful of metal spheres and primed them. He flung them one by one like marbles, their energy causing Apocalypse's nervous system to go haywire when they connected against him. He had not tested them yet which was why he was glad that they worked.

His hands were clasped together and then he raised his arms with a huge axe bomber type blow, to nail Apocalypse in the face.

BAM!

Apocalypse went flying head over heels through the gates and Harry paused as he placed his hand on the side of the temple. He prepared to seal the door with his own blood.

'If this doesn't work….well we're kind of screwed,' Harry thought to his girls and smiled. 'So wish me luck.'

There were some mutterings of good luck as Harry worked through the device as he sealed it shut before him.

The energy around the temple was amazing and Harry translated the runes using his skills to read through them quickly to ensure he was utilizing their powers properly.

There were some threats that were mumbled by Apocalypse through the walls but Harry knew that if he timed this right, he could bury Apocalypse where no one would be able to break him out any time soon.

It was only temporary at best but by putting the Fidelius Charm on the temple, unless one had a level nine curse breaker, they were not finding him any time soon.

The crystals sealed around the door, sealing it shut forever and Harry smiled as he caused the temple to sink further and further beneath the Earth's crust.

'Harry, what are you doing, the temperature readings are off the scale, it's almost at boiling point,' Lily thought frantically.

'Everyone else is out of the temple, I'm going to make sure Apocalypse isn't going to come back any time soon,' Harry thought.

He flew out of the side of the temple and used his heat vision to seal the damaged section. It was as tightly shut as it was ever going to be.

Harry flew out, it took a lot of energy to do what he did. He tried to drop down to the ground and seal the ground shut.

There was a huge hole in the ground where Apocalypse once was and Harry staggered out of it, collapsing to the ground and letting out a huge breath.

His clothes were charred, his hair was worse, he had bumps, bruises, scrapes, and cuts all over his body, his joints were killing him but he saved the day. He was broken, beaten up, battered, and abused, but he saved the day.

Apocalypse was done.

'Mission accomplished,' Harry thought as he performed a few more enchantments on the ground, he was not taking any chances that someone would stumble upon this place and by some freak accident, raise Apocalypse once again.

He got lucky this time, next time he would not be so fortunate.

This thing could not have been killed but he made sure that he was not going to be able to live any time soon.

X-X-X

Harry closed his eyes in pain as he staggered back into the city with Jean, Kitty, Kara, M'gann, Laura, and Rogue waiting for him.

"Everyone got back fine," Harry breathed to them.

"Harry, you should sit down, you look dead on your feet," Kitty said as she bit down on her lip as Gwen joined the rest of the group.

"Look dead, feel like I'm dead, likely sound like I'm dead, but hey….nothing's going to upset me," Harry offered as Kara and Jean held him up and they made their way over to a bench where Harry could sit down. "It's nothing that a warm bath, a good meal, and some relaxation can't fix."

"And sex, let's not forget about the sex," Kitty offered.

Gwen smiled as she chimed in. "Yeah, lots a lot of sex. It's good for healing."

"Well that's been scientifically proven,' M'gann offered to them with a smile on her face and she sat down next to Harry. She had not been in the thick of things as much today.

"Well, I'm not about to argue about that," Harry told them as he leaned back and felt the tension in his joints really escalate. Apocalypse was no picnic.

His eyes were half opene.

"You'll be okay," Kitty said to him and Harry put an arm around her as she rested on one side of him, with Jean on the other, and Kara on his lap. The other girls would get their turn.

"I wish you could have seen me take out that stone statue that tried to attack us," Kara remarked as she smiled.

"Well I'm sure it was pretty amazing," Harry said as he stroked his fingers through the blonde hair of his fellow Kryptonian survivor. Kara smiled.

"Oh, yeah, so totally, completely…."

Wanda magically flicked Kitty in the back of the head causing her to bite her tongue.

"You were warned," Wanda commented in a faux sweet voice as she smiled. "I can't help but think…."

"That it was too easy," Harry offered and Wanda nodded. He figured that it was time for him to get home. "And then there's our two rogue….."

Harry could not finish that sentence because there was a loud whirling sound that could be heard through the air and Harry stood with tension flowing through his body. He heard him in the air above, before he saw him.

'Fuck not now,' Harry mentally groaned.

"MISS ME!"

The Green Goblin appeared, more insane than ever before and pumpkin bombs were hurled.

Jean could sense that Harry was beaten up from the battle so she put up a telekinetic shield and Wanda aimed a hex bolt at the glider causing it to go dead as the electronics were fried and plummet to the ground, but the Goblin aborted his descent by jumping onto another glider that had been brought in by remote control.

"Here, have this!" Green Goblin yelled as he hurled a sphere at Wanda which was causing a sonic vibration that made it feel her head was splitting.

Kara launched herself into the air but the Green Goblin blocked her punch.

"No, you can't…."

"You can't be that strong, well blondie, you'll find that I am that strong!" Green Goblin yelled as he hurled Kara halfway across New York.

Rogue flew interception and caught Kara before she took down the Daily Bugle Communication satellite towers.

M'Gann flew up and tried to attack Norman Osborn, but she was thrown into a billboard with the face of J. Jonah Jameson on it.

Har-Rell watched and he knew that this was his time. He kicked his feet together and blasted, up, up, and away. His arms were extended outwards in front of him as he blasted forwards at Osborn.

Osborn caught his hand with surprising reflexes. Despite the fact every nerve ending of his body felt like they were on fire, Harry had to try and blast his adversary back. His eyes glowed with furious fire as he tried to break the grip the Green Goblin hand on his hand.

"Oh you want to arm wrestle?" Osborn asked but Harry grabbed Osborn and managed to exert enough power.

His right shoulder completely cracked as he slammed Osborn down to the ground. A huge crater could be seen in the middle of New York.

Osborn reached into his bag but Kara rushed in, ripping his goblin bag of tricks away from his hands, which lead to a bit more of an even fight.

At least until Osborn unleashed the heat vision. A bolt of molten hot energy shot from his eyes but Harry dodged it and shot back heat vision of his own, connecting with the beam.

Both beams cancelled each other out and with a slight glimpse with his X-Ray vision as he could sense that Osborn's bone structure had been mutated and it wasn't just because of the goblin formula. There were other things that changed him. He kept his heart pumping against his chest as he kept pushing back and forth.

'Got it, got it, I've got it,' Harry thought as he felt frustration fill his body as he felt his eyes burn but he refused to back off, no matter what. He summoned all of the power that he could.

Wanda blasted Osborn with a hex bolt but he shrugged it off.

"Immune to magic, remember!" Osborn crowed, this was his moment of triumph and Harry smiled as Jean lifted a huge tanker truck off of the ground.

With a mighty swing, she nailed Osborn with it, burying him underneath it before it exploded into an inferno with a roar of sound and fury.

"Is it over?" Kitty asked as she staggered forwards to join them only to see Osborn trying to punch his way free from the flaming wreckage.

"Look, it's Jax-Ur, I think, it could be the other one," Gwen breathed as she got Harry's attention and Harry sighed.

He didn't have time for this but before anyone could make a move, Jax-Ur sped down at super speed.

Harry, Kara, Rogue, Jean, and Kitty could see him at normal speed but things went too fast.

The man dropped down in front of Osborn who'd finally ripped himself out of the constraints that held him.

"Yes, give me that, you've been holding out on me," Osborn stated as he held the crystal into his hand and stabbed it through his arm.

Harry recognized it, about a split second too late. His senses and his reflexes had been dulled by the battle earlier tonight.

Osborn screamed as an energy vortex appeared over the top of him. His eyes glowed with malice as there was a rumbling on the ground beneath him. No matter what, he could not stand on his feet properly.

"What's…."

"Nothing good, nothing good," Harry stammered, he tried not to lose his head he went to move forward but there were a lot of pops that appeared in the sky of New York.

'Har-Rell, we have a problem,' Lara thought to him frantically from the Fortress.

'No kidding,' Harry thought, not meaning to be so short with his Mother but the situation had caused him to become a bit frazzled to be honest. 'I'm seeing multiple energy portals….'

'Oh it's far more serious than that,' Peve chimed in as she sighed. 'I would highly recommend emergency protocol nineteen.'

'We're on the same wavelength,' Harry thought, glad that they did not have to go all the way up to twenty two because he because he was not feeling twenty two. The collateral damage was too immense. That being said, as he prepared to get ready to initiate the plan, rumbling began to occur beneath them.

Osborn was not in his right mind, in fact right now someone else was in his mind. His eyes became cold and lifeless, along with becoming much more focused.

"It's done," Osborn offered as he saw a few dots fly in from the portals that had opened up in the Earth's atmosphere. "The true spirit of Krypton is free, you've waited in stasis for some time but now you can run free and all humanity can kneel before Zod."

Harry went to take one step forward but found that he could not. The other girls were in a similar position.

"Okay, why the hell are we stuck to the ground?" Jean asked as she felt the force of gravity weighing her down.

"I don't know but I don't like this," Wanda stated but much to her dismay, she could not even lift her arms enough to fire off a hex bolt which made the situation more perilous.

'Protocol nineteen, protocol nineteen, do it, do it, do it,' Harry chanted as he tried to push himself up but he only hovered a few inches off the ground.

'It's him, it's Zod,' Kara thought as she tried to reach for Harry but she couldn't quite get to him.

The man who caused so much destruction on their planet was back and it was obvious what the full scope of the device was.

"We have one minute to get out of range, make sure you do," Osborn stated to his followers and they nodded.

Several SHIELD agents moved in and Harry tried to articulate for them to move.

He managed to force his head to turn to the side and used his X-Ray vision, seeing the energy pulses that were erupting from Midtown High and a vortex emerged above them.

With a burst of energy, Harry managed to summon all of the strength that he could and fly as fast as he could.

The vortex of purple energy that flowed out hit him flush but Harry managed to destroy the device before all of New York was sucked into the Phantom Zone.

Harry and his girls, along with a huge portion of SHIELD agents and a handful of bystanders, they were not so lucky.

Coulson dropped down and he looked around. He had been in wars, fought monsters, alien invasions, been the principal of a high school, been given the code name Cheese, but he's never had to deal with anything quite like this.

'Somehow I don't think we're in Tahiti," Coulson stated as he observed his surroundings. "Barton, Romanov, Mimic and Morse, stick with me, we've got to find anyone else who got sucked through."

Barton looked nervous. "Wherever here is."

X-X-X

Nick Fury was not having a good day as he placed his hands on the side of a console in the Triskelion facility.

"All of the equipment is dead, well that's just fucking great!" Fury yelled as he slammed his hands over the console. He tried not to lose his cool.

Fury turned around and saw a female figure approaching. She had medium length dark hair which was tied back into a low ponytail with blue eyes and pouty lips. Her amazing curves were wrapped in a tight black SHIELD uniform and she wore a business like expression on her face.

"Agent Hill, please tell me that you have some good news," Fury said in a tentative tone.

Fury turned around and saw the computers blink to life, giving a loud sound that was worse than nails on a chalkboard. The eagle eyed director of SHIELD kept his eye on it and saw three dots appear.

They formed into an open upside down triangle.

"Well, no sir….all of the technology….every computer in the world, it's been taken down, including SHIELD," Maria told him and Fury turned around to the technicians.

"Take everything and get it back on line yesterday, reboot the systems…."

"I'm afraid I cannot allow that, Commander Fury," a voice stated in a cold electronic monotone and Fury turned in the direction to where it was coming from. "I am the BrainInteractive Construct but you have given me the more primitive name of Brainiac."

Fury had gotten Coulson's report and knew that this was not over even though the Apocalypse incident ranked higher precedence.

"You need better security, Fury," Brainiac offered. "But you won't have a chance to correct that mistake for the true face of Krypton has returned and you're being sentenced to a fate that is far worse than death."

At that exact moment, the doors of the SHIELD facility broke open. They were not in the main Hellicarrier but never the less, they were rather high off of the ground. Fury looked around.

A striking woman with dark hair who stepped through the doors. She had green eyes that burned a hole through Fury and shoulder length dark hair which she wore a helmet over. She wore sleek body armor with a skinsuit underneath that wrapped around her like a second skin.

"Welcome to the future, Commander Fury," she commented lightly. "Your too proud to kneel before General Zod, aren't you?"

"Never," Fury managed as two of the soldiers walked behind him. Fury made a note that this female was the only one among the group that was in fact female.

"So, you're the leader of this planet, are you?" Osborn asked.

"Osborn, have you gone even further off your nut?" Fury asked as he tried to push himself forward but Osborn placed a hand on his chin.

"No, not Osborn, Zod, General Zod, the true face of Krypton," Zod stated as he stared down Fury. Two eyes locked onto one. "You will kneel before me, Nicholas and I may spare your life and that of your followers."

The Agents of SHIELD were grabbed and secured, unable to move from their positions.

Fury had protocols in place in case Potter went rogue that might as well work on Zod but it was a matter of accessing them. With technology virtually crippled, the Hellicarrier might have existed in another dimension.

"Kneel before me Fury, kneel before Zod," Zod stated.

'You're obsession with having other men kneel before you is somewhat unsettling,' Osborn commented to him but his statement was ignored.

The Kryptonians moved in as technology was crippled.

"Time for Phase Four, the birth of New Krypton," Zod said.

X-X-X

"Let it be known that the world is now mine, the world now belongs to General Zod."

In Latveria, Victor Von Doom sat on his throne, hearing this he couldn't help but be angered by these words. The world was his, NO ONE RIVELED DOOM, especially this Zod. He made preparations to defend his borders and destroy this upstart.

X-X-X

"Thor's in Asgard. Arcane, Widow, Mockingbird, and Hawkeye are missing," Wasp stated as she closed her eyes. "And we can't get any reception on these things."

"Working on it," Stark commented, it was only by a miracle that his armor still worked although he made more than a few modifications to it to the point where it had a stronger firewall than SHIELD. How much it would hold up was the question now.

Captain America remained silent, focused, he was ready.

X-X-X

Zemo watched, the Masters of Evil would not yield to someone like this Zod, not without a fight.

X-X-X

Helena Wayne watched from her cave in Gotham City. Karen showed up in a flash of light.

"You should learn how to knock," Helena said to her.

"I know, but this is serious, how committed are you?" Karen asked.

"You should know that I'm committed, the Church always suspected that there were more of them and not all of them were like Har-Rell," Helena stated as she moved over towards a certain area of the cave.

"And you have a contingency plan," Karen told her.

"Always," Helena stated. She just hoped that it would be enough.

X-X-X

Reed Richards frowned, he managed to shield most of his technology from this alien virus although he had his share of problems.

The Fantastic Four were not going to go down without a fight. Saving the world from a huge threat, it was just another Tuesday for them.

X-X-X

Rachel waited, she could sense that most of the group had been sent away. She wanted to see how many of them were out there.

As much as she hated to do this, she had to go to the X-Men, which meant she had to go to Cyclops, and swallow her pride.

She didn't think much of their chances but anything that gave them a fighting chance.

X-X-X

Osborn appeared outside the church with Zod in the driver's seat and saw the huge statue of Har-Rell before him.

"Well, he's magnificent," the female said as she eyed the statue in an appraising manner and wondered what the real thing would be like.

"It's underwhelming," Zod remarked to her dryly not seeming to have heard her slip of the tongue. "Faora, keep watch, I want you to ensure that no one gets in my way as I burn this house of lies to the ground."

Zod prepared to burn the church of Enlightenment to the ground, he would build a statue of himself ten times as magnificent over the ashes that all would kneel before.

With the last son of Krypton in the Phantom Zone, nothing could stop him now. He used his heat vision to set the Church on fire and smiled.

Fury and SHIELD, they were out of the way, imprisoned. The only person who could threaten him was trapped in the Phantom Zone forever.

To Be Continued in Book Three on December 9th 2013.