Annihilation: The Prologue (Finale)
''Speak''
'Thought'
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Bram rushed forward again, closing in the distance between him and Jean in a matter of seconds; Jean had no time to put up her shield and was immediately punched right in the face by Bram. The moment she got hit, Bram didn't let the chance to continue his blown go and tried to kill Jean right then and there.
But to Bram's disappointment, Jean was able to fly away to make some distance between her and Bram.
However, the moment she moves, someone appears right behind her, and that someone who is none other than Mary, who seems right behind Jean in mid-air, and in her hand is a ball of condensed electricity that hold so much energy that it starts to distorted space by a little.
'How did she-?!" Before Jean could finish her thought, Mary put the ball of electricity right in front of Jean's face and blasted it off at close range, creating a massive beam of blue light that seemed to light up the entire area that was starting to get dark, like it was a new dawn.
But with her ever-growing power, her shield was up before she got a blast, but the explosion was strong enough to instantly break her shield and burn her face by a little. Jean, missing an arm and now with a burn on her face, can only look at Mary with anger, with her power getting even more powerful.
How did Mary get up there in the air? The answer is simple.
It was Ryu who threw her up into the air by using Rashomon. After all, Rashomon is the power of clothing manipulation, and even with Bram using it, it doesn't mean Ryu can't use it while Bram is using it.
With Mary charging her attack while Jean is distracted, all they need to do is for Bram to make a quick opening for an attack, and when that moment comes, they immediately act.
But now Mary is in the air, with no way to dodge Jean; she has become an easy target for Jean, and Jean knows this, that is why she immediately extended her hand, and a ball of orange energy started to gather in her palm, something that she wasn't able to do it before.
Still, now she can because of her ever-growing power from the Phoenix Force. Even with only half of the Phoenix Force, it is still enough to kill someone like Mary.
However, instead of panicking in the face of her death, Mary did not, and she only smiled as if knowing what would happen next.
In the next moment, before Jean's blast goes off, something appears to start to wrap itself around Mary, and that is Rashomon, who moves from Bram to Mary and wraps itself around Mary, protecting her.
Rashomon quickly protected the moment the blast went off, and Mary and Jean could only look at it with irritation.
But that is not all; after the blast stop, Mary disappears and reappears on the ground due to Rashomon's ability. The next thing Jean knows is Rashomon moving up into the sky again before equipping itself with Bram, who is falling.
As if knowing what comes next, Jean turns her attention toward Bram, cracking with even more electricity than before.
This is because the blast of electricity Mary shoot, while certainly aimed at Jean, someone else was also standing behind Mary back then, and that is, of course, Bram himself, who immediately got charged by the blast, making him have more electricity to dispel.
With even more charge, Bram's body is now even more powerful and becomes even faster. With it, using Rashomon to devour space, Bram now appears right in front of Jean in an instant. Jean grit her teeth through all the pain and try to use her power to finish Bram for good; however...
At that moment, something pierces Jean in the stomach from below and causes her to cough out some blood, and when she looks down, she now sees Rashomon, who is now colour white because of Ryu's current clothing piercing her from below.
Mary, also below, grabs hold of Rashomon. With a massive burst of energy, she sends electricity through Rashomon, shocking Jean from inside out, stunting her and making her fully open for Bram, who s still in the air.
"This is your end, woman," Bram said while grabbing onto Jean's face with his hand and holding onto Rashomon, which pierced Jean.
[Rashomon: Dracula-Frankenstein: Sehnsucht]
A Bram discharge all of the electricity inside his body in one single moment, enhancing it with Rashomon's destructiveness, creating a massive pillar of red light that destroys everything inside that pillar.
After a few moments, the massive red pillar disappears, and what is left of it is an enormous hole on the ground with nothing left of the area or the castle. Up in the sky and the massive hole, there is a figure seemingly wrapped itself into a cocoon-like stage, one black and one white, which is, of course, none other than Bram, Mary and Ryu, who covered themself in Rashomon to protect themself from the blast.
Coming out of the cocoon, Bram landed safely on the ground while Ryu and Mary came out.
"That was quite excessive, don't you think?" Ryu asks, looking around the destroyed area.
"Oh please, excessive? Do you know how powerful that woman is? She only fights us for a few minutes, yet her power escalates to that point; imagine how powerful she would be if the fight continued." Mary explains, "Well, at least she and that blue woman that unconscious down here is now dead."
"Doctor." Bram said, getting Ryu and Mary's attention, "That woman, the one we were fighting, I think she might survive."
"What?! How would that even be possible? That kind of attack would kill anything!" Mary exclaim
"Well, when the attack starts before it can finish, she seemingly teleports away from the attack. To where she goes, I did not know." Bram explain
"Oh great, that psychotic woman still alive? Isn't that great?" Mary said sarcastically, "But we can be worried about that later. We should be worried because we are now entirely homeless, and staying here would probably be a bad idea considering what we just did. We need a new place to live, and that is not this city or even country."
"You are worrying too much, doctor." Someone said, causing all three to turn toward the direction of the voice.
It was the werewolf from before holding a severed head Beast. "That was quite a fine show you put; I must admit."
"Why are you here, Endore?" Ask Bram
"Oh, what? Am I not welcome?" The werewolf asks before throwing the head away.
"Actually... About us getting out of here, I have an idea. I might have a way to get us out of here." Ryu said after being quiet while thinking about something.
"Oh really, but how?" Mary ask
Ryu properly starts to explain how to get out of here.
~Somewhere else~
In a pitch black where there is seemingly no life, nor light, composed of asteroids and stars, with there appearance seems to be more alien than the usual stars that human knows of.
Despite having no light, the area can be seen clearly, and the only living thing that can be seen is aliens that look like bugs of various sizes; they are so many that they look like an army of bugs.
At the centre of it is a platform with a single throne, and sitting on the throne is a single being.
This single being seems to be a humanoid insect wearing armour with the colour scheme of green and purple with bright yellow eyes; at the same, the armour also looks more organic than metallic. Behind this being is a bat-like wing with dark green colour. On its chest is a capsule-like object seemingly stuck on the being's body.
The being sat on the thrones while seemingly staring at the endless space before it before suddenly a bright orange light appeared in front of the being, gaining its attention.
With both arms missing, most of her body burned, and she was on the verge of death. However, her body starts to heal rapidly, and her arms begin to grow with her body glowing orange light. Appearing out of the orange light is none other than an unconscious Jean Grey herself.
The attention is immediately on Jean, seeing how her body starts to heal, and with a speed that should not be possible, he moves instantly from his throne and grabs hold of the unconscious woman's head.
"This power..." The being mutters, "The power of the Phoenix Force."
The being said, and with one of its hands, the being started to crush Jean's head with a single hand.
"It seems that you were trying to escape from whoever you were fighting with, and when you try to run away, you somehow make a mistake instead and end up here. Not that I'm complaining." The being said, while crushing Jean's head, "The power of immortality will be mine."
However, before her head got crushed, her eyes suddenly opened with orange light before looking at the being in front of her. With a scream, it tries to push away the being with all of its power left, however...
"Foolish bird, with your current host state and power, you stand no chance against me-!!" That being said, before grabbing the capsule-like object on its chest that seemingly transformed into a yellow rod.
With that said, the rod starts to glow bright before stabbing it right into Jean's stomach, causing her to scream in pain, and the orange light starts to travel from Jean's body before entering the being's body.
Finally, after a couple of minutes, the orange light disappeared, and now the eyes glow orange instead of yellow.
Pulling the yellow and putting it back to his chest, the being tossed Jean's body away like a ragdoll before suddenly bugs started to fly and swarm Jean. All of them begin to eat Jean's body right then and there. Some even pull a body part out of Jean and fly away, while some grab her head and throw it around like a volleyball.
It was only a couple of seconds of bugs feasting on Jean's body, leaving nothing left, not even her bones. The only thing left is her blood.
The being not caring about what happened to Jean's body only stand there before talking to himself.
"I can see it, even if it's a glimpse. The other half of the Phoenix Force is going to that blue planet..." That being said, before turning around toward the numerous bugs around the area. "With the other half, I shall be complete!"
"With this power, travelling to that place would be child play!!" That said, before continuing, "It's time to show that universe my absolute power!!"
"It is time to show them the power of the mighty Annihilus!!"
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A/N
So, that's the end of this arc, but as you can tell, this is only a prologue to what will come next.
Annihilus with Phoenix Force... You can take a guess how powerful he is right now.
If you cannot tell by now, this will not be following the MCU timeline or any timeline; it will be my little idea of the Marvel universe. After all, nearly all of the X-men are dead.
I wonder how Magneto will react to this?
As for what happened to the monster, it's obvious that it is still alive, and I have a very big plan for it in the far future.
And don't worry, I plan to add more Marvel characters I like in the future so that you can look forward to that.
The combination of Bram's power, Mary's power and Ryu's power were inspired by that one time Akutagawa and Atushi combined their power to fight Ivan.
Also, I was planning to have Blade and Ghost Rider appear in this arc but decide not to.
Will they appear in the future? Maybe
Also, I will take a break for a few days because I want to stock up on my P a t r e o n chapter to have at least ten chapters ahead.
Some of you may think that you need a different tier to unlock X amount of chapters; I decided that I will have only one P a t r e o n tier, the cheapest one, so anyone who wants to support doesn't need to spend their fortune just to read fanfiction. After ten chapters are ahead, I will continue posting on Webnovel, so you don't have to worry about that; it won't be that long.
That is all I want to say; ciao ~