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Harkon stood alongside Ms. Minutes as she, along with the six villains she brought along aboard the ship were interacting with the others.
Dr. Halsey proceeded to talk with Ivan Vanko about their scientific knowledge.
“Impressive so you were able to make an army of drones and electric made whips”
Ivan taking the woman's compliment “I'm still impressed of your work Madame, in that sense that you were able to make super soldiers that would make my world fear”
The Handler soon went up to Sharon.
“I find it interesting out of all these Gods, monsters, witches and sorcerers you and you're just a mere human” she took a cigarette out of her mouth.
“Oh trust me, I may be just a mere human, but I come from a family line of skilled agents I could take down any men half my size, if I wanted to, If there's someone Harkon, The Scarlet Witch or any of our magical friends here don't feel like wasting their time with, I'll be happy to deal with whoever that is” Sharon gave the woman a smile back at her. “Hey if you don't mind, mine if I have a smoke”
The Handler took out another cigarette from her purchase and handed it to her. Sharon took out a lighter that she kept with her for reasons she never really explained to people as she lit the cigarette and took a whim of it. Honestly The two women were already enjoying the company together despite the shortness of it.
“So you're a talking dummy,” Pythor said as he looked at Slappy with interest.
“And you're a talking snake, what's the point?” Slappy responded back.
Malkith and Vecna were talking about why killing life meant so much to them. Honestly everyone else kind of stayed away from their conversation. Though Ego did show signs of interest in their conversation a little.
Wanda, Hela and Loki talked a little. As Loki explained his history and them understanding that this Loki was from a different world than theirs.
“So in your timeline you killed Thor?” Hela said in a surprising tone.
Loki smiled “yep, form my understanding the Loki you met didn't have it in him and became weak, what a shame i would have tried to kill other me too, in fact I'm actually looking for another version of me who I think is a disgrace to the Loki name, that's why I joined Ms. Minutes, got to remind the Multiverse who the true Loki is, if you get my gist, that's why i want to join Harkon 's cause ”
“Well welcome, to the Multiverse Empire, from how you describe yourself, your fit right at home here” The Scarlet Witch gave a dark smile to Loki as she greeted a version of the Avengers first enemy among their ranks.
“And you're a former Avenger, I guess playing a hero gets boring doesn't it?” Loki smiled back.
“The Avengers may of been heroes, but they abandoned me when i need them the most, but thanks to Harkon I now realize my true propose in the Multiverse is far greater than I could other imagine”
“Well, looks like we both want to to tear and reshape the Multiverse don't we now” Loki and Wanda soon gave a handshake to each other as their understanding of each other was cleared. Through the newfound empire, they would bring fear across the Multiverse as realities itself would now beware their fury that had been held for so long.
Negan went up to Obidah. “So you look like a guy who's got a story to tell”
Obidah “let's just say thanks to a certain death goddess I got a second shot of living”
“You know where I'm from, the dead coming back usually meant you were lunch to them, but you look less like you want to eat someone flesh and more of getting what you want, got respect that” Negan and Obidah proceeded to talk more.
Harkon and Ms. Minutes talked amongst themselves.
“Where did you get these allies?” Harkon asked the robotic woman
“Well it's simple, After the TVA got a change in management and those fools thought they destroyed my code. I took that Loki you see there after he ended up at TVA and went sightseeing throughout the Multiverse, I spent too long serving the same person. I want the Multiverse to change in a way that no one has seen before, me and Ravonna had decided enough of He Who Remains and it was about time we took charge, unfortunately two Loki variants got the best of us or at least Ravonna, she would have loved what you were doing here. But what I dreamed with her, I can make a reality with you and your empire” she turned to Harkon directly “You even have the Scarlet Witch by your side, that's impressive, there's another who also did a similar thing as well, but that’s another story for another time, honestly i can't blame you guys, the Scarlet Witch is very powerful no matter the timeline, it's good not to let that power go to waste and to use it for conquests like these ”
“What are you yammering about?” Harkon gave Minutes a look after her last two sentences.
“Oh noting, just going on to myself, but let's discuss your goals, are you really going to different universes just to destroy or are there more to this in general, i’m only asking this question to fully understand how you want to do things here”
Harkon looked at her, most of his mission here, was clear since he made that spell that summoned his first six generals, he didn't just want to cause destruction where he went yes it did serve a purpose for his first two conquests but merely to test the strength and weaknesses of his new empire and enemies that come forth.
“My plan is destruction, yes that is true, some would say there's no reason for it, perhaps some of it is true, but for me I plan to destroy and form the ashes will build something new that is my empire’s destiny. Along the way I hope the members of my empire can also fulfill their own ambitions but as long as they are loyal to this empire I personally have no issue since if I am allowed to follow mine then why not there's”
After his speech to her. Ms. Minutes looked in agreement “So what exactly is your plan at the moment?”
“expansion, we already have a big number as it is, but we need to continue to grow, only so we can show why we are an empire to be feared with”
Harkon proceeds to get the room’s attention as all the members soon silence up to listen to their leader speak “I believe now, that we have plenty of members, I believe we should finally be able to start expanding more properly, I believe going forward some of us shall split into missions and find those that suit our cause, now this is not me saying we won't continue to show our might like we did before, we will but I find not every universe is worthy for destruction automatically, as some universes could serve our purposes and come in handy for our goals later on and there's always the possibility of potentially skipping possible future members, so I believe it would be good to save some worlds for possible future members”
The Scarlet Witch soon spoke up as she had talked with Harkon about this earlier ”Would you still like me and Agatha to be the first of this expansion project?”
“Yes, this will still be the plan, but I do feel like we should let one of our new members to go as well and test themselves, so I'm willing to have two missions go at the same time. Who wants to take part in the second?” Harkon looked to see if there were any takers.
“I would love to see what other worlds have beings that you say who would fit our cause” everyone turned to see that it was Slappy the dummy one of the villains Ms. Minutes had brought with her.
“Let's just say I would love to go to a world and find new members who could give people what you say… Goosebumps” the dummy proceeded to have a smile on his face.
“Very well, Plankton will go with you” Harkon soon points to Plankton who proceeds to have a look of shock since he didn't ask to go on an expansion mission.
“But I didn't offer to go, unlike the Scarlet Witch who did earlier?”
“I wouldn't argue with this if I was you, remember what I told you Plankton, you must be willing to show loyalty to our cause in order for me to support you on your personal goals” Harkon gave Plankton a stern look. The room could feel the dark nature of the shadow monster they served could be felt throughout the entire room. All eyes were on plankton and Harkon. Plankton could feel it, he even saw Wanda and Dodge give him a look of uncertainty as they did grow to accept Plankton's presence since they were first recruited by Harkon to serve as his top generals and hoped that their small but ambitious colleague remember what they agreed with when first pledging their loyalty to the being that was staring down plankton.
“May I remind you Plankton, I don't even have to end you, when I found you were in prisoned due to what was his name I believe you said he was yellow, I would like to think you wouldn't want to be sent back would you?” Plankton knew automatically what Harkon was doing and as he had told him, being imprisoned by someone he considered beneath him was a fate he considered far worse than death.
“Fine I'll go with the puppet, it better not be a waste of time!” Plankton gave into Harkon’s request as he looked at all the other villains who stared at him. They all eased up as the tense situation cooled down. Wanda and Dodge gave looks to each other that indicated they were glad that the situation ended in the way it did. As they probably wouldn't admit it to others, but they had grown fond of Plankton.
“I would like to Wanda and Agatha on their mission” Dodge responded as she stood alongside Wanda and Agatha.
“As so would I” Kaecillius spoke up.
“Honestly I won't lie, it would be nice to get to know you better” Agatha turned to the sorcerer after all you helped us with destroying the Sanctum sanctuary and those sorcerers, it would be nice to get to know you better, especially as we travel across different realities, don't you say”
“I agree with Ms. Harkness, it would be nice to serve alongside three powerful beings as yourself,” he said as he got along with the three women.
“Flattering will only get you this fall my friend, but thanks” Dodge responded to the sorcerer counting her as powerful next to Wanda and Agatha.
“Very well than you four will go to through this portal than” as a portal soon appeared next to them “I sense some beings there with great darkness for our cause” Harkon soon turned to Plankton and Slappy as another portal appeared for the two “Good luck on your missions, Make Sure to spread the fear of our empire, do not fail me”
Wanda turned before she entered the portal”We won't, you have my word” as she, Agatha, Dodge and Kaecillius soon entered their portal. As Plankton and Slappy did the same.
As the four entered their portal, they soon took their suranderings to the new world they had entered. Wanda saw the sign that read welcome to Glendale California , but something was off, as if the world around looked like it had gone to hell about them.
“What world did we enter into” Agatha looked at the sky, as she saw weird clouds but the sun was still out somewhat.
“It looks like destruction has already hit this world, do you think Harkon will be disappointed by this?” Dodge's question was almost ignored. When Wanda saw someone in the distance coming towards them.
It was a man but his skin looked almost greenish and he kept repeating the same sentence over and over again “The first movie was better” “The first movie was better” as he went up to Wanda he tried to bite her but fortunately for Wanda being the Scarlet Witch she proceeded to make a shield around the man so he wouldn't be able to attack her or the other three.
“Is that a zombie, but why is he repeating himself, seriously what is this world?” Agatha started to get a little freak out wondering why Harkon would send them to this world.
Wanda proceeded to enter the mind of the zombified man and saw his memories both in his zombie state and his previous life. While looking at his recent memories she saw a boy no later than a teenager with a sword who almost decapitated this very zombie and even heard the word as he cut them down with it and before that a bomb of shorts hitting ground and people panicking.
“Interesting, apparently in this world, a bomb apparently went off causing form what I can tell the entire adult population to turn into zombies that are called ghoulies by the survivors who are all teens” Wanda explained what she saw in the goulie’s head before letting said goulie free from the forcefield and proceeding to use her chaos magic to decapitate it.
“So we landed in a teenage wasteland, great!, well lucky for you this key demon here, spent quite a bit of time in high school disguised as a teen” Dodge soon went up to Wanda.
“But I do wonder what could Harkon have sense here, doubt it was just brain dead zombies or is he expecting us to bring in child soldiers to his cause, if so he's more wicked than I originally expected” Dodge proceeded to give an evil grin.
Wanda turned around to Dodge “I don't think we're here to recruit child soldiers, there's something I'm feeling here and I think Harkon does too, but I can't put my finger on it”
The four proceeded to walk to the town more, as they slayed more ghoulies along the way.
They soon saw a child running from his life. The kid had to be no more than 13 at least as the kid saw four adults he soon became confused since said adults looked nothing like the others who were now ghoulies. The child quickly fell to the ground as the Scarlet Witch soon went up to him. The boy looked in terror as the woman in red stared at him. Wanda could tell it she wasn't the only thing the boy was afraid of. The child looked in terror as seeing an adult these days meant you were going to be snuck. But Wanda obviously not from this world and not a goulie wasn't looking at the boy as food. Wanda soon had memories of Billy and Tommy and the life she so desperately seeked before Harkon found her, before the empire. She quickly brushed those memories aside as she and the others were here for one thing and that was to find those who were deemed worthy for their empire.
Wanda quickly pulled the boy up and gave him a look of authority. “Who Is after you” she gave such a cold tone as she demanded the boy respond to this question. The other three looked from behind her.
“Baron Triumph!!” As the boy responded the four villains then proceeded to hear a motorcycle coming the way the boy ran from. It looked to be someone wearing an old gas mask and armor of sorts. The boy quickly ran past them in fear.
The armored man stopped his motorcycle as he was too shocked by what he was seeing, similar to the boy, four adults with clear signs of intelligence.
“It can't be!” The man almost forgot his pursuit as he now had questions that he needed to know.
Dodge spoke up “so your this Baron Triumph, that kid was running from?”
“Yes, but who are you all? How did you not become infected?”
The man took off his helmet, something he barely did in public. Revealing his face which showed that of a man no later in his 40s or 50s with a beard.
“Plot twist, I love it already!” Agatha yelled
“Interesting, your the first adult we've seen here, who isn't a brainless repeating zombie, perhaps we should find a place more private for us to discuss”
The four soon followed the man back to his home that was a pie factory. As soon as they entered they saw teens that looked to be from different nationals chained and hooked being forced to eat cereal.
The man soon took them somewheres private in the factory and said “I can't believe grown adults that aren't ghoulies are you like me as well?”
“What do you mean like you, aren't you still human?” Kaecillius responding a general question as the man’s question caught him off guard.
“Yes and no, you see my name is Michael Barr and I was once the principal of Glendale high, during the night of our homecoming game when the bombs dropped I went to hide in the bomb shelter that school had form the old days and it seemed because of the old laid paint I was able to be immune to out of the side effects that it had on the other adults, you see I may not be a repeating mindless drone, but the radiation did infect me in someway, I'm not fully human but I'm fully like the other adults now, I still crave.”
“Flesh” Dodge took a sit in a chair
“Yes, though I don't seem to be interested in eating you four, maybe it’s just traction to children, but you seem surprised are you not experiencing any goulie symptoms?” Barr was generally confused by the four visitors he had in his factory.
“Probably because we're not form this world, my dear” Agatha soon gave a mischievous smile
“What?” Barr gave a look of confusion.
Wanda soon went towards him “You see three of us are fo the same world except her” Wanda pointed at Dodge “she's form a different one, but nonetheless we come from an an ever growing empire that sets itself for conquest that no one has seen before, our leader is a dark powerful being who wants us to expend as much as possible, that's why we're here to find those who have the ambitions that fit our empire and our conquest”
Barr gave a confused look “What!!”
Wanda soon ignored”how about I just show you” as she puts her hands against his head showing him the visions of the destruction of her world and universe, the death of the Avengers, The death of the Justice League, the death of the Green Lanterns corps the members of the empire so far and finally Harkon the shadow being that they served and the leader of the Multiverse Empire”
Barr had a look of interest with his visions as if he saw something that could be useful for him.
Dodge got up from the chair “What you just saw is an force to be reckoned with, you see our leader believes in beings with enough darkness and hate in their hearts are worthy for our conquest and form what you were describing before sounds like you might be a somebody that fits that”
Agatha ”Wanda you were in his head, what did you see”
Wanda took a moment to respond as when she was showing Barr the visions of the empire, she saw some of his such as the children he murdered and ate. As if a brief glimpse of humanity snuck in when she wasn't looking. Wanda soon thought back to her children and the idea that if she still had them they would currently be on Barr’s menu and she would have done everything in power quite literally would have not only stopped him, but made sure the monster would never hurt another kid again. But like a switch Wanda quickly brushed it aside and had to remind herself that's not who she is anymore and that Harkon sent them here to recruit and expand the empire.
“Sorry got lost in my thoughts for a second, yes I believe this man is exactly who we were sent for”
Kaecillius gave a look towards Barr “So Mister. Barr or should I say Baron Triumph, you have seen the power we and our emperor possessed and it seems you are worthy for our cause, how would you like to be part of something greater”
Barr looked at his helmet “You know I got to admit other sense, that bomb hit and it turned me into what I am, I been liking it alot, see before everything happened with the apocalypse, my life was pathetic, I was principal of a high school, that mostly had dumb kids, who didn’t even treat me with respect, I learned that kids are assholes, since becoming Baron Triumph I have become feared even the most powerful tribe that these teens have made are scared of me. You see that bomb didn't just changed me in the sense of wanting to eat children, but I can survive swords, even axes through the chest without any effect on me, my strength has double too and I have learned throughout the mouths that being feared is where it's at and form what your friend showed me over there, when I first saw you four i knew there was a story to be told, something dark as mine and i wasn’t wrong, in this world or any other it seems those of us who are willing to take what is rightfully ours” Barr proceeds to look at Wanda who gives him a slight look back. “I can be even more respected and feared joining you guys, not even just kids will be afraid of me but also other adults, your boss sounds like someone who would give me the proper respect I deserve if I join your cause” the villains looked in almost shocked as the man had such coldness, yet sincere look in his voice, his eyes of a true sociopath compare to earlier where the man looked shaken and confused of their very presence. It almost made one wonder if his sincere and confused posture before were just an act to test the four strange visitors he had found to understand them before revealing his true cold nature.
Dodge walked up to the man giving her biggest death stare “So you're in?”
Barr looked at the key demon with a smile that indicated he wasn't afraid of who stood in front of him, but was happy to find those with similar views and mindsets as him “Oh I'm in, first the bomb and now this, life really has gone my way lately” as he shook her hand with a look of certainty.
Wanda soon spoke up “Welcome Baron Triumph to the Multiverse Empire” Wanda greeted the once principal into their conquest. Despite earlier Wanda tries to quickly regain her commanding presence among the other villains “So than now that we have found you, we must find another who according to Harkon was worthy for us, but who else is there on this world that you know of that fits our criteria”
“Well the only people, I can think of our two or three teens I know, but I'm sure your emperor wants someone useful” Barr tried to think.
As the villains were about search more of this world, Dodge proceeded to speak up “I saw a mall not far from here, I was curious about picking up another black dress, with going across Multiverse, it really made me want to try different outfits again back when I had the everywhere key”
“Everywhere key?” Barr looked in confusion
“She had some keys back in her Earth dimension, that granted the user some abilities” Agatha explained.
“Very well after we stop at the mall, we shall continue her mission” Wanda soon made a portal to the the closest mall “very well this better be quick!” As they all entered the portal.
Meanwhile,
Plankton and Slappy while coming out of a portal found themselves near a spooky looking house, it was a creepy looking place at least for Plankton. But for Slappy it looks like a vacation home.
Well wouldn't you say this place looks homsey or what haaaa!!” Slappy proceeded to laugh as he was about to enter.
Plankton looked creeped out “I don't know this place looks very unsettling, why would Harkon send us here, who would possibly want to join us here?”
Slappy turns to plankton”oh is someone a chicken?”
Plankton getting ignored at the dummy”don't call me chicken, you piece of wood!”
“Hey man I'm sorry you want to go in first” Slappy steps aside as he puts his arms out gesturing for Plankton to go inside.
Plankton, deciding not to be seen as weak, decided to go through with it “fine!”
As he went into the building Slappy soon followed “Hello is anyone home?” Plankton asked
He proceeded to look and saw a wheel of choices and options almost like a game show.
“What is this place?” Plankton said to himself only to get a response that not only spooked him because it came out of nowhere, but also because it wasn't slappy’s voice but a woman's voice.
“It's your lucky choice” A woman soon appeared with red hair and was wearing a green dress. She was quite the attractive woman but something was off about her.
Slappy soon made his presence known “and who might you be?
“I’m Lady Luck and I love to play games” she smiled sadistically “and you two are quite the odd pair I might add, you two seemed to be searching for something”
“Well, our boss is looking to expand his empire to cut with the chase and what we are looking for is someone who is evil and powerful and worthy for his cause,” Plankton explained, trying not to be afraid of this admittedly creepy woman.
“Evil and powerful, then you come to the right place. Perhaps your emperor would fine me useful as you see people's bad luck is my good luck and I can only imagine what a dark and twisted things I could help him with so to speak”
“You know a human woman like yourself would freak out seeing two beings like us roaming here?”
“Who said I was human?” She smiled sinister
Back in Glendale Mall.
As the five entered form the portal
“So this is what magic feels like amazing!” Barr chuckled to himself.
“So I was wondering since I’m with you guys now, please describe some of those members I saw in that vision she showed me?” Barr looked at Agatha
“Honestly we got some great members so far, quite the diverse group you could say, a former Kryptonian general, A fire controlling sorceress snake, a death goddess, a living planet, a sorcerer dictator, a talking dummy and little green one genius, a talking caterpillar and we only hope to extend further down the line form there”
Wanda soon looked and she noticed someone roaming in one of the Clarence stores, she observed only to find a woman with messy black hair and a black dress almost similar to Dodge but slightly more puffy. The woman looked to me Hispanic descent and was currently rampaging the store looking for something. Almost as the woman could sense someone was behind, she turned around seeing the Scarlet Witch currently staring at her.
“Hello strange red lady, who are you?” The woman looked at Wanda with curiosity. To say Wanda didn't find this woman a bit odd was an understatement, but not only was she the second adult they found in this world who didn't say the same sentence over and over again. That wasn't really saying much, but the woman definitely seemed like she had loose screws just by the way she was acting in general.
Agatha and Barr soon followed where Wanda had gone and soon saw Wanda looking at the mysterious woman. Barr automatically recognized the woman instantly as if he saw a ghost “Crumble?”
“You know this woman?” The Scarlet Witch turned to him as her interest peaked a little bit more.
“You could say we had a thing going on for a while,” he responded.
Crumble soon got up as she observed the man a little, he came off familiar yet at the same time she couldn't put her finger on it. “Do I know you?” Crumble started to have an uneasy feeling towards the man for reasons she couldn't explain.
“Hmmm she doesn't seem to recognize you, through judging by her appearance, she seems to be somewhat mentally nuts” Agatha could tell after looking at the woman for not nearly 2 minutes that the woman wasn't mentally there too much not even Harley was this nuts as this woman was showing eve more signs of craziness.
Wanda was curious about this woman as she felt she must have similar changes as Barr did for her to be alive still Wanda was curious “who are you?”
Crumble looked at the Scarlet Witch “I'm a witch, I can even turn into mist!”
Wanda gave an odd look as she wasn't sure whether the woman’s claims were serious or not “Oh really? A witch is that correct?”
“Yep, Who might you guys be, I have been curious since ending up here, I've only seen one person and that's the boy who lives here” Crumble proceeded to go through a pocket book she found.
Wanda quickly wondered what boy the woman was referring too until she heard a voice that wasn't any of her fellow empire members
“Yo what the hell is this, a bunch of ghoulies with brains” it was a boy who seemed to be Armenian and maybe 16.
Agatha quickly responded “well I guess we found that boy she was referring too, what do want to do with him, Wanda”.
Wanda quickly looked at the kid “ So are you the boy she’s referring to living here?”
“Yes I am Eli Cardisan and I’m……. Principal Barr?” The boy looked in shock seeing his former principal not only in the mall but not a mindless repeating goulie and wearing Baron Triumph’s outfit “What the hell is this!!?”
Wanda soon came up with an agreement”listen kid, how about I offer you this, you never tell anyone what you saw here today and we can take this woman off your hands and how would you like to be the one to know that your boogie man here” She proceeded to point to Barr “won’t be bothering this place again”
The boy took the mysterious woman's words to think “how about yes! I already dress up as him to scare off any turds who get too close to my mall, fucking hell woman got yourself a deal”
He shook Wanda’s hands
“hey wherever you came from could you help me get my magical cards, that would also help the deal”
“How about no, just be happy we haven't ended you and will leave this place intact” Wanda proceeded to turn her back away from him
“Fine, I'll get those cards one day even if it kills me” he said to himself.
As Dodge soon appeared with a bag “okay I'm ready to go, did you guys make a new friend, two new friends?, Dodge gave a questionable look to Agatha and Kaecillius.
Wanda “I believe a new recruit, sure she's a little bit crazy, but I think she might be useful if she's anything like Barr” Wanda proceeded to make a portal as the four along with their two new empire members proceeded to enter it.
Meanwhile,
Lady Lucky proceeded to give Plankton and Slappy a run down of who she is and all the countless atrocities she has helped commit since the age of men.
“As you see your emperor makes me curious, I want to be a part of this Multiversal conquest, to spread as much bad luck as possible and to do that across realities itself, thrills me. Your emperor is definitely a being who gets that, you see mankind is meant to make mistakes with bad luck, the order of balance is a lie and I feel many should understand that, a world full of bad luck is good luck for those of us who see that” Lady Lucky proceeded to grab popcorn.
“So you're coming with us and bringing a snack” Plankton looked at the woman with a confused look.
“Oh no my little green friend this isn't for eating, it was something i picked up from the 1980s, there was a incident that involved alien species that landed in a small town oh the bad luck was just too much for me not to enjoy there, anyways the species were unfortunately defeated, but I was able to save some of their souls in these pieces of popcorn they arrived with, saving it for a special occasion and now I think it is time for them to have fun once again” as she through them on the ground smoke soon appeared in front of them revealing the species known as the Klowns: Jumbo, Fatso, Shorty, Rudy, Spike, Slim, Bibbo and Chubby soon appeared.
Plankton had a look of disbelief “there clowns literally clowns”
“Oh yes they are, are you ready boys for a new journey to see a new master” Lady Luck stood in front of the Klowns.
The Klowns started laughing on earth in excitement for their new conquest.
The portal soon opened
Slappy gave a giant smile to the woman “well my lady, after you are emperor will definitely love you from what I've seen tonight. Slappy, Lady Luck and the Klowns soon entered the portal leaving Plankton the last “the things I do for conquest, haaaa!” As he jumped into the Portal.