American Comics: Multiverse of Madness

Unremarkable New York City.

In a dark alley, a purple portal appeared out of nowhere, attracting no one's attention.

"I guess Pietro's complaints were genuine. Can't we pick a better spot for these portals, ma'am? It's always next to a dumpster."

Stepping out of the portal and catching a whiff of the foul stench, Alex shook his head in exasperation.

[Apologies, sir. Based on calculations, this is the safest and least conspicuous location. Of course, if you prefer a different approach, next time I could drop you in the middle of Main Street.]

"Main Street?"

Alex imagined stepping out of a portal straight onto Main Street, making the front page of the local papers almost instantly. And with that, a horde of trouble would surely follow.

Just the thought made Alex wave his hands dismissively.

"No, thanks. The dumpster's fine. Sure, the smell's awful, but, damn it, I'm used to it by now."

[Actually, the smell you're noticing is likely not coming from the dumpster.]

Miss Minutes frowned slightly, pressing her fingers together thoughtfully.

[I suggest you step outside. What's happening outside might be worse than you expected.]

Hearing this, Alex's previously relaxed expression turned serious. His eyes sharpened, and he seemed to have realized something as he began walking toward the alley's exit.

Moving cautiously to the alley's edge, Alex leaned against the wall and carefully peeked out. As expected, the scene before him could only be described as hell on Earth.

The once-bustling street was now littered with severed limbs and mangled bodies. Blood covered the ground, flowing into the sewers through the grates.

On the sidewalk, a few decapitated heads stared lifelessly in Alex's direction, their bodies torn apart and stripped to bare bones, as if mauled by wild beasts.

"In my past life, this might've been the kind of thing I'd watch while eating. But now… I don't think I can stomach it."

Even someone like Alex, who had seen his fair share of death, was sickened by the scene. Killing was one thing, but cannibalism was another entirely. The sight made his scalp tingle.

Looking up at the overcast sky, Alex realized that the disaster had already begun—or rather, had been ongoing.

Pink lightning crackled across the New York sky as zombie sentinels descended with overwhelming force, infecting most of the Avengers who had rushed to confront them.

As Alex pondered the situation, he suddenly heard footsteps approaching from behind.

Spinning around quickly, he saw a grotesque zombie slowly making its way toward him.

The zombie was a woman dressed in a large mascot costume, likely an employee at a restaurant. The biohazard outbreak must have been so sudden that she couldn't escape and ended up infected.

Her left ankle was completely severed, leaving only a bone to support her, limiting her movement to a slow, shuffling gait as she made her way toward Alex.

"...Meat… Fresh meat… Please, just let me take a bite…"

"Sorry, but begging won't work. Even if you got down on your knees, there's no way I'd let you take a bite," Alex replied, crossing his arms in exasperation.

Unlike most zombie outbreaks he'd seen in movies in his past life, this plague was far stranger. Those infected still retained their memories and personalities to some extent—and they could even talk.

[This situation defies all logic. Neither science nor magic can explain this.]

Miss Minutes, frightened out of her wits, had retreated back into her control mechanism. Alex found it baffling that an AI could be scared of zombies.

"Precisely because it defies logic, it's abnormal," Alex murmured before his eyes glowed with a ghostly green light. The power of the Hell Boundary surged from within him, pressing down on the zombie woman before him.

The female zombie had never encountered such a force before. Her eyes were engulfed in green flames, and her body froze in place, unable to move.

Although it looked like Alex had restrained her, he wasn't pleased. In fact, his brows furrowed deeply.

"Even Hell's power can't fully subdue her? Can this thing even be considered 'alive' anymore?"

Normally, beings like Mephisto or Hela, with their mastery over life and death, could easily suppress zombies, reducing them to obedient pets with the flick of a finger. Yet this zombie woman merely froze and continued to resist Alex's control.

[This thing might be even stranger than you think. I suggest you kill it outright.]

"No rush. Since it's a corruption, I didn't expect it to be easy to resolve. This gives me a chance to test something else."

The power of the Hell Boundary gradually receded as Alex's eyes turned pitch black and abyssal, resembling black holes that seemed to absorb everything around them.

"Speak your name."

The zombie woman trembled, her head twitching erratically. Her grotesque mouth stammered out a word.

"I… My name is Ellie… Grayson."

"Alright, Ellie Grayson. I am the master of time and death. Would you be willing to become my knight, walking the Earth in my stead and sweeping away everything in your path?"

At that moment, Alex's presence seemed to grow infinitely larger, towering like a mountain. The sheer oppressive force froze even the zombie woman's thoughts.

"I… I… I'm will–"

Suddenly.

Just as the zombie woman was about to answer, a strange black smoke erupted from her body. The sound of burning followed as her body convulsed and then collapsed helplessly to the ground.

Withdrawing his power, Alex pressed his lips together, staring at the now lifeless zombie. A sense of unease flickered in his heart.

"Even her soul burned away completely, refusing to be controlled…"

Approaching the fallen zombie, Alex saw that her soul had utterly vanished, leaving no trace behind—as if she had never existed in this world.

Not only that, but the zombie's body quickly disintegrated into ashes, erasing the last remnants of her existence.

Earlier, after the Hell God's deathly power failed to dominate the zombie's body, Alex decided to try a different method. Inspired by how the Moon God Khonshu bestowed power upon Marc, turning him into the Moon Knight, Alex planned to imbue the zombie with his power, making her his knight.

This way, he might preserve her soul while gaining control over her actions. Additionally, if successful, Alex could potentially reach the source of the corruption within her and attempt to negotiate, seeking a way to eradicate the plague.

Unfortunately, the corruption gave Alex no such chance. Before the zombie's soul could accept him, the corruption obliterated her existence entirely.

"Well, things are getting interesting," Alex said with a faint smile.

[Have you found a way to deal with these creatures, sir?]

"No, but I've confirmed one thing: that corruption can't taint me. It can't even 'see' me. If it could, this zombie wouldn't have approached me deliberately."

Alex's thoughts drifted back to Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe. In that world, he once faced the Worm directly, though all his actions had been shielded by the Veil.

Now, after experimenting in this world, Alex realized that the corruption's power likely couldn't affect him unless he actively exposed a weakness. The fact that his existence couldn't even be perceived was a promising revelation.

This meant he could gather more information from the shadows.

"But what about this world's Watcher?"

A thought crossed Alex's mind. If memory served, the Watcher here had entered the game personally and should now exist within this universe.

Breaking the cycle and arriving here should have drawn their attention, so why hadn't they appeared to communicate with him?

[There's no sign of any Watcher activity] Miss Minutes reported.

Alex frowned, glancing briefly at a crow perched on a rooftop. After a moment's pause, he decided not to dwell on it.

Perhaps the Watcher had distanced themselves from this universe. Or maybe they were currently unable to intervene due to certain circumstances. Either way, it didn't concern him.

[What should we do next, sir?]

Hearing Miss Minutes's question, Alex stood straight, his tone calm.

"The corruption has already begun. The Avengers are likely lost. My next step is to find some individuals who haven't been infected yet and conduct some tests."

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Beyond Earth.

On an asteroid in outer space, the leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants, Magneto, clutched his head in anguish.

"My God… What have I done…"

In his pursuit of strengthening mutants, Magneto had mirrored humanity by initiating a viral war. Previously, humans had developed a virus specifically targeting mutant genes, causing devastating losses to the mutant population.

To retaliate, Magneto had invested enormous resources to create a virus targeting human genetics, which was then released.

What he hadn't anticipated was that the virus would mutate into a zombie plague, evolving at a terrifying rate. Now, even mutants were being infected and turned into zombies.

Of course, Magneto wasn't aware that the zombie virus had nothing to do with him. He had unwittingly become the scapegoat for the disaster.

"Open the teleportation tunnel. I'm going to Earth," Magneto said, striding out of his office.

"No, sir! It's too dangerous! Earth has already fallen—even the Avengers have—"

"Silence!" Magneto bellowed.

"This is my responsibility. There are still many mutants on Earth, including the X-Men. I won't abandon my brethren to this hopeless planet!"

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