American Comics: Multiverse of Madness

326. Days of Future Past!

Forty-five years ago, the day of Red Skull's attack!

New York, Baxter Building.

"You won't be able to hold out much longer, Susan. I'm giving you one last chance—drop the force field and let me in!"

Loki, towering over a hundred meters tall, continuously pounded on the exterior of the Baxter Building. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break through the blue barrier surrounding it, growing more anxious with each failed attempt.

At first, Loki found all of this quite amusing. As the God of Mischief, he relished putting his unlucky brother and the Avengers in all sorts of peril. So when Red Skull approached him for assistance, he gladly agreed to take part in the plan.

The plan unfolded flawlessly—so flawlessly, in fact, that it started to terrify Loki. This time, the Avengers had no hope of a comeback. The moment S.H.I.E.L.D.'s helicarrier crashed, the outcome of the battle was all but certain.

After helping Red Skull and other villains defeat the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange, Loki was horrified to realize that things were spiraling out of his control.

He had witnessed his own brother, Thor, die on the battlefield. He had seen Asgard banished to a distant dimension—a fate that, as Odin's son, he could never accept.

Though Loki had always flitted between Earth and Asgard, scheming for the throne while causing endless trouble for his brother, whenever Asgard faced a crisis, he would inevitably side with his "family."

Now, damn it! Loki admitted he regretted everything.

"Open the force field, Susan!!"

Loki pounded furiously on the energy field surrounding the Baxter Building. All he wanted now was to break in, use Mr. Fantastic's time travel device, and go back to the past to change everything.

Inside the Baxter Building, a visibly aging Mr. Fantastic was frantically checking the time machine's systems, while his wife, the Invisible Woman, was pushing herself to the limit, maintaining the defensive barrier.

"I... I can't hold on much longer..." Blood trickled down from Susan's nose, but she had no time to worry about it. Pressing her fingers to her temples, she poured all her energy into sustaining her powers. "I'm almost at my breaking point..."

"You just need to hold out a little longer. The time skimmer will be calibrated soon, and it will be ready to go," Mr. Fantastic replied, not even turning to look at her.

"For heaven's sake!" Invisible Woman snapped in frustration. "Johnny, Ben—they all died protecting the Baxter Building! How can you still be so cold and calculating right now!?"

"Because cold calculation is the only way we can win."

Mr. Fantastic said this in a low voice, stretching his neck to reach a set of weapons and gear he had prepared.

"We've never faced a coordinated attack from so many supervillains. I believe the X-Men and the Avengers have also fallen, as I haven't received any communication signals from them, and I saw the helicarrier crash."

"Can't we mount a counterattack?" Invisible Woman asked, bewildered.

"It's only a matter of time before they break through the Baxter Building. I can't say how many heroes are still alive, and before we can regroup for a counterattack, I must ensure that the dangerous weapons we have stored here don't fall into the hands of those supervillains."

Before Mr. Fantastic stood an array of powerful weapons: a quantum bracelet, the ultimate eraser, and even a set of Deadpool's signature carbonadium swords, all secured in his specially designed vault.

"If you want to hide these weapons, I believe the timestream is the best place. Those supervillains haven't ventured into that realm yet. So, let's give it everything we've got to save the world—one more time."

Susan forced a smile, though her bloodied face was anything but encouraging. Suddenly, a strange, rainbow-colored light burst from the multiverse time barrier oscillator, followed by a slowly widening rift opening beyond the reality dimension.

"Wait, what's that!?" Susan's smile froze on her face, and behind her, the robotic assistant, Herbie, loudly sounded an alarm.

(Alert! Alert! Unknown time portal expanding. Receiving transmission from within the portal.)

"A time portal!?" Mr. Fantastic was stunned. "Impossible! There's no way... Someone must have hacked into my network and remotely activated it. Could it be the supervillain alliance? Whoever it is, this is a serious threat."

Before Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman could react, the time portal suddenly opened wider, and a heavily damaged Hulkbuster armor came crashing through. The metal hit the ground with a deafening crash, skidding across the floor several times before slamming into the wall, where it finally came to a halt.

"..."

Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman exchanged glances, both seeing shock and confusion in each other's eyes. It was hard to imagine that, on the very day Red Skull led the supervillains in an all-out assault against the heroes, they were witnessing something this bizarre.

"...Oh, damn it."

A furious shout came from inside the Hulkbuster armor.

"Isn't this thing supposed to have some sort of shock absorption? Damn you, Stark!!"

Mr. Fantastic found the voice strangely familiar, but couldn't place it right away. By the time he figured out who it was, the Hulkbuster armor had already been violently ripped open from the inside.

Three adamantium claws sliced through the armor's shell as easily as cutting through butter, and Logan emerged from inside, looking as though he'd been reborn.

"Oh my God... Logan, is that you?!" The Invisible Woman looked at him in disbelief.

"It worked!"

Logan blinked, and upon seeing the two of them and his surroundings, he immediately realized he had successfully returned to the past.

"Reed... Susan, it's so good to see you."

"It looks like the X-Men always have a way to turn the tide of the future. Logan, you're truly our savior." Mr. Fantastic's earlier confusion quickly turned to joy. He rushed to Logan, gazing at him with admiration, despite Logan's tattered appearance.

"Tell me, Logan, you've come to help us turn the tables, right? Wait... If you've come from the future, why didn't you travel back to before Red Skull's attack, instead of arriving at this moment?"

"It's complicated."

Logan didn't even look at Reed Richards as he marched toward Mr. Fantastic's communication system, his hands moving quickly over the keyboard.

"What are you doing?" Mr. Fantastic asked, momentarily stunned.

Logan, his eyes locked on the screen, his voice slightly trembling, replied, "I'm contacting X-Men!"

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