The Magus looked on from his control room deep in the heart of War World. On Khazan, his forces had begun their assault again, despite the interfereance of this being his sources had identified as DeMonStar. And what was the cause of these constant spikes of mystical energy that he was picking up? The mystical energy was on a low bandwidth, yet when examined closer, it almost seemed as if they were being caused by a mage or sorcerrer, one with enough power to annihlate Khazan. However, such things were unimportant. The egg was ready, its energies had charged and soon, they would be released in a burst down the dimensional corridor, causing a blast that would be magnified through time and space, destroying everything.
Meanwhile, the door to Magus' control room opened. The Magus turned to see his servant, the Thanos doppelganger walk into the room. Seeming as if to not notice the presence of his servant, the Magus instead turned to his prize captive, Superman.
"I wonder Kryptonian, wheather or not it is within the grasp of your mind to truely apprecaite the grand phenominon that you are about to witness. In a moment, time and space will be brought to an end. But War World will remain, protected by the Cosmic Egg. Truely, not since the so called Zero Hour, where you heroes did battle the former Green Lantern known as Parallax has such an event transpired. You are witnessing the end of everything, and the begining of a nightmare that few in the multiverse could comprehend, save for myself."
Superman wanted to respond. He wanted to think that the heroes down on battling Khazan would come to his aide, but the view screens in the room showed otherwise. Khazan's heroes had either gathered in the Hall of Justice planning their next move, or were on the streets, fighting off the countless alien soldiers.
As the Magus moved to a control pannal, he felt a large hand touch him on the shoulder. He turned to see that it was the hand of his servant, the Thanos doppelganger.
"Fool, unhand me. Vile creature, I have no use for you anymore."
"Then it is quite fortuante for you that I have already disposed of your genetic disgrace. Such a clumbsy creature, hardly worthy of a true madman. Yet, you are really no madman, just a fool for attempting to disturb the universe that Thanos of titan calls home."
A dark fear swelled up inside the Magus as he realized that he was starring not at his servant, but at the one true Thanos. The Magus reacted, swating Thanos away from him as he frantically worked the controls in front of him, trying desperatly to set the Cosmic Egg off. However, Thanos recovered too quickly. As Thanos exteneded his arm, Superman could not help but watch as a beam of energy left the titan's hand and hit the Magus, deep frying his head to a crisp. Thanos then moved to the control pannal and hit a few buttons, releasing the Man of Steel from his force cage.

"So, now you are playing the role of a hero," Superman asked with a distrusting tone towards the titan.

"Hardly, as I said Kryptonian, I seek only to perserve the Universe that is my home. Nothing more."

Before Superman could even question the titan's true motives, the control pannal began to light up. Something was wrong, the harmonics of the Cosmic Egg were still building. Without saying a word to each other, Thanos and Superman worked frantically at the control pannal, trying to stop the Cosmic Egg.

"It is some kind of fail safe that must have been desgined by the Magus in case anything went wrong," thought Superman to himself. He assumed that Thanos had already made the same conclusion already. Yet as the two worked feverantly, they soon learned that it was too late. The egg had unleashed it's raw power, yet the universe did not end. Instead something worse happened. Thanos had managed to disabble the equipment that the Magus had used to transmit the egg's raw power into the dimensional rift. Now, with nowhere to go, the enerrgy of the cosmic egg began to unstablize time and the dimensions.

On Khazan, the time shift had already begun. As the heroes continued their battle against War World soldiers, the streets began to fill up with new enemies and villains from across time and space. Nazi soliders filled the street alongside T-800 terminator droids. Countless star fleet ensigns wearing red shirt style uniforms began skirmishing with white armored Imperial storm troopers. Demons from the Hells of six different dimensions came to the streets to satisfy their eternal lust for human flesh. Mutants and warriors from the Age of Apocalypse began to fill the streets as well, targeting the genetic 'half-scans' at the order to their lord and master En Sabah Nur, known to the world as the mutant Apocalypse. Medievil warriors and knights from centuries ago suddenly appeared to continue their battles in the cities around the world. Dozens of different races of Martains, all supposedly coming from the red planet Mars launched their indivdual invasions on the planet earth. All at once, dozens of ancient creatures, all of whom were supended in a state of animation awakened and began terrozing cities around the world. And the ninjas, the NINJA's, they were EVERYWHERE.

As Thanos watched this from the control room, he knew this was only the begining. All of these different people and places flowing from one point in the time stream to another was causing a strain on the time line. Soon, it would not be long before time became hoplessly lost. Time would have no meaning, people and places would be transported through time at random. These beings were all symptoms of a larger problem, a problem that, if not solved, would bring about the end of Khazan.

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