The succession of events was practically instantaneous. A blow that bridged the distance between Allen and the portal, which was the size of a tennis court, in an instant. A shock wave that destroyed every building, an impact with the strength of a Superman after sunbathing.
The clouds, hit by the force of that impact, scattered.
"I see..."
Allen's words seed to slow everything that happened. No, it was definitely slowing down, as if the world was caught in a black hole, all that destruction becoming slower with every nanosecond that passed until it was completely still, and then, in a bizarre way, it started to rewind, as if the cause and effect of this event were reversed. All of this until it reached the beginning, reflected in Allen's eyes.
"This was unexpected..." said Allen with a half-smile after seeing the future.
Allen doesn't seek to be a hero. However, accepting the darkness in his soul, accepting that he is not a perfect man and that his "Void" is part of him, does not an he will beco like it because,, despite everything, the albino Allen is still there.
So, feeling a bad premonition due to his spider-sense, Allen forced his clairvoyance to activate with The Absolute and was able to see everything that would happen seconds later.
[Allen...]
"Yes... I should thank the spider; it prevented a massacre..."
With an amused but alert look, Allen frowned, and unlike before, he wasn't taken by surprise. He focused on who would step through that portal.
*Footsteps*
A man stepped out of the portal. Without giving him any ti Allen made his move. His eyes narrowed, and this visitor was seized by chains ford by Clown Crown.
Allen scoffed as he held the end of the chain with one hand, "Easy, cowboy. This ain't your first rodeo... or is it?"
The man tried to free himself but struggled; still, he could not move.
Allen's eyes widened slightly in surprise at the sight of the man's face, "Heh, I should have known. There was a possibility, but due to the canon, I wasn't considered..."
Angstrom's portal started to disappear, and everyone saw a middle-aged man with black hair and eyes, so gray hair, and so wrinkles from maturity, wearing Viltrumite attire, but more dignified, with red and black, as well as a cloak worthy of a king. His body, once a lean figure, was now as robust as that of an adult Viltrumite.
Allen's smile widened, "Five hundred years later... that ruler of the Viltrumites still held his place as the most powerful Viltrumite in history... Emperor Markus Grayson I of the Viltrumite Empire and Emperor of the Universe."
A Mark Grayson over five hundred years old looked at Allen, confused—no, now he was Emperor Markus.
Allen smiled with a hint of mockery, as his relationship with Mark had always been like this, "You've beco arrogant, kid."
...
(Grayson House)
Angstrom Levy sighed with disgust, "It took a while to find him, I had to visit more than two thousand different universes, and in so, I was in danger of dying. But it was necessary to find a Mark Grayson in a dinsion where ti passed much faster... luckily, this one had a special grudge against humanity, and when he learned he could destroy this world again, he was more than happy..."
"What are you talking about, you maniac?" Debbie grabbed a kitchen knife and stood in front of Olga and Oliver.
"I was just talking to myself... I could leave this dinsion and let that monster destroy Invincible, but it wouldn't satisfy , so Debbie, start calling him, and I won't hurt you..."
To understand what just happened, a few points need to be clarified:
1 – Angstrom Levy has access to countless parallel and different universes.
2 – Angstrom Levy has proven that he has no problem crossing as many universes as he wants, and this does not generate an incapacitating physical or ntal burden.
3 – It has been confird by the Flaxians and Angstrom himself that there are different universes and dinsions where ti can pass either slower or faster.
4 – Angstrom stated that in most universes, Invincible takes an evil path.
So, if we combine all the points above, we can deduce that if Angstrom Levy, who was so desperate for revenge in the canon story that he only searched a few hundred universes, had searched through those infinite universes, he would have found one where the previous points ca together, making it possible for a five-hundred-year-old evil Mark Grayson to exist.
It's worth noting that in the comic book storyline, Mark becos Emperor and, five hundred years later, he still is, and he is so powerful that he can easily defeat Allen, the alien, also an Emperor.
...
(Downtown Chicago)
Allen squinted. He had considered this at so point. If in universe 1, after five hundred years, Mark is the Emperor of the Universe, whose na and rule bring peace to all, what happened in those other universes where Mark is evil?
Not from the eighteen evil Invincibles from the Invincible Wars, but from the many more that Angstrom Levy never recruited, so had to have beco Emperors. But unlike the good Invincible... they turned into Tyrants, or even worse...
"What a lantable world..."
Allen rembered that this version of Mark was supposed to have a kind smile and a look of a man with integrity. But this one had a gaze so devoid of human emotions that it seed like an abomination with human skin; the sll of blood on his body and the sheer amount of death surrounding him made many shudder just imagining what he did to his world in the past.
[Emperor Markus Grayson I 500 – good version]

...
Superman – His eyes... they're so cold... so empty... so dark. I can only offer my condolences to the universe that had the misfortune of having that Invincible.
Rick – And this is why multiverses of the sa world suck Burp
The Emperor – Emperor of the Universe... this had to happen. Allen couldn't leave that world without stealing that title or defeating whoever held it.
MJ – Tsk, a stupid protagonist with the script on his side, damn it, Allen, kick his ass!
Aphrodite – Darling, don't let him intimidate you. Show him who the real Emperor is here❤️~
...
Emperor Markus looked at the chains that bound him, but soon he ignored them and fixed his gaze on the sky.
"A familiar scent... a sky I can recognize... even after five hundred years and ten thousand worlds, I still find a unique world..."
"Oh, that makes it sound like Earth doesn't exist in your universe, kid."
Allen's mocking tone didn't seem to bother Markus, who, for the first ti, focused his gaze on his opponent. The man's eyes analyzed Allen, and even after five hundred years, his mory remained intact.
"This is strange. I expected to see old acquaintances—maybe Eve, Rex, Cecil, or Robot... but you? Who are you?"
Allen disappeared, making Markus' gaze drop, only to see him about to strike.
"...!"
"Didn't Debbie and Nolan teach you to say your na before asking others?"
Allen punched Markus in the chin, sending him into space and leaving behind a shockwave that traveled across the Earth.
...
(Grayson House)
Mark had received a call from his mother and quickly returned ho. He entered through the window without hesitation, only to see Angstrom smiling, as he grabbed Debbie by the neck while she was holding Oliver in her arms.
Olga, on the other hand, was slamd against the wall with blood oozing from her head.
"Mom! What are you doing to her?!"
"Oh, calm down, nothing yet, but I can't guarantee I won't if you try anything," Angstrom Levy said, happy to see Invincible clench his fists. "You can't kill before I break her neck..."
Mark knew it was true, but nothing assured him that this guy wouldn't try sothing worse if he stopped fighting.
*Shaking*
"What?"
The entire house shook, surprising both Debbie and Mark. However, Angstrom, far from being surprised, looked very calm.
"Seems like it's started..."
"Damn, fine!" Invincible raised his hands. "Who are you and what do you want?"
Angstrom grinned maliciously. "Oh co on, don't you rember ?"
"I've never t anyone like you..."
"Of course, that was before you turned into a monster!" Angstrom released Debbie and stepped forward. "Look at closely, Mark Grayson!"
Angstrom's face resurfaced in Invincible's mories as he tried to forget that day.
"You... you're that guy!"
Angstrom lost his composure, and his face turned to pure anger, his eyes fixed on Mark full of disgust.
"THAT GUY?! THAT'S HOW YOU REMBER ?! I'M NOT THAT GUY, I'M ANGSTROM LEVY!!"
Angstrom raised his hand and created a portal under Invincible, sending him to a different world. Debbie watched as her son fell helplessly into it.
"Mark! No!... You're a monster!"
"Huh?! You think you're innocent, Debbie Grayson?! In the half of the universes you've joined your son and husband in their bloody campaign while they kill billions!"
"I don't know what you're talking about, but I didn't raise a murderer!" Debbie glared at Angstrom as Oliver was scared.
"I've been in many universes, but I've never seen this little one. He's quite the curiosity..."
*Tremor*
Angstrom felt the earth shake again and frowned. "Honestly, I didn't want to get involved with an Invincible I couldn't handle... but... how I imagined Walker is capable of taking on that thing."
...
(Near-Earth Space)
"What?" Markus, confused, grabbed his head, still recovering from the previous blow. That defense was terrifying to anyone who knew who had struck him.
Viltrumites increase their power naturally in two ways: one is through their version of senkai, where they recover when near death, and the second is simpler—by age. Viltrumites grow stronger as ti passes.
This makes it with each century, a Viltrumite becos stronger even if he doesn't fight, but it makes Invincible even more incredible. Of course, he got help, but he still managed to fight the strongest of the Viltrumites before the age of thirty. Now, five hundred years later, that brat had beco [INVINCIBLE], and his na had beco true.
Of course, in his destiny, his path, in his world, Allen Walker was never there...
"Did you feel that?" Allen appeared behind Markus and the first thing he did was mock
"..." Markus recovered and turned to face him. Now he was even more puzzled about the man who had stopped him from destroying Earth, "Are you human?"
Markus had seen the abilities of so humans, like Robot's intelligence, or Eve's power. Even if Amanda were young enough, she'd be an unstoppable monster, and yet no one compared to the one who just struck him.
"Yes, but does it matter..."
Markus, being a man who had lived for so long, didn't act imdiately. Instead, he studied Allen for a while, "In my universe, humanity betrayed first. After my father revealed himself as a Viltrumite and left half-dead, I was imprisoned by Cecil. They did a lot of experints to develop weapons to kill Viltrumites... and surprisingly, they survived three Viltrumite invasions... However, I was freed by Conquest, and in a burst of rage I killed 99% of the population, the rest were turned into slaves, I strengthened, and killed Thragg and all his followers... then I sat on the Viltrum throne and began eradicating all civilizations in the universe until only Viltrumites remained as the last race...I returned to Earth after centuries, there were no more humans, but the planet was also dead, so I destroyed the planet."
Allen frowned in disgust. "Hey, kid, what are you trying to do, should I scream for justice and rush at you? Are you trying to provoke ?"
Mark remained silent as he analyzed Allen's words, his expression, and the overall state of his body. After doing so, he closed his eyes for a mont before opening them again.
"I thought you were a hero since you took out of Earth before fighting... and out of respect for being the first in centuries to land a hit like that, I wanted to reward you."
"That's very kind, your majesty, but screw you, brat. I wouldn't call myself a hero, but I definitely won't let you destroy that world..."
"..."
Markus looked at Earth one more ti. "I thought I'd feel nostalgia, anger, or resentnt, but after all this ti, it just seems like too good a planet for humanity. How about I take it for myself?"
The muscles of the Emperor of the Universe bulged as he woke from his resting state.
Alen tilted his head in disdain. "Sa old story, kill and take it, or die by my hand. That's it, brat."
A resonating impact shook space, and in an instant, Allen's fist was already in Markus's face. A drop of blood ca from the Emperor's mouth, but he imdiately returned the blow to Allen.
Surprised, Allen grinned before both engaged in a fight that would shake the universe. With constant exchanges of blows, each creates increasingly massive shockwaves in all directions.
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(Prehistoric Universe)
Invincible opened his eyes to a world full of vegetation. Let's rember that Angstrom Levy cannot change the coordinates where he creates his portals, so Invincible crossed into the sa spot where his house should have been in Universe 1.
Invincible heard noises, and a group of Tyrannosaurus Rexes.
"Is that a sapiens?!"
"Were they not extinct?"
They spoke, and more importantly, they knew it was Mark.
It seems that in this universe, humans went extinct, and it was the dinosaurs who dominated the world. But despite gaining intelligence, they decided to live more naturally, so this world was basically a giant forest and jungle.
"Who cares? I want to try their at..."
"Wait!"
Invincible flew up, surprising the intelligent dinosaurs.
"He can fly!"
"He must have invisible wings!"
"That's better, more at to eat!"
Just as the dinosaurs were about to attack, the temperature dropped, and the edge of a tal blade reflected in the dinosaurs' pupils before they were cut down under Invincible's incredulous gaze.
The blue-haired woman floated in the air for a mont before falling.
"You are..."
Esdeath adjusted her military cap and pointed to a door that had appeared not far.
"A ssage from my master, kid. Finish off Angstrom quickly, or we'll steal your prey..."
"..." Invincible had questions, but his worry for his mother and brother overca him, and he entered through the door.
...
"Angstrom, stay away from my family!"
"But how—Urgh!!"
Angstrom Levy was struck by Invincible and flew out of the house just in ti.
"M-Mark?!" Debbie was in shock just as it seed like Angstrom was about to kill her. A door appeared out of nowhere, and her son ca through it.
Invincible was about to strike Angstrom again, but he opened a portal, and Invincible fell into it.
Angstrom stood up, feeling the pain and tasting his own blood in his mouth. With hate, he shouted to the sky, "WALKER!!!"
His plans were almost ruined by Allen. After all, there was only one person with power similar to his own, and that power could be used so easily.
...
A/N: It was a strange day for Allen. On one side, he helped Invincible, and on the other, he fought to the death with him. 🍷🗿
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