Volume 1
Nini found herself in a void, trapped in blackness. Suddenly, she saw a bubble, it seemed like it was through the lens of someone being interviewed.
“So, Olivia,” the interviewer said, “What’s it like earning 3 Grammys.”
“It’s great!” Olivia Rodrigo smiled.
“Are you jealous that Joshua Bassett, your ex,” the interviewer asked, “got the role of Gaima in the new Spectical movie, while you’re just writing songs lame people listen to?”
“Uh, no,” Olivia responded, “I’m glad he gets to play a superhero, honestly, I don’t mind him succeeding. He’s doing great in life and I am too.”
Nini watched from the void, “You…you have EVERYTHING…and I have nothing. That witch bitch stole it from me. How can you just stand there and let that moronic interviewer disrespect you?! I won’t stand for this,” Other souls floated to her: Gon, Leorio, Hyakkimaru, Luca, Alberto, and Light, “C’mon idiots, let’s go.”
“Just so you know,” Alberto reminded, “We’re not doing this for you, we’re doing this because the world needs to feel our pain.”
The 7 souls possessed Olivia. Nini controlling the body, and everyone else using their pure rage and anger and being to manifest their new powers. Olivia’s eyes widened as the souls possessed her and the interviewer noticed.
“Are you alright, Olivia?” the interviewer asked.
Thanks to the others’ souls, Olivia’s chocolate-colored orbs glowed a bright orange and the interviewer fell in love and she beckoned the interviewer to come closer and then…
*CRUSH!*
Nini crushed the interviewer’s head.
“It feels SO good to be back!” She smiled deviously, “What new powers did you give me?”
“Flight, energy manipulation, psionics, mind manipulation, superhuman agility, durability, and stamina,” Hyakkimaru listed.
“Ooooo! Thanks guys, now to enact our vengeance,” Nini walked out of the room, still covered in blood. Upon seeing other people, she caused chaos and death, tearing people apart, but before she did that, she mind-controlled the heroes of Earth and space.
“Wait, guys,” Gon paused, “What’s the end goal?”
“To make the world feel what we felt,” Nini rolled her eyes, “Duh.”
“But then what’s the point after that?” Gon thought, “Just to watch the world burn?”
“Why else?” Nini smirked. The other souls started to get second thoughts.
“Why don’t you just hunt down the people who betrayed you?” Leorio suggested.
“Don’t give her any ideas!” Luca whispered.
“That’s a good idea,” Nini appreciated, “I should go after the most defenseless one…and that would be Cat Valentine, the Ariana Grande redhead lookalike.”
“Goddamn it,” John B sighed in disappointment.
A man watched from the shadows, Marc Spector, mercenary, avatar of Khonshu.
“Whoever Cat Valentine is, we have to protect her,” Marc murmured.
“Agree,” **Steven Grant,** one of his alters talked back, “but where are the other heroes?”
“Possibly controlled or off-world,” listed Marc, “but whatever the reason, we have to take it into our own hands. If it’s mind control, I’m surprised we weren’t affected by it.”
“Probably because she got her powers not to long ago and she’s lousy and lazy with them?” **Jake Lockley,** another one of his alters, predicted.
Marc chuckled, Nini turned around but no one was there.
Marc called for his god, “Should we prevent her plan from succeeding, Khonshu?”
“If that is what you desire,” Khonshu responded, “It will definitely be risky. If Nini truly wants the world to feel her pain, she may destroy it, and everyone in it. But, I don’t think she’s that idiotic, but it’s possible.”
Hiding behind a building, Marc uttered one sentence to his alters and Khonshu, “Alright, let’s find Cat Valentine.”
**Later…**
Cat was riding her bike, laughing and giggling along the way. Marc, as **the Moon Knight,** swooped down in front of her.
“Cat Valentine,” Marc started, “you’re in danger, and I’m here to protect you.”
“I’m in danger?!” Cat gasped.
“A girl named Nini is hunting you,” Marc explained, “I’ll make sure you won’t get hurt.”
“Nini?” Cat inquired, “I thought she died.”
“I mean,” Marc theorized, “Her vengeful spirit coming back from the dead isn’t completely out of the question, I died and came back to life, thanks to Khonshu, the moon god.”
“Damn right, you are,” Khonshu nodded, “You’re alive because of me.”
“Alright, c’mon, let’s g-“ Marc was about to get her into his flat, but a portal appeared beside them and WHOOSH! The 2 were sucked into a world of sweets.
Marc looked around, “What…the actual fuck?” There was an green alien sorcerer, Glenda Breedlove, Ryan Reynolds, a tiger dude, an vampire princess alien cat girl, and a cotton candy colored T-Rex, “Am…am I on drugs, or am I going insane?”
“Did you REALLY think you could protect her alone?” the alien sorcerer spoke, “Nini has way more power than you do.”
“You two are safer with us,” Glenda assured.
“Wait, why is Ryan Reynolds here? Cat confusingly remarked.
“He’s a celebrity, and Olivia Rodrigo is too,” Glenda shrugged.
“They gave me powers!” Reynolds gleamed.
“Cool, cool,” Marc nodded, “Where the hell will we rest, there is no house, or building to rest in.”
“Well,” the sorcerer smirked, “Why didn’t you say so?” Using his magic, he forms a gingerbread house.
“Oh…that’s…” Marc murmured in disbelief, “…convenient.”
“So it is,” Glenda happily smiled. The group walked in and all collectively gasped in awe.
“This is the greatest part, it is really big inside and outdoors!” Cat stated with excited enthusiasm.
“I don’t think I’ve properly introduced myself,” the sorcerer turned around to face Marc and Cat, “My names Matticus, and that tiger dude’s name is Scowl, and that alien cat girl, her name’s Kalaii.”
“Haha!” Kalaii giggled, “That’s me!”
“Nice name!” Cat complimented, “Reminds me of that one boy singer, Matty B!”
“I see no correlation.” Scowl said sternly.
“Of course you can’t, silly,” Cat rolled her eyes, “Correlations aren’t physical.”
“I know that!”
“Then why did you say that?” Kalaii inquired.
“I-oh my Gaina, let’s just pick our rooms,” Scowl walked off in annoyance.
“Is he always like this?” Glenda questioned Matticus.
“He’s only like that cause of Kalaii,” Matticus whispered back, “My skeleton friend Ryder on the other hand, he’s usually moody and sarcastic.”
“Ah,” Glenda nodded.
“Woww!” Kalaii looked around her, “I could eat this whole place!”
“Good thing I already put a protection spell on it,” Matticus chuckled, “No one can destroy it, or in your case, eat it.”
“Aw! Dang it!” Cat stomped her feet on the ground.
**Meanwhile…**
Nini walks through the streets, searching for Cat Valentine.
“Where could she possibly be? She doesn’t know that we’re after her, but we can’t seem to find her!”
“Maybe she does know,” Leorio thought, “She might’ve found out somehow and now she’s hiding somewhere secret, super secret.”
“Now why would you tell her that?!” Gon said with annoyance.
“Sorry, it just keeps slipping out,” Leorio chuckled nervously.
“Thanks for the idea, Leorio,” Nini smirked.
“Great…” Alberto shook his head, “Just fucking great.
“Well, I can’t just go out looking like this,” Nini looked at herself covered in blood, and then she creates a new outfit for herself. A dark purple jacket, light purple sleeves, a gray purple waist cape, black pants, and bright purple boots. Then she used the energy to dye her hair ginger.
“Why are you making yourself look like Wanda?” John B asked.
“She’s powerful,” Nini looked at her new ginger locks of hair.
“B-But…she killed us…” Gon stuttered.
“True, but you gotta admit she’s has a lot of power.”
“So you admire and want to be the person that literally murdered you, AND US?!” Luca yelled in rage.
“Yes, and?” Nini ignored him. The other spirits were now enraged by her. They realized she’s just using them for her own benefit. She didn’t care about them. Selfish ass bitch.
Nini now needed to learn how to find a specific universe, then she got an idea. The infinity stones. She knew Vision, the android, has one of them. Nini closed her eyes, and looked for him. Far away, Vision heard her call, and soon enough, he was there.
“Give me your mind stone, Vision,” Nini ordered. Vision slowly moved to rip the stone out, but then hesitated. “NOW,” She enforced. Vision pulled the stone out and then…
BOOM! Vision was dead.
“Bye, bye!” Nini waved as his body fell to the ground, “Now, I just need the rest of them.” She went on a hunt to find them, but then she realized, she could probably make them by herself. But turns out, she only needed one stone. She was now able to look through the multiverse.
“There…are worlds beyond Earth,” Nini discovered, with one swipe of her hand, she found the candy world the group was in, “I found you…I finally found you…”
She broke through the glass into the universe.
“She’s here,” Matticus eyes widened. Everyone turned around to see the bloodthirsty woman in front of them and walked out. Suddenly, Marc felt a little bit dizzy.
“It’s not the best time to doze off, silly!” Cat joked.
“I’m not…I’m not…tired,” Marc started to trail off, and then Steven started to take over the body, “Ah, oof…I’m gonna go try and talk to her.”
“Wait, why are you speaking in a British accent?” Cat asked confusingly.
“Hey, uh, Nini wasn’t it? My name’s Steven Grant, I work in a gift shop.” Steven introduced himself, “Look, I’m sure we can figure this whole thing out, but you’re gonna have to come down.”
“All I want is Cat Valentine,” negotiated Nini, “Hand her over and I won’t bother any of you.”
“What do you, uh, what do you want to do with her?” Steven inquired. Nini stayed quiet, then Steven realized, “…You want to kill her, don’t you?” Nini smirked then spun around and shot a blast at Steven.
“Aw, bullocks!” Steven dodges the blasts and ran inside, “Well, she doesn’t want you for any good reason, Cat!”
“Let me in!” Nini kept blasting.
“Ronalda, go!” Matticus ordered the T-Rex to attack Nini. The Rex charged at her, but to no avail.
BOOM! The T-Rex was blown to smithereens.
“Well…that was a big load of nothing,” Kalaii yawned.
The spell slowly breaks, and Nini is able to break into the house. She blasts the door open. Everyone gathered to protect Cat.
“All I want is Cat Valentine,” Nini calmly walked through, “Is all I want too much to ask?”
“You want to hurt her, and we won’t let that happen,” Glenda prepared for battle.
“Fine,” Nini shrugged, “Have it your fucking way, bitches.” She destroys the house. Kalaii lunges at Nini just to get impaled through the mouth.
“NO!” Scowl shouted. He and Ryan Reynolds charged at her. Scowl unleashed his claws and blocked Nini’s attacks but then both of them got thrown into a gingerbread mountain.
Matticus used a encasement spell on Nini but she deflects it and turns it back on Matticus, turning him into stone, but he opens a portal for Cat, Steven, and Glenda, but Glenda decides to hold Nini off.
“Get in!” Glenda told, “I’ll be fine!”
Nini grabs Glenda’s throat, “Will you?” She breaks it.
“Glenda-“ Cat panicked.
“Go!” Steven pushed her in, and Nini was just about to follow them, it closes.
Steven and Nini were now flying through the Multiverse.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” They both scream as they turn into pieces of rocks. Then, they were launched into a meat world, then, a futuristic city, then an old-fashioned city. World after world until they landed into a desert. Specifically, the Sahara.
“Are you okay, Cat?” Marc asked.
“WOAH!” Cat jumped, “That was so much FUN! Wait…you’re not British anymore!”
“Uh, yeah,” Marc nodded, “That was Steven, it’s Marc again.”
“Humma?” Cat questioned.
“I’ll explain later,” Marc promised, “But for now, let’s find food and water.”
“Kk,” She listened.
Marc was able to find an Addax standing in the desert, eating tiny pieces of grass. He summoned his Moon Knight suit and chased it. Once he was close, he threw his crescent darts at it and tackled it to the ground.
“Sorry buddy,” Marc apologized before stabbing it one more time, and it let out a short yelp.
**Later…**
Marc dragged the dead animal to the campfire, “Dinner is here.”
“You got an antelopy!” Cat noticed.
“Antelope, but, close enough.” Marc used his crescent dart to cut a piece of it for him and Cat to put on sticks to roast on the fire.
“Where’d you get these sticks?” Marc asked.
“From a tree?” Cat responded.
“Oh, right, of course.”
“Now will you tell me about the whole Steven thing?” Cat needed to know.
“It’s called Dissociative Identity Disorder,” Marc explained, “It’s when you have multiple personalities or alters, as we would call it. DID forms at a young age, usually around 6-9. Steven came when I was 7, that was around the time my mom started beating me. She blamed me for the death of my brother, and did it whenever my dad was at the synagogue on weekends. That same year, I found out a friend of my family did bad things. At that point, it was a lot, and so that’s when-“
Marc switches into Steven, “I came into the picture, and after that, Jake came in too.”
Steven switches to Jake, “Puedo hablar por mí mismo, muchas gracias.”
“You speak Spanish?!” Cat gasped.
“Yeah,” Jake replied, “You speak Spanish?”
“Sí, puedo hablar español,” Cat nodded, “Mi amiga Sam me enseñó.”
“Frio, frio,” Jake was impressed.
“Can I speak to Marc?” Cat wanted to tell him something important.
“Sure,” Jake looked up and felt a little dizzy, then Marc took over, “What did you want to say?”
“You’re a good person,” Cat grinned, “Ignore anyone who says anything different. After everything you’ve been through, you have EVERY right to be angry at the world.”
“You really think that?” Marc was surprised, no one’s ever really said this to him, except for Steven.
“You, Jake, and Steven, you three are good people,” Cat continued, “You try to do your best, and that’s enough. Your brother’s death, that wasn’t your fault.”
“Thanks, I-I appreciate it, we should probably go to sleep, though,” Marc suggested, “It’s getting late.”
“Wait, I wanted to ask something else,” Cat smiled, “Do you happen to like guys?”
“Now that’s a whole other can of worms I don’t want to get into. Good night, Cat,” Marc went to sleep.
“Aw, ok,” Cat went to sleep, not getting an answer.
**The next morning**
Steven woke up in a box, “W-What? Where are we? Cat!?”
“I’m here,” Cat responded, “Took you long enough to wake up.”
Steven noticed he was in cuffs with red lights on it. A man walked up to Steven and opened the box, “I would like to speak to Marc, please.”
“Oh, thank goodness, I don’t want this,” Steven tilted his head and his eyes rolled back, and Marc came in.
“Marc Spector, it’s time for your trial,” the man ordered.
“Trial?” Marc asked. “What’s going on?”
“You’re on trial for multiverse trespassing, and causing chaos in this world,” the man explained.
“Are you kidding?!” Marc exclaimed, “Everyone goes through the multiverse at least once! What chaos did I cause?”
“All will be revealed, Mr. Spector,” the man spoke with a monotone voice.
“And who are YOU?” Marc questioned.
“Peter Van Daan,” the man introduced, “Head of security, now come with me.” He was escorted to the main room, where 6 people sat, waiting for him.
“Marc,” Peter introduced, “This is the Multiversal Society, I have the pleasure to introduce them to you. ”
“The members?” Marc stuttered.
“Korra, the current Avatar, one to bend all elements,” Peter listed them off, “Eren Yeager, former leader of the Survey Corps, Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, Saitama, the One Punch Man, Anakin Skywalker, chosen one to bring balance to the force, and finally, Diana Prince, Wonder Woman.”
“Thank you, Peter, you may be excused now,” Wanda appreciated.
“Listen,” Marc inquired, “I don’t know what I’m doing here, truly. Everyone goes through the multiverse at least once. Why am I the one getting arrested for it?”
“In my world,” described Wanda, “You almost caused the end of humanity. It was our first threat we stopped as a team.”
“And when we heard there was a Marc Spector hopping throughout the multiverse, we decided to take you in,” Anakin added.
“Wait, that makes no sense, why would I cause the end of the world?” Marc was in disbelief.
“Your god, Khonshu found out that Mephisto had dark plans for the Avengers, and so you defeat multiple heroes and take their powers,” Diana told the tale, “Alongside you were the Cult of Khonshu, but eventually, you realize that the world would be better without humanity as a whole. You and Khonshu merge to become the perfect being and succeed in killing the strongest heroes, but it’s not enough, so you try to slay your friends and allies on the Midnight Sons.”
“That’s when we all got together,” Eren finished, “The only way to defeat you, was to kill you.”
“I-I’m sorry about that,” Marc apologized, “But why do I have to atone for it? Why do you think I’m the same?”
Saitama asked, “Are you still Khonshu’s avatar?”
“I am,” Marc murmured.
“Then we have every reason to keep you here,” Wanda answered.
“Something like that has happened in our world,” Marc tried to appeal his case, “but we realized we were wrong in how to solve the problem. Nini Salazar-Roberts is hunting down that girl, and will not stop until she gets her.”
“That’s beside our point. How will we know it won’t ever happen again?”
“That was years ago, we’re wiser and smarter now,” Marc continued, “We can deal with things better.”
“**Can you?**” Diana questioned.
“Yes, I can,” Marc assured.
“Alright, we’ll decide your fate, Marc,” Anakin announced, “Take him back to his box, Peter.” Peter came back into the room and took Marc back. A doctor was waiting for him.
Cat exclaimed happily, “You’re back! What happened?!”
“They said they would decide what happens to me,” Marc sat back in the box.
The doctor turned around, “Before they decide, I’m going to have to check you for any diseases or sicknesses you may have and not know about.”
“Oooo,” Cat was somehow excited, “I wanna know, Dr…?”
“Nelson,” the doctor finished her sentence, “Dr. Nicholas Nelson, but you can call me Nick, everyone does.”
“How long will it take, Nick?” asked Marc.
“About 5 minutes,” Nick beamed, “Don’t worry.”
Marc noticed a picture, or more accurately, 4 pictures, of Nick and another man.
“Not to be rude or anything but, I was just wondering, who’s that in the pictures?” Marc asked.
“Oh, that’s my husband,” Nick grinned, “Charlie Spring. He’s amazing.”
“You’re queer?” Marc asked.
“Yeah, is there a problem with it?”
Marc stammered, “No-no, of course not! I’m actually bisexual myself.”
“You are?!” gasped Nick, “You? Marc Spector, are bi? Never would’ve took you for one of us.”
“Yeah, “Born This Way” was my jam back in the 2010’s,” Marc chuckled.
**Meanwhile…**
The Multiversal Society talked about what they were going to do.
“So, what should we do about our moon intruder?” Diana thought.
“Marc did say that what happened before has happened in his world,” Saitama considered, “At this point, maybe we should eliminate all Marc Spectors.”
“Well,” argued Wanda, “Not every Marc Spector is evil. We can’t just go around killing them for a crime our Marc committed.”
“Wanda, I know you loved him,” Eren recognized, “But maybe this is the better choice for the multiverse.”
Wanda sighed sadly. BEEP! BEEP! The facility flashed red. The group pulled up the screen, Nini, now back in her blood-covered outfit, attacks and slaughters the security troops.
“Marc was right…” Diana muttered, “We have to go now!”
Wanda called Nick on his videophone, “Dr. Nelson!”
“Yes, Wanda?” Nick answered.
“Release Marc and the girl,” She commanded.
“Wait, are you sure about this?” Nick questioned, “How can we trust them?”
Wanda responded will full confidence, “I trust them, and that’s enough.” The videophone turned off.
Nick sighed, “Don’t make me regret it.”
“I won’t,” Marc nodded, “I promise.”
Nick went back to the computer, about to open the boxes, but then a golden yellow blast destroys it.
Peter Van Daan’s decapitated head flies into the room. Nini walks in, lifts up the head with her psionics, and blows it up. She looks at Cat and smirks.
“She’s after us! She’s after us!” Cat panicked.
The Multiversal Society flew down in front of Nini, but she used a simple mind control spell to get them out of the way.
“SHIIIIIT!” Nick started spamming all the buttons. He was able to activate the force field around the lab.
“KHONSHU!” Marc summoned, “Suit!” The suit started wrapping around Marc like a mummy, and once it was fully on him, he punched through the glass. Cat and Nick look at him with shocked faces.
“Divine empowerment, remember?” Marc spoke through the suit. Nick rolled his eyes.
Nini broke through the force field, and it shattered into glass shards, but by then, Marc, Nick, and Cat were gone. She ran on the glass, headed their way.
Cat, Marc, and Nick were running down to the basement of the facility, where a portal lays waiting for them. Luckily, they were able to reach it, and busted open the door, but unfortunately, there were a lot of moving platforms, and Nini was following closely behind.
“Oh…shoot,” Marc looked down.
“See that?” Nick pointed at a portal with a cyan glow, “That’s the portal to the Inverse World, also known as Htrae, in simple terms, the Bizarro earth. It can ONLY be reached from this portal. Once Nini gives up, we can get back to your world.”
“Ok, cool, but are we supposed to go down there?!” Cat yelled.
“Just follow my lead,” Nick explained, “When the gate gets closer to the first platform, jump…aaand…NOW!” The three jumped down and landed. They jumped the first 2 platforms, but when it got to the third…
“AAH!” Marc is grabbed by Nini and thrown to the side.
“OH SHIT!” Nick hurried, “GO! GO! GO!” Nini was about to grab Cat when Marc threw one of his crescent darts at his shoulder and pierced through.
“C’mon, bitch!” Marc switched to Jake and distracted Nini while Nick turned on the portal and pressed the “EMERGENCY! SELF-DESTRUCT!” button.
“Oh!” Nini exclaimed, “This idiot wants to play with fire!” She flew at Jake and he jumped and landed the first punch. Nini threw him into another wall. Jake gets up quickly. Nini used her energy to deliver a devastating blow. She holds Jake by his suit collar, “Did you REALLY think you could beat me?”
“No,” Jake snickered, “It was a distraction, perra.” When Nini saw Nick and Cat jump into the portal, she let go of Marc and flew to try and catch them but the portal closes.
“NO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!” Nini screamed in anger. She turned around and Jake was also gone. Nini now had to find another way to get to the Bizarro world.