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And hey, howzabout, as a wacky kind of idea, if you like this story you actually let me know about it, and send me some feedback? It's a crazy idea, but it's just crazy enough to work! Dimitri - dimitri_resides@yahoo.com Marvel : Evolution 3. (3/3) Mark's Toy Emporium - New York City. ------------------------------------- The toilet flushed, the man burped and then left the receptacle, taking the time to scratch out the letter 'Y' on the 'Please Wash Your Hands' sign so it read 'Please Wash our Hands' instead. He giggled at his wit and turned to look at the toilet he'd just exited. There was no sign of any glowing yellow portals, which was curious. He dropped to his knees and clutched his head as if suddenly in deep despair. "MY GODS! THE FOOL! SHE FINALLY DID IT! SHE FINALLY BLEW THE DAMN THING UP!" Having gotten his Charlton Heston impersonation out of the way, Deadpool stood up and moved to a window, looking out and watching the silent explosions in the far off distance. "Ewww, fireworks, Mommy!" he cooed quietly, then noticed the large plume of fire erupting out of the ridiculously large ship floating over the city. There was an air of detachment to the whole thing, he was so far away that it was quiet, like it wasn't real. "That's where the action is," The Merc-With-A-Mouth noted, watching the flames and smoke clear from the ship, leaving a ragged hole in it's side,"That's where Papa Deadpool gots to be." He silently calculated the distance in his head, then reached down and activated his teleporter. Seconds later, the men's room for Mark's Toy Emporium was empty. And the sign said 'Please Wash our Hands'. They attacked Thor en-masse, and with a roar he flung them away from him. "THOU HAST LAID CLAIM TO MIDGARD!?!" roared Thor, swinging his mighty Uru hammer - Mjolnir - and casting his eyes about. The Fellows floated all around him, hundreds of them, but his presence was like nothing they had ever felt. It they were the New Evolution of Humanity, then he was something more. "THEN THOU WILT PROVE THINE CLAIM!" roared Thor,"BY SELECTING A CHAMPION TO FACE ME! THOR, GOD OF THUNDER! THE ODIN-SON AND PROTECTOR OF MIDGARD!" All eyes turned to Justin, who stood on top of the tallest World Trade Tower, wind whipping through his hair and his toga as his steely eyes fixed on Thor. "No one is taking this world away from me!" he growled,"God or not, I. WILL. CRUSH. YOUR. BONES!" He leaped into the air and Thor rushed to meet him. "DID YOU LIKE LETTING ME DROP, HUH?" roared Lupus with a vicious kick to Spider-Man's side,"DID YOU AND THAT LITTLE BITCH OF YOURS LAUGH WHEN I FELL ALL THE WAY DOWN!" Spider-Man coughed, feeling blood against his lips as it exited his mouth and was blocked by his mask. Another vicious kick sent him over onto his back, and Lupus screamed with fury, booting The Webslinger again and again. "Well let me ask you something!" he grunted, whispering softly into Spider-Man's ear as he knelt down beside him,"Who's laughing now?" Deadpool laughed. He'd teleported aboard the ship and what had he found? the two most intelligent men on the planet lying on their backs with a giant, green man on his stomach between them and two hotties and a skinny young kid slumped up against the wall. "Maybe Monty was right," he chuckled, not really finding it funny but needing a release,"Maybe the world is doomed and I've gone and landed myself right in the middle of it." "N... not yet," gasped a voice, snapping Deadpool's gaze over to The Monarch Of Latveria,"Doom.... will not allow the world to end." Deadpool moved up beside him and squatted right down, looking with curiosity at possibly the smartest and also most vicious man in the world. He looked like shit. Doom's legendary armor was cracked down the helmet, his robes and cape torn. The device Reed had set off had been specifically designed to overload and shut down Doom's armor, and it had mostly worked. However, Doom had fired a vial into the ground which had blasted the room with a chemical designed to neutralize Reed's elastic abilities, making his body into a big, wobbly rubber man incapable of even standing up, let along fighting. Doom's malfunctioning armor had set off an energy burst from one gauntlet which smashed through a wall and exploded the oxygen regenerators housed inside. This created a very impressive explosion which had sucked all the air from the room but not done any more damage than blowing out the wall, removing all the oxygen from everyone's lungs, knocking them out cold. "What's the plan, Doctor?" asked Deadpool, trying to be serious and show a little respect. After all, this was Doctor Doom he was talking to, not some freaky voodoo magician with a band-aid on his nose or some loser who liked to lock people in death-traps for kicks. "The Gamma Wave," gasped Doom,"You must activate the Gamma Wave." "Gamma Wave?" asked Deadpool, a little unsure as he turned to look at The Hulk,"Doesn't that make guys like tall, green and muscle bound "No," lied Doom,"Specially designed.... to attack only our en... our enemies, wipe them out completely." "Sounds like a plan," said Deadpool, standing up and rubbing his palms together,"How do I start it up? Just throw my arms up and go woah, hope everyone else joins in?" "The main flight console," gasped Doom, pointing behind him in the rough direction,"A large red... button under.... a glass casing, break the casing and push the button!" "Will do," said Deadpool, happy to be helping to save the world. And he broke the glass and pushed the button that would kill tens of millions. Spider-Man was slammed against the wall, the strong bricks shaking and shuddering. "Come on, don't just take it!" laughed Lupus, stepping back and lowering his arms,"I'll give you one free shot!" Spider-Man coughed and blood dripped through his mask, his body felt like it was made of broken glass, his mouth filled with his own blood. "You know," said Lupus conversationally,"I'm really going to enjoy finishing what I started with that hot bitch of yours.... I can still taste her on my mouth you know!" Spider-Man roared with fury, stumbling off the wall and past Lupus, who easily dodged the clumsy lunge. "That's more like it!" he laughed,"Show a little fighting spirit!" With a wordless growl, Spider-Man began to spin a bat made of his webfluid. "Oh good," laughed Lupus,"I used to love baseball!" Thor slammed Justin into the ground, ignoring the vicious blows rained upon him by The Master Of The Physical Discipline. He held him down by the neck and slammed Mjolnir into his opponents face, making a sickly, wet crunching noise. Justin made his body flow into a liquid form and sped out of Thor's way, reforming his body and super-compacting his molecules before running into The Thunder God from behind and slamming him with powerful, earth shaking blows. The Assembled Fellowship watched it all, enthralled, none of them noticing the loud humming noise growing from Doom's ship. Reed Richards sat up in shock, his body slowly reforming into a semblance of his normal shape. His body felt loose and droppy, as if he had lost some physical cohesion as a result of Doom's attack. He heard the humming, felt the vibrations in the ship and knew that he'd failed, The Gamma Wave was building up, preparing to hit critical mass and wipe out New York City entirely. Or perhaps there was still a chance. "Forget it, Richards!" wheezed Doom, also sitting up slowly,"It is over, it is the only way." "Only way?" asked Deadpool, sitting in the comfortable pilots seat and watching Thor fight Justin on one of the scanners. He wasn't sure who would win, neither of them was black so it made it hard to pick a favorite,"You mean there's another way." "No," said Doom. "Yes," gasped Reed,"If I can get to The Fantasti-Car before Spider-Man attaches the last rod." He hauled himself to his feet and began a shambling, shuffling run, stretching his arm out before him as he did so, sending it rushing down the long corridors ahead of him as his legs bent and moved in odd ways, making it hard for him to keep his balance. He had to get there, or New York was doomed! Spider-Man gripped the bat loosely in one fist and slowly moved towards Lupus, determined to fight it out to the end. "Come on!" laughed The Fellow, lowering his arms and grinning maniacally,"Free shot!" "I was hoping you'd say that," coughed Spider-Man, then pulled his arm back in preparation to swing the bat. Lupus laughed.... and then Spider-Man was spreading his legs in a split, dropping down and slamming his free fist full force into Lupus' crotch. If Spider-Man were to insert the rod now, it would phase-shift The Physical and Mental Disciplines into the new dimension. But that wouldn't stop the Gamma Wave wiping out New York City. Unless Reed could reverse the genetic markers programmed into the Phase Variance Field he hoped to create and instead of teleporting everyone with Diosys in their DNA to the new dimension, it would teleport everyone and everything WITHOUT Diosys. He'd also have to re-program the field to short out and blow after a few minutes, which would take away the shift in their molecules phase and return them to their own dimension. His hand, several hundred yards ahead of his body and stretched to it's utter-most limit, pressed against the control panel to The Fantasti-Car. He continued running forward, struggling to concentrate and get his fingers, which felt dull and loose, to respond to the complex instructions he was giving it, operating the console from memory. - Just wait a little longer, Spider-Man! - he thought desperately, as the humming of The Gamma Wave build-up increased to a fever pitch. Spider-Man twisted around, extended a webline and caught the rod from it's place in the corner. Tugging back on it, he leaped into the air and caught it. "NO!" roared Lupus, forgetting his pain. He didn't know what Spider-Man was planning but he meant to stop it. He leaped after Spider-Man as he pressed the rod against the power coupling, then slammed it down. Reed flicked the last switch, just as he ran around the corner and took in the sight of The Fantasti-Car. He rushed to it's side and sighed with relief when he saw his memory had been correct, and the changes he'd made were the right ones. The sound of the Gamma Wave generator was shaking the entire ship now as it approached critical mass. Any moment now it would hit and a beam of pure gamma radiation would drop down to the ground from the ship, then spread out until it hit the Energy Absorption Modules, which would stop the Wave and leave New York City the worlds largest hole in the ground. What was Spider-Man doing!?! Spider-Man was thrust to the ground, all his strength gone from his last Herculean effort. Lupus laughed in contempt, standing next to the dim and dark rod. Looking down at it, he noticed it was slightly on an angle, so pulled it out and squatted down to investigate. "Huh!" he laughed,"A rock!" He pulled the small rock out, then tossed it aside. Turning his head, he noted with a smile Spider-Man slowly drawing himself up to his feet. "Oh good, extra rounds!" laughed Lupus, holding the rod in his hand. He moved forward to give The Webswinger another beating, then realized he still had the rod in his hand. "Fucking thing," he muttered, and not really thinking past wanting to hurt the man who had hurt him, shoved it back into it's power coupling. A beam of pure Gamma Radiation smashed into the ground from Doom's ship. It went unnoticed, though, as the fight between Thor and Justin approached it's conclusion. "Thou art finished!" growled Thor, pounding Justin down to the ground with his mighty fists. Justin moaned, moved to get up, then collapsed to the ground, beaten. Beaten. Thor turned to order the others gone, but his eyes widened at the sight of the green beam of energy, which was about to blast outwards in all directions. And then he was gone. The Fellows blinking shock as, with a flickering, shuddering blink, everything disappeared. A couple of thousand feet down they could made out the bottom of the huge hole in the ground. Far off in the distance they could see the outskirts of the city. But there was no city, no people, no Super-Heroes or Thunder Gods or ship. But a huge beam of Gamma Radiation remained, and as it hit critical mass it exploded outwards in all directions and enveloped the entire area where New York City had once been. The screams of The Fellows were agonizing, but very, very brief. Grey floated several hundred yards away from the furthest outreach of The Gamma Wave, watching it hit the Energy Absorption Modules and freeze in place. The result was an incredibly massive dome of green light, a light which had wiped his Fellows Of The Physical Discipline off the face of the Earth and sent a wave of psionic death through The Mental Discipline as the deaths of Five Hundred closely linked minds blasted through their heads. Grey had, off course, cut himself off from The Collective Mind the moment he saw the end coming, and thus he lived. "Well, that ends the competition, I suppose," he said with a grin,"I shall enjoy my life on The Island, I believe I'll release or just kill the male prisoners, but I'll keep those Harem Girls." He turned around and bumped hard into a floating figure dressed in red, white and blue. Next to him was a man in a green and gold costume. "No, you won't," Captain Britain stated simply, and then he and Banshee smashed Grey - formerly The X-Man - with a powerful combination punch/sonic scream. The scream when he hit the outer edges of The Gamma Dome were even shorter lived than his Fellows had been. Alaska - Two Months Later. -------------------------- Sinister settled down in his chair, lifting the electronic pad and perusing the last entry. "Yes, that all seems right," he muttered,"Now hopefully I can get on with my real work." He'd been less interested with the Final Battle than he had been fascinated by the reactions of those involved. It was all helping him to get perspective for his studies on Human Evolution, he'd been somewhat surprised to see that man or woman, hero or mutant, their reactions had all been invariably similar. They were just getting on with their lives. He'd noticed a peculiar tendency on this world to constantly maintain a status quo. No matter what happened, no matter how remarkable or extraordinary, once it was over the people went back to their same old routines. It was most surprising with the women, most of the Super-Heroine's involved in the 'One Day War' - as it had been coined by the now Award Winning Co-Writers, Ben Urich and Irene Merryweather - had been raped and then had their minds stripped to be nothing but sexual playthings for their captors. They'd been pushed into same sex encounters, orgies, sodomy and felatio. And yet they'd gone back to their husbands and their boyfriends, re-joined the teams with team-mates they been forced into intimate sexual contact with. And they acted like nothing had changed. It was not only implausible, it was impossible, Sinister thought to himself, putting the pad down. And that led to only one possible conclusion, someone or something was making them stick to their same old routines. Someone or something was making them act the same all the time, no matter what happened to them. But who? Or what? And most especially, why? Whatever the answers to those questions, Sinister did know one thing for sure, repression on this scale was not healthy and it would lead to repercussions, a veritable explosion of acts ranging from the small to the possibly quite catastrophic. Just look at Xavier, he had repressed for years and the result had been the Age Of Onslaught, which had, oddly enough, given Sinister the chance to live again. Or was that just another return to the status quo? He sat up as he considered the possibility. Thirteen months ago Henry McCoy had developed a cure for The Legacy Virus which had ended a debilitating disease, cured AIDS and most forms of Cancer. At the same time, the Sinister of this world had been killed along with Apocalypse. Human/Mutant relationships had grown closer, slightly more harmonious than usual and an overwhelming feeling of goodwill had been in the air. Now, thirteen months later, Legacy, AIDS and Cancer were once more genuine threats to a persons life. The world had a Sinister again, himself, Human/Mutant relations had become strained over the last two months as more and more people began blaming McCoy for The Physical Discipline as well as once again looking at mutants as a dangerous threat to their way of life. If The Physical Discipline had tried to use their powers to rule the world, what was to stop mutants? Even the new team of super-heroes that had risen up was now gone, The Thunderbolts revealed as a fraud and their leader - Baron Zemo - found with his penis severed and shoved into his mouth, a warning to others not to break the status quo? Or just an angry gesture from a lackey who'd had enough or perhaps been pushed too far? Even The X-Man was dead, an impossibly powerful mutant from a variation of Sinister's own timeline, he'd been the genetic duplicate of Cable, but now he was gone, leaving only one 'son' of Scott Summers and Jean Grey. The Fellows Of The Physical and Mental Discipline were all gone, even those who had remained outside New York City, like the two left to guard their precious Island, had died under the psychic strain of their allies disintegration. Everything was back to normal, in a way that just wasn't normal. "The status quo?" murmured Sinister to himself, then shook his head in amusement. He was a Bio-Geneticist, his only interest the exploration of Human Evolution, and yet here he was worrying about the social and psychological ramifications of an evolutionary dead-end that had popped up two months ago and only lasted a day. Shaking his head, he went back to his research, as he'd always done. Keeping the status quo. Deep Space - The Future. ------------------------ "Captain," nodded The Security Chief, a shape-shifter, as the Station's Captain stepped up onto the deck overlooking the Promenade below them. "Constable," replied The Captain with a nod. They both pretended to be looking around, then smiled as both chose the same moment to say the same thing. "The girl?" The Security Chief smiled and The Captain chuckled. Every day for two months now they'd been watching her, the beautiful, morose Irish woman who knocked back every attempt to engage her in conversation or to hit on her. All she would say was that she was waiting, never for who or for how long she planned to wait, but every day she was there. "Hmmm, here comes another one to give it a shot," muttered The Captain with a grin,"Every day they try to pick her up, you'd think word would have gotten around by now." "He's new," replied The Constable,"Come in with a transporter beam but wasn't listed on the passenger manifest. However he does have a long standing room set aside on The Habitat Ring and his credentials list him as a former Fleet Officer." "Interesting costume," muttered The Captain, noting the full body red and black he wore, along with a red face mask set with tiny white eye slits surrounded by black patches,"What's his name?" "Wade Wilson," came the reply. They both exchanged surprised looks when the Irish girl screamed in delight at the sight of the man and leaped into her arms, peppering him with kisses. "Interesting," muttered The Security Chief, turning and continuing his patrol. "Exactly," replied Captain Benjamin Sisko,"I have a feeling that life is going to get even more interesting around here in the future." End Marvel : Evolution 3. Compliments, Criticisms and/or Requests to : dimitri_resides@yahoo.com And that is it, the end of the biggest damn story I have ever written and my last work of this Millennium. It seems a suitable time to say a few words of thanks, and so here they are. My thanks to the loyal group of readers who have been with me almost since I first started writing these stories. I thank you all for your encouragement and patience as I missed self-imposed deadline after self-imposed deadline, and hope you felt the stories were worth the wait. My thanks to all the webmasters out there archiving these stories and others for easy access to the greater masses. Without you guys and girls a lot of authors would never have written their first stories and we appreciate the time and effort you've put into it. My thanks (and this is a strange one) for whoever came up with the ridiculous concept of a t.v show called Dr. Quinn : Medicine Woman. Without you, I would never have been filled with such rage and anger as to have actually sat down and wrote a story just to stop me punching a fist through the wall. Those early stories were pretty bad, but without them I don't think I would have ever developed any writing skills at all. And last but definitely not least, my very special thanks go out to all of you out there who have actually taken the time to write a word of thanks, tell me you liked the story or even offer constructive criticism. For the non-writer, I don't think you can ever quite understand what it means to get feedback, but believe me, it is very important. We put our time and effort and creative spirit into these stories, and nothing hurts quite as much as doing that and getting absolutely no response. My thanks to all of you who read the story and recognized that taking five minutes to say 'thanks' or 'good job' or 'why not try it like this' is well worth the time it takes to say it. So finally, as I sign off on my last story of the twentieth century and indeed, this Millennium, I say thanks for reading and keep watching those In-Box's and NewsGroups in the new Millennium, because I'm not planning on going anywhere. Dimitri.