Battle at the Emergence Point

The Battle at the Emergence Point was a three-sided battle between two factions of the Eternals, with one side wanting to stop the Emergence and save Earth and the other side wanting to allow the Emergence to happen. Both factions were also attacked by the last member of the Deviants, Kro.
==Background==
In the early stages of human history, a group of Eternals led by Ajak was sent on Earth by Arishem the Judge in order to exterminate the Deviants and ensure the Emergence of Tiamut the Communicator. Although the Eternals did kill most of the Deviants on Earth, Ajak increasingly became attached to humans, especially after having witnessed the Blip, and decided that she would not let them all perish in the Emergence. Ikaris, the only other Eternal who knew that Earth would be obliterated by the Emergence, feared that Ajak planned on interfering in Arishem's design and eventually had her killed by surviving Deviants led by Kro, who began to hunt down the other Eternals.
Once the Eternals began to regroup, Sersi reclaimed Ajak's Celestial Communication Sphere, thus learning her true nature and purpose. Like Ajak, Sersi refused to let Earth be destroyed in the Emergence, and suggested that the Eternals should find an alternative way to let Tiamut be born. However, Ikaris refused to sanction the idea of Druig putting the Celestial to sleep using the Uni-Mind developed by Phastos. This led to a split between the Eternals: Ikaris, followed by Sprite who was in love with him, declared his intent of ensuring Tiamut's Emergence at all cost, while the other Eternals remained determined to stop it for the time being. Ikaris and Sprite thus left the spaceship Domo, waiting for the other Eternals to arrive on the island of , where the Emergence was supposed to begin.Eternals
==Battle==
Upon noticing the Domo approaching, Ikaris instructed Sprite to make sure that the Emergence would occur before flying to the spaceship, using his optical beams to break through the hull. Ikaris was confronted by Thena, who refused to tell him where Druig was and soon engaged in a duel against Ikaris. Although she was able to hold her own against Ikaris, Thena found herself pinned against the wall. However, Ikaris soon realized that Thena had only been a distraction to enable Druig, Sersi and Makkari to get onto the island and activate the Uni-Mind.
Ikaris flew out of the Domo, observing that the Uni-Mind allowed Druig to halt the Emergence of Tiamut the Communicator. He thus attacked Druig from behind with his lasers before picking him up and tossing him back onto the ground in attempt to bury him with his optical beams. Leaving Druig for dead, Ikaris then turned its attention back to the Domo, in which Thena and Phastos had remained, and caused its destruction by ravaging its hull. As the ship crashed onto the beach, both Thena and Phastos were taken out of the Domo by Makkari, who then brutally attacked Ikaris once he landed.
Using her superhuman speed, Makkari was able to hit Ikaris on multiple occasions while dodging his attacks, eventually projecting him against a cliff and repeatedly striking him, the violence of the attacks even causing the rock behind Ikaris to crack. However, Ikaris was able to best Makkari and seized her by the throat before throwing her away and firing his lasers at her chest, leaving her in pain on the beach. Makkari still received the assistance of Phastos and Thena, who had left Sersi so she could focus on stopping the Emergence, which had already caused an eruption leading to boulders being projected into the air and onto the beach.
Working together, Phastos, Thena and Makkari were able to hold their own against Ikaris, attacking him from various angles while protecting themselves from his optical beams with Phastos' constructs or Thena's energy shield. However, the fight was disrupted by the arrival of Kro, who had tracked down the Eternals and sought to take advantage of their conflict to absorb their powers. Kro attacked Ikaris from behind with Gilgamesh's superhuman strength, but was prevented from moving further by Phastos, even though Thena disapproved of him protecting Ikaris against Kro.
As Kro taunted Thena with the powers of Gilgamesh, Makkari used her speed to create a whirlwind of sand around Kro to prevent him from attacking, but he used his powers to stomp the beach, causing Makkari and all other Eternals to be knocked back. He then assaulted Makkari and attempted to take her powers, but a blast from Phastos' weapons forced him to take refuge inside a cave, where Thena followed him. Ikaris then attempted to leave the beach and pursue Sersi to stop her, but he was restrained by Phastos' rings, which caused him to be forced on the ground, unable to attack Phastos with his eye beams.
Thena chased down Kro inside the cave he was trying to hide, manifesting several energy weapons to attack him. As she breached through the rock with her axe, causing a stream of lava to flow inside the cave, Kro attempted to conceal his presence once more, but Thena was still able to find and strike him. However, as she began to suffer from another Mahd Wy'ry attack, Kro attempted to deceive her by using Gilgamesh's voice, slowly entangling her in his tentacles. Nevertheless, Thena was able to regain her composure and created a knife to break free of Kro's grip before using her swords to cut through his body, killing him.
Meanwhile, Sersi attempted to approach the point of Emergence, only to be confronted by an illusion of Ajak created by Sprite. Although knowing the trickery, Sersi failed to sense Sprite approaching her from behind and stabbing her through the stomach. As Sprite explained that she wanted the Emergence to occur so that she could start a new life on another planet and forget about how she could no longer stand living among humans, she was knocked unconscious by Druig, who had survived being attacked by Ikaris and hit Sprite from behind with a stone. Druig then assumed that he could no longer hold Tiamut, and that only Sersi could stop his Emergence.
As the Emergence progressed, with Tiamut's head and hand slowly emerging from under the sea, Sersi approached him and attempted to use her transmutation powers to turn him into an inert material. Refusing to let that happen, Ikaris mustered the full extent of his powers to break free from Phastos' rings and flied to confront his wife. However, he was unable to attack her and let her accomplish her task. As the Uni-Mind was activated once again, all the attending Eternals, including Ikaris and Sprite, joined in, as did Tiamut himself, eventually stopping the Emergence by killing Tiamut.
==Aftermath==
Ikaris found himself unable to cope with the fact that he had betrayed Arishem the Judge by enabling Tiamut the Communicator to be killed, despite his former loyalty having caused the death of Ajak and Gilgamesh. He thus apologized to Sersi before flying away, throwing himself into the Sun in an act of suicide. Devastated by the loss of Ikaris, Sprite was still forgiven by the other Eternals and offered by Sersi to be turned into a human being with residual energy from the Uni-Mind which she accepted.
Sersi, Sprite and Phastos attempted to return to their normal lives, like Kingo before them, while Druig, Thena and Makkari departed with the Domo for a mission to find other Eternals and tell them the truth about their nature and purpose. However, since Arishem was aware of the failure of Tiamut's Emergence, he appeared near Earth and abducted Sersi, Phastos and Kingo, planning on using their memories to assess whether humans were worthy of living and whether the sacrifice of Tiamut perpetrated by the Eternals was grounded.
==References==
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