'Who Remembers The War-World?'

'Who Remembers The War-World?' is the title of a cutscene taking place in the side-mission series, "The Light & The Darkness", taking place during a meeting between the members of the newly fused Illuminati, as they discuss potential reasons that their universes may have converged, and they make a disturbing discovery as to a major battle that almost none of them seem to have any memory of.

## The Scene

* Mister Miracle: I mean, if any of this was possible, and that's a big if... just how many individuals are there out there who could be capable of... Fusing dimensions? I mean, there was that whole Anti-Monitor thing, but that was years ago... right?
* [An awkward silence fills the room]
* Mister Miracle: I really don't like that pause.
* Iron Man: Who's gonna' fill the new guy in?
* Batman: Clark hasn't mentioned any appearance of Myxlplyx or any of the other 5th dimensional beings as of late.
* Professor X: So you have heard from your Man of Steel recently? Tell me, when is he plan on bringing back my pupil, or perhaps explaining the tragedy which he brought upon my home?
* Black Panther: As much as I have concerns over the Kryptonians status, let us not get distracted from the topic at hand here.
* Professor X: Now your highness, I thought that you of anyone here would be seeking answers in this matter, as your beloved was among my children whom did battle with him.
* Black Panther: My Ororo stood her ground against the insurmountable, but even I can set aside my rage with him for the potential bigger threats on the horizon. If it truly is reality itself being warped, we are all at risk, not just your Mutants, not just the Kryptonians, and not just my people. It is all of us, Professor.
* Wonder Woman: Besides, sovereignty aside, we should be laying all of our cards on the table here. Including yours, Charles.
* Aquaman: What is she referring to Xavier?
* Iron Man: Why don't you look over here and see, chum?
* [[[Iron Man]] taps a display behind them, showing a map of the globe with various hotspots displayed, including a massive one in the X-Mansion]
* Iron Man: This is a map of the tachyon particle spikes all over the world, particles typically given off when the good doctors here do their fancy tricks. Now, could you tell me why over the past 6 months, two large spikes began steadily growing from your school?
* Dr. Fate: How could you expect to understand our ancient sorcery with your mere gadgets.
* Mr. Fantastic: It was your daughter who volunteered to give Tony and I the samples to synthesize a tracking algorithm.
* Dr. Fate: [Slamming his fists on the table] YOU DARE BRING OUR DAUGHTER INTO YOUR SACRILEGE STARK?
* Wonder Woman: "Our daughter"? Be careful Nobu, you're starting to sound like that host you keep so quiet.
* Mr. Fantastic: People, can we please focus?
* [A frustrated silence overtakes the bickering]
* Iron Man: Now, after the Boy Scout - [pointing at Batman & Wonder Woman] your Boy Scout, not ours of course - decided to drop out of the sky and grab your girl, one of those spikes moved very quickly to the North Pole. So there's two big takeaways there:
* John Stewart: That Clark was right about this Phoenix's powers growing more exponentially, and that he was right to get her to a secure location.
* Nova: And that you still have a powerful reality warper in your little school that you have not disclosed to our chapter.
* Professor X: We have her under control.
* Doctor Strange: And we have contingencies in place if Wanda's condition worsens.
* Iron Man: [Caught off guard, turning to Doctor Strange] You knew about this? And you chose not to share because?
* Mr. Fantastic: The point of this charter was the ability to compartmentalize. You don't have to have a say in every single matter Tony.
* Iron Man: You know, funny you mention compartmentalizing, because when you sent the final mark-up for the tracking software, I noticed you wrote in a couple thousand extra lines of code making a little blind-spot right... [[[Iron Man]] reaches towards the display above Manhattan and flicks it, revealing a hidden spike] There. Now tell me Reed, isn't that spike right over your building?
* Mr. Fantastic: Tony, I'd suggest you tread carefully.
* Iron Man: I just find it strange that you'd create such an advanced algorithm for tracking ancient sorcery and reality warping, and you'd just so happen to tape over the location of one of the youngest and least controlled reality warpers on the planet.
* Mr. Fantastic: Tony, if you don't stop right now, you will never be able to make a suit that could keep me out.
* Iron Man: Tell me, how is your son Richards? Is Frankie adjusting better now that uncle Ben's gone?
* [[[Mr. Fantastic]] slams his fists on the table and springs to his feet, while IRON MAN's armor rockets onto his arm, repulsor ready.]
* Iron Man: Now who has temperment issues?
* Black Panther: Gentlemen, can we please focus?!
* Batman: Has Miss Maximoff's condition improved at all since we last spoke, Stephen? Is she still asking for this 'Vision'?
* Doctor Strange: She is, and I'm afraid we've had no luck gaining more insight from her. All we know is that she thinks he was her husband.
* Iron Man: [Turning to Batman] You too? Who didn't know about this? Also, since when are you two on a first name basis?
* Batman & Doctor Strange: We're not.
* Mister Miracle: Wait, everybody stop for just a damn second! Did you say Maximoff? As in the daughter of that radical mutant fanatic who tried to take over the War World when Mongol last invaded?
* [The room grows eerily silent]
* John Stewart: What did you just say Scott?
* [The room waits for Mister Miracle's response]
* Mister Miracle: Do... do none of you remember last year when Mongol tried to bring the War World here to Earth? It took half of all of our heroes just to bring him down because the Kryptonians were all off world. And after it was all said and done, Magneto and the diamond chick had brainwashed the little blonde titan to take control of the whole damn War World.
* [A stunned expression overtakes the entire room]
* Black Bolt: What is this War World you speak of? Is it similar to Attilan?
* NOVA: If by similar, you mean the size of an entire moon, completely weaponized, and built to conquer entire solar systems at a time, then sure.
* Black Panther: And why is it that we are only hearing about a weapon of this scale now?
* Mister Miracle: What are you talking about T'Ch- I mean - your highness? You were there at the battle?
* Mr. Fantastic: We don't know about the War World, because we've never had to fight it. The League came across it on a deep-space outreach mission a few years back. This was long before any of our teams had a ready source of communication.
* Iron Man: But of course you knew about it, because you seem to know everything, isn't that right Richards?
* Mister Miracle: Tony, you were literally right there on the front lines with us when we fought it! I mean, we were all literally in San Francisco together when we beamed up to fight Mongol.
* Wonder Woman: Scott... the War World hasn't ever made it to Earth...
* [[[Mister Miracle]] darts his eyes around the room looking for reactions before scoffing to himself]
* Mister Miracle: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. Hazing the new guy. Ha-ha, real mature everybody.
* Dr. Fate: The Amazon speaks the truth Scott Free. We have not seen this War World come to Earth in recorded history.
* Mister Miracle: [Awkward pause] You're... you're kidding me, right?
* Black Bolt: Stark, are you sure that this mortal brought into our private chamber is well? Can he truly be trusted?
* Mister Miracle: I'm not crazy guys! I'm telling you, Mongol showed up, we kicked his ass, Magneto took over and tried to blow up the UN for not taking Mutant issues seriously, and then the blue guy showed up and zapped them all away.
* [The tension thickens along with the silence.]
* Atom: We have a lot of 'Blue Guys' nowadays. You'll have to be more specific? The hairy one? The cute one? The guy with the tail and rapier?
* Mister Miracle: No, it wasn't one of the Mutants, it was some new guy I never saw before. Haven't really seen since. He was bright blue, black shorts, glowed real bright... Seriously, do none of you remember any of this?! The guy literally pointed at the whole fucking planet and poofed it away!
* [A pencil snaps at the end of the table]
* Ozymandias: Did you just say he glowed?
* Mister Miracle: [After a long pause] I really don't like that the quiet guy just spoke...
* Batman: Veidt... Is Scott talking about that particular individual that you spoke of in our very first meeting?
* Iron Man: Charles, care to fill me in on what any of the other rich boys are talking about?
* Batman: You said that he was on Mars, and that you were certain he wasn't coming back.
* Aquaman: Mars? Do you mean the Manhunter?
* Ozymandias: Far more dangerous, and far more unknowable I'm afraid. But as far as me satellites have confirmed, he hasn't left his little sand castle in over 20 years.
* Mr. Fantastic: And if your satellites are wrong? They are comparatively ancient to much of our current sensor capabilities.
* Ozymandias: [Snapping] They aren't wrong.
* Batman: Is it completely out of the question that this dimensional convergence could be of his doing?
* Ozymandias: A notion so absurd that I hardly considered the possibility.
* Batman: A notion so absurd that it already resulted in at the very least you coming into our dimension.
* Mister Miracle: Hey, boys, sorry to interrupt, but can we get back to the fact that none of you remember one of the biggest celestial catastrophes that came in the past 5 years?
* Dr. Strange: Professor Xavier, if you could be so kind, could you access this so-called memory that Mr. Free speaks of so we can sort all of this out?
* Professor X: Certainly.
* [[[Professor X]] rolls his way to the other side of the table to place his hand upon Mister Miracle's head. After a brief moment of concentration, both of them thrash backwards in pain. A brief panic overtakes the room as they all ready their weapons, and T'CHALLA instinctively goes down to help Professor X into his chair.]
* Black Panther: Charles, what just happened?!
* Professor X: [Pained] My apologies, it was very... overwhelming. And I am not sure as to how, but it seems that Mr. Free's recollections are accurate.
* Iron Man: I'm sorry, but I think I'm gonna need a second opinion, teach.
* Dr. Fate: The Professor speaks true, Stark. I sense no deception in his heart, nor falsehoods in his mind. Whatever the memory that he speaks of is, it is a natural one.
* John Stewart: No, there's no way that any of this is possible. How could the new guy be the only person that remembers something so critical as a massive battle with the War World here on Earth?
* Mister Miracle: [Rubbing head as he gets to his feet] Well, let's just say that I've had a lot of mental torment and rewriting over the years from good ol' granny, so my brain has gotten used to an eternity of memory alteration. Now, that kind of stuff doesn't stick anymore. I just... I just didn't realize that none of you remembered this happening.
* Batman: He's not the only one who remembered.
* [The room grows still]
* Batman: I've been experiencing moments, moments and instances of events that I don't recall, but they still come to me in my dreams.
* Black Bolt: I thought that the Batman did not dream.
* Batman: [Sternly] I don't.
* Iron Man: What in god's name has the kind of power to warp reality, time, and our perceptions of memory on that kind of scale? Thanos? Darkseid? Apocalypse? Dormammu?
* Ozymandias: Wrong gods.
* Aquaman: Look, if we can not all put our differences and petty grievances aside, to be open with our many secrets and knowledge of shadows, then there truly was no point in forming this 'Illuminati'. We made this charter to share crucial and sensitive information with one another, because we knew that we were the one's with the capability to make the hard decisions. Now, if we are not willing to do that, that Atlantis will not have any part in this little order.
* Ozymandias: Gentlemen... I think that it's time that we discuss Doctor Manhattan.