Fusion

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*"That was no ordinary dream, and you know it."*
―Steven Thompson[src]
The **Fusion** was the lengthy conflict that occurred in a possible future, between Summer Petersen and her squad of military elitists and Vincent Organa and his Guerrillas, due to Vincent wishing to free the Eight Worlds of the new totalitarian tyranny at the hands of the Black Queen and an undisclosed third party, a third party whom Petersen served, and Summer herself wishing to have revenge against the former for his role in the death of her beloved. Summer ultimately prevailed. Steven Thompson himself would glimpse vision of the potential future, although he accepted that it was metaphorical — although given how this reality nearly manifested over the Temple of the Relinquished, this may not be the case.

## History

### Preface

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*"Let me guess, you would have dearly loved to have him walk with your fellow guerrillas?"
"What do you think?"
"We’re here because your negligence and ego allowed that boy to die."*
―Red Cavalier and Vincent Organa[src]
At some point in a possible future, Steven Thompson would be killed, which Vincent Organa was somehow involved in. As Summer Petersen, kneeling by the side of the *Gemotre*, cried out in horrific grief, a sultry hand with long, black fingernails gently touched and stroked her shoulder while Zira Miranda Grover looked on, surprised but pleased by the figure of the Black Queen manifesting before her property in the way she did. Subsequently, Summer turned to evil under the influence of intoxicating doses of arzneillium provided by the Black Queen. The Black Queen quickly arrived in the Sol System, and Summer joined forces with an undisclosed third party. Summer brought together a squad of elitists who were anonymously accepted by the Brotherhood, mercilessly killing anybody who opposed her. While he perfected a Kraft ability in top secret as he anticipated using it on Summer's squad, Vincent promptly founded the guerrillas in order to combat this new threat, thus beginning a long conflict.

### Final battle

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*"Civilization has been routed, cities destroyed, people either dead, in dwindling pockets of resistance or subservient to... I'm not saying it. Resistance fighters are being routinely incinerated and vaporized by weapons the size of golf balls. Our friend's in thrall to someone, some evil cosmic queen, I do not know! Most disturbing of all? Summer herself looks to be totally evil, the complete opposite of the person we know."*
―Steven Thompson[src]
The war was long and hard, contaminating realspace itself and transforming the four inner planets into apocalyptic wastelands, with the outer planets presumably receiving undesirable fates as well. Prisoners of war from all over the universe were taken hostage and aligned artistically in a sumptuous hall. Among those slain in this future were Nicholas Jaxon and the Lumiking. The inhabitants of the Eight Worlds were counted, with most Martians and only a minority of Terrans being allowed to leave, Bethany Donner among them. She became head of law enforcement for the Brotherhood, whose duty was to bribe the confused and horrified population into silence over the various atrocities being committed by the Brotherhood and other metahuman misfits. However, she was secretly working against the Black Queen by leaking intelligence to other outlets about these atrocities, by using several loopholes. The Red Cavalier's desire to control both the fleet and the army of troopers comprising the Cavaliers of Thornton delayed her plan for overthrowing the Brotherhood, having been urged to succeed where Natalia Thornton failed. Vincent and some of his guerrillas encountered her and conversed with her outside a mutilated airport on Mars, before being alerted that Summer was on her way, leaving them to wonder if they should stand and fight. The Red Cavalier turned around, promising him the entire fleet in exchange for something, proceeding to disclose a secret about her cousins and their connection to Jay Organa before the scene cut midway.

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As the conflict was nearing its conclusion, Wraiths were roaming freely on a now unrecognizable Mars, unchecked and unchallenged, and a battle-weary Vincent was left with very few people he could still trust. At this point, Josh Hogan was either destroyed or entirely erased from existence. Vincent arrived on Mars for one final stand against the Brotherhood and whoever was helping them, leaving a bunker and doing battle with the elitists. As he laid waste with his laser sword, he began using an organic barrier to reel in the soldiers and prevent them from deploying long-range combat as most of them were used to, taking most of them out through this crucial advantage. For a time, he began to slowly but surely gain the upper hand, slicing open limbs and even blasting apart one of their heads, but then was brutally beaten down and restrained by reinforcements as he desperately held on to his bladed weapon. Seeing the troopers' inability to restrain him, a wraith stopped what it was doing and converged upon the area, giving him a brief migraine. This act of interference gave an elitist time to knock him unconscious with a slap in the side of his head.

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Vincent was subsequently chained up in the same hall of artistically assembled war prisoners as the centerpiece of the montage, at which point Summer was informed and immediately made haste to the hall. Meanwhile, Vincent regained consciousness, eyeing his fellow prisoners helplessly just before Summer arrived. Approaching Vincent, Summer bitterly unmasked herself and expressed her anger over Vincent for "arranging" for the demise of the one she loved more than anyone in the universe. Vincent's life was brutally ended when Summer executed everyone in the room with her flash orb, thereby ending the conflict.

As a mysterious voice ominously cited that the nature of the future was finally set in stone, Steven saw this last stand in a nightmarish vision in which he shared Vincent's consciousness, even having his bruises from the battle on his own body in the current timeline and reality. Horrified, he did not believe that this experience related to the Fusion was entirely a dream, leading him to avoid both Summer and Vincent and act coldly towards both of them, greatly disturbing Josh Hogan, who helped him heal from his physical wounds. Ultimately, Summer's undeniably heroic, noble, and selfless actions throughout the war made him realize just how harshly he misjudged her, and they both agreed that in theory, the crisis was a metaphor to something huge that was on its way. Furthermore, he believed she had more than proven herself the opposite of an evil woman to sway him from taking the risk of dating her, even if it would stand a chance of reopening the door to a dark potential future.

After the Union of Ladybugs battled and failed to stop Mykew Hadeline from initiating the Unification, it looked as if the Fusion would come true albeit in a very different form where the enemies of the Brotherhood would all be killed from the outset just as the Second School War was turning its bloody hand. However, Savannah van Dukas interfered, holding Hadeline inside her head to triumph over her forces. Even in the midst of their success, the Black Queen was determined to find another way to open the Dark Gate.

During the Battle at the Temple of the Relinquished, Summer herself was made privy to a vision of the Fusion, seeing her own fall to the Black Queen's influence and the declaration of victory over the Guerrillas. As a result, she became petrified with horror, losing any traces of loyalty to the Magistrate and brutally bruising her head.

## Residents

* Black Queen
* Bethany Donner
* Zira Miranda Grover
* Josh Hogan
* Miller
* Jay Organa
* Vincent Organa
* Summer Petersen
* Savin
* Steven Thompson

## Behind the scenes

* The name "Fusion" is only used informally in any of the books, but D. Isaac Thomas formally mentioned it as such when speaking of the upcoming *Vault of Ages* trilogy, confirming it would touch down on the conflict.
* The term is close to "Fusionism", a superpower in which users can fuse together objects, powers, emotions, concepts, living beings, or even themselves with something else, turning into single unit. They can also combine their physical attributes, abilities, and powers together to form a new being that is stronger, faster, smarter, and more powerful than they were alone. However, the term Fusion to refer to a specific dark potential future is commonly used enough that it's unlikely to be a major source of confusion.
* The Fusion could not have been a mere dream, as Steven did not yet know he would be with Summer romantically and was never confirmed to have learned the Wraiths existed at all; hence there is a more evidence for a possible future.
	+ However, it may certainly have been averted, since Summer is dead by 2052 and the star system is still functional in the 2170s, a century later.
	+ Although, given imminent exploration into the Multiverse of Mutantry-2001, anything could happen to contradict these ideas.

## Gallery

Summer cries over Steven or Joshua-Fusion.pngThe Black Queen comforts and seduces Summer Petersen.Fusion - Vincent and Bethany - RC.pngThe Red Cavalier makes a deal with Vincent Organa.Vincent beaten down.pngVincent battles Summer's forces.Summer Fusion.jpgBelieving justice will be done for those she loves, Summer approaches a helpless and restrained Vincent.Fusion reality.pngThe Brotherhood is victorious.
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Boys vs. Girls: The Fate of the Towers*
2. ↑ *Boys vs. Girls 2*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `BVG4`
4. ↑ *Red Cavalier* (Postscript scene)
5. ↑ *Annie and the Blue-Eared Kid*

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