Worthy of their Mettle: a Superhero Timeline

Through the grey skies punctuated a bright light which moved ever closer. She could feel a psionic presence moving along with it, and that presence was angry. That presence was aware that something was amiss, and was intent on correcting such an unholy injustice.

The sun god screeched and cawed, and hurled beams of fire and light at her.

"I did not imagine that the usurpers would have the likes of you among their rank," she felt him opine through his psionic abilities.

"Clearly I am not normal."

She leaped into the air to avoid the blasts. She felt the psionic waves emanating from him, attempting to throw her around, trying to silence her once and for all. Being the psionic entity she had become, she could resist him.

The jumping around and avoiding his psionic attacks grew to be almost dull. She tried to channel the otherworldly energy that she had used to defeat Zipacna, to only some avail.

Every time she tried, she grew stronger. She could channel more and more of this particular kind of energy and focus it on the deity. She felt herself tampering with reality, impaired by his sheer psionic presence.

"Annette."

This was not the voice of Vucub Caquix, nor was it the voice of the entity that had addressed her previously. The voice was almost feminine, unlike the deep voices of the other two.

"It has come to our attention that this threat of yours is beyond the scope of that which we can ignore. We have familiarized ourselves with the rules of your particular reality. We will aid you."

"What?" she asked.

"We are channeling immense amounts of psionic energy to you in a way that will not hurt you. Go. Do what you did to Zipacna to him."

She focused. She felt the groundswell of energy inside her, and focused it all on Vucub Caquix.

Once more, she felt everything.

Worlds and universes and civilizations beyond all comprehensions entered her consciousness, and they flowed into the god. He screamed and cawed and shrieked.

"I know this is complicated. But things far beyond this world need you. They need your help, for the sake of all reality."

The shrieks stopped, and the sun god fell to his end.

And the cold, metallic presence in the shadow of Jupiter began moving towards the third planet from the sun.

Next round, sure. 

It could be either. 

Not necessarily. 

The birds flew away and the lizards scampered about, and the cultists were in full retreat.

The report had come in from Washington. Vucub Caquix was dead.

The jubilation of the troops and of the bulk of the Guatemalan population created a thunder that could be heard for miles around.

But their jubilation would not go unanswered.

It was American psionic and radar based detection systems that saw the presence that had emerged from the shadow of Jupiter position itself not far out from the moon. From there, it released several smaller entities.

In the blood-soaked highlands of Guatemala landed a structure several stories high with metal plating that glimmered in bluish white, with several components on it. It emitted a tremendous amount of psionic energy but did not do much of anything immediately.

Similar structures came down in other places.

One, in the plateau of Qinghai Province, China.

One, in the deserts of Rajasthan in India.

One, in the Meseta Central of Spain.

And one in the wasteland of Santa Monica, California.

As humanity wondered what these things were, the presence in the Earth's orbit sent out more ships, down towards Europe, where Cabrakan was marching on Strasbourg. Europe's armies had prepared for a titanic battle in Prague, that city that had already seen so much. But they would not be necessary.

These silvery ships made short work of the cultist armies, and were augmented by similar entities created by the device in Spain. In addition to their ships, metallic insectoid machines served as ground support, alongside other vehicles. Cabrakan himself was incinerated by a bombardment of beams that no human had yet seen.

And as the world's mouths were agape in wonder, a single message was heard to all, emanating from a psionic beacon that dwarfed even that of Vucub Caquix.

"You have no idea what you have just unleashed. You have no idea what sinister forces that are now coming. You have played with fire and you have not yet seen the destructiveness you will wreak. Insatiable entities from beyond this universe now know of your existence, and they are coming. We have arrived to preempt them, and to save you all."

Satellite feed picked up further ships coming from the entity near the moon. They began to elongate, and extended, to the horror of Earth governments, cannons.

These cannons then aimed themselves away from Earth.

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