"We can't really just move all these people from one reality to another," he said, admitting to himself that he sounded just a teensie bit calloused with that statement, but it was true to him. In his timeline, they couldn't simply go into the Holy Land and remove his people and bring them back to Europe. They had to be saved and then given the ability to protect themselves. "I understand their survival is dim, here, but where do we draw the line?" A new arrival didn't concern him much seeing as he hadn't figure out how many people were actually down here, but this one didn't really seem to belong.

The Timebroker was listening to the others as they progressed. When Peggy walked up to him he was already devising a strategy. Before Peggy could speak he spoke. "I already know why you are here. I am already working on a plan for them. They have a couple of allies that have lost communication with, I am trying to contact them." He pointed to a device that was lit up. "Take that and go back. You should be able to contact Asgard and reach Thor. Contacting Asgard from here is impossible. It should look familiar. It is designed to briefly fool Asgard into answering. Don't use it like the original it will break very easily. The other ally I can contact myself with some difficulty."

Peggy walked over to the printer, she opened it up. "Mjolnir!" She heard it was a replica. She opened a portal to Earth-4634.

She saw Blackeye. "Timebroker finally finish feeling you in I see. Good timing." She hooked the faux Mjolnir to a console and attempted to contact Asgard. "Earth to Asgard. We need to speak with Thor right away. The Mutants are extinct and humanity is about to be." She then had the computer play it on loop.

She turned to Bennet. "Could I get my Energy Shield Emitter back?"

In the medical bay, Tony was laying down on a cot while Rien was sitting behind him donating blood. "That should do it. You should be feeling the effects already." The toes on Tony's left food began to wiggle. Within moments Tony was feeling well enough to stand on his own. "Thank you d..." He cut himself off before he called her his pet name for his Rien.

Rien and Tony walked in with the others right after Peggy asked for her energy shield back. Steve turned to Tony. "Your armors from all over the world are on their way as Peggy requested. They will be here shortly." Tony got into the armor Rien brought. "How many are in decent enough shape to fight?" He asked himself. He looked over the readout on the armor. "Vast majority of them are not in fighting shape but I could cobble parts from numerous armors into armors that can fight." He wasn't talking to anyone but himself.

"Best to leave Tony be when he gets like this. I uploaded the plans to the Arc Shield should Tony not have a spare Arc Reactor I'll have Tony work on it."

A message showed up on the holoprojector. "This is Majestrix Lilandra of the Shi'ar Empire. A fleet is on the way with some familiar faces." The image changed from Majestrix Lilandra to the X-Men. It then changed back to Majestrix Lilandra. "We also have the technology to revitalize your world. We have been trying to contact you for months. These Inhumans will face judgment for the breaking of the Shi'ar Conventions."

"...Well, she looks about as happy as she did back home," said Blackeye, looking at Lilandra's projector.  "Look, there needs to be judgment here, no question.  And the Shi'ar can help fix the planet.  I don't think you need to be talking about just total warfare here.  There's got to be a better solution that just destruction...

"...and I doubt Mutants are extinct forever, if humans aren't extinct."

Bennet removed the shield and tossed it back to Captain Britain. He remained quiet and listened intently as the rest conversed about what might come next. Bennet decided he really needed to do some more researching so that he understood more the relationships between people.

Peggy took the Energy Shield Emitter back. "Thank you." Turning to address the other Exiles. "I don't who this Majestrix Lilandra is but if Earth which includes its moon has signed on to a Geneva Conventions style agreement with the Shi'ar we must abide by the dictates of the Shi'ar Conventions. If we don't we can and will be held accountable to it just like we can and will be held accountable to the laws of any foreign country we visit in our home universe."

She turned to the Avengers. "Do you have a copy of the Shi'ar Conventions? If so can I see it?" Steve and Tony both shrugged. "Never heard of it before." They both said in unison. "This could be bad. Is it possible these X-Men signed on to it without the permission of anyone?" Tony never really had any dealings with mutants before. There was his late wife, Rien. Then there was Quake who was a S.H.I.E.L.D. operative everyone thought was a mutant but turned out to be an Inhuman who was executed as an Inhuman traitor for siding with the humans. Steve on the other hand had extensive dealing with them. "It is very possible. Especially since the X-Men disappeared right around the same time as the Terrigensis Mist enveloped the world. Since the world wasn't completely covered all at once they could have left for help before their facilities were enveloped." Peggy facepalmed. "Just great. So you are completely at the mercy of whatever the X-Men negotiated."

Outside the sound of explosions and thunder erupted sounding the arrival of Thor, Lady Sif, and the Warriors Three. "What the hell was that?" Peggy asked half afraid to know the truth. Steve and Tony looked overjoyed. "That would be Thor." Tony interrupted Steve. "His arrival better not have fucked up my Armors out there." The Avengers started heading for the surface. Steve motioned for the Exiles to come along.
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Rien saw the arrival of the Asgardians on a monitor. It was a sight to behold. Considering how loud it was inside this bunker she was glad the monitor's volume was off. She followed the Avengers outside. She watched as the Avengers filled in Thor on everything that had been happening.

Rien overheard, impossible not really with how loud Thor was boasting. "Whatever these Shi'ar Conventions they will suffer at the hands of the Asgardians if they dare break the treaty with Asgard." Rien had a suspicion this was going to end up in all-out warfare between all parties involved. She pulled the others to the side and spoke in hushed tones. "This is going to get way worse before this is over. We may want to consider evacuating anyone who can't fight out of this universe. The Asgardians are preparing to fight the Inhumans & Shi'ar. The planet may be on verge of being inhospitable to all life. This war may make it so the planet doesn't exist anymore. Their relationship in my universe didn't extend beyond the X-Men and select allies. They didn't care about ordinary humans at all."

"Yeah, but the thing is, we're here to try and make things right," said Blackeye.  "I've seen Earth destroyed once.  Everybody just fighting each other isn't a good solution for making things right.  If we can even just get the Shi'Ar, the Avengers, the Asgardians and whatever Humans are left all working together, maybe we can find a way to improve things.  Adding to the destruction doesn't seem like what we're supposed to be doing at all."

"I agree Blackeye. For all, we know they plan to take the leadership of the Inhumans and hold them for trial. If they wanted to wipe out the Inhuman base on the Moon what would you have us do? Nobody here has the power to stop them. The Asgardians could but it would take time and a fleet of Shi'ar ships could wipe out the Inhuman base in seconds. The Shi'ar are in control of this situation. Until we know what the Shi'ar intend to do the best we can do is hope for the best and plan for the worst. The worst is Shi'ar killing every non-mutant which they believe to be everyone on Earth and everyone on the Moon. Rien go gather everyone who isn't a fighter somewhere and if comes to it evacuate them to the Panoptichron. Blackeye and Bennet, we will stay with the Avengers."

As they return to Avengers they could overhear Steve trying to reestablish contact with the Shi'ar. Tony was working on Steve's shield transforming it into an Ark Shield. Steve hit the council. "Shi'ar refuses to answer."

A couple of hours later...

Tony threw the shield to Steve. Tony then pointed to a table with several gauntlets from his armor. "If anyone wants there are some gauntlets from decrepit armors. They won't last long without the full armor powering them but you'll get a few shots out of them. Can't tell you exactly how many." Tony went to Thor with a map. "Go there. It's an old project of mine. Never could get it running because it required too much power but you could power. You'll only get one shot, powering it like that will fry all the circuitry. So don't power it up because that will cause it to fire instantly. Hopefully, one shot will be all we need." Thor took off for the repulsor cannon. Three Iron Man armors followed.

Rien gathered everyone up that could be moved. Those that couldn't she gave a single injection of her own blood to heal them. Word had spread of the Shi'ar fleet incoming and were equally terrified and hopeful. She sang a song in French. The people began to calm down. "If the worse were to happen and the Shi'ar were to bombard the planet from orbit I can get you to safety to a place outside of space and time as you know it. We will then work on resettling you somewhere else. But pray for the best possible outcome." She began to pray silently for all involved the Shi'ar and the Inhumans included.

"I'm pretty well-armed," said Blackeye.  This wasn't a great situation-- they were supposed to help the resistance, but what if the Shi'Ar were going to just wipe out the planet?  He could talk to them, of course.  He knew their language; that might help.  But they'd been sent here on the assumption that they could help, somehow, and just a few more people that could fight wasn't going to be much...

Oh.  Oh, yes.  There was one thing he could do, and it might be key.

"Hey, I can do more with the tech," he said.  "I can take control of technology I'm touching.  I can fix alien tech, too-- I know how to fix or control Shi'Ar stuff.  I could probably do the same thing to Inhuman tech, but I've never tried.  I can handle lots of other tech, too-- Skrull, Badoon, Kree, whatever.  Tony, no offense, but your stuff wouldn't be a problem at all.  I'm a good space pilot; I could get to an ship or whatever if I can get a fighter or something to get close, and then start to reprogram it.  If the Shi'Ar turn hostile, I can do something about it.  So, what have we got that I can work with?"

Tony was offended and insulted but he put it aside. "I have armors specializing in stealth and armors specializing in space flight we could combine the elements into a single armor. Once I recharge my nanotech suit I will have one capable of being modified on the fly to suit any situation and I can control any armor with it. Blackeye follow me to my makeshift lab."

Steve invited the others to their training room.

Suddenly the alarms go off. "Scratch training. We'll prepare for any attacks. Tony, Blackeye work on your plan." Peggy was silently praying this was not going to turn disastrous.

Suddenly a broadcast of Majestrix Lilandra forcibly takes over all forms of communications on Earth and the Moon. "We came here originally to broker peace between humans & mutants under the terms of the Shi'ar Conventions. Now we are here to arrest the Inhumans responsible for genocide. They are wanted for intergalactic war crimes and will stand trial in front of the intergalactic war crimes tribunal on Xandar." Then  Richard Rider and Sam Alexander of the Nova Corps stepped into the field of view. Sam began reading off a list of the crimes. "If the Inhumans refuse to comply, the full weight of the Nova Corps will be brought down upon them. You have 24 hours to comply."

Peggy visibly sighed. "That went a heck of a lot better than I was expecting."

Before Rien could react to the broadcast the human Nova Corpsmen and the X-Men teleported into the base.

"Merde!" They appeared in front of her face. "Qu'est-ce que putain?"

"Sorry about that miss. I am Nova Prime, Richard Rider. This is my protege Sam Alexander. Lilandra has asked me to give you the good and bad news. The good news the Shi'ar are more than willing to terraform the planet to make it habitable for humans, mutants, & Inhumans who are not found guilty of war crimes. The bad news is that during the terraforming no one will be safe on the planet. During the terraforming process, the Shi'ar will provide a ship for you to live on. A member of every species will be able to oversee and be involved in every decision of the terraforming process. A member of the Nova Corps that doesn't come from Earth can be made available if so you choose."

Rien noticed Wolverine eyeing her. "I am not the Rien you know. My team and I are not of this universe." She could see Beast's eyes light up. She could tell he had lots of questions.

"...yeah, I'm not the Doug Ramsey you knew, either," said Blackeye.  "It's a weird universe-hopping thing.  Anyway, it looks like the Shi'Ar are being reasonable here; the Earth can be rehabilitated, and the punishment is going to be focused instead of general...

"...but the Inhumans might be unreasonable about this, so let's be ready to back up Lilandra if we have to."

Majestrix Lilandra began readying her forces to attack with five hours left in the deadline. With four hours left in the deadline, the ships began moving into place. With a half-hour left numerous cannons and three starships of Skrull origin uncloaked and began firing upon the Shi'ar ships wiping out half of them in seconds.

The flagship of the Shi'ar Empire and Majestrix Lilandra personnel flagship was one of the first to fall it crashed directly into Attilan the Inhuman city on the moon.

Lilandra began broadcasting a transmission to the Avengers base. Behind her, you can see fires. "The Inhumans have partnered with the Skrull..." The transmission cuts out. "My ship has crashed into the Inhuman..." An explosion could be heard and the transmission cut out for good.

Peggy watched in horror. "This has got to be the worst mission I have ever been on." She rubbed her temples. "If anyone has any ideas I am all ears."

Richard Rider was feeling pretty much the same way as Peggy. "Damn those Skrulls." He began communicating with the Nova Corps. "This is Nova Prime. Marshall every Nova Corpsman available to Earth's moon. Contact the Shi'ar. Their Majestrix is in dire straights. The treaty the Shi'ar have with the Kree will cause the Shi'ar to demand the Kree to participate. This will re-ignite the Kree-Skrull War. This is a class ten major clusterfuck situation."

Listening to the Nova Prime was not making Peggy feeling any better.

Richard hung up with the Nova Corps. "Under these circumstances, I am afraid the chances of Earth will not be a suitable planet for anyone to live on ever again. By the time this war is done the likelihood that Earth will still exist is minuscule to nonexistent. If the Shi'ar Empire is unwilling to take you in, then I as the leader of the Nova Empire will grant you full citizenship into the Nova Empire."

Sam interrupted. "Excuse me, Prime. The Shi'ar are requesting our aid as well as that of the X-Men and whoever else can help in finding and securing Majestrix Lilandra."

Rien wasn't expecting much good to happen on this mission after she saw the state of the planet but her expectations were still too high. What surprised her the most was the fact that the Shi'ar has a treaty with the Kree. In her universe, they are bitter enemies.

"If I am assuming correctly Lilandra's ship crashed into Attilan. If so then the city is open to the vacuum of space which means virtually everyone in the city is dead. If the ship has lost structural integrity then it too is open to the vacuum of space at least partially. We will need spacesuits or space capable Iron Man Suits."

"You are right." He pulled out several crystals and put them on a table. "These are Nova Stars they will grant you the powers of a Nova including the ability to breath in space." Every X-Men grabbed one. Rien grabbed one as well.

Blackeye didn't necessarily need one... but the Nova powers would be handy, no matter what, so he grabbed one.

"Wouldn't the Inhumans have some kind of backup in case of a dome breach?" he asked.  "It's pretty standard out there, to avoid exactly this kind of situation."

Peggy and the Avengers except for Tony all grabbed Nova Stars.

"Director Fury ensured S.H.I.E.L.D. & S.W.O.R.D. monitored every threat to the planet. He even had spies in Asgard and Atlantis. Even he was caught off guard. No one knew the Inhumans were there. He maintained his usual demeanor but I could tell he took it personally, he felt like a failure. He made it his personal mission to give us the best possible chance. Fury gave his life gathering over half the intelligence we have on the Inhumans. His primary focus was on ways to combat them on Earth. We didn't even know the name of their city until Miss Rien mentioned it." Steve's mentioning of Fury brought tears to many eyes in the room.

"In my universe, the Inhumans were on friendly terms with Earth but very little was known about them. The only time we ever saw them was on the rare occasion a new Inhuman went through their transformation on Earth. Then a representative of the Royal Family would come and take them away. A few times it caused incidents mostly in countries like China or North Korea."

Peggy put the Nova Star on her chest. Her uniform instantly transformed into the uniform of a Nova Corpsman.

Rien placed her Nova Star on the shoulder pauldron of her right arm. Her costume changed as well into that of a Nova Corpsman. The Avengers did the same as Peggy and Rien. A device of Tony's dinged. He went over to the device and stuck his arm into gold goo. The nanoparticles surrounded his body and formed his Iron Man armor.

Richard and Sam used their Supernova helmets ability to open hyperspace portals to the moon. "The Avengers will follow Sam. The others will follow me. Sam's team will start at the bow of Lilandra's ship. My team will start at the stern. We'll meet halfway through."

The Avengers followed Sam through his portal. Rien followed Peggy through their portal.

Blackeye did likewise, linking with the Nova technology as he went.  It was much more advanced, much more powerful... but so were the Phalanx.  He could manage this, at least for now.

Peggy stepped through the portal to the moon, the sound of battle could be heard all around. Richard blasted a hole in the side of the Shi'ar capital ship. "You three go inside. I'll ensure no one follows. If you need me I can be there in seconds."

Peggy entered with her shield and sword at the ready. "Be ready for anything. With Skrulls on the loose, anyone is a potential threat. If we get separated we are to treat each other as a threat." As soon as everyone was inside Richard sealed off the entrance he created.

"Blackeye tap into the computer systems our main priority is Majestrix but if we can rescue anyone along the way we will."

The first thing Rien did after entering the ship was to pry open a door. She discovered a golden-skinned member of the Imperial Guard regaining consciousness. Rien her up. "What the hell happened?" The golden-skinned woman stood up.

Rein grabbed the woman and helped her over to a seat. "The Skrulls surprised attacked your fleet. Your ship crashed into the Inhuman city on Earth's moon. While the Majestrix was communicating with us there was an explosion that took over the screen. We are here to help the Majestrix and anyone else we can."

The golden-skinned woman stood up. "The name's Heather you can call me Lifeguard. Follow me. I'll show you the quickest way to the Majestrix. Follow me." Rien quietly cast a spell on Lifeguard. She leaned towards Peggy and Blackeye and whispered. "Not a Skrull."