Josh watched as each of the clones went off to to do their own jobs with the batch leader dealing with the new arrivals. *my job is to experiment with the unique quirks of the dc universe to see if it works here in marvel. Out of everything in dc the easiest things to test are the equations, while normally I would never be able to understand it in the finest, everythings explained in the comics. The best things ar the speed equation as well as the life and anti life equations, thanos once used it to control earth during a crossover even leaving a white lantern in that universe.*
Saying what he remembers the equation to be Josh said aloud ' 3x2(9yz)4a' as Josh finished saying's the formula aloud time around him seemed to stop looking around him he saw as lightning clung to his skin without activating his spider abilities. 'It worked the formula really doe's connect to the speed force. I can feel by body creating time I could feel my body spreading out through rime, as a paradox I have no past but now I can feel the time moving around me'
Decideing to test his current prowes he dashed through the city collecting everything. Josh could tell that he was making a disturbance within the city because of the hordes that started to form.
*the speed force while good is extremely weak I could only reach the the speed of sound nothing compared to what wally west could do. I being the creator of this speed force am the only one connected to it, It's growing as I run but I would need to run for decades straight for the speed force to grow fast and strong enough to travel through time I'm still better of teleporting for now. With the increased in my mental capacity I can feel aspects of the other forces, they are all connected and I can feel it as I run.
With each step I can feel as the world slowed with each step as the friction strengthened every step. The feeling of running was amazing but it was weak I could feel the vastness of the power. The equason definitely works so the life and anti life equations are on the table.*
Making another lap around the city releasing clones to collect everything, the lap took a full five minutes having every clone explode into symbiote biomass covering the whole city. 'The newly born force is growing as more souls enter my domain I might just take the whole planet I have the time here I looked through the city and collected all of the hero's in the biomass explosion. I took a whole city in just a few minutes. Not many can boast about something like that in my previous world without going on a list.'
Running through the baren empty land that remained after Josh took the whole city josh got an immense stream of information *the rest of me cataloged everything new with the growth of my soul becoming faster and stronger. I found a several new vampire zombie hybrid strains in the sewers alongside the greatest thing I could've asked for the hulk.
The hulk alongside all the rest of the heroes in New York had no time to do anything being to fast to see and able to go through anything in my way. During my run through the city I've collected everything alive and dead, I've ended up collecting magnito and all of the other survivors hiding into myself as well I seperated all of the survivors by biome with mutants being placed where Emma's statue was with the zombie biome being called the grave.
The grave is where I placed the zombies, the zombies were easy to control with them no longer feeling the hunger in the hive. The zombies so far have organized themselves returning to the empty, the normal human survivors were placed in a separate biome.
The names my other self gave for the biomes were Eden where I will keep all my unique specimens and collectibles, Krakoa is the biome where I placed the mutant survivors, the grave for the newly collected zombies. The void is the part of the hive where the vampire's originally located, it originally lacked light because I had no way to light it up but decided to keep it that way for the vampires. We had to separate some of the statues to relocate symbiote carriers from the normal vampires, the statues were moved to a separate empty biome to more easily keep track of the beings I collect.
It's easy to watch the newly collected inhabitants explore their new surroundings with my different avatars constantly spreading information and rumors I was able to see how their devotion grew. Many of the zombies prey to me for getting rid of the hunger and granting them a new start, along side my nudges here and there boom I have a cult.
The survivors in New York were only a handful inside the whole of New York city, numbering less than a thousand, I placed them in a normal biome with regular animals I've spread rumors among the surviving humans alongside injecting information inside their head's information about this place. Being outside of space and time there's no need for eating or sleeping in this place leaving them to build small groups.
So far I've already gained a lot of avatars from the hybrid beings in New York I need to collect more the best place to start in a zombie world like this is surprisingly Canada because of an old cure in its land. In marvel Canada is cursed so if anyone ever eats their fellow man on Canadian soil they'll become a wendigo with how the world is now there's definitely at least a few.*
Making a few clones to populate a few more biomes, Josh continues saying what he remembered to be the anti live equation to be. 'Loneliness + Alienation + Fear+Despair +self-worth/ Mockery/ Condemnation/Misunderstanding X Guilt X Shame X Failure X Judgment, N=Y where Y=Hope and N=folly. Love=lies, Life=Death, self=Me' saying the phrase aloud caused the world itself to tremble.
The use of the anti life equation caused Josh to feel his control over the minds in the hive grow even stronger as his essence permeates everything. 'While so far I can feel as my will subjugates everything around me while I don't know if this works on the dead yet I need a way to broadcast my power. While I have all the hero's in New York their all zombies since they haven't faced galactus yet. From what I collected from the baxter building and the zombie reed richards that was staying there he hasn't talked to his other counterparts yet bringing them to this dimension.
From what I remember about this reality, this world is a time loop after the virus spreads to several other realities it ends with the sentry falling right into this worlds New York starting the zombie virus creating a time loop. Being able to control this whole time loop would definitely allow me to do even bigger scare experiments. Though I am curious what would happen if I cover the whole world in my will'
Looking into what his other selves were doing he began watching what was happening through his other selfs senses. Josh was currently in wakanda the main city was overrun with zombies with them keeping some of their fighting prowess. He was robbing the city of everything of worth starting from the heart shaped herbs that was one of the main targets.
*collecting everything by hand is becoming tedious I wanna know if there's a faster way to do this, this is taking way too long with all the zombies constantly roaming around it's starting to become exhausting to keep myself intangible I'm not used to using this ability yet, it'll become easier once we clones return to the main body.*
Creating several more clones Josh lead the clones all over the city preparing for everyone to detonate covering the whole area. 'It's definitely getting easier to do than last time. So far I haven't felt any discomfort once we all feel the dark force signal to spread out we will immediately cover all of wakanda. I'll spread like a plague of my own immediately collecting everything into myself.'
This clone of Josh was sent to collect everything of value and wakanda and it's technology is a once in a lifetime opportunity that he didn't want to pass up.
Spreading the darkness surrounding him Josh flared his power, spreading it far and wide easily filling the city and the surrounding areas. 'This was a bit time consuming it took close to five minutes to collect the city, strategically placing clones around the entirety of wakanda was far to time consuming. I placed clones both in the city and on the city to make collecting wakanda easier and faster alongside my clones but it still took way to long.'
Teleporting slightly outside of wakanda Josh watched as his clones blew themselves up turning into a black liquid that covered everything in the area. Watching as it all wdisappeared sinking into the the ink, the zombies went into a frenzy trying to fight back against the tide to no avail.
It was quiet after everything was gone the once beautiful landscape was just gone leaving a flat barren landscape in its wake. 'I got wakanda so my other selves should pick through everything placing everything in its own place. Im getting pretty excited at what I can do with wakndan tech and my own personal vibranium mine. This means that wherever I go I'll always have leaverage in making deals because of the rarity of vibranium.
I finished my job here so the best thing I can do is continue scavenging, I want to hurry up and collect everything before galactus comes. I entered the timeline before the start of the story so they haven't interacted with an alternate timeline yet, with reed in The Grave he won't be able to interact with his alternate self not that he would want to.
I have all the heroes that were in New York during the outbreak so far it's taking forever to wait for the power feedback. With so many people it'll take a while before other powers start manifesting the best way to hasten it is to collect powers to streamline the process, the thing I should look for is the Absorbing man for his ability to absorb the properties of whatever he's touching.
There are several other targets I should find as well like sobunar of the depths, or xilo the defender they have powers that we currently need. Sobunar's mutant ability makes his body an ocean that he can control while xilo's ability is earth manipulation and control.
Xilo is an ancient mutant that's close to 2 billion years old, xilo is made up of a collection of bugs and insects he can grow by incorporating more bugs into himself but he's also bound by the same thing. Xilo is entirely composed of living bugs losing any of the bugs literally looses a part of himself. He was able to terraform mars in the comics I want to make these biomes of mine self sufficient.
Currently my other selfs are dealing with the maintenance of each biome personally, the work is time consuming and limiting for my current self. Everything's from the artificial suns light to the air they breathe is being monitored by my other selves, taking their powers would streamline the terraforming process.
The best powers to steal before finding those two omega level mutants are Dust who can become and control sand,Prodigy who can assimilate information from people around himself,Storm for her control over nature, Sway for her ability to control time In localized areas and, Empath for his unique form of mind control.
I also need to finish collecting samples for more avatars. Collecting unique vampires samples are the top priority, from the comics I know that there are six ancient vampire clans that serve the lords bloodline with there being several offshoots like the aquatic vampires. '
With the main body
Josh had to lie down he was gaining a massive headache he was struggling to stay grounded he constantly found himself accidentally jumping between bodies. 'I'm definitely not used to having so many clones running around everything keeps warping together.'
Decideing to take a break from looking at his other selves he decided to enter the hive. Looking around the room Josh watched as several of his clones could be seen going through everything the clones have collected.
'This is going way to slowly' feeling out for the clones Josh Prime connected with his clone that was experimenting with the speed equation. Connecting with the clone josh felt as the energy rushed through the connection Josh watched as the energy rushed to the mirror in the center of the room.
At first the energy was yellow like normal but soon the energy changed from yellow to green, blue then purple before blurrring together into a bright white white mist that blew throughout the hive.
*What the hell is going on everything was fine for the clone, what's going on this energy is constantly moving around it's making me uncomfortable. It feels like every cell in my body wants to burst I know at least a part of whatever it is made of is composed of at least partially the speed force.
The best thing I can do is try to find that, it's the thing I have the most experience with using. I know that the speed is connected to other forces like the Sage force that controls psychic energy, and the still force that controls stasis and inertia.
Everywhere the energy goes changes followed I need to get this under control. The energy started to leak into some of my other bodies, the sudden increase in speed in some of my bodies are leading to everything growing way to fast some of the biomes started to grow into each other.
I'll need to sort out where to let all this energy will flow so that it won't interact with my preset biomes the clash already affected some of the plant life that I had in eden where I keep my collection, I'll need to check that out later.*
Josh prime immediately isolated where the energy flowed with the space immediately beginning to grow considerably, it already grew to the size of a baseball field in just a few seconds of existence.
To slow the growth Josh prime immediately called on what was supposed to be the speed force. Josh felt his limited control of the energy take its toll it felt like it was taking forever, with his simaltanious body's he began to see all of them at the same time.
As Josh was using the power it was far to volitile for his liking. Looking into his soul to see the changes in the hive, Josh was surprised,'what the heck is going on this isn't just the speed force, all the others came with it in bits and pieces with the hive being outside of space and time nothing should have happened but now that's changed.