Peter actually always knew who caused the zombie crisis. In the future, the zombie heroes of Earth-2149 would travel to Earth-Z (Z stands for Zombie, official designation 91126), where they would ignite another biohazard crisis. Ultimately, when the Hunger Virus infected Savage Hulk and the Sentry, the two strongest heroes of that world, everything would spiral out of control.
After Earth-Z was also consumed, the Earth-2149 Ant-Man, who had traveled there, planned to use the Zombie Sentry as an energy source to activate the Watcher's Multiverse Jumper to travel to the next universe. Following the desperate fight by the Zombie Spider-Man and others from Earth-2149, the zombie heroes were eventually destroyed.
The Watcher, who had observed all of this, decided to send the Zombie Sentry back to Earth-2149 as the beginning of the Earth-2149 zombie crisis, thus forming a temporal closed loop to restrict the spread of the Hunger Virus across the Multiverse.
When Peter connected the Watcher's signal to the main hall of the Castle Doom, the Watcher finally explained the general sequence of events. Magneto's face twisted in anger as he listened to the whole story: "You destroyed our world for this!"
"Your world was already destroyed. I am merely adhering to the inevitable outcome!"
The Watcher did not believe he had done anything wrong, or rather, in his perception, it was a necessary sacrifice: "Just two universes are enough to create a cage to contain this terrible disaster. Do you wish this horrible thing to happen across every corner of the Multiverse?"
"So your point is, we can save these survivors, but we cannot save this world, and we cannot even kill certain specific zombies." Reed rubbed his temples, summarizing the Watcher's intent. The Watcher nodded. He understood that these heroes from another world would not abandon life, but likewise, he needed to protect the entire Multiverse. This crisis was too terrifying, so much so that he had abandoned the Watcher's pledge of absolute non-interference.
"I know the Watcher species. I know a member of them in our universe, Uatu."
Reed sighed and looked at Peter. He was most worried about Spider-Man intervening rashly, then getting infected or killed, causing greater loss: "They are one of the most ancient civilizations in the universe. They once caused terrible results by interfering with the development of civilizations and thus took an oath never to interfere with other civilizations. If the Watcher himself believes he must intervene, then the situation is probably truly irrecoverable."
"Sorry, I don't have your patience."
The 616 Universe's Doom interrupted their conversation, then tossed away the analysis device from the control panel: "As for relying on causal cycles to analyze this virus, that is merely a joke. This universe has already experienced at least one split, creating at least one alternate timeline."
As the screen switched, Doom showed the timeline he had observed.
The Mister Fantastic from another universe, Reed Richards, built the first Multiverse Jumper in that universe and pressed the button. Then, a purple lightning bolt tore through the clouds and struck Manhattan. The Zombie Sentry appeared in that universe and began to devour everything.
"I was considering whether directly destroying the reality structure of this universe could prevent the outbreak of this crisis. But I discovered something else." Doom looked at the Watcher: "If you plan to play your cycle game, you are welcome to continue playing it in that place. As for now—"
"You had best not stop Doom."
"I... I, this is too horrible."
The Watcher looked at all this in disbelief. He thought he had prevented the doomsday crisis, but reality told him it was only wishful thinking. Only the other Fantastic Four members looked at Reed in confusion.
Why is it you again?
"I... uh, that universe is a derivative of this universe, so he is the counterpart of this universe's Reed Richards, it has nothing to do with me."
Reed offered a weak explanation. Although few believed it, he explained it nonetheless. He scratched his head in confusion, feeling he needed to slightly restrain himself.
"Hey, guys, have the zombie hordes arrived?" Ash walked out holding the Necronomicon: "I've negotiated with this thing. If they come, the Army of Darkness can go on the offensive."
"You are free to act, Mr. Williams. The entire world, including the Latverian countryside, has been completely consumed. They have three minutes at most before they arrive at the scene."
"Alright, then, I'm going in."
As Latveria's satellites filmed the exterior of the Doomsday Castle, everyone held their breath. Tens of thousands of superhuman zombies surrounded the castle. Following the imposing roar of Zombie Captain America, "Avengers! Dinner is served!", all the zombies charged forward simultaneously.
And just as the apocalypse arrived, an army of the dead descended. They awoke from the graves, born from the darkness. Millions of the deceased souls consumed by these zombies returned. Compared to those monsters, these were the true Avengers. They began to grapple with the superhuman zombies, preventing them from getting close to the castle. They were already dead and could not be infected again.
"Johnny, have you injected the serum? We need you for anti-air."
"Already done." Human Torch smiled faintly and ascended into the sky. Magneto, having injected the serum, took a deep breath and also flew up. They needed to buy enough time for all the disaster victims here to evacuate.
"I know what you're thinking. You want to set up an explosion after everyone leaves, directly tearing apart the reality of the entire Earth-2149."
Reed injected Thing with the serum while looking at Doom, who had administered the serum to himself: "You just need to tweak the Multiverse Jumper, correcting the particle collision parameters. At the very least, you can blow up this Earth."
"This place is meaningless."
Doom did not refute, only looking at the Earth-2149 Doom, who was directing the refugees to leave. The Necronomicon's Army of Darkness wouldn't last long, and what would happen then?
Then, some figures appeared in the rolling black clouds. A corpse clutching a divine hammer landed amidst the Army of Darkness, nearly crushing all of them. Zombie Thor howled, almost tearing a gap in the Army of Darkness. Human Torch, who had just incinerated Zombie Falcon in the sky, was somewhat at a loss: "Guys, what about that thing?"
"The dead can pick up the hammer not because they are worthy, Johnny, but because it is an inanimate object."
"So what, Web-head? It's still an all-powerful hammer."
Yes, it is still an all-powerful hammer.
Peter extended his hand, releasing his maximum output of bio-electricity. Zombie Thor, who was furiously smashing, suddenly had the hammer yanked from his grasp, tearing off one of his arms in the process. Venom disdainfully slapped Zombie Thor's arm away, and Peter gripped Mjolnir.
"So, time for a thunder strike."
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