Who Did This?

"Carol, get some rest first." Daisy helped Captain Marvel back down to the ground. This woman was exceptionally brave, drawing the attention of the mastermind behind it all. A nuclear bomb had been detonated before it even left the atmosphere.

It wasn't fatal, since she could absorb any form of energy, but the cells in her body needed some time to return to normal. Daisy hurriedly sent her back down to rest.

Captain Marvel rested for barely ten seconds before returning to the sky. The mastermind seemed to have gone mad, launching a hundred Nuclear bombs at once. Daisy estimated that she could intercept at most sixty. Including Jean, Thor, and Captain Marvel, they could stop eighty at most. Twenty would still fall into the cities.

Her breathing grew ragged, and her vision swam. After all that effort, was this really how it would end?

"Young lady, don't give up." A somewhat familiar voice sounded by her ear.

Magneto, dressed in an ordinary jacket, flew past her. With a casual raise of his hand, he flung a nuclear bomb out of the atmosphere.

Magneto, who had been living in seclusion in Poland, had acted. Guanyin, the Mutant who could control the four fundamental forces, had acted. Mr. M, the gaunt Belgian, had acted as well.

Everyone used their own methods. Some controlled magnetism to hurl the bombs beyond the atmosphere, some used Matter Recomposition, and some broke atoms apart like Daisy. Through everyone's combined efforts, they finally held back this wave of attacks.

In the fifth minute of the blackout across the Americas, military bases in several major nations finally restored communications, and the number of nuclear bomb launches began to drop sharply.

In the seventh minute, when the total number of launched nuclear warheads had reached 339, Mr. Fantastic