Link's command shot through the vast, intricate war machine formed from all of Earth's surviving forces, bringing it to life.
Old hatreds were buried for the moment, and the question of judgment was set aside. Under the greater shadow of mutual destruction, every difference seemed insignificant.
Wakanda's Royal Laboratory became the heart of the war effort.
Shuri, Wakanda's most brilliant princess, found herself working shoulder to shoulder with someone she had never dreamed she would cooperate with—Tony Stark.
"Your energy core design is far too crude. It'll waste at least thirty percent of its output!" Shuri pointed at the arc reactor schematics in the holographic projection, pulling no punches.
"Oh, really? It's still better than your timid design. You've got Vibranium, and you're worried about an energy overload!" Tony rolled his eyes and swept his hands through the air, building an entirely new energy circuit. "Watch closely, Your Highness. This is art."
They argued, but they also worked together with unprecedented efficiency.
What they were developing was the only hope Batman had proposed against the Eradicator: the Reality Stabilizing Anchor.
The palm-sized device had one of Tony's miniature arc reactors at its core, a Vibranium casing, and an energy matrix designed by Shuri. It was neither a weapon nor a shield. The instant it activated, it would project a high-frequency oscillating "reality" field across a three-meter radius.
The field might not completely resist the Eradicator's conceptual erasure, but in theory, it could buy each soldier a few precious seconds to react or retreat.
It was the limit of mortal ingenuity—technology's most defiant cry in the face of the Laws.
Meanwhile, atop the war-ravaged ruins of Kamar-Taj, the few dozen surviving Mystic Arts Sorcerers were constructing a spell formation unlike any before it, led by Wong and Doctor Strange, who had