NOVEL NEXT Chapter 3: Chapter 3: The Fall of Heroes
With Doctor Doom now allied with him, Obito knew that he was on the path to greater things. But his ambitions stretched beyond just one ally—he needed to break the resistance of the Marvel heroes. And who better to start with than the Avengers?
Obito observed the Avengers from the shadows, studying each of them—Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, and the others. He saw their strength, but more importantly, he saw their weaknesses. Every hero had a flaw, a vulnerable spot that could be exploited. Obito, with his ability to read minds and manipulate others, knew how to bring them to their knees.
He began subtly manipulating events, using his knowledge of the world and the multiverse to create chaos. He sowed discord among the heroes, planting seeds of doubt and mistrust. Using his powers of illusion, he turned the Avengers against one another. He made them question their loyalty to each other. The strongest team in the world began to crumble.
But that wasn't enough. Obito wanted to break their spirits, to show them the futility of their idealism. He needed to make them see that they were powerless against the tide of destiny he would bring.
The first to fall was Captain America. Obito used his powers to create a vision of Steve Rogers' greatest failure—the loss of Bucky Barnes, his old friend, who had fallen under the control of Hydra. In this illusion, Bucky's death was on Steve's hands, and it shattered the Captain's sense of purpose. Broken and lost, Rogers was easy to defeat.
Iron Man, the genius billionaire Tony Stark, was next. Obito found Stark's greatest fear—the loss of control—and used his manipulation to show him a world where his armor had turned against him. The fear that his creations would betray him was one Tony could not escape, and it led him into a spiral of self-doubt. Stark, now weakened, was no longer the unstoppable force he had once been.
Thor, the God of Thunder, too fell victim to Obito's schemes. By exploiting Thor's own self-doubt about his worthiness, Obito conjured illusions that made him believe he was no longer worthy of his hammer, Mjolnir. Without his hammer, Thor was vulnerable, and Obito struck.
One by one, the Avengers were dismantled, not through brute force, but through the careful unraveling of their wills. It was psychological warfare, and Obito was a master.