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"Oh-ho-ho, what do we have here." I stiffly turned my head towards the Beyonder, who was carrying a severed head with brown hair and eyes. The head's eyes were wide open, telling me the shock it felt before it got separated from its body.

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—— 3rd Person's P.O.V ——

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The Beyonder threw the head away and entered Steve's mind which immediately made Steve held his head in pain as the Beyonders started bulldozing through his mind and begin reading all his memories.

"Ohhh! You guys are friends!!!" The Beyonder said in a strangely excited voice, which confused Cap, but Bryan immediately knew the reason behind it.

Beyonder suddenly raised his arm and wrapped Steve in telekinesis. Slowly he started to squeeze Steve, which made him release a painful grunt.

"Hehehe! What about now? Would you let me enter your mind now?" The Beyonder playfully asked Bryan while he kept squeezing Steve.

Bryan didn't reply, nor acknowledged Steve's presence, and hid his feelings behind an indifference face.

*Crunch* The Beyonder bent Steve's right leg and broke it, making even the war-hardened soldiers release a startled howl. "Tell me! How did your soul become so…So Bizarre!" Beyonder questions again which made Bryan's indifferent face show a slight hesitation.

"Don't…Don't tell him!" Steve shouted with gritted teeth.

"Ohh! Another though nut? I really like to break them!" Beyonder snapped his head back to Steve and excitedly spoke.

He then slowly started burning Steve's soul.

The old soldier didn't show a reaction at first, but when a few seconds passes, he finally succumbed to the pain and start screaming.

"Stop it! I'll speak" Bryan finally couldn't take it, and shouted, making the Beyonder stop torturing Steve. "Oh-ho-ho, Finally!" The Beyonder spoke.

Steve tried to stop Bryan again, but he couldn't as his jaw alongside his whole body was too numb from the pain.

"Open your mind for me." The Beyonder demanded.

"I can't, it's a passive mechanism that I have no control over." Bryan declined the Beyonder, making him frown.

"Then…tell me everything, and remember if you try to lie, then your friend over there will die." The Beyonder threatened Bryan in a no nonsense manner.

"You want to know how my soul become like this, and acquired Limitless potential, right?" Bryan asks which the Beyonder nods his head to.

"I don't know much details about it, but at least I can tell you the reason. My soul got muted, and adapted to The Void, which removed my natural limits." Bryan tells the true reason behind his unique soul because he knew if he tried to lie, the Beyonder will immediately find out and kill Steve.

"Ohh! And how did you get this thing, The Void?" The Beyonder curiously questioned.

"No, The Void is not a thing, It's a place." Bryan corrects the Beyonder.

"A place you say… and where can I find this place?" The Beyonder questions Bryan again, his voice containing slight excitement at the thought of discovering a new world.

But Bryan's next words made him frown.

"Are You Trying to Lie to Me? YOU THINK I don't know about the BEYONDVERSE!!!" The Beyonder angrily questions.

"No, The Void is outside of even the Beyondverse," Bryan explains, which slightly calms down the Beyonder.

"And how do we get there." The Beyonder asks again.

"I don't know," Bryan replied.

"Then how did you reach there." The Beyonder inquired with slight annoyance.

"I died…and accidentally got there," Bryan answered. His word made the Beyonder fell in deep thoughts.

"You don't have a way to get there, huh? So, I don't have any need for keeping you both alive, I guess?" The Beyonder said with a shrug once he came out of his thoughts and snapped Steve's neck.

He then started to pull Bryan's soul from his body.

Bryan's senses screamed in extreme danger, but he didn't react to them. His mind became too numb from the loss of another close friend.

Steve's death triggered the suppressed memories of the death of his all closed ones, from Elizabeth to Yao to all the other friends he lost in his life.

The Beyonder saw Bryan's broken expression, and his face formed a twisted smile. He has never felt a pleasure greater than this, not even when he discovered the Multiverse he felt this good. It always feels good to see your hard work resulting in something, in this case he had finally broken Bryan.

But his twisted smile suddenly froze when he felt Bryan's soul suddenly retaliate, something sinister broke inside Bryan, and made him retreat from the danger he felt.

The Beyonder observed Bryan as his skin, eyes, and nails slowly turned pitch black. Black smoke with tints of purple started flowing out of his skin. And whatever the black smoke touched, got erased from existence.

If the being who gave Bryan his power was here, even it would have been surprised by the outcome. Never in its wildest thoughts, the being could have imagined Bryan connecting with The Void and using its limitless powers.

Even the Beyonder felt a mortal danger from that smoke. He tried to peer into the reason behind the danger, but Bryan suddenly vanished even from his senses and appeared behind him.

The Beyonder felt Bryan holding his neck from behind, and tried to turn his head, but Bryan yanked him into a portal outside leading outside of the Multiverse.

Bryan followed behind the Beyonder and entered the portal too.

Bryan appeared behind the Beyonder again and punched his head that flung him toward the boundary of the Beyondverse.

Once the Beyonder collided with the ceiling of the Marvel Plane, Bryan appeared again and started to continuously punch his face.

Each punch releases the same black smoke that corrodes the boundary between the Planes of Existence, and destroys small fragments of the Beyonder's Existence.

"Die, Die, Die" Bryan, even unconscious, kept repeating the same word like a broken record after every punch.

The Beyonder's face got destroyed and sunk in, even his powers were unable to heal his injuries due to the corruption of The Void.

Bryan's hand paused for a moment, the black smoke around them turning into an aura similar to the Iron fist.

The Beyonder senses scream that if lets that punch land on him, he will definitely cease to exist, so he used all of his power to slip away which he manages to do so.

Bryan's hand landed on the ceiling of the Beyondverse, and with a *Crack* that sounded across the Marvel Multiverse, the ceiling broke.

The Beyonder saw the other side of the hole and immediately realised that it was The Void Bryan told him about.

For a second the Beyonder's greediness overcame his fear, but the moment he got near the hole, the fear returned like never before.

He felt the natural fear, a dear feels when it sees a lion. And like the deer, he ran away from the hole as fast as his injured self allowed.

Even after entering the Multiverse, and running for countless numbers of Universe, he didn't stop because the Beyonder could feel Bryan chasing him, so even with the pain he was feeling from his half-destroyed soul, he didn't stop not even for a moment and continued running.

But unfortunately for him, Bryan caught up to him and started raining down punches again.

The Beyonder could feel himself slowly getting erased from existence which made him feel a sense of desperation that he never felt before.

*BAAMM* Another attack landed on the Beyonder, hurling him back, and just the Beyonder braced himself for another blow, it didn't come, making him weakly look towards Bryan.

Beyonder's eyes widen in surprise and a trace of hope appeared in them as he watches Bryan drop into a planet with his appearance slowly returning back to its original form.

His eyes turned red in anger as Bryan crashed into a mountain, and not moving.

Beyonder immediately changed his direction and flew towards the unmoving Bryan with a rage full expression, but froze mid-flight when a star-shaped portal opened and suck Bryan in it.

The Beyonder tried to locate the origin of the portal, but he failed to do so, as Bryan's Void touch title prevented it.

"YAAAH" Beyonder's rage full scream sounded, as he tried to destroy the Universe he was floating in, but stopped when his soul start collapsing.

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{AN: Some of you might find this forced and pointless, but I didn't want my character to leave a verse without becoming the strongest being in it, and this is the fastest way I could find, that is to give him some bullshit power up.

Go to my patr*on for extra 13 unedited chapter and 2 extra weakly updates on every Friday and Saturday.

Patr*n/41_Claws}

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