Meanwhile, back at Atlantis, Orm staged an attack by the missiles that were stolen from the sub that was attacked. Despite this, Fen still believes that Namor can save their future.
"Invoke the energy protocols. We must tend to our wounded first." Fen tells them.
"Do you see?" Orm asked her and the people who were attending in the throne room. "Do you see what the surface dwellers are capable of? This is terrorism. No, this is an act of war! Our people swim in a cloud of fear of the surfacers. This attack tells us we already know. The surface world want us dead! My father distrusted the humans, he saw them as inferior to us. He made plans to cleanse the surface. I say we break the seal on the Atlantean war plans."
He started to get everyone on his side, and Queen Fen was starting to have enough as she raised the trident and caused everyone to scream as she lets out a small ring to silence the room.
"War would only cause senseless ruin on both ends." Fen informed them all. "However, I hear the fear behind my nephew's words. Perhaps it's time for us to join our worlds."
"But my Queen, our traditions." One of the people say in denial.
"Have Vulko arrange a meeting arranged between me and these heroes of the surface." Fen ignored the comments from the people. "I will broker a peace with them myself."
"As you wish, My Queen." Orm said with a sigh before leaving.
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Back with Namor, he began to wake up and groaned when he saw he was somewhere in the ocean and saw Aquaria was with him.
"Great. You're awake." Aquaria said with a smile.
"You've got to be kidding me." Namor sighed at what he was seeing and rubbed the bruise on his head. "What do you want now? I thought I'd make it perfectly clear."
"If the recent attack didn't inform you enough, your cousin is willing to kill in order to get what he wants." Aquaria informed him. "He's trying to invoke war with the surface."
"What?" Namor asked.
"If you don't take your place on the throne, then the surface will be brought to war with Atlantis." Aquaria informed him why she's here. "She never stopped loving you, but she had to return to lead our people. Now you must help save both our worlds."
Namor thought and decided to at least talk with his mother. "Where we need to go?"
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"Find it yet?" Clint asked Banner back at the Stark tower.
"I'm digitally cross referencing every existing mention of Atlantis, a little patience is appreciated." Banner informed him.
"I'll tell you this, Captain." Hal said to Steve as he had a global map open with his ring. "I've seen my share of weird crapola in this job. But Atlantis? No, that's insane."
"But you're good with the intergalactic cops, aliens with laser eyes, teenage girls who can get backhanded by aliens and live, the danger of Zeus, and the hulking scientists?" Natasha asked him.
"What can I say? Magic's not exactly real." Hal stated when they got contact from Stark and Wayne.
"Dispatch a team to head to this lighthouse we're sending coordinates too. Find Namor McKenzie. Fast." Bruce demanded of them.
"On it." Hal said as he then took to the skies and flew off to find him.
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Namor and Aquaria swam to the gates of Atlantis, where Namor started to need some air and flew back to the surface where Aquaria swam and followed him.
"What's happening?" Aquaria asked him.
"Just needed some actual air." Namor explained with a sigh.
But before she could comfort him, their time alone was interrupted by the guards of Atlantis coming out of the water and attacking the two of them.
Aquaria got ready for a fight and raced in to punch the first of them, but they dodged it and tackled Namor.
"Namor!" Aquaria crowd and was getting rest to help him when she was put ins chokehold by one of the others. Luckily though, Namor wasn't a stranger to a fight as he got the first one off him and sent it flying. He then punched another across the face and dodged an attack from behind and grabbed it before he tossed it at the others.
Aquaria then used her powers to slice through the group approaching when they were coming back in numbers.
Luck seeming to be on their side today as Hal came flying down and saw they were in trouble. "Found him."
He was immediately followed by Stark who targeted all of the non-human looking creatures, that being all but Namor and Aquaria.
Steve came down and used his shield to smack one of them away from Namor and approached him. "Namor McKenzie. We've been looking for you."
Aquaria was keeping the creatures back when the rest of the team arrived, Hawkeye shooting one in the face, followed by the arrow shooting off lasers to kill the others.
Diana then came in and used her sword to slice clean through them, Hal was getting tackled by a bunch of them, but stopped them with a shield and spikes killing them all.
Hulk then came crashing down and let out a menacing roar that was followed by a thunder clap that sent them all flying back into the ocean.
"Well, that wasn't so bad." Natasha said as she and Bruce left the plane.
"You didn't even have to help." Clint scoffed at her.
"That's why it was easy." Natasha smirked.
"What the hell were those things?" Hal asked Aquaria and Namor.
"Trenchers. Predatory creatures that scavenged the ocean's floor before Atlantis sunk." Aquaria explained their history to them. "Now they're our unfriendly neighbors. Who were sent to kill Namor."
"By who?" Bruce asked.
"Our cousin if I had to guess." Aquaria stated. "This is why we need you to take the throne. Atlantis needs a fresh perspective. Someone who understand the surface world and can lead Atlantis to the next generation of Atlantis."
Namor looked at a reflection of himself, not seeing himself as throne material, but he also saw there was no choice. It was either he took the throne, or hundreds would die.
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At the Parker household, Krypto was finished eating out of his dog bowl that Peter's parents got for him a while back, along with another tag with their names and address on it.
"Seems he's fitting in just fine." Megan said as she kneeled down and pets Krypto.
"Yeah, it's actually pretty nice having him around." Peter commented as he sat down on the couch.
As soon as he did that, Krypto raced and leaped onto his lap, followed by him laying his head on his knees.
"It seems he's taking a liking to you, too." Megan laughed, both unaware that the spider that dropped on his hoodie slipped inside his collar and downwards to his sleeve.
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Back down in Atlantis, Orm had just gotten word that his second attempt to kill Namor didn't end well as he paced around the throne room. And that's when Vulko swam in along with Queen Fen.
"Vulko, what of my meeting eight the surface guardians?" Fen asked.
"I've been informed that they're on their way as we speak." Vulko informed her, not questioning how they're already on their way, knowing they're with Namor and Aquaria.
"Excellent." Fen said as she flew and went to her throne and Vulko left them alone.
"It is a mistake. It flies off everything my father ever wanted." Orm informed her.
"What would you have me do, Orm?" Fen asked him. "Sound the drums of war just so we can honor your father?"
"Don't bother. You never honored him or any of them when they were alive." Orm stated.
Fen started to grow angry at his words and snarled at him. "Both cruel and untrue. My allegiance is towards Atlantis."
"And yet I and Aquaria aren't the only royal ones with the blood in our veins." Orm snarls back at her.
"So then you are aware." Fen now saw.
"Of your betrayal? Or of the illegitimate heir to the throne?" Orm questioned as he swam up closer to her.
"I deny nothing that you accuse me of, Orm." Fen stated. "Namor can bridge the peace between Atlantis and the surface. We can live together and learn from one another."
"Your judgement is compromised." Orm stated as he got into Fen's face, and she showed no sign of backing down. "You refuse to attack the surface because you have a son there. A bastard son!"
"You speak to me of betrayal?" Fen asked with an angered tone. "You, who's killed Atlantean blood and blamed it on the surface world?"
That caused Orm to back away as he was shocked to hear that she knew it was his fault.
"I have eyes everywhere, Orm, and you will pay for your treachery." Fen promised and raised her trident. "I am Queen and war is not in my plans."
But that didn't sit well wilt Orm as he pulled a dagger and stabbed Queen Fen, straight through her. Killing her instantly.
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Aquaria lead the Batplane through the waters and they were led by Aquaria to Atlantis.
"Well, and here I thought I've seen it all." Stark commented.
"Welcome home, Namor." Aquaria tells Namor who was looking shocked at the sight.
After the ship stopped, Stark, Hal, Diana, and the Royal Family headed out and made it to the city where they saw it was completely empty.
"Uh...where is everyone?" Stark asked. "I was expecting to see mermaids and mermen everywhere."
"Somethings not right." Diana could easily tell.
Aquaria then saw someone trying to sneak off and stopped the elderly woman from escaping.
"Where had everyone gone?" Aquaria asked her calmly.
"Our brave men and women have gone to prepare for war." She answered.
"What?" Aquaria asked, shocked to hear that something had happened in the two hours she'd been gone to save Namor. "The Queen wouldn't allow that."
"The Queen is dead." She informed them. "Killed by surface dwellers."
They all looked completely confused.
"Bruce, you hearing this?" Stark asked, only getting static in return.
"It appears there's some interference between us and the ship, sir." JARVIS informed Tony.
"Great." Stark sighed.
They then visited the resting ground of Queen Fen and Namor was sadden to see his mother was ripped away before he could even get to know her.
"I failed you, my Queen." Aquaria said with guilt as she bowed to the corpse.
"Whoever did this will pay." Namor promised with anger in his voice.
That's when they were met with another figure, that being Orm, now wearing a suit fit for a king.
"Is Atlantis everything you've ever dreamed of, bastard cousin?" Orm asked as he placed on the helmet. "Or in your dream, were you on the throne?"
"You bastard!" Aquaria screamed as she went to attack, but held back by Namor, waiting for an explanation. "You killed her!"
"I did. I ran the blade through her myself as she melted for peace." Orm scoffed. "You can count yourself fortunate. At least your mother won't be the impediment to your life that she was to mine."
"I'm gonna destroy you, Orm!" Namor stated, having heard enough. Time for some revenge.
But the second he went to fight, Orm raised the trident and blasted Namor through a pillar of the temple, followed by Aquaria going in for an attack, but only managed to get one punch in before she was smacked by the trident.
"This is the weirdest family feud between cousins I've ever seen." Stark commented before he raked his repulsers for a strike, but Orm dodged it and then retaliated by blasting them and then entrapping them in cocoons.
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Sam had finally reached the ground and started to think about what the Watcher showed him back on the moon.
"Okay, I gotta tell someone." Sam said as he began to pant in exhaustion from the flying.
That's just when the Atlantis men came marching out of the waters and shooting, causing everyone to scream in terror.
"Okay, a little late to tell them." Sam sighed as he flew at one of them, wondering where the Mightiest Heroes are.