Nero

Nero is the son of Alexander Prince's demonic persona Sammael and Eimin Worthington.

History
"Swordsmen! Formations!"

-- Nero

Birth
Nero was born as the son of Sammael and Eimin. He was born in hell while his parents and his uncle Uriel were hiding from Kang the Conqueror. Kang found them and while teaming up with Mephisto he defeated Sammael and the Apocalypse Twins. Sammael and Nero were then sent into an alternate dimension.

Age of Apocalypse
Nero and Sammael arrived in the "Age of Apocalypse". There Sammael defeated the Mephisto of that dimension and became the Ruler of Hell. In his teen years Nero joint Apocalypse in his fight against the X-Men. When Apocalypse was killed Nero returned to Hell. There he tried to convince his father to return Apocalypse to Earth. Sammael allowed Apocalypse to be reborn as a child. However the child was killed by Weapon X. However Weapon X became infected with the Death Seed and became the new Apocalypse. However Nero felt no loyalty towards Weapon X, because he had killed Apocalypse and Nero had done so much to revive him. Sammael refused to let him be reborn again. Nero discovered he had the power to travel between dimensions. He used this to visit his father's homeworld. There he met Ahmet Abdol, the Living Pharoah, another ally of Apocalypse. He fell in love with the Pharaoh's daughter, Salome and she became pregnant with his child. She gave birth to his daughter, but was killed shortly afterwards by her father. Nero brought his daughter to safety by giving her in the care of Ororo Monroe in another dimension. When the Age of Apocalypse dimension was crumbling, Nero used his powers of interdimensional travel to transport himself and his father back to their original dimension.

Death of Sammael
Sammael decided that he needed a new realm to rule. He decided that it should be Asgard. He and Nero launched an assault on Asgard, but they were defeated by Thor and the Warriors Three. They were then imprisoned in a pocket dimension by Odin. They were freed by Cyclops and his X-Men. Magik then took Sammael to her Limbo Dimension and struck him with her Soul Sword. This destroyed the conciousness of Sammael and reverted him back to Alexander. Nero believed that is true father had died and left Alexander.

Hell on Earth
Nero decided to seek out his own daughter. He returned to the dimension where he left her and found it a wasteland. He found that Mephisto had succeeded in bringing Hell to Earth. Nero joint a resistance group known as the Angels, consisting of Archangel, Magneto, Havok, Perfection & Magik. They were lead by Archangel, a previous servant of Apocalypse and another version of Nero's grandfather. Archangel explained that Apocalypse had become the Ruler of Earth and had exterminated all non-mutants. Then Mephisto used the power he gained by gaining all those souls to conquer Earth. He killed all demons except for the five mutants, who could not be killed because they were empowered by the Death Seed. Nero now believed his daughter had died and the only way to get her back is to defeat Mephisto. The six mutants then invaded Hell, and attacked Mephisto. In Hell they were supported by the Dead Resistence, a group of deseaced enemies of Mephisto that included: Apocalypse, Professor X, Storm, Wolverine, Captain Terra, Reed Richards and Ishtar. Ishtar was revealed to be Nero's daughter and to be alive and posing as one of Mephisto's servants. Archangel fought Mephisto and was able to defeat him, effectively become the new Ruler of Hell. Archangel used the Death Seed to bring 50,000 people back to live, both human and mutant. However the Death Seed was keeping him alive and without it he ceased to exist, without the power of the Death Seed, Apocalypse was unable to return to the living. Magik then took the title Ruler of Hell. In Hell Nero met the demon Sammael, who in his own dimension was bound to Alexander Prince. Sammael tried to inhabit Nero's soul, but Nero and Isthar killed Sammael.

Genosha
The small group of living humans now needed a form of leadership. This created a great problem because of two different factions, Magneto's Mutants and Captain Terra's People. Nero sided with Magneto and the Mutants and they decided to form two different societies. Magneto was joint by Havok, Perfection, Ishtar and a 300 other mutants. They founded a new city which they named Genosha. Genosha became a paradise. Meanwhile the humans were struggling with building their city. Genosha was peaceful for years, but then Loki arrived with an army of Frost Giants and invaded the city. Loki was already the ruler of Asgard and Jotunheim. Loki was at war with Surtur, ruler of Muspelheim, Algrim the Strong, ruler of Svartalfheim and Frey, ruler of Alfheim. The humans fought against the Frost Gianst but they were defeated. Loki killed all inhabitants. He then used the Casket of Ancient Winters to freeze the entire earth. He then made a deal with Magneto. The mutants were allowed to live, but they would also join Loki's army against his enemies.



Great War of the Nine Realms
Nero joint the army of troops presented to Loki by Magneto. Magneto was appointed as Governor of Midgard. Nero became the commander of Magneto's forces. Nero and his army fought against Malekith and they pursued him into Svartalfheim. There Loki fought Malekith and killed him, Havok was killed in this battle. Frey and Surtur had forged an alliance and together with the remaining Dark Elves they fough Loki. Surtur burned and destroyed Midgard, killing all the Genoshans except for Magneto. Magneto himself then fought Surtur. Surtur killed Magneto. Nero then saw Loki being killed by the combined power of Surtur and Frey. Nero then took Ishtar with him back to his own dimension.

Excalibur
Nero and Ishtar returned and started a small superhero team. They recruited Fantomex and Spiral. The team focused on fighting extradimensional creatures. Their first opponent was Mojo who had capture Shatterstar. The team defeated Mojo and his gladiators and freed Shatterstar who then joint them. They also recruited Juggernaut and Nightcrawler and named their team Excalibur. The team then fought Azazel, who was trying to gain support to supplant Mephisto. After fighting Mephisto, Juggernaut and Shatterstar left the team. Nero then recruited Deadpool and Psylocke. They then took the name the Seven Swords.

The Seven Swordsmen
The new main goal of the team was to fight Azazel's pirate crew that had been pillaging the multiverse. The Seven Swordsmen fought them through several dimensions. After Azazel was defeated, Nero and his team looked for a new target. They chose to travel the multiverse and kill several incarnations of Apocalypse in different dimensions to try to prevent new Ages of Apocalypse to emerge. In one dimension they found Legion had become Apocalypse. They tried to fight him but failed even though they obtained a Life Seed. They fled then fled the dimension. Nero felt defeated and he did not call the team together again. Psylocke, Ishtar, Fantomex and Deadpool continued to fight the servants of Apocalypse and they killed an extradimensional Tony Stark (Iron Ghost), who had been a servant of Apocalypse in Earth-295. When Nero heard of this he called the team back together, consisting of himself, Psylocke, Ishtar, Fantomex, Deadpool, Magik and Spiral.

Clash with the Alliance
When Apocalypse returned and claimed, Rogue, Beast, Iceman and X-23 as his four Horsemen. Nero wanted the Seven Swordsmen to unite against them. However Wolverine had called in Psylocke, Fantomex and Deadpool and reformed X-Force, while Spiral became part of one of the Alliance's Strike Teams. Nero, Ishtar and Magik remained, which resulted in Magik returning to San Francisco to protect the other X-Men. Nero and Ishtar then located Shatterstar and together they fough off several of Apocalypse his henchmen in New York. There Captain America asked Nero again to join the Alliance and again Nero refused, believing that the Alliance would bring destruction.

Fighting the Cabal
With Apocalypse defeated and the rise of the Cabal, Nero, Ishtar and Shatterstar fought sentinels in New York. Shatterstar was abducted soon afterwards. Nero and Ishtar then went underground, hoping to either sit the Reign of the Cabla out, or see if they could come up with a plan. They were discovered by Archangel and the Four Horsemen. Nero tried to teleport to a different dimension but found that he was unable to. Archangel then had them both imprisoned on an AIM base. They were rescued shortly afterwards by Captain America and the Liberators. Together with the Liberators, Nero concocted a plan to defeat Magneto and the Cabal. They needed the Life Seed that Nero had brought back after his fight with Legion. However he had hidden it in the Savage Land. They went there and fought the Cabal Army that was searching for the Life Seed as well. Wonder Man seemingly died there, but the Liberators took the Life Seed after taking it from Doctor Octopus. Nero's arm was cut off by Archangel, who used a healing-canceling weapon, which removed Nero's Regenerative Healing Factor. His arm was afterwards replaced with a Techno-Organic arm.

Death
The Liberators were then approached by Nero's father Alexander Prince. He had a plan to betray and defeat the Cabal. They managed to pull off the plan and Nero was part of the team that fought Magneto. Psylocke and Professor X kept Magneto's mind occupied while Nero stabbed Magneto's body and pierced his sword into Magneto's chair, disallowing him to move. Magneto used his powers to destroy Nero's arm and broke him completely. Nevertheless Invisible Woman managed to pierce Magneto with the Life Seed, destroying the Apocalypse Force within him. Psylocke and Professor X saved Magneto's mind from being erased. Nero then died from his wounds inflicted by Magneto.