Now, this isn't overdue at all. :P
Well, this is the culmination of the last four Nicktoons fics and the end of the Man in the White Suit arc. It was going to come earlier, but sadly, I had a massive Mass Effect plot bunny and it blossomed out of control. That's nearly done now, though, so I thought I'd get right into this before I had any more plot bunnies.
Let's get right into it - enjoy!
Nicktoons: Rising Darkness
Prologue
Caen, France. 1944.
"I suppose you'd call me a vagrant of some kind."
Lieutenant Bailey leant against the wall of the interrogation room as the white-suited fellow began his explanation. They'd found him hunkered down with a squad of German soldiers in the centre of Caen – hardly a normal place for an unarmed civilian, so command had ordered that he be questioned.
"Particularly well-dressed for a vagrant," noted Bailey.
"I said I was a vagrant, not a peasant," corrected the man, "In fact, you'll find I'm a man of wealth and taste."
"Riiight," nodded Bailey, unconvinced.
"Tell me, Lieutenant," asked the man, "Did you visit Germany in the 1930s? Can you explain why the German people wanted such an…extreme leadership?"
"No," replied Bailey, "Why?"
"It was a personal gift," replied the man, "Every now and again, you have a person with such an electrifying personality that, for better or worse, you simply must follow them. How else would you explain the rise of Napoleon? Washington? Joan of Arc, or Caesar?"
"Your point?" snapped Bailey.
"Every one of those men had their own little yes-man, hiding in the shadows," elaborated the man, "Never noticeable, never cared about, yet essential to success."
The man stood up, and placed his hands behind his back.
"I am the yes-man, the chancellor, the scheming minister in the background," he said, "Loading the dice, ensuring the right men succeed and the wrong ones fall. I am the architect of your whole history."
"Bull," sniffed Bailey.
"Far from it, Lieutenant," replied the man, "I was there when Rome burnt. I watched Constantinople fall. I saw the storming of the Bastille. I am older and wiser then you will ever know, and one day, sooner then you expect, my plans will come into fruition."
He sneered.
"I am the instrument of your destiny, Lieutenant," he grinned, "Humanity exists for me."
"You're a nutter," sighed Bailey, "The MPs can deal with you, I'm getting Sergeant Edwards to take you down to them right…"
"Sir! Sir!"
A soldier shot in the door, looking panicked.
"Edwards?" quizzed Bailey, "What the hell is it?"
"The sky! Look at the sky!"
Bailey ran out of the room and to the nearest window. His jaw dropped.
Above them was an endless void of purple, broken up by red star-like dots. It had taken everything within about a 200m radius of them, after which the ground cut off, as if they were floating on a giant flat rock.
Bailey turned away from the window. The man was standing behind him.
"Believe me now, Lieutenant?"
He tipped his hat and vanished into thin air.
"Get it into the lab, now! Tucker, watch your hea-never mind, just put it on the table!"
Jimmy ran into the lab, followed by Danny and Tucker, who were carrying a highly damaged robot. Quickly, the two put it gently on the table as Jimmy attached a cable to her head. Information began to appear on the VOX screen.
Man…in the…Suit…plan…fruition…
"The Man in the White Suit," whispered Jimmy.
A date began to appear on the screen.
"Gas planet," he whispered, "That can't be…"
"What? What's wrong?" demanded Danny.
"That's tomorrow."
INSERT EPIC MUSIC HERE
