You Just Had to Destroy That Planet

A Wander Over Yonder Blackthorned Story

"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy." The Joker, The Killing Joke

I'm not going to really go into my past on Earth Prime because you don't need those details to get me. All I need to know is that I'm in my mid-twenties and I'm one of the cousins in the Blackthorn family.

My name is Jōshō Shadow Blackthorn and this was the start of darkness…

I started out with a fairly decent life and I was practically a neutral on the scale. In my travels, I meet a woman whom I fell in love with and eventually settled down to raised children and grow old with her. If I had realized back then settling in the Wander over Yonder universe was one of the dumbest ideas I had, I might not had been evil. However, I was mostly lucky. I lived on planet Anistar with my darling Jihi. She was a dark elven woman with fierce red hair and an adventurous attitude. I worked as an inventor working with Volcanium X to better the world. I made the element into energy cores to power planets' electrical grids. I was aware of the villains all over the galaxy, but I didn't care. I had several deals with villains to make weapons and so forth. I was an honest man on that end, and at the end of the day we had an understanding. Planet Anistar was off-limits. However, my mistake was continuing to trust them. None of them knew of my work with Volcanium X for all they knew that I was a gunrunner until he came to Anistar. I'm talking about Wander. He's the good guy yet he's the reason I lost my family. It all started when I was off-planet shopping to buy a present to celebrate our wedding anniversary, when I got a call from my wife that Wander had visited the planet. I didn't think much of it only to get a frantic call on my way home from Jihi saying that Anistar's being attacked. My calm and cool demeanor I had practically crumbled, and rushed home on my ship.

By then it was all too late…

I found Anistar in pure ruins, but the planet not destroyed. I had a deal... The happy peaceful air it had was replaced with haunted horrors. I was worried about two things, my wife and my secret project. I find my home thrashed, but Jihi on the porch swing slowly dying. She explained that some wannabe knight name Sir Brad Starlight arrived on the planet seeking a new weapon namely our sword. Now my wife was aware of said secret weapon and helped with its creation as well. It was a katana made of pure Volcanium and Frostonium capable of slicing through practically anything. He somehow found out about the sword and demand that Jihi handed it over. She refused and fought the bastard. Now she said she was going to just kill him, but Wander convinced her to let him live. Sylvia "escorted" him off-planet, and Wander and Sylvia took off.

As I sat to her listening and wiping the blood off of her lip, she laughed a bit saying to me, "I should have killed that worthless wannabe, but Wander convinced me not to. What have I done? I don't even know how he found out about the sword, and I didn't even ask how he knew. He returned with a barrage of villains who razed Anistar in search of it. I did my best only to get captured and tortured by them for the sword. I was holding out as long as I could, but in the end I was crippled and left to die among the people they killed."

I was for one thing, absolutely livid. For one thing, I wanted to hunt down and put my fist through Starlight. Another thing would be strangling Wander. I hugged her tears streaming all down my face.

"From our beginning to my end, just know I…love…you, Jōshō.", was her last words before she died

I broke down not only at her death, but the clear implication that I was alone in the galaxy. Time would go on, the galaxy doesn't care, and she fades away from me. I now was all alone…and all I wanted more than anything was revenge…

Creeping down to the basement those bastards couldn't access. There lay the sword, the damned thing that cost us our happiness. Coating a knife with my wife's fallen blood, I unsheathed the blade carving a sentence in Japanese kanji on that sword.

Death, sorrow, and pain awaits all who stand in the way.

With newfound anger, I named that blade. Paradise Lost. Appropriate, just appropriate. That was the last time, my energy glowed bright for it darkened to a reddish black.

- A Few Hours Later -

Lord Dominator awoke with a shock, breathing heavily as she clutched her heart. She was the only villain who didn't take part in the Anistar razing. No, not because of morals. She parked her ship and practically slept the day away. However, she felt a sensation. A desire for destruction that wasn't her own? No. Lord Dominator prided herself on being a force of chaos, that she felt someone else's desire. It had an intoxicating feel to it. She had to find the source! She got into her armor and piloting her ship off to find it.

Wander and Sylvia could feel it as well, the desire for destruction and chaos in the air. Wander wanted to quell the person emitting it and convinced Sylvia to come with him to the source.

"Wait, isn't this the direction to Anistar?" She thought.

Lord Hater on the other hand, was busier in his room haunted by the events of raze. The killing didn't bother him nether did torturing Jihi. It was her last words to Hater after Starlight crippled her and everyone else left.

"Now that the sword's existence is known, you all don't have much time. The sword is made with the unstable core of when we tried to fuse Volcanium X and Frostonium. If it falls into the wrong hand, this galaxy…no the universe is doomed. Now put me up in the porch swing that I can wait for my husband. I don't have much time."

Now Hater would not honor a last request, but he did this time. What creeped him out further was her last words to him.

"The knight has set off a land mine and you are all going to get caught in the blast."

He returned to his ship leaving Anistar haunted by those words. He couldn't eat and spent the time alone in his room thinking. Then something occurred to him. She had a husband who's still alive, probably on his way back to Anistar, to find it destroyed, and is probably enraged to find this wife dead. It hit him. The villains created a new villain that could be worse than Dominator.

Hater fell to his knees uttering, "What have we done?"

To Be Concluded

"Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn." Alfred Pennyworth, The Dark Knight (2008)

(A/N: Here we are, the first villainous Blackthorn. Now this is going to be rather short (at best a two-shot). Now you're wondering why Wander Over Yonder. I love the show, but I always found the show practically one of the worst worlds to live in. Well if you have any questions, leave a review and I'll PM you a response)