Frank N. Stein also known as Poppa Death or King of Coffin City sat on his throne bored. Why was he bored one may ask, he did after all have everything he wanted. A place where he was safe, a place where he could experiment to his hearts desire and all the test subjects and alien stock he could ever want. That was the problem he had everything he wanted there was no challenge anymore, Ravenlocke stopped trying to kill him and take back Coffin City, no more did gang members try and sneak in to rob him. His experimentation had stagnated. He couldn't leave if he did he would be killed on sight. Frank had everything and nothing.
Looking down at Dog, one of his first experimentations with alien stock and the one who made it possible for him to control the Bio-Horrors of Coffin City, Frank just sighed. "I hope something happens soon" he said to the blind, three legged Bio-Horror.
You all know the saying, how could you not? Everyone knows the saying, unfortunately Frank is not everyone, Frank is Poppa Death, Frank is King of Coffin City, Frank is Dr Stein, Frank is the thief of Third Life Industries, Frank is special but he does not know the saying. If Frank knew of the saying he wouldn't have said those words, he would have contented himself with boredom, but Frank did say those words and as you or I or even Dog know you should be careful what you wish for. Frank wished for something to happen and it did but not what he expected.
Frank fell through his throne,
through the underground Coffin City,
through the dirt of the earth.
Down,
down,
down,
down.
Frank kept falling.
He didn't fight, didn't struggle, didn't scream. It was pointless and he knew it. Frank did what he did best, he observed, studied and learned.
What Frank learned wasn't much but in a way it was a lot. What he learned is that what was happening was impossible. Technology couldn't make a person intangible, neither could genetic mutations. Zeeks, or Psychics if you wanted to be technical, had the power but after cutting open and examining the brain of a few Zeeks he managed to make himself immune to their abilities.
What was happening was impossible.
Something happened, something that hadn't happened in many years. Frank smiled, not just a smile but a full out grin something interesting had finally happened, sure he may be falling to the Earth's core but at least it was interesting. How many people could say they died because they literally fell through the Earth? None.
It should have been dark in the Earth, there should have been no light, no sound, nothing but rock and dirt. There was a light below Frank though. It was red and white and blue and green and so many other colours all swirling in a large mass. Frank knew it was the Earth's core but whatever had pulled him here was affecting it, probably using it's energy to power the effect.
Down,
down,
down,
down,
Frank fell into the Earth's core.
"...out in the universe...my call...come to me..."
If Frank was less observant he may not have heard those words but he did and he heard the words that followed.
"...my familiar."
The swirling colours of the Earth's core moved, they reached for Frank, enveloped him, tried to absorb him into them. He could feel them trying to take him apart molecule by molecule and put him back together somewhere else.
Frank gave one last grin as he began his experimentation his only tools his knowledge, his will and the swirling mass.
Then Frank was gone and Coffin City lay without it's king, it would take several years before anyone realised that small fact.
