Sorry for the delay peeps, I was too busy studying for the driver's license test which I need to take by Saturday or else I won't be able to go with my mom to D.C for her work. And let's just say that plane tickets are not refundable.

"Yeah, I heard you tell me that it costs over $500." Yeah and it came out of my own pocket so I'm not botching this test. "I can just teleport you there." And cause possible worldwide conspiracies? No thanks. Besides, I think it's about time that I get my own license. "Whatever you floats your boat buddy."

Now let's get this little chapter going. "Yeah!"

Chapter 4: Bad Luck

I can't believe my luck, first off I get dethroned in the most humiliating way possible, then I get paired with a human that talks back as a minion, and now said human gets captured by another and is being used Leverage against me. All this happened in just a span of one day, I honestly can't imagine how this day can get worse in any way. Right now though I'm rushing through the forest in a mad dash to what I believe is south to this human city since it took me around 30 minutes to recover from absorbing Great Ursa. I've now got half that time left and I still have no sight of this city, damnit!

I slice the tree in front of me out of anger and tread on without slowing down a bit as I continue my frantic search. All of a sudden come face to face with a rocky cliff face as I stop mere inches from it. I look up to see that it scales pretty high up, almost two times the height of my original body's greater form. With no time to go around it I leap up and sink my claws into it before starting to scale up the earthly obstacle as fast as possible.

All of a sudden I start to hear a slight buzzing in my ears so I try to swat whatever was making it but it continues only adding to my annoyance. I decide to ignore it and kept on climbing but it only got louder and louder to the point of being inferating. I finally look back to see that the noise is emanating from only to see some sort of black stream in the sky. I just stare at the writhing black mass as it slithers through the air above me to an unknown destination. I continue to climb as the last of the black mass exits my sights. In seconds I make it to the top and saw a scene that would put even me to an aw: a horizon made entirely of grey structures and above it a black ball that seems to be growing in size. That stream is just one of the few that are converging towards the writhing sphere, this must be the subject that the human referred to.

I start running again through the dense forest as to meet up with my future opponent while thinking of what I'm going face. I came across many monsters during my reign from mutated abominations to scheming and manipulative beings that can't even hurt a fly even if they want to. Those annoy me the most, such tactics are weak without strength especially when their little plans fail, but I possess both attributes to nullify that flaw.

But this creature is entirely new to me, never have I seen an amorphous blob of a multitude of creatures acting in such a way. But then again after I took over the subterraneans I've never came out of my throne room thinking that there's nothing else that could match me. Then those two monsters came in and ruined everything. Well at least I have something better to do than just sitting on my throne.

I eventually find myself out of the forest and in front of the edge of the human city, the buildings themselves though look old and worn down which is odd. I continue on into the grey city as the black ball continues to swirl like one big creature.

It took me a little time of me traveling the empty roads before I noticed a body lying motionless on the ground near a building alongside a large bag of stuff of various items. Most likely a petty thief that got lucky for a moment before meeting his demise. As for the human himself he looks like he got the life sucked out of him with his stretched and wrinkled skin being as grey as rock, dark voids take the place of eyes, and his body just being a skeleton.

"Ahhh looks like you've seen one of my creation's victims, have you ever heard of a mosquito?" Genus clarifies with an almost amused tone.

"I have." I answered with slight annoyance. It is true though and the flying blood sucker is one of the few creatures that I hate the most simply because it's a parasite.

"Let's just say that she has the same sort of ability as you but with her mosquito swarm."

"So why pit me against her though?"

"I'm just curious as to how creations such as yourselves will interact in a battle." Whatever, I'm not gonna waste my time absorbing this weak body. "Oh and by the way I would want you to absorb that body, never got a good look last time." I swear this human.

Reluctantly I put my foot on the corpse's chest and soon after I order the nanobots to start their work causing them to spread out like a web that quickly envelops it. In seconds the body was consumed leaving only the clothes behind.

If I could've tasted that I would've gagged.

"Fascinating, your creator certainly is a brilliant man, but then again he only finished off what his now deceased compatriots have made. What a shame really." He sounds all cocky and almost condescending on that last part. To be honest that sort of got me worked up a little, I'll show him what the feeling of losing everything is like eventually. For now though I've got a monster to kill.

All of the sudden I see the black swarm rapidly move towards a random location among the city before getting enveloped in a large ball of fire which incernates it.

"Well, it looks like someone already beat you to the punch. Your new task is to observe now." With nothing better to do I head towards the battle among the dead city.

It took me under a minute to reach the battlefield but when I turn the corner all I saw was just a naked bald human and another human almost severed in two falling down and glowing a bright blue. This looks familiar. However another figure was homing in on the airborn ape but in a split second it was sent flying with its blood splattering on several buildings. Whatever that thing was isn't a concerned anymore but as to who killed it is.

I look at the human responsible and it was that same bald man from before, what the hell is going on here, how is a human that strong? It's probably because that creature is weak to the point that even a measly human could kill it. As expected of a human's creation.

"Well that's interesting, new task then, I want you to test that man's abilities out now." I'm really hating getting orders barked at me by him now.

I form a scythe blade and dash towards the human aiming right for the neck. Just as I was about to strike at the human however the naked ape moves in a blur and in an instant I felt my body explode sending all of my pieces across the street and into a nearby building while I see myself crash through a window.

What on my green Earth just happened!? There's no way that a human could possibly have that much strength! How could a weak creature be that strong!? No way no way no way NO WAY! Imposible, inconceivable, absolutely absurde! My body must be weak, yes that must be it, there's no way that I'm weak it's just the body. After all it's created by humans so of course that would be it.

I attempted to scream my rage out but then I realize that my entire head is severed with my lower jaw missing, my eyes start to search frantically for any body parts. All I see are splats all across the building interior, from the window all the way to the wall at the far end. Damn, this is gonna take a while to gather. I concentrated and grew four spider-like appendages and started to scuttle my way towards the nearest puddle that was around my current size and absorbed it.

"Fascinating, so your body can continue to function even with most of it destroyed and salvage what's left. Are you writing this down?" A distant 'yes' was heard which I suggest was another scientist that works for him. I even have a human watching me in this sorry state, this is so damn humiliating.

Genus' P.O.V

I continue to watch through the sentient machine's eyes as he continues to search out and absorb every part of its body throughout the building while avoiding the gaze of his opponents. What I'm more intrigued about is that human's strength, in one strike he was able to defeat my mosquito girl and this robotic being without as much as a sweat. I will need to research him along with the walking nano-colony, and though it may have cost me the unfortunate loss of Great Ursa I now have two unique test subjects that I can learn so much from.

"After you get yourself back together, I just want you to retreat back into the forest and await further orders." The creature responds with an annoyed grunt as it continues its search. In a way it's sort of amusing to tease this creature like this, it is surprising though that it reacts this way to begin with. Maybe it was programed with such emotions by this specific human just to have some company concerning his unfortunate circumstances.

Maybe I should give a spot in my lab in pity, besides, his unique field of knowledge could give me access to so much more possibilities as to what I can create. I call out to one of my clones who approaches me.

"Yes?" My clone responded.

"I want you to go down and offer a… "job opportunity"...to our guest in the holding cells." I order my clone who just nods and heads off to fulfil my request.

I look back at the screen and see that the subject has made good progress in reconstructing itself, hmhm, I have so many plans for you and that human my unique friend.

"Alright so when is a left turn on a red light acceptable?" When turning from a one-way road onto another one-way road. "Bingo! Now address your readers and we'll continue." Alright then, all I can say to you guys is thank you for reading this chapter and being patient.

Now for the trivia of the day:

The average driver waits 6 months of their entire life waiting on the red light.

Fitting yet interesting, though I could really put those 6 months to better use. "Yeah, same here" Got it.

With that all out of the way I hope you all have a great day or night wherever you may be!

"Alright now, let's get to the studying." It's weird that you're helping me with this. "What? I know when I should sit down and chill." That must be a rarity for you then.