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Mercury…
"We are approaching Mercury, ready yourselves." I said. Everyone in the back of Bessie were reading their weapons. This was probably going to be a difficult mission, considering going to the planet of a species that I killed two of their leaders, and both of them have been resurrected. We dropped out of warp speed and approached the Lighthouse. I looked at the land site only to be filled with shock. The Lighthouse was destroyed, the observation deck was demolished, I could make out the outlines of bodies in the ruble. The followers of Osiris, dead. I touched down and transmatted out to the land site and rushed for the Lighthouse. I threw the debris aside frantically looking for Brother Vance. "Brother Vance!" I yelled out. There was silence in the hot breeze, I looked down saddened by the destruction of Lighthouse and the death of the followers of Osiris. "Over … here." said a weak call. I looked up and saw a arm sticking out of a pile of rubble waving. I rushed over to it and lifted the boulders covering the rest of the body. When I uncovered the follower, I was sickened to my stomach. It was Brother Vance, but from his appeal he has seen better days. He was impaled through his abdominal, blood covered his lips, and the left side of his face was covered in a nasty burn, and his bandana was absent revealing his blinded eyes.
"Who is there?" he said
"It's me Brother Vance, it G-11." I said
"Guardian Eleven, you sound distressed." he said
"The … the Lighthouse, it's gone, the followers are dead, your dying." I said
"Don't worry about me, the prophecies, are they intact?" he asked
"What? No! You old fool, you care more for those dumb scrolls than your life!" I yelled
"Guardian, I have devoted my life to the studies of the Mighty Osiris, it was only a matter of time before I would have become one with the Traveler's light." he smile
"Oh my goodness, you followers, such idiots." I sniffed
"Not idiots." he grabbed my hand and put his other hand on my helmet, "persistent idiots …" he said as his limbs went limp. As his hand left mine, there was a small red glowing simulation seed, flickering in and out of our timeline. I looked at it and slipped it into my pocket. I got up and looked at the baren valley of the planet Mercury. The others walked up behind me and examined the ruins of the Lighthouse.
"Wow, this is a mess." said Zack
"You could say that again." said Chris
"Come on you two, we need to find Osiris." said Aaron
"I think I might have found the direction our crazy warlock has gone." said Zoe.
I looked at what she was talking about and saw a trail of dead vex. "Well, he's always ominous." I said. We followed the trail to the gates of the Infinite Forest. The way in was sealed off from outsiders, only the vex and Osiris's ghost: Sagira could enter. Lucky for us, we had a relic of time with us. I pulled out the Philosopher's Gauntlet and put it on my left hand. I walked up to the gateway and punched the barrier blocking the path. When the gauntlet made contact with it, a network barrier fizzled and sparked, interacting with the gauntlet, burning away. Soon after, the barrier shattered, and rained binary and primary coding all over us. "Well, that's what it feels like to be barfed on by a vex portal." said Aaron. "Sigh, it didn't barfed on you fool, it just shattered and gaining us access to the Infinite Forest." I said, "Dude, I was just joking, why do you have to be so serious?' he said, "Oh, sorry … the gauntlet kinda, makes me more smarter, and more humorless." I said slipping the gauntlet off of me and put it in my backpack. "Okay guys, were about to enter the most dangerous environment that the vex has ever created in history, so be ready for anything." I said, and we entered the Forest.
The Last City…
Malice and Marceline walked to the makeshift lab that they made in the rebuilt tower hanger that was destroyed in the Red War. He approached a pink lady with red hair that looked like red wires bunched together, she had black pyramids on her shoulders and two little ones sticking out from under her hair, giving her the appearance of a demon, and she had crimson red eyes and a lab coat. Marceline floated up behind the woman and grabbed her shoulders. The woman gasped and jumped. "Darn it Marc, why must you do this every time when you visit, I'm doing important work for lord Ma-" said the woman, "Evening scientist Bubblegum." said Malice. Bubblegum dropped to her knees and bowed to the evil being, "Lord Malice, your presents was … unexpected." she said, "Sigh, as usual Bubblegum, you have gotten too infatuated with your work, I told you that I will be stopping by today to see how that project is going." he chuckled, "My apologies sire, it just that it's hard to recreate the algorithm that you and your sister made to clone Finn's DNA into a clone those two years ago." she said instantly regretting her choice of words. Malice frowned when Bubblegum mentioned his sister. They might have not shared much of a brother sister bond as others would, but he missed her very much. "There is no need to fear mentioning my sister's name Bubblegum, the algorithm was indeed hard and complex to do. Any ways, how is the cloning process going?" he said, "Well, I have successfully have made the elemental a habitable body, but he seems a little." she whistled and made a circle around her ear and pointed at a door behind her. Malice walked towards it and turned the knob and entered the room. On the other side was the water elemental. He had his head bowed and wore black tactical gear, his long blue purplish hair covered his face. Malice grabbed a chair and pulled it up to the eighteen year old. He looked at him for a solid minute before he broke the silence. "Ahem." he cleared his throat, the elemental looked up at him with his big blue glowing eyes. "Who are you?" it asked, Malice remembered a memory from the events of insurrection thought of the words he used to would make the clone trust him back then, "I am Malice, your commander." off to a good start he thought, "I am the water elemental half of Finn Mertens, an I take no orders from weaklings, and who are these people behind you?" the elemental asked and pointed at Marceline and Bubblegum. "These are our accomplices, Marceline and Princess Bubblegum." said Malice, "Greetings?" said the elemental. Then the room started to shake, debris fell from the ceiling. The water elemental looked confused at the situation, Malice on the other hand scowled. "It's that blasted wizard again!" he exclaimed, "Lets go, before that block head freezes the wall again." said Marceline. The dark users ran off to stop the attack.
When they arrived, the tower wall was covered in a blanket of snow and frozen fallen, hive, vex and cabal. A blue skinned man wearing a blue momo and a crown with a long white bear hovered in the sky above zapping everything with lightning ice. "Where are my bussims, give me back my bussims!" yelled Ice King, "Ugh, not again." said Malice. "May I be of some assistance here?" said the elemental, "Huh?" Malice was cut when a large icicle shot through his shoulder. "Malice!" yelled Marceline as she got on his knees to help Malice up, "Ugh, that old fool will pay." he said, "No, allow me." said the elemental growing his aquatic wings and took to the skies charging at Ice King. He approached the wizard at blinding speeds that made him a blur to everyone. He struck the wizard hard in the jaw sending him falling to the ground hard "Ow, my chewing bones." said Ice King, he looked up to see the eighteen year water elemental, "Finn?" he said, "I'm not your Finn you old fool." the elemental said and grabbed the wizard by the collar and punched him through a wall. He pursued the ice user and beat him mercilessly. "Finn, Finn, please buddy, stop." said Ice King. The water elemental summoned his sword and prepared to finish off the wizard when he heard Malice and Marceline call out. "Finn! Stop!" shouted Marceline, "No, this creature deserves to die." said the elemental blankly, "No, he may serve a purpose in the future." Malice said gripping the hole in his shoulder. The elemental looked back at Ice King and threw him to the ground and walked up to Malice and touched his shoulder, he flinched, "Ow." "This will hurt, but you will feel better." the elemental said and poured some water into the wound and it healed instantly. Malice looked at the hole in his shirt and discovered that he no longer was wounded. "Thank you." he said "So, do you care to join us?" said Malice, "Hm, will I be able to end my human half?" said the elemental, "Yes." confirmed Malice, "Then we have ourselves a deal." said the water elemental and shook the hand of the elemental.
The Infinite Forest…
We have just gone through about twenty death defying simulations, and still no Osiris or sarcastic Sagira. "Nine, how long have we been in here for?" I asked, "Um, not sure." he said, "Ugh, come on Osiris, where the heck are you." I groaned. We walked into another simulation and was greeted by a giant vex mind. It started to float over to us, I put on the celestial nighthawk helm and fired up my golden gun and shot it in the eye ending it instantly. "Ugh, I do love me a good battle run, but this is starting to get ridiculous, like killing Oryx five times over ridiculous." I said, "Agreed, this is just an endless fight with no end, I'm now thinking that we might never find Osiris." said Zoe. We approached another simulation gate to another death defying death trap of death. "So, who wants to go first?' I asked, everyone looked at me with a look like are you kidding me? I frowned and threw my arms up into the air. "Fine, I'll go first, but if I get killed for good, I will haunt all of you for the rest of your unnatural lives." I said. I entered the simulation and was greeted by a flying vex corpse hitting me in the face. "Yep! I'm haunting you guys for life!" I yelled and shoved the vex off of me. I looked up to see the vex mind of infinity towering over a man wearing a navy blue and mahogany tattered robe with golden diamond edges and long ribbons of cloth hanging from a large golden neck plate, he had a golden hawk shaped helmet on his head and a mask covering the lower part of his face, he had a scout rifle that was heavily modified with vex tech aimed at his opponent, and a small ghost floated by his head complaining. I stuck my hand through the portal and gave the others the thumbs up. They entered the simulation and stared in horror at the infinite mind battling the most powerful warlock in Vanguard history.
"What in Jotunheim is that thing?" said Rivera
"That is Panoptes, the Infinite mind." I said
"And who is that guy fighting him?" he asked
We all looked at him in disbelief "Really?" said Aaron
"What, should I know him?" asked Rivera
"You know what, never mind, we can talk about him later, right now we need to get in there." I said
"Okay then, let's do this." said Chris
"... So how do you guys want to do this, jump in all at once with weapons raised, or charge in with the light?" I asked
"Seriously!" everyone said
"Okay then, the light it is." I said. I raised my guns to the sky and ignited them in a golden flame. Zack started to pulse arc energy from his body, Chris summoned a sentinel shield, and Rivera summoned the Hammer of Sol in his hands (bigger and longer than usual). Zoe formed a Nightstalker bow and pulled back the bow string and made a void bolt, Aaron's hands bursted into arc energy and started to float. "Well, in this certain situation, I would say something inspirational, but all I can say is, get him?" I said and started to fire a barrage of sun shots at the vex mind's eye.
Everyone charged into battle and let loose the full fury of their light. Panoptes was surprised by the massive blow of light. He waved his hand and spawned in a mob of vex. Zack dashed towards them and jumped in the air and hit the ground and sent a shockwave of electricity around him vaporizing anything in the vicinity of his fist of havoc. Aaron floated around blasting goblins and fanatics with blasts of electricity, arc pulses jumping from vex to vex dissolving them. Chris rushed into a massive group of minotaurs and was soon surrounded, when all hope seemed lost for him, the vex somehow learned to fly and disappear in mid-air (such a Captain America.) Zoe made herself airborne by jumping off of the heads of vex decendants. She aimed her bow at her victims and fired a wave of void bolts at them, the bolts lashed out at the hive tethering them in place draining the energy from them, when she landed she made a arc strider spear appear in her hand and flipped towards the helpless vex and destroyed them all. Rivera threw his hammer at everything that dared to be seen by him. When he resummoned his hammer the eighth time, the handle grew to the length of a spear and the hammer head grew to the size of a large boulder, he pointed it at his foes and unleashed a ringed column of fire consuming everything.
"Hey, Osiris!" I yelled over the loud glorious sounds of mayhem. Osiris looked over his shoulder and saw the field of chaos.
"Eleven! What are you doing here?" asked Osiris
"We got your distress signal, and followed the trail of vex that you left behind." I said
"I see, the future did not show you here." he said
"Ha, ha, be grateful old man, we're here to save you." I said
"Eleven, you should know by now that this is Osiris's way of saying he's happy to see you." said Sagira Osiris's ghost.
"Hey Sagira, you've been keeping Osiris out of trouble lately?" I joked
"Barely, as you can tell by our current situation." she said and twirled around (in ghost: that's motioning to everything).
"Heh, heh, yeah, anyways, when you feel like joining the mayhem, you're welcomed to it." I said reigniting my golden guns. Osiris shot three more shots at the Infinite mind but missing due to being out of range. Then he jumped in the air and a golden flaming sword appeared in his hand while two flaming wings of a phoenix sprouted from his back. He flew high in the air and faced Panoptes and sent multiple slashes of fire into his eye. It wretched in pain and one of his mechanical wings blew up. The mind looked down at us with hate and spite, he waved his arms in the air and radiolarien electricity coursed through them.
"Oh boy, he's going to erase us from the forest!" yelled Aaron
"Not if I have anything to say about it." said Osiris and multiple yellow flickering reflections of him appeared and charged at the mind. They leaped at him and joined into one and raised its fist ready to strike. BOOM! The reflection exploded into particles when a green flame hit it. I looked to were the fireball originated from and saw my best friend, Reaper.
"Reaper?" said Osiris
Reaper conjured up another green fireball in his hands and threw it with such force it was a blur. It hit Osiris in the chest and sent him flying backward. He skidded across the floor then came to a stop. He was breathing heavily, unable to move with a large burn on his chest. Aaron and Zoe rushed to his side to help him. Reaper stared at me and tilted his head sideways.
"I remember you." he said in a voice that I could never forget.
"L-Lich?" I said
"Yes light user, I have returned. This time I have taken over the body of your closest friend, and I must say he is quite the specimen." Reaper/the Lich said
"How are you back? Finn killed you for good." I yelled
"It's quite simple, before I died, I transferred my essence into the blade of my son. And whoever he strikes down with it, a piece of me in transfered into them." he said
"Well, that's nice and all, now get out of my friend's body!" I said
"I don't think so, Panoptes, I think we should show these children the way out." he said
I completely forgot about the vex mind and what he was doing. I looked down at my hands and saw that they were starting to fade. I turned around to see the same happening to my comrades, they too were fading. I reached for my gun but my hand passed right through it. I looked at the mind and my friend one last time. Reaper laughed evilly "So long fools, hope to see you never again." he said. "LICH!" I yelled as I completely faded away.
Some where..
I thought it was the end for me, for everyone, we had failed. Then I started to feel myself, I was coming into existence again. We appeared in a place similar to the Vault of Glass, but more like the one on Io in a way. "What is this place?" asked Chris, "It looks like the vex vault on Io." said Zack, "No, this is a vex stronghold located on Mercury, these was one of the first places that I studied when I was exiled here." said Osiris. I went to take a step forward when I stepped on something. I looked down and saw the upper half of a vex goblin, it was missing it's legs, and had a fist like dent in its head. I then looked up and saw thousands of vex bodies everywhere, I was shocked to see this much death, not even I could cause this much damage. Nine appeared next to me and looked at the piles of dead vex. "What happened here?" he said astonished, "I don't know buddy, but who ever was here, they truly must not like vex." I said, "True that." he said. We continued to follow the trail of dead vex through the stronghold. It was deathly quiet, almost too quiet. "Nine, put on some music, this silence is making me uncomfortable." I said, "Okay, what should I put on?" he asked, "Hm, something … classic." I said. The speakers in my helmet sparked to life with static and then a symphony of music flowed through.
Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But, baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars
Yeah, we'll be counting stars
I see this life like a swinging vine,
Swing my heart across the line
In my face is flashing signs,
Seek it out and ye shall find.
Old but I'm not that old
Young but I'm not that bold
And I don't think the world is sold
I'm just doing what we're told
feel something so right by doing the wrong thing
An feel something so wrong by doing the right thing
I could lie, couldn't I, couldn't I?
Every thing that kills me makes me feel alive.
Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
Baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars
Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But, baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars, we'll be-we'll be counting stars
Ye-e-yeah
I feel her love
And I feel it burn down this river every time
Hope is our four-letter word, make that money watch it burn
Old but, I'm not that old
Young, but I'm not that bold
And I don't think the world is sold
I'm just doing what we're told
An feel something so wrong by doing the right thing
I could lie, couldn't I, couldn't I?
Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly
Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
Baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars
Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But, baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars, we'll be-we'll be counting stars
Oh, take that money watch it burn,
Sing in the river the lessons I learned
Take that money watch it burn,
Sing in the river the lessons I learned
Take that money watch it burn,
Sing in the river the lessons I learned
Take that money watch it burn,
Sing in the river the lessons I learned
Everything that kills me makes me feel alive
Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
Baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars
Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But, baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars, we'll be-we'll be counting stars
Take that money watch it burn,
Sing in the river the lessons I learned
Take that money watch it burn,
Sing in the river the lessons I learned
Take that money watch it burn,
Sing in the river the lessons I learned
Take that money watch it burn,
Sing in the river the lessons I learned
"Ah, nothing like classic music to calm the nerves while taking a stroll through a vex stronghold." I said, and walked through the stronghold a bit easier than before.
Felwinter Peak…
Finn's POV
It was 12 in the morning and I couldn't sleep very good. I have had recurring nightmares since the Candy Kingdom was destroyed and saw Marcy and Bonnie turned into those monsters that we fought. I swear, the moment I get my hands on Malice I'm going to go full elemental on him. I tossed and turned in my bed trying to get comfortable, but the mattress fought against my will. Eventually, I gave up and got out of bed. I got my jacket on, pulled on my pants, put on my combat boots, fastened my armor plates to my shoulders elbows and knees, and put on my ocean blue bear hat. I walked outside and was welcomed by the brisk cold mountain wind. I shivered in response and did some more exploring. I explored more of the Peak on my own. I explored the empty rooms of the complex. I saw a iron robe with fire blazing inside of it in on of the room that belonged to some warlock named Timur. I was so cold that I took the robe and put it on. I felt so much warmer when I put it on (could this be how Phoebe feels?) I went to the observing console that Eleven used to locate Zoe, Aaron, Zack, Chris, Rivera, and now Osiris. I pushed a few buttons on it hoping to see Founder's island to see if my mom was okay, but instead I pulled up the last destination that Eleven and the others needed to go, Neptune. Apparently the planet was converted into the entire network for AI's called war minds during the Golden Age. I then got a brilliant idea. I rushed to FP's room and carefully opened the door to see her peacefully snoring, she looked so cute when she slept. I knelt down next to her and gently shook her shoulder. She groaned a bit and stirred. Soon she awoke with sleepy eyes, "Finn? What time is it?" she asked with a yawn, "It's 12 in the morning, sorry to wake you but I just had a great idea to help Eleven." I said, "Mm, by going to Mercury?" she said, "No, I don't think I would be able to survive there." I said, "Then how are we going to help him?" she asked, "By getting the next guardian for him." I said, "Okay, where is he or she?" she asked, "Neptune." I said. She looked at me with one of those looks of her's. She was staring at me like you could wait until the sun came out. She got out of bed and wiped her eyes and gave a mighty yawn, "Alright, I'll get ready, you go wake up Shiro, whatever number it was." she said, "Your the best babe." I said and rushed off to get the exo scout, when I arrived at his room, he was plugged into the wall. Apparently his battery was low and was unable to operate the ship. Looks like this was going to be a repeat performance of the jeep chase those two years ago. I got to the ship that we used to get to Trykle. I pried open the hull doors with my oceanic swords. I looked at the controls and pressed a button, which caused rebreathers to drop from the ceiling. I facepalmed myself. "Welp. Time for old skills to come into use." I said. I went back to Shiro's room and called for his ghost, when it appeared I grabbed it and pointed my sword at his neck, "Cry for help, you guardian dies." I said, "Dude, you know I can just rez him right?" said the ghost. I then let my elemental half fully take over and the darkness poured out of me filling the room. The ghost's light was starting to fade away, it looked at me with betrayed eyes. "Your-your a dark user." it said, "Yes, and now...it's time for you to join your traveler." I quickly snapped out of my element and looked at the ghost with sincere eyes, "Sorry, I didn't mean it." I apologized, "What the heck are you?" it said, "I'll tell you later, right now we need your help." I said, "What do you mean by we, and what kind of help?" it said.
Orbit…
"You know, I should have just let you kill me." said the ghost
"Wait, WHAT!" exclaimed Phoebe
"Not important!" I blurted out
"So where to chief and chieftess?" asked the ghost
"Neptune." I said
"Okay … hold onto something." said the ghost. Soon the stars around us melted away and we entered a wormhole and traveled across the solar system at the speed of light. (Bonnie would be so jelly.)
Later…
We've been walking for hours and my legs felt like they were about to explode. The one thing that was keeping us going was that we were finding more dead vex bodies that had been recently killed and my sick beats. As I was dancing down the grand hall way of the stronghold, Osiris shook my shoulder which snapped me out of my dance trance. I stopped my song and looked at him kinda annoyed by the action. "Dude, come on. What's my number one rule when I have my beats pumping?" I said, "You can forget about your rule, I'm picking up some vex vitals up ahead, along with the vital of a guardian." he said, "What?" I said, "Yes, and the light inside of him or her is fading, fast." he said, "Alright everyone, we've got a fellow guardian in distress, so let's boog it and save his butt!" I announced.
We started to run towards the sound of vex line rifles discharging. When we turned at a corner, we were confronted by an army of vex. "Oh my light filled corpse! When will this ever end!" I groaned, "Well seeing that it's called the Infinite Forest for a reason, um never." said Nine, "Nine write this down, when we retake the city, remind me to bring all of my happy nukes here and blow this place up." I said, "Um, you know that if you destroy this place it could have some adverse effects on the space time continuum." he said, "Screw that, I'm sick and tired of fighting these freakin time traveling juice hearted tin cans." I yelled catching the attention of the vex, "Alright, that gosh darn does it!" I yelled. I took out the Philosopher's gauntlet and siphoned the darkness around me into the artifact. It started to glow a menacing void black, I could feel the influence of the gauntlet fighting to take over. I directed some of my light into it too silence the voice. I aimed the gauntlets at the vex. "Whoever is behind all of those vex. Get your sweet butt out of the way if you don't want to be erased from the timeline forever!" I yelled.
The air around me started to swirl. The gauntlet started to cover me in it's own armor. My eyesight started to morph into the sight of a time elemental. I focused all of my rage, joy, regrets, fears, and passion into the gauntlet and released a ear deafening blast at the vex. I could feel them slowly being erased from existence, their molecules being disassembled, their souls being absorbed into the gauntlet, and their connection to this universe fading away.
When the vex were gone. The armor retracted back into the gauntlet. My strength was leaving me. A part of my soul was reaped. Some of my memories being locked away inside of the gauntlet's elemental matrix. I collapsed to the ground feeling like a frail old man. The others tried to keep me steady and on my feet. "Eleven, dude that was amazing! How did you do that?" asked Chris. I willed the gauntlet to retract back into my arm, and came up with my usual excuse for my time manipulation. "Secret subclass - unlocked hundreds of years ago - drains the life out of you." I panted, "Okay man, you take a breather, you just took out a entire army of vex just by lifting your hand." said Zack, "It - can't, be." gasped Osiris, "Brother." said a familiar voice. I forced my head up to see the guardian. When I saw him, my breath was taken away (literally and metaphorically.) "My...God!" I gasped. The guardian looked at me and smiled at me with his exo smile, "Brothers." he said.
"Saint 14?" Osiris and I said
Yep, I have just added the legendary titan to my story, I wish I could have seen the faces on you all when you read this part. Anyways, this chapter has got to be the most complex chapter I have done yet. I thank you for all of your support with this. And remember, let your imagination go wild, long may your big jib draw, and don't beat your sibling's door with a cucumber! LOL
