Okeydoke Peeps This is the chapter I've been planning since the beginning of this story but I've been dreading doing it on account this single chapter is to be a doorstopper, this is the chapter where the Humanimals learn the truth about how they came to be, the Gothamites (Is that a cromulant word?) Scarecrow and Riddler leard about how Gotham's history isn't what they thought it was and everyone learns just how deep the rabbit hole really is...You might want a box of tissues handy, this chapter more then any other could make you cry not so much because any character dies horribly or something overtly tragic like that...But because reading this chapter may make you think about depressing stuff like death and the ultimate meaning of life...Stuff that keeps you up at night as you lie in your bed
Why should he think me cruel
Or that he is betrayed?
I'd have him love the thing that was
Before the world was made.
What came from the Golden Glow no one was expecting...A Siloette of a quadraped with a long neck, long legs and a long thin snout matelialized and desended into the tent. When the golden glow dimmed everyone was able to get a good look at it...The creature was nothing any of them had ever seen before, at first it seemed like a Sauropod like a Braciosaurus it did seem fairly reptilian with grey scaly skin and a dinosaur like tail, but a closer look at the face, the snout was like an anteater long, thin, toothless tiny mouth at the end, the legs were long and thin with tiny, delicate clawed paws instead of the hooved feet of saurpods and pachyderms.
"Who...Who are you me?" Matoaka asked weakly
"My name is Chardanaro." Said the Creature in a deep masculine voice "And I'm here to tell you and your crew to return to your birth universe immediatly! You have done enough damage already!"
Before Matoaka could reply Leo jumped in defensivly "Damage?! What the shell are you talking about?! Matoaka has been helping us! She's helped us finally be able to comeout of the shadows and be free to walk among the Humans without fear! How dare you say she has harmed us!"
"This meeting of universes should never have happened!" Chardanaro said
"The Captain and her Crew came here because someone from her Birth Universe came here to form an empire by stealing her crown!" Don said agririly "You've given us your name, but who are you really? What are you?!"
Chardanro sighed irritably "The true name of species is unpronoucable to you Earthlings for any of you to be able to prononce correctly I would have to...Pull out your tongues...Our colloquial name to other Races is...The Gods of the Machine...I will be very clear, we are not actual Gods we are not even ageless like the Utroms of this Universe...We age and die at the end of our centuries long lifespans, we are however one of the oldest intelligent species of our Universe we are secret protectors of Other Races of our Universe, and we are protecting you and your crew by sending you all back home before anything worse happens!"
"But we can't leave yet!" Matoaka protested "Not until we are sure the Mutant Animals of this Earth are as free as we are on our Earth."
Chardanaro sighed and stroked his head with his forepaw "Please Your Majesty, just return home." He said "This isn't YOUR Earth! THis isn't YOUR fight!"
"Is this about Prime Directive?" Matoaka asked raising an eyebrow
"This is deeper than Prime Directive..." Chardanaro "...This meeting of Universes was never approved of."
"Approved of by who?" Don asked "The Ultimate Daimyo?"
"No." Said Chardanro
"Than who?" Don asked folding his arms
"That is not for you to know." Chardanaro said
"Oh ho ho no!" Raph said drawing his sais "You ain't pulling that on us 'God of the Machine!' We want answers and yer gonna give 'em to us! If you ain't a real God then you can bleed!"
Chardanaro glared "Do you know what I could do?" He asked
"As far as I can tell all you are is an Alien half brontosaurus/half anteater." Raph said never faltering "You got some crazy powers to kill me with?"
Chardanaro realized Raph had called his bluff, the rules forbade him from harming a denizen of another universe, if he was attacked he could only flee back to the home universe.
"I thought so." Raph said knowing he had succesfully called the Alien's bluff
"Fine!" Chardanaro said stamping his forepaw "I will tell you if it will get you to return home! The Authority I refer to is...The Angels in Heaven."
Everyone suddenly felt inexplicably cold
"The Angels in Heaven..." Don said "...Is that another nickname for..."
"No." Said the Alien "I mean The Souls of Dead Mortals who lived good lives they got the ultimate promotion."
"Wait a minute."Jonathan said "I didn't think Angels were the Souls of Dead Mortals..."
"What your Granny taught you about Heaven has no basis in reality." Chardanaro said "I think you would be pleased to know that Heaven is nothing like the Abramic Religions imagine it...The Aberahamic God is notthe Ultimate Power, does not even exist really, The Afterlife Formed after the first living thing with a mind died, the Afterlife was formed by the Thoughts of the Dead, in the beginning the Afterlife was only primordial sludge, but as life evolved and contiued thelive and die, the afterlife evolved along with life growing forests, deserts any habitat you can think...When intelligent life evolved time and time again...That's when the afterlife got the upgrade of having civilazation and very soon the Afterlife would be divided and one of those divisions was Heaven.
"Holy..." Chapman squeaked "You have just revealed in five minutes information Humanity has been seeking every since it began!"
"I can see exactly what you are thinking and no you may not reveal any of this to any Being outside of this tent!" Chardanaro snapped "Captain...Can you please return to First Earth..."
"You don't understand!" Matoaka protested "I want these Mutants to be spared the five thousand years of slavery we Humanimals had to endure!"
Chardanaro rubbed his temples and muttered under his breath "I never had this trouble with Fossil..."
"Uncle Fossil?!" Matoaka exclaimed
And Chardanaro realized that almost all the Humanimals could hear what he had muttered as clearly as he if he had yelled it.
"What do you know about Uncle Fossil?!" Matoaka asked
"You don't want to know." Chardanaro said starting to sweat nervously "Believe me Your Majesty you really don't want to know."
Matoaka limped foreward with a glare that could cause a log to burn up from sheer anxiety "What...Is...Happening?" She asked her voice low and dangerous.
Chardanro realized he had no way out, he had to reveal to the most important Humanimals in the Universe the awful truth that he hoped would never be revealed to the race as a whole, and was only revealed to Fossil as he needed to know to play his part in guiding the prophecy to its ultimate fullfillment.
"Fossil..." Chardanro took a deep breath "...I am his contact between him an Heaven. Many Humanimal Shamans have found limited connection to Heaven, to see glimpses of it when they meditate but only Fossil, after proving himself worthy to us was chosen be trusted with the Ultimate Knowlege...The Knowlege of True Heaven...Knowledge of the Secrets of the Creation of the Mutiverse...Knowledge of..." Chardanaro sighed sadly "...The true history of the Humanimals."
A look of pure terror was in Matoaka's eyes "True history?" She squeaked
"I told you you didn't want to know!' Chardanaro said "It would have been so much better if you did what I said and simply returned home...But since you know that your race's history isn't what you what you were taught and if I don't tell you you will worry yourself to an early grave not knowing what the actual truth is...Perhaps you willworry yourself to an early grave for different reasons after you learn the truth but...No way out."
Chardanro then stoodon his hind legs and spun a sort...Mystical Orb that showed things like a like a Crystal Ball. After the mystical orb was spun the scene was of pure blackness accept for a pair of blue eyes and a pair of pink eyes.
"In the beginning..." Chardanro said "...Was O theMasculine and A the Femminine and the infinate timeless nothing, in the beginning O and A were like newborn children and innocent as innocent can be...But they had no knowledge of what they had another with them...The ooposite of all happiness and postive emotion...Negator the Embodiment of all Negative Emotion...Unable to feel any happiness, constantly miserable Negator sought to destroy his counterparts O and A in killing them would end his existence and he would no longer be suffering...O and A quickly learned Negator wanted to detroy them and in dfense begun creating the universe as shelter...Needless to say Negator kept breaking through the defenses and after creating many layers of universe thus creating the multiverse...O and A had gorwn older and wiser and O decided it was time to take the battle to Negator...Grabbing a nearby star he left A to battle Negator, after waiting for a long time and O not returning A wept and her tears brought water to many planets, which would be the life bearing planets...After realizing what she had done A had an idea...She would divide herself into to many tiny microscoping pieces sometimes the pieces were carbon,sometimes the pieces were sillicon but she would place a microscoping piece of herself on every planet she had covered with her tears...Eventually O did return he himself had been shattered into coutless microscoping pieces in his battle with Negator he returned to his A counterparts and thus in countless universes on countless planets life begun."
"And we can't tell anyone this?" Don asked "That is entrapment."
Chardanro turned to Don "You want to risk giving Countless Theologins death by brain shattering?"
"What does this have to do with Humaimals?" Belladonna asked
"Negator was also shattered in the battle but still alive..." Chardanaro said "He eventually created beings from his own Shards...Those beings became known as...The Hatemongers...They are often called Demons, but are something seperate, the Demons in Hell need life because they are fed by life suffering and they need wicked mortals to become new recruits. The Hatemongers are also fed by suffering but as they serve Negator they are driven to fullfill his wish to destroy allof existeance so Negator himself will cease to exist and his own suffering will be ended...Many,many, many eons ago the Hatemongers were steadily coming closer to fullfilling Negator's wish...They had succedded in corrupting entire universes to pure hatred and thus were devoured by Negator, the corrupted souls doomed to endless suffering in the belly of Negator the Angels knew the Hatemongers had to be stopped! But the Angels hadlimited options, as they were dead, they could not harm the living in anyway they are physically incapable of harming a living being...But the Mortals were having the poison of hatred...Drip, drip, driped into the ears...Mind you not all evilcomes from the Hatemongers...Some evil is...Purely Organic so to speak, sprung from the mortal heart naturally, when O returned to A after his battle with Negator some of Negator's essange had fused into O's pieces...And yes that is how Evil came into the Multiverse and I know that sounds awful, but here's the thing, when living things got that bit of evil mixed into them, it meant that they could withstand evil, as in...While touching a Hatemonger hurts like all get out you don't annihilate on contact like matter touching anti-matter like a vaccine is made from the malady to give you immunity to it.
"Holy Shell!" Don said "That makes so much sense...It is terrifying."
"But Hatemonger Hatred is not garden varity hatred..." Chardanaro said "It is a hared for everything in the multiverse including oneself those infected with Hatemonger Hatred seek to destroy all of existance to become vulnerable to Hatemonger Hatred...One must be unable to feel happiness, and for eons Hatemongers had been manipulating things so such unhappy people would come to be...And would spread that same misery like a virus...Like I said before the Angels knew they had to do something...But what could they do they couldn't intervene directly...That was when one angel had the idea...On one particular Earth...The Humans were in grave danger...Some terrorists were cooking up a Mutant Strain of Anthrax that if...Nothing intervened would kill every Human on that Earth...The Angels had to create something to save the Humans of First Earth from the danger that would be coming in the next decade and the entire universe from the Hatemongers Hatred that was starting to infect all the intelligent species...So that one Angel had an idea...Uplifted Animals! Animals who would be genetically hard wired to both stamp out evil and spread love and joy to the Peoples of the Universe! These Humanimals would also be built in with an immunity to the Mutant Anthrax that was soon to be unleashed...They summoned an anchient alien crystal with the power to manipulate life forms and gave it the instructions on what they wanted and sent the crystal to First Earth in the year 1998."
Matoaka gasped "That was..."
"The year the first Humanimals were created." Chardanro said The Nystal Orb showed thr Crystal chrash landing on Earth and one shard flying off from it. "The History you have been told tell you that Humanity created Humanimals to be slaves from the very beginning...But that is a lie for both Humanimals and for Humanity...I doubt many Lords and Ladies of the Wrangler Empire know the real truth...No one would have known of the Crystal's abilty if the Crystal hadn't shown the Humans by shining it's light on any Animal within a five foot radius and given them some basic uplifting...Humans immediatly took the Crystal to the Lab and begun 'experimentin with it...Really the Crystal was in complete control the Humans simply thought they were the ones in charge, soon the first Cauldron was built,the First TRUE Humanimals were created...And after testing the Humanimals to understand the full scope of the uplifted animals' intelligence...Humanimals quickly became...The Greatest Entertainment Sensation!"
"What?!" Matoaka exclaimed
"The first work Humanimal ever did was acting for film and television." The Mystical Orb showed a scene from the 90s showing a 'Werewolf' actually a Wolf-Humanimal appear to first stalk a Human Girl from the Shadows before the Girl turned around smirking at the Werewolf before revealing they were at a Beach Party and started dancing in harmony "These Humanimals were not 'slaves' per se..." Chardanro licked his snout with his long tongue "While many Humanimal were expressly created for the Entertainment Industry...They were treated extremely well...They enjoyed the work."
"It still sounds like slavery." Don said "Creating Humanimals for a specific purpose...It simply is taking advantage on the fact the newborn creatures didn't know any better and didn't realize they were simply slaves in gilded cages."
"Yes...Perhaps." Chardanro said "Soon Families could even request a Humanimals to be created for them as Pets, sometimes sending a beloved non-sapient pet to be turned into a Humanimal."
"That's even worse!" Don exclaimed
"It certainly does sound bad..." Chardanaro said "But...Being so Innocent back then...The Humanimals never felt like slaves...They felt like the most beloved creatures in all existance and in truth they were, for a few short happy years...Humanimals began to spread joy and love to the developed countries as beloved pets or adored celebraties, the Humanimals were happy and...Loved by all, and they loved everyone else in return. The Orb showed scenes of Humanimals and Humans frollicking in a vast green park.
"Then...2001..." Charanro sighed "The terrorists unleashed the Anthrax Bomb. It started in New York City and quickly spread around the planet...The foolish terrorists din't think it would affect them, they only wanted to destroy America...But they soon died after denonating the Bomb...It wasn't long before People realized Humanimal were immune though they did not know why...Soon Humanimals were manufactured by the thousands, to Heal those who could be saved, to safely dispose of those who could not, and to clean the contamanated areas.
Scenes flashed of Humanimals hosing down infected places,Humanimal Nurses rushing Humans strapped to stretchers down hospital hallways and Humanimals somberly digging graves for the dead.
It took a lot of work...But Humanity narrowly avoided extinction. But when enough people were healed they looked around, and saw...Civilzation in pieces...And Humanimals outnumbering them 20 Humanimals for every surviving Human.
"20 Humanimals?!" Belladonna gasped
"Indeed." Chardanaro said "Humanity was frightended the trauma of near extinction had changed them...No longer did they see the Humanimals as pets and playmates...They suddenly noticed the great strengh and terryfing great intelligence of the Humanimals...And during the short happy years of Humanimals being celebraties...Many Humans and Humanimals had fallen in love and well...
The Orb showed a scene of a pregant teenage human girl and a Teenage Fox-Boy "Oh God!" Exclaimed the Girl "What do we do?!"
"The Angels knew they had do to something for the Humanimals to be effective to bring love to all Intelligent Races not only Humans...Someone had the bright idea of giving Humanimals the 'biological backstage pass' meaning they can ipregante or be impregnated by any sexually reproducing intelligent species...So everybody could love them...If you know I mean...This backfired horribly as after the Aanthrax Plague and Humanity becoming an endangered species themselves, they knew from previous years that whenever Humans and Humanimal breed the offspring from such unions always create another Humanimal, today we know that some rare cases one out every ten thousand Human/Humanimal couplings results in a perfectly Human Child...But so rarely does that every happen...Humanimals had a very real fear of being...Bred out of existance...And also...Humanimals consume so much resources, both larger species and smaller species with faster metabolisms...During that time to feed every Humanimal on the Planet Earth at the time one cookie would take two billion miles of wheatfield simply to have enough flour to make all those cookies...Humanity feared Humanimals would demand the best food and drink for themselves leaving Humans starving."
"So that was why Humanity enslaved us?" Matoaka said softly "To make sure Humanity had the best food, and to prevent us from mating with them?"
"Of course many years after Humanity had spread across the Universe regained it's orginal streangh Humans would keep Humanimals as sex slaves...It was against the law...But at that point they didn't care...Either kill the Humaniaml when she gets pregnant or simply treat the offspring as a slave..."
"We would have been willing to subsist on less palatablefood until Humanity recovered!" Matoaka said
"It was about more then food..." Chardanaro said "...The Humans were borderline nervous wrecks at that point...They created the system of Humanimal Slavery because they knew they needed Humanimals to continue working for them...But they feared that if they did not enslave the Humanimals...the Humanimals would enslave Humanity!" The Orb showed Humans encircling Humanimals pointing guns at them.
One night...The first Humanimal Shaman a Cat-Man named William Felonian gathered his Fellow Humanimals they lit a bonfire William had his fellow Humanimal Dance around the Bonfire while prayed for guidiance.
In the Orb showed in a barren desert Slave Encampment several Humanimals danced as the Grey Cat-Man Willaim Felonian dressed in the first ever Shaman's Gown stood on a rock and prayed for someone for sign.
From the sky fell two stones and the bonfire burned a message into them.
Kong gasped "The Heresy Stones!"
"Yes..." Chardanaro sighed "...The Angels had not forseen this would happen...They created the Heresy Stones as a guide...To how Humanimals would win freedom...But the thing is...This was what they calculated would be the winning formula...The Angels can not possess mortals to have them act out the parts of the prophecy...Throughout the ages...Certain Shamans have been chosen to guide Humanimals and Humans to play the parts of Heresy Stones require be played...It does not matter who it is as long as the part as played."
Chardanaro turned to Matoaka "Nothing in the Heresey Stones states that theChosen One who will lead the intital rebelion on Earth would be a Unicorn, not the herditary monarch of the Animal Kingdom...It only stated that the Leader of the Rebelion would be a Humanimal born on a slave farm...Of course at a certain point the Angels had to make sure tthat part of the prophecy was leaked to Humanity exactly so Humanity would kill all the current Slave Farm Humanimals...In hopes of preventing said Leader from rising...But ironically creating the very Leader they hope to destroy."
"You mean..." Matoaka gasped in horror
"It's called the Genocidal Backfire your Majesty." Chardanaro said "It is a crucial part of how many prophecies get fullfilled. Like I said what isn't important is who plays the part just that the part is played...The leader could have been a Stork from Stockholm or a Mongoose from Milwaukee but when one has the bonafide Herditary Monarch of the Animal Kingdom...Then you have the Perfect Leader...It was a brilliant idea on Fossil's part to tell King Lee to seduce sleep with his half-sister Bitter Flower..."
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" Matoaka exclaimed "Uncle Fossil TOLD my Dad to sleep with my Mom?!"
Chardanaro sighed "Yes...Fossil found the King by the merest Chance after the Eden Lands had begun withering away...The King had no mate as Unicorns are so rare...So...Fossil gave the King some of his plan and convinced him to woo his Human Half-Sister...To Breed a perfect leader for the Rebelion...A Leader who would perfectly inspire the Humanimals...Raised to Understand both Humans and Humanimals...So they would bring unity to the races...I am sorry Your Majesty..."
Tears were welling up in Matoaka's eyes...Everyone's Heart broke alongside Matoaka's as she neighed a shrill cry of despair "No! No! I can't believe it!" And despite her injured hoof she dropped to all fours and galloped out of the tent.
Okeydoke I am NOT adding another chapter until this one is reviewed
