Author's Note: Another chapter of Issues, sorry that there hasn't been much porn lately, haven't really been into it that much. That said I might be able to come up with something for the chapters to come yet.
Chapter 51: Those Who Have Become Something New
Junior walked onto another airship, newly minted from his mother's forces with the device retrieved from Rick C-138 being installed and modified. Junior walked onto the bridge of the ship observing as machines possessed by some kind of ghost went to work building the ship, welding together the struts and support beams, attaching the canvas, installing the controls and the weapons systems. As Junior observed all of this in progress he came to the bridge.
"So remind me again why building this thing is necessary if we already have that doohickey?" Junior asked looked down at the console where the device that Junior took off from the inter-universal traveler was located.
"A device capable of locking onto any universe based on a few little parameters. For example: lock onto the ultimate weapon of mass destruction." Firing the portal gun Walker produced a large swirling vortex into the floor, reached inside, and pulled out what looked suspiciously like a little black ring box with a red button inside it. "This is bigger then the Multiverse, this is the Omniverse, this is literally anything that you can possibly conceive at your finger tips with a push of a button." As Walker said that, he threw the little box back into the portal before closing it up. "This thing, is too dangerous for anyone to have, so after we reverse engineer a less dangerous version that can bypass the damaged part of the Ghost Zone, I'm going to open a portal to the end of the universe and chuck it in."
"Which sounds fair." Junior stated shrugging his shoulders. "So how long is it gonna take to build this thing?" Junior asked cocking a suspicious brow at Walker.
"Seven Month's." Walker stated prompting a dissatisfied look from Junior. "Fortunately the mad scientist has already built enough cloaking devices to cover every of the underworld area that we are currently aligned with." It wasn't a matter of hiding from the Angels, they already knew where everything was, no the real matter here was using the power of light deflection to simply bounce the enemy projectiles away, a effective defense against those who used light as a weapon, and if they tried to enter the towns and bases physically, then they would be in for a number of unpleasant surprises. "That only leaves the Night-O-Sphere unprotected."
"If those angels are crazy enough to try and invade that nightmare pit then they should be locked up there." Junior snapped which caused Walker to nod his head in agreement.
"Still, we don't understand this technology very well, it would be better to have the original scientist working with us." Walker noted as he scratched his chin.
"Oh I have a really bad idea." Junior stated in a defeated sounding tone of voice.
"So lemme get this straight." Chi stated walking around the library circling Junior like a shark. "We spend month's trying to find a way of beating Him. We overcome near impossible odds. We finally turn Him into something that can't possibly get out of his cage again, and you want to eat his Sapphires thereby giving him another shot at life?" Even Mimi could be seen giving Junior a questioning look on this one.
"To be more accurate I want the three off us to eat his Sapphires. The Soul I used to make these things was the one that belonged to that guy who made the portal gadget, we eat these, and we know how the portal gadget works." Junior stated letting out a long suffering sigh.
"Oi. What kind of idea was that!? Didn't he come with a lab monkey or something?" Chi asked tapping her finger on the table impatiently.
"Not even Mimi seems to be able to get anything out of him about this device." Mimi nodded her head confirming Junior's statement. "As far as that kid understands it, the only reason why the old man kept him around was that his brain waves serves as some kind of cloaking device against the galactic government." Chi looked at Junior seriously for a moment. "I swear I cannot make this stuff up."
"Great. Which now leads us to the part where we do a extremely stupid thing." Chi stated pointing down at the desk where the Sapphires were sitting.
"It's gonna be divided between the three of us, his consciousness and will power will be reduced, and not to mention blended in with the influence of the other guy." Junior explained though Chi still looked doubtful.
Of the three of them Mimi was the first to pick up one of the sapphires and allowed it to rest on her tongue.
"Alright, fair enough. On the count of three." Chi and Junior held up their own Sapphire's over their mouth's. "One, Two, THREE!" At once the jewels of power were dropped inside of the trio's mouth's and swallowed.
All three of their faces scrunched up as a feeling of deep and profound disgust washed over them. Mimi yanked out a car battery from one of her pocket dimensions and bit into it, Chi went over and puked on the floor, and Junior seemed to pass out, albeit not just from the consumption of the soul.
"Hmm. Interesting, a rather intelligent one he has consumed. Bit of a change from the embodiment of pure power that he's use to. It would appear that it's even woke me up." The shadowed form of a short and thin individual with glasses noted.
"The Soul of a mortal accomplished that which the gods could not. Pathetic." A large burly figure added.
"Still. That was some nice sin you ate their kid." A third individual, taller and wrapped in a dark cloak, commented letting out a snicker. "Soul could have used some work. Aw well, see you later kid!"
After spending some time on the floor Junior pulled himself back to his feet and looked around the library dazed.
"EW! EW! EW!" Chi and Mimi were busy trying to scrub her mouths clean of the taste of the Sapphire using a sink, tooth brushes and tooth paste that Mimi had yanked into the library from somewhere. "Junior! The next time you use a soul to make a Sapphire, can you please get it from somewhere that isn't the communal septic tank!?"
"Noted." Was Junior's reply to Chi's snappish response. "You alright Mimi?" Mimi turned to face Junior with a scathing glare, revealing her lips that had been burned by battery acid. "That would be a no then. Do you want me to fix up your lips?" Mimi produced a green glow and passed her hand over her lips fixing them like there were never injured, the power of life. "Right. Does anyone else know anything about that contraption we were talking about earlier?"
"Ugh." Chi concentrated, trying to access the newly acquired information, before she scrunched up angrily. "Was this guy drunk all the time or something?" Chi got dizzy before she fell over, Mimi catching her and lowering her down onto a chair.
"It wouldn't surprise me, well if nothing else we've got something to do while we wait for something else to happen." Junior commented as he sat on the floor with his legs crossed.
"Yah, no I will have no part in that." Chi stated, before holding back the urge to vomit. Ignoring Chi Junior dived into his own subconscious.
He soon found himself sitting in the large familiar arm chair surrounded by the vast darkness and TV Screens in the fore ground that typified a dive into Junior's subconscious. Sitting in front of one of the screens was Azrael.
"Hello brother, it's so rare of you to delve into my domain, but you brought something rather unpleasant with you on this occasion I see." Azrael stated holding up a disk in her hand. "What a disgusting soul. Are you even sure he was still human and didn't somehow spontaneously turn into a demon at some point in the past?"
"Sometimes humans are the worst, just ask our mother." Junior stated leaning back into the chair. "We can go for a shower later, right now I need to know what's on that disk."
"Before that it would be wise to introduce our guests." Azrael stated glaring behind Junior.
"What?" Junior turned around and faced the figures standing behind him, dozens of faceless things that stood motionless in the illumination. "The hell? What's this about invasion of body snatchers?"
"Soul snatcher's actually." Azrael explained as she examined the faceless individuals. "You were made aware that you're a reincarnation, it's not uncommon for your past lives to start coming into view right about now. Particularly if your soul has received strong stimulation." Azrael stated twirling the disk in her hand around. "Our sister should be heading back to her own timeline soon enough. Why don't you go send her off while I stay here and see what kind of useful bits I can extract from these dummies?" To Azrael's suggestion Junior closed his eyes and disappeared from the inside of his room. "Alright, why don't you stop pretending that you're just another mindless fragment like the others?" To Azrael's question, the figure of a young man with red hair wearing glasses and a lab coat appeared.
"So you are more then just some imaginary Bimbo." The Red head stated leveling a glare at Azrael.
"Well, from what I can tell you were the last owner of this soul, and you seem to have pretty high compatibility with the one that just got eaten." Azrael stated as she sat in the chair shrugging her shoulders. "Though I do take offense to being called imaginary, my presence in the real world is just as real as the reaper. The only thing imaginary here, is you and your associates."
"So you won't argue with being a bimbo eh?" The Red head stated letting out a sigh.
"Name?" Azrael asked pencil and note pad in hand.
"Dexter." The red head stated with a hint of a Russian accent.
"And what is the earliest memory that you can think of?" Azrael asked as she wrote down the name and accompanied it with a doodle of the man in questioned.
"The Doctor's at the hospital were talking about my abnormally large cranium." To Dexter's statement, Azrael suddenly jolted upwards as she clued into a realization.
"You were born self aware?" Azrael asked cocking a suspicious brow at Dexter.
"Correct, I spoke my first words at thirty minuets old, made my first invention at three hours, and built my laboratory at seven years old when I discovered a empty crawl space in my family's home, which I over time expanded into the underground tunnels that ran rampant throughout my home town."
"Laboratory? At seven years old?" Azrael asked in disbelief, even for a super human this seemed... impractical.
"I did mention the part where my head was twice the size of a adult male's correct? I do believe that qualifies me as a meta-human." Azrael had to give him credit for that one, her own mother could wrestle the dregs of hell at eight years old for no apparent real reason. "Admittedly though building and programming my first machine was a adventure, but once I had I used that simple machine to build more complex devices, and more complex devices from there. Eventually I had my own laboratory."
"What's the last thing that you remember?" Azrael asked cocking a brow.
"Well..." Suddenly the young Genius looked downtrodden. "I was experimenting with cybernetic surgery. Among the first of my experiments was to replace my heart with a mechanical prosthesis. I assume it failed."
"Whether it failed or not is irrelevant. Your soul can't stay in your body without a actual heart to contain it! Wow no wonder you were tossed back into the cycle." Azrael commented as she scribbled down more notes. "Now than. I hear that you had a sister."
"Yes... she was killed in the cross fire of a petty fight between myself and my rival Susan Astronomanov, or as he liked to call himself, Mandark. He invaded my laboratory with a army of robots trying to vanquish me, and didn't bother to properly program their friend and foe identifiers! And that is how I developed my interest in cyborg technology." Dexter stated in a severely displeased tone of voice. "Now I have some questions for you. Where am I?"
"Hmm. Castle Grim-skull located within the domain of Mandy Black and the Grim Reaper in the underworld." Azrael stated smirking at the fact that every word that came out of her mouth was the complete truth.
"Mandy? That Bitch?" Dexter a moment to process the information before he leveled a glare at the demonic woman. "Yah that figures. I don't suppose that you are willing to aid me in escaping from here?"
"Escaping? Oh hardly! You are a welcomed resident of the Grim Castle, and have been ever since your birth seventeen years ago." Azrael stated smirking at the confused look on Dexter's face.
"What are you babbling about?" To Dexter's look of confusion, Azrael smiled at him.
"You are no longer you, and haven't been you ever since you willingly tore out your own soul in your blind pursuit of knowledge. You are Grim Junior now, son of Mandy, the next Grim Reaper, and currently most well known as the Demon Reaper." Azrael explained gesturing forward with both of her hands. "And even though you may wish to hold onto your independence I'm afraid that I can't let you." A mirror appeared in front of Dexter, and it took him a moment to realize that he was inside of it, with Azrael walking forward from the other side. "You have something that the current you needs, and right now my job is to extract it from you." Saying that Azrael stuck her arm through the mirror and into Dexter, prompting him to scream.
Junior ignored his ears that suddenly started ringing as he continued to walk.
"Is something the matter brother?" Minnie asked holding onto Junior's arm as they progressed along the walkway to the shipyard where Walker was overseeing the work being done on the ship.
"Azrael's being a pain again, making my ears ring." Junior stated as he stuck his pinky in his ear.
"If thou wishes I can discipline the parasite for thou brother." Minnie stated in a tone of voice one might use to refer to a dog that had peed on the carpet.
"That's not necessary, besides you have to get back to your own time now that you're all fixed up!" Junior stated prompting Minnie to pout cutely.
"Doth I hath to?"
"Yes." Junior stated in a uncompromising tone of voice. "Walker says so, so it will be. With all the crazy time travel crap that has been wrapped around you I do not wish to take the chance of anything else happening to you."
"If thou insists." Minnie stated pouting as if the will of her disappointment would be enough to change Junior's mind, it didn't.
The two arrived in the ship yard where Walker was waiting for them.
"One little sister, as promised." To Junior's statement Walker swung around in his chair and sized Minnie up and down.
She was perfectly healthy, thank you necromancers.
"Alright." With a gesture of his hand Walker gestured to a newly opened portal and Minnie stepped through.
At the same time Junior felt his headache getting worst a sign to him that Azrael wanted out. Thus he switched over to Reaper form and at once the shape shifting eyeball leaped out of his skull.
"Ask me when you want out!" Junior snapped looking at Azrael with a look of a deep seated grudge.
"This was much faster." Azrael stated with a big smirk on her face. "I've successfully integrated all of the memories of the mad scientist and this fellow's former Boy Genius identity and thus have access to their combined IQ's! I can fully comprehend the device that we need to be built, and build it without problem."
"Well hop to it." Walker snapped pointing at the unfinished machine that integrated parts from the portal gun. "We don't got all day." At once Azrael got to work melting down her body and absorbing parts of machines before she started ripping them apart and putting them back together.
"I thought you said that this thing would take nine month's to build at current projections?" Junior asked gesturing to the half built air ship that was equal parts personnel carrier, cargo, research and War ship. in short it was the full package. It would seem that as the first expedition force being launched to earth in the post Heroic age that was actually suspected to succeed the Denizens of the Ghost Zone were being extra thorough with their preparations this time around. Not that they didn't expect to succeed before but...
"The longer that thing stays in this era..." Walker started pointing at the Portal Gun with a look of disgust. "The longer Technus will have the chance to study and reverse engineer it." As Walker said this he used a ecto ray to blast at bits of machinery that were reaching for the Portal gun, the ashes and bits of fried circuits that surrounded it implied it wasn't for the first time either. "That lunatic is a megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur and a lust for domination on a good day I am not fond of the idea of all of creation at his finger tips are you?"
"Point taken." Junior stated watching Azrael go to work.
"In fact now that everything seems to be wrapped up here I want you to finish the construction of the exterior of the ship A.S.A.P!" Walker snapped looking at a screen that depicted a green face with sun glasses that made a dissatisfied look before turning off and construction outside seemed to speed up dramatically. "Hmm. It seems that a large amount of his processing power was located here, I'll have to delete his memory when I get the chance."
"Dude you're ruthless." Junior stated as he backed away from Walker a few feet. "More importantly how long after this thing is done are we shipping off?"
"Not long obviously, we have to do basic tests, and then I have to dispose of this piece of garbage so that it doesn't annoy us anymore." Walker stated indicating the portal gun a second time.
"Sigh. Minnie's Gonna kill me!"
Review Section:
DPSS: You don't actually watch Rick and Morty do you?
Detrametal: I don't watch it either, not a big fan of sociopathic main characters. That said I do believe that this chapter holds true to the characters from the show. And Yes, Minnie does deserve some time away from the main group for her own adventures, which will be starting next chapter.
