Distant crying is heard. "Hey, Hey, Its OK little one. You're okay. You're safe now right?" Another voice says.
"B-but, They all d-die-" "Yes. They did because they were gonna hurt you. I didn't want that to happen. Understand?" He says.
The camera moves to see a Man in a labcoat, Jeans, Black shirt, a pair of hiking boots, and a odd looking pistol on the ground by him.
Right beside him was a Little girl no more than five wearing raggy torn clothing with only a big shirt to cover her. Through the holes on it it shows that she does have underwear on. Her feet were bare and slightly bloodied from running for so long.
"Now, I'm Gonna check the Perimeter. If I don't make it in ten minutes, Take my Pistol and Run." He says.
"Can you do that?" He asks.
"Y-Yes. Who are you?" She asks.
"Ethan Sanchez. And yours?"
"Ali." She says. 'She doesn't have a last name? oh man.' "Why help me?"
Ethan Chuckles. "Honestly? I don't know anymore."
He looked out to see something to make him scowl. "Oh come on." He says before Morphing his hand into a blaster.
Right in front of him, Was A Goddamned Dalek.
How did this happen? Well let's go back to 2020.
Ethan was finishing with his latest project. A hand blaster. The only downside is it was bulky and connected to a lot of wires. Function first fashion second he always says.
He aimed and fired at a wall. It Fizzled and popped but nothing came. "Dammit. Test #89 a Fail-"
He was interrupted by the gauntlet blowing up and knocking him back into the wall.
His arm blown away and only up to his elbow.
"AAAAAAAGH! FUCK! FUCK FUCK FUCK!" He yells as he clutches the stump to stop the bleeding.
He was then hit by another shock as a Portal opened in front of him. A sludge made of some bioorganic metal floated out and the portal closed. Ethan backed away uselessly as it lunged for him. It went for his stump and flowed into him.
He had to stop scratching his arm and pulling at it when an intense boom shook his house.
He ignored that to look out and see outside and was horrified by what he saw.
Literal rips in the fabric of reality were in the sky venting out various creatures, ships, robots, EVERYTHING!
He looked to his arm to see it was somehow back and now part of the blob looking closer it actually looked like a Black, white and blue Galvanic Mechamorph limb from the Ben 10 Series.
He ignored it to grab the remote in his living room and turn on the news.
And he was terrified by what he saw.
All over the world various things from various series, books and such were literally combining into a single universe. Grimm were slaughtering people in Iran. Terminators in Canada. Literal Chubacabras in Mexico, EVEN FUCKING MEMES WERE ALIVE AND CAUSING HAVOC EVERYWHERE! AND CREEPYPASTAS IN USA?! WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING!
"I, I gotta bolt it out of here!" He said before noticing his arm literally absorbing the remote. It then shot out to the TV in a tendril like form to absorb it and he could see he was seeing Events happening with just his eyes. He went to his laptop and phone to absorb that and he saw he had immense Memory and went to downloading everything about every franchise he's known. Somehow hacking through everything before the internet went down.
"I don't know what's happening but I know for a fact I'll Need to know what ever I need to know." He says to himself.
"Then after that I gotta make sure the family is alright." He adds while using his new arm to absorb all the prototypes and tech he has ever owned. It made the arm gobble everything up and suddenly change into various forms. He seems to access them on instinct but he didn't care. He went to his room and began packing everything he could.
He noticed that his arm now turned into a Digital screen on a pair of taser spokes. He accidentally fired and somehow stored his bed in a inventory. He quickly tested this and after confirming the functions he effectively cleaned house and bolted it out of here.
He didn't get far when a Resident Evil Licker Zombie landed in front of him. Ready to kill him.
"Shit!" He said before suddenly on instinct thrust his arm out to reveal a Railgun blaster in place of his hand and firing. The recoil was absorbed and fired off in an AOE attack and it killed the Licker.
"Protection of Holder Achieved." The arm says before going back to his arm.
Ethan was astonished but sure wasn't complaining. He'll freak out eventually but right now he needs to find out if mom and dad are fine.
And Its Been about ten years by now since the Multiverse collapse began. Ethan has been alone for those ten years searching for them. Still holding on to the slight hope that they are fine and well.
Ethan aimed his Blaster and fired right at the Dalek's Neck.
A Horizontal plane of Plasma cut straight through the Dalek and destroyed it.
"Never Got to see what Daleks give me. Might as well." He says before using his arm to grab the broken robot and drag it into the broken house.
He set it down near the girl and began disassembling the robot.
"What is that Mister?" Ali asks.
"This is a Dalek. Robots that want to Exterminate All organic life in the universe. Or more accurately their universe. Luckily after some research no Universe destroying devices and spells and such don't exist. Good news for us. Bad news for them." He explains as he uses the salvaged tech to make a New weapon. A Daleknium Sniper rifle. He aimed the rifle and looked through the scope that was its former eye and nodded. He then began covering the entire thing in his arm's Bioorganic Metal arm to upgrade it and fashion it.
It was now much sleeker, Had the theme still Present, and was much more powerful.
"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" It yells from the voice box in it.
"Yeah yeah We'll get to exterminate later Buddy. I'll Call You Dalifleken." Ethan says before putting it away in his digistruct module on his arm.
He looked to the rest of the tech and absorbed it all.
He left the metal out for something else.
"You did Good kid. I'll Be taking my pistol back now." He says while taking back his pistol.
"So why are you all out here by your Lonesome?" He asks.
"I was running away from this monster." She says.
"What did it look like?" He asks.
"Like a big crocodile with a buncha Eyes and spikes and fur on it." She says.
"I see. SCP 682. Hard to destroy reptile. Guess he got to finally escape. Was hoping the Foundation would have kept him in but I can't blame them if things had gone out of hand because of the Collapse." Ethan guesses.
"Who are they?" Ali asks.
"Trust me kid. You don't wanna know. Now. What to do now?" He thought before noticing her stomach growling. She blushed but he chuckles. "Well getting you some food is a good start." He says.
He brought out a bag of Dried meat of unknown origin.
"Here. Best not to ask where this came from." He says while looking through the various sets of clothing in his inventory. He settled for a White throwaway T-Shirt he has and some Swim trunks.
"Here. You can change into these as well. I'll have to raid a nearby shop for proper clothes but these'll do." He says.
"T-thank you Mister." She says.
She quickly changes into her new clothes while Ethan looks at the metal scraps. He thinks a bit and suddenly thinks of an idea. He used his arm to absorb the metal and spit it out in newly shaped pieces along with various other pieces of technology.
He began assembling it and it was revealed to be an Antigravity Motorbike using the Dalek body in its Design at the back.
The engine was in the back and the seats were able to fit him and Ali comfortably.
He Then threw his Arm anfer making a glob of it separate and cover the scrap bike and upgrade it before remerging with him.
It powered on and the front floated up.
"Alright. Mode of Transport unlocked!" He says before suddenly feeling faint and stumbling on the floor.
"Woah. Used up a lot of energy to do that." He says before taking a knee to rest.
He powered down the bike to check on Ali. She had changed and discarded her old shirt somewhere.
"How long have you been running Ali?" Ethan asks.
"A year." She says.
"That long? Damn. I'd be impressed if I wasn't saddened. Have you been alone all this time or had a couple friends?" He asks.
"Alone. Nobody wanted to hang out with me anyway back at camp. Said I was a freak that should have died in the Collapse." She sulks.
"Why call you a freak? All I see is a normal kid unfortunate enough to have been born in this time." Ethan asks.
Ali then reveals her black and grey calico cat tail.
"I'm not human. I'm a Demifaunan." She says.
'Well considering the collapse brought in many sentient species with different names for species that are similar in species then its safe to say the terms Demi human and Faunus were combined.'
Ethan patted her head. "Well I for one don't give two shits if you're an Orc, A troll, or a unicorn. You're good in my book." He encourages her.
He then stops to turn around and look around.
"Alright who's there! I know you're near." He says.
He activates Thermal Vision in his eyes and notices a thermal signature on the wall.
It was about to fire at him with some odd device.
He grabbed Ali and dodged the Plasma Blast.
He quick draws his pistol revealing it was a Dominator set to kill mode.
He fires and the Yautja fell down with a thud and blew up in a mess of blood and guts. Leaving the armor and such behind but dented.
He put his pistol away and grabbed a Piece of armor. He licked the metal and checked its taste. "Trace Amounts of Iron, copper, Cobalt, and brass with and Unknown Metal Type making up the majority of the metal. He stored the armor away in his digistruct inventory and grabbed the weapons and mask.
"I'll have to change you guys up later. Right now let's store you away." He said before storing the weapons away. Only keeping out a Gauntlet to put on his left arm. It was the bladed vambraces they seem to always carry.
He checked on Ali and she was hiding behind a piece of Rubble.
"It's too risky to stay here. I'll have to leave and rest somewhere." He says.
He powers the bike on and it revs on. "Hey Kid. Get on. We're leaving." He says.
"Uh-uhm. Okay!" She says before getting in her seat in front of him. The front screen was just armored enough to shield her.
Ethan twisted the handle bars and the bike shot off to the streets. He looked around and saw that houses were demolished, Looted, everything.
"Guess its time I left Greenville for now." He remarks.
He boosted his speed and shot out into the road heading to Spencer IA.
And Scene. I got this idea from watching it thunder outside last night and wanted to give it a shot to write more apocalyptic scenes. I will not watch or read every franchise to their fullest. Just enough to know the best of them all and to set up challenges for Ethan to face.