Chapter 25.
Hey everyone. Back with another chapter.
Somehow forgot last chapter but thank you all to over 200 reviews and approaching 250 reviews.
I forgot to mention in the previous chapter, but the Black Widow Super Bowel trailer had dropped and man am I super hyped for it.
And the teasers for Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision and Loki have dropped and I am really excited for all of them except for WandaVision as I'm not much of a Vision fan.
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Now onto the story.
This chapter will be the third and final one centred on Tripp, Morris, Nico and Shang Chi and will be a long one.
It will also bring in characters that were requested by my best friend and fellow author on this site, Flashraven. He has written an amazing Daredevil/Arrow crossover project called From the Shadows to the Open. If you haven't read it yet, I would highly recommend you do. It is amazing.
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, followed or favirouted this fic so far.
On with the show.
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Tripp's POV.
After another two days of travelling, we had finally found the portal entrance to the dead city of R'lyeh.
It was green and glowing.
"So now what?" I asked.
"Now we enter. And be careful" Shang Chi warned as he stepped into the portal first.
Nico went next and finally it was me and Morris.
I stepped in and there was a bright flash of light.
When I opened my eyes, I was in some sort of wide, dark chamber.
The landscape was beyond anything I had ever seen.
"We're here. Now be careful. There are older and more dangerous things than Great Ones in the deep places of the world" Shang Chi said grimly.
"Noted" Morris replied.
"So where is Cthylla?" I asked.
"Probably deep inside R'lyeh. Follow me" Shang Chi supplied.
He walked/bounced across the landscape.
That was surprising.
The gravity was much lighter here obviously.
I noticed by the fact that multiple rocks were floating in the air.
"Well now I've seen everything" I muttered.
We followed Shang Chi across the bizarre landscape.
Everything was so identical; it was like we were walking in circles.
There was bright light ahead all of a sudden.
I had honestly no clue what that was.
"That is where the palace of Cthylla is. Be warned, there are hundreds of Deep Ones and Yuggya. And either Dagon or Hastur will be there" Shang Chi said.
"Hastur?" I asked.
"Hastur the Unspeakable. Also known as the King in Yellow. He is the son of the Outer God Yog-Sothoth and is the half brother of Cthulhu. He is supposed to get married to Cthylla soon" Shang Chi explained.
Okay this was seriously gross.
"Move with caution" Shang Chi warned.
"Where is this Cthulhu guy?" Morris asked.
"He is chained deep inside the earth where no one can find him" Shang Chi said.
We moved carefully across the landscape.
There was a cave entrance that Shang Chi said, lead towards Cthylla's palace.
It smelt like rotten fish which considering we were in an underwater city wasn't really that surprising.
We had to move on our hands and knees in order to reach the other side.
We soon entered a very luminous and colourful city that had glowing plants and jellyfish.
"Woah" Morris said in awe.
I totally agreed with him.
"So where would Cthylla be?" I asked Shang Chi.
"In the palace at the very top. But it is dangerous. There are hundreds of Deep Ones and Yuggya that will rip is to pieces the moment they see us. And Hastur will be in the palace" Shang Chi said.
Oh boy.
This just keeps getting better and better doesn't it?
"So any plan on how we get to the palace?" I asked him.
Shang Chi grinned.
"Well its time for a good old fashioned heist" he said.
He briefly outlined the plan to us: We would slowly creep through the city and scale the mountain that the palace sat on.
From there we would sneak into Cthylla's room and convince her to come with us, on the assumption she didn't rip us like sheets of paper.
Thankfully Shang Chi assured us that Cthylla would help us as she hated her father.
That was a win for us though.
So we jumped down slowly from the tunnel and began sneaking across the city, close to the ground.
Thankfully the Deep Ones, which looked like humanoid frogs, didn't seem to pay us any attention.
The Yuggya looked like giant worms.
Seriously I am really starting to think that with all of this going on, I'm going to start going insane.
We had so far managed to avoid everyone.
There were a few suspicious glances in our direction, but for the most part, we avoided attention.
We soon reached the foot of the mountain.
Shang Chi informed us that we needed to climb the mountain to reach the palace.
Thankfully, there were footholds and handholds that allowed us to climb.
We bagan scaling the side of the mountain which was easy except for when Morris slipped and nearly fell but Nico caught his hand.
We had arrived at the top of the mountain and the entrance to the palace.
"Be careful. It would be all for nothing if you died" Shang Chi said.
What is it with this guy and the sappy motivational speeches?
We carefully opened one of the windows and moved in with Shang Chi keeping a lookout for enemies.
"So where is this room?" I whispered.
"In one of the lead bedrooms. Follow me" Shang Chi replied.
We snuck as quietly as we could, out of the room.
A couple of times, we had to hide as a Deep One moved past us.
It would be bad luck to get this far only to get killed or get sentenced to a worse fate.
There was one bedroom at the very top of the stairs.
"There it is. Let's go. And make sure there are no guards" Shang Chi said.
We crept forward.
Where the heck were the guards?
This was odd.
We moved and found the door was unlocked.
Obviously these Great Old Ones or Deep Ones or whatever, were dumbasses.
Or this was a trap.
We slowly opened the door; to make sure that Dagon or Hastur wasn't there, cause that would have been awkward.
When we opened the door fully, with Morris and Nico covering us, we saw a giant, six eyed, winged octopus sitting on a giant bed.
I could see why Shang Chi said that a Great Old One's true form could drive a mortal to madness.
It was damn terrifying.
The octopus then turned to face us.
"Shang Chi?" it asked in a female voice.
"Cthylla" Shang Chi greeted.
To my utter shock, the giant winged octopus then changed shape.
It twisted and warped.
When it was finished, a beautiful young Asian woman was standing in her place.
She was wearing a pair of blue cargo pants.
She also wore a grey shirt with a red bomber jacket on her that had lightning bolt patterns put on it.
Her face was smooth and almost glowing.
She also had a shining necklace.
She walked forward and wrapped Shang Chi in a hug.
"It's good to see you again old friend" she said.
The rest of us were a bit weary to say the least.
"Everyone, this is Cthylla. Cthylla this is Antonnie Tripplett, Nico Di Angelo and Morris Bench. We are here to rescue you" Shang Chi said.
Cthylla's face brightened.
"Oh thank the Old Gods. Trust me being stuck in here for several thousand years gets on your nerves after a while. Even if you flee for a little while" she said.
I resisted the urge to snort.
I couldn't blame her.
While Shang Chi and Cthylla were catching up, I looked around the room.
It was fricking massive.
I guess it needed to be big enough to fit a giant octopus.
That was when I noticed something by her bedside table.
It was a picture of Cthylla and a young blonde haired man. They were grinning.
They looked quite happy together.
"Who is he?" Shang Chi snapped me out of my thoughts.
He was also looking at the photo.
Cthylla's cheerful expression turned into one of deep sadness.
I could tell that something bad had happened.
"That was my close friend and brother in arms, Bart Allen" she said.
"What happened?" I asked, wearily.
She looked like she was about to cry at this point.
"He…he was from another Earth in the Multiverse; Earth-21. He fought a speedster named Black Flash but was forced to sacrifice himself to defeat him by throwing Black Flash and himself into the dimension known as the Speed Force" Cthylla said with tears streaming down her face.
I now felt really bad for asking the question now.
And I could also tell Nico and Morris felt bad about it as well.
"I am so sorry" Shang Chi said remorsefully.
"It's okay. I will always remember him" Cthylla said, wiping the tears from her face.
"We need to move now. Hastur or Dagon will be here any moment" Cthylla said.
That would not be good.
"How the hell do we get out of here, without anyone noticing?" I asked.
"There is one way. But it is dangerous and leads close to the prison of my father. And my highly annoying brother Zoth-Ommog is also imprisoned close to there" Cthylla said.
"Okay then. We need to go now. Cthylla, if there's anything you need to bring with you, do it now, because we're never coming back" Shang Chi said.
Cthylla went and picked up the photo of her and Bart Allen, and made it turn into gold dust.
"This will store it temporally" Cthylla explained upon noticing our confused looks.
Then she picked up a sword and unsheathed it.
The blade was glowing white and she smirked.
"Let's go" Cthylla said.
We then began moving out of the window.
Nico and Shang Chi covered us from behind.
We had barely gotten out of the room before I heard a voice bellow behind us.
"WHO ARE YOU AND WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING WITH MY BRIDE?!"
Crap.
This was not how this was supposed to go.
"Who this ugly bitch?!" Shang Chi shouted as he sailed down the mountain.
"Holy shit" I breathed out.
I turned around to see a hooded being dressed in yellow robes with large tentacles flapping about from underneath his robes.
I really didn't want to know what was underneath those robes.
I turned and jumped down the mountain.
Probably not the smartest idea.
I hit the ground hard and I am pretty sure my leg bone shot straight up into my ribs, because I screamed in pain.
Morris and Nico turned into water and darkness respectively landing softly on the ground.
Cthylla hit the ground hard but looked unscathed.
Lucky.
Shang Chi helped me along as we ran/limped from the mountain.
I heard Hastur bellowing orders from above and dozens of Deep Ones and Yuggya ran out of the palace and down towards us.
"Move! We got to move!" Morris said in a panic.
We began moving faster.
Several nearby Deep Ones turned to face us with confusion on there faces.
We began moving away with Cthylla in the lead as she knew how to get out of R'lyeh safely.
We entered a large cave system and began turning left and right.
I saw Hastur and his legions of Deep Ones and Yuggya were following us closely.
We exited the cave system and arrived in a dead city full of giant stones, roughly carved.
"Indiana Jones made this look a lot cooler" Morris muttered.
"Follow me" Cthylla said as she took off running.
A blast of yellow energy hit a rock in front of me and Nico and I went flying.
We both scrambled to our feet quickly.
"We need to split up. Morris and I will hold them off. Cthylla, Nico, Tripp, you guys need to get out of here. We will catch up with you" Shang Chi said.
Cthylla nodded and the 3 of us took off in the direction of this supposed exit.
We ducked multiple energy blasts that were sent in our direction.
We ducked into a deep and smelly cavern where I heard the energy blasts stop firing.
We stopped running once we were sure no one was following us and then tried to catch our breath.
"Okay that guy is insanely creepy" I commented.
Cthylla grinned.
"Easy for you to say; you're not the one whose supposed to marry him" she retorted.
"Okay anyone else in your family who's deranged that we need to know about?" Nico asked.
"Well I do have 3 older brothers; Ghatanothoa, Ythogtha and Zoth-Ommog are my older siblings by my father Cthulhu and my mother Idh-yaa. Then there's my two irritating half sisters Nctosa and Nctolhu by my aunt Kassogtha" Cthylla explained.
Yeah that is creepy.
"Okay where are all of them?" Nico asked.
"Ghatanothoa is locked away in a mountain on the lost continent of Mu. Ythogtha and Zoth-Ommog are imprisoned here in R'lyeh. Nctosa and Nctolhu are imprisoned in the Great Red Spot on Jupiter" Cthylla explained.
"Okay. Anyone else in this place we should know about?" I asked.
"There is my father who is imprisoned close by. Unfortunately we need to cross through his prison in order to escape R'lyeh. And Zoth-Ommog lies in a death-like slumber, waiting to cast his dreams into the will of mankind. You know much like my dad" Cthylla said sarcastically.
Cthylla almost seemed to sense something was coming.
"Okay, we need to move now!" she said.
Nico and I began following her through the deep cavern which seemed to go on endlessly.
We moved further and further through the tunnel before I noticed a bright flash of light.
"What the hell is that?" Nico voiced my thoughts.
"I don't know. Be careful through" Cthylla warned.
We crept closer towards the source of the flash of light.
When we arrived at the source of the light, we saw five people standing there.
Four of them were dressed in gear which read 'Five-O Task Force' on the front.
And the fifth was a man in a brown trenchcoat with a white shirt and a red tie underneath.
I didn't recognize any of them but Cthylla grinned on seeing them.
She walked out from behind her cover.
"Well, well. Johnny boy Constantine" Cthylla greeted with a grin on her face.
"Cthylla. Long time no see luv" Constantine greeted with a smile as well.
They hugged each other tightly.
Wow.
She certainly knows a lot of people.
"Who are your friends here?" Cthylla asked.
"Some friends I picked up along the way. Meet Steve McGarett, Danny Williams, Chin Ho-Kelly and Kono Kalakaua of the Hawaii Five-O Task Force. Guys this is Cthylla, daughter of the Great Dreamer Cthulhu" Constantine introduced.
"But I don't wish to be associated with him" Cthylla said with deep hatred in her voice.
The ruthlessness in her voice was scary.
"Well it's nice to meet you" the man called McGarett said, stepping forward and shaking Cthylla's hand.
"And this is Antonnie Tripplett and Nico Di Angelo" Cthylla introduced us.
"Where's Morris Bench and Shang Chi?" Constantine asked.
"There currently attempting to hold off Hastur the Unspeakable" Cthylla said.
Constantine paled considerably.
"We need to go help them then" Constantine said.
Cthylla stopped him however.
"Shang Chi told us to run. We also must cross the prison of my father to do so" Cthylla said.
"And that is even worse. All right then luv, lets go" Constantine said with a resigned sigh.
And together, the 8 of us moved to get the hell out of R'lyeh.
We moved across the barren, dead terrain, moving towards a cavern that had a bright red light ahead.
The whole cavern radiated an aura of evil that chilled the soul.
"Well, well. My faviroute daughter finally comes to visit me" a deep, chilling voice said.
I couldn't tell where the voice was coming from; it came from everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
"I am no longer your daughter" Cthylla spat.
So this was where Cthulhu was imprisoned? This was getting better and better.
"Relax daughter. I mean you no harm" the entity said in a calm voice.
But I still didn't trust whatever that thing was.
"Sure you do. But I am no daughter of yours. Not after you forced me to live in a palace for thousands of years and that I am supposed to give birth to you, after you die" Cthylla snarled.
Cthulhu chuckled deeply.
It was very scary.
"I merely protected you from harm. What more could you possibly want?" Cthulhu asked.
I resisted the urge to laugh.
This guy was pretty delusional wasn't he?
"I would love to not be related to you at all. And I want to be free and not be bound by your rules ever again. I was happy before I was dragged back here against my will. At least you will never recover your full strength" Cthylla growled.
I couldn't see Cthulhu but he probably grinned.
"On the contrary daughter, I have regained much of my power. I have even aided the humans and I will rise again soon" Cthulhu said.
"No you won't. I will stop you. Whatever it takes" Cthylla said.
"Oh please. You couldn't even save that insignificant human Bart Allen" Cthulhu taunted.
Cthylla looked so angry I thought she was going to explode.
"Do not ever insult Bart. I loved him!" she yelled.
"Oh well then. I couldn't have you being distracted from your true purpose. Who do you think killed him?" he taunted.
And that was when the entire thing derailed.
Cthylla let out a massive scream of grief and rage.
She morphed into her Great Old One form at the same time.
And then a massive shockwave was emitted from her that sent all of us flying.
I went flying a few hundred yards and slammed into a sunken ship.
"Bloody hell" I groaned in pain.
That was damn painful.
I had wound up getting pinned by several chains that were in the ship.
Most of the wood was rotting and decaying.
It had probably been down here for a very long time.
I managed to slip out of the chains and stumbled out of the ship.
What I found made my eyes widen.
It was complete destruction.
Multiple stone structures had been destroyed and were floating in the air.
"What the hell?" I muttered.
I saw Constantine and Chin stumble to there feet, both of them still stunned from the blast.
"Well that was unexpected" Chin commented.
"No kidding. Where is everyone else mate?" Constantine asked, looking around.
I spotted McGarett, who was knocked out from the blast.
Danny and Nico were barely standing, both of them stumbling.
Kono was nowhere to be seen.
And Cthylla was in her Great Old One form.
The entire cavern/prison had been demolished.
She was extremely powerful.
Cthylla turned to face us and morphed back into her human form.
Her eyes were red from crying.
I had deep sympathy for her.
Losing a loved one is never nice and knowing that your own father killed that person was unimaginable.
"I am so sorry for that guys" Cthylla apologized.
I waved her off.
"No problem. I understand. Now how exactly were we supposed to get out of here?" I asked her.
Determination appeared on her face.
"Follow me" she said.
We began moving out as fast as we could.
We had found the exit to R'lyeh and Cthylla informed us we needed to swim to the surface of the ocean.
So we began swimming as hard and as fast as possible.
In about five minutes of hard, powerful swimming, we had reached the surface.
But something incredibly massive popped up.
It could easily dwarf ancient whales.
"Dagon" Cthylla growled.
We went back underwater and Cthylla morphed into her Great Old One form, before grabbing Dagon.
The two began wrestling with one another and Cthylla easily had the upper hand in the fight as she began brutally slamming Dagon into the ocean floor.
When she was finished, Dagon was unconscious.
Yeah looks like no one can beat her.
Briefly I spotted an island of some sort which we needed to reach.
Everyone else noticed too and we began swimming towards the island.
We reached the island and collapsed from exhaustion.
This was damn tiring.
As I was trying to recover my breath, Nico and Cthylla vanished into thin air.
"What the…" I trailed off as the Five-O task force vanished next.
Constantine and I traded confused looks before we too vanished and to our surprise, we appeared in the Monitor's realm.
The Monitor was standing in front of us.
Shang Chi and Morris were also there, covered in wounds with blood on there faces.
"Well done my friends and welcome. We have much to catch up on" Novu said.
"Give us a break dude" I said.
After about five minutes, we had turned to face Novu.
What is going on?" I asked Novu.
"I am glad your mission was successful. But now your companions on Earth-199999 need your help to stop the enemy they were facing. I will send you to there Earth where you must aid them at the Midtown School of Science and Technology" Novu said.
"Then what are we waiting for. Lets get this done" Shang Chi said.
"Besides, I've been looking forward to seeing Jason again" Shang Chi added with a smile.
Time to kick some serious ass.
And Chapter 25 is done. I hope you all enjoyed it.
So Cthylla has been rescued and Constantine and the Five-O task force have shown up.
Now to address several things…
I hope you all enjoyed the reference to Bart Allen from Smallville. Recent Smallville fics written by Aragorn II Elessar as well as Michael Weyer's fic, Legacy of Lightning inspired me to use Smallville in this trilogy.
Now no one from Smallville will show up in this fic but I do have major plans for Smallville in the sequel.
Now some of you may be wondering why Cthylla wiped the floor with Dagon so easily. Now that is because IMHO, Dagon is not a Great Old One, he is simply a mutated Deep One who just grew incredibly large.
And Hastur is a Great Old One and the half brother of Cthulhu who is supposed to marry Cthylla. Incest seems to be a minor horror theme in Lovecraft's works.
It is said that all Great Old Ones can change there size and shape at will so I will expand on that in this trilogy.
And Hastur has multiple avatars in the books so I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the Great Old Ones do as well.
Picture Cthylla's human form being played by Jessica Henwick who played Colleen Wing in the MCU Netflix TV series Iron Fist as she would be perfect in the role.
And I hope you all liked Cthulhlu's cameo here, even though he did not make an appearance. Yes he is growing stronger and he was responsible for sending Black Flash to kill Bart. You will find out how in the sequel.
And as for the rest of the Great Old Ones mentioned; they will play major and minor roles in the rest of the trilogy.
Now the final battle will take place at Midtown High from Spider Man: Homecoming. You will find out why next chapter.
Next chapter will converge the two arcs together into one.
Until next time, review, follow, faviroute, stay tuned and tell me what you though of this chapter.
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