Lyon France April 10th 2000
This was make it or break it, if I failed, well then I wasn't going to ever be trusted again, if I pulled this off then I got to rejoin humanity on a provisonal basis, and join the Protectorate. I continued waiting, capes around the world stared at me, many in distaste. I understood why but it was honestly getting really fucking old. Honestly, most days it feels like the only person in my corner is Fred. Then the ground rumbled and I felt a sense of relative calm and then total goddamned panic.
Behemoth was bigger then me, I was big by human standards at ten feet tall but Behemoth huge. The other capes retreated, this was my chance to prove myself, to get myself in the ring.
"Stop."
The creature looked at me and tilted its' head.
-traitor! traitor traitor hate hate hate hate hate hate-
And thats when the asskicking began, and I discovered first hand that Endbringers are fully capable of feeling pain. First it tried to burn me alive, that hurt alot until I changed my biology to deal with all of the fire, heat and radiation and then he just started hitting me. I tried to fight back, but honestly my old scrapping days were ten years ago, I had been sitting in a chair for six months and using powers I barely understood with barely any practice while under some pretty sever restrictions.
Which meant that this was less a fight and more a curbstomp, a horrible painful curbstomp, and I mean that literally as at one point he was actually stomping me into a curb. Eventually the other capes stepped in to help or take pot shots, Behemoth then noticed that he wasn't alone and got ready to obliterate them.
I woke up from my punch drunk stupor and did what I do best and took a cheap shot, I tackled him to the ground, creating vines and other plants and tried to do my level best to pierce his core. That drew his attention to me and he started beating me up again, which lead to the capes reloading their tinkertech and trying again.
It was a tag team effort but eventually Behemoth got pissed and just walked away. I looked like hell, felt even worse but I decided to focus my efforts on healing every cape I could. There were a lot of injuries and wounds and a few people died, but I'm told this endbringer fight had the fewest deaths. With that done I was chained up and put on a plane back to Seattle. I took the time to sleep and heal my injuries.
My coat had been destroyed, I liked that coat, I had made it myself.
"I miss my clothing."
One of the security guards jumped.
"What?"
"My clothing, it was destroyed in the battle, I miss it, I made the outfit myself."
"Oh..um..."
He was sweating.
"Look, I was told not to talk to you."
I could bring down this fucking plane so easy.
"I wish I had my coat, it would go out magificently behind me in a breeze, it was the cool."
The guard remained silent.
"There are so many things I want to try like, your human iced cream, and your human coffee. I have never had your worlds coffee."
The cold shoulder treatment continued.
"I miss the ocean sometimes, that's my first memory of your world, the ocean. It was dark and cold but even there there was life. Your world is quite beautiful, it's worth fighting for."
Still not talking.
"I saw the things you call angler fish in the distance, I was entraced by their light little pinpricks of light in the darkness, when I discovered human television it...was a lot to take in. Your species has a wonderful so-"
"Why didn't you help out sooner."
The conversation started.
"I was afraid."
"So your a coward huh?"
"Yes... but I'm trying to change, trying to become better."
"I lost family in New York you know, my brother died."
"I'm sorry for your loss."
"Are you? You're just so above it all aren't you? Think you're going to help the poor monkeys."
"I never claimed to be better then you, considering the scope of my peoples sins any claim of superority is obviously a lie."
"Heh and never fucking forget it."
There was silence.
"What are they like?"
"Who?"
"Behemoth, Leviethan?"
"Behemoth is a musclebrained idiot, I once saw one of your 80s highschool movies, he is like the jocks in one of those films, but without the redeeming features. Leviathan...the nearest human comparison is the human actor Pauly Shore...only much more annoying, vicious and vindictive."
The guard blinked.
"Pauly Shore? I'm having a hard time seeing that."
"Ever watch Biodome?"
And yes, it does exist in this world too, the only difference is that Pauly Shore had red hair. It still sucks by the way.
"Yeah."
"That's what he's like."
"So the others."
"The human word asshole is as close as I can get."
"Huh Leviathan is Endbringer Pauly shore...Cant wait to tell the folks on PHO about that."
"PHO?"
"It's an internet thing...you'll get it eventually."
I nodded my head and then listened to him as he talked about his favorite TV shows, and for the rest of the plane ride I felt human again.
