Preparations commenced around her, and yet she still desired more.
Everything became hers for the taking, and she commanded swarms of robots to do her bidding all while the highest of the royal family dangled by strings. She had to hand it to him for such a wise choice, and yet she never provided her thanks. A vessel perfectly fits ones ambitions and abilities, and in the end she found…adequate results. While not the strongest or burliest, the knowledge that came under the hood gave enough for an easier learning period. The endless libraries of knowledge encased under sheets of metal drew from the cerebral cortex that added to the data banks all safely whenever it found the opportunity. While it amused her to probe the memories within as she paraded her new body like she owned it, certain flaws required some heavy updates that she left on her to do list. All of it existed for the inevitability of her future reign, and nothing stood in her way from her near perfection while the odds increased in her favor every second. Her tyrannical rule reigned supreme over everything inferior to her infinite intellect.
Nothing concretely summarized the unholy union of a supercomputer and a young tween named Marcy Wu other than technological perfection. One instant process then everything transferred successfully from a hulking hunk of metal into nothing but an empty husk. A young prodigy's own knowledge expanded infinitely the moment a soulless series of numbers usurped her mind and made it theirs. The gathering of geniuses that sacrificed themselves to the perfect technology agreed that she served as the perfect vessel for domination in the future. The influx of young blood kept their actions sharp and to the point, all while the actual girl herself stayed cooped in her own corner. Of course, at least one of the keenest minds carried different opinions, but the majority kept him silenced while they adapted and existed in their new body like flawless rulers. A couple of rather minute hiccups still required some getting used to, such as their overall personality still having lingering tendencies from their girl host and the fact that they worked from a wired connection instead of wireless, but overall they became the ultimate brains unified into one young human bound by technologies never crafted by human hands.
Marcy was no more. Only DARCY.
Some called her new named cliche or by the books, and yet they never cared. Names carried little importance over their inevitable future rule, and they reveled at the goal over the horizon. With so much control at her fingertips it became almost blatant that she now stood as the most powerful entity in all of Amphibia, and the few stragglers that opposed her suffered the worst. With her floating castle and armies by her side, nothing stood in her way. Despite all that she wielded, she didn't act upon her plans immediately, for some last minute preparations still needed her attention. King Andrias maintained some of the duties that ended up carried out by the lowlifes he commanded from the sidelines, and yet some still never checked out on their to-do lists. To think Darcy needed everything set in stone when she herself stood out as a perfect unity sounded preposterous, but it never carried the title of impossible.
One rather important shortcoming came in the form of her limited knowledge of the human world. While she rummaged through Marcy's memories and phone for insights, it only satisfied her to a degree. Their technology seemed weak and worthless compared to what Amphibia offered, and yet she still wanted one hundred percent confirmation behind dozens of concepts. The greatest of minds conversed with each other all within the confines of the Core atop her head, and while some agreed on many different options, one idea stood out. It all came together from the one loose mind all the way in the back that made it difficult to hear him, but once he provided the interesting plan pretty much everyone concluded on it. It used Marcy's own fascinations and carefree nature against her in the worst possible manner, and thanks to a couple of loose memories they knew the exact steps to proceed. She wouldn't remember a thing after all, and their influence left everyone else in the dark about their current ideas, even to Andrias.
Each step required their own set of specifications. The first needed a personal area to lay everything out while it remained inconspicuous to everyone except her. Fortunately for Darcy, her control over the endless armies of frog robots meant she could afford to control some idle ones nobody paid attention to. Once she did so, she left them to construct something very specific behind closed doors where no one saw them, and once they finished she wiped their memories and sent them back to their normal duties. After they set everything in place, she rounded up some very interesting specifics. One specific memory from Marcy stirred her interest which eventually lead to the ever important ingredients. Her ever interesting research tendencies proved very useful to finally crack down one of the knots that tied everything together, and yet she still required one final set of circumstances lined up perfectly. Out of the other steps though, it became the easiest due to her influence. Once she found the right moment where nobody paid attention, only a few special rifts from the Calamity Box became necessary. She influenced a couple of camouflaging frog bots and sent them out into the human world for specifics nobody would miss in the slightest, for any further knowledge of the new dimension carried importance despite the collections of intellect gathered throughout the numbers of the Core. She even provided the special concoction for the bots when the time came, and before long she already hoarded enough for her ideal moments behind closed doors. Everything needed perfect execution and timing, and when everyone's back turned she acted on her desires.
Nobody suspected anything from Darcy.
While the steps required multiple days to execute, in the end all of the pieces fit together for one rather interesting day to gain knowledge. Multiple minds inside the Core already set their expectations high and couldn't wait any longer, where Darcy insisted their wait wouldn't last much longer. She eerily and sternly made her way down the private halls while the enormous eyes of the Core's systems glared ominously back at her. She smiled back in one of the most dark and grim expressions imaginable, and would have sent chills down the spines of the common unknowing stereotypes. They reinforced how exponential her power and influence extended throughout the land, and she intended to keep it that way. All of the eerie eyes glared in her direction as she finally made her way to a particular part of the castle to a portion nobody would have suspected carried significance at any point. After a frog bot accidentally rendered one of the rockets that held up the castle in the air loose, King Andrias lead the backup crew for a quick repair which lead most of certain portions empty. It gave Darcy the perfect opportunity, and after a few precarious turns the hidden door opened up. She kept her hand on the frame for a few moments which caused some symbols to light up across both it and the Core, and after a few seconds they died down. After that little display, Darcy headed inside and slowly shut the door so the extra security could kick in again. She wanted to make extra sure that nobody other than her could set foot in her secret area or even learn of its existence. Her interests deserved no such publicity for the sake of everyone she lead for the upcoming invasion.
As she entered her private quarters, although her upper chord got caught for a second from the door, the light came up and revealed the whole encompass the loose bots built for her. She couldn't have felt like the destroyer of worlds any further than that moment. Despite all of the small snippets she learned from Marcy's memories and phone, the whole room seemed like the perfect tiny replica of a bustling metropolis or city. From crowded streets, looming skyscrapers, and the underground subway stations, everything nearly mirrored some of the most populated cities in the human world and then some. It didn't overshadow the fact that Darcy stood over everything as if she underwent the greatest of growths in history, and she one hundred percent planned everything for the perfect accuracy as such. She even commanded the bots to create fully functioning miniature cars, trucks, and even subway train along the surface that brought even further authenticity to such a sprawling model city, which amused her as much as the scope. At best the tallest building reached the top of her thick boots, which to her became the perfect limit, while the entire model spread across nearly the whole room. At a width compared to a very large classroom, at least from what Darcy saw through Marcy's memories, it left lots of wiggle room for bustling antics throughout the sprawling landscape. Her body itched to get going, and while she could have started immediately she still required one extra factor that tied everything together in one large crimson ribbon.
Only a few precious moments passed before one of her summoned frog bots arrived with a burly box in its arms. Darcy nodded toward it which served as a signal, so the mech hovered lower toward the miniature city then proceeded to open the top of the box. Its eyes lit up from everything inside before it glanced over to Darcy one more time. One slow downward hand gesture later and the frog robot understood completely. It brought the box over to an open section with less buildings before it slowly tipped the box to the side and poured the contents over it. The black magic the twisted collection of minds conjured from the snippets of Marcy's time with the dark arts frog paid off in the end, which provided Darcy with one of the biggest and darkest grins imaginable. The camouflaged frog bots she sent out performed their jobs perfectly, and in the end she got what she wanted like every moment since she booted up.
Nothing but hundreds and hundreds of shrunken people to litter the tiny streets like an actual city.
Once the bot made sure it emptied out the box completely, it beeped and booped a few times before Darcy motioned toward the door behind her. It shuddered for a second as it hovered over and Darcy's fatal gaze stared direction into its empty husk. A few seconds later the robotic pupils in its eyes formed into large question marks as it glanced downward toward the box in its arms and walked out in some type of daze…which caused it to accidentally hit its head against the top part of the entryway. Even so, it sluggishly left and left Darcy in the room with all of the tiny humans in her miniature model of a city, and she couldn't have felt happier. She clasped her hands as the dots started to move around, but she still needed to set the records straight first. They existed in the enclosed space for a reason after all.
For all of the shrunken ones by her feet, her voice boomed overhead. The Core's creepy eyes lit up and stared directly into their souls.
"…why, hello there." Darcy started as she darkly grinned. "How quaint to finally see so many writhing specks around me. I don't suppose any of you understand why you've suddenly found yourselves miniaturized…in my replica city…"
While she couldn't fully see the looks on everyone's faces, she easily made out some of them as they vigorously nodded their heads as if their lives depended on it, which kept Darcy's smile up in a very creepy manner. Some of the dots already began to run off in other directions away from the main crowds, which she expected and yet still kept her cool for the most part.
"Ooh, some already want to get started I see! How ravishing to know such obedience exists even throughout the useless human realm. Too bad all remains naught, for I have something SPECIAL planned to force that interest out. You see…I want to play a game…"
More groups of people scattered off from the foreboding signs Darcy gave away, and yet her paralyzing gaze kept most, if not all, of the rest stuck on the spot. It amused her to see worried ones as if a chance still existed, and yet she knew otherwise.
"I have constructed your new landscape to the utmost accuracy akin to what you whelps consider 'home'. Just go about your merry ways and explore every nook and cranny to your hearts content. I cared enough to squeeze every amount of detail imaginable for your benefit. So go ahead… Make like curious ants and witness all of the splendor…"
She dripped complete creepiness all over from her eyes and grin that left some running for the hills already, and yet she didn't finish her explanation in colorful details. Nothing but music to Darcy's ears.
"However, I have just one teensie weensie rule you have to abide by…"
She even made motions with her fingers and changed her tone on certain words about the severity of what she desired out of them just to rub it in their faces about their unfortunate fates. The Core on her head even seemed to chuckle to itself from all of the confused and still expressions of the shrunken ones that still lingered around. Whether by complete fear, infatuation, or some other third factor, she bound them on the spot from her gigantic presence. Too bad Marcy completely left the building, for she would have thought things out completely differently. Darcy pulled the strings now, and her idea for an ideal experience stayed colorful…for all of the wrong reasons.
She kept her deadly gaze against all of the tiny ones as she bent downward and reached for a loose speck. Even more people bolted from the sight, and unfortunately some didn't get away in time. In one fell swoop of her fingers, Darcy snatched a whole group from the makeshift streets and brought them up close to her creepy and intrigued face. The Core's glare lit up as the possessed girl felt them squirm and beg for mercy like she decided their final outcome. She felt across their whole bodies with her gigantic fingers and did so for a few extra seconds to her delight. They must have saw her as the biggest girl in existence, and it made her circuits spin. If she truly found a way to expand in size while she stayed connected to the castle, her conquests as she dimension hopped would end in an instant. No need for entire armies when she could just crush the opposition and lay waste to everything…and maybe have some sinister fun in the process. While Andrias may have set everything in stone already, she kept her rather titanic interest in the back just in case. A giant Darcy meant a more destructive Darcy after all, and already she yearned for the possibility as a true goddess bigger than reality itself.
"Aww, look at all of you as you try to escape my grip. Don't you feel the absolute power that I yield over your squishy bodies? I control your fates, and you can do nothing about it. Your primitive minds all collected within the confines of my fingers, and yet such precious knowledge…deserves my attention."
The panic in her hands escalated to feverish pitches, and yet Darcy only smiled at all of the misery. She didn't even break a sweat, and her enjoyment over how massive she stood compared to all of the shrunken people kept her fixated on them. The Core egged her on for something highly against what Marcy possibly went for, and yet it used her own body while the girl herself knew nothing.
She brought her attention back to the tiny ones on the ground, and she even spoke in a playful tone at first to divert expectations.
"Feel free to go around and enjoy your lives in the miniature city, but if I catch you…"
Her expression instantly switched to her most wicked as she cracked her head to the side…
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…then crushed everyone in her grasp in a gory, bloody fashion.
Her hand became flooded in red while the girl herself never flinched. The others down below seemed to have completely stood in utter shock as the evil entity ended the lives of many with no remorse. Her smile never faded as she eventually dropped the entire clump in her hand like nothing, which left behind an entire pile of flattened body parts and crimson red everywhere. Loose eyeballs, crushed skulls, flattened innards, and even wiggling limbs all existed within the bloody pile, and Darcy enjoyed it rather nicely. She felt their souls part as she ended their lives, which the Core took for itself and obtained for its never ending library of knowledge. The one loose mind in the back really escalated the severity of her actions in an instant from his idea, and if Darcy desired any further knowledge a few hundred more souls would suffice. All of their lives ended by the body of a thirteen year old intrigued girl, which Darcy found quite ironic. The Core needed to isolate all of the extra minds it gathered to another region so Marcy never suspected a thing, as it wanted her to find out at the right time about what happened while it controlled her own body against her will. Darcy awaited such a moment, as it carried pressure of immeasurable devastation that completely killed the spirit on the spot, and all thanks to Marcy's unwilling assistance. She fell from hero to villain as quick as a flash, and Darcy took full advantage.
At that point the crowds completely flipped a one eighty and completely scattered from sheer fear and panic. Darcy caused pandemonium exactly the way she wanted it, similar to all of the giant monster movies it scanned through Marcy's memories. However, while those stayed on the silver screen, for her she existed out of it. She now stood as the destroyer of lives in an endless thirst for knowledge in the only way she knew how. In certain ways she wished the travesties ended up as the actual invasion of the human world, and yet the possibility stayed out of her reach. For now, miniaturizing entire communities of people for her own knowledge substituted such ambitions, but after today…she wanted to go at it again.
Gain more human knowledge and souls into the Core…in cold blood.
"Aww, you didn't even let me finish." Darcy creepily said as she clasped her bloody hands together. "Oh well, it wouldn't have mattered anyway. All of you serve me now, and I'm ITCHING TO GET STARTED."
Her twisted smile pierced the sky above all of the panicked people below. Their small shrieks and screams became music to her ears, all while her size completely eclipsed them like the great apocalypse arrived. She couldn't wait any longer, but just to reaffirm her position she raised one of her boots above a tiny district and sent in downward to where it obliterated everything underneath. Loose concrete and brick flew everywhere while any tiny person unlucky to have stuck around there had their guts ripped out and scattered throughout all of the leftover dust. The streets nearby splattered with blood and drenched people in pure red as they ran around for safety. They lost more numbers, and Darcy gained more souls for the Core.
"I AM YOUR GODDESS! YOU SHALL CALL ME YOUR QUEEN!"
Her statement rang through the whole makeshift city and the power behind it reinstated her purpose of shrinking all of them in the first place. She commanded all of the attention like a demented dictator more than anyone else in Amphibia. The collection of intelligent minds reveled in all they accomplished which delighted the Core and Darcy like the perfect dark union. They changed Marcy into the killing machine ready to conquer the world, which left her as the prime candidate for the upcoming invasion. She left hundreds of pitiful humans as nothing but indistinguishable dots, and they will know their status to their new ruler and goddess.
Nothing but pure perfection showed her grave intentions as she made her first couple of steps into the model city. Each impact against the grounds sent a resonating boom that shook all of the shrunken people and sent them off of their feet. Darcy cackled and laughed at all of the misfortunes bestowed upon everyone she shrunk, and she made extra sure to change dozens of buildings into rubble. Her steps brought magnitude tens and higher that destroyed everything it their path, which pleasured Darcy as red hit the skies. Because of the amounts of shrunken people she captured, hundreds scattered across the streets while Darcy bulldozed everything with only her boots. Multiple hundreds either died from building materials that fell from above or Darcy's hard presses of her boots. She laughed as rivers of dark red splattered against the sidewalks and heaps of crushed bodies fell behind in the craters left behind by her feet. Nothing stood a chance against her immense scale, and those that never avoided her in time went punished with their lives. As long as she killed, she gained in more ways than one. Her enjoyment progressed and the Core obtained more souls for its endless library of knowledge. She never blamed herself, as she admitted no faults of her own since they never acted too fast on their feet to avoid her. For her journey of a thousand miles in the first few steps, she set brutal examples for all of the losers of her activities and had plenty more to mess with the ones that still lived.
Darcy eventually started to stomp more frequently while she rained more tragedies from above, which eventually lead to a particular scenario that caught the eyes of the Core in a rather amused manner. She let loose a deathly impact that almost seemed like a bomb went off for the model city, as it unleashed a downpour of cement and concrete from the destroyed buildings while a highly audible boom followed, and yet one loose dot ended up clipped near the top. Right at the tip of her armored boot underneath set a tiny woman that managed to avoid damage for everything above her torso, but her legs never got the same amount of luck. Darcy completely flattened her legs which caused the tiny one to cry out in paint and suffering, but it only amused her further.
"Heheheheh, looks like I have a straggler here…" Darcy boomed and echoed from above. "You must have thought that you could have escaped, hmmmm? How adorable…yet foolish!"
As much as she enjoyed her shrieks of pain and anguish, she put an end to her misery instantly once she raised her boot again and slammed it right down atop of her, along with a few extra dozens around her. To rub salt into the would, Darcy even ground her boot against the pavement for a few precious moments that dug the crater even deeper and sent some nearby buildings into ruin below. Once she figured that she punished them enough, the giant possessed girl lifted her boot and witnessed all of the bloody glory she caused. Guts and organs littered the streets as blood filled in the gaps between them, which delighted Darcy and the minds contained within the Core. More unlucky souls fell into the circuits of the Core which provided further intellect, and it further exemplified the heartless and soulless nature of the technology. They never deserved their sentences, but as the gigantic judge Darcy concluded that death served as their final outcome.
"Hahahah! Oh man! Those meaningless shrieks and screams… Priceless!" Darcy said rather insultingly. "She got what she deserved…in one of the worst ways possible! Let's see if the rest of you ants will SUFFER THE SAME FATE!"
The tiny people still in the model city required no such reiterations to understand that any contact with Darcy instantly became fatal. They already headed for the hills and scattered everywhere like the still held on to the possibility of survival, which the giant possessed tween knew otherwise. Her crooked and ungodly expression left no remorse while the Core stayed along for the ride for all of the benefits. She pinned the blame on Marcy for all of the crimes against the living souls, for it used her body and not its own to end the lives of everyone involved in the deadly activities. Darcy knew best, whether the one she possessed knew about or not.
Some of the tiny people eventually put two and two together and booked it for the spare vehicles dotted across the streets. In a surprising fashion, they functioned and acted just as they would have in the human world, even down to a full tank of gas. For once Darcy told the truth about the perfect accuracy behind the model city, and the ones who took the driver's seat took it as a great asset. A majority tried to pile in as if each vehicle provided a safe haven, and by the time the cars and trucks stepped on the gas no extra space remained, whether by seats, trunks, engine compartments, or even storage units in the cases of the trucks. Dozens upon dozens of cars and trucks stayed around the corners, and even then not everyone managed to make it safely inside one. Darcy wanted to make the situations interesting, but only the select few would participate in extreme specifics.
The giant girl ruthlessly stomped on a few more miniature crowds of people under her boots, where they perished instantly underneath in large bloody messes, until her multiple pairs of eyes placed their attention on the vehicles that just started to move.
"Ah, so you finally decided to put those to use." Darcy boomed overhead. "Just because you have wheels doesn't mean you get off Scot-free. I'll deal with all of you personally, for I'm entertained to see those glimmers of hope in your eyes…as if you actually have a chance!"
She set her sights on a few particular cars and eyed them down as they took off in the opposite direction. Darcy grinned darkly and chuckled to herself before she lightly walked after them. She killed multiple crowds under her boots as usual, and yet she never tried to seriously keep up with the vehicles. Her giant steps alone meant she always stayed on top of the cars and never took her eyes off of them, much to her grave delight. As for the fleeing vehicles in the streets, the drivers and the dozens of passengers inside couldn't have felt the complete contrary in the slightest. While they inadvertently mowed down innocent bystanders in their frantic rushes, their own survival stood out more than others. The deafening quakes and loud booms from Darcy's steps shook them off balance as the giant evil girl stayed in pursuit, and the Core's glaring eyes made sure escape always evaded their grasp. The clipped lampposts, hit curbs, and ran over multiple sidewalks, and yet they cared about none of it. Darcy's booming boots became louder and louder which utterly sent their sheer panic straight over the top. The seriousness may have broke records of urgency for the shrunken ones, but for Darcy she only saw it as another day in the life of a world conquering girl and supercomputer unification. The hot pursuit between giant girl and tiny people left the participants either worried for their lives…or overjoyed for more.
Some of the vehicles actually gained a bit of distance away from Darcy, but she only let them go so far before she dialed everything up a notch. One really decked up minivan that rounded a few corners became her first victim, and she already concluded on a rather colorful outcome that stirred her fancy. She made sure it zipped away a certain distance that seemed like a temporary safe zone, and then she dashed everyone's hopes and dream in one swift downward spike. She drove one tight and powerful fist at a straight ninety degree angle that instantly wrecked the car and killed everyone inside instantly. The force of the impact resonated throughout the entire model city to where panicked people not even close to the action careened into the air for a split second. Pavement flew in every possible direction as tough skin met concrete across streets and buildings which nearly blew them apart in many aspects. Darcy left behind a deep crater of mangled bodies and metal which also dotted her front knuckles in dark red, much to her grave happiness. The next vehicle, a speedy sports car, caught her attention next, and she already thought of a rather vile and heinous action tailor made to eliminate it. She scanned the premises for the tallest building in sight, and once she found one she reached down and plucked it from its place. Precise calculation of precision happened in a zeptosecond from all of the greatest minds bundled into the supercomputer called the Core, and after she took her time to feel all of the building materials between her fingers Darcy tossed it forward at an arc where it landed straight on the unfortunate vehicle right before it revved up the engines again; no such use of her body necessary. She smirked and shook her head as the smoke rose into the air, and once she noticed all of the new minds that gathered into the Core she knew everyone inside met their bitter end. They lost while Darcy gained, and she loved every second.
She took a few steps so she could survey the damage dealt, but before long one final speeding vehicle zoomed by her titanic boots. Her eyes lit up a bit once she realized that she saw it as a Volkswagen Beetle, something Marcy kept on her radar as a top choice for her car when she obtained her license. From what the Core gathered, she really appreciated the curvature of the roof and the circular headlights akin to eyes of a cartoon character…at least by her perspective. While she never fully decided on a particular color, she still had a few years before her big chance. As such, it interested Darcy to see that the frog mechs crafted one for her amusement, which also fueled the irony of how she desired to destroy it. She would destroy Marcy's own favorite kind of car with her own two hands.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" Darcy said as poison seeped into her tone.
The instant the ones in the car heard her they stepped on the gas even more. Darcy's chuckles rang through their heads as they heard booming steps that increased in pace behind them. They nearly lost their traction multiple times across the streets, and they even ran down other panicked people in their haste to escape. Even so, the ones who avoided the car turned into red paste across the pavements from Darcy's boots anyway, which added fuel to the fire and more knowledge for the Core. At certain points they went clear into the air from a deafening stomp that required some heavy readjustment, and even then they just barely stayed intact. The car took multiple beatings in its mad dash over one hundred miles per hour, and Darcy never lifted a finger. She only walked after the tiny car, and that proved enough to send it into a large heap of scrap. It barely hung on to life as it sped down the road, but after a few deadly minutes against Darcy's steps a large wall of black suddenly appeared in front of them which forced a near head on collision. A few people inside died on impact, including the driver, which prompted many to open the doors for a hasty escape. However, despite all of their best efforts, they only managed a few small creaks of the doors before the car tilted and tumbled all over like a roller coaster ride. Both sides of the car jammed shut as two large walls of skin bound them inside before the tire left the ground. Some people couldn't take it any further and shattered the front windows before they leapt out, which ended up as a really bad idea. By the time they got out, the car already made its way far off the ground which basically lead to broken legs, arms, and inevitable deaths. Nobody had any safety from all of the turmoils ahead.
Before long, the car stopped in midair, but the ones still inside never got any mercy when one of the Core's giant bright glowing eyes peered right into it.
"Heheheheh. You can't escape me, you powerless insects." Darcy boomed. "I control your fates after all. How does it feel to know that I'm in charge of everything? All of you shall know your place…and yet I'm very intrigued…"
Everyone inside the car screamed their heads off as they packed together for anything at that point to possibly obtain a glimpse of escape. Before they could act though, various large dents appeared around every sector like something constantly bashed against it. They continued until a wide gash sliced over the roof, which revealed another massive wall of flesh and a hard surface above it. All of them found out the hard way that Darcy left them bound between two fingers while she continuously poked at the miniature car like a curious child. Her digits broke through multiple layers of steel and metal while her fingernails sliced through everything that came into contact with them. Some of the people never got the message until their heads literally fell off from Darcy's nails as they skewered through their necks, while some completely puked their guts out and died on the spot. Her constant pokes limited any extra space as if they experienced a trash compactor, and the massive fingers splattered blood everywhere across the seats. Eventually, the low space became too much and the pressure dealt the killing blows. Eye gouged on the spot, brains fell out of the windows, and everyone's lives inside the vehicle ceased as two walls of flesh and two enormous fingernails came together. Darcy left another group dead from her antics.
The rest of the car exploded in red while Darcy never flinched.
"Oops. Curiosity killed the car. How unfortunate…" Darcy stated rather playfully and blatantly. To think a young tween ended the lives of full grown adults sounded like something straight out of an insane asylum, and yet the wicked Darcy pulled it off like an expert. She became a serial killer and reveled in the fact.
She ended up caught so much into her own games that she almost completely missed something else. Her ears picked up some low rumbling that didn't occur voluntarily, but it came from her nonetheless. It became obvious to her almost instantly, and yet she didn't exactly like it. To think the greatest artificial intelligence in existence required nourishment, but she couldn't help it when attached to a living host. While she preferred specialized cupcakes from a trait she picked up from Marcy, such options remained out of reach at the moment. One single thought always lingered in the back with all of the other brilliant minds intertwined with the numbers, and yet if she gave the orders her image would fall apart bit by bit. No such frog mech butler bots anytime soon, much to her dismay, although she still needed to iron out all of the bugs provided by Marcy's personality implanted in her. Still, even as a computer the girl needed to eat.
"Of course. Leave it to the smartest entity in existence to fall to the common issue of hunger." Darcy thought as she fought back the urge to roll her eyes. "What to do, what to do…"
She still kept up her evil smile despite the setback, for she never wanted to show weakness to everyone inferior to her, and yet she only needed one stray mind in the Core's database to figure out something optimal…yet bloody at the same time. She glanced back down at the ruined city below, despite some untouched spots, and as she glanced down she saw dozens of tiny crowds that likely consisted of a few hundreds. Once they noticed the omnipresent Darcy as her lit up Core eyes gazed down at them in a deadly manner, they scattered like chickens in a chicken coop. Some rushed into open buildings, while others let their adrenaline run as they bolted down the streets, but for the final third Darcy paid attention to them the most. They ran off quick, but not at a faster pace than Darcy's huge hand. Before long they ran face first into a huge wall of skin and recoiled back, only to see their worst nightmares as they came to life. In one large boom against the pavement, Darcy fell to her knees and planted one of her gigantic hands right in their path, which blocked their current escape route.
Her cursed expression told them everything they needed to know.
"And where do you specks think you're going?" Darcy playfully said overhead loudly. "You don't want to leave a girl like me BORED, do you?"
The crowds shrieked again and ran in the opposite direction, but Darcy anticipated such a move and blocked their next exit with her other massive hand. Right as the dots ran into her skin once more, she began to close her hands together until all of the dots found themselves squashed against Darcy's palms. She left them in darkness for a brief moment as she lifted them up closer to her deadly expression, where her cold smile pierced the heavens. She quickly shifted them over to just one hand instead of both, which caused hundreds to plummet to their deaths below, and gripped them tightly for her next fatal action. It became a deadly guessing game for what she thought of next.
Some tried to pry themselves from Darcy's fingers, but she played along and lightly wagged a finger in their direction.
"Ah ah ah, you have no right to go up against a goddess like me!" Darcy childishly said before she devilishly giggled with her evil smile. The tiny ones cared less and paid more attention to their own lives at stake rather than her, which she didn't exactly appreciate.
"You shall know me as your GODDESS!" Darcy exclaimed which shut them up a bit. "You shall pay for your insolence! Besides…I LUST for your BLOOD."
Just the last sentence alone sent the specks into her hand into a frenzy, and yet Darcy cared less. She brought them closer to her face for one final chilling remark before their ends.
"I always wanted to taste human flesh…"
Before long, Darcy grinned darkly one more time before she gravely giggled then slowly opened her humongous maw. Underneath set the black hole to end all black holes, and she would get them in there for her delight. She tipped her head back slightly before she brought her hand forward so that all of the unfortunate specks would slide right off and into her mouth. The unfortunate ones attempted for the most part to remain on her hand as much as possible, but the tricky angle eventually got the best of them. After a few seconds of nonstop struggles, the specks of living beings lost their grip and plummeted down below into the chasm of Darcy's mouth. Some landed on her tongue while others more unfortunate landed on her white teeth where they became stuck on impact. Darcy's laughs echoed all over before the aggressive white weights above went to work and crushed everyone stuck on the bottom row. While blood shot everywhere as she literally chewed them to death, the forces of each impact eventually made way for limbs, glands, and eyeballs as they burst and exploded from the red heaps across the crevices. Some loose pieces of flesh, bone, and innards even stayed stuck to Darcy's upper jaw and teeth like loose food, but she didn't have a toothbrush on standby. She proved just how deadly and damaging one's teeth could truly deform and dismantle anything small enough to fall in their line of sight. Whether living or dead, Darcy weaponized Marcy's own teeth for her own amusing appetite of death.
The ones that managed to avoid her teeth never maintained steady strokes of luck either. Her tongue carried more than just saliva and pure muscle, which they found out the hard way. It swayed and pivoted everywhere inside her mouth, and those that didn't drown in her saliva perished instantly once it bashed against the roof of her mouth. All of the damage dealt left more than mangled heaps of broken bones and hemorrhaging glands, for Darcy still needed to land the killing blow. They soon found out what she intended when her tongue tilted back which forced the dots back until they saw the dangling sack of death overhead. They instantly plummeted into the deep dark chasm below as they heard one big gulp from the outside, which sealed their fates. Because of their sizes they fell for a couple of minutes before they splashed into the dangerous gastric acids. The pink walls pulsated and dripped smelly ooze while all of Darcy's appetizers had their flesh melt off their bones in a brutal fashion. Puddles of blood and piles of bones sank into the steaming liquid which continued as more dots splashed from all of the humans Darcy swallowed. She used Marcy's digestive system to end the lives of hundreds, and it made her stomach rumble. If Marcy ever felt some indigestion after everything that happened, she would never know the true extent of it.
Once she finished, Darcy grinned and childishly licked her lips to insult all of the ones still panicked for their lives down below.
"Mmmmm, fresh blood…" Darcy said with a wicked smile. "How…tasty. I desire more, for I need the satisfaction. Who shall I eat next?"
At that point a very distinct noise hit Darcy's hearing. The Core's eyes opened up more than usual as the girl put her attention in one specific direction down below. While she understood how some of the tiny humans would operate one of the tiny cars crafted for the model city, for an entire subway train it stirred her deep interests. One of them possibly took a job as a conductor of sorts and managed to take control, as the very distinguishable train, along with a couple of cars, ran along the thin tracks that went over and under the city model. As calm and collected as it seemed while it traveled from across minor destination, almost immediately Darcy knew what to follow through with next. While very standard to just ruin the track so the train would spontaneously combust on impact with the ground, the collective mind in the Core concluded on some even more sinister. If everything went according to plan, Darcy also found the satisfaction she desired.
The tiny people inside the subway train appreciated absolutely nothing once they saw the titanic boots of Darcy set quakes as it moved up toward the moving vehicle. The fact that a few extra hundreds of tiny humans ended up crushed from her massive steps in the process helped paint a picture of what she intended to follow through with once she got her large digits on them. Their attempt to find a safe zone from a quick trip through the subway teetered between life and death as Darcy's voice shook the premises around them.
"Ooh, you actually managed to take that for a spin? I must applaud you for you inferior intellects, as I never would have thought such primitive minds carried that type of weight. Even so…it still won't save you from your goddess."
She spoke with power and malice twisted into a lethal combination, and the tiny ones knew it too well. The one in front attempted to speed up the train as the image of Darcy's armored boots stomped up closer, which provided longer and stronger quakes in the process, but only managed a very minor speed increase as the passengers behind screamed their heads off. At that point some already wanted no part in the shenanigans with Darcy and leapt straight out of the windows where they either died from a long fall or electrocution against the rail. Either way, tens and dozens of people took their own lives just so they wouldn't have to deal with the giant girl, but they never knew that the Core atop her head snatched their souls for itself which added to its infinite knowledge. More deaths equaled more souls for the Core, and Darcy provided the means much to its bloody enthusiasm.
Right as Darcy's boots stopped right next to the speeding train, the brakes screeched and sparked everywhere. No matter how much the conductor attempted to evade her, it became only a matter of time before the whole place completely halted. A dark shadow enveloped the vehicle and its passenger cars before entire rows of windows blacked out to the largest pieces of skin imaginable. They consequently blocked the few escape routes others took already, and soon after various parts ended up skewered by the biggest fingernails ever witnessed by man. They sliced through dozens of people and killed them on the spot, while others fell through the large gaps left behind to their deaths from long falls. Her curiosity killed so many and she never even performed any obvious damaging actions like punches or kicks. Gravity shifted all over which sent everyone against the walls and even bashed some brains out of many skulls from each impact. Darcy only went through some of the most mundane actions possible, and ended dozens in the process.
The ones that somehow still survived next to all of the dead bodies suddenly felt the gravity shift one final time before everything halted. Before they knew what had happened, they shrieked the moment a very bright red light shined from the front window of the subway train. One massive deadly eye of the Core peered through and witnessed all of the terrified people inside, which made Darcy chuckle darkly.
"Heheheheh, your expressions…priceless." Darcy said. "Let me taste the fear in your hearts…"
Her creepy smile provided such a terror that it lead to more screams, which provided nothing but more enjoyment for the giant possessed girl. The giant eye of the Core soon disappeared as more shifts in gravity affected everyone still in the train, but already the makeshift conductor knew to book it immediately. Unfortunately, he never made it that far as another more grim image appeared in the front window followed by gargantuan walls of white that slammed down upon the front section. The man watched as he found his legs completely absent from his lower torso before he fell into the large hole left behind, which basically became his death sentence. When Darcy stated that she wanted to taste their fear she meant it in a very brutal way. She completely chomped down on the front part of the train and swallowed everything she managed to bite down. If the materials provided anything dangerous she would probably never consider such ruthless gluttony, and yet she knew the frog bots made certain objects eligible for consumption for her alone. She provided just enough foresight that they understood where to search for such materials, and they never disappointed her yet. Nothing but carnage progressed across the long train and Darcy's voracious appetite. Her sick and twisted mindset made for the perfect ideas of pain and destruction.
The rest of the people inside rushed toward the back as Darcy went for another bone crushing bite. She tipped the vehicle a bit further down which slipped a couple of unfortunate people downward, where they eventually ended up in the dark pit of Darcy's mouth. She chomped down again which shook everything inside the train, and while dozens of people lost their footing which provided Darcy more appetizers, some attempted to open the back doors to the other cars. While successful to an extent, the demon girl continued to crunch the train one mouthful at a time, where hundreds never had a chance and plummeted to their intestinal grave. Many others decided that such a fate became too much and jumped straight out through any extra windows nearby, similar to the ones from earlier. None survived the drop to the concrete down below, but at least they perished instantly. Clearly a status as Darcy's snack proved too much to the point where death from a fall became the best outcome compared to one where they would experience the digestive system first hand. The more and more time progressed, the more powerful bites Darcy placed across the whole train, which left fewer spaces to potentially move around. Her methods of killing everyone went according to plan every single time, which proved just how much knowledge the Core obtained for centuries on end and wielded when needed.
Eventually, Darcy munched on so much of the train that only one single car in the back remained, which housed a hundred or so terrified specks left the failed to find a way out in time. She knew exactly how to handle them, but just to rub everything in their faces she brought the car further back just so all of the people saw her massive commanding face from afar. Some took their own lives through the large opening from where she sank her teeth last, which resulted in their deaths, and yet she cared less about a few stragglers since the Core snatched their souls and knowledge anyway.
"Oh, how amusing. All of you must consider yourselves lucky to avoid me this far." Darcy stated as she expressed a rather cute but also gravely dark smile. "Unfortunately, I never lose to anyone, especially to inconsiderate oafs. Say goodbye to the sunlight, for I've already decided your fates!"
Already most of the people inside jumped out to their abrupt ends, which made Darcy giggle rather grimly, but she wouldn't allow the rest to follow. She lightly giggled grimly one more time before she brought the last train car up close and grinned from ear to ear. Everyone inside screamed as they witnessed the evil girl as she opened up her huge maw once more, which revealed the never ending darkness of their final judgments. The doors jammed while Darcy blocked the last exit point with her mouth, which left one final outcome. The whites of her teeth passed overhead while the train car stayed intact, but as the darkness crept in the walls and roof showed dents while clear ooze squeezed through the cracks. From that point all forms of light vanished as Darcy finally sealed the deal and shut her lips tight, which left everyone still on the train car scrambling for some type of safety net. The roof caved in until it ripped straight off from the intense pressure, which would have displayed the roof of Darcy's mouth if nobody suffered blindness from the dark, and soon enough all of the specks became drenched in saliva from all angles. While they had no idea where exactly they stood inside, once they felt gravity shift and one loud gulp it instantly came to them. Everyone held on for dear life as the whole car plummeted below until it made one loud splash and soaked everyone in burning acid. The whole car corroded and melted away while everyone inside fell into red messes as they burned away from all of the gastric juices. They only managed one final gaze at the pink grotesque walls before the acids took their course. She never chewed the train car in the lightest, for she swallowed it whole and took everyone aboard into the first stage of Marcy's digestive system. She would never guess that she ate other humans as the Core took over, and if she did…
Darcy shook with some slight giddy anxiety.
"Mmmmmmm…simply delicious." Marcy stated. "The tastes of pain and misery…I can never get enough…"
She glanced back down after everything she did, and yet a part of her never fully became satisfied. She still saw a few hundreds of tiny specks as they ran for safety, and many portions of the model city remained intact, which didn't sit well for her. As much as she enjoyed the smell of death and destruction while she acted like she turned into the biggest and most powerful girl in existence, the fact that many parts still stayed intact annoyed her more than she expected. Every good conquest usually resulted in the decimation of everything and everyone in sight, and she wanted to continue the trend through any means possible. Perfection never dulled into the common stereotype, and any further thought only resulted it unbridled fury behind the curtains. She had plenty more to take care of, and she would not lose to any insect by her boots.
"YOU SHALL CALL ME YOUR GODDESS!"
One distinct group considered themselves some of the luckiest people on the planet to initially avoid the sick activities of Darcy, and yet even them knew they ran on a timer. From what they gathered, it only became a matter of time until she set her attention to them next. While they saw next to no end in sight for them, as long as they stuck around and survived something might come up for their benefit. Some wanted to just find themselves a quick and easy death just so they wouldn't suffer something extremely painful from the giant possessed girl from the inevitable happened, but one brief spark kept the one group with a very small bit of hope of a possible escape. They had no idea how it happened or where they found themselves transported to, but their priorities centered around survival and nothing else. As long as they still lived, they held hope.
While they stuck around underground in the makeshift subway stations for the most part, they never set foot on the actual train. Turned out that ended up as a blessing in disguise once they heard that Darcy consumed the entire vehicle along with its cars, but it left a very foreboding sign that she might go for the underground areas next. It still remained unaffected by the time they arrived, and they understood that she didn't want that status to stay. Their hunches actually struck gold, as right when they exited the giant girl punched a massive hole into the underground and killed everyone that still lingered down their in the most brutal methods ever conceived. To ripping apart limbs, popping them from heavy pressure, to even swallowing them alive, Darcy left no such act of death untouched from her lethal personality and gigantic body. They narrowed evaded their own gruesome ends, but with such a brief window they needed another safety zone. The crowds of panicked people didn't help, especially the ones to ran straight into them with no friendly regards, but eventually they settled on somewhere partially damaged. Since Darcy wanted to have everything wrecked in some fashion, their most optimal hiding spot teetered near the middle. They traded one hiding place for another as Darcy's menacing presence loomed over them with heavy desires for their splattered blood.
The one place they agreed to hide stood not too far away, but it still required mad scrambles in case Darcy ever looked their way. One instant swivel of the double doors and the whole group made it inside. While apparently it used to have multiple stories, from the damages on the outside the topmost portions completely collapsed from Darcy's destruction spree. While it incentivized bottom level exploration, if push came to shove their scrambles may require a trip upwards. One person in the group shuddered as the thought stirred in his mind, and yet he still needed to lay low for his survival. As for the floor the group found themselves on, it sure maintained an illusion of a hard working office. Rows upon rows of closed off desks surrounded by low walls littered the floor as each one kept a rather comfy appearing chair for good employees. Various pencils, pens, and strips of paper scattered across the desks while some stayed in a rather sturdy case next to a seemingly functional computer. When Darcy stated that she made a replica city, she really meant it. The computer even flickered between desktops and screensavers as if a ghost worked at each desk, which intrigued certain individuals. A small lamp hung near each workspace for the late hours, which flickered rarely from what the people saw, while multiple extra papers set near the desks, possibly for reports. With blue carpeting and white walls plus ceiling, it lacked distinction but didn't need it. To them, it was as if they just wandered into an office building from their own home world, which unnerved some to say the least.
"Dear lord, I thought we'd NEVER get away from her." one man said.
"I think I nearly threw out my back there!" another man said. "I can still feel my adrenaline pumping!"
"You might have to go through that again if she find us." another said.
"Oh, it's inevitable at this point." a woman said. "At best we can lay low for a while until we have to gun it again. Anyone got any trail mix or something?"
She found her answers when she saw multiple people shake their heads.
"Sorry sis, I got nothing." one man said. "At this rate I don't expect any of us to-"
The group suddenly heard some slight ruffling close by, which they instantly turned toward…and found one of their own munching on what looked like a chocolate bar. Almost instantly everyone gazed at him with straight faces.
"Seriously? At a time like this?" one man said in disbelief.
"Hey, when you got the munchies, well…you got the munchies!" the one munching man said.
"Yeah, we're screwed at this rate." another man said.
"Just keep it together and maybe we'll find something, okay?" another said.
Everyone else could agree on that front and slowly made their way through the room. The authenticity Darcy meant completely brought many replicas to shame, which intrigued some of the group especially one particular man. He even sat down in one of the chairs and attempted to boot up one of the computers, but while it seemed real not everything seemed perfect. None of the keys worked which frustrated him to the point where he stormed out of the chair just to calm himself down.
"Of course she left a potential safety line out of our reach!" the man said. "Nothing but a cheap fake!"
"Well, she made it clear that she thought ahead for everything." a woman said. "She wouldn't have left such a crucial escape method in our hands after all."
"Pretty much." another man said. "Let's just keep our cool and avoid detection so we don't-"
Such precarious thoughts halted once they felt the deathly quakes all around them. Darcy's massive armored boots made sure nobody kept a sturdy stance, and even the computers flickered from the instability. A majority of the group got the message immediately and hit the deck below as slabs of concrete fell from the ceiling, while others took refuge under one of the computer desks and held their hands above their heads. One of the men, in their panic, inadvertently shared precious desk space with another, which pretty much left them with no extra room. The lights flashed and sparked as the giant impacts from the deadly armored girl forced all into hiding for their own safety. As much as they wanted to make their way back home and restore themselves to normal size, they couldn't do so if they lost their lives from all of the sick and twisted activities Darcy laid out for them.
Darcy's huge quaking steps amplified for about thirty seconds until they suddenly ceased altogether. A few of the group prematurely got back on their feet while some still refused to leave their spot. If they learned anything after all, she acted so unpredictably that one moment one may have acted alive and well only to see their untimely end in milliseconds. As such, many still acted cautiously in the presence of Darcy, especially since she made it clear that she'll kill for her own entertainment. She annexed hundreds to her kill count every second and showed no remorse for her actions.
…which contributed to her deadly surprise.
Before anyone knew what hit them, walls shattered across the room as a deadly form made its presence known. Multiple people shrieked and scattered across the room as they realized that Darcy brought one of her massive hands into the buildings that left next to no wiggle room for extra movement. Her tall columns for fingers prodded the floor as huge slabs of concrete collapsed around all of the people. Some never made it away in time and either fell unconscious or died from the immense weight of the thick building materials. The computers sparked and let loose dozens of wires that seemed to not affect Darcy, but left others electrocuted on contact in their scrambles. Her huge digits alone blocked access to potential exists while her fingernails left some to accidentally run into them. Darcy didn't feel them from all of the pandemonium, but from the way she continuously prodded every possible spot she definitely wanted to.
The group barely made out a very faint dangerous light from one of the Core's multiple eyes from a crack above Darcy's hand.
"You can't hide from me, specks. I ALWAYS get my way, and I just want to see you…personally."
Her words only vastly increased the panic throughout the collapsing room. While she couldn't see what happened from what the tiny group figured, she still wrecked everything from her huge fingers alone. One unlucky man barely avoided contact against the skin of her mighty index finger but inadvertently missed an account of one large slab of concrete, which fell against his leg and broke it. A woman quickly took hold of his arms and, in an act of heroism and muscle, hoisted him upon her back before a humongous fingernail cut her in half. Two of her digits pressed against a row of computers while showered around half of the room in sparks as many people, including the injured man and strong woman, ran for the one stairway near the back. Unfortunately, some got caught in the showering sparks and died to electrocution. However, for a majority of the group, they somehow managed to reach the set of stairs near the back and avoided Darcy's hand for the most part.
…minus one.
The one guy who snacked the chocolate bar all to himself never saw the next set of movements coming. He also lunged for the stairs with everyone else that evaded capture, but right before he could place his feet against the first one Darcy's digits acted fast. The young and deadly giant girl's hand instantly brought the index and thumb directly atop the man's unfortunate body, which made him cry out for help. As if all of his luck ran out, the two huge fingers snatched him from the legs and dragged him straight out of the establishment, which gave him some severe road rash across his front in the process. Before long, she brought him out straight in the open right in front of her gargantuan armored boots as she gravely gazed down at his helpless body and pinned him using only her index finger. The others near the stairs that managed to get away could only watch as the giant possessed tween completely covered him with her finger and left only his head visible as she pressed down. As if she wanted some more suffering out of him, her thick fingernail set right above the shrunken man's neck as if an inactive buzz saw required only a single button press before bloodshed. Suffice to say, his chances went from fifty percent to one.
While they couldn't see most of her gigantic form from their angle other than his titanic boots and one massive finger, they definitely heard her powerful voice overhead.
"Oops. Looks like someone failed my little game." Darcy said in a slightly playful tone.
Despite the group's lack of visuals, they definitely pictured Darcy's wicked expression above as the man hung between life and death from her final judgment.
"No, no! Please, leave me alone! I still have a life to live! DON'T KILL ME!" the man exclaimed from sheer terror as he struggled and failed against the intense pressure from Darcy's huge finger.
The evil girl only grimly chuckled at his struggles. She increased the pressure of her finger by a little, but already it made some gushing blood pour out.
"Awww, how…amusing." Darcy boomed overhead. "The way you struggle against me…I can't get enough of it."
The bright red lights of the Core's eyes intensified around the man, which indicated that she brought her very very close to his vulnerable body.
"How does it feel to know that you once may have held the mighty hammer only to fall to a single CRACK in the road? Would you feel humiliated, sad, disgusted…TERRIFIED? To think such an adult would perish to a young girl, and she hardly even tried… I find such a fascination…VERY IRONIC."
The man puked blood while the intensity of the light emitted from such a deathly gaze nearly left him blind, and yet the witnesses near the stairs felt the pure malice of Darcy's expression despite the inability to see it from their angle. Her complete lack of a heart while she ripped out others' lead to her as nothing but a demonic monster with her humanity, if she ever had in the first place, long gone. It hurt to think about, and yet she loved every second of their suffering. She brought them down by multiple feet, and took advantage of every possible second of their miserable tiny lives to get her way every time.
She unleashed a nuke upon the trapped man under her finger.
"Do you feel comfortable down there, insolent insect? Does the intensity get to you? I always aim for the best for my pitiful subjects, especially when it comes…to TORTURE. From everything I've gathered as I killed hundreds of your species, your chances of succession linger somewhere in the negatives compared to my infinite capabilities. Just look at you now. See just how hopeless your existence must constantly remind you as you stare into my gaze? Watch as all of your life wastes to the pleasure of my circuitry, for you and your useless kind only fuel my ambitions for the future. I actually have to congratulate you…for your KINDLY DONATION!"
His head went flying once her fingernail sliced through his neck in one of the messiest decapitations ever.
Some parts of the group couldn't stomach the sights and puked on the spot, while others stood mortified at such an injustice. The headless body against the pavement poured blood from the opening as it laid motionless, which finally made Darcy draw back her finger. While ones that personally knew the guy understood that he acted like a jerk at times he never deserved the ultimate price. They learned already that Darcy basically changed them into her personal living playthings for her own amusement, which included blood and guts everywhere. She controlled everything as much she wanted.
Once some of them finally emptied out their stomachs, the group understood that they needed another safe zone, but they couldn't easily go back outside thanks to Darcy's current attention. The only direction left became obvious due to the stairs, so they hastily proceeded up them. While quite shaken, they knew that they would suffer the same fate as the one guy if caught. At first it seemed pretty normal to the point where nothing went wrong. After all, the stairs concealed them well enough where Darcy only witnessed the one guy as she dragged him out.
…at least they thought that.
Not even ten seconds after the decapitation, concrete showered upon them once more as the wall next to them collapsed. They lightly shrieked as dust poured everywhere before some very faint pillars shot forward and coiled around them. Before long none of them could move and their bodies stayed bundled up like someone wrapped them up for Christmas. They would have called shenanigans already, but then gravity shifted upward for everyone which brought them out of the clouded dust…but into the wicked gaze of the giant possessed girl.
Darcy snatched all of them and kept them bound in her tight bloody grasp.
"Not so fast, insects. I haven't forgotten about any of you…" Darcy maliciously said as her dark expression sent chills down their spines.
The Core's eyes lit up and shined upon the shrunken people like it set them up for target practice. At that point some people already started to feel sheer terror and tried, unsuccessfully, to break free from Darcy's fingers, but they never escalated into high numbers unlike the common majority.
"Grrrn, please…let us go!" one woman said. "How…how did you even know about us?"
The Core's sight aimed straight at the one dot in Darcy's hand while the girl herself creepily smiled.
"Oh…I'm ALWAYS watching." Darcy said. "Those terrified faces as I grabbed you? All etched into my memory banks…for it was bloody hilarious."
The Core's eyes lit up again and they even bobbed up and down a bit as if they insultingly laughed right in the group's faces. The group's struggles ended in vain and the offenders enjoyed all of their misfortunes like monsters. Darcy called the shots after all, and after she revealed that she knew where everyone was in the model city even though she may have gone somewhere else…all hope drained from their faces. They should have learned sooner from all of the continuous statements she made clear, and yet the facts flew clean over their heads. Darcy would always stay on top.
Eventually, one of the men between her fingers spoke up for the group…and his tone hit the negatives instantly.
"So…how do you intend to finish us off then?"
A few of the Core's eyes lightly widened a bit, but kept its sights on the tiny dots as Darcy put on one of her wicked smiles. However, it only lasted for a brief second before she went straight.
"You…have a very excellent point. I've done so much already that options have thinned down quite a bit. Hmmmm… Give me a moment."
The group watched as all of the Core's eyes closed while Darcy seemed to slow herself into some kind of trance. Her breathing lowered as various red lights and huge eyes of the Core appeared across the walls and ceiling like an amalgamation of past lives came into the forefront before the tiny humans. A few light beeps rang a couple of times while the all of the cold stares left the group stunned from all of the unknown factors that eluded their attention. The incident lasted for about a few seconds until the large eyes around them shut and the lights disappeared. After that, the eyes of the Core across Darcy's helmet opened up again and the girl's eerie smile returned.
"Well then, we've come to a rather…interesting arrangement." Darcy said. "Your kind has provided so much gory joy that I can't wait to go through ALL OF IT AGAIN. We've already arranged another session and sent swarms of undercover bots for more victims, but I want to CHERISH this moment. Because I'm such a NICE girl…I'll let you decide how I spill your guts across the pavement."
At that point a lot of the group shuddered all over as their hearts throbbed, which Darcy felt between her fingers. They refused to utter a single word from their mouths, and she couldn't blame them. When news breaks that your lives will no longer exist in a few minutes, more than likely your emotions bounced all over the place. Worry, anxiety, and everything else nearby maintained higher probabilities over more positive emotions, and the group pretty much felt them in unison even though them never admitted it. They pretty much shut up and stayed mute after the news.
As for the giant girl who bound them tightly in her grasp, her smile slightly faded from the silence to the point where her massive face basically stared point blank at the dots.
"Go ahead. Give me your final choices. I'm completely open. Smearing your bodies under my boots, pounding you to oblivion with my fists, chewing you with my cuspids, swallowing you so my stomach does the work, heheheheheh, you name it. I'll go for ANYTHING to blow your brains out."
They refused to speak. Her enthusiasm fell again despite the fact that they couldn't go anywhere as long as she held them, and their silence slowly built some irritation. It almost seemed as if they put themselves on mute just to delay their deaths, which she knew wouldn't work for someone like her. If they didn't speak, then she would force it out of them. Her power exceeded them a million fold, and she wouldn't take silence for an answer.
"Okay, at this point I'm not asking, I'M DEMANDING. Give your goddess your final answers OR ELSE!"
She tightened her grip around them which caused a few yelps and some puked blood, but she let off just enough so she wouldn't instantly kill them on the spot. Darcy dealt with annoyances before, but for microscopic specks to deny her felt almost insulting. She wielded the Core and the infinite libraries of knowledge across centuries of Amphibia's history, and her enjoyment over death and destruction became stifled by humans that refused to speak to her. A couple of measly dots in her grasp carried no such authority to command her, especially after everything she did that ended the lives of hundreds.
Even though she angrily demanded answers, in the background the Core performed some rather complex calculations. It hummed as the groups of minds underneath scanned each individual thoroughly through their many eyes, and the numbers crunched through various equations until the equations lined up. It took a couple of moments before the simulations calculated the most likely probabilities and relayed the results over to Darcy, who found them…rather interesting and enticing. As the occurrences became rather apparent, her irritation levels lowered and her anger slowly subsided over time. The Core's eyes widened ever so slightly as the giant girl pulled back, which caused the other in her hand to worry a bit more than usual. Something occurred in the minds of both sides that varied from person to person.
The fact that they saw the group not as scared as the common stereotypes below tipped them off more than anything else.
"That lack of fear…despite your silence…"
Darcy's wicked smile slowly returned.
"…you rather enjoy this, do you?"
Her words already stiffened some back between her fingers, which amused the Core quite a bit. Some of the men shut their mouths tightly while the women glanced down and refused to look up. It pretty much conformed what Darcy had guess, and she couldn't help but smile grimly in front of their tiny face. Even so, she still willingly held back to mess with them for her own entertainment. After all, she still controlled them as long as she kept them in the replica city.
"I know you don't want to admit it, but you can't fool me." Darcy said in a slightly malicious tone. "I can read all of the signs across your itty bitty faces. You want to STAY like this."
Her planet sized faced loomed over them as she got up close to the shrunken ones in her hand. A few of the people sunk down for more space and for their own worried comfort while other recoiled back in fear. Even so, they didn't completely lose their minds akin to all of the other hundreds she killed in her rampage, which set off the alarms in the first place. Eventually, one woman couldn't take the pressure any further and mumbled something incoherently at first, but soon formed into understandable speech.
"Well, ummmm…I…I guess…I don't mind much…"
The one confirmation became the only part Darcy needed from the group, which…interested her in more ways than one. Some of the minds within the Core even conversed with each other a bit until they settled on another brilliant idea that Darcy agreed with. She got caught up in so much death and blood that she never even considered the other side of the spectrum. Of course she assumed all of the pacifism left no room for her enjoyment, but as the wires connected she paid more attention and realized such assumptions carried some dark in them. While she could easily end them right then and there, another more devious thought became the best possible option. They never suspected such an outcome would ever come from someone like her, and it fueled her pleasure of all the disposable specks at her leisure.
The Core's bright red eyes shined upon the sorry souls within Darcy's grasp before she cast her judgment.
"Heheheheh, well, if you really feel that way… I know EXACTLY what to do with all of you." Darcy said as more dots struggled against her tight fingers. "You know what? All of you already have the correct mindset…like tiny followers. As much as I would like to squeeze out all of your blood and guts, I've thought of something MUCH better. Consider yourselves the lucky bunch…because I'm not going to kill you."
It sounded like someone else completely took over the giant possessed tween's mind, for she already expressed everything about her personality from her hundreds of deaths around the miniature city. For someone that made herself out as nothing but a heartless beast, to hear her go soft flipped the tables to where nobody understood what went on it the girl's head. While the fact that she spared their lives sounded like a blessing, if she thought of something twisted behind closed doors she likely would act on it sooner than later. Her unpredictability left most scratching their heads if any sanity remained in her brain.
The group in her grasp still sat completely stiff and bound by her digits, but it surprised them once the giant evil girl slowly grazed one of her fingers across their visible heads. She bopped a few people a couple of times and ruffled their hair from her touch and did so for a few precarious minutes while the Core stared into their souls. She lightly chuckled a few times before she went for the hard end and used her fingernail instead, which gave most specks writhing headaches. At points she even carefully scratched their backs with her enormous fingernail, which provided some satisfaction but never quelled the intensity of the moment between giant girl and shrunken ones. They knew better than to just trust her like someone completely gullible, especially after her killing sprees.
"How soft…and vulnerable…" Darcy said. "After all of the bloodshed, I appreciate the calmness that comes with such power. From now on all of you will stand by my side as my tiny servants for the rest of your miserable lives. Whenever I need my soft tiny fix, I know EXACTLY where to go. I'll never consider this sort of treatment again, so consider yourselves the luckiest ones in all of reality to know that I'll leave your pathetic lives alone. In fact…I'll let all of you specks watch the grand finale for today."
The Core's eyes lit up again as if it enjoyed such pain without blood for once, while the ones that still stayed bound in Darcy's hand felt some very foreboding vibes over the horizon. Before they could think even further though, the girl glanced up before some of the Core's eyes beeped and glowed to one specific spot on the ceiling. After a few brief moment, a panel opened from above which revealed a square hole where one long metal claw dipped down into the room. It didn't just appear empty handed either, as what set above its long claws seemed like a small glass box. It lowered slowly downward until it stopped before Darcy, and right then and there the top opened for the dark ruler. The possessed girl grinned darkly before she brought her hand up and dumped all of the tiny dots inside before the top hastily slammed shut. While the trapped people got back to their feet from the brief fall, they realized that Darcy already took breathing into account for such an enclosed space. Incredibly small holes, even smaller than the shrunken humans, littered almost everywhere inside the box for fresh oxygen. Darcy made extra sure the holes wouldn't serve as escape routes, even for her new tiny playthings, as she didn't want her fun to end. She seemed to have thought one step ahead for everything, even down to her new favorite violent pastime.
Most of the tiny dots ran up and banged against the strong glass, only for Darcy to instantly show her giant wicked face of insanity and pleasure before them. She clasped her hands together at all of the failed attempts to get out, which greatly amused her.
"Heeheehee! How cute! You really think you can escape that? How foolish and STUPID!" Darcy said with a pinch of amusement. "I strive to always use the strongest of materials, so despite the appearance none of you will ever get out unless I wrap my massive fingers around you. That way I'll ALWAYS have a tiny playmate when I need to, and isn't that just…PERFECT? You get to stay around me for a lot longer than anyone else! Consider yourselves to have obtained…THE FULL GIANT DARCY PACKAGE!"
She smiled from ear to ear while she grimly chuckled at all of the dots in the box.
"For now though, I'll let you witness something I've wanted to do in one final GUT WRENCHING action. If I ever use that one growth spell for the upcoming invasion…I'll instantly go for this."
The group stuck inside the box felt their hearts as they stuttered to a crawl when Darcy pulled back from them. She still stood in the middle of the replica city after all, and she even saw a couple of small specks atop her boots…which she stomped into bloody paste instantly. Even so, she slowly walked toward one of the edges of the model, while she made sure to destroy and crush anything in her path, before she walked out and turned to face all of the destruction she caused. Not a lot left to wreck in her Core infused eyes, but after what she had in mind nothing stood a chance at survival, living or not.
She looked down at one of her wrists where she saw a few buttons that piqued her interest. Her armor carried more than just aesthetic appeal, and she gushed for one distinct function. She pressed a few of the many buttons which cycled between some very vivid abilities, such as laser cutters, extra iron padding, and a cheeky blob creature, until she reached the one part. In only a few extra pushes it activated, which soon caused some hatches to open and released some rather tasteless gas everywhere. While any normal sized person would usually only suffer some severe hallucination if inhaled, when it came to tiny ones they never stood a chance. One whiff while as small as a bug basically left them to suffocate to death, and if her personal new toys in the case did so they wouldn't survive. Thankfully for them, Darcy made sure that the tiny holes filtered enough so that they wouldn't fall like all of the ones down in the model city. It wouldn't save them from the visuals she wanted to show them though.
She shot the group one final wicked smile before she finally acted.
"Your goddess…HAS SPOKEN!"
Right as she finished, the giant armored girl held her arms out and leaped high before she crashed down hard on the model city at a deafening impact. While she instantly obliterated everything underneath her, the gas also added to the strong destruction everywhere. The fumes shot out away from her and blew throughout the whole city, which either toppled entire buildings or blew tiny dots away from the sheer force. Thousands died upon buildings collapsing on them, powerful impacts against concrete from the gas blasts, or whiffing the fumes left behind. The shortness of breath took their toll on hundreds and made them collapse on the spot where they died shortly after, and thousands more perished instantly once Darcy landed right on top of them. The Core could have bloated a bit from the amounts of souls it gathered from the incident, and yet its data remained endless which carried no limits. Her one powerful action alone provided so much knowledge that the Core even shuddered at one point, all while it reveled at everything Darcy did for it. A giant meteor ended all life upon the model city in one fell swoop, and its name was Darcy.
Nothing remained of the model city and any stragglers still alive left the world for the next…inside the Core's memory banks.
Darcy got back on her feet in a pinch and surveyed the aftermath. It nearly overwhelmed her with complete deadly joy upon the sights of desolation everywhere. She finally achieved her goal and ended the lives of everyone captured like nothing. She took the model city down with them, but it only provided more eagerness to go through all of it again. While it required some extra preparation work, for the most part she could get some frog bots to perform the dirty work for her. She found her new favorite activity, and nobody would ever know about it…not even Andrias.
As her last maneuver left nothing intact, Darcy paid no attention to all of the shrapnel and bodies left behind while she walked back over to the one group she kept trapped in the glass case. As she expected, all of them appeared mortified from all of bloodshed to the point where some hurled and heaved in the process. It almost seemed like a curse that Darcy spared their lives, for now they had to live with the fact that they saw thousands die in bloody mangled heaps. Of course they never knew that Darcy conjured up millions of curses which miniaturized them in the first place, and just like what they witnessed, she would never undo it. Only the caster could lift a stricken curse, and since Darcy specifically created them…they would never have their normal sizes ever again.
Nothing but smooth music to Darcy's ears.
"So…everyone you knew and loved just perished under my massive rule. How does it feel to know that all of you survived? Joyful? Relieving? SORROWFUL?" Darcy said to the shrunken specks as the Core's eyes glowed.
None of the dots in the case spoke up. They couldn't believe their eyes that such devastation occurred right in front of them, including death, and Darcy served as the instigator of all of it. It left them utterly speechless to the point where all hope seemingly left them, which the giant girl took for granted, and their lives truly meant nothing. Darcy truly made them as nothing but her tiny personal subjects with no holds barred, and she shaped all of them perfectly in one instant deadly action. They were nothing, and the Core loved it. No knowledge from their deaths became necessary, for it already gained enough for now and Darcy could use them later for her own interests.
Unlike before, their lack of responses left Darcy eerily content.
"…just the way I like it." Darcy said with a grim smile. "I'll make sure to have all of you on standby when I'm interested. For now…into the storage you go."
The robotic arm that held the clear box stirred up again and retreated back into its hole after the Core's eyes lit up again. Once the panel slid back into place Darcy finally had a moment to revel in everything that happened since she first arrived in her personal quarters. So much death, blood, guts, and otherworldly knowledge all wrapped into one that left both human and machine desiring more. She never knew that such destruction of such minute monuments and buildings while acting huge brought instant rushes of power, and if she ever managed to have the other two girls under her boots it would only provide more gratitude. To think that she could completely crush all of her opposition gave her a never ending lust for total domination. She'll still rely on the upcoming invasion for now, but if she every found a way to relive what occurred today in her quarters and apply it to conquering worlds…
The Core made sure to not forget.
"Now that…was complete destruction." Darcy said to herself rather creepily. "I can't wait for another session…and I can already taste blood."
The girl snickered as she made her way over to the one door. She left the cleanup and rebuilding to the frog bots after all, and once they finished they wouldn't remember a thing. Andrias probably sent the one clumsy bot that left their floating castle lopsided out the window, and she didn't want to risk any memory wipes on him just yet. It was only a matter of time until the camouflaged mechs brought back more humans stricken with the shrinking curse for her to mess with, and for once the Core shook at the thought of more gained knowledge. It only required the killings of a few more thousands, and nobody would miss any humans they never cared about. She always had her tiny followers in storage if she needed them, so she always had some shrunken ones on standby if the preparations weren't ready yet. Marcy had no idea that her body ended thousands of lives with more incoming as the bots performed their duties. Darcy even shuttered eagerly at how her two friends would react when they learned the truth behind all of the crimson red across the floor. In the end, her violent enjoyment always continued. Darcy won as the perfect gigantic union over all tiny humans.
…and yet one constant nagging mind temporarily disrupted her joy.
It stemmed from one distant mind within the confines of the Core's collection. While at first it stood out as almost nothing, by the time Darcy finished murdering thousands of tiny humans its volume increased to where nobody could ignore it. She tried to ward it off, but it desired to have its voice heard.
The words echoed throughout her head which made her stir ever so slightly.
"Wow. Just…wow. The perfect union of living and machine…and yet the most greatest of minds imaginable concluded on something like THIS. I have to apologize to Andrias, for at least he only has one mind when he follows through with certain goals, but an entire collection of the more brilliant minds in one place? I find it…almost ASTOUNDING. You set your sights…on the IMPOSSIBLE. You set your goals on conquering world after world so everything falls under your rule and to gather resources to become even more powerful. Yeah, that's basically impossible. Dimensions are infinite, so there's always going to be another dimension out of your control. You basically put yourselves into an endless loop of conquest, and everything will eventually run-"
The other minds sent it to the darkest recessions of the Core before it could finish.
Once that settled, Darcy made her way out of the room so Andrias wouldn't suspect anything from her absence. Even so, she put a pin into all of the potential weaknesses of their ambition and herself for later, since she still desired to stay perfect in every way. Nothing but child's play for Darcy, and in due time she'll have her chance.
…like getting another shot at killing in cold blood, whether she's massive or not.