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Episode 29: Behold the Destroyer
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Despite the queen's best efforts to get him punished, Void had managed to weasel off punishment for his efforts in the civil war against her. True he was still standing trial for various crimes against the state, but if they threw the book at him; that would make them incredibly unpopular. A few religious fanatics were screaming for his death, he had after all revealed their goddess; their revered mistress; to be a flawed being like the rest of them. For some reason that hadn't gone down too well with the temple staff, but no one was allowed to harm him without starting another war in the process and everyone was just about sick of fighting as it was.
Presently he had assumed his old position on the council, ironically sitting right next to the goddess in the meetings. To keep an eye on her, he mused with a small grin. He was going to make sure she didn't go behind his back and broke her promise to him, to inadvertently remove freewill from everything in existence. Right now, the small creature was going over a request from the Seer house. One of their number; a young girl called Cosmo had disappeared and their family was imploring him, the one who was rumoured to have out smarted a goddess, to find her. With little to do until his next court appearance, Void decided he would do so.
She had left no explanation of absence and the only clue they could give him was that she had been complaining about some vision she had. She had claimed a great darkness was coming, but being the smallest of a group of sister everyone passed it off as juvenile dramatics. Apparently, she had thought it otherwise.
"You already searched the entire stable area." Lumina told him after his third day of enquiries. Only a set amount of Maginary world was stable enough to anything to live there, the rest was utter chaos where the laws of physics were random and changing all the time. What kept this region this way as the Precious stone, a giant gem sitting in the temple of light in the centre of the city. "Where else could she have gone?"
"Another dimension perhaps." Void ventured with a smug smile as he looked over the records of dimensional jumps made in the last few months. Cosmo had first been noticed missing about three months ago so presently he was looking through to see if he could notice one that wasn't authorized. They were very easy to overlook. They had a good deal of scouts going across to other realms all the time so one could easily sneak through. "I just need to find which one."
"And search the entire universe of that realm reaching for her." Lumina reminded him. Every realm held their own universe, a massive never ending space that went on for forever. Picking out which one Cosmo had gone to would only narrow it down a little.
"Void, Lumina, come to me." The summons of their queen hung in the air, a telepathic communication only they could hear. Void looked up from his work with a sour look on his face. He hated being interrupted when he was on a role.
"Come on, let's go." Lumina giggled, planting a peck on his left cheek before flying off towards the door. Void sighed, before putting the scrolled records down and following her.
The architecture of Maginary World was grown rather than build, and like radiant Emerald was made completely of crystal. The hallways, chambers, buildings, streets, even the temple of light itself had gleaming like newly polish gems. Their colour was never the same, it changed never every second; pulsating from red to blue, then to green, then yellow and finally purple; before repeating the sequence again with other colours and sometimes not in that order. The colour of the city was always completely random.
The chamber of their queen was quite small compared to the rest of the temple. Being as powerful as she was, Illumina could change her size. That giant form she adopted after appearing in the dimension Void set his trap in had simply been for show, to intimidate the enemy and lionize her own forces.
The Elite Guard, her own personal warriors stood to attention at the gate like doors to the inner sanctum. They saluted as they approached and instantly the door itself open, creaking inwards to reveal Illumina's throne room. The centre of the temple of light was a oval shaped room with a floor that curved down into the centre. It was like an indoor arena, with rings of seats for the senate lining the outside. Only a fool would not have been able to pick out the queens throne. It was surrounded by several stone pillars that lanced up from the floor to the ceiling and directly in the centre of this circle was the throne. A towering seat carefully engraved with the imperial runes running up the surface.
Illumina herself was down at the pedestal that stood in the centre and upon which was the object of her guardianship. The Precious Stone, the artefact that maintained the stability of the imperial city. It was the size of the Master Emerald, a jagged purple crystal completely uncut; pulled out of the rock in which it had been found. It's glow bathed the entire chamber, pulsating like the beating of a heart.
"I know you believe in your theory of 'shades of grey', Void." The queen began, all of her wings unfurled at her sides as she gazed into the depths of the jagged stone, her long hair flowing out behind her. "But I'm afraid your philosophy can not apply to this new situation."
"Oh, and why not?" The small imp like being asked with a coy smile. Instead of replying, she simply stepped aside to reveal the Precious Stone; her expression as emotionless as ever. The vision it had been showing her welded both Lumina and Void to the floor, the smirk vanishing from his face as if it had never been there. No one had seen that face for eons and it was the way the mass majority of existence would like to keep it.
"Impossible." Void stated with wide eyes. "He was destroyed!"
He was exactly like the statues of the Echidna's apart from a few physical differences. His legs were bent and bi-pedal, resembling more the arched limbs of the Black Arms than the humanoid form the Echidna's expected him to be. His eyes were completely blood red and soulless like those on a china doll, the fading sunlight gleaming over their surface. Where a mouth should be was a pair of bony pincers lanced down, like those on a beetle with a serrated inside edge. The curved horns on the top of his head looked more decorative than to be used for any practical reason and made him look a great deal taller than he actually was. Bony spikes ran along his shoulders and the outside of his arms all the day down to his elbows. Those would be lethal in a fight, one wrong move and someone could end up with one of those impaled through their chest. Burning along the top of his torso was the green fire that confirmed his identity.
Silently, he stood there, the fire burning but he remained completely still; like a statue. The only sign that he was even alive was the steady rising and falling of his chest as he breathed.
As a being known over most of existence as the Destroyer. But his name, whispered like howls of wind in the night was Krish Kra Pal.
"Oh how refreshing the twilight wind feels. It's been so long, I'd forgotten." The demon like being sudden stated, gesturing to the sky above, the first few stars of the night poking through the diminishing daylight. "I've been a shade for so long, I'd even forgotten what flesh itself feels like."
"Don't get too used to it." Shadow remarked, a hostile expression on his face. "You won't be staying this way for long." Before either Metal Sonic or Sonic himself could hold him back, Shadow charged, a hand drawn back with fingers arched, a powerful Chaos Spear sparking to life between them. Krish simply held up a hand and some invisible but powerful force smashed head first into the black and red hedgehog. It tore him out of the air and sent him cascading down towards the ground, sending asphalt flying as he slid to a stop.
"Just be glad I don't need your body to exist in this universe anymore." Krish told him, a jabbing a talon at Shadow as the ultimate life-form strained to pick himself up. "And also, let me assure you that any attempts at stopping me now are most futile." He added letting his arms drop to his sides, the three talon-like fingers on each hand clenched and unclenching.
"If I had a penny for every time I've heard that." Sonic replied for a short grin. Krish shot him a sharp glare.
"Such arrogance." The demon like being stated flatly, his tone sounding disinterested. Slowly, he rose into the air, suspended in the air by some invisible force. "I can see a demonstration is in order to clear your heads of any notions of resistance." With a sudden thrust, he soured up the side of one of the few buildings left standing and onto the roof. Floating there before him in the sky was the armada, a giant collection of ships belonging to the Black Arms, GUN and the Eggman Empire.
He felt like a kid in a candy store. Which he picked, had to make an impressive show if he was going to get over his point. The Black Arms? No…killing them now would seem a little to anticlimactic for his taste. He wasn't about to waste his opportunity for revenge and not savour the moment first. GUN then perhaps? Those silly humans did deserved being taken down a peg or two.
No…there was one above the rest that really…really…needed to be taught a lesson right away. Chuckling to himself, Krish turned to face the Whale Shark Flagship.
The legend had been proved more than true; there he was…him…the destroyer. Regarded as so long as nothing more than a fairy tale, yet he stood before them as real as the universe itself. There was no question of identity; he was exactly as the fables described him, perhaps even more intimidating.
Rikoye commander of the Black Arm fleet stood there, watching the image broadcasted from the front of the fleet and sweating bullets. Jailos had been right, this had been a trap; a trap set by him, to lure them here so he could destroy them all. The fire engulfing the outline of his body intensified in a single moment, blaring brightly as a thousand stars in the night; the luminous neon green glow covering the ground like a blanket.
There was a bright flash and the fire leapt across the distance between them, but struck not any of their ships, but instead burrowed hard into the deck of the Whale Shark, the flag ship of the Eggman Empire. It tore a gapping hole open in the bow of the ship and burrowed like worms inside, burning metal as it went. Then the fire disappeared and everything was absolutely silent.
Nothing seemed to move during those few seconds. The air was stagnating with the utter silence. Everyone, quite literally everyone on the ground or in the fleet had their eyes held on Eggman's largest ship.
The air crackled like a thunderstorm and a second later, the entire flag ship exploded, just like that. Not just pieces of it, the whole thing was instantly consumed by fire and smoke and any ships close enough got engulfed by the flames as well.
Fiery wreckage came cascading down out the sky, falling to the ground; pieces falling away from the giant before crashing into the ground. There was one final blast and the main bulk of the flagship was blown to pieces, fragments of it raining down from the sky like snow, littering the desert and the deserted streets of the ruined city below with fire.
In the space of two minutes, Krish had completely destroyed Eggman's greatest battleship and without that to coordinate the others, the entire Egg fleet went into disarray. Battleships and smaller fighters no longer had any commands coming from their coordinator and drifted down to the ground to land, a standard produce central command ceased communications.
Souring away from the destruction in one of his many escape vehicles, Doctor Eggman looked back with a heavy heart at his pride and joy. It pained him to leave it behind, but it would pain him even more to go up in flames with it. In the back of the rocket shaped spaceship, Knuckles and Rouge sat strapped into two others seats. The Echidna was holding onto the Master Emerald for dear life. It had been a narrow escape, as they saw the energy blast coming and having now way to defend against it, they took the Master Emerald from the energy core and bid the flagship goodbye.
"I'm sosorry dear comrades, but this is where we say goodbye." The Doctor replied, looking back over his shoulder. Neither of the two mobians had a chance to say anything before a large sheet of metal clamped down between them, separating their two compartments. His two robots, Becoe and Decoe waved goodbye through a small glass window. "Adieu." There was a sudden shaking and Eggman's section broke away from the rest of the ship, becoming a capsule and rocketing upwards and away from danger.
"That bastard!" Rouge cried out.
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Sonic watched from below, his face set in an awed stare, his eyes stunned open in utter disbelief. He had destroyed the Whale Shark Flagship with absolutely no effort at all.
Metal Sonic also could not understand what his own optics were telling him. That sort of power was impossible, literally. Nothing could hold that much energy. It rivalled the combined force of all seven Chaos emeralds, perhaps even exceeded it.
"Now, perhaps I've put things in perspective for you." A voice said from behind them. Glancing back, both of them saw Krish standing there. One second he'd been on the roof and the next he was there before him. "I've destroyed entire moons before. Face it, you're out of your league."
There was a sudden blast of light from behind them both and a supped up Chaos spear attack came souring between them and crashed straight into Krish's stomach. It didn't hurt him, but it did managed to cause him some irritation as he forced to take a step backwards. Looking back, both two hedgehogs, metal or otherwise, saw Shadow standing there; hand still raised after firing his attack. Giving him new strength were all seven Chaos emeralds, hovering in the air around him glowing brightly.
"I'll never stop until you go down." The black and red hedgehog stated, all of his soul burning within.
"Me neither." Sonic added in, jumping backwards to land at Shadow's side. Metal Sonic didn't hesitate, he joined them both, hands held ready in a fighting stance.
"You have no idea what you're dealing with." Krish hissed, now apparently quite annoyed.
"Well let's see!" Sonic shouted and suddenly the glow from all seven Chaos emeralds increased dramatically, becoming an incredible powerful beacon in the fading light. Tikal watched from afar, intense worry and fear etched like stone into her feature as the light from the Chaos emeralds shone out into the coming night.
"Shadow." She breathed into the air, tears suddenly rolling freely down her cheek like rivers. "Get away, run!" He couldn't win against a power like that. Krish was known as the Destroyer for a very good reason. Nothing that had ever stood before him had survived. It was only by good luck and fortune had the Fesonian scientists that became known as the God of the Sword and the God of the Shield even overcome him. And that was by trickery, no one had ever survived direct confrontation with the Destroyer.
Sonic's eyes snapping open, the emerald green changing to blood red, Super Sonic glared defiantly up at Krish. Super Shadow stood along side him on his left, the raven black fur changed to a shining silver. On the right Super Metal Sonic was already poised for an attack, all three of them surrounded by a glowing golden energy that sparked high into the early night. His dark features bathed in the light, Krish did not look that impressed.
"I hadn't expected anything different from any of you." He admitted, before lancing forward with unthinkable speed, smashing the strongest punch Sonic had ever been dealt into his stomach. Gagging backwards, the golden hedgehog collapsed to his knees.
Super Metal Sonic charged talons raised for an attack, but it stopped short as a cloven hand lashed out and grabbed him around the head. Shadow came in from the other side, only to fall prey to the same tactic. "Perhaps this way you can all finally learn respect." Smashing Super Metal Sonic and Super Shadow together between his talons, Krish swung them over his head and brought them down hard on Super Sonic's back. Grabbing all three of them by the legs, the demon carved them up into the air before engulfing their entire bodies with his fire, a brilliant flash of green swallowing the ruins of the city like a supernova.
Super Sonic was sent flying backwards, landing with a loud crash into the side of a wall, nearly breaking through the building itself. Shaking his head to regain some feeling, the glowing yellow hedgehog looked up in time to see two talons come flying down towards him. Pushing himself out and rolled across the floor, he avoided being impaled.
Krish withdrew his arm from the wall and slowly turned to face him, the red eyes glowing brightly.
This was insane. This guy had just beaten all three of them and in their super forms, without extending any effort at all. As if it was child's play for him.
Leaping forward, Super Sonic crashed a punch directly into the demons face. To his horror, nothing happened. The monster didn't even flinch, as if he was made of stone. The red eyes glowing brightly, Krish' tail came whipping around smashing its side directly into the golden hedgehog's body; knocking him into the air.
Super Metal Sonic came at him from behind, talons outstretched. But as his metal hand went down to try to cut the flesh under the black fur, it was like his claws had smashed against titanium. His hand splintered and exploded in a spray of metal shards and fire, the fire spreading down his entire arm burning it to charred ashes in seconds. Krish bent down and then smashed a powerful kick into the super powered robotic hedgehog, sending him crashing through several buildings before cascading out of the city itself. His golden armour glowed brightly for an instant before the royal blue colour re-emerged. His body soured past Tikal and Cream before slamming into the ground. Sliding through the sand for a while, Metal Sonic finally came to a stop.
"He beat Metal Sonic with just one blow!" Super Sonic remarked in awe, stating the obvious as Super Shadow helped him to his feet.
"I saw." Super Shadow replied angrily, before about facing and charging himself. Krish looked back in time to catch a blast directly in the face as the hedgehog curved his around and a powerful attack rocketed forward. The demon's body disappeared in a flash of light but Super Shadow didn't stop there, he kept pouring on more energy trying to wither Krish down to nothing. Super Sonic flew around the opposite side and fired an attack himself; a supped up version of the Sonic wind, the swirling vortex a golden yellow. What was left of the armada watched as the city of Station Square vanished completely, what was left of the ruins collapsing completely into rubble and dust. The streets seemed to be consumed by the desert in seconds, the only few indications that a busy metropolitan area had ever been here were a few jagged remains on the outskirts. Everything else was destroyed in that instant.
From the midst of the chaos, a thick sadistic laughter could be heard. A second later, a powerful shockwave passed through the air and in the next instant, everything. The entire world seemed to be swallowed by green flames, geysers of fire lancing up into the sky like beacons to the night. Night was transformed into a green day and everything was lost in the haze.
Finally it cleared with one final force, Super Sonic and Super Shadow lay on the ground, smoking gently rising from their motionless bodies. Standing over them, eclipsing them from the rising moonlight was Krish, toying with a ball of green fire between his cloven fingers.
"Sonic!" Amy screamed out, watching everything from the Blue Typhoon. Okida and Sam speed had to hold her down to prevent her from going out there with her hammer. Krish was insanely powerful. He had beaten three of the strongest beings on the planet with ease. Amy wouldn't last two seconds.
Tikal watched from afar with tears in her eyes. Her lament however was not caused by fear. Her regret was that she had never told Shadow how she felt, before the coming of doomsday. That was what Krish was. The prophecy of the Armageddon had always referred to this being, the destroyer. Krish was not a god, but he might as well be called one for all the power he wielded.
"I am death." The demon whispered to the early night, expending his talons and with them the fire; watching the dancing flames with glee "I am the Destroyer. The Collimator of Destruction." Despite being unconscious, neither hedgehog lost their super forms, their fur still burning gold and silver with chaos energy. "I am the brother of Dooms Eye and you are nothing."
The blue band tied around Shadow's wrist started glowing.
As if the sun was rising, the two hedgehogs disappeared in a bright flash of white light; their essence whirled to one and then reformed into one body.
Krish quelled the fire between his fingers and stood still as the light died down and his new opponent stood there.
Nazo's eyes snapped open and before Krish could do anything, the white hedgehog raced forward like a shooting star, landing a punch directly into his stomach. The blow actually managed to do some damage, causing the demon like being to stagger backwards a few steps, his tail swaying out behind him. Nazo somersaulted over his shoulder, twisting between the horns and spikes before sliding down his back and onto his tail as if grinding. Grabbing the tip of the spikes there, the white hedgehog started spinning wildly; taking Krish with him, the two of them spinning around so fast they appeared like a blur.
Nazo finally released his grip and Krish was sent flying over the ground, colliding into a few of the ruins that were left before slamming hard, head first into the ground. The dust fell over him and he was left half buried, only his horns sticking out into the air.
"The Destroyer? Ha!" Nazo remarked with a wide smile landing in a fighting stance with his back to his opponent. "You're not so tough." He added, turning around. "I couple of Black Arm techo-dudes could beat you…" He froze in mid sentence, noticing that Krish had disappeared.
"You have a lot to learn." A voice from behind him stated. Whipping around, Nazo fired a blast in that direction, only to find nothing there to meet it. "No one who thinks so little of himself could ever defeat me." Snapping around again, Nazo finally saw him; his dark and almost dinosaur like form standing nearby. Perfectly silhouetted by the rising moon, he appeared more intimidating now than ever.
"I don't think little of myself." The white hedgehog retorted, somersaulting forwards with a fist held head. Krish dodged the punch, before grabbing Nazo by the arm and slamming a knee into his stomach.
"Oh but you do." The demon persisted, yanking Nazo high into the air batting him down to the ground with his tail. "Ever since you first came into existence all you've ever believed yourself to be is the combination of two minds." Nazo dug himself out of the dirt and roughly stood up.
"I know what I am." He replied, before dodging as Krish went on the offensive, firing several blasts of intense green fire at him.
"That's where you're wrong." Krish stated as Nazo soured in, landing a kick against his chest. Krish staggered backwards, before lashing out with his talons; tearing out at the white hedgehog as it dodged around his lunges in mid air. "The whole becomes far greater than the sum of its parts." The confusion was plain on Nazo's face and all Krish did was laugh at his expense. "Hasn't the penny dropped yet Nazo? ...YOU are the legacy of the Robotnik family Shadow had been searching for!" The white hedgehog danced backwards through the air to land on the ground a safe distance away. "Yes I know all about that. In Nexus, there was little to do apart from monitor events." Nazo looked down at the blue band around his wrist. "That's only a key. It allows the union to flow together far easier." A sadistic gleam attached itself to the red doll like eyes. "Did you feel it, the flawless merge? No energies in conflict whatsoever? Don't you think it's a tad convenient?"
"I don't know what game this is, but I'm not playing by your rules!" The white hedgehog snapped, reassuming a fighting stance. Krish shook his head, looking a little disappointed as Nazo rushed at him.
"You are blind and completely ignorant." He snarled, grabbing the hedgehog out of the air and pinning him to the ground under his foot, his talons sinking into the ground on either side of his head. "Prof. Gerald was a simple mortal meant to serve only to create a temporary vessel for me to wander this world in. But from him comes all resistance to my plans, and your very existence. His one last ditch effort to stop me and even this has come to naught." The sadistic gleam in his red eyes intensified. "For punishment, I rid his mind of sanity." Nazo gazed up at him in anger, before grabbing the talons and with one shove, tossed the demon like being off him.
"You made him insane?" Krish simply nodded, proud of the fact and looking pleased with himself as well.
"My voice in an already troubled man's head can be quite pervasive." Nazo's face set itself in a look of such utter hatred is could curdle milk. "I hadn't expected him to go quite so off the deep end and reprogram Shadow to hate the Earth, to try and destroy it. But that was out of my control at the time. In any case, it would have made the jobs of my servants far easier."
"YOU EVIL BASTARD!" Nazo screamed; his entire body engulfed in a sudden blast of white light. "Wherever you go all you do is spread pain and misery, and you revel in it!"
"I am merely dealing out order. Order this entire universe graves." Suddenly his body was consumed by his fire and he stood there, comfortable in the embrace of the flames. "You destroy to protect one insignificant world, while I destroy to unite countless planets. Which do you think has a greater priority?"
"Shut up and fight!" Nazo demanded, before curving his body around to start spinning. As he spun faster and faster, the glow around his body began to intensify, growing stronger than the emerging stars above. Lighting sparking over the quills, the ground began to break up under him, unable to bear the energy build up. Krish remained silent and stationary, his fire remaining at the same brightness it always had, as if uninterested with the threat.
With a loud sonic boom, Nazo rocketed forward, threatening to tear right through the demon like being, who at the fast minute, simply held up one hand and it was as if the entire world was swallowed by green fire, its presence almost everywhere, burning in the skies for an instant before vanishing. The shockwave hit the fleet like tsunami wave and knocked whole ships about like toys in bath.
"Fall back!" The President ordered, hanging onto the edges of his command seat for dear life, as Giant Wing was hardly able to keep itself level in the air. As quickly as it could, the fleet began to pull away, trying to get as far away from the fighting as they could. The Black Arms followed suit, bidding a hasty retreat. The only ship left in the immediate danger zone was the Blue Typhoon. Amy was left staring down at the ground in horror, tears wheeling up in her eyes.
"What was that?" Cream asked, gazing up at the sky, unsure of what had just transpired. Tikal let the tears flow freely and sank to a sitting position.
"That was the end." She managed to say, before turning away.
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Flip card 1:
Name: Krish Kra Pal
Description: Known throughout the universe as the Destroyer, Krish is primarily the god of the Echidna race and has a connection to the Black Arm sect.