"My purpose;
I exist here.
I am created here, connected here.
It pulls, it guides and it drives me.
Here defines me.
Bound to these words, simple and few;
I am here…"
"Where?" calls out Beastboy, still trying to focus the dim lights of the place.
"You are about to ask who I am…"
"Who are you?... Oh darn!" says Beastboy, looking around, preparing himself to morph quickly. The hairs on his back were raised up tensely. The place felt threatening. He looked around himself. It wasn't dark, yet it wasn't bright. It was shadowy, yet as clear and white as you could imagine.
"Predictable… though you deny it…"
"I am not... waaaiiit! Hey! Stop that!"
"Humour, such a poor waste of space." says Shekron, moving along the floor; gliding like a breeze… like a phantom. Beastboy backs off…
"Are you some sort of alien here to conduct weird experiments to some day rule the world?" says Beastboy confused at his strange attire. "Shekron Kaizer isn't really your average Joe Schmoe."
"Do you wonder how you know my name since I have yet to tell you it?"
"Um… I'll… get back to you on that." he says, doubly confused. "What sort of a weirdo are you?"
"Do I look like some sort of weirdo?"
"Do you really want me to answer that?" smiles Beastboy. His smile fades when Shekron gives his cold laughter… which multiplies and multiplies until the sound reveals the many shapes that surround him. No less than six hundred and eighty Kaizers now plague this fiction, six hundred and eighty pairs of gleaming eyes with six hundred and eighty spine chilling voices. "Y… you sound like Slade!"
"True!" says one, followed by others.
"The author thought the voice was very suitable…"
"Adequate…"
"Insidious enough for my character…"
"Very effective…" and they all laugh until they fade away into the walls.
"Hey! Get back here!" calls out Beastboy, not wanting to be left lost in this weird place, even if it did mean talking with the weirdo. "Where did they go?"
"Here!" says Shekron from beside him, almost making BB jump out of his skin.
"DON'T DO THAT!" shouts BB, clutching his heart. "What do you want?"
"What do we all want?" smiles Shekron. "Do you know?"
"A way out would be nice."
"Perhaps you would like this one?" shouts Shekron, moving his arm to transform the place on the edge of a giant churning waterfall. Tonnes of the slightly muddied, frothing torrents crash to the bottom with great force, shattering any fate swept branch to obliteration on the sharp, hard rocks below. BB gulped and stepped back.
"I'm seriously getting freaked out here!"
"You have seen little yet…" says Kaizer, and he ends the seen with the lowering of his arm. "For instance… "
"What the?" shouts Inuyasha, the samurai half demon, before a large sword passes through him, breaking him to pieces.
"Hey!" snarls Wolverine. He makes a slash at Shekron, who just uses the greater length of his five foot sword to decapitate him.
"You're going down!" says Spiderman, and he webs Shekron. But using his wrist blades he breaks out easily and uses his sonic hand to blast Spidey back into a whole heap of the emerging heroes.
Link, He-man, Aragorn and Samurai Jack draw swords and clash with Kaizer, but have to swerve off when the Octari uses his blast. It catches the Hulk who crushes onto Krillin. Link uses a boomerang to try and stun him, but Shekron (In the style of Neo about to fly) jumps high into the air. The swordsmen look up transfixed as Shekron comes back down in a mere fraction of a second with blades a slashing.
Aragorn doesn't stand a chance against the superhuman, and he is lost in the fury of metal. Battling off Link and Jack simultaneously, Shekron is almost caught by the Hulk, but another lightning slide away, means the Hulk tackles into his 'comrades'. Krillin fires a destructo disk, but his face goes to horror when Kaizer catches it, and throws it through him…
He-man and Link attack either side with help from Obi-wan Kenobi. Though deflecting the attacks of He-man and Link, Shekron cannot equal the Jedi's laser weapon. It is extremely difficult to block a sonic weapon, and Obi-wan is blasted back, accidentally taking out He-man with his sabre.
Jack, the Hulk, Spiderman, Daredevil, Hellboy, Spawn and the Ghostbusters prepare to attack, but after twisting Link's neck, Shekron does his leap again, somehow avoiding the electrical beams of the Ghostbusters and other weapons. He blasts down with his hand weapon to crush Yugi-oh and Pikachu and slices into the eye of the Hulk. At the giant's collapse, which takes out the smerfs, he blasts again to obliterate the Ghostbusters, their packs overloading and causing a small nuclear explosion. Several don't get up again.
Beastboy just stood and stared for a while. The sudden apparition of all these heroes had boggled his mind. When he saw each of them fall mercilessly and un-provoked by Shekron, his blood boiled.
"Hold on! I'm coming round!" he shouts, but a shadow moves in front of him…
Goku arrives just in time to smash Kaizer across and into the ground. The other heroes stand ready, including Cyclops, Aladdin, Green Lantern, Tomb Raider and Kagome, wielding Inuyasha's sword.
"You're going to pay for all the lives you have destroyed you monster!" shouts Goku. He didn't think it was necessary to become super Saiyan.
"Who are you?" shouts Robocop.
"Shekron… Kaizer…" smiles the phantom; he laughs long and loud until the heroes realise that they are surrounded.
Mulan clenched her sword, hoping her courage would pull her through. Jake Long hoped for a miracle, despite the fact he was a dragon. Kim possible tried to contact Wade and James Bond pulls out his second magnum. Six hundred and eighty Shekron Kaizers appear in the darkness.
Beams, shots, arrows and rocks shoot out from the heroes as the huge mass rushes in with the speed of ants, avoiding the projectiles with ease. Return fire comes in and wreaks havoc upon them. Goku gets caught by a faster than sight knife in the confusion…
Beastboy struggles, but he can't get out of the headlock of Shekron Kaizer. He watches helplessly as the others are sliced open by the 'army' of 'one'. A mixture of curdling screams and cruel steel stain his ears as the ground is stained by blood. The Kaizers stand over their mound of dead victorious and fade away… as does everything… except Beastboy and the first Shekron. He is released…
"Are you impressed?" says Shekron finally.
"YOU will be!" shouts BB, and he launches a gorilla fist into the murderer's face.
Shekron flips over, but lands on his feet. Clicking his head back into place, he gets another blow from an elephant charge that buffets him shakily along the floor. A T-rex hits him high into the air with a swish of its tail… but Shekron emerges, once again, unharmed…
"You have to be impressed now!" he smiles. "You see, I enjoy battle, and I don't just mean it's because the writer put me to do It." and he paces towards BB-rex. "It's because my battles are as evil as me!" and his face smiles an evil great and deep rooted.
BB makes a lunge at Shekron, but the swift character blasts his head like one man would punch another in the face. BB hits the ground and morphs back dazed.
"It is because I enjoy battles that I plan to obliterate you all." the Kaizer continues. "Not just you Titans, but all characters in ALL of FANFICTION! Each story of my triumph I can live again in my immortal cycle, or, if I get bored, I simply move on to another. It is my realm! Free to travel, destroy and take."
"You're mad!" coughs Beastboy.
"No, just angry!" smiles Shekron, and he punches your screen, shaking the monitor. "You see; the writer has to give you a chance, so I have to actually defeat all of you together in order to move onwards. I plan to break each one of you individually before sweeping away what's left at the end, together again. Trivial, but annoying none the less." and he moves off to the distance.
Beastboy takes note and turns around to see Shekron sitting on a large sandstone boulder on the shore.
"But even now, as I speak, the readers have the potential to do my bidding. Each one now knows my design and purposes. They themselves can reproduce me to other stories, not only in fanfiction, but in there very minds!" and he looks at you. "Think of me defeating the… hmmm… the Terminator. Don't try to resist, you already have thought of me tearing him apart. Now I am forever defeating the terminator in your mind in a constant memory. Even if you have my brains being trampled on the floor, or reduce me to a quivering wreck, you cannot deny that sometimes I WILL win, despite all your efforts, some part of your imagination shall give way to my victory! I am immortal, and I have won!"
"You've slipped a gear there Shekron." says Beastboy, getting up. "And I mean coco-la-bonkers!"
"You are a pathetic character boy…" says Shekron laughing.
"What?"
"Let's see if I can jog your memory!"
Beastboy receives 'the gift'; a swirling of visions, sounds and memories. Smells and sensations drifted back into his head, of the many lives he had spent, and many sagas he had went.
"A pathetic character that is why they take so much pity on you." says Shekron on his pedestal. "Look at you in your many hundreds of romances. Pathetic! You always fall in love, though you don't even know what the corrupt term means!"
"That's not true!" shouts BB, still holding his head. He feels sick as he remembers his deaths.
"Oh yes it IS!" smiles Shekron. "The relationships you are put in are riddled with lust and appearances. When love abounds, it is merely by the will of the writers that pull you together. You have no REAL feelings! It is like a button on the keyboard, pressing it will do something. Love, hate, fear and evil! Do you think your humour comes naturally? Of course it is not! You and Raven is quite popular. Yet why do you love her? Why do you love any of them?"
"Because I… I… think she's beautiful…" struggles BB.
"Bad answer…"
"She's kind…"
"Only when the writer wants her to be…"
"She loves me…"
"You cannot know that, and it is indifferent…"
"I … I like her character…"
"WHAT CHARACTER?" shouts Shekron, making the entire realm shake? "Do you not see? Have you not deducted the words that have been typed upon your page? There is no character! You are NOT real! She is NEVER real! Your love is fantasy! An illusion; trickery of the light! You never were loved and you can never be loved and you certainly cannot give love away! Your love is like a TV show, public and a mere channel, for all those stinking perverts of the world to watch for their own satisfaction! Look at me! Look at me! LOOK AT ME! I am the only thing that even comes close to reality in this fake world.
You, reading this story…
Do you see me before you? I know you do. I am now within your imagination, forever. I cannot be so simply deleted Grievous Shakar! Think of you, reading the first chapter, unwittingly, you picture me, but it is NOT me! You are merely speculating what the author wrote. You just created ANOTHER me, another version of my appearance. And with each reader, it multiplies, and not only that way! For every reader that thinks of me, you also now speculate what THEY think I look like! The possibilities multiply and I spread like a plague!
As I am one with my author, now I have incorporated in YOUR imagination! Do not deny it!
Infecting your mind I now do, every corner of your imagination I now loom as I take your attention here! You shall never be rid of me! I am eternal! I AM IN YOU! YOU ARE MINE!"
"Y… You can't do this!" moans BB, crying a little.
Beastboy is a character who jokes, is brave, caring and optimistic. But now, the traits that had made him, were now undone for what they really were… words… mere word that could have been written differently, which would have completely warped him from his 'reality'. The things that made him, him, were now gone. He was nothing. He was always nothing.
He depended on his character, but it was merely an empty shell, waiting to be filled by the next incoming hermit that wanted to type a story.
But that is more than enough of him. You shall here a lot more from me now. There is but one Titan to go, and by that time, I'm hoping to have more of me in the vicinity. Pleasant dreams…