AOE Saga: The Hearts of Monsters
Chapter 4: Pest Control
Silvia and NegaMorph arrived in the throne room and were surprised to see that Virustoxico was there too. Emperor Hamsterviel was sitting on his throne like usual. "I have a special assignment for you three," he said. "Four," said Virustoxico. "Huh?" "We're actually two individuals, remember?" "Whatever," said Hamsterviel. "There had been Resistance movement on a small planet in Dimension-R9. I need you three to go there and show them my power. Silvia, you're in charge of destruction. Virustoxico, you're in charge with capturing. NegaMorph, you're in charge of EXP Virus infecting." "You're expecting us to work together right?" said Silvia. "Yes," said Hamsterviel. Protest were made a second later. "Enough! I'm not paying you to argue about who your partners are; I'm paying you to conquer and spread mayhem. Or perhaps I should throw all four of you through the Fusion Gate." All protesting stopped instantly. "Good and when you're done with that planet, I've heard that some goody, two-shoe Timesplitter scientists are working on something very important. I want you to capture the ship they are on and whatever project they're doing." All four of them saluted and left the throne room.
Soon afterwards, the Resistance Extermination Patrol, (R.E.P.) had landed near the source of Resistance activity on the small planet. Silvia was leading the robots through the city, destroying several buildings and a few people of no significance. Virustoxico was leading troops that were capturing suspicious people, petrifying a few of them. NegaMorph was spreading the EXP Virus throughout the city. Finally the location of the Resistance base was discovered. Several Resistance soldiers were captured, destroyed, or turned into either adamantanium or an experiment. But some of them managed to escape.
Silvia was walking through one of the hallways in the building when she heard something behind one of the doors. Behind it were some children and an adult woman who were looking over them. They huddled with fear against the opposite wall. Silvia scanned them; they carried no weapons, they had no strength, and their intellect was questionable. They were completely harmless. Silvia felt sympathy inside of her again along with the feeling that shooting these children would be wrong. She moved out of the doorway and said, "If you want to escape, get to the escape pods before I change my mind." The children and the woman quickly left.
Meanwhile, NegaMorph was going through the building, infecting everyone with the EXP Virus. He was looking for more victims when he heard a cry. He slithered to another room where he found a Resistance soldier with half of his right leg pinned underneath a small pile of metal sheets. He would be free soon but until then he was helpless. NegaMorph bared the teeth in the mouth he had instead of a right hand and prepared to bite. Then an idea occurred to him. He could destroy this soldier instead. His body looked weak so won't be very useful as an experiment. NegaMorph opened his mouth wider and started charging up the plasma blast he was about to launch. Then the throbbing sensation in his chest started again. Then the pain in his head started. He grabbed his head with all of his arms. The soldier looked puzzled at the screaming monster. Then NegaMorph managed to say, "Get out of here now." NegaMorph felt that this was to goody-goody so he added, "Or else." The soldier hastened to release himself and leave the room. Once the soldier was gone, NegaMorph could release his murderous thoughts. He growled with frustration and left the room.
Later, Silvia, Virustoxico, and NegaMorph were in the control room of their ship and leaving the planet with a cargo bay full of adamantanium statues and evil experiments. Virustoxico had learned about what had happened to Silvia and NegaMorph. "We don't really blame you NegaMorph," said Virustoxico. "We suppose it's partially my fault. When we created Shadow Morph, we only had EnigMorph's DNA to work with. And shadow cloning EnigMorph is like trying to create your own miniature star; an almost inevitable disaster. We had to work with only PlasMorph's gene instead. The only power that gene had was regeneration and the Tech-Pack. So possibly, the only thing that's missing from you is PlasMorph's actual DNA. That's the reason that heart's messing with you." NegaMorph pondered about this. The possibility never occurred to him. This gave him even more of a reason to get Morph. Then Virustoxico turned to Silvia. "But you're a different story. You willing chose to show mercy. NegaMorph's forced." Virustoxico floated towards the door. They stopped before they went through. "In fact, we don't think you have the heart to destroy anymore." Silvia turned towards Virustoxico and said, "Are you saying I'm going soft?" "Like a custard." If Virustoxico were looking at Silvia, they would have known that the angry look on her face meant instant trouble.
Very soon after that, Virustoxico was chained to the outside of the ship, uncomfortably close to the engines. They were yelling at top of their voices, "Silvia, stop! Wait! We take it back! You're not going soft! You're hardcore! You're hardcore!" In the control room, Silvia and NegaMorph were at the controls. "Shall we do a few loop-the-loops before we find the Timesplitters?" said NegaMorph. "Only if we get to do a couple of spirals first," said Silvia.
To be continued…
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