AOE Saga: Alchemic Blend

by Cydra

Matt & Co. find themselves on another strange adventure when they encounter the whackiest magicians to exist in several worlds, whose mettle will be proven against a dangerous criminal. Introduces a new cast of characters with large destinies in other wor

4. Epilogue

AOE Saga

Alchemic Blend

Chapter 4: Epilogue

Splicer's container floated through space for a week before someone found it. Unfortunately, that someone was an Imperial ship captained by Captain Dante. The crew on the bridge scanned the container. "So what do we have here?" asked Dante. "Scanners indicate that this container contains a sentient alien life-form. His personality is composed of ½ insanity, 1/3 evil, and 1/6 other," said one of the crewmembers. "How useful could it be to us?" asked Dante. "Its potential is broad, but it would never cooperate with us." Dante for a while and then said, "Send it to Johnson."

Splicer was put inside an indestructible holding-chamber in the lab part of the ship. He slammed his form against the wall several times but he couldn't get out. Finally a door opened and Dr. Johnson stepped through. "Ah, the infamous Spicer," said Johnson, "I've heard so much about Symbiotes but I've never had the pleasure of studying one. Then Silvia and NegaMorph come back with tales of a Symbiote that merged itself with nano-technology. I hoped I would get to meet you myself but I thought I'd never get the chance. But it seems fate had other plans." "Yammer all you want scientist," said Splicer, "You'll never get me to agree to anything." "You're right," said Johnson, "Words can't do as much as action." He calmly lifted his hand and snapped his fingers. The shadows in the room suddenly jumped toward Johnson's side. They all merged to form a shapeless shadow with an N-shaped mouth. Then the mouth opened and a creature wearing a black trench coat and fedora emerged. "NegaMorph," said Johnson, "show our guest one of the main reason he should join with us." NegaMorph grinned and let his coat and hat dissipate back into the shadow it was made from and exposed his true form. Splicer blinked and said, "You're going to have to better than that. I've seen bacteria more spine-tingling than that." "Hmm," said Johnson, "Stern stuff for being made out of jelly." He looked at NegaMorph and said, "I guess you'll have to show him 'N,'" and he turned around. "Show me in where?" asked Splicer mishearing Johnson. NegaMorph grabbed the inner corners of his N-shaped mouth and peeled it wide open. The shadow-like dimension that was revealed to Splicer was so terrifying and so incomprehensible, that for the mental and cardial health of my readers I will not describe it. Needless to say, when NegaMorph finally closed his mouth, Splicer was traumatized. Weakly, Splicer asked, "Where do I sign up?" Johnson smiled and said to NegaMorph, "Before I forget, Dante wanted to talk to you about something. You can go on. I'll take care of Splicer." NegaMorph nodded and went out the door. When he left, Johnson handed Splicer a piece of paper on a clipboard and said, "Welcome to the Hamsterviel Empire."

NegaMorph walked down the hallway with Dante. "I don't like the idea of working alongside that Symbiote. It feels like the Empire's hiring any villain now a-days." "Well only the good ones. Some villains are so awful that they're barely evil and are more like nuisances." "Like you?" asked NegaMorph. "Yes, like me-" Dante quickly caught on to the joke NegaMorph was trying to pull and said, "Nice try. Try that again and I'll kick you out the airlock." "Who cares," said NegaMorph, "I don't have lungs." "Anyway," said Dante grabbing a folder from inside his jacket, "Emperor Hamsterviel has given the Dark Star mercenary team permission to lay a trap for the Traveler." "What's this got to do with me?" asked NegaMorph. Dante handed NegaMorph the folder and said, "Details are inside." NegaMorph scanned the contents and said, "Do you really expect me to do this?" "Don't you hate the Traveler?" asked Dante. "Hate, yes. But the position I'll be in is pretty demeaning." "Well just turn the page," said Dante. NegaMorph looked at the next page and little $ signs lit up each of the six eyes in his head, and possibly the one on the end of his tail. "I'm in," said NegaMorph.

That's the last chapter. Keep an eye out for the sequel. It's going to be co-authored by largefish8 and me. You will not be disappointed. Please review.