The vampiric creature hung upside down in its massive living quarter, besides a simple coffin for decorative purposes there were hundreds of bodies... except they looked off, they were drained dry of something but still bled.
Occasionally, there were cubes, flesh cubes, rough and hand molded cubes. This vampire tossed another one down, licking its hand of the blood that coated his hands.
Transyl, what exactly are you waiting for?
An ancient voice rang through his head, demanding to know why he's simply standing there. He sighed before he began walking down to the ground. "I'm waiting for the exact moment to strike, M'lord."
That vessel of mine is currently unaware of my presence, it's the perfect moment to strike.
"Pardon me, but wouldn't you find it more wise to take him over now? You have the capability to.", Transyl stated as he picked up a flesh cube and devoured it in one unholy bite. "Unless... you're not at full strength?"
What a foolish accusation, I cannot take control for any longer than a few minutes. The seal on that new vessel is limiting me.
"So what you're saying is... you want me to break it?", Transyl says as he found it more... enticing with this new information.
A simple crack will be more than enough for me to have a stronger influence, I trust your strength will suffice
"Consider it done, M'Lord.", Transyl says as he grins widely, transforming into a massive swarm of bats that flew out of the old and ancient castle he resided in.
"BREAK! BREAKBREAKBREAKBREAKBREAK!!!!!", a deranged cackle echoed out as a dwarf sized red skinned gremlin-like alien with four-fingered hands with strangely shaped fingernails, and a long tail with its tip resembling a wrench. He has two small horns along with wearing a black cap, complimented with goggles that had green lenses. He wore a sleeveless black and white body suit with white, toe-less boots. The Omnitrix on his waist.
What the creature was doing however, it was ripping apart a mechanical creature with a big wheel as his primary source of locomotion, a flat-ish round waist, and a circular mushroom-shaped head with a singular optical cluster array. It has three long flat bandage-like tendrils for arms and scissor-like claws which appear to be engulfed in a red aura. More accurately though, he was dissembling it, along with tearing through the one next to him.
"Hurry up over there!", Charmcaster yelled out as she blasted back another one of these robots.
"Destroy Flesh. Destroy creations of flesh.", said a mechanized voice from a blue version of the robots, appearing more weaponized and having a more humanoid like upper body.
Charmcaster leapt up into the air and wrapped three of them in metallic golden bands, boosting her physical strength with mana she ripped them apart the moment she tugged on her bands.
"Gimme a break, it's hard to make something when these dumb fucks are jumping me!", said the gremlin as he lifted up his goggles, revealing wide, glowing purple eyes. "FIXFIXFIX!", he shouted with the same deranged tone as he sped around the heap of scrap, combining all broken down machines into an amalgamation of the robots. Now radiating blue energy rather than red. "Get them bitches buddy!"
"Destroy Dimension 13 Robots.", said the robot as it sliced through the dozens of machines surrounding them.
Charmcaster exhaled as she walked over to Alex who lowered his goggles, watching his creation go to work with destroying them. "Y'know besides Mean Streak, Chop Shop's pretty entertaining."
"I know right?!", Chop Shop said excitedly, they both collectively sighed the moment the amalgamation bot was destroyed. "All that for nothing"
Computron, the main blue robot, let out a mechanical roar as his chest opened up. Revealing a giant cannon that charged up. "I got this.", Chop Shop patted Charmcaster legs as he kept up and transformed into Deadbolt.
"Get fucked.", Deadbolt grinned as he blasted him with a bolt of green electricity, stopping the robot in its track and backing it into a large portal he came from. He quickly electrocuted a small mechanical device, causing it to shut down and close the portal... though Computron tried to grab him but it's arm was cut off the moment it closed.
"Seriously?", Hope facepalmed. "That's the best you could come up with?"
"I'm out of insults today, leave me alone.", Deadbolt said as he crosses his arms. She smiled and levitated herself to kiss his cheek.
"C'mon, let's go.", she says tugging on one of the coils on his back.
Something else however was watching them intently, a green flash briefly erupted as Alex stood there. He wore a white hoodie with a pair of grey lack pants, with white rubber sneakers. It let out a hiss as it blended in further into the shadows.
"How's that phone working out for you?", Charmcaster asked as Alex was typing something on a phone. It was sleek, whenever he dragged his fingers against the screen it didn't even stick or leave any prints.
"Works about the same as a Plumber Badge, except more comfortable and easy to use I guess.", Alex says as he remembered the words Oscar said to him. "it's not commercially available. It's by Plumbers for Plumbers.", he repeated in his head. "It's also a lot more easy to carry around and pull it in public... though I did get a few questions about it in school but that's the least of my worries."
"How's you're nightmares?", Hope didn't bother trying to avoid it, if she did he will never talk about it with her.
"They've been less frequent, drastically less.", Alex said as he looked at the Omnitrix. "Something about Dying Silence..."
"So that's why you've been avoiding using him for the past few months.", Charmcaster nodded, the form itself gave of a strange presence whenever Alex did transform into him, almost as if there was something else the armor was containing. "I'm sure Azmuth had to know... you've called him right?"
"Yeah, turns out the dude doesn't like answering calls.", Alex says as he thought about calling Tetrax but that would put him at risk. "I thought about using Mach Manta to fly over, maybe I can try something with VastMass? Or maybe Cold Soar... ugh, I'll try and solve it myself."
Charmcaster began raving about her Uncle's growing antics with traveling to other realms to retrieve items of power since Alex destroyed their shadow monster a while ago. But that wasn't what Alex paid attention to.
"Are we... being watched?", Alex knew the feeling too well, venturing into DNAlien Nests made it so he had to be alert all the time. "But the question is where? If I make it obvious, then it would make the one looking at us attack... probably, I can't risk it."
"Hey!", Charmcaster snapped Alex out of his train of thought. "Are you paying attention?", she asked annoyed at him.
"Uh... yeah."
"What was I talking about?"
"... I lied, I wasn't paying attention."
Alex's answered was less than satisfactory but Charmcaster had gotten used to him doing this. He would say one thing then completely forget about making up a story, he just got straight to the point. "Sometimes I wonder how you survive in High School, I heard that place is a nightmare."
"Eh sometimes, though ever since the fateful summer I found this hunk of junk on my wrist I've been breezing by no problem.", Alex says as he wasn't bullied too often before then but when it was it was awful, he didn't even have any friends since everyone thought he was weird. "Even then whenever some jackass thinks I did something wrong as an excuse to punch someone, I knock 'em down a peg."
Charmcaster had a quizzical look as if she didn't believe him. "Whatever you say.", she says as she kisses his cheek. "I have to get back home, my Uncle might need some help if he comes out that gate.", she says as she waves before walking behind a car and a pink light blinked in and out the moment she did.
"Hmmm, must be getting better at teleporting.", Alex says as he crosses his arms. "Dammit, why did she have to leave?", he internally screams as he walks down the street.
"H-H-Help... M...Me.", Alex turned to see a young woman stumble out onto the street, Alex quickly ran over and dragged them back to the sidewalk.
"Are you okay ma'am?", Alex finally noticed something.
The streets had been evacuated and as far as he knew, nobody had been informed of the Dimension 13 robots emerging... so where did she come from?
"Maybe she never left in the first place?", he felt his stomach drop at what she said next.
"H-He-", she snapped her head up to reveal a bat-like creature with a single eye on her forehead. It looked to be made out of some type of crystal, along with being very angular.
With a sudden burst of aggression, she advanced towards his throat. He quickly grabbed her fingers and kicked her away. "What the hell is that thing?!", Alex leaps back, her body contorting in painful ways.
"P-Please... Please help me!", the woman said, tears pouring out of her eyes as her pupils were glowing a bright red. Her body finally managed to catch up and stand straight, almost as if it was unfamiliar with moving in general.
"What's going-?!", Alex leapt up in the air and dodged a man attempting to tackle him, from what he briefly saw he also had that bat-like creature. As he landed he got into a stance as he saw more people walk out, not just people either, their pets too.
Alex scowled as he stood straight.
"Why bother hiding?"
From the shadows, Transyl emerged as the sun was nearly completely set which would've allowed the moon to rise in its place. "So you knew I was here, interesting."
"Who the hell are you?", Alex looked at Transyl with a sharp gaze that made Transyl stare right back with a similar gaze.
"This one's fearless... no, not fearless. I can't even tell if he's that or overly arrogant.", Transyl thought as their gaze clashed. "I am Transyl, crowned prince of Anur Vladius.", he took a bow as Alex looked confused.
"You're royalty?", Alex questioned.
"I was, until The Lord came into my life and made me realize something.", Transyl says as Alex begins to analyze him.
The Werewolf from Arizona, The Mummy from Carolina, and Viktor came to mind. All aliens resembling traditional monsters like a werewolf, a mummy and Frankenstein. Transyl looked like a vampire, but those creatures on their forehead... was that his form of Hypnosis?
Alex couldn't be completely sure, he also wanted to obtain his DNA to unlock a new form but he knew he'd have to get close.
"I know exactly how you operate child.", Transyl broke him out of his train of thought as the possessed mob began to slowly advanced. "These are my meat shields, I know you will never harm an innocent person no matter what.", a large, twisted smile grew on his face. It was so inhumanly large it curled to his ears. "Or will you kill them to get to me?"
"...", Alex grinned as he activated the Omnitrix. "I know all the secrets there is to know about this town, so I don't need to fight you... yet."
Transyl was right and had a massive advantage. Alex didn't know if he had the standard vampire abilities or if he was something else entirely, not only that he had the civilians around him like a mob.
Alex stopped at Cold Soar's silhouette before slamming down on the Omnitrix. A blinding green flash erupted and lit up the area, causing Transyl to shield himself with a car door due to how intense it was.
What stood there wasn't Cold Soar but humanoid extraterrestrial that bares a great resemblance to a common grasshopper. His exoskeleton possessed a sickly green hue with darker green around his head, back and claws, with three jointed hind limbs alongside a large crest in between his orange eyes. He his uniform resembles black overalls with three white stripes, the Omnitrix located right on his chest. "Hmmm ain't what I wanted but this'll do!"
"Get him!", Transyl screeched out as the mob lunged at him at inhuman speeds... but this wasn't too much of a problem.
This new alien, Crash Course, leapt right into the air, completely clearing a building and repeating this process until he was a simple black dot.
"A tactical retreat... how disappointing.", Transyl said as he spun his head around. "Find the brat and bring him to me!"
Crash Course landed in front of the hardware store, he forgot the last time he was here, perhaps since the end of the Highbreed's attempts to invade? Since there was no one around, Alex detransformed as he walked up to the door.
After doing the proper process, he was descending down the elevator and stepped out into the main lobby. He traversed the empty halls with a single thought in his head.
"Didn't gramps say he was gonna have some agents here?", Alex was expecting a few Plumber's like Patelliday, maybe even that giant rock guy that manipulated gravity. "I should get that form one of these days."
Alex finally found his way into the main monitoring area, thanks to Tetrax and Gluto working in this place during that time they got the monitors up and running. He activated the cameras to show him if there were any of them nearby, thankfully there weren't anybody so far.
He sat down in one of the chairs and pulled out his phone and went onto the Plumber Database, something no normal phone can accomplish but that also wasn't an issue.
Alex went through the process of searching up Anur Vladius... which came up with nothing. Then he searched up Lord Transyl, there was barely any information but he'll work with it.
His name was already there, but turns out he was actually affiliated with that fairy, the monster trio and... Zs'Skayr. Alex scrolled through more information until he found his abilities.
"Superhuman physical abilities, hypnosis, life force consumption, blood consumption, Shapeshifting... the fuck is gravity defiance?", Alex read off as the most important abilities besides Hypnosis were the things involving consumption.
Reading further, Transyl can accelerate his natural regeneration ability if he consumes blood or the life force of someone. "Regeneration huh?... guess I'll know who to-"
"Are you okay?"
Alex jumped up and turned to see Charmcaster sheepishly waving at him. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to startle you... I just kinda came back because I felt you were in trouble."
He leapt in and hugged her, which she happily reciprocated. "Oh thank god, least I don't have to fight a mob of civilians alone.", Alex says with a smile.
"Uh... what?"
TRANSYL!!!
Transyl suddenly fell to the ground, an immense pressure appearing to force him to his knees. "M'Lord..."
YOU LET HIM GET AWAY!
"F-Forgive me, my liege.", Transyl changed what he was going to call him out of fear. "I-I couldn't risk it."
You should've been able to catch up to him in an instant, yet here you are waiting!
"I have m-my slaves hunting him down as we speak, please my liege, I will do as told!", Transyl cried out as the pressure was suddenly gone and he was freed to stand again.
If you don't find him, I promise you I will make your existence a living purgatory!
Transyl used his ability to see through the eyes of his bat-like creatures, or the Corruptura's as they are actually called. He flickered through each and every one of them... before he stopped at one in front of a hardware store. "Found you!"
After explaining what had happened in that short span of time, Alex took a deep breath. "And that's basically it."
Hope managed to get all that information perfectly and nodded. "So what you're doing is getting information before you fight?"
"Yep. If I went in blind I would've been killed, not only that Transyl is gonna use those people as free snacks for when we eventually fight.", Alex says as he looks at the large monitor, there were people outside.
"Hmmm... I'll be sure to give you two privacy.", Charmcaster was confident she could take him on in a fight if it came to it, but she knew Alex could manage. "But how do I deal with the mob?"
"Don't seriously injure them, they're being forced to do something they don't want to do.", Alex says as he thought of something. "His regeneration is apparently slow without anything consumed, so what I need to do is cut him down until he gives up."
"Easier said than done.", she shook her head as they heard something in the halls. "Looks like he's found us."
Alex facepalmed at his own stupidity. "Of course he would! One of the townsfolk might've been a Plumber.", he says as he activated the Omnitrix and scrolled through until he found the alien, slamming down and transforming into Dying Silence. "Meet me in the Training Room.", he says as he flies through the wall.
Charmcaster sighed as she flipped through her spell book. "Latito.", she chanted, her body began disappearing in chunks before she herself was gone.
As if a dam bursted, dozens of mind controlled innocents were shoved and stuffed into the room as if to corner them. Transyl floating after them with three sets of black, leathery bat wings. "Not here... oooh, clever move.", he says as he looked at the screen ahead displaying the empty outside.
Transyl felt that pressure again, quickly turning around and transforming his arm into a blade. Striking the armor a very recently visible Dying Silence wore. "Great attempt, could've been better if you ran.
The Omnitrix glowed yellow, causing Alex to erupt in a green flash as he fell on the floor. He grabbed his chest as his head was aching all of a sudden. "Don't need to worry about collecting his DNA now...", he thinks to himself as the Omnitrix was analyzing his DNA, before stopping and displaying a silhouette of skinny humanoid.
"That should be more than enough for his highness, guess we'll wait and see.", Transyl thought as a wide grin formed on his face again. He covered his eyes again as Alex erupted in a green flash, he was expecting a Vladat... but just barely missed a shadow rounding the corner. "You won't escape me!", he roared out as his muscles bulged through his clothing and sprinted out of the room at terrifying speeds. "I can see you clearly you fool!"
Cryptic, the alien he obtained from Prisoner 775, quickly crawled along the walls as both Transyl and his army of mind controlled minions followed after him. "C'mon Hope!", he hissed in his head as a pink shield stopped the mob in their tracks the moment both he and Transyl entered a room,
Charmcaster suddenly appeared and closed the entrance. "Now we wait.", she says with a smile as she flipped through her spell book.
The training room was massive, much bigger than most rooms in the underground base. You could possibly fit two houses inside.
"Fighting me all by yourself?", Transyl says with an amused grin. "Rather smart to corner yourself.", he says with heavy sarcasm as his grin only grew wider. "I'm not exactly caught up with the mundane world, but I heard you dealt with Yarro, Tuton, Viktor and very recently Somnum. Very rarely do backwater planets like this have a warrior strong enough to deal with at least two of them, let alone three... tell me, what are you exactly?",
"Just a regular, mundane guy.", Cryptic says as he erupted in a green flash, a black tendril shot towards Transyl who effortlessly dodged and punched right through Blight's face.
"One hit and you're dead-Hmm?", Transyl eyes went wide as the gaping hole he created closed in around his wrist, quickly after black spikes erupted from his arm. He quickly yanked it away, purple blood pouring out as his hand was completely missing.
"I should be asking you the same thing, none of the others were so upfront with me. So I'd like to know what kind of guy you are.", Blight hissed, teeth forming where his mouth should be as he snapped it open.
"Only because I respect those with such unyielding determination, I'll enlighten you with my existence. Those buzzing, talentless losers are nothing when compared to me, a direct descendant of a line of powerful Vladats! During our short encounter, could you not feel the difference?", Transyl's hand sprouted out from the stump of his wrist.
Blight rolled his eyes, despite not having any actual eyes. He curled up before ejecting black spikes from his back, Transyl quickly turned into a grey mist that floated into the air. "Right back at you!", Transyl cackled as he created a large blade from his arms and sliced through the tendrils, before cutting Blight into pieces, sliding right behind him and morphing his arms back to their regular state. "What a bore...?!"
The black mass started to slither by him, reforming into a vaguely humanoid shape. "Hmmm... I remember hearing tales of creatures like this. The Klyntar, a race of aliens with the ability to regenerate and manipulate their matter.
"Be quiet.", Blight lunged forward, making his own set of sharp blades as he swung at him. Transyl barely even blocking thanks to morphing his arm into a blade.
"But beyond your regeneration and body manipulation, there's nothing special about you.", Transyl says as his blade swung right through his waist, Blight regenerating this instantly before creating a club with his free arm and slamming it into Transyl's abdomen. "But compared to the others... you're a breath of fresh air!", he says as he tore straight through him again.
Blight easily healed this hole before a swarm of bats suddenly appears, circling around him and slicing through his flesh. Small, black chunks went flying before the swarm of bats reformed into that of Transyl again.
Transyl grinned as he popped his knuckles. "It'll only take a single human for me to completely regenerate, how is it coming-?!", his eyes widened as Blight stood there, a horrific grin on his face.
"Y'know, I've been enjoying my life so far and I won't let some trash like you get in my way... SO FUCKING DIE!", Blight roared out as he grew in size, tooth-like spikes formed on his back as Transyl grinned.
"Let's see how long you can last!"
Several minutes later...
Charmcaster quickly came to realize the Corruptura's came from some form of magic she hadn't encountered. "This is a hassle, I really wanted to help him in there.", her eyes widened as the Corruptura's flaked off, causing the mob to fall limply to the ground. Using a quick spell, she found out they were alive but unconscious that and having minor memory loss, hopefully.
The entrance to the training room open with Blazemash walking out, erupting in a red flash as he popped his knuckles. "Okay, we're done." He says giving her a thumbs up.
"Oh so you beat him?", Charmcaster peered into the room, it was covered in purple blood, crystal shards, scorch marks, broken walls, black webbing and so on. With dead bats layering the ground, as if they attempted to crawl back to the half of a head that expressed a look of disdain. "Yep... you beat him. Looks like his control over them has been lifted too."
"Good, once the watch recharges I'll get em back to their homes.", Alex says with a smile, Charmcaster swore though... did his shadow just move?
Transyl reawakened in what appears to be a grassy, flowery field with hills. His eyes widened as he sat up, it took a minute for it to register but there countless doors parallel in the sky. "No... It can't be.", he turned to see dead bodies lined up in a pathetic state of prayer, this time they were his fellow Vladats and various other species.
"You did well."
Transyl grabbed his chest as he was forced to kneel by pure instinct.
"Now in free to control the body and selection process. I'll have to experiment first... but this works."
Transyl looked up to see Zs'Skayr floating in front of him, an aura of dread and death surrounding him. "... thank you my lord."
"You've contacted Albedo right? When I escape, he'll be the first I visit."
"My liege, the device is working out to be a failure. If we can't extract the core and the original hull, it may not work.", Transyl said as a grin formed on his masters face.
/End/