End of the Line

The entity Oblitus followed the cloaked man and caught him discussing around a group of cloak people like him. They wore the same brown ragged cloak and hood. Oblitus said, "It's a surprise to see you all here, Council of Time."

Horatius turned to Oblitus. He removed his hood to reveal his scarred face, left eye is pale like the full moon and the right is bright like the morning sun and his long silver hair glowed like the moonlight. "Dark creature... you have the appearance of the Entity of Time but your halo and clothes are altered. Who are you?"

One of the cloaked men spoke to Horatius. "He could be from beyond, brother. Another Time. Another Reality."

Oblitus was proud that these entities have no clue who he is. That's where uses his grand introduction. "I am Oblitus! The Entity of Ceased Futures! I hail at the shadow of the River of Time!"

Horatius looked at his fellowmen and they were not fazed by his appearance. "You are nothing."

A little hurt by that statement, the dark entity retorted. "I AM SOMETHING! I have all the futures and events that were erased by the time travellers in all realities! All of these events will be part of me! And only me!" He showed them images of events that they never saw before.

Horatius saw some familiar ones and he was amazed by the laws of nature. "So... nothing can be erased after all. They just- relocated."

"Yes." Oblitus then asked. "Now tell me why are you killing these gods and collect these gems."

"We are not collecting them." One of the cloaked people spoke and it was a woman. She removed her hood and revealed the same features like Horatius. One eye is white and the other was golden and has a long silver hair. However, she doesn't have a scar on her face like Horatius. "We are here to change all realities. Gods and goddesses must die and there will be only one for all realities!"

Oblitus was suspicious. He scanned the ceased alternate futures and see what was averted. Later, he found it and understood their grand plan. "The Eternal Inferno. You plan to kill all gods because the next host of the Eternal Inferno... will be a god."

Horatius learned that dark entity means trouble. "Brothers and sisters, eliminate him." The cloaked people conjured almighty dimensional blades that can tear time barriers and reality apart.

The dark entity was amazed. "Impressive. I can do that too." He waved his hand and summoned a large blade that can slice a solar system. "Too much?"

The entire council of time attacked Oblitus at once and they were sure they could defeat him by numbers.

Horatius stayed back and watched.

Samurai Jack and Sir Jack fought. Their blades clashed against each other. Both possessing the red stone's power, none of them can outmatch the other. They're now equal and the knight hated it.

He struck him again but the red power was absorbed by the samurai's glove. It frustrates him even more.

Noticing the red fragment on the gauntlet started the get bigger, he knew it will be pointless if he continues using it against the samurai. Instead he made a deal that will change their battle. "No weapons!"

"Excuse me?" The samurai was surprised by the outburst.

"No weapons, Asian! No magic stones! No magical items!" The knight said. "Just fists."

The samurai has some second thoughts about it. It could be a trap that would left him defenseless. "How can I trust you?"

The knight said. "I'm a noble knight and I just wanted a fair fight. I would never dare cheat."

"Alright. But you go first."

The white haired warrior puts down his sword and the three gems with him and kicked them aside.

"Armor too." The samurai said.

"What? I need this armor."

"I don't have an armor. It doesn't sound like a fair fight to me."

"Fine!" The knight removed his armor leaving him with his white shirt and 18th century pants. "Are you satisfied?"

The samurai replied. "I'm good." He removed the gauntlet and his sword and dropped it aside. Then he disrobed revealing his perfect physique.

The knight grunted. "Show-off."

"So. How do we do this? Submission or knock out?"

"Both."

"No killing?"

"You want to?"

"Just asking."

"No."

"Good." The samurai said. "I don't want to kill anyone today."

"I disagree." The young knight throws the first punch.

The samurai easily countered it and completely tackled the man to the ground.

The knight managed to break free and quickly gets up for another round. "That's just a warm up."

"I know."

Scaramouche had enough of the sisters' beating. He used everything he has at them. He killed them but they kept coming back. The android tried to process what's going on. "Are you clones? I heard they are making a clone army for Aku."

"No. We are not." Ashi said. "We are the Daughters of Aku. Well, we no longer serve him."

"Oh, the spoiled brats of Aku." Scaramouche said. "The rebel children of Aku. I dig it, babe." He winked at them.

Ami said. "We are not brats!"

Scaramouche responded. "Yes, you are. You cannot deny it, babe."

"Can we destroy him now, Ashi? He's getting on my nerves."

Then the android stopped them. "Wait! Calm down for a minute! I have been killing you for so many times now. Do you think it is kinda tiring that we do this all day?" He stretched his metal arms and flexed his mechanical fingers. "I mean, a little tin can like me needs a little rest, babe."

Ashi and Ami both were wondering the same thing. It was getting pointless over time. "Alright. We will stop unless you stop killing these people."

"Killing? They're already dead, baby."

Ami pointed at the town and people living there suddenly reappeared to be fine. No scars or wounds. No blood or bones scattered around the place."

The android was surprised to see them alive. "How is that possible?" He turned back at the two girls but what he saw next was Ashi's fist jabbed his face knocking his circuits out. The robot fell down like a knocked out boxer. Quickly, Ami tore off the robot's head and threw it away from his body. "Alright! He's not dead meaning he won't be able to get back up."

"It would be easy if that entity did not have a reset button."

Scaramouche rebooted himself and noticed he was decapitated. "Hey! Hey! Hey, babe! What did you do?" Then he saw the two girls threw his metal body away, far away. "Hey! Hey! Hey! That's rude, ya know! Yanked a guy's head and threw his body is just plain rude!"

Ami picked up the robot's head. "Don't make me remove your jaw."

"Fine! Whatever, babe. I'll shut up." Then he asked. "Why spare me though? Am I not too dangerous to be alive? You know I can get back to any body, baby. Ho ho ho! I'll be back with a new body!"

Ashi and Ami ignored the machine and put him inside a bag. "What are we going to do with him, Ashi?"

She said to her sister. "For now, we keep him away from the people. I don't know how long this entity will keep resetting Time here. As long as Jack finds a way and set us free, we will destroy him."

Horatius trembled in fear as he saw the dark entity single-handedly eliminated the entire council. Father Times, Gods of Time and Time Deities were no matched to the dark entity. He realized that Oblitus has the same level of the entity that guards the River of Time.

Their superior.

Their originator.

Their Core of Existence.

The original Horatius: Almighty Entity of Time and Guardian of the River of Time.

Horatius basically described Oblitus as the dark twin of their originator. A living shadow of time. He watched the dark entity eliminated the last of the Father Time and his ominous glowing eye turned to him.

"You're the last one." Oblitus stated the obvious. He approached him slowly across the bodies of countless entities. As he arrived just close to Horatius, he drew out his Celestial Blade and prepared to deliver the final blow to his final kill.

Horatius yelled. "Wait!"

Oblitus paused. "What is it? Last words?"

"No." Horatius said. "A deal."

The dark entity listened. "Let's hear it out."

The Samurai and the Knight were trying to finish each other off. But they were equally matched. The samurai tried to knocked him down. He even tried to break his arm but the knight resisted. His willingness to win pushed him to his limits and landed good hits on the samurai warrior.

"We must not continue." The samurai said. "If we do, it will just tire us."

"That's my plan here. Tire you until I gain the upper hand." The knight smirked. "Now come on! Show me what you got!"

Both men charged at each other and delivered their strongest punch. They took the hit and both went down to the ground. The samurai was dazed but the knight wasn't. He saw the red stone nearby. Immediately, he knew it was his chance to defeat him. The knight grabbed the stone and used it to blast the samurai away. He fired a bright red light to the samurai.

But the samurai survived.

"What is happening!" The knight yelled. "Why can't I kill him?" There he noticed that the gauntlet was near the samurai. When no one wields it, the golden glove automatically absorbed the energy of the stone. "This is frustrating!" He picked up his sword and attached the stone on the blade. "I'll blow this place up! Including you!"

The samurai tried to stop him but he hesitated. He knew it was too late. So he grabbed the gauntlet and used it as a barrier against the knight's red power.

As the knight impaled the soil of Japan, the sword released a surge of red energy straight to the ground reaching to the core of the earth. The knight was expecting a powerful explosion. But it did not happen. "Now what? Where's the destruction?"

It was just delayed.

Molten lava burst out from the ground and the knight's ground collapsed sending him to his doom. He screamed as he descent to the burning clay.

Samurai Jack was horrified to what the knight did. New volcanoes erupted at the island of Japan. His home. How is he going to fix it? Then he saw the two stones that was left behind by the knight. With his quick thinking, he used the gauntlet to summon the two.

The gems responded and it flew towards the samurai and attached to the gauntlet's compartments. "Alright. Now what?" He doesn't know how the two functions. He assume the purple gem can travel other places. The orange could be to go whenever in time. That's his observation. He remembered the entity told him about it. If he has the orange gem, he can change what the knight did and stop him.

He closed his eyes and whispered to the gem asking it to take him 10 minutes back to the past.

The gem answered and it did what he asked.

Jack was sent back to the past and saw the knight about the strike down the ground with the burning red stone. He saw his past self tried to stop the knight but then his past saw him and was confused at first.

Trying to save precious time, the samurai leaped towards the knight and stopped him from destroying Japan. "What in the world?" He turned and saw another samurai. "Who are you?"

"Your enemy ten minutes from now." The samurai threw a hard punch to the knight and knocked him down. The sword was dropped and his past self ran towards it and kicked it away from the incapacitated enemy. "Hello." He said.

The samurai talked to his past self. "Hello too."

"Well, this is awkward seeing you... my future self."

"Yeah. Very weird."

The knight was surprised to see two. He knew what his enemy did. "You used the eye."

The samurai examined the orange gem. "It's an eye?"

Without a sound, a thin black arm went through the chest of the Samurai's past self and snatched the stone from him. It was Oblitus. He answered to the mortals. "It's my twin's eye. The one I need." He pulled his arm out and threw the samurai aside.

"NO!" Jack ran to his past self, trying to stop the bleeding and trying to save him. If he dies, the samurai will cease to exist. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

Oblitus looked at the beautiful orange gem. "I'm taking what I came for."

Then the knight got up and tried to take back his gem however the entity easily swat him away sending him flying far away. He was knocked out when he landed.

After witnessing the entity's strength, the samurai asked. "Why? I thought you wanted the six stones!"

"Actually, I only need one." The dark entity looked at the gem and its power flowing through him. "And it's this one. The Time Gem." Then he added. "Collecting all six is just another way to fool you. But Time is everything I wanted."

The samurai looked at the gauntlet. He has a chance to take that gem away from the dark entity.

Oblitus noticed the mortal was reaching for the golden gauntlet. "Don't bother." The entity extended his arm and took the item away from the mortal warrior. "Everything is just a big lie. I need the six stones to stop this knight or saving existence from total annihilation. All of it is a lie. Except one." He watched the samurai grunted as he slowly losing his strength. The entity's cosmic eye watched the mortal suffer the after effects. "It appear this is the end of the line for you, samurai."

And there goes he vile laughter, more sinister than Aku's. He was victorious and the samurai was blind for not seeing it coming

10...

Samurai Jack felt his body aching.

9...

His strength fading. This is like what happened to Ashi.

8...

"No. This cannot end like this." He watched as his past self dying on his arms. He muttered his last words. "A..a... Ashi..."

7...

The samurai died and the other will soon cease to exist.

6...

In his last seconds in existence, the samurai faced the proud dark entity like he did to the demon Aku. "DAMN YOU!"

5...

His katana released a powerful white light that removed Oblitus' essences.

4...

The celestial sword was turned back into the almighty magic sword that Jack use.

3...

The samurai warrior leaped towards the dark entity and delivered a killing blow.

2...

His katana managed to hit the unsuspected dark entity who was just enjoying the sight of the gemstone. As he took a direct hit, Oblitus screamed in pain as the sword tore open his guts.

1...

But it was not enough to kill the entity. He lives but has a big mark on him which will be an eternal reminder for him.

Never mess with the samurai again.

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Jack knew he failed and there's no possible way to destroy the entity entirely with those few seconds. Instead he smiled knowing he left a mark on that damn creature. The mortal warrior disappeared out from existence. The dark entity howled in pain and anger. "CURSE YOU, SAMURAI!" He looked down at the corpse of the past samurai lying dead.

Rage took over Oblitus as he slammed his dark fist to crush the samurai's corpse. In one almighty blow, the corpse turned to dust leaving nothing but the sword. The dark entity's rage died out as he saw the gem on his hand.

Victory is his.

He chuckled. "Time is Mine."

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