A/N: Hello again! An epilogue for you all, before I move on to my next story.

edit: Also, apparently, I am a forgetful idiot!

edit2: Hot cross buns! it appears I am doubly an idoot! Fixed some grammer, and edited Chapter 10 with the freaking missing chapter!! Go back and read it if you want, it may make this chapter make more sense. and if anyone can tell me if I actually put out Chapter 10 before, let me kniw how much of a doofus I was by leaving a answer on a new poll I will be putting up.

I do not own To Love-Ru, Black Cat, ir any other works within, all are property of their respective eowners.

Earth

The Shadow Vault

A ring of broken crystal pillars sits atop an artificial hill built underground, arranged in such a way for some mysterious purpse, with their broken and fractured bases hidden deep beneath the ground. Looking at the ring of crystal pillars, which had been transported deep into the bowels of this building, Mason stood over a black coffin. He had it moved back into this room, as the artificial sky continued to monitor and highlight the approach of Hades from the view of the surface above them. "Only a few more minutes to get into alignment, and the revivification process will begin," he states, smiling as he turns to the occupant of the coffin, who was struggling against her bindings, "Your sacrifice will be unfortunate, but with the loss of a cultivated dark energy battery, such as Rito; I'm afraid you will have to suffice for my plans." Taking care to send another electrical shock through the bindings, Nemesis screamed out in pain as the charge disrupted her cohesion.

"I learned from the mistakes of my predecessor," Mason states, "He believed that the few, together, could shape the future of humanity and create a world free of the weak, the poor, and the pitiable; that together, with the powers we were blessed with, with so many like minded individuals, and his vision, that we could become our worlds new pantheon of gods." He turns to Nemesis, who had calmed down, but was still breathing heavily from the shock of it all. "It was an admirable yet misdirected goal, of course, but he also had mistakenly believed that he would be the head of that pantheon, because of the backing of his benefactor-" Mason turns with a wicked smile, "-whom was also my benefactor and teacher; though he was not aware of it at the time, the Doctor had been dancing in my palm long before he had 'recruited' me." Turning his head to the side, he gained an almost pitying look, as he puts a hand to his face. "Wearing his face, having his memories... I could see the potential of his plans, and all their tragic flaws," Mason continues, as his hand drops back to his side, "You likely wouldn't understand any of this, of course, because none of that happened here; it was such a long time ago, really, and my quest is still ongoing... to make, to build, that perfect world, full of perfect human beings." He pauses and turns his hands to fists. "But that world, that goal, is still yet far removed from my grasp," he states, as he turns to gaze up at the haunting new moon in the sky, "I'm so close, so very close now; I can feel that I will create a world free of old superstitions, of monsters, of gods; but there is still yet more I must sacrifice." Nemesis looks up at him, a bead of sweat dropping down her brow, as she catches her breath.

"Humans... will never...accept you," she states, as Mason takes the tie to turn back and look at her, "Their individuality-their differences-make it an impossible feat; you would have to strip them of that uniqueness, but that's too much work at world wide scale."

"A feat, yes, but not impossible," he states, as he smiles down at Nemesis, "But you are right, in this universe it will be impossible to convert a single world without trouble, but that is why I had other plans for this world..." Turning to Nemesis, he pulls out a three inch sized needle, and puts it over Nemesis' heart. "I have waited for countless eons, perfecting my craft, honing my understanding of each of the universes I have visited before this one, and have finally perfected the process in this one; but you see, I needed a specific kind of being capable of making it possible, specifically, one with the properties of Dark Matter..." Nemesis' eyes go wide, as he plunges the needle straight into her chest, and begins to siphon off a dark liquid.

"GAGGGH-"

"Long ago, I managed to convince the real Kanzaki Kousuke to find a way to access the next universe," Mason states, as he steadily holds the plunger, "The genius managed to create a device that would digitize our memories and place them into vessels, items made of a rare element called hihi'irokane, a metaloid made from the experiments of Tao energy upon another certain rare earth element, which would encode the building blocks of our souls into the next universe at the very moment of its conception." Withdrawing the filled syringe from her chest, the gaping wound spurted some of the dark liquid, Mason plugged it with a cloth he then forced into her flesh. "A messy process, and quite uncontrollable as to when and where; we could have merely come about during the formative years, or near the end of the universe, for all we knew at the time," Mason states, as he wipes the syringe clean, setting it aside. While the rag continues to sop up her bleeding essence, Mason is grabbing a gun from the table to prep it for his next step. "Fortunately, we had powers at our disposal to create a sort of...simulation, of what the next universe would be like: the Doctor, with the power to create his version of the world, and an eye containing the power stolen from a man who could see the future-" Mason states, as he turns back to Nemesis, "-the unlimited source of Tao energy from a man with an unlimited potential, and a teleporter, with the ability to observe the conditions of that world which followed the beginnings of our experiment; all of this allowed us to accurately predict and pinpoint exactly when and where we would end up, to a certain degree of accuracy."

"And you ended up stranded, here in this world?" Nemesis questions, her chest throbbing in pain, "Human individuality naturally rejects the idea of universal consciousness, so unless your new world will embrace individuality, you will fail like all the other foolish men throughout the history of the universe!"

"Hah! Don't make me laugh, you are just a tool for me to get what I want," Mason states, as he handles the weapon filled with liquid, "I will create a new world, one where my ideal humanity shall embrace the idea of a manmade universe, and remember me as the one who created their utopia- their paradise!" Taking the weapon, he walks to the nearest crystal pillar and readies it for use, putting the barrel against the smooth surface. "But for now I will be satisfied with the fulfillment of my final design; and I will have you to thank for that Nemesis!" Pushing the plunger in as the needle breaks through into the crystal, injecting the dark, murky liquid inside the cracks that formed. The crystal began to shift, as the dark blob began to spread into the core of the rock formation.

Spider webbing cracks form across the surface, as the onyx black crystal began to shift and break apart, as if the dark matter was destabilizing the entire structure of the pillar. Mason just smiled as the stained item began to become fully enveloped by the inner darkness. The crystal was not finished, though, as it suddenly began to crumble from its tip, once the inky black dyed the clear crystal. Nemesis watched as her very being was used to utterly destroy the crystal pillar, reducing it to a pile of dust before their very eyes, leaving nothing of it remaining.

"How?" Nemesis asked, "How could this be useful in your plans?" Mason merely stepped over to the pile of ash, placing a hand within it to grab a handful of the black dust that remained.

"It's perfect; pure admantine reduced to workable orichalcum without a forging process," he states, grinning from ear to ear, as he ignored her questions, "The self-replication worked exactly like I-I-no... full credit, begrudgingly, goes to that genius- the Doctor!" Letting the dust fall from his hand back into the pile, he looks up to the sky and sees the outline of the new object hanging in the blackening sky. "In exactly three minutes, the last dwindling rays of the sun will finally fade, plunging the Earth into eternal darkness; they will be forced to use their lights, their matches, and surely become beacons of hope- targets for what comes next." Breaking down into an insane laugh that rivaled anything she had ever heard before, Nemesis quickly realized that perhaps the thin edge of sanity bordering between the psychotic, egotistical nature of the man before her, and the madness of the man of science he had labored years in the disguise of...

Nemesis quickly felt fear rising in her cold, dark heart.

"Open a channel to Hades," he states to no one in particular, as the automated features of the lab bring up a holographic screen before their very eyes. Upon the screen before them, Nemesis watched as the features of her younger sister, Yami, and another, familiar, blond figure.

"Master, have you finished your preparations for the grand plan?" the blond boy states, dressed in a toga, the man looked positively like something out of a Grecian play, "Hades stands ready in orbit; we may subsume their moon for processing upon receiving the raw orichalcum we need to begin, and finalize preparations for phase three." Mason grinned wickedly before opening a secondary window to contact another ship in orbit, turning his attention to it.

"You may approach the planet at your leisure, the package has been readied for retrieval," Mason states, as he speaks into the other window, "Hades will standby, until I give the order." Closing the window to the new moon, a flash of light occurred, and accompanied by the smell of ozone, a successful warp into the Shadow Vault, alerted Nemesis that a third party had entered into the room.

"Let the grand plan continue," the muscled, lightly armored form of Gid Lucione Deviluke states, as he stares across the room to Mason, before putting a closed fist to his chest and then kneels down to the floor. Nemesis gaped, as the King of the universe lowered his head to this madman, someone who conquered worlds for a pastime, could match and even defeat her, was bowing to someone who had won his victories through deceitful means.

"Rise my favored pupil," Mason states, much to Nemesis' confusion, though the reason would soon become evident, "How goes the subjection of the forces in orbit?" The man who was King looked up from his bow, and stood to attention to make his report.

"The barrier has been properly positioned around the Earth and its moon, just as was ordered; what scattered forces the Princesses have managed to have gathered have either scattered their own ashes across the sphere's inner walls, or are being swiftly dealt with by my Gireo clone forces," Gid states, his lips turning upwards as he speaks, a familiar, smug look across his face, "This world and its precious resources are yours, my master." Forcing herself to look up, she realizes that something was very wrong with Gid, as his skin appeared to be flaking, positively scaly with how dry it was, and cracked in her opinion, as he scratched at the dry patches. Though Gid seemed no worse for wear beyond this, Nemesis noticed an exposed patch of skin from where he had scratched, and the realization of what she was seeing became far more odd to her.

"A fairly interesting specimen, sir, if I do say so myself, his physical properties rival my greatest weapon," 'Gid' stated to Mason, as he absently scratched away a chunk of skin to the floor, "-though it appears the cellular breakdown is starting to destabilize the hosts body." Mason nods, before taking a vial from his pocket and handing it off to 'Gid', who quickly unseals the cork and drinks its contents greedily.

"It seems the parasitic nature of your cohabitation is, in all likelihood, killing Gid, as your far superior non-human genes are overwrite his," Mason states, almost in a disappointed tone, "Unfortunately we did not understand how weak and inflexible a species the Gireo would be to sudden genetic transposition; Devilukeans may be a more advanced-a more mammalian specimen, but they too are just as weak to sudden transpositions by themselves." But he smiles as he takes another syringe , to prepare it. "Fortunately, we have a hybridized test subject being processed for transposition right now; we will see how the body reacts to the sudden introduction of its own genetics, and then we will have a suitable vessel for our new Eve to properly inhabit," Mason states, as he plunges yet another needle into the spot he had just removed it from, "Humanity can then take its next logical step in breaking the evolutionary leap...and we will proceed with our final phase of preparations."

"Nothing can stand against us," the being in Gid's body stated, as he bowed before their master, "The Gireo shock troops obey only the commands of Shiki, master of all insectoid life, and I, as your most trusted and skilled pupil, shall follow solely the will of my master." With that he takes a case from his side and fills it with the dust of the destroyed crystal spire. A flash of light and Shiki, in Gid's body, is gone from Mason's sight.

"GAGH!" Pulling the vial from her chest, Nemesis cries out, much to Mason's pleasure.

"I am afraid your screams can't help you know, Nemesis," Mason coos out condescendingly, "The only sympathetic heart in this entire complex, is being extracted from their body, so that I can make their carcass useful for the final confrontation," Mason states, as he gives a scornful chuckle, "Shiki may believe he has me fooled, but that traitorous scorpion would sting me if I ever turned my back on him; he is drunk on the power his new form contains, and that blinds him to the truth of how perilous our situation really is-" He looks to Nemesis, as he inputs the vial into his tool. "-Don't misunderstand, I am ready for anything that comes my way- even Adam, for he too is but an imperfect replica of his original self: all full of flaws," he continues, as he takes the weapon and brings it to another crystal, "We are all susceptible to the changes and sacrifices we have made coming to your world- betrayal is no more sweeter than at the cusp of victory, after all."

Nemesis' eyes flash defiantly at the man, the pain taking away her breath as her blood and life force are drained by this madman for his plans, but he simply ignores her and pushes yet another plunger into another crystal. "Soon," Mason states, as he watches another crystal shatter to black dust, "This world will have to make a choice: join me, or die!"

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Absolute darkness...

All consuming...

Then there was light,
And then I remembered...

I remembered what it once meant to be a hero, a savior...
To be a virtuous knight on the side of light.

I remember who I am,
Even if I am no longer myself, I must protect...

I-I must...

How could I forget her...

Lala!

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Earth

Billions of Years from Now

The stars have all but burnt themselves out, collapsed into black holes, exploded in massive supernovae, frozen in space as their nuclear hearts fizzled out and left their cold, molten husks leaking hydrogen and helium into the vast darkness.

Earth in all its vainglory, has all but burnt out, its life long since snuffed out by an inordinate number of cataclysms and natural disasters that had followed the tipping point of humanities end. Now all that was left was a single soul on the surface of a beautiful, but barren rock that was soon to be consumed by its own star.

Sol had entered its expansive phase, at last exhausting its dwindling light in choosing to gorge itself on the last bits of matter remaining in the solar system, namely its own orbiting satellites. Even here, despite billions of years having passed, it takes relatively eight minutes, based on the ancient construct of the human understanding of time, for the light to reach out and partake of the feast within its destructive reach.

Eight minutes pass the expected collapse of the hold gravity had on the red giant, once known as Sol, and it is exactly as She had feared.

The light simply ceases to exist, cast from the red bloated carcass of a star no longer. The starlight then graces her vision, perpetual bombardment by the ancient solar rays, shall now be the only source of light left to reach Her tired eyes. The moon is drained in front of her eyes, shortly after the light from the sun ceases, as its journey took just slightly longer to reach her as it did the light from the sun to cease.

"Loneliness..." a voice in the dark edges of her imagination, whispers, "We...need...light." She ignores their cries, having ignored them for the past five billion years, used to their incessant drivel as even the starlight begins to disappear, swallowed by the constant gloom of shadows replacing the space at the speed of darkness.

"I know, little ones, I hear your cries for help...I have sent one of your own to the Others world, to seek out that which choked yours," She states, as she puts her hand to the massive structure, that had fallen to the planet's surface over a billion years past. Feeling the pulse in the darkness around her, her hairs stand on end, as a thousand unseen hands stroke all over her body in a constant invisible molestation, her understanding of such invasion of privacy having evolved in recognition of the importance of feeling, when one lacked visual organs to see, while relying on the comfort of touch. "Your sacrifice to keep the end at bay is remarkable; your brethren have snuffed out the equivalent of a thousand nuclear engines..." she halts, as another crack appears under her hands, the ancient, living thing, groaning as the wound forced itself open, "-though perhaps the end would have been that much swifter had they not done so..." Like all the others that had come before it, thousands and thousands of imperfections, this crack leaked the light one would see when triboluminescence occurred, until it stopped just as suddenly as it began.

Once it had been thought to have been a rogue moon, a freak cosmic accident cast out from its home star, until billions of years and impossible odds caused it to collide with the Earth. But She knew better, that it was no grand cosmic 'accident', but that it had a purpose in its coming, that a mind had planned and directed its path towards the humble little planet.

All in the name of a 'Grand Experiment', or so he had claimed at the time...

She broke away from her melancholy, as a few new wisps of shadows moved to caress her face, as if to comfort her. "But he was a liar, and now the Earth pays for your sins all these billion years hence..." She states, sadly putting her forehead to the newest crack, in some vain attempt to connect, to learn, what was the cause of this new source of pain, "Dear Mother, if only you could tell me what ails you; I would seek to right it, if I could, or pass it on to my Other, who sleeps inside your dreams and nightmares." Another great thundering crack, another spark of light that snuffed itself out, its reflection like lightning in her violet pools. She balled her fists at the sudden burst, anger welling up inside her. "I've tried, Mother, to be a good daughter and to live up to your expectations... tried, so very hard to warn my Other," She states, as she removes her face from the warmth of the fallen, massive object, "I promised, I -will- save all of you, but time is running out for everyone!"

"My lady!" a new voice rings out in the dark, a faint whisper echoed by the shadows, "I'm...sorry!" A pool of warmth beneath her hands, against the fallen object, and she uses her strength to draw out the familiar shade crying out beneath the cracks. As if a meteor impacted the surface of the object, the smooth surface cracks beneath her hands like a wave, rippling out in broken branches that explode with the light hidden beneath the alien surface. In that massive break a photo-negative arm reaches out from the spiraling light, is grasped by Her hands, and as She pulls the shade into the gloomy and welcoming darkness, she breathes a sigh of relief.

Hugging her tightly to her body, the blonde can't help but beam as she hugs her dearest, most treasured ally and friend. The soft glow fights back the darkness, illuminating the features of the woman for the first time in what felt like an eternity, and She smiles at the pale figure before her. Her pristine white dress was like an inverse of her Other's, a change from her original wear for sure, but a welcomed one that seemed to be an improvement over her regular choice for wear. The relief on Amane's face as she takes deep, shallow breaths, is plainly seen.

"It is alright, Amane, you have done enough by offering yourself to journey over, when no other was strong enough to make it," She states, turning to her oldest ally since coming to this world, "What news do you have of the situation on the Others side of things?" Her knight errant bows on one knee before giving her report.

"I am afraid our efforts to reach your Other seemed to have been for naught," Amane states, clutching her hands tightly as she forces the words out like they tasted of ash, "I unfortunately came too late to warn your Other-" Her face scrunches up as she remembers something else. "-though the unmistakable stench of our enemy was present on that world," she states with bitterness and hatred, "his loyal dog was there, somewhere nearby, and had separated the careless adventurers for ulterior purposes..." She nodded, allowing her to continue, as she takes this troubling news in. "I happened upon my Other in this world, unfortunately I was still disoriented, I mistook her for an enemy and proceeded to...take out my frustrations on her," she admits, a little hesitant, "She stunk of the same psychic scent of Shiki's gluttonous pet alien, and I feared they had all been infected by his tainted arts...fortunately it appeared I was wrong." Amane looks hesitatingly at her mistress, pursing her lips. "The damage was done before I could regain my senses," she states gloomily, lowering her head, "that cursed Adam had chained their newest 'Eve' to His purpose." With that, Amane ceased her report, knowing she had returned shortly afterwards to report these things to her mistress. Of all the things to expect: anger, being rebuked for her foolish hot head, were just some, but mirthful laughter from Her was the last.

"Unfortunately, I believe my foolish 'ex-boyfriend', will find it hard to tame his newest acquisition," she states confidently, "My 'sister' is far from perfect; her life mirrors mine on an even grander stage, and I rightly believe she will be far more adept at disobeying the commands of others..." Clapping her hands together, she smiles and the glow grows brighter, dispelling more of the gloom, and revealing the hidden shades, formless humanoids that wobbled and dissipated back among the shadows from her power.

"Everyone, it appears we still have much to prepare for before this world is at its end," she states, looking to the others hidden outside the reach of her light, "Mother is doing her best; she has chosen her own protector from among the Others, but we must be ready for when the walls between our worlds are at their thinnest...we must prepare to support them when the time is right!" The featureless shadows don't move, nor react, but Amane beams at her saviors words.

"Of course, mistress!" the blonde cheers, now standing before her, "We shall show the man who stole our worlds from us that we are not his playthings, or part of his 'Grand Experiment'; that he is due the retribution for sacrificing billions of lives to further his selfish goals!" She doesn't say anything further, letting Amane vent the few emotions they had left, with the joy in their lives gone along with all those they loved.

"He will get what is due Him, Amane, but I fear that the Doctor wouldn't have overlooked compatibility issues with his most current choice of host," Eve states, as she crosses her arms, "No, I very much doubt that He chose her as my replacement; no, I wouldn't have put it past him for not wasting these past ten years in perfecting an artificial host, using the resources of the world he has found himself in, to do so." Amane nods in understanding, as she watches her mistress stand to face the cracking space object, that had decimated what little of the planet had remained over a billion years past.

"The Mother of Pearl holds for now, but soon the Doctors twisted actions on the Other side will force us to make a choice," She states, as she puts a hand to feel the warmth coming from the Pearl, "A world must live, or all will die; which world will win out, though, is the question that remains to be seen." Whereas the Mother of Pearl went by another name in the Other world, here it was something that had once been an object of beauty, like a second moon in the sky above. Now it was an ugly, organic tumor on the Earth, bloated and warped into a massive disc through impact; filled with lesions and warts made of nacre, it was growing more and more erratically with each passing year. "You must hurry, the key lies in the Others hands, and I know you will solve the problem," She states, frowning as she lets her hand rest on the monolith, "There must be a solution that will save both our worlds..." She sighed, letting her white dress flow around her, not expecting an answer anytime soon.

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Somewhere Between Time and Space

Error detected...# $*&%

Instability...

circling, circling all around them

Temporal flux wave emanating from universe designate 16.02XX:000...

Counterforce deployed.

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Emergency Spatial/Temporal Jump mechanism activated by designate: User02

Emergency!

DANGER!

DANGER!

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Emergency!

User01 dangerously reaching fr ctyl point!,

Attempting emergency exit!

DANGER! HIGH FREQUENCY RADIATION DET3CTED!10%!

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They had made it safely

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The Present

The Shadow Vault

Mason sighs, satisfied that he stood at the top of everything. Belze had taken Nemesis back to the medical wing so as to fix her up with fluids that would keep her from dying on him now, so he could collect more of her dark energy for latter usage in transforming more of the crystal spires into raw materials for their plan. But for now, two were more than enough to fulfill his current objectives. A high pitched whirring, the smell of depleted ozone once more, and Mason smiled as he saw two forms appearing before him, thinking it was Shiki returning with his son. It turned into a frown when he quickly realized that it was not his son, but Kanzaki Kousuke, the Doctor, returning, with Shiki holding his trident tipped tail to the man's throat.

"So...it appears you've survived, Doctor..." Mason states, as he puts a hand to stroke his beard, "Last I saw of you, you were attempting to stab me through the back after showing 'me' the secrets to the universe..."

"Ah, yes, and then you chose to pierce my stomach with your pet's precious spear...Gungir, wasn't it?" The Doctor retorts, smiling despite the threat of Gid's barbed tail pushing into his Adam's apple, "Though I have to admit you've done pretty well using my plans and knowledge, to further your own goals." Mason smirks, realizing that this man was really nothing compared to the same man he had faced before. "Did you ever wonder though, if you had showed me mercy, how much further you could have gone with me by your side?" the Doctor asks, which causes the most minuscule twitch in Mason's cheek, right below his right eye, "I mean you left me slowly dying, impaled on your right hands weapon, while I watched you butcher Eathes for his hand so you could take it and use his power to turn into me, stealing everything he and I knew about the future..." Mason was actually surprised that the Doctor had the gall to look calm, hiding that simmering fury just below the surface of his emotionless mask, which amused him greatly.

"Honestly, Kousuke, What could you even do against me now?" He taunts in response, "Your precious daughter and son are under my control, and whatever control you may have had over them has been mine for billions of years, by my estimations." He smirks, knowing the Doctor should be groveling before him. "My master was generous; he may have taught you how to crystallize and steal a Taoist's Power, locking away their life essence, but I am the one who accomplished what you could not with a group." It was the Doctor's turn to smirk.

"But dear Mason, in that world, you too were one of the people I had manipulated into doing my bidding," the Doctor replies simply, "But it was fortunate you had not first thought of dealing with the one man who could have stymied your plans; an opportunity I did not pass up in taking advantage of..."

/All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, out run my gun/

Bang

Bang

Bang

/All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet./

Ringing in his ears, Mason was more surprised by the deafening thunder of a closely shot off weapon. Looking down at his chest he didn't even have enough time to process the damage and defend himself with his own, forgotten, Taoist power, when the bullets had already ripped through his chest and made it impossible to stop the bleeding.

"A mistake with which you shall pay with your life," the Doctor states, as Number Thirteen walks over the dying man to stop before him, as Shiki removes his tail weapon from his neck, "I didn't need a big bad wannabe acting like he was the Chess master anymore... our master would have been so disappointed, Mason."

Grabbing a handful of the dust from the ground nearby, where the second spire had been shattered, the Doctor then sprinkles it over his foes corpse. "Let us see if you are as useful in death as you were once in life," he states coldly, before turning to Shiki, "Retrieve Adam from Hades; we shall make use of his ability first, before we waste it on just converting the moon."

Behind him, Mason's corpse is turned into crystal where the pieces of scattered dust have landed, leaving a malformed corpse of flesh, bone and silicate minerals. The light had all but gone out of Masons eyes, but it was quickly filled by the cloudy darkness, and swallowed by the shadows. In its place was a pair of sharp, red slits for eyes, but in a blink they too were gone.

Darkness had arrived.
Evil had finally found its roots.
The Earth had seen its last sunset.

A/N: I also don't own 'Pumped Up Kicks' by Foster the People.

To be continued...

For now, I plan on next releasing a new 'What If' series, based around the various official possible futures we see Rito having with his Harem Girls. Though these stories will have a little bit of a twist to each of them. Unintentionally I seemed to have already done one of them, with my Future!Rito from the 'Back to Lala's Future' side story, and how he ends up with Momo. Now I guess I'll explore the rest of them.

.*Maniacal Laugh*

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Edit: Here are the binary translations by the way: /Eve!/

/I ll stop him!

That foolish man.

Rito...

Let me help you!/

/You have to /help me/ save you, though!

Just let me in.../