Control Revamped
Chapter 9
Doom Arises
"Black Doom…" The old man peers into the sky with his eerie blue eyes, smirking at the sight of the emerging red storm, beckoning him. "I grant thee the power of darkness… to absorb all dark chaos energy at will. Turn the team's new weapon against them!" The eye of the dark cloud widened, and a storm began to fall. A storm of monsters, large and small, worm-like and humanoid. Hawkish and Brutish. These were the black arms. They marked the arrival of Earth's Doom.
Lauren could see the eye of the storm from her perch on top of a statue in Valley Forge. She had already transformed to Liz, but the green markings on her outfit had changed to red, her pants were gone, and the shirt had grown into a short dress. Her white markings became black, and her eyes glazed over. Dark Liz had emerged.
A few moments later, the rest of the team appeared around her, including me. As we appeared in our character forms, we all had subtle or major differences.
Crystal's spines had turned very spiky and rigid, her light blue fur much more grayed and darker, her nails grown to claws.
Dani's hair was floating into the air, the sky blue of her outfit turned black, and her lavender fur darkened.
The flame pattern on Grim's spines receded further down his spines, and the black and white on his cloak were reversed, his Oni Aura now blackened.
Trozae's shirt had also extended to a short open dress, and her sneakers changed to high heels. Her bright green fur had become a sickening poisonous green.
Last, Ashez had the same outfit, but all of her green clothes and markings had become red, as well as her eyes.
I peered across the field full of Black Arms warriors, and my soulless eyes were set ablaze with hatred and sorrow. "Alright…Team Chaos… Let's go."
We all took off down the hill at incredible speed, but my speed was the greatest. As I charged through the crowd, everything I ran into was crushed and obliterated, leaving masses of purple blood lying on the grass.
Crystal began to surround herself in darkness and flames, and unleashed a massive burst of both in a dome of destruction, swallowing a massive portion of the army in one blow.
Dani for once was on the offensive, creating razor edged forcefields, and controlling them as they flew around the field and cut the soldiers to ribbons. She laughed maniacally at the sight of the blood, truly revealing her consumed nature.
Grim's black Oni Aura made him almost indestructible against them, landing fatal blows with every punch, caving in their skulls and breaking their ribs. A pile of bodies began to form around hi in a circle, only growing higher by the second.
Liz had been consumed by the Lunar and Umbra fractions of the Eclipse, her white flames turning black. Every punch she landed crushed her opponent into the ground or blasted them into the skies with a burst of black flames, slowly and endlessly burning away the field. As one snuck up behind her, she lunged around and extended her bionic right hand toward it, grabbing the soldier by the neck and slinging him toward the others.
Trozae pulled a few spines out of her head and they grew to the size of bow staves, and she spun them in each had as she ran, cutting into them and planting acids in their bodies that caused them to foam at the mouth and keel over, dying in seconds.
Ashez stood still in the middle of the field, and the many soldiers circling her were very hesitant to attack. But when one of them finally did, before they even knew what had happened, it was split in half mid-jump. As more of them approached, they were horribly mangled and torn without Ashez making a single move, only glaring at them with menacing eyes.
After only a few minutes, the entire army had been obliterated. Not a single soldier left. But we knew it wasn't over, for the eye of the storm hadn't closed. The storm hadn't dispersed. We looked to the skies and into the eye to see that a dark being was slowly descending from it, a being without legs, with two horns and three eyes, his blood red cloak floating like a wisp of smoke around him. We all knew this villain well. Black Doom had arrived.
"Foolish mortal children… you may have defeated my army, but you stand no chance against a god like me!" As he finally descended to the field before us, our entire team began to surround itself in dark chaos energy, like wispy fiery shadows, hovering in the air as a black veil around our hearts. Doom just chuckled at us, believing that he alone would be the victor. "Come at me with everything you have!"
I was very hasty as usual. I flew at him with greater speed than ever, and spun into him at around mach five. But I only crashed into his arm, and he thrust me aside as If I was nothing. Grim was next, dashing in a an Oni Blitz, but Doom took the attack and seemed to grow slightly, then throwing him aside as well. He then looked to his shoulder to see that it was cut slightly, and when another one of Dani's forcefields shot towards his neck, he just absorbed the energy and grew again. Dani ignored his growth, all of us being blind to his strategy, and only causing him to grow more with every forcefield he absorbed.
When Crystal finally jumped in to attack, planning to explode in his face, four tentacles emerged from Doom's back, and they wrapped themselves around her mid-air. When she unleashed the blast of darkness and flames, it only made him grow further, and her squeezed her to the point of almost passing out before tossing her aside. Liz then fired a machine gun array of Dark Eclipse Bullets, only to make him grow even faster. Once she gave up shooting, Trozae threw an acid spike, which stabbed into where his heart should be, only to have him rip it out and crush it as the wound shut in seconds. Ashez then stepped up close to him and her invisible hands attempted to crush him, but Doom only stood there as he absorbed the power she was applying to him, growing already to three times his normal size.
Everything we threw at him was useless. But not it was his turn to attack. He simply thrust his arm to the side, and a large array of razor sharp Dark Waves shot out, leaving us scarred and tattered, laying on the ground helpless. We truly were much weaker than we had thought. We focused only on power, and not on our durability. We were even weaker than before. And we had no clue why.
But in my corrupted and confused state, caring only about destroying him. Not about my life, or anyone else's lives. I slowly got back to my feet as hatred and anger consumed me. The Chaos Emeralds slowly emerged from the seven of us and they took on a blackened color, auras of shadow emerging from them. The rest of the team stared in horror, as if slowly coming to their senses, seeing the monster I had become. My eyes slowly turned black, and my fingers grew claws. My spines stood on end and aimed to the darkened skies, my fur turning black. Finally, my dark aura reached unbelievable proportions, completing my transformation. I had become Superdark Scion.
"Hmhmhmhmhmm.. Very well then. Come at me. Show the power of darkness…" I was silent, my body limp and motionless, until in the blink of an eye, I flickered over and landed a solid backhand to his face, which he recovered from fast enough to grab my leg and throw me into a crater. I quickly got to my feet and appeared in front of him again, then limply thrust out my arms as a pulse of dark chaos energy shot through the air, tossing the rest of the team aside. As they landed, they returned to their normal character selves, the darkness within them faded away.
"Drew, stop this! You're going to destroy us all!" I ignored Liz's words, and lifted my head to see that Black Doom had finally taken on the form of Devil Doom. I charged in for another attack, only to be met by a beam of red dark chaos energy, which threw my into the mountainside, leaving me laying in a crater. I growled and flew back at him, wondering why none of my attacks were working. Finally, I summoned my katana and drove myself into a spindash, both blades aimed at him backhanded, the serrated edges facing him. But on impact, his wounds only healed instantly as he grew further, taking on double the size of the original Devil Doom.
When I finally stopped spinning, he grabbed me with both hands and began to squeeze all the dark energy out of me. Finally, he took on three times the size, and his body became extremely grotesque, as if made of the Black Arms tentacles. He then threw me into the air, deformed to my normal Scion state, and thrust out his arm, both of them splitting into dozens of tentacles, which volleyed me around in the air, beating me half to death. Nicky screamed for him to stop and show mercy, tears welling up in her eyes at the sight of me painfully dying.
Finally, I was thrown to the ground beside her, landing in a small crater, barely conscious. She ran over to me and tried to lift my head up, to look me in the eyes. "Drew, please, you cant die! I cant stand to see you die… I just cant!" Her tears fell on my face, and I just continued to wonder why she cared at all. "Please Drew… I-I… I still…" She paused for a moment, knowing she had to say it before she lost me. "I STILL LOVE YOU!"
But it was too late. I was already gone…
