Welp. Samurai Jack belongs to Genndy, Homestuck to Hussie, and Dune to Herbert. Read, review, and enjoy. Or not. In that case, then hate it.
Aku goes as far back as human history. He has outlived the oldest man, out-thought the most adept Mentat, and out-maneuvered even the greatest of the Houses in the Lansaraad. But it begs the question as to why he would create the Lansaraad, the Guild, or even the Bene Gesserit himself. He makes no effort to disguise his distaste for humankind. And why does he allow us to keep our worthless existence? He needs us in order to validate his power.
-Reverend Mother Daeymah in a private speech to the Sisterhood.
Across a relatively empty field stepped a black cloaked figure. Only a booth made of hexagonal glass patterns stood out in the field with her. Its ornate symmetry seemed to belie a nature far more sinister than any human indecency could imagine.
Repeating the litany against fear over and over, the figure drew closer to the building. She realized as soon as she entered, she might not return again. Yet, she knew to place the aims and concerns of the Bene Gesserit above her own. If anything, what she might endure would hopefully be nothing like the trials of the spice agony. Acting with no hesitation, she stepped in.
Without wasting more than a second she found herself in an altogether different location, millions of light years beyond Chapterhouse, the seat of the Bene Gesserit. No, this planet, a planet of blackened steel, cruel noise, and ruthless commerce, was entirely different. His planet.
Exiting the booth, his place of rest stood only a few feet away. Even with the years of Bene Gesserit training, there grew the beginnings of hesitancy within her. However, she quelled it with the litany as she approached. Surrounding the hell-black fortress, many creatures floated half-alive, regarding her with disinterest. From the ground pieces of obsidian jutted obscenely. But the worst was yet to come. Already as she came to the entrance, an intense red heat radiated out, almost unbearable to those with little self-control. But she made no hesitation as she entered.
The room looked simple—ornate obsidian with an extremely hot cavern in the middle. The only moment she ever hesitated was when she stepped onto the precipice over the cavern. The cavern, which spanned hundreds and perhaps thousands of miles, contained the one which brought even the most trained Bene Gesserit sister close to fear.
Looking down, down into the abyss, she cleared her throat. With a simple noise the whole gaping hole trembled mightily. It was much too late for her now, she knew as she bowed her head. From the depths a black-within-black figure towered. The entire fortress echoed with the rumble of his arrival. But of course the worst was the creature's gargantuan head. Jutting antler-like structures branched from his skull. Below them were the only parts of the creature not that hideous black. Eyebrows of flame danced over red eyes which appeared glazed with the look of one with infinite patience. His green, fanged mouth with an equally flaming beard frowned with an expression that even a Reverend Mother could only place between displeasure and calculation.
His voice, an accent belonging to a tongue long dead perhaps, boomed out, " Who is it that dares to trouble I, the shogun of sorrow, the master of darkness Aku?"
She bowed, the litany repeating in her mind. Her voice remained clear, "The Reverend Mother Daeymah. I wished to report on the test of the space fold."
His eyes narrowed, "And you thought it a matter that you, a Reverend Mother, required to tell I Aku, the mighty sorcerer personally?"
With a brief pause he added, "Your eagerness to report this success troubles me. Soothsayer!"
On cue a wizened crone with spidery hair bearing the same robes as Daeymah stepped forward, saying, "Yes, mighty and great Aku?"
"The Reverend Mother herself brings me news of the success of space folding experiment, news which I Aku no doubt would have received in no time."
The Soothsayer nodded her head patiently, "Do you not consider it pleasant news?"
"Yes, pleasant." Aku eyed the Reverend Mother suspiciously, "Tell me again. Did the craft fold space as I the great Aku planned?"
With only a couple second's worth of pause Daeymah reiterated, "The space fold was successful and went without any complications."
Aku turned to his trusted soothsayer. She spoke in her cracked, dry voice, "She lies. She knows there were complications involved with the test."
The demon's eyes furled in a glare, "And what were these complications you foolishly attempted to hide from the great Aku, Reverend Mother Daeymah?"
"The ship…"she felt as if she was reciting her death sentence, "the ship was lost…we don't know where."
The Soothsayer nodded to Aku, "Another lie. She knows exactly what happened to the ship."
Oh, this time the shapeshiftng master of darkness moves down to the Reverend Mother's level, clearly enraged, "FOOL! You dare defy the great Aku? I shall give you one chance to tell me where this craft has gone."
She simply shakes her head, "I cannot tell you in good confidence."
The demon rears his head up, "Then you have earned your right punishment, insolent fool. Sadly, you shall not live to see the consequences of your insolence."
From his eyes burst two beams of light, headed straight towards Daeymah. She didn't even bother to move out of the way. In seconds Aku reduced the head of the Bene Gesserit to a pile of smoldering dust.
Aku shifted to his Soothsayer, who remained emotionally detached from the whole affair. He bent down to her, "What great treachery to Aku! You have done I the shapeshifting master of darkness a great service, Soothsayer Gaius Helen Mohiam. For repayment I shall make you Reverend Mother of the Bene Gesserit order. "
She bowed with an obscure smile, "May we continue to bring converts to the great and mighty Aku, master of all."
"Yes. However, I Aku must find this missing craft. Obviously the Reverend Mother planned to go escape the empire of the all-powerful Aku. Fools! They know not that Aku's empire is the universe itself! Now, my trusted minion, you must go to the Chapterhouse and tell of the traitor's demise. That way we may reveal all other traitors."
"I shall not fail. All of the Bene Gesserit order shall belong to the great Aku."
"Do not tell me what I know is destined to be. Now I Aku must attend to my own matters as you yours. Go!"
She smiled as she walked back to the booth, back to Chapterhouse.
In the more populated parts of Chapterhouse, a place reserved for training of sisters, another Bene Gesserit waited as she walked up to the balcony.
"She's dead," the stranger said.
"Yes," the new Reverend Mother replied, "Just as we planned."
"And now our base of operations will be crawling with Aku's spies and informants."
"What happens on this planet is of little concern to us now. Aku may have near limitless power but his attention is easily diverted, like a child's. The only thing which kept his interest for so long has been the warrior of no home."
"And what are we to gain from him destroying and monopolizing a vital form of space travel?"
The Reverend Mother looked out over the balcony, "Monopolies are never effective. The only true effective monopolies are those of resources. Others will break Aku's infallible monopoly of space travel in due time. No, folding space was never our priority, only a ruse."
"Then what priority required the sacrifice of a key Reverend Mother?"
"As sisters personal sacrifice is required of us. Daeymah understood. We need his attention focused while we attend to our true program."
"You mean…the Kwisatz Haderach?"
"On a distant planet, a cult prophesizes the appearance of two musical messiahs on a paradise world. This cult believes a boy of a near-extinct race may be one of these messiahs. A boy named Makara. From our reports, he has the makings of the Kwisatz Haderach, or the potential to produce one. However, his actual location is on one of twelve possible planets, our sources aren't entirely sure."
"But he would be in the breeding records, would he not?"
"He would were he human. However, his species may be close enough to breed with our kind. This ruse will give us enough time to secure him and another unharmed. Both are great assets to the Sisterhood."
"Another?"
"One who has kept this so-called invincible Aku's attention for so long," she stepped down the flight of stairs, "Summon Jessica. Our preparations must be made."
She bowed before going on her way, "of course, your reverence!"
Wheels within wheels, plans within plans spun once again. For millennia the great Aku has used the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood as a tool of spreading the faith of Aku across countless stars. And in turn, the Bene Gesserit twisted the faith of Aku's 'believers' towards their ultimate goal—the Kwisatz Haderach, a universal super-being. For countless centuries both master of darkness and Sisterhood has manipulated the spice mélange on the planet Arrakis, hoarding it only for themselves. Soon, soon, the Sisterhood's plans would come into motion. The spice must flow…