Chapter 4: Across the View
"Hmph. We deliver the blow to them so that they cannot attack us back… a simple feat. We launch the best thing we've got."
The sinister figure spoke, lax and carefree of his to-be possibly disastrous actions. His fur was a pure white color with black spots adorning his entire body in patches. Atop his shoulders and chest was a layer of thick silver metal, and his chest and arms were highly decorated with medals and crests strewn everywhere. His claws were refined with metal additions and had the consistency of daggers. His hair was bright silver and reflected the light nicely, flowing down past his neck. It was majestic, but all the while held a cruel air to it. He held a sneer on his face and ran a sharp claw along an old map, torn with use.
"Crenel Peak, that's where we strike. The enemy is stationed there, it should be an easy kill… we launch the bomb. I'll deliver it myself. All you need to worry about is getting it onto my ship. Our day is at hand… Venom will rue the day they chose to stand against my rule!" He pounded his fist defiantly against the wall.
His announcement was met with slightly frightened but approving cries, as the audience listened for further command.
"We attack now… ready my ship, I want to get going in five minutes." He gestured with his hand, and the audience saluted, breaking apart and started to disband as the figure left his podium.
"Who does this guy think he is…?" A smaller fox, roughly 18 and in business attire questioned. "He doesn't know what he's dealing with… this bomb is more than just a bomb… it's tampering with physics itself… beside… h-he can't..."
"Do we have a problem?" The figure tapped his foot against the ground and ran a claw up his chin, stepping up to the fox, a foot or so taller.
"Please… you can't launch that bomb! It's… I mean… you'll be killing countless people! And, and not just that! You'll destroy the… very foundation of Venom!" The fox stuttered, searching for a way to influence the ruler's mind.
"What's this mean to me? So what if Venom goes down? I don't care. I have plenty of other planets that I can occupy my time with." He spit downward and onto the fox's face, uncaring to his mysterious plea.
The smaller fox swallowed and wiped his face off, unable to force words out once again, instead grabbing onto the sinister fox's shirt. "You… you just can't!"
"How… dare you lay a hand on me?" He ran a swift hand upward, catching the smaller fox by the chin, hoisting him into the air and staring hard into his eyes. Suddenly, a female fox rushed from the audience.
"Wait…! Leave him alone! You don't understand! My family's out there! His family! He's my brother…"
The sinister fox blinked a single time and halted, waiting for his own response.
"So… you're saying I should give up my operation? Give up my control to save a family or two? Not to mention that this makes you the enemy… you're saying that I should just abandon everything I'm doing because it would hurt the two of you? Funny."
The female fox stepped back and bumped into a member of the silent audience, starting to tremble under the watchful gray eyes of the sadistic ruler.
"Y-yes… sir… please… there's no need to kill any… um… i-innocents…"
The white furred fox ruler scoffed and managed a smile, deciding to humor the girl in his own sick way. "Innocents?" He looked back into the eyes of the girl's brother, who was starting to tear and run short of breath from his suspension from the floor. "Innocents… killing innocents is nothing. Perhaps you need to be enlightened… and adjusted… I kill innocents every day. And it doesn't matter who they are… or… for what purpose they exist."
He snapped the fox's neck swiftly and threw his limp body down to the little vixen, who was rendered speechless as her eyes welled up with tears at the sight of her dead brother.
"You're next, girl… get out while you can. I'll bomb who I want… when I want… and with what I want. Do the rest of you understand…?"
The crowd was hushed and gave forth small nods among barely audible murmurs of agreement. The sinister fox beamed and walked off to his ship to await his mission. A half hour later, they arrived at their destination, the white fox lost in thought.
"There it is, sir. Shall I ready the bomb?" The troop in his cockpit asked.
"… Yes. Let's obliterate these fools."
The sinister fox flew over the mountain of Crenel Peak and stared down upon the small dots of creatures below.
"The vortex bomb… knowledge is power, and with the greatest minds of any world under my control… I can't be any more powerful. Brute force is strong, but technology is stronger… but what of those who have both? What of… myself?"
He grinned and dropped the bomb, and an instant crack in the dimensional fabric was created with a large boom. Afterward, a seemingly infinite flow of white energy blasted out, completely annihilating all signs of life below on the bleak mountainside. It was beautiful to his eyes, clearly shown as the white light reflected off them in the form of a dark and power-hungry look. He slowed down his speed to a near stop and watched, entranced by his own killing and the mesmerizing glow, much like the waving blaze of a fire.
"S-sir…? I think something's wrong…" The troop pointed to the gauges in the cockpit, the majority of which were blaring and flashing. Alarms began to sound.
"What's happening? What did you do?" He began to flick and poke at the gauges, all of which indicated incredible signs of pressure and magnetism. All at once, all forms of navigation and movements systems failed. "This… can't be possible… what could possibly have the force to…?" His half-asked question was immediately answered with a downward stare to the exploded bomb, a black and crystalloid vacuum created.
He shook his head as the ship was forced inward, beginning to cave on itself.
"This was… my own doing… technology…" He forced open the door and jumped out, being pulled harder by the vortex's mighty and otherworldly grip. His escape was narrow, as he looked back and witnessed his ship crash into the ground and cave in on itself in a small explosion, quickly cut off as the fire was sucked into the black portal.
"Guess there's no way out of this one… wherever destiny is to lead me… go on. Lead." He closed his eyes and jumped forward, into the vortex. Immediately, his body began to ache and burn as he felt wisps of fire singe his arms and eyes. He closed them tighter and started to burn worse suddenly, the feeling of speed rushing through his body in painful volumes. He felt himself grow more and more tired as the miserable experience progressed until he blacked out and his body fell slack, pulled yet still by the fields of crystalloid darkness around him.