Chapter 9: I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.
Just as the C.O.O.L.B.U.S. was about to crash into Flagship, Numbah 2 pulled the aircraft up, just barely skimming the the top of the control tower, knocking down an antenna in the process. Just as the vehicle reached the top of its arc, five drill tipped, human sized pods shot out the underside and smashed through the armored hull, barreling down into the ship. The C.O.O.L.B.U.S. was quickly torn apart by flak fire.
As Sector V climbed out of their pods, they noticed they were in a storage bay. Also that every alarm on the ship seemed to be going off in response to their "entrance."
"Guess that rules out stealth as an option." Numbah 5 commented.
"All the better! Been way too long since I've had a good fight!" Numbah 4 replies brashly.
"Oh you'll get you fight all right," came a snarky British voice, "and then some!"
The entire team looked in the direction of the noise, to find that their old enemy Stewie had returned. Standing with him are Brainfreezer, Mushi, Bling Bling Boy, and Kyle. "By the way, your entrance was about as stealthy as Solid Snake without a box."
We now cut away to a scene of the previously mentioned special agent and Super Smash Brothers fighter sliding along the floor of a military base, sans his trademark cardboard box. Two nearby terrorist look on in confusion.
"...Is he being serious right now?"
"Destroy them!" Stewie commanded, "oh, and bring me the goggles off the chubby one. I'll look nice in those." he added in a rather calm tone while drawing his cartoonish laser gun and firing away at Sector V.
"Kids Next Door! Battlestations!" Numbah 1 commands, and his teams leaps into battle. All of them jump and dodge to aviod the oncoming lasers while the other four villains rush forward to attack.
"Hey tubby, chill out!" Brainfreezer taunts while unleashing a wave of cold from his hand cannon towards Numbah 2, causing formations of ice to form around the pilot, who is just barely avoiding being flash frozen. A beam of cold that would have frozen Hoagie's head solid frosts the bulkhead behind him as the pilot dive to the floor. Quickly drawing a 2x4 laser pistol, Numbah 2 fires back, only to miss as Brainfreezer activates his jetpack and takes to the air.
With an smug grin, Numbah 2 pulls a cord on his packback, causing a jetpack made from railroad guards and coffe makers to spring out. "And the others said a jetpack on a battleship was a dumb idea."
Across the room, Numbah 3 narrowly avoids a barrage of crayons from her evil little sister. "Mushi..." Numbah 3 spoke slowly, looking at her feet.
"What is it now, big sister?" Mushi asked back mockingly. "Is this the part where you try to convince me of the error of my ways? Try to bring me back into the light?"
Instead of the expected pleaing, however, Kuki simply looked her sister dead in the eye. Although her own retinas were filled with tears, something else was there as well.
Resolve.
"Mushi, I don't want to fight you, but you have no idea what's at stake," she spoke slowly. "If the person you're fighting for succeeds, the entire world will be destroyed! If you won't back down... I'll do what I need to."
Mushi was visibly unnerved by this sudden display of determination. "Well fine then, you big... stupid... STUPID!" She yelled with incoherant rage before attacking.
Numbah 4 was currently locked in combat with Bling Bling Boy, who was using a gold and diamond encrusted backpack with four equally blinged out mechanical arms to evade and attack.
Wally jumps back to avoid a mechanical arm, while BBB taunted him. "You should just give up, Wallabe. Your brawn is no match for my superior tactical mind!"
Another arm managed to grab Numbah 4, but he was able to slowly push the jewel encrusted clamps apart. "The only knowledge I need is that I'm going to kick your butt!" he shours back.
With Numbah 5 and Kyle, the word play was decidedly one sided. "Come on, magic boy, is that all you got?" Numbah 5 taunted after avoiding a burst of fire.
Kyle simply remained expressionless and readied another spell.
"Not much of a talker, huh?"
(KND symbol)
Meanwhile, Dib had finally reached Mexico. As he soared over the golden brown desert sands and towering mesas, he consulted his scanner in confusion. "That's weird." he muttered, "It says Numbah Infinity is dead ahead, but all I see is... a... cloud."
His speech became less coherant as his aircraft entered the cloud, which appeared to be gently floating along from the outside. Once the outer layer was breached, however, it can be seen that the cloud is actually being generated by a giant 2x4 flying saucer! Whispy tendrils of cloud gently wafted from open holes as the ship moved with the artifical cloud.
Dib was amazed by the aircraft, but managed to remain focused on flying his own plane. While searching for a way onboard, the KND operative/paranormal investigator notices a landing bay sliding its doors open. Suspicous but unaware of any other options, Dib commenced docking.
Somewhere onboard, Numbah Infinity answears his communicator. "The investigator has arrived." a low, gravelly, gutteral voice informs. "Should we destroy him?"
"No. This boy has endured great suffering in his quest for the truth. Any efforts to stop him will only polarize him against our cause." Numbah Infinity replied. "Clear a path to my location, and do not let him see anyone. I will deal with him personally." Infinity then ended transmission.
"The Dib-stink is coming here!" A familiar voice exclaimed from across the room. "I must destroy him!"
"I like rubber piggies!" exclaimed G.I.R. from somewhere offscreen.
"Silence!" Zim exclaimed back It could also be seen that he has a large metal collar with a blinking red light attached to his neck.
"The only thing you 'must' do is keep working on that machine." Numbah Infinity replied cooly. "After all, you don't want someone else taking over your planet, do you?"
(KND symbol)
Back onboard Mandark's Flagship, the battle rages on. Stewie has Numbah 1 pinned down with his laser, Brainfreezer and Numbah 2 are shooting it out in the air, Numbah 3 and her sister are engaged in a G-rated knife fight, Numbah 4 is batting away Bling Bling Boy's mechanical arms, and Numbah 5 has narrowly avoided a thorn riddled rose bush summoned by Kyle.
Up in the air, Numbah 2 has finally outflown Brainfreezer and hit his jetpack with a solid blow from his S.P.L.A.N.K.E.R., sending the ice themed villain plunging to the ground. After slamming into the deck, Brainfreezer sees and opprotunity and raises his weapon, flash freezing Numbah 3's feet to the floor. "Mushi, now!" he yells just before Numbah 2 lands on his back.
"Okie Dokey!" responds Mushi, as she hurls the crayon clasped in her hand towards her sister's head.
Numbah 4 sees this unfold in slow motion. Acting completly on instinct, he spins around so he faces the magical thornbush, snaps a rose off (cutting his hand in the process) and hurls it into the path the crayon. The two collide in mid-flight, causing both to fall harmlessly to the floor.
However, this heroic move left Wally open. Bling Bling Boy threw a mechanical arm forward, shoving Numbah 4 into the magical rose bush, rersulting in him being lacerated all over his body.
Allthough this did have the desired affect on Numbah 4, it backfired massively by making Numbah 3 very, very, angry.
"WALLY!" she yelled, both with concern and fury. This, of course, caused fire to leap from the ground around her and her eyes to become ablaze. The heat was so intense that it melted the ice freezing her to the floor, and reduced Mushi's crayons to wax,
"uh... I'm gonna go now." Mushi stated timidly as she ran away.
Everyone watched in shock/horror as Numbah 3 demolished the rose bush, trying to reach Numbah 4. Numbah 5 took advantage of the lull in the fighting, and managed to snap Kyle's wand in half with a karate chop.
"Ha! What now magic boy?" Numbah 5 asked.
Kyle, wordlessly, simply looked down at his broken wand, then checked his watch, then smiled. "Human, it matters not what you do from this moment on, for our return has been assured. Soon, the final barricade will fall, the Time Lock shall be opened, and a dark and endless night will cover the Earth." He spoke these words in voice too deep for someone his age as his eyes held a sinister golden glow. "Savor your remaining hours of freedom."
Then, as quickly as it had came, the demonic possesion released control over Kyle, causing him to slump to the floor.
Everyone, save Numbah 3, who had just pulled Numbah 4 out of the thorns, stared in confusion. Then, the pause was broken by the shrill voice of the ship's computer.
"Warning, warning. A nuclear charge has released from depth charge chute three. It will detonate against the sea floor in approximately six minutes. Reccomended course of action: Full retreat. Have a nice day.
Naturally, everybody freaked out. Up on the bridge, Mandark is trying to figure out what caused this, unaware that the entity controlling Kyle is responsible. "How could this be? Technical malfunction? Mutiny?" Mandark asked, increasingly disturbed. "Nothing is supposed to happen on this ship without MY order!" He then pinched the bridge of his nose. "Alright, alright, I can make this work. Full retreat! We'll let the KND think they've won, then they'll be destroyed in the blast." He then proceeded to utter his signature laugh, which was starting to sound more and more manical.
Back with Sector V, who were now alone in the lower deck after all the villains had rushed for the lifeboats, Numbah 1 was speaking with Numbah 362 over his communicator. "Yes, I said nuke! If we don't withdraw now, the entire fleet will be destroyed!"
"Understood Numbah 1. Over and out." the Soopreme Leader ordered.
"Ma'm, sonar has confirmed the warhead's existence. We have also determined that only 5% of the navy will be able to reach a safe distence in time, ma'm!" an operative informed her.
"Then order all remaining aircraft to grab as many operatives as they can carry and fly to safety!" Numbah 362 replied.
"Ma'm, that still won't be enough. We just don't have the time..." another operartive piped up, but he was suddenly cut off by radio static.
"Excuse me? This is Dexter, boy genius speaking. If I can manuver my submersible craft close enough to the explosive, I may be able to disarm it, or at least give us some time." The genius declared.
"Good thinking Dexter!" Numbah 362 replied. "Hurry, and good luck!"
"I do not need luck, for I have SCIENCE!" Dexter declared before ending communications. "Full speed downward! Dive, dive, dive!"
Back with Sector V, Numbah 1 has just turned off his own communicator. "Alright team, an aircraft will pick us up in two minutes. Let's move!"
"No! We can't risk moving Wally, he's too injured!" Numbah 3 replied, tears slowly forming in her eyes. "Wally, I figured it out, just now. That was you at the museum. Why did you wear that disguise?"
"I... didn't want... anyone... to know... I was at... the dorky museum." Numbah 4 replied inbetween gasping for air.
Numbah 3 faintly smiled at this. "That's my Wally." she muttered quietly as a tear slid down her face.
Then, a miracle occured.
Just before the tear fell from her face, Kuki's whole body began to shine with a brilliant light, and she suddenly transformed into the same costume she had gained when the Rainbow Wand touched her forehead.
Then, the tear fell, landing directly on one of Wally's many wounds. An inner light began to shine, and his wounds slowly began to heal...
Back under the sea, Dexter's submarine has moved alongside the falling nuke. Setting the ship to auto-pilot, Dexter takes control of a pair of robot arms protruding from the side of the ship, and sets to work carefully disarming the bomb.
Sweat slides down his face as Dexter moes his fingers with the carefull precision of a surgon, aware that one false twitch would spell doom. One could hear a pin drop.
However, it was not a sound, but a sight, that sabotaged this endevour. As the sub and the bomb sunk deeper and deeper, Dexter saw something out of the corner of his eye. He saw something that absolutely boggled his mind and caused him to question his understanding of science.
Just below him, sprawled across the bottom of the sea, was a city. A sprawling, majestic city, with streets and buildings and everything a city should have. Dexter could even see faint specks of people moving through the streets. All of this deep below the ocean surface. A sign just barely within his peripheral vision read the words, "Bikini Bottom."
Unfortunatly, this distraction caused Dexter to stop operating the robot arms, causing him to drop the bomb. "NO!" he screamed as the explosive tumbled towards this strange underwater city. "Quickly, we must leave the area! There is no time for a second chance!"
Back on the surface, Numbah 362 and Numbah 86 are boarding an escape craft when the Soopreme Leaders communicator activates. "Evacuate, evacuate!" Dexter yells frantically. "The bomb is going to detonate! Repeat, the bomb will detonate!"
"You heard the boy, double time!" Numbah 362 shouted, causing everyone to move twice as quick.
Back with Sector V, the magical tear has mysteriously healed Numbah 4. There is no time ponder this miracle, however, as their ride has arrived. The aircraft joined the swarm of ships that fled from the blast zone, racing against the clock to reach safety.
Below the ocean surface, life continued as normal in Bikini Bottom. A yellow sponge was joyfully frolicking in a field of jellyfish, while a pink starfish basked in the ocean sun atop his rock. The sound of clarinet music gently floats through the water as a suited up squirrel practices karate and a bright red crab counts his money.
In the bustling streets of the city, a single fish looks up from his business to see a faint speck descend from the sky before vanishing across the horizon.
Then, everything ended.
The bright light came first, bursting with the radiance of a thousand suns. The eyes of those close to the blast were burned out of their sockets. Then came the heat, the scorching heat, that boiled the very water the peaceful sea creatures were surronded by. It reduced their homes to ashes. Them came the noise, a powerful crash of thundering destruction, as if King Neptune himself had sought to purge his realm of his mortal creations with a mighty storm. Finally, the shockwave hit, flattening everying in its path and sending a great pillar of water into the sky, disintegrating the hulls of the now empty battleships on the surface.
All this inbetween the tick of a second.
The KND then saw a great beast rise from the sea. It roared with the prideful language of man, the one creature proud enough to claim control over the forces of the universe. Upon its head sat a mushroom cloud crown, and beneath its feet sat the barren remains of a thriving, life filled community, now a graveyard.
Then, all that was left was the silence. The horrible, piercing silence.
A great distence away, a madman awakens from his sleep. The drumming is louder then ever. Just then, a messanger enters the room. "Master Cartman, we've arrived in Miricle City."
He replied with a single word.
"Attack."
A/N: Things really are getting serious. Hey, I gave this fic a T rating for a reason. Why did the Demon posses Kyle, and why did it destroy Bikini Bottom? What will happen in Miricle City? Will Dib learn the truth? Can good prevail? Find out next time!
Oh, and for those of you offended by the quasi religous tones of this chapter, I apologise. I did it to make the whole thing seem more epic, not preach a specific message, and I do not endorse or condone one system of belief over the other. Be yourself, yo!
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