[Young Justice: Doom & Rebirth]
by Spaceman
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I do not own Young Justice or any of the related characters. The Young Justice series is by Brandon Vietti and Greg Weisman and owned by DC Comics. This story is a work of fanfiction and is for entertainment only. I am not making profit from this story. All rights of Young Justice belong to DC Comics. All other characters other an OCs beyond to their respective creators and owners. This is a fanfiction for non-profit entertainment.
Notes:
Entering the final chapters. Chapters average over 10K to over 20K words, but the Final Chapter (Chapter 46) is a two-parter and Chunky – over 78K plus a Bonus from NewMystery356.
Thanks to my readers for their support and BIG Thanks to my friend – NewMystery356.
Check out his stories (especially the ones I helped with)
Another Hero Academia: Out of Time (MHA x Ratchet & Clank)
Chronicles of Zhu series (Legend of Korra)
So, I'm All for One, So What? (MHA)
Young Justice: The Hunter (YJ Multi-Crossover)
Vigorous Vitality (MHA with many cameos)
Giant Slayer series (RWBY)
An Argoan's Arc (Justice League Unlimited)
The Traveler & The Trooper (Star Wars)
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*DOOM*
Chapter 42 – Ashen Wings and Dark Claws
*DOOM*
"42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything,"
I stand on the battlefield looking down at my prey surrounded by many other fallen enemies. My allies – the Cog Pro-Heroes – also look at their defeated foes with disgust and loathing. Today, we fought together to destroy evil and today we have won against evil.
Most of the Pro-Heroes showed more ruthlessness against these foes than against any other living foe, treating them like robotic opponents or the undead. The battlefield is covered in dismembered and burnt bodies, some are even frozen and shattered. My beloved Jade has even sent a small squad of Kijin Kahn which have torn apart, and some cases devoured the enemies.
"Clowns."
Our enemies resemble the physical comedic entertainers both loved and feared by a good portion of humanity. They have flexible bodies with crazy eyes, pure white skin, and weird hair that is every color of the rainbow. They are dressed in elastic billowing clothing. While most clowns are harmless, pop culture has created the concept of the killer clowns, murderous beings of insanity. Real life examples like the American serial killer John Wayne Gacy and the supervillain Joker have given justification to some of those fears.
What separates these creatures from human entertainers are the mouths of sharp teeth and their ability to stretch their bodies like elastic rubber. These are the Clowns of Circus of Fear – a supernatural threat that appeared in a small town in Maine, America. Thankfully, the clowns weren't led by Pennywise from Steven King's It.
"What are these things? Killer Clowns from Outer Space?" says a police officer as he and others walk onto the field now that the fight is over.
"Close" I say, reverting from my more monstrous self into my more human self. "According to the Boss man, the Circus of Fear originally came from a messed up magical girl world."
"Magical girls? Like Sailor Moon and Mew Mew Power?" asks the police officer. When his comrades give him a weird look, he quickly adds "I have three daughters and four nieces. Don't judge me."
"I prefer the Magic Girl Warriors like Lyrical Nanoha and Symphogear" I reply, almost daring the cops to make fun of My Anime choices, "In of Circus of Fear world, the magical girl was losing, but then All of the Magical Girls came together and unionized."
"I guess they ran away and ended up here?"
"Those that survived."
I don't mention that being hit with rainbow sparks and crumbling to dust is apparently Extremely Painful. According to Doctor Genus, those clowns that escaped that parallel world with injuries caused by the magic sparkles, went insane from the pain and killed themselves.
I notice some late arrivals, the original members of Young Justice.
"What took you guys? We've been at this for an hour."
"Sorry, Ash. These bozos disrupted the teleporters and communicators." says Connor. The half-Kryptonian half-human clone of Superman is dressed in a combat suit instead of just a black Super T-shirt. It's a Cog suit that offers a lot of protection, but also has "no cape."
"They also sent groups to different parts of the world to cause as much mayhem and destruction." says Nightwing, currently dressed in the most current and advanced Nightwing suit, "It's possible they were trying to lure away your extermination squad."
"Like that would work." I say holding up a clown by its spine, imitating fatalities from Mortal Kombat, "We always rip problems out by the roots. There are plenty of lower rank heroes to save the civilians, while we got rid of the main problem."
"I hope you're not calling us lower rank?" says Kid Flash, looking more like the Flash in his new armored speed suit. It even has a retractable clear mask for the mouth to protect against gas, projectiles, and punches, the latter being very important considering how "punch able" Kid Flash's face is.
"Cog Heroes are separate from League Heroes, so we would be Rank-less." says Aquaman Kaldur, having taken over the duties of the semi-retired Aquaman Orin. "Are we sure the clowns have been eliminated, Ash Grey?"
"I burnt the last tree and Doctor Genus' scans confirmed there are no seeds on the planet."
"Tree?" says Miss Martian in the form she possessed in her 2020 tv Season. Instead of a teenage Marie Logan from Hello, Megan! (1979-1980) with green skin, she looks like an older version with alien white skin, amber eyes, and shoulder-length red hair. Her clothing is still shape-shifting organo-tech from Mars, but Cog scientists gave it an upgrade making it far more resistant to heat and flame. Her clothing could swim through molten rock and not be damaged.
"These magical clowns are spawned from a twisted magical tree." I explain as I hold up a piece of a Clown, which is dissolving into milky white goo resembling a mixture of paint and latex, "Some crazy wizard created a tree that would absorb negative emotion and magic and expel little entertainers to make people feel better. Then when the kingdom fell, the plant absorbed so much magic and negative emotion that it summoned killer clowns that only cared about feeding the trees."
"Killer magical stress relief?" asks Kid Flash.
"I something like this in anime - King of Braves GaoGaiGar." I reply as I toss the white goo to the ground, "The monsters Zonders were the result of stress-relief devices, but they required hosts."
"You are such an Otaku."
"And Proud of it!"
Tigress (Artemis Crock) doesn't say anything. She used to be a female Archer apprenticed under Green Arrow, but she has matured and now takes more after her mother Paula, a former famous mercenary known as Huntress. Tigress' uniform was a predominantly burnt orange and black costume, with a hard orange mask, composed of common ballistic materials. She recently upgraded with a surge in cybernetically augmented criminals and high-tech weapons. Energy beams that would have split her in half, now only cause scorch marks.
She wishes she was somewhere else than listening to her boyfriend talk about anime with me.
*DOOM*
Cyanea lies on a modified lounge chair enjoying the sunny weather. She never thought she would experience the sun, but she never expected to meet Ash Grey. Thousands of years ago, she was a priestess of a clan of gargoyles that protected Atlantis. She gave her life to protect the heart of Atlantis and became a statue for what she believed would be forever. Instead, she awoke in New York on the top of a castle above the clouds. She fought against her old foe who had allied himself with a traitor of the Wyvern clan. Instead of returning to Atlantis as the last Gargoyle of the clan, she travelled to Ash's home world. Due to a combination of science and magic, she has experienced things unimaginable.
A she-gargoyle able to go sunbathing during the day is one of those unimaginable things. Another thing is she is doing so next to an extraterrestrial woman who's doing the same.
Quarian Machinist Tali'Zorah nar Rayya could never imagine sunbathing on any world not her people's home planet of Rannoch. She spent her life with the other quarians wandering the galaxy in a flotilla of salvaged ships, secondhand vessels, and recycled technology. She thought the peak of strangness in her life would be meeting and helping Commander Shepard.
Then she was kidnapped by unethical scientists in another dimension and rescued by a man whose technology is so advance it might as well be magic. She awoke to the chaos of escaped prisoners and watched Rorschach transform before her eyes into other species, including her own, but immune to the pathogens that forced her people to wear protective envirosuits. He cared for her, gave her the ability to cast off her suit and let her explore technology and the world. In return, she fell in love with him and became one of his lovers. Not a single day could be considered "boring".
"So, how's Cognito's conquest of the world going?" says Cyanea.
"Ahead of schedule; as always~" Tali replied with a smile.
It's an old joke. Cognito Inc has expanded into all businesses across the world and their level of influence and power is unmatched. Businesses that are allied with Cog are strong, businesses that are neutral are struggling, and enemies fall faster than meteorites. Many of the world's governments won't make a move without Cog's approval because they know Doctor Genus is the smartest man no matter the situation. Even the great superpower the United States treats Cog as it's equal, which is shocking since the arrogant young nation believes they led the free world.
Cyanea looks at a nearby beach to see dozens of people walking around nude. She has never had a problem with nudism, especially since she predates the "Spell of Humanity" in 10 AD. She notices there is a variety of visitors to the beach including many techno-organic and cybernetic people.
The Technoformars – the techno-organic hybrids of cybertronian transformer and human – look completely human beyond a few metallic attachments, glowing eyes, and the occasional odd hair color. They can transform back and forth from their human forms to vaguely-insect-themed armored forms. Even in human form, they are strong technopaths which is why they can access their phones and music players without touching them or speaking a word.
Since Brainiac's invasion, there are nearly a million people with the ability to transform into heavily armored alien warriors, but in human form the only indication is a marking like a tattoo on their backs shaped like a Reach Scarab. Cognito made suppressors for those that didn't want to get involved in combat, allowing them to use armor and flight, but disarming their weapons. Those that wanted to fight joined the police, militaries, and Cognito. The latter has the most firepower as Brainiac found out before his ships were turned into plasma.
These groups led to a surge in transhumanism - a philosophical and intellectual movement which advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies that can greatly enhance longevity and cognition. To compete in a world flooded with increasing numbers of metahumans, extraterrestrials, and even extradimensional entities, many people have resorted to Cyberware. Even though cybernetic prosthetics were originally developed for practical and medical purposes, they are quickly becoming a matter of lifestyle choice.
Tali winces when she notices how young some of the newly augmented are. She can even hear them calling the life-changing implants "Chrome", like another fad. Her eyes then bug out seeing a woman with watermelon-size breasts. Breasts so large and impossible, she must also have a reinforced artificial spine.
"Cog is smart enough to realize banning would be pointless, so they regulate the tech, and governments like the United States, Japan, China, and the European Union were quick to follow," Tali hummed as she got over her shock. "Mundane humans are quickly disappearing from this world. Superpowers, cybernetics, magic, genetic enhancement, cloning, and everything else are becoming the new 'normal'."
"You need to be more positive. Doctor Genus knows what he is doing." says Cyanea, drinking a fruity drink, "Did you hear about Link and the Princesses?"
"What?"
"One of the kids got loose and broke every pot and vase in a pottery store!"
"No way!"
"The Princesses are blaming Link. They say the child takes after him too much."
*DOOM*
Years ago, Cadmus Upsilon' dimensional exploration resulted in them acquiring the title creatures from Pokémon franchise. This acquisition included Eevee – the evolution Pokémon, a Pokémon known for its variety of elemental evolutions. Human hybrid clones were created using the extracted DNA of the Eevee resulting in a new species.
Due to years of training under Cognito Inc's care and access to near infinite resources, they have gone beyond their original limitations. They are currently being monitored by Shota Aizawa and Izuku Midoriya also known as the Pro Heroes Erasure Hero: Eraser Head and "Symbol of Hope" and "Can Do" Hero - Deku.
The first of the original evolutions is the Vaporeon hybrid. She was originally a blue-skinned woman with dark blue hair, long webbed ears, and amphibious traits like an Atlantean. In the years since Upsilon, she has gained sharp webbed quills, unique scale patterns resembling tribal markings, and her long hair has turned white. She is currently dressed in a modified Atlantean swimsuit slicing through robots in a pool.
"Pavati. The Bubble Jet Heroine. Special abilities are water manipulation, amphibious nature, water absorb, and hydration. The latter two abilities allow her to regenerate health from water attacks and rainfall, respectively. Newest ability is Water Clarity, which renders her invisible underwater."
The next is the Jolteon hybrid. A young man with spiky blonde hair and long pointed ears. When dressed in his insulated leathers, he reminds Deku of his classmate Denki also known as the Stun Gun Hero: Chargebolt. He's developed distinctive markings on his body resembling circuitry tattoos, he now wears a Speedster costume. He's currently running on a Cog treadmill designed for Speedsters as normal Treadmills would break apart.
"The Lightning Bolt Hero. Special abilities include electricity manipulation, absorbing electricity to restore health, and superhuman speed. Newest ability is Speed Surge, which allows him to channel electricity into his speed instead of his regeneration."
The Flareon hybrid is a young woman with dark skin and fluffy bone-white hair. She also has long orange-red ears and a bushy tail. She's currently dressed in a special heat-resistant costume designed for pyrokinetic metahumans. She is currently shooting fireballs at flying targets shot into the air like skeet shooting.
"The Flaring Flame Heroine. Special abilities include heat and fire manipulation, flash fire, and guts. Flash fire enables her to absorb attacks of other fire manipulators to boost her own and guts increases the power of her attacks when she is under a non-volatile status."
"Non-volatile status?"
"Burnt, Frozen, Paralyzed, or Poisoned. The analysts even theorized if you used your Erase on her, when released her power would come back with a surge." says Deku, looking at his notebook, "Newest ability is Fire Absorb, absorbing heat and flame to restore Health."
The Espeon hybrid is a young man with purple skin and short black hair. He also has long purple ears, a red gemstone on his Ajna chakra (center of forehead), and a long tail ending in a split. He's currently dressed in a matte black uniform with a polished metal helmet. He floats in the air, sitting cross legged, while various weights float around him in precise orbits.
"The Shining Mind Hero. Special abilities include numerous psychokinetic and telepathic skills. Special abilities allow him to bounce status changing effects to others or copy status problems to others. So, if he gets hit by a Quirk that weakens him, he can transfer or copy it to an opponent. Newest ability is Kinetic Reflect which allows him to reflect psychokinetic attacks including elemental attacks like pyrokinetic, hydrokinetic, electrokinetic... "
"I get it."
The Umbreon hybrid is a young African American woman with black skin and shoulder length black hair. She has long black ears with yellow stripped tips, yellow circles on her shoulders and hips, and a black tail with a yellow stripe. She is wearing a very sexy costume that shows off those markings as dive in and out of shadows of the training area like a swimmer in water.
"The Moonlight Heroine. Special abilities include shadow manipulation, shadow walk, and the ability to transfer status effects to others like her psychic counterpart. She is also immune to psychic effects. Her mind cannot be controlled, damaged, read, influenced, emulated, altered, detected or communicated to using telepathy. Her newest ability Shadow Link allows her to extend this psychic immunity to allies and remove any mental psychic effects they may be under."
"I think she took inspiration from Midnight with that outfit."
The Leafeon hybrid is a very tall, lean muscular man with yellow-green skin and verdant vegetation instead of hair. He has dark red-brown hands, green-tipped long ears resembling leaves, and long vines. He's dressed in white clothing that reminds Izuku of the vine haired Ibara Shiozaki from Class 1-B. He's currently sitting in a chair of vines, using prehensile vines and art supplies to copy a picture he's holding in his hands, working on his precise control.
" The Verdant Hero. Special abilities include plant manipulation and solar energy absorption. In sunlight, he's immune to status effects and his speed increases. His solar energy absorption has also evolved to regenerate health and is comparable to Kryptonian and Tamaranean abilities without the flying and energy discharges."
The Glaceon hybrid is a young woman with light blue skin, pointed ears, and dark blue hair with thick front lochs. She is dressed in a training uniform as her hero costume looks like something worn by professional skiers and mountaineers. She is transforming kiddie pools of fresh water into extremely detailed statues based on statues in an art book. Some of the ice sculptures are accurate down to the last eyelash.
"The Fresh Snow Heroine. Special abilities include the ability to manipulate ice and snow, which also includes cloaking oneself and regaining health in snowy weather. The theory is she can absorb heat from her environment to replenish her health. The newest ability is Ice Shell, she can generate a layer of energy-absorbing ice to protect against bludgeoning and solid projectiles."
The last of the original Pokémon Eeveelution Hybrids is the Sylveon Hybrid. A woman that looks like she is Pro-Hero sponsor of Cancer Awareness. A very cute girl with shining blue eyes, light skin, short pink hair, long pink ears, pink hands, and a dark pink tail. She also has blue-tipped white-and-pink ribbons extending from her hair and neck. She is currently dressed in hero costume which makes her look like a cross between a magical girl and Japanese idol.
"Intertwining Fairy Heart Heroine. Her abilities are mostly Magic combined with her ribbon-like feelers. She can use the feelers to detect vibrations and changes in the environment and can be used to detect magic and other metaphysical energies. The ribbons can also be used to bind targets much like your Capture Weapon."
The Sylveon hybrid is floating in the air holding a training dummy by her ribbons.
"She can also charm male opponents making them unable to attack her and can add magic to her attacks. Her latest ability is Cleansing Grip, which enables her to remove foreign forces from anything caught by her ribbon feelers. This includes physical objects, sicknesses, parasitic beings, superpowers, supernatural effects, toxins, magic, curses, etc. Essentially anything that isn't part of the fully functional, unmodified biological physical structure can be removed, cancelled and nullified, including the effects they caused." says Deku, as he begins mumbling about how this ability could negate the effects of certain Quirks back in their world.
"Are you sure you're not charmed?"
"Ah! No! Only Ochako can charm me!" Deku said nervously.
Ochako Uraraka - Gravity Hero: Uravity – and Deku became a couple a long time ago and most of MHA group thought "Finally!". The two had been circling each other since she saved him from a nasty fall, and he saved her from a skyscraper-size giant robot. Since coming to this world, they have gotten very close. The only hiccup in their relationship when a bit of magic caused the couple to have a threesome with blood fetishist former villainess Himiko Toga. The couple experienced Himiko's kinkiness and Himiko found out Deku can use Full Cowling outside of physical combat.
The next group are Extra Types created by a different Cadmus lab using Upsilon's genetic data. These four are not part of the right known evolutions of Eevee known as Eeveelution - Sylveon, Umbreon, Espeon, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Leafeon and Glaceon. Due to them being far more aggressive than the "originals", they are sometimes called "Dark Eeveevolution" like the dark/corrupted evolutions of Digimon.
The first is a Rock/Ground evolution of Eevee given the name Petreon after Petros (Greek for Stone, Rock). She is a tall, Amazonian woman with large hands and dark brown skin with bright gold-yellow markings resembling cracks. She has thick gray hair resembling dreadlocks reaching her waist with those same gold markings. She also has long black-tipped gray pointed ears, thick gray claws, gray stones scales on parts of her body, and large golden-veined gray spikes coming out of her back. She is currently dressed in a Miner themed costume.
As she moves her body, the various earthen materials like stone, sand, and earth gather around her into a large mass. The mass then changes shape into a humanoid resembling a Golem. The golem armored heroine then picks up some extremely large weights.
"The Stone Mountain Heroine. She can manipulate the Earth and stone around her and has high defense. She also gains a boost in her abilities if she is surrounded by earth, sand, or stone. Her newest ability is gathering stone around herself to create stone armor that boosts both offense and defense."
The second is a Poison evolution of Eevee given the name Toxieon after Toxon "bow" a reference to poisoned arrows and root of the word toxic. She is a short and very curvaceous hybrid with Tyrian purple skin with dark markings. She has a mane of spiky black hair with black tips, sharp black nails, sharp black spines running down her arms, and prominent fangs. She even has large pointed purple ears and a long tail ending in turf of sharp black spines. Her most interesting trait is her fluorescent radium green eyes with their black sclera. She is dressed in dark clothing with a hood, making her look like she stepped out of a Cyberpunk crossover with Assassin's Creed.
As she trains, she fires arrows like archery heroes like Green Arrow and Hawkeye. Her arrows never miss her targets and they each have a misty purple glow indicating poison effect tipped.
"The Poison Arrow Heroine. She can manipulate various poisons in various forms including claws, fangs, liquid emissions, gas emissions, and inside flying spikes. She can heal by absorbing Poison, protect allies from being poisoned, and poisons an enemy if she is injured by them. She is developing a Corrosion ability that will let her damage beings normally immune to poison."
The third is a Dragon evolution of Eevee given the name Draceon from the Greek work Dracon (Serpent, Dragon). He's a tall, lean, and densely muscular male with gold eyes (with black sclera) and dark green scales that look like a mixture of alligator and alligator gar scales. He has a mane of feathery black hair, sharp teeth, dark claws, sharp spines going down to the tip of a muscular reptilian tail, and prominent horns. He also has wings despite not being classified as a Flying type. He's dressed in combat mesh with very little armor, due to his own body's durability
He's training against robots – taking out ones marked as criminals and protecting the ones marked civilians. He's durable enough to ignore projectiles and strong enough to rip the robotic villains apart like wet tissue paper.
"The Unbreakable Dragon. A physically powerful and durable hero, with abilities centered around those abilities. He even has abilities that power up his dragon moves, strengthens allies, and powers up attacks against elements he is weak against. Instead of gaining a new ability, he's been learning martial arts and meditation to focus his dragon power."
The fourth and final of Extra Types is a Steel evolution of Eevee given the name Chalyeon after the Latin word Chalybs (steel, steelwork). He's a tall, lean muscular male with more feline features. His entire body appears to be made of living metal giving it a mechanical look. He has steel gray skin with a lion-like mane of gunmetal grey metallic hair. He also has very sharp pointed ears, a tail that resembles a length of cable ending in metallic spines, sharp metal teeth, and sharp metal claws. He's dressed in a black bodysuit that changes to accommodate the wearer.
He stands perfectly still; his only movement being controlled breathing. A blue-white aura slowly appears around him. The aura grows like fire before the majority flows into his right arm. He makes a clawing motion, while yelling "Aura Claw!" and giant translucent claws made of aura shoot from arm and slash the target – a thick wall of reinforced concrete – to pieces.
"The Great Steel Lion Hero. He has a body of metal and the strength to match. His abilities power up his steel-based moves, strengthen his abilities when surrounded by sand or stone, and his attack power increases when exposed to fire rendering him immune to heat and flame. He has also recently fully unlocked his Aura, allowing him to create new attacks."
Due to Cadmus' inferior genetic tinkering, the Extra Types are not perfect. They had a multitude of health problems before Cog acquired them and was able to treat them with nanomedicine. Doctor Genus was able to repair all the damage and mistakes in their genetic code, which was easier than when he had to save Priss and Max from metaphysical death when the Daemonites were made extinct.
One of the most serious problems was blindness for all four. While Poison Arrow and Unbreakable Dragon got medical implants to see, the other two found other solutions. Stone Mountain learned to sense vibrations much like Toph Beifong (the legendary Earth bender of the Avatar franchise), even sensing earth not attached to the ground. The Great Steel Lion can sense both metals and aura, using magnetic and auric fields, respectively. As a result, normal stealth and concealment techniques are ineffective on the two.
BOOM!
The Pokémon Hybrids and their My Hero Academia observers pause and turn at the explosion. They look at each other and say as one "Misfits."
*DOOM*
Another Part of the Academy
The Misfits and X-Men from an alternate version of Redwitch's Misfit Chronicles are causing chaos again.
Scott Summers, the X-Men team leader known as Cyclops, pulls himself out of the spicy noodles he is lying in after the explosion. His ruby sunglasses are broken, but thankfully Cog nanomedicine fixed the brain damage that made his mutant ability out of control. So, instead of worrying about mountain-destroying force beams shooting out of his eyes, he's more worried about the spices getting into his eyes.
Jean Summers (nee Grey), the X-Men powerhouse known as Phoenix is more worried about her children than her husband being covered in a pot worth of Korean noodles. Jean is a mutant possessing both telepathy and psychokinesis, but those powers are amplified to absurd levels by the power of a cosmic entity of death and rebirth – The Phoenix Force. Even as small children, Nate and Rachel can use their own telekinesis to get into trouble. Rachel - "the phoenix chick" - even melted a (non-Cog) EEG while she was still in the womb!
She does toss a fireball at Cyclops, that heals his minor injuries instead of causing them. A Misfit accident resulted in Jean gaining even more phoenix powers from the world of One Piece. AT least she can generate immense amounts of healing flames that can energize heroes, heal civilians, and purify armies of demons and undead (which has happened three times!).
Todd Tolensky and Althea Tolensky (nee Delgado) are looking a little sheepish at the mess. Todd is the amphibious reformed villain and hero known as Toad, while his wife is the water-manipulating ninja master known as Wavedancer.
Todd and Althea's children have inherited a combination of amphibious traits and they all have very strong water manipulating abilities. Toad and Althea have the two halves of the Destiny Stone (a counterpart to the cosmic Phoenix Force). It grants the two Final Fantasy style transformations, so their children being OP is not too strange.
The children currently have a babysitter in MHA Pro-Hero Tsuyu Asui, better known to the public as Rainy Season Hero: Froppy. She is called Aunt Tsu by the amphibious children, and they remind the frog-based heroine of her own siblings - Samidare and Satsuki. Froppy does looks like a more attractive female version of Toad.
"What happened?" asks a Cog technician.
"Toad." says Scott.
"I don't know." says Todd, "I just asked the Food Replicator for some Korean Noodle, but when Scott opened the machine, it exploded all over him."
"Is that all you did?" asks Scott.
"Calm down, Summers." says the technician, "Your kids are picking up on the bad vibes."
Scott takes a calming breath and uses a stress technique. After years of dealing with the Misfits and increasing weirdness, he needed to learn. He didn't want to end up as bald as Professor Xavier from the stress.
"I see the problems." says the Cog technician with the tablet, "A fried chip caused it to generate a family size amount in a single person bowl. Strangest thing. These chips have a 300-year warranty."
"Toad's troublemaking transcends reality." says Scott.
"They said the same thing about the birth control." says Toad
Althea gives her husband a small slap.
As the Technician replaces the damaged circuit board, a cleaning slime finally arrives to clean off Scott, much to his confusion and reluctance (the slime makes him ticklish).
"Did you hear what happened in Gamma town?"
Gamma town is the "unofficial" name of the Cognito run town where the majority of Hulk and Gamma mutations were sent. This is mostly due to the high levels of gamma radiation they were emitting when they first arrived in this reality. It became the place of residence for those who wanted to live peacefully, but not have their gamma mutated abilities removed. It's also the site where the various Kaiju Hybrids are also being raised, including the Godzilla Hybrid.
"Goji is officially going to become a Pro-Hero."
"An extremely radioactive kaiju hybrid is going to become a Hero?" asks Scott looking stunned.
The fictional Godzilla's history has been strange mix. In some timelines, he's the walking incarnation of the nuclear bomb born to cause humanity to suffer. In other timelines, he's the titanic protector of the world and humans are just living on his planet's surface. In other timelines, he's a full-blown superhero in giant reptilian form, complete with team-ups and flying drop kicks. Goji contains genes from one of the strongest incarnations and genes from one that succeeded in conquering the entire world.
"I don't see why not." says Froppy, "My world had Monster Hero: Godzillo who looked like Godzilla."
"Seriously." asks Scott.
The Cog Technician shows Scott his tablet. On the screen is a page from Cog-run fan wikia. It shows Godzillo from the first MHA film My Hero Academia: Two Heroes. Godzillo has the appearance of Ghido Goji, the Heisei Godzilla design from Toho's 1991 movie, Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah. His hero costume consists of a white coat with a high collar, ripped to match its tattered hem, and a pair of baggy white pants.
"He moved to America, when he believed his company was paying him unfairly. A Protest against discrimination against heteromorphic Quirks."
In a world where 80% of the population has powers, they still have discrimination. Instead of religion or skin color or sexual preference, bigots go after those without powers – the Quirk less, those with monstrous appearances and those with appearances outside of human standard - Mutant Quirks, and those with "villainous" which results in them becoming villains. Humans don't stop hating, they just shift their hate to something different.
"Cog is keeping an eye out for any discrimination groups and hate crimes. There are millions of people with elemental meta-abilities, techno-organic abilities, and those with magical and extraterrestrial blood." says the technician. "If Cog didn't have the world by the economic and financial balls, we would be seeing lynchings, death camps and wars around the world."
"Hail our corporate overlords." jokes Todd.
In the background, he can hear Cog workers saluting. A fact which makes Scott a little nervous.
*DOOM*
The cold night air of the extraterrestrial world shakes with the sounds of roars and weapon fire. The two moons and alien stars shine down on horrific monsters of the hellish world of Apokolips.
Parademons.
Parademons are tall, winged humanoids with heavily built and imposing figures. They have three digits on each hand, which are also clawed. They are clad head to toe in golden armor, with helmets that have hornlike protrusions that cover most of their heads save for the mouth, exposing their sharp teeth. Their armor has numerous glowing red highlights, including an omega at the center of the chest. There roars and screeches have been the last thing heard by thousands of races conquered by the New God of Tyranny.
Parademons were the advance forces in the armies of Apokolips, created from reformatted genetic material gleaned either from the living or dead remains of native species of thousands of worlds. In initial assaults they first snatch up every living being in sight taking them to their nearby conversion facilities, there using new god technologies the cultivation of captured victims occurs. Repurposing them into new Parademons programmed to serve and enforce the will of lord Darkseid.
They possess superhuman strength combined with sharp claws, energy projection abilities, and the ability to breathe intense fire from their sharp toothed mouths. They can fly and possess limited shapeshifting. A Parademon's avian features (wings) are razor sharp, cutting and piercing with a refined edge and even if they die, they can self-detonate into fiery explosions. What is even more dangerous is Parademons become creepier, stronger and tougher if they are attacked with darkness-based powers. Knowledge and skills, such as aviation and firearms usage, are programmed into them along with absolute loyalty to Darkseid.
A group of one thousand Parademons was acquired by the Light in return for a minor bit of technology that the Light had acquired from their cybertronian ally. Despite their impressive abilities, Darkseid considers them disposable and one thousand matters little in an army the numbers billions.
A second set of deep roars and screeches like jungle cats is heard. The new enemies of the Parademons have arrived.
Techno-Demons
Techno-Demons are immense athletic humanoids with four or five clawed fingers on each hand and digitigrade legs ending in three claws, long tails, and huge wings. Their bodies are covered in dark black/gray armor illuminated by lines of red and purple lights, which includes a mostly covered face, spikes on the elbows and knees, horns, and blades extending from some tails. Unlike the Parademons, Techno-Demons have genders divided into males and females. There is also some individualism, such as different wing designs and body structures suited for strength, speed, or flexibility.
The Parademons open fire on their opponents, but their opponents don't slow in the slightest. The solid projectiles barely penetrate most of the time, while directed energy attacks disperse into clouds of absorbed plasma making the Techno-Demons glow like St. Elmo's Fire. Even when the exotic weapon's fire manages to inflict injuries on some of them, the wounds regenerate. The Techno-Demons literally heal faster than the Parademons can inflict them.
"Super Regeneration allows them to regenerate lost limbs and even damage to the brain. Foreign Forces Removal removes anything foreign to the body, be it poison, pathogens, imbedded shrapnel, or nanomachines. It can even remove supernatural effects, magic, and curses, something that technology normally fails to remove. The bio-metal armor that covers their bodies grants energy absorption. It lessens the damage of kinetic attacks and allows them to absorb the energy into their own reserves."
Some of the Parademons release their flame breath as their enemies get close, but the Techno-Demons glide through the flames like fog. The techno-organic armor of the Techno-Demons barely looks warm despite the flames being hot enough to vaporize lead.
"It also renders them immune to heat and flame. Even the plasma flame of a Parademon."
The Techno-Demon claws easily pierce the Parademon armor and with their immense strength, the Parademons are soon screaming as they are torn apart in gruesome sprays of gore. Several Parademons attempt to attack on Techno-Demon from behind, but the TD spreads it's metal-feathered avian wings, slicing his attackers open.
"The claws possess Ionized Edge technology enabling them to pierce through any solid object by separating electrons and nuclei, especially effective against metals. The claws can inject special anti-regeneration enzymes into their prey that reverse the recovery process and worsen injuries inflicted or present. The same tech is applied to spikes and wing blades."
One Techno-Demon is glaring at a Parademon that is growling at him. The Parademons have terrorized the citizens of thousands of worlds, but the Techo-Demon finds it as scary as an angry Pomeranian. As the Parademon leaps at him, flames trailing from its mouth, the Techno-Demon releases a torrent of fire from his own mouth. What's left of the Parademon collapses to the ground.
"They also have plasma-based flame breathe to incinerate their enemies like mini dragons."
The last of Parademons are slaughtered when a group of Techno-Demons de-cloak behind them like a bunch of Yautja (Hunters). They then release a storm of energy that causes all metal including an entire Apokaliptan War Tank to dissolve into a burning purple lightning cloud that incinerates the corpses of the Parademon.
"They also have impressive defense technology which includes phase-shift cloaking technology, holographic decoy projections, and the ability to generate a plasma-based pulse that can disrupt/destroy all active electrical/electronic devices in range. They can also generate an anti-metal shockwave that turns all inorganic metal into ions."
"Impressive." says Vandal Savage – Leader and L-1 of The Light.
"Thank you." says Dr. Antoine "Anton" Sevarius.
"How is production?"
"Techno-Demons possess self-sustenance. Due to their other dimension energy sources, they don't need to eat, drink, breathe, sleep, or remove waste from their bodies. Thanks to their cleansing ability they don't even need to bathe."
"An army that doesn't need supply lines." says Vandal, "Thousands of conquests were stopped because of faulty logistics. Starving soldiers march to their doom and the cold weather can drain a person's will to fight as it drains the heat."
"Not only do Techno-Demons require virtually no support, but they can also make new members. Are you familiar with Parademonization?"
Parademons act as mobile conversion factories capable of processing and repurposing individual beings into new Parademons. In fact, the New 52 version and the DC Animated Movie version of the League Hero Cyborg was essentially a man converted into a Parademon, but kept his mind and form because additional tech was added.
Vandal Savage merely nods.
"Techno-Demons also possess the ability to convert other sentients into new Techno-Demons." says Dr. Sevarius, holding up a tablet for his boss to view.
On the screen is a live feed of an unarmored Techno-Demon, which resembles a beautiful woman with Hispanic features, red eyes, and long blue-black hair. She has the pointed ears, digitigrade feet, claws, wings, and tail of a Gargoyle female, but has five fingers on each hand and lacks the horns or brow ridges.
Strapped to a metal table is an extraterrestrial woman from a near-human species. She looks like a busty beautiful woman with dark blue eyes and long black curly hair. What separates her from a mundane human is black sclera, blue-gray skin, and tapered ears. She is dressed in what resembles 15th century Italian Renaissance clothing with different colors and patterns. Instead of a cross she has a gold necklace for her native monotheistic religion. The alien native is crying, and Vandal having been around for thousands of years can tell what she is saying even if he doesn't know her precise language. She is praying to her God to deliver her from evil and the demon that has captured her.
"Begin."
The female Techno-Demon – whose caption names "LaVonne" - sinks her fangs into the wrist of the bound woman – who Dr. Sevarius has marked as "Venus". Venus cries out, but the bleeding doesn't last long. Instead, glowing markings resembling veins and circuitry spread from the healing wound. Soon the markings cover the woman's face and cause her eyes to glow. Slowly a translucent semi-liquid is secreted from the body, covering her body and soaking the clothing. A liquid that hardens and darkens to a metallic grey.
"Parademons absorb metal and technology from their environment and your clones need constant work during maturation, but Self-sustenance means once the process has started it becomes self-sustaining without the need for outside help. The subject is gaining mass without any changes to the environment.
The metallic shell shifts and flows, until the shell is pulled away to reveal a new fully armored female Techno-Demon. The armor then retracts to reveal the emotionless Venus whose now been transformed into some form of alien x gargoyle hybrid. There are faint circuit-like markings on the sides of her face and limbs.
"What happened to her clothing?"
"Absorbed since it was caught in the cocoon."
"Why are they both nude?"
"Self-sustenance also means they don't need clothing or shelter from environmental factors. They could be in the harsh environments of their home worlds in their unarmored states and remain undamaged." says Dr. Severus with an almost maniacal grin.
"Why didn't you make them permanently armored like the Parademons instead of having the armor deployable? Why bother with genders?"
"I didn't make mindless drones, I made soldiers. Soldiers are not always in battle." says Dr. Sevarius, "They have other uses."
The screen shows incubators loaded with large, speckled Eggs.
*DOOM*
Town of Stonehaven
Texas, United States
Same Time (Night)
3POV
Stonehaven is a town named after the birthplace of its Scottish founder.
The original Stonehaven is a town on Scotland's northeast coast. After the demise of the town of Kincardine, which was gradually abandoned after the destruction of its royal castle in the Wars of Independence (1296–1328 for the First and 1332–1357 for the Second), the Scottish Parliament made Stonehaven the successor county town of Kincardineshire.
Stonehaven, Texas was a mining town, that later expanded into a farming town. Farming became more important to the town's survival when the mines became depleted. During the droughts of the twenty-first century, the rights to many of these mines were sold to developers so the farms could be saved. Those developers created botanical and agricultural research and development labs, also known as BARD Labs.
Normally, Stonehaven is more concerned with their own problems and farm work than the activities of BARD Labs. Today is literally different, because an escaped bull from a nearby farm caused one of the trucks to crash. Now farmers, scientists, drivers, and nosy kids are involved.
"I didn't realize I was speeding." says the driver, "but it was the bull that caused me to crash."
"This is precisely why we have a speed limit; because animals can be unpredictable. You speed and you put the lives of yourself and the animals in danger." says the game warden.
"What are you transporting? They look like eggs, but they're even bigger than ostrich eggs." says his partner, as he watches as the cargo is moved from the damaged truck to another truck. The cargo consists of large, speckled eggs in cylindrical incubation chambers. Some of the chambers are cracked due to the accident.
"They are eggs alright. We may not be Cognito Farms, but we can make them big." says the driver.
"We are not going to be invaded by mutant ostriches or giant chickens, are we?" says the game warden. While he doesn't have personal experience, he does know other game wardens who have encountered mutated farm animals, robotic clones of farm animals, and extraterrestrials posing as farm animals.
"No."
"Are you sure? We've had a lot of instances."
*DOOM*
Über Kühe or Uber Cows in Houston.
The Uber-Cows were a small herd of cattle that had been the subjects of illegal experiments mostly involving Venom super-steroid derivatives. The under fifty bus size bovines nearly rampaged through Houston and were only stopped by police, game wardens, and two new Heroes – Cow Lady and Black Arrow.
Cattleya "Cathy" Cole was just another beautiful and strong woman working on her parent's dairy farm until her metagene awoke during the invasion and she became a female minotaur with immense strength. She became a very tall (231 cm/7'7") and muscular woman, with massive breasts (Q-cup), with long black and white hair. Thankfully she didn't main many bovine features beyond legs, ears, horns, and a tail. She didn't get into Pro Heroic beyond getting some training after the Incident, but she is very popular in Texas.
Black Arrow was a mysterious mercenary armed with a black bow, hence the comparison between him and the Green Arrow clan. He was travelling in the area with the uber-cows appearing and he helped defeat them, before being taken away by friends for medical attention. Apparently, he stressed his body to the point he was bleeding from the eyes.
In San Antonio, city of over 1.4 million, there was an invasion of Bird Freaks. The result of feeding exclusive magical bird seed to mundane poultry, these feathery abominations broke free of their transport truck and caused problems. Many of them, mostly Chickens, were blown away by the heavily armed Texans, while the rest were taken down by the SWAT Bugs.
SWAT Bugs is the nickname of a Special Weapons and Tactics squad of the San Antonio Police Department composed completely of Scarab Warriors. The SWAT Bugs are authorized to use their techno-organic abilities against superhuman opponents, like Pro-Heroes and other specialized counter-meta military and police units.
San Antonio ended up smelling like fried chicken for a week.
In Dallas, famous city of 1.3 million, the Justice League fought against a rampaging Petrovore.
Petrovores are the name given to The Light attempt to replicate the technology of the Ocean Cleaners and similar creations of Cognito Inc. These massive eldritch-looking beasts are composed of plastic-based nanomechanical cells and feed on petroleum and Petro-chemicals to grow and reproduce. One of these creatures decimated the famous oil fields of the Middle East and reduced their relevancy to practically nothing. Without the oil and the money, it once gave them, the Middle East is no longer important to the Western countries.
A group of eco-terrorists somehow acquired a baby Petrovore intending to decimate the oil fields of America, believing that with them destroyed Cognito Inc would be free to spread their environmentally friendly super-technology. The "impatient" eco-terrorists were stopped by a (non-Cog non-League associated) Corporate Hero, who accidentally broke the chamber in Dallas.
The Petrovore was finally stopped with a Cognito technician introducing a bit of Cog nanoware via giant injector dart into the beast causing it to go inactive. The beast was decomposed, and Cog donated to various charities using its recycled remains. The eco-terrorists were arrested, but Cog lawyers arranged for them to work on colony worlds (a penal colony better than Australia). The Corporate Hero made a deal, and his original company went down in flames thanks to the Cog Lawyers.
In Austin - Live Music Capital of the World® - Cog Pro Hero El Diablo fought against the mind control Singers with the help of a Cog-sponsored band and hero team known as the Rainbooms.
The Original El Diablo was Lazarus Lane, a hero of the old west possessed by a demon. Since then, it has become a name used by several vigilantes. This includes Rafael Sandoval – city councilman of Dos Rios who became a vigilante until his forced retirement.
The current El Diablo is a former criminal - Chato Santana, a powerful pyrokinetic who thanks to Cog Inc's development plans and decimation of organized crime, became a Pro-Hero. In other timelines, his involvement with gangs would lead to him accidentally killing innocent people and he would either be executed or forced to join Amanda Waller's Suicide Squad. Thanks to Cog, he saves innocent lives as a respected hero.
The Rainbooms were a group of magical teenage girls that Rorschach and Ash rescued from Cadmus. Originally coming from a more realistic version of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, Jacklyn "Applejack" Apple, Gwenael "Rarity" Taylor, Vanessa "Fluttershy" Shy, Eliana "Sunset Shimmer" Summers, Diane "Pinkie" Pie, and Irish "Rainbow" Dash along with their manager Alba "Twilight Sparkle" Argus could have become full time Pro Heroes with their magic-induced superpowers. Instead, they pursued their own interests while occasionally working together as a girl band.
The MC Singers were a trio of young women who could control the minds of those that heard their song, but they were defeated by the El Diablo and the Rainbooms. It was a new experience for Chato, but the Rainbooms were very familiar with the scenario. They said at least this time they didn't have to summon a giant rainbow alicorn to smite the evil singers, which had Chato going to get a drug test.
The Incident in Fort Worth had Cowboys and Cowgirls against alien bovine mutants.
Many years ago, a group of extremely dangerous shape-shifting extraterrestrials landed on Earth and attempted to infiltrate the Earth. The Earth was saved by magicians who easily transformed the man-eating into docile herbivorous animals. It was easy because the aliens lacked any form of magic in their entire evolutionary history and had no resistance to it. The bovines were placed on a magician owned farm to spend the rest of their lives, but the cows didn't age normally.
After, the elderly farmer was killed in an accident. The cows were illegally killed, butchered, and sold to a bunch of idiots who had a big barbeque. The magical unstable meat infected those that ate it and turned them into hideous hybrids of human, alien, and bovine. Thankfully while possessing the great strength of a cow of similar size, the Cowboys and Cowgirls of Fort Worth took them down.
El Paso - The Sun City - is known for its delicious Tex-Mex cuisine. A Mexican supervillain – Garra de Guerra (War Claw)- crossed the border and doing to circumstances attacked a cooking competition. The villain was severely beaten by Texan chefs and was begging to be hauled away by authorities. The third-degree cheese burns and large cooking knives shoved in his ass could have been the main reasons. He's lucky he wasn't shot to pieces since the taste-testing crowd were more heavily armed than the cartel Garra used to work for.
Arlington, Texas was also hit by strange events. A genius boy that avoided going to STAR Academy constructed a 15-meter-tall propane-fueled robot for a science fair. The giant robot was impressive until a faulty circuit board caused it to go on a roaming rampage. After the boy figured out how to shut off its protective forcefield, a single bullet was enough to cause an explosive chain reaction. The authorities have been picking up fragments around Arlington for weeks. The boy was sent to STAR Academy and according to letters is doing great.
Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas. The city's name means body of Christ in Ecclesiastical Latin, in reference to the Christian sacrament of Holy Communion. The name was given to the settlement and surrounding bay by Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519, as he discovered the lush semitropical bay on the Western Christian feast day of Corpus Christi.
A drunken magician managed to get his hands on a hundred barrels of flour and created an army of magical dough boys that rampaged while sounding like stereotypical Frenchmen. Apparently, the magician had read the local history of the Flour Bluff before he got completely wasted. His "evil" plans were ruined when a bunch of fire manipulating Heroes toasted the dough into ugly bread art. As punishment the magician's wife forced him go to Cognito medical and become permanently immune to intoxication.
*DOOM*
Town of Stonehaven
2 Days Later
Late Night
3POV
David D. Davis was a normal Texan teenager. He was average height and build with brown eyes, messy brown hair, and tan skin from all the time he spent outdoors. He was an above average student in school, an average churchgoer, and an above average athlete. He had won a few awards in his life, but his only claim to fame was being the best FPS gamer in Texas according to Leaderboards and his media accounts.
A couple days ago, he was bicycling with a friend when they saw BARD Labs truck crash. They stopped, took photos with their phones, talked to the police that showed up, and tried to think of a meme for giant eggs with little success. As the broken vehicle was being towed away, he and his friend were joking around, and he ended up falling on the ground. A ground that was stained with water and goo. David rode home and took a bath, not wanting to catch something from the "mutant egg crap", but he didn't tell his parents.
He now regrets not telling his parents. He woke in the middle of the night with a fever and when he looked in the mirror, he saw his skin covered in purple markings. He was about to yell for his parents when a wave of pain overtook him, and a translucent slime spread across his body.
Hours later, he would emerge forever changed. He would emerge with fangs, claws, and pointed ears. He would also have horns, spikes, wings, digitigrade feet, and a tail. His mother would scream about a demon before he sank his fangs into her, and his father would shoot him before being bit himself. David would then go after the cute neighbor girl he had never admitted his feelings for, her sister, and their parents.
*DOOM*
Town of Stonehaven
3 Hours Later
1POV
Rorschach and I emerged from a portal to find the streets overflowing with Gargoyles. Other than Priestess Cyanea of Atlantis, I haven't seen any Gargoyles since my trip into the Whedon-verse, when I was hunting the Fragments of the Red Sky. I notice that the Gargoyles are nude and act on instinct like zombies or lesser vampires. I also notice that many of them have metallic pierces like unfinished Technoformars.
"Why do I think Sevarius is Alive?" I asked Rorschach.
"You're Genre Savvy enough to guess that a guy who fakes his death a lot could have, you know, faked his death."
A female Gargoyle attempts to attack me, screeching like a jungle cat, but I grab her by the throat. Her steel-rending claws fail to pierce gray hide and even an attempt to pierce my eyes fails.
"Looks like he mixed in a little TO Virus into the mix" I say examining the female Gargoyle. I notice her pointed ears are covered in circuitry expanding from wear an earring could have been. I can see faintly glowing markings on her skin, and she looks like she has a fever.
"Not good. The transformations are incomplete because they were supposed to be slaved into a network. Without the data to complete their transformation, their bodies are running too hot." says Rorschach, half a dozen Gargoyles at his feet bound by glowing turquoise rings. "It's best to shut them down until I can process them."
Rorschach has become very good at fixing messed up transformations, mostly due to the idiots at Cadmus.
"Damn It."
"What's Up?"
"There is some sort of otherworldly element, eldritch code. It's interfering with my attempts to shut the Gargoyles down." says Rorschach, then he pulls out a weird looking machine out of storage.
Its core is a Pentagonal trapezohedron in shape (ten faces which are congruent kites) composed of opalescent crystal covered by kite-shaped plates of black metal with white circuitry patterns. The core floats in the center of a Black Ring covered in iridescent circuitry and white veins.
"New invention?"
"An experiment into Arcanotech – Eldritch Technology. You won't believe how hard it was to make without damaging our universe. The core is like a Matryoshka Doll composed of dead micro verses with a seed of unreality. If I show anyone the mathematics for this thing, they will probably go insane." says Rorschach, "It allows me to extract a copy of the Eldritch Element in the target and create a Pill."
The white veins on the device pulsate, then a red pill is excreted by one of the veins. It's a very large blood red pill with black-and-white tips. He gives me the pill and I raise an eyebrow.
"I might have trouble with cosmic horrors, but you don't. You swallow the pill and I analyze its annihilation to give me the data I need."
I swallow the pill, wishing I had a glass of milk. In my previous life, I took pills for many years after my surgery, and I took every single one with a mouthful of milk.
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I let out a roar as purple lightning crawls across my body, then immense dragon wings emerge from my back. The immense horde of incomplete Techno-Demon stop and turn at my roar, their eyes showing something like fear.
The wings are huge with a wingspan of at least six meters. They have metallic gray ribbing and translucent membranes, but they also look obscenely sharp. I reminded both of the Paradooms – the doomsday/parademon hybrids used by Darkseid in Justice League Dark: Apokalips War and Drakath's own wings in Adventure Quest Worlds (a drop item I acquired while playing the last chapter of The Thirteen Lords of Chaos arc).
"Neo?" I say sounding like Ricky Ricardo, "Why do I have wings?"
"I'm not sure." says the nervous masked super-genius.
"Theory?" I say with as much calm as I can manage.
"When we first met in this world, you copied a dagger. Maybe those wings are classified as equipment by the TO Virus?"
"Maybe?" giving him the WTF look.
"Arcanotech is finicky." says Rorschach, "What's more important is I got the data."
"I hope I can retract these things." I whisper as he clicks holographic buttons.
The entire clan of artificial gargoyles, including ones still in cocoons carried by others and a couple recently bit humans, land around us. I see the glowing circuitry/veins on their bodies fade and their bodies relax. As the glow in their eyes flickers and fades, they collapse to the ground unconscious. Portals open and Cog's discount tachikomas (spider robots) come out to collect everyone.
"Stone Haven had a population of 6,200, but the majority were transformed. Another huge workload."
I retracted my wings back into myself along with additional horns and spikes I had but didn't notice because of the wings and surrounding chaos.
*DOOM*
Outer Heaven Lunar Base
3POV
Cyanea – Protector Priestess of Atlantis – has experienced a life that has become increasing strange. She was hatched on the Island of Atlantis many thousands of years ago. Since birth, she watched her clan protect the Atlantis and its people and she eventually became its Priestess. After many hardships, she gave her life to save Atlantis from the ambitions of a power-mad sorcerer. Then she wakes from what would be her eternal stone sleep to the modern era and her savior Ash.
After stopping the Protector Traitor and the spirit of the sorcerer, she journeyed to Ash's world. It doesn't matter what world she wakes up in, since both are completely alien to her. Ash's world is a world of costumed superheroes and villains, technology and magic so advanced they are indistinguishable from each other. A world that was once polluted and infested with crime, but which is now healing thanks to the efforts of Cognito Inc.
The smartest mammal in the universe – Doctor Genus even injected her with a substance called nanomedicine that enables her to experience what few Protectors (or Gargoyles as they are called in modern era) have in their history; the Sun. She spread herself on a private beach, soaking up the rays. The injection also removed stone sleep-in favor of regenerative abilities, removing a serious weakness as he called it. It's strange for her to wear clothing all the time, when not bathing.
She gets an alert from her Cognito communicator. A call from command.
"What is it?" she asks as she doesn't often get calls outside of a very small number of friends.
She has become close to Ash's wives, even the newcomer Nzambi. The Earth Goddess and self-proclaimed Necromancer Nzambi is even pushing her to join the harem. Part of her is very tempted and the other wives don't have any problem.
"There was an incident at Stonehaven, Texas. A truck belonging to a Cadmus front company crashed and a strain of the techno-organic virus was released. We have a bunch of new patients."
"How does this concern me?" asks the Priestess. She is familiar with the T-O Virus from her Cog Accelerated Education. It's something found in Technoformars, Transformers, and Scrabs that transforms people into hybrids of flesh and metal.
"This strain creates weaponized versions of Gargates. The town became a Clan of Techno-Gargoyles."
"I'm on my way."
*DOOM*
"Cyanea?"
Cyanea stares at my Winged Form with barely concealed lust. If I was a Shonen protagonist I would be a clueless idiot and unaware, but I'm a willing husband of six, reluctant husband of one, and father of many. My monster form's enhanced senses can also detect changes.
"Should I change back? You're very distracted." I say with a smirk.
"No. I'm fine." she says quickly, not wanting to lose her eye candy, "So, what are we doing with the Stonehaven clan?"
Around them, the transformed people of Stonehaven float in liquid-filled pods monitored by Cog medical robots. It's Doctor Genus' holographic form that answers Cyanea's question.
"They have been placed in stasis, while I restore some of their freedom. With help from Ash, I have shut down the T-O virus strain, so they can no longer convert other people into more of their kind. I can't completely extract the eldritch elements from their cells without risking destroying them completely, so instead of trying to revert them to human, I'm simply removing the control of their masters. Memories are fully restored, but there are disconnections between certain memories and emotions. Thankfully most of those memories are negative, so at least the ones suffering from PTSD are cured. Personalities are back to normal beyond the instinctual need to protect and other Gargoyle instincts mixed in. Instincts are now under control, with a couple exceptions."
"Exceptions?"
"Breeder's Moon"
Gargoyle eggs are created when a female gargoyle goes into heat and mates with a male gargoyle on or near the Autumn Equinox every twenty years, those ending in '7' (e.g., 927, 947, 967, 987, etc.). This time is often called the Breeder's Moon. It's 2018, so if they follow normal Gargate cycles they have until 2027 for the next Breeder's Moon.
"Breeder's Moon will force them to seek out and mate, but due to their hybrid genetics they can breed outside the moon. In fact, due to the regeneration speeding up the process, a normal 6-month pregnancy for a normal Gargoyle is reduced to 3.5 days and the eggs themselves only 10 weeks (about 2 and a half months) to hatch instead of ten years."
"52."
"What?" asks Cyanea, a little stunned at the prolific artificial gargoyles, "What about 52?"
"In this world, 52 pops up a lot. Connor's maturation was accelerated by Cadmus so years took weeks, which means 52-fold increase. The number shows up in their projects." I say to the beautiful Gargoyle Priestess, not mentioning the possible connection to the New 52.
"The armor and weapons will be unavailable until they have gotten some training. They may be from Texas, but I doubt they have access to directed energy weapons and ionized blades. Well, most of them." says Doctor Genus, looking over Texas gun laws and regulations, "They still possess an empathic network between them which can be used for nano-telepathic communications, but I've sealed the network so they can't be used to spy on us and others."
Hidden spy networks can be deadly to heroes. In Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, the Justice League invasion of Apokalips ended in complete disaster because Darkseid was able to spy on the heroes using Cyborg's tech. He had an army of Paradooms (Parademon/Doomsday hybrids) ready to literally tear them apart. Hopefully, Doctor Genus can make sure Stonehaven secrets stay Stonehaven secrets.
*DOOM*
That night Cyanea finished "negotiations" with my wives.
She then appeared in my bedroom, following the instructions of Blackfire.
I won't say what happened beyond the finalization of the relationship.
*DOOM*
Doctor Genus' Observatory.
Outer Heaven Moon Base
A couple of days later.
Current time unknown.
1POV
Doctor Genus' observatory is a massive chamber with holographic displays and projectors on the walls, floor, and ceiling. The holodeck is connected to trans dimensional sensor arrays that allow Doctor Genus to observe the universe in realtime. A star in the night sky of the Earth may have been destroyed for millions of years, but all the stars displayed in the observatory currently exist. The computers can also show the complete history of a star or planetary body and even predicted futures of those celestial bodies.
Just to prove the level of Clarke-tech BS, he once showed me a planet on the other side of the known universe and zoomed on the planet to the point I could see the grooves of a piercing in the nipple of nude sunbathing native on a random beach of the main continent. On Earth, the observatory was able to see molecules of cocaine on a dollar bill in Washington, DC despite the soupy atmosphere and movement of the planet.
"What are searching for?"
"I've been scanning all the Boom Tube and Zeta Beam trails in spacetime from Earth in the last year. I'm scanning all connected worlds for the nano-telepathic frequencies of the Techno-Demon network."
"Techno-Demon. That's the name we have settled on?"
"It was encoded into the CNA." replies Doctor Genus, "I found something."
A planet appears between Doctor Genus and Me, slowly turning on its axis. It's a world with oceans, but instead of seven massive continents, it has dozens of verdant islands at the tropics. The poles also have very small ice caps compared to Earth.
[Unnamed Object – 8373268]
[Random Assigned Name: Verdant Renaissance Planet]
[Atmosphere: 77 % Ni. 21 % O. 2 % Other.]
[80% Surface Water]
[0.96 Gravity]
[VJP Day – 24h. VJP Year – 360d]
Atmosphere has slightly less Nitrogen and Gravity is a little weaker. The days are the same length, but the year is 5 days and 6 hours shorter. No leap years and a twelve-month calendar would have precise 30-day months.
Two more holographic images appear.
One is a humanoid native woman. She is a near human in appearance with dark blue eyes and long black curly hair. What separates her from a mundane human is black sclera, blue-gray skin, and tapered ears. She is dressed in clothing resemble Italian Renaissance. I can imagine a Doctor Who episode in which extraterrestrials talk to the great artists - Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael. Those are the names that come to mind because of TMNT.
QUEST ALERT
Quest: Freedom is a Right
Summary:
Verdant Renaissance Planet – Verdea - has been conquered by Doctor Sevarius. Its population has been converted into Techno-Demons and he plans further conquests of the universe.
Objective:
Free the People of Verdea
(Population: ~ 500 million)
Eliminate Sub-Bosses (0/6)
Eliminate Boss (0/1)
Time Limit: 12h 30m
Reward:
[Hidden]
*DOOM*
Cova Plateau
Island of Cova, Planet Verdea
Date:
5th Day of the 05th Month
Year 1650 of United Verdean Empire.
Local Time: 13:00/24:00
1POV
Rorschach, Me, Pip, Cyanea, Priss, and Max appear from a portal onto a stone plateau in the center of a verdant jungle covered island. There are no people, but there is a huge ceremonial altar nearby. There are also cracked stone pots filled with ashes and a stone brick walkway covered by vines leading to the beach. A trail with numerous old rotten torches which would have lit the way at night.
"Where are we?"
"The Island of Cova on Planet Verdea. It's considered sacred ground by the United Verdean Empire, where the First Emperor received blessings from God and forty years later, was where the last nations surrendered to the Empire ending the thirty-year Unification War. That event occurred one thousand six hundred and fifty years ago by their calendar." explains Rorschach, "Doctor Genus has determined that Doctor Sevarius landed on this world less than month after Ash returned from his adventure into the Whedon-verse."
The Whedon-verse was one of the names given to my adventure into the multiverse and hunted the Fragments of the Red Sky Abomination. It's the adventure in which I encountered the Gargoyles and Cyanea.
"Why couldn't Jade and Raven come?" ask Priss.
"They are dealing with the cults that have been appearing since their ascension." I say with a wince, "Jade's Cult of Darkness isn't too bad, just a lot of Goths and vampire wannabes. Raven has a bunch of out-of-control sex cults."
He remembers Raven ranting about some Earth-manipulating fanatic recreating the Kamasutra using giant photorealistic statues of Raven and me. She got him to calm down, but the sixty-four double-size statues still exist in a museum in India! Rorschach somehow got them protected (probably as a prank).
"What about Blackfire and Starfire?" asks Max.
"Other than greeting yet another group of refugees from Darkseid's tyranny, they are also making sure Nzambi stays out of trouble."
My zombie goddess wife has been playing Amusphere games, which has kept her out of trouble in the real world. She is still obsessed with zombies, loving games in which you can play as the zombie or the zombie commander. She also loved Resident Evil: Village Remake, despite complaining that boss Lady Dimitrescu had more curves than her. I replied that Lady Alcina Dimitrescu is also nine-foot-six and composed of mold.
"What's the Game Plan, Father?" asks Pip, excited to be on a Quest with his father - Rorschach - since he spends most of his time protecting the Cyberverse. Thankfully due to a unique event, he has a small window to be with his father.
Most of the planet's population has already been converted into Techno-Dermons. They are linked by a complex communication network and while the physical transformation is complete, it will still take time for their networks to fully develop. They are linked to towers on this planet while they mature." says Rorschach, "So the plan is to isolate the towers, take control of them, and then transmit the codes to shut down the Techno-Dermon population to be their liberation. Afterward, we'll hunt down Sevarius."
"Sounds too easy." I comment.
"Each tower has its own independent guards and unique Tower Guardian that must be defeated. The Eldritch tech is bio-linked, so if one of you fails that tower will awaken the others and we'll have the entire planet's population after our asses." says Rorschach, "Everyone ready?"
"Ready." x 5
"Let's light this candle."
*DOOM*
Great Castle Verdea, the Capital.
Moments Later.
1POV
The First Emperor of the Verdean Empire selected the largest island of Verde to become its capital. It was originally a city known for its rich merchants and plentiful trade as its central location linked the other islands. Its capture by the First Emperor's army during the Unification Wars was a major turning point.
Castle Verdea, once the fortress during the War, has grown into a massive castle that shows the wealth and power of the Empire. Many former Emperors expanded and decorated the Castle with opulence as the Empire thrived. This even led to once Prince taking the throne from his older brother, when the man's unending greed almost caused the stricken population to rebel in 1325.
Currently, the Capital is crawling with fully armored Techno-Dermons. They patrol the skies and ground, but they don't detect me using my Supernatural stealth. I can imagine Batman and the Bat clan would also be able to move through the city without being detected. The other heroes on the other hand would set off alarms as they are too damn flashy.
As I reach a place deep in the Castle's interior, I pull out the piece of Equipment that Rorschach gave each of us. The black rectangular object covered in circuitry resembles the Mother Boxes and Father Boxes used by the New Gods of New Genesis and Apokalips, respectively. I click an unseen button and I watch a blinking green light, when it stops blinking and becomes solid green, it means the others in position.
Outside, the Techno-Demons cry out in confusion and shock when an impenetrable barrier appears around the castle. Any Techno-Dermon that attempts to pierce the barrier is soon rendered unconscious by purple lightning.
Inside, the hundred Techno-Demons rush towards the center of the force field and its creator – me.
The Techno-Dermons generate plasma pulses that would destroy normal electronics but do absolutely nothing to me or the Cog Box. The glowing Techno-Dermon claws, capable of piercing the strongest metals in the galaxy, attempt to pierce my grey skin, but fail. Instead, they produce loud sounds and sparks. Some of them even attempt to use their plasma breath on me, but I tank it with ease. They clearly don't know who they are messing with.
I grab the heads of the Techno-Demons and squeeze them. The things shriek in pain, but soon their helmet and the heads inside are crushed. While Super-Regeneration allows these creatures to survive damage to the brain, they can't survive the destruction of the brain. The Heroes back on Earth would be having a lot more trouble against these creatures because they would worry about the innocent people they used to be, but as a Monster I don't need worry about my Prey.
Some of them are smart enough to keep their distance and stay in the air, but I can fly as well and soon their techno-organic brain matter is staining my claws. I then hear heavy footsteps.
The Black Knight.
A very tall Techno-Demon with broad shoulders, dense muscles, and prominent horns. He's covered in thick armor that makes him look like a knight in a set of full plate armor modified for his Gargoyle features. It makes him look like an armored cross between man and dinosaur with energy wings. The armor on his claws makes them more intimidating than the foot claws of deinonychus (mistakenly called velociraptor due to the Jurassic Park franchise). Even his long tail is covered in armored plates ending in a thagomizer – the four spikes at the end of stegosaurus. He holds a massive sword in one hand, whose silver blade glows with purple lightning.
He slashes with his massive sword, and it creates streaks of purple light in the air. One of the sword beams hits my wrist and my hand lands on the ground.
"That will teach me to be cocky."
I'm shocked, but I use my super speed to grab my severed appendage off the ground. I place the hand against the stump of my wrist and the flesh reconnects. I then dodge more sword beams, which move oddly in the room.
"Strange geometry." I say with a growl.
I'm basically immune to physical damage in this universe, but otherworldly cosmic horrors can harm me due to them not conforming to the laws of the universe. I became aware of this fact when I fought 11Eyes and now this Knight's sword is cutting using strange geometry. I'll eventually adapt to it, but I would rather not be sliced to pieces in the meantime.
I get closer and release my Abyss Roar, hoping to end the battle quickly, but the beam of energy splinters and goes off in multiple directions. The beams curved by some sort of spatial distortion strike the Castle causing a considerable amount of damage. The beams also hit some of the Techno-Demon corpses ripping them to pieces with ease.
That's annoying. As he swings his massive sword at me, I grab his wrist and hold it. The tall powerful Techno-Demon isn't able to move its wrist even a millimeter. I twist his wrist until it shatters in my hand before lifting the Knight off the ground and smashing him into the floor hard enough to create a crater.
*DOOM*
The Adventurers Guild
Same Time
3POV
The Adventurer's Guild, also known as the Mercenary Guild, was an organization set up centuries ago to employ soldiers and sailors outside of major conflicts. The world had a long history of war and when those soldiers were abandoned by their countries in times of peace, it led to many problems. Problems like bandits, pirates, and Revolutionaries. The Guild provides former soldiers with jobs and made sure they were provided for. Eventually, the Guild began to accept people other than soldiers – farmers whose lands were ravaged by famine, merchant sons that lacked their parents' talents, nobles that wouldn't inherit anything of value, etc... The spread of the Adventurer's Guilds led to a fall in unemployment and poverty.
The First Emperor before the Unification War was a mercenary of the Adventurer's Guild. This is why this Guild building is the largest and recognized with the imperial Seal.
The Tank.
The guardian lacks wings like the other Techno-Demons, instead it's heavily armored with thick plates to the point it resembles a walking tank. The most advanced firearm in this world until Doctor Sevarius's creations invaded with the rifled arquebus, The Tank is covered in numerous weapons ranging from high velocity solid projectile guns to focused energy weapons to more exotic weapons. There are even dozens of floating drone weapons and numerous hidden mines.
Rorschach walks out of the shadows and The Tank turns its guns and fires both solid projectiles and energy beams at the intruder. The attacks have surprising accuracy, piercing the hologram's head and chest area. Most of the superpowered beings back on Earth, excluding those that are nigh-invulnerable or energy absorbers, would have been splattered by that attack.
Rorschach materializes a dozen more doppelgängers around the room. The Tank's response is to shoot at all the targets at the same time using elevated drones. Rorschach guesses it's smart enough not to destroy the support beams to the Guild Hall or at least has decent programming.
Rorschach summons a cloaked drone a good distance from his actual position. While still cloaked, the drone fires a powerful anti-metal blast, strong enough to easily sink an aircraft carrier or crumble a skyscraper. The beam almost hits the tank but hits a force field and disperses. Only a few Imperial coins and a random spoon on the floor explode into clouds of plasma. A microsecond later, a series of beam hit the drone hard enough to send it through a wall.
"This is going to be annoying." says Rorschach, inaudible to everyone but himself.
*DOOM*
The Great Sports Coliseum.
Same Time
The Coliseum was originally the arena of the tyrannical ruler who loved to watch slaves compete in brutal matches and loved to watch the gruesome ends of criminals and rebels. That tyrant was killed by the First Emperor during the Unification Wars and after the War, he tore down the old Coliseum to create a new Coliseum so the people could enjoy sporting events. These events range from races to events like Earth Olympics to Gladiatorial combat.
Unlike what Earth movies would depict, Gladiator combat wasn't the gruesome blood sport it was portrayed as. Gladiators were prized athletes of their era, like Boxers and Wrestlers. They received the best care so their trainers could make money. Their names and images were used to sell goods. Walls were covered in graffiti trash telling them or accusing them of getting a girl pregnant.
The Champion
He was once the Grand Champion of the Verdea Coliseum. A super star who was acknowledged as the greatest Gladiator of the Era by the current Emperor, who made millions advertising a hundred products, and was infamous for his sex life. Now he is The Champion of Coliseum Tower.
The Guardian is a Techno-Demon with a very lean athletic build with long limbs and lighter looking armor. Instead of having bat, dragon, or bird-like wings, its wings resemble those of a dragonfly composed of force field membranes. Its feet claws are designed for fast movement on the ground and the claws of his elongated arms are like long curved blades that seem to vibrate. Its head is also different than normal units having a full helmet covered in orbs that move on tracks.
Suddenly, the Champion becomes a blur of motion and slashes at something invisible with enough force to create a shockwave. Pip decloaks from the force of the blow and slides across the dirt for a meter. Pip hasn't fought many speedsters, but he's quick to counter. The Champion blurs out the way and delivers thousands of blows that create a cloud of sparks. Pip flips back, allowing the armor damage to repair itself, but the Champion appears behind him and continues to attack. When Pip tries to deploy his weapons, the Champion damages the weapons before they can fire.
Pip quickly realizes the Champion is holding back. The Champion is hitting at massively supersonic speeds but is only doing minor damage. It's a death by a thousand cuts.
Pip can feel himself getting angry. He's beginning to consider the Champion an insult to his father.
*DOOM*
The Grand Church.
Same Time
The First Emperor vowed to build the greatest church in Verdea after his revelation on the Island of Cova. During the Unification Wars, the greatest holy figure of that era The Saint acknowledged the First Emperor as the destined ruler of the world by God's will, which led to many soldiers to join the First Emperor's Army and win the war. The crown was placed on the head of First Emperor by The Saint herself, and the First Emperor created the largest and most beautiful Church taking 20 years to complete. Since then, the Church has been expanded and renovated, to where it's still the largest and most beautiful Church. If Verdea possessed space travel, the Church could even be seen from Space!
The Priest.
The Tower Guardian resembles an angel. It's a very tall Techno-Demon with pure white armor decorated by gold and silver color markings. It also has a featureless white mask, huge feathery eagle wings composed of white metal feathers, and two smaller wings on its forehead instead of horns. Instead of physically attacking, it generates powerful force fields and launches beams of energy from eyes that appear on its feathers. What is worse is it can generate illusionary doppelgängers that are able to fire attacks like the original.
Cyanea the (former) Priestess of Atlantis is grateful that Rorschach gave her a good selection of Cognito technology before they came to Planet Verdea. The refractory force field is repelling the energy beams. She does feel upset that the Church – what was once the center of the world's religion - is being damaged by the beams. Masterpiece-level oil paintings depicting both the First Emperor's Rise and scenes from the Verdea Holy Book are burning. Ancient stain glass windows are being melted and shattered by the heat. Golden decorations are being melted away by the energy beams.
As The Priest launches its feathers as projectiles, her teleport belt moves her a safe distance, letting the Priest's feathers strike an illusion left behind. The Priest turns to attack the real Cyanea only for a sharp turquoise crystal to pierce his chest plate. A pattern of turquoise light expands from the sliver of crystal, paralyzing its body. The Priest looks up to see a growing glow.
Cyanea, eyes glowing a color other than the normal red, chants as tiny particles of turquoise particles flow between her claws. It forms patterns in the air and similar markings glow on her exposed skin and under her clothing. The Priest is about to learn that Cyanea isn't a "one trick pony".
*DOOM*
The Imperial Academy
Same Time
3POV
The Imperial Academy was founded in Year 50 of United Verdean Imperial Calendar. The First Emperor's son brought together the great teachers and scholars of the Verdea to create the greatest institute of higher learning in the world. Originally, its purpose was to teach Royalty and Nobility math, science, history, and politics. As years passed, it expanded to teach more, and the children of knights and merchants also came to learn. Soon even commoners with enough money or a scholarship could learn. For the last 1000 years, every member of the Imperial Family has graduated from the Imperial Academy, and it's even become a law that an uneducated man may never become a ruler of men.
The Headmaster.
The Tower Guardian is the least human of the Techno-Demons having the lower body of an immense metal-scaled serpent below the waist, four long arms, and four bat-like wings that prehensile enough to be used as additional arms (similar with the wings of a wyvern). It's able to trigger dozens of hidden traps and weapon placements, but it also commands a small army of Dolls.
Dolls are physically powerful Techno-Demons that lack independent brain functionality. They are essentially mindless puppets that the Tower Guardian controls as extensions of itself. At close range its main method of attack is plasma-based flame breathing.
A group of Dolls drag in Priss, whose body is covered in the glowing purple markings of the techno-demon conversion virus. The Headmaster looks down at her form as wings burst from her back, shredding part of her clothing.
"Conversion in progress" says the Tower Guardian, "Error. Conversion level can't be determined."
Suddenly, the Dolls move around as if they were having seizures, while the Tower Guardian is put on high alert. The Dolls then leap at the Headmaster and begin to viciously attack. Its four arms and four wings grab the eight Dolls, but it still receives damage.
The Headmaster is so distracted by its own Dolls attacking it, it doesn't notice Priscilla flipping to her feet. She then pulls out a large black high-tech gun from her Gamer storage. She aims and clicks the two triggers, and there is a flash from the barrel. The Headmaster turns to her, trying to determine if the unknown weapon misfired, but then it's waist bubbles and inflates. With a large gruesome explosion, the upper body and serpent half are blown apart. Without the support of the lower body and upper body fighting the Dolls, the Guardian loses control of its position.
The bioluminescent "fake" glow fades from her skin and the wings retract back into her body thanks to her shapeshifting. Her eyes are glowing a pink purple as she commands the Dolls, telling them to hold the Tower Guardian in place. She then fires the gun at the exposed upper body. Again, nothing appears to happen, then the upper body begins to swell.
*DOOM*
Fallen Star Prison, The Crater
Same Time
The Crater. In the History of the Unified Empire, one event solidified the divine rule of The First Emperor. In sixth day of the sixth month of sixty-hundred-sixty-six year of the Empire at 6:06, a star fell to Earth. It struck the island of Verdas, which was the Holy Capital of Divine Cult that opposed the Imperial Church that supported the Empire. It was also the center of rebellion, having gathered all the elements opposing the Empire including a sizable fleet of ships.
The meteorite annihilated the entire island, transforming it into a massive crater with the edges of the crater and the cliffs of the island only being separated by ten meters. An impossibly perfect ring in the ocean. As for the fleet of anti-Imperial ships, not even one survived, but loyalist fishing boats close to them survived.
A Prison for all enemies of the Empire was created in the center of the Crater, dug deep into Earth. In time, this place of darkness and despair became known as the Fallen Star Prison and the Gate of the Netherworld.
The Warden
The Tower Guardian of The Prison is a heavily built Techno-Demon with heavy armor, to the point it's unlikely this wingless unit can fly. Instead of wings, it has a dozen mechanical tentacles extending from its back, each ending a mechanical claw that can deploy weapons and tools. It's not just that it has three times the arms of Doctor Octopus that makes it fearsome, it can also manipulate gravitational forces around it, using orbs on its armor, without being affected himself.
If Max had attacked using her pure physical abilities and shapeshifting, she would have gotten seriously injured. While she does have telepathic abilities like her sister, she can't control a Tower Guardian and despite her shapeshifting she can't surpass the Warden's physical abilities without seriously harming herself.
Max does have an advantage in her Gamer storage and access to Cognito Inc Weaponry. Instead of breaching the prison defenses and making her way to the boss fight, she detonates a series of very powerful bombs that causes the ten-meter-thick ring surrounding the crater to collapse. Without that wall of stone, the ocean comes in and floods the Crater like the Flooding of the mythical city of Ys.
If her husband was there with her, he would have mentioned an episode of Mighty Max in which the main antagonist Skullmaster flooded a city hidden by the waves to trick the people into becoming a zombie army. Max would have just smiled at her otaku husband.
If the Warden had been capable of emotion after his extensive modifications, he would have been terrified. The sea water flooded the prison and carried a collection of oceanic mines. These Sea mines weren't all creations of Cognito Inc, some were mines left over from previous wars on Earth and were removed by Cog as a favor to countries and Atlantis. The oldest being a World War II contact mine, which still manages to detonate with the others.
The Warden struggles like a squid to escape the collapsing structure of the Prison. While the prison designer thought about various methods people could escape and enter the prison, they never considered that someone would straight destroy massive prison (and historical landmark).
The Warden negates gravity on itself and climbs the Tower, the only thing to survive the implosion of the crater. It finally breeches the surface of swirling, churning ocean and reaches the top of the tower which is now barely two meters above the waves.
Max is waiting for him, holding a present to her from Rorschach. She stands on a floating platform holding a huge BFG (Big Fucking Gun). The massive super high-tech weapon must be at least four meters in length and a meter wide. It would be impossible to use, if anti-gravitational devices made it weightless, inertia manipulators negating knockback, and gyroscopic stabilizers made it easier to control. As she clicks the triggers, the gun fires a purplish-white beam that can be compared to the blasts of wave-motion guns.
The purplish white plasma and lightning washes over the Warden causing the outer layers of armor to turn to plasma. While the bio-metal armor is energy absorbent, there are limits and it can't disperse the cog-made death beam fast enough. The Warden does struggle to progress, but its many mechanical arms break off one by one and explode. Finally, the many layers of armor are breeched after less than five seconds, which causes the techno-organic flesh to flash-boil.
As the attack ends and the BFG returns to her Party Gamer storage, Max now looks very embarrassed as the Crater Tower has also been destroyed. Only the melted metal stump is hissing in heated ocean waves.
"Oops."
*DOOM*
Around the World
Same Time
3POV
The Warden of the Crater Prison has been vaporized.
The Headmaster of the Academy has exploded, scattering his remains across the building he once cherished.
The Priest of the Church is transformed into crystal and shattered by Cyanea's magic. The Interior of the Church now sparkles with the tiny glowing fragments, making it both beautiful and unsafe to kneel.
The Champion of the Coliseum cries out when it collides with an invisible force field. While stunned and paralyzed for fraction of a second, while his armor absorbs the charge, Pip turns and grabs the Champion by the throat. The Champion desperately tries to get free, but Pip shows his latest weapon upgrade inspired by his Uncle Ash. Intense energy beams from Pip's eyes burn through the Champion's head.
The Tank of the Adventurer's Guild was annoying to the Most Feared man on Earth. The Tank was able to diffuse or deflect all of Rorschach's energy beams. The armor even became like polished silver to reflect lasers. Rorschach's solid projectiles and particle beams are also useless against the Tank.
Rorschach, being part of the smartest mammal in the multiverse, did find a solution. If you can't overwhelm an enemy's defense, you look for a way to bypass them. He sent a bunch of plasma grenades into a different dimension and had them reappear in normal space inside of The Tank. The Tank was built to stop physical world threats, had no way of stopping the dimensional shifting. Seconds later, a plasma grenade detonated inside its head, while five others detonated in other parts of the body.
The Black Knight of the Castle was a difficult opponent for Ash Grey, the same way 11Eyes had originally been. The strange geometrical sword was impossibly sharp and moved in ways that made it nigh impossible to dodge or block. He would have been able to slaughter entire armies with his sword alone, but he faced something far stronger than an army. He fought against a Monster that constantly adapts and grows stronger.
During the fight, Ash Grey was decapitated by the Black Knight. Before the head could hit the floor, it vanished and reappeared on the neck of Ash Grey. The neck wound healed in seconds, leaving not a trace. If the Black Knight still possessed the emotions of the Verdean Imperial Knight Commander he was created from, he would know despair.
Ash Grey glowing a dark aura and letting out a thunderous roar that shattered the reinforced windows of the castle. He then attacked like Berserker, ignoring the strange-angled sword's strikes. Strikes that could slice mountains and split oceans, became as effective as a stick of warm butter against a spaceship hull. In less than ten seconds, the Black Knight was on the ground, his sword shattered into impossibly sharp shards sinking into the floor.
Seconds later, the Black Knight was torn to pieces by the Universe's Most Feared Monster.
As all the Guardians are annihilated, the devices resembling the New God Father and Mother Boxes trigger and glowing purple circuitry spreads across the five remaining towers.
Seconds later, Doctor Genus' Cog-tech infiltrates the nano-telepathic network that links the entire population of Verdean Techno-Demons. All command access outside of their own is removed and a single command is sent to all Techno-Demons on the planet.
The entire population of Over 500 million Techno-Demons collapse to the ground unconscious. Some of the Techno-Demons were flying in the air, on stairs, or doing activities that become extremely dangerous if you lose consciousness, but their armor protects them from harm and their regenerative abilities heal any injuries they do manage to sustain. Even the ones that fall into the ocean are fine, due to them not needing to breathe.
*DOOM*
The Throne Room.
The Imperial Castle
Minutes Later
1POV
I walk into the throne room, half expecting to find the Final Boss. Portals open near me and Rorschach, Pip, and the girls return to my side.
A red hologram appears in the center of the throne room. The image of Dr. Antoine "Anton" Sevarius.
"Clone?" I ask, already knowing the answer.
"Correct. You are a very intelligent monster, Ash Grey. You destroyed all the clones you could see, but I had a couple in reserve. With the knowledge from the Fragment of the Red Sky I made it to your little piece of quantum stability." says Dr. Sevarius in that smug tone that only the Legendary Tim Curry can accomplish.
"You found the Light and offered your scientific knowledge to them in return for resources." says Rorschach, tapping into his Doctor Genus persona, "You also killed the Brain and his life partner to take his place as a member of The Light."
"Vandal Savage has become arrogant with his thousands of years of life, but that caveman doesn't realize how dangerous I am to his plans." says Doctor Sevarius.
"You're not worried that we will just tell Savage?" I ask.
"It's already too late, Mr. Grey." he says with laugh, "Rorschach transmitted my confession to The Light, and Savage, you can call this my resignation from The Light."
I can imagine Savage and his followers are pissed back on Earth.
"Verdea is now free of your control and the others will follow." says Rorschach. "Otherworldly horrors may slow us down, but Cognito will always move forward into the future."
So, Anton spread his projects out like metastasis of cancer cells. Doctor Genus and Cognito Inc will be able to handle them, even if the planets must be destroyed or sealed in micro-verses.
"Then let the Hunt begin." says Dr. Sevarius, "Will you be overwhelmed by my forces, or shall my forces be defeated? Catch me if you can."
As the hologram dissolves into vanishing photonic particles, there is a loud rumbling and secret door opens. An elevator rises and reveals a 15-meter-tall Techno-Demon BOSS. It's the same height as the Armored Titan from Attack on Titan, but it's far more muscular with long limbs like a Gorilla. Its wings are more like masses of blades than something meant to fly, and its body is covered in thick overlapping armor with spikes and blade-like extensions. It looks like a Boss from Dark Souls, only larger and not undead. We all then hear music playing on hidden loudspeakers.
"That Arrogant Son of Bitch. He included Boss Music."
*DOOM*
Central, Planet Anton
Planetary Date: D12 M3 Y40675
Local Time: 08:07/24:00
3POV
In a pocket dimension hidden from multiverse by alien geometry and magi-tech based on cosmic horrors, it is an Earth-size planet with the relatively same amount of gravity and water. Instead of orbiting a yellow star like Earth, its star is much brighter and stronger. Only the force fields that cover the planet in addition to the planet's magnetosphere protect it from the fierce solar winds.
On the surface of the planet, the skies are a blue-green color during the day and pure darkness at night save for the planet's single moon. On this world, ripples of light occasionally travel across the sky like moving aurora borealis.
The surface of the planet is very different from Earth, as the planet is Ecumenopolis – a planetwide city. There are no wild animals on land, in the air, or in the oceans. There are no grassy fields or forests. There are only bio-mechanical buildings meant to house the world's population and the factories that produce everything, including the citizens.
Techno-Demons don't need to consume resources or produce waste, so an entire population of hundreds of billions can inhabit the city that covers the entire surface of the world.
Dr. Antoine "Anton" Bartholomew Sevarius sits on his throne dressed in the red and gold robes of the technologically advanced emperor. His skin is now ash grey with numerous glowing red markings resembling veins and circuitry. He gazes at a still photo of Ash, Rorschach, and the other four Heroes facing his Boss on Verdea. In Reality, it's a live video feed, but it appears still because time passes faster in Anton's dimension – hence why it's third millennium on Earth and forty-first millennium on Planet Anton.
"So, they finally got to the Boss. Hope they like my choice in music." says Emperor Sevarius with a laugh, then he pauses to look at the glowing veins on his arm which are spreading like cracks. "Wearing thin again, but I have plenty of replacements."
*DOOM*
After the Boss on Verdea was torn to pieces by the efforts of my friends and me, Doctor Genus began the process of healing the world. The entire planet's population had been transformed into techno-organic weapons and would now have to adapt to the changes. The planet was in their Renaissance when Dr. Sevarius altered the population. Now free of his control, they are aware of a much larger universe and its science and technology. The impact on their culture and religion is devastating.
Doctor Genus was able to prevent suicides and madness using the Techno-Demon network to implant small commands. While some would debate the ethics of using mind control on a planet's population – stealing away the free will of the people, Doctor Genus said he would rather be treating a live population, than dealing with potential tens of thousands of corpses. He also pointed out that suicide is considered a sin (murder of oneself) by their religion meaning those that killed themselves would be considered damned by their own people.
I can imagine the devil figure in their Holy Book will have Redhair and wear white in the future.
Without Doctor Genus' overwatch system, it's possible the population could have erupted in violence and anarchy that could have killed millions, even with the regenerative powers of the Techno-Demons. He implanted commands to keep the population calm and emotionally detached from what they did under Sevarius control.
The network also allowed Doctor Genus to teach the population at an accelerated rate, downloading advanced education into everyone on the network. While they had impressive education levels for a Renaissance-Europe-level world, Doctor Genus "Matrix downloads" gave them education on the same level as some of the FTL civilized worlds, minus the space travel technology.
Doctor Genus continued to work on the world, while me and my girls returned to Earth to get some relaxation. Cyanea was included in our group as she had become stressed dealing with the entire population thinking they were turned into demons by a red-haired devil.
*DOOM*
Luxuria Island
Pacific
A month later.
1POV
Luxuria Island has a very strange history.
A damaged extraterrestrial ship fleeing from their enemies crashed on Earth. They came to Earth because they heard the mudball planet in the middle of nowhere was "armed to the teeth", but also "compassionate". This was proven when Doctor Genus' satellite weaponry reduced the slavers chasing the refugee ship into fluffy plasma cloud.
A problem arose when microbes in the water of the damaged ship leaked into the ocean water, while being evacuated by Cog personnel and heroes. The contaminated water caused an infestation of extraterrestrial coral-like organisms to begin to grow. The invasive species was contained with a combination of Cog nanomachines and Atlantean water magic, but it still resulted in a massive corral structure growing in the middle of the ocean.
Eventually, the alien coral was killed, and the corral island was converted into a Cognito base. Nanomachines breaking down the coral detritus into sugar white sand and added plants transformed the island into a tropical paradise.
Raven's training on the island with her divine power caused other strange effects. The magic sculpted the island, making the rock and coral resemble naked humanoids – male, female, and other. It also altered the plant life to resemble the human form, especially certain body parts. When people visited the island, not only were they healed by Raven's blessing, but it amplified feeling of love and sexuality – turning the island into an island of Lust – hence the Latin name.
When I asked Raven, she mentioned Trigon's link to her was weakening. Normally, a large portion of her magic was used to suppress Trigon's influence, even before she acquired the Divine Core of Kama. With Trigon's attention diverted, she is generating far more power. Until she regained her precise control, she channeled the excess power onto the island.
At least Cognito has the perfect Island of vacationing lovers and couples.
*DOOM*
Blackened Forest of Death
Trigon's Realm
Time Unknown.
3POV
The Demon King Trigon was born from the negative emotions of Azarath infecting a newborn god. Since his birth, he has corrupted and destroyed a countless number of worlds across the multiverse. In some cases, he merely broke down the barrier between dimensions to begin his invasion and conquest. In others, he used connections to those dimensions – his cult and the resulting children – to force open the barriers.
One thing that Trigon has not experienced in his thousands of years of life is being invaded. While he has had rivals sneaking agents into his realms, he's never had something break the barriers and forcibly enter his realm. His own forces have never been defeated in his own realm.
Obsidian Black is an Incarnation of Ash Grey that was born when Ash's arm was sliced off during his trip to Hell to save Trigon's daughter Raven. In the depths of Hell, the arm regenerated into a darker version of Ash who began his total conquest of hell itself. This demonic doppelgänger massacred the rulers of Hell and their armies and anyone else that crossed the monster's path. As Hell was destroyed, an immense forest of alien trees began to cover the ruins – The Forest of Qliphoth.
Now, Obsidian Black has broken the barrier into Trigon's realm and Trigon's forces are dying.
A hundred fiery demons went to investigate the intrusion. Their ashes now stain the planet's surface.
Ten thousand armored lesser demons came to investigate the forest of black trees. Now ten thousand are fertilizer for those same trees.
A million mid rank demons were sent to destroy the forest consuming the planet and its black-skinned master. A million demons were ripped into a hundred million pieces.
Obsidian Black now faces Trigon's elite warriors. They are giants that can change their size from a mere three meters to sixty-meter tall, colossal beings. The elites have four eyes that glow as fire, dark red skin, and shoulder-length white hair like their master. They are dressed in leather and armor carrying swords of hellish flame.
"You look strong, maybe you'll last more than minute."
Bones thought unbreakable shatter into fragments due to black fists. Sculpted flesh stronger than metal cables are ripped apart like wet tissue paper. Blood that can melt mortals on contact falls like rain. Hides that can withstand fires hotter than any mortal flame are reduced to ash in the air.
One of the Elite Warriors fires a mystical attack, a blast of destructive power so great that it scorches the surface of the planet and tears away part of the atmosphere. This is attack that would kill hundreds of millions on a world like Earth and causes fires that would devastate the world's ecology. Against Obsidian Black It merely causes annoyance as he has to pull himself out of the molten rock that was once part of the planet's surface.
In orbit of the world, Trigon looks down at the world where all his forces have failed. He is filled with rage, which is normal for him, but it's joined by several other feelings. He's has enough of this disruption to his plan and begins to gather power to eliminate the problem.
Trigon releases four red beams from her eyes that streak down and hit the planet's surface. The planet shakes as the beams of mystical force violate the planet, blasting through the crust and tearing apart what remains of the planet's spirit. A dark aurora appears in the sky as the planet's magnetic field deforms and every volcano on the planet erupts as it tries to relieve the sudden pressure. Immense fiery cracks spread across the planet, flash boiling ocean water and heating the atmosphere.
Seconds later, the planet explodes like Superman's home planet of Krypton. Much to Trigon's rage, he still sees the black forest floating amongst the asteroids. Trigon's hell dimension distorts with his rage.
*DOOM*
Doctor Genus' Lab.
Outer Heaven
Same Day
12:00
1POV
"What's up, Neo?" I asked my friend, as Raven and I walked into the chamber.
"An opportunity." says Doctor Genus, Neo's incarnation of super genius. "Obsidian Black has breached the barriers of Trigon's realm."
Raven looks surprised.
"I haven't felt my link to my 'father' since my ascension." says Raven.
After the mess in Fate-Unversed Earth, Raven absorbed Kama's Divine Core of Love and became a Goddess. No longer a mere mortal and possessing an element in conflict with Trigon's own Divine Core, Raven has been able to fully enjoy life with Trigon's manipulation.
"Did Trigon attempt to absorb Hell?" asks Raven.
"Tried and failed. Whatever those Qliphoth trees are made of, they absorb supernatural energies like black holes absorb light." says Doctor Genus, "Normally, Trigon attempts to absorb other realms into his own to increase his territory and authority, but Hell began to absorb Trigon's realm. To stop the absorption of his realm, he sent his minions to close the portal on the planet. When that failed, he destroyed the planet."
"He failed, huh?"
"He shares your trait of being indestructible to absurd levels." says Doctor Genus. On the screen Obsidian Black stands on a black branch of the Qliphoth looking bored. He's a three-meter-tall muscular humanoid covered in black and gold with numerous horns and spikes, but right now he looks bored to be facing the Demon Lord Trigon. "An attack that blasts an earth-size planet into pieces no bigger than Jenga blocks, and his monstrous tree has more scratches than he does."
Doctor Genus smiles and a 3D holographic image of a microwave-size device appears.
"Trigon is focusing all his attention on removing Obsidian Black and stopping his realm from being absorbed into the Forest of Qliphoth." says Doctor Genus, "This is a perfect opportunity to test out my latest and greatest invention."
"What is it?" asks Raven.
"A compressed modified baby universe battery inside a bleeding edge enlargement array sealed in trans phasic interdimensional combat probe. I call it the Sephirot Torpedo."
"So, why are we here?" asks Raven.
"As his daughter and former victim, I think you would like to do the honors." says Doctor Genus handing her a remote wrapped in a gold-decorated red bow. Raven takes the remote and removes the bow from the white-decorated black remote. She lifts the plastic safety cover over the three buttons marked one, two, and three. Her eyes begin to glow with power as her emotion surge.
"You may have created me, but you were never a father to me. A real father would have protected me instead of hurting me. A real father would be kind instead of cruel. A real father would have raised me to follow my dreams instead of using me to fulfil his ambitions."
She clicks the first button.
"I was protected and trained by Azarath. I was saved and loved by Ash! I was raised by my friends and their mentors. I grew up without a father and now I break the chains that you placed on me."
She clicks the second button.
"I choose a Future with Family and Friends. I choose a Future with Love and Happiness instead of Hatred. I choose a Future without You!"
She clicks the third and final button.
*DOOM*
Trigon the Terrible stares down at Obsidian Black, who stands perfectly still on the branch of the Qliphoth. The demon is angrier than he's ever been, and this corrupted god has been angry since the day of gruesome birth. Trigon has done everything in his power to remove the black god of destruction from its realm. He has released destructive energies capable of tearing stars apart. He has released psychics roars that could make worlds fall into madness. He has cast spells so dark and forbidden, galaxies were destroyed to erase their existence. Even forces designed to destroy targets on a conceptual level beyond even Trigon's understanding, fail to harm Obsidian Black.
Trigon's giant red head with four blazing eyes, giant antlers, and huge fangs gets close to Obsidian. He looks ready to breathe hellfire on Obsidian, if he hadn't already attempted it.
"You need to ease up out my face before somethin' bad happen to you." says Obsidian quoting Will Smith from MIB. Then there is a loud electronic sound coming from Trigon's body, "Too late."
Then there was LIGHT.
*DOOM*
"In the world of Fate-Unversed, there is a Blackened Archer named EMIYA. He fires a bullet that pieces the inner world of the target 's soul then expands a pocket reality inside it."
Unlimited Lost Works: The Void Creation of Swords
"This is an expansion of that idea. Summoning a universe of light inside Trigon's dark soul. An exploding Heaven within the depths of Hell."
*DOOM*
When Trigon and Obsidian Black heard that sound, the probe had already travelled through dimensions and teleported inside Trigon's inner world – not just his "physical" body, but inside his very dark soul. Trigon's realm shook briefly as the disruption of a God's inner world also disrupts the authority of his realm. Artificial Heaven expands at an incalculable speed transcending the speed of light and obliterating Trigon's Inner world in its totality.
Trigon doesn't have a chance to scream or roar as his body is absolutely destroyed on all levels. The realm itself is consumed by primordial fires of creation.
Then there was LIGHT.
The baby universe is released and expanded, fed by the energies of the Bleed and primordial energies of Trigon's realm. A soul (especially the soul of a dark god) can hold a nigh infinite number of things, but an expanding baby universe is far too much. This universe was crafted by Doctor Genus to be a universe filled with hope, dreams, and light, its existence burning away all that is the essence of Trigon.
*Doom*
Due to Trigon's Realm being a separate universe, the other universes are not damaged, but those connected to Trigon feel his destruction.
Across the multiverse, grimoire and relics connected to Trigon once filled with dark magic and demonic power generate bursts of holy light before exploding. Some of the items are kept in ancient tombs or temples that collapsed from the explosions. Some are kept in collections of occultists and magicians, which are burnt to ash by the explosions.
*Doom*
In England, Jack - a former friend of John Constantine - is currently beating the living shit out of that former friend. The man when he had been human had used a magic charm to steal a little luck from the people around him, but John tricked him and stole Jack's reserve of Luck. After losing his wife, his kids, his job, and his house, he spent years in misery trying to regain what he was lost, He was just out of the red, when the demon connected to the charm died and he blamed Constantine (even if it had been Obsidian Black).
Now, Jack transformed into a powerful vampire had been lured Constantine into a house where no sun could reach them, where holy items were repelled, and where Constantine's magic specifically would be sealed. He was about to tear off the infamous occultist's head when The Book of Skath on the shelf behind him erupted in holy light instantly burning Jack's back to the third degree.
As Constantine fell to the ground, the Book of Skath exploded with enough force that burning fragments went flying through Jack's body and out the front. Constantine can only stare at the burning fragments vaguely in the shape of a cross where the undead mage's heart should be. Jack can only stare down at his chest in pain and disbelief with his red eyes. Then, Jack's clothing and flesh crumbles to ash, followed by the falling bones. The last part to crumble is the fanged skull, before even the ashes vanish from existence as if they violated a law of nature by existing.
"What the Bloody Hell!?"
*Doom*
Many people from many worlds have sold their souls to Trigon. Those who still possess their souls, which would have been taken later, find themselves free of Trigon's contracts. Those whose souls have already been taken drop to the ground dead as their missing souls are incinerated inside of Trigon.
Many demons and monsters given life by Trigon's power are annihilated by their lingering connections.
A hundred million cultists on a hundred worlds cry out as their connections are burnt away. Some awaken to realize what they have been doing in Trigon's name and feel despair. Some feel terror knowing their god is gone. Some don't have a chance to think as their magically enhanced bodies explode like gore-filled balloons.
Even Trigon's new children are not spared from their father's complete destruction. Some survive as the dark power is purified from their bodies and souls, but others burn away leaving ashes and soul particles. This causes chaos on many worlds, especially on the world where Trigon's son was also the Crown Prince of that Planet's Grand Empire.
*DOOM*
Back on the Moon.
Raven glows with divine power as Trigon no longer inhibits her. Raven's cloak turns snowy, illuminated by an ethereal white glow. She kisses me with such passion even Doctor Genus is blushing from the sight.
Doctor Genus' metaphysical sensors can detect Raven's divine aura surge across the metaphysical planes. If Ash wasn't already immune to (nearly) everything in existence, he would be ripping off her clothing and impregnating her with his second biological child right in front of the poor doctor.
*DOOM*
Heavenly Realm of Flame.
Days Later.
Trigon's realm no longer exists in any form. The "Big Bang" of the proto universe/heaven has reduced the entire realm into primordial particles, a state that hasn't existed for twenty billion years. Nothing should exist in this primordial state in neither the material of matter and energy nor the immaterial world of spirits and thoughts. All that should exist is an expanding cloud of pseudo-matter and plasma that would eventually become super massive stars and black holes.
That's what should have happened.
One being doesn't care about rules.
A massive organism floats in the center of the new universe, resembling a colossal tree the size of a planet. A massive tree composed of two plants intertwined and fused together. Its branches come in two forms – one metallic black and pulsating like flesh, one pure white, translucent, and glowing as if made of crystal. The black is veined with cracked filled with bright red-purple lights, while the other is covered in geometric patterns of turquoise. While the black has Vanta black leaves that absorb all light into themselves, the white has white flowers that sparkle with all the colors.
On a throne of vines and crystal sits the ruler of the trees.
Obsidian Black has changed. He once stood 2.5 meters tall, now he stands over six hundred meters in height. His black skin is now covered in thick black armor resembling the otherworldly metallic bark of the monstrous Qliphoth trees- the darkest black with veins of star white light. He no longer possesses the golden spikes that served as hair. Instead, the top of his head is surrounded by a dense cloud resembling a dark nebula complete with primitive stars. His eyes are nothing more than glowing stars in his sockets, staring into eternity of creation. On his back, branches from the tree of light and branches from the tree of darkness connect to him in way that resembles ten pair of wings. Ten white wings on his right side and ten black wings on his left.
[God of Destruction]
[Darkness Over Heaven]
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*DOOM*
[End of Chapter 42]
Countdown to the End
The Old Decays and is Wiped Away
Chapter 43 – Fall of Cadmus
October 7
*DOOM*
