[Young Justice: Doom & Rebirth]
by Spaceman
Start: August 17, 2022
DISCLAIMER
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:
Any Suggestions will take time to implement. Each chapter is over ten thousand words and some are over twenty thousand (like this one). This is chapter 36 and I'm writing chapter 45, that's at least 4.5 months between what's posted and what I'm writing.
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(1) Interesting Yuyu Hakusho Idea. Slightly problem is I'm not machoistic enough to be Kuwabara (It would be like playing Yamacha in Dragon Ball Z) or stupid enough to fight Yusuke all the time. I picked a demon body in the Inuyasha x YYH crossover because I enjoy durable monstrous characters.
Kenichi is an interesting series, tho Ryuzenpaku's teaching methods are questionable. I'm not familiar with Baki beyond Cj Dechamp's video on Yujiro Hanma. I dislike sport anime, even martial arts tournaments.
2) Nemo of the Myriad Worlds – the MHA x Marvel crossover - SIOC Nomu with Symbiote. The First Arc is complete and ready to be posted. I'll post it after Doom and Rebirth is completed. If you're wondering, I'm currently working on Chapter 45 and have entered the "Endgame" of my story. 2-3 Chapters and the story will be Finished.
*DOOM*
Chapter 36 –Gates and Getaways.
3D3 LABS Ground Bridge experiment
Gotham City, NJ
Monday, November 30, 2015
7:58
3POV
The Rise of Cognito Inc marked a new era in History of Earth and Humanity. A company controlled by the smartest mammal in the universe and possessing unlimited resources was allowed to make widespread systemic changes to the world on almost every level. While common people were awed and grateful to the world's changes, there were many in positions of wealth and power that feared it. People who lived on the accomplishments of the past and feared the coming of the future.
3D3 Labs is a technological research and development company who with resources from other companies and government contacts are attempting to recreate cybertronian-based Ground Bridge technology used by Cognito Inc. The technology allows goods and people to be transported to anywhere in the world without the need for planes, trains, or boats and dealt a massive blow to oil companies' bottom lines.
Doctor David Derrick Decker the Third is the full name of the head scientist and his nickname is Doctor 3D3 to those who can tolerate the man's personality. He is a genius and polymath, famous in the fields of metamathematics, physics, and mechanical engineering, but he's also a very arrogant intellectual elitist who constantly looks down on anyone without multiple degrees. He's the type of person that if he had ever suffered a major failure, he could have become a super villain to avenge his ego.
Doctor Decker is a tall, thin man with blue eyes behind thick glasses, pale skin, and a balding grey hair and mustache that makes him look like a more realistic version of Doctor Albert W. Wily from the Mega Man games. He even claimed he knew ninjutsu when he got drunk at the company party he was forced to attend.
Doctor Decker also claimed he could complete the Ground Bridge technology ahead of schedule. Despite his claims the massive cylinder-shaped structure is shaking and releasing electrical arcs. Dr. Decker stands in the shielded control room behind blast windows. The only other people in the room with him are three gynoids designed to look like Japanese assistants – the Bridge Bunnies.
"Structural Stability down to 74%!" says Bridge Bunny #1. The emotion simulation is impressive, you can hear the simulated fear and concern in her voice.
"Field Stress is increasing... 249... 917...Field deteriorating." says BB #2. Her voice is filled with a sense of dread.
"Ruptures detected in multiple sectors. ", alerts BB #3. Her voice having a sense of finality. As if she knows her "death" is inevitable.
"Safeties are failing!" says Bridge Bunny #1. It's amazing how much emotion you can simulate when you knew you were about to be destroyed.
As for Doctor Decker, his face is filled with disbelief and horror at the information on his computer screens. He can't believe he failed and horror at failing dominates his mind, even more than the fear of dying. Doctor Decker is about to scream about how it's someone else's fault, but it's too late.
The Ground Bridge is lesser version of the Space Bridge, a form of interplanetary transport, allowing beings to move from one planet to another almost instantaneously without the need for a spacecraft, via a "short-cut" through the extradimensional realm of The Bleed. When the protective tunnel violently implodes, all the materials inside and particles from The Bleed shoot out the ends at relativistic speeds.
In Metropolis and Gotham, there are two simultaneous, massive explosions that bath the streets above in a blood red light.
*DOOM*
[3D3 Disaster - Gotham Side]
When two massive explosions occur in two major cities, there are several things that must be considered.
In Gotham's case, due to the removal of abandoned warehouses and criminal-owned facilities in Gotham by Cognito, 3D3 Labs was forced to conduct their questionable experiments in an underground bomb shelter. This illegally built shelter was designed to house the occupants of formerly mob-owned skyscraper on the surface above it. When the explosion destroyed the bomb shelter it caused the skyscraper to collapse and severely damaged several nearby buildings.
There were many smaller explosions caused by the destruction of cars, power transformers, and gas lines. Within minutes, rescue personal and heroes arrive to help the civilians caught in the chaos. As the personal of the lab, there aren't many survivors due to temperatures involved.
Batman notes that the Corporate Heroes have support gear tailored to the disaster. Gen13's Grunge is equipped with a ring made of non-conductive super-alloy, which grants his metallic transformed state immense strength without being in danger from broken wires. Gravity Hero: Uravity is cancelling gravity on pieces of debris, but she is working with a surveyor robot to make sure she doesn't cause additional damage. Several Spider-Men and Women are gluing fragments of debris together with fire-proof non-conductive webbing before moving the mass to prevent it from collapsing into dangerous falling rubble.
Cognito Robots (resembling spider-like Tachikoma) and the Beetles with their advance sensor technology can scan the rubble to locate survivors. Firefighters and disaster relief personal equipped with powered exoskeletons due to Cognito can brave the fire and debris. Both League and Corporate Heroes use their powers and gadgets to help. They are also given Cognito protective gear, so they don't end up inhaling the clouds of debris.
"Hey! What's that?" says one Firefighter, as he watches one of the robots release small blobs of translucent bright orange ooze. The blobs ignore the fire and smoke, before sinking through the cracks and gaps in the debris.
"Rescue Slime." says Rorschach, as he appears next to the Firefighter nearly causing the man to wet himself, "They are like out cleaner slimes, but they encapsulate and protect victims until they can be removed from the rubble. They contain nano-medical applications so they can treat burns, minor injuries, etc., while preventing the victims from being crushed by the tons of concrete and steel."
"Your prepared as always." says Batman, appearing next to the firefighter's other side, spooking the poor man again, "Have you determined the cause of the explosions?"
"High levels of Bleed radiation and hyper-matter particle traces. Evidence of 3D3 LABS' involvement. They attempted to create a Ground Bridge knockoff and it blew up in their faces. This is why you leave the manipulation of space time to experts."
"Radiation!? Should my men be worried?" says the Firefighter.
"About the Radiation? Cognito Inc can handle the radiation, even if this was another Chernobyl."
Cognito's giant nanomechanical caterpillars had removed radiation from Chernobyl and many other nuclear disaster and dumping sites. The nano-medicine reverse engineered from Fallout medicine can also protect against radiation and treat some of the worst radiation sickness
"There is a bigger concern." says Rorschach, "The Bleed contains more than radiation."
Suddenly, there is a small explosion of red light as something bursts from the rubble. As the smoke clears, the corpse of Doctor David Derrick Decker the Third is floating in the air surrounded by a blood red aura. Those that are spiritually aware can see dark red souls being pulled into the corpse, whose unholy fiery aura grows stronger and stronger.
Doctor Decker is clearly dead and his corpse is making unnatural movements like something out of an Evil Dead film. Its eyes are filled with supernatural flames and electricity crackles across its limbs. It lets out a scream of a thousand voices.
"̷͉̜̱̪̍͂͗͒W̷͇̭̲̺̯͖̋̌̈́͋̒̅̄̃̓̅̌̀̕̕͝ḩ̶̮̬̭̙̗̤̭̭̫̞̀̒͊̉̐͂ỵ̵̡̖̖̘̟͚̱̏̇̈͝͠ ̵̢̡̻̗͙̭͇̣̳͚̪̥͍̲̳̓͊̓̓̍̀̿̇̍̌̈́̃̉̉͝d̵̨̢̛͉̙̯̫͉̜͕̙͎̘̰̞͖̋̾̀̎͊̇̍̾̎̄͝i̵̡̢͎̪̖̞͇̝̻͚͎̻͉͍̚ͅḏ̵̡̨̝̱͇̮͖̊̄̽̐̈́̊̌̊͊̓̚͝͠ ̵̳̲̼̹̗̦͚̱͙̘̳̪̘͖̒͑̔̊͛̌̐̚t̶̨̢̬͚̖͚͎͎̦͚̖͌̈́̅͝ͅͅh̵̨̼̼͍̺̳̰̙̟̟̭̮͖̓̓͗̊̏͂̐i̶̥͎͓̋̇̐̉̂̾͘͝s̷̱̦̯̹̽́͊̄͐̄͋̃̉ ̵̲͔̖̲̓͂̈h̵͚͉̼̘͚̩̪̦̣́̈́̌́͒̌̓̓̂̔̕͜͠a̵̛̙͉̦͊̾̄̀͐̏́͝p̵̤̦͉̭̩͐̀̓͒̿̄͝p̸̡̢̬͓̼̼̖̩̫͔̥̔́͒̏̌̌̏͐̀̌̋̓͘͝e̷͈͇̓ǹ̷̡̠͚̖͍͕̖̟̤̩̯̯̗̦͂͌̓̍̒̃͑̓́̂͌̆͘͝ ̷̘͚͍̩͖͓͖̟̉̌̂̒͋͊̔̓̎͜ͅṯ̷̹̫̤͊͆̽ơ̴̧̭͉̪̠̹͕͑͒̈́̎̃̍ ̶̙̈́̊̌͐̅̒m̵̨̱͍̣̀̏̄̀̆e̷̡̡̝̻͙̦̟̝̹̬̣̘̺̺͗̐́?̵̨̨̗̲͙̖͇̲̥̩̈̔̓̈̅̇͊̅̓̄̀́͆͘͠ ̴̨̤̟͈̰̭̪͚̃̓̅̃ͅṮ̸̨͈̝̰̻̥̭̳͈̠̲̲̎̓̔̾̊͐̀́̔͘͘h̴̡̗͙͖͔̰͉͓̳̤̜̫̏́̾͗͜ͅí̸̲͕͊̓͒͑̈́ṡ̶̱͈̯̱̖̲̣̏̈́̽ ̸̤̠̺̲̯̦̳̩͚̆̋͋͗͂͛̎̎̿͌͑̕͠͝ͅȋ̴̢̘̗͉͔̝̹͚̼̅̓̈́̐̎͛̚̚s̸̙̦͓̘̓̒̐̀͋͑̑͆͘͜n̵̨̹͉͕͉̟̲̖͚͊̂̉̇̅͒̆̇̐͌̃̑̿̚'̴̤̞̗͈̜͕̜̲̬̹̘̯͈̂̆ͅt̵̡̞̲̟̱̼̥̥͍̜͇͇͉̮̥͗̆̚ ̷̧̢̭͈̲̦̥̬̮̻͎͔̳̥͍̈͒̓̅̑͌̈̊̑̒F̷̧̼͍̞̦̳̹̣̤̭̼̙̏̉͆̇̄͂͐ą̴̛̦̺͔͖̪̺̤̼̯̒͊͛̇̄͐̇͊͗̂͜͝͝͝͠i̷͉͇͐́̋̕͠r̴̼̜̎̑̾̒̚!̷̪̩̹͈̫̯̞̗̗̬͖̙̽ ̸̢̨̘̲̞̝̳̜̣̙̦̬̣͐̽͗̀̒͂̈Ẁ̸̨̳͚͙̣͙͇̦̱̰̹̥́̌̒̓̉͘͝ḩ̶̨̰̳̟̞͙͚̰̣̰̳͎̾̂̊̆͜ȧ̸̢͚͈͍̞̏ͅt̴̢̢̪͚̱̃̒̃̍͝ ̵̼̥̪̩͖͓͓̰̭̺̌̓̐̂̊̏̀̀́́͜ͅh̷̺̱̩͒́́͂͊à̶͍͙̫͈͍̔̽̆̏͑͘͠͝p̶̢͈̖͉̻͎̪̞̖̑̃̐̀̆̀̌̕͝͝p̷̧̯͕̰̻̘͚̦̝̭̦̥̾͌̿͊͑͆̾̅͘̕͜͝ę̵̨̩̮͚̠͙̣̗̰̭̪̝̥̗̿́̈́̅̅̃͌̋͘͘͘̚n̴̨̑̑͗̀̌̒̾ḗ̷̲͉͍̟̺̥̔̍͑̀̃́͑̈́̅̀̚͠d̸̨̨̯̱̠̐̊̂͆͒͒͂̉̾̒͋̄̚͠͝ͅ ̷̨̛͈̙͉̱͇̰̇̑̀̀́̊̒ṭ̵̹̟͚̳̹̘͓͖̏̿̀͜ͅo̷͙͎͍̰̝̻͍̣̮̭̽̀͂͌͋̍̉̑̈́̅͝ͅ ̵̲̓͝m̵̨͔̚ỵ̶̨̱̈́̊̔̈̅́̄̀͒̚̚͝ ̸͚̄͌̂́̾͌̓͌̂̓͗F̸͎̄̊̊̍̐̋͘̕͘͜͝͝a̷̪̮͖̲͚͇̜̮̖͖̐̋̑̒͊̓͋̍̋̚͘m̸̩̼̄͛͠i̸̪̻̔̂͗͒̉̈̂͆͘l̷̤̓̈́̿̄ỳ̴̜̣͈̤̬̰̣̲̘̟̟͒͌̽͛̇̇̓̉͋̾͊͛̂͘!̷̰̖̱̣̬͙̝̻̬̝̞̰̓͂̚͜͝?̷̺̩͚̲̯͈̭͈̝͖̳̹͑ ̵̨̤̙̦̮͔͇̖̟̠̮̮̑͌͑̀̽̏̇̏̓̔̈́͘ͅI̴͓̗̫̦͍͔̲̮̓͐̏̇͂͑͗͘͜͝t̸̡͍̠̬̰̳̯͍͔͕͕͈̎͗́̽̎̈́͋̒͋͂̚͠ ̴̖̓̾̇͒̔̃̈̀͋͑̓̉͋ḧ̸̨̰͓̦͚̭̲̲̯͍̱̪͙́̋̏͂̃̆̏̈͒̚̚͜ủ̵̯̟̹̜̜̳̟͎̼͍̲̙̠̯͋̿̆́̂͑̿̓̿͘r̷͙̖̀̃͐̍͑t̸̼͇̗̬̺̣̰̟͒̾̈́͒̎͂̀̉̏s̴͈̻̜͍͖͙͎̹̱̝̞̳̥̑̾͐̌́̓̌̄̔̆̔̌͜͝!̴̨͚̙͍̠͈̲͕͒̉͐͜!̸̨̣̤̬͖̭͎͖̘̘̈́̊̑̍͑̋̊́ ̴̧̛̪̝͕̦͕͕̦͉͕̻͉͍͉̈́̓̀́͂͌̉͂͘W̶̨͍̫̘̪͔̖͈͈̹̫̉̊̔̍͝h̵̹̫̳͐͆̏̈́̔̋͐̀̂̏̿y̴̡̫̻̗̬̫̝͔̽ ̸̻̘̻̪̌̒i̸̫̭̦̱̟̲̩͍̗͇͎̾́̒͂́̔̽̾̑̎͒̆͝ș̷̡͙͕͔͕̞̻̲̟̣̼͇̉͠ ̸̟͎̜͈̰͔̆̉̒̀̀̓̇̒̄̔̓́͜͠͠͝ͅt̴̢͍͕̞̘͓̖̫͍̟̼͊̏ḩ̵̩̫̝̝̜̫̮̐͛̑̀̓̆̓͘̚̚̚ï̴̜̈̈́͛̈́͜s̸̡̛̗̹̺̖̖̰̳̜͉͉̘̓͐̌͘͠ͅ ̴̡͍̳̺̞̝̲̹̼̓͌̓̔̅̕ͅh̶͚̄̏͛̎̚ȧ̴̧̱̟̩̱̯̘̯͕̪͔̳̿̓̈́̆͗̃̊̓̈́͘p̷͈̼̰̞̣̰̦̫͚̔̎͒̆̓̋̈́͛̆̈́͂̊̈́͊͛͜ͅp̶̨̮͓̳̳̗̙̦̤̳͑͊͛̾̂͜ͅę̷̛̗͚̂͒̅͛̓̍̑̂̇̕͝͝n̶̛̜̠̆͆̕̕͠i̴̧̛̺̹̫̤̒͌̈́͑̈́̐́͆̂͒̊͝n̴̫͚̤̦͆͆̍͝͝g̵͚̪̏̌̏̃!̸̮͇̞̖̲̭͔͈̤͙̗͎̿̓͊̈͜?̴̢̛͔̺̹̘̬̯̤͙̬͖̋͑͜͠ͅ ̴̙͙̗̱͕̠̄͜͝Ṯ̸̥̬͚̟̏̀͆̍̃̊͜͠h̴̲̊̀̈́̀͑̔́͋͝͠ȋ̸̧̧̩̱̼̮͎̥̻͙͋͌̈̌̈́̑̑̉̀̑s̴̱̙͖̳̍͊͒̎̓ ̴̧̨̘̻̪̩́̓͌̀̐̈̾͒̈́͋͛̚ị̶̻͇͉͖̻̫̱̍̎͛̽̐̐̀s̸̛͙̝̩̣̠̦̼̭͚͎̹̠̦̠̈́͑̎͛́͗̽̒͑͝n̸̛̼̹͐̍̅̿͛̅̈́̈͑͠'̸̗̫͉̣͙̮͎͂̉̏̔̽͂̐͊͘͠ͅt̴̡̛̲͖̪̪̖͍̬̞̬̠̳̐̂͌͊̈̃̓̂̄̅͜ ̸̢̛͓̫͍͙̲͖͓̻̱̻̥̲́̈̄̏͐͐͘m̶̨͖̺͖̳̗͙̲̩̖̪͍̘̉͂̌̾̉̐ͅe̵̢̢̝̼̟̺̺̞̘̦̦͚̰̅̋̓̓̋̇̈̍͜͝͝͠!̸̜̘͔͍̲̙̤̦̩̩͊̈́̌̂̄̽̈́͝ͅ?̷̛̯͚̬͚̘̬̫̺̂ ̶̡̖̻͖̼͈̘̊̈́̈́̾̏͛̈̀̌ͅW̴̡̨̢͍̳̞̯̫͇͎̜̣̟͂̈́̔̃̈́̀̀̿͘͝h̸̨͇̗̞͕̮̗̜͈̼̻͙̱̓̏̾̓ǫ̶̺̣̤̪͇̟̮̰̫̻͎͉̖̣̆ ̸̨̛͍̻̮͉̈́̔͆̏̈́̒͛̿̕̕͘͝͝a̵̤̽̆̀̍̀̈̂̌͗͆̔̈́̈́̕̚m̷̛̻͎̫̯̤̀̎̋̂͂͛̕̕͜͜͝͠͝ ̸̣͍͐̒̈́͌͐͒̔͝͠Į̷̪̆̆̌̋͋̊̀̔̌͘?̴̠͓͚̪͔̿̋̂͐̎͌̋̕?̸̢̠͚̖̳͕̻͙̭̤͔̟̫̮͙̽̃ ̶̢̳̠̜̲̹͋̀͌̅̾̏͝Į̴̡̖͎̹̺̆̈̓̇̓̋̒̈́͜͝ ̴̞̔̾͜H̷̡̻̥̠̮͙̲͕̼͚͎̞̑̈́̂̈́̃͑͆̀̇̃̕͝͝͝u̷͈͂́̾̉͆̆̉̏͊̃̂̿͐̕r̵̟̝͕͍̠̝̲̺̼͙̾͌̂̍͐̆̄ţ̵̼͙͔̮̥̬̬̞̹͚͍̉̆̿̿͜s̸̨͙͇̞͙̲̪̹̀ͅ!̶̼̜̈́̍̂͌̄̕̚̕ ̶̢̨̠̳̻͖̟̙̹͖̟̽͑͒M̴̧͚͙͈̤̱̲̥̮͌͛̒̒́͌̈́̈́̑͋͑̌͂͋̚a̴̹̹̓͂̒̿̌͒̾͑̓͆̔̂͝k̴͔͉̩̦̖͕̞̱͉̘̈̐̓̋͂̉ė̶̟͔̻͉̗̩͒̓͛̅͌̑̂̓̽̌͝ ̴̨̡̺̙̲̤̥̓̄͊͛̉͊̑͑̂̉̇t̸̢̛̼͙̻͕͉̺͋̄̉̋̿̒̇̈́̐̀̚ȟ̵̙̀̒͂̈́̾͗͌̌̀̊̀̚̚͝ē̴̢͚̾͆̈́ ̴̡̹̣̩͚̘͙͎͎̆͋̏͗͊̎̎̈̆͝ͅP̵̡̩̰̻͚̜̗̖̞̺͛̌̋̈́͒̀̈̓͋͑͠a̵̖͈̭͉͉̬̣̝̺̱̯̽́͊̿̆̈́̅ͅi̶̡̲̹̝̱̻̺̓̏́̈́̋͌̌̓́̆̽́̚͠͝ņ̴͔̩̞͖͎̟̤̥̙̔͋͋͂̊̎̚ ̵̢̮͎̻̰̠͖̥͙͚̒̒͜ͅS̷̗͆̈́̐͂̈͐̓̀͝ţ̸̠͍̥̑̔͂̈́̄́͑͌̌̅o̸͎̱̍̒͂́̀͌́͋p̸̧͊͂̍̏̉̚!̴̧͇̘̼͙͇̗̱͔͍̆͝ ̴̧̼̖͉͈̖͍̗̇̃̑̒̋̕S̵̢̢̢͎̬̭̰͓̲̦̼̀̈́̀̑̆̈́̄͋͒͆̕͜͜͠͠ͅͅŏ̶̧̼̩̈́̾͒̊͆́͛͑̄̓̔͊͝m̴̯̠̫̻̙͓̆̉̇̂͒̐̋̋͝͝e̵̩̊̇̽̌́̇̏̎̋͑̇̇̚͠o̷̝̝̣̪͙̹̓̈́̄n̷̢̧̼̺̼̝͎͖͍̟͎͎͛̇̒́̉̂̈́̈́̊̆̊̚ḙ̸͍͐̓̚ ̶̧̝̯̜͍̠̝͔̀͐́̎͛̂͜͠Ş̶͙̼̞̫̬̟̣̟̜̞͔͗̿͘a̸̜̞͔̟͚̮͠v̷̨̨̰̗̫̣̭̬̹̫̎̃̽̑̄̌͊̿̎̈̃͜è̷̬̝͖̞̥̯͚̀͗̐͛͛́̆͛͜ͅ ̴̡̢̤̗̻͙̭̥̙̤̥̘͚̋͒͐͜M̸̩͈̄̅͌́̏̀̑̍̇̋̑ë̴̻̣͕́̀̉̏̆̔̉̐͆̂͐͛͠͝!̴̛͎͚̆͑̓͂͌̃͐̀̎̃̓̆̕ͅ!̴̨̨̰̟͖̣̻̝͉̯̥̭̤̮̒͋̇̉͘̚ͅ"̴̨̗̪̹̝̤̀̿́̋̅͑͒͗̏͛́̿̑ͅͅ ̶̡̡̞͍̮͚̗͔̫̄̔̿̋̑̅͗̄̈́̆̎̚
"Why did this happen to me? This isn't Fair! What happened to my Family!? It hurts! Why is this happening!? This isn't me!? Who am I? I Hurts! Make the Pain Stop! Someone Save Me!" says Rorschach's companion robot, translated the distorted screams, "The rest is too distorted."
"My God in Heaven! What are they?" says the horrified Firefighter crossing himself.
"Unversed. Souls left over from the destruction of their universe, ones that didn't return to their origin or were absorbed into new universes." says Rorschach with a cold calmness. "Trapped in the Bleed between universes is like being trapped in Hell and corrupted them."
The Unversed lets out a scream, generating blistering hot wind and red shockwaves, shaking the entire area like an Earthquake. Nearby damaged buildings that didn't collapse due to the explosion begin to break apart, fragments breaking off and falling towards the ground. One pair of rescue workers are about to be crushed, when the piece of steel and concrete is caught by someone. The two workers open their eyes to see corporate hero Wild Tiger holding the mass with his [Hundred Power], before the Flash grabs them and takes them to a safer area.
"NEVER FEAR FOR WE ARE HERE!" says All Might, as he arrives with more Heroes.
The Heroes – both League and Corporate – work together with the Cognito robots to stop the chaos. Fires are extinguished and rescue workers and victims of the disaster are taken to safety.
All Might and Deku deliver superfast blows that generate shockwaves, these shockwaves hit the Unversed stopping it's scream and the energy waves. These blows can match the most powerful of nuclear weapons in energy output, but due to experience and training they have precision.
As it's knocked to the ground, Flash and Kid Flash zoom past the Unversed knocking it into the air. The Flashes of this universe – an Earth-16 variant – are far slower than Prime Earth universe, but with Cognito's help they have begun to tap into the true power of the Speed Force. They move faster than lightning bolts, keeping the Unversed off-balance and spinning.
Batman and Nightwing throw special batarangs that detonate into gray clouds they hit the spinning unversed. The cryogenic gases last only a few seconds, but the Universe lands covered in an immense spiral ball of dark blue ice.
"Freeze rangs for undead?" asks Grunge
"We have Holy Hand Grenades, but he isn't a killer rabbit." quips Nightwing.
Rorschach raises an eyebrow under his mask. Nightwing wasn't lying when he said Batman and him had Holy Hand Grenades. He guesses they are worried about refugees from Hell after Obsidian Black's genocide.
The ice sphere glows a blinding red before exploding, releasing the Unversed. It's about to release another shockwave-generating howl, when a band of glowing light appears around its mouth, silencing it. More golden bands appear to bind its arms and legs. Doctor Fate appears looking seriously pissed, eyes glowing.
"Due to the actions of owner of this body, these corrupted souls have contaminated our world." says Fate, glaring at the possessed corpse, before turning to the masked man of Cognito "Why have you not acted, Rorschach?"
"Instead of hunting them individually, it's better to let them gather in a single mass." says Rorschach casually, "Evil spirits are attracted by stronger evil spirits."
Doctor Fate seems to acknowledge the reason and Batman is quick to understand the situation. Rorschach could have ended this conflict before it began, but he used it as an opportunity to gather the other Unversed before they could scatter.
"Do it, Pip!"
"Yes Father." says Pip, Rorschach's techno-organic transformer son and Hero of the Metal, who descends from the air and lands in front of the captured Unversed. He gathers pink-white light in his chest plate and then performs an attack he learned from a friend.
"FIXER BEAM!"
An explosion of brilliant white-and-pink particles shoots out of Pip's chest and washes over the Unversed abomination. The Unversed screams in pain, fear, and other emotions its chaotic mind doesn't understand. Within its depths the hundreds of thousands of corrupted souls lost in despair and lashing out at each other are suddenly bathed in light. One by one, the void-ravaged souls regain what they lost and pull themselves from the darkness and into the light. In the outside world, Doctor Fate and the other Heroes watch as the Unversed's body develops glowing cracks and releases white orbs. Those with the knowledge and awareness know those orbs are souls, purified and released of their earthy bonds. Finally, the lightshow ends of the Unversed is no more. All that remains is Dr. Decker's corpse which has completely crystalized. It cracks and crumbles into dust on the ground.
"What was that!?" says Doctor Fate, "I sensed thousands of souls being healed. I have never seen anything like that. It was like a reversal of entropy. Even that victim who was standing several meters behind the target was healed."
The victim was a young woman whose leg was shattered by falling debris and was being protected by an EMT when the wave of pink-white glitter hit. Now said woman doesn't even have scratches let alone a broken leg.
"The beam that repairs the world and heals the soul of the world's creator." says Rorschach, "It's something he learned from a friend while helping the Metal."
*DOOM*
[3D3 Disaster – Metropolis Side]
[1POV]
I was enjoying a trip to Metropolis when the explosion occurred, and I got a notification from the Gamer. I'm not a fan of digging through rubble looking for survivors and corpses, but I plenty of reasons to do it. I have unlimited stamina and can't be harmed by any of the dangers including the irritating smoke clouds. Two, after all the crap that's happened nothing phases me. Three, Clark and Conner are helping, and they are family. Finally, fourth –thanks to the Gamer, I get rewarded for doing the right thing.
Rescue personal supplied by Cognito technology, Cognito Robots, League Heroes, and Cognito Heroes make this a quick process. Even the corporate heroes of Lexcorp and civilian Beetles are helping the rescue.
The Unversed are creepy, like Dead Space creepy. Human corpses possessed by the corrupted souls of dead universes. What's worse is me, Raven, and Jade are literally the only ones that can deal with the Unversed. While the various heroes can deliver powerful attacks that can destroy the corpses, none of them possess the traits to permanently stop them.
Superman may be super-everything, but he doesn't have powers pertaining to the soul. Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth causes the Unversed bodies to burn like blessed silver touching a vampire, but it doesn't stop the souls. Even League magician Zatanna's magic is ineffective beyond minor containment.
Raven is a half-demon sorceress-princess with an infamous demon lord for a father. Jade is a shadow demon sorceress with centuries of rulership of the shadowlands. Both can easily contain, enslave, and even forcibly purify ghosts.
"Screech."
In my case, I am the incarnation of the Tree of Death. Which means I am literally a Gate of Death. I can see souls being attracted to me, flowing into me and vanishing into the afterlife. These souls belonging to those that died in Metropolis, not just those killed by the 3D3 Disaster.
The souls of the Unversed are more forcibly absorbed, literally drained from their animated corpses when I get close. I don't even need to destroy the zombies as they drop the second, I get within a meter of them. The Unversed souls are a little different as my body strips them of negative emotion and Bleed contamination before sending them to cycle of reincarnation. My body feds on negative emotion and all the world's evil, so purifying Unversed might as well be eating Malteser candies.
"Screech."
Nothing goes smoothly as I am currently fighting an Unversed Metahuman. Metahumans have genes which allow them to tap into different sources of energy for their superhuman abilities. Most metahumans these days tap into the Elemental planes gaining classic element (earth, fire, wind, and water) or natural life (plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and microbes). This meta awoke his abilities when he was exposed to Bleed radiation but was also possessed by the Unversed. Since the metahuman is very alive and contains Bleed energy, removing the souls is a lot harder than walking into my AOE.
The Unversed Metahuman looks like 1.5-meter-tall (4'11) female harpy with fiery eyes, red skin, and blood red feathers instead of hair. She has huge feathery wings attached to his arms with large hands tipped with bird talons. She also has bird talons instead of human feet, making her look like Yu-Gi-Oh Harpy Lady. As she flies around, it generates flames like the male imitation of a phoenix and generate Unversed shockwaves when she screams.
Her rampage is finally stopped when two tendrils of shadow from my girls wrap around Harpy's legs and toss her into my arms. Now that I'm in direct contact, the Unversed souls can't escape and are pulled out of Harpy girl's body into the void of my own. As the last Unversed soul is absorbed from her body, Harpy girl's eyes lose their fiery red glow and turn a calm predatory gold. She looks up and sees my monstrous form (I needed to be in this form to absorb souls faster) and faints.
[Quest: 3D3 Disaster: The Unversed]
Summary: 3D3 Labs attempted to create their own Ground Bridge, but it catastrophically failed. Metropolis and caused two massive explosions. They also released the souls from the Bleed – the Unversed.
Objectives:
Rescue Survivors – 773/773 - Complete.
Defeat Unversed Common – 9079/9079 - [Success].
Bonus Objectives:
Defeat [Unversed Meta] - 1/1 - [Success]
Defeat [Unversed Uncommon] – 0/3 - [Failed]
Awards:
[Universal Gifts] x 5
"Uncommon?"
[Unversed Uncommon] - Unversed Souls that have retained their Ego and personalities, instead of becoming the insane instinct-driven common Unversed. While normal Unversed clump together with multiple possessing a single body, an uncommon is a single possessing soul.
"That's not good. I hope Rorschach also got this message."
*DOOM*
A small distance away from the 3D3 Disaster, three figures are calmly walking away. The crowds are too distracted by the smoke from the disaster to notice them.
One is an Asian American standing an impressive 186 cm (6'1"). He's a mild-featured man with brown scholarly hair enhanced by square glasses, along with soft brown eyes. He's dressed in dark clothing with a doctor's white coat, but this medical professional is calmly walking away from the disaster. What would make otherworlders pause is the dark tint of his glasses, which hides his true eyes.
The second is a Japanese man standing around 177.8 cm (5'10). He has dark eyes, pale skin, and short spiky black hair. He's dressed in a black-and-red business suit. As if he was going to an important meeting. He's not walking like a businessman trying to keep dirt of his polished black shoes, instead he walks like a warrior that has experienced thousands of battles.
The third is also a Japanese man standing 181 cm (5'11). He has dark eyes, pale skin, and long wavy black hair tied back in a ponytail. He's dressed in a purple shirt, black pants, and black shoes, with a black jacket with a fake fur collar. He looks at everything around him with a predatory look as if all the people were just prey to toy with.
"We have lost a lot of power. I no longer possess the power I had at my peak" says the first one "Currently, I can only summon my sword."
"It will take us time to recover. We need to get away from these … Heroes now" says the second, his eyes changing for a brief second from black to red. "In this world, wherever there is light - there are also shadows."
"I never thought I would enter an equal partnership. Then again, I didn't think I would do anything after that Priestess made her wish." says the third as he stretches. His back feels a little tender. The pain is due to a mark appears on his back, resembling a burn mark in the shape of a spider.
*DOOM*
Commercial #1
A Dreamworks quality animation begins to play.
A young man with messy brown hair and protective goggles and a lab coat stands in front of a complex chemistry set-up. It's clear he's not in a professional laboratory, as it looks like it could be his parents' basement. He carefully adds a drop of red liquid to the beaker of blue liquid, causing it to change a vivid purple.
"Are you an Inventor? Inventing can be dangerous."
Suddenly, there is an explosion of purple smoke. When the smoke clears, the young man is now a zombie with purple skin and dead white eyes. The time fasts forward to show the zombie scientist outside his house and getting shot to pieces by three neighbors with guns. One is a wearing the parody of a Call of Duty T-Shirt, one is wearing a Resident Evil T-Shirt, and one is an older man who looks to be sponsored by the NRA.
"Do you want to be Safe?"
The scene switches show a woman with long blonde hair holding a container of black rubbery liquid. She is tossed out a building's front door by muscly security guards and a CEO who has an exaggerated handlebar mustache. Time speeds forward to show the same woman in a suit made of black rubber-like material threatening handlebar. The time speeds forward to show her being arrested by a random caped hero and her handcuffed form being put in the back of a van.
"Having trouble selling your ideas? Do you need someone on your side?"
The third scene shows an old Hispano-American man with a very skinny body with long legs and arms. He has spiky grey-blue hair with a bald spot on the back of his head and a unibrow. His tanned grey skin is very wrinkly, and he's dressed in a white lab coat. He looks at a photo showing the Cognito Ground Bridge with a huge dollar sign ($) marked on it. In front of him is a weird device that looks like a Walmart Barcode Scanner.
"Don't copy the works of others."
As he opens a green portal, purple-and-green tentacles emerge from it and grab the old man. They pull him, kicking and screaming into a portal that is just too small. After he's completely inside the portal, there is a loud burp.
"Find your own Shooting Star. STAR Academy – We get rid of the Madness in Mad Scientists and Build a Brighter Future."
The video ends showing the man, the woman, and the discount Rick Sanchez standing in front of a STAR Academy building. The man is holding a vial of purple liquid which is growing beautiful flowers. The woman is holding a black rubber ball that floating above her palm. A grinning Discount Rick is being offered a suitcase full of money for his ideas.
*DOOM*
LexCorp Parking Plaza
Metropolis, Delaware
December 7, 2015
16:38
1POV
"Sometimes I wonder why I bother to take these Quests from Rorschach. I know he's my friend, but some of these wannabes are just annoying."
A week ago, the 3D3 Disaster occurred in Gotham and Metropolis. Other than thousands dying and injured in the chaos, there was an invasion of Bleed-maddened souls known as the Unversed. This event also did something that is typical in comic books, triggered the awakening of superhuman abilities. In this case, it awoke the powers of a group of teenagers who are now calling themselves the Jumpers.
The Jumpers all possess forms of teleportation. While most versions of this ability are harmless by themselves, these kids have been abusing the powers beyond free travel and vacation. Many of them are thieves, stealing whatever they want and then escaping authorities. Cognito is literally the only organization with the resources to capture these teenage criminals
One teleporter can transport anything she can touch including herself. When the objects appear at the site, they displace all matter occupying the same space. That's OK, if the person teleports into the air as that person only displacing atmosphere equal to a human volume. The problem is if that person teleports into a solid object, it gets very destructive. A bunch of security guards tried to ambush her and she accidentally teleported into them, making a very messy explosion. Thankfully due to Cognito Medical, nobody died or was permanently maimed (off course with Cognito super science, there are very few injuries that can't be healed)
She can't teleport objects or herself into me. After Rorschach's numerous experiments and my battle against eldritch abominations, I'm immune to telefragging. What she can do is run away, forcing me to use Cognito portals repeatedly. She even lured me into a parking lot and brought the whole thing down on me by teleporting objects including trashcans, signs, panes, and small cars into the supports.
She screams out into pain and fear as my bone claws pierce her.
"Teleport out and bleed out."
I look at the girl now that she is not running. She is barely fifteen years old with brown eyes, light skin, and black hair dyed purple and styled in a "punk" style. She is dressed in a purple shirt, black shorts, black/purple leggings, and black/purple sneakers. She also wears fingerless black gloves and a black jacket that looks way too big on her.
"Sortir. Alice Lavande. You are under arrest for the Lilas Robbery."
"I... I didn't mean to hurt those guards."
"We got that from the security cameras."
"Lionel Lilas ruined my family, I just wanted to ruin his businesses."
"Cognito is also aware of that. We were already in the process of removing him when the robbery occurred."
"What do you mean? Also, this really hurts!" says Alice looking at where my bone claws are piercing through her. I inject a small amount of Panacea (my reversed Ultimate Acidic Poison) before pulling my claws out. She is scared, but there is no pain, and the wounds vanish with sparkling golden light. "So, what did you mean about removing Lilas?"
"Cognito is a monster of a business, always looking for new prey. Lily & Lavender Jewelry was on the menu and our investigation found out the details."
Three years ago, Lily & Lavender was run by two families, the Lilas and Lavande families. The founders were originally immigrants from France who came to America in the 1940s to escape the war. Both families had been close allies, but mostly due to them always having same gender heirs at the same time, they never merged. 25 years ago, the Lionel Lilas lost his chance with Lorraine Lavande, who married his rival Leon Decardo (who took his wife's more famous name). Three years ago, the Lavande family died in an "accident" except for Alice and Lionel took over her custody.
"So, am I going to prison?"
"You're going to school. META Academy"
"Didn't I kill a bunch of guards!?"
"Nope. You hurt them, but unless you instant gib someone Cognito can put them back together. Cognito Inc also investigated them, and they were willing to drop things. Nobody wants to mess with Cognito."
"What about the others?"
"Barasa, Chunhua, Dirk, and Francesca are fine and will be joining you."
Barasa is an African American youth whose father was heavily involved in the liquor industry and obsessed enough to name his kid "Rum". He used to be a young athlete, until His father was arrested on smuggling charges and Barasa ran away than go to a state home. He gained the ability to teleport by shifting into another dimension – the shadow lands. He was caught by my wife Jade and what's stranger is he's a cousin to Kitaen sisters, so the brat is family. Barasa's father's criminal case is being reexamined by the Cognito lawyers as his business partners are far shadier than he is.
Chunhua is a Chinese immigrant, who came to America after the Dragons. She is a skilled fighter and gymnast, earning her the nickname "Lil' Kung-Fu Girl" from her friends. Her aunt is a Green/Plant-based meta working on the Cognito Farms. The reason she wasn't with her parents was due to a drug addiction, but thanks to Cognito she is not only getting the psychological help, but Cognito Medical has made it literally impossible for her to get physically addicted again. Chunhua's version of teleportation allows her to return to any place she has been before and psychically marked.
Dirk Köhler is American teenager of German descendent and the cook/medic of the Jumpers. His family left Germany in February of 1920; around the same time the Nazi Party was formed. Up until that point, his family was known for making charcoal. In America, they made a small business empire with barbeque and outdoor supplies. Dirk himself was famous for his charcoal drawings and gained the ability to travel through dimensions like Barasa, only through the fire elemental dimension known as The Burn. He stayed away from his parents who were badly injured in the 3D3 Event, because he was afraid that he hurt them.
Francesca Ferrara is Italian-American girl and the mechanic/smart girl of the group. It must run in her blood since her last name means "blacksmith". Ferrara's father and mother with celebrities, until he refused a bunch of Gotham gangsters. She ended up living with her uncle who was mechanic who secretly did a lot of work on criminal cars. Francesca herself was Gadgeteer Genius, who helped design a lot of tricks. She was escaping former clients when the 3D3 explosion happened in Gotham and she found herself in Metropolis with a weird spatial warping ability. Francesca using this ability can travel 10 meters (32.8') in the warp and travel 10 Kilometers (6.2 miles) outside it.
"What about Edward?"
Edward Masen was a pale seventeen-year-old pretty boy who had a small career as a male model. He ruined his career in Gotham when he stalked an emotionally fragile girl and nearly caused her to commit suicide. He gained a deconstruction/scattering form of teleportation in which his body breaks into a sparkling mist and reforms somewhere else. He used this ability to steal and maintain his life of luxury. He also used to it to stalk women, which is how he died. He spied on a Cognito Inc employee's daughter and they tracked him for several city blocks.
"He used to his power too many times escaping from my wife and dispersed completely. All that was left of him was a cloud of sparkles."
*DOOM*
Major's House, Central Building, New World City
Experimental Colony World – Terra-Mare
Day 21 Month 08 Year 2202 AE
(Earth Time: Monday, December 7, 2015)
10:10 (morning)
1POV
Terra-Mare, Latin for Earth-Sea, is one of newer colony worlds of Earth. It's an Earth-size world with similar gravity and atmosphere. The largest difference is the year cycle is 360 days long, instead of Earth's 365 days 6 hours. All 12 months of the planet's calendar are 30 days long with six days per week. There is no need for a day of rest on a planet terra formed by Cognito's machines.
When the planet was ready, a small number of twenty thousand colonists were brought to the world. Time was accelerated in the artificial system and soon the colony grew to a population around twenty million. In this world, those Terra-Mareans have developed a unique culture
Humans can live in shining towers of glass and metal, powered by various eco-friendly power sources and maintained by soft robotic servants of Cognito. Humans on the planet are constantly monitored by machines, allowing them to react to any accident, medical crisis, or any crime in progress. As a result, the planet has a become a planet of long-lived well-educated artists. The complex lack of privacy with very few rules has led the natives abandoning many cultural restrictions.
The Leader of the Colony is a man named Han Dewáng. Thanks to centuries of Cognito Medicine, he's a tall, athletic man of Asian descent with the face of a male supermodel, jade green eyes, tan skin, and short wavy black hair. He's dressed in what appears to be a black silk robe open in the front to show his chest and muscular abdomen.
One of his wives walks in. She is woman of Indian descent with a supermodel's sensual face and a curvy athletic body born of Cognito Medicine and Healthcare. She has dark brown eyes, dark skin, and long black hair. She is also completely nude, when she walks in and only put on a robe to greet her guest. This is very common as I encountered many nudists and barely dressed people on my way to the towers. Every form of gender and marriage is also present on this decadent planet.
These people lack any form of bias. They live lives of pleasure and beauty, and probably don't even have concept of war beyond Cognito video games.
In many ways I'm reminded of Protektorby Charles Platt. It was one of the first books I had ever got from a bookstore, one of the oldest science fiction books I ever bought. Smart robots fulfil your every need, you are biologically immortal, you never need to work, and you never need to worry. There are even buildings for every form of kinky sex, including genetically engineered living sex toys. If Rorschach wasn't genre savvy, I'm sure in eight hundred thousand years, these people would be like the Eloi in H. G. Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine.
"Thank you for coming to our world Mr. Ash Grey. When the first colonists arrived on this world arrived on this world, they doubted they would ever see people of Earth again. The miraculous science of Cognito has provided for us, nurtured us for a very long time. Our entire world is grateful for the blessings of Cognito." says Han, accepting a drink from his wife, "Thank you, Padma."
"I get plenty of thanks. So, what's the problem? "
"Twenty years ago, a portal appeared, and our world received refugees from another Colony world. This colony world [Terra-Caelum] was a far more hostile world and they were given far fewer blessings by Cognito. Most of the refugees of that failed world have adapted well to our world, even if there is a divide between those forming an independent colony on another continent with no help from us and those that have joined our culture. The former would call the later 'surrendering to the decadence'."
"Most?"
"There is a genius scientist among the newcomers, the one that created the portal tech that allowed the evacuation of his city. Despite his heroism, he's rebellious against all government organizations. He's become more and more unstable lately and has gone from merely posting anti-Cognito propaganda to staging terrorist attacks with his robots."
"So, what's his name?"
"Sanchez, Rick Sanchez."
" . . . FFFFFFFFFFF-"
*DOOM*
New World City Zoo, NWC
Experimental Colony World – Terra-Mare
Day 21 Month 08 Year 2202 AE
(Earth Time: Monday, December 7, 2015)
16:30 (sunset)
1POV
When the Terra-Mare Colony was created, instead of importing animals from Earth which could have genetic defects or dangerous pathogens, farm animals were created by Cognito machines. These genetically enhanced clones were implanted with bio-medical implants that carefully monitored their vitals and reaction. If the animal became too stressed or escaped confinement, these implants could also calm the animals. Most interesting is the neural implants could also give the animals copies of the original memories, taking care of any behavior or skills not covered by animal instinct.
The same technology was used to create clone pets and zoo animals. Even after many years, most animals are generated by machines instead of normal breeding, with the exception of ones that were deliberately released into the wild.
I learned all this information on my way to the Zoo. The Party Gamer informed me where this world's version of Rick Sanchez was located, but I'll need all the information to eliminate the man. Thankfully, this Rick isn't the infamous C-137 (the Rickiest Rick) or even Weird Science Rick, so I am not freaking out as much as I would be. After so many experiments by Rorschach, I can only hope I'll be able to kill him before he pulls off something apocalyptic.
As I walk into the Zoo, it's unnaturally quiet. Then, I hear a series of roars and a bunch of zoo animals approach me. At first, they look like normal animals, but I can see unnatural movements with my enhanced senses. Then, their organic shells split apart to reveal a merger of machine and organic components, which includes an extensive arsenal of hi-tech weaponry. I have noticed that Rick likes to use a combination of inorganic and organic technology.
I use my Doom Vision beams to quickly attack the animals, but only the smaller animals like the Penguins, Red Pandas, and Meercats get sliced apart by my deadly beams, while the larger beasts are able to generate shields that weaken the attack. The heat of the attack does burn away some of the organic shell (skin and fur) to reveal the cybernetic metal like Animal Farm meets Terminator.
The Lions and Tigers leaps at me with roars, releasing high temperature flames from their mouth. If I was ordinary human, I would have died in seconds from the heat. Instead, I start grabbing with my now gray fists, crushing what I grab (be it head, leg, or spine) and then toss the animal away from me. As the cyborgs collide with the metal bars, stone walls, and structures of the impressive habitats, they burst apart.
Penguins loaded with smart bombs, Goats with speed boosters, Giraffes with stretchy powers, Polar Bears with ice powers, and Elephants built like siege engines. Where is this lunatic getting his ideas – children's comic books!?
A Giant Anthropomorphic Panda lands in front of me like an extra from a martial arts film. He's in a dragon kung-fu stance and holding a metal staff much like a martial artist would hold a wooded staff. I take one good look at him, then unleash my Abyss Roar. The kung-fu Panda doesn't have time to react as he's surrounded in white light and sound. He then disintegrates, the softer organic components going first, followed by the harder robotic components.
"I'm getting sick of Kung-Fu Panda rip-offs. The original films were great, but their can only be one dragon warrior and that's Po."
The next group really makes me angry as it's a troop of Gorillas. Gorillas are some of my most favorite animals and now I must fight versions that look like rip-offs of Optimus Primal's techno-organic form from Beast Machines – a mix of organic gorilla and glowing technology. I can't even take them out them gently as Rick has them attack with kinetic-boosted blows. The second those super strong punches amplified to a thousand-fold strike the nigh indestructible object that is me, those limbs explode like rotten bananas air cannoned into a wall.
The Cheetah bot runs past me at massively hypersonic speeds, but it's impossibly sharp blades shatter against my grey hide causing it to tumble out of control. It breaks many of its body parts before smashing through the Alpha Gorilla and then hitting the wall hard enough to go splat. The giant Gorilla has a shocked look on its face as synthetic fluids and cables collapse into the hole made, then it keels over "dead".
I feel something smash into me and the sound an energy barrier shattering. I turn around to find the mangled remains of Mecha Mountain Goat.
Suddenly, I hear a lot of screeching and more than hundred cyborg monkeys emerge from the shadows.
"Connor, I'm beginning to understand your hatred of monkeys."
*DOOM*
Rick must be panicking as he's sending big robots to slow me down. I've wiped out the cybernetically altered zoo animals, now I have to deal with the Keepers and the Clowns.
The Keepers are the large heavy-built robots designed to handle multiple large animals including elephants, hippos, and rhinos. These black-and-white machines look humanoid with very round features like Hulk Buster armor used by Iron Man. The Keeper armor is designed to absorb impacts, allowing them to slow the charges of animals without hurting them. It also made them immune to bludgeoning, piercing, sonic, and other kinetic attacks that could be done by humans. The Keepers were also designed to possess superhuman strength be they the two-meter-tall A-type, three-meter-tall B-type, or the three-meter-tall C-type.
I'm surprised when one of these Keeper's survives one of my punches. The black rubbery armor on its chest is caved in, but seconds later it pops back into place as if nothing happened. My second stronger punch knocks it back and causes it to vent gases from its body, but it still returns to normal. It tries to capture me using a spray of some sort that hardens into a hard durable rubber. I can't just punch my way out of the "tire rubber" so I use one of my skills to burn it off. It's heat resistant enough not to burn, but it does decompose enough for me to escape it. I then deliver a third punch, which has the desired effect as the Keeper is crushed releasing sprays of gas and synthetic fluids. Instead of reforming, it collapses lifeless to the ground covered in electrical arcs.
I then proceed to annihilate three dozen more Keepers (a dozen of each type) with far more ease than the original unit, now that my strength is calibrated. I have one thing to say at the fall of the last one - "Conservation of Ninjutsu".
The clown robots on the other hand creep me out. I have fought reality-warping Lovecraftian cosmic horrors and humanoid abominations, but these creepy clowns look like something that would give the soul-possessed animatronics from Five Nights at Freedy's severe nightmares. I don't know if these things were meant to look like this or this version of Rick has more issues than normal, but I think drug use was involved.
The clowns have big creepy eyes and grins, that only Joker would enjoy, and rubber hose arms and legs like characters from old timey cartoons from the 1920s. Some of them are round fat men, while the others are rail-thin men. Originally, they were probably designed to generate balloons, sprays of colored water, and generate treats like soft serve and cotton candy. Now, they are generating toxic gases, sprays of corrosive chemicals, and synthetic pathogens. Even when I try to burn them away, the chemicals combine to create corrosive fire.
All it does is slow me down because I can't see anything in the fire and smoke. I'm quick to guess these robots don't have the same shielding as the cyborg animals and sweep the area with my Doom Vision. The deadly beams melt and slice through the clowns and the flammable chemicals within them detonate. Soon, I emerge from the flames in pursuit of Rick Sanchez.
*DOOM*
I recognize many of weapons used against me
Armor-piercing explosive coil gun rounds. These rounds are electromagnetically fired at high velocity, reach armor-melting temperatures before they hit the target, and explode when they are deep in the target. Normal ones are only 15 cm (5.9 inches) but can turn an elephant into giblets. These ones are over three meters in length, big enough to take down any kaiju smaller than Godzilla
Radiogenic Nano explosive rounds. They are microscopic molecular machines that penetrate living targets and simultaneously detonate like miniature nukes. Each one is small enough to infiltrate a living human cell and detonates with enough radiation to kill the surrounding cells. A swarm detonating makes a person swell up and explode like a villain in Fist of the North Star or the aliens in that anime Gantz.
The Absolute Zero Cannon makes me wince. It's able to lower its target to nearly absolute zero causing it to shatter on a molecular level. When Rorschach used it on me, it managed to badly damage me, and I was forced to cannibalize my fragments to prevent them from turning into something really dangerous.
Plasma Ionizer Beam is a beam of super-conductive ionized matter that also delivers high amounts of electricity to the target. It's essentially a god-tier taser that Rorschach nicknamed the Lightning Caster. It's also similar to the Lightning Guns in the Fallout series that Rorschach loves.
Multi-wavelength laser beam emitter is a high energy laser weapon that can change its wavelength from infrared to visible light to ultraviolet and gamma. The emitter is designed to find a frequency that is the most efficient against the target, such as green kryptonite radiation against Superman
Electron shell disruptor is a weapon that produces a beam that disrupts the flow of electrons around nuclei, breaking the bonds that hold molecules together. Rorschach's version was the prototype to his anti-metal beam and de-carbonizer, which only disrupt the electrons around heavier metal and carbon nuclei, respectively.
Gravity Beam Emitter is a an extremely powerful directed-energy weapon that is essentially Repulsor Rays on steroids. A thin beam of pure force so intense it causes atomic reactions in the air and targets. Rorschach's version is his most piercing weapon, capable of penetrating most armor and city blocks.
Micro-singularity Shooter essentially firing microscopic pseudo-singularities capable of consuming individual atoms like microscopic black holes. Phased Fusion Beams shoot intangible particles into a target, that become solid again inside the target causing a fusion reaction. Matter transmuter rearranges subatomic particles turning the elements in a target into other elements. Positron and Antiproton Emitters fire beams of anti-matter that annihilate the atomic particles of matter. The only difference between the two is a Proton has 1,836 times the mass of an electron, so bigger bang.
Nova-class neutrino beam emitter. Strong nuclear disruptor. Quantum field separator. Heavy particle cannon. Vacuum Energy Blaster. Chrono Disruptor. Nano-Portal Grinder. Dimensional Disruptor.
"Doesn't anything kill you!?" says Colonist Rick, as I ignore the rupture in spacetime and tear through the last 5 cm (2") thick super-alloy security door like it's a layer of aluminum foil.
"Weird Science Rick's tests were very extensive." I say as I deliver a super punch, only for Rick to shatter into a cloud of pseudo-holographic particles. Hundreds of holo-Ricks appear to laugh and taunt me, so I sweep the room with my Doom Vision. What I don't expect is weird force fields to reflect my beam back on me. It doesn't damage me, but it's painful like indigestion from overeating. I then use some of my destructive powers to shatter the room, destroy the force field and pseudo-holographic emitters.
Rick throws out devices from his pockets, which burst open and grow into grotesque blobs of flesh with his distorted eyes and hair. They resemble the blobs Rick (C-137) used against the Citadel guards at the end of the season 5 finale "Rickmurai Jack". As I punch Rick with my gray fist, he doesn't move. Instead, the kinetic energy is transferred to the blobs. I don't give him time to react as I speed up my punches and the blobs quickly overload and explode. Without the blobs, my blows shatter bone to powder. Rick tumbles across the room and smashes into a wall hard enough to make a crater.
"Didn't... Didn't expect that?" says Colonist Rick coughing up a lot of blood.
"You are no C-137."
"Fuck... You." says Rick, "Fuck... This Fake World. I am Rick... Fucking... Sanchez."
"Fake World? So, that's the reason! You learned Cognito created this world and its people to test ideas before humanity expands into the dangerous regions of space. Rick Sanchez would enslave a civilization to be his car battery but would never tolerate being the toy of someone else."
Suddenly, a hidden door opens and a three-metal-tall (9'10) object resembling a pure white egg rises on a platform. With one last "FU", Rick Sanchez dies and the Egg hatches to reveal Rick in a new body. It's not a typical clone of Rick Sanchez like those made by Project Phoenix, instead this version is ripped like when he and his granddaughter Summer beat up Satan; no, I'm not joking. A tall, super muscular, and younger body, which is thankfully dressed in some sort of Solar suit.
"Oh Yeah! How do like this motherfucker!? While you were fighting my disposable minions, I was making a new body based on yours. Super Rick!"
"Big Mistake. I have a Bonus against other Doomsdays."
*Six minutes Later*
In a devastated forest far from the cities, the long battle finally concludes. There is now a monstrous crater in the Earth, one illuminated by lava spewing from the wound in the planet. If Cognito technology didn't clean the planet's atmosphere the dust in the air would be causing firestorms, following by global cooling. Even with the technology, the cities could be dealing with earthquakes for the next few months. Nothing remains of the mad scientist in pseudo-Kryptonian flesh, while I float above the crater using my Legion ring.
[Quest: Save Terra-Mare]
Summary: Rorschach has created the artificial colony world of [Terra-Mare], which is now threatened by a mad scientist and his armies of cyborgs and robots.
Objectives:
Subjugate [Mad Scientist] - Complete – Rick Sanchez Eliminated.
Eliminate Cyborgs – Complete – 108/108
Eliminate Robots – Complete – 30/30
Avoid Civilian Causalities - [Success]
Mission Status: [Complete]
Rewards:
Universal Gifts x 20
Title: [Rick-Bane] - Increased EXP Gain, Damage and Damage Resistance against [Archetype: Mad Scientist]. Increased Damage against [Archetype: Malevolent Robot] and [Combat Cyborgs].
Title: [Micro-Hero] - Increased Luck and EXP in [Micro-Verses] and [Pocket Dimensions].
"Stubborn Old Man."
*DOOM*
Commercial #2
Animal Conservation
A quote in white appears on a black screen.
"Conservation biology is the study of the conservation of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an interdisciplinary subject drawing on natural and social sciences, and the practice of natural resource management." - Wikipedia
The screen then shows Cognito's solutions. Ocean Cleaners cleansing the ocean of plastic and petrochemicals. Cognito City Polaris and its siblings countering the effects of global warming. Cognito's Rad Eater Worms consuming nuclear material and cleansing contaminated water and soil. Cognito's lush eco-friendly farms and various other eco-friendly technologies. Some of these technologies have caused the price of petroleum to drop worldwide.
"Conservation may be classified as either in-situ conservation, which is protecting an endangered species in its natural habitat,"
The screen splits to show multiple 3D animated scenes which include a South American tropical rainforest, a mountain area of North America, the African Savannah, and a mist-covered mountainous area of Asia. Each one has endangered animals – a Bighorn Sheep from California, an Amazonian Manatee, an African Elephant, and a Giant Panda - being chased by stereotypical ethnically diverse Poachers. They go off screen and then there is screaming. The Poachers run back the way they went, a group of 3D animated Cognito Robots flying after terrified Poachers.
"Or ex-situ conservation, which occurs outside the natural habitat"
Images of a DNA molecule, then scientists and robots gathering samples in a lab. Majestic zoos, impossibly large on the inside, providing secure suitable habitats for each animal. The artificial nature of the place is disguised, so there is nothing to stress the animals. In laboratories, various Endangered Species ranging from Vulnerable to Critically Endangered, and even some animals that are listed as Extinct, are resurrected using Cognito's cloning technology.
"We create the perfect habitats for our animal friends, and we will save the species, even if human greed and foolishness sent them to extinction."
A group of children look up in awe at a Brontosaurus, a gigantic quadruped sauropod dinosaur that was extinct in the mundane world for a 145 million years. There is also a scene of extraterrestrial children (humanoids with gold eyes, blue skin and white hair) looks at an extraterrestrial animal with the same awe. The animal is pseudo-reptilian quadruped with orange skin, a long neck, and a mane of red hair like a horse.
"We even recreate lost wonders to educate and inspire."
Images of various Elemental Metahumans – Most of them being the plant-manipulating Green user and animal-transformation Red users. There are also pillars of light, the spirit portals that have opened around the world after the Day of the Dragons.
"In a world of superhumans and supernatural defenders of the Earth, can you afford not to take the Eco Solution?"
Weird Science Rick walks onto screen and turns to the camera.
"We are COGNITO ECO – We have solutions to all of Nature's Problems."
*DOOM*
Hellfire Club
London, England
Monday, June 20, 2016
16:00
1POV
[NEW Seven Sin Quests] - Save the world from the followers of the New Seven Sins.
I look at the people in the room and wonder again if I should turn off Party Gamer notifications.
Years ago, I travelled to hell to rescue Raven from a corrupt Isekai Hero. I ended up starting a war with the demon lord Asmodeus after killing his son for taking Raven as a slave. We eventually left Hell after killing Asmodeus, but what I didn't know was a arm severed when attacked by bounty hunters spawned my incarnation – Obsidian Black. Obsidian has spent years slaughtering the remaining demon lords to the point most demon summoning spells and rituals used by dark wizards no longer work.
A group of angels considered invading to increase the dominion of the Heavens, but there are two major blocks for their plans. The first is the Day of the Dragons led to rise of the Elementals around the world, which negates a good portion of heaven's influence on Earth. The second is Obsidian Black is just as capable and willing of slaughtering angels and the forces of heaven in Hell. The creation of the New DR-52 Multiverse essentially slammed the door on future plans.
With the decimation of the pureblood demons and the restriction of the heavens, a group of half-demons have taken the opportunity to gain power on Earth. These half-demons are smart enough not to put themselves in conflict with the "rulers of Earth" - Cognito Inc and The Light. Instead, they have each set up businesses around the world that have working relationships with the two organizations.
"It's far easier to banish pureblood demons who were born in Hell, than half-demons born on Earth. Also, unlike Demons who become reliant on their own powers and tradition, the younger half-demons are clever enough to understand and exploit the human world."
"Get to the point, Jackson!"
Mr. Jackson is mature dignified man in his late fifties with gray eyes and graying dark brown hair with a goatee. He has small glasses and is dressed like Catholic Priest with a long coat covering the uniform. Mr. Jackson apparently learned of me from Constantine and was impressed by a metahuman capable of killing a Demon Lord. Cognito Inc is also known for their solutions, and I'm listed as one of their problem solvers. Seriously, do they think I'm Cognito Dark
"Sorry. The problem is the Seven Sins, that's what they are called. We got a prophecy that one of them will trigger a major conflict that could kickstart the apocalypse. We... the Church want you to investigate."
"Why not send in your own men or paranormal detectives?"
If he knows John Constantine and the other possible Justice League Dark members, why not use them?
"In the case of the former, we would like to avoid causing a major conflict. The loss of demon summoning and the contract with Hell means most of the black magicians and devil worshippers are now under their banner. This gives us some stability."
I can kind of see that. If all the bad guys are in big organizations, the more radical and dangerous ones can be eliminated. It's kind of how like in Mafia film, while they may be an organization of criminals, any drug dealer selling in their neighborhoods is going to get hung from a lamppost.
"In the case of the later, there have been several incidents lately which caused a lot of property damage and loss of life. Most of them involving Constantine, so we are reluctant to hire them."
Constantine, you bloody bad luck charm.
*DOOM*
Goldstein Building
– Gold Stone Corporation.
New York City, NY
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
5:25
1POV
Gary Gabriel Goldstein, the Sin of Pride. A tall, athletic man with amber eyes, short golden hair, and an impressive thick mustache. He has a look of arrogance and nobility. He's dressed in a dark expensive three-piece suit with polished black shoes and a polished golden watch.
Pride is a businessman, a multibillionaire and genius of industry. A man who donates greatly to various charities not because he's kind but because he loves the praise from others. This arrogant man is very confident in a battle, but he has reason to be.
His father Gabriel Goldstein made a contract with a demon to have an heir worthy of his empire sacrificing the sons he had with his wife and mistress.
"No need to worry. I can't copy power that doesn't belong to humans. I can't copy the powers of aliens or powers that have magical origins. I don't know what you are, but I can imagine its powerful to be sent to me." boasts Pride, his voice filled with so much arrogance, he sounds like Escanor. "So, what problem do you have with me?"
He possesses the power of [Enhanced Power & Skill Replication], meaning he's able to able to copy the skills and special abilities of others near him and use them at a higher level. Literally "anything you can do; I can do better" on the level of a Mary-Sue.
"My problem is not with you, but your little Five-Man Band – the G-Elite."
Pride can enhance the superhuman abilities and related skills of those he's contracted. This allows metahumans with weak abilities to enhance their abilities to compete in the world of superhumans. The only real problem is Pride's Corporate Heroes are a bunch of flashy Primadonna celebrities.
[Seven Sins Quests] - 1/7 - [Pride of the Elite]
Subjugate the G-Elite – 0/5
"My original team? They have become a problem recently, but due to the contract we signed I can't eliminate them. It was so impressive, they refused to sign a contract unless I put in a clause that I wouldn't harm them. They had such potential to be great heroes that I agreed, but they wasted what I gave them."
"Can you call them in?"
"That will be no problem."
Five corporate heroes walk in, and I hold back laughing. It's clear as day these idiots are based on the Justice League members.
There is a blue-eyed blonde based on Superman with a patriotic American theme. A sexy Amazonian woman in a small amount of gold eagle-themed armor and tiara. A man dressed in completely in black with a owl-like mask and hooded black cloak. A green-eyed blonde Atlantean dressed in a green wetsuit with ocean themed armor. The last is an African American speedster dressed in a green/gold speedster suit.
"Why did you call us in, Mr. Goldstein?" says the Superman expy, the obvious leader of the group.
"This is Ash Grey, a member of the Cognito SPB division. He's here to talk to you five."
"The reason I'm here is because of the crimes you five have committed." I say, as Rorschach and the Party Gamer fed me the data. I figured these guys had committed crimes heinous enough to attract the Gamer's attention and I'm glad I can justify what I am about to do to them. "A flying brick responsible for the destruction of a highjacked airplane and the deaths of its passengers. An amazon wannabe that caused a pile up by being intoxicated on the job. A masked vigilante that not only killed more people than the criminals he killed but caused excessive collateral damage and loss of innocent life. An Atlantean who sold kingdom secrets to Black Manta before he became a hero and staged crimes after he became a hero, some which caused loss of life. Finally, a speedster who was so high he performed hit and runs without a vehicle."
On the walls, hidden screens display the video evidence taken by Cognito's cameras. There is enough evidence in these videos to put the Elite away for the next century.
The G-Elite look panicked at the exposure of their crimes and some of them turn to Mr. Goldstein, who's calmly drinking his Cognito Coffee.
"I gave you the power you wanted, and you could have become the pride of the company. Instead, you wasted it like a bunch of Hollywood celebrities. Consider yourself Fired."
The Speedster turns to escape, but I use my own speed to appear in front of him and put my hand next to the side of his face. I say, "too slow", before delivering a slap. The blow is extremely light for me, like swatting away an insect, but it's bone-breaking to the speedster who tumbles to the ground unconscious.
The Superman expy punches me in the face, but it fails to even move me, much to his disbelief. I then deliver a backhand slap that knocks him onto the black-clad vigilante who was getting ready to pull out oddly shaped weapons, most likely explosives. There is bang underneath the two bodies to indicate I was right.
The Amazonian's supernaturally sharp sword comes down on the back of my neck and shatters. In response, I deliver a hard blow that spins her head around 180 degrees and breaks her neck. There is a pause as she drops to her knees and coughs up blood before dying.
The Atlantean traitor stares at me in fear as I stare at him like an unblinking shark. He then falls to knees and surrenders. It's also clear he wet himself.
The Superman expy isn't done as he's enraged by the faux-Amazonian's death. He rises to his feet to charge at me, only for me to grab him by the throat in a grip his immense pseudo-super strength can't overcome. I use my Doom Vision and stop just before the beams can burn out the back of my enemy's skull.
The one thing about being a monster that makes it impossible to be a hero. Killing and part of you enjoying it.
*DOOM*
Sweet Candy Entertainment
London, United Kingdom
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
10:03
1POV
Candace Crimson, the Sin of Lust, also known to Candy to her bed partners and Miss Crimson to her employees. She is tall curvy beauty with green eyes, light skin, long thick red hair, and large breasts. She looks like a seductress from a porn film, but her eyes are filled with cunning intelligence. She is dressed in a near skintight bright red dress with expensive golden jewelry
Lust is a businesswoman running part of the vacation industry. She runs luxury hotels and condos, high-end beach resorts, and decadent island paradises. She also runs several cruise ships that are strictly for adults only. All her businesses are meant to bring people together for adult entertainment and she also has many political and business connections.
"So, Mr. Gray. Can I call you Ash?"
"Yes."
Candace was born of the Gotham Hedonist Society, conceived in an orgy in which they used drugs to abandon all reason and somehow all the protections, including the morning after pill failed. The woman who gave birth to her had the child put up for adoption and the adorable baby was quickly adopted. She spent many years as a model. First as a child model of her parent's fashion company and child actor in a popular series. She had bigger roles in films and tv series as she got older, and finally did some adult work when she reached adulthood. She married rich and created her empire using his money.
"Ash, I have a question. Most men are stunned by my beauty and charmed by my powers, but not you?"
"I'm married to six of the most beautiful women in the world and I spent years in Hell fighting the forces of Archdemon Asmodeus, whose considered the demon lord of lust. It takes more than a pretty face and a pair of pretty big breasts to seduce me."
"Oh My. So, what does Cognito want with me?"
She has powers that make her an embodiment of lust, able to manipulate lust in others and replicate any sexual powers. These powers don't appear to be impressive until you realize her metahuman followers are all Euphorians, much like deceased Apostle of Cocaine - Snowflame. This makes her the second strongest of the Seven Stars of Sin next to Pride.
[Seven Sins Quests] - 2/7 - [Out of Control Lust]
Subjugate the Rogue Euphorians – 0/3
Lust's followers are Euphorians – they are superpowered beings whose powers are connected to pleasure and excitement. When the half-demon awakens a person, they gain superhuman abilities based on what gives them excitement, which includes parahuman abilities from various paraphilias.
It reminds me of the Speed Grapher anime, an anime I picked up at Walmart during a Summer special along with Negima, Trinity Blood, and Tsukuyomi MOON PHASE (what a weird selection). In the SG Anime, a secret fetish club for the ultra-wealthy exploited a young girl called Kagura whose fluids combined with a virus granted superhuman abilities. Remarkably it wasn't a hentai and had a case where both protagonist (Tatsumi Saiga) and antagonist (Chōji Suitengu) won – the former saving Kagura and allowing her to live a normal life (at the cost of his sight), the latter wiping out the corrupt Japan's economy (even as he died).
"I'm looking for Rogue Euphorians."
"I do have three problem children. Normally, Euphorians live hedonistic lifestyles living for pleasure and experience. We tend to stay away from mundane, unless those people are looking to have an experience. These three children are going around stealing and are hard to catch. We don't want to attract the authorities, especially the Heroes."
"Do you know where I can look for them?"
"Do you promise you won't kill them, Monster of Cognito?"
"I will do my best."
"Paris. My problem children are in Paris."
*DOOM*
Louvre Museum
Musée du Louvre, 75001
Paris, France
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Nighttime
3POV
The Louvre or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre), is the world's most-visited museum in the world, and a historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo. At any given point in time, approximately 38,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are being exhibited over an area of 72,735 square meters (782,910 square feet).
Candy Crimson's problem children have arrived. Their human names are not important, but their Euphorian names are Smoker, Phantom Thief Angelique, and Sanguine.
Smoker is a man in his thirties with gray eyes behind dark googles, pale skin, and short gray hair. He also wears dark gray and black clothing that's perfect for stealth. He wears a black shirt, gray pants, and black boots with black gloves and a black beret-style hat. He also has a cigarette in his mouth which is producing an abnormal amount of unnatural smoke.
Smoking fetishism (also known as capnolagnia) is a sexual fetish based on the pulmonary consumption (smoking) of tobacco, most often via cigarettes, cigars, cannabis, pipes and hookahs to some extent. When Smoker became a Euphorian he gained the meta-ability of [Smoke Mimicry]. This means he can transform parts of his body into smoke to avoid physical attacks, extend his reach and bypass physical limits.
Phantom Thief Angelique is a beautiful young woman with blue eyes, tan skin, and long flowing black hair currently tied back in a braid, so it doesn't get in the way. She wears a black outfit that is either skintight and ultrathin or merely body paint. She also wears dark gloves, boots, a black domino mask on her face, and a black mask around her lower face.
Kleptophilia is a sexual fetish involving stealing and is the sexual form of kleptomania. She not only gets excitement from stealing the property of others, but pleasure from it. Her transformation into a Euphorian gave her a short-range teleportation ability that allows her to steal any object that can be held in her hand.
Sanguine is the most bizarre looking one. She is a young woman with red eyes including sclera, pale white skin, and shoulder-length snow white hair. Her black nails and sharp canines only add to her Gothic vampire look. She is dressed in black top and shorts with numerous straps, with strappy black boots, fishnet leggings, fingerless gloves, fishnet sleeves, and a black chocker.
Hematolagnia is a fetish of drinking or looking at blood, one of the reasons for the vampire lifestyle (an alternative lifestyle and subculture based around the mythology of and popular culture based on vampires.). As a Euphorian she is unique in that she has two abilities – [Blood Manipulation] and [Blood Empowerment]. She can both manipulate blood of herself and others to the point of solidifying it into weapons and tools and become stronger by spilling and being in contact with blood.
They are about to stage a robbery on the Louvre, when they hear the loud rock music of AC/DC and see something descending like a rocket from the sky. It's revealed to be a red, white, and blue robot landing in the superhero pose and undamaged due to an energy field. Pip – Iron Patriot of Cognito Inc and Champion of the Metal – rises to his metal feet and looks at the three with his eyes glowing.
Smoker begins to dissolve into gray-white smoke to either attack or flee. Angelique is wondering if she can steal a vital part from the robot or at least slow it down so she and her friends can escape. Sanguine slices open her own hand and the blood flows in the air, forming blade-like shapes.
"I'm glad Uncle Ash invited me to the Party." says Pip before releasing a pink-white beam from his uni-beam chest plate. The three wannabe thieves have superhuman reflexes, but they are no match for the lightspeed Pleasure Beam that washes over them. The effect is almost instantaneous.
"OH MON DIEU!"
Smoker's body explodes into an immense cloud of smoke, that continues to grow and grow, spreading across the Louve grounds. The smoke generation then stops and an emaciated Smoker minus his beret collapses to the ground with smoke streaming from every orifice. He lets out a cough that blows a small black cloud into the air.
Angelique glitches like a low-frame video game character, teleporting around the area. Various items from clothing to watches and jewelry appear and disappear with each teleport. Finally, her now completely naked body, without a single item on her or in her, collapses on the ground. Even the string that held her braid together is gone, leaving her hair spread around her head.
Euphorian Sanguine's orgasmic rollercoaster is the most terrifying as her skin become veiny and turns a reddish-purple. It moves around like a marionette making disturbing bone-cracking sounds. It reminds Pip of Bloodbending from the episodes of Avatar and Korra that Uncle Ash had him watch. Thanks to being an enhanced techno-organic cybertronian transformer, he was able to watch many hours of the award-winning show in seconds.
It gets worse when the blood erupts from every orifice and vein in her body. It's like her body had ten times the human amount of blood at high pressure and the container just shattered. Uncle Ash would probably make a BLEACH comparison.
Pip looks down at Sanguine to see if she is somehow alive after losing a ludicrous amount of blood. She not only appears to be completely healthy, without a single cut on her flawless skin, but has an Ahegao – the hentai face of rolling or crossed eyes, protruding tongue, and slightly reddened face, to show enjoyment or ecstasy.
[Seven Sins Quests] - 2/7 - [Out of Control Lust]
Subjugate the Rogue Euphorians – 3/3 - [Complete]
Candace "Candy" Crimson would later purchase a commercial version of the Pleasure Ray from Cognito Inc.
*DOOM*
Commercial #3
Fertility Clinic
The scene opens to reveal families playing together in a park. A young woman walks on screen and addresses the audience.
"Cognito Inc makes solutions for the future. Many couples want children, but nature can be chaotic. Cognito has helped others and they can help you."
The scene shifts to show a woman with chestnut brown hair appears.
"I was told due to my accident I could never have children by the doctors. Cognito fixed my injuries and I now have a wonderful daughter."
A young man with black hair and a beard appears.
"I was crippled and burnt by a villain attack. My boys were lost in those flames. Cognito healed me completely and my wife is expecting."
A gorgeous blonde woman with blue eyes and big breasts appears.
"I was once a woman trapped in an ugly male body. I felt trapped in my own skin. Now, I'm the person I wanted to be, the person I should have been. I'm also three months pregnant with my husband's child."
A young redhaired man with sideburns that scream Irishman appears.
"I was once a handsome lad trapped in an unhappy lass. I went to Cognito and they gave me the body of my dreams. Thanks to them, I found someone to love and to be the mother of my child."
A young Chinese woman with green eyes, green marked skin, and long dark green hair appears.
"The Day of the Dragons changed me and gave me powers, but it took away many other things. I was told neither me nor my wife would never be able to carry a child. Cognito proved their genius, and we not only gave birth to our children, but children that came from the both of us."
A well-built African American man appears.
"My husband's one regret is his family heritage would die with him. Even if we adopted a child, he wouldn't carry his blood, the blood of father and grandfather. Cognito's genius geneticists did a miracle and gave us a son with both our genes."
Thousands of more people appear on screen, until each video is no bigger than a pixel. Their voices merge, but the common message is "Cognito helped me." and "Cognito solved my problems."
The doctor appears back on screen.
"Cognito Inc has all of the solutions for the future and children are the Future."
"COGNITO - Gender and Fertility Clinic"
*DOOM*
Jackpot 4 Casino
Los Angeles, California, USA
Thursday, June 23, 2016
20:20
Jamal Joshia Joe Jackson, the Sin of Greed. A tall, muscular man of African descent with gold eyes, black skin, and bald head. He's dressed in a fancy purple shirt, black pants, and black shoes. He also wears sunglasses, purple-gold jewelry (gold necklace and rings), a fancy hat, and a coat with purple fur collar. The coat combined with his fancy cane make him look like a Pimp.
Greed runs businesses related to money – a bank, an insurance company, a money-lending operation, but his main business is a set of casinos in the major gambling cities – Los Angeles, London, Paris, San Jose, Atlantic City, Marina Bay, Monte Carlo, and Los Vegas. He has a firm understanding of economics and what humanity will do for money.
He was born when his desperate gambler of a grandfather made a deal with a demon and months after his disappearance his pregnant mother wandered in from the desert. The woman had no memory of what happened to her, and the police were unable to determine who had abducted her, but she decided to keep the baby. Greed's grandfather enjoyed ten years with his lucky grandson, until he got drunk and hit his daughter. Grandpa was then involved in a fatal vehicular accident the next day.
Greed's special ability is [Probability Manipulation], how likely an event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. This allows him to win and succeed in businesses that involve risk and chance. He can even manipulate the "luck" of his subordinates – draining luck from those not active and enhancing the luck of active agents.
"When we first heard that Cognito's Indestructible Monster was going to be visiting us, me and the other Sins thought you would be ripping our spines out like Obsidian did to our infernal relatives. I'm glad we are getting a better deal. So, you want the name of the troublemakers?"
Greed's super powered beings are unique in that they are part of the "Power Trade". Greed has a second ability in which a SPB can buy and sell their supernatural abilities. This means someone who wants to be normal or is desperate for money can sell their powers and hero wannabe can buy the powers they want.
[Seven Sins Quests] - 3/7 - [Greed's Repo]
Subjugate the Bad Customers - 0/4
*Doom*
Greed's Bad Customers weren't like I expected.
A young man awoke a meta-ability that granted him immense [Super Strength] and durability, but the grotesquely muscular body interfered with his desire to become a doctor in the future. So, he sold the high tier Super Strength and Durability power to Greed for a sizable amount of cash, enough to pay for medical school.
Greed eventually sold the power to a low-level criminal on payment plans. The customer eventually became a major gang leader leading a group of pan-Asians commanded by metahumans. In some ways it reminds me of one of the parahuman-led gangs from Taylor's Earth-Bet. He stopped making payments to Greed when he finally achieved gang domination.
The second I appeared, most of the gang abandoned him and the dumber ones quickly learned they didn't have a child's snowball's chance in the Seventh Circle of Hell against me. It's doesn't matter if it's guns or meta-abilities, I'm a fortress. I might as well be playing Minecraft in creative mode. Greed was more than happy to take back the Strength power form the unconscious Leader, as well as the powers from the other gang members.
The next client was someone who bought [Flight]. The original owner of the power suffered from Acrophobia (fear of heights) and wasn't able to enjoy her meta-ability, so she sold it for vacation money. The buyer was excited about gaining Flight but missed several payments. Cognito was able to locate the customer in a Cognito hospital, having gone too high during a flight and passed out. The only reason she survived was because Superman caught her. At first, she was upset at losing her power, but Cognito has other ways to grant flight and with many more safeties.
The third power was the classic [Super Speed]. The original owner was a professional athlete who didn't want his career ruined by a meta-ability. Those with physical enhancement meta-abilities are banned from professional sports and the Olympics due to the clear unfairness. There are some companies that are starting metahuman sports programs, where superspeed races can be watched using high speed camera much like Formula One Racing.
The customer was a Flash fanboy who always dreamed of being like his hero. After buying the power he desired, he tried to integrate himself in the Flash family. When that eventually failed, he joined a group of Corporate Heroes in Flash's hometown of Central City. I was questioning why I was hunting non-Cognito corporate Hero when I learned this company was staging some of their crimes. This is the same kind of shit that Reverse Flash and Albert Maverick did! I had Cognito expose the company, the innocent heroes were absorbed by Cognito, while the guilty were stripped of their powers with Greed getting his product back.
The fourth power was surprising - [Healing]. Healing is a very special meta-ability, one that is desired by many. The ability to save a life with a touch is miraculous, so the idea of selling it is strange. The original owner was a former criminal with a bloody past, one who didn't believe he deserved the power he awakened. So, he arranged for his niece to get his power via Greed. The customer was a veterinarian who used the limited healing ability to help animals.
I found out the reason she missed payments was because she was kidnapped.
"Doesn't anything stop this monster!?" says one of the two kidnappers. A tall, muscular Hispanic man in a heavy metal t-shirt and jeans. He is firing an assault rifle at me as I slowly, menacing walk towards him. I don't even feel the bullets, even the one the nails me in the eye. Every step increases his fear and panic, much to the delight of my inner monster.
"We need to run, bro!" says the other kidnapper. He's shorter and leaner than his brother with long messy hair. He also dressed in a white sleeveless shirt and jeans and armed with an inferior rifle.
"Where!? He's blocking the only way out!"
In one movement of super speed, I grab the guns from them and squeeze. The gun metal is as soft as Play-Doh in my fingers, the metal coming out between them. The friction is so great the former barrels are glowing with heat.
"What the hell are you?"
"I am Death and I have come for you." I say looking down at the cowering criminals.
"Why?" says the younger brother, whose brain must be malfunctioning.
"You kidnapped a kind veterinarian who used her healing ability to help animals. You kidnapped her and locked her in a cage like an animal. You forced her to heal those poor dogs that were hurt over and over again. Dogs hurt in your horrific dog fights." I say with a growl, my eyes glowing with malice and anger. This case has pissed me off.
The younger brother looks ready to faint, but whispers "Mercy."
"Mercy? All out of mercy."
Hours later, the young Veterinarian was completely healed by Cognito Inc and reunited with her family. The traumatic memories of her kidnapping, incarceration, and constantly healing maimed animals were erased. It's better to have a little memory loss, than crippling psychological trauma.
The fight dogs were taken from their horrible owners and taken to Cognito-owned Veterinary shelters. Cognito nanomedicine would heal wounds even the meta-vet could not and erase the psychological problems that would have forced authorities to destroy half the dogs.
As for the horrible owners, most of them were arrested for animal cruelty. The exceptions were the Hispanic owners of the actual Dog Fighting Ring. Their mangled corpses were found stuffed into a pair of dirty blood-stained dog carriers in defiance of physics. The investigating police officers, after they stopped vomiting, couldn't figure out how the steroid user and his brother had been stuffed into them. The best guess was superpowered bullshit.
*DOOM*
Ecstasy Cosmetics
San Francisco, California
Friday, June 24, 2016
10:13
1POV
Eveline E.E. Evergreen, the Sin of Envy. She looks like a noblewoman, one raised in high society and always looking down on others. She is average height, a thin wasp of a woman with green eyes, pale skin, and severely styled black hair. She is dressed in a modern business outfit with a simple gold necklace, earring studs, and a Cognito watch.
Envy is a businesswoman that runs a Cosmetics company. She is one of the few companies that competes against the all-consuming beast of the business world known as Cognito. This is mostly due to Cognito having a low interest in that particular industry. The Cosmetic company's name is famous in the world of fashion, supermodels, and celebrities, but there is a disconnect between them and the common people which has hurt their profits.
"So. You are Ash Grey, the Indestructible Monster of Cognito and partner to Rorschach, the Most Feared Man on Earth. You don't look like much."
I shift into my monstrous grey-skinned form.
"It's a little better."
Envy was born when his mother, envious of his more beautiful, smarter, and more successful sister, made a deal with a demon. The day after the deal, she woke up in her sister's body, while her own body (and her sister's soul) burn to death in a car crash. Now possessing all her sister's belonging including intelligence and knowledge, she continued as her sister. Miss Evergreen didn't go insane from her actions until after the birth of her daughter, committing suicide when Envy was 5.
"I heard from the others; you are solving problems. So, what's my problem?" says the woman as she gets another drink. I'm thinking "Other than alcoholism?"
Envy's special abilities are a shapeshifting ability that allows her to mimic others and a versatile form of psychokinesis that enables her to mimic other powers. Psychokinesis is the manipulation of physical systems without physical interaction and any form of mental manipulation of any form of matter or energy can be considered a specialized form of psychokinesis.
"Traitors among your Espers."
"Figures. They are a bunch of overambitious little shits."
Envy's superhumans are all Espers possessing some form of psychokinesis, telepathy, and extrasensory perception. They range in strength from lift a pencil and spin to lift a human and fly a short distance, but they aren't in the same weight class as Martians or Marvel Mutants. Also, among the seven she has the lowest number of followers, next to Gluttony.
"Headmistress Evergreen is too cruel."
We both turn to see a pair of green-haired twins, who according to the Party Gamer are Envy's strongest psychics. One is a short young man with green eyes and spiky green hair, dressed in form fitting black uniform. The other is a petite young woman with green eyes and curly green hair, dressed in a form fitting black dress.
It takes me a second to realize the universe is messing with me. The boy looks like Maximillan Locke from my all-time favorite old school anime film Locke the Superman (1984) and the girl looks Terrible Tornado from anima/manga One Punch Man only taller.
The brother and sister face each other and clap their hands together. Their eyes glow and the space between their hands glows green, before becoming blinding white. They become green-and-black blurs, crackling with green lightning and disappear. They appear on the opposite side of the room, and everything exclude me is cut in half by the green line between their hands. Even Envy is decapitated.
"It didn't work on him?" says the male twin.
"That shouldn't be possible!" says the female twin.
"Cute trick. One sibling sends psychic phenomenon to the other sibling, who amplifies it and sends it back to the first sibling who does the same. The cycle increases the intensity of the phenomenon without needing to add extra psychic energy." I comment, shocking the twins with my explanation of their trump card, "You were able to focus two arcs of psychokinesis into a sub-atomic garrote wire."
The male releases a telepathic storm against my mind. Even seasoned psychics like Jean Grey (without the Phoenix) would fall into madness before her brain literally exploded in her skull. I can see the green-tinted distortions in the air caused by the psionic energy, but it does nothing to me. The only pain I feel is the irritating noise caused by the air's distortion.
The female releases a green psychokinetic blast at me. The beam of pure psychic force washes over me and I'm forced to take a stance. The beam is causing me no damage despite turning bacteria and debris particles into plasma around me. The reason I took a stance is because the floor is being eroded by the beam and I don't feel like using my Legion flight ring.
The male raises his arms and I recognize the technique. During the climax of the Witch Era film, Locke summoned someone's weapon to create a double-sided energy spear to destroy the machines of Lady Kahn. He was way more impressive than this brat as after that battle, a badly injured Locke was able to psychically shield a space station as it fell through a star.
The double-edged spear of green-white psychic energy is powerful enough to make me slide across the floor and produce a shockwave strong enough to blow out all the remaining windows in the skyscraper. The spear doesn't pierce me, instead it shatters and explodes. When the light clears, the entire room is covered in ash with some unidentifiable items burning away.
In a blur of motion, I'm holding the twins by their necks. They are desperately trying to reach each other, to comfort each other or two use the energy cycling for a power boost, I don't know. I slam their heads together and the battle is instantly over.
"Could you have done that sooner?" says Envy's slightly burnt decapitated head on the floor.
"I could have, but I wanted to see what the brats could do." I reply, not caring if she's a decapitated head.
"They caused me hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages!" says Envy as her body parts psychically float together. "Just look at my dress!"
Envy's flesh flows back together due to her shape-shifting ability, but her clothing is still mostly gone.
"If you try to sue, Cognito Inc will eat you alive."
"Grey Bastard!"
"Yes. I'm happy my biological parents are not married."
"..." Envy's body makes a disturbing cracking sound as her bones slide back into their proper position. It's the only sound to break the uncomfortable silence.
[Seven Sins Quests] - 4/7 - [Envious Twins]
Subjugate the Tornado Twins - 2/2 - [COMPLETE]
*DOOM*
"Big Eats" S3J Ranch
Near Houston, Texas
Saturday, June 25, 2016
12:00
1POV
Samuel Sabastian Smith Junior, the Sin of Gluttony. Gluttony looks like he's a stereotype from Texas. A tall, beefy white guy with big muscles, dark eyes behind sunglasses, sun tanned skin, and thick hair and mustache the color of oil. He's dressed in light Texan style clothing with a cowboy hat, big belt buckle, and a firearm. He looks like a Barbeque-loving gun-toting, bluebonnets-sniffing, bloodthirsty Texan businessman who would look right around huge cattle and petroleum pumpjacks.
Gluttony is a businessman involved in the Food industry, this includes owning farms that produce the raw materials, factories that produce the products, supermarkets that sell the products, and few fast-food restaurants that deliver their food.
Gluttony's father was once an overweight son of cattle rancher who fell in love with a woman, who was already involved with a star athlete. After the loss of his mother, he lost his faith in God, so made a deal with the dark forces. Senior lost all the unsightly weight, while the football player withered away, literally starving to death despite the medical care. The cheerleader was charmed by Senior, who she married, and gave birth to a very hungry baby.
Gluttony's power goes by the saying "you are what you eat". He's a shapeshifter than can transform part or all his body into the demonic equivalent of any animal he consumes. An example is he can eat beef and assume the form of a demonic minotaur. He can also augment the abilities by continuing the consumption of that meat and can heal by eating any form of meat.
Gluttony only has a small number of followers, with the only thing being unique about the seven lieutenants being they all have different favorite meats - Pork (pig), Beef (bull), Mutton (sheep), Veal (young cow), Poultry (chicken), Chevon (goat), and Venison (deer). These followers have a blessing that allows them and their families to eat an absurd amount of unhealthy food with getting fat, poisoned, or some other medical condition. They can even drink enough alcohol to kill a dozen men, but the second they step behind the wheel of automobile or any other type of vehicle or heavy machine, they instantly sober as if they hadn't touched a drop in years.
"So, how did they screw up?"
"We have been using magic to make our animals bigger and tastier. Not the one we sell to regular people, just the ones for our own company barbeque." says Mr. Pig, his accent a little thick. He's a heavy built man with buzzcut hair that reminds me of a pig.
It's not strange to eat some monsters, at least ones not contaminated by whatever demon poison that created them. Some monsters are even more delicious than the best food animals produced by farms. This is because supernatural powers alter the way a body operates and instead of the wild monsters have hard fibrous muscles like wild animals, monsters have premium meat. This also explains why wizards often say, "Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup" Wizard meat must be the premium of human meat.
"The problem is one the darn locks broke, and a calf got loose. The vials got broken and this happened." says Mr. Chicken. He looks a lot like Colonel Harland David Sanders from KFC fame.
This is a Chimera. Its base body is not only huge, but massive absurdly muscular bull surpassing the Belgian Blue's extremely lean, hyper-sculpted, ultra-muscular physique. The additional animal traits are the heads of a tusked boar, a huge horned goat, and a huge horned ram. In addition to the three extra heads, it also has the spiky fur of the boar, the antlers of a deer on the cow's head, and massive junglefowl wings that must of have come from the chicken's heritage. It's clear the abomination is mad with pain with eyes bloody red and crying crimson tears. There are also bones growing out of its body almost like my own bone armor when I'm in Full Doomsday mode.
It's currently being held by glowing translucent magical chains and shackles by magic users and physical steel cables connected to improvised harpoons by the mundane employees of Gluttony. The Chimera isn't weakening as the cracked magic chains and fraying cables indicate. No matter how much blood it loses, it continues to regenerate and somehow become more enraged.
"So, why haven't you killed it?"
"Thick muscle and bone enhanced by magic and made impossibly dense by messed up physics. Anytime we do damage, it just adds new meat to the bones. The only good thing about it is its flavor is enhanced each time it heals. Damn thing probably makes Wagyu and Kobe look like hamburger meat from a no-name fast foot joint."
"Guess you still want to eat it, so that's why you're not using poison."
"You got it, Gray Boy. Strong stuff would ruin the meat and the weak stuff isn't cutting it against the regen. As long as that heart keeps pumping, he keeps regenerating."
"Do you mind if I give it a try?"
"Go right ahead. We just ran out of time."
The workers evacuate as the wires begin to snap and the magical chains break and fade into non-existence. The Chimera lets out its loud distorted four-head roar and charges.
It charges steam bellowing from its mouth, crimson trailing from its eyes, and the ground shaking beneath its immense hooves. There is enough super-dense mass moving at high speed to shatter buildings and overpasses. It would be able to run through thick walls of concrete without stopping.
It's surprised when the thick bone of the antler-topped bullhead collides with my gray-skinned body and implodes. I'm a little surprised when I collide with bovine brain matter. I'm not used to fighting giant quadruped chimeras, so the fight becomes messy. Finally, I find a solution. I grab a hold on part of the monster and fly high into the air, carrying the massive thing (Rorschach's Legion Flight Ring is the BEST!).
"You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mineshaft; and on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes." I say quoting J.B.S. Haldane, "Let's see what a Chimera does."
I let go of chimera and all four of its heads scream as it falls and quickly reaches terminal velocity. The impact is also impressive, creating a huge crater as the sand explodes upward.
*DOOM*
[Seven Sins Quests] - 5/7 - [Gluttony's Menu]
Main Quest - Subjugate the Meat Chimera – 1/1 - [COMPLETE]
Side Quest - Eating Contest – [In Progress]
Gluttony lives up to his name. After his men retrieved, dismembered, and butchered the Chimera, they began the barbeque process. I have never seen someone glazing a rack of ribs that are literally as long as they are tall. Well, maybe Toriko.
The tables are also covered in Texan food and drink. Chicken Fried Steak, Pecan Pie, Brisket, Chili, Chili con Queso, Kolaches, Tex-Mex, Migas, Margaritas, Hamburgers, Micheladas, Texas Sheet Cake, Texas Barbeque, Pralines, Tamales, Frito Pie, Salsa, Texas Caviar (Cowboy Caviar). King Ranch Chicken Casserole, Texas Hash, and buttery potatoes.
I make sure to store some of it for later. My family will enjoy it and maybe Rorschach can load the recipes into the Food Replicators, including the Chimera Mystery Meat.
I'm currently enjoying a bit of everything, and Gluttony sees it as a challenge. He doesn't know I have a distinct advantage over him. I don't have any internal organs, so there is no stomach to become overfilled or upset. There are no intestines to cramp and no kidneys or liver to fill with toxins. My infinite stamina body is an annihilation furnace, disintegrating all that I devour, meaning I eat solely for pleasure.
Six Hours later, I'm mentally tired of eating, but I'm also victorious.
*DOOM*
Commercial #4
Texas Food Cognito
"Come and Get It!"
A large Texan family rush out of a house into the bright sun. They are soon eating Barbeque around an immense table. They are eating, laughing, and having conversations. It's a happy family scene. The time is accelerated and soon the parents are cleaning up the trash. The wife notices her husband has paused and turns to see what he's looking at. The husband is looking at a bill in his hand with a frown and she also frowns. The son is watching from the window.
"Prices are getting too high?" says the announcer.
A time skip later, and the son is now a businessman in New York, looking at a photo of the Barbeque Party on his phone with nostalgia. He also looks down in disgust at take-out paper bag which is already stained from steam and grease. He then gets a call.
"Don't have the time to eat what you want?"
On the other end of the call, a young girl is wrapped in a blanket. Behind her is a destroyed building and crazy looking person in a dumb costume is being thrown in a police truck. It's clear there was a super villain fight, and the girl was one of the victims of the madness.
"Do you want some comfort in your life?"
The new scene has the man, wife, and daughter around a table, enjoying Barbeque and Texan foods just like he did as a child. It looks like a very expensive dinner with expensive cuts of the highest quality meats and other quality foods. The feast is so amazing, viewers would have to ask, "How did he afford this?"
In the kitchen, there is the answer - a Cognito Food Printer.
"Cognito has the Solution. Cognito Foods. Try Our New Texan Barbeque. You can generate the ingredients if you want to make it the traditional way or you can generate it already ready to eat."
*DOOM*
Park Household
Cognito Housing.
Seoul, South Korea
Sunday, June 26, 2016
19:57
1POV
Shi-Woo Park the Third the Sin of Sloth. He's a bald Korean man standing above average height with dark eyes and numerous neon pink-and-purple tattoos on his arms. He's dressed in a Cognito Gaming t-shirt, cargo pants, and sneakers with an old bomber jacket and flyer's goggles.
Sloth is the Lazy King of Video Games. His business is small dealing with computers, electronics, and sell of Indie video games. He's also a professional gamer and streamer, who spends most of the day in front of a computer.
He was born due to a conflict between his gamer girl mother and his grandmother. His grandmother was constantly pestering her daughter about grandchildren and one day the mother encountered a link on Internet. She made a contract and became pregnant despite still being a virgin, giving birth to Shi-Woo. During his entire life, he would always do everything with the least amount of effort, which somehow resulted in him become a model of efficiency. Even during his time in the army (compulsory for Koreans), he was the most efficient to be the laziest. Not a single bit of energy was wasted.
"What is your Quest, Mr. Grey?" He asks with a cold detachment. His followers on the stream are making comments about how cool he is facing Cognito's Indestructible Monster. He's very good at pulling off the ice man routine.
Sloth's superhuman ability is Data Constructs – He can change data into different shapes, objects, materials and substances of varying complexity, permanence, tangibility and perceptibility, ranging from items such as tools and weapons, to other forms such as images, elements, entities, structures and environments. Sloth doesn't need to move an inch while his creations do all the work.
"One of your special followers is out of control."
"Troublesome. Who?"
"Belphegor_34."
"Understood."
"Any concern?"
"None."
"They I will tell Pip to proceed."
*DOOM*
[Iso Sector 0023]
[Cognito Continent]
[Digital World]
[Time is Relative]
[3POV]
Sloth's special followers are unique in that they have powers like those of the Metal. In the real world, they have very limited abilities, but in the digital worlds their avatars are ideal forms of themselves. Sloth and the Metal have a working relationship with Sloth willing to serve the Metal in the real world.
The current battlefield is currently called Iso (Isolated) Sector Number Twenty-Three, but before trouble arrived it was called [Chrome Hills]. It was a very beautiful area with soft rolling hills of lush green, like something out of Studio Ghibli. Luminescent metallic blue grass mixed in and trees the color of polished chrome revealed its digital nature. Now Iso 23 is now lifeless grey with numerous craters and fragments of burning red metal. The once beautiful metal trees are now melted fragments due to the fire power of the invaders.
"The problem is one of Sloth's special followers got a little ambitious and fused with several digital monsters from the dark area." explains the anthropomorphic lion known as Leomon, "He's transformed into some sort of hybrid abomination and gathered followers."
"I see." says Pip as he slices an energy blade through the waist of a red-and-black winged skeletal monster that looks like it came off a Heavy Metal poster. The SkullSatamon of the Nightmare Soldiers is shocked that it could so easily loose, before the upper and lower separate in an explosion of colorful particles. "A lot of minions."
Pip doesn't slow down using lasers, plasma beams, and digital erasure blasts to annihilate more minions. Pip then notices a group of Machine Digimon heading towards him. Some of them are green armored humanoids with three-barrel machine guns for arms, a cannon barrel coming out their armored heads, and tank lower body with four tractor treads. Some are similar "walking" arsenals with draconic upper bodies, huge cannons, and gatling guns. Pip's HUD identifies them from the Digimon Database - [Tankmon] and [Tankdramon], Pip's shoulders rise and fire rocket-propelled darts that strike the amor of the military-themed Digimon. Pip then turns and walks away, as they all explode.
Ten minutes later and a hundred more minion deletions, the Big Boss finally shows himself.
Dark Lord Belphegor_34 is a three-meter-tall muscular anthropomorphic wolf with red eyes, black fur, and overly long ending in long sharp metal claws. He also has giant bat-like wings with red membranes, a dark metal snake for a tail, and dark metal facial bones that form a mask with horns. He's dressed in dark pants secured by chains around the waist and ankles and has numerous chains floating around his body.
"Fool! Do you think you can stop me!? I have transcended into the level of super-ultimate. I have surpassed the levels of the Gods, Angels, and Demon Lords! Do you think this barrier will hold me!?"
"It's all that needed. Dad installed the Isolation system to prevent malicious digital lifeforms from spreading out of control and infest the cyberverse like cancer. You are the twenty-seventh entity to trigger the system. You're not much of a threat."
"What!? How Dare You Mock Me!"
"Of the Twenty-Seven, only Three Required him to totally annihilate the Sector and you're not one of them." says Pip, as he charges up his special weapon.
When Rorschach annihilates a sector, he erases it completely on every level. The effect is so extreme, the targets are erased from the memories of digital sentients and the from the very history of the Digital World. Literally, only the Rhythm, Rorschach, and Pip remember the targets ever existing.
"You son of a..." he yells before jumping into the air. He pulls back his right arm and the claws on that arm glow bright red "ERASE..."
A laser beam from Pip's head shoots before the Dark Lord can finish his attack command. The beam only lasts a fraction of a second, but it's fast enough to slice off Belphegor's right arm at the shoulder. The still fully charged arm falls to the ground and explodes into red particles. Belphegor is so shocked by the attack, he doesn't make a sound, just grabs the stump of a shoulder and falls to the ground.
As Pip raises his hand and circle of glowing holographic computer code appears like a sorcerer summoning magic circles. Asymmetric spikes extend from the circle, which is pointed at Belphegor.
"Data Drain."
Streams of data and light shoot from the tips of the spikes and strike Belphegor's chest, making the fused abomination cry out in pain. A cry which only gets louder when the flow of the streams reverse, sucking data back into Pip and out the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord can feel all his energy leaving his body and can feel memories vanishing from his mind, the latter being more horrific.
As the attack ends, the Dark Lord's body is glitched and unstable like a damaged video file. It finally stabilizes as a frozen Belphegor now grayscale like a statue. This doesn't last long as the immense statue crumbles into vanishing iridescent particles. All that remains is what's left of Belphegor_34. He's no longer the average man in the thirties he was in his online profile. Now, he's emaciated old man in his nineties at least. Belphegor looks at his frail withered hands and begins to pathetically cry.
"No. No. No. Please No. It was just a Game! I was about to Win! Please. It was just a Game. Please, save me!"
"It was a game to you, but it was their lives." says Pip as he begins to leave, "I may be a Hero, but I don't have to save everyone."
As he walks away the miserable pathetic old man that was the Dark Lord curls up in the fetal position. It won't be long before he passes out, too tired from crying. It also won't be long before he dies in his sleep from old age and stress, and the Cyberverse deletes his corpse.
*DOOM*
[Seven Sins Quests] - 6/7 - [Sloth's Live Stream]
Main Quest - Subjugate the [Dark Lord Belphegor_34] – 1/1 - [COMPLETE]
Sub Quest – Subjugate the [Belphegor Army] - 8322/8322 - [COMPLETE]
Semi-Final Award: Title [King of Slaughter (S+)] - Inflicting Damage to the Leader of a group, inflicts the same damage to all followers of the leader. The Death of the Leader means Death of all Followers.
*DOOM*
Rubble of a Shell Gas Station
Near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Monday, June 26, 2016
12:12
1POV
Cirano Ceasar Cross, the Sin of Wrath. He's a tall, muscular, heavy-built man with dark brown eyes, dark tanned skin, a bald head, thick eyebrows, and a thick black beard. He also has numerous tattoos covering his arms and neck. He's dressed like a biker with a heavy metal t-shirt, black biker leathers with numerous straps and spikes on the shoulders and forearms, and reinforced boots. He also has a gun holster and carries a length of chain ending in a hook.
Wrath is one of the most violent biker gang leaders in recent history. He's a hardcore criminal who is wanted for numerous crimes in numerous states and even countries outside the United States. He has killed drug lords, civilians, and law enforcement. He's also a known Hero Killer, having butchered several low rank heroes that dared to oppose him. He even escaped the Flash, leaving the hero with a badly damaged leg that required surgery to repair.
Wrath's father was a criminal who sacrificed people for power. The "Emperor of Violence" Ceasar Cross was eventually killed by a group of devil hunters who managed to seal his supernatural abilities long enough for a bounty hunter to put a bullet in his skull. Cirano Colombo was a child born of rape, who inherited the violent demonic blood, and took his "human" father's surname when he was older.
Wrath's supernatural ability is Blood Sacrifice – the more blood he spills, be it his own blood or the blood of others, the more powerful he becomes. He becomes stronger and stronger with every drop, and with his temper and violent nature, he spills blood often.
Wrath's followers are a huge gang of violent bikers empowered by the demon blood of their leader. Demon blood outside the original owner causes deterioration of the consumer's morals (and soul), but it does have benefits. As long as they remain loyal to their leader, they possess superhuman physical abilities and healing. If they ever betray Wrath, he can cause the blood in their bodies to turn on them causing the traitor to explode!
Unlike the other sins, Wrath is not a conversationalist. Instead, he immediately has his men attack me the moment I exit the portal. When normal weapons prove inefficient to the point, I don't bother retaliating, he has his men use heavy weaponry (army surplus?), not caring that they could end up wounding or killing allies in the process. I continue to walk forward.
Wrath is glowing with a malicious red-and-black aura as more of men are injured and killed. His dark brown eyes are now glowing red including the sclera and his skin has darkened to a shade of black. His physique also changes, becoming taller and a lot more muscular. His biker leathers stretch and magically change to fit his growing form, but the mundane T-shirt is shredded by the growing muscle. Soon, Wrath is taller than even my own 250 cm (8'2) and finally reaches a max height of 252 cm (8'3). He lets out a roar and charges toward me, while I continue to walk forward.
Wrath delivers a thunderous punch to my face that creates a shockwave in the surrounding air. It doesn't damage by grey-skinned monster face and barely tilts by head. The damage to Wrath's hand is far greater with broken and dislocated bones poking through the skin and damaged tendons. The blood glows, the wounds heal, and Wrath becomes even more muscular.
Wrath and Me fight and it's one of my bloodiest fights. My opponent doesn't feel pain, instead he keeps punching me with increasingly powerful blows, which cause him to damage himself over and over again. No matter how hard to you hit a wall of metal with a piece of meat, the meat will still break. At the same time, my quick blows are causing more injuries to Wrath that regenerate over and over again.
Wrath suddenly stops attacking with a shocked look on his face. His dark aura dissolves, his darkened skin lightens to his normal skin tone, and the glow fades from his eyes leaving him with bloody tears. He tries to move his arms, but he can't. He tries to get angry and fight, but he's now cold and apathic.
"These bone spikes aren't just for looking cool and adding a little extra to my punches." I say to the infamous Cirano Ceasar Cross, "The bones are toxic."
The semi-mystical toxin prevents regeneration and without regeneration, Cross can't continue. It was regeneration that allowed Cross to continue fighting despite hurting himself over and over. It was regeneration that allowed him to survive and maintain the blood loss. It was regeneration that allowed Cross to maintain his anger.
I deliver a super-strength uppercut with my spikes extended. Cross is decapitated, his head stuck on my spikes.
[Seven Sins Quests] - 7/7 - [Bloody Rage]
Main Quest - Subjugate Wrath– 1/1 - [COMPLETE]
Sub Quest – Eliminate Wrath's Gang – 500/500 - [COMPLETE]
[Seven Sin Quests] -7/7 - [COMPLETE]
Summary: Save the world from the followers of the New Seven Sins.
Objective: [7 Quests]
Status: [COMPLETE]
Rewards:
[Universal Gifts] x 35
[Hidden Key] x 1
*DOOM*
[MHA Sector]
[Outer Heaven, Moon]
[Thursday, June 30, 2016]
[15:15 (Lunar Base Time)]
[3POV]
Eri is sitting in front of a television with Mirio. On the screen, she is watching is the UA Culture Festival episode of My Hero Academia. On screen, "Hero Too" is playing and on-screen Eri is smiling, final free the darkness inflicted on her by Overhaul. The real world Eri is also smiling and laughing in a way that would melt anybody with a heart.
Aizawa, whose completely silent as he walks in, pulls out a camera and takes a photo of the adorable scene, before quickly hiding the camera.
"When you want to preserve precious memories. Cognito Cameras." says an Announcer.
*DOOM*
Rorschach's Inkwell
[Location is Classified]
Thursday, July 7, 2016
10:10
1POV
"What bit of madness have you brought me in for?" I say, drinking from a bottle of milk, while sitting in a chair.
"Something similar to the Unversed." says Neo, as Doctor Genus. I still call him Neo or Rorschach despite what body he's using, as they are still same person, and we are (relatively) alone in this base.
The Unversed are souls that survived the destruction of their universe but weren't simply absorbed into the reincarnation cycle of another Universe. Those souls ended up corrupted in the Bleed between universes like souls trapped in Hell. We became aware of them when Doctor David Derrick Decker the Third attempted to replicate Cognito's Ground Bridge and caused spatial explosions in Metropolis and Gotham.
"Any news on the Three Special ones?"
"No. I'm guessing they're either good at hiding or can force others to help them or both." says Rorschach, "Today's problem is an Entire Earth that survived the total destruction of its universe."
"Tough little Earth. Why is it our problem?"
"The problem is the Unversed Earth is attempting to merge and overwrite one of the DR-52s, like a virus overwriting a cell. I considered simply annihilating the Unversed Earth, but we are detecting the influence of an Alien God."
An Alien God? Not good. My most dangerous opponents have all been Lovecraftian horrors. This is probably due to the fact while it's easy to regenerate and adapt to things that conform to laws of my own universe (electromagnetism, radiation, quantum physics, and gravity) and even metaphysical laws (Qi, Magic, Psychic energy, Souls, etc.), it's far more difficult to adapt the otherworldly nature of Outer Gods. Even Rorschach's super science runs into problems, which is why we pool all our resources together in cases like this.
Rorschach then shows an image on a screen. It's a tree-like construct composed of translucent blue purple "energy" with a brighter glow where the "branches" meet the "trunk.". I know what it is.
"Fantasy Tree."
Fantasy Tree, also known as Kūsōju and "Tree of Emptiness", a mysterious tree-like construct which sustains what is known as a Lostbelt.
In the universes of Type-Moon, there are multiple timelines like a tree with multiple branches, but there is a limit. The same way a tree can only have so many branches, histories also need to be "pruned". The universe determines which timelines (Adjacent Worlds) are to be preserved and which ones are to be cut using Human Order. Universes in which humanity fails to develop either by extinction or stagnation are cut. Important events in history common to most timelines are quantum time-locked in place and any history that deviates too far from them is removed. These cut off timelines are called Lostbelts.
In the series Fate/Grand Order, the antagonists attempted to interfere with proper human history. Goetia (the main antagonist of the first half and former demon god familiar of Solomon) attempted to overcome the time locks using Singularities (essentially pocket dimensions of altered time created using copies of an artifact known as the Holy Grail). Lostbelts are similar with the Alien God instead of Goetia and the Fantasy Trees being planted instead of the use of Grails.
The images of the screen show numerous unique characters in different parts of that otherworld. Many of them would be considered epic looking and heroic, but the blood red sky paints them with a dark malice. I recognize a good portion of them.
The man whose counterpart played a pivotal role in our world's recent history and the Day of the Dragons. A Buddhist Onmyōji in the Heian period, known as the rival of Abe-no-Seimei and given the title "Beautiful Carnivore, the All-Ridiculing"
"Ashiya Dōman."
The great half-god, half-human King of Heroes born from the union between the King of Uruk, Lugalbanda, and goddess Rimat-Ninsun. He was the ancient ruler of Sumer Dynasty who was recorded as the world's first Hero, the King of Heroes.
"Gilgamesh."
An altered version of the Maiden of Orleans, one born of the grief and madness of Gilles de Rais, the French Army's marshal, over the death of his leader. A vengeance known as the "Dragon Witch" and "Witch of Vengeance".
"Jeanne d'Arc Alter."
In Fate/Grand Order, the heroes of the Chaldea Security Agency have saved human history with the help of Servants – important people in myth and history ascended by the collective will of humanity into pseudo-divine beings called Heroic Spirits, then placed in classed vessels on the lower planes to act as familiars.
I never played the games, but I have watched parts of various Fate series – Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay, Prisma, Blade works, Apocrypha, and Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia along with some of the films. I also watched the videos by OtakuDaiKun and numerous fanfiction crossovers like the works of Pheles65 and Lupine Horror.
Some Alien God planted a Fantasy Tree on an Unversed Earth, which is now inhabited by altered Servants, Phantasmal Species, and monsters born of the Bleed.
[Quest Alert]
[FATE NO MORE]
Summary: The [Unversed Fate World] is threatening to Infect the New DR-52.
Objectives:
Main - Destroy the [Fantasy Tree] supporting [Unversed Fated World].
Secondary - Save the Heroes from an Unversed Fate
Reward:
[HIDDEN]
Time Limit:
[Click to See Countdown]
*DOOM*
[END OF CHAPTER 36]
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