" Hero Within, Monster Without Chapter 16" by Azazyel from Kemono

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The deep forests were supernaturally calm, the predators feeding were fueled by ambient emotional energy along with the energy coming from the sun. Herbivores remained the same with less of a dependence on the plant matter of the world and likewise could survive on consuming the emotions all life left behind.

I sat atop an icy mountain peak surrounded by deep ever green forests. The winds carried the scent of life and nature to my senses. Restrained fury and disgust was tempered within my soul by patience and stillness.

As I had ascended as a monster. In my meditation, I learned that I had killed exactly ten thousand people and their souls were used as fuel to ascend my own as my monstrous form devoured them body and soul.

Monster forms that were utterly beyond me lest my mind collapse were now commonly available to me. I could casually take on the forms of Legendary Pokemon, I could become great and terrible dragons. I could even walk in the form of great apocalypses like Doomsday.

And now I was training my mind in the strongest of forms I had available to me as I was avoiding taking on the human form a mutant would have from Marvel.

The Sage Equal to Heaven. Sun Wukong the Buddha. His mind was... Still alien, but painfully human, even if but it was predisposed towards sagehood which was what I was using the form for.

I was coming to terms with what I had done.

I was trying not to overly angst about it... As I was a man, but I literally ate people and that had a weight to my soul that I needed to digest.

A soft blooping noise went off from my drone and I looked over with my molten eyes and took the drone carefully into my simian hands to see what major news had released that my cobbled-together virtual intelligence decided to send to me.

[The Slaughterhouse 9 left a trail of horror through four small towns after Menagerie's livestream did not come to hunt them down.] [Five hundred dead, and thousands more tortured, twisted, and slated to be mercy killed as Bonesaw has been noted as trying out 'monster making' viruses that haven't been able to convey Menagerie's true Changer abilities.]

My heart's calm state had a ripple pass through it before the sage patience of the monkey king passed through me before I sighed at the loss of lives for no reason than another's cruelty.

"This world... It is broken, I have broken in cleaning a single city. The top of this worlds hero's are devils in disguise and I have become a monster in pulling out the cancer that is this world."

I stared at the news article before I clenched my hands around the Ruyi Jingu Bang as I considered things with only the clarity that an immortal sage's mind held.

'No matter the form I take, I would need to cull a significant population in order to bring this world to order. Culling the capes who are dragging this world into the stone age, and I would need to deal with the Endbringers and of course Zion himself.' I mused as I used the sage clarity to actually have my mind clear to truly think about how I could solve this worlds issues.

And with the clarity of mind... It became all too simple to me.

I could have literally taken over this world in less then a week and solved all its issues in another three besides Scion with pure technology. As I already had access to the form of a Ben 10 Galvin, I just needed to make a series of dimensionally secured satellites that the Simurgh couldn't get at.

And then with the super satellites which could easily track the dimensional energy streams of Agents linking to their hosts to capes, I could track said capes and then I could make laser battery satellites that could kill more than 99 percent of all capes without some insane brute rating like Alexandria.

As for the Endbringers themselves... A wormhole rocket would tear apart their infinitely dense mass and destroy their cores.

Then for Scion, I would take the form of Ichibei from Bleach to overwrite his name and existence. Or even take the form of a Great Old One to tear his mind apart.

My power was now only limited by the mental pressure I could take and so long as I had a plan ingrained into my psyche to push my form down a certain path... I could do any number of things.

Silently I stood up as I took one last look at the drone and without a change of expression I spoke calmly with my voice rocking the surrounding forest with the force of my voice of the Monkey King. "You wish to see me at my worst Jack Slash?

You will not even be a footnote."

I left my mountain top and doing a front flip I spun through dimensions and in an instant I landed into my hidden laboratory back underneath Brockton Bay to get to work as my form shifted and I dropped to the ground as a Galvin.

I had science to break over my tiny frog-like knee in order to stabilize this world.