Tyranny 2025
Chapter 20: Kill Hermaeous Mora
Date: March 18th, 2025
After Mercer's death due to his overconfidence and lack of foresight, we ganged up on Maven and killed her too after a difficult struggle. But as soon as we do so, Alduin appears with an entire army of corrupted dragons. He speaks to us: "You foolish mortals will now perish. I will end your attempts to stop what my allies and I have been doing once and for all. Mercer Frey and Maven Black-Briar were doomed to fail, they are only weak humans after all. And now, it is time for me to end all of you just as I did some of those many of you call your friends and allies. Much of Skyrim has been destroyed by my power. Behold! Witness the power of my army as well as my own power! Dovakiin, you and I are going to have a rematch and no one will be able to help you this time." Hearing that, myself and others cast several buffing spells on my counterpart while I say: "Good luck. It looks like his dragons are going to have to be dealt with everyone else including me. I dont know how we're going to get through this but we're going to try our damnest to. The future is still very uncertain. Whether the forces of the kind hearted or the forces of the cold hearted truly win in this decade all depends." We all get ready for more fighting only to be bombarded with so many dragons attacking at once that Rukia shouts: "Damn it! There has to be so many dragons that they might even outnumber us!"
Karliah replies: "You may be correct. The fog the darkness generated earlier has cleared for some reason, allowing us to witness the fact that these dragons have fully covered the skies above us. That means we are going to be in for a true challenge here." It didnt take much longer for some of us to start wrangling in some of the dragons. Noticing this along with some of the dragons being killed off, Auldin commands his dragons: "Divide and conquer, kill all of them at once! We outnumber them!" And so, I was now forced to face a dragon one on one within seconds of his command going out. I lead the dragon away some distance so I have more room to fight them. The drago roars at me and says: "Anyone who stands with the Dovakiin is an enemy of all Dovas and you will die for that very reason." "Im already dead so you cant kill me all over again. Let's get this over with." Oh look, the classic story of a one on one match between a sword wielding knight and a dragon. Who would have guessed? You could argue that Alduin is not a fascist in the least bit but long ago, he ruled over Tamriel as the supposed first born of all of the dragons and the Nords led a rebellion to break free from his reign. And that only happened because Paarthurnax turned on Alduin and taught the Nords dragon shouts. And then, they obtained a Elder Scroll and even invented a dragon shout that forces dragons to land known as Dragonrend. Alduin was sent forward in time, causing him to suddenly appear in the town of Helgen, near the border between Falkreath Hold and Whiterun Hold.
Fascists also have a lot of similarities to absolute tyrannical monarchs for obvious reasons so the point of whether Alduin is fascist or not is mute. He is a tyrant and thats what matters in the end. Anyway. The dragon fires their frosty breath at me and I sigh: "Okay, you might be a problem after all. My armor is resistant to fire but not ice or electricity. Very well. Since you wont land.. I'll just come to you." Using my Ki, I fly into the air with my sword in hand. The dragon's wings are faster than my flight so it was easy for them to just move back while continuing to attack me from a distance. Seeing no point in continuing with trying to reach them with my sword, I prepare to slide it back into its scabbard and get ready to try something else with a lot more direct range. The Kamehameha wont work here because it requires a target to stay within the blast radius when its unleashed and this dragon wont stop moving. I pull out my BRAIN Blaster and start firing. I dont worry about the damage being done to my armor for now nor the frost breath being used against me. I got a target to kill so Im going to kill them. Hows that for a counter to a target that wont stop flying around to attack at many angles and distances?
I mutter to myself: "You damn annoyance, just stay still. Im going to get you." I keep getting a mixed bag of results when it comes to trying to hit the dragon. I even set my blaster to the setting that causes it to disintegrate organic targets. And yet, while this blasting reminded me of Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin at WDW, it proved harder to get an actual hit in than on that ride because the dragon is apparently not so easy to disintegrate with a laser blaster set to disintegrate any target it manages to hit. Make it make sense. My armor is gradually being frosted over but Im not going to stop. Sighing after several minutes of trying to blast the damn dragon and disintegrate them already, I change tactics again: "Alright, I'll just have to ground you then. Then I'll cut you into pieces in seconds as soon as Im able fo penetrate any of your scales. I can sense you are not willing to reason with me nor will you stop until one of us is left in a state that basically says we're dead, gone, and not coming back. So I will do what I can to kill you since you are clearly asking to die with this kind of unwillingness to stop trying to hurt the likes of me as well as the innocent." I return to the ground and conjure my inner wind into my hands and start using it to attempt to yank the dragon down into the ground by slamming into them with the wind, surrounding them with it, and using it to then slam them right into the ground. It takes all of my concentration and efforts to do it but I am able to do it.
I then teleport to the dragon and get on top of them while grabbing my sword from its scabbard again. They turn their head to breathe frost at me and try to bite me along with my armor into pieces as well. This dragon is a lot tougher than even high level Skyrim dragons in game. Otherwise, I would have managed to kill them already. Before they could knock me off and while I was struggling to keep my balance, I firmly stab my sword right into one of their scales and grip as tightly as possible with both of my hands. "I told you. Im going to kill you." The dragon is too furious to even speak a word to me. I refuse to let go, causing them to roar with great agitation. They keep trying to knock me off and even suddenly rapidly take flight but my sword is in them now and Im not letting go of it. In fact, I remove my left hand temporarily from the hilt of my sword in order to blast the dragon with a strong burst of wind. They keep flying but because I aimed for one of their eyes, their right eye bursts and starts to bleed. Now is my chance. They cant attack me anymore while flying, despite having such a high power level. I use Artist's Eye to create weighted chains around the dragon. Theyre going to fall out of the sky and crash now and can only focus on trying to avoid crashing by breaking the chains or something. Not exactly a fan of chaining creatures but this was proving to be a pretty hard fight and my armor was starting to chip apart because of all the damn frost breath. I resume gripping my sword with both of my hands and stand incredibly firmly by using the weight of my boots while making a cut motion with my sword. It begins to cut into not only more of the scale I breached with it but also the flesh, fat, and more below it.
My sword is about 2 feet inside of the dragon at the moment. Thats enough to do some serious damage. When the scale has been completely slashed apart, ignoring my gag reflex, I jump into the gap made by this to enter the dragon's body, which was much softer on the inside as scales are designed to protect the inner bodies of dragons. Scales are to dragons what skin is to humans. I make good on my promise and start slicing and dicing the dragon's insides, doing my best to ignore the smells as I did so. I felt the dragon crash to the ground but their remaining scales absorbed the impact so it didnt knock me over. I mostly worked my way to the dragon's heart and left their body when I destroyed their heart. Now covered in warm dragon blood, my armor was immediately defrosted and I wanted to get all of the blood off immediately. I use the Clean spell to do just that followed by the Repair spell to fix my armor. And while I would like to stay inside the dragon, their death is causing everything left except their bones to just be destroyed and soon, the Dragonborn will absorb their soul so I teleport out of the dragon. "So I guess you can really call me a dragonslayer now. You can also call many of my comrades the same thing so no one get any weird ideas about me. Im not same damn knight spoken of in ancient prophecies or the main character. Im never going to be obsessed over by millions of fan girls in person." After breaking the 4th wall as usual, I find the nearest fight with a dragon and end up helping Playmaker kill one in the process.
And then, like many times before, the whole defeating enemy after enemy and gathering together those now free to fight more enemies together to then help defeat more enemies, thereby freeing more others to join the club cycle happens. And soon, despite lots of difficulties and losing some of our allies and comrades, we did it. All of Alduin's followers are dead(excluding the ones who turned on him before or soon after he originally died). Every last one of them. Somehow, my counterpart is still fighting Alduin. How many potions did they stock up on? Having played as them in Skyrim, I know just how many healing potions they have because I controlled them the entire game. And Serana is helping them at least and she literally cannot die, no matrer how many times she is brought down to her knees. We all join in on the fight against Alduin. He widens his eyes: "How have you killed my followers?! I am unstoppable, I cant be killed! Dont you see how weak you are compared to me?!" I think the only reason we were able to kill of them was because those who were sent here to attack us and are still alive are now fighting alongside us instead of against us. This means that that tactic of trying to kill us all didnt exactly go like they wanted it to. Anyway, we join in on attacking Alduin and he dies quickly because he wasn't expecting us to kill all of his followers just like that. That and well, many of us got better at killing dragons after all of that. The irony in Alduin being so much more powerful than he has ever been only to end up dying quickly after all of his followers were killed was something else. It helps that the Dragonborn DID absorb the souls of ALL of those dragons.
That helps further explain how they were able to hold on for so damn long. With all of that being said, with Alduin now dead, it was time for us to come to some of the others as backup against whoever they're fighting against. Or thats what we thought we would finally be able to do now but no. Just no. Instead, Dosen appears before us giant sized and laughs: "You have killed quite a few of my allies! Its too bad that you have only just barely begun to see what I can do with the Nightmare Realm! Theres a reason why I havent tried to use it on you again up until now. It was all so I could really savor what Im about to do! Kill all of you myself!" Us BRAINS members pull out our BRAIN Blasters because we're tired of this crap and just blast Dosen with them. They are disintegrated immediately only to come right back to life. "You think that that little stunt you just pulled on me was funny, dont you?! WELL I THINK ITS TIME TO PUNISH YOU JUST LIKE I DID THAT PESKY KNIGHT AMONG YOU AGES AGO! But first! I am getting bored of watching you and your friends and allies fighting my allies constantly, even as more of you die in gruesome ways! As the master of the Nightmare Realm, I enjoy watching the suffering of others in ways you could never imagine! And with all the gods who have chosen to side with you out of the way thanks to the rapid expansion of the Nightmare Realm into other places beyond this universe, I have ALL OF THEM IN MY GRASP! You just dont know it yet! And now, its time to end all of these annoying other fights going on!"
They effortlessly open a bunch of portals to force our comrades and allies to our current location. Bill Cipher yells as he's dragged in along with our other enemies as well: "Hey there Dosen! JUST WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?! YOURE GETTING IN THE WAY OF MY FUN AND I DONT APPRECIATE IT!" Dosen laughs: "Oh dont worry! Youre going to like this even more! Im not going to waste my time fighting a bunch of weak mortals and undead at once. Theres no fun in that when I could just completely dominate or torture them! Many of them escaped being mentally reduced to an inanimate toy, stripped of all identity and emotion. And even I admit it's difficult to top what I had done to them all to make that happen. So instead, I have a much better plan in store now! Lets make them all feel despair together!" Bill replies: "I thought we agreed to do our own things to crush all of these annoyances! And work with whoever we pleased when ut best suited us!" "Oh.. about that.. *easily blocks all of our attacks* I have a surprise for all of you! Lets see these weaklings stand a chance against what I have in store and end up being crushed in mere seconds no matter what they try! All of you have been doing this completely wrong. You dont toy with your opponents! That gives them a chance to get away or find your weak spot! No no no no! I cant have that!" Baby demands: "Just what are you planning on doing?! You are ruining the plans we agreed on together! I was just about to kill these blasted Saiyans when you dragged all of us here without warning!"
Matt ends: "I was quite enjoying tormenting some pathetic peasants when you dragged us all here. And I don't appreciate that you did that. Mind your own business, I was on my way to finally getting revenge for what THEY DID TO ME AND MY THEME PARK!" "I know, I know. But this is for the best." Aigami lets out a frustrated expression: "What are you even trying to do?! I was trying to make as many weaklings vanish as possible with the Quantum Cube! I was sending many opponents into the dimensions of their worst nightmares! But then you had to pull this on us! I revoke the power of the Prana I gave you!" "Sorry but thats not going to work!" Dosen grows tentacles and literally eats Aigami and evolves into a new form as a result. "ANYONE NEXT?!" Hermaeous Mora glares at Dosen: "This is an act of betrayal. You have broken the agreement even I chose to be a part of. Your soul will be mine the very moment you die for this. You are immortal yourself but I know that you can killed just as any mortal could." The Nightmare Realm ruler summons the monster known as GLOB and summons dead enemies we know all too well: Katherine Glassgate, Miraak, Alduin, Mercer Frey, Dr. Ziggurat, Diablo Nemesis, Maven Black-Briar, and basically anyone else we have dealt with since the Nacirema Empire emerged as a threat before collapsing back in December. We try to kill our enemies but Dosen erects a barrier we cant break to keep us from getting any of them.
With the dead enemies back again, Dosen forces them to merge together with GLOB into a true living nightmare and interdimensional walking calamity. GLOB is from Adventure Time and we have faced them before.. But our foe of main concern right now wasnt finished. They laugh as they force Miraak and the others who have threatened Skyrim/Morrowind into merging with GLOB as well. Aigami uses his powers to try to resist but is then merged in as well. The only foe who could stop them was Goku Black in the end. The god stares at Dosen: "I am true perfection, you cannot absorb me into that thing." "Is that what you believe?! Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! You dont get it! You dont get it! No one ever gets it because in the end, my mind is truly superior to all others as I have learned by watching so many souls be tortured by MY realm! NOT EVEN YOU CAN STOP ME, NOT WHEN YOU KNOW THIS WILL FINISH ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS OFF FOR GOOD!" Some of us try to interrupt or physically cut in but those efforts prove completely futile. Instead, we are forced to watch Dosen and Goku Black fight while hurling insults at each other and the fused GLOB grow ever stronger and more stable from absorbing the powers and items merged with them. Dosen is overpowered by Goku Black and dies only to come back to life: "Did you really believe you could kill me?! I RULE THE NIGHTMARE REALM BECAUSE IT AND I ARE ONE! I EXIST TO HELP CARRY OUT ITS FUNCTION OF SPREADING FEAR AND MISERY!
I UNDERPLAYED MY ROLE IN IT AND EVEN SPREAD FALSE INFORMATION ABOUT IT TO PLAN FOR MY EMERGENCE AS A TERROR FOR ALL TO FEAR!" Goku Black replies: "I knew you would try something like this. Even if youre not lying, I could just destroy your precious realm with my divine power and punish you with my divine justice. You believe I dont stand a chance, do you? You believe I cant even touch your realm. But after suffering so many humiliating deaths and defeats, I have learned the value in training my body even further than I did when I fought every Goku across the multiverse to master and perfect it." Goku Black vanishes. Seconds later, a interdimensional explosion we could watch for ourselves occurred. When it stopped, Goku Black reappeared as the Nightmare Realm began to fade from this universe. He smirks: "Youre finished, Dosen." Dosen reappears too with a wider smirk on their face: "No. Im not finished. Now I can see what you are really capable of. The fun will really begin now!" "Your dimension is destroyed and yet, you stand so sure of yourself. My Divine Justice will end you right here and now!" The two fight again and Dosen is killed much more easily. However, the darkness of the Nightmare Realm returns for reasons unknown. Once again, Dragonreach along with all of Whiterun is hidden by the darkness. Goku Black is too cocky to realize what's really going on. He laughs at our attempts to attack him now that that barrier is gone. "Save your energy. I'll exterminate all of you shortly!"
But then, the darkness of the Nightmare Realm covers him in darkness and makes him scream before vanishing completely. The darkness then envelops this entire world in darkness again but even more so this time around. Chills run down my spine as we watch what happens next with none of us able to do anything to stop it. The fused GLOB, which has just been idling this entire time moves a few steps before going back to idling. And then, Dosen reappears while eating Goku Black: "Resist me too much and you get eaten! And this is how the life of Goku Black comes to an end! The end! Now, its time for the surprise to be completed at last!" They merge with the merged GLOB while finishing absorbing everything they gained from eating Goku Black. The resulting nightmarish fusion was too complicated and frightening looking to describe here in detail but I can safely still say that the fusion had the heads of every enemy who was merged with GLOB at once. Dosen's voice speaks: "Surprise! Heres my new look! I hope you hate it! Now, I can really begin to have fun! Not even the power pf the gods I stopped from helping you could save you now! But Im sure this isnt the first time that situation has happened! You know, I have been watching ALL OF YOU this entire time! I know all the instances of this not so little battle of ours in which events played out similarly if not identically to how some events played out up to many times in the past! I know everything there is to know about all of you! Try every desperate move you can think of to destroy me, none of them will be able to save you now!
You should have run while you still could because Im going to destroy you and every other potential, past, present, and future source of resistance against me! You will all be slaughtered and I will savor every moment! *the darkness around us suddenly fades again* After all, I AM THE NIGHTMARE REALM AND THE NIGHTMARE REALM IS ME! I bet some of you believed that this location of ours: Skyrim would actually play a major difference in our battle but you were wrong! It doesnt matter if this took place in Skyrim, Miitopia, Earth, space, the end of space-time, a supernova, Hell, Asgard, or anywhere else! It never did matter! Because my power is beyond your comprehension and there is nothing you can to stand against it now! You can run, you can hide but you cant avoid dying at the hands of this new fine form of mine! The Nightmare Realm has been fully integrated within this form as well! I know you've encountered many similar moments in which your enemies powered up to a point that their normal attacks were enough to stop even your best attacks without trouble! But I promise its different now! Because this time, there is nothing out there in the multiverse that can do anything against me! And to prove it, watch me breach the 4th wall! HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAA!" In reaction to what happens, I feel my consciousness suddenly emergency return to my original body but with a twist. I am now in bed in my original body. Not wanting to wake anyone, I quietly get out of bed, only to realize Im wearing my armor with my sword at my hip.
I whisper: "I dont like whatever this is. Im happy to be wearing my armor in my original body but no.. This is wrong. This is so wrong." Suddenly, electronics and windows alike begin to break as sludge like tentacles begin to come out of them. In the next seconds, I must have somehow heard thousands of screams as chaos breaks out. I teleport outside using my Quantum Leap band to see what I could only describe as armageddon. And I hear Dosen's voice laugh as they say to me: "Well, Swiftdrawer! Hope you enjoy seeing even your universe be invaded by yours truly!" "How the hell are you doing this?!" "Its so easy when you become as powerful as I have become! Even if the impossible situation in which Im defeated happens, Im not worried about anything you or anyone else could possibly do to stop me! Its true that all of the damage and temporal disruption Im doing to this universe you call home would be immediately undone the moment I were somehow defeated but that doesnt scare me! Fear is an emotion I can only fear by witnessing mortals experiencing it! And now, watch as this little blue planet you love so much faces destruction never before seen! In seconds, I will have damaged the world far more than even Donald Trump with the help of Elon Musk and others have been able to up until this very moment!" My comrades as well as the others who have been fighting our enemies in Skyrim are mass teleported here. I dont see most of them but I can sense that all of them are here now. Karliah speaks: "Just where are we now? Ive never seen roads that look so strange before.."
I reply: "Welcome to my world.." Dosen laughs: "Im so nice from bringing everyone here, ARENT I?! Together, you will all get to see the end of your world as you know it, SWIFTDRAWER! MILLIONS OF HUMANS HAVE BEEN DEVOURED BY MY TENTACLES AND COUNTING! I HEAR THAT THERE ARE QUITE A FEW OF THOSE HOTELS WITHIN A 30 MILE RADIUS ALONG WITH A PARK OR TWO OR MAYBE EVEN THREE OR MORE WITH ROLLER COASTERS BUT I NEVER PAID MUCH ATTENTION TO WHERE EVERYTHING ON THIS TINY PLANET IS! IT WILL ALL BE DESTROYED, SWIFTDRAWER!" The tentacles spread everywhere along with the darkness. We feel the vibrations of what only could have been nuclear missiles but they did nothing but make things worse. The trees near us began to rapidly die. All the cars came to a stop as the tentacles devoured their occupants. Planes fell out of the sky. The ground began to break apart beneath us. The clouds somehow began to rain blood. Water from pipes and nearby water sources began to flood the streets, the blood now mixing in with it all as it began to get deeper and deeper. Minutes later, all of the screaming finally stopped as the sky somehow turned blood red. Earthquakes started happening very close to us. The area we're in is not prone to earthquakes at all. This is supernatural. Then, ash came from the sky. Yellowstone must have erupted.. The world as I knew it was destroyed. Rainbow Dash yells: "We have to get out of here!" Rukia agrees: "We need a plan and this place isnt safe for planning! Just look at this! All of the buildings are rubble & the plants are dead!"
I add: "I dont know if theres anything we can do to remotely just even slow down our foe in the slightest. Dosen is so absurdly powerful that if they even just poked my armor, it would shatter and I would become mince meat in one millionth of a second or less. There arent many moves I can think of that could even delay our foe for a milisecond besides really annoying distractions or something." And of course, we ended up teleporting to Mii World along with everyone else and rallied its people and others as well as anyone else we could from elsewhere to mount some kind of resistance that would begin with humorous distractions of all things. Cheese Sandwich led a lot of us in singing a really loud and distracting song of complete nonsense. We somehow managed to buy time for quite a bit with all of our distractions before we had to fight for real. When we started fighting for real, we realized in seconds that our efforts were not doing any damage at all. Klein yells: "I dont think Kii-boy or anyone else is having any better luck!" Isabella replies: "I sadly have to agree with you.." Byrnjolf adds: "Im afraid its worse than even we expected." Yappa Yappa is unleashing his terrifying abilities close to us but they are doing nothing. And from above, the Saiyans and others who can fight in the air are also doing nothing. Hell, antimatter bombs are being dropped on our fused foe but they arent doing a thing either.
Immense strength and speed do nothing. Complicated tactics do nothing. Bombs do nothing. Even Artist's Eye does nothing in the face of our enemy. Nothing is working. All we can do now is fight to stay alive or at least, undead but still in one piece for as long as we can. Out of nowhere, everyone still alive gets instantly killed after Dosen says: "Youre all as boring to fight as I thought you would be! I thought your emotions would prove more entertaining but I was wrong! In that case, I will just have to make things even more unfair for you! Not so long ago, I absorbed that Pointer Finger that caused some trouble well before I encountered any of you in person. And now, when I destroy or kill, I absorb whatever it is that is now gone to grow EVEN MORE POWERFUL!" But instead of absorbing everyone who was just killed, our foe just brings them back to life and says: "ENJOY THE LAST MOMENTS OF YOUR EXISTENCES CURSED WITH ETERNAL ZOMBIFICATION! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! BE CAREFUL! IF YOU DONT USE MANA TO MAINTAIN YOUR NOW DECAYING BODIES SOON, THEY WILL BEGIN TO ROT AWAY! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT THEY CAN SLOW ME DOWN EVEN WHEN I HAVE ALL OF THEM COMPLETELY OUTMATCHED AND OVERWHELMED!" Damn it.. All of the multiverse is being conquered and destroyed and none of us can do anything to put a stop to it. But then, someone yells: "Wait! Theres still a way to turn the tables! Writing while using the Artist's Eye!" I get the hint and create an iPad to type on with my Artist's Eye.
I type: "And just when we thought it was hopeless, Dosen suddenly died for reasons unknown, effectively killing them off along with every single other adversary of ours who was fused with GLOB as well plus GLOB themselves, thus putting an end to this nightmare once and for all. To this day, we still dont understand what happened and keep our suspicions high just in case while being thankful that at the very least, the harm done to the multiverse by Dosen was reversed immediately and we could now focus on other problems in relative peace. There is no one left from the alliance of enemies headed by Katherine Glassgate now. This marks the end of this conflict and onto whatever the next one ends up being." Dosen does in fact suddenly die but thats the only thing I wrote that happened. Because they just returned back to life, still in that horrifying GLOB based fusion form. They laugh: "Nice try but not even writing my death can save you from my ULTIMATE POWER!" Mii World gets destroyed below us and we were floating somewhere in space but not exactly because its like our foe was also destroying time itself. We sort of followed them as they laid waste to universe after universe, growing all the more powerful by doing so. It didnt take long for them to start destroying several universes per second and from there, 10s of universes per second. And from there as well, hundreds per second. They just kept growing ever more unstoppable. Beerus and the other gods finally appear as our foe started destroying universes so fast that its like they were all being outright deleted before our eyes.
Abstractoa speaks: "Even the Dreamverse or our combined imaginations would be unable to stop Dosen now. There is nothing we can do to change the situation. This is the end. Or it would be except this has happened thousands of times before in all of the previous cycles. This will be resolved in time. There is no reason to lose all hope at this critical juncture. Just watch and you will see exactly what I mean." Dosen temporarily stops destroying universes a few minutes later to gloat at us: "I AM FAR BEYOND ALL OF YOU NOW! I WILL DO WHAT THE PLOT HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO DO AND REMAKE REALITY INTO MY IMAGE AFTER I DESTROY THE REST OF IT FIRST! YOU ARE NOTHING NOW! SHOO, BEGONE! IM BORED OF YOU. YOU WEAKLINGS DONT DESERVE TO EVEN BE ACKNOWLEDGED BY ME AT ALL ANYMORE!" Aizen randomly appears: "Im still here because you absorbed my illusion in-" Dosen just grabs and eats him just like that. The destruction just continues and all we can do is watch until the Pen Of Physics appears and simply states: "I will rewrite what has happened but allow everyone here to retain their memories." With what felt like just the snap of a finger, I was back in my undead body and not merged with my original body back in Skyrim with Dosen back to summoning GLOB except GLOB and the others turn on Dosen. Aigami speaks: "Something told us to kill him if you summoned any creature of any kind today. I do not understand what that means but Im grateful. *smirks* Ive always secretly loathed you." And Abstractoa and the other gods are able to show up. Sheogarath laughs at the sight: "I saw everything and it looks like Dosen is getting the punishment they deserved this entire time! So amusing!"
Dosen screams as they are killed again and again and Aigami strips them of the power they have been granted by him along with various others. With all of that done, someone splits our enemies up and then splits us all up too to fight them. The party Im in get to stay in Whiterun while the deceased enemies who were revived get killed again due to Dosen no longer being present. The darkness over Skyrim doesnt lift but it does weaken a lot, allowing us to see some of Whiterun again at the very least. But the enemy we have to face now is a very tough one. Hermaeous Mora. What could we even possibly do to kill him? Only one of the gods stays with us to help us: Abstractoa. Hermaeous Mora speaks: "I prefer to have others act on behalf of me. I am growing tired of having to fight mortals myself." We start attacking him but that literally does nothing: "Foolish, all of you are fools. You do not understand the vast knowledge and power I hold. And by having all of you die, I will only continue to collect more knowledge and power. All knowledge that exists will become mine eventually. Dosen has been killed and separated from the Nightmare Realm. I separated them from it in order to take their knowledge for myself and now, they will no longer pose any threat to anyone. But now that we are in such a inpass, I am going to have to change the board myself."
His own tentacles start moving outward as many monsters of Skyrim and other locations are summoned such as Daedric Deathlords, Dwarven Centurions, Seekers, Lurkers, and much more. Before any of us knew it, the Dragonborn is taken by the Daedric Prince's tentacles to his current position: "Now that Miraak who proved to be such a disappointment is out of the way again, I still have another Dragonborn to use as I see fit. Dragonborn, by accepting a portion of my power, you have become my eternal servant, willingly or not. I hope you dont fail me like Miraak did. You serve me and me alone now. Even though you are blessed by many such as Hircine and Nocturnal, you are still mine and only mine." Oh great. This is actually really bad. My counterpart replies: "I do not serve you! Let me go!" "Thats what they all say but in truth, it doesnt matter, Dragonborn. You are Miraak's replacement now and will do my bidding." Abstractoa tries to stop him but falls short. "Im afraid I cannot use my full power on even Hermaeous Mora. We will have to come up with another way to stop him and do so quickly." My counterpart tries their best to break free of the Daedric Prince's hold and we all try to help them do so but all of it proved completely useless. They cry out in agony as Hermaeous Mora tightens his grip: "I see you will not serve me willingly. Very well. You will come to serve me soon enough." Our foe starts having some of his tentacles puncture my counterpart's very brain. "Dragonborn, I will strip you of everything that gets in the way of you serving me. I will reprogram your very brain.
You will never be able to betray me. I wont let anyone repeat Miraak's betrayal of me. You are mine and only mine now, Dragonborn. Your will will be to do as I command." They scream out in pain as they are "reprogrammed". Whats worse is that they are even transformed to become more like Hermaeous Mora in form as well. Their ebony armor becomes strange looking and covered in tentacles. Their hair becomes not unlike Medusa's "hair". And the wolf side of them is forced out of them in spirit form and is instantly killed by the Daedric Prince. Hermaeous Mora speaks calmly: "The Dragonborn is now truly an instrument of my will. Dragonborn, I will now give you the control of the Nightmare Realm I gained when I took away all of Dosen's knowledge for myself. You will kill everyone here who stands against me." Playmaker speaks: "This is.." I nod: "Yeah, I dont think any of us can fully express how to feel about this.. The tactics of our enemies just keep on evolving. Its not going to be easy to undo my counterpart's brainwashing. Because I played as them in Skyrim, my brain has memories of so much of what they have gone through but I doubt that would be enough to bring them back from this. My imagination cannot create life using the Artist's Eye and I dont think it can reverse the physical changes done to the Dragonborn. This isnt goint to be fun in the least bit." We prepare ourselves for a difficult fight. The Spectral Assassin attacks the Dragonborn: "Listener, we will get you back but for now, you are now an enemy of the Black Hand and Night Mother. And for that, I must fight you."
Many others are also hurt by what has happened emotionally. Serana yells: "We'll get them back!" Karliah replies: "Youre right. I have hope that we will. For now, we have no choice but to treat them as our enemy." Isabella comments: "I dont think I have a patch for reversing brainwashing yet. But lets see what all of my training can do to make a difference here!" Its all of us against the Dragonborn now. I hear Isran sigh: "This is just too ironic, isnt it?" Ulfric Stormcloak replies: "I dont enjoy a thing about this either." Vex states: "All the more reason we get this over with so we can get back to not exactly being allies again!" The DB uses Unrelenting Force to successfully push most of us back. I yell: "I know all of the moves and powers Hermaeous Mora didnt just give you! I saw this coming. You cant knock me down. We will free you, my counterpart! And if you can hear me, Hermaeous Mora.. Just because you're immortal doesnt mean you cant die! There are ways to kill you and in time, we will find one that manages to in fact kill you!" But then, a large monster tries to finish me off. Hawkgirl smashes the monster to pieces: "Watch out! We still have these monsters to deal with too!" I nod: "We'll kill every last one of them." It seems my counterpart is struggling to use the ability to use the Nightmare Realm that was granted to them through a passing along of information. But they still remain focused on trying to kill all of us. Luckily for us, they didnt level up archery too too high or got really any perks in its skill tree. There are too many of us for even them now powered up by Hermaeous Mora to face all at once.
This gives us some room to breathe, once we managed to kill all of the monsters. As you would expect, beating them wasnt the hard part. Dealing with so many of them at once was the issue in the end. But it was all taken care of in the end and now, most of us were huddled in groups to brainstorm while a few of us watched Hermaeous Mora and the fighting going on like hawks just in case our main foe at the moment he tries anything funny or whatever. The others fighting the Dragonborn are currently most of those they have encountered on their journeys along with a few tanks such as Liten and others who can last a while against a very powerful opponent. So the Greybeards, Blades, most of the Thieves Guild, the Dark Brotherhood, the Dawnguard, Ulfric, Ralof, some Stormcloak Soldiers, and more alongside LLENN(her agility has gotten so much damn higher than even in GGO), the Z Fighters, my Midgardian counterpart and co, M, etc. They keep the Dragonborn busy for a while. Eventually, the huddles turn into a full blown discussion within a matter of minutes. Gru speaks: "Hey uh, isnt it really strange to be conversing like this when all of those people over there are fighting to keeo our ally turned enemy from hurting us? This feels like a really bad thing to be doing right now!" L replies: "You're right. This isnt conventional. *sits down in a odd position while eating candy* This is a war after all. Our enemies and ourselves have been waging battles on and off for months.
The only reason we're doing this is because the Dragonborn is being successfully held off for now. There is great risk in this tactic. Brainstorming while just meters away from a brutal fight essentially to the death. Obviously, a simple spell wont be enough to stop the Dragonborn from continuing to be controlled by Hermaeous Moral. Killing the Daedric Prince of Knowledge would be the simplest way to stop this but it would not only take time for the Dragonborn to stop carrying out his orders even if he died but also, we are not in a position to execute the plan we have already conceived of to kill that Daedric Prince specifically. A plan which in turn was originally based on plans designed to kill gods and other supremely powerful beings. Its not an option to take right now. The conditions arent correct for carrying it out properly. What we need to do instead is to target the Dragonborn specifically for anything we come up with." Twilight speaks up: "Some kind of device wouldnt work either. And Im not sure my magic or the elements of harmony are powerful enough to reverse the brainwashing either." I add: "We dont have time for trying things that we're not sure about unless those end up being the only things we can try. But we have to hurry. Not even the Greybeards will hold out forever against a Dragonborn fully brainwashed by Hermaeous Mora, the horder of knowledge. Nor will our heavily armored comrades currently holding off my counterpart." Tsunade speaks next: "A brain surgery to undo what the enemy has done will take far too long but be far too complicated to be done in this location unless we use any of the Capsule Corp capsules containing entire medical hospitals."
Playmaker perks up suddenly: "We know what we're dealing with but are there any details we haven't acknowledged so far? Something strange happened earlier. If Hermaeous Mora is so easily able to brainwash the Dragonborn, why did he still have to completely purge them of anything that is tied to other powerful entities such as the werewolf form they were given that can be traced back to Hircine as we have all come to know as of late?" Aela The Huntress, one of the Companions speaks: "That is a good question to ask. Hermaeous Mora is well known as a cautious one, always trying to be steps ahead of everyone else to make sure everything goes according to his plan. He fears the potential of what the hunting instincts of a werewolf could do to hinder his own influence within the Harbringer. I have an idea. We restore their werewolf form. Its risky. They may go on a rampage that we cant stop but it may be the only way to reverse brainwashing of the Harbringer. And to restore their form, all we have to do is allow some of my werewolf blood to be consumed by them." Vilkas replies: "But under the influence of Hermaeous, they wont willingly just drink your blood." Serana joins in: "No but there is a way we can change that." Isran gives her a look: "You're kidding me." "No, Im not joking. I will get in close and infect our friend with vampirism. When it begins taking effect, they will have a thirst for blood that may not be so easy to quench due to Hermaeous Mora's brainwashing stripping them of individual thought and free thinking. They solely act on orders, emotion, muscle memory, and instinct alone now."
Florentius talks just to say: "Arkay supports this plan." We ignore him. Aela speaks: "If you can get them to become bloodthirsty enough to attack and drink blood, I know what I must do. But Im going to need a hand in having my werewolf blood flow out of me for I wont be able to do it myself after I transform." Vilkas replies: "I'll take care of it, shield sister." She nods: "Very well. *turns to Serana* Its on you now, vampire." "I will do my best." "You better or we may be all doomed." "Im aware and Im going to need our friend completely distracted when I do along with Hermaeous Mora. We cant allow him to learn of our plan." Korosensei chuckles: "Leave that part to me! I can be VERY DISTRACTING!" Eva replies: "That wont be enough, we gotta leave that bastard a distraction so good that it will put Operation Sweets completely to shame. I'll pitch in myself. No one said anything about what kinds of distractions we can use. Im thinking its open ended. *referring to SHINC teammates* Alright, ladies! Lets help distract a Daedric Prince!" I dont think you entirely want to know who else helped and what they did. Or the details of who was being loud and annoying enough at the moment to make Hermaeous Mora unable to hear any of what we just said at all. And now, time for the moment of truth. Seeing those fighting my counterpart begin to really struggle, I am among those who run in to serve as reinforcements for them. I manage to yank the Dragonborn's Bloodskaal Blade right out of their hands: "Until you arent brainwashed anymore, Im keeping this. Try to take it back if you dare." I put the blade in my inventory & lunge backwards.
This allows others to take my place and block their view of me while theyre quickly forced to switch to the Nightinggale Blade. Im surprised they dont have the Nerveshatter hammer in their inventory right now. Guess my love of swords was truly reflected in their preferences as well. Having seen my take their big sword from them, others start trying to take the Dragonborn's weapons out of their hands as well as their pockets for safekeeping for the time being. They don't entirely succeed but they do stagger my counterpart a few times, allowing us to deal some good damage only for it to be nullified by the armor thats been made all creepy and full of tentacles and might even be fused with their skin now. Serana slips into the fight unnoticed by staying very low and moving through the darkness itself. The Last DB has given up on using the Nightmare Realm, the knowledge of how to use it must be too much for any of us mortals to fully comprehend. Their slightly increased focus is everything I needed to confirm that for certain along with them ceasing to randomly stare off into the distance for brief windows of time. Serana succeeds without getting hurt in the process and hides within our fighting group to attack with her magic, which she does with fast and relentless effort. Fire, ice, lightning. She uses all of them. When my counterpart begins to look bloodthirsty, Yappa Yappa announces it excitedly, recognizing that look due to his own bloodthirst: "THE DRAGONBORN IS THIRSTY FOR BLOOD!" I hear Aela shout: "Nows my chance! I need everyone to do what they can to make that bloodthirst grow and grow until they cant take it anymore!"
I cut a literal artery in my own body with my sword and really let the blood flow from it. So much blood. So much blood is spilled to help the DB along in losing control and pouncing on the first source of blood they can see or smell. Aela smirks upon seeing it work quickly: "Good work, everyone! Vilkas, lets go!" "Okay! Just dont get yourself killed doing this." "I will try my best. I will be careful not to lose control myself after I transform. *transforms*" By the time she finishes transforming, the DB is too focused on fighting the urge to drink the blood on the ground to fight any of us at the moment. Vilkas and Aela run up to them and Aela raises an arm up for Vilkas to cut, which he promptly does. And it wasnt just done anywhere either. It was done right in the DB's face. They couldnt resist such fresh blood and took it all in from the ground greedily. The werewolf blood cured them of vampirism and instantly began to transform them into a werewolf. Vilkas yells: "Everyone! Get back!" But myself and other tanks step forward. If they go wild, they will go for us first as we will be the first ones they'll see but because we're wearing powerful heavy plate armor, they cant just feast on us so easily. Mercer made a huge mistake in not investing in some heavy armor earlier. I hold my shield arm in front of myself and stay still while even digging my feet into the ground. And thats when a ad somehow plays in our faces. Just kidding. Not in these kinds of situations does that ever happen.
While we watch on, many of us also watch the show that is going on to distract our real foe. Korosensei is re-enacting the entirety of a Skyrim abridged series all by himself. Meanwhile, Wald, Hamaduh, and Begunine are all causing a lot of mayhem with pranks. Wow, looks like Wald likes doing pranks now as well(who is now back in his own body after accidentally switching bodies with Begunine somehow some time ago and no one batting an eye when Wald started acting like Begunine at first). The Wacky Clowns are using their infamous UFO for humorous things. Discord, Pinkie Pie, and Cheese Sandwich are a trio of comedy and chaos. Tetsuya is annoying Hermaeous Mora by talking as his "Nigel Crabcakes" persona but with elements of his "Sir Crabcakes" persona and the delivery style of speakers in distracting video advertisements mixed in because why not? Naruto is doing a "dattaboya" thing. Rarity is doing a lecture abut fashion with a megaphone. Minglow Bats is making deadpan jokes in his very dull voice with a megaphone of his own. Jack Atlas and the Hair Guy are yelling. Usagi is pretending to be a crybaby about something meaningless. The list goes on. Not even a Daderic Prince can fully comprehend all of these distractions at once due to how annoying most of them are especially because some of them are physical. Such as someone constantly poking our foe. But in more serious matters, my counterpart is going on a rampage but also a existential crisis at the same time. We just watch as their actions constantly contradict each other for a time. I shout: "We must enter their mind at once!"
Shadi teleports over to our location and manages to unlock their mind for all of us to see. Or rather, their soul room, not their mind. Shadi speaks: "The original soul has not been permanently damaged just yet. We intervened in time. Looking around, all of us who just sort of entered here with Shadi are face to face with what look like creatures born of Hermaeous Mora's power and influence. The keeper of the Millennium Key explains: "These creatures represent not just the brainwashing and corruption that has happened but the knowledge inserted inside of the Dragonborn as well. We must kill them along with the manifestation of Hermaeous Mora thats in here. Its a very small piece of the real one's soul left inside the Dragonborn." We get to work on killing the creatures. It was easy because there were a lot of us and we were all wearing soul versions of our gear and such. But the fragment of the Daderic Prince's soul was another matter though that fight was too chaotic for me to write in detail about. But we got through it and somehow avoided damaging any of our souls in the process. When we returned to consciousness, we awoke to find Hermaeous Mora trying to kill us all. My counterpart wakes up as well and asks: "Am I free?" Aela replies: "Yes but not completely. Now come! We must kill Hermaeous Mora somehow now!" Shoto replies: "That wont be a problem. We already have a plan for dealing with him in place and most of us here had that plan memorized months ago."
I nod: "We have been getting good at that sort of thing. It may not work given that it wasnt ever updated to account for much increase of our foe's power from when it was conceived of to now but it should still work nicely and thats what matters. Lets do this." The plan to kill Hermaeous Mora is simple in its objectives: take away all of his stored knowledge, occupy his realm(already ongoing thanks to members of the Multiverse Defense Force, this is why they havent been mentioned being involved in anything relating to our current battling until now), and finally, kill him. Without his knowledge, we will be eventually capable of killing him. Hes immortal but isn't invincible. And thats how we can get him. The issue is trying to yank his knowledge from his very mind first and foremost. We already know we want to use one or more robots to store the knowledge taken from him and have ways of making that possible. But thats going to require weakening him first and no one really knows how to do that because no one has ever successfully injured him as far as we know other than other extrenely powerful entities. Our foe speaks as we fail to hurt him again and again and he begins to kill us off: "You feeble mortals do not have any chance of ever defeating me. My power is beyond anything you could possibly damage." Thats what he thinks. He may be missing the fact that any powerful enough force can break just about anything. The issue in that is how much force does that even entail in the vain of trying to wound him?
Just how much force does someone have to generate to injure someone like Hermaeous Mora. He laughs as he adds onto his own statement: "You mortals are all still so fascinating. I wont kill all of you off too quickly. I want to watch you squirm and struggle for my own interest as well as amusement. You will make fine specimen before I kill all of you except for the Dragonborn who you have somehow managed to free from my control." The DB replies: "I wont let you control me ever again, you monster!" "Monster? This isnt the first time you have called me that. But you can't ever escape from your fate to serve me faithfully no matter how hard you try." He summons more Lerkers and Seekers to attack us but despite how powerful and annoying they are to deal with in game, we slaughter them all without much trouble. Paarthurnax speaks: "Surrender, Daedric Prince and we will spare your life. Even I have come to believe that we can kill you by working together." Hermaeous Mora laughs: "Even dragons wish no dead, how entertaining. I will be sure to remember this well long after I kill all of you whileI take away all of your respective knowledges." The enemy grows to a giant size while adding: "This is my real true form. I usually appear much smaller to mortals in order to conceal the full depths of my power." Maybe this isnt canon in the actual canon Elder Scrolls timeline but it is canon in this one. I didnt read up enough on him to know if this is basically canon or not.
We are forced to fight off a whole bunch of his tentacles for what felt like forever. The only way we were able to damage him for a while was through getting some of his many eyeballs even though they were still far stronger than your average eyeball. I wasnt one of the ones to get his eyeballs. Yeah, I hurt some of them but I wasn't responsible for any of them being burst and exploding though my successful attacks helped make that happen a little bit. As we kept fighting him and he gradually killed more of us, he almost constantly made comments and launched insults and other forms of mockery, all delivered in a creepily calm manner. Someway somehow, we did manage to find another way to damage him while his destroyed eyeballs regenerated surprisingly slowly. The very top of his body. Not exactly the easiest thing to hit from the ground. But the likes of Fukaziroh didnt have many problems with hitting it after it's vulnerability was discovered on accident. We kept fighting with all that we had even though so many of us had died already. Abstractoa speaks: "Im going to have to use more of my power to help all of you now. You wont win without my help." They increase their deadliness with ease. Hermaeous Mora would end up laughing despite that several minutes later after killing many more of us in a short time for the hell of it. "You will not win, mortals. No one escapes Hermaeous Mora. No one disobeys Hermaeous Mora. This is the end of your futile efforts." But then, someone casts a revival spell to bring back everyone.
Missing a limb, Bray shouts: "You shall not defeat us so easily! Using up nearly all of my remaining mana just now was.. worth it.." She collapses. I run to her and move her to a safe place. Also, my counterpart hasnt really done anything this entire time to deal with the effects of what our foe did to them but is now motivated to spring back into action. I give them the Bloodskaal Blade back while returning to the frontlines. "Here! I return your primary sword." They accept it and equip it immediately. The Spectral Assassin and Serana run to their side to stand by them once more." Due to their body still being in a modified form thanks to Hermeaous Mora and since none of us had time to reverse it, the Dragonborn fights our foe with what those modifications gave them without giving into his influence. And with everyone killed back to life, we are slowly able to wittle down the enemy's health, against all odds. We go for his eyeballs and the very top of his form again and again despite his tentacles being a nearly constant nuisance. We show no mercy and use everything we can use to do some good damage. I dual wield with my sword and BRAIN Blaster the whole time. Against advanced technology, our foe apparently has a weakness he does not have against magic. We of course leverage that the moment we discover that but hes far from weakened still. Theres a long way to go until we can get him down to where we want him to be so we can take his knowledge away from him. For now, some of us start making preparations for that objective. Including me. "I cast Binding Chains! I cast Wind Prison! I cast Dark Barrier!"
So many binding spells and devices are used on the enemy. We wont let him get anywhere. He wont be able to break all of the bindings we're putting on him simply because of how many we're putting on him. Sailor Mars places a sealing paper on our foe: "Evil spirit, be exorcised!" It doesnt exactly work but it does distract our foe a little bit who was already ignoring the bindings we were placing on him as he didnt see them as a threat to him at all. One step at a time. We will get him. He can kill as many of us again as he wants but we are far too resilent to give up. We have to stop him at all costs. He is far too dangerous to be kept alive and we actually have a chance of killing him. To be continued..