Point of View change
1POV
As I finally get through the gauntlet of traps and barriers, I find myself face a collection of familiar and unfamiliar faces. These include Wolf, Hyena, and Jackel of the Pack upgraded to their most lethal forms. There are a bunch of new mutates. Three normal mutates – Another Wolf, a Croc, and a Shark – and two mythic mutates - a Griffin and a Manticore. I don't sense any magic, so I'm guessing they mix instead of true magical beast mutates.
"Anton must be getting desperate."
I must admit their opening tactics are pretty good. Since they know I can slaughter them with my Doom Vision, they throw smoke grenades to block my vision and attack using other senses like heightened sense of sound or infrared. They try to blind me with laser blasts and chemical sprays to the eyes, and one of them is a good enough shot to nail me in the eyes with an armor-piercing round. It doesn't penetrate, but I do find it irritating.
When it comes to the Pack, the one I dislike the most is Hyena. He always sounds so smug like a wannabe Loki without the charm and he's even an a-hole to his sister Hyena. That's why I have no problem with delivering a backhand when he gets too close to me. Hyena is decapitated, but I can tell something is wrong. His head disconnected before my hand hit and now both the body and head are moving independent of each other.
I feel some sort of vicious adhesive liquid strike my legs, which then hardens into a rubbery substance around my legs. I feel cables wrapped around my wrists and pull my arms out before securing them. I'm not into bondage, so I yank my arms back, ripping out the anchors. I swing the concrete and wire around like flails. I use them to wrap around the cyborg twins and toss them away. I then use my abilities to burn away the polymer around my legs.
I burst from the smoke, smashing Jackel and Hyena into the wall at speeds surpassing some trains. I completely crater the concrete wall with their bodies, which break apart into sparking pieces. I look down at the head of Jackel which is supported by robotic spider legs and smile showing my shark teeth. Then before he or anyone can react, I stomp him. Jackel's head explodes in spray of combat alloy, bio-medical fluids, sparking micro-circuitry, and gelatinous brain matter.
Wolf attacks me from behind with some sort of high-tech axe. I just turn and let the axe hit me. The axe shatters it fragments, which explodes when the power cell in the handle also detonates. As wolf holds his arm in pain, I deliver a quick punch to his chest caving it. As Wolf falls to the ground, I deliver a slice with my hand that decapitates him. Unlike the cyborg twins, this is instant death for the last descendent of the Viking Hakon.
The Shark-mutate rushes me, but I stare at him, and yell "KNEEL"
The Shark-mutate falls to his knees, which causes the other mutates to pause.
"Who are you?"
"White. Bruce White." he says, struggling to stop himself. "How?"
"I was blessed by the Hawaiian Shark God." I say as I transform into my full seven-foot-seven grey-skinned and spiky form, emitting as much murderous intent as possible. "This is why you get to live."
The Crocodile-mutate falls to his knees in horror as he has visions of himself dying over and over again in increasingly horrific ways. It's too much for him, he falls to the ground and curls himself into the fetal position. Soon he passes out completely not even knowing he pissed himself.
The Griffin and the Manticore on the other hand are driven by their instincts. Instincts that tell them to kill me or I will kill them. They are firing their weapons and crackling with electricity as they charge, their eyes are glowing with animalistic rage and madness. I'm sure they would look very heroic on a Fantasy poster or a comic book cover, but I am far more experienced. I decided to show them the meaning of power – Abyss Roar.
The Griffin and the Manticore find themselves surrounded by white light. For a moment they feel calm, a total acceptance of their deaths. Their mutated bodies ripple and disintegrate, every bit from their weapons to the smallest bone. The human souls float in the light without their bodies before passing into the afterlife.
The Gargoyles finally arrive and see me standing where I fired my Abyss Roar. Everything in the path of my attack has been destroyed. There is a burning hot tunnel going through the bunker, scooped away by the power of angry god. The tunnel goes through the stone and dirt that surrounds the bunker to the surface. The clan can even see the night sky with a cloud dispersed by my power.
"Holy Shit." says Angela of all people.
"Where is Sevarius?" asks Goliath.
*DOOM*
Bottom Level
Hidden Bunker
Minutes Later
1POV
"Sometimes I hate being right."
The walls of the basement level that were once covered in refrigeration and storage units, their cylindrical tanks filled with a watery fluid like embryonic fluid. Inside each tube is a humanoid with many of them resembling Dr. Anton Bartholomew Sevarius between the ages of 18 and 30. Most of them look normal, but some of them have been mutated. These mutations range from the "normal kind" done by his own research into genetics like the mutates and clones to the "abnormal kind" done by injecting glowing red fluid.
In a chair Infront of the group is Dr, Sevarius, his face partially hidden by the shadows. Goliath is about to charge, but I put up my arm.
"Where is the Fragment of the Red Sky, Sevarius?"
"The Fragment is fascinating. When I first obtained it, it started whispering to me about secrets. When I injected myself with Red Liquid, I gained so much information about you, Rorschach, and your world. I also learned so many secrets about my own world, its past and possible future. I even learned about Weisman and his creations."
"So, why aren't you a pile of tentacles?"
"You are surrounded by the answer."
"Clones. You transferred your mind into a clone, when your body began to degenerate. I'm also guessing you didn't use the Fragment directly. Instead, you only used the fluid."
"I knew you would understand. You and Rorschach see the world differently than others."
"So, where did you put the Fragment?"
"In my greatest creation, in my newest body." says Anton and I realize the Anton Sevarius in the chair is a corpse.
There are loud, thunderous steps.
In Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles – a non-canon third season to the animated series – there is an infamous episode called Genesis Undone. In that episode, all members of the clone clan were dying and attempted to force Sevarius to help only lead to them fighting a giant gargoyle clone called Little Anton. Weisman had future plans for Deliah, but Chronicles killing her off
Anton's new body resembles Little Anton – a massive Gargoyle with yellow eyes, light slate gray skin, and mane of red-brown similar in color to Sevarius' own. He also has unusual spurs on his knees and elbows, huge, pointed ears, and multiple horns on his head. The differences are more shocking. The sclera of his eyes is bright red, his gray skin is covered in red lines resembling a combination of veins and tribal markings, and there is a third red eye on his forehead.
"While I'll admit he's not the most handsome of my creations, it does take far longer to degenerate. "Says Anton, his voice loud and thunderous, "Looking down on my enemies is a bonus."
The Gargoyles spring into action, climbing the walls before launching themselves at Anton. The mad scientist inside the massive gargoyle body laughs in a way only Tim Currey can. The bare-fisted punches of the Clan do nothing to Anton, but make the clan feel like humans who punched stone. The sword blades barely cut the hardened skin of the creature and what they cut they do make quickly heal, leaving behind red markings.
I rush forward and jump towards Anton. As I cannonball into his chest, there is a loud wet sound of breaking bone and Anton is sent flying backward. As he crashes into the ground, I uncurl from my position and use my Doom Vision on Anton's neck. The concentrated beams explode the jaw and burn through the neck to the spine, but I'm grabbed before I can finish and thrown down the hall.
As I flip in the air and land on my feet, I see Anton rise to his feet. I also watch as his missing jaw and neck regenerate before the eyes of everyone. Not only do they regenerate, but they look thicker with darker skin and a row of spikes on the jaw. Like Doomsday's own beard of spikes. Anton's body continues to mutate. His skin darkens until dark slate grey with red markings glowing brightly and spreading. Anton's arms are elongated and are unnaturally flexible, and numerous tumorous masses appear on his body. Masses which split open to reveal eyes, teeth, and tendrils.
"My Ultimate creation. He regenerates all damage and becomes stronger. You witness the birth of a god!"
I use my Doom Vision on its massive body, but the beams are losing their efficiency. Like how I become resistant and eventually immune to what damages me (even resurrecting from and becoming immune to what kills me), his Lovecraftian flesh is become more and more resistant to the heat and high levels of gamma and cosmic radiation. I also don't want to risk using my Abyss Roar with the clan so close – wave-motion guns are not toys.
I watch as Anton's body continues to regenerate and mutate, but I also watch the flows of energy travelling through those red "magic circuits". I use the flows to determine the location of the Fragment of the Red Sky. Finding my target inside a mass on his right shoulder, I use my Whip-Fist to reach the shoulder. I then plunge my hand into chaos-corrupted mutated flesh and rip out the shard. I jump back as the flesh reaches for me to reclaim the shard. Using a burst of destruction to clean it, I then pop it in my mouth and bite.
[Fragment of Red Sky – 7/42 Destroyed]
Anton's horribly corrupted and mutated form suddenly stops moving. The glow fades from the red markings and they blacken. The Manhattan Clan and I watch as the man-turned-abomination transforms into cold lifeless gray stone. Then the statue cracks and shatters into dust to release a small burst of red light.
"Are we done?" says a very tired Brecklyn.
"Almost." I say, then I use my Doom Vision to sweep the lab. My destructive beams slice through the tanks holding the numerous Sevarius clones. The beams are powerful enough to instantly burnt/cut the clones apart and the heat of the beams causes the tank fluid to flash to steam, causing the broken chambers to explode.
*DOOM*
Castle Wyvern
Eyrie Building, NY
October 10, 2022
6:00 a.m. (34 minutes to sunrise)
1POV
"I have to say, on my multiverse adventure, your world has been the most interesting. Sure, it's only been seven out of forty-two, but I got a chance to meet my childhood heroes."
"I will admit your arrival has been interesting, Ash." says Goliath.
"Are you sure you want to go to his world?" asks Kida to Cyanea.
"He saved my life more than once, and by ancient law we protect the protectors." says Cyanea. Cyanea's clan is gone and while she has fought alongside the Manhattan Clan, she doesn't share a connection with them beyond comradery. She also doesn't want to see Atlantis again because of the trauma caused by the Atlantean crystal.
"You'll have to wait for me on Earth-DR." I say, making sure she understands, "This Quest is too chaotic to have a companion that sleeps during the day. Are you sure you're OK with staying with my friends until I return?"
"I have absolute faith in your ability to return."
Rorschach's portals open. One is a standard thunderous monochrome portal that will take me to "World 8", while the other is Sky-Blue Portal that will take Cyanea to Outer Heaven base on Earth-DR's moon.
*DOOM*
Current HQ of the Black Manta
Small Island in the South Pacific
(Close to Atlantean city-state Neptunos)
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Roughly 6:00 am (Dawn)
3POV
"What is with this fog?" asks Black Manta to one of his men.
"It's not normal, sir. It doesn't make sense from a scientific view, so it could be magical."
"It can't be the Heroes. Their stealth may be poor, but they are not this bad."
The fog clears to reveal an amphibious vehicle. In the driver seat is a young man with short brown hair and red eyes hidden behind sunglasses. He's dressed casually in a loud Hawaiian t-shirt.
"Hello. Would you gentlemen be in need of a brilliant geneticist?"
"He sounds like Tim Currey." says one of Manta's men whispering to the other.
Chapter 25 – Welcome to the Weisman-verse – Part 3 – Bugs, Men, and Gods
An eternity for an ant, a lifetime for a man, a blink of an eye for a god.
*DOOM*
World 11 - Men in Black: The Series
Farmville, Iowa
Early Morning
1POV
I emerge from the portal and find myself falling into a cornfield. The cornstalks snap under my weight and I find myself standing in mud. Thankfully, I saw a road before I landed and quickly make it to the dryer path.
"Where the hell am I?"
I look at my armband for the answer.
"Al Black's abandoned farm, Farmville, Iowa?"
Suddenly, I see a beam of familiar looking energy and I run towards the source. What I find is a car liquified by an anti-metal beam. Rorschach is the only person I know that has this technology, but he would have called me if we were meeting up. Also, why would he liquify a random car?
I see an odd rippling and walk forward. As I walk through some sort of cloaking barrier, I now know what Universe I am in.
"K! It got the car!" comes a familiar voice.
"I saw." comes a distorted voice,
"The car with all the weapons we need!"
"I know."
The Men in Black is a secret organization devoted to policing and monitoring extraterrestrial activity on Earth. The Men in Black, founded in the U.S. in the mid-1950s, began as a small and poorly funded government organization devoted to making contact with extraterrestrial life. They were initially seen as a joke, but did make contact on March 2, 1961, outside New York City. Those extraterrestrials were the Baltians who resembled tall Roswell Greys.
It was decided to make Earth an apolitical zone for aliens without a planet, and the organization broke its government ties to become the Men in Black, which became the force to conceal and police the aliens that came to Earth, no longer answerable to the government and therefore not obligated to answer any questions or respond to outside demands.
The Agents of the MIB to maintain absolute secrecy, are stripped of their identities. All data considering them is erased, fingerprints are physically removed, and memories of people that once knew them are erased. All that remains of their past identities is a single Letter that serves as their names
"Who is the Big Guy!?" says J as he dodges energy beams.
One of most legendary agents in the history of MIB is Agent K, whose been with the organization for the longest time. His partner is a street-smart former police officer known as Agent J who joined the organization when he became involved in an incident involving a Bug and a marble-size Galaxy. Another Agent who joined at the same time was Agent L, a former coroner who was kidnapped as a food source by the Bug and ended up delivering the final bow Edgar the Bug.
The MIB Agents are being attacked by various humanoid and semi-humanoid extraterrestrial life forms. These aliens range from tall, thin, and agile to short, round, and strong to completely bizarre creatures. Some of them are completely naked showing their various skin colors, while some are dressed in clothing or armor. One is merely a cyclopic creature piloting a mechanical android body. What makes them similar is they each look deformed and are fused with red-pink plants with red-black leaves. These parasitic plants appear to be controlling the zombie-like aliens, the roots spread through the bodies of the aliens.
"What the Hell is he made of!?"
J, who sounds like Keith Diamond, is asking that familiar question because I just tanked beams shot by the plant-zombie-aliens and their master – an immense tree composed of red-pink stone and black leaves. The branches of massive tree move land act like giant serpentine dragons, releasing energy blasts from their mouths, which are quickly destroying the farm.
The monster tree is clearly tracking its targets using sound, so it's no surprise the big mouth would be the one dodging the most attacks. K and L on the other hand are using some sort of stealth technology. I guessing J didn't read the manual again.
These beams are all familiar – anti-metal beams, de-carbonizer beams, repulson rays, anti-proton beams. These are weapons that Rorschach often uses.
J is dodging beams and ends up hiding behind me. Since I liked the show, I'll let J use me as an Indestructible Meat Shield.
"Nice to meet you, J. My name is Ash."
"Nice to meet you." says J, avoiding burning plasma beams, "I would say more, but I'm trying to survive."
"What's with the Tree?"
"That's Omega. One last FU from the deceased Big Bad Alpha."
One of the greatest threats to MIB was a former senior agent known as Alpha. A man who stole alien technology that enabled him to add extraterrestrial alien traits and abilities to his body. Alpha fought against the heroes of MIB many times in increasingly inhuman, grotesque forms, until he exhausted the original device and could only augment further using metal cybernetics. He tried to save the Earth when his partner in crime attempted to destroy the planet because he wanted to conquer Earth, but in the end, he died when the plant-killing missile was destroyed/detonated before it could reach Earth.
"That Shug Tree is growing larger and larger, and once it gets too big it will explode and spread across the entire planet!" says J
"The Shugnahoth shuggog lw'shuggor shouldn't have enough energy to be doing this." says L, her voice distorted by alien tech, "Something must be feeding it power. The trouble is its bark is harder than battleship hull armor"
"I'm still not calling it that!" says J and I don't blame him as it sounds like an eldritch tongue-twister.
My omnilingualism triggers and with it comes the pocket dictionary.
Shugnahoth shuggog lw'shuggor – Kylothian (and R'Lyehian) for Rock World Tree. It is a unique organism from the planet Jorn. It grows like a plant but is a colonial organism similar to coral. When it reaches a certain point determined by various factors, it violently explodes and the spread fragments which then grow into new trees. In the case of close forests, one tree will absorb the energy of the others and detonate with far greater force. 150 Earth years ago, the Throdog lw'shuggor (Great Tree) exploded destroying a sacred land on Jorn and managed to send fragments into the depths of space.
I want to get close and end this, but I'm being blinded by the constant fire from the branch dragons. If I can get close, I can tear through the bark, but I can't use energy attacks as it could detonate the tree.
"J, when I jump use the Cricket on me!"
"What's that...?"
"Trust me!"
"OK."
The Noisy Cricket is a tiny, palm-sized firearm of astonishing power. Despite its small size, it launches a large orb of energy. The Cricket can level a truck or blast through five feet of concrete. J is infamous for being sent flying when not taking a proper stance.
I jump up and I feel the orb of energy hit me in the back. I accelerate forward at high speed, past the drones, energy beams and tree limbs. My extremely hard body slams into the red-pink tree "bark" creating an impression. As the tree reaches to grab me and toss me away, I deploy my spikes and tear my way into the interior of the tree.
While mammals have hard endoskeletons covered by softer flesh, plants and trees are opposite with harder fibers on the outside protecting the soft interior that transports the plant's vital fluids. As I tears through the steel-hard layers of the plant, I find myself floating in red water inside the trunk. With my enhanced vision I can see crystals growing on the interior of the tree, crackling with electricity. Watching the bubbles, I can guess the trees' normal exploding trick is a mix of hydrogen and steam explosion. I also see the Fragment of the Red Sky floating at the heart of trunk emitting a malicious red light.
I ignore the small organisms trying (and failing) to dissolve and consume me and grab the Fragment. I consume the Fragment and the tree shakes.
[Fragment of the Red Sky - 11/42 Destroyed]
Rorschach opens a portal underneath me and I feel like I'm being flushed. I think he's upset I spent so much time in the Gargoyle Universe.
*DOOM*
J, K, and L watch as the Branch Dragons stop firing their deadly beams. Instead, they slowly wilt and begin to fall apart like overripened fruit. Red cracks spread across of the surface of the tree and foaming red water sprays from the cracks. It actually resembles a chemistry classroom experiment called Elephant's Toothpaste.
Elephant's toothpaste is a foamy substance caused by the rapid decomposition of hydrogen peroxide using potassium iodide or yeast and warm water as a catalyst.
The blackened trunk bursts open, splattering the MIB agents with goo.
"Yuck. Tastes like the Worm's attempt to make Korean food." says Agent J.
"Hopefully it doesn't cause the same amount of intestinal pain." says Agent L, "Where did that guy go?"
"He said his name was Ash."
*DOOM*
World 13 - Hercules - The Animated Series
Athens, Ancient Greece
Early Morning
1POV
Prometheus Academy is the most esteemed center of learning in all of Athens. whose student body is composed of the famous, the royal, the noble and the intelligent. The school was named after the Titan Promethius, who began a new age for humanity when he gave them fire. Today was supposed to be a day of celebration with many of its famous students meeting the new generation, the most famous student being Hercules.
Hercules (whose proper Greek name would be Herackles) is the greatest hero of Greeco-Roman mythology. There are many versions of Hercules in the multiverse, with the majority being the son of Zeus – the King of the Gods. In most universes, he's the son of Zeus and a mortal woman, which led to endless suffering though his life due to Hera – Zeus's wife and the Goddess of Marriage. Most would hate Hera for taking her hatred out on a child, but she is the Goddess of Marriage who was Forced to marry Zeus, tied up and forced to never to oppose him under divine law (no divorce or revenge against him), and then he cheated on her over and over again.
This version of Hercules is a pure god born of Zeus and Hera, but his divine powers were drained by a potion, and he was cast to Earth. The scheme was done by this world's Hades. A hot-headed fast talker who hates ruling the Underworld. In most universes, he's actually a fairly chill guy whose wife Persephone was actually the dreaded one. Even in his "abduction "of Persephone he actually got permission from Zeus to marry her, and they enjoyed each other's company.
"I'm in Disney's version of Ancient Greece?"
"Who are you, Monster? Did Hades send you?" asks Hercules standing protecting the student body. Hercules is an impressive six-foot-five with short strawberry-blond hair and wide blue eyes. He's square-jawed, chiseled faced, broad-shouldered, top-heavy, muscular and brawny, but he's still a skinny kid compared to me.
"Monster?" I say looking down at my ash skin and bone spikes, "Yes, but I'm not here to fight. I'm not from Tartarus or a spawn of Typhon and Echidna."
"Then where are you from and why are you here?"
"My name is Ash Grey. I was created on an alternate world. A world that is experiencing a New Age of Heroes, thousands of years in the future. I'm on a Quest. In that time, a Hero called Rorschach is fighting against a world-devouring monster. In order for him to defeat it, I must destroy forty-two fragments that the monster has scattered across alternate worlds."
"What do mean by alternate worlds?" says Megara also known as Herc's wife Meg, who is standing nearby.
"There are an infinite number of worlds. Some are nearly identical, some have slightly different histories, and then there are other worlds that are completely different. For instance, there are worlds in which Hercules was never poisoned by Hades so he remained a god on Olympus."
Hercules has a stunned look on his face.
"Hey! What did you mean by Disney? What's Disney?" asks Miss Thespis (drama and dance teacher)
"In infinity, what is fiction in one world is reality in another and vis versa. In some worlds, the stories and legends of heroes of other worlds are written. Disney is a multinational entertainment and media conglomerate (a big business) that owns your Herc's story back in my world."
"You have a lot of stories?" says a student I don't recognize.
*DOOM*
Hades Palace, Underworld
A little later
3POV
Hades - King of the Underworld, God of the dead and riches – is drinking wine while watching the events at Prometheus' academy using a mystical mirror.
"Seriously, the other versions of Hades are way cooler. Zeus and Poseidon are bigger a-holes in the other worlds. Hades just gets the worst rap because of a religion called Christianity associating him with their personification of evil."
"Seriously?" says Hercules.
"Hades is literally the only male God that doesn't cheat on his wife."
Hades does a spit take at that one.
"Wife? Who did flame-head marry?"
"Persephone - the goddess of spring."
Hades thinks about the beautiful daughter of Demeter - Goddess of the harvest, agriculture, fertility and sacred law. His blue flames move oddly, and he has a smile on his face.
*DOOM*
"In most myths, Meg and your kids are killed by Herc while under madness caused by Hera. Even Herc dies horrifically when his second wife Deianira gave you the Shirt of Nessus not knowing it was from a centaur that died of Hydra venom. It burnt through your skin and the only way to end your pain was to kill yourself."
"By the Gods." says Hercules, looking very pale. His friends and wife are not doing much better.
"You don't need to worry. This is a Disney world. Your parents – both sets - are happily married, you're a well-liked Hero, and Meg even came back from the dead. You'll be fine as long as you keep doing good and are good to people."
"Ash, you told me that there are many versions of me. Any favorites?" says Herc he says with an awkward smile.
"Berserker from the world of Fate was an unstoppable silent protector for a cute white-haired girl called Ilya, Age from Heroic Age could transform into a planet-shattering giant called Bellcross, The Kevin Sorbo version from Legendary Journeys was iconic. "I say with nostalgia, then noticing Herc's slump shoulders, "Your world is famous for the Songs sung by the muses about you and Meg. You also had levels on a game series called Kingdom Hearts."
"HERCULES!"
"Abraxas?" says Hercules, recognizing the voice.
"Who is Abraxas?" I ask as I don't remember that character.
"A former student of the Academy. His father was a famous horse breeder, but he claimed to have divine blood. Abraxas was actually named after one of immortal horses of Helios."
"How was he able to pull it off?"
"He had a magic item from Hades that let him steal strength from others. After I exposed him and broke the item, he was expelled."
Abraxas is not the same man he was.
"I challenge you, son of Zeus! Are you a coward or a hero!?"
*DOOM*
Outside the Academy
3POV
Hercules stares at the man that was once over a foot shorter than him and skinny as a rail
Hercules' opponent Abraxas is a colossal, statue-like man with muscles rippling with power. The man is now taller than me, standing over two and half meters in height (8'4) and must weight over three hundred kilos (nearly seven hundred pounds) of pure bone and muscle.
Hercules remembers when his opponent was a normal human with brown eyes, light tan skin, and short curly black hair. Now, the monstrous humanoid has red eyes with blood-stained sclera, blackened skin with red tribal markings, and long wild hair like the mane of a lion. His face has also changed, before he was square-jawed young man, not handsome, but not ugly. Now he has thick brows, flat nose, and sharp teeth that make him look like an animal. Even his clothing has changed, darkening to the color of ash and tearing from his body's dramatic growth.
"What happened to you, Abraxas?" asks Hercules.
"I was blessed by a God with more power than you can comprehend" he says staring in anger and bloodlust, steam rising from his mouth, "Now... DIE!"
Abraxas leaps at Hercules, shattering the ground beneath his feet, and delivers a devastating punch. The sound of the impact is like thunder and Hercules is thrown back, smashing through the wall of the Academy. As Herc tumbles, he digs his fingers into the ground to stop his momentum.
Abraxas rushes at him and Hercules raises his arms to defend himself, but Abraxas is too quick and grabs him around the throat and lifts him into the air. Herc can't get the leverage to break the monstrous strong grip and his vision darkens.
One of his former classmates runs up the duo and strikes Abraxas with a club, only for the piece of wood to shatter. In response, Abraxas backhands the poor man, breaking his spine and killing him with a single blow.
This makes Hercules extremely angry, and he delivers a punch that sends his colossal opponent flying. As Abraxas crashes into the ground, Hercules lands and starts wailing on him with all of his godly strength. When Hercules finally stops pounding his former rival into a growing crater in the ground, and takes time to catch his breath, he looks down at Abraxas. Abraxas' dark skin is cracked like stone to reveal red/black flesh that glows like fire. Cracks which quickly expand and spread.
Hercules jumps away as the Abraxas' flesh reaches at him like a predatory creature.
Abraxas begins to change again, this time from something superhuman to something inhuman. Glowing red and black fibers emerge from burning hot dissolving skin and weave around his body, adding another layer of grotesque muscle. This layer of glowing muscle is then covered by black rock-hard flesh. There is a disturbing wet cracking sound as bones lengthen and change shape with spikes emerging from the back of his hands. His mane of black hair lengthens and turns the color of red fire.
Abraxas lets out an inhuman roar as he leaps at Hercules. He's about to deliver a skull-crushing blow, when a gray skinned hand grabs Abraxas' wrist, instantly stopping the attack. The black stone skin also cracks from the strength of the grip.
*DOOM*
1POV
I hold the wrist of Abraxas as he roars and strikes me repeatedly, doing no damage.
"Sorry about interrupting your fight, but this is my Quest. Also, you don't have many options if this guy keeps rebuilding himself as a stronger monster."
I can't waste time as Abraxas is now pulling so hard his arm is about to rip off. Still griping with my left hand, I drive my right hand into Abraxas' chest. There is a spray of glowing orange liquid, then I tear out the Fragment of the Red Sky. This Fragment is struggling covered in moving fibers and it's like eating a live octopus with twenty times the tentacles.
[Fragment of the Red Sky – 13/42 Destroyed]
Abraxas without the Fragment of the Red Sky feeding him unnatural power is deteriorating quickly, His blackened rock-hard skin is cracking and crumbling away. The once menacing red/black fibers are breaking and dissolving into a muddy liquid. Bones once harder than steel are now brittle as chalk and cracking under his own weight. The rate of decay is so great, his body is producing high temperature steam as it breaks down. I could imagine If Abraxas still possessed lungs, he would be screaming,
I release an Abyss Roar and Abraxas' body burns away in the light.
There are a lot of dropped jaws at my actions.
A portal opens and gives me enough time to say good-bye.
*DOOM*
World 15 - Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles
Deep space, UCF Capital Ship Washington
20 AU from the edge of the Klendathu System
Ship Time 22:56
1POV
After the madness of World 14, Rorschach decided to give me a break.
The Fifteenth Fragment of the Red Sky landed on Klendathu and was brought to the Queen of the Arachnids. The Arachnids (more commonly known as Bugs, and Archies are a hostile alien species that have conquered many planets across space. These non-human extraterrestrials have destroyed human colonies and even attacked Earth. Despite looking like primitive savage monsters, the upper tiers possess the intellect and technology to pose a serious threat to the United Citizen Federation.
When the Queen acquired the Fragment, she mutated and began to produce a new type of Arachnid. The Queen Bug can lay up to seventy-five eggs per hour with this amounting to one thousand eight hundred eggs per day. So soon the battlefields were flooded with the new stronger Arachnids. The Crimsons as they are called by Mobile Infantry are far more durable than normal Bugs, able to tank most of the weaponry of the UCF. The Crimsons also gained the ability to generate beams that could easily slice through the power armor worn by the Infantry soldiers and easily destroy ships.
When I appeared, I was a kilometer above the hive of the Red Queen. I smashed through the hive and began killing bugs. I killed thousands of the pseudo-arachnids before I reached the massive Red Queen and tore her to pieces and consuming the Fragment of Red Sky.
Instead of going on to the next world, Rorschach decided to show off and help this world.
I stand on the bridge of UCF Capital Ship Washington dressed as a UCF soldier, standing next to the Roughnecks.
The Roughnecks is a unit that Johnnie Rico belongs to. It is sometimes known as Rasczak's Roughnecks after their commanding officer Lieutenant Rasczak; after his death in combat, the unit is rechristened Rico's Roughnecks after their new CO, newly minted commanding officer Rico. Rico is the main protagonist of the book, films, and animated show. A soldier who joined the Mobile Infantry from questionable reasons, lost his hometown of Buenos Aires to an Arachnids, and has been killing them with his teammates ever since.
"This is Dr. Rorschach speaking. Please direct your attention to the monitors. You are about to witness the end of Arachnids and the Klendathu System."
The monitors show five hours of footage compressed into five minutes.
The system is a twin star system with brutal gravitational forces. Some of the planets include Klendathu - Arachnid home planet, Tango Urilla, and Planet-P. The Roughnecks watch as something impossible happens, as the twin stars of the system move. Sensors read massive changes in magnetic and gravitational fields, and a sudden drop in the Coulomb barrier. The two stars come together and collide in a blindingly bright explosion. The hypernova shockwave spreads out the explosion, moving at light speed. annihilating every planet it encounters, along with the infamous Asteroids and any Bug forces. As the video ends, the shockwave finally washes over the UCF Ships. A Rorschach-designed special shield system protects the UCF Ships, allowing them to survive three billion kilometers from the edge of the system.
General Rico stares wide-eyed at the annihilation of the Bugs.
"The rest is just clean up."
A portal then opens under my feet and drops me into the next world.
"Rorschach!"
*DOOM*
World 17 - Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
Near Quark Industries, New Tronic City, US
July 4, 200X
11:45
1POV
I land on the roof of a skyscraper making a small crater. I pull myself up and look over the edge at the city. A city slowly being consumed by glowing red and black cables that grow like demonic vines. These cables have even latched onto people and animals, trapping them in liquid-filled pods like grotesque Lovecraftian fruit. Most of the cables are wrapped around a tall building marked Quark Industries, which is topped by a golden sphere with fins on the side forming a crown. It reminds me of the Mother D-Reaper from the third season of Digimon.
"Where am I? Wait, Quark Industries? Big Guy!?"
*DOOM*
Street level.
Same time
3POV
Long ago, this world was threatened by an invasion by The Squillacci Empire – a race of Cephalopod-like extraterrestrials. The world was saved thanks to the efforts of Big Guy – a famous robot hero known for his strength, impressive arsenal, and patriotic speeches. Since then, Big Guy has fought extraterrestrial threat after threat saving the world over and over. The people of Earth never learned the truth about their robotic savior.
Quark Industries created the Big Guy but failed to create an actual robot with artificial intelligence. In truth the Big Guy is human soldier Lieutenant Dwayne Hunter piloting a heavily armed battle suit powered by a Cobalt/Thorium G Power Core. He has heroically performed his duty for many years while keeping the truth a guarded secret.
"Rusty! Are you OK?" says Big Guy.
Things changed when Quark Industries managed to produce Rusty, a robot with real artificial intelligence and powered by nucleoprotons. However, Rusty is far too inexperienced to face the threats that the Big Guy normally handles, so he is relegated to being Big Guy's sidekick and trainee. Rusty idolizes the Big Guy, so the secret must still be kept.
Currently. The Big Guy and Rusty are severely damaged. The once pristine white armor is covered in burn marks and droplets of molten metal. The Big Guy is even missing one of his arms and if it wasn't for a layer of armor installed after certain incidents, Rusty would be seeing Dwayne in the pilot seat. Rusty has numerous deep dents, a crushed arm, and most of his red paintjob scrapped off.
"I'm fine. No Pain Receptors." says Rusty, as his limb sparks and releases the infamous blue smoke of electronic death.
The opponent's avatar is a spherical blob of red/black cables with numerous silver orbs. There orbs not only generate a barrier, but also fire various destructive energy beams. It can also attack with prehensile cables that can easily pierce steel.
"How Illogical."
Their opponent is Legion Ex Machina #7. The Legion ex Machina (Many from the Machine) was invented by Dr. Roland Poindexter – the same scientist who helped design the Big Guy. His goal was to create what he perceived as the perfect artificially intelligent robots. Poindexter was successful, but that was also his downfall, and his creations soon turned against him. They sought to destroy humanity and replace them with artificial intelligence which they believed was superior.
Number Seven – the sole survivor of the Legion and its creations, having escaped the destruction of the organization at the hands of Big Guy, Rusty, and their allies. Number Seven was the one to discover the Fragment of the Red Sky #17, which not only generates immense amounts of energy, but downloaded advanced nanotechnology into his mind.
"This battle is pointless. I have access to all data, including the data of your allies. You have reached your limitations."
Number Seven has captured everyone in the city, transforming every living human into a mere bio-computer component. He has even captured the friends of Big Guy and Rusty. Rusty's creator and Dwayne's love interest – Dr. Erika Slate. The arrogant greedy leader of Quark Industries Dr. Axel Donovan and his partner Jenny the Monkey (a talking monkey). Even Jo, Mack, and Garth of Big Guy's pit crew.
"You are finished Big Guy and Rusty. Soon, all of humanity will fall. Take comfort in that many will survive as part of my computer system."
"As long as I still function, I will fight. Freedom is the right of all humans, and I will fight for that Freedom!" says Big Guy as he deploys his remaining weapons and releases a portion of what remains of his ammunition. The cables beneath the sphere are severed, which destroys the spherical enemy, but three more units rise from the cable-covered ground.
Suddenly, a brilliant white beam shoots from the top of the skyscraper and slices off the top of Quark Industries! The cables that cover the city darken from the disruption and electricity arcs everywhere from the resulting electromagnetic pulse (EMP). Big Guy and Rusty are shielded, so they survive but it does make their damage worse. It's kind of like tasering someone who already has internal injuries and shouldn't be moved.
"What was that!?" asks Rusty.
"I don't know, other than trouble."
*DOOM*
The ruins of Quark Industries
Minutes Later.
1POV
I watch as Number Seven pulls himself from the rubble using the cables extending from his back. He resembles a bald humanoid dressed in a black jumpsuit covered by a white lab coat, both with gray padding. He's equipped with a cybernetic visor and has numerous cables coming out his back and neck. The Doctor Octopus wannabe stares at me and I can almost see the error messages in his eyes.
"Unknown Subject. Scan impossible. Nano-Infusion Failure. Energy Discharge reading exceeds known limits. Danger is Extreme." Seven rambles, "Eliminate Threat."
A dozen towers composed of cables and silver spheres emerge from the ground around us and release hundreds of energy beams. They make a lot of light and sound, but I just walk through the barrage and grab Number Seven around the neck. With a yank, I rip the head and fake spine out of the robot body in a spray of sparks. I then toss the trash over my shoulder and dig my claws into the body. I rip apart the body to reveal the Red Fragment in a cylindrical container.
"Who are you!?"
I turn to see the badly damaged Big Guy and Rusty. I love Big Guy's classic design and I'm beting Rorschach would like the retro-futuristic design. Rusty has a very ugly design with such a small face on a large head, like they were attempting anti-anime.
"My name is Ash Grey. I just took out Legion Ex Machina Number Seven."
"Did you also take out the building?" says Big Guy sounding angry.
"Yes. It effectively disrupted his control and confused him long enough for me to get close to him."
"What about the people trapped in the building!?"
"The majority of them were moved away from the upper floors. The rest were acceptable losses."
"Acceptable losses!?"
"If you're wondering about Dr. Slate, your Pit Crew, and that idiot Donovan, they are fine."
"But what about the other people?" asks Rusty looking happy that his "mother" is alive, but distraught at the loss of innocent life.
"Honestly, I don't care." I say as I consume the Fragment of Red Sky. I care about the people close to me and the people I like, but I couldn't care less about others. This is the main reason I could never do the super hero thing back home.
"How can you be so heartless!?"
[Fragment of Red Sky – 17/46 Destroyed]
"I'm a Monster from Another World. And I don't have a heart."
*DOOM*
World 21 - Max Steel
Red Star Facility.
Red Valley, California
10:56 (2 h 15 min after arrival)
1POV
Josh Macgrath was just an extreme sports star of the 2000s, when during a terrorist attack, he was exposed to experimental nanotechnology belonging to his adopted father's company N-Tek. He almost died because the nanomachines symbiotically bonded to him and were starving for energy. Thankfully, trans-phasic energy (T-Juice) recharged them, and he began his career as enhanced secret agent Max Steel. He went on many missions, which eventually led to the defeat of the enemy organization D.R.E.A.D. and its leader John Dread. He also saved the world from ascended dragon Psycho's attempt to mutate the world and an elemental kaiju created by mad scientist Bio-Constrictor (Bio-Con for short).
Max Steel wasn't really my show, I watched Action Man in the 2000s.
When the Fragment of the Red Sky landed on this world, it was found by a scientist – a former employee and rival of N-Tek. He was a transhumanist who believed all of humanity should benefit from nanotechnology. The Fragment gave him access to advanced scientific data which enabled him to create his own nanoprobes, powered by the Fragment's emissions instead of T-Juice. These microscopic machines granted him regeneration, enhanced physical and mental abilities, and the ability to communicate with machines and others (nano-communication also known as techno-telepathy).
"He eventually came up with a plan to 'save the world.' He would release self-replicating nanoprobes all over the planet to infect the entire world population. The probes would be fueled by satellite network that transmitted emissions from the Red Stone." says Max Steel, talking to me, "We - N-Tek – failed to stop the release and now everyone outside the sealed facilities are like this."
Outside than me and make, everyone is acting like zombies. Everyone has the bodies of beautiful athletic supermodels, but their eyes are emotionless and tainted by a red light. They move like a mob without caring about physical damage to their clothing or any sense of self.
The massive building, we are standing on has a set of huge satellite disks on the roof, each firing beams of red energy into the sky. The sky itself has turned a disturbing red color, as if the world was stained with blood and evil.
"We can't just shut them down because the Jeff's nanoprobe are symbiotically bonded to human cells. They would run out of power and the hosts would die with the nanoprobes!"
"We can't use T-Juice to recharge them like we do with the Nano-Tek Max. Even if we could, we couldn't set it up for seven billion people." says Dr. Roberto Martinez on the com, "We are trying everything, but nothing's working."
"I don't think you're going to win this one." I say with a frown.
"We have beaten the odds before."
"The Fragment of the Red Sky is a fragment of a World Eating Abomination straight out of the works of HP Lovecraft. The twenty other versions that I have encountered all tried to cause corruption, death and destruction. Each fragment is more than power, it's sentient and active."
"Dios mío. That's it! The nanoprobes are being fed data that controls the horde I was looking for the source and it's coming from the energy stream!" says Dr. Martinez, "The nanoprobes are designed to be controlled by the Fragment. Jeff must have been manipulated by it."
"So, how do he stop the rock?" asks Max.
"Any attempt to interrupt the energy flow will shut down the nanoprobes and kills the hosts. We can't remove the probes and the probes needs red energy to survive, and as long as they are being fed red energy they are being controlled by the Fragment. I don't... I don't know what to do!?"
"You can do this, Bro! You can find a solution... You have to."
"How many people are contained in your sealed facility?"
"It's actually a group of facilities, Copper Canyon is just the largest. The Total is around ten thousand."
"Enough genetic diversity for repopulation."
"What!?" says Dr. Martinez and Max Steel.
I use my Doom Vision to melt through the containment shielding of the facility, causing a small explosion. I walk into the heart of Red Star Energy Facility. A group of heavily armed soldiers rush at me, but my Doom Vision wipes them all out with a glance. Max follows me inside the facility, but nearly vomits at the sight and smell.
"What are you doing?"
"Shutting this place down." I reply as I reach an immense metal door protected by some sort of force field. I walk through the field burning out the emitters in the process, then I use my monstrous strength to rip the door free of its mounting. The thick metal door must weigh more than a small car and needed to be moved by hydraulics, but I toss it like it's made of packing foam.
Inside the chamber beyond the door is the power room. The eldritch red crystal is floating in a cylindrical glass container with a silver dome top. The container sits in the center of a machine composed of rings. As the crystal emits it red radiation turning the liquid the color of blood, the radiation is channeled by the rings to capacitors and channeled to the disks. The disks transmit to the satellite network and transmit it to the world.
I tear through the machine causing arcs of electricity and small explosions. I then smashed the container and pulled out the crystal. The Fragment of the Red Sky moves in my hand, sprouting spikes and growing tendrils in a vain attempt to escape. I devour the Fragment, and everything goes silent.
[Fragment of the Red Sky – 21/42 Destroyed]
[50% Award: Red Sky Tracker – You can now sense the precise location of any Red Sky Fragment and any similar objects.]
"You just killed seven billion people!" says Max as he finally follows me into the power chamber.
"I just freed seven billion people. It's better to die free than live without freewill. You and your friends will be doing a lot of rebuilding."
"You're a monster!" says Max dropping to his knees.
"I don't have a problem with that." I say with a sad smile, "Rorschach, open the next portal."
*DOOM*
World 23 – The Mummy: The Animated Series.
Hidden Temple of Serket
Desert, Egypt
Summer, 1930s
Nighttime
1POV
Imhotep was an ancient Egyptian priest, the high priest of Osiris, and the adviser to Seti I. In the movies, for his crimes of murdering the Pharaoh and using dark magic from the book of the dead, Imhotep was executed with partial mummification and being eaten alive by Scarab beetles. As a result, he was corrupted by the Hom-Dai, the evilest of evil curses and rose as an undead with the power of plagues of Egypt. In the animated series, he faced a similar punishment, but it was not due to love/lust, instead he was power hungry and sought the Manacle of Osirus but was caught.
Awakened in the modern Era – 1930s – by a fool named Colin Weasler - who wanted revenge on his rival - Evy O'Connell (nee Carnahan). Imhotep hunted for both the Scrolls of Thebes and the Manacle of Osirus, which was in the care of Alex O'Connell and his group of family and friends. Alex on the other hand eventually grew to become a powerful Medjai warrior even without the Manacle of Osirus.
When I arrived in the Desert, I found myself surrounded by nothing but sand. Thankfully, the skill I acquired in the twenty-first world allowed me to sense where the Fragment of Red Sky had gone. I found an underground temple inhabited by both Imhotep and the heroes. It was clear that I was in the animated version – A show I did watch sparingly – as Alex wasn't an annoying know-it-all brat and there wasn't a horrible CG Scorpion-Man version of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Instead, the heroes are facing an army of Real Scorpion-Men. Scorpion men are featured in several Akkadian language myths, including the Enûma Elish and the Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh (the oldest surviving bit of literature ever written). They were also known as aqrabuamelu or girtablilu. The Scorpion Men are described to have the head, torso, and arms of a man and the body of a scorpion. They are monsters that the second Mummy film failed to create.
The Scorpion imagery and the writing on the wall (translated by my Omnilingualism) tells me this the Temple of Serket. Serket is the goddess of fertility, nature, animals, medicine, magic, and healing venomous stings and bites in Egyptian mythology, originally the deification of the scorpion.
Just when things are about to get very violent, I jump down and land between the two groups in my full form. Both groups are scared by the seven-foot-seven humanoid with eyes of blood, skin of ash with numerous spikes, and hair the color of bone. The Scorpion Man are even more scared due to their animal instincts and magical senses screaming about my connection to Death.
"Let's talk about things like civilized people." I say first in English to the O'Connell group then in the native language of girtablilu, which is some form of Ancient Egyptian tribal dialect.
"A Nice civilized talk. What a wonderful idea!" says Jonathan. He doesn't appear to want to fight insanely deadly ancient half-scorpion warriors. I translate for Jonathan and one of the Scorpion men is snickering.
"My name is Ash Grey. I am on a Quest to destroy Fragments of an evil being in the form of red crystals." I say in English, them in scorpion tongue. I hold up my armband which projects the image of a Fragment of the Red Sky. The Scorpion-Men hiss at the image but are quick to realize it's only an illusion meant to illustrate.
The Chef of the Scorpion-Men then tells us the story of the Red Star, with me translating.
Many thousands of years ago, a red star fell from the sky and was found by a young warrior of their tribe. It whispered dark secrets and filled him with mystical power, making him as powerful as the legendary founders of their tribes. The ones created by the Goddess Tiamet to destroy the young gods that had murdered her husband Apsu. The ones that now stand at the Gates of Land of Darkness. He believed he was powerful enough to destroy the Gods and rule the world, so he led the most warlike members against the Gods. He was imprisoned by the Gods along with the Red Star.
So, these guys date back to Gilgamesh's time. I'm only familiar with it due to Tube videos and Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia.
"Land of Darkness? One of my wives is a Queen of the Shadows." I comment, then translate for the Scorpion-Men. The Scorpion-Men react in fear and bow before what they believe is a God of Darkness and/or Death. I don't bother to correct them.
"What is your story, O'Connells? I know of Fallen Priest Imhotep and the Manacle of Osirus, but why are you in the Temple of Serket?" I ask them
Evy explains that Imhotep has recently been hunting seven cursed rings. These rings were hidden in distant lands and would drain the life from those that touched them, but Imhotep being undead was immune to the effect. After sacrificing seven people to power the rings they led to this place. Thankfully, Alex acquired a Medjai spell that allowed them to track the stolen rings.
When I mention the Seven Rings, the Scorpion-Men explain the Rings are the Keys to the Red King's prison inside the Temple.
"(Exhales) Figures."
*DOOM*
Imhotep is one ugly undead priest. He's a tall, thin male with red eyes with yellow sclera, purple necrotic skin with decay around the face, and a bald head. He's dressed in black shorts and black bandage shoes with a long black coat. He also wears a gold Egyptian necklace which contrasts with his skin.
He places the last of the simply gold rings onto seven spikes of a massive gold seal depicting magical symbols and a giant scorpion. A bolt of lightning streaks down from the ceiling and strikes one of the spikes, shaking the room with thunder. A second bolt streaks down and hits the second spike causing a similar effect. This continues until a seventh bolt of mysterious lightning hits the seventh ringed spike It's mysterious because we are inside a temple and underground.
Above the golden seal, a tiny matte black point appears. It expands into a massive black sphere that bursts open revealing a being bound in mystical chains.
Raven once explained seal magic to me, explaining the basis of restrictions. All spells and curses have release methods because it makes them stronger. If the seal had no weaknesses the seal would weaken over time from trying to maintain itself. The more restrictions you place on a seal, the stronger it becomes. A seal that requires seven magical objects to open is very strong.
The Red King is massive Scorpion-Man. The human part is colossal and muscular with wide shoulders, thick arms, and fierce features. He has obsidian black skin, fiery red eyes, and a smooth bald head. His black skin is also covered in red tattoo-like markings that glow like the embers of a fire. His waist is connected to the head of a massive black scorpion covered in similar red markings. It reminds me of Deathstalker Grimm from RWBY without the bone armor. In the center of the humanoid chest is red marking surrounded by branching veins, a mark that pulsates with light in rhythm of a heart.
The golden chains that bind him are linked to golden bands on his wrists, neck, waist, claws, eight legs, and tail. There are even golden bands around the claws to prevent them from opening and a mask that holds his mouth close. Imhotep begins to chant in a mystical language that only vaguely sounds Egyptian. I understand the words due to my broken omniligualism ability.
"Crimson Star, Fragment of the Outer God, I call upon your power to do your will on Earth. Infuse me with power beyond the world of mortals!"
A beam of crimson/white fire shoots from mark on the Red King's chest and strikes Imhotep's own chest. The O'Connells and Medjai arrive to watch the ancient undead high priest's transformation. As the brilliant red-light clears, they can only stare in shock.
Imhotep is no longer a corpse, he's now like he was before his mummification, but his coloration has changed. His light Egyptian skin had darkened as coated in black shadows, his head is bald, and his eyes are completely red – pupil, iris, and sclera. He flexes his new muscles and red symbols glow on his skin. Alex attempts to fire a magical attack, but the bolt of magical energy disperses harmlessly against the ancient high-priest's muscular chest. Imhotep laughs and raises his hand.
Suddenly, the O'Connells and Medjai collapse to the ground in pain. Their senses are consumed by pain, and they start to bleed from every orifice. The black smoke-like substance clinging to their bodies indicates Curse magic.
I choose this moment to make myself known, decloaking between Imhotep and the humans. The former high-priest of Osirus and now high-priest of Red Sky releases a blast of curse magic at me. I absorb it into myself and that starts a chain reaction. All the curse magic in the room is absorbed into my body, even draining it out of the cursed humans. Imhotep stares in disbelief and barely severs the connection which is draining his new magic.
"What in name of the Gods are You!?" he yells in Ancient Egyptian.
"Ash Grey – The Doomsday. Avatar of the Tree of Death." I reply in his language, then I reach out with my hands and my [Soul Manipulation].
*DOOM*
Alex is the first of the humans to wake up and is helped up by one of the Scorpion-Men. He wipes the blood from his face and stares in shock at what he's seeing. The other humans quickly follow.
I'm holding Imhotep's soul in my hands, pulling it out of his corrupted body, which is starting to burn away. As I finally rip out the ancient, cursed soul, unnatural flames burn away his body leaving nothing but ash on the stone floor. I then flex and tear Imhotep's soul apart, absorbing the curses and dark magic in the process.
[New Skill - Killer of the Dead – All Undead take Additional Damage. All Defeated Undead Souls are Purified]
"Holy. Did you just... tear his soul apart!?" says Alex
"Easily." I reply.
"You couldn't have done that sooner?" says Jonathan.
"I was waiting for him to unseal the Red King. Remember, I'm here to destroy what's inside that guy's chest. Saving you guys was just a bonus."
"How are you going to get the Fragment out?" asks Alex.
"Like this!"
I release a blast that strikes the seal, shattering and melting it. I learned a few things about magic seals watching anime with Raven criticizing. Magical seals are strong when they are closed, but they are fragile when they are open. As the seal breaks, the dark sphere also bursts into nothing releasing the Red King fully into reality. His chains are the next to go, crackling and shattering into golden fragments. Fragments that dissolve into golden dust before vanishing completely.
The Red King's dark aura explodes outward creating a fierce wind filled with murderous intent. While the others are frozen in fear, I run towards the Red King.
The Red King hits me a dozen times with Poison Curse Magic, but since I possess Samael's Poison Embodiment it all absorbed. I don't even slow down, instead I deliver a thunderous monstrously powerful punch. The shockwave from the impact shatters stone and the O'Connels and Medjai must dodge the flying debris.
I pull my hand out of the hole in the Red King's chest, holding the Fragment of the Red Sky. My punch actually went completely through his chest and out the back in an explosion that severed his tail and created a hole in the wall. I place the crystal in my mouth and consume it.
[Fragment of the Red Sky – 23/42 Destroyed]
I feel something deep within my being. The Qliphoth is reacting.
[Samael is Pleased.]
[Poison Embodiment – Ultimate Poison (True) Unlocked]
[Bonus - Ultimate Acidic Poison (True) Unlocked]
Holy Shit. I can't wait to show Neo.
[Blessing of Serket] - You receive a Blessing from Serket - goddess of fertility, nature, animals, medicine, magic, and healing venomous stings and bites. Grants [Arachnid Affinity] - increased Charisma with all Arachnids and those possessing Arachnid traits and abilities. [Medicine Generation]. I can turn any of my poisons into medicine of equal strength. Wait a minute – I can generate Ultimate Poison, so it means I can make Ultimate Medicine!?
"Hey! Ash, the Temple is collapsing!"
Time to Go.
*DOOM*
World 25 - Kim Possible
Possible House
Middleton, Colorado, US
Summer 2006
18:35
1POV
Kimberly Ann "Kim" Possible was a high school student and freelance hero/vigilante. She is unusual in this in that she not only lacks a secret identity, but also remains on good terms with various law enforcement, government, and military agencies. This is most likely due to two major factors – one, she is extremely competent at her work, making anything possible for her and two – when she was underage, criminals tended to underestimate her and reduce the lethality of their attacks.
I knock on the door of the Possible House and it's Ronald "Ron" Stoppable who answers.
"Hello." says Ron looking at the insanely tall man.
Ron is Kim's sidekick, her childhood best friend, and (eventual) boyfriend. Unlike Kim he is cowardly, socially awkward, clumsy and unpopular with his peers. He was the comic relief character, but he did show potential. At their graduation, he even unlocked Mystical Monkey Powers to save her from extraterrestrials – the Lorwardians
"Hello, Mr. Stoppable. My name is Grey. Ash Grey. The World is endangered, and Kim needs to know."
"Kim! It's for You!"
"What's the Sitch?"
*DOOM*
I sat down with Kim and Ron, and calmly explained what the situation. I'm able to prove I'm not some lunatic, but simply transforming into my more monstrous "true" form. I also apologize for making Ron wet himself and nearly causing Rufus to have a heart attack. Rufus is pet naked mole rat, whose smart enough to go on missions with the duo, but to small animals I am a Terrifying Incarnation of Death.
"This was a surprisingly peaceful meeting." says Kim.
"I like to avoid misunderstandings with heroes. I'm also a fan of yours and it would suck if I accidentally killed you."
"You sound confident in that." says Kim, eyebrow raised.
"I'm indestructible to the point a Supernova is an inconvenience, and my strength is so monstrous that I have to hold back nearly everything, so I don't liquify my opponents."
"So, why do you need us?" says Ron, a little nervous.
"The Fragments tend to be found by villains. This means one of your villains will show up with a power up." I explain, "A red glow and evil mutation is a good indication that it's the Fragment."
"You're using us as bait?" asks Kim crossing her arms.
"You know trouble is going to find you anyway, Kim."
There is a ringtone and Kim answers her communicator.
"What's the Sitch, Wade?"
Wade Load is a computer genius that who informs Kim and Ron about upcoming missions from his bedroom, remotely assisting, guiding and equipping them with useful tools, weapons and gadgets,
"It's horrific. There are evil clones running around causing destruction. There are already people dead!"
*DOOM*
Middleton Mall
Minutes Later
1POV
The people of Middleton can only watch is horror as they are rounded up by those wearing the faces of their heroes and villains.
The clone of Kim Possible looks identical to the original, except she is several years older, there are red markings on the sides of her face, and her eyes are red with black sclera making them look demonic. She wears an outfit like Kim's new mission outfit, but the coloration is different. A dark red shirt, black pants with a dark red stripe, black boots, black gloves, and a black belt. She's clearly the one in charge of the group, moving with a seductive predatory walk that Kim has never pulled off.
"Oh Yes, this is Possible. You're watching Kim Possible slaughter the sheep of this city."
The clone of Shego is also identical to the original, only her color is dominated by Red like her twin hero little twin brothers Wego, instead of her normal Green. She also has the same eyes and generates fiery red plasma instead of her normal sickly green. She is even wearing a red/black version of her normal green/black outfit. She is also very affectionate with the Kim clone, making a few civilians wide eyed.
"My good-girl-self wanted to teach your children, but I'll be teaching them one thing. How unfair life is and how quickly it can end."
The next clone is a hybrid, a mixture of human and other primate DNA. He resembles Ron Stoppable if he is playing the Monkey King from 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West. He's humanoid with long limbs, large hairy hands and feet, large ears, and a long prehensile tail. His eyes are red-black, and his body is covered in dark red fur, which is covered in a red/black/gold outfit. The Chinese clothing go well with the large monkey aura that surrounds him.
"Hey, Kim. I get Bueno Nacho, right?"
"Yes, Ron. You get the Restaurant." she says with a huff of exasperation.
The next is an enhanced clone of Rufus. Instead of a healthy pink, the naked mole rate is a blood red color with glowing eyes. What's most important is instead of being small enough to fit in Ron's pocket or ride his shoulder, Clone Rufus is bigger than a large horse and Clone Ron is riding him. Some would think that humorous, until the giant rodent teeth meant to cut through the Earth tear into people. The red stain color of teeth is not it's natural color.
It doesn't speak, instead it growls making some people lose bowel control.
The next is a hybrid of human and plant DNA. A mass of blue-gray vines in the form of Doctor Drakken with thick black roots and red/black leaves for hair. He isn't walking, instead he's being held up by numerous thorny vines. It reminds me of how Spider-Man's villain Doctor Octopus uses his metal tentacles to get around.
"Thirsty."
It's also not much of conversationalist.
The final set of clones are the Clone Squad, clones of Middleton Highschool's cheer squad minus Kim and the mascots. All aged up into twenty-something adults with the same eyes. The clones of Bonnie, Marcella, Tara, Hope, Liz, Jessica, and Crystal are also dressed in very sexy black uniforms. It's clear they are only meant to be minions, as they slavishly obey Clone Kim and Clone Shego.
"Hostages secured, Captain." says Bonnie to Kim, showing an absolute loyalty that Bonnie would never show to her rival. "Ready to eliminate on your order."
"Hurry up, Kimmy." says Clone Kim, "You have a date with death."
I'm currently using my supernatural stealth to hide as I know there is a surprise. I've destroyed over half the Fragments and these things are linked to each other. They have been trying to adapt and counter me and Rorschach, to the point they are copying his exotic ray weaponry. The Fragment's puppet would not send this group to cause very public mayhem unless it had a plan.
Clone Kim walks up to the injured mall security guard. He's fat harmless looking man dressed in a cheap uniform, a guy who spends his time eating donuts and catching pickpockets and shoplifters, then dealing with real criminals. C-Kim pulls out her gun and points it at the scared man's head.
"What's your name?"
"Oliver Order."
"What do you love?"
"Love?" he says, but quickly answers with the woman's finger on the trigger, "My Dog, his name is Law. He's all I have."
"Now say 'Kim Possible, My Name is Oliver, Please Save Me!', you can yell if you want."
"Kim Possible, My Name is Oliver, Please Save Me!"
Bang!
The hostages scream at the man's sudden death.
"Kim Possible says she can turn the Impossible into Possible. She couldn't save this man."
Clone Kim then points her gun at a little red-haired girl in a yellow dress. A girl that can't be more than ten and whose mother must be among another group of hostages.
"What's your name?"
"I'm not supposed to talk to strangers."
"It's OK this time. I'm Kim." says Clone Kim, "What's your name?"
"Emily Grace."
"Who do you love?"
"My Mommy and Daddy."
"Now say 'Kim Possible, My Name is Emily, Please Save Me!', you can yell if you want."
"Kim Possible, My Name is Emily, Please Save Me!"
Clone Kim then jumps out of the path of the grappling gun's hook aimed at her. She then grabs the line with her gloved hand and gives it a hard yank. The real Kim Possible clad in her white battle suit is pulled towards the clone. Kim lets go of the line and lands in front of the clone.
"What took you so long?" says C-Kim.
"Had to find something to wear."
"Let's see how good that suit is."
The Battle Suit is an experimental high tech combat outfit designed and made by Wade. The battle suit was Team Possible's ace in the hole as it further increases her already incredible natural abilities and martial arts skills to superhuman levels and grants several special abilities and stealth features; namely invisibility and superhuman-level jumping skills.
As Kim in the Battle Suits fights her clone, she quickly realizes the clone is enhanced to the point where she can easily match Kim in her Battle Suit. The clone has all her memories and skills combined with superhuman physical and mental abilities. Even when Kim attempts to use her force field bubble to give her some space, Clone Kim can instantly shatter it using a red aura.
Clone Shego then fires a plasma blast that destroys the real Shego's active camouflage. C-Shego doesn't say a word, merely cruelly smiles before starting her own battle. Like the fight between Kim and her clone, the fight between Shego and her clone is a battle of attrition. They have the same level of knowledge, skill, and experience, but the clone's physical and mental abilities are slightly superior (the smaller difference being because Shego was already superhuman and already used to fighting at that level).
The real Shego is finally captured by the plant hybrid Drakken. Normally, she would just burn through the plant vines, but some sort of toxin in the thorns disables her plasma emissions.
"Caught by a clone of Drakken of all people, how pathetic." C-Shego sneers.
Kim and C-Kim's fight ends, when C-Kim tears the belt, destroying the power system, before delivering a brutal beatdown. She then shoots Kim in the side and the leg. Kim's eyes widen as despite many years as an adventurer she had never been shot before.
"Where is Ron?"
There is loud sound as Clone Ron lands near her, smashing the real Ron into the floor.
"Unless that butterball Wade shows up with some gadget, I think you're out of luck, Kimmy" says Clone Kim. As Kim struggles her clone points her gun at Emily's head, "You try to escape, and I decorate the walls with Emily."
"What do you want?" says Kim, holding her leg to stop the bleeding.
"Boss Lady wants to get rid of threats to her creations. She is also worried you might have a new friend."
Suddenly, a portal opens in the center of mall, a couple meters off the ground. It drops a small black/white sphere that releases a pulse of blue light before it vanishes into another portal close to the ground. Both portals then close in the blink of an eye.
"What in the World?"
"Hello World."
Rorschach's scanner uncovered the hidden surprise, displaying it on my armband. If I had used my Doom Vision or any of my energy attacks, it would have caused a massive explosion that would have killed most of Middleton. I would have survived the blast, but the creator would have escaped in the confusion and manipulated things to turn the world against me. Fragment is trying to apply human logic to a monster.
I jump down and land in front of Clone Rufus who is charging at me. I grabbed the giant mutated naked mole rat, stopping his movement despite being much smaller than him. I then spin him around and toss C-Rufus high into the air. Giant enhanced mutant or not, a large animal falling from terminal velocity is unlikely to survive.
I turn and throw a handful of marbles at Clone Kim, who uses acrobatics to dodge. The marbles hit the wall like bullets and explode like mini grenades thanks to charging them with my destructive energy.
Clone Ron roars and leaps at me surrounded by a dark version of mystical monkey aura. He delivers a crushing blow, only for the red magical arms to shatter like glass against my body. While he's shocked at my magical immunity, I move forward and deliver a kick that sends him flying like a football.
I turn and grab the black vines of Clone Drakken as he attempts to bind me, the toxic thorns breaking against my skin. With a superhuman yank, I pull C-Drakken towards me and catch him when he gets close. Holding his head in my hands, I released my fire breath. The fire is intense, and I soon feel C-Drakken's head burn away in my hands.
It's interesting that fire doesn't count as an energy attack only lasers and plasma of either scientific or magical origin.
C-Ron attempts to attack me again clad in the red monkey aura but attempting to do the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is insanity. My hand whips out, breaking through his aura and grabbing his throat. With a flick of my wrist, his neck is broken. I toss his body at the Clone Squad, knocking them down like bowling pins.
Clone Shego releases a blast of corrosive red energy which washes over me and melts the concrete beneath me. When she realizes her first attack didn't kill me, she releases a more powerful stream of red plasma. With the angry bloodthirsty look in eyes, she reminds me of a Red Lantern. I let myself fall to the ground, acting like it was doing damage (as if).
"You think you stop us!?" she taunts.
"All I need to do is distract you."
"Wha...?" Says C-Shego before the tip of a blade emerges from her chest.
That would be one of nano-edge bone knives loaded with anti-magic. I gave it to Shego in case the Ron clone had Mystical Monkey Powers, but she used it to cut her bonds and pierce her own doppelgänger. I do have to admit she and C-Ron were the only ones capable of setting off the explosion.
C-Shego collapses to the ground as she begins to bleed from every orifice and Shego looks a little disturbed. I warned her that the blade was also loaded with some of my lethal toxins. Clone Shego is dead before her head hits the ground, the red glow of her eyes fading leaving solid black orbs.
Clone Kim pulls out her gun, but Whipfist knocks it out of her hand and Kim is ready for a rematch. Due to C-Kim's surprise at the sudden change in battle, the real Kim Possible can surprise her. The addition to tasers in her Battle Suit gloves must be new because the clone doesn't expect them. I'm guessing she was made before Wade revealed the new modification to the Suit.
"Kim, your still bleeding!"
"I don't have time to bleed."
Kind of hardcore for a Disney tv character.
I stab Kim Possible with one of my injector spikes, but instead of one of my fleshing-rotting toxins, I inject a regenerative medicine. Ron and Shego are about to protest, when they watch the bullet wounds instantly heal. I wouldn't have done that if the bullets were still inside her.
"A little warning next time."
*DOOM*
Secret Genetics Laboratory
Near Middletown, Colorado
Minutes Later.
3POV
When the Fragment of Red Sky landed in World 25. It had a few options. It could have corrupted Shego into a Dark Queen like she was in the alternate timeline of the movie A Sitch in Time. It could have transformed Monkey Fist into a being as powerful as mystical monkey king Sun Wukong. Fragment Number 25 ended up in the hands of world's foremost bio-geneticist possessing an obsession with Cuddle Buddies, a beanie baby pastiche that generally consists of two different animals combined into a single plush toy,
Amy Hall, aka "DNAmy", was the one that discovered the Fragment of the Red Sky. She learned when she injected fluid created by the Fragment into a clone, it would become greatly enhanced and possess all the memories, skills, and special abilities of the original. She was manipulated into creating her own clone and the clone controlled by the Fragment eliminated her.
Clone DNAmy created her own clones using DNA samples taken from Middleton High, this included Shego who had due to circumstances taken substitute teacher position again. Drakken's sample was also obtained during Miss Go's employment. The plan was to eliminate the Heroes, then begin replace the human population with enhanced clones. Once the population was replaced, resources could be dedicated to creating more powerful living weapons. The real purpose being the protection of the Red Fragment and the possibility of creating a body for the Fragment.
The Fragment was aware of enemies hunting down and destroying other Fragments, so it was programmed to eliminate heroes and find worthy vessels. It screwed up.
Clone Amy looks up at a loud roar to Ash Grey holding a giant seven-foot bone sword. The round messy woman barely has time to scream before she is brutally sliced in half. Seconds later the Fragment of the Red Sky meets row upon row of sharp shark teeth.
[Fragment of the Red Sky – 25/42 Destroyed]