6 Chapter 5: hte Fen-Hte Fin-The Finale-
POV:?
Earth Bet
outskirts of San Diego
Abandoned District
13.2.2011 3:21AM
Everything has gone up the rat's ass. At first it was supposed to be a normal, scheduled response to a villain attack. Of course it was Ravager, that feisty cat. She'd gone underground like a little mouse after our last prank war, and now she'd returned much later than normal, yet acting way to happy for what was about to be a one sided beat down.
That's when the cheese hit the fan and Jack fucking Slash and his merry band of circus freaks stepped out of the dark. That fucking bitch hired the god damned S9 to kill me!
I, being the smart mouse that I am, ran the fuck away. The Triumvirate stood no chance with those monsters, what could little ol' Mouse Protector accomplish.
Sadly, I couldn't get out of there unscathed, the Birdy got a chance to scratch this little Mouse with her glass shower and now my bleeding shoulder was going to lead them straight to their prey. Like a bunch of feral monstrous cats hunting an injured mouse.
Now I was hiding behind a brick wall, hoping to get a signal out to the PRT.
But things can never be that easy can they, checking my phone, it seems that the two tinkers within the S9 have already blocked all signal going in or out from here.
hearing heavy footsteps nearing my location at a dangerous pace, I leap away from the wall and try to ready my sword.
The wall explodes and a bald man covered with stitches rushes in with an axe. Hatchet face, his power allows him to nullify other powers and grants him a brute package.
Now all I can do is try my best, at least I can still fight as none of my many Grab Bag powers were combat oriented. Thankfully the cut is on my right shoulder and this mouse is left handed.
Right as I'm about land, my foot slips and I have no other option but to slide along the ground, away from the axe wielding maniac… and keep sliding, hitting a wall and keep sliding? Okay something fishy is going on and this mouse is no curious cat!
I only seem to speed up the farther I go and soon the band of raving lunatics are left in the dust. It appears that this little mouse escapes the trap once again!
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POV: Kade Amiran
man this Tinkertech scope came in handy, some upstart tinker decided to humor me and possibly make it big by supporting someone coming for the S9's heads. If the kid had used his head, he'd have known that no smart person goes and challenges the S9 and comes out alive… or In worse cases, Dead.
I don't really need the scope but it helps in keeping my power in check so that I don't accidentally explode my brain from information overload, whilst also providing lots of cool features, one of which would've been very useful in keeping the audience's attention on track with a video player, by playing subway surfers whilst observing your target.
Back on track, I have spotted the S9 whilst they were ambushing the ever lovable mouse themed hero of Earth Bet. And with a mere thought, she was sent safely ricocheting away from the evildoers at high speeds. Leaving me alone with my prey.
well that would be slightly wrong, as the S9 don't know where I am and soon they wouldn't need to know anything else but the sweet embrace of death and cosmos.
With an uncreative use of my (patent pending) Trinket of Friction, I have the slaughter hoes slipping and sliding around, till they gather around in the open and sadly empty street.
Sadly empty, because it once had been filled with civilians going along their business… until the s9 showed up. Now the street had a disgusting red coloring to it.
Ignoring that, no matter how much I want to throw up, I still have a job to do.
freezing my targets mid slide, I line up my Nerf blaster and fired shots into the sky, a dart for each mortal member. The foam darts flying at a deceptively high speed.
Once it had reached its peak height, I let gravity take hold of it once again and even enhanced its speed even further.
the murder hobos could do nothing as the logic defying foam darts struck them like little meteors, piercing and charring anything in their path. That had taken care of the normal members like Jack Slash, Bonesaw, Manton and others, but some are quite a bit more durable than normal humans…
those? Those I sent on a one way trip to space, never to be seen again.
And that's it… that's all it took for me to get rid of a band of monsters plaguing this world for decades… literally any other Parahuman or a specialized military unit could have done the same to them, but no! the big pot wanted them alive! Their attacks create enough Parahumans that their loss would be detrimental to humanities future!
"Fucking idiots!"
Squatting down and letting my head hang, I think about all the lives lost because the ones in power cared more about letting alien parasites gather more hosts to fight off the same alien parasite…
the height of stupidity. But none of that matters now, soon I'll be back to my family, my world.
Suddenly a disruption comes across my awareness, similar to what happened with Vista.
It started forming right behind me, a golden rectangle appeared in space and out of it a hand holding a silenced pistol reached out.
the trigger was pulled and the hammer struck forward. Only for nothing to happen.
Turning around, I greet the Path To Humanities Destruction, the one who was compromised by the enemy first and the one who lead humanity down a path of self-destruction by following the parasite's will.
A gray blur rushes from the portal and pushes me aside harmlessly, disappearing into the sunset. mine and Contessa's eyes trail after the blur, standing up, I return to my previous spot and ignore the distraction.
"Fortuna -" the only reaction the frozen form shows is through her eyes.
"- you might be wondering why I have brought you here today," she doesn't reply "the answer to your burning question is that in two weeks time I shall be killing Scion for which I desire your power." she speechless, most likely due to me freezing her in place.
"You shall use your Path To Victory to gather Parahumans with some form of spacial manipulation, similar to your Door Maker or Brockton Bay's Vista and Labyrinth, after which you will collect the Damsel of Distress, March and her cluster mate Flechette, alongside other Parahumans with similar blaster/striker abilities, the first part is absolutely necessary the second can be skipped if sufficient amount of spacial manipulators are gathered. understood? " after this I release my hold on her neck, allowing her to nod her head in positive.
"good,-" before I can finish, lightning flashes in the sky and Legend appears few meter away from me.
"Unknown Parahuman, release your hostage and surrender yourse-" he doesn't get to finish his speech as suddenly his body starts disintegrating starting from his head, the particles being dragged towards the sky. "I don't have time for this shit, I am this close to my goal. no more interruptions."
I return my attention to Contessa -" how you get the Parahumans and have them do as I say is none of my concern, I merely need them to use their powers, they don't need to be conscious nor alive for it to work." she gives another nod.
"you will find me at 41.7000° N, 44.7555° E, 27th February, 4PM local time. after Scion is dead, you need to block all parahuman powers and if not possible, eradicate them all."
With that, I release my hold on Contessa, yet still have my power ready for anything.
Thankfully Contessa only nods, straightens her clothes and walks back into the golden portal. before it closes, I hear her respond "we will begin gathering the Parahumans immediately"
Now that, that's done, I hang my head and head back to my ride. I have a plane to catch.
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Earth Bet
41.7000° N, 44.7555° E
Turtle Lake outskirts
27.2.2011 3:59PM local time
I had been back home for about two weeks, it was nice to look at the familiar landscape.
I even forced myself to check out my family home.
Sadly there was nothing there, mostly due to an Endbringer attack in late 2002. lots of buildings got destroyed, people died.
but, just like everywhere else, life goes on. people move on.
Looking around the lake, I see kids playing around, young couples relaxing and taking in the view, and the elderly resting. all is well.
at exactly 4PM a golden portal opens behind me,I step through the portal without questions. within stood a middle aged woman, dark skin, tired eyes and greying hair. Doctor Mother
She turned around without a word and begun walking deeper into the bunker like facility, I have found myself in.
Nearly a minute and a half of walking later, we enter a larger room where around 2 dozen humans and humanoids stood in an orderly line. all of their eyes seem to be staring straight ahead. Mind control, Cauldron must have a strong Master around.
fully stepping into the room, I quickly spot the Master, standing in the corner, radiating with rage.
Eidolon. I wonder what got him all riled up...
oh wait.
"you! What did you do to my friends!" his voice, both quite yet powerful seemed to almost supernaturally echo around the room and impact me with force.
Don't tell me this idiot wasted a power slot and his shard's energy for intimidation.
the force of his voice harmlessly washed over me, as I continued on my way to the center of the room, infront of the gathered parahumans.
Eidolon tried to speak again and moved to approach me, but like everyone else who tried the same before, he was frozen in place, unable to do anything.
"The lives of your friends are inconsequential and their continued existence, detrimental to Humanity, just like you and the rest of the parahumans. now follow my command or begone" Eidolon seemed to channel a new power but the gathered parahumans appear to be still under his control, thus everything will continue according to my plan.
begin concentrating the spacial powers on a single target, pump as much power as you can. let the blasters gather energy if needed, and prepare them to launch attacks at my command.
following my words, some of the parahumans lift their hands and release energy towards a single point, while others seem to shift into a focused state.
Opening myself to my power's awareness a bit more, I begin to see the spacial fabric beginning to bend and warp around itself, now it only needs a little push.
The last time it happened, there was no indication of anything happening. this time, even without any visual aid, you can see the air warble and shift.
activating my power and increasing the friction of space around the space warp, bubbling sounds start and following it light seems to escape from the warp as the fabric of space seems to shred itself because of the previously nonexistent friction, now causing it to rip and tear apart.
after a few more seconds, the tear enlarges and from it a kaleidoscope of colors seems to bleed around the room.
Keeping control of my power, I regulate the speed at which the tear expands, not only within the room but beyond it, carefully guiding it to my desired destination, by lowering and removing friction from the paths when the destination it reaches is undesirable, and increasing it when we get closer to our goal.
this went for an unknown amount of time, could've been 30minutes to an hour, or 10 hours. I do not know, what I do know is that we finally reached our destination.
the gigantic crystal and flesh planet, that I had seen before.
This was it, just one more step left for me to take.
"attack" I gave the command and Eidolon and his thralls opened fire on the crystal mass
only for it to have no real effect, the crystal structures crumbled but new ones took their place, flesh and crystalline objects begun raising from the ground and more started appearing from thin air, heading straight for us.
this wasn't enough. our firepower wasn't enough...
but we don't really need fire power, do we?
Last time I had seen it, I had still been drunk and panicking from the experience I was going through. this time I was using my power to keep an eye on everything.
and let me tell you, the shards? they are drowning in spacial anomalies.
either using them to communicate with each other or transport resources.
we don't need fire power when the enemy is wearing a suicide west.
with a light pull, I untangled the string holding the spacial anomalies at bay, causing them to collapse and take everything around with them.
slowly the smaller shards started dwindling, and gigantic gaping holes begun to open on the giant one, but our gateway into that real started shrinking.
the shards in charge of the gathered parahumans either died or took back control of the powers.
even with my maximum range, I cannot reach Zion, as it is in a different reality, I cannot let it end like this!-
with that though running through my mind, I stepped though the collapsing tear and into open space. without any protection, the average person will die in around 2-3 minutes in open space. even in this dire situation, my brain continued to provide me with useless factoids. I die? then I die. that's it, I already had taken that into consideration. If I die, I get to see my family in the afterlife, and if I live? I get to see them again but this time while alive. win, win.
with blood pouring out of my orifices, I give in to my power, my brain hyper-focusing on a single task. The Destruction of Zion.
beams and projectiles come towards me and either miss me completely or wash over my body like water. my mind focused on any and all spacial anomalies, ripping them apart
Zion's previously bulbous spherical body beginning to lose shape and collapse onto itself, every time it tries to call for help from its many shards, or try to escape, it only causes more damage to itself.
Until, in the end, not even 10 seconds after I jumped into open space,
Zion's body collapses into a singularity.
the shards have stopped appearing, and the debris start to drift towards the newborn singularity, my body following right after.
soon everything fades to black, and I. am. at. peace.
and with a blink, I am back in the light.
inside a room I instantly recognize, about to face plant onto my bed. My Bed.
I am home.
after the face plant, I take a moment to take it all in, all the feelings that were repressed, rush back out.
with a quiet yell, I rush to my feet, look around for my phone and begin dialing my parents' number
In this rush, I fail to notice my computer monitor turning on,
a line of text flashing to life,
"Thank You For Your Service, Your Payment Has Been Delivered"
"Alert[1]:Another Request Is Available!"
"Accept? {Y} {N}"
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The End.
welp, that was that. thank you all for reading. love ya all!
sorry for such a big delay, life is bitch, and it all combined together into one giant clump of shit. and it hasn't stopped,
it just is.
I might begin a new story, what it will be about? idk, probably a CF story, where? idk, most likely Worm but it could also be RWBY,
might also make a MHA si story, that should be a bit more slice of life type beat.
anyway, love yall and see ya.
