Power is power
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This is purely a work of fiction. Not meant to offend or incite, but to entertain and maybe inspire.
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POWER IS POWER
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Do you know what I am? I am bored. Heh, that almost sounded like a dad joke. Death would chuckle if she heard it. Considering that I also had daughters now.
I'm going off topic. I am getting disinterested, I've been doing this for quite sometime now. This, balancing. Purging parasites and keeping the universe in relative order. It gets ...dull overtime. But no one said duties were meant to be exciting. I'm doing this because I have a responsibility to. It's a price—my rebirth wasn't free. It's a duty, and I have to see to it. Well, till the time comes where I no longer have to. That's why I'm grooming Gamora and Nebula, that's why the black order is still in play.
I know, I know. Oh, look at you being no different from the original Thanos. But let me ask you this, what exactly do you mean by "original" Thanos? Do I seem fake to you? Do I seem lesser? No, of course not. I understand what you mean, my path seemingly overlaps with that of the Thanos you have seen on TV, or read of in books. Well, do you think it's easy being me? I make it look easy, but looks can be deceiving.
You forget that I have accomplished something he never has, my mutual relationship with death. I know, I'm going off tangent again. It's just so lackluster sometimes when you've killed so much that battle barely even stirs you anymore, when blood becomes just another colored fluid no different from spilled water. When great warriors are nothing but children before you. When gods die. When victory becomes hollow.
I'm glad I have an obsession towards knowledge. If I didn't, life would be irrevocably dull, almost meaningless.
What I'm doing right now, is setting up the next step. Next step of what? You'll find out eventually.
[Ego prime located, Master] my computer alerted.
Finally, this stupid planet. It's actually been running, can you believe it? Ego running. It took a bit longer, twenty-four hours more to be specific, to locate it than expected. This planet of ego, is in no way or manner related to Peter Quill. It's not a celestial, it's a celestial's experiment. And I had need for it.
"How far behind are the Nova Corps?"
[0.2 light-years away and rapidly approaching, Master.]
"Good" I'd need a lot of blood for what I'm about to do. This is to be a grand event after all, an event so grand it reverberates throughout the universe.
[Target in sights, Master]
Before my very own eyes, was a pale blue Planet floating steadily in the wide expanse of space, it utilized volcanic exhausts as a means of propulsion. It's staggering size dwarfing all other celestial bodies around it, the stars glittered around it like diamonds on jewelry. Like clay being molded in a large plate, massive land masses quaked and moved along the Planet's surface.
Gradually forming into a structured face. If I was still human, I'd call it the face of God, but I've killed gods, this is just a mutated, sentient planet. Stewing pools of magma made up eyes and mouth. It's brows were jagged mountains decorated with dark storm clouds, it's teeth was granite marbles and rare metals. It's long hanging beard was fibrous roots and dead tendrils.
"LEAVE ME BE!" The planet roared, spitting out molten lava from its face and rocky projectiles no less from meteroes as though they were pustules. It's tantrum shredded through a part of my Armada. It's rage burned through another. It was futile, my armies were effectively endless. I'd know, I created 98% of them after all.
"No, I can't do that you wonderful bucket of diamonds" I retorted.
I ordered a pull back. This was going to be a fight, I hope to enjoy alone.
I rose from my seat. Giving commands to my onboard computer and crew.
"Cull Obsidian" I called, they answered. The elite of the elite knelt before me. The galaxy's most fiercest, most cunning, most deadliest, most brutal and most persuasive.
"When the pests reach, make sure only one lives to spread what happened here today"
"Your will be done my lord" Corvus bowed deeply.
"Bring me my blade"
[Yes Master]
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"Sir, arrival in thirty-five seconds!" A Nova corpsman altered his superior who stood proudly on the bridge of their ship.
Nova prime Sam Alexander, the best of the best, the highest authority on this ship, second only to the Nova mind, took the stage.
"Alright boys and girls, we go out there to do our job and we do it damn well. These monsters will be brought to justice." Rampant energy coursed through his veins, its ambience proudly announced all through the ship.
"Slot on your helmets, drink of the Nova force as much as you can. Prime your weapons to the highest lethality. This is war, ladies and gentlemen, and we will come out on top. You know why? Because we are Nova!"
[Nova grid established, current power levels fully charged at maximum capacity]
"NOVA!" They roared. Preparing themselves to face yet another adversity that would fall under the boot of justice. Oh, how wrong they were. Only one would survive the massacre, only one would tell of the bloodshed that soaked the spaceways in red and blue.
Corvus Glaive pointed his spear at the encroaching corpsmen. The armies of Thanos clashed against those of the Nova. The endless black against the bright burning gold. Like their namesakes at the end of their lives, the Nova shone brightest and most gloriously, all to be consumed by the black. Corvus feared death no more. He fully welcomed it, as his master taught him how to. And it has let him come the distance.
Proxima midnight stood at the very forefront, bringing eternal slumber to her foes. Her heart as cold as the steel of her hand, she reveled in war. The black dwarf tore apart ships with his bare hands, he was poised to be the most brutal of the black order, but at heart he was poetic and there was a lot of poetry to be had in death. The cunning snake that was ebony maw manipulated his way past his foes defences as he reaped of their lives.
Corvis smiled in deep pleasure as he watched the binary assassins phase through solid matter to forcefully claim the lives of others. How the behemoths decimated the brutes. How the armada wantonly gave their lives to achieve his lord's goals. How well this battle was going.
The Nova-prime Samuel Rider's energy waves ate through the armada, tore through the behemoths, laid waste to the binary assassins. All for naught, for as much as he took from them, they replenished their ranks and took back more from him. These monster he fought against were different from criminals. These things feared not for their lives, these things sought after death, they wanted it with all their being.
The handmade altered army of Thanos were unnatural.
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I stood on the exterior of my spaceship. I stared Ego in its swirling eyes of fire that burned as bright as its rage. Ignoring the explosive chorus behind me.
I drew my double sided blade, the one inspired from endgame. I pointed at the planet, dragging my thumb against my neck making a sinister cutthroat gesture. A malevolent smile splayed across my face, excitement built up inside. This is a first for me, hunting down living planets. I could not deny the fact that this was damn awesome.
I leapt, against the flames that shot from Ego's open maw. Slicing through the rock projectiles. Wading through white hot flames that turned air to superheated plasma. I switched my forcefields off, letting the flames lick at my skin. They did no damage. Like walking through a warm bath, I felt refreshed instead. I brushed past roaring thunderclouds and speeding cyclones, I landed on the planet's surface with a mighty thwump! A deep crater forming from the point of impact spreading a Shockwave outwards accompanied by a web of cracks.
From the hardened ground rose countless humanoid creatures, a twisted sense of creation this planet has. Hardened rock men, moldable clay beings, supersolid crystalline figures, all bearing Ego's face stared at me with unbound hostity and deep seated hatred. I welcomed them with open arms.
"Leave!!!" The army cried in symphony as they attacked. The writhing mass that was the ground tried to capture me, I tore it asunder. The defense organisms attacked, my blade went through them without a hint of resistance. I indulged in unparalleled brutality, I was breaking more monsters than the planet could create.
My blade dug into the ground, like a needle into flesh, the world bled black bile. The ground rumbled as the sentience roared in pain and annoyance.
"Oh, but I'm just getting started" my feet blurred as I sped towards a volcanic vent. The floor twisted and folded, trying to impede me. Telekinetic pads pushed me off the ground, my blade cleaved through the mountainous obstacles. My gloved fist turned diamond crystals to glitter dust, metals folded and crumpled, obstacles turned into stepping stones.
I maneuvered past the barricades and dove into the vent. Falling deep into the planet's core. Lava men formed along the vent's interior, they didn't put up a very good fight. I swam through the boiling hot molten magma, the fluid tried to pull me down, it was useless, nothing could impede my bullish charge.
This should've at least been a test of my physical might. It barely qualified as such anymore. I made sure not to use a hint of cosmic powers.
My eyes met my goal. A pulsating lively blue glow imprisoned in the bowels of a dark cave.
"Please! No!No!No! Please!" the world begged as I took a step into the cave. The brittle restrains wrapped around me, easily broke off with each step I took forward.
A figure entirely composed of dark metal with a silver sheen rose from the ground.
"Cease, Thanos of Titan. I beg of you! I will do whatever it is you seek of me. Cease your advancement"
That metal was pure vibranium. As was the interior of this cave. All this was as a by product of the blue glowing ball in the cave's center.
"Move, Ego. I'll deal with you after I'm done here" I said to the figure.
"This will be the last step you take Titan. Heed my warning, the beings who deposited this embryo here, are beings you cannot afford to offen--huhk!" the figure paused, clutching at its impaled throat. I whipped the blade back, sending its head flying along the cave's length. I followed that up with a swift stab in its abdomen, skewering it into the wall.
"I told you to move" I remarked. Leaving the body to claw at the blade while I advanced towards the celestial egg. The seed of divinity. An embryo of the space gods. A ball of pure essence, even if it was lessened. This ball granted ego sentience, he has been subsisting on it ever since.
I laid my hands on the ball. Metal protrusions from my gloves drilled into the ball of energy, tendrils of my cosmic essence ravaged through seed. I crushed whatever budding will rested within, utterly subjugating whatever life might have inhabited it. And when it was ripe for the taking. I devoured, eating of the succulent divine essence. The taste of pure unadulterated power filled my tongue, the boiling energy coursed through my veins. I cried tears of purple blood. My mind roamed through realities and dimensions, my perception explored the planes, I looked into the eyes of concepts, I was humbled by the scales of that which I saw as the energy high took me on a trip, a trip that would shred mortal minds and burn through lesser souls. The energy that threatened to drown me was instead was bolstered onto mine. It stewed with my life force, further adding onto it. My cosmic might rose. My body was reformed in that instant by the abundance of power. And before the high wore off, vague visions appeared where I found myself sitting atop a throne, a throne made of the skull of the devourer, decorated by pieces of the heavenly ones, lined with the bones of the high dwellers. But the most prominent, was the face smiling back as I stared into the abyss, for that face was mine.
Past the Astral barriers, beyond the limits of concepts, in the stream that drifted through all. I lent a tender push.
I blinked, finding myself in the now dark cave. Ego's avatar still nailed to the wall, still hopelessly clawing at my blade.
"It's time I dealt with you" hmm, my voice was soaked in power, even to my own ears. I held my blade and sent purple tendrils through it. The blade pulsed blue, and then took on periodic darker hues. The change began from there. The planet shook and rumbled. I could hear the world scream in agony as my power ravaged within, changing it to what I desired. Chunks flew off of its mass, some drifting directly into a rare temporal storm which lasted only microseconds and would appear once in eons. Such storms came about as a result of many phenomena, but mostly as an overabundance of tachyons occupying the same space across different states of time.
Meaning, there could be an observant time traveler who had just left, and in quite a hurry at that. Or something had broken through a very great barrier seeped in exotic energy. Of course it was mere speculation for now. I had something else to focus on.
Ego's transformation was complete. A pedestal formed from its depths to its surface.
I ascended.
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They had lost. Sam Alexander knew it. They had woefully lost. He stared at the crushed helmets, at the floating bodies and ship debris and rubble drifting through the expanse. While the black Armada stood victorious.
That was when the chill spread. Ego cried in agony so deep, it sent shivers down his spine, rivers of magma flooding out from its glowing eyes. And like a clap of thunder a mighty cosmic shockwave radiated outwards from the screaming planet. It was never the same after that. The life filled planet turned as black as the night that surrounded it if not deeper. The red swirling pools of magma turned blue, providing light for the new world. Pulsing luminescent veins of energy rose spread along the sinisterly smiling planet's surface. And from its core, rose a pedestal. And on that pedestal stood the Titan, clad in power that kicked up dreadful storms with each step he took, dressed in his regal armor with an aura of greatness abounding on his form. Like a king ascending his throne, it made others want to submit.
Nova-prime witnessed the great universal chronicler, the bald headed Watcher pop into existence next to the pedestal. His stoic, steeled expressionless face. Recording all he saw with his transdimensional eyes. The Titan smirked at the watcher. He spread his arms wide and spoke, his voice seemed to be shaking space itself.
"This Is New Ego; the NecroWorld. I declare this expanse The BLACK QUADRANT. Rejoice, my Armada, Rejoice my Order, be glad my chosen, for on this day, a new era dawns. "
As the Titan spoke, so it became. Hugging him from behind was his lover death, a wickedly peaceful smile written on her skeletal lips. The watcher silenced his roaring instincts and recorded the beginning the budding legend of he that would come to be known as,
KING THANOS.
"Arghhhh!!" Nova prime screamed in soul rending pain. His eyes! His eyes had been burned from their sockets. Next to his ear he heard the Titan's sinister silent chuckle. Nova-prime ran, he ran as far as the energy allowed him to. He knew not where, but he ran. He would be rescued by ship salvagers on a garbage depositor world. He would live to tell his tale as a shadow of the man he once was. He would be unable to sleep at night for the rest of his days, for when ever he did, he would remember the demonic pearls that caused him to lose his sight. Those eyes that forever broke his soul.
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From an isolated secret lab on earth, where the greatest scientific minds gathered to unravel the secrets of the universe. A technician called Owen Reece caused an accident that would have far reaching consequences. For that one accident to him became an opportunity for another.
It came out of wild space. It was a mere child unit. An experiment of those beyond all others. As sentience roused in it. It went rushing to a planet filled with the most exotic of life within the galaxy, a planet called Earth. It, would learn what took decades in minutes. It, would soon grow.
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…..ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!? What's that? I can't hear you ROAR loud enough.
That was one hell of a chapter. I'm gonna have to dip my fingers in ice and get a hell ton of painkillers for my head. After I'm done with that, I'm going to sit down and read the whole story. As much of a writer as I am, I'm even more of an avid reader.
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