Chapter 16: Confrontation in a Void

In the still of night, Ben stayed up while Tasha was sleeping soundly. He ran outside and flew into the air to look around for any clues. He saw Ursa doing the same thing and asked her if she saw any trace of Oliver or his cult of psychos. She pointed to the moon, so both of them went to go see if he was there. They saw what looked like a group of people chanting, and they spied on them to see if they were summoning anything or giving power. There was a field that provided oxygen so they wouldn't suffocate in space, and Ben saw Oliver in his monstrous form writhing on the ground in pain, bones snapping repeatedly and his screams sounded like the dying cries of a wild animal. Ben decided to try shooting him through the heart with an astral beam, but his constant movement was hard to lock onto. Ursa made herself invisible by bending the light around her, and got close to Oliver and tried to attack his brain, but she was soon spotted from the dust, and she fended off the attacks from the followers. Ben sniped each of them in the leg so they wouldn't move, and stopped Oliver from moving. "Alright, start talking, where's your real body? Say it and the pain ends right here." he said threateningly, but Oliver just laughed and pointed to deep space. "You're out of time human. You're...all out..of time." he said while his false body disintegrated into sludge. Ben and Ursa looked out to the void, and saw that Oliver was actually in a massive void that was approaching from about 63 million lightyears away from Earth. Ursa was beyond terrified, her whole body shaking as she could see inside the void from where she was, and it was nothing she ever seen before. Ben held her and helped her calm down as tears went down her face. Ben took her back home and alerted everyone to the news of where Oliver was.

Quason held Ursa who was still a bit scared, but a lot less than before, and wondered what exactly was in there. "You guys did a good thing. Can't get mad about it, but still what the hell is he doing in a void? Those places are the worst, it's just malevolence that eats universes." he said. No one had any ideas why he was in one, but it didn't exactly matter since they were going to finally be rid of him. Then Harris came to a realization. "He's become the malevolence itself. That weird chanting, him fooling us by using a mental organic double, it all makes sense. Once he became a god, he realized he could gain authority over anything he wanted like all gods have. But his mind is so twisted he's decided to become all malevolence in this universe and spread it to others." he explained. It seemed like an insane leap in logic, but it made sense given his behavior this whole time. Tasha then got back up. "Then we'll erase that malevolence, right? That's what gods do. We didn't gain these powers just to quit. Sure we haven't unlocked the full potential yet, and maybe this is our chance. When we see our peak we break through, if one of us is hurt we get back up, and if we die then we walk it off and come back stronger. That's what humans do. God doesn't make you less human, it makes you the most human of all. I don't know about you, but I want my kids growing up in a world ruled by that hillbilly fool. So are you gonna be his bitch, or are you gonna fight like the badasses we trained to be?" she asked with a smile on her face. Everyone started laughing in agreement, their power rising with their drive to win and save everyone. They looked to the sky, and saw the sun rising, then flew into space at mach speed.

Once they passed the moon, they thought about how to clear 63 million lightyears in the shortest amount of time. Light would be too slow, even without mass, and there's no way they could accurately teleport there one by one in deep space. So they tried to think of something faster than light, the feeling of it flowing through their bodies, very little mass and was still able to hold together as they moved. They all gathered together, and zipped off at warp speed. The feeling was like flying in a plane in a sense, they didn't run into any stars or anything, seeing light moving like a bunch of lines going by. They then made it to the void, seeing the swirling mass of darkness devouring stars like a black hole. Ursa was shivering again, but this time out of anger that her people were being killed. Everyone decided not to wait any longer and went inside and confront Oliver face to face. They saw all manners of horrible creatures that seemed like something straight out of Lovecraft books, all of them growling and swirling around in the darkness like it was water. They finally reached a sort of floor and went forward to find a sort of throne chair, with Oliver sitting on it, his monstrous form now looking more humanoid than before, and his face seemed calmer. "So you pitiful humans come to fight me once more. So eager to die." he said in a condescending tone. Ursa clenched her fist, and finally managed to say something. "We're gonna kill you." she said in an ominous tone. Everyone was surprised she was able to speak all this time but chose not to, and her voice was brought out by rage. Oliver didn't look too impressed at all, and floated down from his throne, his power was exponentially higher than before, and it felt like it was radiating farther than the void could contain. But no one flinched at all, they were ready to kill or be killed in this battle. This time it was the end.