Chapter 39: The executioners part 2

[Universe 1879: spring 2006]

On a meteorite in the middle of other meteorites of destroyed moons and planets in outer space lies a 12 year old boy born from the planet Titan; the one who destroyed 98% of the universe's population. The boy has a fair skin complexion, has short and spiky cyan colored hair, purple iris eyes and wears a grey battle suit made from the comsic energy.

He sighs in please with himself that he has finally achieved what took him near decades to get... "Peace in our time." He smiles pleasantly at the sight of space filled with meteorites before hearing a familiar male voice call out to him "Aggregor!" from behind.

@Aggregor possessing the 12 year old Boy known as Satoshi Shinseiji.

Aggregor: [He turns around seeing his brother and the other remaining Celestials.] Ah... Elknoe. So you survived.

Elknoe: How could you? WHY would you do this?!

Aggregor: The universe... is too chaotic to let continue to be. It needed to be cleansed brother so it could FINALLY be in peace. The peace that dad wanted us to bring into existence.

Elknoe: THIS... Isn't what Dad meant. Killing all of life until nothing remains isn't how you bring peace into the universe. We are made to ensure that—

Aggregor: There is order in the universe, yeah and we failed to do so. Every world was filled with chaos. There was not ONE of them that could have atleast stayed pure enough. They were all NEEDED to be erased.

Elknoe: They needed YOU, the embodiment of light to give them HOPE, brother.

Aggregor: THEY were all cancers and I'm the cure, the solution. Living in a violent, dark and twisted universe such as this one is a mistake. What i did was for best. If you can't SEE that this universe was never suppose have these beings then you, yourselves are the cause, the corrupted embodiments. Especially— [Aggregor gets interrupted by a female Celestial with green glowing eyes, black long hair and wears a black battle suit constructed by cosmic energy, appearing infront of Aggregor with an extended right fist piercing deep into Aggregor's chest.]

Linity: You...

Aggregor: [He looks down at Linity dumbfounded before coughing out blood.] Linity... You... I... You... were... right...

Linity: Tch... [She pulls her hand out covered in the blood of the boy Aggregor is possessing, with his heart clenched in her hand beating for a few seconds before stopping.]

Aggregor: !! [He looks at her in shock before coughing and falling to his knees, weak not longer breathing, face down with his eyes open.]

Linity: [She falls to her knees with tears as she sees Aggregor nolonger responsive. She places her forehead against his, with her hands touching each side of his face.] No, there were worlds... peaceful ones like you said, i knew and made sure that they never were... I'm sorry... So sorry for leading you down this path.

Elknoe: Linity.

Linity: I'm so sorry...

[Battleworld: inside Brandon's Empyrean-zone.]

Narration: The empyrean-zone; It is a supreme technique that most advanced Celestials are able to perform. By having a clear image of what they and their powers stand for, a inner realm is manifested from their understanding from within.

Narration: The inner realm represents the concept of what the celestials are the embodiments of. The realm can be materialized at will into any environment, inside the realm the Celestials can chant and use any of their abilities at a high efficient range.

Brandon appears dashing in to punch Aggregor with his right arm imbued in a aura of primordial light but Aggregor swiftly grabs Brandon's wrist and swings his leg kicking Brandon in the left side then after Brandon puts his left arm over Aggregor's leg keeping it still against his left side. Ethan rushes in instantly, stabbing Aggregor from behind with his black rod; severing the spinal cord and paralyzing Aggregor. Brandon's body emits a yellow glow before taking a leap back with a duplication of himself made of light taking his place and holding Aggregor.

Brandon: [He extends both his hands forwards with one of them placed on the other.] Ethan! I'm about to fire get clear!

Ethan: [He pierces Aggregor's back deeper] No! If I do, he'll be free... just do it!

Brandon: Tch... [He sighs and sparks yellow appear around Brandon's hands. He screams as he fires a beam of light from his hands.]

The beam engulfs both Ethan and Aggregor; burning Aggregor more than Ethan's body as he uses curse energy that he is draining from Aggregor to his body with the rod, to reinforce his durability while also using Aggregor's body to protect himself and to ensure that more damage is done onto Aggregor. Once the beam ends, both Aggregor and Ethan stand weakly with their bodies severely burnt.

Aggregor: [He grunts Irritated by Ethan's presence and ability, he quickly swings his left back hand slapping Ethan away with a dislocated jaw before turning his sight to Brandon and before he could do anything further, layers of thick ices appears, manifested by Rhys, trapping him inside.]

Ethan: [On the ground unresponsive for a few seconds with his eyes wide and dilated, jaw dislocated and not breathing until after the seconds he gasps in for air and uses pure energy to fix his jaw before getting up and seeing Aggregor trapped in ice in confusion.]

Ethan [thoughts]: What... just happen...?

[Ethan's perspective during the joint attack.]

Seconds after Brandon went in and grabbed Aggregor's leg restraining him, I see an opportunity and went in stabbing through Aggregor's chest from behind, right at the spinal cord, paralyzing him. Brandon makes a clone of himself made of yellow light that holds Agreggor in place while i have my rod still in his back. "Ethan! Im about to fire get clear!" Brandon says, knowing that Aggregor will use his healing factor the moment I get away from him and dodge Brandon's attack, I have to keep it in him. "No! If I do, he'll be free... just do it!" I yell out to Brandon as i ready myself for the beam. Once Brandon fires his beam engulfing me and Aggregor, i watch as his body slowly burns away into nothingness as he screams in agony before my body undergoes the same fate. Everything turned black before hearing a glass shattering noise and finding myself eyes open on the ground.

[Perspective end.]

Aggregor: Tch... [He clenches his teeth in irritation before blasting his way out of the layers of ice, making his way to Brandon before Zeke intercepts him from the side with a straight punch.]

Aggregor has his right forearm raised up, blocking Zeke's punch intended to hit his head. He swings his left fist into Zeke's gut section with enough strength to have him raised off the ground with blood spilling out of his open gut and mouth.

Aggregor: Hm. [With a slight smirk on his face, he swings his right fist across Zeke's face sending him flying and colliding into Brandon putting them both down on the ground.] Void-Release...

Rhys: Oh no you don't! [He intercepts Aggregor with a small surge of ice that freezes the ground as it makes way and pierces Aggregor's body from behind.]

In the air after Rhys' attack, Zyr has a large stone mallet in hand that he swings downwards ontop of Aggregor, crushing him to the ground with the surges of ice shattering.

Aggregor: [He lifts the mallet up with both his hands as he smiles before he chants...] FLASH.

SHATTER

Having used the light to his advantage, the realm encased by Brandon soon disappears, leaving everyone that was in the empyrean-zone now back in the Battleworld with their bodies covered in severe burnt marks and slashes all over their bodies.

• Ethan Shinseiji loses his left hand.

• Rhys loses his right eye

• One of Zeke's kukris shatters and melts away.

Brandon [thoughts]: Tch... Damnit! He completely destroyed the realm. All that hard work... planning... For NOTHING!

Aggregor: hmm.... [Aggregor grunts before staring coldly at Brandon.] Brandon Smith. Did you really come back from the dead just to die again? Well this time it'll be permanent. Void release— [With both arms placed on each side Aggregor performs the final Atonement.]

Brandon: [With wide eyes of worry, Brandon watches as flame-like ribbons of energy spirals around Aggregor's body. He watches as everyone around at close range have small flecks of golden light emitting from their bodies like dust blowing off of their skins.]

Narration: In those moments, Brandon Smith relives a past memory.

[Brandon's Flashback]

Early in the day cloudy with the chances of raining, Brandon Smith stands, leaning against a large tree in a large park, wearing a black coat with dark grey pants, he has a black cap and sunglasses on as he watches a couple having a picnic from a distance; unaware he's watching them.

"I see that you now a stalker there, Brandy..." Said by the man Brandon hates the most in the ZX, he turns his head to his direction with a sigh as he has both his hands in his coat pockets.

Brandon: What do you want, Zyr...?

Gabriel: [He Wears a grey tracksuit with two parallel and horizontal lines on the front sides of pants, and a blue T-shirt and has sunglasses on to hide his yellow iris eyes. He has a slight smile on his face as he looks at Brandon.] I'm not Zyr. I'm Gabriel.

Brandon: Hm... I'm still not in the mood to be talking... especially to a murderer. [He goes back to looking at the couple enjoying their picnic with laughter and food.]

Gabriel: [He stops smiling and looks at the same direction Brandon's looking at.] Still sad about "that" huh?

Brandon: I've been with her for 4 years and she died in my arms... because of your so called god (Zyr). So How couldn't I be?

Gabriel: Well, She's not exactly dead. Like everybody else that died previously, she's resurrected into a better world. A world that they all born into, to nolonger have to hate, fear or be disgusted to breathe in all the time. Even though there's still a few that's still disgusted, in fear and or hate each other there's still harmony in the nexus.

Brandon: Hm. Everyone except for us. They all don't remember or have chosen to forget, but not people like us. You know unlike you I'm one of the few that doesn't HAVE a variant in this damn nexus, since we were imprisoned and all. Now that We free, I really thought that... Hm, Maybe she's alive again and I should go see her, and to my out most disappointment the Kate I loved with all of my heart doesn't exist anymore... even when she's right there infront of me.

Gabriel: Hm-hm. YEAH, I know the feeling. I was taken away and imprisoned by Odiz at one point. When I escaped the empty cells and found my family years later... I see that they've... replaced me. Atleast that's what I thought at first but the damage was already done. I killed them all except for one... the one who escaped.

Brandon: [He turns his sight back to Gabriel] Zeke?

Gabriel: Zyr. While Zeke suffered the same fate, it was planned by Zyr.

Brandon: I see. So... Gabriel... why are you here to talk? We never talked specially in the previous nexus. Why now?

Gabriel: To tell you that what happened to Kate was for the best.

Brandon: [Irritated and confused, he looks at Gabriel] What...?

Gabriel: As we speak, there are forces worse than the conquerors and the watchers. Forces that WILL NOT STOP at nothing to ensure that this nexus is destroyed. The Kate you remember still lives and is the same one you watching. She still remembers everything, she's not with you because she knows the risks and doesn't want to re-experience the pain and horror she experienced with you. You might not see it but She loves you more than you know.

Brandon: Tch... [He falls to his knees, holding in tears as he clenches his teeth and looks straight down at the grass.] 4 years... plus the time imprisoned in that realm... I just wanted to rest... to be with her... and only her. Every moment I've had with her is all a blur to me almost as if... it never really happened, it was all an hallucination in my head and its all thanks to the Variant-Killer.

Gabriel: [He pats Brandon's back to comfort him.] I know it may be hard. But it's for the best. All i can do is give you two choices you can pick if you really run out of ideas: Keep continuing to fill yourself with depression with trying to remember the memories of how happy you were with her until it is all over or choose to move on like she did and fight for the harmony of this world. Stalking her is very creepy, man.

Brandon: [He sniffs back the tears and gets up.] I never once expected you to be the one to be trying to comfort people... What's going on with you?

Gabriel: ...I'm on Red death's list... I wanted to make things right before the time comes.

Brandon: ...You could start by apologising to all those people in Paris, GRIEVING for what you've done.

Gabriel: ... I already did.

Brandon: [He stares silently at Gabriel before turning his gaze towards Kate and her boyfriend both with their things packed and leaving the park.] ... [He turns his gaze back to Gabriel but to his surprise sees that Gabriel has vanished from thin air.] "You an interesting person, Gabriel Kelly. You've always fought with so many and never once said or show signs of fear and sadness, I thought you were just a cold hearted killer and you can't feel those emotions... until now. You showed me your true self, a broken and traumatized man trying to be good. That's why I could never compare myself to you." He says in thought as the memory fades away.

[Back in the Battleworld.]

Brandon: [Brandon's eyes emit a bright yellow glow as he extends his arms aside and looks straight up.] Encase...

*SNAP*

In an instant, Aggregor finds himself back in Brandon's Empyrean-zone dumbfounded as his body emits more spirals of energy that's becoming more unstable.

Aggregor [thoughts]: Again?![He says in thought Irritated before coming close to detonating the final Atonement.] He's now proven to be more of a problem than both Ezra and Satoshi...

Octane appears teleporting infront of Aggregor, with no burnt slash marks and holding onto Zeke's remaining kukri that's imbued with his energy, He stabs Aggregor's in the chest directly into the heart.

Aggregor: !! [He looks at Octane in surprise before seeing Brandon constructing a box around Aggregor and Octane.]

Octane: [He gives a loud yell as he punctures deeper into Aggregor's chest.]

Aggregor clenches his teeth as he also Yells, unleashing the final Atonement that completely engulfs the entire inside of the box before it completely breaks outwards also filling the entire realm.