Post by eez on Dec 28, 2009 17:42:58 GMT -5
It was a quiet evening for this dark hour.
The grubs had crashed due to ungodly exposure of sugar levels and the brain pods had been carted off into hibernation. Hornets had escorted the remaining grubs onto the main colony back upon one of terraformed defense moons.
His minions were safe and secured from what was soon to come of his actions.
The Evil Emperor watched as the platform continued its descent down a dark and echoing shaft, his eyes briefly trailing the pieces of rock and dirt poking out here and there through the containment field. His hands were clasped together and he simply waited in silence as he slowly descended down; meter by meter, mile by mile.
The journey would require another ten minutes or so and with this, the Evil Emperor allowed his mind to think.
The events soon to transpire would take place here, at this very center of evil and misery. And the fight would be different, wouldn't it. When they normally had fights of light-hearted games and mischief, they would now fight on terms only grown-ups would agree to.
Zurg tilted his head upwards slightly in the darkness, the platform's glow barely enough to accent his features demonically.
Yes, yes, the fight would be very different this time around. They would no longer fight on their rivalry; one out of anger, the other...
"Hmmhmmmhmm..." The Evil Emperor chuckled in his throat and eyed the control panel. There were scrolling, alien characters on it that wiggled and waved in place but he paid it no mind. All they had to say was what he already knew.
He was getting close.
In a few hours time, he would be here...ready to exact a revenge most cruel.
But the Evil Emperor didn't tremble or worry at this. In fact, he had thought it long over-due, to be honest. With his actions prior to this, Zurg had always wondered why the man didn't fully come at him after the first decade. But then again, Zurg had never aimed to hurt someone so close to the man.
A wicked smile crept upon Zurg's face and he only cherished the thought.
Yes, yes, Lightyear had a weakness now, didn't he. A weakness that could cripple the man entirely. But of course, such a goal was too superficial--even for his desires--and the Evil Emperor found his new smile forming back into the usual scowl.
The truth was, he could have cared less about the man's life. Could have cared less about his friends, his acquaintances, his so-called family even. Zurg, in all his wretched glory, cared not for any of that. What he wanted was purely simple: retribution. So what if the human girl got injured during the fight; he didn't rightfully care. She was just another unforeseen consequence in his grand plans.
But...then there was the personal desire to take the man's happiness as well; just like his happiness had been taken all those decades ago.
The sudden reversal in thought caused the Evil Emperor's eyes to glow hotly, his anger peaking through.
"Hmph." Was all he bothered to snort as the platform finished its descent, the locking mechanism securing the metallic pad in place with a dull click.
The fifty mile descent had been finished and now it was time.
Zurg didn't waste any more time to thinking as he glided off the platform and connected his metallic boots onto the holographic pathway; his heels clicking with a rhythm as he approached an entrance into the planet itself. It was drastically foreign in nature, for the metal had been carved and molded into the planet and crafted by alien hands. The halls and panels of glistening metal were still relatively clean after all these years and soft, glowing blue accents added further light in what would otherwise be a dark and unnatural environment.
He continued to walk past the pillars and long-time deceased control panels, past the artifacts of the planet's past and beyond that to finally approach the last obstacle in his journey: a sealed doorway, interlocked down the middle at the very end of the alien passage.
"In all those lonely fifty years....I had never bothered to come down here...." The Evil Emperor lifted a hand as he mumbled, pressing it gently onto the door's metallic skin. "I just hope she doesn't get a cold tectonic plate...."
No sooner had he pressed his armoured hand upon the door, an amber wave of energy pulsed from it and zigzagged erratically through the cracks and crevices; a locking device deep within creaking and groaning as the energy dissipated. Taking a step back now, Zurg watched as the metal peeled away piece by piece, from the center outwards, and waited as the artificial sheath retracted to at last reveal the end of his great journey: a chamber.
It was a chamber so wide, so expansive, that the Evil Emperor couldn't see the bottom if he tried--as that lead to the planet's core. He set his feet gently upon another holographic pathway and continued his objective; walking down the throbbing lilac energy until he reached a floating, metallic walkway in the shape of a rotating ring. In the center, over the ring's cut-out middle, hovered a hologram depicting the planet and its three moons; a control panel before the Evil Emperor as he reached the end.
A crystal, dormant and clear, lied below the planet's hologram and was kept afloat by three grav-tethers; the immense gem dangling precariously above the abyss.
Out of respect, he took off his boots and set them aside as he brushed a hand over the panel and activated it; warm amber characters popping into view as he manipulated them with taps, flicks, and turns.
A pad appeared off to his right and the Evil Emperor, now barefoot, stepped onto it carefully and sat, his legs crossed and his hands upon his knees.
"X'rghthung..." He spoke in an alien tongue. "Your lost, forlorn child has come to speak with you."
Silence.
He shifted his weight around a bit, growing antsy but he soon recalled that planet's, for all their worth, were very slow to respond from time to time.
Zurg hoped this was not the case as he did not have the luxury of waiting a week for the planet to answer.
But a reply came and the crystal suddenly erupted into thousands of shards; an angry, blaring red aura consuming it where the crystal had once been. The Evil Emperor didn't flinch as the shards were corralled by the grav-tethers and left to float gently in place, rotating around the ring's middle in a peaceful cadence.
"Your child sees that you are still upset...and your child understands. But this is not the time to bicker and debate; the enemy is approaching."
Upon hearing this news, the crimson aura pulsed into a shade of amber--the mixed feeling of anxiety.
So Nana was anxious too, hmm? It seemed Zurg wasn't the only one who shared this feeling, but then again....feelings were never restricted to just sentient people, were they?
"The enemy of your last child is coming, and your child feels that the inevitable may happen." The Evil Emperor spoke with a weary sigh. "And if it does, your child has a plan--he always had a plan."
Furious now, the aura shimmered into a yellow--fear--and switched into red once more; winking back and forth chaotically as the planet was no doubt confused and enraged at such nonsense.
"You knew this was coming." Zurg countered firmly, not deterred by the planet's stubbornness. "You knew that your child's actions would one day prove to be his downfall. You knew this better than anyone and now the day has potentially come. And if were to come to what we have theorized in the past, you must initiate our promised plan."
Zurg's tone immediately hushed the planet's anger and the aura slowly pulsed into a pale yellow and as he continued to speak of their agreed upon plan, the yellow churned into a deep, woeful blue.
"Your child knows..." The Evil Emperor began, bringing a hand over where his heart was. He could feel the planet's pain and it was a pain that was based in absolute reality. "Your child knows that it pains you to hear this; and your child also knows that you don't want to be left alone in the darkness of the void. That is why you must activate your inter-dimensional warp and flee this plane. You must survive in the event of your last child's death."
Of course, this news was not to be taken lightly and where perhaps a person would yell and scream, a planet could very well do the same--and the same the planet did.
No sooner had Zurg finished speaking, there was a great and terrible rumble and the place began to shake; the Evil Emperor bracing as the planet no doubt had caused a series of earthquakes and lightning storms above upon the surface. The chamber, clad in alien metal, was prepared for this but he knew that his world up top was not so fortunate.
"ENOUGH!" He shouted to the blazing red aura. It was so bright, so luminous in size that it almost bathed the entire chamber in a wrathful sea of pure, colourized hate; and he would not have it. "We agreed upon this decades ago! There is no debate! Your survival is worth more than your child's life! You, alone, contain all our memories and what I have collected over the years are yours to keep! If you were to be destroyed and ravaged by those filthy outsiders' hands, you and our legacy would be utterly tainted beyond merit. Is this what you want? Is it really!?"
The aura hushed itself once more and the red collapsed inwards onto itself as the aura could no longer maintain its current emotion; the aura reduced to a mere, pathetic wink no bigger than a few inches as it twinkled sickly, the crystallic shards slowly pulling themselves together and piecing itself back together shard by shard.
"X'rghthung.....Nana....." Zurg pleaded with a hand slightly outstretched as the planet began to disconnect itself from him. "Nana, please.....don't be upset...."
But the truth was, the planet was deeply upset--wounded even. It didn't want to lose anyone else, not to those outsiders. It didn't want to be left alone and....
The crystal finished merging, the cracks fusing themselves together seamlessly, and the aura was no more; the planet now silent and dormant, leaving an exhausted Evil Emperor left to get up and collect his boots.
"I'm sorry, Nana...." Zurg spoke up, resting his hand upon the control panel and deactivating the pad beside him. "....but this is for the best; even if it isn't right." He whispered, beginning his ascent back to the world above him; and his back to the world he had left behind.
It was for the best.
((Yeeeeeeep, don't mind me. Just doing one last thing in preparation for our skirmish! If you read this, hope you enjoyed it!))
The grubs had crashed due to ungodly exposure of sugar levels and the brain pods had been carted off into hibernation. Hornets had escorted the remaining grubs onto the main colony back upon one of terraformed defense moons.
His minions were safe and secured from what was soon to come of his actions.
The Evil Emperor watched as the platform continued its descent down a dark and echoing shaft, his eyes briefly trailing the pieces of rock and dirt poking out here and there through the containment field. His hands were clasped together and he simply waited in silence as he slowly descended down; meter by meter, mile by mile.
The journey would require another ten minutes or so and with this, the Evil Emperor allowed his mind to think.
The events soon to transpire would take place here, at this very center of evil and misery. And the fight would be different, wouldn't it. When they normally had fights of light-hearted games and mischief, they would now fight on terms only grown-ups would agree to.
Zurg tilted his head upwards slightly in the darkness, the platform's glow barely enough to accent his features demonically.
Yes, yes, the fight would be very different this time around. They would no longer fight on their rivalry; one out of anger, the other...
"Hmmhmmmhmm..." The Evil Emperor chuckled in his throat and eyed the control panel. There were scrolling, alien characters on it that wiggled and waved in place but he paid it no mind. All they had to say was what he already knew.
He was getting close.
In a few hours time, he would be here...ready to exact a revenge most cruel.
But the Evil Emperor didn't tremble or worry at this. In fact, he had thought it long over-due, to be honest. With his actions prior to this, Zurg had always wondered why the man didn't fully come at him after the first decade. But then again, Zurg had never aimed to hurt someone so close to the man.
A wicked smile crept upon Zurg's face and he only cherished the thought.
Yes, yes, Lightyear had a weakness now, didn't he. A weakness that could cripple the man entirely. But of course, such a goal was too superficial--even for his desires--and the Evil Emperor found his new smile forming back into the usual scowl.
The truth was, he could have cared less about the man's life. Could have cared less about his friends, his acquaintances, his so-called family even. Zurg, in all his wretched glory, cared not for any of that. What he wanted was purely simple: retribution. So what if the human girl got injured during the fight; he didn't rightfully care. She was just another unforeseen consequence in his grand plans.
But...then there was the personal desire to take the man's happiness as well; just like his happiness had been taken all those decades ago.
The sudden reversal in thought caused the Evil Emperor's eyes to glow hotly, his anger peaking through.
"Hmph." Was all he bothered to snort as the platform finished its descent, the locking mechanism securing the metallic pad in place with a dull click.
The fifty mile descent had been finished and now it was time.
Zurg didn't waste any more time to thinking as he glided off the platform and connected his metallic boots onto the holographic pathway; his heels clicking with a rhythm as he approached an entrance into the planet itself. It was drastically foreign in nature, for the metal had been carved and molded into the planet and crafted by alien hands. The halls and panels of glistening metal were still relatively clean after all these years and soft, glowing blue accents added further light in what would otherwise be a dark and unnatural environment.
He continued to walk past the pillars and long-time deceased control panels, past the artifacts of the planet's past and beyond that to finally approach the last obstacle in his journey: a sealed doorway, interlocked down the middle at the very end of the alien passage.
"In all those lonely fifty years....I had never bothered to come down here...." The Evil Emperor lifted a hand as he mumbled, pressing it gently onto the door's metallic skin. "I just hope she doesn't get a cold tectonic plate...."
No sooner had he pressed his armoured hand upon the door, an amber wave of energy pulsed from it and zigzagged erratically through the cracks and crevices; a locking device deep within creaking and groaning as the energy dissipated. Taking a step back now, Zurg watched as the metal peeled away piece by piece, from the center outwards, and waited as the artificial sheath retracted to at last reveal the end of his great journey: a chamber.
It was a chamber so wide, so expansive, that the Evil Emperor couldn't see the bottom if he tried--as that lead to the planet's core. He set his feet gently upon another holographic pathway and continued his objective; walking down the throbbing lilac energy until he reached a floating, metallic walkway in the shape of a rotating ring. In the center, over the ring's cut-out middle, hovered a hologram depicting the planet and its three moons; a control panel before the Evil Emperor as he reached the end.
A crystal, dormant and clear, lied below the planet's hologram and was kept afloat by three grav-tethers; the immense gem dangling precariously above the abyss.
Out of respect, he took off his boots and set them aside as he brushed a hand over the panel and activated it; warm amber characters popping into view as he manipulated them with taps, flicks, and turns.
A pad appeared off to his right and the Evil Emperor, now barefoot, stepped onto it carefully and sat, his legs crossed and his hands upon his knees.
"X'rghthung..." He spoke in an alien tongue. "Your lost, forlorn child has come to speak with you."
Silence.
He shifted his weight around a bit, growing antsy but he soon recalled that planet's, for all their worth, were very slow to respond from time to time.
Zurg hoped this was not the case as he did not have the luxury of waiting a week for the planet to answer.
But a reply came and the crystal suddenly erupted into thousands of shards; an angry, blaring red aura consuming it where the crystal had once been. The Evil Emperor didn't flinch as the shards were corralled by the grav-tethers and left to float gently in place, rotating around the ring's middle in a peaceful cadence.
"Your child sees that you are still upset...and your child understands. But this is not the time to bicker and debate; the enemy is approaching."
Upon hearing this news, the crimson aura pulsed into a shade of amber--the mixed feeling of anxiety.
So Nana was anxious too, hmm? It seemed Zurg wasn't the only one who shared this feeling, but then again....feelings were never restricted to just sentient people, were they?
"The enemy of your last child is coming, and your child feels that the inevitable may happen." The Evil Emperor spoke with a weary sigh. "And if it does, your child has a plan--he always had a plan."
Furious now, the aura shimmered into a yellow--fear--and switched into red once more; winking back and forth chaotically as the planet was no doubt confused and enraged at such nonsense.
"You knew this was coming." Zurg countered firmly, not deterred by the planet's stubbornness. "You knew that your child's actions would one day prove to be his downfall. You knew this better than anyone and now the day has potentially come. And if were to come to what we have theorized in the past, you must initiate our promised plan."
Zurg's tone immediately hushed the planet's anger and the aura slowly pulsed into a pale yellow and as he continued to speak of their agreed upon plan, the yellow churned into a deep, woeful blue.
"Your child knows..." The Evil Emperor began, bringing a hand over where his heart was. He could feel the planet's pain and it was a pain that was based in absolute reality. "Your child knows that it pains you to hear this; and your child also knows that you don't want to be left alone in the darkness of the void. That is why you must activate your inter-dimensional warp and flee this plane. You must survive in the event of your last child's death."
Of course, this news was not to be taken lightly and where perhaps a person would yell and scream, a planet could very well do the same--and the same the planet did.
No sooner had Zurg finished speaking, there was a great and terrible rumble and the place began to shake; the Evil Emperor bracing as the planet no doubt had caused a series of earthquakes and lightning storms above upon the surface. The chamber, clad in alien metal, was prepared for this but he knew that his world up top was not so fortunate.
"ENOUGH!" He shouted to the blazing red aura. It was so bright, so luminous in size that it almost bathed the entire chamber in a wrathful sea of pure, colourized hate; and he would not have it. "We agreed upon this decades ago! There is no debate! Your survival is worth more than your child's life! You, alone, contain all our memories and what I have collected over the years are yours to keep! If you were to be destroyed and ravaged by those filthy outsiders' hands, you and our legacy would be utterly tainted beyond merit. Is this what you want? Is it really!?"
The aura hushed itself once more and the red collapsed inwards onto itself as the aura could no longer maintain its current emotion; the aura reduced to a mere, pathetic wink no bigger than a few inches as it twinkled sickly, the crystallic shards slowly pulling themselves together and piecing itself back together shard by shard.
"X'rghthung.....Nana....." Zurg pleaded with a hand slightly outstretched as the planet began to disconnect itself from him. "Nana, please.....don't be upset...."
But the truth was, the planet was deeply upset--wounded even. It didn't want to lose anyone else, not to those outsiders. It didn't want to be left alone and....
The crystal finished merging, the cracks fusing themselves together seamlessly, and the aura was no more; the planet now silent and dormant, leaving an exhausted Evil Emperor left to get up and collect his boots.
"I'm sorry, Nana...." Zurg spoke up, resting his hand upon the control panel and deactivating the pad beside him. "....but this is for the best; even if it isn't right." He whispered, beginning his ascent back to the world above him; and his back to the world he had left behind.
It was for the best.
((Yeeeeeeep, don't mind me. Just doing one last thing in preparation for our skirmish! If you read this, hope you enjoyed it!))