First song track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heFojrUkf1Q < The entire track fits the entire post, with the wind up being the start of the battle.
With that, good luck, YOUR IN MY PLAYGROUND NOW!
IC:
In the beginning, there was Darkness and Light, it was the entire extent of the ancient world and all that primitive man knew. Then there was the scientific collective of Dr. Yamato Nasagori. And things changed.
At first, it was only small changes. Shamans and wise men began to actually be able to use the powers they professed to have. Others began to dream and think of new things. Thus was Civilization concieved of.
At some point in history, primitive man realized one of their own was hurting them, taking them away to a strange place with odd lights and doing horrible things to them. Man got together and formed the first tribe, cooperating under the vision of a single leader named Adam, and his mate, Eve. Thus was Nasagori destroyed for the first time, but the Collective wasn't done with the world, not yet.
The single tribe grew and swelled, until a voice of dissent within the tribe started talking. He wasn't happy with the way things were, he could do better.
The seeds planted by his voice took root and grew, until they fractured the tribe and sent it out across all corners of the earth.
Time passed, tribes grew, fought, and became nations. Still, The Collective continued its experiments on Earth, until Atlantis stole Collective technology, and rose up against the Collective. Nasagori's wrath was great, and in 40 days and 40 nights of natual disaster, Atlantis was wiped away never to be seen or heard from again.
Nasagori knew he needed firmer control over man, so The Hunt was born. Made of humans he recruited during his experiments, The Hunt spread out across the lands and crushed rebellion and dissent. Yet time and again, cultures rose against Nasagori, only to be wiped away.
Finally, two brothers fought Nasagori, and won. Peace was had for Earth, for a time.
Time passed, and civilization advanced into the computer age. Supers, people with power born from Nasagori's experiments on Earth, were becoming rampant, and Hunt adopted a new face. They were capturing rogue supers, or so they said.
Nasagori was again visible in the world. To consolidate his hold, he had his servant take over the nation of Londim, but the other great powers of the world rose up against him. In one battle after another, each of Nasagori's servants was destroyed.
Now, there was only Nasagori left...
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Nasagori winged his way through the world. He had taken the form of the great dragon from the book of revelations, a truly terrifying creature.
It had been 24 hours exactly since Reznov had been defeated. In revenge he razed New York City.
For a few days, the only thing in his mind was rage, and destruction. Now he had calmed enough from losing Genesis to think rationally. So he voiced his thoughts on the air, and his great booming voice carried to all corners of the earth.
"Let it be known that I tried to end things peacefully, and leave Earth forever more. Yet I was opposed by a church that desires naught but bloodshed. What else can be expected though, from those who were behind The Crusades?
Thus, since Violence is desired, I shall give it, and end my experimentation on Earth in a far more violent manner. Therefore I sentence all of Earth to destruction, and banish its entire length and breadth to The Void. Begone."
With a great roar that shook the pillars of the Earth, a great black hole enveloped Nasagori. Energy shot into it, as did clouds, and everything else in the local sky. It grew and expanded at a rapid pace, and touched the ocean, drinking it in.
Still it expanded, across lands, drawing entire cities into its black depths. It expanded across Rome last, and despite all their powers, not even they could stop The Void Nexus from expanding and drawing them in.
Then, nothing. Earth was gone. Only a lonely moon remained to mourn the passing of its lost friend.
...
Bernadette watched the great cloud of night approach in fear. As it drew nearer, everything seemed to ripple and fall apart.
She fell into a never ending abyss of night, and all things disappeared, as each sense lost input, even the sense of self. She was, gone.
In her heart, she knew that each other person was feeling the exact same thing, for all things were wrapped in this hellish blanket of Nothingness. They were apart of it, they were one with it.
...
How long had she drifted in this place of non-being? A second was an eternity, and eternity was a second. Did time even exist? What about space? Did anything exist? Did she exist? What about the others, did they exist too?
No. She was the only thing left. She was completly and utterly alone. A despair of great and profound strength settled over her. She had always believed she'd get to heaven when she died. Was that even possible here?
...
She had arrived at a plan. A simple plan, but it was all she could do.
"God, father of all things, save your servant from this black abyss!" she wailed.
She started, for her voice rippled across The Void echoing back upon her. Many people had faith, and believed, yet Bernadette's Faith was so profoundly great that it caused a reaction within The Void.
Light spread forth from Bernadette.
She was with Cardinal Bardarus, and his team of supers. Snowflake, Ansed, Max, the others, they were all here! They were being Drawn toward her by her light, tethered to her by the light her faith was causing.
Earth was in pieces. Parts of cities and landscapes stood here and there.
Bernadette prayed for a rock, and her prayer brought a large rock over for them to stand on. There were many pieces of Reality here, not just of Earth, but of other, stranger places. Alien vistas assaulted their senses.
Nasagori landed with a thwomp on a nearby rock, that was actually an entire asteroid the size of Charon, one of the two moons of Mars.
"And so, I find a small handful of wakeful survivors, here in the end." he growled in his dragonish voice.
"The wills of the apostle, they have the combined might of over ten thousand souls from their time of existence. In this place, I have the might of countless billions. One Googol times one Googol, and even more so. Their number is without any possible measure.
This place is The Void. It is the end of all existence, without exception. Even Gods have ceased to exist in this place. Universes, planets, stars, lives, civilizations, all that enters The Void, ceases to exist. All the Natural and Physical Law that you are familiar with, does not exist here. The spiritual and Metaphysical laws you believe in, and faintly understand, do not exist here. Chaos, in its myriad forms, does not exist here, nor does Life, Death, Good, or Evil. All you know and understand, has been rendered unto nothingness.
Thus ends all the struggles your world has pitted against The Collective. I would have left your world a perfect eden, where peace reigned absolute, yet you chose violence and an imperfect Hell. You are powerless to change your future now, for not one of you can override my control of The Void. Only The Spirit of Nothingness itself, the very spirit that is The Void you are within can claim to have more control over The Void.
Powerless beings, fall into the shadows of Despair, and begone." Nasagori said, as he turned to fly off.
"NO!" Bernadette screamed.
Her faith, her beliefs, everything she went to church for, she wasn't going to let some alien madman take it from her.
She clenched fists tightly, and believed that if it was true all the rules she knew were suspended, then it was equally true salvation could still be theirs. Only Nasagori needed to be taken care of to make that happen.
The broken shards of Reality from Earth and all other places not yet rendered fully into Nothingness started to come closer.
"Oh, you think you have a chance? Very well then, I shall render you all unto Nothingness, MYSELF!" roared Nasagori.
All seven heads let out another roar, and energy flashed behind him, revealing the countless souls lost to The Void, and they wailed, screaming for a salvation that never came, reaching for a hope they never had. Then they were gone, once more apart of The Void, and everything came together in a great maelstrom of energy, fusing all reality shards into one single super-reality comprised of everyone, and everything ever to enter The Void throughout the entirety of Time and its course through Existence and all the Multi-verse.
