Chapter -14: This Universe Has No Gods
DNKG H.Q.
"Hm hm hm, okay! Who wants to see the Tpyge Dance?" Annaira laughed, raising her brother in the air via bloodbending to make him do 'The Robot,' earning many laughs from the alien children. "And now ballet style." Atnort forcibly performed a series of distorted movements, as was ballet in this world. "Trapstyle!" Atnort spun around and around and around like on a torture wheel.
"Grrrrrrr STOP IT, ANNAIRA!" Atnort unleashed a storm of lightning and singed Annaira with soot, the boy landing back on his feet. "Now all of you get outta here or I'll STOP whatever excuse for hearts you have!"
Still snickering, the aliens piled away. "What were you THINKING, Nort?!" shouted Anna. "You KNOW lightning is dangerous on waterbenders!"
"Yeah well you know BLOODbending's dangerous for EVERYBODY, it don't stop you from that!!"
"Hey, I never kill you with my bending, but YOU'RE dangerously close to killing me, and if YOU kill me, I HOPE THAT Mom kills you!!"
"Yeah, well I would rather die of a-" A bullet whizzed by his arm, silencing him.
Avakam blew the smoke from her pistol before sheathing it, approaching. "I'd be happy to kill both of you. Just like my brother."
"Yeah, well keep dreamin', Needlebrain." remarked Beewv, scampering his way toward them. "'Cause one day while yer sleepin', I'll climb up on that trigger and-" Avakam began shooting the floor where he stood as Beewv hopped around. "Nn- Stop it! Stop it! Hey!"
Annaira yanked him to her hand with her bloodbending. "I would like it if you don't shoot up my future dinner. Beewv has untapped potential, and I'm waiting for it to make him spicy." She floated him by her nose so she could sniff. "Sniiiiiff… smells cookin' already."
Beewv sliced her lips with a sword, making him drop by her feet. "Well, the bakery's closed, I'm just staking in this deal for Hell knows whatever. Why did you make me GO to that world, anyway? Yeah, a couple of Earthlings turned shrimpy, if you wanted to squish 'em, why didn't you."
"Because, I was experimenting, as per Aluben's orders. By entering a Minish Portal, Nosam and Aliehs switched dimensions, therefore their opposites would've had to be effected, because no Positive can exist on a dimensional plane without a Negative on the other plane. Aluben wanted to confirm this theorem. She already knows since her Positive is a spacebender. Which comes as a recurring annoyance with her Positive constantly changing dimensions."
"I know, I heard that Nerehc keeps randomly shrinking on a regular basis, and some witch girl always biggifies him." Atnort said. "But Aluben never seizes the moment. If you ask me, she's too big of a scaredy cat to-"
"Um- hey, guys? …" They looked as Emorej, younger brother of Aluben, approached them with a nervous face.
"Speaking of which.." Avakam noted.
"I-I just, Aluben wants everyone to gather on Kri, f-for an announcement, so uh.."
Avakam joyously shot the floor by his feet, making Emorej dance around as the four giggled. The black-and-white boy flushed red before running away. "Siiigh, wonder what Her Royal Highness has now." She said as they proceeded to the hangar.
"The toilets adapted to her creepiness, they're not spiraling?" Beewv guessed.
"She's announcing how they'll sort the meat at this year's Anti-Christmas barbeque?" Annaira followed.
"If she is, you would be aware of that." said Atnort.
"Hopefully, she'll kill one of us already." concluded Beewv.
Nega-Sector V Treehouse
"Siiiigh… are you as bored as I am?" Akurah asked as she and Eirik sat before their dresser mirror, brushing her pigtails while Eirik did her own hair.
"NO, I'm having LOOOADS of fun. WHADDYOU THINK, Sherlock?"
"I KNOW. Too bad we didn't get to kill Ininap earlier, we need somethin' FUN to do."
"Wanna break the mirror and see if that 'seven years of good luck' thing is true?"
"No way, this is my mirror."
"Well, if you break it, you'll come across a million dollars. Unless you'd like ME to break it and keep ALL the money myself."
"Fine. But if it doesn't work, I'm forcing you to pay me back."
"Then the test is in motion." Eirik climbed on the desk and smirked into the mirror. "COME AT ME, you worthless piece of—GAAH!" She threw her fist and sunk into the mirror like liquid.
"Huh? Eirik?" Akurah climbed on and stared close at the mirror, leaning forward slowly. "…AAAAH!" She fell forward and fell in.
Posiverse; Haruka's Room
Haruka kicked back on her chair and read a magazine, her right leg over her left, while Kirie brushed her pigtails with a smile on her face. "Well, whaddya know. Jennifer Toad has a twin sister. I always said she looked the type."
It don't surprise me. These celebrities are always doing crazy stuff. signed Kirie.
"Mm-hm. Do you ever wish you had a twin, Kirie?"
Well, since Mom's always busy all the time, I'd like someone besides Joey to share my interests. But what about Mason?
"I mean like a twin sister. Mason's my twin, but he's a boy, he helps me with poisonbending, but we just don't share any of the same interests. I wouldn't've minded a nice girl twin to, wanna copy my every move and enjoy the same things that I like, and play with all the time. And we could bug Mason together, heh heh."
That reminds me, didn't Sheila discover her twin sister?
"That wasn't her twin, that was-"
The girls were shocked when two figures suddenly came rolling out of the dresser mirror to the floor before them. The figures got to their feet and shook their heads, staring with surprise at their reflections. Of course, there were no mirrors and Akurah's wasn't standing, and Eirik's was holding hers' hair, but they were reflections nonetheless. They had the very same looks, and wore the same looks of shock, eyes half wide and mouths in tiny o's. Akurah was the first to break the silence. "Who're YOU??"
"…!" Haruka blinked, "Oh. My. Gosh… It's my Negative… MY TWIN!" She jumped and embraced Akurah in a hug. "Oh my wishes came TRUE! How I've LONGED for you, my precious double! .." She went from lovey smile to disgusted frown at her black dress. "We'll have to do something about the dress, though. But this is a BEAUTIFUL moment!" She hugged her tight again.
Akurah shoved her off. "Get off me. We may've been born at the same time, but I assume we're nothing alike. For example, that midnight dress, purple rose, definitely ew, and that Cross should be upside-down. I bet you're not even a poisonbender."
"Ah ah." Haruka smirked and puffed a small poison cloud. Akurah raised her brow. "I can assume you are, too?"
Akurah put her hands together and stretched them apart, pulling a poison cloud in-between. "Hm, perhaps I judged too soon. Maybe we could… exchange views on poisonbending." Her frown and half-furrowed eyes had a sort of hinting aura.
"That would be great! Let's go to the forest and I'll show you what I'm all about." She was excited to jog out of her room.
"This I'd like to see. But please, don't move like that." She followed her half-interestedly.
With that, Eirik was left to look at her opposite, whose mismatched eyes were in switched places. "So what now? I suppose YER one of those POLITE types."
Well, mostly polite in a matter of speaking, but you know how some people…
"What? What are you doing?" Kirie signed something else. "Can you not speak? You deaf, Deafo? Well THIS is just GREAT. What'm I supposed to do with some DEAF reflection? HEEEEEY! MUTE GIRLLLL! CAN YOU HEAR MEEEEE?"
The shrill sound of her voice made Kirie's hair stand. …I wish I didn't.
"Oh, so you CAN hear me. Well SPEAK UP! Whaddid a DOG take your tongue or something?"
Kirie opened her mouth to reveal her tongue.
"Ugh, you really are a hopeless girl. HEEEY." She flicked her nasal bridge. "SAY SOMETHING."
With a wide grin, Kirie took her opposite's hand and merrily skipped away. "You better not be leading me to a lily garden…"
Planet Kri; Galactic Empire Audience Chamber
Hundreds of alien kids sat on individual platforms facing a center of three platforms. The ghostly, white-clothed Supreme Dictator, Aluben marched up a stairway to this center, her frightened brother behind her. Her face bore no emotion and wide, eerie eyes, and a majority of the aliens weren't happy to see her. She stood still on the center platform and addressed her subjects with her toneless voice.
"Good morning, subjects. I am blind to the respective times on your individual planets, and I don't care. For my mornings… may just as well be your mornings. First, I must address… how proud I am of each of you, for submitting to my empire and acknowledging your own futility, as separate planets. Some of you… needed some pushing… but all's well in the end." Her cold eyes narrowed to the Nainozama leader, Ardnusyrhc, the giantess shrinking in fear. "With 200 DNKs under the watch and rule of the DNKG, the Galactic Child Empire will thrive beyond the galaxy's boundaries. But I feel my empire is… too small. Too small, precisely, within a certain planet. Earth…"
"B-B-But, we thought you took Earth months ago." shuddered Ardnusyrhc.
She crouched immediately when Aluben looked at her. "No. Only the merpeople are under my rule. The Nimbi are still a problem, for one, but I will steadily have them in line. My primary concern… is the humans."
Everyone exchanged confused, worried glances.
"Yes… it seems my great power… is just not great enough for the humans' great leader. Nerehc EiznekCm Onu. Who has single-handedly resisted my impenetrable grasp." She raised her right hand, fingers bent forward, and stared blankly at her palm. "So it seems I am with a dilemma."
Silence for a few seconds as she viewed around at her subordinates. "I know what you're all thinking… just kill Nerehc. Let a new leader take his place… and grasp them. The truth is… I feel I am being incredibly.. wasteful in disposing of Nerehc. I am losing… a reliable source of offensive. One that has such powers to resist me… would be a shame to throw away. But I am constantly working… planning… and steadily reaching a conclusion. You see, there is something on Earth I am eager to find. A particular tree, if you will. It's called… the Tree of Ending."
There were very quiet murmurs of conversation or confusion. "Yes… the Tree of Ending. Where the souls of the dead are said to wander… in peace. After all, with all the deaths happening in that other world, twice as many happen here. But since there is only one Underworld, they cannot possibly handle all these souls. So the ones in this one… are stored there. Until further inspection. It's a legend… true… but a divine legend I am so fond of. It is said that that tree… will be a core part in the very end of existence."
"So why are you trying to find it?" questioned a distant alien.
She stood silent. "… …Because I wish to harness its power. Its souls of the dead… brimming with a kind of energy… Energy that which has been abandoned by those that oversee our afterlife… Energy that is for the taking… and will help in making my empire strong."
"And what does this have to do with Nerehc?" a gargoyle alien asked.
"…Because if Dear Nerehc can resist my hold… it is clear that he, as the Demon Prince, is the key."
Posiverse; Virginian Forest
"Ahhhh, can't you just smell that forest air?" sighed Haruka as she and her frumpy-faced Negative marched through the forest, with Haru kicking her legs high with each step. "All the photosynthesis, breathing life into the earth?"
"I thought you were a poisonbender, when did Air and Earth get into the situation?"
"Actually, air is a gas, too, but it contains so very little of the Gas Chi that it's almost impossible for a poisonbender to bend it. I don't know any bender that could, but then we'd be able to fly around, too!"
"Okay, you're acting way too bubbly, get to the poisoning already."
"Sheesh, rushy-rushy. Don't you just wanna look at the trees?" smiled Haruka innocently.
Akurah perked with realization. "Oh, I get it." She smirked evilly. "You wanna look at 'em like THIS!" She unleashed a cloud of gas and shriveled three unfortunate trees to withered, sad, squiggly sticks.
"Akiiiii! What'd you do THAT for??"
"The best kinda plant is a dead plant, them and their sticky sap."
"Well, you realize that some plants have medicinal herbs used for, uh… medicine."
"So what?"
"So those kinds of plants can save lives! Like…Like that bird over there!" She hurried to an injured baby bird that fell from the nest of one of the trees, and was coughing from the poison. "Poor little guy… don't you think he misses his home?" She pulled the poison away and stuck her nails in its body, transferring her healing poisons. She smiled when the bird flapped its wings and fluttered away. "See! Now he's free and happy!"
Akurah looked over at a wandering deer, and thrusted her arms forward to blast purple gas at its face, scaring the coughing animal off. "So is he. But happiness don't last."
"Will you STOP doing that?!"
"Is that all you use poison for? Helping people? Silly animals? You have got to be the WORST type of person. Isn't it so much more enticing to watch them die… suffocate and beg for mercy as their last teeny inches of breath slowly fade away? Remind them that life is short, and it certainly, isn't, KIND!" She thrusted a toxic cloud to a group of butterflies, dropping to the ground immediately. "It's just so annoying to watch things flit around like nothing's going to happen." She stomped toward the butterflies, their wings weakly twitching. "Well, in case you didn't know, YOUR LIFE MEANS NOTHING!" Akurah raised her foot to grind a helpless butterfly under her heel-
'Til Haruka pushed her away. "WHAT is your DEAL?!"
"My deal is people who act so happy and carefree, they look like idiots. Let alone poisonbenders who hold the power of death in their hand but deliberately ignore it. You're only fooling yourself if you think you'll be able to save people with your cruddy powers. So just accept who you are and start turning this forest to ash."
Haruka approached one of the butterflies and gently took it in her hands. "That's what I used to think… but if fire can burn skin, can't it also warm people from dreaded blizzards? If water can drown people, doesn't it refresh them? If the shadows make people afraid, can't they also shade them from a hot sunny day? So who says poison can't fix a person's illnesses and give them a greater chance at life?" She gently pulled the gas away to let the butterfly flutter.
"True…" Hands folded behind her, Akurah slowly walked forward. "But can they fix THIS?" She squished one of them hard beneath the heel of her shoe. "Or THIS?" Jumped and squished another. "Or THIS?"
"STOP IT!" Akurah was freely skipping about and covering her Mary-Janes with sticky butterfly intestines, Haruka panicking as she tried to pull her away.
Akurah finally conceded, "You can save all the lives you want, but everything's going to die. A hospital patient's been in a coma for years, and the day he gets out, some random mugger comes and shoots his pitiful dreams to pieces. So any idiot that tries to save all these lives is wasting her time—yes I mean you, deal with it—so that person should better spend her life just putting those people out of their misery."
Haruka stomped, "Well maybe I should put you out of YOUR misery!!"
"Go ahead. End your own misery while you're at it."
"I was thinking more like THIS!" She threw her fist at Akurah's face, pushing her back. Akurah punched across her face before both girls started thrusting poison puffs at each other. Akurah twirled away and launched her gas up a tree, letting it shrivel as birds fell out. Haruka hurriedly tried to remove their poisons, but Akurah was happily dancing about and throwing more gas up trees, causing many squirrels, owls, and a bear trying to score some honey to fall out.
Haruka was merely welling with tears by the time Akurah was bored. "It's a fool's game for anyone trying to save as many lives as they can. You'll never be able to save everyone, and you'll forever feel the hate from all their fallen souls because you didn't save them first. Those same souls will also seek revenge on the people who were lucky enough to be your first pick. So do yourself a favor and don't save anyone. Poisonbenders are only known for destruction, so just keep that tradition." So she marched off and left Haruka sulking in depression. She stopped for a moment and said, "And DON'T call me Aki…" then continued.
The girl with the purple hair rose sat with her back against a dead tree, pulling the poison out of a bird while tears still streamed her face. "I wonder if Kirie's having as much fun with her Negative…"
Near Gallagher Elementary
"Oh I cannot WAIT to see what you have planned for US today!" Eirik proclaimed with sarcasm, while Kirie wore a casual smile as she pulled a wagon of water balloons along. "WATER BALLOONS of paint, NIIICE. Oh I wonder what we're going to do with them, is it bomb the science geeks?, or perhaps PAINTING THE FREAKING SCHOOL SO IT LOOKS GOOD AS NEW. Ohhh what nice volunteer work," she put on a happy, but mocking smile, "you kids are very nice girls, lemme get you a lollipop for your hard work, no that's okay it was ALL OUR PLEASURE! Ugh, you have got to be the WORST type of person, and one of the most AGGRAVATING people I can EVER hope to KNOW! Denying ME a fucking lollipop, I'll pop you in the fucking FACE you little shit! AUGH I cannot be-LIEVE this…" They finally stopped beside the school's playground, where many young graders were playing. "What're we doing, anyway?"
Kirie tossed a red balloon up and down in her sleeved hand, facing Eirik with her innocent smile and up-closed eyes. She unveiled her rows of sharp venomous teeth in a grin, and opened her furrowed, lustful eyes. Eirik could immediately read that look, mirroring it as she took her own balloon. (Cue extreme rock-n-roll music.)
The park was stormed with paint balloons as the unsuspecting children were swamped with colorful substance, screaming and running for their very lives. Eirik and Kirie charged in like little devils, making sure they didn't miss an uncolored spot on the playground. Later, they had ketchup and mustard packs lined up beside cars, skateboarding across to squirt the toppings all over the nicely-clean cars. Afterwards, Kirie was gliding over the restaurant block with her butterfly suit while Eirik dropped a bunch of glue bombs onto them, followed by strings of toilet paper to make the eateries appear haunted and ghostly. Next, they were at a baseball stadium with piles of priceless items, in which Eirik pitched them, and Kirie smashed a painting, a porcelain doll, a glass dolphin, and a koala vase to a million pieces with her baseball bat.
Finally, they were back at the school to proceed with their painting the outside. PARENTS SUCK BALLS was what everybody read as they drove past the school.
DNKG H.Q.
The aliens returned to the treehouse as Team Beewv looked less than enthusiastic. "So Aluben's looking for some kind of mystic tree. Niiiice." moaned Beewv.
"Well, she wants me to head down to Aipyks to try again at those Nimbis." Atnort mentioned. "And she might actually join me this time. What a fun trip that'll be, right?"
"Actually." The four flinched when the girl in question showed up behind them. "I have tasks for each of you."
"Do you even have eyelids?!" blurted Beewv.
"Atnort… the two of us will be flying to Aipyks once my errands are complete. Annaira… you will oversee the Nainozama in constructing a dimension-hopping device. I have given them the blueprints… you will make sure there is no slacking. Avakam… you will speak with the leader of your homeworld and have them collect as many corpses as they can on their planet, and stash them inside cargo transports. And Beewv…" Her eyes narrowed at the tiny Kateenian last, "You and the Naineetak… will conduct an expedition on Earth… in search for this Tree of Ending. I believe… the Minish, beings of nature, will have a clue as to where it is. Your kind should be able to negotiate… being of the same size. I expect you gone within an hour." Her head shifted straight again. "Do not… betray my relatively low expectations." On that, she walked away with her quivering brother.
"Weeeell, isn't THAT great? Not only is she hooked on some DREAM tree, she's forcing me to FIND it!" Beewv exclaimed. "Watta way to get rid-a me."
"If you make it back, keep a couple of Naineetak or Minish with you." Anna commented, munching a steak.
"So, I guess it's a game then: seeing who survives doing which thing they hate first." Avakam declared.
"I hope to see all of you in Hell." Atnort nodded.
"O-KAY." After their simultaneous nod, they left separate ways.
Cleveland, Virginia; Hunger Burger pavilion
"So you met your Negative and she turned out to be a royal bitch?" Leanne asked as she and Haruka feasted on salads at an outdoor table, shaded from the sun by an umbrella.
"Pretty much." Haruka still looked glum as she half-interestedly ate.
"Well, whaddo you expect from them? You saw what Nerehc did last week. They're all messed up, I wouldn't be surprised if their whole lifestyle was burning forests."
"I know they're like that. It's just what Akurah says is true. I really can't save everyone. How do doctors know which patients should come first and which ones should be held off and, die? It just doesn't seem fair, but… what can we do about it?"
"Don't search me." Leanne ate a tomato slice. "I didn't know you WANTED to try and save everyone."
"Not everyone exactly, but-"
"So don't. No one marked you as the Angel of Life, so it's not your job to save all the lives in the universe. Just save all the lives you can, no one's asking you to be a god."
"So if you were dying under a burning support beam, and Mason was choking on a hotdog-"
"SAVE ME!! I WANNA LIVE!"
"PHA HA HA HA ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Hehe, okay, you're right." Haruka smiled, zipping an onion ring into a cup of light-brown substance. "I shouldn't push myself too hard. Hmm, but now that I think about it, I should find my Negative before she poisons a chilidog factory." She ate the onion.
"Well, when you hear any cries for help, you'll know." Leanne zipped a French fry into some ketchup and ate. "Hey, Haruka, did you ever notice we sound alike?"
"Really?" Haruka listened for a moment. "We kind of do, but it's just off by a little- ueck!" Haruka choked, falling off her seat.
"What's wrong?!" Leanne ran over frantically. She watched as Haruka's throat swelled red, then looked at the brown substance. "Haruka, that's peanut butter, you're ALLERGIC to peanuts!"
"Whaaat?" Haruka struggled to climb up. "Since when do they use peanut butter, as a dipping sauce?"
"Ugh, restaurants are always doing stupid things, we gotta get you help!"
The duo looked across the street when an explosion was heard, seeing a few villains rush out of their supermarket across the expansive parking lot. "Something's up. Let's go." Haruka began to limp over quickly.
"But Harukaaaa! If we don't take you to help, you'll-"
"I'm a poisonbender, it takes a while. B'sides, there's probably medicine over there."
Supervillain Supermarket & Deli
Akurah trekked the parking lot of supervillain ships and vehicles and barged into the front doors. "Wattup, Mac." She blasted some gas that dissolved Shogun Roquefort's mini cheese palace. "Hey, Toothface." She forced a string of toothpaste out of Knightbrace's tube with her bending and tied it around his body. "Yo Peestain, breathe your own filth." She grabbed the Toiletnator's stinkbombs in her bending and exploded them around him.
"HEEEY!" Akurah turned when an angry Father approached her. "Just what're YOU doing here, Ruka?! This market is for VILLAINS only, and BEING villain-born, but good, does NOT make you qualified."
"Look, relax, Sunburn, I'm not that tree-hugging sissy, I happen to make better use of gas, which is more than I can say for your Negative. You know, if he turns into an ant, I bet all you can change in to is some sniveling little hamster trying to score his next soda off some retarded Australian boy, 'cause really, you got nothing better to eat than that."
"THAT'S IT! RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAA-AAAHH!!" The furious demon grew into a flaming dragon, burning with the brightest fires of Hell. A shining flame brimmed in his mouth, ready to burn the girl to a skeleton, but Akurah released a huge poison puff at his mouth, creating an explosion that blew the dragon to the check-out lines, crushing them flat, and blowing Akurah to the opposite end of the aisle.
She collided with a shelf of Shrimp Puffs, the dead meat falling onto her. "Aaaahh! I'm allergic to- uuooock." She tried to run away, but her body was already swelling.
Haruka and Leanne were shocked to see a giant shadow dragon lying on the row of check-out lines, hurrying around the colossus and following the trail of ruin it created. They saw a pile of fallen Shrimp Puffs in the distance, and close beside it, a black-clothed figure that looked ready to pop. They hurried and turned the figure over, and only Haruka could recognize her despite her swollen face. "Akurah?"
"Ooooouuuuh. Have you ever tasted… Shrimp Puffs? …They're not good."
"SHRIMP PUFFS!!!" screamed Denzel Crocker, frantic to scoop them up. "IIIII want 'em." With that, he bounced his way to the exit like a slinky. "FAIRY GODPARENTS, FAIRY GODPARENTS, FAIRY GODPARENTS!"
"Quick, look for some medicine with quercetin and get it in her." With mixed feelings, Leanne and some background villains ran to do so. "And bring her some broccoli or something, that has some. I'll help you out until then."
Haruka knelt down and dug her fingers into Akurah's waist, carefully channeling her Healing Poison through her bloodstream. "Me… shouldn't you worry about yourself first? …"
"I can tough it out… but I won't take the same chance with you. The patient comes first."
Mr. Boss arrived with some broccoli and slipped small pieces down Akurah's throat, the Negative weakly chewing. "What does it matter, anyway. You and I… have the same lifespan. If you saved me, you would choke, and we'd both die. Don't you understand… you really can't save everyone."
"I'm not trying… to save everyone. But I know… you can learn a thing or two from me. So in our last moments of breath… you would finally understand."
"Eeeeerr…. Your universe really is… full of idiots."
"Aaaaand one pill of quercetin for you." Leanne slipped the pill down Akurah's throat, followed by water, and her swelling slowly went down. "And one injection of epinephrine for you."
"HUUUU!" Haruka gasped for air once Leanne forced the shot into her neck. "Huff, huff. Ho, thank Arceus. I hated sounding like I had a refrigerator crushing my pelvis."
Akurah stood and brushed herself, "Let's get outta this sick house." Haruka and Leanne joined as they casually left out the front gates, past the still-fallen dragon and the destroyed lines.
"Uhhhhh isn't anyone gonna buy anything?" the Bag-Headed Cashier asked.
Father Dragon recovered and turned to face him, shaking the market each step. "Yes, I wanted to buy these macaroons and Sunseed Muffins?" He held up a tiny (to him) bag with said items.
With that, Cashier had the items scanned and handed Father the receipt. "Here you go."
"Thanks." And so the dragon stomped out of the exit, smashing a hole in the wall and- "AAAAH!" flinging Dr. Light away with his flappy tail.
Away from the market
"Well, I suppose you want a thank you for saving my life." said Akurah scornly. "But I could've cared less what happened."
"Man, why are you so sour? Why is killing things your only focus?"
"I've grown only accustomed to seeing things die. It makes things more… peaceful. What reason do they have to live, anyway?"
"Everyone has a reason to live! Like you, for example. Not everyone can save everyone from dying… but if certain people are chosen to survive instead of others… well, I like to think Arceus has some great big plan for them."
"Okay ifyou'rebringingArceusintothis, leave me out, 'cause I'm no Arceist." She was quick to walk away.
"Well I'm not a DIEHARD Arceist if that's what you mean." Akurah stopped after a few feet of walking. "I mean, I don't go to Church. What're you, a Ganonist?"
"Not necessarily. But I don't care for Arceus. In fact, the Negaverse has no gods."
"What about Giratina?"
"He's only a Guardian Spirit that watches the shadows, he wouldn't set foot in our world until some whiny 7-year-old and his bearded dwarf came crying and begging to him. In reality, all those gods and spirits prefer to ignore our existence, just toss in elements every now and then for good will. Whether we live or die, our existence will be plain and boring."
"Well, that's… kinda sad. If that's true, you oughta spend more time in our world. Well, we don't really know how much the gods do in our… daily lives, but we have loads of fun together."
"Look, what you kids have for, 'sissy fun', our style is totally opposite, therefore on NO occasion has ANY Positive with their Negative had as much fun as-"
"YEEEEEEEEEE!" The wild rock-n-roll music started up as Kirie and Eirik boosted down the street on rocket rollerblades. Clutching many markers, they drew a series of lines along the sides of many cars they passed, and were on the way to miscolor many stoplights.
The blares of police sirens echoed across the city. "Weeee should probly help them." Haruka said before the three began to chase.
Juvy; a few hours later
Both girls were quietly escorted from the building by Kirie's mother, Kuki Beatles, who appeared as gray and humorless as any Negative. "Look, Kirie, I'm not gonna begin to question how you managed to clone yourself, or why you two went on some crime spree, because this took a huge amount of time out of my work. I'll trust your friends to walk you home, but don't bother me with this again, n'kay?" So with nothing else, she walked away.
"MAN. That lady's glummier than Akim. Is that your MOM or somethin'?, man I feel sorry for you." Eirik proclaimed.
Um… to tell the truth, Eirik… the main reason I did all these things with you was for my mom's attention. She's always busy and working, and she never pays attention to me. I thought getting myself in trouble with some mean girl would make her spend more time with me. But I really had a lot of fun with you, Eirik, and hanging out with you, I think we found a bond I could've had with my mom. Even though we're from two different worlds, I feel like I actually found someone to call my twin sister. And the two of us, well, we can have so much fun together, and bond closer than Brayden Rainbow Monkey and Eden Rainbow Monkey. Because, well… we understand each other… that well.
She held Eirik's hand and looked at her with warm, loving eyes. "Uck, I can't understand a word you're not saying!" She pulled away. "Look, just stick with the rocket shoes and graffitiing cars, you and me are all right."
She grinned wide and held two thumbs up.
"Maybe it's time for you two to get back to your world." Haruka suggested.
"Finally. I can't stand all these plant smells any longer." Akurah agreed.
They found a fountain outside the building as Akurah splashed in first. Kirie and Eirik exchanged simultaneous nods before the latter jumped in. "Well, there goes our twins." Haruka sighed as she and Kirie began the walk home. "But who needs 'em, right? We got two annoying little brothers."
I think me and Eirik left Joey glued to the Big Boy statue.
"Ha ha, yeah…"
DNKG H.Q.
Everyone in DNKG had orders, and everyone was carrying out. The staring, looming face of their Supreme Dictator appeared on every big screen in the fortress. "Good time-of-day, my loyal subjects. This is Numbuh Nothing, your beloved dictator, for a daily announcement." It felt like her echoing, eerie voice was directly in their ears. "We have conquered a great number of planets in the span of 2 years, going 3… and you have all submitted so dutifully. It's important to remind you… why our cause is just… is needed. As you know, this universe… is one without gods. Without those to protect us. Leaving us to wallow around in our own sadness. That is why, it is upon us to carry out that duty. We must become the gods that this universe lacks… we must be the ones to give everyone order. Unite all species… all worlds… into one supreme superpower. While those above us may bask in the warmth the gods provide them… we are becoming strong. We are becoming whole. We are… ascending…"