61 [AT] Sins Come to Light...
[After Transition]
Fuck.. I can't breathe... The power, it's overwhelming... I'm suffocating...
WHO THE FUCK IS THIS GUY!?
And why the hell is he here?..
Shit I really can't breathe..
I'm going to die.
"MORTAL, REPENT YOUR SINS!"
What fuckin' sins you asshole! I haven't done shit...
"WHY DO YOU LIE? YOU ARE GUILTY OF MANY THINGS, ENVY, JEALOUSY, THEFT AND MURDER AND EVEN THEN THEY ARE NOT YOUR MOST HEINOUS CRIMES!"
Fuck, this thing just continues to float above me and I can't do shit about it also I'm pretty sure he read my mind but that shouldn't be possible I took precautions against mind reader back in the Marvel Universe, even Charles Xavier and Jean Grey couldn't read my mind so how the hell can he.
"I AM ABOVE SUCH THINGS MORTAL, NOW REPENT FOR YOUR SINS!" He states in a deathly calm tone that seems to hold an ocean of rage being held back by a dam.
My sins.? Fuck, he even knows all my sins.. But in my defence the people that died in the fighting rings were fair play and I'm pretty sure they were all criminals so if anything I did the world a favour...
"MORTAL, YOUR ACTIONS HAVE HARMED INNOCENTS AND FOR THAT YOU SHALL FEEL MY VENGEANCE!" He whispers but it resounds in my ears like thunder.
I try to speak to refute his claims but his power is so overwhelming that I am paralysed, I have never harmed a single innocent and anything I've ever done has only resulted negatively for bad people so why am I being punished.. Why..?
"MORTAL, EVEN NOW YOU REFUSE TO ADMIT YOUR SINS! YOU HAVE CONVINCED YOUR FORMER PARTNERS IN CRIME TO TAKE HOSTAGES WHILE COMMITTING YOUR THEFTS AND THEN LEFT THE SCENE BEFORE ITS CONCLUSION, YOUR ACTIONS HAVE RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF INNOCENTS!" His voice booms out.
What, I.. I didn't... No one died... Superman was there, he saved them...
"THE SUPERMAN MAY HAVE POWERS BEYOND ANY OTHER MORTAL, YET HE IS STILL A MAN, A MORTAL! EVEN HE CANNOT SAVE EVERYONE!"
That, that can't be true... He didn't save everyone.. That's not possible... I would have heard about it, it would have been in the news... Your lying, you must be.
"I HAVE NO NEED TO LIE MORTAL! WHILE YOU WERE USING YOU'RE ILL GOTTEN GAINS TO SINK AND DROWN IN A WHIRLPOOL OF SIN, LUST AND DESIRE, PEOPLE WERE IN MOURNING, MOURNING FOR THE LIVES LOST, THE LOVES YOU TOOK! SO REPENT!!!" He booms out.
No, I.. I may have played some part in their deaths but I didn't pull the trigger, it wasn't my fault..
"THEN WHAT ABOUT YOUR PREMEDITATED MURDER, THE MURDER YOU COMMITTED! YOU TOOK THE LIFE OF AN OLD MAN WITH YOUR VERY OWN HANDS! SURELY EVEN YOU CAN NOT DENY THAT!!"
That, that old man deserved it. He was depraved, sick in the head.. I found proof, I found his research and I knew what he was going to do... I had to stop him, he was going to hurt people I cared about!
"INDEED, THAT MANS MIND WAS NOT RIGHT, ONE MIGHT EVEN GO AS FAR AS TO SAY HE WAS NOT HUMAN BUT HIS LIFE WAS NOT YOURS TO TAKE! THAT MAN HAD YOU TO COMMIT A SIN IN REGARDS TO THE RESEARCH AND PROOF YOU FOUND, HE WAS IN AN INTERNAL BATTLE TO WIN AGAINST HIS DEMONS BUT YOU TOOK THAT AWAY FROM HIM AND YOU HAD NO RIGHT"
No right..? He was going to hurt someone I cared about, I knew he was going to. I had foreseen it. Was I supposed to just let him do it..?
"THAT MAN HAD YET TO COMMIT SUCH A SIN THAT WOULD JUSTIFY YOUR ACTIONS, YOU HAD TIME, YOU COULD HAVE CONTACTED THE PROPER AUTHORITIES AND GOT HIM THE HELP HE NEEDED BUT INSTEAD YOU CHOSE TO RID HIM OF HIS LIFE! YOU HAD NO AUTHORITY TO TAKE SUCH ACTIONS, EVEN WITH YOUR OTHERWORLDLY KNOWLEDGE!"
What, he knows about my meta-knowledge (even though I don't have it anymore).. How..? Wait, the murder he's talking about.. I committed it in the Marvel Universe, how does he know about it...
"DO YOU THINK THAT BY TRAVELLING TO A DIFFERENT UNIVERSE YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO RUN AWAY FROM YOUR SINS, YOUR SINS FOLLOW YOU EVERYWHERE AND THERE IS NO GETTING RID OF THEM! AND THAT BRINGS ME TO YOUR MOST HEINOUS CRIME, YOU HAVE PERVERTED REALITY TO SUIT YOUR OWN WHIMS!"
How- How does he know about that... It was made so as to not gain any attention from any higher beings.. It only let out a magic signature for a moment before reality changed and it was too late to do anything about it.. How does he know about it..?
"MORTAL, I AM THE SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE! I GO AFTER THOSE WITH TOO MANY SINS AND GOTHAM IS A BREEDING GROUND FOR SINS AND EVIL, IT WAS YOUR MISFORTUNE THAT I WAS NEARBY AND FELT THE IMENSE MAGIC AND DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE, IT IS MY JOB TO STOP SUCH A WARPING OF REALITY!"
Shit, he was there? If so how come I'm not dead already..?
"I DO NOT KNOW HOW YOU CAME TO BE IN POSSESSION OF SUCH A MAGICALLY POWERFUL ARTEFACT, IT WAS MY MISFORTUNE THAT I GOT THERE TOO LATE AND FAILED TO STOP YOUR REALITY WARPING HOWEVER I DID MANAGE TO INTERFERE WITH IT!"
Yo-You interfered with it.. How? As far as I can tell everything went nearly perfectly...
"I MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO STOP YOUR SORDID MAHIC BUT I WAS ABLE TO GET THERE IN TIME TO SEE YOUR TWO NEW SOULS MERGE INTO ONE, USING THAT CHANCE I DELVED INTO YOUR BEING AND DISCOVERED YOUR SHAMEFUL PAST AS WELL AS YOUR UNNATURAL KNOWLEDGE, I WOULD HAVE WROUGHT YOUR SOUL IN TWO RIGHT THERE IF NOT FOR YOU BEING IN A PUBLIC PLACE!"
I- I could have died so easily.. I've been underestimating my new reality...
"I PREFER FOR MY WORK TO BE DONE UNSEEN WITHOUT INTERFERENCE SO I WAS NOT ABLE TO END YOU RIGHT THERE BUT WHAT I COULD DO WAS DIRECT YOU TO RETURN TO YOUR ISOLATED HOME AFTER THE MERGING YET I COULD NOT TAKE THE CHANCE OF YOU USING YOUR UNNATURAL KNOWLEDGE TO DIVERT THE WORLD FROM ITS SET COURSE AND INTRODUCE CHAOS. THEREFORE I ALSO USED THE OPPORTUNITY TO WIPE ALL THE SORDID KNOWLEDGE FROM YOUR SOUL AND OBLITERATE IT!!"
He-HE DESTROYED MY META-KNOWLEDGE! But.. It could have saved countless lives, he could have even taken the knowledge for himself and used it for good... I would have even preferred that than it being completely destroyed (in the hopes of one day getting it back)...
"I ADMIT, SUCH KNOWLEDGE IS TEMPTING BUT SOME THINGS ARE ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE KNOWN BY THE ALMIGHTY AND THEREFORE I WIPED IT FROM EXISTENCE! IT IS NOW TIME FOR YOU TO SUFFER THE SAME FATE!"
Shit.. He raises his palm to me and I can see the green energy coalesce into a thick miasma that proceeds to cover me entirely even going as far as to goi inside me and cover my insides as well, the green miasma of death was covering every fibre of my being and I could feel it tightening its grip on me. Soaking into me and getting in place, ready for its commander to order my death and destruction...
"REPENT SINNER! FEEL SOME REMORSE BEFORE YOUR DEATH!" He commands.
I can feel the energy beginning to erode away the very essence of myself, I can feel my very newly created (at least according to the vengeance spirit Doctor Doom lookalike) soul about to be ripped in twain and I can't help but feel angry. I worked so hard to get here just to die.. WHAT KIND OF FUCKIN' JOKE IS THAT?
"YOU REFUSE TO REPENT? VERY WELL, GOODBYE SINNER! I HOPE YOU FEEL INTE-"
He suddenly quiets and I can feel the green miasma loosen its grip on me and begin to fade away as he drops his hand, I'm confused for a moment before I hear him whisper to himself.
"WHY..."
(AN: This chapter the paragraphs are a lot shorter and are usually made up of about one sentence or just some dialogue, I did this to stress the seriousness of the situation and the MC's Shock so that is why this chapter is so different form my usual ones. Also all of the Doctor Doom lookalikes (can anyone guess who it's actually is?) dialogue is in CAPS because he is a higher being. This is my first time writing this kind of chapter, tell me if there's any way I could improve, thanks.)
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