Sword of Darkness Part 18.5
By: I.M. Pikallo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Okeday, since this series has gotten really long, we're hoping to stop it at
fic number 20. But, since the events that happen to Ray after Armewgeddon
slices him are very important to further development and the end of this
series; I, with the go ahead of Mac and Frag, have decided to write a sub-fic
that details what happens to Ray after his departure into the Vortex. As for
disclamers, well, I honestly say "SUE ME LOOSERS! I LIKE IT!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHA!"
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ray was tossed back and forth as he was thrown through the Vortex,
his body being slowly destroyed at the molecular level. The pain was like
that of which he had never felt before, it was beyond comprehension, it felt
like billions of liquid hot needles were being pushed into his body at every
given second. It was by the grace of God Himself that he couldn't take the
pain anymore, and lost conciousness. Hours later, in Nexus Central Command, there was a lone figure
roaming the halls, he looked like he had just got tossed into a meat grinder
and somehow survived, but no one would look at him long enough to call for
help, so he continued to hobble and crawl, untill he reached one particular
door. Slowly and painfully, he raised his hand and pushed on the door-bell,
praying that someone was home. Abbie had just turned off the light when she heard the sound of her
door-bell ringing. "Who could that be at this time of night," she asked as
she slipped on a housecoat and shuffled to the door. Opening the door, she
screamed at the sight of the person standing there. All he could say is,
"Hey, Abbie, h-how's it goin'?" With that, he passed out, leaving Abbie to
realize that this mangled body was that of her boy-friend, Ray. Acting on
instinct, she hit her com and called down to the medical bay and ordered an
emergency staff up to her room ASAP. When they arrived a few seconds later,
she gasped in horror as they harshly strapped Ray to a stretcher and started
to open an intra-base portal to the med-center. It was the caution and
experiance of a senior medical officer, one of the few to miss Kun's raid on
NCC a few years back, that stopped them from doing so. Pointing to the burns
that covered Ray's body, he commented, "Those are Vortex burns, you send him
through a portal and he's more likely to end up on the other side dead than
alive. We'll just have to move like hell to get him to the med-center
quickly." With that, most of the staff left, leaving a few people to make
sure Abbie was okay and take her with them to the base hospital. "Ma'am? We can't identify who the patient is. We've tried to use
Vortex signature, retinal scans, even pulled out our ancient DNA scanners,
but we can't make a positive ID on him, do you know who is he?" Abbie looked
up at the nurse, "You don't know who he is? He's Ray Doss." The nurse didn't
want to laugh in front of the poor girl, but she made it obvious she didn't
buy this. "Doss is a former Supreme Gaurdian, and is supposed to be the
Chosen One, how could he have Vortex burns? He must be someone who looks like
him." Abbie fought hard to keep from crying again, but stood her ground,
grabbing the nurse by the collar, "Listen, I have been dating Ray for over a
year now, and you DARE to ask ME if that is who I think it is? I know my
boyfriend. I can't give you an answer about his condition, but I KNOW that is
who is in that room." With that Abbie stormed out of the waiting room of the
hospital and ran out crying into the base. (These next events are going on inside of Ray's mind while he is in a
coma.) "H-huh? Where am I? What am I doing here?" Ray stumbled around a
little, then got a stable footing and was able to walk, slightly. "Grr, what
happened? Why can't I remember?" Though he was walking, he didn't feel like
he was getting anywhere, it wasn't untill he saw a figure in the distance
that he felt he had done anything. As he got closer, he saw the figure was a
man; standing and waiting for him to get closer. When he got close enough,
Ray was able to make out the stranger's face in the moon light, it was him! "Welcome, my human counter-part. I have been waiting a long time for
this. All of my existance, I have been waiting in your shadow, you always
thought that your pitiful 'Chosen One' powers were from the Vortex, and you
were right, barely. Your powers came from ME! I was created by the Vortex to
be you other half, the side of you that held all of the power and strength,
while you took all of the credit. I was the one that killed Kun, I was the
one who defeated Supreme Destroyer, I BEAT CORDRAN, YOU JUST SAT ON YOU LAZY
@SS AND LET ME DO ALL THE WORK, WHILE YOU TOOK THE CREDIT! No more, I will
kill you now, and then I will be free to run through the omni-verse without
your interference. I, will have you lovely Abbie, Ray, and she will think it
is you that is loving her." Ray clenched his fist and stared at his Vortex
Half, "All of these years you have held me in contempt, but you never tried
to tell me all of this? It was not till a few years ago I learned of the
Vortex's existance, and few still that I learned of you. But you never made
your wish of freedom known. Did you honestly feel that I would not let you
go?" Vortex laughed, then swatted Ray away like he was a fly. "Yes, I do feel
that you would not have let me go, you were so arrogant of your powers that
you would not have let me go. You would have shrugged of my existance and
would have continued to claim it was YOU who had the power. I will crush you
myself for your arrogance!" Vortex's first attack was savage, sending Ray flying through the air.
But before he could hit the ground, Vortex appeared behind him and sent Ray
flying the opposite direction. "Don't you understand, if you kill me, you
will be reabsorbed into the Vortex, I am what is anchoring you to this
plane." But his Vortex half was so blinded by his rage, he would not listen
to any form of reason. As the attacks continued, Ray was steadily getting
weaker, and as his sub-concious self got weaker, so did his physical body. In his hospital room, Ray's body was being thrown around on the bed
like it was a rag doll, but only Abbie was in the room. She called for the
medical staff, but when they got there, Ray's vital signs were barely
registering. After a few moments, Ray's vitals were reading zero, and nothing
the doctors could do would bring him back. They told Abbie that they would
leave her alone with Ray to give him her final words. After they left, all
she could do was kiss him on his forehead. Slowly a single tear fell to his
forehead.... Vortex loomed over Ray, preparing to make the final blow. Ray sensed
that all was over, making one final prayer, he lowered his head, awaiting
his death... ...as the tear hit Ray's forehead, the crystal there began to glow
with power. Ray's vital signs began to rise, his body was begining to repair
itself. Abbie stared in shock as the crystal shot a beam of light strait up.
The beam then split in two, energizing the two crystals on his hands... ...Ray felt a power grow in him. Before Vortex could attack, Ray
extended his left arm screaming, "WITH THE SANCTITY OF LIFE!" Clenching his
fist, Ray created a force-field around himself, deflecting all of Vortex's
attacks. "What? I have the power of Life? ...Of course, Vortex has Might, I
have Life, but which has Sight?" Between the two warriors, a woman appeared,
"So, you have finally figured it out. I figured one of you would one day."
Both Ray and Vortex bowed before the woman, recognizing her as being The
Vortex. After having them stand up, she proceeded to explain what she had
done. "When I combined you two together, I had a feeling that you would
become the true Chosen One. I also had to take into account the possiblity
that the Sword of the Whole could be created. So instead of giving the Vortex
half all of the powers, I split the powers between you. Ray, you recieved the
power of Life. Vortex, you recieved the power of Might. As for the power of
Sight, it is only when the two of you are together you can access that power.
It is your decesion if you want to recombine, but I will not allow you to
kill each other." Ray was the first to speak up, "I will let my other half
choose, he is the one who wants us to be apart, so I will not force him to do
something against his will again." Vortex was reluctant to answer, but made a choice. "Is it possible
for us to temporarily combine, but still be able to split again?" The Vortex
answered, "Yes, it is. That may be for the best." She touched each on the
arm, "You now know how to combine, use this power wisely." With that, she
left. "Well, we might as well try it." Standing side-by-side, Vortex extended
his right hand saying, "WITH THE STRENGTH OF MIGHT!" Ray extended his left
hand saying "WITH THE SANCTITY OF LIFE!" Both put their hands on their
temples saying, "AND WITH THE CLARITY OF SIGHT, TWO BECOME THE CHOSEN ONE!"
After a blinding flash of light, Ray and Vortex melded into Chosen One, "I am
whole again." Back in the hospital, Ray slowly opened his eyes, sitting up in his
bed, he looked around. Abbie had called in the Supreme Gaurdians, not really
knowing what else to do. Ray looked at each at smiled, "So, uh, what's
everybody looking so glum for?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Okay, what's our game plan?" The others seemed to want me to regain
controll of the Force, so I took them up on the offer. They didn't say it,
but I figure they were just pissed at Shane for having screwed them over
royally in the not-so-distant past. "First, we intiate NCC plan Alpha-X."
Everyone of the Supreme Gaurdians looked at me in shock, "Alpha-X? I thought
that was just a legend!" I placed my hand on the scanner, and gave my access
code. I was asked several times if I wanted to continue. I hit the PA system,
"Everyone, this is Supreme Gaurdian Ray Doss, I have been asked out of
retirement by the other Supreme Gaurdians to retake command. My first
executive order is to activate plan Alpha-X. This will cause a chain-reaction
that will cause Nexus Central Command to become a giant robot. No one in a
thousand years has even mentioned the name of this order, let alone activated
it. We are going into a battle-field none of us even thought we would. So I
will accept anyone not wanting to go. I will lead the assualt, I doubt we can
enter Earth Alpha directly, so I will scout out an alternate route to the
dimension. The transformation will begin in 1 minute." With that I hit the
final confermation, in 1 minute the transformation would begin. "Luke, your in command while I'm gone. When I find a positive part of
the path, I will tell my computer to send out a signal to the base, follow
my exact course." I opened a portal, blew a kiss to my love, then went out
trying to find a way to my friends. Exiting into one dimension, I felt that this was a positive match.
After sending the data to NCC, I was attacked by a group of street punks. I
reached back to grab my sword, but one of them held a gun to my face, "I
wouldn't do that if I 'er you, mate, it could get ya hurt." "Not likely."
Ducking backward, I swept my leg around, knocking him off his feet. Before he
hit the ground, I swung myself around, pulled out my sword, and cut the
barrels off of all their guns. "Now, shall I prove myself again, or can I
go?" I flew off before they could answer. I got off in another dimension, and found some guys trying to beat up on one lone man, "HOLY CRAP, IT'S MR. T!" I flew down to him, picked up a few of the goons, and threw them helluva far. "Not bad, you must be drinking yoh milk, not like these foohs. You foohs maybe tuff, but you ain't helluva tuff." He grabbed the leader, picked him up, and threw him double-helluva far.
Meanwhile, 16 dimensions away in Star Wars alpha, we see the
Millenium Falcon. "Chewie, on my mark; three, two o," the boss goon that had
been fighting Mr. T flies by, "DAMN THAT MR. T THROWS HELLUVA FAR!" After I had logged a path to Earth Alpha, I returned to NCC in time
to see the base go through it's transformation. At the "equator" of the base
a light appeared, then from the equator up, the base split into
quadra-spheres. The top two folded out and formed a set of shoulder-boards.
Those split at the shoulder and one part folded back to form thrusters, while
the other folded up to form smaller shoulder-boards, then arms folded out. On
one arm was the Dimensional Cannon, in the hand of the other was a sword. The
lower half of the ship opened up and legs folded out of them. The final touch
was the head fliping up and the eyes coming on-line. "Watch out Armewgeddon,
our fight has just begun." "And this time, we won't be lenient."
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Okay, this is it, we're finally leading into the final battle. I believe you
should all know what to do with your complaints, but if you don't: "you take
the complaint, polish it up real nice, turn it sideways, and shove it up your
CANDIED @SS!" If you have any comments, or questions, e-mail them to
kucamba@hotmail.com. "WITH THE POWER OF MIGHT, THE SANCTITY OF LIFE, AND THE CLARITY OF SIGHT. TWO
BECOME THE CHOSEN ONE!"