Star Wars: The Earthling Gamer

Chapter 32 - The End?

I was dodging blaster bolts from behind me as they sailed to the remnants of the legion, and bullets from said remnants, sailing towards me. I ducked, dodged, rolled, and leapt over them, my twin lightsabers cutting through anyone who dared to let me come close. Then a battle cry erupted as four new figures entered the battle, none of them friendly. I quickly turned to look at the source.

My family had arrived.

Fortunately, they didn't appear to have weapons, and their powers didn't work. It seemed they were uninformed in regards to that, as Fletcher immediately tried flinging a lightning bolt at me, and failed, energy sputtering around him. My father, though, had more success, as he stood outside, waves of despair crashing over my party. I shook it off effortlessly. This was a Force power. It was Crush Opposition.

I dashed outside, no hesitation as I pierced him through the gut, swinging my saber out of him, leaving him as good as dead, which stung, but I shrugged it off, same as I did with my targets. You can't be sympathizing with your targets, after all, or you might just feel guilty.

My party, thankfully unharmed, got back up. I glanced at the people remaining, and was shocked to find only my mother, my brothers, and the President, kneeling to grab a gun from one of his fallen soldiers.

Who the hell killed them all? There's no way I did all that, strong and fast or not.

Since I was standing outside still, I activated Force Body, due to my drained FP, and flung a Force Storm at my family, killing them almost effortlessly, which admittedly stung, no matter how terrible they were to me, and it frankly felt dissatisfying. They deserved worse for some of the things they had done. But now wasn't the time to focus on them. I dashed in, and tore the gun from the President's hand, pinning him to the ground.

A tiny voice whispered in my mind. "No redemption. No second chances. They don't deserve it. Any of them." The voice was right, as much as it seemed to bother some part of me.

"You brought this upon yourself. You hurt me, and you hurt the ones I love. You brought power to those unworthy, and no mortal man should be allowed such a power. No one person should decide who gets to be powerful." I said coldly, Bloodlust activating as he cowered.

"You don't understand—" I cut him off before he could continue. I picked him up, and threw him against the wall. "I don't understand? You underestimate what I've been through to get here. I killed corrupts and innocents alike to get here. You only wanted me for power. I wanted peace. Look at how far I went just so I could be left alone." I snarled.

He opened his mouth again to speak, but I didn't let him. "You ordered death upon anyone who got in the way of making me your little guinea pig. Kara nearly died, and if she died, you'd be in my basement, to be tortured until you died. Nobody gets away with hurting her. Not even you. Especially not you." I shouted.

"Long live the king." I finished coldly as I swung my lightsaber. His attempts to plead with me for his life stopped then and there.

I turned to my allies, and stalked to the machine in the corner. They had failed to trap me, thankfully. I turned back to Mana. "What were you hiding? You promised to tell me after it was done, and it's done." I asked her. She picked out a memory, and shared it with me via her thoughts, and I paled, but quickly turned to destroy the machine, raising my lightsabers.

Before I could do it, though, there was a blast of heat cutting through my side. "No!" I choked out, slumping down to see blood leaking from just under my chest, my lightsabers clattering to the floor. Mana must have dropped one of her blasters when my father used Crush Opposition, because I looked up to see Fletcher holding one of her blasters. Right. With lightning powers, you'd think he'd be granted some affinity with lightning.

He rushed to me, aiming the blaster at my head as he fidgeted with the machine. Oddly, an old rhyme came to mind, along with its meaning, and how some people count crows with it to match the meanings. I remember seeing the crow earlier. Just one.

One for sorrow.

"You know, it's a real wonder how your little group got this far." He says harshly, his voice fading in and out, my vision blurring.

Two for mirth.

I could feel the System doing the most it could to heal me. I hear someone scream something out, then I hear Fletcher talk again. "We do have one more thing to test now, though, in our final hour. Why not let the progenitor of all Empowered figure it out, in his final moments?"

Three for a wedding.

He jams his fist against a button on the machine next to me, and flicks a lever, warding off everyone with his blaster still aiming at my head.

And four for a birth.

"I know your little party here can heal you, Cyrus. So why give them the opportunity?"

Five for silver.

Then the weirdest thing happens. I may have just been hallucinating, but reality just... ripped in front of me. There was a tear, leading to a void who-knows-where. Revan was right. He warned me, and I didn't listen well enough.

Six for gold.

He grabs me by my shirt, and I try to move, but find that I don't have the energy. My HP was draining rapidly, and my party was frozen, looking on, terrified. "Goodbye, brother. Have fun, wherever you end up. Probably just frozen in space." He promptly tossed me through the strange rip, and the last thing I hear, in absolute clarity, is Kara screaming "No!" as he tossed me through.

And seven for a secret never to be told.

The rift quickly sealed behind me, and the last thing I saw was Kara's panicked face as she lunged towards the closing portal. Then it all faded to black.

...

System Reboot! 1.27%...

The number in the progress bar quickly climbed to 100%, and I blinked awake in a strange place. It was just void, but it looked more... solid. Then it hit me.

I don't know who I am. I don't know where I am. I don't know what I'm doing. I just see the neverending void, and nothing else. I'm looking at where the rest of me should be, and it just... doesn't exist.

I started panicking. What was I doing here?

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