Agency of the 5th World (Original)

Chapter 18: Darkness's Plan

Jeremiah, now geared up in his Superhero uniform: a blue mechanical suit covering his entire body that functions similarly to an exoskeleton, arrives at the coordinates of the Reverse World portal, a rocky valley with plenty of crags and boulders all around. He lands behind a rock using it to hide himself. He takes a peek from behind the jagged pillar. On the side of the valley is a gigantic black swirling funnel that is the Reverse World portal. Next to the portal lies a strange machine that looks like a mix of a laser with a vacuum. At the end of the tube/focuser lies a black sphere with two lines circling around it: The Shadow Energy Core. In addition to this machine, he also catches a glimpse of four of Darkness's best minions, who serve as his generals: Bowser, an odd looking turtle creature with spikes on his shell that would blend in with the dinosaur age; Bowser Jr., Bowser's son who inherited his looks from his father; Herbert, an evil and conniving polar bear; and Klutzy, Herbert's crab friend. All four have strange black markings on their faces. These markings are known as shadow markings and are used to identify Darkness's best minions. In addition to being a dead giveaway that you're working for Darkness, it also gives them enhanced strength and abilities along with plenty of new powers to boot. The reason for the existence of these markings is due to a minor side effect in the shadow energy corruption process. In addition, Darkness himself is present, a living shadow with red eyes and long arms each consisting of four fingers shaped more like claws and no legs. His regular minions, who wear purple uniforms with helmets that cover their faces, are also there. Now, Darkness starts giving a speech to his minions, best and regular.

"My minions. I gather you all here tonight to tell you my latest plan. Actually, to show you it. See the portal and this machine. Well, I'm going to use the power of the Reverse World to power the Shadow Energy Core," announces Darkness.

"Hurray!" cheers his minions.

"Not on my watch, you don't."

Jeremiah steps out of his hiding place into the open.

"Hello Elemental AKA Jeremiah. Why do you even bother to put on your superhero suit if you know I already know your secret identity?" questions Darkness.

"Superhero policy," answers Jeremiah.

"They should get a new policy, then. Enihcam eht etavtitca, Rj. Reswob," counters Darkness.

Bowser Jr. activates the machine when Jeremiah wasn't looking. "Are you ready to fight?" asks Darkness. "Yes, I am," says Jeremiah. A sword of pure light appears in his hand (Power: Light Sword). He rushes at Darkness and rapidly slashes at him with single-handed strikes. Darkness is able to evade by swerving in all directions, but not all. He punches Jeremiah with his stretchy long arms that hit him with the force of a speeding tank sending him flying. Jeremiah crashes into a nearby rock decimating it on impact. Bye-bye rock. He speed levitates towards Darkness. Once he was close enough, he makes a huge burst of light that can actually hurt you (Power: Light Burst) knocking Darkness back. He phases through a different rock on the other side. Light energy is the only thing that can harm Darkness outside the Shadow Realm, originally made to imprison Darkness, he turned it into his base of operations. Also, the Shadow Realm connects the light multiverse and the shadow multiverse.

Darkness brandishes his claws and lunges at Jeremiah slashing at him. Jeremiah dodges it by swerving and figures it was time for his A-game. So he levitates away from him into the air and transforms into his Light Turbo Form, which turns his clothes into pure white robes, changes his hair color to pure white and also makes it longer, and his eyes turn pure white. In his Light Turbo Form, his powers are greatly boosted. Especially, his light powers.

"You now can't touch me, Darkness," states Jeremiah, his voice more ambient.

"I see that. Tey eond ti si?" asks Darkness.

"T'nsi ti on," replies Bowser Jr.

"Pu yurrh," orders Darkness.

"Ko," replies Bowser Jr.

"Now, where were we?" asks Darkness.

"At the part where you renounce your evil ways and give us free pizza without dark sauce," tries Jeremiah.

"Oh, yeah, now I remember. Dark Blast!" exclaims Darkness as he unleashes a black beam of shadow energy from the palm of his hand.

"Light Blast!" exclaims Jeremiah as he unleashes a beam of white light energy from his own hand.

The two beams collide causing an explosion with enough force to throw both of them back. Darkness phases through a bunch of rocks while Jeremiah crashes through a bunch of them. Because of all that extra damage, Jeremiah was knocked out.