The ship sails off through the deep vacuum of space towards the nostalgic blue planet. Bioseus knew what he had to do on the surface, but was already slightly regretting having Metallic tag along in case he holds him back again.
After a long empty journey they arrive in orbit around earth. Bioseus steers the vessel to approach Earth's atmosphere. Some skilled maneuvers allow him to hover the vessel to blend with the clouds.
"I will dive down to the surface, you stay here and don't touch anything!" Bioseus tells Metallic with overconfident sense of authority, while putting a relatively large looking backpack on over his armour.
"How will you return to the ship?" Metallic asks Bioseus as he moves towards the back of the ship.
Bioseus points to a miniature console, clearly inspired by phones that Metallic has told him about, before jumping off a ramp too quickly for Metallic to catch him. It swiftly closes behind him.
The Infinity Guardian awakens. He groans at his pains and the embarrassment of being toyed with and battered to the ground by Alexander. Much like Bioseus' awakening a familiar glowing figure appears before him.
"Well look who it is, at least I survived Alexander's attack." John says in a mixture of scoffs and groans.
"Most admirable. Foolish though. He had you had you in his web, he was toying with you and could have killed you much quicker. But you did well." Magnus tells John in a harsh but congratulatory tone.
"But why are you actually here Magnus?" John asks now using his surroundings to stand up.
"I think you can sense why. The Infinity Court needs taking down! You know this has to be done!" Magnus begs in a sense of urgency.
"Magnus, I OWN the Infinity Court!" John informs him now slightly raising his voice and approaching.
"Well "your" organisation is killing trillions of lifeforms in the name of authoritarian order and as much as they claim to keep peace and help the people of the universe, they do awfully little in the way of that! In order to perpetuate a fallen totalitarian empire from millennia ago. And to be as naive as to think you own this oppressive organisation, remember I stood in your boots!" Magnus tells him with desperation.
"Well where is any evidence, all you've told me so far is desperate fear mongering?" John asks him slouching against the wall, slightly out of breath.
"I can show you!" Magnus tells him.
All John can see is blue, he feels as if he will fall asleep as mesmerizing blue lights dance around his eyes. Suddenly he can see again. He appears above a dirty pit looking down upon some sort of horrifying labor camp. He looks at his hands to see a ghostly blue translucent glow, much like what Magnus looked like.
"Where am I?" John asks, confused.
"You are at "your" labor camp. Including those slaves you liberated, desperate thieves and even people who couldn't pay their taxes!" The disembodied voice of Magnus tells him.
John floats through the pit of horrors. He witnesses guard brutality and torture. Even children doing back breaking hardship. He sees an old slave collapse. A guard walks over and disembowels him and leaves his body to die in the mud. An endless field of tourment more hellish than a hell imaginable, with no escape or solice.
"I could go on!" Magnus whisper echoes around a horrified John's mind.
John's mind goes through an existential crisis as he experiences Magnus' kaleidoscope of horrors and terrible truths.
Bioseus lands next to the rubble from the frightening facility he'd destroyed not long ago. He scowers the battlefield in search of Bicen's corpse. But as anticipated a menacing man approaches from behind holding out a pistol and wearing a sleek suit as well as seemingly looking significantly younger and clean shaven, clearly having dropped the fantasy facade.
"Hello again Bioseus," Talc smirks as he holds his gun at Bioseus' head
"I knew you'd come here," Bioseus annonces as he turns to face his enigmatic enemy.
"As did I," Talc retorts.
There is a standoff that feels as if it goes on for millenia. Until Talc makes a shot at Bioseus, which is deflected by a destro blast by Bioseus and swiftly followed up by another to Talc's hand, disarming him. But Bioseus fails to notice the extensive exposed cybernetics revealed at the spot his attack hit.
Bioseus procedes to pick up the gun himself as Talc stands defeated.
"I should have already done this," Bioseus sighs as he lifts the gun to Talc's head. "Ridding the universe of a monster like you will be my greatest rapture!" Bioseus declares in a grave grin.
He liberates the barrel into Talc's skull. He kneels down say a spiteful eulogy. But as he looks to the head wound he notices within is not blown up brains, but a plexus of wires and computer chips.
He hears a sinister laugh from behind him. He rolls his eyes and turns around.
"Immortality!" Talc chuckles as he approaches. "I'm suprised that you didn't notice sooner, I was never that good looking!"
"What do you want then?" Bioseus asks gritting his teeth.
"Your fusion reactor in exchange for my wand and double body control chip, both of which you most desperately need!" Talc delcares.
"Fusion reactor?" Bioseus asks
"Okay, your "Destro reactor" or whatever you call it. I tasked you with making it decades ago, you know even the best scientists at my disposal couldn't do that. Though I am slightly dispointed at the stability of the "Destro Particle" as opposed to artificial Infinity Particles which I hoped for, which by the way are both technically elements just beyond our version of the periodic table." Talc rambles to Bisoeus.
"What are you on about?" Bioseus questions
"You know for an incredibly smart person, you can be very dim and unaware. I discovered the infinity particle when I traveled the stars in the spaceship I found decades ago. I found a partially built fusion reactor that some old fool was trying to make infinity particles with. I brought it back to earth but nobody was able to crack it. I then took to England in search of the Infinity Guardian but found you. You built it for me. First fusing two moles of xenon with 3 moles of nitrogen to create the element. Then you turned to a more sustainable configuration with 18 moles of nitrogen aswell as one hydrogen and one helium, due to parts provided by Taneya." Talc tells the astonishing story to Bioseus
Breathless, Bioseus can only reply with "How do you know this?"
"Well soon you'll learn you don't need intellect, more manipulation. You know Prophecy, you've met her, well I know her pretty well. Hell I didn't even earn my own doctorate. I could go on all day, so you in on the trade?" Talc asks him.
"Fine" Bioseus replies. He removes the reactor from his armour and accepts the items in return. He places the wand in his belt and hides the chip in a secure compartment. Talc disapears before Bioseus can ask him anything else.
Bioseus holds out the wand and to his suprise with a mere thought a portal to the ship appears. He walks through.
"Where did you come from? And are you finished?" Metallic asks him as he walks into the cockpit.
"Got one more thing to do." Bioseus replies, completely ignoring the first question.
He takes off the armour to wear some lighter underamour and returns the wand to his belt. The ship passes over the city of London.
YOU ARE READING
Infinity Guardian
Science FictionAn orphan boy is gifted with astonishing powers on 1st January 2000. His best friend is meddling with chemicals and creates a dangerously destructive weapon. His foster father is a crazy chemist. He is bullied at school. But soon everything will cha...
