Fuxer 15 - Shattered
Xander was in darkness. He tried to move but found he had no body. He was a nothing, floating in nothingness.
Eyes looked at him. No, more like an impression of eyes.
After a creepy minute, an impression of a voice said, "You Have Gone Too Far And Will Be Locked Away."
"Who... who is there?" Xander said – or thought aloud since he had no vocal organs.
"I Am The One You Call Omnio. I Am Absolute. I Protect The Integrity Of Reality."
"Where am I?"
"At The Center," Omnio said matter of fact.
"...What happens now?"
"I Will Restore Reality The Way It Was Before You Damaged It. Then I Will Lock Your Bending Powers Away As If You Had Never Had Them."
"I'll be 4X again?"
"Correct. And You Will Not Recall These Events. Only I Will."
"Wait, please. This isn't fair. I can't be the only gay boi. It's too hard. Why can't you at least let things stay as they are?"
The emptiness was quiet for a while.
"The Heroes Of Earth Wish For Reality To Be Unaltered, As To Not Endanger Their Mission Of Peace And Safety. That Was The Deal."
"But I never hurt that mission," Xander shouted into the void. "If anything, the bois are working together better now. Everyone's closer. You can see the future, right? You know we're no worse off now."
Again, silence for some time.
"I Concede. Reality Is Stable And The Mission Is Not Harmed. Reality Will Be Locked As Is. I Will Now Remove Your Bender Powers."
"Wait! Please, can I get just one request?"
"I Am Not A Genie. I Do Not Grant Wishes."
"Let me have Zack. Let me finish turning him gay."
The impression of laughter came from everywhere and nowhere.
"Zack," Omnio said. "Oh, Zack. He Was Like You – An Immensely Powerful Reality Bender. He Hated His Weak, Small Body And His Life As A Nearly Useless Sidekick. He Shifted Universes Until He Found One Where He Had The Perfect Body And Amazing Powers. The Heroes Celebrated Him But..."
The impression of a sigh.
"He Quickly Turned Into A Villain And Shattered Reality Just Like You. He Has No Memory Of This But Reality Was Locked The Way He Had Made It Before Turning Away From Heroism."
Xander's currently nonexistent head was spinning. "So the world's greatest hero is... a fantasy Zack was chasing? Why can't I have mine? I haven't given myself great new powers. I just want a boyfriend."
Omnio said, "When Zack's Powers Were Sealed So Was His Existence. I Cannot Undo This Without Unraveling Everything."
"But we have an adult Zack. The regular one from our timeline. Isn't he enough?"
"The Second Zack Is An Irregularity. Removing Him From The Timeline Altogether Will Fix Many Issues."
"Please... Can't teen Zack be... Just another boi?"
The impression of deep, thoughtful silence lasted many minutes.
"I Will... Consider The Matter."
A galaxy of stars faded into existence. Planet earth appeared – unharmed.
On it was a hyper-muscular superhero who could see the fourth dimension. He blinked. Wasn't he... forgetting something?
Most of earth's heroes were on their way home from Nexus Prime after dealing with a galactic threat, leaving the bois to fight the invasion of New Metro City by themselves.
Specter spores had rained from portals in the sky and before long, several skyscrapers were in the clutches of shimmering vines, thicker than a truck.
The spore rain had short circuited electric lines and caused fires in the streets, leaving Aqua and his water powers busy on the ground.
Wiz flew above the clouds and used magic to tear the portals apart. Lightning strikes and plasma explosions lit the city with his activity.
The other three flew straight at the most affected building – the Everyday Globe News building. The golden earth on its roof had stopped rotating after the electricity had cut out.
Guard was at the base, dragging his force fields across the vines to sever them, but they reconnected and overgrew the cuts almost as fast as he could slice them.
Nut circled the Everyday Globe building with vigilance and shot down spore packs that the vines smartly flung onto other buildings.
This left Fuxer as the last boi to tackle the center of the skycraper's invasion. He 4D glanced through steel, concrete and plant matter to see the main root, winding through the central staircase.
"I'm going in," he said over coms. "Maybe I can break the spine."
"I'll join when I'm done here," Wiz said. "The portal is fraying along the edge. Can't be much longer. I'm casting a big one now."
"Got it."
Fuxer rammed through the glass, flying into an open plan office. Vines had dug through floor and ceiling. He punched one, making it dent and splinter.
The flying, masked blond in a pink singlet punched and kicked his way into the middle. He hit so hard, that he shoved the plants aside even when he wasn't causing much harm. Almost as if they snapped aside in fear of him.
The light dimmed. No! Vines had moved to close the gap behind him.
The plant was trapping him halfway to the staircase.
He could 4D see the vines moving into position in the floors above and below him. The ceiling cracked first. Dust covered his visor and chucks scratched his uniform.
He punched his way down through the floor but the plants were moving in too fast. He was trapped. Light only came from the vine's own shimmer. There was nothing but vines all around. They grabbed his legs and smashed him into the ground. It didn't hurt much but it was disorienting.
His mask slipped off, the visor shattered. His singlet was already torn and as a rough vine wrapped around his chest the uniform was sandpapered apart.
"We keep finding more," Todd's voice said from the remains of the mask. "More unconscious people. I don't know why. The spores are too big to inhale and-"
The mask sank into the squirming plant mass and the coms unit got crushed.
"No," Fuxer said, weakly.
He was pulling with all his power but his strength wasn't infinite and the specter vines were just as super powered as him.
"N-no... help..."
The shimmer drew closer and... froze. The plants moved aside to form a corridor and dragged him forward.
He saw the sky. He was near a cracked piece of outside wall. There was a nest on the office floor – a hive of huge, simmering, translucent bees flying in and out of the wall cracks.
They closed in and... passed through him. He got tired. His eyes didn't want to stay open. The bees were hypnotizing him or something. He had to fight... He had to... He... was loosing...
The sky outside twisted with the creation of a huge portal.
Chapter 16: The Course Of Events
Wow, in all my years of writing porn I think this is the first time I end on a cliff hanger. Get ready for the grand finale.