One would think death had claimed more lives for her list of victims, but to her surprise, many are not fond of her presence, doing whatever they can keep the life they have before eventually accepting her cold embrace into the abyss of oblivion.
After losing his connection to the physical world due to the destruction of his physical body, Cybris smirked and chuckled as he was pleased with himself. And that takes care of those three, now all that’s left is Tony… but what about Lord Quinn, where is he? Is he hiding somewhere, or maybe he is attacking the Mavis empire in the Cyber realm? But no one has found him yet, not even a trace... No matter, I’ll just get the answers out of Tony.
Buried under rubble and being pulled down by the laws of attraction, Tony punched his way to the surface and found himself amidst the wreckage. He struggled to move but managed to climb out under the rubble and stood on top as the law of attraction felt like he was carrying a train on his back. Seeing the dense dust cloud in another area, Tony called in, “Colonel, status report!”
“Copy that, Kunoichi & Ninja are fine, they managed to escape into the lab before getting crushed, same goes for Tenzin.”
“Okay that’s good, no causalities so far. What about the governor, I can’t find him?”
“He has been handled by Tenzin & the duo.”
“Huh??? What do you mean handled?” Tony asked in disbelief, wanting more clarification.
“I mean they terminated the governor.”
“… You're kidding me, right?”
“I kid you not, Tony. Even I’m surprised, they somehow managed to pull this off since you were struggling with him.”
“Hey! I wasn’t even really trying with that governor, plus I was busy adjusting to the whole no gravity thing.”
“Uh-huh, I’m sure you were trying your best with the whole thing. In any case, we’re kind of stuck in the lab since we’re buried under the wreckage of the buildings and vehicles. Could you come and dig us out?”
“Roger that Colonel, I’ll be ther-”
Suddenly, Tony was abruptly pulled into the Virtual Cyber Realm, “What the? Where am I? This isn’t my cyberspace.”
Looking around like a lost kid, he noticed the sophisticated design of cyberspace as he found himself in a palace with colours of royalty plastered on every surface. Standing on a velvet carpet, he followed it down a long hallway with a variety of portraits hanging on the walls. “Wait a second.” Tony moved closer to the portraits and saw a familiar face on all of them, “That narcissistic bastard, why does he need so many self-portraits.”
“It’s my place so I can do whatever I want, you uncouth brute,” one of the portraits replied. Tony almost punched the portrait due to his surprise as he stumbled back, “What? You’ve never seen a talking picture before?” the portrait asked. Tony cringed as he was disturbed by all the talking portraits, “I’ve seen talking pictures, I just haven’t seen ones as ugly as yours, Cybris.”
“Why you insolent barbarian, you will pay for your impertinence. GUARDS SEIZE HIM!” all the portraits cried. Anti-agents morphed out the walls & ground of the palace and they dashed at Tony with their erasure swords. Not knowing what to do, Tony grabbed a portrait off the wall and used it like a shield. To Tony’s surprise, all the anti-agents stopped in their tracks as he waved the portrait about. “Unhand me you filth, how dare you use me as a shield against my own soldiers.”
Tony was speechless as he looked back and forth at the anti-agents who were hesitant to attack him. “You lot are seriously not attacking me because I’m holding a portrait of this ugly mug?”
“Who are you calling an ugly mug?”
“Who else, idiot.”
“Gosh, you get on my nerves. Guards, escort this hooligan to my throne room! We’ll talk there.”
Hesitant at first, Tony followed them down the hallway of self-portraits that led to the throne room where at the throne was seated Cybris with a giant portrait behind him. Tony was not amused by the big portrait of Cybris as his face cringed more when he saw it than when he was in the hallway. “I would like to leave this place as soon as possible. Kill me right now if you must, I’d rather die than spend more time in this den of narcissism.”
Unamused himself, the word “Kneel” was uttered from Cybris’s mouth; Tony unwillingly saw himself kneel as he heard the command. W-What was that? Why did I kneel? I can’t even resist.
Cybris dematerialized the portrait from Tony’s hands and materialized it back in its original position in the hallway. Rising off from his throne, he had his stroll of triumph toward Tony. “It's over for you, Tony. The moment you walked into this throne room, it was over. My words are like a command here, you cannot defy my commands.”
Resistance was futile for Tony as all he could do was grunt in struggle, Cybris stood before him and scorned down at him. “I must say you are surprisingly weak in your cyber body, here I was expecting a challenge but no, you're just an empty hard shell. Nonetheless, I still need answers from you before I erase you.” As he slowly began walking around Tony who was still kneeling, “I know Lord Quinn is leading this motley brigade of rebels, humanity wouldn’t be foolish enough to attack our empire otherwise. So where is your Lord Quinn, Tony? Where is he hiding? What is he doing right now?”
Tony convulsed before the command took over and brought the answers out of him, “Ethan is not hiding, he is just asleep in his lab, resting from his hard endeavours in getting the rebels ready for this war.”
Cybris scoffed at Tony, confounded that the biggest threat to the Mavis Empire was sleeping through the early battles. “Asleep??? So this whole time I’ve been fighting, he has been asleep?! So I am not worth his time or effort…” he paced around Tony frustrated only to falsely soothe his ego, “Ha! Well due to his audacity, his rebels have perished by my doing.” Tony smirked as he burst his bubble, “Sorry to disappoint you governor but the rebels are all alive and well in the lab that Ethan rests in.” Cybris scoffed again at Tony, “Nice try fool, but I know full well that those rebels didn’t survive those buildings crashing upon them, and what is this lab you keep mentioning?”
“The Black Box: Laboratoria, a portable lab built by Ethan.”
“A portable lab, like an actual portable laboratory… And where is this lab now?”
Tony shook his head, “Don’t know anymore, it’s always in a different place than the last place you saw it at.”
Cybris kicked Tony causing him to tumble along the floor, “I hate that I know you’re not lying to me. It seems Lord Quinn has tied up any loose ends that lead back to him, which is expected. Nonetheless, I no longer need answers from you. When Lord Quinn wakes up, he will be alone with his regret & despair when he realizes that his comrades are dead, and he wasn’t there to save them, all because he was asleep.” He grabbed an erasure sword from an anti-agent and raised it against Tony. Swinging his sword down, Cybris missed Tony as the floor suddenly became unstable and shattered beneath them. Falling in confusion, Cybris frantically looked around to see his throne room shattering and a few of his anti-agents sliced clean through. What is happening!?!? What is the cause of all of this?!?! He kept looking around to find the answers when he saw a mysterious figure carrying Tony on his shoulder and holding a sword in his hand. Tony tried to identify them while he began levitating, but was unable to, who else would be capable of doing this? It can only be him, only Lord Quinn could possibly do all this.
Since they were back out in Tony’s private cyberspace, they both disappeared in an army of their anti-agents that were charging toward Cybris in flight. Finally noticing the anti-agents, Cybris broke down his palace and reconstructed it as the anti-agents found themselves in Cybris’s throne room.
“Be still”
All motion within the throne room was halted, all because he deemed it so. Sitting on his throne, he looked down at the subjugated with a smirk and uttered, “Now erase yourselves.”
The throne room became a suicide fest as a whole army of anti-agents turned their weapons against themselves in taking their own existence. A spectacle that Cybris enjoyed as their bodies glitched from existence, leaving him alone in the throne room, only for a moment though as the room was invaded by blades of Corruptión that emerged from the ground. Cybris was about to command the blades but his instinct told him otherwise as he jumped out of the way of the blades. What are these blades? Why did I dodge them, usually I would’ve just commanded them to stop but something felt off about them. Where did they even come from? His attention was drawn to the mysterious figure that walked into the room with a Corrupted erasure sword. “Is that you Lord Quinn?”
The mysterious figure chuckled in hearing the question which didn’t amuse Cybris, “Answer me!”
“It’s funny that you would think that I’m Master Ethan, but no I am not him; my name is Tenzin, a corrupted anti-sentinel of master Ethan, but you governor Cybris know me as Governor Codey on the battlefield.”
In realizing so, “Ahh, so you’re the cyber-being occupying Codey’s body. I have you to thank for losing my physical body, but that’s fine, I took you down with me. Anyway, where have you taken Tony?”
“That is no longer your concern, your opponent now is me,” Tenzin replied firmly as he stood in his sword-style stance. Cybris smirked looking at Tenzin, “You picked the worst place to fight me, Tenzin. Kneel.”
Tenzin remained in his stance while Cybris was puzzled, It didn’t work, why didn’t it work? My commands are absolute in here, so why isn’t he kneeling? “Kneel!” A desperate attempt to subjugate Tenzin failed as he swung his sword upward releasing a powerful slash that cut open the throne room again. Cybris managed to dodge the slash as he saw the aftermath of it, a massive slash opening was on the ground, wall, and ceiling with corruption lingering on the edges of it. Cybris ran evasively toward Tenzin while materializing a weapon from surrounding data, he swung a sword at Tenzin who dodged it with ease but Cybris pathetically swung it again at him; his sword was cut clean through by Tenzin’s corrupted erasure sword. Remembering his gift from Mavis, Cybris crouched and touched the ground with his hands to activate Override. Tenzin was too close to avoid Override, but he didn’t seem to care about avoiding it at all. Seeing Tenzin come into contact with Override, Cybris smirked as he stood up and lifted a finger, expecting him to tumble to the ground in submission; but to his surprise, Tenzin threw his sword and it struck into the ground. Shock exhibited on Cybris’s face as fear whelmed him in his current situation, he looked down and began glitching as he saw the blades of Corruptión had impaled him. W-Why?
“Why?! Why aren’t you affected by any of my cybernetic abilities?!”
Tenzin shrugged his shoulders, “I’m not very knowledgeable on my new Corrupted body so I don’t know what I’m capable of yet.”
Glitching vigorously, Cybris’s body was glowing with Corruptión. Did I do enough to please Lord Mavis? No, I must have… I killed a majority of the rebels… “Sorry to disappoint you governor but the rebels are all alive and well in the lab that Ethan rests in.” Echoed in his thoughts. No… no no no no NO! He must be lying… but the command doesn't allow him to lie… I didn’t use the command on him for that sentence. Exactly, I didn’t use the command on him for that sentence, he just spoke it from his own free will so he could’ve lied to just mess with me… Yeah, I killed the rebels, and now all that’s left for the rest of the governors is to kill Tony and find Lord Quinn… Yes, I have done my job perfectly as the 3rd Governor of the Mavis Empire. He looked at Tenzin as he snickered, “T-T-Tell Lard Quim ven he vakez up, two juz shurwender. He v-vill nether weach Lard Mahviz bye vorce, n-not ven fere’s ztill Zilvar and Appllo two jo upth aganzt.”
Tenzin stood there confused, not understanding what Cybris just said but nodded in awkward respect for his last words as he glitched out of existence. Left in the slowly withering palace of Cybris's domain, Tenzin picked up his sword and returned to back to physical body.
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