Detective Dickson 4 : Shadow of despair

Change of plans

Drafo was floating across a planet, his facial expression was impossible to tell due to his physical body setup.

"I wonder how long it will take those two just to check for seven quadrillion creatures that exist in this insignificant bubble, I am bored here" Drafo sighs, almost immediately, Marble and Malkyie were flying from the planet towards him.

"What took you two so long, I waited a fraction of a yottosecond for you both" Drafo says aloud, an edge of exasperation to his voice.

"Don't be annoyed, little one" Marble smirks at him, Drafo growls annoyed.

"Lord Meglor told us to leave any life form without reasoning capabilities" Malkyie says in Drafo's direction.

"So were there any worthy mortals in the bubble" Drafo asks.

"No, unfortunately, ever since Lord Meglor sent us here after his resurrection, we have travelled to trillions of different universes and we only have two Ogres, a mother and son who were found worthy, this world is in a far worse state than it was before we were sent to the infinite beyond" Marble mutters sadly.

"Well, we have to erase this existence, it's continually expanding in size and mass" Marble continues as she ascends higher, Drafo and Malkyie also ascend higher with her, soon they were now able to view all of the Universe.

"Who wants to do the honors" Marble asks.

"I believe Drafo should be the one too" Malkyie says aloud.

"Yeah, we made him wait a while on the last planet, he definitely deserves it" Marble grins as she turns towards Drafo

"Little one, over to you."

"Okay"

A small black ball no bigger than a speck of dust appears on the middle finger of his right arm, he throws it downwards as the speck of dust makes contact with a floating asteroid, it transforms to a giant black ball which begins to expand and consume everything in sight, soon it had enveloped the entire universe, after it had, the black ball vanishes.

"The biza, one of the weakest techniques I bequeathed to you, though, it's quite useful in eliminating objects limited to it's realm" came Meglor's voice reverberating around the area.

Drafo, Malkyie and Marble take a low bow to the ground immediately, Meglor's presence wasn't physically there but since his consciousness was shared across every plane of existence, he could see and communicate with them.

"I have finished with this universe, I shall be approaching you now" Meglor says, as he says that, he instantly reappears in front of them.

"All of existence has grown far sinful and perverted, religions was supposed to help mortals overcome their inner darkness and uphold their Morals" Meglor begins as he walks past

"Now, it's nothing more than a means of debate amongst foolish mortals who deem themselves intellectuals, I am utterly disappointed, All life must learn to live lives void of any negative emotion or darkness while still having their will, any life form who refuses to submit must be extinguished, rebels shall not be tolerated."

Drafo, Malkyie and Marble who were still bowing down, they kept looking at their master who was monologuing, Meglor trusted his three generals very well so he had promised to give them their minds and not interfere and see what they were thinking and if they wanted they could share thoughts with him or each other.

"I have never seen master so upset" Marble communicates telepathically to her other two comrades.

"He was really flustered when he first met Ixonquious, I am sure he was this upset" Malkyie communicates telepathically too.

"Yeah, master had this edge of exasperation, I especially think he sounded adorable" Marble smirks.

"Yeah" Malkyie replies with a smirk.

"What's wrong, Drafo, you ain't speaking" Marble says turning her direction.

"Something doesn't add up" Drafo began ignoring their tone of concern.

"What is it?" Malkyie asks

"Master gave us a gift to manipulate anyone who has ever felt despair or an emotional trauma at one point in their life as we are not bound by time, I see millions of souls who still remember the name Dickson" Drafo begins.

"Dickson, isn't that Ixonquious' reincarnation" Marble asks.

"He's also the one who defeated Drafo, I checked out the battle, you really shame master, that was far worse than how Ixonquious wrecked you" Malkyie smirks. Marble and Malkyie both laugh mildly but seeing that Drafo wasn't joking with them, they kept shut.

"Master said he was going to take care of Ixonquious as he was the reason why master's plans were foiled, how he got trapped and we were all sent to the infinite beyond" Drafo begins

"But yet, I still hear mongrels saying his name, praising him like some sort of hero, adoring him but we all know that since Master returned, he won and if he's the same man we know before, he would have completely obliterated the worm from existence."

"What are you implying" Marble asks.

Drafo turns towards the shadow in front of him

"Either this is not Master and we have that mortal, Dickson in our midst in some sort of disguise or somehow, Master did forget his old values."

"You could have just checked how the battle went down, don't forget, we can just view any event in the time stream and choose to do anything as we wish, I saw the battle, I don't think master intended for Dickson to not be remembered, he's using that as a method to put his other comrades in despair so they wouldn't be a threat as no creature who has ever felt despair can touch us" Marble explains.

"A wise deduction as expected of the leader of my generals" Meglor says as he turns towards them, he could sense their surprise

"Forgive me for peering into your minds when I promised I won't, I need my generals to be sharp though Marble you deduction seems correct but unfortunately Drafo here is accurate, I did intend to wipe Dickson from the faces of existence and creation itself like I have done to countless beings and mortals but for some reason, he still exists in the hearts and minds of people, I can't sense his energy anywhere though but I have a feeling that's not the end of this."

"Master, his comrades seem to be planning a coupe against you" Malkyie says aloud.

"Ooh yeah, I can clearly see them, they have gone to gather the help of all the demon lords, not a bad bunch but I can't stand rebels, Rebellion only brings disorder and anarchy" Meglor says.

"Then master, give the order, we know where they reside, let's go and destroy them before they can launch an attack on us" Drafo says bowing his head.

"As you my generals know me, I can't lie, I promised Dickson to bring back his comrades, I just can't go back to eliminating them shortly after, though that crooked mortal isn't much for honor, I am, I won't attack his comrades but should they come to us, they shall not be given the chance to embrace salvation, they shall be terminated without fail."

"Yes master" all the three generals say in unison.

"So master, do we just go pillaging universes looking for worthy life forms and destroying the rest or do you have new orders for us to enact upon" Marble asks still bowed to the ground.

"Yeah sure we do, creating a perfect world with all life form possessing the right to free will is impossible, I thought I could achieve that by just destroying those who have negative emotions and erasing them from the minds of everyone else who knows them but I have seen now that it's impossible, creatures will always posses negative emotions, therefore I am going to reshape all of existence" Meglor smiles.

"What a splendid idea, master but you don't posses the means, for all of existence to be reshaped, you must either have all the seven gods or agreement or two of the three mistresses' agreement" Malkyie says.

"That's accurate but seeing that I couldn't fulfill my deal to the creator, it would be heinous of me to tell him I want to reshape all of existence so meeting the gods or mistresses is out of the options" Meglor begins.

"So which option do we have?" Drafo asks.

"Existential despair, I was created with the abilities to manipulate this existence as I so wish but one ability I wasn't given, the one to manipulate the will of creatures but I can get to them through their despair and manipulate them as I so wish, when that's accomplished, I would have succeeded in my mission" Meglor begins.

"But master, how are we going to achieve that" Marble asks.

"Every creature has someone they look up to, losing them causes a turn of despair in their life though for some it could be a moment, others it could be eternal but even a yotto second of despair is more than enough for me to override lives completely, all we need to do is cause mass panic across every layer of existence" Meglor ends, there was an evil smirk to his voice.

An arrow dazzling with red pigmentation swooshes and flies towards Meglor but as it reaches two inches away from it, it vanishes to dust.

"You dumb mortals, I could see you, I am aware of all your plans and schemes" Meglor says as he turns back

"You fools who proclaim yourselves heroes of the multiverse, you shall die a fatal death."

Six males and four females were directly in front of Meglor, two men and a woman were holding bows and a quiver of arrows, they each had long ears which showed they were elves, they were behind the other seven, one of the females was unarmed, she was an ogre, three of the men and and also three women held swords, the last was a giant who held a club, similar to the shadows, they were standing on thin space like it was nothing.

"You foul fiend, you have done enough harm to our multiverse" one of the men holding swords say aloud.

"If you foolish mongrels are going to combat me and die, you should at least all show yourselves" Meglor smiles, immediately he said that, the ten men in front of him vanishes, now stood eight people in front of him, they were funny looking and dressed like superheroes from a comic book, there were four males and a female, the first one who seemed to be leader had a letter M on his brightly blue coloured shirt, he had a long black cape, with black shoes to match, his face was grey in colour, his specie was a strange form of alien.

"I am Multi man" he said.

Another one was dressed in all red with yellow streaks of lightening all over, he looked human and more so, his skin was dark, he was a black man.

"I am Zap" he said.

Another one was dressed in all brown, he appeared to be holding a brown chain saw.

"I am the constructor" he says

The woman present was dressed like a singer from the eighties.

"I am the screamer" she says, as she said that, cracks appear all over the space.

"I can't wait to beat this guy's ass, there's a new restaurant in town, heard the pizza there is totally delicious" one of them kept blubbering out, his body appeared to be overstretched like he was some sort of elastic rubber.

"Shut up, Elasto, I am pretty sure it's your meaninglessness chattering that alerted him of our presence" Multi man says aloud.

"Negative" Constructor says

"I created the perfect barrier which is supposed to stop any sound waves we make from escaping is and it's also supposed to make our appearance completely invisible and I am surprised he saw through my constructs."

"Well, guess we don't look too invisible now" Zap grins

"So how about I zap this up."

There was a sigh from the rest of his teammates

"That's a lame line" Elasto says in his direction.

"Are you mongrels aware of the presence of who you now stand before" Meglor says aloud his voice demeaning and commanding.

"I am sorry, I almost didn't notice you there, you are a shadow, you perfectly blend here, is that your superpower?" Elasto grins.

"I can't stand your stupidity and insolence, you chattering animal" Meglor says, immediately he makes that statement, Elasto fades to nothingness.

"Mortals, do you recall anything about a comrade who you called Elasto" Meglor asks in their direction.

"No what's that, is that the secret codename of your plan, well you can for..." Multi man say his face flaring up. He opened his mouth in an awkward manner but time appeared to be frozen as his mouth was just left opened, his other team mates appeared to be sharing his same fate as they all appeared frozen.

"I see" Meglor says

"My existence Erasure ability hasn't been tampered with or dwindled yet why is this Dickson mortal still remembered."

"Master, permit me to speak" Marble says bowing her head.

"Permission granted" Meglor says without flinching in her direction.

"Even if that inconsequential mongrel still breathes, we can simply end him should he choose to cross us, an insignificant worm like that shouldn't bother you."

"You are right, what do you suppose we do to these four rebels, should I erase them like their fellow comrade" Meglor asks.

"May I have the permission to play with them" Drafo asks.

"Are you still feeling sore about your last confrontation with Dickson" Malkyie grins at him.

"Grrrr" Drafo snarls at him.

"Permission granted but finish it off quick, I hate to watch a pathetic display" Meglor says as he walks away, he stops dead in his tracks

"When you are done with them, come to universe DR5, even though my plan seems solid, I would like to test it on creatures, see if any improvements should be made."

"Yes master" Drafo says as he rises to his feet, behind him, Malkyie, Marble and Meglor vanish, as they vanish, the six heroes seemed to be operating the same.

"...get it cause the heroes of the multiverse are here and we will van..." Multi man stops as only Drafo was the one who standing right in front of him.

"I thought there were four shadows" Multi man asks amazed.

"Master can't bear the sight of irrelevant, negligible and tangential worms like you" Drafo says aloud.

"Does anyone understand a word of what that nigga just said" Zap asks aloud.

"Basically, he's saying we ain't important" Constructor says in his direction.

"How is that possible, I won thousands of trophies for my beautiful singing voice" the screamer says aloud.

"The only reason why you won is cause the judges knew that was the only way to get yo ass off the stage" Zap grins at her.

"Enough chatter" Multi man says aloud, all his teammates not look at him, seeing that he had their attention, he smiles as he continues

"Constructor, this space is empty and that's a shadow, light should eradicate him, build as many hyper giant stars as you can, I will simply take his ass there" Multi man says as he ascends higher, putting his body in an horizontal motion, he dashes towards Drafo, a large red super giant sun with a radius of thirteen light years appears behind Drafo, thousands of others which looked very similar appeared close by.

Multiman clenches his right arm into a fist, dashing as fast as he could, he punches Drafo, several of the hyper giant stars around the area instantly vanish to nothingness but Drafo was untouched, Drafo dusted his body as if he was wearing a shirt, looking over at Multiman.

"You fool" Drafo grins as he lays his right arm on multi man instantly turning him to nothingness, looking over at his other comrades

"Who wants to die next."

"AHHAHAHHAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHSHSSHSHHSSHSH" The screamer kept screaming causing rips in the space and creating several event horizons.

"Your voice is sickening and terrible, the worst I have ever heard" Drafo says as he shoots a dark ray at her, the dark ray turns her to body to ashes.

"Time stop" Zap shouts aloud, Construction who was behind him appeared frozen.

"What is supposed to happen?" Drafo asked him with an unimpressed look.

"This is impossible, time is stopped in all of the multiverse for everything and everyone, you can.... can't b...be he...here" Zap stammers.

"Unlike you mortals, time and space don't bind me, if anything, it answers to me, I can be anywhere and any when as I see fit" Drafo grins as he stretches his arm touching Zap, Zap collapses on the ground, a golden orb ascends from his body, Drafo consumes it cheerfully.

"What did you do, how is everyone dead?" Constructor asked, he had an amazed look.

"I simply took them on but there were far too pathetic and useless as the rest of you mortals are" Drafo grins, as he speaks, black tentacles appear all over Constructor's body, they move his body at an insane speed till he now stood before Drafo.

"What do you want?" Constructor cries aloud.

"Nothing much" Drafo grins as he finishes the soul

"Just to fulfill my Lord's wish"

"And what is that" Constructor asks.

Drafo grins as the tentacles draw Constructor close to him

"For all of existence to know despair."