Emperor Diablo continues to levitate in the air above the table. He waits for a few moments after asking Jason Hiro what his response will be. It does not escape Diablo’s notice that the ‘thing’ sitting in Jason’s seat is not actually Jason himself. Instead, it is an automated drone with a cybernetic interior and…
Inside the time-accelerated space known as Chrona, Jason Hiro sits with a gloomy expression. He watches the proceedings in realspace with a critical eye, staring with dismay at Diablo’s smug, frozen face. The Emperor of Annihilation looks at Jason’s Dronesmith with a knowing gaze, a clear understanding in his eyes that Jason has little choice…
Diablo levitates downward, ultimately placing his feet squarely in the center of the table. He stands atop his vantage position and smiles coyly at all of the humans, monsters, and demons gathered together. Not one person looks at him with any emotion more positive than fear, anger, and a sense of unwillingness to accept defeat….
Following Dosena’s win against Melody, and her subsequent departure after Diablo played her, the Second Founder decisively returns to Volgarius at her maximum speed. Her first loss to anyone in any capacity in over two million years does not cause her heart to burn with excessive shame. She simply calms her agitation down and takes…
Recommended Listening In an instant, all hell breaks loose across the Shredder System. Dosena and Melody lunge at one another and engage in a prolonged, protracted battle as Dosena begins to take the Deity of Defiance more seriously than in the beginning. No longer does Dosena battle Melody by sending her Psionic Clone as an…
Despite not quite finishing her objective to amplify the power of her Cosmic Soul by attaching it to every celestial body in the Shredder System, Melody still possesses the true power of a Middle Cosmic. She launches toward Dosena like a bolt of lightning, practically teleporting as she sends a kick flying at the Second…
While Melody undergoes her Ascension, the Emperors on Sharmur squint and gaze up at the Ripper Star, using their metaphysical senses to try and observe what is happening a million miles away due to their eyes and mundane senses being of no use. Emperor Serena has the sharpest senses of those present. While her blind…
The Demon Emperors on Sharmur spread out, surrounding the Archdemon from all angles. They look up at Diablo’s massive body as he wraps an orb of cosmic power around Emperor Melody, then levitates her into the air, up to the Archdemon’s eye level. Melody’s heart beats like a drum. She swallows heavily, not sure of…
Hope Hiro’s eyes flutter open and shut. For a period of time he can’t determine whether it is long or short, he tries to wake up, but all he sees is blackness, with the occasional flickers of light and shadowy figures standing over him. Sometimes Hope hears voices. Male, female? He can’t tell. Their words…
On the world of Sharmur, a strange peace settles across the land. A creeping dread had long taken hold of the indigenous life, the mammals and lizards and birds alike. They subtly feared the strange, unmoving creatures which radiated an aura unfamiliar to them… the alien Kolvaxian life forms. But now, those Kolvaxians have died….
