07-28-2016, 03:28 AM
"Well... I can't really argue with that."
The Lieutenant waved his hand in a loose circle. "Cheating is a skill we encourage in the Koopa Troop, and I think you'll make a fantastic addition to the unit. Congratulations Lord Dominator. Kyle?"
The stunned other hopeful's eyes widened, "Y-Yes, Sir?"
"Get out of here. You're done."
Kyle's eyes brimmed with tears, and Dominator's helmet snapped back as she rounded on him. A mad, high-pitched cackle left the woman's lips; nothing helped her shake off the effect of a hangover like watching the abject misery of another living being.
"Hahaha! I crush your dreams and then I watch you cry."
"S-Shut up!" Kyle protested as the tears began to flow, "I'm not crying! I'm not!" And with that desperate lie flung in her direction, the koopa fled the room, the door slamming shut behind him.
"So, congratulations Dominator." The Lieutenant said, retrieving a green koopa shell from a drawer in his desk. "Here's your official shell to say welcome to the team. If you want to pick out a bunk and get settled in, I'll be along to give you a proper introduction to the base in a few hours time."
Kyle was crushed. Being part of the army was the only thing he had ever wanted. He'd lived his whole life dreaming of the day he could serve his fellow koopa and make this blasted hellscape a safer place, and he'd been beaten just because he had the bad luck to go up against a Prime. It wasn't fair!
Looking down on the garrison from one of the ashen peaks, the bespectacled koopa had finally cried himself out and calmed down. What did Bowser do when he suffered a setback? He tried again! And again! With bigger and more elaborate plans! More armies! More power! If he wasn't going to be let into the Troop, maybe he'd make his own army of dispirited secondaries! There were plenty of other koopa just like him, who had been cheated out of their rightful place for one reason or another.
A shadow fell over his features, and the koopa stood up irritably. "Go away, I'm not in the mood for--"
As he turned around, Kyle came face to barrel with the enormous whirling sight of Dominator's Magma Cannon. There was a powerful chunk and he was suddenly flung backwards, burning hot from the neck down and encased in molten metal. He had just enough time to squeal before she was on him, and the unluckiest koopa in the whole wide world was rendered unconscious with a single powerful punch.
When he awoke, they were in a cave that Kyle recognised - secluded enough that it was unlikely any patrols would be coming by here for hours. Nobody liked trekking up the mountain if they could possibly avoid it, and there always seemed to be better things to do.
"Oh, you're awake. Good."
Dominator's voice sounded genuinely pleased with herself, and Kyle tried to jerk himself up - but it was no good. Koopas weren't known for their incredible strength, and the metal binding him tight had now cooled into a thick shell which - ironically - spelled his doom.
"What do you want?! Haven't you done enough to me?"
Dominator stepped around in front of the restrained koopa, and gently plucked the glasses from his face. Kyle's world was plunged into a blur of indistinct colour, but he could still hear it as she casually smashed his vision in her hands.
"After what you did? No. I'm going to destroy you. And you're going to help me whilst I do it."
Kyle let out a bark of laughter, shaking his head madly, "No way! You think I'll help you do ANYTHING? You're insane! I'd rather die! Besides, you're supposed to protect us koopa civilians now! Didn't you listen to a thing the Lieutenant told you?"
Dominator's hand grasped Kyle's head, and she leaned close enough that even his blurred vision could make out the sneer on her lips.
"Funny thing. I've never really been the 'protecting' type. So. Let's see if this works."
The annoying teenager she'd met in the nexus had said that he didn't think it was possible, but Dominator wasn't so sure. If it worked, then she understood a lot more about the game that Omni was playing with them all. If it didn't, then she'd have to go back to the drawing board.
"What do you think you're trying to do?"
Kyle was loathe to admit it, but the fact that the green woman had suddenly gone very quiet and very still whilst touching him filled him with a sense of dread. When she was shouting and waving her arms around and threatening to destroy him, that at least he could understand. Now she just seemed to be concentrating, but on what? He couldn't imagine.
And then he felt it.
It began as a sense of unwanted warmth. Sickness, like a fever, rising in his gut. Then his thoughts started to swirl around. He lost feeling in his extremities, a hot tingling sensation in his fingers and toes, slowly working its way up the rest of his body.
"W-What are you doing?" He squeaked, "Dominator, s-stop, I, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'll serve you, I'll do whatever you want...!"
A bright glow suffused the unfortunate creature, his skin glowing as raw omnilium began to coalesce at the point of contact. Dominator's eyes glowed a ferocious shade of pink as she smiled from ear to ear.
"Oh, I know you will!" She said, "You'll serve me very well. As raw material. Give it to me, give me everything you are, I want it all!"
Kyle's voice raised in a terrified scream as muscle and bone began to melt away. Everything he was, everything he had been, everything he ever could be, was torn away from him. His memories, his hopes, his aspirations... it was all returned back to the omnilium which had formed him. It took perhaps ten minutes in total for the secondary to finish his torturous demise; for the last of his skin and mind to pass into nothingness and be absorbed by the malevolent woman above him. But for him, it felt like an eternity.
When it was over, there was nothing left. Just the empty metal shell that had covered him, now hollow with the imprint where his body had been - the last and only mark that Kyle Koopa would ever leave in this world.
"Now that." Lord Dominator said, her fingers flexing as she felt the power of her hated enemy flowing through her fingertips and settling into her own store of energy. "Was AWESOME!"
The Lieutenant waved his hand in a loose circle. "Cheating is a skill we encourage in the Koopa Troop, and I think you'll make a fantastic addition to the unit. Congratulations Lord Dominator. Kyle?"
The stunned other hopeful's eyes widened, "Y-Yes, Sir?"
"Get out of here. You're done."
Kyle's eyes brimmed with tears, and Dominator's helmet snapped back as she rounded on him. A mad, high-pitched cackle left the woman's lips; nothing helped her shake off the effect of a hangover like watching the abject misery of another living being.
"Hahaha! I crush your dreams and then I watch you cry."
"S-Shut up!" Kyle protested as the tears began to flow, "I'm not crying! I'm not!" And with that desperate lie flung in her direction, the koopa fled the room, the door slamming shut behind him.
"So, congratulations Dominator." The Lieutenant said, retrieving a green koopa shell from a drawer in his desk. "Here's your official shell to say welcome to the team. If you want to pick out a bunk and get settled in, I'll be along to give you a proper introduction to the base in a few hours time."
Kyle was crushed. Being part of the army was the only thing he had ever wanted. He'd lived his whole life dreaming of the day he could serve his fellow koopa and make this blasted hellscape a safer place, and he'd been beaten just because he had the bad luck to go up against a Prime. It wasn't fair!
Looking down on the garrison from one of the ashen peaks, the bespectacled koopa had finally cried himself out and calmed down. What did Bowser do when he suffered a setback? He tried again! And again! With bigger and more elaborate plans! More armies! More power! If he wasn't going to be let into the Troop, maybe he'd make his own army of dispirited secondaries! There were plenty of other koopa just like him, who had been cheated out of their rightful place for one reason or another.
A shadow fell over his features, and the koopa stood up irritably. "Go away, I'm not in the mood for--"
As he turned around, Kyle came face to barrel with the enormous whirling sight of Dominator's Magma Cannon. There was a powerful chunk and he was suddenly flung backwards, burning hot from the neck down and encased in molten metal. He had just enough time to squeal before she was on him, and the unluckiest koopa in the whole wide world was rendered unconscious with a single powerful punch.
When he awoke, they were in a cave that Kyle recognised - secluded enough that it was unlikely any patrols would be coming by here for hours. Nobody liked trekking up the mountain if they could possibly avoid it, and there always seemed to be better things to do.
"Oh, you're awake. Good."
Dominator's voice sounded genuinely pleased with herself, and Kyle tried to jerk himself up - but it was no good. Koopas weren't known for their incredible strength, and the metal binding him tight had now cooled into a thick shell which - ironically - spelled his doom.
"What do you want?! Haven't you done enough to me?"
Dominator stepped around in front of the restrained koopa, and gently plucked the glasses from his face. Kyle's world was plunged into a blur of indistinct colour, but he could still hear it as she casually smashed his vision in her hands.
"After what you did? No. I'm going to destroy you. And you're going to help me whilst I do it."
Kyle let out a bark of laughter, shaking his head madly, "No way! You think I'll help you do ANYTHING? You're insane! I'd rather die! Besides, you're supposed to protect us koopa civilians now! Didn't you listen to a thing the Lieutenant told you?"
Dominator's hand grasped Kyle's head, and she leaned close enough that even his blurred vision could make out the sneer on her lips.
"Funny thing. I've never really been the 'protecting' type. So. Let's see if this works."
The annoying teenager she'd met in the nexus had said that he didn't think it was possible, but Dominator wasn't so sure. If it worked, then she understood a lot more about the game that Omni was playing with them all. If it didn't, then she'd have to go back to the drawing board.
"What do you think you're trying to do?"
Kyle was loathe to admit it, but the fact that the green woman had suddenly gone very quiet and very still whilst touching him filled him with a sense of dread. When she was shouting and waving her arms around and threatening to destroy him, that at least he could understand. Now she just seemed to be concentrating, but on what? He couldn't imagine.
And then he felt it.
It began as a sense of unwanted warmth. Sickness, like a fever, rising in his gut. Then his thoughts started to swirl around. He lost feeling in his extremities, a hot tingling sensation in his fingers and toes, slowly working its way up the rest of his body.
"W-What are you doing?" He squeaked, "Dominator, s-stop, I, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'll serve you, I'll do whatever you want...!"
A bright glow suffused the unfortunate creature, his skin glowing as raw omnilium began to coalesce at the point of contact. Dominator's eyes glowed a ferocious shade of pink as she smiled from ear to ear.
"Oh, I know you will!" She said, "You'll serve me very well. As raw material. Give it to me, give me everything you are, I want it all!"
Kyle's voice raised in a terrified scream as muscle and bone began to melt away. Everything he was, everything he had been, everything he ever could be, was torn away from him. His memories, his hopes, his aspirations... it was all returned back to the omnilium which had formed him. It took perhaps ten minutes in total for the secondary to finish his torturous demise; for the last of his skin and mind to pass into nothingness and be absorbed by the malevolent woman above him. But for him, it felt like an eternity.
When it was over, there was nothing left. Just the empty metal shell that had covered him, now hollow with the imprint where his body had been - the last and only mark that Kyle Koopa would ever leave in this world.
"Now that." Lord Dominator said, her fingers flexing as she felt the power of her hated enemy flowing through her fingertips and settling into her own store of energy. "Was AWESOME!"
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