Chapter 5: All Roads End Here
The desert was unforgiving and brutal for most people and animals, but for Nemesis it was a hunting ground that barely affected him at all.
Running along the dunes and mountains, he went towards some of the locations on the maps to find tracks of some kind that would allow him to obtain the exact location of different sinners.
Nemesis wasn't taking a direct path towards Pakistan as he wanted to take out as many bad people as he could before taking out the large fish. This path he created was meant to cripple the extremist group, Al-Qaeda, which still was very active in the middle east and growing in power.
Along the path also was military patrol areas and certain groups he wanted to kill because the corruption among the forces deployed was incredibly large. This corruption is what's causing Al-Qaeda and the Taliban to be formidable foes in the middle east.
Entering the first area that was marked as having possible terrorist activity, Nemesis sent out a scan and nothing came back. However, he wasn't done, and Nemesis entered Ultimate Hunter mode which instantly caused his vision to change, and the area lit up with tire tracks that were almost about to disappear.
The names among the group that passed through the area were about thirty and among them was one name that Nemesis specifically wanted to find.
Name: Dhaki Al-Murad
Age: 48
Occupation: Extremist (Cell Leader)
Association: Al-Qaeda
Sins: 91 Murders of Innocent People, 759 Indirect Murders of Innocent people, 4 rapes, 11 bombings, 1 honor killing, domestic abuse
Seeing this name filled Nemesis with so many conflicting emotions, it nearly made him collapse for a second. The excitement at ridding the world of such a terrible person, the despair at so many innocent people dead, the hatred for someone so horrible and the sadness for the people whose lives ended earlier than they should have.
'You're dead…dead…dead…dead, I'm going to kill you slow and painful…you'll regret it…regret…so much of it...regret…anyone like you will regret…but no one will ever forgive you…not me…not God…not even the devil who I hope exists and will torture you for eternity.'
Starting to move again, Nemesis followed the tire tracks at a decent speed and headed towards the monster who would soon die.
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Traveling between a mix of road and desert, he eventually came upon his first village since finding the tracks and happened to notice that the terrorist group briefly stopped in the village before leaving.
Walking into the village without a second thought, he instantly was met with people carrying makeshift weapons seemingly hoping to intimidate him. A crowd formed in the back watching what was happening, and Nemesis happened to notice a certain set of footprints under one of the watchers.
Zaaid El-Meskin
Age: 23
Occupation: Informant
Association: Al-Qaeda
Sins: 5 Murders of innocent people, 1 honor killing
Glaring at the man, Nemesis jumped into the void and dashed over to the man, before grabbing the terrorist and pulling him into the space. Heading back to his original spot, Nemesis appeared with the disheveled man.
Some of the villagers stepped forward, but Nemesis pulling out his wingman and pointing it at them stopped them from doing so.
'Don't…" Turning around, he started to run while dragging the man behind him, who was hitting his head, back and legs on all different kinds of objects that littered the landscape.
Exiting the area, he ran into the desert for a minute before stopping with the man and dropping him down.
"One Deadman down, 29 more to go…what should I do with you…" Glaring down at the man, Nemesis started to fiddle with different accessories from his suit of armor, like a stim, the heirloom and other handheld objects.
After a few minutes, he put all of the objects away and glanced back at the man, who hadn't moved much.
"You're a waste of my time…I'll be sure to give your leader my regards." Pulling his hatchet out, Nemesis proceeded to chop each limb off before going to the man's head and cutting it off as well.
Turning away, Nemesis ran back to the tracks and continued to follow them, not caring about the butchered body he left behind.
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Crossing paths with many villages, he only had to stop four times to clear out a terrorist who was hiding among the simple folk. Some groups seemed to know that the man among them was a terrorist but didn't know the full scope of what he'd done or was a part off.
Nemesis quickly learned that people in more remote villages were extremely misinformed and didn't understand the situation.
Some tried to attack him, but Nemesis quickly shut down their ability to move until they would stop struggling. A select few seemed to not get the idea whatsoever and continued to attack him, so Nemesis left them that way for a bit to think about their issues.
Eventually, he made it to a mountain area and journeyed up a beat-up road that winded into the hills. Running up it, Nemesis slowly came closer and closer, until he was nearly there, however a notification from the void quickly stopped him.
You're in their sights.
Only a few seconds after this was said, a few bullets rained down on the area around him. They pinged off the ground and kicked some dirt up, but Nemesis barely cared and continued on.
"*Chk*..." One of the bullets hit his armor and some of his shield ticked down. 'Dammit…whatever Shield Cell.' Slowing down to use a shield cell, he crouched to move faster and avoided the inaccurate bullets.
Once it was finished, Nemesis stood back up and continued to move up the hill moving closer and closer to the gun fire.
This closer proximity however allowed their shots to be more on target, which caused Nemesis to take cover more frequently.
Stopping at one rock, he was hit with a notification from the void which Nemesis found both annoying and hilarious at the same time.
Rocket inbound.
Glancing up, he couldn't react as a rocket hit the rock, he was behind and threw him and pieces of stone into the air.
The explosion didn't do anything to him, but the projectiles from the explosion hit and destroyed his shield with some of them going into his body and doing physical damage.
Part of his right shoulder was riddled with pieces of rocks from the boulder, but Nemesis quickly reacted as he jumped into the void.
"Fuck…that hurt…shit…explosion proof my ass…only if I get hit with the blast and that's it, I should be fine…but this…" Glancing down at his shoulder, he could vaguely see the damage among the unnatural colors of the void.
His shoulder started to stitch back together after a few seconds, and everything disappeared back under his suit of armor.
Deciding to run through the void instead of risk himself out in the open, Nemesis quickly made his way up the hill and to where the terrorists were.
When he was closer Nemesis could see that they started to run away, probably scared at what happened, but he didn't let up and instead moved even faster, like a predator about to catch its prey.
'I'm coming for you…run…run…run...' Catching up to the first person, he stepped out of the void and generated a Revenant orb. Tossing it down, the person collapsed in a heap, but he continued on to paralyze the entire group.
Once all of them were down, he continued on without stopping to the compound that was hidden in the mountains.
Coming closer, he was met with another group of annoying extremists who would fire random shots at him without a direct aim.
'Why the hell is their aim so bad…a stormtrooper might have better aim then them.' Annoyed with what they were doing, Nemesis went into the void and ran up to them, paralyzing the next group.
Passing on this group as well, Nemesis made his way up to the compound and stopped a few feet from the door. Using a scan, he gained the complete layout of the building and the surroundings.
'Oh no you don't you sneaky bitch…' His scan showed that the man and the other members of the cell, were trying to escape through tunnels under the residence that went off to another road with a vehicle.
Nemesis was about to go and bust the door down, when he noticed some explosives on the door. Annoyed at what the idiot had done, Nemesis turned his back to the door and spiked his feet to the ground.
His VTOL Jets appeared, and he instantly turned them up to a high temperature and wide blast radius. Activating them, a massive blast came out behind him and instantly demolished the whole building behind him and some of the hill past the house.
However, this had the unintended consequence of causing the tunnels below to collapse and only a few seconds later, Nemesis received the notification that he had killed Dhaki Al-Murad.
Enraged at what he'd done, Nemesis ran as fast as he could over to second group of incapacitated terrorists and carried each one back to the first group seething in rage, while mumbling to himself.
"Too easy…too easy…he died….too easy...TOO EASY…NOT PAINFUL ENOUGH…NOT ENOUGH…" By the end of transfer process, Nemesis was yelling at himself for being so stupid and not thinking.
'If I'd thought a little more…he'd get what he deserved in this life…' Throwing the last person into the pile of bodies that had formed, Nemesis looked down at all of them glowing dark red.
"Ahhh…you fuckin monsters think you can fight me…lets see…lets see…" Deactivating all of their paralysis, Nemesis stood there waiting for them to stand up and get comfortable.
All of them seemed confused about what was going on, but one of them whispered to the group seemingly understanding the English words that Nemesis had said.
In unison they all focused on Nemesis and like a pack of wild dogs, pounced at him, like he was their first meal in weeks.
Out of nowhere Nemesis generated his ax and darted into the crowd of 20 people without fear, only anger and annoyance.
They reacted slightly at this but had already set course and none would falter from it. The first guy threw a punch, but Nemesis easily dodged it and with one swing, the extremist was missing an arm.
Going straight onto the second guy, Nemesis was hit, but didn't stop and practically ran the guy over. Stepping on him, Nemesis swung the ax again and caught another person with it, splitting them from shoulder to mid torso.
A few punches landed on him from different angles at once, but Nemesis barely noticed as he ripped the ax from the man's stomach bringing some internals with it. Bringing down the bottom of the ax on another man's head, the extremist was knocked out from the hit.
Reaching out with an arm, he grabbed at another man's neck and was successful in retrieving the extremist. Squeezing as hard as he could, Nemesis started to crack some of the neck bones inside the man and cut the air supply causing the extremist to start going limp.
Nemesis saw one of the men found a rock on the ground and was about to bring it down, so using the man being strangled as a shield, his head was smashed by a large rock. Almost right after he was hit, the lights in the man's eyes seemed to have gone out.
"Second team kill I've seen…though this was unintentional…awesome…" Nemesis exclaimed in excitement which didn't seem to fit the picture of him being hit from 15 different angles while standing on a person.
His lack of seriousness in his voice seemed to have made them angry as they threw more hands and finally broke through his shield with their fists.
"Great job guys…now I'm going to start doing some trick shots…so get ready…" As soon as he said this, the atmosphere around Nemesis changed and he burst out from the circle in a charge.
Once on the outside, he ran behind one of the men who was slow to react and sliced down on the man's shoulder with his ax. The man recoiled at the slice and during this Nemesis generated a smoke canister and shoved it inside his separated shoulder.
Jumping back slightly, Nemesis activated the smoke and watched the man split even further and bits of his shoulder shot out in multiple directions hitting people and the area was covered in smoke.
Generating a jump pad, Nemesis tossed it down and equipped different pieces of gear including his wingman.
Running on it, he flew high up into the air and gliding around he tried doing some swaps with different item's before using his wingman and shooting at one of the obscured terrorist who he could see through ultimate hunter.
"*Bang*Bang*Bang*Bang*..." Firing out four shots, he hit on terrorist in each of his limbs causing the man to fall down in pain.
Nemesis didn't fire any more shots and landed on the ground just fine by the jump pad after a second or two in the air.
Using the jump pad again, Nemesis flew into the air and spun around a bunch while swapping weapons. However, this time a shoulder cannon appeared behind him and shot a canister at a group of three that was together. When it was between their head's it exploded, and three projectiles were sent out hitting each in the head. Right as it connected those ones exploded as well causing a side of the men's head to shatter from such a close blast.
Only 11 were left in perfect condition still but seemed to be losing the drive they had before when the fight first started.
Landing on the ground, Nemesis decided to get up close and personal again and ran towards them. Choosing one of the men, he raised his arm in a close line like fashion and dashed towards the man.
"Lightning Release: Single Lariat!" Nemesis yelled out in true chunni fashion, and his arm hit the man straight in the neck. The attack didn't decapitate his enemy, but it did make him collapse on the ground in pain.
Staring down at the fallen man with his mouth open, Nemesis couldn't help himself and generated a canister in his hand.
"Brain Release: Exploding Canister!" Calling out a stupid name, he jammed the canister in the man's mouth and backed away. Not even a second later there was a giant explosion and more smoke spread throughout the area. This also signified another time someone lost a head to Nemesis' smoke canister.
'I need to stop…though the effect did fit the name…his brain is everywhere…damn…'
Running at another extremist, he used his ax to sever the man's tendons and fall over onto the ground. Leaving the man for later, he continued through the group of still standing people and turned them into non-standing people.
The last guy to fall over, Nemesis stayed by and de-equipped his ax, while generating a set of four stims one after the other. Crouching down, he stabbed all of them into the man causing him to convulse as his skin turned green.
"Creation of Hulk...Experiment #2…test subject seems to be turning green and is leaking what appears to be the serum…test subject appears to have died…more tests needed…" Nemesis muttered this out while observing the man who died brutally from overdosing on a stim.
Heading over to a second collapsed person he did the same thing with even more stims which only made things worse and even more of the stim was leaked out of the person.
After this Nemesis stopped and went person by person doing what he was calling his signature surgery, a quintuple amputation of the head and limbs.
Finishing with the last person, he dispersed the smoke and looked around at the carnage that littered the area. He took so long that most of the people who weren't dead, but had serious injuries, bled out.
Making sure everyone was dead, Nemesis went around beheading all of them and set up a display to mark the fall of a cell.
Heading back down the mountain, he went back in the desert towards another target that he could find.
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Over the past few days, Nemesis made great progress and had taken 7 terrorist cells down throughout multiple regions in Afghanistan and continued to destroy more on his war path.
Each of these destroyed cells, ended up in a display of brutality which most would throw up at, but Nemesis simply viewed it as something they all deserved.
One day, Nemesis was running after some tracks, when he heard gunfire off in the distance and decided on a whim to check it out.
Dashing off in the direction he heard the gunfire from, Nemesis quickly approached a rundown village where a fire fight seemed to be happening.
'U.S Military…which group are you…Al-Qaeda…Taliban…something else.' Not even bothering to be discreet, Nemesis sent out a scan and instantly everyone's identities entered his HUD.
Glancing through them, he wasn't surprised as much as he was before about the bad things that both certain soldiers and most members of the militant group had done. It still made him feel horrible to no end, but he wasn't as horrified anymore.
Both groups stopped shooting at the scan and glanced in the direction it came from trying to figure out what it was. Nemesis was obscured by cover, so they wouldn't see him at the moment.
'Rape…Murder…Honor Killing…Stoning…domestic abuse…assault…executions.' Each crime was engraved in his head with each name and their deaths were assured for the sins they had committed.
Returning from the scan induced distraction, Nemesis stood back up and looked out at the groups who started to fight again.
"You're already dead…" Whispering to himself, Nemesis threw down a jump pad and launched into the fray between both groups and landed on a middle building.
At his entrance both groups stopped firing for a second in confusion at the appearance of a random man. However, one or two people on each side didn't realize this and tried to shoot Nemesis not caring who he was as long as they could get the people on the other side.
However, nothing hit Nemesis as he had jumped into the void briefly as the bullets passed by hitting nothing. After seeing the man-like figure disappear and reappear, nobody shot at him again and the fight ceased for the moment.
Glancing back between both groups, Nemesis debated on who to start with. The group that was a mix of Al-Qaeda and Taliban or the soldiers who abused their role.
'Why not both…' At this thought, Nemesis made his decision and generated a smoke launcher, shooting canisters at each side which blinded both groups.
Both groups reacted and got into formation of different kinds, preparing for the assault that was most likely going to come from the mysterious figure.
Nemesis started a portal and ran over to the terrorist side, stopping short and activated it. Bursting into existence a few of the terrorists shot bullets by accident which nearly grazed Nemesis.
However, he barely paid attention as he entered the portal and appeared back at the middle building.
Starting a second portal, he ran over to the soldier side and activated another causing it to burst into existence. This time however nobody fired at it by accident in fear, which Nemesis only took slight notice of.
Deciding to take a stab at the soldier side first, Nemesis injected himself with a stim and ran into the smoke, circling the group like a shark. Using the scan, he waited for the perfect moment to strike and steal a member of the squad.
When one of the younger soldiers who was a sinner started to panic and break formation, Nemesis didn't miss the chance and swooped in like a buzzard. He grabbed the soldier and entered the void, avoiding any retaliation and ran off towards the portal with the struggling soldier behind him.
Exiting the void right before the portal, he used it while dragging the damaged form of the private into the portal and onto the middle building.
Throwing the private down, he generated his ax and removed any possibility of the private escaping, while still keeping the young man alive.
"Stay..." Saying one word to the private, he jumped into the portal on the terrorist side and did the same thing as on the military side.
One by one, he grabbed soldiers and militants, until eventually he had almost everyone piled on the roof in pain. The only ones left were the people who weren't guilty, which was very few.
Standing in front of all of them, Nemesis looked down at both groups of sinners who he truly believed deserved death.
A few of the militants started to mumble something in another language, while one of the soldiers with a southern accent decided to ask something.
"Why're you doin this…we're soldiers…we help people…they're bad…not us…" Right after he said this, Nemesis started to laugh slightly and progressively it turned into manic laughter.
"Help…Haha…Not us…not us…help….haha…I didn't know I ran into someone who could tell such 'Great' jokes…" Turning his gaze directly to the soldier who said what he did, Nemesis didn't say anything for a few seconds.
When Nemesis spoke again, his voice contained an edge to it that seemed to cut everyone there.
"I know what you've done Jake Dickson…rape…13 times…I'm going to slowly kill you for what you've done…no one will be hurt by you again…no one…" Upon hearing what Nemesis said, the man immediately broke down and started to plead, but Nemesis didn't care no matter what he said.
Deciding to start off with the sinner who did the least, Nemesis walked up to one of the militants associated with the Taliban and dragged him in front of everyone.
Staring down at the soon to be dead man, Nemesis whispered a tiny mantra to himself, which was loud enough to be heard by everyone.
"In my grace, all roads end here for the wicked." Despite this being something similar to what was said to him by his parents' killer, Nemesis thought saying this was one way to spite the man.
Generating his ax, Nemesis brought it down on each one of the first man's limbs and finished off with a beheading.
He continued to do this to people who had sinned the least and stopped once he entered a whole new category of bad.
Nemesis couldn't decide on who to start with at this point since it was impossible to choose who was worse. He couldn't be one to decide which sin was worse, when he wasn't the one who suffered at the hands of these monsters.
So instead of choosing, he simply made his way up to someone and dragged them to the front. Reading their sins out loud to the group, Nemesis proceeded to cut the man all across his body, slowly turning the man into a bloody mess. Then he started to remove random body parts like fingers and ears, then moved onto limbs and finally the head.
Every one of the soldiers and militants were horrified at what they'd just seen and some even threw up on themselves and the people around them.
Nemesis whispered to himself again after the man died, but this time no one could hear what he said.
Moving onto the next one, he continued to do various acts of torture, before killing each of the men. Many of them pleaded and begged, but Nemesis didn't give a single fuck since they probably never gave a shit about what they did to their victims.
Eventually reaching Jake Dickson, Nemesis crouched down in front of the southern man.
"We're going to have a great time…you look like someone who would date rape…how's it feel to not be able to move as well…great I bet…anyways, you monster in human skin…wait skin…ohh…I've got the best idea for you…" Using a Revenant orb to truly paralyze the man, Nemesis started to work.
Using his ax, Nemesis slowly removed the top layer of skin from each part of Jake's body. Starting with the legs, he worked all the way up Jake's body, until he reached the head which he scalped.
Jake was already dead by his shoulders, but Nemesis continued anyways almost as if in a trance.
"Monster revealed…look everyone." Stepping away, the final few viewed the skinned form of Jake and despair was all they could feel.
Only giving them a few seconds to process, Nemesis continued his torture of the two groups and reached the final two of each side.
"Wow you guys really are monsters…how about this…you two fight and I'll let the winner walk…" The Staff Sergeant clearly understood what he said, but the militant was confused, however his little knowledge of English words allowed him to grasp the meaning.
"Wait damn, you guys can't fight…shit…well sorry that deal just went out the window…well guess I just have to go with normalish methods…"
Equipping his VTOL Jet's Nemesis, kept the temperature low enough to be extremely painful, but not enough to burn the nerves off right away. He did this to the entire body of each man, then using his ax proceeded to skin each one of them, but only their upper body. For one of his final actions, Nemesis tourniqueted each of their limbs and cut them off, so the men wouldn't die right away.
Stepping back, he looked at each one of the men who couldn't move and were brutalized.
"For your final trip alive, I'm going to take you to a beautiful place." Grabbing ahold of both of them, Nemesis stepped into the void and watched them die there.
Once their deaths were confirmed through the kill feed, Nemesis brought them back to the main dimension.
Glancing at all of the dead bodies on the rooftop, Nemesis made a display of head's and carved into each group's head, the same mantra they heard him say right before killing everyone.
Stepping away from his work, Nemesis smiled slightly, but for the first time since coming here it faltered slightly at the sight. However, this only lasted for a second before disappearing, like it never existed in the first place.
Turning away from his display, Nemesis threw down a jump pad and used it, launching himself back towards the tracks that he was following.
Mid-air, he dispersed the smoke engulfing each group, so they could finally see again. They wouldn't see Nemesis again though as he was already gone, returning to the tracks that would lead him towards more sinners.
Weekly Power Status
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