*inhale*"HARVEY!!!!"
Far ahead at the entrance to Mole Man's lair stood a man in all black suit covered by an overcoat with an ink mask.
*growl*grunt*ROAR* the disgusting and disfigured moloids roared, ready to rip the intruder apart. Waiting for their master to let loose, they were quite excited given their drool and bloodshot eyes seemingly impatient to try such a rare delicacy.
A short statured man dressed in a long Cape came running towards the edge of his lair and touched his goggles.
"Who is this? An invader sent by Tyrannus? But there's no army in sight.", the goggles Mole man wears has a zoom function which compensates for his poor eye sight. While he does have radar sense that he achieved after staying underground so long, it still can't distinguish friend from enemy.
"DISPOSE OF HIM!!! GO KILL HIM!!!"
And thus started the war, well calling it war would be an overstatement, it was more like a massacre. The Ink mask man raised his hand and a sea of black specks started flooding the hord of moloids.
Moloids were being riddled with holes by the hundreds and just dieing off.
"WHAT?!?!?? NOOO MY CHILDRENNNN!!!! DAMN YOU MUTHERFUKKER!!!!! I'LL KILL YOU.", Harvey was horrified at what had been transpiring and intervened.
*BOOM* Harvey fired a lazer cannon from his stave which was meet by the sea of black Microbots.
While the cannon held more power, the sheer number of Microbots staved the impact and damage of the Lazer cannon but it was not without its cost.
Nearly 20% of the Microbots covering and protecting the Black figure were destroyed.
Seeing as how his attack worked and opened up a path, Mole Man charged towards him. His stave turning into a flame thrower and spitting a massive wave of Fire so hot that any of the Microbots that came in touch with it were evaporated.
Continuously changing his stave into different weapons, Mole Man carved his way through to the invader. He evaporated the last wave of defence and pinned the invader down, with the stave pointed at his head.
"You signed your death warrant the moment you invaded my lair. You killed so many my Moloids, and I'll make you suffer a fate wor—AHHHHHH!!!!!", just as Harvey was standing victorious on top of the invader, three spikes pierced through his back.
Harvey, became a bit hazy with the immediate loss of blood, quickly however the Water for the Fountain of Youth started taking effect and regenerating the lost blood. But the spikes were still lodged in his body.
"*tch*tch*tch* If you're gonna shoot, Shoot. Don't talk.", the voice of the intruder suddenly reverberated through the Lair.
Listen to his voice, Harvey's eyes gained clarity. He looked at the Black Figure starting to collapse into Microbots.
"Surprised aren't you?", the voice now came from behind him. The Black figure stood there, Unscathed.
—"Th.. That's not possible. I had you. YOU were RIGHT UNDER MY FEAT. I... cannot be deceived.", The Mole Man replied, shocked by the fact that his radar sense failed, that the senses of his Moloids were fooled.
"You're quite the genius Harvey, surely you can figure it out.", The Black figure replied as picked up the Stave that belonged to Mole Man.
—"Ofcourse.... y-you used your bot to release heat, pheromones and smell to fool the Moloids, and... building upon it the solid mass of the decoy sold the deception— AAAHHH!!", Harvey replied, groaning in pain as the spikes twisted and formed thorns piercing the body further from within.
"Neat isn't it. Also don't waste time trying to detonate the Stave.", the man walked up to Harvey with the Stave in his hand.
—"W-who are ... you? How do you know my name? How do y-you know about this place?", Harvey now completely over come by fear, reverted back to his childish, hatful and fearful mentality that he never grew out of.
"My name is Paradox. As for how know all these things, I would like to tell you all about it but you shall be too dead to hear it.", The Ink pattern on his mask constantly chaged as he replied is care free voice.
—"W-what... do you want? Why am I still alive?"
"Well for the passcode ofcourse. How will I access the deviant archives if I don't have the passcode?"
—"Passcode?? what Passcode??"
"Ohh! So you don't know? So you haven't built your world conquering lazer beam yet!??"
—"What are you talking abo- wait how do you know about "the Ray"!!?!"
"Well it would seem that I have no further use for y—", Just a Paradox was about to seal Harvey's fate, he called out to him in a last act desperation.
—"Listen to me!! I can tell you about something incredible!!!"
"Something incredible!!! Do tell do tell.", Paradox replied in a joyfully naive voice.
—"But I have a condition. Spare the Moloids.... let them go.", Harvey asked for them to be spared, accepting his fate, he wished for the ones who accepted him and treated loved just like his Grandfather once did, a chance at survival, "kill me... but just let them go... in my hatred... I threw away my chances of just living with in my pursuit of domination..."
"Ah!!! What a heartfelt repentance and redemption. Done. We have a deal. Tell me what you know and I'll spare them.", The Ink on Paradox's mask turned into sad emoji with a tear.
—"There exist a Fountain of Youth... not some bullsshit one... it's the real deal... it's the reason why I survived for so long...", Harvey replied as wave of peace passed through him as looked towards his Moloids for the last time.
"That truly is something incredible. Just as you said I'll let them go. *snapped*", Paradox snapped his fingers and spikes went through all of the Moloids heads.
—"NNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! WHYYYY!!!!!", Harvey broke down with sheer shock and grief with tears streaming down his eyes, "YOU LIAR!!!! YOU FUKKER!!!! YOU KILLED THEM ALL !!!!!"
"Hey I didn't Lie. I let them go... let their souls go from their bodies.", Paradox just stood there, completely indifferent to the genocide he committed.
—"W-we had a DEAL."
"DEAL?!?! What deal are you talking about?? I don't recall comings to a DEAL with you. It's customary for both parties to have said "Deal" and shake hands. We had no Deal and besides I already knew about the The Fountain.", Paradox explained his twisted logic to the broken man infront of him.
"Why don't you go join your beloved Moloids. Goodbye Mole Man.", saying that Paradox blew Mole Man's head into pieces, firing the Lazer cannon from the Stave.
"Well then let's collect the loot."
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A/n:- Had a chapter lying around so I thought might as well just publish it and not leave you readers on a Cliff-kun.
The chapter was unedited but this would more or less would have followed the same direction.
Mole Man was actually the first villain that the Fantastic 4 faced. I rather liked him, in one timeline he actually gave up on his revenge and world domination and made a paradise by just conquering Subterranea. But he was later killed by Dr. Doom who wanted his resources and kingdom.
Anyways bye and hope to come back again after Hiatus.
Excelsior
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