Capítulo 9: Setting Up Shop
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The members of the Cauldron are meeting to discuss the recent events that happen in Brockton Bay. The news stations have been playing the footage of the rat plague that swept the city clean of all the gangs and villains of the city. The only surviving villain is Lung who is being transported to the Birdcage, from the report he's not even trying to escape as the event had taken the fight out of him.
The city is cleaning up the remains of the gang members and villains with some being more of a problem to handle. Both Menja & Fenja skeletons had remained giant sized and are being broken apart to get rid of. With the police being lead to the safehouses and bases of the gangs, which were mostly strip of equipment and all the money. Leaving the entire city free of the gangs, and unlike what happen last time where once the old gangs were driven out and replaced by new ones. Horror Master is making sure that her claim on the city is for keeps.
In the room the meeting taking place in are the members of the Cauldron, Doctor Mother, Contessa, The Number Man, Legend, Alexandria and Eidolon.
"Combining my powers with Coil has allowed me to gather this data of the ones to look out for. These are the ones who most often stop me from getting anywhere near Horror Master in every timeline," Countessa said as there are files with a brief summary of who the subject is and a picture if they have one.
Alma from the F.E.A.R. series with her powers to bend reality and being able to summon endless waves of heavily armed super soldiers. She is completely terrifying and Countssa has never survived facing her in any timeline.
Pyramid Head from Silent Hills series completely loyal to Horror Master and is a juggernaut. Can't be stop, can only be delayed, has the power to teleport.
Huntress from Dead by Dawn series Horror Master's bodyguard, very strong and a skilled hunter. Can detect any kind of danger to Horror Master and can track down anything. Can turn completely invisible not even casting a shadow and move without making a sound. Only way to track her is by looking at the environment being moved by her presents.
Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon from My Little Pony series both have telekinesis and gravity powers that allow them to move stars around. Both are no nonsense and just go for killing blows unless told otherwise. Their powers are very alike, and both are just as strong as the other.
Sunset and Daydream Shimmer twin daughters of Daybreaker. Sunset has the power to change others into demons and Daydream has the power to change others into angels. Both have weaker powers of their mother and both are very loyal to Horror Master, both serve as her right and left hand women. Both have the twin bond were they can sense and have a mind link with each other, if one twin is in trouble the other will not be far behind.
Desiree from Danny Phantom series is a ghost genie who can grant wishes that can affect other minions. While her wishes can't affect people of this world, she is able to change any other minion with her wish power. She also can grant her own wishes anytime she wants.
Marceline from Adventure Time series she is vampire and demon hybrid who is able to suck the souls of others. She's lay back and goofs off but once she's serious she is all but unbeatable. Has a vast array of powers thanks to her ability to suck souls of others and gaining the powers of the souls she devours.
Reagan Ridley from Inside Job series a super scientist who unlike many tinkers, does have engineering skills. What she creates she actually understands how they work. Has upgraded her body with cyberparts.
Sans from Undertale series, don't ever take lightly, can be taken down in one hit but makes up being weak by being skilled. Power telekinesis and creating bones projections, extremely skilled in using both.
Charlotte "Charlie" Morningstar daughter of Lucifer is sweet and nice but once angry will show that she is the daughter of the devil.
Bill Cipher is absolutely loyal to Horror Master, providing communication and technical skills that gives Horror Master's strategies a precise edge. His extreme competence and significant skill give any minions with delusions of grandeur second thoughts. Have never seen him in any timeline, only heard his voice. All the other minions are wary around him, and view him as the strongest of the minions.
"This Bill Cipher knows everything that happens, somehow he's able to spy and overhear just about anything. From what I learn, he's the one who help Horror Master figure out which of her minions she could trust and which ones would betray her. With him acting as her eyes and ears she will always be several steps ahead of anything. In all the timelines, I never got close to Horror Master but when she allowed it to happen, thanks to him," Contessa said.
"You got beat by that cheerful demon that runs the Happy Hotel? And you didn't write what powers or abilities she has," Number Man asked.
"She beat me without even moving from the spot she was standing, the only step she took was to stomp on the back of my head," Contessa said earning everyone to stare at her. All wondering how that happen and why she sounded scared of the demoness.
"Beware of the nice ones thing," Eidolon said.
"Have you in any timeline managed to get to Horror Master?" Doctor Mother asked.
"I have and never survived, in the ones where I managed to kill her, Coil said that she just came back the next day like nothing happen," Contessa said.
"She does have an army of horror villains who just comes back for the next part of the series," Alexandria said.
"So she's like many horror villains can be killed but will show up again out of nowhere for the next film," Legend said.
"What happens in the timelines where she fights the endbringers?" Number Man ask.
"She kills them," Contessa stated causing everyone in the room to stare at her.
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Brockton Bay -
Sitting in a hovering command chair that has a inbuilt computer and holo screen, Horror Master watches the news feed from a wall of tv screens in front of her. All of them buzzing about the purge she done to the city of it's gangs and villains. In one day she gotten rid of all the gangs and that wasn't even her full force that she can unleash. Since her lessons with Ms J in the time room expanding her knowledge and skill sets, and learning from her wiser minions, has made her much wisdom and knowledge to outsiders be just a short amount of time. She's not the same young woman she was before, she can't be the same if she wants to do what needs to be done.
"Mechanist how's the robot army?" Horror Master ask.
"The robot army is ready to be deployed," Mechanist said.
"Have them be deployed in the locations, I gave you," Horror Master said.
"Sending them out now," Mechanist said.
Horror Master brought up a screen showing a 500 securitrons and eyebots being released from the different buildings that she owns. The robots will patrol around the city making sure that no new gangs or villains will trying to fill the power vacuum with the purge of the old gangs and villains. As that's her job, she has lost all faith in heroes and what better way to keep this city safe but by being the villain. A villain so powerful, that all the other would be villains be scared off from trying to be a villain.
The screens showed the buildings that use to be used as safe houses by the different gangs, are being fortified as her new bases. She's playing the role of a evil overlord now and she needs to make sure her presents is known and what better way than setting up bases around the city. She already had all of the buildings she owned fortified, having gun turrets and other defenses hidden here and there, so anyone one who thinks of trying to attack any of the buildings that she owns will be in for a nasty surprise.
The technology from Dunwall Tower have been studied by her techs and found the light wall and the arch pylons to be very interesting and useful. The guards that came with the tower inform her of how they work. The light wall would allow anyone that they recognize are able to pass through unharmed, as they deactivate upon their approach. Anyone or anything else attempting passage will be vaporized. The gates work via two electric coils placed together on either side of an entry, as if to resemble a gate. Above these coils is a revolving device that emits a blue light. When a hostile approaches, it will sound an alarm and glow red. It will let out a low-pitched signal when someone attuned to the wall passes through it.
Upon starting their watch duty, members of the City Watch will be approached by the Technical Officer. This individual will be carrying a device known as a charger, which is attuned to a specific wall of light. Each member of the new shift must lay a hand upon the charger. Once this is done, that wall of light "recognizes" these individuals and will not harm them.
The arch pylons work similarly to walls of light, but are effective at a distance, disintegrating any living thing within range that they have not been configured to recognize. The pylons create a lightning bolt that strikes just as fast as a real one.
She had the techs make more of them and installed them in all of her buildings, with all of her minions being recognized by all of the defenses. She also made sure it's impossible for anyone but one of her minions to be able to reprogram any of the defenses.
"Alright Bill, it's all down hill from here," Horror Master said to Bill who is always near, thanks to them sharing the body she's currently using. "Scion is what you say he is?"
"Haven't seen his kind for eons but I remember the multi-dimensional beings of his kind. In order to reproduce, evolve and find a means by which their species may survive the heat death of the universe, the Entities disseminate 'shards' across planets containing sapient life. Shards are the 'cells' of the Entities, partially-autonomous fragments capable of performing many functions, retain information, and maturing by learning from their hosts. Nearly all of an Entity's shards are distributed across alternative versions of a target planet, bar a few 'vital' shards that they keep for themselves. These Shards are assigned to hosts, who use their newfound powers in various ways that the Shard records. After the Shards have gathered sufficient data, they return to their respective parent Entities, which briefly exchange information between themselves before siphoning energy from all versions of the host planet except one. They then funnel this energy into a single reality, detonating the planet in that reality and all others within their influence, and using the resultant force to scatter fragments of themselves across the universe. These fragments eventually grow into new Entities. Through repetition of this process, knowledge is acquired across many civilizations across the universe, knowledge which can then be used to grant powers to the next set of hosts, forming the basis of the superpowers seen in Worm. This process of distributing and reacquiring shards in order to propagate is known as The Cycle," Bill explains.
"And you dealt with his kind before?" Horror Master asked.
"Yes and wipe them out from my dimension. Beings like me don't like those things, they just make it hard to have fun when the planet you been having fun on is destroyed. Scion must be one of the few last survivors of the last purge. Don't worry, once, I'm back to full strength he won't stand a chance against me," Bill said.
"Besides you, who else would be able to take on Scion?" Horror Master ask.
"Aku for one, he can't be harm by anything but a holy sword or god level beings. The ailcorns combining their powers along with sunbutt's daughters and their friends would be enough. The sex demon Morrigan once she merges with her sister Lilith. Shiva Revilis being a goddess of destruction can do it. Rodin the fallen angel also has the power. And Abadeer also be able to do it. All of our powers work on him because of the fact none of our powers originally came from him. So he doesn't have the advantage when facing any of us," Bill said. (1)
"Good, you all just attack Scion at once when we're ready to take him out," Horror Master said.
"Good idea, no need to play it out," Bill said.
"Now to make sure that this world will have a much better standard of living then it has now," Horror Master said as she brings up another screen.
On the screen is Reagan Ridley in a boardroom talking with Brett Hand, Chi the daughter of Aku, Dr. Amelia Buck, Dr. Alto Clef, Jack Bright, Robert House, Helena Douglas, skekVar The General, Princess Bubblegum, Augustus Sinclair, Esq, and Jeff the Spider. Since taking over a city requires way more logistics than just a show of force, Horror Master went with the plan
"Ridley the robots have been deployed, is your end ready?" Horror Master asked.
"We got it all down and what departments each of us be running. Cognito Inc is ready to launch," Ridley said.
"Good, first this city then we can expand from there," Horror Master said turning off the screen and turns to the screens showing the local news.
The screens showed her robot army covering the city as they broadcast her message of her takeover of the city. The police and the PRT are helpless to stop the robot army and the heroes are like she knew are doing nothing. She will save this world, but on her terms, after all heroes of this world have showed that they can't help people in need. And what better way to make sure that no stronger villain will rise up, but by being the strongest villain.
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Author's Notes -
1 - I'm going with how powerful most of the villains are in their cannon fictions and that without plot armor or anything holding them back, they're alot more powerful than they are in their worlds. And with their powers all not coming from Scion like all the other powers in the Worm cannon, he doesn't have the unfair advantage he has when he fights any of Horror Master's monsters.
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