Voided Light

For years my world has been plagued by a group of powerful humans calling themselves Displaced. Two years ago, they had appeared and taken out the governments, tanks went down like they were paper. In mere hours, no central government existed anywhere on Earth. Of course, there was an underground rebellion with one or two low-levelled Displaced, but they had no chance. Their leader had assumed charge of the planet and we now lived in a world where food, water, electricity, and other needs were things that you could die for.

        It was during an excursion that something amazing happened.

        “Alice, be careful. I hear they recently got a guy who can make people into zombies just by touching them,” I called back to my twin.

        “I got that Alex,” she shuddered in the cold wind made by a Displaced known as Ice King. The southern hemisphere was plagued in heat and I did not envy them. We were only a stone’s throw from our safe house when we were shocked by the sounds of an electrical zap. I looked over and flinched. It was a new Displaced entering the world, and she looked dangerous. Her hair was a bright silver purple, her cat ears and tail, yes you heard that right, were a darker silver and she emitted a feeling of madness as well as an odd, almost unnoticeable, tune. If that weren’t enough she turned around and I saw her glowing light blue eyes.

        “Hello. Can you per say tell me where I am?” Her voice, however, sounded almost, kind?

        “Yes ma’am, you’re on Earth. Southern Missouri to be exact,” I answered, getting a glare from Alice.

        “Oddly cold for Missouri isn’t it?” She asked.

        “That’ll be Ice King,” I muttered.

        “I take it that’s a Displaced?” She asked.

        I was shocked. She didn’t seem like she knew but, as I looked at her, I realized she might know a lot more than she put on. “Yes. He’s one of Omniscient’s minions.”

        She giggled. She giggled at the man who knows everything happening on Earth. In fact, I’d bet he was on his way. “So, he knows everything does he? Oh, I doubt that. In fact, if I were one of his minions I’d leave me be as well as anyone I meet,” she smiled as two men stepped out from behind the nearby destroyed houses.

        “Thinks we a smart doesn’t we, little lady?” growled the man with a long cloak. Everyone knew him, he was Omniscient’s Assassin, if you bad mouthed Omniscient out loud, you’re bound to be hunted down. The other man was Flicker, his speed demon.

“Yeah, yeah,” she waved her hand dismissively, “Do you mind? We’re talking over here.”

“I can take care of that,” Flicker laughed. At max speed he ran at Alice and I barely had time to gasp before the woman’s foot connected with his head and he blasted back at nearly double the speed. I watched him disappear with a sonic boom.

“Ah, one o’ them hero types are we?” Assassin growled, lifting his machine gun.

“Ah don knowe am ah?” She mimicked Assassin. I lifted an eyebrow. She was either crazy or had hella balls.

Assassin’s face went red and he fired. I watched, almost in slow motion, as she flicked her hand and the bullets froze in mid-air before reversing and smashing into Assassin. As he went down, Flicker came sprinting towards her and almost too fast to register, she grabbed his head, spun him with his own speed and launched him into the air before disappearing and reappearing as a speck in the sky, only for her to hit Flicker downwards with enough speed and strength to cause him to leave a crater where he landed. As soon as she had incapacitated Flicker she turned to Assassin, who was standing up and holding a sniper rifle.

“Ya did good lady, but ahm better,” Assassin fired and the bullet connected with the woman’s face. Expecting her to drop I, and likely Assassin, were shocked to see her head barely move.

She cracked her neck and spat the bullet onto the ground. Before Assassin could even register, she tore through, I guess, the fabric of the world and stuck him in up to his neck and snapped her fingers.

Assassin’s body dropped and she turned around to look at me. “So, they’ve pissed me off a bit, can you show me to this “Omniscient’s” headquarters?”

I was torn between terror and awe, and sadly, awe won over, “Yeah, sure thing. Come on Alice,” I waved my sister towards us.

“If you get us killed, I will never forgive you,” she growled, her face clearly showing fear and anger.

Ignoring that for the moment, I lead the woman to one of the portals Omniscient had set up to his throne room. He would take on audiences, knowing their problems beforehand and answering, yet giving horrid advice.

I gestured towards it, “He’s through there, it leads to his throne room.”

She nodded and made towards the portal, calling back to us, “You coming or not?”

I looked hesitantly to Alice. She sighed and answered, “Yeah. Fine.”

The woman nodded and stepped into the portal quickly followed by my sister and I glanced around, looking at, unknowingly, my home for the last time. After the initial disorientation of the rip in space-time, I found myself in front of a rather luxurious throne of gold, seated by velvet and adorned with jewels of every kind. The room itself was large, having been in an old European nation’s castle once.

Meanwhile, the woman was smirking at the man sitting in the chair. He was rather round, had greasy hair. The overall effect of his appearance was that off a large rat.

“Well, well. You,” he pointed at the woman, “have proved to be quite an opponent. Perhaps one who has my powers as well. One who, Understands, and perhaps, one who is omniscient too?”

“Oh, I Understand, but, I have another question, are you Mad?” She raised her eyebrow. Personally, I had no clue why “Understand” and “Mad” sounded different.

“Am I mad?” He asked, stroking his very thick beard.

“No. Are you Mad?” She repeated, looking rather annoyed at the man’s misunderstanding.

“Mad? I’m afraid, rather oddly, that I do not know what you mean,” he waved a hand, summoning, shockingly, all of his remaining minions.

“Oh. Good,” she said, cracking her knuckles, “I’ll just show you.” She took a step forward, to which the minions responded with growls and lunges. One of them lunged a little too far. She dodged and kicked it square in the mouth into a wall. It was a distorted dog-like creature.

Omniscient stared at it with a look of disappointment. “What a waste. Very well. Attack.”

She looked over her shoulder at Alice and I, “This’ll only take a moment.” She snapped her fingers, which I found what it did later, and turned back to the minions and other Displaced.

She made the “come here” motion with her fingers to which three Displaced rushed forward, only for her to jump up and bring her foot to connect with the left one’s head, sending him crashing into his mates. Another group lunged, only to be met by a punch that ripped one’s head off and the other was sent flying.

By this point the others seemed rather hesitant to fight, but a few stepped forward, fists up ready to fight. She grinned and spoke, “There’s something I’ve always wanted to try.”

Raising her fist, she punched the ground and, what I can only describe as reality turned dubstep, raced outwards hitting the others. Their screams of pain and terror pierced my ears sending a shiver down my spine.

After a minute or two, the wave subsided, leaving a sprawling mass of half dead Displaced and mutants. She stepped forward, walking across the mass of bodies to stand in front of Omniscient. The man looked up at her with fear in her eyes.

“You’ve damned this world to the Void, you know that?” Her voice sounded emotionless.

“W-what are you?” The man hacked up a small amount of blood. She looked down at the splotch of blood with indifference before lifting him up by his neck.

“I am a demon. I walk the Void, devouring souls like yours. The sad thing? I am the good guy,” she laughed, a rather crazy sounding laugh.

        “How, how did I not see it?” He asked, struggling.

        She leaned in and grinned maliciously, “Because, you did not have true omniscience. I’ll show you what that is.”

I watched as he began to shake, his eyes rolling into his head as she spoke, “Knowledge is a powerful thing. Too much however,” she let go of him, “can kill.”

Alice and I gasped as he fell and his head literally lit on fire, landing on the ground charred to a crisp.

She turned around and the world began to dissolve behind as she walked towards us. “I’ll have to find you all a new world, every single person on this planet. And, I’ll start with you two. I can’t guarantee you’ll be together but, you’ll be safe.” Before either I or Alice could talk she leaned down and kissed our foreheads and everything turned black.

My vision came back just a little while later. Of course, the bad thing, I was in front of a small blue horse. Second? I WAS ON FIRE. LIKE LITERAL FIRE. It took a moment but I realized that the horse was talking, lovely.

“Oh daddy, I’m so sorry,” he had tears in his eyes. My trouble began there, since I felt like being nice, I tried talking to him only to achieve… well…

“What’s wrong little one?” I called out. Of course, not knowing what I was now or how the hell I was talking while being a literal fireball, really was odd, but this made it worse. The tiny blue horse ran off yelling. “Mommy! Mommy! The stars talked to me!”

I finally managed to look at myself. You know those pictures of the sun? I was like a mini version of that. Which only succeeded in nearly making me piss myself. Is that possible while a star?

As soon as I finished hyperventilating, I fell to the ground as a human. Kissing my legs I noticed something odd, for one, I was smaller than I was used to, for two… I WAS A BLOODY GIRL. “WHAT THE FUCK?” I yelled, looking around wildly.

Did I tell you? I lived in England until around age eleven. I retained the accent. I finally glimpsed a mirror and went wide-eyed. So did the girl in the mirror. Now, I probably would’ve gawked a little more if a large blue maned horse hadn’t blasted into the room with the other one on her back. “Now, where’s the star Art?” She asked, looking around wildly and somehow missing me.

‘Art’ pointed in my direction and I tried to slide out of the room, only for me to be grabbed in a field of somekind. “Now, what are you and what are you doing in my son’s room.”

“She’s a star mommy!” The little one shook his mother’s mane.

“Uh...Human and I really have no clue,” I shrugged while holding the dress up, the horse either didn’t realize or didn’t care that I was upside down. I waved a hand at a nearby fly only for some sort of wave to fly out and hit the larger blue horse. The field disappeared and I made a run for it.

It took awhile but I ran into a nearby woods only to trip over an egg type thing. It didn’t seem very heavy when I picked it up to look. I’m a curious person, don’t judge. Of course, I had held it for about three seconds before it cracked and a rather odd creature came out. It seemed to be some type of chimera.

“Mommy!” I took one look at it before cursing louder than ever.

“SON OF A BITCH!”