Corruption of Souls

Ch.60

We came to with our head in Sabrina’s lap, our titty kitty rubbing our abdomen worriedly. “Oh~, Sabrina. What happened?” We mewled weakly, our body swelteringly hot. No, wait, literally! “Are you okay?”

“You’re about as hot as the desert used to get at the height of summer, I’m fine. Are you okay?” Sabrina tutted as she squished her white blouse covered basketball-sized boobs with her other arm to look down at us. Huh, didn’t consider that being an issue, but We’ve been hyper-busty for so long We guess it didn’t occur to us after adjusting. Then again, Svartr was always-oh.

“We’ll be fine after visiting Urta, but it will take weeks to repair Unity.” We groaned when We weakly rolled off of her thicc thighs to look at our surroundings. We were at the verdant North Fort in what was once the desert of Saddle Arabia and was now fields of grass with the occasional tree and natural wellsprings brought to the surface beyond the out-of-place sandstone walls of the fort.

Around us were hundreds of civilians, all haggard and worriedly watching the portal to Unity in the center of the magic wellspring We’d created so long ago. However, inside the pool sat Urta, who was thankfully with her head out of the water while several unicorns tried and failed to move her out of the pool. “Cocoa got Urta here, but nobody here has the magic strength to get her further from the portal.” Sabrina informed us and We grunted as We began crawling towards our beloved wife. “Wiatr, you need to-.”

“We need to give Urta the Argent soul energy that’s cooking us alive and get her as far away from that damn portal as possible! They’re after her for her Argent!” We snarled up at our other wife who gasped in understanding and helped us to our paws and over to Urta. “Urta! This is going to feel really good!” We warned before staggering into the pool and falling against Urta’s spherical body.

“W-whoa-oh-oh-oh~!” Urta keened and made such a delicious O-face followed by breathless panting as her body gleefully drank in the tainted soul energy from us. “A-ah~...” The water suddenly shone a bright turquoise for a moment before settling back to its usual iridescent clear shimmer. “F-fuck yea…”

“Thank you. Out you get.” We levitated ourselves back on the shore of the pool and then easily lifted Urta out only to freeze and our loins to drench instantly with desire.

“Whew, uh, this is kinda brisk babe. Could you set me down so I’m not getting wind chill down there?” Urta questioned while We couldn’t take our eyes off of her glorious beach-ball sized Argent cum-spheres. Said supernatural cum-tanks were actually glowing with her incredibly powerful seed. “Uh...babe?”

“World to Wiatr! Snap out of it!” Sabrina snapped her fingers in front of our drooling face and she shook us by the shoulder with her other hand. “You can sex the budding Fertility Demi-Goddess later! Just get her towards safety.”

“R-right.” We stammered and We willfully resisted the powerful desire We had to be fucked and bred by Urta. We had managed to levitate Urta down to the grassy ground just before a Night Sentinel rushed out of the portal.

“They’ve been pushed back!” His announcement was met with resounding cheers. “They’re still trying to assault us, but their numbers have flagged and our reinforcements have arrived! I’ve been given clearance to start having you all relocated back in town so long as your residence has not been destroyed.”

“How long have We been out?” We worriedly asked Sabrina as Cocoa suddenly popped up next to Urta, rubbing her side and nuzzling her. Before We could address her, she vanished again. Cocoa must be busy with sneaky stuff right now.

“It’s barely been an hour. I didn’t think things were going so well over there when they dragged you through in a feverish fit.” Sabrina replied with similar surprise.

“Well, a Displaced showed up at a suspiciously convenient moment. We’re shocked Aventurine didn’t show up with all the ruckus around the shrine she shares with Harmonia.” We shrugged and levitated Urta back up. “We’re heading back Urta.”

“Aw, no rolling? It was kinda fun how the other folks had to roll me.” Urta giggled uneasily, clearly trying to find her calm despite being an objective of an invasion from Hell itself.

“If it’s really that boring in your pool, We can figure out a way to either get you mobile or at least have you rolled around.” We said to her as We extended gooey tendrils from our paws that made it look like We were walking on stilts through the pool with our paws just at the surface.

“That’d be great babe. As good as I am with sitting around and getting fatter, those prudes are getting boring to tease and my VR headset is out of things to entertain me with right now.” Urta replied before We levitated her through the thankfully size-changing portal and followed our fecund fertility fox through.

Now that the battle itself was over, We could take the leisure of looking around at the town center of Unity. Our home and the rest of the canyon under Harmonia’s branches was still perfectly fine, but from the smoke covering the sky overhead it was easy to tell that the town growing atop the plateau was burnt to the ground by the Infernus barrage.

“We’ve scouted to make sure no Demon was found inside.” One of the Ghosts appeared out of nowhere to tell us. “We’re keeping an eye out just in case they do decide to take it.”

“Thanks. News on Lucifer?” We asked as We headed towards home since Urta still needs to be secure in her pool for now.

“He said he was feeling someone had his...Halo?” A Crusader reported as he approached us. “I’m here to report on the front. All Infernus Self-Propelled Artillery have been destroyed, but Hell’s forces have doubled their efforts and reinforcements with their initial siege broken. This could take a while longer.”

“Great, and Lucifer has something in our world or did he take off?” We grumbled, but then smiled when Sabrina ran ahead to use her geomancy to open the massive stone gates of our home so Urta’s gigantic form could get in.

“He wishes to pursue whoever has the Halo, but he doesn’t want to leave us in our time of need. He pulled us back to the entry point so we could funnel the bastards in and kill them. As soon as we’ve won this battle, he will go and hunt down the one who has possession of it.” The Crusader answered us before he and the Ghost looked up at the smoke hiding the sky. “Thank the ancestors.”

“What’s going on?” We asked and looked up at the smoke, unable to see whatever they were seeing. Whatever it was, it was some sort of explosive volley and it struck at the Hellspawn outside the town, causing the ground to shake from the explosions. “What was that?!”

“You can’t see it because of the thick smoke from the town burning, but that was an air to ground missile volley from one of our fleet’s landing ships. We got several vanguard as reinforcements earlier and we figured that was gonna be it, but nope. We got way more!” The Crusader replied with a proud voice and We pouted up at the smoke cloud hiding what had to be an epic and pants-wetting scary-cool sight of giant spaceships.

“Good to know. So, are the boys here?” We asked before We set Urta down on the ground and guards along with Sabrina and Cocoa who reappeared began rolling her in. It warmed our heart when Urta giggled and laughed as she was rolled across the floor like the giant ball she was.

“No.” We heard a deep voice, which sounded familiar. Turning around, We saw Visilia approaching us with her father, King Hydrax. He was a lot taller in person, at least about ten feet. He wore vantablack armor similar to the Night Sentinels, but unique with a cape and special helmet for his alicorn horn. He carried a mace in his right hand that screamed Lord Sauron and a weird looking gun with four mandibles on the muzzle in his left hand.

“Well, now. So, you’re why there’s ships, thank you.” We commented with a smile up at him, beyond relieved to have the veteran king here in our time of need.

“Yes, thank you, I’m starting to tire.” Harmonia sighed as she poked her head out of her trunk at us, looking like she needed to sleep for a few days.

Hydrax simply holstered his weapons and nodded his head to us. “You’re welcome.”

“So what now?” We asked with a look at the tunnel before hearing the bridge to the Plateau collapsing and We winced at hearing the gatehouse crumble and follow the bridge into the small canyon between the plateau and the west half of the Everfree as it was designed to in case of such a siege trying to take the bridge. Hopefully Honey’s hive doesn’t mind their own city’s entrance being buried under rubble for a good bit. Hopefully whatever defenses they’d devised on their own was enough for the demons to ignore them in favor of Unity. “We still have an unknown number of demons here and Lucifer’s out on the battlefront.”

“We’re still waiting on Krimzon to report where they all came from. For now, we secure this town and drive Hell away.” Hydrax answered before he took off his mace to reveal he was just as handsome as he was however many thousands of years ago the Helix Stone showed us. Hng his face is so handsome! No wonder where Visilia gets her looks from.

“Understood. We’ll be taking stock of things here to at least organize recovery. It’s never too soon to see to it.” We cracked our neck and sighed as We snapped our tail-hand fingers to summon a notepad and pen before We entered our home to get started with Hydrax and Visilia following. We suppose they really don’t have anywhere they need to be right now and staying put would make being reported to much easier.

(<3)

After another hour, Krimzon and his team reported in at my desk while King Hydrax and Princess Visilia stood to either side, co-opting some desk space for their datapads. It seems Krimson’s team ran afoul of some enemies since they looked a bit worse for wear. “Your highnesses. We’ve found out where they came from.” He said between pants of breath while medics and Scinoxes waiting here for such an occasion checked them over. “Ghastly Gorge.”

“That’s southwest of here. It might be one of the caves, but that place has historically been notoriously infested with Quarray Eels.” We explained for the visiting allied monarchy.

“We’ll worry about that later. Focus on the task at hand.” Hydrax insisted calmly.

“We really can’t just go wreck their shit now?” We huffed in irritation. We may love our town, but all this paperwork can go suck a splintered Timberwolf dick.

“No. We need to secure this town first. We need to do that before we can focus the majority of our forces on flushing the enemy from their holes.” Hydrax declared with dead seriousness and We groaned at the truth of things.

“We may have some ‘Specialists’ We could call in to help in that case.” We reached into our cleavage and pulled out Jack’s Token, our special Infinity pistol. “Oh right, We only have Tokens for Jack, Aventurine and the Boys. We also already have Lucifer and Sam summoned too. Hey Jack. We’ve been invaded and we need help here.”

“The tunnel is now secure.” Lucifer declared the moment he entered our home and he approached our desk. He’d been left nearly furless and didn’t have any genitals. He’s like a mannequin down there. He noticed us staring as Jack’s gun shot a circle on the floor. “What?”

“It’s always war, I swear.” Came a slightly less Vader-esque rasp as the artificial alicorn rose from the inky black void the bullets formed in the floor. However, unlike before he now seemed much healthier. His body wasn’t held aloft by a levitation harness, but instead by his slightly shimmering wings that had electronics woven among his feathers so he didn’t have to flap. His body wasn’t being held together by braces, instead he seemed lanky and healthy, but he still wore a mask that had a respirator. His horn, while no longer cracked, still had a sort of metal sheathe. “Nobody calls for a chat anymore.” The well-dressed mercenary chuckled, dusting off his blood-flecked leather sleeves. “Then again, Dahl hasn’t been giving us any rest.”

“Well, hello to you.” Lucifer said to Jack as the wolf rubbed a burn on his shoulder. “My first time being summoned and I’m already meeting new people, I really wonder why it took billions of years for me to be summoned.”

“It’s because you’re named Lucifer.” Visilia stated flatly.

“Hey Jack, you’re looking much better.” We greeted him with a strained smile. He still set us on edge after all this time. “We did mean to call you, We forgot to keep in touch with all the things happening to Us.”

“Hey. I've been practically ‘retired’ since I quit Vault Hunting, so I get it. It’s only been the better part of a year for me.” Jack responded, making us wonder about the time difference between our universes. “Only reason Wilhelm didn’t answer is because he actually is retired.”

“It has been almost two years for us.” We mused on the nearly doubled speed our universe seemed to be compared to his.

“Borderlands? Damn that was a good game. At least I think I remember it, are you Pre-Sequel Jack?” Lucifer asked the alicorn probingly.

“Well, yes, but actually no. My universe had one major tangent besides being anthro. There were two Jacks. Or rather, Jack and John Thymine. I was shoved into the body, soul and mind of Jack Thymine just before the start of the Pre-Sequel. It was a painful and soul-wrenching journey of self discovery and rediscovering myself. I’m both Jack Thymine; the brilliant, but violent little brother of John Thymine, but I’m also Ryan Flora.” Jack sighed as he lounged in the air as if he was sitting in a recliner.

“Better than doing an Interview and ended up making your own Universe under the control of the Source.” Oh Goddess he’s grandstanding again. “Have you spent billions of years with your free will essentially ripped from you and your main job is to give free will to others? While also shaping matter to create everything that exists and unable to die? I mean sure my body can be destroyed, but I will come back.” Dear Goddess shut up about yourself you egotistical-!

“No, but I did just mention having my sense of self utterly destroyed and blended with someone else's?” Jack huffed and then cracked his neck. “Anyway, enough dick-waving...considering I seem to have you beat in that department.” Jack chuckled with a nod down at Lucifer’s blank groin.

“True. Not that I care, Archangels were not designed for reproduction. Anyway, did you find any unusually glowy star-like objects in your Universe? A gun, piece of armor or even a set of wings?” Is he still going on about himself? Shut up already!

“You scattered them across the Multiverse? That is a stupid idea if you ever need them.” We huffed in irritation at Satan while Visi and Hydrax moved away since they were listening to Krimzon and others give reports.

“This guy’s more loopy than half of Pandora.” Jack groaned, running a hand down his masked face. “Nope, haven’t seen anything like that and I’ve seen a lot of bullshit.” We just realized Jack is wearing a full suit of leather like a stereotypical American biker. The black clashes well with his yellow fur and brown mane/tail hair. If only he wasn’t so skinny, he’d be really attractive.

“Well my Halo is here so I know I’m at least getting the power to link to all versions of Tartarus at least. If I’m summoned to a realm with a Tartarus.” Stop going on about yourself OMIGAWD!

“I’ve had advisors like this Lucifer. They are so annoying and can’t tell when they’re rambling on about themselves. Damned egotistical shut-ins.”

“This is stupid. Why would you just toss stupidly powerful objects into the multiverse?! Even if you were bored you could’ve just left them stockpiled in a vault or something!” We demanded of the oaf who wound up being literally satan.

“I did, someone under the influence of the Source tossed them into the Void.” Lucifer shrugged and We resolved to never summon him again if We could help it. “Anyway, I’d better get my halo back. If someone with half a brain has it they could accidentally blow up a mountain or something.”

“Whatever, you go find your dangerous thing, I’ll deal with whatever the problem is.” Jack declared and then looked at us expectantly. “Ahem. The problem?” Jack gestured for us to talk and We blushed at getting sidetracked by pointless byplay again, especially when We were so against it not too long ago.

“An invasion by Hell itself. They’re in Gastly Gorge, but we need to secure the town here before we can make a move on the Gorge. We’re not willing to be patient, so that’s where you come in.” We informed the mercenary properly.

“Demons huh? Weak to water or something silly? I need to check my bases before picking weapon elements.” Jack summoned digitized guns out of thin air, which We knew was from his Echo. They levitated around him without aura, without him seeming to be using any magic at all as he considered the disturbingly vast armory floating around him like a cloud.

“As far as I found fire is a no, water is a no, acid seemed to work a little, electricity was good.” Lucifer listed off.

“We can Confirm, our lightning spear did a lot of damage.” We told them.

“I also found that pure plasma works.” Lucifer further informed the artificial alicorn.

“So Shock, Slag and possibly Cryo seem to be the way to go then.” Jack digitized everything save for four weapons. A pistol, SMG, a Sniper Rifle, as well as a combat rifle.

“Since they seem to act like DOOM demons they wouldn’t like a chainsaw either.” We commented.

“Pandora may be covered in lawless savages, but only cruel or insane bastards actually use something like that.” Considering Jack lives on Pandora where every other bandit and other goon uses the brilliantly cruel Buzz-Axe as a weapon, We could understand such a sentiment.

“Savage is all they deserve, considering I saw a demon devouring some kids at a campground in the south.” Lucifer stated and We felt like crying.

“Camp Wonoka? Those kids were from Dodge Junction!” We whimpered and sniffled, then immediately made a note to formally and personally provide condolences and other things We’re going to need to do to apologize to the families in Dodge Junction that assumed our town was a safe place with the Lust Demons actively avoiding us.

“Yeah, some were doing things that even Pandoran Bandits would not do to victims. Those monsters deserve no mercy.” Lucifer snarled and Jack just shrugged.

“Child cannibalism is just another Tuesday on Pandora buddy.” Jack blandly responded, the dead look in his eyes telling he’d seen horrors nobody had any right to suffer and likewise nobody had a right to cause.

“Do they wear and rape..?” Lucifer asked in disgust.

“Yes.” Jack calmly responded as he checked his guns. “Those tend to be Wednesdays though.”

“Damn, yeah. I would just burn those fuckers with a star. I’m oddly realizing I actually care about mortals...huh.” Lucifer mused with a tilt of his head.

“Congratulations, you’re a better person than I am.” Jack snarked before cracking his neck and looking at the sky through the still open gates of our home towards Harmonia’s branches. He slowly spun in the air until he was facing southwest intently. “I’ve killed hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions with these very hands, horn and recently wings. Even more with my words. A galaxy-spanning war isn’t exactly a soul-kind experience. Even before that, I wouldn’t think twice about killing someone if they were a nuisance or a liability. At least before Ryan Flora became part of the picture.”

“Ah...okay, yeah I can top that but dick waving is getting in the way.” Yeah, could you please shut up already? Don’t you have somewhere to be?

“Plus, We don’t think We want to hear much more.” We said sadly, not wanting to think about more than the travesties that have landed in our lap. Dear goddess. Violence, cannibalism and death are one thing. Child murder is on another level for us.

“A war of cosmic scale is no laughing matter...especially if you’ve been numbed by billions of years of nothing but creating and seeing planets teeming with life or not as bargaining chips and weapons.” Lucifer sighed. Could you please stop talking?!

“Pretty much what my people are getting into, but that’s enough doom and gloom. I’m gonna go kill some rotten demons.” Then, with a spread of his slightly augmented and beautiful yellow wings, they flashed and he broke the sound barrier from a full stop, flying outside and then up into the air. The shockwave knocked us all over, sending many of us rolling save for Lucifer, the overpowered god-like self-obsessed ruler of hell who looked pensive.

“Okay, I need to find my halo.” He left our home and leaped out of the canyon like he was Superman.

“...Visi! Care to say that We’re overpowered again?!” We asked loudly through the ringing in our ears.

“Even I’m not as bad and I can at least say I don’t fucking brag so much it dominates the room.”

“What?!” Visilia screamed, trying to hear through the ringing in her ears.