Zenith: Last Revenant - Chapter 81

Exiting the Bioship, alone for the first time, Bey’on brushed her platinum-colored long hair back with her right hand as she slowly took in the place once more. Seeing all the exciting new avenues in science, she couldn’t resist the urge to ask Spencer for a chance to explore herself and learn as much as she can before they had to take their leave again.

Walking down the ramp, she stopped once her feet reached the ground. Without looking back, she spoke up, addressing the artificial intelligence of the ship.

“Hex, while Spencer and I are gone, you are in charge of the ship. Keep it safe. I’m not sure what he intends to do, but knowing him it would be utterly ridiculous and crazy. Just… stand by, and keep all five specimens safe.”

The ship’s AI promptly responded to the command with its insipid, youthful but masculine voice.

[As you command, Mistress Bey’on. I will keep everything safe eagerly awaiting both of your returns.]

Hearing how she was addressed by Spencer’s creation, Bey’on could only scoff with displeasure, albeit under this cover a tinge of a different emotion, something she couldn’t yet get a grasp on flashed through her eyes.

“Why does she always find pŀėȧsurė in doing these things to me?!” She muttered to herself, as she began to walk away, soon leaving the Landing Port, casually pacing towards the city center.

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Crossing through the dark and eerie metal hallways of their ‘new’ home, the Fashacalli trio began their first exploration of this new and strange vessel. Although they understood the general concept of space travel and the universe as a whole, thanks to their now-extinct race’s library, they learned about the legendary beings that could traverse even the vast darkness surrounding them.

Still, these beings could travel outside the void with the ȧssistance of their affinities and their inner fasha, they did not need to rely on science to achieve these feats. They never experienced what such a metallic wondrous marvel of technology such as this ‘bioship’ as Spencer and that cold-looking woman called it felt.

Another thing that was a complete mystery to them, was the voice that answered their calls, coming from seemingly all the walls.

“So, just to put this straight,” Milo spoke out, looking at the ceiling as they trekked through a long hallway. “You are called Hex, and you were created by Spencer to serve him and do his bidding?”

Shaya didn’t speak but had a worried look on his face, looking in the same general direction as Milo was.

[I am an AI, an Artificial Intelligence, created by Spencer. I am what you would call a machine, a tool, and not a living being. Although I am partly built with biological material, I am still a tool, created to complete my creator’s commands.]

“I don’t honestly get it, but if you are happy, then all the best for you, brother!” Milo responded with a wide grin on his face, patting the air in front of him awkwardly.

“So you are not a slave but his creation? A physical manifestation of his cruelty, ignorance, and ego?!” Cassa spoke with even bigger fervor than before.

A gentle, slender hand grasped her left shoulder, soon followed by her best friend’s meek and faint voice.

“Cassa… stop, please… He is not as bad as you paint him to be…”

Feeling the hand, Cassa’s words froze in her. She touched her hand, gently ċȧrėssing it, but unable to voice her thoughts any further. She simply closed her eyes and swallowed the thoughts still bubbling inside of her.

[I am not a living being, Mistress Cassa. I am not tainted by such emotions and feelings you described.] Hex’s emotionless, monotone voice resounded through the hallway, answering the girl’s earlier outcry.

Crossing through the hallway, they eventually reached a large double door, where they felt the only other living beings on board the ship. They tried finding this place, hoping to find others in a similar situation and get to know them.

“T-these…” Shocked to the core by the sudden realization as to what these familiar life signs were, caused Shaya’s words to freeze.

“Are these… Spencer’s tamed beasts from our planet?” Cassa muttered lost in the sight of these tubes. “What was he planning to do with-…” Her words froze in her, as she suddenly felt a shock flash through her mind.

Spurned to action by this feeling, she looked at her friends, only to see a similar shocked reaction flash through their eyes.

“W-what was that?!” Shaya cried out.

“Spencer. Something happened to him.” Milo curtly answered.

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Approaching the central section of the Kryptonian city, Bey’on kept soaking in all the sights she could take in. Reaching for the device on her right arm, she pushed a few buŧŧons and watched with curiosity glinting in her eyes.

The crystalline-based structures were very fascinating to her. They based all their structures, their devices on these artificially created crystals. Even the way they stored data seemed to be based on these basic geometrical shapes.

Reaching the city center, she looked around, mostly relying on her boosted psychic scanning to find beings similar to herself, soon spotting a male figure dressed in a white plain robe that marked all the requirements she set for herself.

Following the image of a typical Kryptonian Scientist that resided in the man’s mind, Bey’on’s invisible figure gradually changed, morphing into one of the female scientists. Her platinum-colored hair shortened, and turned charcoal black, her figure became slightly shorter whilst keeping a similar curvature, albeit with slightly gentler feminine characteristics as in her ‘default’ state.

As a last step, she coughed, first in her original voice, then in the new tone of the Erkolian female scientist. Alongside the coughing, she turned her invisibility off, just in time as she arrived in front of a massive structure.

The man who she followed hearing the familiar sound from behind, turned towards the disguised Bey’on and with a smile on her face, he waved at her.

“Reaya, how come you are here? Shouldn’t you be at the eastern border, getting ready to meet Xan delegation?”

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Whilst all the others gained the chance to develop and learn in their own time, especially Bey’on who made herself a part of the Erkolian scientific community, for the time being. As of now, Spencer had already reverted to his humanlike form with his tail and the new addition to his eyes, he was currently in the process of finishing up his work by holding up his side of the deal he made with Rex-Mall and the council who he “kindly persuaded”.

The two individuals could be seen greatly outside of planet Krypton’s atmosphere whilst they quickly approached the Wegthorian moon with haste, Spencer flew at a speed roughly around Mach 1 as he coated Rex-Mall’s body in a thin film of energy to protect him from the unforgiving harshness of space whilst sustaining his body without the need to breath using the life affinity.

Coming to an abrupt stop, Spencer and Rex appeared over the Wegthorian moon unnoticed by its population.

“Looks like we’ve arrived.” Spencer looked at the distraught Rex-Mall next to him as he struggled to speak,” Now would you rather me enslave them? Or completely wipe them out along with any traces of their existence? The choice is all yours, I honestly don’t care.”

“Just do as we agreed, I don’t want this to go on any further than it already has.” Visibly in psychological distress, Rex-Mall’s head dropped as he let everything he’s gone through at this point flow through his mind.

Raising his right hand to the side of his face, Spencer extended his index finger to commence his part of the deal. Summoning his bluish platinum aura that now has a much brighter glow than before, he channeled a small amount of the energy residing in his body to his fingertip, condensing it into a small luminous sphere big enough to fit in his palm. After a few moments of charging his attack as to not undercompensate, he deemed it as enough to destroy this moon 10 times over.

Slowly moving his index finger forward, the sphere began to make its way towards the moon at a moderate speed, the two watching as it descended. Rex-Mall observed the small orb in confusion whilst it approached the planet, his mind filled with many questions as to what it was supposed to do.

Before he could build the courage to ask, the small sphere abruptly picked up speed and enlarged to a size one-third of the same scale as the moon it was now approaching rapidly, casually breaching Its atmosphere. The now-massive sphere continued to collide with the surface of the celestial body, swiftly expanding further as a devastating electrical field of energy began to shoot from the rapidly engulfed moon, instantly vaporizing all life on its surface as well as the entire mass.

The vaporization of the celestial body was soon followed by a blinding light with the addition of a massive amount of heat and energy being released into space. Spencer watched the process from start to finished as he sensed the millions of life signatures fade from existence in mere moments by his hands.

Rex-Mall who was protected by the heat and energy released from the explosion was overcome with tremendous anxiety and fear as he witnessed the complete destruction of the moon in one clean sweep by Spencer.

“And with that, my side of the deal has come to an end. The Wegthorians are no more, at least the moon they resided on isn’t.” Spencer looked at the distressed Rex-Mall and decided to finish things up “If there’s nothing else, I’ll return you to Erkol. I have some things to take care of.”

Seeing that he wasn’t responding, “So be it.” Spencer snapped his fingers and teleported him to the city of Erkol. Now, that he has completed all that he had to do, he was only left with one more thing on his list of things to take care of.

Taking one last look at the debris from the once cosmic body, he placed his focus elsewhere, more specifically a rather appealing blue star that caught his eye in the far distance. Estimating the gap between him and the star, he perceived that even at his top speed it’ll take a while to get to it in a short enough time frame.

Placing his arms behind his back as it feels the most comfortable when he’s floating around, his body vanished as he freely warped the space around him to close the distance before he began his trip to the star.

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Currently residing in an all-white dimension, Spencer witnessed what would seem to be light particles zooming past him as he made his way to his destination.

Exiting the equivalent of warp space after a few seconds, he appeared in front of the massive blue giant star that made him seem like an infinitesimal speck when compared to its sheer mass. Simply being near it was enough for his cells to immediately be engulfed by its much more powerful rays when compared to the red sun his body was first exposed to.

He could feel his very cells surge with what felt to be limitless power, his eyes beginning to radiate the same solar energy he was absorbing without restraint as they emanate his iconic bluish platinum glow.

Spencer could do nothing as his cells feasted on the rays of the stars, craving more with every passing second he was exposed to it, growing to the point that he was becoming intoxicated by his perpetually skyrocketing power.

He could feel his body storing the energy he was absorbing and condensing it into a concentrated stream within his body, filling him with even more pŀėȧsurė as it left him with only one thought.

“More! I need more!”

Forcing himself unto the star, he plunged his body into it with open arms, forcefully taking its energies into his body with pure unending gluttony. Even though there was no noticeable change for the first few moments of him metabolizing the star, very small amounts of its mass began to slowly dissipate as the celestial body began to grow smaller and smaller as time went on.

At this point, the blue star was almost completely ȧssimilated into his body.

Once the process had completed and the star has been thoroughly absorbed into him, Spencer could be seen as a floating silhouette emanating purely blinding luminous light and radiation from his body, but the devastating amount of radiation was not the only factor, by absorbing the blue star within himself, he also gained its mass condensed into his much smaller body. Due to this, he gained a gravitational field around him equal to a blue giant star.

He could feel it within him and its effect on the space around him, he could feel this new source of energy coursing through his veins and soaking his cells with its dynamism. He felt as if he could destroy a solar system in one sweep with the power within him. But it came at a price, along with this immense power, he could feel his essence gradually destabilizing at a rapid rate.

His very atoms dissipating from his body and into the space around him, feeling that he didn’t have much time left till he inevitably implodes, he quickly entered his mindscape and attempted to fuse as much of the nuclear energy he gained from the star with his other energy sources.

Struggling to grasp even the smallest amount of control over the energy from the star, Spencer began forcefully replicating the process in his body by using the nuclear power he held as a base. The process of fusion continued to fluctuate violently, speeding up his rate of dissipation to a much higher degree than before.

Realizing that he was running out of time, he desperately tried to force it to fuse with his essence just as the other energies had done, and much to his surprise it started to work. The nuclear energy began to fuse with his essence and form into a core of power designated to perpetually generate nuclear energy, the core taking the same appearance as the blue star he had just consumed.

On the verge of completion, the core began to stabilize immensely, condensing into a ball of pure nuclear energy. Achieving the creation of the third and seemingly most destructive core in his body, Spencer accomplishing his goal stopped resisting his body’s urge to go supernova.

“Aaaaah!”

He yelled out as his body near-instantly collapsed from his unstable mass, causing an immediate chain reaction within his remaining cells, and any matter his body held.. Promptly discharging, the energy he absorbed from the star combined with the energies he already had stored in him quickly destroyed his physical body, bringing all of the energy into the space around him until a massive nebula took his place.