Alright this the next to last chapter in the Hellplane arc.
I hope you have enjoyed it so far.
If you want to see an update on what Bruce can do now, see aux chapters.
Peace-
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[Collapsing Hell Plane]
/ A few minutes Before Bruce's Awakening/
The shadow of Nyarlathotep made the entire dimension of the HellPlane break apart in to fragments of land masses that floated in the darkness.
It just shows that a being of his stature is too much for a dimension of this level, even if it is an avatar or puppet.
Many worlds that were a part of the Hellplane now float barren on life.
And the only sorce of life was only the shadow of Nyarlathotep and Wrath himself.
Only the large black mountain that floated in darkness and was surrounded by a mass of black tentacles could be seen.
"Urghhh!"
Wrath growled out in discomfort as the spear in his shoulder was being twisting in a circle rotation over in over again.
It was slowly separating his left arm from his body, and the person doing this was really enjoying it too much.
Mathros/Nyarlathotep was practically drooling at the mouth as he slowly tortured Wrath.
As he pushed the spear deeper into Wrath's body, he even infused his own Eldritch darkness into his wound to increase the pain.
*Rumbleee*
The already collapsing hellplane fragments began to break apart even more. Fissure's spraying out red orange lava formed even more.
And the space inside the Hellplane fell to a point where it was nonexistent.
So many pieces of the hellplanes ground, mountains, any other things were all either exploding or just floating with no gravity.
The darkness grew even thicker as Nyarlathotep grew stronger as he took hold on Mathros's body and soul.
And the only light in the darkness was Wrath's green energy that was slowly dimming as the time passed.
"Mhmmm, I can smell your anger, your desperation." Mathros/Nyarlathotep said as he licked his lips.
"Your will to destroy me!"
*CrackBooom*
Mathros/Nyarlathotep pushed Wrath even deeper with the spear into the now black mountain that was corrupted from his power.
"GRHh!" As Wrath struggled to push out the spear from his shoulder.
Even when he tried to punch Mathros/Nyarlathotep in the face it did nothing, his body was being corrupted by the influx of Nyarlathotep power.
Wrath felt like his energy was being drained rapidly and he started to feel his vision getting blurry.
His mind tuned out Mathros/Nyarlathotep's voice as he bled out from his wound like an ocean. Just green and red blood spilled out into the chaos that was once the hellplane.
Eventually Wrath's mind froze, his green eyes dimmed, and his body went cold. But on the inside of his mind a whole other situation arose.
Wrath opened his eyes and found himself in darkness, but not that far from him was green light.
It was almost like there was a sun floating in front of him.
He even had to squint his eyes because it was so bright and powerful.
But eventually, a dark figure appeared in the center of the green sun, it was slowly making its way towards Wrath.
The figure was clearly very far from Wrath, but every step the figure took it seemed to cross the distance like there was no space between it and Wrath.
Soon though, Wrath could see the outline of the figure and it was a male figure that was coming towards him.
After one last movement form the man, and one last blink from Wrath, the man was already in front of Wrath looking at him.
Wrath took in the man's figure, he was tall, way taller than him by at least two feet.
If you must know, Wrath is 6'8, but the man in front of him was at least 7'9. And his semi long black hair looked like midnight, no light could escape it.
The green lines on his chest and arms pulsed with power. They just really felt otherworldly and powerful to Wrath.
Then there was his emerald, green eyes that saw through Wrath and looked to carry wisdom.
"You have done well, Wrath." The man said to him with a smile.
Wrath was stunned into silence.
The man reached out and touched Wraths forehead, and he said, "You can rest now, I will take it from here."
"All of that which you have fought for, I shall complete for you this day."
As Wraths mind began to slowly fade away, he finally recognized the man in front of him, it just clicked in his mind the reason why he so upset about a woman he never met.
He knew what the green energy was.
And he realized the reason for which he was so far from home, the Neo-Gamma Realm.
Then the most important thing that he realized, was that he was just a persona, and not a true independent avatar.
Wrath smiled as he realized the truth, and he said, "It's about time Bruce."
After that the last embers of Wrath persona disappeared, and all the memories poured into Bruces head.
One the outside of Wraths mind, Mathros/Nyarlathotep suddenly felt Wrath's body go cold and limp.
And he saw the green energy on his body just fizzle out.
To say he was mad would be an understatement.
"NO!" Mathros/Nyarlathotep roared as he felt Wrath's lifeforce disappear.
Mathros/Nyarlathotep anger made the chaos around him become turbulent and orange lightning bolts struck in the darkness like a thunderstorm.
*CrackBooooom*
Mathros/Nyarlathotep even smacked Wraths face a few times to wake him up.
Soon he even began threatening him.
"I command you to return!"
*Pac*
A punch from Mathros/Nyarlathotep blew half the mountain into ashes behind Wrath.
"Do you not care for your wife!" He screamed into Wraths face.
"If you do not return, I shall put her in the vilest thing in all creation."
"She will be so destroyed that nothing you try to do to fix her will ever work!"
Mathros/Nyarlathotep kept spouting crazy things that he would do to Caiera if Wrath did not return to him.
Eventually, Mathros/Nyarlathotep stopped as the reality that Wrath was dead sunk in his mind like a boulder in a lake.
"I can't believe it, after all of this my plans will go to was-
*KRACKBOOOOOOM*
Mathros/Nyarlathotep was mid speech when a force like no other blasted from Wraths limp body, shattering his jaw into pieces and knocking him far away.
*Thawoooooshhh*
A green flame like energy erupted from Wraths body burning away all the darkness in and around him.
It even blew away the spear in Wraths body like tissue.
Then it surrounded his body like an egg, the green energy surrounded him like a mother.
Inside of it, the crack on Wrath chest began to shine intensely with a bright green light.
And then a finger poked through it followed by even more fingers, and the crack grew bigger as a hand emerged from it.
The hand pushed apart the left side of Wrath's chest as the right side was pushed apart by another hand.
As the hands pushed apart the chest of Wrath, his body began to split in half revealing a man floating in the green flame.
The pieces of Wrath body turned into black ashes that floated behind the man.
Said man had his eyes closed and his arms spread out, he was breathing in the green energy in his nostrils.
His slicked back black hair lit ablaze with a green flame, it was almost like a crown.
The man then opened his eyes revealing nothing but green orbs of power that promised destruction.
On his body green runes glowed brightly and thrumming with energy.
The man seeing the ashes of Wrath finally spoke saying, "I thank you," The man seriously said.
Then he paused and said, "are you willing to be my garments."
And the black ashes circled around the man's lower half of his body making a skirt of black, it did this without question.
From his waist to his feet, the skirt covered it all.
Satisfied with this, the man then looked at the brilliant green energy around that was protecting him and said, "Now, my Neo-gamma, come to me."
*Crackleeee*
*Thawhoooooshhh*
The Neo-gamma around him grew in size even more, and it roared with a ferocity that perfectly described Bruce's mood at the moment.
And the chaotic space heated up this very moment, all the darkness that was near Bruce scattered away from him like scared cat.
From a distance, it looked as if an extremely large green sun had just appeared out of nowhere.
Mathros/Nyarlathotep who had just recovered from that attack looked upon this sight with a fanatical expression.
His large body full of black tentacles wiggled with excitement.
He was about to rush over to it, but a simple gaze from Bruce froze his entire body with fear.
Now Nyarlathotep who was in control of this body wasn't afraid, the reason for this action was none other than Mathros's body.
It's like the law of the jungle, an Alpha predator can only be king if a superior creature doesn't appear.
And Mathros's body's instincts took over to save his life, as he has now run into a superior foe.
Nyarlathotep who now understood what the problem was, could only shake his head and force it to move.
Bruce on the other hand was thinking of ways to get Caiera back, but nothing he thought of really planned out.
As Nyarlathotep was a very one linear type of being, and his mood was just all over the place.
Then he remembered that Nyarlathotep's whole thing was pure unadulterated chaos, so he thought why not give him a chaos that even he wouldn't be able to control.
And make him think his plans whatever they were was going smoothly.
"Hmmm." His green orbs pulsed with that idea.
There were a few other ideas that Bruces mind ran through, and many things he could do now that he had the freedom to do so.
*RUMBBLEEE*
Bruce felt the Neo-gamma was ready for a fight and the destruction that has now combined itself with the Neo-Gamma was itching to destroy.
So, he thought why not test Destruction and the much stronger Neo-Gamma in it's true capacity.
Besides he needs to see what he could do now, he felt extremely powerful at the moment, like leagues beyond what he has ever been.
Especially since his Neo-gamma power devoured the destruction aspect, concept, and power from Vhaalku.
His mind summoned up the information from Vhaalku about his new abilities, one of them was the same as before, True Destruction.
Only this time his control, reach, and precision were greatly magnified.
And there were three levels of this power.
They are named the first level which is just Destroy, then the third level Destruction, and the final level True Destruction.
The first level was just using destruction in its rudimentary state, meaning Bruce could destroy any target he wanted in front of him, wither it be human, animal, and spirit. Even the natural elements like atoms, gravity or oxygen.
He can destroy things all the way down to the subatomic level, and then some.
Anything mortal or divine he could now destroy in an instant.
Now the next level was a second stage of Destruction or a higher form of it, meaning Bruce could destroy laws, powers from people, memories, thoughts, and even the way existence as a hole operates.
It can also reach across all of space-time as a whole.
The third level is just destruction in its purest state, nothing can resist it, no type of resistance, immortality, Haxs, nothing.
It does not matter what you are, or what crazy ability you can use, if Bruce uses this then you are just fucked.
Hence the name True Destruction.
But luckily for many people Bruce can only use this power up to the second level, for now that is.
His body is adapting to Vhaalkus power, and Bruces body is changing to become its most perfect self.
The Neo-gamma took the lead. And it was transforming his body and combining it with its Outer God heritage.
Plus, this wasn't the only powers and abilities he has now gained from this, there are many others.
Bruce absorbed all of this information his mind. All while another part of his conciseness was scanning the chaos around him.
*Thrummmmm*
'And look a dummy for practice.' Bruce thought to himself as he saw the gigantic form of Nyarlathotep's tentacles rushing at him, alongside numerous monster mouths.
He smirked slightly, as he knew that this puppet was no match for the current him.
So, he simply said, "Destroy."
And without a second to waste, the neo-gamma moved.
*shaaaaa*
A green current in the form of a small dragon just obliterated Nyarlathotep's mass of tentacles in an instant.
All while Bruce faded from view as he put his next plan in motion.
Nyarlathotep's mind was still in fight mode when he realized that his lower body was gone.
Still stunned at what just happened, he didn't see the huge green sun vanish, nor did he see Bruce disappear.
Nyarlathotep forced his essence to regrow his lower half, but as he looked up, he was met with a hand to the face.
*Boooooom*
The green energized hand of Bruce grabbed the puppet of Nyarlathotep's entire face whole and slammed is entire body on a random floating land mass in the chaotic space.
*Krackboooom*
They moved so fast that the place only registered it after the fact win Bruce slammed him down on the land mass.
It was like if a video game had lagged.
Standing back up from his crouched position he stood over Nyarlathotep, seeing the confusion in his face Bruce said, "I'm sure you're wondering how or why."
Bruce raised his hand and put it on side of Nyarlathotep's elongated face and said, "I won't be telling you, but what I will do is give you a reminder that,".... Bruce breathed in deep and behind him the Neo-gamma shot up into the highest part of the space.
It was like a green pillar that pierced the void itself.
Then other versions or avatars of Bruce himself just appeared and surrounded Nyarlathotep, they were all green in color, kind of like a certain bald blue man.
They had no flesh on their body's, just pure energy.
Their appearance and the pillar of Neo-gamma made the darkness of the chaos retreat in fear.
Then their voices talked in unison.
Bruces eyes were practically spewing out green, and the neo gamma following his will formed a gigantic green dragon behind him.
"ROOARRRRRRR!!!!"
And Bruce said, "I AM NOT ONE WHO YOU CAN PLAY WITH!!!!"
With his eyes swirling like a hurricane, Bruce said, "Destruction!"
Then the chaos forces in the space froze, and everything began to bleed green.
It was like a green dye had been cast across a canvas.
The Dragon on the other hand roared one final time and shot down moving beyond speed itself and unlike you would expect, it didn't kill Mathros, but it went inside his mind, body and soul.
It latched onto Nyarlathotep's essence that was inside of him.
Bruce then said, "I would say something cocky, but you won't remember it or this entire place at all."
His power of Destruction destroyed all of Nyarlathotep's essence in Mathros and it traveled the line of connection it shared with the real avatar of Nyarlathotep.
And before avatar of Nyarlathotep could react or try to stop it, the green dragon shot into his mind and erased all of what transpired here, along with the knowledge of this hellplane.
Then a small piece of the green dragon secretly went into the yellow orb and merged with Cairea who was frozen still.
Bruce who felt his plan finish smiled.
You see when Bruce thought of a plan to help both him and Caiera, he realized that most of the real forms of the outer gods slept through pretty much everything.
And their avatars handled pretty much anything that the main body willed.
Plus, they were weaker than the main bodies.
So, Bruce came up with the idea of erasing the memory of Nyarlathotep's avatar.
He wasn't sure it would work, but the element of surprise helped him immensely, or he would have had to fight the real avatar of Nyarlathotep.
Granted he would have won, but he would have also drawn the full attention of Nyarlathotep's real self directly on him.
Then he would be pretty much screwed.
"Urghhh!"
Bruce was brought out of his ramblings from the sound of Mathros vomiting, his other selves or clones as you could call them faded away.
As they did Bruce also realized he still had his hand on Mathros's face, so he removed it.
"What happened, where am I?" Mathros said in-between his vomiting.
And as his vison took in the sight of his once glorious realm now a plane of blackness he yelled, "MY REALM!"
"WHO DID THIS!"
Bruce just looked at him and said, "You are at the END."
Hearing that voice Mathros's entire body shivered in fear.
He even tried to run but couldn't as...
"MY LEGS!!!" Mathros screamed in horror as he looked down at his wasit and saw he had no legs at all.
Bruce just said, "Like I said you're at the end of your pathetic life."
Mathros who was enraged at all of this looked up at Bruce and tried to attack him.
But... "What, my power!" Mathros couldn't call upon his magic, his spear or any type of power at all.
"HO-"
"How?" Bruce said to him, finishing Mathros's words.
"I tell you how, you messed and lusted after the wrong individual's wife."
"BUT I-," Mathros tried to scream out something, but Bruce simply said, "your mouth is an annoyance."
Bruce's green eyes brightened ever so slightly and Mathros felt his body shiver.
Then he felt something off with himself.
"Mhpmf!" Mathros's eyes went wide with fear as he realized something, he couldn't move his lips or his mouth either.
And the more important thing, he couldn't speak.
His hands reached up to his mouth and he felt nothing.
Mathros's mouth was gone.
"Now that is much better, don't you think?" Bruce said it as a question, but he also did it to mess with Mathros as well knowing he can't talk.
"Now, a friend of mine gave you a promise, and I intend to keep it." Bruce said as he stood up.
"We started with your legs, then your mouth."
"Next why don't we try your blood, then your nerves, then your bones."
"Afterwards we can move on to your flesh and brain system." Bruce spoke.
"Oh yeah, I'm a doctor so don't worry, I know exactly what to do so you don't die so quickly." Bruce smiled wickedly as he spoke.
Mathros mind was paralyzed with fear and the shock from all this made him pass out. But Bruce wouldn't allow that now would he.
"Oh, No, No, No." Bruce said as he shook his head.
"We can't have you pass out now can we," and Bruce with his smart brain in play destroyed the concept of tired and even the body's natural function of sleep from Mathros's body.
So now no matter how much pain Mathros was in, he could never pass out, nor scream to, as his mouth was gone.
"Now, shall we begin, I have a lot to test with my newfound power." Bruce said happily like a kid in the candy store.
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[Up in the Outer Void]
Nyarlathotep's avatar who was seated in his chair got up and looked around.
He felt off but he didn't know what it was.
It was a frustrating but oddly enough exciting thing for him.
And so, he just chalked it up to chaos and began planning on what to do now that he had Caiera in his grasps.
He needs to really drive Wrath in a corner so that Vhaalku could wake up.
So, he sat and thought to himself on what to do.
Then an idea hit him.
"Maybe those guys, or more importantly that Monarch would be a good show to watch." Nyarlathotep's avatar spoke out loud.
"I'd have to rewrite the story a bit and insert her into it." His mind's chaotic thoughts swirled around for a few good minutes.
Then he shot up from his seat like lighting.
"Yes, that would be perfect!" He exclaimed, then he looked down at the sleeping form of Caiera and said, "I wonder how you'd fair as a Monarch."
"KEKEKKEKEKEKEE!!!" His crazy laugh echoed in the void where he stood.
Then he left to start his plan, all while thinking to himself, 'Heh, wonder how you will feel once your wife is an enemy brother.'
'No, pardon my words, not wife, but future and tenth Monarch of the Earth!'
Then an orange red gap appeared in front of him, and he walked through it.
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[Destroyed Hellplane]
As all that was going on with Nyarlathotep's avatar, we come back to a very horrifying situation and image.
We see the form of Bruce crouching over a person.
And in Bruces right hand was a broken black spear, he was currently carving somthing in the chest of Mathros.
Mathros at the moment was kind of dull in the eyes, as after a while of Bruce slowly destroying his blood, cells, organ, tissue, and brain.
He just felt neutral, that was until Bruce destroyed the concept of that in his mind, so he just felt everything.
All the pain and suffering.
Now he was but a husk of his former prideful self.
No, quite literally as he had no bones or muscle tissue in his body.
He looked a like a deflated balloon that was nailed to a rock with the shards of the spear Bruce was using.
Only his left-over blood painted the black rock he was on with some type of color.
"And one last mark, then your free to go." Bruce's voice echoed out as he positioned the tip of the spears blade near Mathros's head.
"Hmmm, I know the perfect thing to write so that all may see in the future." Burce said with a nonchalantly attitude.
Then he began carving the words, The Fool on Mathros's head.
And he then burned it with the Neo-Gamma to make it stick forever, and anytime Mathros would try to forget this time in his life as he floated in the void, the burns would heat up.
As the burns heat up, it would cause Mathros immense pain, so he can never forget or think of anything other than Bruce.
"There, now you all of creation can see The Fool who thought he could have it all, The great and powerful Mathros!" Bruces voice boomed out.
Then he lost the little smirk on his face as he gazed at Mathros and he said, "You shall wander the void for all eternity in everlasting agony."
After that Bruce took the last spear tip, the one he used to carve his words onto Mathros's body and impaled him in the throat.
*Putchi*
Bruce then kicked the black rock out from underneath him and he let it begin to drift far and wide, lasting for all eternity as he said.
After all this Bruce turn and looked at the destroyed HellPlane, and he bowed.
Bruce looked back up at the Hellplane and said, "I apologize to every soul that was lost in my fight."
He then scanned the dark expanse and after a while Bruce made a decision.
"Hmph!"
A flex of his power, and the Neo-Gamma flashed all across the destroyed hellplane.
After the flash of his Neo-gamma, Bruce looked down at his right hand.
He opened it and in the palm of his hand was the miniature form of the destroyed HellPlane dimension.
"I can promise you that when the time arrives, I shall reform you and add you to my own realm."
Bruce promised this to not only the dead souls of the hellplane, but to himself also.
Then Bruce looked out into the empty gray Void wondering what next alongside him getting stronger.
"Oh, yeah." Bruce exclaimed to himself.
He reached down into the Hellplane and pulled four individuals out form a secret realm that was hidden.
As he did, he thought, 'I almost forgot about you guys.'
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