Slayer X and ExZelia story

   "Targets in sight," reports a man sitting in a parked rusty windowless white van that for all the world can tell is empty of any driver or passengers, as the man watches from a monitor with four other men in the back via cameras places around the area, speaking to men with fire arms stationed in nearby buildings. The subject of his report is a strange creature, on the surface looking like a thin man in rags for clothing, but its movement and revealing parts of its body show that it is a man made of wood. Not the only one, the agency had picked up sightings of such "creatures" in this run down area going back several months now, as they were breaking into homes and businesses to steal electronic devices for reasons unknown. Computers, power tools, cell phones, and more. The cellphones were how they traced them to this location thanks to some of the people having emergency GPS for stolen phones. However the police were no help and planted agents in the local precint alerted the agency after seeing the security footage and realizing these things were not human.

    The team prepares to move in, counting six of these "Stick People" inside an abandoned warehouse.The latest one returning from its heist of some small device it can be seen through a broken window depositing into a pile at the far end of the building. Six men in through the front door, six from a side door, they charge in unloading their weapons without any warning, the Stick People are blasted to bits, however they lumber and run at the men who are quick to back up and continue their assault till there is only twitching tember. However as they are about to call in a clean up crew a boisterous deep laugh fills the warehouse and a strange explosion of smoke from behind the pile of electronics reveals a large muscular mustard yellow creature looking more like a Power Rangers villain than a real monster, claw like hands, a helmet resembling that of the X-men character Juggernaut, and a pair of thin katana like blades rising up from its shoulders with a slight hook at their tips. This creature's eyes glow with a yellow light.

  "These are this world's heroes?" mocks the eight foot fall foam rubber looking creature, "Hah, what a joke. This world only has soliders. I am Armageddon, general of the Queen of Puppets."

   They fire on it but the bullets only bounce off its rubbery body. Armageddon as it called its self crosses it arms over its chest and yells out, "Armageddon beams!" yellow beams fire from the tips of the blades protruding from its shoulders that cut through the soldiers, vaporizing them partially where it cuts. The soldiers retreat, a few grabbing up some of a "Stick Person" to take back to base, as they retreat however a yellow swirling vortex appears in the center of the warehouse between them and Armageddon, from the vortex steps a woman with short blone hair wearing jeans and a denim jacket.

  "Ah," says Armageddon, "are you this world's true hero?"

   His answer is her lunging across the room and punching him in his foam rubber like face sending him flying back with enough force to dent the metal wall behind him. He pulls forward and the ensuing battle is a light show, the woman is *zipping* around dodging the monster's yellow energy beams being fired from the shoulder spikes, his eyes, and even his mouth all at the same time. In return she thrusts her hands out firing blue plasma beams and tossing exploding blue energy spheres, the monster seems to only be slightly burned by these attacks. However few soldiers remain to see this as they have retreated.

   "Data retrieved," says Armageddon, "I know who you are now, Android-S."

   The woman stops and glares at the monster, "The people of this world call me Slayer-X"

  "Hah," says Armageddon, "you are a rogue doll from the queen's toy chest, no different than I."

  "So what," says Slayer-X, "why even bother saying that? You don't even look like something she'd play with."

   Armageddon clinches his fists his whole body glowing with an intense yellow light.

   "That's enough," comes a woman's voice as a swirling blue portal appears on the ground beside Armageddon and a woman dressed up Alice in Wonderland complete with long blond hair and a black band in her hair rises from the floor portal, floating a second as the portal shrinks and vanishes beneath her feet.

  "That is more what I was expecting when I tracked the scraps here." remarks Slayer-X, "Where is the Doll Collector."

   She clinches her fist as it glows with blue energy.

  "The mistress," remarks the woman, "does not approve that name given to her by the local boring secret police. She has declared she is to be called the Queen of Puppets. I am one of her generals now, Killer Alice."

  "Funny," remarks Slayer-X, "chatter on the coms by these supernatural control agents is you are just some psychotic vampire bitch turning innocent people into dolls in some desperate attempt to regain your humanity from her."

   Killer Alice scoffs, "Oh, that was before I found out what she really is, about the glorious empires and grand powers she is a part of. I am not cursed, I am chosen."

    Killer Alice's jaw opens up like a nutcracker and fires out a knife that whizzes past Slayer-X's face as she dodges the sneak attack. However as Slayer-X is about to go in for the attack her feet become frozen, paralysed, she has to fight her knees as they try to bend. Armageddon is kneeling now, and Killer Alice standing to the side as from nothing she has appeared, the twelve foot giantess in a white victorian dress whose arms are long, fingers long and pointed like needles, her neck and head enveloped in shadow that extends to her billowing long hair that looks for all the world to be a mix of tendrils and varying shades of living darkness with the occassional sparkle of star light. Her face is adorned by a white masquerade mask with red painted lips and black swirles around the eyes. Within the eye holes her eyes are simply discs of blue light shining through the darkness.

   "My little doll," she says, "Android-S, wants to be called Slayer-X in this playground? I do not object, but why do you fight me?"

   Slayer-X is struggling to keep her knees from bending, glaring at the ground knowing not to look directly at the eldritch being before her, "I am a hero, I am not your toy, these people are not your toys, they are alive, they deserve to be protected."

   Slayer-X's eyes go wide as her vision is enveloped by the white dress now standing beside her a gentle hand stroking her back. The pressure on her knees vanishes and she can stand. Still she looks away despite the comforting feeling coming over her.

   "You are not wrong my little doll," says the being known now as the Queen of Puppets, "I have collected enough from this world. I want to play with my dolls, so yes, a good game. You can protect these people and my Alice can lead the forces to fight them."

   "Well that doesn't sound fair," comes another woman's voice coming from no where.

   "Who dares to interrupt me?" asks the Queen of Puppets as a blue spiral portal appears in the air and from it appears a short woman wearing silver and black form fitting armor, and has odd spiky silver hair and long pointed ears.

   "The name's ExZelia," says the girl zipping down grabbing Slayer-X and flying back out of the Queen of Puppet's reach. Slayer-X sighs as she regains her composure from being so close to the eldritch being that created her.

   "Having yor dolls fight each other over humans?" asks ExZelia, "not really a contest I'd say. and she's right you have no right to toy with human lives."

   "Right?" asks the Queen of Puppets her eyes glowing brightly now, "what right do I need? This world is in no one's domain, a cast aside remnant of a split time line. Even the Overlord tournament's rules didn't stick to it properly. I can do as I so desire here. Collect new dollies, play with my dollies, if I want I could turn an entire continent into a new toy box, what's to stop me?"

  "Me," says ExZelia,

  "and me," breathes out Slayer-X

  "Oh." says the Queen of Puppets, "you want to play with me then? Be the hero while I am the villain?"

  "No," says ExZelia, "its not a game, those like you, Blue Stinger, and Rhudra, you treat humans like playthings, something to bow to you, to turn the ones you like into your toys and pets. They deserve to be treated as living beings, equals."

   The Queen of Puppets lets out a boisterous laugh, "I can see you, you know, you are not a human yourself, and never were. Equals, deserving of respect? Are you under the impression they are actual intelligent beings? They are creations, programs...toys, who cannot act outside of their programmed options and limitations. They will not see you as a hero, this is not a super of magical world these humans are designed to lash out at anything different than themselves, including slight variations in each other."

   She points at a corpse, "go ahead and try to protect them; as soon as they realize you are not like them they will try to find a way to harm you, to kill you, and they will act upon that. It is how they were designed."

   She narrows her eyes, "I see that body of yours, a mixture of Kuhrai, Light Elf, and Aesperian; very different from..."

   She pauses, "I see something else...you are just a young one. Very young...I can tell who your parents are. Very interesting. So be it. To me it is but a game, you can think of it however you like...little sister, the game begins."

  A rush of mist and the Queen of Puppets is gone, as are Armageddon and Killer Alice.

  "Little Sister?" asks Slayer-X as soon as everything is quiet.

  ExZelia looks down at a soldier's body, sensing the body cam and microphone are still going and recorded everything, "I'll explain when we get away from here."

   As the two open a portal and vanish ExZelia thinks, "she rigged that whole fear me bit, shit."