super heroes revival 4

 "This is insane," says one Dr. Varns speaking to a vampire by the name of Neiris in his club as they prepar the table in the curtained off VIP section, "We had a meeting with one of these aliens just the other week and now Markus the head of the New York Society branch is dead as a result."

  "I know," says Neiris, "I was there, however I am to understand these three women are enemies of that other woman; how strange all women."

   A few moments later General O'Neil has arrived along with Dr. Becket; and three others arn't far behind; they stick out and draw more eyes than these normally secretive men to care to see. Slayer-X looks like any ordinary woman from a somewhat rural background, but Galaxy Girl even in casual attire her wavy blue hair draws eyes, as does the spiky grey hair of ExZelia who is dressed in the same grey combat armor like costume as before. The three make their way to the thankfully not really as public as they claim club. Slayer-X's sensors detect almost half of them are Moroii vampires, Galaxy Girl and ExZelia can sense it as well.

   "Evening ladies," says General O'Neil, "I am General O'Neil, head of the Paranormal Control Agency; this is Dr. Becket our arcane artifacts expert, and this is Neiris VanTort the head of the vampire council."

   Neiris pulls up a monitor and a pale creature with thin white fur and beard and sunken in eyes appears with a raspy voice, "I represent the council of elders of the great Dark Dwellers nations of this continent. We too are interested in what is occuring with these strange creatures."

   "Pitiful," says Slayer-X, "perhaps this was a mistake."

   Dr. Becket places a crystal on the table, it glows and Slayer-X shows some discomfort but not as much as the man expected.

   "We have concerns," says General O'Neil, "and were surprised when you contacted us directly; is Slayer-X really okay to call you?"

   "Yes," answers Slayer-X eyeing the man and the monitor.

  "Well, we have been monitoring the situation, and for the sake of preventing public panic we try to keep situations of this sort out of the public eye." says the general.

   "That's not an option," says Galaxy Girl, "we sympathize of course but its not a decision we can make; this isn't about vampires or whatevers stalking shadows and hunting people as you seem to believe given what is all here and your titles; this is an invasion; Blue Stinger and the Queen of Puppets will attack openly, in broad daylight. We really should be meeting with your army and air force generals about this.Which when the rest of the Galactic Guardians arrive in a few days we fully intend to. This isn't something can be kept under wraps."

   "We understand that," says General O'Neil, "after that robot attacked Ft. Worthington army base and that assault on the Porta City power plant. Our concern is can we really trust you."

   "Of course," says ExZelia, "we are here to defend you from..." she pauses, "these invaders. We're basically space cops. Your world is only just starting to develop you deserve to advance on your own without some outside force trying to force you to obey them."

   The General and Becket exchange a glance and the General nods. Neiris switches the monitor to show two images, one is the dark dweller elder of course and the other is body cam footage showing ExZelia fighting the Queen of Puppets including the talk of being sisters. Then switches the footage to security footage from the power plant and the entire conversation between Rhudra and ExZelia. The screen then switches to just showing the dark dweller elder.

   "Can we really trust you?" asks General O'Neil, "sure you're powerful but,"

   Everyone in the building stands and are holding odd silver guns with glowing blue crystals on them once activated, Slayer-X falls to her knees weak; "this first...sister of yours is known to us as The Doll Collector, an eldritch monster who has kidnapped women and turned them into living dolls; dolls which themselves have been horrific monsters ruining people's lives; and now its invading with a doll army. This other one, this Rhudra bitch, murdered the head of the New York Society, a group that like the Paranormal Control Agency defends the public from monsters like you.

  "You can't be serious," says Galaxy Girl, "you clearly know about Slayer-X, but ExZelia and myself are alien to your world. This is a mistake; I just knew we should have contacted an army base but no, Slayer-X wanted to contact you first, said you may have tech you could share with the rest of your people to help them; you clearly do; seeing as how you are using Ju-el technology to subdue Slayer-X; but those guns are ancient, won't do a damned thing against me."

  "Rhudra was right," whispers ExZelia nearly teary eyed, "You did turn on me..but...I...I'm trying to help you. We fought them; how come..."

   The guns all power down as a man in a black robe with green dragons on it just materializes from thin air.

   "Lord Xiang!" shouts Neiris standing up.

   "Neiris VanTort," says Lord Xiang been a while, "Your instincts it seems were correct in contacting me."

   He eyes the monitor, "and Cra'kliak, or is is Cro'klak, I have such a hard time with you local goblin tribes."

  "Dark dwellers," hisses the creature on the screen.

  "Who are you?" demands General O'Neil.

  Lord Xiang snaps his fingers and a green burst of light fills the room every soldier in disguise hits the floor, "Don't worry that was a sleep spell."

   Lord Xiang dips his head towards ExZelia, "Princess Zelia of Stratalia, I thought the footage looked familiar and when Princess Rhudra addressed you as her sister; well; it became obvious."

   "Oh," says ExZelia, "I know you...you...you were at the meeting with grandpa...I mean King Tyros; and the international magic demonstrations."

  "Indeed," says Lord Xiang, "I also serve as one of the four seats of the Council of Darkness for this world. You really should have come to us directly; but with the footage my agents took from these proto-humans it seems you are not here with Princess Rhudra and may not have known who to actually contact. I do apologize for any ill treatment you recieved on this planet."

  "Who the fuck are you!" screams General O'Neil pulling a gun that Slayer-X quickly takes from him and crushes in her hand.

   Slayer-X growls, "Which outpost did you steal this tech from?"

   O'Neil doesn't speak however Lord Xiang speaks up, "The Antarctica cooperative prison complex. These fools also let out a few of the Ki'an'ta's prisoners mistaking them for spooks and what not. Their discovery the energy could adversly affect those animated by eldritch was a fluke; exposing themselves to the psycho radiation in the process may have lead to this illogical behavior."

   "So others won't act like this?" asks ExZelia.

  "I can't guarantee that," says Lord Xiang, "however I would advise against seedy night time meetings in private clubs in the future your majesty."

  Lord Xiang has walked across the room to the meeting table.

  "A pleasure to meet you Slayer-X, heard alot about your exploits, and a super hero, Galaxy Girl was it, a pleasure as well. Now gentlemen, I don't know if it was because you think they are The Doll Collector's dolls pretending to be superheroes; yes I intercepted that message as well; or you somehow thought you could just shoot people who took on alien armies and a giant robot but your methods are foolish. Also,"

   He nods to Neiris who taps a remote and brings up additional footage on the monitor showing Hollia in the store house restoring two children from doll form to human and the soldiers attacking them.

  ExZelia watches the footage wide eyed.

  "These men," says Lord Xiang, "wanted to murder those children Queen Holly Lia restored to humanity; she also followed them to another location where she discovered they fully intended to feed captives of their own kind to a group of goblins as part of some treaty to prevent the goblins from openly attacking people. Feeding the monsters privately so they don't kill people openly; not what I'd call protecting humanity."

  "Now see here," says General O'Neil who falls silent as Lord Xiang's eyes glow green and black.

  "How terrible," says ExZelia.

  "I can confirm," says Slayer-X, "I have been intercepting dark dweller hunting packs which have shown clear signs of human assistance. However I was not aware the organization responsible had joined with the Paranormal Control Agency."

  Lord Xiang speaks to General O'Neil, "Princess Rhudra I am aware already spoke with you, and I am aware murdered your representative of the group that partners with these human eating creatures."

   "ssseee here," hisses the elder.

   "Turn that dumb thing off," orders Lord Xiang to Neiris who is quick to comply.

   Lord Xiang turns back to General O'Neil, "Princess Rhudra is doing her own thing, we believe trying to start her own empire. Long term goal, essentially trying to usurp your position as the secret power in the shadows; and considering she actually found us; and considering you have attacked Queen Holly Lia while she was rescuing the victims of the Doll Collector and just tried to ambush Princess Zelia."

   "ExZelia Elementra," says ExZelia, "that's what I am calling myself."

   "Understood your majesty," says Lord Xiang turning back to General O'Neil, "If not for their mercy and the fact they were sneaking onto your base in the first place; you nearly started a war with the Ravashira Empire. Well and this ambush on ExZelia and her friends just trying to help you of course. Your world already is being invaded by two alien armies; trust me when I say you don't want to be responsible for starting a war with the Ravashira Empire."

   He pauses a moment and turns to ExZelia, "that said, Princess ExZelia Elementra, I had heard you were off world training in politics, combat, and survival on alien planets with Princess Rhudra. This seems a rather extreme form of survival training to pit you against her; but then again I have seen Princess Rhudra fist fight a giant dragon into submission and walk right into a throne room and demand their surrender so I suppose I shouldn't question it. Just so...actually one moment."

  He snaps his fingers again and General O'Neil and Dr. Becket are rendered unconcious, "as I was saying, Rhudra just the other day came to the Council of Darkness; the council had some concerns about this alien invasion and super heroes showing up. After what happened some time back before you were born with Empress Rhulan and the other Celestial Empresses; the Architects of Magic as they called themselves they are legitimatly concerned about the fate of this world. Which not long ago an Overlord Tournament took place on this planet and some unknown magical force sent all the Overlords away save for Sahralia; and restored all the lives lost and structures damaged, even altering most the memories and recording devices of the events that took place. Empress Rhulan once cast a spell like that; so on behalf of the Council of Darkness do you know if Empress Rhulan was behind that?"

   "I don't know what you're talking about," says EzZelia, "I havn't been home in a few months, and last I saw Empress Rhulan was still sleeping. I heard she was doing a dream projection to look after another member of the royal family trapped in a human body or something, like help her awaken her past life memories or something; maybe Queen Holly...I don't know."

   Lord Xiang pauses, "Hmm, well that is what Princess Rhudra said as well. I have doubts Queen Holly would interfere with an Overlord Tournament, concerns for human life or no, that is a major taboo."

   Lord Xiang *sighs*, "I ask because with these recent events being as impactful as they are we are worried whatever that was may appear again. Some unknown factor powerful enough to even interfere with demon overlords and gods of the dead. We figured it was likely Empress Rhulan, if not then well...its is troubling to say the least."

   Galaxy Girl has been studying this whole conversation interrupts, "Perhaps we should take this conversation where there likely arn't devices recording everything we say."

  Lord Xiang turns to Neiris, "I want a full clean up of this location, confiscate all recorders, wipe every memory. This never happened. Also hunt down that child eating bastard of a creature your moronic human cohorts invited and kill it."

   "As you command Lord Xiang," says Neiris as he gets on a cellphone to call some other vampires.

   Lord Xiang steps outside with the three, "Well, I know you didn't need my assistance but I thought it best if this world didn't end up going to war with The Ravashira Empire over attacking the young princess."

 "Hold up," says Galaxy Girl, "I've listened to everything you said, this Empress Rhulan, Celestial Empresses, Architects of Magic, has this individual ever called herself Rokonaka?"

   "But of course," says Lord Xiang surprising her, "Her full name is Rhulan Rokonaka, I've actually known her for several thousand years; we actually me when she was a mercenary in Reality-Q."

  He leans towards ExZelia, "and I could tell some stories about how viciously efficient she was then. Not to mention when she came back to Aesperia."

   Galaxy Girl looks concerned, "ExZelia, the mother that is always sleeping and you only interacted with her in the brief moments she'd be awake...this is...the same?"

  "Uh, well, yeah," says ExZelia, "Rhudra and my mom would tell me she woke up because some part of her; a dream projection spell had to be realigned to match up with changes in something about time distortions and finding that one princess' soul. I don't really get it all but; they were always happy memories seeing her look at me from her bed, sit up and play with me a few minutes every few days. My mom and Rhudra always told me stories about her; but...wait..you know her too?"

   "Not, directlty" says Galaxy Girl looking a bit worried, "but I have heard stories."

  As they part ways with Lord Xiang and ExZelia uses her Oblivion Summance spell in an alley way to go back to their headquarters *a cabin in the woods Slayer-X has*, Galaxy Girl can't help but feel concerned as she watches ExZelia chatting with Slayer-X.