Jake opened his eyes to see a dark room, dimly lit by a green light to his left.
This was the only black room he had seen in this godforsaken place and instead of it feeling refreshing, it felt strangely unsettling. Especially considering his experiences with darkness.
He looked ahead and saw Mr E standing in the darkness, illuminated slightly by that same green light at Jake's left.
Jake took a step forward only to stop right there when the intense pain in his chest returned, causing him to stumble slightly for a moment.
"Isn't it magnificent?" Mr E said, standing perfectly still. He was facing Jake's left with his hands behind his back .
Jake looked left and saw a large glass wall covered by a mysterious presence. However this wall was different from all the advantagem walls he'd seen before. It seemed to radiate some kind of green aura, similar to his blue aura. It was lustrous and reflected Jake and Mr E like some kind of large landscape mirror.
"Wh..what is this? Why are we in a dark room? And whats with the big mirror?" Jake asked, wincing in pain just enough for Mr E to notice and smile.
"My Mutoxin bomb. Powered by the legendary black reactor. The device that will bring a new age of humanity. One that will bring upon our evolution..."
"Why did you bring me here?"
Mr E paused for a moment, caught off guard by the sudden interruption.
"You asked to come, didn't you?"
"I was just grasping at straws man. I didn't think you'd actually do it. Hell, you could've activated this mirror bomb thing of yours without bringing me here in the first place. That's what I would've done. Well, if I was completely insane."
Mr E chuckled a bit.
"You know the luckiest organism in nature? The one who gets to see their world end. The ones who realise their existence is over and a new one begins."
"So thats why I'm here? To see what destroys my world? Am i supposed to feel lucky?"
"Well yes. For you are part of history. As am I. For I was the catalyst for all this. The gravitational pull that brought the meteor to earth 65 million years ago. The cyclical changes that caused the ice age. I am the catalyst. You are the victim, as well as every human on earth. All cogs in the beautiful machine that is nature. Isnt it all magnificent?"
"I don't know man. Seems to me like you're just a psychopath with a god complex looking for a good reason to blow up an entire city full of people."
"GOD COMPLEX?!" Mr E roared, shaking the entire room down to its foundation and causing Jake to stumble and fall. He pouncing on him. Roaring even louder like a lion about to consume his prey.
Under the four eyed mask was a large mouth on his neck, slowly opening to reveal multiple sets of razor sharp canine teeth that slowly crept towards Jake's face. He stopped himself abruptly once he was close enough to bite Jake's whole head off.
"I am not a God and do not view myself as one. ! I am merely an agent of change! Nothing more. Nothing less! I do not have some reason behind this! No backstory to explain why ! do what I do. The fact you cannot understand such a simple fact just proves this generation of humanity deserves its extinction!" He shouted at Jake's face, causing him to flinch for a brief moment.
"Whatever you say pal. I don't really care even if you do have one anyway. I'm still not gonna let you kill or mutate any more people." Jake said to him, slowly getting up despite the burning pain in his stomach.
Bold words for someone barely able to stand on his own two feet.
"That's the difference between you and me. All you do is talk about shit no one cares about. All becuase of some deep reason to prove your intelligence or grand fate. I know what you are though. A sad, sad little man clinging to his reason for existence like a leech. Doing insane shit like this to justify why they should be alive. Fucking pathetic really."
Mr E stopped smiling behind his mask. He withdrew his gaping mouth and slapped Jake away with enough force to smash the wall behind him.
Jake hit the wall hard enough to vomit so much blood it could make a make a man faint. Jake could barely stand due to both the immeasurable pain,loss of blood and newly broken ribs..
However getting hit was exactly what he wanted. His body began to glow blue with kinetic energy. Sadly, he only had enough for a small outburst before he collapsed from blood loss.
Luckily a small outburst was all he needed.
With insanely fast speed, Jake ran towards the bomb. He stretched out his hand towards it in an attempt to damage it as bad as he could. Throwing all caution to the side to favor his speed. He ended up breaking several bones while he ran in a desperate attempt to destroy it by any means necessary.
Sadly he wasnt fast enough.
Mr E still saw Jake coming a mile away and stopped him just in time. Turning his left arm into a scorpion's stinger, he stabbed Jake just as he got close enough to the bomb to punch it. Now with the enemy impaled through that stinger, Mr E's smile returned.
"Did you really think I'd let you in here without knowing you'd pull shit like this?" Mr E said has is angry scowl morphed into his signature sadistic grin behind his four eyed mask.
Jake spat out even more blood. However once he looked at it, it was mixed with some kind of green acidic fluid. Jake's insides instantly burned like hot magma, causing him to scream and gag as he grabbed the stinger poking out of his chest.
"You call me pathetic? Look at you! A lower lifeforms trying to manipulate evolution. Don't you see this is all inevitable? All I've done is speed it up by a few million years."
Mr E began to laugh more and more as he raised Jake above the ground. Hanging him by the stinger, he tossed him to the side like a bag of trash.
You really thought you could end this? You? You're nothing! Less than nothing! I am the catalyst of change itself! All you are is a speck in the geenpool. Born to be wiped out by hand like the insignificant particle you are!" Mr E said, shaking and spasming with near organic joy at what he claimed to be.
However, Jake just lay there. Silent. He was coughing up red blood along with hints of green venom shrieked in my Mr E's stinger. He also had a large hole in his torso where his stomach used to be. He could be dead.
He should be dead.
But death didn't stop him from smiling.
"You talk to much." Jake said, smiling from ear to ear.
Mr E stood still. Mortified at what he saw.
In Jake's bloody hand, was the Black reactor.
The power source for the mutoxin bomb.
"What's wrong? Cat got your tongue?" Jake said, chuckling while still coughing up more blood.
Mr E's face began to wrinkle and contract. His blue mask began to crack slowly due to the sudden changes.
"You...HOW DARE YOU!"
Mr E pounced on him yet again, but with more ferocity than before. He grew several extra limbs, some that of a gorilla, some of a spider and others of more beasts he could barely care about. That didn't matter.
What mattered was killing this fucker before be ruins the course of nature.
However just when he got close enough to eviscerate the bastard, he reached out his hand. Holding the black reactor in the palm of his hand. Thst same hand began to glow bright blue.
That's when Mr E realised, that's why he could catch Jake in the first place. He didn't focus the last of that mysterious blu energy on his speed, but rather, he saved some of it.
Just enough to destroy the reactor from the inside out. Little did he know however, of the reactors unstable nature.
In less than a second, Mr E was reduced to dust. He was incinerated before even making a single sound. Not just him, but the reactor and the entire room. As well as half the entire base.
It was over...
Jake had won.
But at what cost?
To be continued...