boom.
A muffled explosion rings throughout the spaceship. In the bridge, a large figure begins tapping his feet in irritation. Another intruder, he thought. Another fool, dares board his vessel. He clenches his fists, and mutters alien curses under his breath. Why couldn’t these lower lifeforms understand? He’s the lord after all, they should recognize his authority by now.
crash.
Another explosion? Was that his security droid? That could be an issue. He begins rising out of his seat…
…but relaxes, and sits back down. There’s no possible way his whole security squad could be taken out by a mere fool, he made sure of it. Right? Maybe it was a whole gang of fools…
bang.
He slams his throne in frustration. That’s it. If these fools wanted a fight, they’d get a fight. He’s not letting more of his droids die. He gets up, and begins walking towards the door. The floor shakes with every step from his massive body. As he’s moments away from the exit,
SMASH!
He’s knocked across the room. Furious, he rises immediately.
WHO ARE YOU? YOU DARE TRESPASS ON MY TERRITORY? YOU, AND YOUR MERRY BAND OF JESTERS?
He raises his weapon and points it towards the rebels.
They look odd. They all bear weird, seemingly… broken? armor of white, gray, and black tones. Through the cracks, the armor shimmers, in different colors for each person. A ruby red, an amethyst purple, a deep ocean blue… The one that appears to be leader bears a brilliant, almost radioactive green.
The green one responds.
We’re the resistance, and we’re here to end your reign of tyranny once and for all.
The lord stops himself from laughing out loud at the idea.
You? You believe you can stop ME? Well, wellwellwellwellWELL, be my guest, Resistance. Raise your blades, prepare for battle!
The green one rushes forward, wielding a large, black and green sword.
Clang! Clash! Clang!
A swordfight erupts in the bridge. The lord is struggling, but manages to fend off the green, purple, and red ones. The blue one appears to be staying back, for some reason. He sidesteps, teleports, and uses everything in his arsenal. Casting lasers and energy forth, he puts up a damn good fight, until-
KANG!
An incredible sound rings out and echoes across the room. A sword lay on the ground, far from its wielder.
The lord’s swordsmanship has failed. He tries to send out one more laser, but is pinned down by Green. Both are weary of this battle.
It’s over. Give up, and we might not have to kill you.
The lord thought this preposterous.
Kill me? Even if you could kill me, which you can’t, wouldn’t that make you no better than me?
Green almost fell for that one. He sees through this trick, however.
No. We’re better, because we do what we need to do for the greater good. You kill for your own gain.
The lord could see hesitation cross Green’s face as he responded. He plans to take advantage of this weakness, he’s swiftly and artfully sliced by Green. Purple, Red, and Blue cheer in triumph as Green pants in exhaustion.
Green- Lord Green, even- sits upon the throne. He’d be better than that old lord. The only reason he came here in the first place was to right this wrong. He sighs in relief. No-one would ever rule with such tyranny again. Right? There’s no way he could fall back to that level. The lord was always evil, right? What if he started out just like this…
Lord Green snaps out of it, and addresses his friends- now subjects- for his first order.
Repair the security. We don’t want any old-lord believers to come crashing in.
Blue, Purple, and Red nod in unison.
Yes, Va- sorry, I mean, Lord Varosh.
He relaxed in his new chair. Lord Varosh. He could get used to being called that.
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DID YOU NOT HEAR ME!?
Varosh was furious. Did he not hear his order? He’d think, with him being lord, people would understand his authority.
S-s-sir, you don’t understand-
I UNDERSTAND PERFECTLY WELL. I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE FAILED ME.
The commander shudders with every word. He feels himself shrink in his uniform. He made a mistake. Again. Varosh wasn’t the most tolerant of leaders.
GO OUT THERE, RIGHT NOW, AND FIX THIS!
The commander nods swiftly and runs off. He starts thinking… he knew what had happened to the others, but at the same time, he couldn’t help but think… what if…
5…
As the pod counted down to launch, the commander found himself questioning his choice.
4…
Was this worth it? Would it even work? Was it worth betraying his lord?
3…
I mean, Varosh himself says he did something similar in his day. It could work now too.
2…
But what if the people don’t care? They could be perfectly happy living under him.
1…
No. They will care. They have to.
Launch.
The commander grabs onto his seat as the pod shakes vigorously. He closes his eyes and waits for it to be over.
Crash.
The commander is launched across the pod, slamming into the wall. As he steadies himself, he looks through the pod window to the natives of this planet. He sees a village, filled with people. He notices that all of them seemingly have enchanted and magical armor, as well as somewhat advanced weaponry. These were Dungeoneers, like Varosh once was himself. Jackpot. He gets out of the pod, and begins giving a speech to the masses. Just like Varosh before him, and the other revolutionaries before him. And thus, the wheel of history was doomed to spin one more time. Some things never change. Some things are just a universal constant.
smol littl notes from me after the actual entry
aaaAAAAA TYANks for reading the whole thing if you did! I know it’s a huge text wall, im sorry ;-;
yeah, i did the plot twist thing!! did you like it? Not at all? Was it too obvious? I feel like the Radioactive Green bit mightve gave it away. Anyways, im pretty happy with this story. I like how technically, there’s no real “good guy” in the story, and you kinda have to decide for yourself whose actions are justified. To an extent, at least. I also wanted to give an explanation for why the player is heading to OO, it never made much sense to me that you’d go from Pirates But Spooky to Robot Sewers to SPACE?? then BACK TO EARTH?? so i decided to have one of the spaceguys incite rebellion. Maybe during the LONG time from Boss Raids addition to OO addition, Varosh kinda showed up and took over?
I’m probably gonna lose to Vio and/or AJ, but i think i did pretty well for myself. Also, this was completely unintentional, but this also works with the dungeon MUSIC of all things for Orbital, being called Up and Fight. Neat.