Hero Within, Monster Without Chapter 17 (Patreon)

The sounds of countless mechanical contraptions were finally silenced. My works were finished.

I had kept to myself deep within the earth for three weeks. And in that time... I built everything I needed to all but take over and bring true peace to this world.

Switching between my Galvin and Upgrade bodies, I created the most potent technology I could. With the casing of the satellites, missiles, and systems being made out of divine forged metal when I took the form of Ornn from League of Legends.

I would switch between forms constantly, turning into Wukong to use my sage-like mind to evaluate my path, the harm it would bring to the average people. And likewise to make sure that in my rush to make super weapons, I didn't go off the deep end in making a weapon that would destroy the world quite literally.

'My sponsor who gave me these powers... Did he know I would go on such a path? Did he expect me to join up with the PRT, or even the Undersiders and go about life only minorly tapping into my true potential?' I mused.

I had come to make a three-step process with all my forms working together to make a path that would bring this world to heel.

First part. Dimensional energy and higher energy tracking satellites hidden within pocket dimensions that could track the tethers and even block the signal from Shards to their chosen humans. Allowing me to easily cull the villain population.

Second Part. Dimensional shredding, and contained annihilation matrix missiles that would lock an Endbringer in a pocket dimension for but a moment before they are pulled apart by the pulls of all ten dimensions of the String Theory.

Final Part... I take the form of a godlike entity and put Scion out of his misery to finally clear this world.

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The launching of the satellites was done without any fanfare, one moment they were floating in their containment fields, and the next they were within their hidden pocket dimensions.

My enhanced drone hummed to life as the satellites synched up to it and within moments it pinged off a bit more than ten thousand individual extra-dimensional energy signatures on this world though it was also picking up hundreds of thousands more between alternate Earths.

But those alternate Earths didn't matter for now.

I tuned the system of the drone and after a couple of minutes, I had the location I desired.

A loud crack rang out as I tapped my belt and the teleporting field snapped to life sending me to the coordinates I desired in a small town within Indiana.

Where the Slaughterhouse 9 currently was.

And the moment I landed my form stretched as I left my Galvin form and entered the form of a Shinigami.

Not a Shinigami from Bleach... No a Shinigami from Death Note.

And upon tattered wings, I flew into the smaller town square and I found my targets of the Slaughterhouse 9.

"Riley Grace Davis 12;00 Delete. Willian Manton 12;00 Delete. Alan Gramme 12;00 Delete. Ned Sanders 12;00 Delete. Mysaria Role 12;00 Delete. Cherie Vasil 12;00 Delete. Mimi Astalos 12; Delete" I spoke as I wrote the names of eight out of the nine members of the Slaughterhouse 9 in my Death Note.

'I wonder if Crawler will still die of a heart attack with his monstrous form.' I mused coldly as my invisible form flew beyond the flames of Burnscare to go toward my last target.

"Jacob Black... 12;01" I spoke and wrote in my Death Note and then I as I looked at the scruffy 'Jack Slash' I just tilted my head to the side and then shrugged as I floated over to the man who was monologuing as he was twirling a knife around as he leaned over a man who was strapped down onto a kitchen table.

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"You know, when I was busy playing with little Bonesaw's latest creations I had a thought that wouldn't leave my mind. How quickly would a person bleed out, if they bleed out at all. If I cut off their thumbs and big toes." Jack Slash spoke as he twirled his small shaving rasor like a butterfly knife.

The man who was strapped down to the table screamed through his gag with Jack making a slight a little shushing noise as he brought the knife gently to the man's eyes. "You scream... Only when I cut into you alright? Screams for no reason make me want to cut into you more and that would just ruin the honesty in the experiment you see." He mused with the man sobbing through his gag.

But Jack Slash's body went stiff as although a Shinigami wasn't a very physically powerful entity. Every single man in the universe would flinch at a surprise kick to the balls.

I then kicked Jack Slash in the side and obviously 'ran' out of his little theater with Jack laughing as he spoke with anger. "Oh we got a little Stranger who wants to play. Well, good old Uncle Jack is ready to play!"

Flying up into the air I watched as the Slaughterhouse 9 came together at some unseen signal from Jack as he knew a Stranger could be dangerous.

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I changed forms in the middle of the air into another invisible floating monster but this one I could actually speak in.

"Jacob Black... You got my attention, you won the stupid prize."

Jack Slash's face curdled into a scowl as he looked around with a fake smile crossing his face. "Oh Menagerie, why are you so shy? Don't you want to play with us more directly? Is the monster of the Bay unwilling to play with the little civilians here?"

Jack Slash laughed loudly as he waved his knife around and spoke with his words being a stab to my gut. "You didn't seem to care about killing hundreds of innocents when you fought Lung and collapsed his casino, so what's different today?"

I was silent for a moment before I spoke tiredly. "Because I am done... I am done with this shit hole of a world, and I am going drag it kicking and screaming into peace."

12;00

In an instant eight out of the nine members of Slaughterhouse 9, all of them but Jack Slash himself. Violently convulsed with hands going to their hearts as the Death Note worked its curse into them in making their hearts fail with a heart attack.

"I am going to kill all of you with just a name... How does it feel Jacob Black that in but just one more minute? You are going to die due to your old dead name dragging you down?" I asked coldly.

Loud thumps rang out as all the capes fell to the ground except for Jack Slash as even Crawler's adaption couldn't instantly manifest more hearts as the Death Note magically shut down all his life-supporting adaptions.

Even Mannequin, or Sphere whose body was all but discarded and his few remaining organs placed into an android-like body was violently twitching on the ground as his heart was very much inside his tinker tech body.

"I will not bother to watch you die Jacob Black... You are just another boring psychopath who hit their middle-age crisis and decided to take up a hobby that inconveniences others." I finished and then with a loud crackle, I visibly teleported away.

12;01

The last thing Jack Slash saw was myself casually teleporting away as a football-sized metal orb fell to the ground and then as the darkness crept into Jack Slashes vision the small yield nuclear bomb I left behind wiped away all traces of the nine including the super plagues that Bonesaw had sown through the town.