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Bill Cipher's eye was alive with hate as he flew towards the towering monstrosity that was The Glutton. The Glutton saw him coming, and opened its massive mouth in a roar of anger at the approach of this bizarre challenger. Bill didn't slow down one bit. As he raced closer, Oni spotted him, and dived down. Bill unleashed blasts of energy, vaporising each Oni in a single shot. Other came. They died as fast as their comrades. Finally, the sky was clear of Oni entirely, leaving only The Glutton. The monster roared, and Bill's scream of rage was so loud it drowned the beast out, before Bill dived into The Glutton's open mouth, as it slammed shut. The Glutton stopped, confused as to what has just transpired. Then it roared out, as Bill smashed through its chest, its massive heart in his hands. Bill dumped the heat in the fire as The Glutton fell, dead on impact. Bill let out a triumphant scream, and returned to the tower. He still had a chance. He could fix this. Bill landed down on the tower, turning back to his avatar form. Vickor looked back from loading the ship as Bill landed, and the two made eye contact.
"We leaving Vick?" Kryptos asked nervously.
"No" Vickor said simply, walking towards Bill. "Not yet".
Bill turned to face what was once the skyline of Eadem. Now, nothing remained but rubble consumed in fires that rose as high as the skyscrapers that once stood there. Bill closed his eye, and took a deep, shaky breath. He could feel the life of Eadem fading. The planet was dying. Bill held out his hand, and a unearthly energy pulsed through it, resonating into Eadem itself. He could do this. He could fix this. Bill strained as he reached out, both with his mind and his powers, sensing the massive damage done to the planet. It hurt him. It hurt badly. He could feel,the pain of the planet. All the death that disgraced its soil. Bill screamed out in pain, but held on. He began to will the planet to fix itself.
"What's he doing?" 8-Ball asked Vickor. Vickor stared nervously at Bill.
"He's the all seeing eye" Vickor said. "I fear he can do anything". Bill yelled out again, and his eye shot open. His vision stretched for miles. He could see every movement. Every crackle of fire. But it was a particular movement that caught his eye. Movement just beyond the base of the tower, where the fire was smouldering, and the ground scorched but free of the massive flames. People were down there. They were moving through the scorched ground, availing the massive fires. Bill recognised them. His mother led them, Claire Cipher bravely pushing forwards, leading a group of survivors: the last survivors of Eadem. People Bill recognised among them. Norrin Reed, from the news, two Dream Demons, and others. Claire looked up at the tower, and in that moment, she and Bill saw each other. The pain spewing from Eadem into Bill's mind reached excruciating levels, and Bill yelled out, his control and sanity breaking all in one. The blue fires responded sided to his cries, rising higher. Bill's eye shot wide open as they climbed violently into the air. But his focus was still on the survivors and his mother.
The fires all relit, storming in a landslide of flame, a charge of heat, which burst towards them. Bill could only see his mothers eyes, staring back at him, as Claire Cipher and all the survivors were lost to the flames. Bill screamed out. A mad, insane, broken scream. He fell back, and barely noticed Vickor grab him and start pulling him towards the ship. Bill kicked out and screamed. He could have disintegrated everyone there in an instant, but didn't. Vickor hauled him onto the ship, 8-Ball and Paci-Fire helping as the door slammed shut behind them, reuniting Bill with the darkness. Outside the blue flames roared ever louder, and Tenebris' tower shuddered, collapsing as Vickor launched the ship from it, climbing high into the air, above the ashen sky of Eadem.
Bill screamed for a least three hours after that. Then, he fell silent. The silence aboard the ship was only broken by the occasional outburst of sudden mad laughter on behalf of Bill, who would laugh uncontrollably and then fall deathly silent again. Vickor could reason with it. The poor boy had been subject to enough to break a mind into pieces. Roped into a resistance and given a burden he didn't want. Fighting a war against the leaders of a planet. His friend dead. His father dead. His mentor turned traitor. His mentor killed. His brother killed by his own actions. His mother killed by his own actions. His world destroyed by his own actions. No sooner had they left Eadem, the planet itself had cracked apart, its pent up energy too much. Bill's attempt to save it had doomed it after all.
"Vickor?" Bill's voice drifted to him. "Where am I?"
"The ship" Vickor replied, walking over to Bill. "Where you've been for hours".
"Hours?" Bill looked around. "No that can't be right".
"Bill"
Bill screamed again, clutching his head. His avatar form glowed white, and burst apart, splintering into shards of light. In its place, was Bill's born form. The yellow triangle, with a single eye, black limbs, and a curious bow tie. A hat had formed on what would be the Demons's head.
"My form" Bill croaked.
"It's gone" Vickor said.
"Then so is my home.." Bill realised. "And mother, and... Will. No, Will. Will. WILL!". Bill leapt forwards, half laughing, half crying. "No!". Vickor watched him sadly.
"We must find somewhere safe to stay".
"No".
"What would you recommend?"
"We find the Protectors" Bill said. "They could have saved us! They abandoned us, when we needed them most! I shouldn't have... But I did! I killed my family! I killed my world!"
"Bill, it's not your fault-"
"It is!" Bill screamed. "All my fault!"
"It's not".
"It is! But it's theirs too!" Bill yelled. "All those who killed my world must be punished! They must die!" Bill jumped to the front of the ship, laughing like a madman. "Alright gang listen up!" Bill shouted. "You are my Henchmaniacs, and you are indebted to my service! You can be free now, free to cause as much chaos as you like!".
"Death?" Plume hissed In question.
"Plenty of that!" Bill declared. "Now, it's time we punish the ones who wronged my world, the ones who killed Gorgon! Now, Pyronica, set course for planet Tectar!". Pyronica smiled.
"I'm liking this new you".
"There is no old me" Bill hissed.
"Preparing to wormhole to Tectar" Pyronica reported. "Can I double check the location with you Vickor?" She turned round, but Vickor was gone. "What the- where is he?" She asked. "Did anyone see him?".
"I've seen nothing" Hectorgon mused.
"I can't see!" Teeth wailed. Bill looked back, and saw Vickor heading towards the ships escape pod. The Demon followed, stopping Vickor before he could board.
"Where are you going?" Bill asked.
"Away from here" Vickor said simply. "I'm done".
"Done?"
"Yes. Done" Vickor said firmly. "You've broken Bill. You're mad".
"Mad? No, Im not mad! Am I?".
"You are. And I will play no part in this revenge mission" Tenebris said, climbing into the smaller ship docked. "The all seeing eye is a curse" he said. "It would break you eventually. I'm just sorry it did it now". , and the ship shot out, soon a dot in the distance. Bill scoffed, and turned back to the other Henchmaniacs. He didn't need Vickor. He could do this without him. He could do it all without him.
"Hey Bill" Pyronica said as Bill floated back other. "You find Vickor?".
"Vickor is gone" Bill said simply. "No more questions". Pyronica was wise enough to obey.
"Heads up" grumbled Paci-Fire. "Tectar dead ahead". Bill nodded.
"Dead is right". His eyes narrowed. "I'll avenge you Will. I promise".
The ship landed without resistance, which Bill found surprising, and even a bit disappointing. Nobody attacked him, nobody even came close to their ship. So far, nobody to kill.
"What's the plan boss?" Keyhole asked.
"Stay with the ship" Bill said simply. "That goes for all of you. If you try to flee, I will kill you. But I know none of you will do that, right?" He said, eye glowing red. Keyhole shook his heed quickly
"No boss! Never!".
"Good". Bill walked from the landing feild, and into the city.
"They should fear you" the voice in his head returned. "Teach them to fear you. Your world is gone. Take theirs instead".
Captain Fearless burst through metal doors, and found himself face to face with the Queen of Tectar.
"Barn?" The queen said with concern. "What on earth is up with you?".
"We're in danger" Fearless painted. "I made a mistake".
"A mistake? What mistake?" The queen asked. "Anyway, shouldn't you be on Eadem? You asked for extra support". Suddenly, an explosion shook the building. "What was that?" Fearless cried out.
"We're too late. They're here". The queen raced to the window, Fearless close behind.
"What on earth is that?!" The queen said. Fearless saw it too. Bill Cipher, in full Demon form, energy crackling through his hands, the sky darkening above him, Tectarians fleeing in fear.
"Cipher" Fearless said with dread.
"People of Tectar, hear me!" Bill bellowed. "I am Bill Cipher! Demon of nightmares! Killer of The Glutton! Slayer of the Oni! Slave no longer! Liberator of Eadem! Fear me! For I am a god!"
"Fearless, mount a defence" the queen ordered. Fearless nodded.
"Protectors attack!".
Bill laughed as battalions of Protectors approached him. "Oh? You're approaching me?" Bill mocked. "Fools! I have wiped out an entire planet! Eadem is no more thanks to me! And it's people are gone along with it!". Fearless and the queen had heard the declaration, and turned in horror.
"Is that..is that true?" The queen asked. Captain Fearless remembered the state of Eadem as they had left. Had Bill done all that?
"Yes" the captain said. "Yes it is".
"Prepare evacuation shuttles" the queen said. "This is something I never could have imagined we'd face". Bill Cipher laughed out, slaying the Protectors with ease, as if he was merely felling an anthill, as if the people he left dead were little more than ants. Images flashed in his mind. Memories. Ideas. The drawing that he and his brother had made years ago, of a perfect world. Bill willed it into being. The sky turned an angry red, and black pyramids rose out of the ground, scattering people and buildings like one would scatter the paper on a desk. Lighting flashed across the sky, and in Bill's eyes, as the bubbles he and Will had so childishly invented came into being, bubbles of pure madness. Bill laughed. The carnage, the chaos. It was so beautiful. It was an Armageddon on a scale hither to undreamt of. No. It was better.
"Weirdmagddon" Bill breathed. "It's perfect". Bill then spotted the castle. With a roar of glee, he dived for it, already knowing who would he inside. Bill crashed into the throne room, smashing the wall down as he did so. Fearless and The queen of Tectar looked up in horror. The queen screamed out, and Bill batted her aside and out the hole he had created without a second thought. "Fearless!" Bill yelled out. "I've been looking for you!". Captain Fearless fell back, unarmed and terrified. "You should have protected my world!" Bill said. "But you didn't, so I'm taking yours from you!" In the sky, the Tectar flying saucers were trying to escape into orbit. Bill looked down at Fearless. "Watch this" he said gleefully, and started blasting the, from the sky. One was struck just as it activated its wormhole, and vanished, smoking, through the portal. "Oops" Bill mused, taking joy from Fearless's horrified face.
"You're insane" Fearless said.
"I'm inane either way! So what?" Bill laughed. "This is so much fun!". Fearless shook. He could see the devastation out there. He had failed.
"You're going to kill me now, right?" Fearless assumed. Bill grinned.
"No".
"What?" Fearless said. "But-"
"You want the sweet release of death" Bill said. "Why would I give you that, when I can let you live, and watch your world burn?" Bill grinned as Draven Barn cried out, and The Demon rose steadily back into the air. "Enjoy the show Fearless" Bill hissed, and shot was from the castle, leaving Draven Barn in the ruins of everything he held dear.
Bill laughed as the pyramids ripped through the ground. He laughed as lighting struck down civilisations. He laughed as volcanos burst up and erupted. He laughed as Tsunamis struck the shore. He loved it. Every second of it. To him, this was a party. A party that never stopped. But him? He knew he could do better. So much better. The prophecy of the all seeing eye was incomplete after all. This wasn't the best he could do. Not yet. But at last, Bill Cipher had found what he loved. The chaos should help him forget his sins in time. After all, he would commit so many, that the events of Eadem would be irrelevant. Bill laughed out again. At last he was...
Everything went white.
Bill's eye opened. He was no longer on Tectar. The place he was in had no features. None at all. It was a calm white void of nothing.
"Like it?" A voice echoed.
"What? Who's there? Show yourself!" Bill demanded. Slowly, a creature floated into view. A massive reptilian creature. Bill blinked. Was that an...Axolotl?
"Bill Cipher, we meet at last" the Axolotl mused.
"Alright lizard boy, what am I doing here?" Bill demanded.
"I have called you here, for you have given the multiverse something to fear" the Axolotl said.
"Say what now?"
"You have caused great suffering on Tectar, much death, maybe have given their final breath".
"Cut it out" Bill hissed.
"Hmmm?" "The rhymes! Stop it!" Bill shouted. "It's annoying me".
"Very well. Explain your actions" the Axolotl said.
"My actions?"
"Tectar".
"Oh. That. I was avenging my world!"
"It seems you picked the wrong people to punish".
"The Protectors were corrupt! They hurt my world!" Bill argued.
"Yet you then eradicated theirs. Ninety percent of the Tectarian populous were unaffiliated with the Protector cause, yet you caused their collective demise, all the same".
"You think I care?" Bill spat. "I fixed that world, you know. Made it perfect, like me and Will dreamed.
"And do you think this is what Will Cipher would have wanted, hmm?" The Axolotl asked calmly. "This death to be pegged on him? His brother turned into a monster?".
"Well I guess we will never know" Bill hissed spitefully. "He's dead".
"And who's fault is that?"
"How dare you!" Bill roared. "He was my brother!"
"And now, he is dead". Bill yelled out in anger. "I tried to speak out to you. Using my ward, the dragon. But you didn't listen. The all seeing eye is something that will play a role in the multiverse's future. The catalyst for an event that will change everything. And it will start with them. The twins. The Pines. The town. All of it begins there".
"Enough riddles!" Bill yelled.
"It's no riddle" the Axolotl spoke calmly. "But know this. The all seeing eye will turn th user insane, one way or another". Bill laughed.
"I'm insane either way".
"I fear that to be so. You cannot go unpunished for Tectar. Your mortal form will be stripped from you, and you and your band of criminals will be locked in the Nightmare Realm, now there is a vacancy. Farewell Bill Cipher. You have a choice. I hope you will make it in your last moments".
Before Bill could say anything, everything went dark. His audience with the Axolotl was over. Bill Cipher awoke with a start, floating in the Nightmare Realm. He yelled out in anger, but there was no one around to hear him. He would have to find his Henchmaniacs later. But there was something tugging at his senses. Perhaps his lack of a physical form had enhanced his ethereal senses? He would have plenty of time to perfect them. Mind invasion seemed fun. Maybe a bit of possession? Trickery? As Bill reached out more, he realised that the source was no coming from the second dimension, but the third dimension. He could sense both now. Something, on a small, backwater planet, was emitting a peculiar signal. Bill understood it at once. Weirdness energy. The very stuff he needed. No doubt others would he drawn to it. Those Pan-Dimensional Beings from Trilazzx Beta would be sure rivals. But Bill would he willing to wait. Bide his time. And his time would come. Soon enough, he would be free, and at last... His dream would be reality. Weirdmageddon would begin.