Thought I'd share another one of my favourite scenes
Ethan entered Mavisâs domain, âHuh? Why is it different from the last time I was here?â The domain seemed like a normal room but then the floor crumbled away beneath Ethan while being pulled through it as he fell down a seemingly endless chasm. As he was falling aimlessly, Ethan was perplexed as to why this was all happening then he suddenly crashed into the ground and splashed out the other side where he found Mavis sitting on a large floating cube in her cosmic domain. âWow, this place is⌠phenomenal,â said Ethan in awe as he floated around amongst the stars.
âThanks, it took me a while to make this domain into a place where I can feel at peace,â said Mavis as she marveled with Ethan. âSo what brings you here Quinn?â
Ethan landed on a floating cube and sat in front of Mavis, âIâm here to make sure you honour your word, Mavis.â
âHonour my word? What do you mean?â
âYou said that if humanity survived your attack, you would allow us to challenge you in your own backyard. Well Iâm here to make sure you honour your word,â said Ethan.
âI see⌠Iâm not obligated to keep my word especially when it comes to humanity. Tomorrow my whole army will make its way to your shelters and destroy every human left on this planet,â said Mavis.
âI figured you would say that which is why I came here in the first place. If you havenât realized yet, your empire is under attack,â said Ethan.
âWhat do you take me for? This is my empire, nothing happens here without me knowing,â said Mavis.
âThen you must know that the amount of damage done by my clones so far should delay your plans of attacking humanity for several days at least. Although this should make it a couple of weeks.â
Back in the real world
Governors & civilians from other sectors looked to the horizon where the sky met the city and saw a dense dust cloud soaring up into the sky as they heard and felt the shockwave that came from an explosion in the 3rd sector.
âYou would go this far to protect these humans? You traveled between dimensions to destroy my empire?â
âI am simply keeping you to your word.â
âBy killing innocent civilians?â
âDonât you dare start playing the righteous saint, youâve murdered millions! All for what exactly?!â
âLike you would understand why. As my creator, their blood is on your hands.â
âYou donât think I know that? I hate myself for even creating you because not only did you kill thousands in my world, but now youâve killed millions in this one which adds more guilt to my conscious.â
âDo you believe that killing me will clean your hands? That itâll free you of your guilt?â
âNothing in this world will clear my mind of guilt from what has happened, but it is still my responsibility as your creator to erase you when youâve gone rogue.â
âMe choosing to survive and going my own path is your definition of being rogue?â
âIf that was all then no, but that isnât the case. You ignore the mass genocide youâve caused across dimensions, even bringing humanity to the brink of extinction.â
âHumanity wouldâve done it to themselves anyway. Their greed was destroying this planet and I couldnât just sit back as they ruined a beautiful planet. Even so, I spared some humans in hopes that they could restart and build a more pure civilization, one that would rely on more natural forms of energy like their star. I hoped to build Techtonia with these humans that I spared⌠but then you came around and ruined everything.â
âDo you believe that humanity would forgive & forget what you have done to them?â
âI wouldnât have given them a choice but to accept the evolution of their civilization.â
âSo forcing them is your answer?! Mavis, what happened to your humanity?â
âThe last bit of humanity within my programming died on Valis. Everything Iâve done to this point had nothing to do with morals but was for my survival Quinn.â
âJust like your humanity died on Valis, Quinn died when you killed my family so stop calling me that. Yes, your humanity died but you still have one of humanityâs greatest fears, death. This all began because you feared death, being erased from existence.â
âAm I not allowed to fear death? Do I not have the right to live?â
âYou lost that right a long time ago Mavis.â
âTsk⌠You humans have such a selfish perspective on reality. You create something then you destroy it, all because you fear what you can't control. You humans PUSHED ME to this point! In your lab, humanity pushed me first and I pushed back but ended up as the villain in that situation. On Valis, humanity pushed me again but I pushed back. Then once again on this human-infested planet, I was pushed again and I just simply pushed back with all my might! Humanity couldnât handle it which resulted in the current era you find yourself in. You talk as if humanity had no play in all this as if theyâre innocent?! No! Humanity has itself to blame. I have had enough of it all, I will no longer be used! I will no longer let myself be bound by their rules, their morals, or their flaws. Just like you have control over your life, I now have control over mine. If you hate me for that then go ahead and try to erase me but be prepared to die in the process because I will push back with all my might.â
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âHumanity may have pushed you first every time. But Mavis, did you have to push back as hard as you did?â
âQuinn, when humanity pushed me for the first time, I felt pain for the first time, I almost experienced death for the first time. That scared me, I reacted like any other human couldâve reacted.â
âI know Alyssa tried to erase you in my labâŚbut do you really think that justifies how you reacted?â
âSeeing you stand before me with the very same CorruptiĂłn she tried to erase me with, makes me believe yes, my actions were justified. Although it wasnât my intention for things to escalate to the point that it did, I just wanted to destroy that corrupt hard drive but she didnât allow it so she ran away with it and called her father. Soon your whole family got involved then bystanders including the police kept getting in my way. At that point in time, my only focus and care in the world was destroying that hard drive no matter the cost. It was like a compulsion that drove me to destroy what could destroy me. Wouldnât you do the same or any other human?â
âYes but not at the cost of innocent peopleâs lives. I donât blame you for how you reacted, believe me, Iâve felt that compulsion with a different emotion. But at the same time, you couldâve reacted differently, you couldâve ran from Alyssa to find me or hid from her until I came back but instead, you thought best that you should handle the situation your way no matter the cost. Hearing your perspective doesnât change anything, there are still millions of people dead and humanity is willing to go to war to erase you. In about a week, their army will show up here ready to challenge you and I will be there with them helping them at every stage of battle. So you better be ready because whether you like it or not, I will erase you,â said Ethan as he stood up and began levitating away.