In the vast white room, where they hold a grand battle between entities such as Professor Cthulhu and Mr. Smiley only one will remain victorious. As Plato once said, the first and greatest victory was to conquer yourself. As they were commencing their attack, Mr. Smiley was waiting for them to finish and finally battle him.
"You sure are serious about fighting me, gotta better play my part here."
"This might be my only chance of killing you for us to be saved by your world termination."
At his side, Malice a.k.a Lolie was going to proceed by offensive tactics while Cthylla, Mr. Smiley's Fiancée will proceed on concerns by defensive tactics in case Mr. Smiley gets burned by the cursed flames of the enemy Solly, since her powers come from blazing fire from hell itself and her symbiotic partner named Ali, capable of defense from her host. This might be a hard battle for Mr. Smiley to do but he is the host of this world so he is confident in terminating his enemies.
"Are you prepared, Mr. Smiley?"
"That's the first time you call me that. I'll take it. I'm ready."
"Well then, this battle commences." Suddenly the flaming aura of Solly was immensely soaring through the background as her power grew so powerful by the time she uses it will definitely harm Mr. Smiley.
"Pure Darkness level 99, Aura of fear and despair level 99, Mischief level 10, Nightmare thoughts level 1." Suddenly as Cthylla said those words, the fire that has awakened from before had gone into silence as it disappeared and eaten away by darkness itself. Solly remained serious on the target as she was shocked that her flame aura had dissipated.
"What's this?" Professor Cthulhu asked.
"It's my fiancée's power. It can even silence any flame that spreads. Wait, are you done already, the battle is just getting started."
"Solly, remember our strategy, use your trump card." Solly enraged as her symbiotic partner finally uniting becoming the fire queen. her physical features were godly as her powers have boosted. Cthylla tried to silence the flame but slowly it gained more power.
"Like I said, we are just getting started." Mr. Smiley then ordered Malice to hold her breath as all enemies would lose their breath until she breathes again. Their lung stiffened but it won't affect their battle for a short time. In the late game, they will gradually lose.
The first stage of the battle was for those who survive the longest throughout their last breath and fire must be maintained or else they will lose their lives.
"Oh are you tired, Solly? You should concede right this instance. I thought your will was strong, but it was all in vain if you try to give in to the battle. Cthylla, full force." Now, the darkness consumed everyone turning her flame into nothing. And so the tide was one sided and so the show is almost over.
"No! I can't let this end. I need to show my will that I can still fight. Please lighten up." Begging to blaze once more, her symbiotic partner of hers tries to fire her soul. However, Mr. Smiley is just too overpowered, overwhelming all odds he was just toying with her. He instantly was there in front of her passing all the defense and instincts, he kicked with his tough knees and side kicked her abdomen, losing her breathing and then he strangled her up tight.
"I'm disappointed in you Sofia." Suddenly, dark tentacles try to slap Mr. Smiley but he swiftly evades it all.
"We had no choice. Activate Project Sun." Professor Cthulhu was also disappointed at that point. He just had to activate her hidden implant.
"Please no, I can still fight--" Her voice was cut off when her body suddenly turned so bright that it is like it will explode at any moment.
At that pause, Mr. Smiley stopped time. but that was impossible to save everyone so he enhanced his abilities to save everyone except Sofia. She was forced to explode. Its intensity that is on par with sun, burns everyone on sight excluding Professor Cthulhu.
"That was really disappointing." As Professor Cthulhu stated that, he used his dark tentacles to go on offensive to try to kill all of them but instantly Mr. Smiley blocks it with his body, piercing his chest in the process. Cthylla was shocked while both she and Malice were extremely burned by the incident.
"Are you alright Cthylla? Also Malice?"
"Yes..." Cthylla faints.
"What did you do to Sofia?!"
"I thought it was obvious. I implanted a bomb agent in her symbiotic reaper of hers to make sure to blindly underestimated her just as planned. Looks like you are almost dead on the spot but, I know your true abilities now. Strangely enough, I can counterattack it. Looks like Solly was burned into a crisp. Nothing but ashes left."
"Tch." Mr. Smiley was losing his mind. He had to eliminate him. Instantly, he teleported to Professor Cthulhu and tried to pierced her abdomen but was blocked by his dark tentacles out of reflex.
"Looks like I am fighting the true battle here. Luke! Let's kill each other!" They both fought to the death, as slowly they both have gotten weaker by time.
Mr. Smiley's mind went into nothingness, he remembers his past.
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*Luke is Mr. Smiley and this is his past*
How it all began. His body was weaker than most normal kids have. His family went on a truck accident except him due to his sickness. His brain couldn't handle any more tragedy so he went into a coma. He couldn't be able to move an inch due to his illness and as the time went by, some relatives or even friends of his visited him up until the pandemic started. He was chosen as one of the first a hundred people who could be treated through interest. Luke was one of the chosen protagonist monitored by Professor Cthulhu, so he experimented him like any other weaker people would resist. He became Mr. Smiley. He met the god of Ignis Fatuus, and guided him to be one of the most frightening antagonist there is in their world. He practiced like from a script given by their writer, every power and abilities he memorized all people he needed to save while acting like he was the reason why the world was ending and humanity is in a brink of extinction.
All that time went so fast like it feels it happened yesterday. Now he has to determined whether the plan of his will work up until he give his baton to Claire, the last protagonist.
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At his last breath, Mr. Smiley has beaten Professor Cthulhu. But the victory was yet to determined. Behind Mr. Smiley, was Trolie and she impaled him and took his heart. While Trolie's tears were present. Trolie engages that she was at the founder's side and the cause of Mr. Smiley's death was in betrayal.
"You really... hold on to it..." Trolie held the cold corpse of Luke as he turns into ashes as his mask falls and breaks.
"I... win? I thought I was a goner for sure." Professor Cthulhu fainted.
Cthylla bursted into tears at such a loss. She has to bear the burden she has now and maintain Mr. Smiley's plan to save everyone.
Trolie then talks to Cthylla, "Cthylla... it has to happen. It is his wish."
"I know... you have to take your part as well, you also love him right? Then make his deathwish a success."
"Alright." Trolie agreed as his bitter end was meant to happen.
After that, they were in a hospital, nursed by Dr. Wicked and Dr. Sneer. While for Trolie, during their battle with Phillia, Trolie was in a terrible loss. Since she used most of her future seconds in a counterattack on Phillia. At a result, Phillia killed millions of Trolie. And so to fix it up, she came to seek Trolie's father, Engr. Xenakis.
"Father... I need help."
"What's wrong? Let me help."
"I used too much time on my abilities I need to recover from your space pods."
"Alright then."
While she was there slowly fixing and destroying due to the damage of all Trolie had suffered per second, the source must suffer as well.
Engr. Xenakis and Professor Cthulhu took a visit at his station.
"Did you somehow bypass all her walls? She looks like she was in our side this whole time."
"Maybe it was something I did..." They were dumbfounded by the fact that they won. It was almost impossible to kill him.
Claire woke up from a strange nightmare. For some reason she was also in tears while having that certain dream.