Light the fuse[END]

Out over the ocean a monolith of a machine stood hidden, it’s presence masked by it’s high-tech cloaking array that rendered it invisible to both the mundane eye as well as technological or magical detection. The vessel itself was an intimidating machine, a large black, red and dark gunmetal grey airship that was large enough to be plainly visable from the island if it where not for the cloaking magi-tech that kept it’s presence unknown.

In the massive central command center of the craft Alice Mordrake sat in a large command chair with a series of paper-thin floating holo-screnes surrounding her. Looking over the information on the screens a twisted grin appeared on her face. “Heh…looks like it’s time to start the show! Inaba, unleash the cyberlich!” Alice said in excitement. With what appeared to be a black bunny rabbit with a red gem in the center of it’s forehead materialized out of seemingly nothing beside Alice’s chair. It floated through the air, gliding gracefully To Alice’s left side. Inside Alice’s mind all the possibilities of what she could do with William’s power came to vibrant life. She imagined herself mass-producing his powers and creating invincible armies of destruction. It’s only a matter of time before I’ll be invincible! Alice thought to herself with great pleasure.

“As you wish, Alice-hime!” The black rabbit Inaba exclaimed and with that below Alice’s command chamber something began to stir. Deep in the bowels of the ship a pair of mechanical red eyes lit up in the shadows. From the darkness movement began and the sound off a hatch opening soon filled the blackened chamber. Out of the hatch a intimidating figure emerged; it was clad all in high-tech black armor. Looking like a wicked combination of medieval dark knight and futuristic robot, it's most noticeable features of the figure where it’s horned, demonic silhouette and glowing red mechanical eyes. As it fell towards the ocean a pair of demonic wings made of black and red-energy erupted from it’s back and propelled it across the ocean at lightning speed towards William’s location kicking up impressive waves in its wake.

Inside the airship Alice continued her work. “Inaba ready the control device!” Alice exclaimed and with that the data on her holo-screens started to change. Back in the bowels of the ship another hatch opened and a large beam of magical energy blasted into the water, parting the very area where it made it’s impact and digging down into the earth below. Inside the beam a high-tech cylinder-shaped device soon materialized and made it’s way down the shaft of energy and into the earth. On Alice’s screens a diagram appeared of where the device made it’s impact. Once lodged within the earth a series of cables erupted from the device like the roots of a plant, snaking their way through the crust of the earth towards William’s location, a process that also was tracked by Alice’s screens.

As the seemingly robotic creature that the craft had unleashed approached William it flew up over the boy and landed gracefully behind him in a dramatic fashion, landing in a kneeling position with it’s head down. It retracted it’s wings and slowly lifted its sinister gaze to William. Inside of her ship, Alice began to speak and as she spoke an intimidating, robotic voice started to come from the machine, speaking the same words Alice herself was saying from the comfort of her ship.

“Well, well, well…I can see we’re quite upset. I know what you want, William. You hate this world. You wish it could just go away. You want to end it all. Well…allow me to grant your wish!’ With those words the robotic monstrosity made a quick hand motion and a red magic circle appeared beneath William. “This seal is a black magic technique, William, meant to unleash one’s dark powers. You could say it forces the hatred and evil within you to come out. It’s only useable by one versed in the highest levels of black magic magic. It's your lucky day, William, because I fit that exact requirement. Within a matter of minutes your true power will be unleashed and within my grasp!" Alice continued to say through the machine.

What was unknown to all on the scene save for Alice herself was that the machine was in fact a deadly weapon known as a cyberlich. A twisted form of undead born of magic and technology working in tandem, the cyberliches Alice's are the personal combat devices. They possess the undead bodies and magic powers of the beings they where in life yet their minds and souls have been replaced with a “psychobrain” that Alice controls through her mind-hack power. Once Alice “mind-hacks” a psychobrain she is able to permanently direct actions of the mindless undead that possesses the psychobrain. This particular cyberlich was a powerful dark mage before it’s death and transformation into an undead puppet, and was absolutely perfect for the task at hand.

In her ship, Alice smiled gleefully as her little toy activated it’s seal. She now waited eagerly to see what would happen when William’s true destructive potential started to come to the surface.

"A warrior sent against a master mage? Pathetic." Alice said through her undead machine puppet. With those words the cyberlich effortlessly sent Warrior flying back with a forceful telekinetic push, not even moving it's body to unleash it. As William uttered the words DESTROY[/I] Alice squealed in excitement back in her ship. That's it, William. Just a bit more and then your power will be unleashed and in MY hands! Alice thought to herself with glee. Focusing her mind back on controlling the cyberlich she began to speak again.

"Good. I can see your getting angrier. You should embrace that hatred. This world is such an evil place, no? Does it not deserve destruction? Perhaps....you just need some convincing. Let me show you how cruel this world can be....by torturing your little doggy here before I end his pathetic existence!" Alice exclaimed through the cyberlich. The undead machine immediately teleported behind Spirit and extended it's mechanical claw out over the wolf, unleashing a stream of black lightening that send horrific pain through Spirit's body.

"This lightening not only wracks your friend's body with pain but it'll also open wounds all across his body...slowly at first, but as I keep on forcing it through him it they'll only grow, his nerves frying in the process. Heck, his nerves have already taken quite a beating from just this small bit of lightening...only time will tell what will happen to more exposer." Alice continued to say through the cyberlich as it shot more lightening through Spirit.

"So, do you hate me yet? Do you hate this world? If so embrace that hatred! End your friend's suffering...end your suffering...end this world's suffering and bring forth the power of destruction!" Alice said through the cyberlich as it continued to torture spirit.

This was what Alice had been waiting for. Back in her ship she bounced triumphantly in her seat, giggling with twisted glee as she watched Destruction take hold of William through her holo-screens. “Finally! Took ya long enough! Now it’s simply a matter of drawing destruction out to its peak!” Alice exclaimed as she shifted her attention back to controlling the cyberlich. With a single thought the lich quickly created a magical shield, protecting itself from the destructive energy William was unleashing. The red and black energy of the shield served it’s purpose fine at first but slowly it started to dissolve, fizzling away as it was bombarded with William’s destructive power.

Once the shield was fully dissolved the cyberlich immediately teleported into the sky, hovering out of reach of the destructive energy now permeating the area. It’s massive demonic wings of dark energy activated once again.“Yes…that’s it, William, or should I say spirit of destruction. You know what you want to do to this world. So why don’t you hurry up and do it!? This power you’ve unleashed is paltry compared to what you can really do! You haven’t even scratched my armor yet...”Alice said through the cyberlich. Meanwhile, deep beneath the ground, something sinister was snaking its way towards William and the lich. The writhing mass of wires and cables that had extended from the device Alice planted into the ground earlier was almost at its destination. Soon it would erupt from the ground and initiate phase two of Alice’s plot.

However, for now the most important thing to Alice was drawing more power out of William. “This world has treated you so unfairly, William. It has isolated you, singled you out and broken you. Isn’t it time you taught it a lesson? The world is filled with so many disgusting people, so much unfairness. Isn’t it time to end it? Still having trouble? Well then, how about I make your decision a bit easier!” Alice continued to say through the lich. With those word her cybernetic undead puppet extended its hand and formed a small orb of dark energy in the palm of its claw. Raising its arm up it cast the small orb down into the ocean causing a disproportionately large series of impact waves as the tiny energy ball slammed into the surface of the earth. Within seconds it smashed its way through the earth’s crust and Alice continued to speak through the cyberlich to William.

“You have friends, no? Well, what if they where to all die right here and right now? How would that make you feel? Well, if you don’t damage me that’s exactly whats going to happen. Once that little ball of energy hits the core of this planet I can detonate it through my will, causing this planet’s own molten core to burst through its crust. Of course….I need concentration to do that. Unleash your true destructive power against me and you’ll save those you care about. Fail and they will die with this world! You have 25 minutes before my spell reaches the core, lets see what you can do in that time.” Alice exclaimed through the cyberlich. While the attack the cyberlich had unleashed was certainly capable of doing what she had said Alice had no intent of actually detonating the spell. It was all a ploy to push William and get him to further sink into the grasp of destruction. Only time would tell whether or not it was successful.

It was beautiful. It was everything Alice had imagined it to be and soon it would be hers! The massive black energy cloud eviscerated everything in it’s part, from an innocent bird to the cyberlich itself. The machine relayed under the dark energies William emitted, it’s sleek black armor slowly disinigrating as it was enveloped by the darkness. While the mechanical shell was totally destroyed the spirit of the thing, it’s undead core and the psycho-brain controlling it had survived, Alice immediately teleporting them to safety as soon as William unleashed his dark energy. You can destroy it’s shell all you want, but it’s soul and powers are NOT gonna be sacrificed! Alice thought to herself as she successfully recalled the cyberlich’s undead soul and the psychobrain controlling it.

Unfortunately, while she had managed to save at least part of the cyberlich, her other device wasen’t as lucky. The cords where incinerated completely by William’s power, sending tongues of blue arcane fire flying up into the air. “DAMN IT!” Alice shouted as she slammed her small fists against the arms of her command chair. “I didn’t know he could sense things that deep underground! It looks like my hand has been forced, Inaba. We can’t channel the genesis network to reformat William alone. It looks like we’re gonna be forced to reformat the entire earth instead. ” Alice said, her tone obviously frustrated. Inaba’ eyes filled with fear. “Alice-hime…you don’t mean?! You’re going to summon a Genesis Engine!?”

"It’s either that or we let him blow up the earth and the seat of my power base. While I didn’t want to reformat earth due to its limitless potential I have no other choice now. Dispatch the agents stationed to go secure the island for the engine’s arrival!” Alice said to Inaba. The little rabbit nervously sent a message out thorough the systems and hovered closer to Alice, trying to find any comfort she could from her mistress. Alice stroked the floating hologram bunny, trying to calm her down as she continued to speak. “It’s ok, Inaba. Everything will be fine! You and I both know the Genesis Engine is stronger than even William’s power and when I summon it victory is assured. I just need to alter one of our world templates and we’ll be ready for checkmate! However…because the genesis engine will not fail I say we take our time with this. After all, if we’re reformatting all of earth William’s powers, and everybody else’s for that matter, will be our!...So we may as well enjoy watching what our new toy is able to do!” Alice said as a twisted grin appeared on her face. She opened up a file on one of her holo-screens and started to casually tinker with a massive set of data as she watched William’s progress, Inaba floating at her side eagerly.

(NOTE: You are free to end the thread here if you like. Alice isn’t going to do anything else right now since she’s set her sights on reformatting the earth. Right now her main goals right now are to see everything William can do before summoning the Genisis engine for checkmate and also to “secure” the island for the genesis engine’s arrival. So there is not much else she has to do to William personally.)