To Hell and Back [Player Plot]

[unspeakablyevil]

Who Aku, Valeria Richards, Megatron
What In exchange for unlimited power, Aku signs a contract with Neron and suddenly lands himself a spot in Hell.
Where Hell
When Pre-AI Retrieval Plot
Warnings/Notes Based on the following nixed mod plot: "The demon lord Neron is stirring trouble in the underworld and beyond. After making deals for the souls of several villains, they run rampant through the UP thanks to their trades. While some of the team handles that, Neron also tempts some of the Legionnaires to sell their immortal souls for rewards. If any take his deal, they'll be sent immediately to hell and their teammates will have to go to hell and back (literally) to destroy their contracts and rescue them."


Until now, Aku had been certain he did not possess a 'soul'. Certain enough that he thought he could fool Lord Neron into granting him the unlimited powers of a god in exchange for nothing. But things didn't go according to plan. After signing the contract with the single character of his name ' 悪 ', Aku was very surprised when a fiery portal suddenly opened up beneath him. It was then he realized his mistake but it was too late to go back on the deal for he had already been sucked through the portal and into the Underworld.

"CURSE YOU, LORD NERON!" he screamed but to no avail. The portal to Hell had already closed up behind him.

Comments

[smarterthandad]

"Yeah, yeah, you're a jerk. A jerk who doesn't read the fine print." Judging by her expression, the latter is the far greater sin. "But you're on the team."

And that, as they say, is that.

Her scanner is taking up most of her attention as she pokes at the controls to change what it's tracking. She's found Aku, so now she can trace the magical connection that binds him here back to its source. Assuming her tools cooperate, that is.

"I don't suppose you know where they keep the contracts. I had to redesign the sensors in this thing on the fly and lab-grown monocrystal sapphires are not a perfect replacement for the magical ones." Who even has time to go down to the Mines of Moria and answer Sphinx riddles and defeat the Minotaur in single combat or whatever it is you do to get magic rocks, anyway?

[unspeakablyevil]

Don't forget the elemental spirit guardians. Even Aku didn't have time for that and he's immortal. Magical jewels have always been more trouble than they're worth, in his own opinion. Aku slumps, almost resigned to the continuous burning of his shackles. He's just so tired. Too tired to be cranky over her jab at his own stupidity. He merely rumbles unhappily in the back of his throat.

As for the contract: "I do not know its whereabouts but I do know that it is infused with my essence and must be destroyed." Who knew giving away such an infinitesimal part of himself could lead to all this?

[smarterthandad]

"I know how magical sympathy works." Jeez, what kind of lousy education do you think she's had? "I have plans, but this dimension is functionally infinite, so unless I want to wander until I'm old enough to vote, I need a bearing--ah, there we go."

The hum from her not-quite-magical toy changes to a lower pitch, one that seems to rattle Aku's bones, insofar as a shapeshifting master of darkness has bones. "Okay, got it. Be back in a bit."

Val disappears back out of Aku's line of sight, leaving him to bide his time wondering what a human child can possibly accomplish that he couldn't. Within the hour, or what passes for such in the lands of the damned, he gets his answer: A heck of a lot. Whatever's in that cute backpack of hers causes a thundering boom that rolls across the plains of Hell, momentarily drowning out anything else, and Aku's chains melt away.

Now. Is he going to leave a tiny girl to fight her way out of here alone?

(Because she'll probably manage it and then be really annoyed.)

[unspeakablyevil]

Aku hadn't thought Val was helpless but he'd resigned himself to a very long wait. No amount of time in Hell is easily spent but it goes by a LOT faster than what he was expecting. The explosion rouses him from the nearly mindless haze he's fallen into but what really shocks him is when the chains melt away into a smoldering smoke, taking all the pain and the drain on his energy with them.

Suddenly, FREEDOM! With his energy and his flight ring no longer suppressed, he explodes out of his pit of despair with great (and unabashedly evil) laughter.

"BWHA-HAAA HAAA HAAA HA HA HA HA!! AT LONG LAST I AM FREE!" he crows with talons curled skyward.

Now that he's risen from the depths, he can see smoke billowing from the site of the explosion and legions of demons moving in toward it. He knows that's where he'll find his tiny helper and, hopefully, a way out of here. Aku wastes no time at all forming himself into a giant ball and steamrolling his way over an army of demons, flattening them as he barrels toward his destination.