The Son of Darkness.

by Timemaster

Chapter Five- Grief and truth

"Chaos Lord?" said a startled Hercules,"Why is thou invading my dreams now?"

The Chaos Lord answered with a vision. Hercules watched ,as before him there was a world filled with the only grayed colors. There was a man in full armor, not even revealing his face. He was strangling another man, who seemed to be wearing a blue jumpsuit, and enjoying himself.

"Wha-" Before Hercules could question what was happening, he heard the armored man speak,"My name is Victor Von Doom, but you will call me Dr.Doom, Reed. I am unashamed to say that you were my intellectual equal at one point, but now it is time for you to die. Goodbye Reed, I must return to my country." the man in the blue jumpsuit was trying to stretch his body for some reason, but to no avail. Hercules then realized something...

"Victor Von.... Doom? Who is thi-" he tried to reject it, but he saw something that made him know it was himself.

Dr.Doom(who Hercules believed to be himself, yet different), after choking the poor jumpsuited man to death, looked straight at the portal. Hercules saw his own eyes, his own life-less eyes, and asked one thing to the Chaos Lord, in a fearful voice at first,"Why are you showing me this Lord Chaos?" Hercules said mono-tone, he was to stunned for emotion.

"My child, this is you, but only if I never came to rescue you. In this world you are a tyrant, but your people still love you. You have... had a rival, the man who was just choked, and he had the ability to stretch his body to in-human lengths. Doom had used YOUR same magic to immobilize his abilities, viciously ending him and the other three....

"Three? Who else were there that I..... no HE killed?" Hercules said, his heart unable to cope with the fact that this may have been him.

"They were called The Fantastic Four. There were four members; Johnny Storm- able to use fire to his will, Benjamin Grimm- A man cursed with a pure stone body," Hercules saw a pile of rubble in the corner of the view...,"Reed Richards- The man who just died, and Susan Richards- Wife of Reed, able to make body invisible and create force fields. They were super-heroes, people who used their gifts for good, but Doom did not care. Doom hated Reed, for Reed was claimed to be the smartest man in the world. Doom could not take that fact, for he had done feats unimaginable to Reed. Now? All of them are dead, and Doom is finally going to go back to running his country." He said as if it was normal.

"So... am I a good or bad person in this world? I cannot even think about doing what he-" Hercules was, once again, stopped.

"You have already done things like this. In every world, no matter how pure the world is, you are Doom. You are the Son of Darkness itself." He paused," In every universe, you were born to the same mother. Your mother, while pregnant with you, wanted to save her father, so she made a deal with Lucifer, or the Dark Lord, and gave her soul to save her father." He paused for it to sink in,"A few worlds are different though, like his. His world, you mother sold her soul to get revenge on the old king, but no matter, it is always the same in the end. Your mother sold her soul, selling your body and soul to the gods willing to take it."

"......." Hercules was stunned at how blunt he was.

"I took your soul, so I could save your entire life and afterlife. You owe everything to me, but you also owe me your grief. I will now make you re-live the first few years of Victor Von Doom's life. During this, you will learn how to control your Doom. Goodbye." Hercules felt himself being pushed by his voice.

Hercules felt himself blink, and he was in a chair. The chair was in an infinitely dark room, but there were a pair of goggles that had glowing text on them reading,'Once this is put on, you will see Doom, and you cannot take them off.

He put on the goggles slowly, and felt them suck onto his eye-sockets, as a wave of energy knocked him out.

His father never believed him, but Victor swore his consciousness began before his birth, maybe it was because of what his mother did, or maybe not, but he knew he was conscious all the same.

Victor wondered why his mother's hands were always so cold, until he was older and realized, his mother, though kind-hearted, was fully delved in the dark arts. his father knew of this too, but he could not convice her to leave the arts. One day she did another dark spell, but it did something different than she wished. Instead of granting their people strength, it turned his mother into a vicious killing machine, which killed every child in a village. The people chased his mother down, and killed her in a vengeful attack.

After his mother died, Doom had to endure life without a mother. People had made 'fun' of her at her grave, so he had said something that struck fear into every single one of the gypsies,

"Shut up right now, all of you. You say my mother was a witch, that she brought doom upon you all.... Well, if you cast us out, I swear to you, I will grow to be exactly like her! And when I'm truly am my mother's son, i'll track all of you down, and the darkness that she brought will be nothing compared to what I do to you."

For the next few years after that, the gypsies and Doom traveled, always on the move.Doom's father moved with eternal grief, while watching Doom. They never spoke of mother, unless it was a small quip. Doom supposed that his father thought that when Doom grew older, he would forget about the magiks. But alas, father belittled his son's memory.

All of the gypsies feared and stayed away from Doom except one.... her name was Valeria, a girl in which Doom had his heart upon, but never truly showed at that time. They usually played about, not caring about what their parents thought, but all good things must come to an end...

Doom's father was called to heal the king's wife, angering Doom. Doom was poutng his usual pouty dream, until his father woke him and told him,"Don't ask questions Victor, just come with me, NOW!" Doom followed his father, when he found out what his father had done. His father had failed in healing the wife of the king, for she had cancer, but the King blamed Doom's father.

They ran away, but were soon lost, Victor and his father had to sleep in the open- winter weather, so when Victor awoke, he saw his father. Frozen. His frozen father scaring him, trapping him, and nearly killed him. Doom soon was found by Boris, who led them back to their camp, but not his father was still dying. After saying final words to Doom, his father passed.

But not only he died that day.

All of Victor's tolerance towards the king was killed that day. Victor soon started dabbling in the dark arts, and started making technology able to control it. He killed many of the king's men, until he was one day found by a U.S. army man, who enlisted him into the team of developing weapons. He was the only one they needed. He went to school for the amusement, he never needed it anyway, but at school he met, for the first time, Reed Richards. He soon developed a one-sided rivalry towards Reed, but that did not matter.

Doom was building his first Doombots back then, Doom bots being robots made by Doom. Doom was funded for personal research as well, so he made a chair which let him speak to the Dark Lord. What happened there, he would have nightmares about for a long time. Doom awoke with his face destroyed, his dorm obliterated, and a man who helped him... nearly dead. Doom was kicked out of the weapons department, but they kept Doom's bots.... he was angered at their defiance, so he made his Doombots destroy themselves, blowing up the base.

Doom escaped back into Latveria, had a few misadventures, remet with Valeria, and found an old man named Otis.

Otis sacrificed himself to save Valeria, but not before telling Doom of a place high up in the mountains, where they trained in magic.

Doom, not caring for anyone, even Valeria, anymore, left to the mountain.

He nearly died many-a-times, but he survived and reached the temple. He quickly became the best user of magic they have ever seen, and created his armor... to protect himself from the nightmares...

From then on, Doom started a revolution, killed the king of Latveria and took his place, and became the enemy of many people. Especially The Fantastic Four......

"..." Hercules was speech-less.

He found what to say...."Sheogorath, I wish to never be known as Victor Von Doom, for as of today... My name is Hercules the Kind . I may be able to kill, but I do not wish to." Hercules felt a surge of energy through him.

"Urk!" was all he could spit out n the immense pain that felt as if a million dark, poisonous needles were piercing his skin. His body started to shift around, his sking was darkening to a light gray, his hair (including his beard) fell off, and his eyes felt as if they were popping out of their sockets..... which they did.

His body was hardening, his eye-sockets giving the embodiment of eyes, but pure red. He started to feel less and less pain.

In the end he looked like the Doom he had just seen, but... his body was coated in a liquid metal.

"My child, you are the Dr.Doom of the universe called 'The house of M' by the monitor worlds!" Sheogorath exclaimed.

"House of.. Monitor worlds?" Hercules asked, still hurting from the new body.

"The monitor worlds are universes that allow visions of others, but usually put them in books and television. Television is like a machine which does what I did to you." The Chaos Lord explained.

"Ok then, I will never want to understand that, but I will learn it anyways, won't I?" He said.

"yes, but for now, enjoy the new body. Here is a hint, you can change your body's shape!" Chaos said.

"Wh-" Hercules almost retorted, but then he saw he was in his own room. He looked at his new body, and tried to change it like Sheogorath said he could.

His arm turned into a blade. He freaked out and stabbed through his bed, later on cursing himself for having to buy a new one...

"I have finally won...I actually won.....hehehehehehhe...." Doom pondered something on his mind,"Who caused that rift in space-time I sensed earlier? Galactus was killed earlier, and no other cosmic being could create one almost undetected by ME."

Doom walked into his lab, looked over his own mind with a doo-hicky no one but him could ever understand, and studied the rift. The rift was so perfect, that only a being powerful then a Beyonder could create it.... but that does not mean it is only one-way....

Doom walks into his lab, cackling like a maniac. 'I have killed Richards, and I have met a being stronger than the Beyonder.... I wonder what I could do?' He stopped in his tracks,'...I have a country to run,first.'

And with that, he walked into his throne room, picked up his crown, and started a big celebration of absolute return. Or not.

Back with Hercules, at the main square.

"Where is everyone?" Hercules said to no one, for everyone ran into houses and locked their doors.

All but a few guards,"Halt! Who are you you...tall....monkey..." A guard was stuttering once he saw I was bi-pedal and had no tail.

"I am Hercules the Kind, and I am no monkey." Hercules said with zero fear,"I have gained a new power, but I destroyed my bed in the process. I want to buy a bed, but the civilians are hiding from me, as if I was a-"

"Killer! You are under arrest for the murder of a griffon citizen! We have magical evidence to conclude that you are respon-" The guard tried to say, but Hercules said,"Arrest me."

"What?" The guard said.

"Arrest me." Hercules said with more conviction.

"O.....K....," He was saying as he hand-cuffs Hercules,"You will be presented in Canterlot Court as soon as we come to the city. Anything you say will be held against you in the court of judgment. You do not have the right to speak."

Hercules complied, and climbed into the carriage thinking one thing,'No matter what, I will never do anything evil again...'

"Sister, you know as much as I do in this situation,"The white alicorn,Celestia was saying," We have a griffon dead, and we have to do something. I just fear he may get violent... even with our magic, it seems that his magic has grown past it's pre-destined limits!"

Luna remembers that strange wave of new magic energy which emitted from the same area of the human. He is the only thing capable of that.

"Sister, thou does not need to worry, for thee Elements of Harmony will protect us as we are here," she said as six mares nodded in agreeement,"No matter what happens we are safe."

Celestia was about to retort when a echoing knock came from the large door,"Let the human in only!"

"Let the human in only!" A powerful voice boomed,"Alright your highness!" the guard next to me said as he pushed Hercules in.

Hercules slowly walked in, calmly, for he knew that no matter what, something was about to go down. hercules sat on the bench as calmly as possible, showing no fear.

"Hercules, you have been called here today for the murder of the griffon named Lyna. how do you plead?"

"Guilty." Hercules said calmly, shocking everyone to stumbling over, even the princesses.

"You know you are at a trial for MURDER, you will not leave this court unscathed." A purple mare said, the same mare who awarded him that one time..

"Yes I do, I know what I did. I feel horrible on what I have done. I deserve any punishment, but..." Hercules started to say.

"But what?" Celestia asked.

"I wish to be banished for a long period of time. I do not wish to die." suddenly a blue mare flew right up to Hercules.

"You kill someone, but you do not wish to die? I am going to hurt you so ba...." she looked at my body, which I had concealed with my hoodie,"Why are you silver?"

"I shall show you, for I banish myself." Hercules' body sprouted silver wings,"I bid you farewell."

A guard tackled me, but unlike any other guard, this guard was strong.

"Ooof!" Hercules said as the body slammed into him.

"You shall not spe-" the guard had no time, for with one punch, he fell off me, knocked out.

"I will take my leave now. Goodbye everyone." They looked at him slack jawed. Shining Armor laid on the floor, knock out so much, he was dreaming.

"NO! YOU HAVE HARMED MY BROTHER!" A prple mare screamed as she unleashed a massive amount of magic my way.

"I say nay!" My arm turned into a shield, coated with magic, and blocked the magic bolt. Not even a scratch on my body, I slowly walked towards the six mares.

"S-stay away!" the yellow one said,"Please..."

I kept on walking, then she looked at hercules. She looked at him with the same eyes Dr.Doom looked at him with, eyes devoid of hope, so they steal all hope. So this is the master of the legendary 'Stare'.

"I say nay to you as well." She had drained no hope from Hercules eyes, for they were already all out of that.' I am a Doom, therefore I am a thief of hope. One who is better at a 'Stare' then any being.'

"Take this!" a blue mare rammed into Hercules' body, which I had hardened as Hercules made his shield, causing her to just knock herself out. He was about to help her up when a white one passed out.

"Celestia, my farewell has not gone as I had planned. I say goodbye to you ponies, I will live in the land of my birth. A large jungle south of Equestria, for it seems you all have sold that territory to a new species, but it is now mine." He felt something trying to sneak into his head.

Hercules' eyes glowed pure white as he said to Celestia," You may have my whole solar system in your hooves, but my mind is mine, so BEGONE!"

Celestia's magic rebounded unto herself, momentarily causing her to 'fade out'.

Hercules raised his wings, and flew out of the large castle. Being hit with all the artillery, but not getting a scratch.

Hercules concentrated all of his magic, for he had used too much in the castle, and made a small hut.

For now, this will be his home, but from now on, it will all be a test....