Episode 1: Mortis Leonin
Mortis Leoning stood a proud five foot eleven, with pale pink skin, light blue eyes and a well manicured white beard. His white hair was clipped at the back of his neck with an iron cross with gold accents. Other than that, he was naked, showing off his lack of weapons.
Finally the Quall Queen relented, allowing the strange arrogant human to approach her.
“Welcome human of the Church of One. You are blessed to be in the presence of Kedorox, Last of the Kefeda Queens, honored among the Quall N’drone Hives,” announced the Quall Warrior who stood between Leonin and the Queen.
“I present myself to speak to the Queen, to tell her of the great threats that threaten her,” said Leonin without flinching, “First you must know of the Olgogs.”
“The Olgogs?” asked Kedorox with interest, “What threat to these Olgogs present?”
“I wish to show you the threats they will present,” said Leonin, “I have a technology which will share it.”
Leonin showed the Quall a simple holographic viewer. It was exactly what it seemed, and the Quall Warrior who checked it had served in the I.R. Military and knew his technology. He only passed the device on when it passed every known check. Yet it wasn’t the device that was the threat. The threat was Leonin.
Once the Queen pressed the holographic viewer to her eyes, Leonin used a simple bit of technomancy to reconfigure the parts within seconds. It clamped onto her head, drilling into her skull and severing the part of her brain that allowed her to reach out to the other Quall Hive Queens.
She shrieked psychically to her Warriors, who swarmed around Leonin. Leonin calmly said, “If you try and kill me, then your queen will be killed by that device.”
A Warrior growled, “You will tell us how to free our queen from this device. And you will do so now.”
“Or?” asked Leonin with a cheerful glance.
“Or we will make you suffer,” said another Warrior.
Leonin laughed, “I don’t think so. First you will target the Olgogs. Then I will free your Queen.”
Kedorox roared and said, “We will not be abused into destroying your enemies human. Nor Threatened nor intimidated. I will place my larva inside you. Once it grows, my child will know how to reverse your abilities. It is only a matter of time.”
“I have friends who will protect me, Kefeda Queen,” taunted Leonin, knowing how it would play out because of all the times he had tried and failed before.
“Good then I will use your friends as hosts too,” said the Queen, “A worthy punishment for your terrible disrespect for my species.”
“Then you will need to catch me,” said Leonin before transforming the hair clip into a nanite disassembler. He activated it revealing a Time Shredder.
Leonin disappeared in a flash of blue light, leaving the Quall Queen and her Warriors confused and angry.
They began to fully mobilize gathering their armies quickly, and setting forth to hunt down Leonin and force him to restore their queen’s connection to the other HiveQueens. They knew that the moment the other Hive Queens learned Kedorox had been severed they would declare her a rogue and use her hive as breeding stock for their own larvae.
Leonin had already gathered a network across time, and wherever humans could be found, he had snuck a racist or two to help him get his way. His first stop after taking a well deserved rest, was down to the innocent species known as the Ydyara.
The Yd had never been bad blobs, but Leonin needed a test subject. He arrived at the height of the Ydyara’s foray into interdimensional travel, and promptly led the Kefeda right to them.
When the Kefeda arrived, they were immediately found by the Quall of Ar’yay HiveQueen and the Hives of the Twins Queens. The Quall of these three hives instituted a full invasion of the dimension where the Ydyara planet existed. Every species was co-opted as hosts in case they had information on Mortis Leonin (for the Kefeda) or information on the Kefeda (for the forces of Ar’yay and the Twin Queens). None knew that every bit of information gathered by the Twin Queens was also being shared with the demon known as the Usurper, who had turned one of twin queens to his side.
The Ydyara were driven to extinction, and Mortis Leonin time shredded away.
Next he arrived at the beautiful worlds of the Oleifera. The tree-beings were enlightened geneticists, who bore an extensive biosphere of unique and interesting life on many planets in their own dimension. Yet they had no defense against the armies of the Quall. Their living Bodhi stations, biological space stations that orbited their colonies, were consumed by fire on planet after planet. Many escaped the Kefeda, but none escaped the Quall Hordes that followed them.
Leonin quickly realized someone was on his tail. Beyond the Quall of course. He witnessed some psychic powered heroes take down a Quall Vessel in space, redirecting its fire back into it. Finally tearing it apart until nothing remained, it but slowed the conversion of the planet’s inhabitants. More importantly, Leonin figured out there must be three factions hunting him at least, beyond the Quall. Each time he jumped he would witness the acts of their agents.
With the successful eradication of the Oleifera, Leonin left that dimension and moved forward in time.
They even showed up right as he set off a weapon test of a dimension destroying weapon. Something he hoped would stop the Kefeda after he directed them towards the Olgogs. Instead he discovered it moved to slowly to stop a time shredding enemy. He almost felt bad for the species on that dimension, but it was a good test.
