Chapter Text
In the hub, Henry was still mulling over which ranks he should choose. The deity was at his desk, typing away at his computer doing whoever knows. Henry took a deep breath as he finally made his decision.
“I’ve made my decision.” The blind man said. The deity looked over to him.
“Oh? Good. Finally. What ranks have you chosen?” He asked with a smile.
“I’m going to choose one rank I like and one rank I don’t. Then I’ll do ranks I like, then ranks I don’t, and repeating that pattern.” Henry explained as he tapped on where he remembered: “Relentless Bounty Hunter” was at.
“So, neutral, good, then bad. That sounds good to me.” The deity commented.
“Now when you press launch, you will automatically be transported to that timeline. But at a random point in that time. It might be a bit of a headrush at first, but try to get focused quickly.” He then explained.
“Ok, got it. I’m choosing Relentless Bounty Hunter and Ghost Inmate. Hear you soon, deity.” Henry told him.
“Have fun!” The deity called out as Henry pressed the launch button.
Henry remembered these ranks vividly. He defeated the Toppat’s Right Hand Man. The Toppat leader, Reginald, was arrested by the government. He handed him over to them and got a pardon and a tank. Then at the complex, he abandoned Ellie. He escaped unknown from The Wall in a rocket.
Henry gasped as he woke up. He immediately could hear and feel his hands were cuffed. He must have been hanging since he couldn’t feel the ground. He turned his head as he heard a familiar but altered voice. It sounded kind of… electronic.
“You gotta be pretty tired of wakin’ up like dis,” Right said through a computer screen.
“You have no idea. Wait, I know that voice. You’re… the Right Hand Man,” Henry uttered as he focused himself on the current timeline.
“Dat’s right! It’s me! Bet ya thought ya took meh out. Well, nobody gets away from da Toppat Clan. As soon as we got inta orbit, I made sure ta go down an’ capture ya. Now… enjoy yer stay.” Right explained and then chuckled evilly.
Henry heard the computer screen turn off. He had a feeling getting out of these cuffs were the first set of options. He began to get a headache as time froze. He clenched his jaw tightly as he endured the headache. It wasn’t too terribly bad this time. It still hurt though.
“Ah, your first path of completing the mission. And your first choices for it are-” The deity began to say, but Henry interrupted him.
“Magic spell. I saw what the choices do. Magic spell is the right one. I need to get out of the cuffs and onto the ground as quickly as possible! I don’t like not being able to feel anything! I’m near a panic attack already!” The blind man said quickly. He could feel his heartbeat speed up as he felt the fear that came with not feeling anything around him.
“Ok, ok! I understand. Go ahead then. No need to panic.” The deity responded.
Henry then took a calming breath and chose the magic spell option. As time resumed he breathed slowly and focused. He could feel himself glow with magical power. Then lightning struck and electrocuted Henry, but also got him out of the cuffs.
Henry was ok and he felt himself for a moment. He found his blind guy trademark sunglasses clipped to his side. He clipped them off and put them on. He took a moment to feel around the room to get familiar with it. He then grinned as he was ready for the next set of options to help him out of the room.
“You got your choice of lockpick, melt ray, metal hat, and bomb.” The deity told him happily. Henry thought over them for a moment as time was frozen.
“I didn’t feel any lock. So that’s obviously a fail. And I felt this room is very small, so bomb is another obvious fail. I guess it’s between melt ray and metal hat.” Henry said.
Henry decided to try the melt ray first. Time resumed and he felt the ray appear in his hands. He pointed the ray, hoping it’s facing the door, and fired. A beam shot out and bounced off the door and hit the ray itself. Then the ray melted instead of the door. Henry shouted in pain as the melted ray was hot.
FAIL
Not what usually happens but… it melted alright.
“Metal hat it is then,” Henry commented before retrying. He felt the metal hat appear in his hands and he placed it on his head.
Henry felt himself turn into metal with familiar music playing in the background. He felt where the door was and then smashed through. He felt bullets bouncing off of him and started running. He ran into the wall at first and then turned and ran down the hall. He ran as far as he could until he got tired.
He was about to lean against the wall, but it was an open door and he fell instead. He got up as the metal hat power wore off. He then heard a Toppat member yell out.
“There he is!” The Toppat called out. Henry panicked and ran into the room and closed it behind him. He could hear Toppats talking on the other side of the door.
“He’s locked himself in armory seven!” The same Toppat said.
“Who left this open?” Another Toppat member asked in annoyance. They continued to talk as Henry began feeling around this armory.
He felt a button at one point and decided to push it. He heard something open and then time freeze. He realized that this was the next set of options. There was an underbarrel grenade launcher, a big sword, and a pew pew gun.
“Who brings a grenade launcher onto a space station?” Henry questioned.
“That’s what I always wondered,” The deity said.
“I’m going to try the sword first,” Henry decided. Time resumed as Henry felt for the big sword and grabbed it. He held it up and opened the door.
Henry immediately swung the sword and hit all three Toppats at once. He heard them disappear with a sound effect of some kind. He hoisted the sword over his shoulder and began running down the hall again.
Henry continued to run and swing the large sword like an anime character. He ran along the wall. Soon he bumped into a wall and realized there was a doorway. So he quickly ran inside and broke the panel to the door to close it.
Henry sighed in relief and with the sword in his hands he began walking into the room. He yelped when his hands got suddenly kicked. He dropped the large sword and was grabbed by the shoulders.
“Ello. Ain’t dis familiar?” Right Hand Man said. He then used his robotic arm to swing Henry up and slam him down into the floor.
Right stood over him with a leg on Henry’s chest to keep him pinned. “Ya shoulda stayed in yer cell…” He said right before time froze.
“The choices are nano-suit, harden, and sweep the legs!” The deity gladly told Henry.
“What would harden do? That wouldn’t really help me get out of this. I’ll sweep his legs.” Henry said.
Time unfroze and Henry kicked. His leg hit Right’s robotic legs and Henry yelled out in pain. He held his leg from the pain.
“Aww. Now dat’s cute,” Right said.
“Heh. You think I’m cute?” Henry asked cheekily through his pain.
“Shut it ya bastard!” Right yelled back, blushing a bit, right before he punched Henry’s face in.
FAIL
That’s gonna be an ‘Ouch’ from me, dawg.
“What the heck was his legs made of?! Steel?!” Henry then exclaimed.
“Uh, yeah. Kinda. He’s got cybernetics now. So he’s a cyborg. Couldn’t you tell from the more electronic voice?” The deity explained.
“That makes sense now. Alright then. I’m going to try the nan-suit.” Henry replied. He retried and chose the nano-suit.
Time resumed again and Henry felt compelled to push something at his chest. So he did and felt the nano-suit form around him. When it was done, Henry grinned. The suit spoke to him in a robotic female voice a lot like other things before.
“Dat’s not gonna help ya.” Right said. He then went to punch Henry but the suit warned him and Henry caught the robot fist. “Impressive. But that’s not-”
Right was cut off when Henry activated the suit to blast himself through the window and out of the station. Right followed him with his legs that were turned into a rocket.
“Dere ya are!” He yelled when he saw Henry. He immediately began shooting at him with his eye laser. One of them hit Henry and he began descending.
The blind man felt himself land on something, so he decided to run along it. He could hear Right flying nearby. He then felt the familiar feeling of a quick time event. The deity was about to tell him his options when another headache formed. It was quick though and Henry knew what to do.
“Max gravity boots!” Henry chose before the deity had a chance to speak. Henry then activated the boots and jumped. He smashed the solar panel he was on. He held onto the piece that he was on as the panel broke and the pieces began floating about.
The blind man felt time stop again. His new choices were left satellite, central satellite, earth, and right satellite. The suit told him how far away they each were and in which direction exactly. He decided to choose the left satellite first.
Henry let his suit guide him to the left-most satellite. Once he was there began pushing buttons, hoping to attack the space station or Right. On the station, Burt picked up the data stream.
“Yeah, it’s me again. I’m picking up a data stream from our broadcasting satellite.” Burt told Right Hand Man.
“Ya don’t say…” Right replied.
“Yeah, it just keeps saying a bunch of random letters and numbers. As if the person sending it can’t see what they are typing. Oh, hang on… it just stopped.” Burt said. Right found Henry and now the blind man was floating in space presumably dead.
FAIL
Next time you want to attack, don’t use a communications satellite.
“How was I supposed to know what it was?!” Henry exclaimed. He rolled his eyes and then retried. He was brought back to his decisions and chose the next satellite.
The blind man was again guided to the satellite. When he reached it he found the buttons for it and activated the machine. He heard it charge up and then fire. But for some reason, it sounded like it fired behind him. He then heard Right Hand Man clear his throat and he knew this was a fail.
FAIL
FRONT TOWARD ENEMY
“I CAN’T KNOW THESE TYPES OF THINGS!” Henry yelled.
“I KNOW! THIS IS JUST HOW THE GAME WORKS!” The deity yelled back.
“OK THEN!” Henry yelled. “WHY ARE WE YELLING?!”
“I DON’T KNOW!” The deity exclaimed. Henry gave an aggravated sigh and retried.
Henry chose the last satellite and was guided to it. When he got to it he felt a door. So he opened it and went inside. He activated the computer of the drop pod and a robot voice said, “Destination: Earth.”
The blind man heard the computer countdown. He then heard someone bang on the drop pod. “Oi! Git outta dere!” Right yelled as the computer said ‘one’.
The drop pod then flew down through the station at high speed. It flew to Earth and left the station stranded with no power. Right Hand Man was injured again, his cybernetics were in bad shape. Henry left the drop pod and grinned as he was free. He decided to celebrate and relax at a beach.
Mission Complete:
Free Man
“Huh. That wasn’t so bad actually.” Henry said as he was back at the hub. “I can’t believe Right Hand Man is a cyborg! I mean, I know he would have been saved but… I didn’t think it would be with cybernetics.”
“So you like the first ending then?” The deity asked hopefully.
“Yeah. I actually did. Next, I’m doing Relentless Bounty Hunter and Convict Allies. That should be a great ending.” Henry then said, smiling as he thought of Ellie.
“I’m sure it will be. Good luck!” The deity said with his own knowing smile.