Mere hours before the siege on Eden occurred.
He was almost there. The colossus Atum could taste the building energies before him. The Five moon transition offering new flavors for the Gas Giant to absorb even within his hardened shell that was once Malcolm Brand. Delicious. So close he would run if this body would allow it. In this forms massive size its weight bogged him down. Regardless his every step was nearly a mile. So massive that the very ground he steps upon shivers. His quest would soon be over. If not for a delay.
Circling him flew a starship in the dimensions of an Egyptian pyramid. One very old. One that mere days before held Atum prisoner. A prison that was damaged a bit by his departure. A Soul Cell as the craft was called. A tomb for the voyage toward the afterlife. Unlike those silly longboats found buried with Pharaoh's. This was certainly after and in this colossal body he never felt more alive.
"My Son." Atum echoes through telepathic wavelengths. Within the pyramid gravitating before his gigantic eyeball sat his son Osiris. Noble in appearance now that the golden apples had made him more powerful. Reinvigorating his youth. An apple that fuels Atum as well through purging Malcolm Brand from his own body. His gaseous form inhabiting it, using it for mobility.
"Father...end this quest before you destroy this world."
"Destroy My Son? I will forge this world into a home worthy of Myself."
"At the cost of all life upon it."
"We as Gods should not care of such petty things as those that were created insignificant."
"The Creator is here on what he called Earth."
"What he has called Heart. For a Creator of all that is he is ever the Romantic."
"He conceived us out of love. We merely overlooked it until he led me to my own Mate."
"Speak not to me of family. I am above you all."
"Only because the Creator did not offer you a shell. Life you still live Father."
"As a Son you were made of my energies, yet do not stand in my way. Not even you would I spare should you attempt to keep me from my destiny."
"Of course not Father. We are all dead. Merely souls without a living shell. All save I."
"You are more like me than you recognize Osiris. You steal to survive. Your mate, your offspring. Surely they despise you for using them."
"I will make it up to them Father."
"How would you do such a thing? Unless...you intend to reach the Mountain before me and draw upon it's substance. To which I will not allow it."
"Strike not Father. The Mountain is yours. If I might persuade you just a morsel of it's power to fuel myself and my starship I will be on my way."
"A liar knows a liar My Son. Leave me while I am being sentimental. Linger and I will destroy you. Your future will go unnoticed."
"Mere paradoxes will not undo our legacies. As long as I live my reign will have many followers."
"Yet you do not live. You are a shell with a mix of stolen life. Others keep you in this immortal realm. Leeching off me if you could still. This I will never allow again. Begone worthless Son."
A mighty hand eases the Pyramid aside rather than trying to destroy it. Osiris had mentally guided it to his Father's left side just in case Atum should change his mind. In his veering the once powerful Ruler of Egyptian lore is surprised by a newcomer in the game. Slamming like a pigeon against solid glass a winged man finds himself contorted by the impact. His cheek smashed against the shield of the Bridge. Easing off in a screeching sound Osiris sat forward on his throne.
"Horus?"
Uncertain if he was still alive after the collision Osiris draws the man inside the Pyramid with a thin tractor beam. Once within he was brought to his throne by a mechanical device resembling a magic carpet of thin metal, resting Horus at his feet until coming to. Sitting up the secondary Cameron Scott shook his head of the ringing in his ears. Adjusting the leather hood he had claimed from the tomb of the original Horus, Cam looks up.
"Sup Daddio?"
"Why are you here? To claim my real Son's soul once more? As your sister has joined with the woman Sabbath Black."
"Wait a sec...Sabbath rejoined with Koko?"
"Khonsu."
"Right Connie Sue. Wow! What made her decide to do that? I thought the souls refused to claim another's body."
"To save this world that we will one day rule again a pact was made. The multiple moons are in full force. By this time tomorrow either my Father will destroy all life so that he may live or we will have beaten him back to secure our futures. I am certain my true son knows what must be done. No longer will his Mother's selfishness lead to sympathetic reason. Atum will remove our timelines. We will have never existed."
"So stop this Atum Bomb."
"It is not that simple Horus. Within his new body he is nigh indestructible. We must find a way to remove him from the body of your friend."
"Not my friend. My other self's Buddy though. Don't ask. Not in the mood knowing we only have a day to live."
"Less than a day."
"Rub it in why don'tcha."
"Unite with my Son Horus. Become a powerful God."
"Strong enough to kick this Atum's ass?"
"Well...no. But if we work as one."
"Only me and Sabbath if I agree to that? Odds still suck. I like being me. Still getting used to that even. Having one brother is enough. Even if we're not brothers. Same person. Damn I hate explaining that crap."
"Should we survive this perhaps I can resolve your identity crisis."
"Resolve? Not if you get him to join with Bra."
"Ra."
"That's what I said."
"You called him Bra."
"Right Brother Ra. Bra."
"You test my patience."
"Sorry about that. Must be my nerves looking out at a giant bigger than the mountain ranges. Do you even have a plan here?"
"A family united was my first plan. You have seen how that played out. They resent my abuse of them to remain alive."
"Are you alive?"
"In a sense. The apple has energized my long dead cells. My soul still resides feeding upon the apple. My body has managed to survive although quite deteriorated. By using the souls of my family, that cannot pass beyond this world I have at least avoided crumbling to dust."
"Unlike a few of your kids. I should know."
"You need not remind me of their physical passing. Some clung to life longer than others. As I have said their souls remain. Bond with Horus Cameron Scott the second. Breath new life into my son. He within you will aid us in defeated Atum."
"He wasn't so happy to be Me before. I could tell."
"No man nor God wishes to be in another's shell. To survive we must adapt."
"I'm not interested in being used Daddio."
"Perhaps a temporary home? You and he may decide the terms. If we cannot set aside our differences the Creator's realm will pass. Atum will feed off of this planet until it is gone."
"Starting with actual life and souls?"
"Indeed."
"Sabbath and Connie Sue made their deal temporary?"
"They have an arrangement yes."
"Why can't this Pyramid ship just leave Earth and go somewhere safer?"
"My descendants have made certain we remain here on Pangaea to perish. I do not believe they thought our tombs would be desecrated. My remaining alive of a sort has challenged their hopes. To leave this world entirely we must work as one."
"Not sure I get why they chose to trap you at the beginning of time to begin with. Why do that?"
"Their lack of knowledge brought them to conclude that we would lay here buried, unnoticed by future generations of humankind. At the beginning of time itself life was not supposed to be more than protoplasm and single celled organisms. None understood Time was its own entity. Thousands of humans have populated this world. I believe most of them to be under the control of one man."
"The Dorsey dude." Horus never once asked how they could abuse Time Travel in the first place. He probably should have.
"Yes. The Immortal. He who challenged God by offending him in abusing his son."
"Jesus, right. Wait! Whoaaaa! He was that soldier that stabbed Jesus on the cross? The one God said would have to live until the End Times?" He only knew the story because he shared the long memories of Cameron the First.
"The same."
"Mind blown." Cam/ Horus shakes his head embracing the idea. He wondered if the others knew this yet. Having been separated from them he wasn't certain of anything. He would ask Sabbath if they survived the day. For now he makes a fateful decision.
"Point me back toward the tomb of Horus. He and I need to have a powwow."
The hand of Osiris guides him on his way.
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Celestial City...atop a recently completed tower that was built atop the great Black Mountain. One reaching the clouds.
"The view is magnificent." Lucas Dorsey extends his arms to his side, "I can feel the vibrations growing. The Moons are nearly in total alignment. Once reaching their perfected state I can absorb the powers within the Mountain. God will then find me more than a challenge." He pauses to laugh, "This is so rich. God here to witness my takeover. Best Man at my wedding without even knowing who he is. Things could not go any better."
A cleared throat behind Dorsey just had to interrupt him.
