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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)
Chapter 100: Over Heaven
Part 2 / 6
Original Post Date: Oct 7, 2024
Note: Story starts in Wyvern, Aerial ABC backwards filter and had a Prologue. Last chapter in Oviraptor. This is the last chapter of TAOH. Please do not read this first if you haven't read the rest of the story.
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It was dark.
Stars twinkled all around them, like he was in a void.
Alan’s body felt like it was floating.
He wasn’t wearing the red cloth armor he had for the past two months or so.
He was wearing a simple red t-shirt and cargo shorts.
“This is the outfit I usually wear to school,” Alan thought, looking around, “Where exactly am I? The afterlife? Heaven? Oh boy… Did I just die?! Aw man… that sucks.”
Alan didn’t know why, but he felt oddly at peace. He wasn’t too upset that this was his end, but at the same time he felt disappointed he couldn’t do more. He sighed, curling up into a ball.
“I hope they got this handled without me.”
Suddenly, the stars around him began to flicker.
And then a boy flickered into sight in front of him.
Alan stood up, his body still floating in the milky void. The boy was also floating too. He had long, thick black hair in the form of a ponytail and a thick bang that hung near the side of his forehead. He wore a thin blue jacket and a white shirt and cargo shorts as well.
“Hey there,” the boy said, waving his hand.
“Uh, hello?” Alan asked, “Who in the world are you?”
“I’m Fred,” the boy replied, “And you’re Alan.”
“Okay… care to explain what this is?”
“I would if I knew what it was.”
“Oh. So you don’t know either. Nice. Absolutely amazing.”
“As far as I’m concerned,” Fred explained, “We’re in our soul.”
“So you do know-” Alan replied, “Wait a minute, what do you mean ‘our soul’?”
“Do you know about the President’s secret agents? The ones with the colored suits who are always sticking around his side?” Fred asked.
“Yeah. I do.”
“I’m one of them.”
Alan’s eyes widened in shock. He put his hands on his head.
“Mindblown.”
“I’m being very serious here!” Fred shouted back, a little annoyed. He sighed, “Whatever. Point is, I was the blue one. The light blue one, I mean. Basically I was his right-hand man and… I did some bad things.”
“Truth be told I’m also his nephew.”
“Whaaaaat?! The President has family?”
“Yes. He even had a wife and child at one point.”
“WHAT?!”
“Yeah. I know. I find it unbelievable sometimes too. I was good friends with his son. His name was Danny. You might know him as Mr. Mo.”
“Mr. Mo? That guy’s older than Dan Walker though!”
“Looks can be deceiving. Danny’s younger than you think,” Fred chuckled, a smile growing on his face. The smile shifted to a frown. Fred’s eyes darted up.
“Your time here isn’t over yet.”
Fred walked forward and pressed his hand on Alan’s shoulder.
“Listen to me closely… When the time is right, do whatever it takes to make Dan Walker remember. And once he regrets then he can truly be defeated,” Fred told Alan, “My time here was never meant to be. I am ready to join my cousins. But you still have a duty with your friends.”
The void around them came crashing down on them.
“Good luck, Alan,” Fred said, “You’ll need it.”
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Alan let out a gasp as he felt himself awaken.
His heart was still pounding through his chest.
Yet, something was different about him.
Before he could realize, he heard someone gasp to his right. He turned to see Tiffany with her mouth agape and her hands coming to cover her mouth.
“Alan! You’re- you’re alright!” she cried out.
“I guess I am…” Alan replied, getting up from the ground.
What had happened?
“I got stabbed in the heart by a spike,” Alan recalled, “And then I’m here.”
“Alan what happened to your face? You look a little off,” Tiffany questioned.
“What do you mean by that?” Alan asked, looking down at the shiny metal ground. He looked the same as he did last time.
“Nevermind… Look we have to-”
SHOOM!
KIYAHHHHHHH!
The two turned to see Dan Walker had transformed into a humongous spider twice the size of a Rex. It was the Broodmother. Dan Walker stepped forward, its legs scattering and searching for prey. It let out a gaseous burp and webs spewed out onto the ground, making it stickier and slippier. The Book Club quickly retreated, their eyes wide in horror and traumatic memories returning to their heads.
“Ah crap-” Samuel shouted, turning to face the others by his side, “What do we do?”
Nova stepped forward.
“I got this handled.”
A flash of white light passed through the air, and before the Broodmother’s path was a big black gorilla the same size as the Broodmother: the Megapithecus. Nova let out a roar and pounded her fists on her chest. Unlike the sturdy, robust Broodmother, the Megapithecus was versatile and strong.
Dan Walker would stand no chance.
Nova rushed forward and slammed her giant gorilla fist into the abdomen of the spider, and the Broodmother was instantly pummeled downward into the hard metal of the starlit sanctuary. Nova let out a roar and smashed the spider, and as the guts and spider juice flew into the air, Dan Walker came out of the mess covered in green.
“Goddamn brat!” Dan Walker shouted, standing up and brushing the ooze off of his body. Nova looked down and let out a roar, raising her fists to pummel down onto Dan Walker when flesh and bone gathered around him and accumulated into another giant beast…
Within the starlit sanctuary, a dragon manifested, and it Set Fire to the Sky. Nova let out a howl as it shrouded her body in a hot heat. Unlike the dragon that Ben and the others had fought at the red obelisk, this dragon was around the same size if not smaller than Nova.
With a howl, Nova lunged her right hand forward and grabbed Dan by the throat, pressing down and choking him like no tomorrow. Dan let out a fierce scream of retaliation and flailed its long arms, trying its best to grasp at Nova, but Nova merely lifted the dragon into the air, and with a deafening boom, slammed him into the ground.
KABOOM!
The impact of the slam was so strong it caused tremors within the starlit sanctuary. The corridor began to shake and the glass that looked out on space cracked. Bobby noticed this and gasped.
“Simon, quick! Give me the duct tape-”
“Okay okay chill chill!” Simon shouted back, grabbing his backpack and digging through it like a maniac. Simon let out a groan of irritation as he pulled out a dead dodo.
“Where is the duct tape?” Simon asked, tossing the dead dodo to the side, “Gosh darn it- Oh hey, look, my sword!”
Simon pulled a short sword out with a blade as sharp as shards. Bobby punched Simon on the shoulder.
“Ow!”
“Hey, I need the duct tape!” Bobby shouted, looking at the glass. The cracks were growing dangerously large.
“Yes I know and I’m looking for it… HERE IT IS! Here, here, here!” Simon yelled desperately, fumbling with the roll of tape before handing it over to Bobby. Bobby took the tape and pulled on the loose end.
RIIIP!
Bobby dashed over to the glass pane, took out his hammer, and then tapped on the window lightly with the duct tape in hand.
DING!
The cracks instantly disappeared, and the roll of tape in his hands disappeared. Bobby let out a sigh.
“Whew. That was a close call.”
ROARRRR!
KAPOW!
BOOOOM!
KASPLAT!
Blood spewed out onto the ground once more, and Dan Walker let out an exasperated scream at the fact that he had been wounded once more. Nova let out a victorious roar, pounding on her fried and flamed chests with all her might. Samuel and the others let out a cheer as Dan Walker struggled to come to his senses.
“Let’s go! Let’s go!” Ruby cried.
“Go Nova go!” Neddy cheered, pumping his fists in the air.
Dan quickly retaliated with a bite to the neck. Nova let out a cry of pain as Dan’s jaws chomped down onto Nova’s arm, and Dan pulled on her so hard she went tumbling to the ground.
BOOM!
Shockwaves continued to fill the starlit sanctuary. By now it was getting clear that Dan Walker would just keep tanking attacks left and right, no matter how strong one was.
“He’s just going to keep healing until all of us are dead,” Ian thought, looking at his implant, “Maybe… maybe if we can kill him before he can heal, then we’ll win. Maybe if we kill him fast enough he can’t heal himself in time!”
Ian’s implant began to glow.
“That means…”
“I’ll have to do this.”
Ian bashed his fists together. Purple ゴゴゴゴ signs floated off his body, and musical symbols began to manifest in the air. Ian gritted his teeth.
“ATTRIBUTE AMPLIFICATION!” Ian shouted, “CONCERT FOR THE UNDEAD!”
Musical symbols clashed, a large mystical, circular zone was laid out underneath him. Thirteen skeletons appeared in the mix, carrying trombones, trumpets, flutes, clarinets, drums and triangles.
Dan Walker seemed too distracted by Nova to notice what Ian was doing.
Ian grinned, and turned to face Patricia who was in the Amplification with him.
“Same game plan as last time?” Patricia asked.
“Same game plan as last time,” Ian replied smugly.
Then, the two danced.
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KABOOM!
POW!
Nova let out a groan as she was pushed into a pillar. She was getting exhausted, but Dan Walker was showing no signs of fatigue. It certainly was hard fighting against someone who had the power to create whatever he desired.
“Damn it… I wish the others could help, but they can’t. I’m the only one with the strength to do so,” Nova thought, her eyes darting to her friends. They had tried their best to act as support for Nova through ranged weapons and trying to distract Dan, but Dan was no beast. Dan knew what he was doing. Somewhat.
But then, a man and woman came out of nowhere and punched Dan so hard that he went flying toward the wall.
POW!
The dragon Dan was possessing let out a roar, and blood spurted out of its lips. Its wings folded in, weak and brittle. Ian and Patricia were standing on the ground, their bodies glowing green and musical instruments blaring out into the void. The two looked at each other, and then Ian winked.
“Let’s do this.”
The two held each other’s hands, and Patricia began to twirl. Ian was lifted off of the ground, and as Patricia spun round and round, Ian began to laugh with joy. As Patricia’s body spun and faced Dan, she let go of him.
Ian went flying toward him, arms flailing and legs kicking at the air, but as Dan lifted his dragon head up to face him, Ian regained balance and shoved his shoe out.
“RRAGHHHHHHH!”
SPLAT!
The dragon’s jaw was immediately kicked inside out, golden ichor flowed down onto the ground, as the dragon slumped forward, its head a mess. A human groan came from inside the dragon, and then Dan Walker shot out onto the bloody mess on the ground. He looked bruised and battered. He didn’t look like he was getting up any time soon.
“Did- did we do it?” Ian asked. Patricia ran up to Ian, inspecting him carefully.
“You okay Ian?” Patricia asked, pinching his face.
“Yes- OUCH! Yeah I am, yeah. Not a single scratch on this chiseled body,” Ian chuckled. Patricia laughed back, hugging him tightly.
“I’m glad. I threw you quite hard there. Sorry about that.”
“Well… that was part of the plan, am I not right?”
Dan Walker didn’t get up.
“Ha. Ha ha!” Paul laughed, “You two did it! You defeated Dan Walker!”
Everyone let out a cheer and gathered around Ian and Patricia, giving them compliments and thanking them for their work.
“Man, it’s finally over,” Samuel sighed, looking down at the ground, “Thanks you two.”
Nova trodded up to the group, and then transformed back into a human. She walked up to Ian and Patricia and gave them both fist bumps.
“Thank you two, I thought I was toast there,” she giggled.
“Yeah you did great!” Alan shouted gleefully. Carlos glanced at him, his eyes wide in shock. He shook his head, deciding not to question it.
“Guys… We couldn’t have done it without you,” Ian told them, “WE defeated Dan Walker. All of us.”
“Together we stopped Dan Walker,” Patricia stated simply.
“With the power of friendship?” Paul asked curiously.
“With the power of friendship,” Ian answered.
“WOO HOO!” everyone cheered, laughing as they did.
The group had been through a lot. That was for sure. They had lost a lot of friends. They had been forced to kill. They had been forced to survive and Evolve on an island, only for the sake of a flawed story.
But now they would finally be able to return home-
Rumble.
“Hey what was that?” Ben asked, looking around confused. Neddy scratched the back of his head.
“Not sure,” Neddy said, “Maybe we’ll just get teleported back?”
Samuel opened his mouth to speak, but the dragon body they had slain began to fade away, sinking into the ground like water on a rag. And a human rose from the bloodshed.
Dan Walker rose to his two feet, his hands placed together as if he were praying. He had his eyes closed. For a moment, time seemed to come to a halt. The constellations outside the starlit sanctuary were silent.
“What’s he doing?” Ruby asked, her voice cracking.
“He’s praying, I think,” Sunny replied.
Dan Walker’s implant began to glow.
Samuel gasped.
“NO! He’s activating his Attribute Amplification! Somebody stop him-”
“ATTRIBUTE AMPLIFICATION!” Dan Walker announced, “THE ARKS: OVER HEAVEN!”
In an instant, everything began to twist and turn on itself.
The world around them flickered back and forth, until the metallic, cold and dark environment around them shifted to a dead landscape and a futuristic-looking city filled with overgrowth. Wind passed by the group as they looked around, confused and scared.
“What happened? Where are we?” Neddy asked.
A tumbleweed drifted by.
They all looked up at the night sky. The moon lay above, broken into a million pieces. The constellations were fading away. A hundred dots were scattered about above, each one twinkling like stars. Were they ARKs?
The city’s buildings were tall. The metal was coursing with a strange energy, and holograms buzzed on and off within the inner depths of the city. In the distance, in the wasteland, were strange black veins glowing purple.
“Are we back on Earth?” Nova asked, dumbfounded and afraid.
She whipped around.
“No. I don’t think so. Otherwise, that beam would have hit us and we would have blacked out. I think this is some sort of hyper-realistic illusion. Perhaps a complete world that Dan himself created,” Samuel hypothesized. He turned to Tiffany and Rick.
“Anything around here ring a bell? Is this a part of Dan’s book?”
The two shook heads.
“No. The main characters in the story ever only reached it to the dead ARK before the story was left off unfinished-”
BOOM!
The earth around them began to shake and rumble.
And then they looked up and saw a shooting star pass by.
“Hey, look guys! Up above!” Neddy cried out.
Alan squinted his eyes.
“What, do you want us to make a wish? Now’s not the time we need to find out how to get back-” Ruby was interrupted by Alan.
“The shooting star is getting closer.”
Before anyone had time to react, the large meteor struck the ground so hard that the buildings scattered about the sanctuary city collapsed in on itself. The ground rumbled, and everyone began to cough as dust flew into the air, clouding their vision.
“What the hell was that?!” Patricia shouted, taking a step back.
Two purple eyes glowed ominously in the fog.
And then the eyes rose.
Everyone looked up, awestruck and terrified at the same time.
Another purple glow emanated, this one closer to the ground. It looked like a purple orb.
“Dan?” Gary asked, sweat pouring down his face.
“Dan,” Carlos replied, dropping his frying pan to the ground.
The fog cleared, revealing a behemoth of a creature. It stood on its two legs, like a human, yet so much more monstrous. Giant spines ran down its back, each one glowing purple, and its arms were muscular and ripped. A large tail the size of a building swished around.
The titan’s chest was reverberating purple, as if it was its blood.
Implanted within the titan’s wrist was an implant of its own, an implant with a purple orb.
The titan chuckled a bit, purple fog shot out of its nostrils and mouth.
“I did not want to bring it down to this, my ATTRIBUTE AMPLIFICATION,” the King Titan, AKA, Dan Walker, snarled, “This is intensive on my implant after all. But… I know you cannot defeat me. No matter what.”
The King Titan lifted his hands into the air, as if he were calling down on something. More shooting stars came into view. Everyone immediately knew they were meteors. The survivors all screamed, and they began to run into and through the city to avoid the meteors.
BAM! KABOOM!
The meteors hit the ground hard, sending shockwaves running throughout the city. People were thrown off balance, tripping and stumbling over one another as they fled. Even Alan, the strongest of their ranks, did not dare to attack back.
Only one figure remained in the dust, facing off against the King Titan.
“AH HA HA HA HA HA!” the King Titan laughed, “If it isn’t one of my only readers! You know if you asked nicely, I would have let you go too.”
Tiffany did not retort any remarks. She merely crouched down, and then jumped up into the air. Wings sprouted from her back, and she flew at the King Titan full force and slammed her foot into his chest.
BOOM!
The King Titan gasped, and he went flying backwards. The King Titan fell onto his back, causing dust and sand to fly into the air. The King Titan gripped at the ground, skidding to a halt. He looked up and saw Tiffany floating in the air, her wings flapping softly, the noise overpowered by her heartbeat. The King Titan groaned, getting up from the ground.
“I really shouldn’t have given you that ability,” the King Titan sneered, “Whatever. DIE.”
The King Titan snapped his fingers, and the purple veins sprawled out across the ground, forming weird nodes the size of dinosaurs. Tiffany looked down for a bit, and then looked back up at the King Titan with a glare. The King Titan smiled, pointing his finger at Tiffany.
SLASH SLASH SLASH!
Tiffany let out a gasp, as giant gashes and cuts suddenly appeared all across her body. The King Titan chuckled as he continued sending slashes and cuts toward Tiffany.
SLASH SLASH SLASH!
The last slash sent Tiffany sending backwards into a building.
CRASH.
The building went toppling down, crashing into another building, which crashed into another building. A domino effect was created, sending buildings tumbling and falling onto one another.
The city was falling.
The King Titan let out an amused snort, looking down at the minions he had created. Giganotosaurus and Tyrannosaurus shot out from the ground, infected and covered with the purple veins. They roared and rushed forward into the city, searching for prey.
“This ends now.”