SHORT STORY: Genesis vs Galactus

GENESIS VS GALACTUS


Galactus had been working for many years in his various court-appointed jobs, and the courts had finally decided to trust him with something of a higher calibre.

"Finally they're gonna let me get back to fighting crime!" he thought to himself.

He walked into the meeting room and sat opposite the judge and his Liason officer, next to his court-appointed work coach.

"So Humphrey, it seems your rehabilitation is going well?" asked the judge.

"Please your honour, call me Galactus" he replied.

The judge stared at Galactus confused. 

"Okay... Galactus. As you've performed well in each of the jobs we've appointed to you, your liaison officer and I have decided that it may be best for you to be assigned a more challenging position to keep you on the right track with this program"

"Excellent! What's my new assignment?" asked Galactus

"Based off of your skills, we have appointed you to a position in a mid-size IT firm in the city centre. This position will come with a substantial pay rise compared to your current minimum wage position and should keep you on the right track." explained the work coach.

"And is that a cover for the crime-fighting I'll be doing as an official deputy of the police?" enquired Galactus for clarification

The entire room fell silent and all eyes fell upon Galactus with confusion.

"No. No Humphrey, you aren't going to be fighting crime, that's the entire point of this program" explained his Liason officer.

"It's Galactus" mumbled Galactus under his breath.

"You'll be required to wear smart attire for this position, if you do need any help in the purchase of this, we can aid you in covering the costs" explained the work coach.

"Yeah, I burned all my dad's smart clothes to make room for my uniforms".

Sometime later, Galactus retired from hero work. There were enough heroes in Chester without him getting involved. Between the Quartet, the Inhuman Arachnid and the newest hero on the scene "Genesis", there wasn't enough crime left for Galactus.

Instead of fighting crime, Galactus spent most of his time at work playing League of Legends, keeping his hero name alive by using it as his username in the game. He had become quite good at the game and had decided that it was more fun to "troll" other players than to actually play competitively, something that he had become even better at than playing the game itself. 

One day he was playing the game and came across an enemy player named "G3n3sis" and trolled him as normal. Galactus took extra joy in trolling G3n3sis, imagining him to be the superhero who had replaced him and become the obsession of the people and the media who both idolised him for his heroism.

The enemy player was getting more and more annoyed at Galactus, and began to threaten him.

"If I ever find you, you irritating little fuck, ill rip you in half," said G3n3sis.

"Whatever you fucking chin dribbler, come down Chester then if you're so fucking hard, and ask for Galactus, everyone round here knows me" bragged Galactus.

"Oh yeah? I happen to be in Chester right now you fucking pleb, I'm gonna find you" said G3n3sis.

Galactus panicked and quickly closed the game and unplugged his PC, but it was too late.

a loud roar of "GALACTUS!" could be heard out of the window, as a man in a red super-suit shot into the air above Chester, Galactus hid under his desk, but the very moment he began to duck, Genesis's head snapped towards the direction of the office building, as if he could hear Galactus's panicked heart rate.

The floating man shot across the sky towards the office building, crashing through the glass and into the room. Genesis picked Galactus up off of the ground by his neck, lifting him into the air, his eyes filled with rage.

"Not so fucking smart now, are you?" he taunted.

Genesis threw his target across the room, sending him crashing through several office cubicles.

"Listen, mate, I'm sorry for what I said. It was immature of me, but my life's all sorted now. I'm just not interested in a hero vs hero fight. I'm retired" explained Galactus

"yeah well guess what you fat little fuck, I'm sick and tired of parading around as this pathetic little planets hero. It's time for a hostile takeover!" shouted Genesis. 

He punches Galactus so hard that his brain rocks against the inside of his skull, reawakening the delusions inside of Galactus telling him he can be a superhero. Barely surviving the attack, Galactus flees the office, running amongst the crowd in the confusion, and getting away from Genesis. 

Galactus fled back to his house, which he had slowly started converting back into a normal home, as opposed to a superhero's secret lair. He went into the garage where he was storing all of his hero gear, and suited up. He ripped off his office attire and put on his black combat clothing, complete with a bulletproof vest, combat boots, and a long black trench coat. He then armed himself with all of the weaponry he had left, secluding most of it in different compartments on his suit, and brandishing an AK-47 in his hands.

While Galactus had been doing this, Genesis had flown to London using his super-speed and forced the government and royal family to hand over the complete power of the country to him. He had also called a meeting between Britain and her allies and offered all the attending countries an ultimatum, hand over power or die. Each state representative who opposed the order had their neck snapped before they had even finished refusing, and upon seeing this, the rest of the countries fell quickly into line. With his newfound power, Genesis launched all of the nuclear weapons in his arsenal, causing all of the other countries' early warning systems to kick in and trigger a launch for these countries. He took to the air, flying around the planet at neck-breaking speeds, punching and flying through each of the missiles, making them detonate. All enemy missiles had been destroyed before the British missiles had even reached their target, which was revealed to be harmless anyway, with all of the missiles flying straight up and detonating out of Earth's orbit. The entire operation had been a trick to make the world defenceless. Genesis offered another ultimatum, this time to the entire planet. Join the Oxryn Empire or die. Within moments, the UN had formerly offered Genesis complete control of the planet. The entire operation, from Genesis leaving Chester to being the ruler of the planet, had taken less than an hour.

Turning on the TV, Galactus learned what had happened. It was time for him to launch his counterattack against his foe, phase one of which was simple yet devastating. Galactus wrote a diss track on Genesis and put it onto YouTube, destroying Genesis's reputation, and making him look weak in the eyes of his new subjects. Galactus had not been prepared for the aftermath of this personal attack however, and he was terrified to learn that Genesis had announced Galactus as public enemy number one.

Under the cover of darkness, Galactus marched to London to find Genesis's new palace and home, a remodelled Buckingham Palace. Galactus killed the guards with his AK-47 and hopped the fence into the palace. He kicked the doors into the main chamber, firing indiscriminately into the room, killing several innocents. Genesis sat at the other end of the room on his throne, the bullets bouncing off of him. Galactus's gun clicked as it ran out of ammo, giving him a chance to look around the room, focusing on Genesis. He loaded in a new clip and emptied the entire thing into Genesis's face, not stopping firing until the entire mag was empty.

Genesis didn't even shrug off the bullets, he didn't even react.

"I've been waiting for you Galactus," said Genesis coldly.

He stood up and started walking towards his adversary. 

"I just want you to know, this is all your fault. Don't get me wrong, this was always the plan, but the original plan was to do it a lot more slowly, give you insignificant, insufferable primitives the option to actually elect me as your leader, but because of you, I had to take a more heavy-handed approach."

"Why, 'cause I beat you on League?" taunted Galactus.

Genesis shot across the room even faster than the AK-47's bullets had and once again gripped Galactus's neck.

"You dare taunt me worm?" asked Genesis.

He tossed Galactus's body across the room effortlessly, and it clattered against a set of armour that was on display. Galactus hoisted himself to his feet and threw a flashbang onto the floor. The flash of the grenade dazzled Genesis, giving Galactus a chance to relocate. He fled out into the courtyard in front of Buckingham Palace, the gates of the Mall a few feet away. He predicted that he only had a few seconds to set up the next phase of his plan. He ripped his backpack off of his back, setting it down gently on the red stone floor of the courtyard. He began fiddling with a device inside and then got up to flee down the road. 

Before he could get far, Genesis flew through the stone brick and glass wall of the palace, descending down onto Galactus. As he watched Galactus flee from the backpack, he hovered over to investigate, inside of the backpack was a functional replica of the Tsar Bomba, the most devastating nuclear weapon ever detonated. Genesis panicked when he realised what the device was, as even he didn't know what such a massive explosion would do to his alien physiology, so he grabbed the backpack by its strap and tossed the bag into space at warp speed. 

The bomb detonated out of the planet's gravitational pull, visible from the ground, but luckily having no effect. Genesis looked down the mall to see Galactus running away on foot, he caught up to him instantaneously, shoving him to the ground with a light push. Galactus got back to his feet and began to fight Genesis. He pulled out a combat knife and began to slash at Genesis, but the blade didn't even graze his skin. Genesis batted the knife out of Galactus's hand, but Galactus had already drawn his next weapon, a magnum revolver. Galactus fired all 6 shots into his opponent's face, but this too left nothing but a smouldering burn mark. 

Genesis was toying with his prey, batting him around the empty street. Genesis slapped Galactus, and blood began to pour out of his face because of the alien's god-like strength, but Galactus's resolve was unimpeded. He got up again and again, only to be batted back down by his enemy. The bruised, bloody and swollen hero tried to stand up again, but fell to his knees, too weak to take any more of the beating. 

Genesis stood over his defeated enemy, victorious. He raised his fist to finish off his enemy with one more decisive blow, as a whistling sound could be heard decreasing in pitch. Distracted by the noise, Genesis began to look around confused. As he looked up, Genesis found the source of the noise. An anvil crashed down onto Genesis's head, killing him as his head exploded under the weight of his only weakness, the common earth anvil. The anvil had fallen from a plane flying overhead, destined for the lock keeper pub, but due to an unpredicted mechanical fault, the dated aircraft's bomb bay doors had opened, emptying the cargo to the street below. Galactus, the new winner, pushed himself to his feet, and limped off into the sunset, destined for the nearest hospital.

Genesis was no more, and Galactus was reborn.








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