[ WP ] After the Dark Lord conquered the realm everything turns out really damn good .

20 years. Had it really been that long? The news crews were coming in later today to interview me.....I hope the drones can guide them in without any casualties this time. The volcano lair was... mostly dormant. When I first settled here, I never planned on visitors. At least, none I actually wanted to survive the trip. I still cant believe its been 20 years. Two decades since I finally won. All the capes were dead, and I was the absolute lord and master of the entire Earth. The hardest part of winning had been realizing that I finally had to put up or shut up. How many times had I told that insipid Captain Supreme that I could change the world if only he'd let me? And now I had. The first thing I did was cure cancer. My gift to the world to atone for taking their hero's. After that it was heart disease. A nanite in the form of a pill that scrubbed the arteries clean and extended the human life span by at least 30 years. There was nothing I couldnt fix. No one I couldnt save. And all they had to do was bow down before me... which they did. It was childs play. Everything was childs play. Everything was....boring. There were no challenges anymore. I had killed them all. 
 
 It was time to make my appearance. I lifted the gaudy tinfoil lined helmet to my head and attached my velvet cape. Christ... velvet and tinfoil. I really was an idiot. Still, its hard to change your look when you're on every piece of money in the world. The news crews had landed... only one hadnt made it past the lasers, and it was from FOX so no big loss there. As I made my way down to the landing platform, a familiar face caught my eye. Her. Of course she was here. She was the only thing the idiot and I had in common... she was the only thing in the world I still felt anything for. And she hated me. Ever since I killed her hero. That redheaded idiot of a cameraman was with her... the one who had been his sidekick a lifetime ago. I remember he had actually cried on TV the day I won... that had been pretty funny. He was older now... the years had not been kind. He looked like life had kicked the shit out of him....but she was still beautiful. Looking at her, I felt the way I did back in school. Nervous... shy....too scared to even make eye contact. For gods sake man, get it together! You're the absolute ruler of the world... you can damn well make conversation with a nosy reporter and her idiot cameraman. Besides, maybe if I was nasty enough, I could make the ginger cry again. That was something to look forward to. With my hands on my hips and a sneer on my face, I got ready to give them a monologue for the ages... and then the gingers camera exploded. 
 
....The hell??? My ears were ringing and I was flat on my back. I tasted copper and my chest hurt like hell. Whatever they had hit me with had made it past the body armor. Fuck... thats a lot of blood. Off in the distance, I hear more choppers....sounds like military. So this is how it ends? I give them the world they always wanted, make everything perfect, and this is the thanks I get? Fucking normals....I should have just let the Justice Battalion send me to the penal colony on Mars all those years ago. I could have taken that place over in no time. But she was here. So I stayed. I always thought I could make her love me, if she would only give me half a chance. If only HE wasnt in the way. Everything I had done, I had done for her. Didnt she realize? And now here she was... finally... looking down at me. God, the look on her face....how can she hate me that much? She says something, but I cant hear over the buzzing in my ears....the last thing I see before my heart breaks for good is her spitting in my face. Fine. Let them eat cake. As soon as my heart stops, the self-destruct sequences will activate. The volcano will be the first thing to go. Then the EMP's in orbit. Then the moon. If I had to go, I was damn sure going to take every single one of them with me. Maybe in the next life, she would see the light. Maybe then I could make her love me. I could make everything perfect again. If only they'd let me.
