Gallatian: Cosmic Savior, Part 2

I woke up in... well I didn't know where the hell I was, still don't. It looked like I was in space, but I was standing... on nothing... and three giant blue guys were staring at me. I was uncomfortable and curious at the same time. Slowly I put two and two together. Slowly.

I thought "Where am I? First I was on the ship... then the robot... then explosion... oh... HOLY CRAP..."

"Dead" finished the blue guys. Their speaking was perfectly synced. It was creepy, but that wasn't my first thought. My first thought was "No I can't be dead...wait is this heaven... or hell?" I started to look around. I didn't see any fire... nor did I see clouds.

"Jeph Wolfman concentrate! You are here because you were chosen." they say.

"Chosen... for what?" I thought, then I realized they were replying to my thoughts. Now I was even more curious.

"Chosen to be the universe's savior." I let that roll over in my head. Then I spoke.

"Savior from what?! Why won't you give me any real answers!" Out of nowhere I felt searing hot pain, and an image of the black robot came to me.

"It is a device created by the Ba'Don. They called it the Defender, but it strayed from its original programming and went rogue."

"What happened to the Ba'Don?" It really didn't surprise me that aliens existed. I had already moved on from asking what a Ba'Don was.

"The Defender killed them all." I fell silent. "The Defender believes that our universe is flawed. It believes that all life and culture are slowly destroying it and it believes the solution is to kill everything. It truly thinks it's saving the universe by doing that.

"Why do you care though? You're obviously gods, so why don;t you just find a universe?"

"Because we are Creators. We created the universe. We are it's life blood and destroy all life you would have to destroy us. The Defender knows this."

"How does it know about you? Gods live above their creations not in them."

"That is true and we do not know how he discovered us."

"So why don't you just destroy the bot. You know make some lightning hit it or whatever."

"We are Creators not Destroyers. We can not destroy things but we can make something to destroy."

"You mean me? That's why I'm here. To be your attack dog." They nodded in perfect sync. I was starting to hate that.

"I don't want to."

"You have no choice."

"I'm not a hero."

"You have to be."

"I think I'd rather stay dead."

"You can't."

"What if I don't do what you want?"

"We'll make you." The searing pain comes back. My teeth start to grind. I was trying not to give in, so I wouldn't become what they wanted. The pain overcame me and everything went dark.