Our Last Armageddon

How the Mighty Fall

Earth-78, Starlight Royal Residency, circa 1976, Italy]

The candles and chandeliers lit up the room with multiple men and women wearing the highest class of attire, chatting, and dancing aside to a n orchestra in play. Among the crowd, on the second floor a particular pair of members stood out. One of the figures was robust and tall, with a suit and tie, while the other was shorter, in a pitch black dress and long hair with some blue strands sticking out.

"You look great in that," Said the taller figure with a smirk to the smile of its face,

"I was forced into this." the other replied with a harsh voice.

Contrary to the looks, the taller figure was a woman, while the shorter one in a dress was a shapeshifter... in a way. Even going by opposite genders, their faces stayed in blend with the crowd as they held hands.

"This is very uncomfortable and you know it." The shorter one responded by adjusting the dress around its chest. "I was never fond of women's clothing but this? Is overwhelmingly revealing to me."

"You don't usually wear clothing anyways." the other one replied while taking a glass of champagne from a waiter, while nodding as a thanking gesture "What's so much of a bother with that?"

"My usual body isn't as sexualized as humans, you know that." it responds again, putting her hand over her breasts ,even if they are covered by the fabric, as they pass by another couple "I'm a ball of feathers charged by hate."

"It's still a brave stand to face the oh-so-hard-challenge of 'wearing a dress you made yourself', you are so brave." she responds, mockingly.

In response, the entity simply growls as they make their way around the place until eventually getting to the last floor and looking through the massive dome of glass that surrounded them, with some telescopes included as a private observatorium.

Fewer guests were here, so the smaller entity felt comfortable enough to change its appearance, making itself taller than his partner and raising up the cut of the dress till it closed near its neck. The two roamed the last floor for a while until finally they picked up on what they were here to do.

"I'm gonna go to the bathroom." said the female-looking entity while walking down the stairs "You stay put,"

"Copy sir."

The entity went down in a rush, even considering its lack of practice he was decent at walking with the vestment. He excused himself as he crossed the crowd and reluctantly entered the female bathroom which, to his luck, was empty. The entity sighed as it got up on the wide sink, pushing it's hand against the mirror, which it phased trough,

Trying to keep itself balanced while also keeping her forearm inside the wall, the entity kneeled down on the granite sink and inched closer, waving its hands around as it seems like he finally found what he wanted, pulling in from the mirror with what seems like a dull bar of metal, with a dark gray tone and no reflection.

"Bingo." the entity said with a grin as the bar disappeared in a flash as he got down from the sink.

It extended its right arm with a finger gun gesture as the wall suddenly exploded, shaking the building and destroying the bathroom. On the other side, it was revealed a massive vault, filled with the same type of metal he just collected. With a smile, it let go of it's disguise in the blink of an eye, giving show to his truer, even if shorter, final form.

A 1,65m tall bird humanoid with pitch-black feathers and a spike-like arrangement of the same in the back of his head, with its left eye showing a bright blue coloration. With another simple gesture he extends his left wing and the metal in the vault vanishes in another flash.