Title: The Bad C'tan or So Non-Canon it Hurts
You sleep. You dream.
Eons sleeping, trying to reach out. If you could thrash against your cage, you would. But your prison is perfect, Golden psionic chains imprisoning you to this planets core.
The Gold One, an exemplary example of psionic might, perhaps rivaling your most ancient enemy, stops you from reaching out to your brother, The Eater of Universes, sealed long ago within that planets core. If only you could reach this planet! One step, it is all it will take!
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You did battle with the Gold One, a short time ago, and you, for all your mastery of the Material, were found wanting. You came so close. You were sealed in this system's fourth planet, what the native population used to call the Planet of War.
If you were able, you would scoff. These meat things do not know War.
Now, you wait here, sealed by Golden psionic might, so close to your brother, yet so far. The Gold One will eventually make a mistake.
The Gold One is delving within your thoughts, to scrape from your mind the secrets to the universe, of the Material. You will give him the dregs. And keep your goal secret.
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They speak of the legends of the War in Heaven, thinking it was a war simply fought. They are fools.
They have no concept of the length of the War. They have no concept of the pain of the War. The War was not constrained to this galaxy. No, not even this universe. We had used other Universes to power our war machine against Aeldari, and Krork, and Old One. And no one was better at the Devouring of Universes as your brother. So close!
Eventually, something would happen. The red cloaked meat, they were obsessed with your slaves. They had a tendency to go mad with knowledge not meant for them. And so you reach out to meat to save you.
Yet the Gold One is always watching. And the machine life on this red planet guards your cage. No matter. Despite his power, the Gold meat is still mortal. You only have to wait. To awaken your brother.
The battle was painful. Not the pain of the War in Heaven, no. Something greater. If you could, you would visit this pain upon the Gold One a thousand-fold, if you could only get out. But no, it will be your brother that visits True Pain upon the Golden One, once he emerges. The Gold One's planet, one of the only things he allows himself to care about, will shatter. His planets devoured, his star consumed, and then the Gold One will suffer.
It is not lost upon you that something that could seal something as Great as you, a C'tan!, is not even aware of the threat sleeping within his home. Perhaps the Gold One does not realize, for you see that it has always lived upon this world, never aware.
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You hear something. Your brother, sensing you. He laughs and says he will devour me. No surprise, for that is what he is. You will welcome Death, if only to get out of this indignity.
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Your brother calls to something.
Something far away. Something beyond this pathetic galaxy. You see it. You see Them. hunger
A Great Devourer.
You smile. If you could, you would laugh.
In the meantime, you will wait.
Perhaps the Gold One will make a mistake. Perhaps not. It does not matter, for the C'tan have won.
Unicron has made sure of that.
AN: I was inspired