Watchdog Ford combined with Henchmaniac Ford. Don’t know if it's been done, but here we go with another horrible idea.
So I read some watchdog Ford (MisterTiberius, or whoever coined this au because now I am unsure who it was), and I wrote/read some Henchmaniac Ford (Cough @coniferouspines Cough can't help but mention their Henchmaniac Ford, the manic energy is absolutely insane and I drew on the mania a bit but this is based more on an unwilling Henchmaniac Ford. Henchmaniac under threat if you will).
So, I was thinking...
Watchdog + Henchmaniac = Axolotl's Acolyte Ford
Don't get it? I know, my thinking is erratic! I'll explain:
Ford is Bill’s closest confidant and friend. While he was human they had their problems but since becoming a henchmaniac he has been able to see far more clearly. Anyway, Bill likes to complain and he complains about Frilly all the time. Ford really didn’t know who was talking about but it has something to do with their interdimensional takeover, so he listens.
While Bill is idly talking Ford's ear off, Bill mentions The Axolotl and the second chance that he will NEVER need because he and Ford are absolutely unstoppable. Ford agrees, but as always, he stashes the information away in case it's useful.
Well, everything goes so well for them until they open the portal to the abyssal dimension. Stanford did not have the time to properly name it before their forces had been obliterated. If they were considered demons, then what would they call those abominations? No one was spared. Any dimension that was connected to the portal was invaded and destroyed, consumed by the abyss. Stanford and Bill had been pushed back to the final stronghold, the home dimension.
It was hardly a fight. Whatever their abilities were, it absorbed any power the two threw at them and grew stronger. Stanford had fought hard, fighting to protect his family until it was made known that they were gone. Taken while he was fighting.
Stanford lost all will after that. What was the point of fighting when his family was gone? All he had wanted was to give them everything they could ever want, and now... they were gone.
However, being consumed by these creatures, stripped layer by layer down to his soul- whatever was left of it anyway, Stanford recalled what his friend had said. Stanford needed that second chance more than Bill, but would they answer him?
He calls anyway.
And his call is answered.
He floats among the stars, puffs of gas and particles that almost look like clouds float around him. There can only be one answer. The Axolotl answered his wish for another chance.
The name had suggested it, but being faced with a massive Axolotl was more intimidating than he had imagined, more so when he remembered that it was a more powerful being than even Bill.
It almost seemed happy when he asked for a second chance, but it had a catch. It could not (or would not) restore his world, but would grant him atonement in a new way, but only if Ford agrees to serve it instead. Desperate for a second chance, a chance to see his family again. Ford agrees.
He is cured of the mania that came with being a henchmaniac. For the first time in a while, he is free of the obsession of his desires and the twisted thinking that came with his change. He becomes overwhelmed with guilt in his clear mind, he had made so many people suffer, including the ones he had wanted to protect the most...
And yet... the Axolotl gives him the task of saving his brother. Or rather himself and his brother throughout different dimensions. To change outcomes for the better...
Why?
The Axolotl did not really answer him, but it was something about liking twins. Weird, but it was giving him the chance of saving Stanley.
He takes it.
None of the Stanleys can never truly be his. He ruined his chance, he is not human, he can never be human again, but he now feels far more peace in his new purpose. He feels far more at peace with the axolotl who granted him atonement for his grievous wrongdoings.
He can find existence bearable despite the crushing weight of his past. As long as he can save other timelines from the same suffering.
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Consider this a Henchmaniac good ending because nothing good can come from Henchmaniac Ford plotlines! They have already lost, folks! Anyway, this took me a week to post because I was nervous about tagging someone...
