Douglas Duke

Douglas Duke is a minor antagonist appearing in stories, and the Rage Knights: Red God universe created by Damon Avent (Khaliq Trevor X).

## Backstory

Douglas Duke is considered a passionate person partnered with the Magistrates of Muck to allow them to help build many of the Pack-Next shipping kingdoms throughout the United States.

In the 1940s, Douglas Duke founded the Pack-Next kingdom with the vision of bringing deliveries across the world, via a fast-rate. Even dreaming of a fantastical methods such as revolutionizing the world and its highway interstate systems with shipping products.

One day in his younger years, Duke discovered a strange mechanism that appeared to be that of a warehouse. Upon observing it's location, he discovered that the 'mechanism' was not actually a mechanism, but was a False Man from outer space, only referring to itself as the Conveyor. The mechanism explained to Duke its origins and fall to Earth, as well as it's excessive need to be fed iron to maintain its power.

The Conveyor convinced Douglas that by helping it, it would allow his dreams of establishing a highway of product services come into fruition. Agreeing, Douglas took on many strange and habitual tasks such as bringing fresh livestock as a sacrifice to the False Man entity. Starting with squirrels, chickens and cats to cattle, horses. Each time using their blood to help the Conveyor gain its strength.

Eventually after a few years of this, and Douglas' own responsibility of maintaining a small business of delivering products himself, the Conveyor became dubbed as "The Conveyor of Blood". Due to its continuous need of fresh blood to maintain its operations. The conveyor of Blood's vocalization was at first limited, with Douglas only barely being able to communicate with it, however years later, the kingdom of Pack-Next became larger, establishing an intricate network of deliveries across not only the town and neighboring cities but eventually nationwide.

As a businessman now, Douglas Duke took to formal matters and became the lead Chairman, hiding district operators and local operators to not only engage with the delivery system of the first Pack-Next Kingdom but also in engaging directly with the Conveyor of Blood and each of its needs. As gratitude to Douglas, the conveyor of Blood created additional locations for the company. Douglas helped the False Man up into it became restricted to the ground while losing resources. This caused Douglas and the Conveyor of Blood to seek out new resources, namely space travel. The first location in mind being the Planet Muck, which at this time was already befriending and aligning themselves with the United States, United Kingdom, European, Soviet Russian and other Military forces.

As a promise of keeping the country safe from the soviets and other forces such as America's paranoia of alien life, Douglas himself had the Conveyor of Blood extend a "stairway" to the Planet Muck, where the Founder and now current CEO pleaded with the Muccian Magistrates to give him enough supplies and in turn, he would house dozens of Muccians on Planet Earth, where they would be allowed to come and gather resources as they pleased. Agreeing, the Muccians eventually came to Earth with their advanced and sometimes primitive Musical Instrument-based weapons where they helped Pack-Next expand and gave their technology to the company as well as cultivating a land that promised the growth of industrial power and extraterrestrial automobile inventions such as the *Muccian Drive Gear* (*see article:* *Manadrive*).

### Douglas' Revival and Watching Nomad Bradley's Defeat of Blood Novus

Like many characters in the series, Douglas Duke was one of many to be placed in SHA cryogenic chambers, thus allowing Douglas to be awaken and returning to life whenever possible. Douglas awoke to find out that SHA had forgotten his reawakening and not only this but that he had awoke in the year 207X where he realized that SHA was recently going into bankruptcy due to a nationwide criminal investigation trial. Furthermore, that Pack-Next Shipping had expanded further beyond his comprehension but at a cost, they were now battling against a man known as a Rage God, Nomad Bradley and Bradley's friends known as the Neo-Deserters and the Rage Knights. Enraged by this, Douglas sought out the Conveyor of Blood, that at this point was aware of the team of fighters but only preferred to watch until it activated its "Blood Novus" form once more.

Douglas focused primarily on assisting the Pack-Next Kingdoms, Magistrates of Muck and others in their battles against the super-powered outcasts but still retained his beliefs of an intergalactic highway of delivering packages, even his obsession with covering the world with machines. The same belief as his ally, the Conveyor of Blood.

The Conveyor of Blood was freed while Douglas dealt with several meetings between former SHA, Council of Shallow People, and Society of Bullies plotted on methods of handling the God of Rage Nomad, whom had successfully foiled their individual attempts time and time again. After returning back to the original Pack-Next location where the Conveyor of Blood was, Douglas learned of the creatures fall in battle battling Nomad Bradley himself and his friends, Midlore, Anti-Number and Suicide King. It was Shikiki the Shallow Commander that informed Douglas of continuing to have Harlow Hush the Blood Handler as the Maintenance Operator so he could locate Blood's corpse and bring it back but refusing, Douglas Duke mobilized every nearby force of Pack-Next including some of the Diseased and Muccian Magistrates to properly handle Nomad.

### Death

The group learned that the outcasts were going to eventually collect the Novus Orb (which possessed the powers and spirit of the Conveyor of Blood). So Douglas, with the orb lashed out against the United States, burning down several cities and scarring nearby areas surrounding Queens Mane and its' Brad-Dunn headquarters. With the Conveyor of Blood being easily carried in an orb, Douglas also had the power to easily create a "land of conveyors of machinery unlike never before". This warning found Douglas taking the orb with him as he had his army come to the Pack-Next Kingdom in Rosewell, just outside Queens Mane where their warning was caught the immediate attention of a lone Nomad Bradley.

The Magistrates, Pack-Next Goons and others had a standoff between Nomad, eventually losing when he went on a massacre with his Light Katana. During the battle, Douglas' false confidence became apparent, learning Nomad Bradley was nearly unstoppable after believing originally that he was out his mind for attempting to fight so many people at once. Douglas grew more cowardly than he would normally have been and fell to his death in a crumbling Pack-Next kingdom. Several of Douglas' associates and allies escaped with the Novus Orb falling into Nomad's possession.

## Notes and Disclaimer

***Disclaimer***: *To whom this may concern, the characters in their entirety, while they borrow inspiration from events, ideas, themes and other sources from the original author's life, they are incredibly different and fictional entities inside the Rage Knights Red God and under no circumstance are they expressing a real person's actual views, ideologies, names and likeness to cause harm or defame them. Any names bearing similarities to any person(s) is unintentional unless stated otherwise and under special permission. The Rage Knights Red God is a work of fiction and solely for entertainment and educational purposes. Please note, the series does not represent events that have happened, events to come nor does it condone the very human evils the series itself is/was meant to advocate against. © Khaliq Trevor X.*