Zoro VS Erza

"Okay, let see what we got next!" Rainbow Dash felt excited as the next episode plays.

Boomstick: Past, present, or future, one kind of fighter has stood the test of time: The swordsman.

Wiz: And today's combatants are two of the most skilled warriors to ever wield a blade.

"So, it's a contest of pure swordsman skills. This should be interesting." Rarity said.

Boomstick: Roronoa Zoro, the feared swordsman of the Straw Hat Pirates.

Wiz: And Erza Scarlet, the battle mage of the Fairy Tail guild.

Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.

Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.

"I like the first guy; he seems to have the sharper eyes." Spike said.

Roronoa Zoro

Wiz: As a child, Roronoa Zoro dreamed of becoming the greatest swordsman in the world.

"Kids can have big dreams even when some people think it's impossible to get." Flash stated.

Boomstick: But he didn't just enroll at a dojo. He showed up, challenged everyone, and then just sort of stuck around.

Wiz: Zoro's dojo training sharpened his natural talent with a sword, but there was one person he could never quite manage to beat: his sensei's daughter, Kuina. They dueled A LOT, and Kuina won every single matchup. All 2,001 of them.

Boomstick: Damn, you'd think he would've gotten at least one win in!

"That most likely due to the girl living in a dojo all her life and being trained in swordsman by her father." Sunset pointed out. And impressed Kuina can show a boy what a girl got.

Wiz: Despite the constant defeat, Kuina and Zoro were very close friends. Together, they promised that someday, one of them would become the world's best swordsman.

"Aw, sounds like the start of a romantic journey between the two as they grow up!" Rarity commented.

Boomstick: And then she fell down some stairs and died, which just seems like an unacceptable way for a master swordsman to bite the dust.

"…Shit!" Rarity cursed that there was no romance between the two.

Wiz: Does thin out the competition for world's best swordsman, though.

Boomstick: True. I mean, that's how I became the world's best shotgun wood carver!

"I'm not using a gun on trees. Kicking it is the way to go if ya'll talking about apple bucking season." Applejack gestured at her strong legs.

Background

Full Name: Roronoa Zoro

Height: 5'11''/181 cm

Age: 21

Birthday: November 11

Bounty: 320,000,000 belly (Figured it must be very high)

Former Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Member of the Straw Hat Pirates

Trained under Dracule Mihawk

Awful sense of direction (Pinkie and Rainbow Dash laugh at this)

Wiz: After Kuina's death, Zoro inherited her sword, and used it to hone his skills even further, eventually leaving the dojo in search of the current titleholder of "World's Greatest Swordsman", Dracule Mihawk.

"At least he's carrying on the dream for his best friend. Sounds like a good romance." Flash stated.

"Perhaps, having something that reminds you of the love with rivalry and such is a good motivation." Rarity believed.

Boomstick: But he immediately got himself lost. With nothing better to do, he became a bounty hunter and wandered around the ocean until he ran into a weird, stretchy, pirate kid.

"Stretchy, you say?" Pinkie began to see what he means by stretchy of this straw-hat guy.

Wiz: You mean Monkey D. Luffy, who brought Zoro onto his crew of Straw Hat Pirates.

"The fuck… What kind of idiot would name his crew the Straw Hat Pirates? It doesn't sound scary nor tough." Rainbow Dash complained.

"I think it's nice." Fluttershy commented.

Boomstick: Actually, worked out pretty well, since Luffy was already looking to hire him anyway. Turns out, Zoro has quite a reputation.

Wiz: At this point, he was already a master swordsman, and, after finding and training under Mihawk, his swordsmanship became legendary.

Boomstick: He created his own fighting style, Santoryu, also called "Three Sword Style", because he uses THREE swords, one in each hand, and one in his friggin' mouth!

Wiz: That doesn't seem very safe...

Boomstick: Ah, shut up, Wiz. Badasses don't care about safety!

"Maybe I can try doing that with party blowers!" Pinkie started getting the idea.

"Or colorful ribbons." Sunset chuckled.

"But I do agree with having a sword in one's mouth is unsafe and unsanitary." Rarity grossed out a little from that.

Arsenal and Skills

Santoryu: Three-Sword Style

Oni Giri

Tatsu Maki

1080 Pound Cannon

Kyutoryu: Nine Sword Style

Armament Haki

Observation Haki

Wiz: Regardless, with the Three Sword Style, Zoro can perform several unique attacks, including the Oni Giri, where he strikes with all three blades at once.

Boomstick: Or the Tatsu Maki, where he makes a tornado dragon!

"Fitting since Tatsu Maki means Dragon Twister in English." Twilight informed.

Wiz: By swinging his swords a certain way, he can fire compressed air projectiles toward an opponent, like with his deadliest technique, the 1080 Pound Cannon. And last but not least, he knows the Kyutoryu Nine-Sword Style.

"What the what?!" Spike gasped.

"Okay, is that guy a mutant or what?" Flash asked, also in shock.

Boomstick: Wait, did he just grow four more arms and two more heads?! How the hell'd he do that?!

Wiz: It's just an illusion, but it still somehow has physical presence.

Boomstick: He's like a human Slap-Chop, with a total of nine swords!

"That means he could strike nine times more powerful like he's attacking with nine blades at once!" Sunset realized in shock.

Wiz: That's one way to put it... in addition to his skills with a blade, Zoro is able to use Haki, a mysterious power that every living thing possesses, but only a select few have learned how to use.

"Kinda like how magic seems to work for you girls the most. The other people who tried magic ended up… really bad." Flash mentioned.

"Tell me about it." Sunset sighed, knowing that full-well when she went full demon.

Boomstick: Haki, much like Neapolitan ice cream, comes in three flavors, and Zoro only has access to chocolate and vanilla.

"Comparing spiritual powers with ice-cream, not a good way for this." Twilight disapproved of this.

Wiz: Chocolate... I... what? I... I don't even... well, one of those... flavors... is Observation Haki.

Boomstick: That's vanilla!

"Make sense to me!" Pinkie shrugged.

Wiz: Of course... which, in some ways, is similar to Spider-Man's spidey-sense. Zoro can sense the location of other people, even if they're invisible or far away, and can also predict most opponents' attacks.

"Almost like reading minds, but just on instinct for warning of danger." Sunset said.

Boomstick: Then chocolate, everyone's favorite Haki flavor, is Armament Haki. This lets him form an invisible armor around himself as protection or harden his swords to make his strikes cut through almost anything.

"I would definitely want that Chocolate—I mean Haki!" Flash corrected himself.

Wiz: With both Haki, Zoro has been a real asset to the Straw Hat Pirates. They've traveled the world and had a lot of... weird adventures.

"Nothing weird we haven't seen." Rainbow Dash shrugged.

"Except for that giraffe man with the swords." Fluttershy pointed out.

Boomstick: Like that time Zoro fought a literal living mountain man named Pica, and sliced him clean in half!

Wiz: A strike so powerful, it didn't just cut through Pica, it sent his top half flying upward. Considering Pica's enormous size and approximate mass, this strike had to have been more powerful than the first-ever deployed hydrogen bomb: the 11 Megaton Castle Romeo.

"What?!" Flash and the girls and Spike gasped upon seeing the kind of opponent Zoro fought. Not Applejack's super strength can fight against that huge thing.

Feats

Cut through a mountain-sized man

Dodged point-blank cannon fire

Decapitated a dragon

Survived certain death from Kuma

Moved 9000 miles per hour (Rainbow Dash was impressed by this)

Strong enough to lift a building

Survived 30 million volts of electricity

Defeated Mr. 1

Punched a hole through a tidal wave

Boomstick: Boomstick: Also, Zoro's pretty damn fast. One time, he moved so quickly, he seemed invisible to a room of highly-trained assassins. And when the odds are against him, he'll keep pushing himself, even past the point of bleeding out.

Wiz: Thus, he's powered through some incredibly intense pain. Such as...

Zoro gets a taste of Luffy's pain and spasms wildly.

Boomstick: HOLY SHIT! How the hell is he still standing after that?!

"Oh my!" Fluttershy hid her face behind her Godzilla stuffy.

Wiz: That's a good question. After a battle with Kuma, a bear man -because this is One Piece- Zoro took on not only his own pain of near-death, but also Luffy's, despite being told that doing so would surely kill him, but it just... didn't.

Boomstick: And he doesn't even brag about it. What a badass.

"He really did that for his friend. I have my high respect for him." Applejack took off her hat.

"Such a brave and noble thing!" Rarity sobbed smiling.

"Looks like that world has its own Magic of Friendship." Twilight said as she looks at Sunset who smiles.

Wiz: Zoro is definitely the stoic, badass type, but he can't do everything. He's a swordfighter above all and prefers to fight up close and personal.

Boomstick: He also has the world's shittiest sense of direction. He gets lost without someone there literally reading the map for him, and could never survive on his own without his friends.

"So, you're saying that if you tell him to go left then hell end up for right and get lost. Sheesh, what kind of swordsman has that much dealing with directions?" Flash asked.

"He probably doesn't even admit it because of his pride." Sunset said.

Wiz: You might think Zoro would be more of a lone wolf type of guy, but no, much like how Kuina's death spurred him on to become a great swordsman, it's his friends who keep him fighting.

"At least that's something he can be proud of." Pinkie smiled.

Zoro: I set sail for only one reason: To meet you!

Mihawk: And what is your goal?

Zoro: To beat you!

Erza Scarlet

Wiz: Erza Scarlet grew up in a small, rural town called Rosemary Village. It was pretty picturesque, as far as childhoods go.

Boomstick: Hold on, Wiz, I'm getting a premonition. Despite everything seeming perfect, something... something terrible happens.

"I think you're just being over dramatic, like Rarity if she spots a single thread out of place." Applejack teased.

"At least it's a real-thing and not some nonsense from Boomstick." Rarity stated.

Wiz: A murderous cult attacked, destroyed the city, and enslaved the children to build a tower to resurrect their evil overlord.

Boomstick: There it is.

"Oh, come on!" Rarity snapped of Boomstick being right.

Wiz: Young Erza was tortured, and while she may have lost an eye in the process, she also gained a friend, Jellal Fernandes. He actually gave Erza her last name, Scarlet, after her red hair.

"That's so sweet." Fluttershy smiled.

Boomstick: She and her buddy swore they'd escape, so Erza ended up staging a revolt, and saved the other slaves, thanks to discovering her latent magical powers.

Wiz: Unfortunately, not everyone made it out.

Boomstick: Turns out, Jellal got possessed by some spirit that made him a huge dick, and she had to go without him.

Jellal: Fine, if you want to leave so badly, then I'm not going to stop you. But you'll have to go alone.

"Well, that's spooky and a little off about this spirit thing that took over Jellal." Twilight felt her intuition saying that something was more to this.

Background

Full Name: Erza Scarlet

Age: 19

Birth Year: X765

S-Class Mage of the Fairy Tail Guild

7th Guild Master of Fairy Tail

Has an artificial eye (Twilight wants to know about that)

Also known as Titania

Favorite foods: Strawberry cake, souffle (Pinkie would like to make those)

Wiz: After that nightmare, Erza swore to dedicate her life to helping and protecting the innocent, and so joined the Fairy Tail Magician's Guild. Luckily for them, she possessed a great skill set for a mage.

"Oh yeah, show us the magic!" Flash grinned.

"I wanna see what makes her a worthy opponent!" Rainbow Dash said.

Boomstick: Her main thing is Requip magic, which is basically like having an armory with you at all times, without having to lug it around.

"I'm listening." Rarity found herself interested in this magic.

Reequip Magic Armor Sets

Heart Kreuz

Heaven's Wheel

Black Wing

Flame Empress

Adamantine

Giant Armor

Piercing Armor

Armadura Fairy

Clear Heart Clothing

Wiz: Requip magic allows Erza to summon her vast array of weapons and armor at will, meaning she can use multiple combinations of swords, lances, and outfits, all in one fight, without ever really slowing down.

Boomstick: Damn, that'd be useful for all my weapons. How many is she packin'?

Wiz: She's rumored to have access to as many as a hundred sets of armor and 200 weapons.

"And she has all of that in her own dimensional pocket to carry them around." Sunset said.

"Oh, what I wouldn't give to have a magic pocket like that! Think of all the clothes I could carry by myself without anything to worry about anything!" Rarity smiled.

"That would help you a lot." Flash said.

Boomstick: Nice! As far as armor goes, her go-to is the standard Heart Kreuz set, but there's also the Heaven's Wheel Armor, where she can send swords flying at people, the spiky, defensive Adamantine Armor, and the Black Wing and Flame Empress armors, which have wings, for... flying!

"Pretty the "Flame" armor is self-explanatory with fire attacks." Twilight pointed out.

Wiz: Don't forget her Giant Armor, which she uses with a lance, Purgatory Armor, which has a lot of spikes, and, uh... Seduction Armor? I'm not really sure what purpose this serves...

Boomstick: Probably to make enemies terribly aroused. Ever tried to fight with an erection, Wiz? (chuckling) Believe me, it's not easy.

"Hmm, I think I'll put in a request for you on making me that." Sunset whispered to Rarity's ear, making the fashion girl blush.

Wiz: Right... Well, Erza claims her most powerful armor is the Armadura Fairy armor, which is very... pink.

"Fear the power of the color pink!" Pinkie roared.

Boomstick: These are fancy and all, but sometimes she doesn't even bother suiting up. If her back's against the wall, Erza equips her Clear Heart clothing. This enhances her speed and attack over defense, and channels all her magical energy into her katanas for a decisive blow.

"Having a sword powered by your magic is awesome!" Rainbow Dash said.

Wiz: She can charge magic through her swords to perform all sorts of magical attacks, even mixing and matching weapons and armors to better her chances in a fight.

Boomstick: She's also just really good at sword-fighting. Actually, she's really good with a lot of weapons, including hand-to-hand.

Feats

Pierced a giant floating cube

Survived a Jupiter Cannon shot

Can deflect bullets

Fought 100 monsters at once (Everyone was amazed)

Sliced through an airship

Sliced through Hades' magical chains

Obliterated a whole island

Youngest guild member to pass the S-Class Mage Promotion Test (Sunset was impressed)

Wiz: All of this makes Erza an excellent addition to the Fairy Tail guild. She quickly became one of its highest-ranking mages and was the youngest member to ever pass the S-Class Mage Promotion Test, an incredibly difficult gauntlet only the strongest and wisest of warriors can even attempt.

"Very difficult, I'm sure. That girl got what it takes." Sunset smiled.

Boomstick: Speaking of achievements, she's pretty friggin' strong. Don't believe me? Well, here she is, lancing a hole through a giant, floating cube!

Wiz: This cube was about a hundred million cubic miles in volume. To punch through it, Erza's lance must have dealt about 16 kilotons of force.

"I heard of thinking outside the box, but never about piercing through one." Spike chuckled.

Boomstick: Erza's also fast enough to deflect bullets point-blank from a flintlock pistol, guns with a muzzle velocity of about 540 miles per hour, and that's without a speed boost from her armor!

"She would certainly win a showdown!" Applejack nodded.

Wiz: Right, many of her armor sets grant her stat boosts, increasing her speed, magic, defense, etc. She's survived plenty of destructive blasts, including one that blew up an island. Considering that island's size, that's an explosion equivalent to two kilotons of TNT.

Boomstick: So, she's sexy, can survive island-busting attacks, and has a shit-ton of weapons? She's basically perfect, just wish she used a gun or two.

"Another woman who would NEVER go out with you." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes.

Wiz: Well, she may have a vast armory, but swapping them in and out requires magic, and she can run her supply down if she's not careful.

Boomstick: So, it's just like a mana bar in those fantasy games you always play.

Wiz: Exactly! Ahem, though, even when she's out of magic, she's still quite deadly in hand-to-hand, like when she fought her alternate self from another parallel universe.

Boomstick: That universe has a lot less clothing. Sign me up!

"I wonder what it would be like if we fought our own alternate selves from another parallel universe." Flash started thinking about that.

"I could ask Twilight to bring her friends here and we can find out." Sunset suggested an idea.

"Oh yeah, bring it on!" Rainbow Dash is on board of the idea.

Wiz: But when you're among the best in the guild, you get the job done, no matter the limits.

Erza: I will withstand any physical pain, to protect the ones that I love!

"Maybe I can be brave like her." Fluttershy said to her big stuffy.

Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set. Let's end this debate once and for all!

Boomstick: IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLEEE!

Zoro is walking in the middle of a seaside village, getting lost again, and accidentally bump into Erza who was coming in from another direction.

Zoro: Oh! Sorry, lady. Could you point me in the way of the shipyard? I've been looking around for hours...

"Yeah, I wouldn't trust this guy with directions even if he was the last guy on earth." Flash shook his head.

Erza looks at a paper she was carrying around that contains a bounty for the pirate. Recognizing Zoro from the picture on it, she drops the paper and summons her sword.

"Uh-oh, someone just got caught!" Pinkie teased.

Erza: Aha! You're the one I'm looking for! Come peacefully and you won't be harmed.

Zoro: Sorry, I'm busy. Maybe later.

(Music: Erza Advent - Fairy Tail, Yasuharu Takanashi)

Erza points her sword closer to Zoro's face.

Erza: Then we'll have to do this the hard way...

Zoro draws his sword and points it at the Fairy Tail Mage.

Zoro: I told you I'm busy!

"Oh, you'll be busy alright. Busy getting your rude butt handed to you!" Rarity taunted.

"Nice one." Pinkie said.

"Thank you. It just came to me." Rarity smiled.

FIGHT!

Erza leaps in the air and swings downward toward Zoro, who blocks the overhead attack.

Zoro: Well, I guess we're doing THIS now...

Zoro counters more of Erza's blows and pushes her back. He tries some of his own slashes that Erza dodges. He then takes out his other two swords and leaps high in the air for a Santoryu attack. Erza manages to step back in time to avoid Zoro's attack, which destroys the house right next to them.

"I hope no one was in that house." Fluttershy was concerned.

Erza then requips into her Black Wing armor, surprising her opponent.

Zoro: Woah! What?

Erza: You're coming with me!

Erza flies downwards and grabs Zoro before kicking him to a nearby rooftop. Zoro quickly regains his footing.

Zoro: Neat trick...

Erza then dives towards the roof to attack Roronoa, who avoids her continuous attacks by leaping to the other rooftops. Erza re-equips her Flame Empress armor and causes a large flaming explosion that Zoro dodges by leaping off the rooftop. Zoro then gets up to continue the battle but is quickly distracted by a flame on his clothes causing him to panic and roll on the ground to put it out while Erza watches and chuckles.

This also got the others to chuckle from the funny scene that just happened in this Death Battle, sometimes it's good to laugh every once and a while.

Zoro: Try laughing at this!

He throws compressed air projectiles at her, knocking her away. Zoro charges, but she blocks with her Adamantine armor, she then discards it as they had a small moment of staring at each other.

"What are the chances that someone, out there in the known multiverse, someone is writing a fanfic of those two being a couple?" Pinkie asked.

"It would give that a read." Sunset felt interested in that.

Then they clash again as Erza switches up different weapons to fight against Zoro. Erza leaps onto a rooftop and switches to her Giant armor, she throws the lance, but Zoro knocks it into the air with his swords and then strikes it back at her. She swaps to her Armadura Fairy armor and slices the lance in half.

Erza: You are strong, pirate, but this is TRUE strength!

She rockets toward him, glowing with green energy, he leaps and hurls an air blast, the two collide, leveling that part of town. Zoro lies in a crater, bloodied a bit and unmoving, Erza's armor falls off, revealing the Clear Heart clothing under it.

Erza: (sighs) Fool, nothing is worse than the loss of life.

"Looks like the fairy knight has this in the bag." Flash smirked.

(Music: The Very, Very, Very Strongest! - One Piece, Kōhei Tanaka)

Zoro then groans and stands up, blood dripping.

Zoro: Don't start crying, woman.

Erza and Flash: What?!

Zoro readies his swords.

Zoro: So much for all that "true strength" bullshit, huh?

"Booya! The guy's durability and endurance are keeping him in the game!" Spike cheered.

"Looks like Erza is gonna have to pull out all the stops now!" Twilight said.

Erza: No, I can do this!

She changes to Heaven's Wheel armor, she flies up into the air and summons several swords around her, she aims them all at Zoro, who puts on his bandana.

Erza: I will claim this bounty for my guild, for my strength, for my friends!

The swords fly down, Zoro spins and knocks them away, he sees more coming towards him.

Zoro: Bring it on!

He does his Nine Sword Style illusion and knocks the swords away, he leaps up and hops toward her, using the swords as steppingstones.

Zoro: You're not the only one who fights for their friends!

"It's the final clash of their blades! Who will come out on top?!" Rarity felt nervous about seeing the end.

"This is gonna be close!" Flash said as they watch this carefully.

Erza swaps to the Clear Heart clothing and lands on one of the swords, they leap toward each other and clash.

Erza is sliced completely in half down the middle, along with part of a mountain in the background. The two halves of her body land messily on the ground and blood spurts out, Zoro lands and sighs as he walks away.

Zoro: Now, where the hell is that shipyard?

KO!

Zoro arrives in a different location next to characters from Metal Slug, confused about his surroundings, while Erza's remaining swords fall around her corpse.

Boomstick: Jesus! Talk about a killing blow!

"And just when I thought I was starting to use to that kind of ending." Fluttershy said, feeling slightly sick in the stomach.

Wiz: In the past, Erza could react to projectiles flying over 500 miles per hour, but Zoro can move faster than the eye can see. U.S. Air Force tests have shown that a well trained human eye can consistently spot and recognize an image in one 220th of a second, so in this case, Zoro would've had to move from point A to point B, which is about 57 feet, in 4.5 milliseconds. That's close to 9,000 miles per hour.

"Which is way more than any bullets fired at Erza." Twilight stated.

Boomstick: That's more than five times faster than a bullet. Erza didn't really rely on speed anyway, and there's no evidence any of her armor magic could've helped close that wide of a gap.

Wiz: Speaking of her armor, Erza did have more options in defense and weaponry. Unfortunately for her, she was simply outclassed in damage dealt.

"Oh yeah, that girl couldn't be able to put him down for good." Rainbow Dash shook her head.

Boomstick: Erza could withstand hits of about two kilotons, like the blast which destroyed that island, but Zoro has dished out much stronger blows than that.

Wiz: Slicing Pica in half, for example, was equivalent to 11.5 megatons. That's about 6,000 times bigger than anything Erza's survived, and while Erza's artificial eye may have seen through Zoro's Nine Sword Style illusion, it couldn't prevent him from actually attacking her.

Boomstick: She also has that habit of stripping down to Clear Heart clothing in a bind. Yeah, it gave her more sword power, but at the cost of less defense. This sounded like a good idea on paper, but close-range combat was Zoro's bread and butter.

"Erza may have some weapons that could keep the distance, but I doubt that would even change anything." Sunset said.

Wiz: Erza was mostly self-taught, and while proficient with a blade, Zoro has trained with swords all his life, even with the greatest swordsman in the world; an up-close duel was exactly what he was looking for.

"Erza was forced to take up weaponry because of her rough childhood, poor girl." Rarity said.

Boomstick: Guess she won't be getting a Fairy Tail ending.

Wiz: The winner is Roronoa Zoro.

"Erza may have the many swords, but none of them were enough to handle Zoro's three swords." Flash said.

"Man, what a crazy way to end." Rainbow Dash commented.

"If you think that's crazy. Wait until you see the next one." Pinkie winked at the screen as she knows what's coming next.

Author's Note

KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!

Sword against Sword is an ancient art that is still practice even today, and we all saw how Zoro was the better swordsman to even go beyond Three-Sword Style on Erza making her half the woman she is. But even so, I still like Erza and hope she keeps being awesome in the 100 Year Quest!

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