Chapters Chapter Three, Disagreements and Rest. Side Story, A Saiyan's and a Titan's Camaraderie. Chapter Four, Round One, The Howlite Holwer vs The Vessel of Power. Chapter Five, Conversations. Chapter Six, Just "Chilling" Chapter Seven, Local Minecraft Myth gets wrecked by The Rock's Sister. Chapter Eight, Dr. Doom of Griffonstone vs Kyle, just Kyle nothing else. Side Chapter, Around the Campfire. Chapter Nine, The Divine God vs The Reaper of the Crystal Empire. Side-Chapter, Training Montage! Side-Chapter, Mission Ball Dragging. Chapter Ten, The Molten Titan vs Master of all Four Elements Phoenix Wri- Local Sage beats the ever loving crap out of Edgy Sasuke wannabe. Chapter Eleven, Old "Friends" Chapter Twelve, A bunch of random stuff Side-Chapter, Maximum. Chapter Thirteen, Trauma. Chapter Fourteen, A Battle for the Ages! Team Titan vs Team Xelor! Part 1. Chapter Fourteen, A Battle for the Ages! Team Titan vs Team Xelor! Part 2 Ryker's Plans in Action! Katakuri's Show of Power! First Floor! The Arkham Knight vs The Son of the Howlite Howlers Second Floor! The Clash of the Titans! Third Floor! The Ninja of the Mist, Zabuza! Fourth Floor! An emotional battle! Fujitora vs the Howlight Howler Family! Fifth Floor! It's Davy Jones' Locker for ye! Sixth Floor! One versus an Army! Son Goku Black's final battle?! Namekian Got Talent! Seventh Floor! It Was Only Fate Ryker Reveals Horrifyingly Dreadful Past! A Challenging Challenge For A Challenge! Ninth Floor! Oh yeah, it's Pokemon time. Tenth Floor! Katakuri is Hungry It's A Trap! The Final Battle Begins! Departure Chapter One, And So It Begins... Chapter Two, Round One, The Mad Titan vs The Champion of Equestria Side Chapter, The Heaven Trembles; Thack vs Mia, A Fusion Show Down! Eight Floor! Team Displaced Vs God Of Pain, Herobrine! The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Chapter Three, Disagreements and Rest.
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(Fight, Fight, Fight!)
(Fight, Fight, Fight!)
Our Blood Is Pumping, Ready, Lets Go!
Holding Back My Tremendous Strength! (Go!)
(Woo-Hoo!)
Nerves Taking Hold!
(Woo-Hoo!)
Chaining Down Our Hope!
(Let’s Finish The Fight)
(Woo-Hoo!)
So, Let's Stop Our Plans!
(Woo-Hoo!)
See what This Tournament Brings, Joined As One, We Can Win The Fight~!
Just See What We’ll Achieve, With All These Possibilities!
We’ll Surpass Our Limit Break, This Tournament Will Be A Challenge!
“That’s enough, Thanos,” Eric said emerging from Link’s shadow, while Shiva flew in with her pack link wings.
“He surrendered! It’s over!” she agreed.
“Don’t torture the kid more than you already have” Eric said helping Link back to the stands, Shiva following behind him as her links twined around Link and Eric.
Ryker looked down at Eric and Shiva, crossing his arms. "You do know aid from outside the ring is considered a "Dirty tactic" right? And not to mention, if you guys interrupt, then I'll have no choice but to simply… Kill you. Breaking the rules of a game is a crime, and as a criminal should be, they will be punished."
Shiva’s ears flattened, before Kodo jumped to her side, linking with her as well. Eric, however, drew their attention.
“Forgive us, your majesty,” he said. “But Link surrendered of his own accord, which means that the fight goes to Thanos.”
"Did I say anything about the opponent being allowed to surrender? Or did I say the person has to be knocked out?" Ryker countered.
At that moment the adrenaline coursing through Link left. “..M-midna?” Link said, confusing Eric for Midna due to his hazed vision. Suddenly, Link goes limp in Eric’s arms. Shiva rushed to his side, while Kodo took up a defensive stance before them. Ryker appeared at the arena floor and made a portal beneath Link appear and made another one beside him. Link fell through the portal and was at his side.
Briefly, Shiva’s pack link tried to pull Link back through the portal, but the portal shut, snapping her links and sending her reeling.
“LINK!!” Eric yelled flaring his powers as he turned to the king with his red and black eyes. Kodo barked at his side, his darker pack link spreading like wings across his back.
“Alright, the match is over, therefore the winner is the Mad Titan, Thanos. And If you wish to engage in combat with me, Monohan, then I'll give you a fight, one that you will never forget." Ryker said as his emerald eyes glowed. “One that will make Day Breaker look like a night light, Son of Shiva.”
Reluctantly Eric backed down and retracted the shadow mist that had formed around the arena and calmed himself, Eric knew he had no way of fighting him without the aid of his Shadow Soul and even then he had no idea if it would even harm the king.
Kodo growled, before Shiva set her claw on his shoulder. With a shake of her head, Kodo reluctantly dissipated his own links, and stood down.
“Let’s go back to our seat, Lady Shiva,” Eric said, turning away from the king and back to the audience. “We wouldn’t want to anger the king further” though shadow continued to pour from his body as his anger and rage remained
Shiva spared Ryker a cautious glance, and followed after the Shadow Man. “On that, we can agree,” she assured him, her pack links remaining firmly twined around his wrist and Kodo’s wrist.
"You know what?" Entity jumped from his seat and landed onto the arena.
“Entity don’t!” Eric boomed, sending out a strong wave of Conqueror Haki which caused Kodo to fall into his mothers arms. Shiva herself fell to one knee.
"I'm going to fucking do it! this bastard pissed me off!" Entity said unaffected by the Conquerors Haki, seemingly too pissed off for his will to be crushed by Eric's. "Fight me Ryker! Right fucking here!"
“You will do no such thing!” Shiva barked, her pack links spiraling out like spider webs and restraining the White Reaper. The links pulsed, trying to drain the white reaper of his energy. but the white reaper strained valiantly against them.
“Entity!!” Eric said, aiding the Howlite Howler by binding the White Reaper in shadow. “Back. To. Your. Seat. Now!”
Ryker walked up to the bound reaper, Entity glaring at Ryker. Ryker leaned close to the Minecraft human. "I simply do not think you can possibly match up to me. Simply because you’re. Too. Weak." Ryker flicked Entity's head. Entity roared, and his aura burst the bindings.
Unfortunately, Shiva’s pack link had done it’s work. Entity felt weak and tired. Trying to fight past it, he summoned his scythe and was about to slam it on to Ryker but Ryker put two portals in front of himself and a Blast made out of Wakfu hit Entity right in the gut and sent him flying into the wall. Entity slid to the ground, knocked the fuck out.
“Entity, I told you to stand down,” Eric said running to the Reaper.
“Curse it,” Shiva growled in regret, re-extending her links and trying to return the energy she had taken from the white reaper. “Why did you have to keep going?”
Before Shiva could strengthen Entity again, Eric pulled Entity into his own shadow, once again shredding Shiva’s pack links. The Howlite Howler sighed in resignation, while Kodo blinked in alarm at the human vanishing into darkness.
“Hate us all you like Entity,” Eric said, completely pissed. “But we’re keeping you alive!”
"This is why a peasant should never try to oppose their King." Ryker turned his back against the others and walked off. Stopping after a few steps, "Almost forgot about you Link, you fought quite admirably." Ryker picked up Link and dragged him like a trash bag.
Shiva watched Link get dragged away before turning away, a mournful keen slipping past her snout as Kodo helped her back into the stands.
Once back to their seats Eric released Entity but kept him bound by his shadow, Immediately Eric’s and Thanos' comrades confronted him
“What’s going to happen to Link?” Rainbow asked
“I don’t know,” Eric said
“What does the King want with him?” Luna asked
“I don’t know.” Eric said his shadow becoming poured thicker around his body
“What will you do?” Maud said blankly
“I. Don’t. Know?” Eric said through his teeth
“Well then what do you know Eric?” Asked Sombra
“I know that we were right not to trust this asshole,” Eric said as his shadow vapor covered the entire area confusing some of the other displaced
"To be honest, it's kinda your fault Eric," Lucci crossed his arms looking at the shade.
“I don’t need to hear it from you Lucci,” Eric said black veins forming on the sides of his face. "I’ve watched too many good soldiers die after surrendering.”
Shadow poured from Eric’s body like a waterfall as he rose to his feet. Shiva, however, tried to get between the two, her pack links offering light in the oppressing darkness.
“Both of you, enough!” she insisted.
"You either die or you win, there is no surrender in battle. I should know." Lucci looked on as he remembered the war as he saw himself bowing before an enemy and getting kicked around, getting stabbed, getting his finger damn near cut off.
“But in a Tournament?!” shouted the shadow man. “I’ve hosted many tournaments and they were only to be contests of strength and glory!” Eric yelled as his form started to shift to many different images. “They were never to be fought to the death, when a person surrenders, that’s it! Fight over. You never and I mean NEVER attack someone who has surrendered to you!”
“Eric has a point...” Shiva tried to add.
"I was the champion in Minos! It's dishonor for a warrior to surrender! Surrendering to a man is Pathetic! And whoever surrenders in combat deserves to die!" Lucci argued.
Shiva’s ears flattened. “So people should be allowed to beat surrendering people to death?” she snarled. “The people who surrender deserve to be whipped and beaten to death?!”
"Indeed, that's what they did to me, and it's Warriors’ Code." Lucci crossed his arms, shivering slightly.
Black’s patience began to waiver as the two continued to bicker and Shiva utterly failed as a mediator. He gritted his teeth as he stood up to his full height, bursting into Super Saiyan. He threw a hand into the air and shot a beam of energy into the sky, stopping the conversation. “Enough!!” The Saiyan’s voice echoed throughout the arena. “All of you, You're all acting like damn children!” Black growled.
Without thinking Eric fired a black bullet at the voice. However, Shiva knocked the bullet aside with her pack link, her fur bristling at her lack of control.
“Everyone, please!” Shiva insisted. “Black’s right.”
"Damn straight." Thanos crossed his arms disappointed in the two. "And Eric apologize you cunt." Thanos walked over to Eric before placing a hand on the shadow man’s shoulder
“Don’t you dare touch me Oliver,” Eric said, swiping the Titans’ hand away from him. “Especially after you purposefully attacked after your opponent surrendered.”
"Stop with the violence, difference should be settled by combat, not with words." An unknown voice said everyone looked towards the voice and there stood Katakuri. Looking down at them, "Let's all talk with our fists."
"OMFG KATAKURI GIVE ME YOUR AUTOGRAPH!!!!" The crowd roared, Katakuri looked back at the fans.
"Shut the fuck up." Katakuri said blankly.
Eric turned to Mochi man before turning away with a furl of his coat, Walking over to the edge of the stands Eric sits down clearly still furious. Shiva glanced at Katakuri with caution, before slowly going to join Eric and his companions. She didn’t get any closer than his companions dared.
“So what do we do?” Luna asked keeping her distance from the shadow man, knowing full well how dangerous he was when he was enraged
"Uh…" Nappa shrugged, "Popcorn?" Nappa held up some Popcorn to Luna.
Without hesitation Nappa was dragged into his shadow by Eric before spitting him out outside the arena. Shiva watched Nappa disappear into his shadow with a yelp of alarm, before watching the shadow man with caution bordering on fear. However, she swallowed down her fear, and dared to get closer to the shadow man.
“If it makes you feel better,” Shiva began. “I agree with you. Attacking someone when they don’t want to fight?” She shook her head. “That was disgusting.”
“Once I became known as The Reaper of the Crystal Empire, and even after I became captain of the Royal Guard, I held a strong belief that when your opponent surrenders you Do. Not. Attack.” Eric fumed as Luna did her best to comfort him. “Whether they were friend or foe, you do not attack somepony who has surrendered”
“You don’t need to tell me,” Shiva replied. “When I first came to Equestria, I was forced into a fighting pit.” She shook her head. “Those… ‘evil’ creatures I had to call Master forced me to fight others. Creatures that didn’t want to fight. They whipped us to fight until one of us couldn’t get up from the ground.” Her claws trembled. “I have many regrets in my life. But getting out of that pit from Tartarus will never be one of them.”
Fujitora joined in on the conversation. "I also believe that as well, between you and me, young lady, attacking while the other gave up is horrible." The blind man said, turning towards her voice.
"Issho? Why are you here?" Katakuri asked Fujitora.
"I'm so lonely, I'm blind and I have no friends. I need interaction." Fujitora told the fifteen feet tall man.
“How can you serve a creature like Ryker?’ Sombra asked.
“Well…” Kodo noted. “Why did we all accept Ryker’s invite?”
Shiva huffed. “I don’t think Phoenix did,” she noted, remembering his words.
"The answer, Sombra…" Fujitora said as tears began to form in Fujitora's eyes. "Is that I don't want to…" Fujitora's voice cracked.
Sensing his grief, Shiva hesitantly approached him, her pack links flitting out in an attempt to comfort. “It’s okay,” she assured him. “You don’t need to tell us if it’s too painful.”
Black knew something must’ve happened to Fujitora, “What happened? Were you taken by force, or were you tricked into working for him?” Black asked the blind man.
"He threatened my Parents, and promised me that he will revive my dog… And now I'm here…"
Shiva nodded. “Aye,” she noted. “I understand; I was hoping I could wish my husband back if I won his tournament.”
"He has the damn Dragon Balls but he says if I serve him for ten years he'll revive her!" Fujitora clenched his fists. "I've been serving him for more than ten years…"
Shiva gasped. “You poor thing,” she whispered.
“I don’t think he will…” Black said with a hint of disgust. “A man like him would trick you to do his bidding, changing the deal for every few years just so then he can have a loyal servant.”
Shiva stared at Black with horror. “That’s cruel,” she protested. “That’s horrible.”
“But that’s the truth, every tyrant with that power would do it for amusement. I knew one being who would do such a thing.” Black said as he glanced at Sombra with a glare. “A long time ago.”
Shiva followed his gaze with a glower. “Well, not me,” Shiva growled. “I lead the Diamond Dog Pack, and I have always taught them the values of equality and understanding.”
“And that doesn’t make you a tyrant; that makes you a being that cares for their subjects, one that understands the feeling of not having the best jewelry or gems in the world. It makes you the best a being could be, that’s just being mortal.” Black explained.
Shiva sighed. “If only more rulers were like that,” she noted. Her implication hit Kodo hard, and he looked away with his tail tucked in shame.
“Which is why I never want to rule or have the title of a ruler.” Black said as he powered back down to base form. “I just wanted a normal life after all, living in a cabin in the woods would be nice.” Black mused. The Saiyan sighed as he sat down, “But sometimes we don’t always get what we wish for…”
Shiva’s tail tucked. “Yeah,” she agreed. “We don’t.”
"In truth we all have to serve him or we will die, we signed a deal with the Devil and we can't oppose him unless we want to end up like Herobrine." Both Fujitora and Katakuri shivered.
"Oi, Eric,” Thanos suddenly asked. “You gonna revive your wife?"
Eric’s eyes grew wide hearing this. Shadows exploded from his body
“She’s Dead!!!” Eric Screamed as the shadows swarmed around him. “And she’s never coming back”
Kneeling to the ground Eric slammed his hand into the ground, the shadows converged on the shadow man increasing his size by five feet.
“Shadow Soul: Soul of the REAPER!”
Eric’s skin vanished revealing nothing but bones before being clothed by torn shadow robes, from the shadows emerged a massive scythe. Grabbing hold of the weapon Eric rushed to titan, Thanos attempted to strike Eric with a haki covered fist Thanos and Eric both clashed, Thanos being silent.
"Alrighty then, we'll not talk about that." Thanos said pushing Eric away, Thanos turned his back on Eric.
However Eric vanished from the Titan’s view before appearing behind him the scythe staff pressed against the Titan’s throat with a strength that not even the Titan could match.
“Eric, wait!” Shiva yelped.
“My wife is dead, and dead she will stay,” Eric said in a dry raspy voice as he increased pressure on the titan. “I’ve learned the hard way that I must let her go”
Pushing the titan to the ground Eric raised his scythe, aiming it straight for the titan’s head.
“AND YOU CAN JOIN HER!!!” Eric screamed bringing down his scythe
Without warning Eric and the Titan began to scream as bolts of electricity coursed up and down their bodies. Eric’s body reverted to normal as he fell into Luna’s arms.
“I’m sorry Eric” Luna said with pure regret in her voice. “But you needed to be stopped before you did something you’d regret.”
"Okay boomer." Thanos said with a "I don't give a fuck" face.
“Thanos, for the sake of Faust!” Shiva barked.
"I can't handle it! I'm sorry! I'm a comedian." Thanos laughed.
“Thanos… ” Black growled, looking to the Titan with malice. “I know you can’t handle the fact of not being a joker for a minute, But there are points where you need to shut. The Fuck… UP!”
"Ah, I see." Thanos said. Fujitora looked towards Thanos.
"FUCK YOU!!!!" Fujitora stormed off tears, running into a wall before going to the exit.
“W-Wait!” Shiva barked, reaching out for the blind man, but he was gone before she could protest. She shot Thanos a dark glare before turning her back on him with a growl of frustration.
"WHAT DID I DO!??!?!" Thanos cried out looking towards everyone, Lucci shook his head and Nappa appeared next to Lucci.
"He is very sentimental with his eyesight; anything with the words see, saw, sight, anything that even relates to sight makes him cry. He was a photographer and a lover of nature when he was on earth and any of those words make him sad. Poor guy really." Katakuri shook his head.
Sombra went over and helped Luna pull Eric back to his seat before looking at the titan
“Personally I’d have Eric cleave that fat head off your body,” Sombra said lifting Eric’s body. “But Luna is much nicer than I am.”
"If he even can." Thanos said, muttering under his breath before drinking a can of Hetap out of nowhere.
Black scoffed at Sombra’s comment before he sat back down, rolling his eyes.
“And for future reference” Sombra said, setting the shadow man down. “Never bring up Eric’s late wife.”
"The author told me!" Thanos argued, "Damn it!"
“Can you not shut up for one second!” Black shouted as he stood back up, walking up to Thanos before proceeding to bitch slap the Mad Titan.
"WHAT DID I FUCKING DO THIS TIME?!?!?! I WILL FUCKING SLAP YOUR ASS AGAIN!!!!!!"
“How about being an insensitive prick?” Shiva snapped. “Are you capable of recognizing being an insensitive prick?”
"...N-no…" Thanos admitted, rubbing the back of his head.
Shiva stared at him for a second, before chuckling humorlessly, turning away. “Yeah,” she growled. “Great. I come here thinking I’m gonna get some wealth and maybe my husband back, and instead, I’m trapped in the fighting pit again.” She chuckled again, her laugh sounding broken as she started talking to herself. “I spend all that time thinking the ponies are bad, and then I turn around and walk right into another trap…”
"I just wanna say Shiva… You are by far my favorite one among you all and if anyone dares attack you with dishonor I will personally kill them for you." Katakuri said grinning behind his scarf that covered his mouth.
"KATAKURI!!!" Katakuri looked behind him and saw Akainu, "Get your ass back to the base right now!"
"If you ever need help just call me by saying Katakuri three times and I will be at your doorstep." Katakuri handed Shiva a token of a broken mirror before walking off with Akainu, waving Shiva goodbye before leaving.
Shiva smoothed the fur on her neck out, and watched Katakuri go with a grin of gratitude. “Thank you,” she said with a nod that bordered on a bow. Watching him walk away, Shiva turned her attention to Eric, and the alicorn tending to him. “Is he... well, I can’t say ‘okay,’ but…”
“He’ll be okay” Luna assured with a smile on her face as she stroked his hair as if he were a pet. “This isn’t the first time he’s been hit by my Devil Fruit powers.”
“Oh?” Shiva asked.
“When I accidentally ate the Rumble-Rumble Fruit my powers surfaced immediately and went haywire” Luna said, recalling the tale.
“He was the first one to try and help me, he got hit by so many bolts of lightning that he almost died” Luna said, turning to the wolf. “He’s risked his life so many times for my behalf, however part of me believes he still holds love for his wife over me”
Shiva’s tail tucked in sympathy. “I hate to be blunt,” Shiva admitted. “But there will always be love in his heart for his wife.” She chuckled. “I thought I moved on from my husband after he died, but…” She shook her head sadly. “The minute I heard that the prize for this tournament had a free wish, I thought about reviving him and…” She shrugged helplessly. “Our dead loved ones have a vice on our hearts.”
“Even so, he has never reached that level of anger when I was insulted or harmed,” Luna said, sadness taking control of her voice. “Not to the point where he uses his Shadow Souls.”
Shiva shook her head in sympathy, unsure of what to say as Luna tended to the shadow man.
“I love this man with all of my being, but he… He still dreams about….Her ?” Tears formed as she spoke. “I know I have no right to feel jealous or hurt by a dead mare, but it just hurts so much that he loves this mare more than his current love.”
Shiva blinked. “W-You two are together?” she asked. “He still holds love in his heart for her, and yet he and you…?”
“Yes. When he came back after disappearing for two years he took me into the palace gardens that night and started playing his treasured violin,” Luna said, a smile forming on her face. “He told me that he loved me and that he would always be by my side,” Luna began to chuckle a bit.
Shiva shook her head. “I… can’t understand that,” she said. “Why would he…? I mean…” She turned away. “If he still cared about her, why would he… string you along… like…”
“You know it’s kinda funny,” Luna said, laughing.
“How is it funny?” Shiva whispered.
“I’ve turned down every stallion I’d ever fallen in love with,” Luna explained, still holding her smile. “Because of my immortality I would have watched each and every one of them grow old and die, but with Eric...”
“He’s immortal?” Shiva asked.
“I thought so once,” Luna stated. “Ever since I met him I have not once thought I’d have to watch him die one day because at the time I assumed him to be a shade.”
“So… some sort of spirit,” Shiva guessed. “Immortal.”
“But ever since we had to save him from the effect of Umbra’s final spell I learned he was mortal” Luna said, still petting the top of his head. “Nothing more than a tortured human from another world.”
“Tortured?” Shiva asked. “Like… in a fighting pit?” She rubbed her arms subconsciously, where the scars she had gained could still be seen under her fur.
“No. By his own parents.”
Shiva’s tail tucked, and she backed up in horror. “No!” she whispered.
“From what we saw from his memories, they wanted to live an easy life.” Luna explained, frowning at the memories she witnessed. “In his world musicians are paid a lot. Even more so if you play for a noble. Eric was tortured to learn and play every instrument his parents gave him, and when he disobeyed they would hurt him...severely...”
Shiva clenched her claws, her own scars throbbing in sympathy.
“There are scars...deep scars...covering his entire back. Not to mention he’s mentally unstable when they are touched or talked about.”
“Like what happened with…?” Shiva nodded towards where Eric and Thanos had their fight.
“No. More. Like, he begins to breathe really hard like somepony is choking him, he starts shaking like it’s colder than a Wendigos breath and his voice is filled with so much fear” Luna said remembering when she first laid eyes on Eric’s scars. “Twilight explained it to me, she told me that Eric has something called...”
“Post Traumatic Stress,” Shiva said with a grim nod.
“It was awful seeing him like that and even worse seeing it done in his memories,” Luna said, shaking her head at the thought. “But even with all his flaws, I still love him and he loves me, but…”
“He can’t let go of his love for her,” Shiva said with a nod.
“He’s said he’s let go, but his dreams say otherwise,” Luna said, her frown deepening.
Shiva sighed. “I don’t know much about the world, Princess,” Shiva admitted. “I certainly don’t know how he’s managed to recover from what he’s been through.” She turned back to her. “All I know is that it’s important not to be blinded by what could be.” She rested a claw on Luna’s shoulder. “Even with his late wife still on his mind, he’s let you into his heart. You can’t ask him to forget about her; that’s something he’s got to figure out on his own. All you can do is be there for him, and take joy in what you have.”
For a moment, Luna pondered Shiva’s words. When she looked at the wolf, it was with curiosity.
“Why did you join the tournament, Alpha Shiva?” Luna asked. “What did you hope to get out of the list of rewards?”
Shiva lowered her head with shame. “I convinced myself it was for the wealth that Ryker promised,” she said. “That I could use the wealth to establish an alliance with the dragons or just make my diamond dogs happy for a time.” Her ears flattened. “But if I’m being completely honest… it was because a part of me couldn’t let my husband go. And I hoped that the one-time wish could…” She didn’t finish, but her eyes landed on Eric, as if afraid he might overhear. Shiva shrugged with a broken smile. “You can call me a hypocrite, if you want, but I think I discovered it already.”
“That was your reason. I will not question or judge you. But I must know...” Luna said looking down at Eric’s unconscious form. “Why did Eric join? Was it for the… the Wish?”
Shiva’s tail tucked. She looked down at her claws, watching as they sparked with magic.
“Only he can answer that,” she admitted. “But…” She swallowed. “There could be a way to find out.”
“How? I can’t spend too long in his dreams. Otherwise the soul of his Devil Fruit will attack me,” Luna explained
Shiva nodded. “So it recognizes dream-walking,” she mused. She clenched her claws. “My pack link allows me to read thoughts and memories. It’s not exactly like dream walking - from the little I know of dream walking,” Shiva added sheepishly. “But usually, if I want to know something from someone…” She hesitantly reached out for Eric’s head. “I can just ask… and it shows.”
“Please,” Luna pleaded. “I must know.”
Shiva breathed, and extended two links. “Take my link,” Shiva encouraged, as the other link softly brushed against Eric’s head. Hesitantly, Luna took the link, watching as it twined around her hand.
“Now I just ask?” Luna asked.
Shiva closed her eyes, and her fur glowed like Celestia. “Why did Eric join the tournament?” Shiva’s voice whispered.
A vision answered them both: a Pegasus mare appeared before them. Amber colored hair blowing gently in the breeze. A soft blue coat. A gentle smile. The vision shifted, almost like a mirror; Luna and Shiva saw Eric and the Pegasus staring at each other. Love evident in their eyes. The Pegasus faded away into smoke, and Ryker rose in her place. Behind Eric, downed forms appeared: Thanos, Doom, Black, Phoenix, Death, Shiva, Link,… all the other contestants lay beaten. Eric Von Shadow had won. Ryker offered forward the rewards; wealth, Hetap. And a glowing ball that had to be the wish. Eric brushed the wealth aside. He moved the Hetap away. He reached for the wish. The Pegasus mare appeared silhouetted within the wish as he held it. He intended to use it to…
The vision shattered. Shiva backed up, fearing that the soul of the devil fruit had found them. But Eric still lay unconscious. Luna, however, had turned away. Covering her face even as tears streamed down her eyes.
Shiva looked down with a whimper. “I’m sorry,” Shiva whimpered. “I shouldn’t have…”
Without hearing another word, Luna ran out of the arena, shedding hurt tears.
Shiva didn’t stop her. She sat down with a sigh, her head in her claws, as Kodo feebly tried to comfort her.
Without warning, Eric jumped up with a gasp, before looking around.
All he found was Shiva sitting before him, Kodo nuzzling her, as she quietly sobbed into her claws.
“What happened?” Eric asked the crying Shiva.
“We’re both fools, Eric Von Shadow,” Shiva said softly, gazing forlornly down at the ground. “Chasing dead dreams.”
“What do you mean?” Eric said. But as she looked up at him, he recognized the look on her face. “Wait I know that look. You’ve been in my head. Why?”
“Hey, don’t get mad at her,” Kodo protested. “Luna asked her to.”
“What did you show her?” asked the shadow man.
Kodo looked nervously at Shiva, but she lowered her head in regret.
“She…” Kodo licked his lips nervously. “She wanted to know why you entered the tournament.”
“You joined for the same reason I did,” Shiva whispered. “Hoping to revive the one you loved.”
“No….No, that isn’t why I joined,” Eric said jumping to his feet
Shiva looked up in alarm. “What?” she asked. “But… the wish… you…”
“Where’s Luna?”
Kodo pointed, his fur bristling at Eric’s expression. “She went out of the arena,” he said.
Cursing, Eric ran out of the arena trying to find his princess. Shiva watched him go with conflict.
“Should we… go after him?” Kodo asked.
Shiva shook her head. “I fear we just made things worse,” she whispered.
Leaving the arena Eric knelt down to the ground and put both hands to the ground, closing his eyes Eric focused his attention on every shadow in the area.
“I refuse to lose you,” Eric said before hearing the sound of crying coming through the shadows. “Found ya.”
Traveling through the shadows, he surfaced a good distance from the princess.
“Luna,” Eric said softly.
“Leave me alone,” Luna sobbed, teleporting away.
“You know there is literally nowhere you can hide,” Eric said following her shadow's presence. “Please, I need to talk to you!”
“Why don’t you talk with your wife?” Luna yelled firing a bolt of lightning at the shadow man.
Eric just stood there and let the lightning hit his body. He grimaced, and sunk to one knee, but rose as the lightning faded away.
“She’s dead,” Eric said sincerely, approaching the princess. “But you’re still here.”
“Not for long,” Luna snapped. “Once you finish the tournament, you’ll be able to bring her back with your wish.” She stormed away. “That’s what you want, isn’t it?”
“Luna!” Eric said, chasing after the princess. “Luna, you’re wrong about my wish!”
Eric ran up and put his hand on Luna’s shoulder, however her body turned to lightning, shocking Eric away.
“I’m not wrong, Eric! I saw what your wish will be! Shiva showed me!” With every exclamation, Luna’s body arced with dark blue lightning of despair.
“Luna after what happened with Doctor Whooves,” Eric said, continuing his approach. “I left Amber to die in the past.”
“No, you love her more than me!” Luna yelled, her lightning turning red. “You’ve always loved her more than me!”
Eric stopped his approach when Luna’s lightning hit the ground in front of him
“My wish is to let go,” Eric said.
Luna’s lightning lessened as she looked at him in confusion. Despite the pain, he put his hands on her shoulders.
“Luna you’re right,” he admitted. “I still do love Amber and I can’t let her go.” Luna’s powers flared, but before they could scorch him… “But my wish isn’t to bring her back, my wish is to finally be able to let her go.”
“But your dreams…” Luna said before Eric planted a kiss upon her lips before parting from Luna leaving her dumbfounded
“I want to love you and only you. Now and forever,” Eric said, gazing into her starstruck eyes. “But I can’t love you with all my heart until I let her go.”
“I… I’m so stupid” Luna whimpered, burying her head into the shadow man’s chest. “How could you have fallen for a complete idiot?”
“Well, I fell hard,” Eric replied with a smile. “And I do love you.” However, as the two hugged, he tapped the back of her head, earning a pained yelp.
“What was that for?” Luna asked
“For going through my mind….and my dreams… Again,” Eric said, hugging her. “Anything else I should know.”
Luna tensed up, remembering the entire conversation she had with Shiva and her pup.
“Okay, now don’t be mad,” Luna begged, preparing for Eric’s disappointment glare. The one that usually signaled that he would be ignoring her for a select amount of time, depending on what she did. “I… may… have… Told Shiva.”
“Told Shiva what?” Eric asked his tone as serious as his demeanor.
“About your parents,” Luna admitted, not meeting his gaze. “And… your scars.” He didn’t release her.
“That all?” Eric asked.
“Y-Yes.”
Eric hummed. “Alright then.” He walked over to the nearest wall. Placing a hand on the wall, shadow begins to cover it creating a shadow path leading right back into the stand.
“You-you’re not mad?” Luna asked.
“About my scars? Yes,” Eric said, motioning to the shadow. “But I’ll let it go just this once.”
Breathing a sigh of relief, Luna took Eric’s hand, and they walked into the shadow, returning to their seats in the stands.
Shiva and Kodo looked up, noticing them returning. Shiva stood up, her tail tucked like she knew she had crossed a line.
“Mr… er… Captain Von Shadow?” Shiva asked. “I-I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have…”
Without warning, the diamond dog was pulled into her own shadow before being pulled out, her fur paler than usual and spiked like a porcupine, and her eyes wide. Kodo’s head darted back and forth between his shocked mother and Eric.
“WHAT’D YA DO THAT FOR?!” Kodo howled.
“I do not take kindly to people invading my mind,” Eric said, going up to Shiva and placing both hands on both her shoulders. The mere contact caused her to flinch. “Treat this as a warning, I only showed you a small glimpse of your worst fear.”
“I’m sorry, he acted similar when I entered his dreams for the first time,” Luna said, calming the dog down a bit.
“I can believe it,” Shiva mumbled.
“Do not take it personally,” Eric said, taking his seat. “I still hold you in the highest respects, Lady Shiva.” His expression darkened. “But I refuse to let my mind be a plaything to others. It’s where I draw the line.”
“Just asked Luna what happened to the Music Mistress,” Eric said as Luna and Shiva glanced at each other.
“Another time maybe,” Shiva said. “For now… I’m gonna find some place to cuddle with my son.” Picking up her son, she tottered away, holding Kodo like the world’s grumpiest teddy bear.
Meanwhile on the arena walls. Phoenix had perched himself upon the large roof overlooking the arena. He looked down at the many participants, watching as they all squabbled between themselves. “Jeez, just wanted a better view, and now all that just happened.” He reached for Chastiefol on his back, and gave it its orders, “Increase.” The weapon split apart into hundreds of kunai, circling around him. “Decrease.” Then, the majority of them disappeared, leaving only one. “Find Link.” Phoenix watched as the blue kunai zoomed off into the distance, searching for it’s target. “Whelp, at least now I know their weak spots. Just bring up their significant others and it’s an easy win!” Phoenix jumped off of the roof backwards, and disappeared into seemingly nothingness.
Herobrine looked down at them, his body was fully black and his white eyes glowed.
"... Hu...man...s? Who are these people? W-who am I?" Herobrine looked down at his blocky hands. Someone put a hand on their shoulder.
"Don't worry… You're okay, just take the pills." A being kneeled down and gave him a pill, Herobrine engulfed the pill.
"It… tastes… bad…" Herobrine said looking towards the being.
"The pain is gone right? You know why you're here right?" The being said grinning.
"Y-yes… I'm… I'm… I'm here to destroy…" Herobrine said ominously.
"Yes you are! But not yet… just wait until the plan Is in action." The being stood up.
"But the plan is already in action." Herobrine looked at the being, he chuckled.
"Indeed it is… Indeed it is…"
"Is Entity here? I can't sense his Ki." Nappa said, crossing his arms.
"Probably stormed off in a huff." Thanos said, "I think I might do the same… I'm not normally this assholish. Somethings off about me."
“Oh really, I haven’t noticed,” Black snarked as he walked by the Titan. “You better change that if we fight each other, cause I will pulverize you if you don’t…” Black finished as he walked to the training room to punch some poor punching bag.
"Yes sir." Thanos nodded, as he flew off to collect his thoughts, but just as he flew off he was hit by a barrier. "What the-" Thanos flew forward and was hit by It again, he ran into the barrier over and over again. "LET ME DA FUK OUT!!!" Thanos punched the wall, the Crowd decided to leave as the next fight was going to happen tomorrow. Lucci walked through it harmlessly.
"Just as I thought, only non-fighters can leave. That sneaky bastard." Lucci walked back, Thanos went back to the group.
"Alright you guys go to your rooms." Everyone looked at the figure who stepped out of the shadows, the Arkham Knight. "Now. The rooms are next to the training area, Son Goku Black probably found it already."
At the moment, Black was creating punching bags that were able to withstand his attacks, but it didn't mean that they were spared the might of the Saiyan. There were a few punching bags with holes and cuts all across them with some of them being turned into ash.
"Hey…" Someone spoke behind the Saiyan. Black turned around with a raised eyebrow.
“What...”
"You're supposed to be asleep, I'm sorry if I'm bothering you trying to blow off some steam but however I cannot allow you to hurt these poor and innocent punching bags." Black got a look at him, it was Zabuza, Zabuza had his big sword on his back.
Black turned away from him and created another punching bag, “Sorry, but after my 1000 year long nap, I don’t need sleep.” Black scoffed as he hooked the punching bag to the ceiling.
"But sir, not sleeping lowers your life span, which means one second of your life getting cut down. And I think everyone should live their lives to the fullest." Zabuza said in a pacifistic manner.
Black glanced back to the man before he sighed. “I already did, but the nightmare inside of me took that away years ago. If one of the awards of the tournament was immortality, I would’ve turned that down…” Black said as he did some light punches to the bag. “Immortality is watching everything around you turn to dust after all…”
"...Can I read you a book? Or offer you some calming Jasmine Tea, because you seem stressed." Zabuza said, smiling innocently.
Black stopped for a moment, considering the idea of having some tea. “I’m good,”
"...Music?" Zabuza offered the Saiyan just looked back at the ninja with a blank stare. Zabuza sighed, "Well, I'll be here… Drinking my tea and reading my book… Alone." Zabuza shuffled off into a corner.
Black continued to beat down some punching bags, occasionally taking glances at Zabuza enjoying his book and tea. He began to get some second thoughts of the idea of relaxing, but he shook the idea off. But it kept coming back to him, before he gave in. He let out a massive groan before walking to the other end of the wall across Zabuza. He slid down the wall, putting a hand on his face. “God…” He mumbled.
Zabuza had already had the tea ready with a grin and a book ready, “I truly knew you would come around, would you like to talk about why you were blowing off steam? It might aid you in your quest for balance.” Zabuza said as he took a sip of his tea… through his mask…
Black slid his hand off his head, sighing as he used telekinesis to bring the tea to him. “The fact that I can’t get rid of the hatred for Sombra or the fact that I have a Nightmare in my body that wants to destroy all mortal life?” Black asked.
“Speaking of Nightmares, is Nightmare Moon here? I sense her presence nearby. Before we talk about your struggles, it helps if there are more joining in on the fun.” Zabuza said, smiling under his mask.
“I’d rather not bring her into this, she already has it hard enough being in a new body.” Black said as he took a sip of tea. “But yeah, she’s here.”
“I see, so Sombra in your universe is basically like Freezer. And yes, I say Freezer because I watch Team Four Star. Anyways, Sombra must have killed your master, since you're a Saiyan and you must’ve had something to awaken your Super Saiyan transformation. Indulge me about how you faced Sombra or how you met him.” Zabuza sipped his tea afterwards.
The Saiyan set down his tea and looked into Zabuza’s eyes. “He is a mix of Frieza and Cell, he killed a filly I swore to protect right in front of me. I would’ve transformed there, but I was currently impaled through the chest.” Black explained as he lifted his shirt and pointed toward his right bicep.
“By Chrystal? That’s rough buddy also, killing a child is a sin, I hope he got what he deserved.” Zabuza set his tea down and did the whole criss crossing leg thing.
Black winced when he heard him say Chrystal. “No, he literally impaled me with his hand. I was practically bleeding out as he laughed. But he didn’t stop there, he then went on a killing spree on my friends who were the current Elements of Harmony at the time, including my master, Master Starswirl…” Black hissed. He took another sip of tea before sighing. “That was around the time… He … showed up.”
“Hm… Inform me about who “he” is. For I am curious.” Zabuza said with a hand rubbing his chin.
Black rolled his eyes, “Come on, give it a guess… what being would want to destroy all mortal life in the universe in the name of justice?” Black asked the man.
“...Tirek? No… Zamasu, am I correct?” Zabuza snapped his finger confidently thinking he got it right.
Black nodded as he began getting some small flashbacks, “He’s the nightmare that’s currently inside of me. But a few months ago, his soul was taken away, but his mindset still remains in my head. That’s one of the reasons why I don’t sleep anymore, cause he would send me the horrors of what he and his counterpart would do to mortal life…”
“I have some form of Magic, I can make the Nightmares disappear. Just like a ninja in the mist,” Zabuza said the last bit with some pizzazz
“If a gloomy douchebag displaced can’t get rid of my nightmare by literally taking His soul, I don’t think magic can do it.” Black hissed as he stood up. “Plus, I don’t like other beings messing with my head, except for one.” The Saiyan finished as he made his way towards the door. Opening it, and turning back to glance at Zabuza.
“Thanks for the tea, I guess…” The Saiyan then left the training room to go to his assigned one, leaving Zabuza alone.
“...I’ll miss him when he’s gone…”
As Black went to his room, he slammed the door behind him and sat on the bed. He felt his eyes were getting heavy, but he ignored his fatigue. He complimented on having him closing his eyes for a few minutes, but he knew he would sleep for much longer. He slapped himself once before getting off the bed, continuing to practice his moves and fighting stances.
Zabuza slowly, slowly, slowly opened the door to the room. “You’re supposed to go to sleep.” Zabuza mused.
Black pointed his hand at the man, a ki blast forming in it, “Go away…” Black sneered.
“Excuse me… But I uh… Don’t think violence is the answer.” Zabuza said, “Also don’t make me get Mr. Popo, he will mess you up.” Zabuza said, pointing at the Saiyan.
Black thought for a moment on the idea of just blasting Zabuza, but scoffed, lowering his hand. “Fine…” Black said as he walked towards the door to face Zabuza, “But I’d rather sleep under the stars, their more… comforting.” Black finished as he teleported away, somewhere around the arena stage.
“Let’s head to the arena stage then.” Zabuza suggested but Black was already gone, “Man, I am slow.” Zabuza sighed as mist appeared around him and he disappeared.
Black appeared with a pop, the stadium completely silent of all sound. The only thing he heard was his own breathing and a gust of wind passing through. Looking up, he saw the moon was out, thankfully it was a crescent moon that night. It was however ruined when he heard Zabuza appear behind him. “Can you just please leave me alone…” Black asked.
“Okay…” Zabuza used Geppo and left the stadium.
Black let out a sigh as he stepped off the area onto the grass, walking to the stadium wall before laying on it, his back to the wall. He looked up again to see the stars glistening in the night sky. He took a picture of him and Luna out of his gi, glancing at it for a second before putting it away. For the first time in months, he closed his eyes. ‘I’ll be home soon…’
Zabuza stood there five feet from Black sipping his tea, and eating a biscuit. Unfortunately he was enjoying his tea a bit too much. That was shattered as a small Ki blast hit the tea, evaporating it and shattering the tea up in his hand.
“Iroh would be displeased.” Zabuza said as he bit into his biscuit. “Very displeased.”
“Just go away, I’m trying to sleep…” Black growled.
“Alright, I’m going now.” Zabuza fake walked away by stomping his feet and making his feet hit the floor with less impact.
Black opened one of his eyes, glaring at Zabuza. But his pupil changed draconic for a moment before going to normal. “Go away before I incinerate you.” Black threatened.
“Fine,” Zabuza walked away, and once he was out of sight, Black closed his eyes.
“Finally, inner peace.”
Zabuza tiptoed all the way back five feet away from Black, with more tea. Zabuza sipped his tea, quietly.
Black groaned, standing up as he walked towards Zabuza. He pointed a hand at the man, a dark purple sphere of destruction formed in his hand as he glared. A black hand grabbed onto Black’s arm, he looked towards it and it was Mr.. Popo, standing there, ominously. “I will fucking kill you if you land on this pacifistic assassin.” Mr. Popo said, his face unmoving, smiling.
Black stood there for a second, before he dismissed the Haki and ripped his arm from Mr. Popo’s grip. “Then tell him to leave me alone, Mr. Popo.” Black said as he walked to the other end of the stadium, making a hammock and then going to sleep.
“Black… Black…” A voice mysteriously mused, Black immediately recognized him as Ghost Nappa.
Black groaned as he held out a hand, making a phone with some earbuds. Putting them in, he connected them to his phone and began to play some calming and relaxing music.
“Oh shit this is nice.” Ghost Nappa admitted.”I’m going to rap over this shit, uh, yeah, uh, uh, yeah!
Mexicans have great food Black people are fast White people can SUCK MY MOTHER FU-”
“Yeah that’s enough Maggot.”
“MR. POPO!?!?!?!??!”
“First comes you, the dirt, the worms inside of the dirt, Popo’s stool, Zabuza, Kami, Ryker, then Popo. Any questions?”
“N-no…”
“You’re going to Brazil Maggot.”
“NONONONONONONO FUUUUUU-”
“You’re next Black.” Popo laughs and his voice fades away.
Black laid there in the hammock, about to fall asleep before smirking, “Screw you The_Chill_Author.” Black said before falling to sleep.
(Not if I screw you first, no homo bro) - Chill
Thanos walked to his room and laid down onto his bed, sighing deeply.
“Alright John, time for a reality check. These opponents are no pushovers, each and everyone of them have strength. You need to snap out of it and get serious! No bullshit, no jokes, only focus on winning, show mercy, even if it’s against your Master’s teachings. Thanos, you can do this, just be the silent guy.” Thanos said, sighing deeply as he ruffled his bald head. “Time to be... The no nonsense guy you were before you met the crew.” Thanos laid down in his bed and closed his eyes, outside his door Lucci chuckled.
“Getting serious eh? That’s nice.” Lucci sighed, "Well, I guess we should all be getting serious." Lucci proceeds to walk off.
Author's Note
A Forced Hero - By DisplacedWriter
Four Horsemen Come To Equestria - By Anomis
Howlite Howler - By Three Tails
Power Vessel - By Delta-Boio
The Shadow Of Equestria - By Screwball666
Equestria's Divine God - By Shirt Mechanic
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Thanos and Lucci walk inside the locker room, seeing Eric and Dr. Doom there, Thanos glances at Eric before whistling and going into the Gravity Chamber.
“Alright, let’s get training, time to get serious!” Thanos exclaimed, Lucci grinned.
Doom stepped aside as two large stone golems carrying a 6 foot long and 3 foot wide crate and brought it over to him. Once the crate was put down it opened up revealing a mobile armor repair bay. Lucci and Thanos decided to spar in the chamber throwing light punches, though it was obvious who is the physically strongest of the two. Lucci went in for a series of punches but that series was cancelled when Thanos caught Lucci’s fists and turned the would-be assassin into a barrel rolling down a hill. Lucci hit the floor and winced, he jumped to his feet and Thanos snickered.
“Do a barrel roll Lucci.” Thanos chuckled, Lucci gave Thanos the bird.
“Fuck you nigga I’ll see you later.”
“Oh nigga don’t hate me because I’m beautiful nigga if you got rid of that yee-yee ass suit you’ll get some bitches on your dick, or better yet, if you stop being a massive pussy you’ll actaully fuck Supergirl. Niggaaaa.” Lucci tried to say something but he stopped.
“Yeah, I know better.” Lucci shook his head,
Doom sighs and stands inside the repair bay and his armor opens allowing Victor to exit. “Such stunning intellectual comments. There might be more brains in his head than a slug, not much more thought.” Turning around the looks over the interior of his armor.
“I highly doubt it,” Eric said loud enough for the Doom displaced to hear. “Thanos and his boys are filled with nothing but brute strength.” He shook his head. “Brainless dolts.”
Eric took a seat and pulled out a sharpening stone. Setting the stone down, Eric reached into his body and pulled out Obsidian Blood; Eric’s Family Sword. Eric began to sharpen the blade before Doom got his attention
“Quite the blade you have there.”
Unlike Ironman, Doom’s armor is modular and he starts removing parts the size of pens. Sensing the bits of Technology with his Observation Haki, Eric immediately pushed the weapon back into his body.
“I’d ask that you keep your technology away from my sword,” Eric said, giving the tin man a side glance.
Doom looked over. “I doubt I could unless I’m free of this place. Unlike the more physical of us, I use technology and magic; not brute strength. I even have technology in my body.”
“I understand Doctor Doom from the movies,” Eric said, turning to the comic book villain. “But when it comes to this sword, my request still stands. Don’t touch it.”
Doom turned to look Eric in the eye. “I am not that cheap movie copy. Though I have come to understand I am an amalgamation of the comic book versions, the movies are way inferior to the true Doctor Doom. I assure you I have no interest in your melee weapon.” Doon turns back to his armor and looks over what he has in storage on his repair bay. “Intensified Molecule Projector? What made me think that would be useful?”
Hearing this Eric resummed sharpening the weapon before Doctor Doom spoke again.
“I will confess your warning has earned my curiosity, why would I need to keep my technology away from your sword?” Doom then started working on his force field projector.
“Obsidian Blood was a sword that belonged to my late wife’s family,” Eric said as his sharpening hand stopped. “And with me being the only member still alive, naturally it belongs to me.”
“To the untrained eye it looks like a regular blade,” Doom said, giving the weapon a side glance. “However I’ve noticed a faint glow and feel magic coming from that sword.”
“Obsidian Blood is a magic sword forged with a magic Obsidian Steel core.” Eric said, lifting the blade examining the razor edge. “They’re special, cause their magic changes depending on how you temper them.”
“Obsidian is a volcanic glass, never mind that it seems someone chose the word because it sounded cool.” Doom looked at the weapon. “I’ve seen many magical swords, but everything you said still doesn’t answer my question. Why would I need to keep my tech away from it? I am a sorcerer that is on par with the Sorcerer Supreme and in line if he should fall.”
“I already told you, this sword belonged to my late wife.” Eric said, pulling a single hair from his head. “And it’ll be a cold day in hell before I ever let somepony else touch it” Eric said dropping the hair as it sliced in half the moment it touched the blades edge
“Ah, sentimental attachment with the ego driven need to make me know it’s special for you.” Doom snorted and returned to his work. “Your sword means nothing to me, and I treat it as such.”
“Try and touch it and I’ll add your strength to Obsidian Blood,” Eric said, stashing the weapon back into his body before rising to leave.
Victor Von Doom put his tools down and stood up, turning to face Eric fully. “Seems I have to use simple words. Your sword is nothing to me. It means nothing to me. I have seen many just as magical. There is nothing I will gain from your trinket. Now do you understand your sword is safe from me.”
Eric’s eyes still narrowed, before Shiva’s voice spoke up from a corner of the room.
“Eric, it’s fine,” she assured him. “No one’s going to touch Obsidian Blood.”
Eric’s glower didn’t fade. Walking past Doom, he bumped his shoulder before hissing in his ear.
“It matters not how you treat it. I will add your strength to the family sword.” Eric promised as he left the locker room and made his way to his room.
Doom shook his head. “Muscle headed fools with egos and power, such is the same in every world.” He returns to his armor amplifying the Personal Adapters to work with the high level of Chi Energy. Shiva watched him work, settling on her haunches and shaking her head in sympathy.
“And I thought the Diamond Dogs were bad at first,” she noted to Dr. Doom with a chuckle. “At least they figured out it was better to work with me then against me.” She looked down at her claw. “Then again,” she pondered. “None of the diamond dogs could destroy planets with a single claw.” She grimaced. “Why would anyone even want to do that? Even with the multiverse in consideration, planets have so much life; so many living creatures with their own stories and ways of living. Why end all that for nothing but a dominance display? So you can threaten some other planet and make them hate and fear you?” She sighed. “Maybe it’s because I still see things from a dog’s perspective, but I just don’t get it.”
“It’s what Frieza did, same with majin buu,” Black interjected, walking in from the exit to the stadium. He yawned as he scratched the back of his head, dark bags hung under the Saiyans eyes as he trudged his way into the Locker Room. “Majin Buu was a pink monstrosity that only knew destruction. While Frieza was a tyrant who sold planets and took some of the species on said planets and turned them into soldiers.” Black yawned again as he sat down near a random locker. “Both of them did for either enjoyment or it was programmed into their minds.”
Shiva paused, pondering Black’s words. “It was… programmed?” she asked. “Like, they were conditioned and raised to think that such acts were enjoyable or part of their nature?” She shuddered. “That’s either sad or disturbing… or both.” She shook her thoughts away before glancing at the bags under Black’s eyes. She offered a pack link to Black. “Need some energy? It’s not exactly sugar or whatever humans drink to wake up. But it’s better than nothing.”
Black waved aside her link. “I’ll be fine; a quick warmup should do it,” he assured her, moving towards Thanos as he continued to train with Lucci. Shiva shrugged before continuing to watch Doom work on his armor.
Thanos simply sighed, "You know, you guys are right about me… Nothing but Brute Strength and brainless dolts, muscle headed fools with egos and power. I am all of those, but what I'm not from that list is a brainless dolt, I may act funny and act dumb but it doesn't mean I'm a complete idiot." Thanos said as he blocked a kick from Lucci, their light sparring match continuing.
"He is rather smarter than he looks, or acts." Lucci commented as he threw a punch at Thanos' abdomen.
“Very true, he tricked Goku in their fight when he said it would take 5 minutes to destroy the planet.” Black explained, “In reality, it took about 30 minutes, mind games really are handy.”
"One of Sun Tzu's tactics I believe." Lucci commented as Thanos threw a heavy punch at Lucci and he directed it away.
"I remember watching that Film Theory Video about it, good times." Thanos sighed, smiling in the process, "And also when I fought Kaido I destroyed a moon, I calculated my damage output and I found out my strength alone could destroy a planet. Doesn't mean I would though. Also we were in Kaido's Equestria when we did this and everyone was dead." Thanos informed his adversaries.
“Damn…” Black said, closing his eyes and letting out a massive yawn. “I guess Luna would be mad if she found out you destroyed a moon, let alone a different universe's moon…”
"Well… My Luna and I aren't on the best of terms, with her being a trusted friend to now being an enemy. I swear when Celestia decided to try and force me to snap every evil away, things went downhill." Thanos told Black, deciding to stop for now, heading towards his locker he grabbed out an emblem with a red symbol onnit outlined with black. Thanos looked at it and put it in his back pocket.
Black spotted the emblem the titan grabbed, but paid it no mind as he rubbed his eyes. “I swear, sleep is going to be the death of me…” Black commented as he let out a massive sigh. He stood up, stretching as he felt a couple of bones pop.
"Let me guess, Zabuza?" Lucci asked the Saiyan, with a blank stare.
“Not just him,” Black said with a groan, “Mr.Popo and Ghost Nappa showed up for a bit, but it was mostly Zabuza annoying the crap out of me when I tried to let off some steam yesterday.”
"Well, I started the whole thing basically when I decided to land one final hit on Link. But the reason why it actually started to heat up is because of Eric. I mean did he really have to snap at me like that?" Thanos asked, "All the time man, all the time.”
Black blankly stared at Thanos, “Your kidding me right?” Black asked, “You brought up his dead wife and proceeded to shit talk him,” Black explained.
"Did I really talk shit to him? Let me get this straight, my Celestia betrayed me, got the whole world against me, got my pony friends against me as well, so I only had my boys and girls. The only pony friend I had, I had to kill because she was psycho. Also, Screwball666 asked my damn author to tell me to say that, I know your small brain can not handle that we are not real and are just things to entertain others but blame Screwball." Thanos said his mouth was basically overflowing with excuses.
Shiva stared at Thanos as he ranted. “Screwball?” she asked, glancing at Doom. “Is that a Beyonder or something?”
Kodo chuckled, walking up next to her. “Sounds like they know how to pick names,” he noted, before throwing a pack link to his mother. “C’mon, Mom, you can’t sit around. You need to be ready for your match.”
Black groaned as he rubbed his eyes once more, getting tired of all the crap the past day. “I get that, but at points you need to stop being an insensitive jackass.” He looked up to the titan, his pupils changing draconic for a second before returning to normal.
"A. Nice eyes, no homo, B. I get that I'm being an insensitive jackass but alas, I don't know why, I wasn't like this before. So what is up with me?" Thanos asked Black before a can of hetap popped into existence in his two hands. He threw one to Black and took a sip of his.
“Wait, forget the last question… what did you say about my eyes?” Black asked, a beat of sweat rolling down his cheek.
"Your eyes, you know it changed into that of a Dragons. I should know, I had my encounters with one." Thanos said as he looked around for something to do.
The Saiyan’s eyes widened as he quickly stood up, “Dear Dende…” Black rubbed his eyes again, trying to rub his fatigue away. “You’ve got to be shitting me…”
"You shouldn't be surprised, you had a normal life once, went into Equestria as a damn Saiyan, is in love with a Princess, got turned into stone, and fought a Displaced, this is normal." Thanos argued.
“You don’t get it, do you?” Black hissed as he stared daggers at the Titan. “Who else has draconic eyes, or did I forget to mention something to you about my past?”
"Oooooohhhh… Sombra? That guy huh? I remember that guy, crushed that nigga's skull." Thanos started pacing back and forth.
“Not that damn Tyrant, I’m talking about Nightmare Moon you dolt!” Black hissed.
"HEY!!! Call me a dolt and we're going to have a problem little one!" Thanos snapped, as he stopped pacing and looked at Black.
“I HAVE A DAMN NIGHTMARE INSIDE ME YOU CUNT!!!” Black snapped.
“EXCUSE ME?!” Shiva snapped out of her pack link, glaring around in suspicion. Thanos glanced at her, before lowering his voice towards Black.
"Ey yo you better rephrase that before the Rule34 artists go after you." Thanos took a sip of his Hetap and glanced at Shiva, "In any case, cunt is more offensive to a woman, not a man. Call me a dick but anyways! You have Zamasu in your mind, so you may or may not be corrupted again." Thanos said before pausing. "Which means… Oh no."
Black sat down again, placing both of his hands on his face as he groaned. “The Elements of Harmony didn’t work, Zeldris’s soul taking technique didn’t get rid of him… I don’t know what would.” Black looked up to the Titan, his tiredness catching up to him, “I see the horrors of what he did, through his eyes. I see what he would do to my Equestria, my universe.”
"What if… now hear me out, if I summon you to my universe and use the Reality Stone to bring Zamasu out of your head, now Zamasu will have his physical body and his powers but we could take him." Thanos planned.
“But how long will that take?” Black questioned the titan, “What if I snap here? What if I lose control due to the amount of stress in the air.” Black asked
"Oough damn it! If only we had someone who could- Wait." Thanos put two fingers to his head and vanished, he came back with Ryker.
"Why am I here?" Ryker looked around, seeing the competitors lounging around. "I am confused as fuck."
"Listen Ryker bring us to my universe and give us an hour, teleport us to the Badlands too, this is very serious if we can not bring Zamasu out of his head the Tournament will blow up to smithereens." Thanos put his hands on Ryker's shoulders, Ryker pushed his hands aside.
"Oh really? Why can't you do it here?" Ryker inquired
“Cause if we do, I could snap at anypoint, Zamasu could take control and kill everyone here. But he won’t stop there, he will continue to annihilate every mortal in existence until it’s only him.” Black explained to the king.
"Hm… Fine, only an hour though." Ryker made a portal and pushed them through, they arrived at the Badlands and they saw it riddled with weapons and skeletons.
"Well uh… Welcome to the Badlands." Thanos introduced the Saiyan to the Badlands.
Upon seeing the skeletons and weapons across the lands, The Saiyan went into a trance, hearing the sound of clashing metal and screams of rage and pain.
“Save Me Mr. Black!!!” The sound of a filly’s cry for help echoed in the Saiyans mind.
“Do whatever it takes to survive!”
“Another one, you could’ve saved…”
“Don’t lose yourself!”
"...Brings back memories I don't want to remember again…" Thanos sighed as he prepared his Reality Stone and put it up to the Saiyan's head. "I would say this will only hurt for a second but… I would be lying."
“Just do it…” Black said with a dead expression.
"And I oop!" Thanos' Reality Stone glowed and he pulled it away ripping out a green aura and throwing it far from them. Black felt a part of his mind tear for what it seemed like hours but it was only a few seconds.
“AAAHHHHHHGGGG!!!!” Black roared in pain, gripping the sides of his head and falling to his knees. A green sphere flew out of his head, landing a few meters away. The orb exploded in fashion as a smoke cloud grew. The Saiyan stopped his yelling, huffing in pain as he looked to see a familiar silhouette in the cloud of smoke.
"Sup bitch!" Thanos cried out, looking at the silhouette before crossing his arms.
The silhouette didn’t say anything as it slowly walked out of the smoke, revealing a slim green figure with a white mohawk. His silver eyes glared at the Saiyan. “You are such a disappointment.” the figure spoke with a sigh. “I could’ve shaped you into a fine god, but you had to throw that way for… Love.” The figure shuttered at the last word.
"Will you shut up you green skinned wet paper towel?" Thanos asked the green man.
This angered the figure, “How dare you speak to me like that! You should be slain, you simple minded beast!”
“I have to agree with him though, you talk too much.” Black huffed as he stood up to his full height.
"I think I speak for all of us when I say you talk a lot. Might as well call you Sir Talks-a-lot the green skinned donkey fucker." Thanos roasted the green man basically turning him into a darker shade of green.
“Enough talk Thanos… I’ve got something to finish, something I should’ve done a long time ago…” Black said darkly. His hair flowed up as he transformed straight into Super Saiyan two. “I’ve got a god to kill…” The Saiyan disappears, only to reappear in front of the green figure, gut punching him. “You’re done for, Zamasu…”
Zamasu spat out a large amount of blood, wheezing as he looked into the Saiyan’s eyes, “You… dare strike… me…” The kai spat, only to cry in pain as Black pushed his fist straight through the kai. Blood gushing out of the corrupted kai.
"Oh damn," Thanos said, "Is he still alive? Because I wanna use the Sai Dai Rin Rokuogan on him." Thanos asked the Saiyan.
The Saiyan slowly turned his head back to Thanos with a dead look of emotion. “He tormented me, he’s mine.” Black said simply.
"That move can cause so much internal damage to him and he could be in more pain, and you laugh at him as he is helpless because he is very, very, injured." Thanos pointed out before drinking some hetap.
“I'm not him, I don’t laugh when I cause pain, I don’t enjoy killing.” Black said as he pulled out his fist out of Zamasu’s guts. The Supreme Kai recoiled, stepping back while holding a hand over his gut.
“You’ll regret that mortal!” Zamasu spat as a green aura surrounded his wound, it healed while the Supreme Kai huffed and puffed, seemingly out of breath. “I can heal my wounds easily without immortality.
“But how long can you keep it up?” Black asked as he appeared behind the kai, making Zamasu step back. “I know that technique, it consumes a lot of stamina.” Black made a long ki blade, shooting forward at high speeds as he sliced through Zamasu. Cutting the kai in half before he incinerated the Kai’s lower half with a ki blast.
"Hey, now he's a top." Thanos laughed as he ate his hot dog that he got out of nowhere, Luffy was there as well.
"Hey Thanos, did you win the Tournament?" Luffy asked the Titan, making him jump.
"Jesus Christ!" Thanos yelped.
"No, it's Luffy." Luffy said blankly.
"I need to put a bell on you, alright, no I did not win, yet, if you want to fight this green bastard, don't otherwise Black will kill you and how's life Luffy." Thanos turned to the Straw-hat wearing man.
"It's nice, what about you?" Luffy raised his eyebrow.
"Meh, fine." Thanos said with a shug.
The body of the kai landed in front of the two, Zamasu was cut in many places, missing a limb, and had smoke rolling off him as he groaned in pain. The Saiyan slowly walked up to the kai with a dead look.
"Do you want me to use the Rokuogan on him?" Thanos asked looking down at the Kai.
Black said nothing as he pointed two fingers at Zamasu, a thin ki blade penetrated Zamasu’s chest as the Saiyan lifted the Kai into the air. The kai stared into the Saiyan’s, seeing nothing but hatred and silent rage for the kai. “Don’t you see!” Zamasu spat. “These are what mortals do, kill kill kill! That’s all you know! That’s why you must be expunged from every universe!” Zamasu shouted.
"The definition of mortal is "A human being subject to death, often contrasted with a divine being." I'm a Titan, basically a god who can live more than one thousand years. I'm not a mortal, Black isn't one either because he is you, so wouldn't that make you a mortal as well because you are him?" Thanos countered, Luffy looked at Zamasu.
"He has a point, by the way, do you poop?" Luffy asked the green man.
Zamasu said nothing, contemplating what the straw hat man asked. He didn’t get a choice as he was thrown into the air, Black swung his hand around as he sliced the kai into two. Black then threw his hands to the side as two orbs of ki formed. The Titan immediately realized the technique the Saiyan was going to use. “FINAL!!!”
"Oh shit Luffy hold on let me surround this in Bedrock." Thanos put up a dome around the two, made of Bedrock from Minecraft.
“BIG BANG!!!!” Black threw his arms forward, combining the two balls of ki into a massive ball of yellow and deep blue. He pulled his arms to one side and made the blasts larger.
"I will build a Wall just in case" He says as he builds the walls from attack on titan.
“KA-ME-HA-ME!!!!!!!” Black roared as his hair became spiker, a large spiky aura surrounded his godly aura.
“HHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!” Black roared, throwing his arms forward as he launched a massive blast the size of a mountain plato. It struck Zamasu, engulfing the corrupted kai as the blast flew out into space, nearly hitting the moon as it traveled out into the stars. The blast killed the kai as it erased every atom the kai had. Black huffed, his aura crackling around him as it disappeared, his hair going back to his base form.
Thanos made the walls and extra precautions disappear. Thanos walked up to Black, "I thought you needed to use the Hakai to kill him." Thanos asked the Saiyan.
Black looked to Thanos, “That wasn’t the immortal Zamasu, that was the one before he wished for an immortal body.” Black explained.
"OOOOOOOOOHHHH!!!!!!" Thanos said as it all clicked, "Well, he said an hour so… Wanna hang out?" Thanos asked the Saiyan.
"Damn, Thanos, we're still recovering from his attack and he-"
VROOOOMM!!!!!
They saw a blast bigger than Thanos' dick zoom by. Celestia looked towards the badlands. She looked towards a guard.
"That wasn't Thanos… I'll rally the elements, farewell." Celestis popped away and the guard stood there.
"I hate my life." The guard said with a sigh
“Why not? This is actually the first time I’ve been to another Universe by choice.” Black explained, his dark deminer disappearing.
"Alright, do you love Chick-Fil-A?" Thanos asked the Saiyan.
“Who doesn’t?” Black said with a laugh.
"Good question, anyways." Thanos made a Chick-Fil-A with his Reality Stone full with it's workers. "Let us eat!" Thanos and Luffy marched inside.
Black smiled as he followed the two inside while shaking his head. Luffy walked to the counter and ordered literally everything, Thanos decided to get everything, three times for everyone to eat. The workers look at them weirdly then salute and dash off, Thanos finds a seat next to the window, Luffy, and Black sit down next to him.
“So, since we’ve kinda got to wait, how’d you two meet?” Black asked the two. Luffy and Thanos glancing at each other for a second before looking back to the Saiyan.
"Well, it all began when I got captured by some Displaced, they got the jump on me and cuffed me in Sea Prism Cuffs, making me weak due to my Devil Fruit restrictions. I was sent to Kaido's prison and met him myself, Kaido is a dragon, a literal dragon. Eastern Dragon too. Grievous decided to fight him, got Yamcha'd on the spot, then there's basically a break out and in a cell I met Nappa. There he told me you're a simp and yada, yada, yada then we finally meet when we march up to Kaido. It was a… Nine on one. We nearly lost but I beat his ass nonetheless." Thanos said remembering the whole arc.
"I'm also a Pirate now, with a bounty of two billion!" Luffy grinned.
“Neat,” Black said with a smile, slamming his hand against the window, shattering it before he stuck a hand out. He then created a mountain of gold coins, shocking Luffy. “But I personally don’t care for money.” Black said as he blasted the mountain of gold away.
"In the One Piece world the Bounty system is like a power level thing, in the actual canon Kaido had a bounty of four billion, he also jumped from the clouds ten thousand meters in the air and slammed down onto earth in his human form, and he only got a headache!" Luffy grinned.
“Interesting, I’m curious what my power level would be, but as we all know. In the words of TFS Tien, ‘Fuck Powerlevels’” Black said with a laugh
"Did he say that? I think that was Vegeta." Thanos said, trying to remember the show.
“Nope, that was Tien, he said that when he tried to hold off semi-perfect cell.” Black explained.
"Can I tell you about the other Yonko's aka the Four Emperors?!" Luffy's eyes beamed.
“Sure, we’ve got time,” Black said with a wave of his hand. Repairing the shattered window of the process. But they were interrupted by the sound of a teleportation spell outside the Chick-Fil-A. Luffy looked towards the noise and Celestia, the wielders Elements of Harmony, Sunset Shimmer, Fizzle Pop, Thorax, and Ember were there. Luffy turned back to Black.
"As I was saying there are Four Emperors right? One of them is Whitebeard with the Gura-Gura No Mi, he can make seaquakes, earthquakes, and shockwaves! One time he even tilted the sea itself." Luffy explained, Celestia took a step.
"Who are these two, Thanos? Some of your allies?" Celestia asked the Titan, he just glanced at her.
"They're friends now fuck off we're having a conversation here." Thano said nonchalantly to his mortal enemy.
Black glanced at the new arrivals with a curious look. “If you think of me as an enemy, then you have nothing to worry about.” Black stood up from his seat and stared at them. “But if you came because of a massive blast, that was me.” Black said with a smirk.
"What?! T-then you must be stronger than Thanos!" Rainbow Dash pointed at Thanos, just as the food arrived.
“I’d say we’re evenly matched if he didn’t use Observant Haki and I didn’t use Ultra Instinct or any healing abilities.” Black pointed out as he put his hands on his hips.
"If we both did that it would be like Frieza vs Goku all over again, by the way food's here." Thanos reached for a Chicken Sandwich and he bit down on it.
Black turned back to them with a grin, “You'd better not eat at the nuggets.” Black sat back down and grabbed a bowl of Chicken Nuggets.
"Don't worry, I won't, be worried about Luffy stealing your food." Thanos chuckled, before slapping Luffy's hand as he reached for his fries.
"Stop ignoring us!" Rainbow Dash shouted out, yet they continued to ignore them.
Black turned his attention to the hot headed mare, “Hey, after just ridding myself of my Nightmare Parasite, I’m kinda hungry alright!” Black said as he continued to eat.
"Exactly, relieving yourself of stress is very… What's the word for it? Energy consuming, plus we haven't ate all day!" Thanos pointed a finger at them, Celestia shot a beam of literal light at Thanos. Thanos ducked, Luffy ducked as well because he was beside Thanos.
"Enough of this farce Thanos, how long do you think it will take for a damn army to come after you?" Celestia glared at Thanos.
“You wouldn’t send one.” Black said, bringing Celestia's attention to him. “Why would you? I know you have a sliver of… what’s the word? Oh… Love for the Titan, don’t you?” Black asked.
Celestia took a step back, "That's false! I do not hold any feelings towards this heartless beast!" Celestia growled.
“If that’s true, why didn’t you kill him when you had the chance before.” Black questioned, walking up to the Princess. “I figured you sealed him away, but for what reason, you could’ve killed him right there and then.”
"I-I… I thought he may have changed but after destroying Canterlot, overtaking someone's Kingdom, and killing countless lives, I realized he couldn't change!" Celestia clenched her fists.
"Wouldn't that make you a heartless monster? Committing genocide on the humans, trying to destroy all evil thus creating an imbalance in the universe, hunting me down after I refused to do your bidding, wouldn't that make you a heartless monster? Given your philosophy." Thanos said before finishing his Chicken Sandwich and digging into the fries.
“And the fact that you wanted him to erase all evil from Equestria, hence Genocide.” Black pointed out. “But neither action with the infinity stones is always a good one. Like erasing evil or erasing half the universe of population to stop universe hunger.” Black explained.
"Not to mention killing an entire race…" Luffy crossed his arms before side-eying Celestia. "That's pretty heartless, don't you think?" Luffy licked his ice cream, menacingly.
"Silence! Stop your barbaric eating and fight us!" Celestia took a step forward.
"Nah, I don't really feel like it." Thanos finished his fries and went onto the next.
“I might, who knows.” Black says as he eyes up the ponies and dragon.. “But I will warn you, you won’t win.”
"Are you sure? With our abilities you won't be able to-" Luffy stood up and walked outside, Luffy turned to Black.
"Black, I want you to watch and learn what Haki can do." Luffy asked the saiyan before turning to the group.
“Go for it, just make sure to let me have a go at one point alright.” The Saiyan asked politely.
"You will, oh you will alright…" Luffy said, coating his arms in Armament Haki as he walked towards his enemies whilst his straw-hat on.
"Do you really think you can handle all us?" Ember crossed her arms, Luffy said no words and threw his arm to his side, his rubber body making it so that it went to a pumping position. Luffy vanished from the fight and appeared above Ember, he then punched the drake's head into the earth.
"Gomu Gomu no, Hawk Stamp!" Luffy threw his leg back and threw it at Sunset, hitting her. Rainbow Dash lunged at Luffy only for him to vanish, Rainbow Dash opened her eyes wide and got gut-punched by him. Rainbow Dash fell on her back, Applejack tried to kick Luffy, coating her hoof in Armament Haki, only for Luffy to catch it and flip her on her ass. Luffy was then kicked at the speed of light as Celestia kicked him, Luffy crashed into the Chick-Fil-A, only a window next to them.
"You better not get that glass on my food!" Thanos said jokingly with his mouth full.
Black rolled his eyes as he jumped out of the window, standing next to Luffy. “Nice Armament Haki, but you need to be more aware of you opponents. Leaving yourself open could be dangerous.” Black commented as he stepped up against the ponies.
"I dodged almost all of their attacks and got hit by their strongest, plus she caught me off guard and kicked me at the speed of Light! She ate the Pika-Pika No Mi, making her literal light!" Luffy said warming his arms up.
“Interesting…” Black muttered as he starred at Celestia. He chuckled as he powered up, a black and purple aura surrounding the Saiyan. “Is there any way to counter her attacks if she’s literal light?”
"She's also Logia type Devil Fruit user, meaning she can't get hit because she's an elemental, you have to have Haki or being coated in their corresponding element. Like you can hit someone if they have the Sand Sand Fruit if you are coated in liquid." Luffy informed the Saiyan, steam coming from his body, his skin pink. "I ate the Gomu Gomu No Mi, meaning I'm Rubber, the reason why I'm pink is because I'm accelerating my blood. Making me stronger, each pump makes me stronger, like the Kaio-Ken." Luffy said getting in a stance.
Black then got an idea, “So since her element is light, would it be possible if I went Super Saiyan, generating a lot of light.” Black looked to Luffy, “Could I be able to hit her?
"Hm, I don't think so unless your in like a Shadow or Darkness then maybe. You can't fight light with light." Luffy turned to the Saiyan.
“Good to hear… thank Dende this happens whenever I power up.” Black commented with a laugh. He clenched his hands as let out a roar, his aura spiking up as clouds started to form around them, growing in size until it covered the sun. He let out a sigh before grinning.
"You also need Haki, but you know Armament Haki right?" Luffy raised his eyebrow.
“Yeah, gotta thank Thanos for that.” Black said as he generated a ki scythe in his hand, then proceeded to cover it with Armament Haki.
"Alright, let's do this!" Luffy grinned ear to ear. Luffy ran at Sunset, Sunset clenched her fist and threw a fire fist. Thanos' eyes widened.
"She has the Flame-Flame Fruit! Also a Logia, she could be hit if she's wet." Thanos cried out.
"Oh my~"
“Shut it Zarbon!” Black yelled. He then ran forwards, charging at Celestia as the Alicorn prepared herself. Black swung his scythe at the Princess, her clashing with his scythe with a sword of pure light. The two weapons grinded against each other, making a terrible screeching noise, like grinding metal. “So Tia, do you wish to go back?” Black asked the Princess, confusing Celestia.
"Go back where?" Celestia grunted.
“You know,” Black commented, backing off and trying to find an opening in her attacks as they swung weapons at each other. “To the time where you and Thanos loved each other.”
"Tch, shut up!" Celestia jumped back and coated herself in her Golden armor. She radiated a shining aura, Black sensed her power level increased, like a buff.
The Saiyan smiled, “Come on, I know you do.” Black commented as he powered up to Super Saiyan. “But I wonder what really happened between you two?” Black muttered.
"Shut the hell up already! Stop saying these… Weird things?!" Celestia shouted out, she then tried to kick Black at the speed of light. Black dodged the attack, the Alicorn taken by surprise as the Saiyan moved behind her.
“Let me truly show you a kick,” Black said as he covered his leg in Armament Haki. He quickly spun around, spin kicking the Alicorn in the back. Sending her forwards a few meters before she recovered. Celestia growled and turned into light, becoming a streak and she appeared before Black and corkscrew punched his gut. Making the Saiyan spin and land on his back.
The Saiyan laughed, “Oooh, did I touch a nerve?” Black asked the Alicorn as he stood back up. He dusted off any sand that got on to his Gi, “You Alicorn sure do pack a punch.”
"Glad I can pack one, next thing I'm going to pack is you." Celestia said, frowning at the Saiyan.
“Oooh, number 37,” Black randomly said as he dropped his ki scythe, is disappearing into thin air. He popped his knuckles, them popping loudly as he got into a fighting stance. “Come,”
Celestia discarded her Sword of Light, now disappearing in thin air. She went into a stance similar to the Mad Titan himself. "Let us engage in hand to hand combat, warrior." Speaking like a warrior herself.
Black smiles as he charges forward, Celestia doing the same as they clashed fists, creating a small crater beneath them. Celestia threw a kick to Black's side light boosting her attack. Black covered his side in Armament Haki for a moment as her kick made contact. He took the hit, wincing slightly as he smiled. “So, who taught you to fight?” Black asked as he threw a fist for Celestia’s gut.
"...Thanos." She admitted right as she blocked Black's fist with her forearm, coating it in Armament Haki to somehow make the Saiyan get injured.
“So that’s why you took his stance,” Black commented, piecing it together. He covered his tail in armament, wrapping it around Celestia’s leg before pulling. Making the Alicorn slip, “So why don’t you have your own Stance?”
Celestia mouthed "Shit!" Before she fell, "Tch, because Thanos is the best fighter I know and his stance is damn impenetrable." Celestia did a breakdance, spinning her legs and making Black slip. She stood up and gave Black a smug look.
Black fell to the ground, but recovered as he pushed off it with a hand, doing a backflip and landing on his feet. “Don’t be so smug, I’m barely warmed up.” Black boasted as he got into a fighting stance similar to Goku’s when he first fought Vegeta.
"Same here." Celestia said like she wasn't terrified of a being who could rival her ex-husband.
Black saw right through this, but he smiled as he played along. “If that’s’ true, then hit me.” Black said as he pointed to himself. “Hit me as hard as you can.”
"Alright then, be prepared." Celestia's horn lit up and vanished, Black sat there and tried to sense Celestia. Suddenly he saw Celestia coming in hot, at light speed no less with her powerful wings making her faster, she then kicked Black at lightspeed- no, more than light speed.
“Come on, show me your full power!” Black shouted at the Alicorn. The speed, the weight, and the force of the Alicorn's kick, sent Black flying into a distant rock formation.
"Fucking bitch…" Celestia scoffed, before dusting her hands off. She was about to head over to Luffy’s location to help the others, but was interrupted when the lands began to rubble. It then turned into an earthquake as she almost fell on her ass. The Alicorn turned her attention to the rock formation she kicked the Saiyan into. It began to fall apart before a big yellow sphere appeared. Growing in size for a moment, only to break into many particles of energy.
"...You got to be fucking kidding me." Celestis asked to whatever God that was up there.
When the energy disappeared, it revealed a different looking Saiyan. His hair was black and went down his spine like a Super Saiyan 3. His top gi was gone, leaving it to show his chest and arms covered in a deep red fur, except for his biceps and his abs. A red tail swished around him as he opened his eyes. He smirked as his pupils turned gold, under his eyes had a red lining. “That was a decent attack.” Black spoke, his voice turning gravely. He widened his eyes slightly, a massive gust of wind appearing out of nowhere, pushing the Alicorn backwards.
"Furry!" Thanos said in the distance, Celestia rolled her eyes.
"Ignore him, he's just being an ass."
"By the way nice ass Celestia!" Thanos shouted out, Celestia's face turned blood red.
Black rolled his eyes, “When is he never one?” Black asked the Alicorn.
"Good question." Celestia rubbed her eyes with a sigh. "Now let us commence our battle." Celestia brought up her fists and pulled her right leg up too, she then started spinning around rapidly.
GOKU Black popped his neck, hearing the satisfying crackling noise. “If you can call it one.” Black mocked before he let out a primal roar. His aura growing in size, the Saiyan charged forward faster than Celestia could comprehend. Before he made contact, he disappeared from the Alicorn's sight. Celestia tried to look for the Saiyan, but to only cry out in pain as she felt Black's fist make contact with her gut.
Black looked up to meet Celestia’s gaze, smirking. “Trust me, this is only the beginning”
"Go to Tartarus." She said before doing a backflip and spun rapidly once more then stopping, her right leg now on fire. "Diable Jambe!" She flew at the Saiyan, "Joue Shot!" Celestia kicked the Saiyan in the nose and threw him far.
“Oh trust me,” Black muttered. He appeared behind her, his back facing hers. “There are things I’ve done, even if they were heroic, put other ponies in danger. I would rather go there than the afterlife.” Black said as he turned his head to face her gaze.
"And why is that?" Celestia asked, shifting her stance, to turn her waist towards Luffy.
“Because I was afraid to kill, Sombra making me watch him kill my friends, one I considered family, my master. And a filly in front of me. I snapped thought, killing him and his race, same with the crystal ponies.” Black explained, a hint of sadness in his eyes
"I don't recall seeing you there, strange creature." Celestia said as she took a step towards Luffy.
“Whoever said I was there, I’m not even from this Universe,” Black said as he teleported in front of Celestia.
"What do you mean?" Celestia asked Black.
“Tell me, have you ever heard of… multiverse theory?” Black asked, putting a hand out, to make a projection with many orbs, containing multiple galaxies in it. Celestia looked at it with surprise.
Black walked to Celestia’s side, looking at the orbs with her, “This is an example of what it could look like. All of these universes contain an Equestria, looking the same with… minor differences.” Black explained as he dropped out of Super Saiyan 4, the top part of his Gi reappearing.
"I see, so do you have a Universe where Thanos' home planet resides?" Celestia said before pointing a finger at the Saiyan and firing a beam of light in his chest, aiming at his heart.
The Saiyan tanked it, not taking any damage at all, except for a hole in his Gi. He looked down and shaked his head. “I don’t know, I’ve only been on Equestria the whole time. Plus, I’m the only one of my kind there.” Black said as he looked to Celestia. “You’ve got to thank your sister for making me not go insane.”
"What do you mean by that?" Celestia asked summoning a small Knife of Light to try and kill him again.
The Saiyan sighed as he slapped the knife away. He closed his fist, the images of the multiverse disappearing. “Tell me this, what would you do if you were the last of your kind, the only one on a planet of different species that view you as a monster?”
"I would simply try to make a friend, try to prove them wrong." Celestia inched closer to the Saiyan.
“Good answer. I tried the same thing, succeeding when Lulu wanted to be my friend. But for every deed I did for the ponies, they retaliate with raids against me and assassinations.”
"That's odd, when Thanos and his friends came they were more welcome to them. I think it was because they bested Discord in combat." Celestia took a step forward towards Black.
“Did the same here, but Discord kill one of the elements of Harmony. The ponies were angry, saying that I could’ve stopped the spirit.”
"Just because of one simple mistake? This is why I had to rebuild the nation." Celestia frowned.
“When the fight with Sombra came, he framed me. He made me snap when he killed the rest of the elements of Harmony, including my master. Master Starswirl.” Black hissed.
"He always was a snake, I feel sorry for you, this is why I hated Evil and it's ways." Celestia shook her head.
Black sighed as he turned away from Celestia, walking towards Luffy. “Your way of ending evil is wrong, but it’s the same with what Thanos wishes to do with the infinity stones.” He stopped in his tracks and looked back to Celestia, “Personally, I would get rid of them, put them in a box and send them to the deepest ocean.” Black said as he turned his back away from the Alicorn. “No one should have that power.”
"Indeed, yet you have the power to rival that of Thanos. Should you be locked up too?" Celestia said as she crept up on Thanos, her footsteps quiet.
Black stopped in his tracks, “Maybe I should, but you don’t get to make that decision.” Black said as he sensed Celestia moving towards the mad Titan. He pointed a hand at her, a ki blast formed in it. “Plus, isn’t friendship your motto?”
"Mm, maybe." She summoned her light sword and turned it into a spear, she spun it around. "But sometimes, friendship can't solve every problem."
Black hummed in response, “True, but…” black disappeared from her sight, appearing behind the Alicorn. Celestia turned her gaze to meet his, only to see his eyes changed to silver. “Killing isn’t always the way.” He covered his fist in Armament, gut punching the Princess before she could dodge.
When Celestia was hit, her whole gut felt like it was hit by Thanos but a hundred of them, Celestia stumbled backward. She nearly fell down, but she threw the spear straight at Thanos' heart. Before the spear could make contact with the mad titan. Black appeared and stopped it with a pinkie. Pushing his finger forward, he shattered the weapon instantly.
“Just give up already, you can’t win this fight.” Black asked politely.
"A kind gesture but no." Celestis responded right before Thanos appeared beside her and shot her with a Power blast, shooting her into a distant rock formation.
“Damn she’s stubborn…” Black muttered. He turned his attention to Thanos. “Don’t worry, I can handle this, go help Luffy.”
"She needs to learn when to shut up, I need to learn that too but atleast I don't go and monologue all the damn time." Thanos took a sip of his Diet Doctor Kelp that he got from the Krusty Krab.
“She needs to see that killing isn’t a backup option.” Black argued.
"Exactly, when I killed Kaido, I knew he would just enact revenge if I let him live. He's the only "Main" Villain I fought these days." Thanos yawned, which caused Black to yawn, which caused Chill to yawn which caused ShirtMech to yawn.
“Plus, erasing half of all magical creatures isn’t going to solve anything, it will only cause an outbreak!” Black argued.
"I think everything would be better without Alicorns, and some Equestrians out there. I mean, I can use my Reality stone to make Equestria and it's sun seem like Earth's sun. Honestly if I rule Equestria, things will skyrocket drastically." Thanos countered.
Black looked at the Titan with disbelief, “I can’t believe you…” The Saiyan said with disappointment.
"What? I said some Equestrians, that means the Unicorns, Earth Ponies, and Pegasi's just to teach them a lesson." Thanos said looking into his cup.
Black walked away from the Titan, stopping a few meters away before looking up to the sky. “RYKER!!!!!” Black roared into the sky, “I'M READY TO RETURN, LEAVE THANOS BEHIND FOR ALL I CARE!!!”
Sunset was flustered at whoever said "Oh my~" she flew at Luffy and tried to punch him. Luffy uppercuts Sunset and kicks her away, Fizzle Pop kicks Luffy in the gut. Luffy grabbed her armor and headbutted her in the nose, but before he did he coated it in Armament Haki, knocking her down. Rainbow Dash flew herself at Luffy again but he jumped into the air and got shot down by Twilight. Luffy hit the ground and rolled to his feet.
"Damn it!" Luffy cursed, "Red Hawk!" Luffy pulled back his fist, it heated up. His fist was now fully heated up and he attempted to punch Twilight. But Twilight erected a shield and blocked the attack. Luffy jumped back, Ember hit Luffy's back with her scepter, Luffy stumbled forward and was bucked by Applejack. Luffy stumbled back and got caught in a full nelson by Thorax. Rainbow Dash popped her knuckles and headed over to Luffy.
"Not so tough now, are we?" Rainbow Dash snarked only to be punched by Thanos or rather bitch-slapped. Thanos then hit Thorax with his elbow, Thorax fell on his back.
"Bitch." Thanos said before Luffy and him fist bump. Thanos was nearly stabbed by Rarity but he grabbed the sword and broke it in half. He then punched her gut, sending her far and made Rarity fall on Applejack. Pinkie Pie loaded up her party cannon, Luffy flipped the cannon over and when Pinkie Pie fired it she was hit by her own cannon. Pinkie Pie was buried in cake, Thanos took a piece of cake and ate it.
"Pretty damn good cake, want some?" Thanos offered the rubber boy.
"Nah, I don't have much of a sweet tooth." Right then a portal opened up, Ryker stood there drinking coffee, in sandals.
"Get in you two." Ryker said, stepping aside, Black walked in first, but glared at Thanos before walking towards the portal. Thanos following the Saiyan.
"Hey! What about me?!" Luffy asked, looking at a white figure coming in hot.
"I don't know, figure it out." Thanos walked off, Luffy looked to Black for assistance.
“Come in for all I care, but take it up with Ryker. The best thing would be as a spectator.” Black scoffed.
"Well he said four and I only brought Lucci, Entity, and Nappa…" Thanos looked at Ryker, Ryker threw his head back and groaned. Ryker pulled Luffy in so fast that Luffy slammed into the wall.
“Goodness!” Shiva yelped, racing to Luffy’s side with her pack link glowing. “Are you alright?”
"There, now I have to get ready." Ryker walked off and the portal closed. Luffy jumped to his feet and looked at Shiva.
"Are you a Mink? By the way, do you poop?" Luffy asked, pointing at the wolf.
Shiva blinked up at him. “Um, I’m a diamond dog, sir,” she replied. She turned away with flattened ears. “And it should be assumed that everyone poops.”
"...What about mermaids?" Luffy asked.
Black turned to Shiva, “Ignore him, he asked my Nightmare the same thing.”
Shiva nodded in thanks. “Ah, I see,” she said, turning away. Briefly, she glanced back at Luffy. “And yes… even mermaids.” She trotted back to her corner of the room, continuing to train with her pack link.
Luffy looked confused, "But… They don't have butts… I… I'm… What?" Luffy's brain short-circuited, Thanos just walked off to go and train.
Black stood next to Luffy, “Tell me, do you agree with your friends method of peace in Equestria?” The Saiyan asked.
Luffy puts his hands on the back of his head, "He never really told me, all he said is "Technology" or something like that." Luffy shrugged.
Black kept looking at Luffy before walking off and saying, “What if Alicorns and some Equestrians… never ceased to exist?” Black then walked to the stadium to wait for the fight.
"But they… Do exist…" Luffy said before stopping, he sat down and gave it thought.
"Well shit…"
Author's Note
A Forced Hero - By DisplacedWriter
Four Horsemen Come To Equestria - By Anomis
Howlite Howler - By Three Tails
Power Vessel - By Delta-Boio
The Shadow Of Equestria - By Screwball666
Equestria's Divine God - By Shirt Mechanic
DOOM of Griffonstone! - By ShadowStar_IMHP
Against All Odds - By The_Chill_Author (come on and go like it, he's almost at 100 lik
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In A Lab In Ryker's Castle.
Ryker stood in his lab, looking at Link's unconscious form. He looked through his bag, pulling out a multitude of arrows and masks but only one stook out for him, the Giant's Mask. He studied the Mask, looking at it curiously like a puppy looking at a new toy. He set it down in a safe sized room, which was connected to a machine, he set down a bottle on the machine and started it up. Ryker looked at it with anticipation, looking at it as it shakes.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Suddenly the bottle was filled with an orange liquid and Ryker snatched it up and put a bottle cap on the bottle. "I duplicated the enchantments with this machine, now theoretically I could be able to make anything giant if I pour this on it. But… The giant body will cause strain on the user, better use it on one of the Elementals than a living being. Thus making the Elemental more dangerous." Ryker said while being giddy. "Now I can-" He was interrupted with a thud, he looked where it came from, a door. Ryker walked towards the door when he opened it, no one was there, he looked at the door and found a Kunai. He took it and closed the door, looking at the Kunai curiously.
"Well thank you to whoever decided to be a ninja." Ryker walked over to one of his other contraptions and made a portal, reaching into it he brought out a sword. He then put it in said contraption. He waited two seconds before the machine made a ding and it spat out an enchanted sword. Ryker caught it and grinned. "Another fine addition to my collection." Ryker made a portal and threw it in.
"Oh wait I have to go and be at the arena." Ryker groaned and he looked to Link, "I'll see you later." He made a portal and jumped in, disappearing.
At The Locker Room.
Shiva huddled in darkness. The bars of a cage stood before her.
“No,” she mumbled. “Not again.”
And yet… it was worse than the last time she had been in a cage. As the shadows cleared, she saw her children. Also in cages. Kodo’s cage was black as obsidian. Sombra’s - no, she recalled, Umbra’s - green eyes glittering down at him like a predator stalking its prey.
“Mother?” Kodo whispered, fear in every syllable.
She wanted to reach out for him, but a shriek of pain pulled her back. On the other side, her daughter Celine stood trapped. Nightmare Moon and Day Breaker stood behind her, whips of fire and silver curving through the air to strike at her daughter.
“Celine!” Shiva shrieked, nearly rushing to her aid. But as she turned her back on her son, the demonic Umbra cackled, nearly rushing into the cage to devour her child.
Shiva turned back to him, but then the laughter of the demonic alicorns sounded, followed by the cries of pain from her daughter.
“Help us, Mother!” they screamed, their voices a duet of torture.
Howling her despair, Shiva desperately threw out her pack links. Hoping to ensnare both of them.
But her pack links clanged uselessly off the bars of her cage. She was helpless. Useless. And her children were going to suffer. All because of her.
“Mother!” Kodo cried.
“I’m sorry,” Shiva began to sob. “I can’t…”
“Mother!” Kodo’s voice was… clearer. Not scared, but concerned. “Mother, snap out of it!”
Shiva gasped and snapped out of her pack link. She was back in the locker room. Her son stood in front of her, his silver eyes wide in worry. Around her, the other displaced trained or worked on their own projects.
The cages were gone. The demons were gone. And yet…
Kodo’s ears flattened. “Was that… what Von Shadow showed you?”
Shiva didn’t want to think about what she had experienced. She opted for a slow nod of her head.
Kodo’s claws clenched. “That was uncalled for,” he growled. “You didn’t deserve that.”
“I invaded his thoughts, Kodo,” Shiva whispered. “He…”
“That doesn’t give him the right!” Kodo protested. “Luna made you do it!”
“But I’m still the one who offered,” Shiva replied, settling herself against the wall with a sigh. “Eric Von Shadow holds great pain inside him.” She looked up at the others. “They all do.”
Kodo followed her gaze with a grimace. “We’ve all suffered,” he replied. “That doesn’t give them the excuse to take it out on you.”
Shiva looked away pondering. Her gaze shifted to the ceiling, fear still plaguing her mind of how Celine was doing. Kodo followed her gaze, brushing her shoulder with his nose.
“I’m sure Celine’s fine,” he promised her. “She’s got Skippy. And the diamond dogs.” He chuckled. “Even the ponies and changelings love her. She’s completely safe.”
Shiva smiled softly, but she knew that only the sight of her daughter would calm her. At the same time, going back to Outer Haven with nothing would also be detrimental. Assuming Ryker let her leave, considering both the amount of distrust everyone seemed to have towards him combined with the stunt she had pulled with Von Shadow and Link. She bowed her head in conflict.
Suddenly, Phoenix teleported in with a concerned look on his face. “Shiva! My kunai told me your heart rate was higher than healthy, is everything alright in here?” He quickly approached the two, looking them over for injuries.
Kodo grimaced. “It was Von Shadow,” he growled. “Shiva was helping his Luna with something, so she pack-linked with him. And he responded by throwing her into a shadow. A shadow that showed her something.” He nuzzled at her as she shivered again. “Something really bad.”
“I see….” Phoenix replied slowly, now looking more relaxed. “Well, I have to say that’s your own fault. I make it a rule to only delve into peoples outer layer thoughts; unless of course I have permission to go deeper.”
Kodo glared up at him. “Luna gave her permission,” he insisted. “She told Shiva to do it!”
“Kodo!” Shiva barked, silencing her son. “Do not test the boundaries of others.” She lowered her head. “Besides, he has a point. Luna may have given permission, but Eric didn’t.”
“Your mother is wise, young Kodo, less of the backchat.” Phoenix ruffled Kodos hair before turning in the other direction, still eyeing the two from the corner of his eye with a grin. “Well, if everything is fine, then I shall go prepare. Don’t disappoint me Shiva!” He waved a hand over his shoulder before disappearing into another room.
Shiva shook away her dark thoughts and rose with a grin. “Will do,” she replied. “See you in the arena.”
"Uh, did you hear about the circus fire? I hear it was… in tents." Thanos grinned, proud of his joke.
Kodo groaned, sulking in the corner like a pouting teenager. Shiva merely rolled her eyes with a grin.
Some Eliatropes came in the Locker Room with uniforms.
"This is the Comedy Police! The joke is too funny!" One of the Eliatropes said. Thanos pulled out a gun, his hands shaking.
"I'M NOT GOING BACK TO JAAAIILL!!!" Thanos shot at the Eliatropes and both Thanos and the Eliatropes ran out of the Locker Room.
Kodo and Shiva watched the Titan flee with dumbfounded expressions. Kodo shook his head.
“I’m glad we didn’t bring Celine,” he admitted.
"Who's Celine?" Luffy asked, picking his nose with a pinkie.
“My daughter,” Shiva explained.
“And my sister,” Kodo added, glancing around. “Obviously.”
"You two are related?! You have children?! WHAT?!?!?" Luffy pointed at the two.
Kodo and Shiva glanced at each other. “It… wasn’t obvious?” Kodo asked.
"Yeah!" Luffy said, he then crossed his arms and gave it thought. "Now that I think about it… You do look similar…" Luffy snapped his fingers. "I see! You two are cousins!" Luffy completely disregarded everything they just said.
Kodo face planted into the ground in exasperation, while Shiva just sighed in resignation.
“Yes,” she said sarcastically with a sigh. “This is Kodo; my cousin.”
"Also, you said you have children, why have children when you can be free?" Luffy asked the "Mink" in his eyes.
Shiva chuckled. “Let’s just say there are certain, oh, how should I put it…”
“Consequences?” Kodo mumbled dejectedly from the ground.
“No!” Shiva protested, before considering it. “‘Results’… to ruling a small kingdom and having certain types of… ‘fun.’”
"You're a queen?!" Luffy jumped back a bit, "Also what type of fun? Like playing type of fun? Or "fun"." Luffy peered at the dog.
“More of an ‘Alpha,’ but Queen’s okay too,” Shiva replied. “And by fun, I mean...” she made her eyes half-lidded and spoke in a husky, coy tone. “Fun…”
"Wait-" Luffy was then pulled off by Nappa.
"I'mma tell him about the birds and the bees, bye!" Nappa said, waving Shiva goodbye.
Shiva went slack jawed. “Oh my word, I nearly ruined a lad’s childhood innocence!”
"Shiva and Phoenix to the arena, Shiva and Phoenix to the arena please!" Someone over the intercom spoke out, most likely Kyle.
“Thank you, convenience!” Shiva praised, darting for the arena. Kodo tried to follow after her, only to run into a shield that kept him from going with her.
“What?” he stammered. “No!” He stared at his mother. “I-I was supposed to go in! Not you!”
Shiva gave her son a piteous look. “I was concerned about this,” she admitted, before giving her son an attempt at a brave look. “I’m sure I’ll be fine, Kodo. Be sure to cheer me on.”
Kodo whimpered as she turned her back on him. “But… you shouldn’t be doing this for me…” he whimpered.
Phoenix sighed from within the gravity chamber, before sinking into the ground to make his way to the arena gates.
Ryker stood at his place, looking at the arena stage. "Alright in this corner we have the… Uh… The.. Oh right, the Howlite Howler and the Alpha of a Diamond Dog pack, Shiva!" Ryker introduced Shiva as she stepped into the sunlight.
As the sunlight lit up Shiva’s fur, she let her pack link activate, making her look like Celestia raising the sun. Anyone who lacked sunglasses quickly donned them.
As Shiva gazed around, lifting her arms and her pack link wings in a display of light, her eyes landed on her son, seated in the front row. They smiled softly at each other, before giving a more cautious look to their host. Shiva wisely curtsied to the host before turning to meet her opposition, two pack link tendrils spiraling out into whips that she lashed with a burst of lightning.
"Now the one, the only, Phoenix Wri-" Someone whispered in his ear, "That's not his name? Alright; here we have the Master of Elements, the biggest asshole you ever met, Phoenix!" Ryker introduced, as it was Phoenix's turn to enter the sunlight.
Phoenix stepped out from the gates, hands in pockets, before waltzing up to the platform. He gave Shiva a curt nod before flipping the bird to Ryker.
Shiva blinked, glancing up to see Ryker’s reaction. Ryker returned Phoenix the favor and flipped Phoenix off with a warm smile.
Phoenix returned the smile, before turning back to his opponent.
Shiva sniffed the air, grinning softly at Phoenix. “You smell powerful,” she commented.
“You smell, well, like a dog, I guess.” Phoenix tilted his head, trying to force a half decent response to the odd statement.
“That would be my natural musk,” she replied with a grin.
Before the battle begins, I have an announcement to make,” Ryker started “The combatant known as Death has broken an unwritten rule in the tournament. Each member must show some enthusiasm and participation in events; but it seems he has failed to do so.”
“If that’s how you want it,” Death started. “Fury; get over here. We’re leaving. This is not a bad thing as someone like me is the last person anyone wants to see. To the one that fell first; he has a bright future ahead of him. As for the rest of you; good luck.” Ryker made a portal next to him and they walked in, Ryker then pulled out Ed. Ryker looked at him.
"Well then, he's a Spectator, Kyle you're fighting Dr. Doom!" Ryker turned to Kyle.
"Why me?" Kyle shouted out.
"Because you're not overpowered!" Ryker replied.
”Do I even get a say in this?” Ed looked around.
"No." Ryker said blankly "WITHOUT A FURTHER OR DO!!!! The battle begins in three!"
Shiva winced in pity for Kyle, before returning her attention to Phoenix.
"Two!"
Phoenix pulled Chastiefol from his back.
"One!"
Shiva crouched on all fours, her tail perked and her links lifting like scorpion tails.
"FIGHT!!!"
Phoenix took a more serious stance before chanting. “Spirit Spear Chastiefol! Fifth configuration! Increase! Four times over!” Shortly after his words, the entire arena was clouded with blue kunai. You could barely see through the gaps. No matter where you stepped, you’d most likely end up a pin cushion.
Shiva, however, wagged her tail. “Magic…” she whispered, scenting the energy in the blades. Her links swirled around her, before lashing out with her links. Everyone’s eyes widened as billions of white, lightning-like ropes spiraled out, seizing every kunai in the arena. Blue and white light glowed against the stands.
“Does anybody want popcorn?” Ed asked waving.a large bucket of popcorn around as he watched.
Nappa walked over to Ed, Luffy's traumatized form under his arm, "Sure, why not?"
“Here ya go,” Ed gave Napa a jumbo with a large Dr. pepper and some for Luffy who merely stared.
Kodo ignored them, his focus solely on his mother as her pack links danced around her.
Phoenix looked up, impressed with the billions of strands of light in the air. He whistled before speaking. “Ever thought about doing kids parties?”
“Every one of my kids birthdays,” she replied with a grin. “But tell me this; how familiar are you with Tirek?” From the light of her links, a picture of the magic stealing centaur formed, laughing as he drained a group of unicorns.
“Ahh Tirek. A pathetic old fool. Twilight told me all about him.” Phoenix studied the lights, before closing his eyes and muttering under his breath. “May they rest in peace.” Opening his eyes once more, he faced Shiva once more.
“Agreed,” Shiva said. “And his greatest weakness was he couldn’t share.”
Her links flowed as magic surged into her. Just before Phoenix could retaliate, however… she sent the magic towards him. “Something I don’t have a problem with.”
Doom walked into the viewing booth behind him stood his butler, the Slenderman Hans. “Good I haven’t missed Shiva’s battle.” Doom comments as he sits down.
“Not a single moment Metal Head” Eric said watching the battle intently
Luffy went over to Doom and fell on him, grabbed Doom to catch his fall, "SEX MAKES BABIES!!!" Luffy said shakily.
“Very much so,” Ed patted Luffy on the head and turned to Doom and stared intently then “Popcorn?”
Doom gives Luffy a shove. “Do be respectful and don’t fall on others.” He then turns to Ed “I don’t care for popcorn.”
Hans looks over “I wish I could but unfortunately I lack a proper mouth. Thought I can see your energy is quite high perhaps a nibble?”
“Hans don’t make such low brow comments.” Doom looked over at Ed. “I prefer cheese and crackers over popcorn.”
“Cheese and crackers it is,” Ed remarked as said snack appeared before Doom. “How about some Zap apple wine from my world as well.” He said as a bottle of shimmering rainbow wine appeared next to Doom’s food. “I’ve been waiting and wondering when I would meet you and your other self good Doctor. Tell me, how does that portal tech of yours that you developed with Gar’s Twilight fair?”
“Gar… so you are one of his brothers I assume. The portal tech is going well. I already improved it from the version I left for Gar. I estimate I can cross dimensional clusters about every five years twice. So if I so wish I could return to an Earth we remember, thought not the one Hans originally came from.” Doom commented before taking a bit of the cheese.
“I shall explain a bit more on that later if you wish but for now we should leave the science and magic outside this room and enjoy the fights,” Ed smiled. “I’ll also give you some data that will further you portal tech and network via nanomachines if you wish.”
“My portal is more of a side project. I'm sure I could improve it far more if I really desire.” He reached down to his belt and removed a small disk about the size of a dime and placed it under his chair. Then he looked at Ed right in the eyes and winked “ Nanomachines I haven’t figured out just yet using the tech of the Equestria I found myself in. They were around the late 1800’s early 1900’s.”
“Very well an accord struck, but for now the fight,” he said as he and doom clinked glasses.
After taking a swallow of the apple wine Doom noded. “I look forward to a rewarding friendship, if what I heard from Gar is anything to go by, we might have similar personalities. For now let’s enjoy this fight. I’m cheering for Shiva; she shouldn’t have to do this.”
A thicker pack link bound around Phoenix’s arms, and he became more accurately aware of Shiva’s voice in his head. Audible only to him and no one else.
“Before you attack me, hear what I have to say,” she whispered.
Images flashed before Phoenix’s eyes: he was back in Ponyville. The portal swallowing him. His voice: “Oh Hell No!”
Then the vision shifted. Them walking next to Ryker. He had asked, “Can I go home?”
“Call me crazy,” Shiva’s voice noted. “But it sounds to me like you’d rather not be here.”
“Call me crazy,” Phoenix thought to her, “But it sounds like you’re attempting to bribe me into surrender.”
Shiva came into being before him, making puppy dogs eyes. “It was that obvious?” She teased. “I wasn’t exactly kept for my combat skills, after all.”
“Apologies,” Phoenix began, “But I have turned down way cuter girls.”
Shiva tsked, leaning back. “Got me there,” she admitted. “By the way…” she formed one of his kunai in her claws. “You told one of these to ‘find Link,’ and… well, it found him.” Her ears flattened. “What are the odds that the loser of this match is going to end up in that lab next?”
Phoenix’s face dropped, thinking back to what he saw. “He was still alive. And anyway, I believe investigating powerful beings is a job for powerful beings. With that being said, beat me now and I will transfer all the knowledge I have accumulated on everyone here; including Link and Ryker.”
Shiva hummed. “We don’t have to fight,” she noted, before pausing. “Okay, I mean, Ryker wants us to fight, but I don’t think anyone fully trusts him. There’s got to be a way we can work together to free Link and make sure we all get out.” She winced. “Though one of us does have to be knocked out for the first part to work.”
“I understand where you’re coming from Shiva. I really do. But I’m afraid allowing someone with weak mental barriers to know my plan may be detrimental. Just know this, no one here is your friend.”
“We don’t have to be friends to work together,” she replied. “I wasn’t friends with the ponies when we took down Chrysalis. Who’s to say…” she paused, glancing away. “Wait. Someone’s trying to listen in.”
“That would be Ryker,” Phoenix replied, following her gaze. “If you’re smart, you’d start fighting me.”
“Good catch,” she whispered. “My links are not used to trespassers like that.”
Phoenix twirled himself in the air before landing back on his feet. “Apologies, Shiva.” He smirked before clenching his fist. “But I have to win this fight.” Suddenly, the kunai covering the arena began forming into new shapes. Now gold with a more distinct triangular blade. “Disaster! Forced activation!” The power from within the kunai began pumping into Shiva's body at a tremendous speed.
Shiva yelped as the power shot into her. However, she quickly realized that the power wasn’t trying to hurt her. It was making her stronger. Unsure as to the reason, she narrowed her eyes and summoned her whips, looking to Phoenix with determination.
“And I have my son watching and my pack depending on me,” she said firmly. “I can’t go down without a fight.”
“Then let’s see just how much power that frail ol’ body of yours can handle!” Phoenix shouted. The kunai slowly began to go a grey colour at the tips as the power was sucked out from each of them.
Shiva laughed, her wings growing more solid, and lifting her off the ground. “Old?” she mused. “This ‘frail old body’ held the power of every species in Equestria once upon another dimension.” She spun into a ball. “And I can do it again!”
“Ah ah ah. Not so fast.” Phoenix wagged a finger as he made his way towards her; the kunai made a route for him as he walked. “Status promotion!”
Instantly, pain shot through Shiva’s body. The strain of holding in the magic suddenly felt sharper. Like it was twice as painful than before. Normally, healing magic would have reduced the strain easily. But Shiva remembered the rules, and grit her teeth, recalling her torture in the cage.
“You lived through that,” she snarled to herself. “You’ll live through this!”
“That you will,” Phoenix stated. Using the magic, she made a lunge for Phoenix, but he managed to side step out of the way, leaving a slight scratch on his cheek. “Pretty fast. Then again, you are stock filled with my magic.”
Shiva grinned. “Not just yours,” she replied, spinning back towards him. “I got a few tricks of my own. Ever seen a dog speak?” Shiva barked, sending a blast of energy towards Phoenix.
Opening his right hand to receive the blast, he closed it in his palm. “Try compressing it next time, more efficient.” Phoenix demonstrated by forming a small pin of fire and firing it towards Shiva.
Ducking down, Shiva parted the ground below her like water, diving underground and sealing it back up just as the flames rolled over where she had been.
Pulling the serversta from his back, he plunged into the ground, before using his earthbending to shoot Shiva back out from the ground. “I’m afraid that won't work on me.” Phoenix said with a cocky smirk. Rushing to the now exposed Shiva, he thrust at her stomach with his blade; the kunai still forming a path around him.
Shiva dodged, the magic increasing her already impressive speed. Hitting the ground running, she launched at Phoenix, and caught him with a slash across the back, doubling back and hitting him with another slash to the chest. He stumbled away from the force, before the ring Ryker had forced on him glowed in warning.
“Shit!” Phoenix exclaimed in realization. “I can’t fucking heal!” He rubbed his wounds a bit before turning back to Shiva, who was already charging at him again. “Sorry, but I can’t hold back now.”
Shiva’s eyes widened, and she almost tried to stop. However, her hesitation was Phoenix’s advantage, and he caught her out of her charge. Placing her in a choke hold, he began lowering them to the ground, as he was always confident in his grappling techniques.
Unfortunately, he forgot about her claws, which she promptly raked down the arm on her neck, her enchanted claws bypassing his leather skin.
Phoenix winced, and immediately let go, teleporting a good 50ft away from her as she caught her breath and swiped blindly at him. “Fine! I didn’t wanna use this on a woman, but I guess CQC ain’t cutting it.” Phoenix began levitating skywards, bright flashes of light shining down on him from seemingly nowhere. “Spirit Spear Chastiefol! Configuration Zero!!!!” His voice boomed from the arena as a bright white light covered everything around him. In its wake left Phoenix, now completely covered in armour, raw energy beaming out of him in attempts to escape their shackles. “If you surrender now, I’ll make this as quick as possible!!!”
For a moment, Shiva pondered his proposal. Gazing up at the impressive power before her, she knew that she wasn’t a match for him, so drawing the fight out was pointless.
But then she looked to Ryker, remembering what had happened with Link. Was that going to be her fate as well? Beaten until she passed out?
No, she thought, as a ball of purple light condensed in her claw. There is another way.
She gazed up at Phoenix, hoping he could hear her thoughts. “You know Ryker won’t like that,” she pointed out.
She lifted her ball of purple light. A play dead spell, she thought, hoping Phoenix would hear. An experiment, admittedly, but one that will allow me to appear knocked out.
But what she said out loud was, “And besides, why should I go out with a whimper?” she asked. “When I can go out with a bang?”
Phoenix hummed, intrigued. “Then it seems this match is over.” He raised his sword to the sky.
“Indeed it is,” Shiva agreed, launching up at him. Drawing her spell back, she tucked into a cannonball, letting out one final howl of defiance.
Her body clashed against his sword, and the two fighters vanished in a blinding flash of light. The arena lit up like the sun itself had covered the sky. Warmth rushed through the stands, and everyone turned, shielding their eyes.
Kodo powered through the light. Struggling to see his mother. After a pregnant pause, through the blobs in his eyes, he saw the fighters.
Phoenix was lowering to the ground. An unconscious Shiva in his arms.
Smiling at her craftyness, Phoenix deactivated his ‘Zero form’ and summoned his kunai. He immediately began going over her injuries with ‘pollen garden’, stabilizing her more serious injuries along with her power stores.
Kodo was almost unhinged, clawing at the shield before him to the point that his claws began to bleed. “What is he doing to her!?” he demanded. “Is she okay!? BY EVERYTHING SACRED, LET ME GO TO HER!”
"The winner is Phoenix Wri- I mean, Phoenix!" Ryker shut down the shield and Kodo jumped from the audience stands, practically charging to Shiva and Phoenix’s side.
“Mom!” he cried, skidding to her side. “This is all my fault; I should’ve gone in your place, I…” He paused, sensing the effects of her spell. “I…” He exhaled in relief, practically fainting on top of her body. “You scared the crap out of me, you…” he sniffled, hugging his mom’s still breathing body.
“I’m almost done with her injuries,” Phoenix began, turning to Kodo. “I’m sorry for the scare, kid, just know that your mother was one of the few to force me to use that form. She sure is a tough cookie.”
Kodo chuckled softly, moving back to allow him to work on her. “That she is,” he said softly, linking with her and causing a smile to form on her sleeping face. “That she is…”
During the match
"Damn, this fight is nearly evenly matched." Thanos walked over and sat next to Ed.
“Indeed Thanos, however I believe Phoenix became dependent on his healing." Doom commented.
“Reminds me of Astas recent fight with Ayumi the Goddess of Balance,” Ed remarked munching on popcorn. “Want some?” He held up the bucket to Thanos.
"Balance?" Thanos turned his head towards Ed, "Yeah sure." Thanos shrugged.
“She’s a displaced version of Twilight that has a freak ton of power and a mixed and matched origin story of a genetic tree,” Ed shrugged. “Shes a good kid, kinda pervy, but a good kid.”
"But Balance tho." Thanos said looking at Ed, "Also, are you the Crimson Sage? Black told me about you."
“I wouldn’t mind getting a sample of her genetic structure. So far I have Phoenix, and Shiva’s both had some interesting elements.” Doom then looked to Thanos. “I could still use a drop of your own blood.”
“Trust me, Balance,” Ed pointed at the mad titan. “His power level is just out of range of Black’s. Fought asat till the kid passed out on his feet, then she passed out. My fission piece had to invoke some of my void power in order to reinforce the barrier around the arena. Hetap?” He held up a six pack of Hetap.
Hans leaned forward. “I haven’t been exposed to the abridged version of Dragonball, what is this Hetap?”
Doom however looked over to Kodo, who was completely invested in the still ongoing match, and took out an amulet one of similar construction to the Alicorn Amulet but this one was green and black instead of red. “Hmm, perhaps… Ed, might I request a little assistance. I have a trick up my sleeve.” Doom asks Ed then motioned to Kodo. “If Kodo has a power boost, could you train him?”
“How much time do you have?” Ed asked as he munched on popcorn. “I could always use the Teach skill I have. Be instant just Like that,” He snapped.
“Whatever Ryker’s plan is, it involves this contest. So I doubt he will make his final move till near the end. So… That’s our time table. Right now I’m stacking my hand, and perhaps Shiva’s as well with this move.” Doom looked to the amulet “I made this for a certain filly to boost the magic flow in her body, without the side effects of the original amulet. I am unsure how much of a boost it would provide Kodo.”
“I mean I was pulled away from playing with my kids and snuggling with my wives so yeah if you’re gonna throw a wrench in his plan, then I’ll gladly help,” Ed shrugged.”What do you want done to the kid specifically?”
Doom looked back at Ed “I don’t have enough data to get a full understanding of what would happen. However a quick calculation of a beings natural energy flow increases by ten fold with an Alicorn Amulet. The flaw in the original is that the rush is addictive and damages empathy centers in the brain, more so if the desire is driven by ego or negative emotions.”
He held up his own version “I haven’t fully tested this one, but I do know what I am doing. The side effects should be removed. So a Diamond Dog who can dig through earth and stone, should be able to rip steel and other metals easily when boosted. That’s a lot of power if applied properly.”
“I can give him martial arts skills if that helps,” Ed remarked. “Make him an earth bender so he can do all that without the amulet at first. Put it on boom super effective take down.”
“I wouldn’t recommend doing that,” Eric said, looking at the metal man. “Even if you guarantee there will be no side effects it’s still a bad idea”
"Sorry, I blanked out for a bit, damn virgins…" Thanos took a sip out of his Hetap that he grabbed out of thin air.
“I didn’t realize Thanos,” Ed chuckled. “I need ale. Dragon Ale actually,” He reached into a dimensional rippled and pulled out a flask. He took a swig. “ahhhh… that’s better.”
"And why's that Monohan?" Thanos looked to Eric, side-eyeing him.
“It’s Von Shadow, John don’t forget that” Eric said, rising to his feet glaring at the Titan Displaced before returning his gaze to Dr. Doom. “And the reason behind why it’s a bad idea is because Power always leads to corruption.”
Kodo didn’t let on that he was listening, but his ears flattened at the mention of ‘corruption.’
"If you're like that it's King Thanos to you Von Shadow, for I am royalty." Thanos said "And if that's the case, are you corrupted for you are powerful?" Thanos countered.
“Trust me Thanos I know I’m corrupted” Eric said using his shadows to meet the titans eyes. “But my point still stands, Power will always lead to corruption, all it takes is a matter of time”
"I had the Infinity Stones from the start, yet I am not corrupted, also King Thanos." Thanos pointed, "If you want to be called Von Shadow then you should call you what I want you to call me. It's called respect, you give what you get." Thanos took a sip of his Hetap he made out of nowhere.
“Not Corrupted eh” Eric arched an eyebrow. “Didn’t you start a war with your wife over your power?”
"My wife hunted me down, threatened my friends, I sought for shelter, and each shelter I went into she destroyed." Thanos chuckled, Thanos' eyes glowed for a split second.
“You’re avoiding the question, Titan” accused the Shadow Man
"Well, she still attacked me, so I decided "Fuck it, you want it, I'll give it to you.", and I gathered the Griffons, Changelings, Storm Kingdom, and the Minotaur Kingdom and we fought." Thanos said setting his drink down and putting his hands on the back of his head, leaning into his chair.
“And you both fought in the war for control of your power” Eric said lowering himself to the ground. “Face it: both you and your Celestia are corrupted in your own twisted way.”
"I fought for freedom,” Thanos argued. “She fought for my power, and yet how are you even better? Honestly you lack power." Thanos turned to Eric. "Your own comrade betrayed you and you didn't do shit, getting locked up by your own friend…"
“I’d choose your next word wisely Thanos” Eric said, his scalia turning black as his pupils turned red and shadow wafted off of him. “Need I remind you two years ago you could barely keep up with my Reaper Soul and you certainly can’t beat him now.”
Thanos stood up, "And I'd choose your next actions wisely, "Little one.", and barely? Tch, I wasn't even trying and want to test out that theory as well?" Thanos looked down at the Shadow Man, his body heating up.
“And you know your Heat-Heat Fruit will have no effect on me.” Eric said, black veins forming from the corners of his eyes. “It’s precisely why I gave it to you”
"My Ryou Haki will, as will as my transformations." Thanos emanated steam, "Also, news flash bitch, I have Ki, that means one Rokuogan time ten, and you're done." Thanos glared down at Eric.
Eric, however, laughed, “As if any of that would allow you to beat me,” mocked the Shadow Man. “I still have four other Souls you haven’t met”
"I honestly wish you can win against Black, so that in the Finals it will be more satisfying when I crush you." Thanos crossed his arms.
Without warning, two blade tips covered in haki appeared at the necks of Thanos and Eric.
“That is enough from the both of you,” Sombra growled, forcing the two back by digging his swords deeper under their necks. “I don’t know about you, Thanos, but I support Shiva in this fight, and I know you do too, Eric. Now sit down and watch the match.”
Reluctantly Eric backed away from Thanos before giving the Titan a malice fueled glare
“You better win so I can kick your purple ass for the lack of mercy you gave the kid,” Eric growled.
"Same goes for you,” Thanos replied. “You useless edgy teenager with the lack of strength to protect your loved ones."
Eric’s powers flared hearing this, to the point he almost used his Shadow Soul for the second time in two days, However, Sombra placed a hand on his shoulder.
“Calm yourself Eric” Sombra said, keeping both of his three swords in his grip. “If you're going to kill him, then kill him in the ring. And you,” Sombra added, pointing one of his swords at the Titan. “You are his friend. Act like it”
“Can’t believe I’m agreeing with him on this,” Black growled, but sighed as he starred at Thanos with a glare. “But you agreed to start acting serious, if you're going to stay true to your word. Stop acting like an insensitive jackass.” Black growled.
"Understood, Sombra, Black. I apologize. I feel off. I'm not normally this way." Thanos sighed.
"So uh… Black." Thanos scooted over to Black, "How should I go about apologizing to Eric?" Thanos whispered.
The Saiyan looked at the titan, “How the hell should I know, I barely know him, plus…” Black scooted away from Thanos, “You should figure it out yourself,” He said as he crossed his arms, looking back to the fight.
"...Formal apology it is then." Thanos scooted back to his spot. "Also, is Nappa training you in the Rokushiki Techniques?" Thanos asked the Saiyan.
“He hasn’t taught me anything yet, I just came out of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber after a few months there.” Black explained. “But, I suggest we get back to watching the fight…”
Thanos just nodded and watched as, slowly but surely, Shiva’s chances dwindled. As they saw Phoenix light up with power beyond the poor diamond dog’s level...
“Alpha Shiva isn’t going to win, is she?” Luna asked, turning her gaze from the match and to the shadow man.
“Afraid not,” Eric said plainly. “This Phoenix is holding back.”
"Was it that obvious?" Lucci looked at the Alicorn.
“Not in a hundred years Lulu…” Black said as he continued to study the blue haired man’s attacks. “He’s obviously not giving her a chance to escape.”
“He’s giving her no opening,” Sombra stated, remembering how he used to do the same..when he was… Umbra. “She’s going to lose but hopefully this one has more honor than…” Sombra gave a side glance towards the Titan which went unnoticed. “..Others”
Nightmare felt disgusted by the methods Phoenix used, but felt a pain rise in her chest when she realized that she would do the same. “It’s a disgusting way to fight, but it is effective, I’ll give him that.” Nightmare spoke, after being quiet for the whole tournament.
“You are not wrong, Luna” Eric said assuming the voice belonged to his princess
“Um..Eric that wasn’t me” Luna said, causing everyone to look towards Goku Black, next to him was the dark past of Princess Luna. Nightmare Moon
“That was me you dolt…” Nightmare scoffed, rolling her eyes as she watched the fight.
“And you must be Nightmare Moon,” Eric said, turning back to the match. “The villain that tried to plunge Equestria into a beautiful eternal night.”
“What gave it away, the fact that I’m completely a different coat or was it the eyes?” Nightmare said sarcastically. She stopped and realized what the man had said, turning to his direction. “Wait… Wait did you say? Beautiful?”
“Yes I did,” Eric confirmed, though he didn’t glance at her. “With my past, I never got to enjoy the day. I only got to have fun after my parents fell asleep. I always enjoyed the beauty of the night as I snuck over to my friends house.”
“Th- Thank you…” Nightmare said with disbelief. She’d only thought Black would be the only one to say such a thing to her. But she was proven wrong by Eric. “But it was honestly a stupid dream for eternal night, everything would’ve been killed if not for Celestia’s sun.” Nightmare said as she rubbed her arm.
“You are correct. However there are some things that only bloom in the night,” Eric said, remembering the time he and a drunken Luna watched his Crystal Orchid bloom in her moonlight. “If you ever get the chance try looking for a plant in the frozen north, they tend to grow in caves.”
“I will,” Nightmare said as she looked through Luna’s memories, seeing faint images of such a flower existing. Meanwhile, someone was watching them… Someone with white eyes.
Author's Note
A Forced Hero - By DisplacedWriter
Four Horsemen Come To Equestria - By Anomis
Howlite Howler - By Three Tails
Power Vessel - By Delta-Boio
The Shadow Of Equestria - By Screwball666
Equestria's Divine God - By Shirt Mechanic
DOOM of Griffonstone! - By ShadowStar_IMHP
Against All Odds - By The_Chill_Author (come on and go like it, he's almost at 100 likes!)
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Chapter Five, Conversations.
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(Fight, Fight, Fight!)
(Fight, Fight, Fight!)
Our Blood Is Pumping, Ready, Lets Go!
Holding Back My Tremendous Strength! (Go!)
(Woo-Hoo!)
Nerves Taking Hold!
(Woo-Hoo!)
Chaining Down Our Hope!
(Let’s Finish The Fight)
(Woo-Hoo!)
So, Let's Stop Our Plans!
(Woo-Hoo!)
See what This Tournament Brings, Joined As One, We Can Win The Fight~!
Just See What We’ll Achieve, With All These Possibilities!
We’ll Surpass Our Limit Break, This Tournament Will Be A Challenge!
Chapter Five, Conversations.
"Ignoring everything that previously happened, I fought Black. You know the guy you fought? Ended up in a draw but it was damn epic." Thanos chuckled.
“Kodo,” Doom called, causing the diamond dog to jump. “Come here. I got something that could help you, help your mother.”
“Doom don't,” Eric said, moving between him and the pup. “I told you this is a bad idea”
But the mention of helping his mother caught Kodo’s attention, and he zipped to Doom’s side with his ears perked. “No, what’s he talking about?” he insisted.
"Pup you have no idea the dangers his amulet will cause," Eric said trying to reason with the Diamond Dog
At first, Kodo was silent, looking down with flattened ears. He chanced a glance at Sombra, his fur bristling as old memories came to him. The memories surfaced in his pack link, swirling around him and bubbling with emotion and images.
“Sombra wasn’t just some influence I picked up,” Kodo growled as the memories displayed his words. “I was born with him.” His pack link displayed an image of Shiva fighting. Getting grazed and scarred by dark magic. “A part of his magic got into my mom during a fight with him, and it found refuge in me while I was still in the womb.”
Eric gave a glance toward his friend remembering the times he had to face him. Slowly, he knelt down to eye level with Kodo as the diamond dog made his confession.
Kodo breathed. “For my entire life, I heard him. Whispering in my ear. Warning me that my mother was too soft. That she deserved better. That the ponies were my enemy. I thought it was normal. I thought he was my friend.” His claws clenched. “Then he took my mom from me… and I got to feel what it was like to give in. To make the ponies fear me. To take out my anger and rage.” His teeth briefly bared, before he looked down with shame. “But then we faced a foe our combined strength couldn’t beat. And I was left alone…” His tail tucked. “I lost Sombra. I lost our power. But worst of all… I lost the trust of everyone. The ponies. My pack…” He looked up with a laugh that bordered on a sob. “She’s too good a diamond dog to say it, but even my mom lost faith in me.” He looked down at his claws again. “Made me wonder why the Elements didn’t just kill me with Sombra.”
Without hesitation Eric slapped the pup across his face with as little strength as he could muster. Black almost stood up to stand between the two, but held himself back to see how it would play out. Kodo jumped back with a bark of shock, only to go silent as Eric’s powerful voice halted any protests.
“Listen to me, Kodo cause I will only say this once, Only the weak seek death, and death brings suffering to everyone you love” Eric warned with a serious look in his eyes. “Only cowards wish for their death.”
“I wasn’t seeking death, you…!” Kodo stopped himself before he finished that sentence. He looked down with a glower. “I just don’t know how to make up for what happened. To show that I changed. That I learned.” He sat down. “Sombra or Umbra… the demon is purged from me. But everyone still acts like I’m dangerous. That I’m insane.” His claws clenched. “The only way I can think on how to fix that is to show that I’m different! Otherwise… I don’t know how I’ll get that trust back.”
“Trust is never given, young one” Eric said, rising to his feet. “Trust is earned and earning it must take time.”
“Do what you think is right.” Black spoke up. “You may never gain that trust, I sure hell didn’t. But you could be happy if you did something that made a difference.”
Kodo chuckled softly. “I tried,” he admitted. He looked to the arena. “I volunteered for this. That should have been me out there. Mother was never a fighter, she was a healer. A diplomat. She hates fighting. I don’t know if I could’ve done better, but…” He shook his head. “But Ryker wanted her. And now she’s out there… fighting my battle for me.”
Black sighed, “Sometimes we never get a choice in some matters kid.”
“Trust me when I say this Kodo, your fight will happen when the world sees that you are ready” Eric said reaching into his body. “All you can do prepare for that day”
Eric removed his hand from his body and pulled out a white fruit with black swirls, Kneeling before the Diamond Dog, Eric begins to speak more seriously
“This is to apologize for what I did to your mother” Eric said putting the fruit in the pup’s claws. “Neither of you know my experience with mind control so it was unforgivable of me to do that”
Kodo lowered his own head. “Yeah,” he admitted. “I guess… with Mom’s pack link, everyone in our kingdom… knows each other. We’re all so open with our thoughts because we can trust each other. Even Sombra didn’t force me to do things like attack my family, so… the idea of being forced against your will…” he shuddered. “It sounds so… alien. Cruel.”
“Then you should understand,” Eric said, lifting the pup’s chin. “The last time someone took over my mind I was given one simple order, Kill Luna. it was here that I drew the final line in the sand, nopony messes with my mind and lives”
Kodo bowed his head. “I understand,” he said. “Mom didn’t mean to make you relive that. She just wanted to help.” He smiled softly. “It’s in her nature.”
“I know, I’ll be making it up to her later as well,” Eric said, giving the Diamond Dog a slight smile. “You’d better either eat that or put it in a pocket dimension”
Kodo glanced at the fruit and chuckled. “Well, pocket dimension’s out of the question, so…” he quickly bit into the fruit. His ears flattened and his fur bristled at the taste, but he powered through and swallowed it.
Black winced at the scene, “Oh god, I thought Thanos was joking about it tasting bad. But after seeing your reaction… he wasn’t joking…”
“Oh no they are absolutely Rancid in the taste department” Eric admitted as Kodo’s body started turning into smoke which caused the pup to panic slightly
Forcing down his fear, Kodo breathed, watching as his limbs evaporated around him. “Okay,” he growled softly. “I can do this.” He clenched his claws into fists, forcing his body to remain solid. “This power will only be used for good. No matter how tempting it gets, I will not fall to darkness again.” He breathed steadily and calmly, as his limbs reformed, though still smoked like he had escaped a fire.
“I’ll admit you’re doing much better than Rainbow Dash did when she ate her Devil Fruit" Eric said with a chuckle. “She completely spazzed out and I had to throw her into a pond”
Kodo laughed. “Well, if there’s one good thing the Sombra from my world gave me, it’s experience with smoke, obsidian and shadow magic.”
“He was always a trickster with that bullshit…” Black muttered.
“You too faced Sombra?” Eric asked. "Good or bad?”
Black glanced at Eric, “He murdered my friends, a friend I considered a brother, killed my master and an innocent Filly in front of me.” Black listed out. “So yeah, I faced the dirtbag.”
“Look I understand how you feel,” Eric said with sincerity. “By all accounts I should have killed him the moment I laid eyes on him, but past all the evil and brimstone he was just a victim of another dark ruler.”
“That’s what he told me as well,” Kodo admitted. “I’m not sure how different it is, but the Sombra in my world turned to Umbra as a way of keeping out monsters in the Frozen North.” He watched the smoke drift up from his fur. “The way he described it… it really sounded like he had the best of intentions.”
Black put a hand to his chin and began to think aloud. “That could’ve happened to my Sombra, but he’s long dead after I…” Black looked away for a second, his face full of shame, “After I snapped…”
“You can speak, I’m comfortable about death,” Eric said to the saiyan
Black sighed as he turned his attention back to Eric, “After I snapped, I turned into Super Saiyan 2, but much more… psychotic when Gohan did it against Cell.”
“Yeah never got that far, Me and my friend could only get an episode or two before I had to sneak back home” Eric said remembering his tortured youth. “We had just finished the Frieza arc before I was sent here.”
Kodo blinked at them. “And I’ve… never seen what you’re talking about. I’m sorry, who’s Gohan? Is Cell short for Celestia?”
“It’s something from our world. You wouldn’t understand,” Eric said
Black chuckled, “It’s alright, it's a show back from where I’m from. There was a teenager with so much potential to be a great warrior, but he’d rather not fight. But was forced to when his father told him to fight a being called cell. An android with the cells of every warrior in the universe, except for Buu.” Black explained as he stood up from the bench. “When Cell had kill and Android turned good called #16, the kid snapped, transforming into a ascended form of Super Saiyan, for example.” Black gripped his hands and transformed into a Super Saiyan 2.
Kodo yelped, and burst into a cloud black smoke. Growling, he struggled to reform.
“Black chill” Eric said, interrupting the saiyan. “I gathered from your form that you were a major fan like I was with One Piece but like I said he wouldn’t understand”
Black realized what Eric meant, “Sorry, couldn’t help myself…” Black nervously chuckled while rubbing the back of his head. Black looked to Kodo, seeing the pup was having some trouble.
Eric immediately saw that Kodo was struggling to reform his body, only getting bits and pieces to return to normal
“Having trouble?” Eric asked
Kodo growled as his head briefly formed, looking like he was poking his head out of a storm cloud. “I don’t get it,” he grumbled. “Sombra made this look so easy.”
“You’re forcing yourself to reform aren’t you?” Rainbow asked as she approached the group
Kodo took one look at Rainbow Dash, yelped again, and poofed into smoke. “Yes,” his voice moaned from the cloud.
“There’s your problem, squirt” Rainbow said with a million watt smile. “It’s like this, when it comes to Logia’s like you, me, and Eric, you’re trying to beat a river into submission when in reality you need to surrender to it’s flow”
“And here I thought you never listened,” Eric said elbowing the pegasus
Black looked to the mare with surprise, “Is it just me, or did she just teach something useful?”
“Pretty much,” Eric admitted. “Remove the bravado and the ego and you have yourself a fine soldier”
Kodo’s head reformed from the smoke. “So… I just… go with the flow?” He glanced down at his smoky body.
“Precisely” Eric said said as Kodo began to reform almost instantly much to Rainbows surprise
“You’re kidding?” Rainbow asked dumbfounded. “It took me weeks to control it without bursting into flames”
“I think we’ve got ourselves a protage.” Black said with a laugh, crossing his arms.
Kodo chuckled sheepishly. “I had a bit of training when I had Sombra in my head for… most of my childhood.” He swallowed as he glanced at Rainbow Dash’s look of disbelief. “Speaking of which… you may not be the Rainbow Dash from my world… but I feel I owe you an apology all the same.”
“What for Squirt?” Rainbow asked
Kodo’s grin faded to regret. “While Sombra was in my head, he figured out how to hide my mom from me. Then, he made me do a lot of bad things to get her back. Things like…” he swallowed. “Taking over Canterlot.” He lifted his claws before she could speak. “I know it was wrong now… and I want to make amends.” He bowed his head. “So… I’m sorry. For that.”
“Oh...uh...apology accepted” Rainbow said utterly confused, while she knew of Eric’s origin and that there were others like him she was still new to the whole multiverse concept. “No..hard feeling”
Kodo covered his eyes with embarrassment, like a camera-shy dog, fading into a cloud of smoke again.
“Don’t worry kid you’ll get the hang of it soon enough” Eric said with a chuckle. “Everyone usually does”
“Oh, by the way kid, sorry for scaring you earlier.” Black said while nervously laughing and scratching the back of his head.
“Oh?” Kodo asked, reforming. “Oh, you’re fine.”
“Oh, before I forget you’ll need to know a few things” Eric said taking the nearest seat. “Your Devil Fruit is known as the Smoke-Smoke Fruit or the Plume-Plume Fruit whichever you want to call it, Your body is completely smoke but that doesn’t make you invincible”
“Right,” Kodo said, nodding as he took in every word.
“For one you are affected by gas, our friend Echo informed us of the fight he had with your fruits predecessor” Eric said soon seeing stars in the mutts eyes. “Also stay away from deep sources of water, the downside to every Devil Fruit user is they lose the ability to swim and sink like rocks in water”
Kodo blinked. “I get the sense that baths are going to be even more painful from now on,” he noted.
“No not really, showers and baths seem to be fine, they just weaken you a bit” Eric assured the Diamond Dog. “And lastly Haki” Eric said pulling up his sleeve showing his skin which soon turned black.
Kodo gasped in awe. “It’s like obsidian armor!” he whispered, before looking down at his own claws. He clenched them with a grin… only for them to poof into smoke. His ears flattened with a huff of disappointment.
“Don’t beat yourself over it alot of creature don’t have the ability to command Haki”
“What is Haki?” Kodo asked
“Haki is the manifestation of ones will, It creates this armor which enhances both Strength and Defence. It is also able to harm Devil Fruit users” Eric explained to the Diamond Dog
Kodo rubbed the fur on his chin. “But… I’m a Devil Fruit user now,” he noted. “At least… I think I am. So… this Haki doesn’t hurt me if I use it, or…?”
“In a battle of Haki users it ultimately comes down to who’s willpower is stronger” Eric said his arm returning to normal. “There are three types of Haki.”
“Armament Haki: which is the one I just showed you allows you to actually harm Devil Fruit users if they have no physical body” Eric said as he grinned for the next part. “I want you to attack me”
Kodo blinked up at him, before hesitantly lifting his claws. “I’m gonna regret this,” he moaned, before bursting into smoke and lunging forward.
“Left claw,” Eric said, catching the pup’s arm with a Haki covered arm. “Immediately followed by a kick to the stomach” Eric then grabbed the Diamond Dog’s right leg with another Haki covered arm
Kodo stared at his caught limbs in shock. “Sombra never mentioned this happening to him,” Kodo mumbled.
“This is the second form, Observation Haki: with this Haki one can read what their opponent is going to do before they do it. It is also use for sensing other around you even through thick walls” Eric said before closing his eyes letting the pup go
“And lastly the final form” Eric said, sending out a weak wave of Conquerors Haki.
Kodo shivered as the Haki flowed over him. “I remember that from the first fight,” he admitted.
“This is known as Conquerors Haki or the Haki of the Kings.” Eric said ceasing his Haki. “It’s very rare, only one in every million are able to use it, it holds the power to knock out those with weaker wills and even force enemies to their knees”
“A perfect ability for a King,” Kodo commented, glancing at the arena. “Or Queen…” he pondered.
“But like I said, not everyone can use it, plus it takes years to fully master” Eric said, remembering his time away. “I mean it took me two whole years to master mine”
“Yeah,” Kodo agreed. “And I’m only getting started on this stuff.”
“That’s the spirit kid” Eric said as everyone returned to the current match.
“Yeah, I saw your fight with Black,” Ed nodded. “Surprisingly he used Ddraig to his full potential. l thought he had access to it the time. Still a good fight. I have to say eight out of ten.” He drank more ale. “Black is somewhat of an extended family so I have to keep watch on him. I do that with all my family through the void.”
"Also, Doom, you can have my blood." Thanos pulled out his sword and cut his forearm. Drawing blood in the process.
“Why does everyone seem so dramatic? All I need is one drop not a bucket worth.” He removes his analyzer and takes a blood sample. “This should prove interesting.”
"Sorry," Thanos chuckled, "It doesn't really hurt me anyways."
“Go big or go home,” Ed commented. “As for my blood don’t bother. It’s all human crap and it can’t exist outside my body or it’ll turn to ash. This isn’t even my original body anyways. That died a while ago.”
Hans looks over “So a constructed form? I myself inhabit a created body, my original is now Doctor Doom’s.”
“My body is one hundred percent real and human but at the same time it’s just a fleshy puppet I use to interact with the world around me that I am summoned to, or pulled to in this case,” Ed said as he took a swig from his flask. “The only parts of me that won’t flake away in to the wind if my flesh is gonna are my arm and leg and if my body doesn’t regenerate my limbs are pulled into my weapons vault for safe storage.”
When Shiva had collapsed, and Kodo had reunited with her, Ryker appeared, causing Kodo to twine his arms around Shiva protectively.
Luckily, for now, Ryker didn’t seem interested in taking her. Instead, he set Link down before them.
"I got what I needed from him,” Ryker said, before making a portal and walking back through it. Ryker was gone.
Passing Shiva to Kodo to hold, Phoenix got up and made his way over to Link’s body, levitating the hylian’s body up towards him. He then began to check for injuries, but found none. “He’s fine.” Phoenix said, turning to the rest of the group. “Just needs some rest.”
Kodo sighed, and a pulse of thought went into Shiva, causing her tail to briefly wag as she learned Link was okay.
“Hey Kodo.” Phoenix called out, drawing the diamond dog’s attention. “I’ll need to take Shiva back to the arena before Ryker comes back, take care of Link.”
Kodo growled in protest, before Shiva’s pack link pulsed again, thoughts exchanging between mother and son. Kodo’s growls turned into keens. But after a brief standoff, Kodo finally released his mother with a huff, and reluctantly made his way over to Link.
“Ed,” Phoenix called, turning to him. “We need to make sure she stays in good health, and out of Rykers hands for now. The extra bulk would be appreciated.” He bent down and picked up Shiva in his arms, making sure to be as careful as possible.
“I will be as careful as possible,” Ed nodded. “I wouldn’t be much of a surgeon if I wasn’t now would I.” He held his hand up and opened a portal. “This pocket room should do for her treatment and seeing as I am conscious now, that bastard won’t get the drop on me. I will have a nanomachine take care of any injuries she has and leave a clone to attend her for now. Would that work for you?”
Pulling Chastiefol from his back, Phoenix chucked it to Ed. “If anything happens, this thing’ll deal with it, you can trust me on that one.” He then handed Shiva over to Ed.
Suddenly, Kodo’s pack link twined around them. “She’s not hurt,” he said, his voice panicked and desperate. “She’s under a play dead spell; it allows her to appear unconscious, and she’s supposed to be able to snap out of it when she wants. She’s not actually hurt, just don’t… do anything with scalpels.”
“That’s cool and all,” Phoenix began, “But that won’t stop Ryker from taking her.”
“I will be alerted if the clone goes poof,” Ed said as a double of Shiva appeared from white smoke of himself. “And no need for blades, young pup. My machine can open a body through the tiniest of openings. There will be no need for cutting.” The clone took Shiva and Chastefiefol folded behind it as they entered the room, the portal closing behind them.
Phoenix nodded to Ed before speaking. “Well, I have some matters to attend to regarding some new information, so I’ll be heading out. Cya.” Phoenix gave a small wave before teleporting out.
Kodo sighed in relief, before giving a worried look back at where Ryker had been. Hefting Link on his shoulders, he scurried into the locker room. Thanos then walks off looking behind him before going down a hallway, Thanos opens a door nearby him and walks in.
"...How do I get stronger?" He asked himself, "I have Haki, Rokushiki, Kaio-Ken, Ki, and my Devil Fruit. And… This armor…" He took out his emblem. "Wait… I have some magic… Oh. My. God. I can use that magic to my advantage!" It all clicked to Thanos, Thanos grinned.
“What are you whining about again?’ Ed said with a flat stare as he cleaned his ear with his pinky finger.
"Just planning on how to get stronger." Thanos said turning to the Sage.
“Can I flick you, I feel like I should flick you in the forehead,” Ed looked at the mad titan. “Maybe I should Mr. Popo?”
"Why?" Thanos raised an eyebrow, Thanos crossed his arms. "Why are you even here in the first place? Why'd ya follow me?"
“I’m just looking around really,” Ed shrugged. “I can be anywhere and everywhere I want as long as it’s not in my world. I was forced into this world anyway so I’m not bound by all the rules you guys are for the tournament as well. Being A Spectator I can do whatever the hell I want really. I’m not on any displaced’s side either. I also find the fights exciting and I want a piece of Ryker for taking my snuggle time with my girls away. So what’s your dilemma grape ape?”
"Trying to get stronger." Thanos leaned on some crates that were stacked in the room.
“I can teach how to bend one of the four elements if you want?” Ed shrugged as he went over to the crates. “Who needs He-man actions from the seventies?”
"Nah, bending isn't my style." Thanos said as he studied the room idly.
“Maybe this then,” A yellow crystal plopped into his hand. “Dragon Slayer Magic? Doesn’t have to be lightning either?”
"Dragon Slayer eh?" Thanos turned to Ed, "Now I'm interested." Thanos chuckled.
“Like the name says this type of magic was designed to destroy Dragons." Ed explained as he tossed the crystal up and down. “You can gain it a few different ways. One be taught by a dragon, two have one of these crystal implanted in your body, or three eat dragon flesh from the world of Fairy Tail.” He let the crystal float in the air. “You gain a slight elemental resistance to things, can eat compatible magic to create new move or replenish your own magic etc. Down side is motion sickness to anything you consider a vehicle. But the last one is mainly mentality but it’ll still affect you. You can in fact have multiple types of dragon slayer magic but at most only eight. The only way this is done is by implanting these crystals into your body.”
"Alright bet, but what do I get? Fire, Lightning, Ice, Earth, Water, what?" Thanos asked Ed impatiently.
“What ever ones you want,” Ed said flatly. “Name it I have in stock or can make it real quick.”
"...Earth… With my Heat Heat Fruit I can make it Lava." Thanos said as he lifted up his right arm and it began to heat up. "Not to mention it will be pretty damn hilarious watching everyone look at me eating rocks."
“How about I just give you a Lava Slayer Lacrima then,” Ed raised an eyebrow. “Better yet I’ll do both,” he held up two fingers with a smirk. “Lava and Earth!”
"...Alright, both it is!" Thanos declared, grinning in the process.
“I look forward to a thrilling fight in return,” Ed smiled ashe held up two crystals in his hand, one red and the other brown. “This won’t hurt for too long.”
Thanos walked up to Ed and took them before shaking his hand. "Thank you, I'm highly resistant to pain. Now do I just shove them in or… Pause on that." Thanos pointed out before his whole body hardened, using Tekkai Go, he then costed himself in Armament Haki becoming black.
“Hmm.. Haki,” Ed smiled evilly. “That won’t do any good as your body undergoes reconstruction and reconfiguration to adjust to the new dragon in you though.” He dusted off his hands to Thanos’s surprise. “All done. I did it when you shook my hand.”
"Ye wot m8?" Thanos looked at his hand, he then felt the crippling pain. He then screamed in realization and agony, his scream being heard throughout the universe. He then stopped, "Now that I got that out of my system, imma eat some rocks." Thanos walked off.
“Always the riot,” Ed snarked as he walked into Shiva’s room to check on her.
Author's Note
A Forced Hero - By DisplacedWriter
Four Horsemen Come To Equestria - By Anomis
Howlite Howler - By Three Tails
Power Vessel - By Delta-Boio
The Shadow Of Equestria - By Screwball666
Equestria's Divine God - By Shirt Mechanic
DOOM of Griffonstone! - By ShadowStar_IMHP
Against All Odds - By The_Chill_Author (come on and go like it, he's almost at 100 likes!)
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Chapter Six, Just "Chilling"
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(Fight, Fight, Fight!)
(Fight, Fight, Fight!)
Our Blood Is Pumping, Ready, Lets Go!
Holding Back My Tremendous Strength! (Go!)
(Woo-Hoo!)
Nerves Taking Hold!
(Woo-Hoo!)
Chaining Down Our Hope!
(Let’s Finish The Fight)
(Woo-Hoo!)
So, Let's Stop Our Plans!
(Woo-Hoo!)
See what This Tournament Brings, Joined As One, We Can Win The Fight~!
Just See What We’ll Achieve, With All These Possibilities!
We’ll Surpass Our Limit Break, This Tournament Will Be A Challenge!
Thanos walked inside the bar and saw Lucci, Luffy, Nappa, and Entity there, Entity placing down an Ender Chest and putting on his Netherite Armor with Protection, Blast Protection, Thorns, Feather Falling, and Unbreaking all the way to the Max.
"Damn, Ryker, if I had my Armor then, ohohoho he would be so fucked!" Entity seethed, Thanos just shrugged.
"Want a drink?" Thanos offered, the Minecraft Man looked at Thanos before shutting up. Entity crossed his arms and sighed.
"Fine, I guess."
Black walked in, still in his Super Saiyan 2 state, looking around all the bar. The Saiyan spotting the Titan and his friends. “When the hell was there a bar here?” Black asked as he walked towards them.
"I don't know, also, barkeep!" Thanos walked next to the counter, a dragon popped up.
"What will it be?"
"Ohhhhh I’ll have one can of hetap, one shot of whiskey, one cup of apple juice or so
And bring me some strong cider I’ll give that a go!
Bring me two Angel's Ale, one hot, one cool
And bring me some vodka at least 7 years old or call me a fool
Then bring on the vodka I’ll start with at the top
And wash it all down with a juice of somes kind, keeping giving to me until I drop
Some weird and cherry booze and some more Dragon's ale
Some old bud light and a Snow Storm's’ gale
Hetap, Mountain Dew, Champagne or perhaps make it slim
Rum, Red Bull, and a wide grin
Sunlight, Zebra's brew, a Diamond Dog's beer and G-Fuel
Some old sour spiked water and two turtle flops
Silver's Fairy Rain, Frozo, Black Cloud, a new Red Flower or old
Centaurs Blood, Mr. Popo's sacred water, and one for the road!" Thanos finished and the barkeep grabbed those items and gave it to the Titan.
"And one bottle of Vodka for Entity, this is all mine." The Barkeep threw the bottle at Entity and he caught it. Thanos began to drink his beverages.
“Say goodbye to your liver I guess…” Black muttered, finding a stool to sit next to them.
"Shut up, you don't know how my body works, this is light-work for me, I usually have five until I go under the table." Thanos grinned, waddling over to his seat.
Black rolled his eyes, “Barkeep, I’ll have a bottle of whiskey.” The Saiyan called out, the barkeep doing just that. Black grabbed the bottle, opening it with ease and taking a drink. He took a glance at Entity, noticing he was shaped like a Minecraft Steve or Alex. “I just realized you're from Minecraft.”
"You now realized that? Bitch I am Exactly two blocks tall which is 6'4 but even still! I am a 6'4 blockly man." Entity frowned.
“You can’t blame me, we're kinda in a tournament which isn’t shady at all.” Black pointed out as he took another drink.
"Indeed it is!" Ryker said above them in a leprechaun outfit, "...Don't ask, I've been to Ireland."
Black raised an eyebrow, but shrugged as he set down his drink. “Never was going to ask.”
"But just in case though, also Thanos I hear you now have Dragon Slayer magic." Ryker turned to the Titan who was drinking his… Drinks.
"Perhaps." Thanos gurgled. Black only shook his head and took another drink from his bottle of whiskey.
"Also, you both fought already didn't you two? Don't ask how I know, I know people." Ryker said blankly.
“I fought his former marefriend if that counts,” Black said as he pointed a thumb at Thanos.
"I meant in your Equestria, Black." Ryker facepalm.
“Oh yeah, it ended up in a tie since we were both exhausted. We had agreed to not use Observant Haki, healing, or Ultra Instinct.”
"Since you already fought, what if you both fought… Only using your Martial Art skills? like old Dragon Ball!" Ryker then hummed Makafugi Adventure.
“Wouldn’t it be unfair since I’m more experienced with ki than Thanos?” Black asked the king.
"...Did I say Martial Arts or Ki?"
Black deadpanned, “They used ki in old Dragon Ball…”
"Ohh, sorry been a few thousand years."
“Oh it’s alright, totally understandable.” Black said with a wave of his hand.
"Rules of you two fighting, no Observation Haki, Healing, Transforming, Devil Fruits, or any of the sort. That includes Kaio-Ken. So it's basically like Piccolo Jr. Vs Goku." Ryker grinned.
Black smirked, “I must say, I am intrigued at these rules.” Black took a swig of whiskey before putting the bottle on the table. “But I think I’m still at an advantage. Plus there’s the fact if I even fight Thanos.”
"What about his Haki? Armament Haki, Conqueror's Haki," Ryker went on.
“Even without transformations or healing, I could obliterate the solar system with a powerful blast.” Black explained.
"Can you destroy a moon in one punch, no Ki?" Thanos pointed out.
“Possibly with Armament Haki and if I’m moving at a very high velocity.” Black explained. “But I won’t truly know for sure, plus I think Luna would be mad at me if I tried that.”
"Bitch, I have the Dragon Balls. We can wish that shit back." Ryker chuckled, "Now, Imma get drunk!" Ryker walked up to the Barkeep.
Black rolled his eyes, “Dragon Balls, I swear they were useful, but they always cause trouble.”
"Bitch, if you keep on rolling your eyes they're going to roll out." Thanos sneered at the Dark Saiyan.
Black looked to Thanos with a smug grin. “Is that so?”
"...Don't give me that look," Thanos deadpanned at Black.
Black rolled his eyes, “I think I’m starting to miss funny Thanos, just a little bit.” Black said as he pinched his fingers.
Thanos pulled out a gun, "Don't you fucking roll your eyes again." Thanos frowned, "I will blow your eyes out."
“When have guns ever worked in Dragon Ball?” Black asked while crossing his arms
"Did on Goku when he was fighting those criminals." Thanos countered.
“Didn’t work on him when he was a literal child.” Black pointed out.
"He's an adult now and stronger, so what's your point?" Thanos tilted his head up.
“It’s called Chichi telling him to get a job, making him lose time on training.” Black countered.
"...You got me there," Thanos gave the gun to Lucci who put it in his pocket. "Also if you want to learn the Shigan, aka Finger Pistol, you can use it for a variety of things. Such as fingering Luna." Thanos grinned.
Black made a finger gun and pointed it at Thanos, a tiny ball of ki forming at his finger tip, “Care to repeat that bitch? I will destroy all of your alcohol!”
"B e t." Thanos said looking at Black, his vision was blocked by Iron Block.
"Can you two not?" Entity asked the two.
Black put his hand down, the ki disappearing as he starred at Entity, “Fine, but how the hell does Minecraft block’s working in the fucking real world?” Black asked.
"Just roll with it like you roll with the fact that you are a literal anime character in a girl's tv show." Entity said blankly.
“Wait, Equestria is a girls tv show!?” Black asked out of pure surprise.
"My Little Pony, My Little Pony," Entity began to sing. "I used to wonder what friendship could be, until you shared all of it's magic with me!"
“I don’t even recall such a show existing back from my earth.” Black explained
"That's probably because your body decided to keep yourself away from that shit." Entity broke the blocks with his Netherite Pickaxe.
“Probably, but I would’ve seen something even related to it.” Black muttered as he put a hand under his chin.
"Powerpuff Girls? Care Bears? Power Rangers?" Entity looked at Black curiously.
“Power Rangers is the only show I could think of, but the others I’ve never heard of or seen at all.”
"Bruh, do you have cable? Let me show you one of the episodes." Entity pulled out a TV and set it down before them, with a remote in hand, he turned on the fight between Tirek and Twilight.
Black immediately turned away and crossed his arms, “Hold up, is this the future or past. Cause I don’t want to know what happens in the future..”
"...Future… Alrighty then, Uh Return of Harmony p1 and p2!" He turns on the first and second episodes.
Black watched the first two episodes with Entity. He cringed at some scenes he knew happened, “How the hell did I not cringe when these things happened?” Black asked himself.
"Because you can avoid them by beating the shit out of people." Entity answered Black.
“Yeah, but still…” Black muttered. “Funny thing is that back in my Equestria, Nightmare Moon would’ve ended the girls immediately when she would get the chance.”
"I swear if I was there right now, I would slap all of them. Then leave. The cringe level is over 9000 in this show, and not to even mention how they handled Discord." He turned on the two parter episode with a shiver.
“I wasn’t there for most of the parts, like when Luna first appeared or the party, kinda was in another universe because of the Elements of Harmony.” Black explained, “Something about a magical overload or something.”
"Didn't happen to Thanos when he got stoned, which is ironic. When he got stoned it was slow, or so I heard." Entity looked towards Thanos.
“Heh, Nightmare Moon tried to awaken the Nightmare inside of me by leaving Luna’s body and entering mine. But I tricked her, having the girls use the elements on me.” Black explained
"...You should pick your words wisely, because the way you're saying shit can… FUCKING RULE34 ARTISTS!!!" Entity cried out.
“How about this, Nightmare Moon left Luna’s mind and entered mine, trying to break through the mental barrier I had placed to keep Zamasu from escaping.” Black exasperated.
"Better, also… I think it's time I teach you how to break the Fourth Wall." Entity set up straight.
“Oh god,” Black slammed his head against the bar table, muttering something about Deadpool and Pinkie Pie corrupting everything.
"Alright so we're currently being written by two men, in their homes about a story regarding a children's show. On a site called Fimfiction, now we come from different stories. I have an author and you have an author." Entity began.
Black let out a muffled scream, already tired of all the shit that’s been happening for the past day or two.
"And that's how I met your mother." Entity finished looking down at Black.
“Jokes on you, I’m an orphan.” Black spoke, his voice being muffled by the table.
"Let me guess, Anakin?" Entity asked the Saiyan jokingly.
“The fuck?” Black immediately swinged his head up and looked at Entity, “No…” Black said blankly. “No, I've been an orphan for as long as I remember.”
"Ah, you're in the Denial stage, the first stage of Grief. It's okay buddy." Entity pats Black's shoulder.
Black looked away from Entity and looked at ShirMech, “Can you believe this guy?” Black asked, pointing a thumb at Entity.
(What the hell did you do to him Chill!) -ShirtMech
(Hahahahaha… HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!) - Chill.
"Ah, Anger, the second stage." Entity sipped from his bottle of whiskey.
Black rolled his shoulder, popping it. “I think imma go stretch, been sitting on a bench all day.”
"Yes, relieve yourself of your stress."
“Anyone is free to join me in the gravity chamber for training, except for Thanos.” He turned his head to the titan, “Still mad at you for even thinking of pulling that ‘Thanos’ crap.” Black walked out of the bar.
"I'm going, you guys can be drunk." Lucci followed Black.
"Fine, I'll just send them- I- Fine I'll leave them be when I win the war." Thanos threw his head back and took a swig of his drink.
Black walked into the gravity chamber, looking for a console to up the gravity. Lucci entered shortly after the Saiyan did.
"Sup, do you mind if I go into my Hybrid Form? I need to be a Hybrid every now and then." Lucci asked the Saiyan.
“I don’t care, go for it.” Black said, waving his hand as he continued to look for the gravity controls.
Lucci sighed and turned himself into a Half Human, Half Leopard, towering over Black as seven feet tall. "Also the console is over there." He pointed at a console beside Lucci.
Black turned to Lucci, “Thanks, by the way, how much gravity can you withstand?” Black asked as he went to the controls.
"Hm… Our Time Chamber had upgradeable gravity and so far I could go up to fifty without suffering from it." Lucci commented, But in my Hybrid form… One hundred." Lucci informed the Saiyan.
“Good, let's push that shall we?” Black said as he changed the gravity from normal to 120X normal gravity. Black barely felt the change as he hopped around the room with ease.
Lucci fell on all fours, Lucci grunted and slowly stood to his feet. "Ya kno the good thing about being a cat is that you always land on your feet." Lucci said with a grunt.
“True,” Black said as he frowned at how easy it was to move. He put a hand upon himself, a glow appearing on his forearms and shins. Big cylinder weights appeared on the Saiyan, pulling Black down to the ground. “Weighted training usually works in situations like this.” Black said as he felt it harder to walk now. “Five tons each should do it.”
"Oh go fuck yourself…" Lucci decided to do finger pushups.
Black let out a laugh as he went to his own side and began to do ceiling pull ups after creating a strong enough rope and attaching it to the roof of the gravity chamber. “1… 2… 3…. 4…. 5....” Black counted to himself.
Out of nowhere the displaced and their parties began to hear a noise, even the king and his men heard the sound. It was eerie yet passionate at the same time, leaving their activities everyone goes to investigate the source of the sound. The noise grew in volume as they made their way to the arena, once inside they were met with the sight of numerous people sitting in the stands looking towards the ring with stars in their eyes. Down in the ring stood Eric his eyes closed as he ran his bow across the strings of his treasured violin
https://youtu.be/uCkHw2PEVb8
Shiva, Kodo and a handful of others were down in the ring with Eric completely starstruck as he played his melody.
Black stood there at the exit of the stadium, watching the performance below. The Saiyan was intrigued to say the least, not hearing music of this sort in over a millennium. He crossed his arms, smiling and humming along with the tune.
While the saiyan was observing the Human, Sombra made his presence known to Black
“Amazing isn’t it?” Sombra asked his expression completely tranquill
Black glanced at Sombra, holding down his anger for the unicorn, “It sure is… haven't listened to something like this... for some time now.” Black explained, keeping his voice down to make sure no one would be annoyed.
“It’s his magic,” Sombra said to the saiyan, earning a raised eyebrow from the saiyan.
“Magic?” Black asked with curiosity. “Is it something he specializes in?”
“My father told me that every creature has magic,” Sombra said, reminiscing of his past. “Dragons have their breath attacks, changelings have their shapeshifting and Eric…” Sombra said, cracking a smile at his friend. “Eric’s magic is his music”
“Music sure is magic, but how is it Eric’s? I know humans specialize in many things.” Black asked the unicorn.
“For some reason when Eric plays any instrument it draws a crowd and lifts one’s spirit” Sombra said, closing his eyes. “His music has the ability to make you forget your sorrows and your pain as if it was never there in the first place”
“It does make me reminiscent of old times, before He showed up.” Black explained, seeing brief flashbacks of a time he longed to go back to. “It kinda reminds me of this photo.” Black said as he pulled an aged photo out of his gi. It showed him and Luna laughing while the alicorn had cotton candy on her snout. The Saiyan smiled at it, “Makes me want to go back…”
“I know what you mean” Sombra said chuckling
Black put the photo away, before he did he caught a glance at the ring on his finger. His smile disappeared as he stared at the ring. The one item he never used in his life, “I could go back…” Black muttered. No Black, you’ve agreed to never use it. The Saiyan told himself.
Unfortunately for Black Sombra heard him,
“Going back won’t fix anything it’ll only make things worse” Sombra said slowly opening his eyes
Black sighed as he took one more look at the ring before looking to Sombra. “I know… It just keeps taunting me every time I look at it.” Black explained, “I wish I could just throw it away and be done with it, but i can’t let it get in the wrong hands…”
“The only thing you can do is keep them alive in your memories and move on” Sombra said descending the stairs and joining his comrade. “But don’t let them control you, good memories can save your life”
Black stayed behind, looking at the dark unicorn, “If you only knew what I became when ‘you’ killed my master.” Black whispered, staying for the rest of the performance.
Starstruck by Eric’s music, the diamond dogs' heads tilted up, and they softly sang along, their howls almost like flutes as they added to the music.
Thanos hummed to the music as he walked down to his room, suddenly feeling homesick. Thanos missed Sally but he dismissed it as he went inside his room.
“Nice piece,” Ed nodded walking out of a portal. “Elegant, strong, and upbeat. Tells the struggle of one who has been through much that comes to a trampling end as they have achieved their goal.” He looked at the diamond dog. “You seem to have made a decent recovery.”
Shiva stretched with a hum. “Phoenix healed my injuries,” she noted. “He could’ve done worse to me, but he didn’t.” She nodded, looking around for the blue haired human. “There’s good in him, even if he’d rather act like there’s not.” Her ears flattened as she looked down. “I guess I’m out of the running.” She shook her head. “I… don’t know what I’m going to tell my pack. I promised I’d return with wealth, but… it looks like that’s not happening.”
Kodo stopped his howling, looking down with a sad expression. “We can tell them that I messed up,” he replied. “They’ll believe that.”
Shiva gave her son a pained look, but didn’t refute him.
“Lies are never a good thing in packs, young one,” Ed noted. “Truth is better. And what wealth do you want? Power, money, or knowledge?”
“Technically,” Kodo pointed out, “I volunteered. I don’t know if I should’ve pushed to be in the match, but they called for Shiva, and I just… let it happen.”
Shiva shook her head. “You would’ve had even less of a chance against Phoenix than I did,” she replied, before turning back to Ed. “Sorry, Ed. To answer your question, I was mostly looking for diamonds.” She chuckled. “I know they’re called ‘diamond dogs,’ but the amount of gems and jewels we collect is insane. And trying to do anything with the stuff is a nightmare. They hold onto the gems like Twilight holds onto books. At least it makes sense why dragons do it; one of my allies mentioned they have a magic in them that lets them grow stronger the more treasure they have. But… when I try to collect gems for an alliance with even one dragon…” she shook her head with a laugh. “My dogs want twice as many to replace.” She sighed. “My pack links keep too many of them from freaking out, for the most part; lets them see that I have a plan and makes them feel included, but…” She shrugged. “I don’t know; I was hoping the wealth would translate out to a big pile of diamonds to keep them happy for a short time.”
“Want an endless sack of diamonds?” Ed asked. “It’s not hard to create with my magic. A simple thought and poof,” He said as a bag appeared in his hand, “Here they are.”
Shiva stared at the bag in shock. Hesitantly, she reached out for the bag, glancing up at Ed as if asking permission.
“Take them,“ He held them out.” I have no need for more wealth.”
Shiva took the bag. Reaching in, she uncovered a solid diamond. One that made Kodo start to drool as his diamond dog instincts kicked in.
“Thank you… Ed,” Shiva whispered in awe. She placed the diamond back in, and leaned back in her seat, pondering something. “You know, I don’t understand why Ryker would want me in this?” she asked, more to herself than Ed. “I was out of my league even before I fought Phoenix.” She looked down at her claws. “What place did I ever think I would have among Gods?”
“Gods?” Ed raised an eyebrow. “Displaced are far from gods. We may be able to do great things but we still have mortal souls. At least we all start out as mortals anyways. I’ve been around for over fifteen millennia and still don’t consider myself divine in any way. There are those amongst us that do have divine powers but we are still mortals at our core. As for why you’re here,” he leaned back and looked up. “I can’t answer that. Why would he suddenly pull me out of nowhere? I can just as easily go home anytime I want. I’m not bound here by the rules of a summon like the others and I can thoroughly screw things up with my power too. I know why I’m staying. Not everyday you get to see a displaced Tourny. Being an outlier I can help who I want and make things more interesting for everyone here including myself for my own entertainment. In a way I am god like that though i still don’t like the monicure.”
Shiva smiled. “You might not have liked the real thoughts of dogs, then,” she noted. “Before I came to Equestria…” She paused. “My word, it feels like another lifetime ago… but, before Equestria, I was just a dog. One of several hunting hounds. And one of the other dogs… he spoke of how he saw our human masters as gods. ‘It makes sense,’ he would insist. ‘They make fire. They give meat. They rule land. They must be Gods!’” She shrugged. “And I couldn’t refute him. The humans were our masters, and we lived to serve them.” She looked down at her claws. “Then… whatever happened, happened, and I ended up in Equestria.” Her ears flattened. “And the ponies proved unworthy of being my master.” Her tail wagged. “And yet… then I found my pack.” She smiled as Kodo nuzzled under her arm. “I found my family. And now…” she looked towards Eric as he continued to play. “I’m back with the true masters. And they’re even more powerful than when I left them.”
“Hmm… I was alone for a long time after I was cut off from my brothers. My parents disowned me and I saw my younger brother little. My middle brother went off to train in the east for a few years and I was never really close with my kid brother. Not long after my middle brother started his career after coming back home I was sent to my Equestria,” Ed explained. “I wandered for years. Found Faust. Trained the sisters for a few years. Then left out of their lives for the next seven thousand. Came back; fell in love with Luna. Became Mimosas King. Got married. “ he sighed with lonely sadness. “Then I was betrayed. Turned to stone for two thousand years. Went insane then sane and came back upon Discord’s release. Not much after that, mainly displaced here and there gathering power.”
Shiva pondered his words, before her ears perked, picking up the sound of a walking stick.
Fujitora walked into the room, tapping his walking stick as he went to make sure he didn't fall. "Hello, I heard something and thought I'd come on by." Fujitora said, sensing their presence with Observation Haki.
Shiva turned to Fujitora with a wagging tail. “Oh. Hello, Fujitora,” she said, making a spot for him. “Please. Join us.”
Fujitora tapped the ground with his walking stick, he felt a chair and he sat down, slowly. "Please, call me Issho, Fujitora is just a title, standing for Purple Tiger." Fujitora said with a smile, knowing the voice of the Diamond Dog.
“Ah, I understand,” Shiva noted. “So… Issho, then.”
"Uh… I really don't have much to say, first time meeting an outsider really," Fujitora commented.
“Not much needs to be spoken sometimes,” Ed pointed out.
Fujitora jumped back at Ed's voice, sending Shiva to her paws, "Dear Kami I almost had a heart attack!" Fujitora held his Heart. "My body is 54 years old damn it."
“Got ya beat by a few thousand there, kid,” Ed chuckled “Speaking of you. Do you want your eyes restored?”
"I'm fine, I've been like this for twelve years, five months, one week, ten hours, five minutes, thirty four seconds and counting." Fujitora rubbed his forehead.
Shiva shivered. “A long time,” she noted softly, before glancing at Ed. “Not long to some… but long to you.”
“Time is a relative concept to all,” Ed shrugged. “But if you wish i can improve your senses or restore your eyes. Or not your call.”
"I have Observation Haki, I'm alright." Fujitora yawned, "By the way, have you ever heard of Devil Fruits?"
"Who hasn't in my line of work?" Ed pointed out.
"Good point, I have the power of gravity due to the Zushi-Zushi No Mi, since I awakened it, I'm more powerful. The power to drop down Meteorites or Moons down to the earth or whatever the hell this planet is." Fujitora informed the Sage.
"I am well aware of you powers and what you are fully capable of my friend," Ed nodded. "I fought a Zoro Displaced once after all. I actually have a similar ability to manipulate gravity with my eyes." Ed activates his Rinnegan. "You may not be able to see them but I know you can feel them."
"The Rinnegan? I wonder what would happen if Madara and the actual Fujitora Met. They would be dropping down meteorites on each other." Fujitora "looked" around, "Do you know where I can get some ramen?"
"Cup or fresh?" Ed asked
"Fresh." Fujitora answered the Sage.
"I'm not the best cook but you learn a thing or two growing up in the swamps," Ed remarked. "If don't mind me using gourmet ingredients froM Toriko's world I can fix you some if you like?"
"Toriko is the best anime for food, beside that one lewd anime that has people having "foodgasms" as some would say." Fujitora popped his neck.
“Foodgasms?” Shiva mused with a chuckle. “Sounds like an orgasm while eating.” She moaned. “Why didn’t I ever try that with Luke...?” she mumbled to herself.
Kodo turned a bright red and glanced away. “I really don’t need to know about that part of your life with Dad,” he noted.
"Food wars, urrrrrr…" Ed shuttered. "I like food but not to the point of orgasm. Give me one second," He said standing up and walking in a portal.
"Their clothes even pop off, Anime Logic man…" Fujitora said before chuckled
"Like I said I like food," Ed noted as he set in front of Fujitora. "But not to the point of orgasms. One round of Century Ramen hit from the kitchen with chopsticks or a fork which ever ya prefer."
"Chopsticks, eating anything from Japanese culture with a fork is a sin." Fujitora "frowned."
"Chopsticks it is then," Ed smirked as he set a pair of fresh chopsticks across the bowl. "I hope you enjoy your meal," he gave a bow and sat back down.
Fujitora enjoyed his meal, a slight smile snuck it's way to his face. "Ah… That was a good time." Fujitora was now full on grinning.
Eric paused in his music for a brief second before starting another only this time he actually began to sing, Immediately Luna beamed remembering the song
https://youtu.be/dbVR391HzT8
Wise men say
Eric sang with a smile on his face as his body dropped into the floor leaving a shadow copy to play the violin in his place, Emerging from the ground Eric continued to sing as he made his way towards his princess
Shall I stay?
Eric stood before Luna with a wide smile as he extended his hand
Take my hand
Luna gladly took the shadow mans hand as he pulled her towards his body as they began to dance with one another, all the while he continued to sing
For I can't help falling in love with you
Luna and Eric’s dance slowed to a stop as they put their foreheads together
For I can't help falling in love with you
Eric sang as Luna finished the last verse
For I can't help falling in love with you
The pair's attention was immediately caught when they heard a plethora of cheers and claps. Black, still at the exit of the stadium, looked at Eric with a soft smile, giving the man a thumbs up. Shiva and Kodo whistled.
“God Dammit!” Complained the Shadow man. “I got lost in my music again”
“You don’t hear me complaining,” Luna said planting a kiss on Eric cheek
Me neither man, can’t sing at all, Black spoke to Eric telepathically. Good on you…… Black finished as he turned away and walked back to the gravity chamber with a smile on his face.
Eric sent away his copy and retrieved his violin before storing it within his shadow body,
“Thanks Black” Eric said as he and Luna went to their sleeping quarters. ‘Better give it your all in two days’
Black entered the gravity chamber, realizing no one was there. The Saiyan made his way to the console, turning up the gravity to 5000X earth gravity. The room turned deep red, the weight pushing the Saiyan down. Hope you're ready Eric, cause I won’t be holding back… Black told himself as he created ki copies of himself. He charged forward and the clones did the same, clashing with a powerful shockwave, it being nullified by the chamber.
Katakuri stepped in or rather squeezed himself in, him being fifteen feet tall, the chamber was big so it reached to his full height. Katakuri stood there in the chamber with no trouble. "Training, are you? Good on you, because I'm doing that too. As Champion I should always keep myself in shape." Katakuri said before going into a push-up position.
Black eyed Katakuri, but paid him no mind as he continued battling himself, looking for weakness so he could improve. He caught a clones fist, kneeing the clone in the gut before throwing it to the side.
As he did the push ups he lifted his scarf to keep it from revealing his mouth, Katakuri quickly transitioned to finger push ups.
Black got blindsighted, getting struck across the face sent him to the chamber’s floor. He recovered, landing on his feet as he looked up. There was a barrage of ki attacks coming from one of the clones. He shielded himself, feeling the impact of the blasts pushed him back. He swiped at the air, the smoke vanishing as he saw his clones charging at him. He smirked to himself as he charged back forward, It’s gonna be a long night…
Katakuri decided to push a button on the console and hundreds of tiny robots appeared from the console, they then fired lasers at Katakuri, but Katakuri was faster than any of the robots could be. Dodging and turning them off.
Some of the drones went after the Saiyan as well, he dodge a clones kick. The Saiyan blasting the clone away while simultaneously dodging some drones and turning them off. “Add more of a challenge huh?” Black asked as he kicked a clone away, deflecting a laser from a drone.
"Possibly, alas, this is just an everyday occurrence for me." Katakuri tilted his head avoiding a laser.
“Doing the same training every day, kinda sounds boring to me.” Black grunted as he tanked a punch from a clone. He yelled as he overpowered the clone, punching it in the gut before blasting it to oblivion. “Do you have a training partner?”
"Indeed, I have Ryker, Fujitora, Sakazuki, and… Douglass Bullet." Katakuri said that last name dramatically.
“Interesting, I’ve only got Nightmare Moon.” Black said as he charged up to multiple drones, dodging every laser and turning them off. “But since she’s in a new body, she can’t use it to its full potential.”
"A new body huh? I remember someone swapped bodies with me, it was a female and it was the weirdest experience I've ever had. Besides getting teleported to a Hentai Universe, courtesy of Ryker." Katakuri said as his arms stretched and turned off the drones.
Black shivered at the thought of being transported to a Hentai Universe. “The Weirdest thing for me was either walking through a door and being transported to another universe into my marefiends room, or the fact that I’ve gained the body of Super’s best antagonist.” Black said as he kicked a clone's legs, tripping it before curb stomping it into the chamber wall.
"Easily the best villain in the Dragon Ball Series, besides that there is this one villain named Donquixote Doflamingo, kind of a tragic villain really." Katakuri chuckled.
“Mingo’s just insane by then time the fight comes around and I have to agree Black was the best villain of the whole Dragon Ball series,” Ed said as he popped into existence. “You guys been here for a bit ya know.”
“I know, but I think Frieza was a fantastic Villain, definitely can compete with Black.” The Saiyan said. All the remaining clones tried to jump him, but Black brought his hands to the chest. With a primal roar, he threw his arms to the side, making a powerful ki blast around him, insinerating the ki copies.
“If you really think about it and I MEAN REALLY THINK ABOUT IT. Frieza is just another short bald guy with anger issues cause he can’t beat a tall guy,” Ed pointed out.
"In my honest opinion Perfect Cell is Second best, he deserved to die, was fleshed out well, had his moments, killed Goku. I mean the first villain to kill Goku besides Raditz, and come on, Raditz really didn't kill him. Honestly, I wanted him to be in the T.O.P that would've been fun." Katakuri chuckled as he turned off the robots.
“It would’ve been cool, but at that point he was weaker than Piccolo,” Black said as he dodge a laser.
“Wouldn’t Piccolo still have been considered a villain at the point in the story?” Ed ponderd. “If you considered that then technically only two villains have ever actually killed Goku. Still on the fence about Piccolo though. I guess that just really comes down to who perspective.”
“Excuse me” a voice spoke up from behind the group causing some to jump in fear
Entity went through a portal that was made from Obsidian, Entity looked at Maud before falling down due to the 5000x gravity. Entity sprang back up due to his Armor.
“Do you guys know where the kitchen is?” Maud asked, reaching into her pocket pulling out her pet rock. “Boulder’s hungry
"Go down the hall, take a left, then a right, it's right at the end of it, ya can't miss it." Entity commented dusting off himself.
“Thanks” Maud said turning to leave only to be blocked by Entity
"Excuse me would you like to take a moment to talk about our lord and savior Go D. Ussop?" Entity jokes.
“I’ll pass” Maud said trying to move past the minecraft creature
"Alright," Entity stepped aside, "By the way, do you have a Devil Fruit?"
“I do” Maud said making it to the door
"You probably have a Devil Fruit better than that Party Mare, fucking cocaine addict." Entity shook his head.
Maud stops in her tracks before turning to Entity. “Care to repeat that?”
"Bitch, don't make me go onto my Dragon Block C account." Entity threatened, "I have Super Saiyan Four on that Mod."
“Devil fruits are hard to make,” Ed complained as he floated in the air. “At least the first generations are. I wonder if I could get my hands on a fish fish fruit? Did someone just insult pink the sugar demon in front of her sister.”
"She has a sister?" Entity turned back at the Sage, "I thought she was an orphan, they don't look related, must be adopted. It simply isn't genetically possible for them to be blood related." Entity raised a blocky eye brow.
“Man you’re just diggin your hole deeper,“ Ed warned. “Maud is Pinkie’s older sister and being a big brother I know she won’t stand for you talking about Pinkie Pie like that.”
"I have Netherite Armor with all max protection, not to mention I have my Netherite scythe with Sharpness, Smite-" Entity’s words were cut short when Maud slammed her fist into his stomach
Entity was sent flying into the wall leaving a dust trail of where he once stood, groaning Entity freed himself from the wall and found cracks and tears covering every inch of his armor and weapons.
“They grew up on a rock from!” Ed remarked. “She can literally destroy boulders with her front feet in under ten seconds.”
“Never insult my sister again” Maud said with her usual expression
"Ya know what?! Ya sisters a bitch." Entity splashed Xp potions, repairing his armor before drinking a potion with rainbow colors. "I now have my Strength, Speed, Jump, and Health powered up, and now…" Entity went into his Infernal Form, the same form that he took where he fought Eric.
Black stopped his training and stood between them, “Hey, cut it out!” Black shouted.
“I know she can get on your nerves sometimes but you should really think about what you’re getting into man,” Ed cautioned. “Or do you want all the pies on your ass, plus the apples who could possibly be related to the pies.”
Maud walked pass the Saiyan and up to Entity and lifted a single hand, the grey earth pony put the tip of her finger to the Minecraft Player, a white aura covered her hand
"Oh shi-" Entity managed to get out before she one inch punched Entity into the same wall
“I warned him,” Ed shook his head. “Hmm… I wonder where Ryder is hiding?”
"It's Ryker!" Ryker said, kicking down an imaginary door, he wore a Leprechaun outfit. "Don't ask, I'm Irish."
*CLICK* Ed took a picture of Ryker. “That’s for pulling me away from my girls during snuggle time.” He held up the picture. “And sent to everyone across the network. And that’s for taking me away from my kids.”
"That's it!" Entity's white fur turned yellow, and electrical sparks appeared over him. "KAIOKEN!!!!"
“Tremor…” Maud said rearing her fist back. “..Air palm”
Maud throws a palm strike into the air causing massive amounts of cracks to form in air, a powerful gust of wind blows knocking Entity as well as the others to the ground destroying the floors
Entity held up his ki-netherite-armament-haki-infernal scythe up to shield himself it was Effective but not by a large margin. Katakuri turned to Maud, and gave her a thumbs up.
"Kick his ass warrior Maud of the Pie family." Katakuri said smiling under his scarf.
“Take it back” Maud ordered
"NNNAH" Entity chucked as he appeared in front of Maud and sent a Ki blast to her stomach and sent her into a wall.
“Ryker may I ask to use your arena?” Maud asked pulling herself from the wall with no trouble
"Do what the hell you want, I'll deal with it when i'm sober." Ryker said, his face flat on the ground.
“Ooo… Next official fight Maud v Entity,” Ed rubbed his hands together. “All in favor say ‘I’.”
Black shook his head as he went to the console and turned the gravity back to normal. “So
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Chapter Seven, Local Minecraft Myth gets wrecked by The Rock's Sister.
Chapter Seven, Maud Pie vs Entity_303.
Thanos sat there on Ryker's throne and cleared his throat, the competitors there and some of the commanders there as the audience. "Alright everyone because of some stupid reason we're settling this. Remember Eric, we had that conversation…" Thanos shouted out.
“Are we really going to go through with this?” Sombra asked the Titan using his Devil fruit to appear next to the throne
"Sadly yes, I am sorry about this stupid shit, why is this happening? Entity needs to learn when to SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!" Thanos shouted in a voice that rivaled the Royal Canterlot Voice.
“I don’t blame you,” Sombra said, tightening his grip on his blades. “I blame your friend for doing something as asinine as insulting Mauds younger sister”
"Exactly, he's a bitch! I am tired of this shit! Can someone please go a day without killing each other?! God damn!" Thanos punched a wall and made it shatter.
“Yes,” Ed nodded. “He was warned several times to.”
“You know if you discipline your comrades more often stuff like this wouldn’t happen” Sombra said as he watched Maud began to crack her knuckles
"Nigga I have no control over them, blame Grievous, he's a standard white boy! He teaches them when I sleep!" Entity stood on his side of the stage, his ears crackling like fire.
“Well let’s get this over with so we can all sleep for tomorrows match” Sombra said giving the titan a side glance. “Just promise me you will intervene if this gets….Deadly”
"Alright… ON THIS CORNER WE HAVE MAUD PIE!!!! The One who's going to win," Thanos introduced Maud
“Did some one eat the Party Pony she’s gonna be pissed if she doesn’t see this,”. Ed advised.
"Then we have THE ABSOLUTE BITCH THAT IS ENTITY ON THIS SIDE!!! The one who is going to lose." Thanos shouted out.
"Hey! That's rude!" Entity snapped.
"You know what's also rude? Shit talking someones sister in front of them! I need to get some sleep before I kill everyone in this entire Universe!" Thanos shouted out.
“You were warned to back off, you didn’t so you take the lumps,” Ed remarked flatly.
“Several times from what I hear” Sombra shouted
"EXACTLY!!!" Thanos shouted out, scolding the Minecraft Man, "God damn can something bad not happen for once?" Thanos prayed.
“You just made it worse,“ Ed slapped his face.
"Sorry, I'm just… Really pissed off today…" Thanos grumbled before drinking some rich wine.
“Well since we’re here might as well make this fun” Ed said cracking his knuckles then using his powers to transfigure the ring into a city landscape. “Good big or go home!”
"...The fuck's this?" Entity looked around, Entity's monkey tail flicked around.
“Your undoing Bucker'' Maud said cracking her neck with a twist of her head. “I’m gonna make you regret speaking about my sister like that”
"I'm gonna make you regret striking me you emotionless cunt." Everyone paused in the arena.
“WHO SAID THAT?!” Shiva’s voice echoed from down the hall.
Immediately the hands of Sombra, Thanos, Ed, Katakuri, Fujitora, Zabuza, Akainu, Arkham Knight, Lucci, Nappa, Luffy, Necrozma, and Goku Black collided with their foreheads creating a resonating slap throughout the ring.
“This Mother Bucker is absolutely insane” Sombra said sensing the forbidding death approaching. “Thank Faust Eric and Luna went to bed otherwise we might have to be cleaning Entity off the walls and floors”
"This Nigga’s out of his got damn mind” Lucci said rubbing his eyes.
“More like he just doesn’t know how to stop being an asshole,” Ed said flatly. “It’s like it’s ingrained in his dna. Don’t tell the purple book pony cause she’ll grab the big needles, no on second thought tell her..”
Zabuza starts to dig a grave, Nappa and Lucci helping Zabuza too.
Down in the city modeled ring Maud just closed her eyes and deeply inhaled into her nose
“Maud,” Sombra said as the earth pony opened her eyes. “Kick his ass.”
“Yea and shove a red hot fire poker up it too,“ Ed added
“THEN HANG HIM UP BY HIS GENITALS!” Shiva’s voice added.
Maud ran at Entity at a speed the minecraft player couldn’t track, she only became visible when her closed fist slammed into his left cheek sending him crashing into one of the buildings, the building then fell onto him. A pillar of fire bursted from the rubble sending magma rocks flying everywhere. Entity stood, his white hair covering his left eye, Entity stumbled out of there and ate an Enchanted Golden Apple. "Alright bitch, let's do this." Entity flew at the Earth Pony, fire boosting him. Entity spun around and tried to kick Maud only for her to duck down effortlessly dodging Entity's kick. Entity then shot a quick Kamehameha at her only for her to appear behind him.
“Tremor Strike!” Maud shouted in slight anger as her fist slammed into his back throwing him into the ground leaving a Entity shaped hole
"Fuck you!" Entity cried out.
Calmly Maud walked over to the closest and tallest building, gripping the walls in her hands Maud slowly causes cracks to form along the bottom. the Building was lifting off the ground as Entity began to leave the hole only to ghawk in horror at the building
“Oh Shi..” Entity said as Maud slammed the building right onto the minecraft player
“This is what happens when you’re just an outright asshole and don’t listen to warnings,” Ed said and everyone else only nodded in agreement.
Entity flew up from the buildings remains glaring down at Maud. Entity brought out his two scythes. "Two Scythe Style, Pony Slayer!" Entity slammed his two scythes into Maud but blocked it with an Armament Haki covered Arms. She was sent careening into the top of a building, Entity then threw flaming cars at the building and made it knock down.
The car crashed into the building knocking the top part of it down, the collapsing building kicked up boundless amounts of debris block view from everyone
“Is it over?” Thanos asked with a croaky voice.
“No, Maud is by far the strongest out everypony in our equestria” Stated Sombra. “She was an even match for the Tyrant King Umbra the Dark, your friend is no Umbra and has no way of defeating her”
“Never underestimate the stone faced ponies,” Ed added with a smirk. “The Pie family in particular, especially granny pie.That old mare sneezed once and knock a mountain range over.”
Entity flew above the dust and debris keeping his eyes below him, without warning a pair of arms wrapped around his chest locking his arms to his side.
“Tremor Hidden Lotus” Maud said kicking her legs causing the air to crack and give her a speed boost as she and Entity raced towards the ground
"NIGGATO MY FAVORITE ANIME!!!" Thanos said before falling back on his seat.
"Pfft- Niggato." Lucci chuckled.
“Eric taught her that particular move” Sombra said smiling as he enjoyed the match.
“Wonder if she could handle a 180x Kugi punch?” Ed thought.
"What about a Kaio-Ken times ten Rokuogan?" Lucci said, curiously.
The Two crash into the ground destroying the surrounding areas, Entity kicks Maud away as he wipes blood from his mouth. Entity then went Super Saiyan Two, the electric sparks becoming more prominent now. Entity walked up to Maud who stood there stoically. "Naruto, nice." Entity commented, catching his breath.
“Eric taught me” admitted the earth pony
"That's cool, oh and by the way, have you ever been burnt so much it feels like your skin has melted off?" Entity asked Maud.
“No” answered the tremor pony
"WOULD YOU LIKE TO?!?!?!?" Entity blasted her with Black flames, she slammed into multiple buildings before hitting the arena's walls.
Maud showed no emotion as she got to her feet and walked towards Entity
“WHY WON’T YOU STAY DOWN ALREADY!?!?!?! Like god damn…" Entity grumbled.
Maud quickened her pace before disappearing from view entirely, Entity frantically looked around for her until a black fist collided with his nose throwing him back. Entity was then struck in the back knocking him forwards, to the observers all they saw was Entity being flung back and forth like a pinball
“You all should know that Maud Pie is a complete master of the Shave Technique” Sombra stated
Entity stumbled forwards before he put An emblem to his chest. "Combat Armor, go!" Entity was covered from mesd to toe in Netherite Armor, wearing Netherite Gauntlets too. He smashed his fists together. Entity vanished from sight, Maud didn't give a damn though, crossing her arms to wait for Entity's puny attack to strike her rock solid form. Maud was then "crushed" by an elevator.
"Nice ass by the way." Entity jokes, he laughed in hysterics afterwards.
“I must say he’s putting up a rather decent defense against her,” Ed pointed. “But one thing a displaced person should never underestimate is the love of family and the determination of a Pie.”
A black arm burst from the remains of the elevator, Maud pulled herself from the remains and glared at the minecraft player with pure unadulterated anger. swishing her tongue around Maud spits out a single tooth
“Oh, she’s really pissed off now,” Ed snickers.
"OHHHH!!! Now you fucked up, no you fucked up, now you fucked up!" Nappa clapped his hands in a rhythmic way. "NOW YOU HAVE FUCKED UP!!!"
“Mmmm, yes rather badly at that,” Mr. Popo added. “Now, BBBBYYYYYEEEEEE!!!”
“I’m sorry” Entity said in fear, fear of seeing an actual rage fueled expression on the expressionless pony
Maud lunged at Entity seizing him in her iron grip slamming him into every building she could before throwing into the air, Jumping after him Maud clamps her hands together
“Tremor Gong!” Maud planted her clamped hands into the minecraft players armor causing it to crack
Entity slammed into the ground forming a massive shockwave that decimated the ring and creating a large crater, thrusting her arms down Maud fell right on top of him
“Tremor…” Maud said rearing her fists back. “...Burial”
The force utter wiped the ring off the map as well as bury Entity into the ground, the only thing visible once the debris cleared was Maud standing over a pile of rubble with a armored hand sticking out
“A rather impressive showing you two,” Ed clapped. “Next time I’ll just turn him to a soccer ball and let the foals play with him for a few hours.”
Mauds expressionless demeanor returned as she walked away
“Never insult my sister again,” Maud said walking away, her body showing no sign of injury
“What have we learned today everyone?” Ed snapped and Entity blinked into the stands coughing up gravel.
“You never insult Maud's family, especially Pinkie Pie,” Sombra said, finding the entire fight completely enjoyable. “Just be thankful Eric wasn’t here”
“Oh I was”
Turning their heads around everyone was met with the sight of both Eric and Luna, and both were pissed and both emitting Shadow and Lightning from their bodies
“We saw the WHOLE fight,” Luna said her lightning taking on a more red hue
“You want a private dimension for the beating of the videogame prick pinata?” Ed asked.
“I wouldn’t mind” Answered the Shadow Man as his shadow crept towards the minecraft player
“Wait guys you’re not going to leave me with him are you?” Entity asked, his voice shaking.
“What part of ‘private dimension to beat the prick pinata’ did you not understand?” Ed raised an eyebrow. “You were warned several times not to do what you did by many of us. Yet you did it anyways. You take the lumps as you pile them up buddy boy. You could always go with Mr. Popo.”
The genie twiddled his fingers at Entity.
“Really it is your fault,” Sombra said drawing his sword and lifting Entity’s chin with the tip. “You called a mare the One word that must never be spoken”
“But they wouldn’t know about that”
“Oh we know, as Luna said we. Saw. The Whole. Fight” Eric said through gritted teeth as his shadow reached Entity’s foot and started to slowly crawl up his body
“I have a fire poker,” Ed pulled out a red hot piece of metal with a spike.
“We won’t need it” Luna said lightning sparking in her hands
“Okay,” Ed threw it over his shoulder, someone complaining about their leg was heard. “What dimension do you want?”
“Anything with shadows will do” answered Eric his eyes shifting from blue to red and black
“How about the Shadow Realm from the original Yugioh series,” Ed suggested
“Sounds Perfect” Eric and Luna said in unison as the portal opened behind them.
“Your chariot awaits, and your luggage,” Ed held up Entity now as if he were a suitcase.
From the portal multiple tendrils of shadow grab hold of Entity by his legs, Entity starts to claw at the ground as he is slowly dragged towards the portal
“No wait! I’d prefer Popo!” Screamed Entity trying to grab hold of something
Entity manages to grab hold of Sombra’s leg
“Please talk to him you’re his friend, Tell him to calm down like you did with Thanos,” pleaded Entity
“Thanos wasn’t drunk then,” Ed pointed out.
“Yea I wasn’t drunk then,” Thanos agreed as he downed another hetap.
“And the word left your lips,” Sombra said, kicking his leg free. “You must ride the tracks you have laid down”
“And I’m coming too,” Mr.Popo smiled. “Mmm bye!” he kicked Entity in the face and followed him into the portal.
“Fuck me in the ass, no!”
“Great Idea” Luna said grimly her lightning intensified. “We’ll start there first”
“God you are hot when you get like this” Eric said stepping through the portal behind his princess
“Tell me about it,” Ed nodded. “You should get in before Mr. Popo,” maniacal leaving and screaming came from the portal. “Has all the fun.”
“Popo!” Mr. Popo said, causing the portal to close.
“So his name closes the portal?” Sombra asked raising an eyebrow
“No it just knows better than to mess with him,” Ed shook his head. “I’m not opening that again by the way. I’d do LSD with the genie but not going against him.”
“O-Kay,” Sombra said, kinda confused. “Is he going to hurt Eric or Luna?”
“Judging from their shared reactions and what their thought patterns were, they’ll be fine,” Ed shrugged. “As much mush as I’d really like to see and over size circle peg shoved in a square whole I’m not going near a pissed off sex game right now. If you feel like disturbing that kind of screwy relationship then be my guest, here is a shadow crystal to open the portal,” Ed handed over the crystal to Sombra. “I’ve been around for a while and I’m married to the sisters and have two kids with one of them and another on the way not to mention my other mare. I have learned not to stick my nose in someone else’s shit.”
“Yeah for some reason Luna’s Sex drive gets worse when she’s livid,” Sombra shuddered at the fact his room on the Shadow Damnation was right next to theirs, before he bunked with the crew “They’re the same kind of bucked up as Popo”
“No they are in a class all their own which is FUCKED UP to the highest degree of Pi,” Ed pointed. “I need a drink, you wanna go interdimensional bar hopping?”
“I think I’ll join you,” Sombra said, slouching slightly. “After tonight I’m definitely going to need it”
“Then let’s go my sword wielding amigo,” Ed pointed as a new portal opened up. “I know this great place that sells fire whiskey.”
“I’ll just stick..” Sombra then thought for a moment about what could be happening to Entity right now. “You know what buck it Fire Whiskey”
The duo walked into the portal to drink the night away, far away from the messed up shit happening in the Shadow Realm that is.
Author's Note
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Chapter Eight, Dr. Doom of Griffonstone vs Kyle, just Kyle nothing else.
Chapter Eight, Dr. Doom of Griffonstone vs Kyle, just Kyle nothing else.
Thanos walked down the hallway only to see Entity walking down perfectly fine. Thanos paused, he looked to Entity.
"Are you okay?" Thanos raised an eyebrow, Entity stopped to turn to him.
"I actually feel fine! I don't remember much because I blacked out when I was going to the Gravity Room yesterday and-"
"Wait, you don't remember insulting Maud and getting tortured by Eric and Luna?" Thanos frowned, leaning closer to Entity.
"I insulted Maud?! I don't remember drinking," Entity scratched the back of his head.
"Tch, you were infected with Dark Ki," They turned to see Nappa, "I should know, I've been in the Time Patrol for a while. Only I could sense you were corrupted."
"WAIT WHAT!?!??!? Who corrupted me?!" Entity looked at Nappa with worry.
"I get a feeling it's Ryker, ever since we've been here you two have been acting strange, and the only way to purify you is to beat you. So Thanos… I'm gonna start beating you now, I don't know when I'll stop." Nappa cocked back his fist and transformed into Super Saiyan.
"Well sh-"
Kyle stood there in the Locker Room, he looked at his fist then at Doom. Kyle then started to shake in absolute fear, Kyle’s blood was cold. He started to shiver as he remembered his time in the lab, being experimented on and being tortured. Kyle stood up and ran out of the door.
Shiva watched him go with concern in her eyes. Glancing at Doom, she cautiously crept over to the metal human.
“Excuse me, Doctor,” she said softly. “I know I’m hardly the type to make suggestions, but…” She nodded at where Kyle had run off. “There is a way for you to take it easy on him.”
“Take it easy? In what way? Should I hit him as hard as I can so any suffering he would feel would be fast and relatively painless? Or let the fight last longer by pulling my punches, thus making the time he suffers extended?” Doom looked at Shiva then to where Kyle went. “Mercy can bring its own agony. Ryker wants a show, so making the fight last longer would play into his hands. It would also allow me to not reveal all of my abilities, but like I said that means the time of physical combat is longer, and Kyle would be taking more hits.”
“But I heard you mention that you use technology and magic. And since you’re eager to learn about what we can do…” Shiva extended her claw, and a ball of purple light formed in her claws. “This is how I got out of my own fight with Phoenix,” she explained, her pack link ensuring that no onlookers heard them. “It’ll essentially allow you to put Kyle into a catatonic state resembling being knocked out. It’ll admittedly need to be covered by some flash - you’re not wrong about Ryker wanting a show. But with this, you at least won’t need to pummel him into unconsciousness like Thanos did to Link. And with my pack link, I can transfer the knowledge of how to use it straight into your memory.”
Just as Shiva finished her sentence, Thanos came crashing through a wall and into a punching bag. Nappa walked out with Entity with him.
“Where’s Maud, I need to apologize to her, though I wasn’t in control of myself due to Dark Ki. Where is she?!” Entity cried out, looking for the solid stone cold mare.
“She’s Training with Sombra,” Eric said entering the room
“Thank you Von Shadow, have a nice day.” Entity tipped his helmet to Eric before trying to walk off to apologize to the mare.
Eric however blocked Entity’s path by erecting a wall of shadow in front of the exit
“Oi! What’s the problem?!” Entity asked with a frown.
“You insulted her sister and called her a Cunt,” Eric said glaring at the minecraft player, and earning an irritated huff from the female diamond dog nearby. “She utterly wrecked you in your fight. Speaking to her now before she has had time to calm down is suicidal.”
“I CALLED HER A WHAT!??!?!? I don’t remember any of that! All I remember is walking to the gravity chamber then blacking out and waking up here! You gotta believe me!” Entity said with desperation, “Also, I knew she could beat me in a fight, I’m a blocky man. I was just staring at her for jokes.” Entity chuckled.
“Even still, heed my advice,” Eric said, dropping the shadow wall. “Don’t speak to her until she has calmed down.”
“If you don’t trust him, trust my word on this,” Shiva added. “It takes a ‘long’ time for a woman to calm down from an insult like that.”
“...Understood.” Entity nodded, as Thanos was being punched by Nappa, over and over again.
“Also I’d refrain from sitting down anytime soon. Luna did a number on your tainthole,” Eric said laughing as he left the locker room
“I don’t feel any pain, remember, Minecraft Human? And also, kinky.” Entity laughed with him, or rather himself. Lucci walked inside, suddenly black.
“Hello guys.” Lucci’s voice was different, more African-American, “What’s up?”
Luffy turned to Lucci, “Hey, you look different. Did you take a bath in chocolate?” Luffy asked the Leopard Assassin.
Black walked into the locker room with bags under his eyes again. “Zabuza ga watashi o nemurasenai yō ni shi tsudzukerunara, watashi wa kare ni hakai o tsukau to chikaimasu…(I swear, if Zabuza continues to prevent me from sleeping, I will use destruction on him...)” Black muttered, speaking japanese. The Saiyan looked to Lucci, taking a second to process what he just saw. “When did you become African American?”
“Wait,” Lucci checked his hands and pure tears of joy appear on his eyes, “I’M BACK AND I’M BLACK BABY!!! HALLELUJAH I’M BACK TO BEING BLACK!!!!!!!!!” Lucci cheered before punching Luffy in the face. “Also that’s racist.”
Shiva and Kodo glanced at each other, utterly bamboozled at his joy. “Um… hooray?” Kodo offered.
“Wait, were you African American before you became a Displaced?” Black asked as he rubbed his eyes.
“Yes!” Lucci started crying, finally happy after all these milenia, “Yes, I was!” Lucci grinned.
Black yawned, “That's great, good on you.” Black said with a smile. “Sorry if that yawn annoyed you, it’s just Zabuza has been a total ass…” Black hissed.
“Oof size large on that.” Entity said, “If that man comes close to me, he’s on the chopping block.”
“Exactly, also, I’m sorry for you.” Lucci said before walking off, “I’m getting some Fried Chicken, it doesn’t taste as good when you're white. Also, if I’m black, it’s not racist.” Lucci said to the Readers as he walked off, Luffy following him.
Black just shook his head as he created a tiny sphere of haki, it’s pressure being felt through the locker room. The Saiyan then proceeded to bounce it in the air, using his foot. Kicking the sphere of destruction like a soccer ball. Kodo watched like he was expecting Black to throw it. Hesitantly, he tried the same tactic, though his limbs kept exploding into smoke.
His limbs exploding into smoke drew his mother’s gaze, and she blinked in shock as he reformed his limbs instantly. “Kodo, why is your fur turning into smoke?” she asked.
Kodo swallowed sheepishly. “Um… Von Shadow gave me this ‘Devil Fruit.’ Said it’ll give me the power to turn into smoke. Though now I’m weak to water.”
Shiva’s ears flattened, and she glared at him like he had been out past curfew. Kodo shrugged defensively.
“It was either the Smoke-Smoke Fruit or some version of the Alicorn Amulet!” he insisted. “I’m going to make up for what I did, and that means making sure I’m strong enough to protect you.”
“My version of the Amulet. One I could if need be disable with a snap of my fingers. The last thing I would want would be another megalomaniac with sadistic tendencies.” Doom huffs then heads out of the locker room.
“And another megalomaniac is something you’re not going to get,” Shiva called after him before glaring at Kodo. “Right?” she growled darkly.
“I told you, I’m not putting anyone through that again,” Kodo whined.
Shaking his head at the mother and son argument, Doom left. Yet, as he left, he placed a small disk on the lockers, it took just a second for the disk to dissolve and merge with the metal.
Shiva still grimaced, but her glower faded at the logic in his words. She sighed, putting her head in her claws.
"This is what happens when you put too many op displaced in one place kids," Ed added from a side panel. "Please do thorough research before bringing so many characters in at any given time. Thank you and have a great day. Hey guys wait up I want some chicken too."
“Chicken?” Kodo and Shiva asked, following after them like dogs that smelled dinner.
“Stop making me hungry Edward,” Black said as he felt his stomach growl. “I mean, Nightmare had wanted to take a break from training. Every time I’ve tried to do some training, some stupid shit always happen. What else should I do?” Black said as he caught the sphere of destruction in his hand and started to spin it on the tip of his finger.
"How about you play a role in stopping whatever Ryker is up to," Ed said. "Sorry to say but with this many displaced in a dick measuring contest of this magnitude, there will be tons of bullshit flung around. I mean Maud Pie kicked Entity's ass. Yeah, he was possessed by dark ki but at the same time, I think he was also just being an asshole cause he wanted to be. Nappa is currently purifying Thanos by beating the crap out of him. Keep your head down and wits about you is all I can say. I can help whoever and in whatever way I want as I'm not under a contract here. If you see anything let me know. I still own the dick head a metal fist to his fleshy face for pulling away from my girls."
"I heard that!" Ryker cried out, "Good luck on punching me though! No really, good luck because it's been so long since I felt pain. And without pain there is no pleasure! Oh god, that sounded masochistic. Is that a word? Questions for later." Ryker said sticking his head through a portal next to them. He then went back into the portal and vanished.
"That guy is worse about talking out loud than me," Ed raised an eyebrow. "And if I really wanted to hurt you, I would’ve done so by now."
Black stopped spinning the sphere of destruction, swiping it away as it faded into nothing. “I mean, you could, but you would probably be sent back to your universe along with Death.” Black said as he laid back against the lockers with his hands behind his head. “I guess I could prepare and train some Displaced to learn how to use ki if this tournament goes to shit.” Black mutters.
“Even if he could send me back I’ve already been to and from here several times to other worlds and universes,”Ed shrugged. “Getting back is no big deal. Beside I doubt he wants a pissed off void dweller all over his ass,” he twirled his finger and pointed at his eye. “Truth sees everything I see and he’s very invested in this tourney for his own amusement, similar to me but more for shits and giggles.” Edward sighed. “And it would be a good idea to teach some of them ki, also let me see your hand,” Black knew what Ed was talking about and the sage taped Black’s hand and the dragon’s soul orb in the saiyan’s hand glow brightly for a minute. “You’ll be able to access a three minute partial full armor transformation in Balance Breaker form without losing have to pay for it. I supply Ddraig with a few mana stones and open up your dragonic pathways so your power will flow more freely.”
Black glimpsed at the draconian gem in his palm, “Man, you just spoke a mouthful. But understandable, I think I would be able to hold it for a while.” Black stood up and stretched, hearing multiple bones pop. “As for training them, I’m not so sure I’m the best teacher, but I’ll give it a shot.” Black said with a sigh. The Saiyan looked around the locker room, the other Displaced doing their own thing. He sensed energy in the gravity chamber, feeling the life force of both Sombra, Maud Pie, as well as Kyle. Let's see what they're up to… Black thought as he walked to the chamber.
Inside Black staggered a bit at the level of gravity pushing against him, feeling that the gravity is more than his normal training sessions. The Saiyan glances to the gravity controller to see it at 5100X Earth Gravity. They don’t mess around I see… Black thought as he turned to see the three in the chamber training with each other. “I’m impressed, how are you guys able to withstand this much weight.” Black asked curiously.
"..." Kyle sat there silent in his corner, strategizing, planning, he was still shaking in terror.
“We have someone on the ship who can increase the gravity,” Sombra said, stopping his training with the earth pony. “But Eric has forbidden this kind of training on the ship”
"Zushi-Zushi No Mi, the fruit that allows you to increase Gravity." Kyle said shakily.
“That’s the one,” Maud said relatively calmly. “I would set it higher but this is the only setting I could use before Sombra could collapse.”
“Well, the gravity chamber can produce over 5000X normal gravity, you don’t need a fruit to increase it further.” Black pointed out. “Either way, it’s impressive that you can handle this much weight.”
"At That point, you're just asking to die, that much gravity on one's body can cause uncanny amounts of stress on your body. But you guys aren't like me so…" Kyle said, rubbing his hat on his head.
“Fighting the Crimson Sage is basically a death wish if he intends to kill you… I would know,” Black said as he rubbed his right arm. Said arm being covered in a long scar.
“This may look easy for me, but this is still nowhere near the level Eric is,” Maud said kicking Sombra’s sword from his hand
"I swear to fucking Ryker! Stop trying to one up each other. ‘Oh I can do this but he can do that.’ Stop with the shit." Kyle complained, rubbing his forehead.
“I don’t know you so I’m not going to “one up” somepony I don’t know,” Maud said, handing Sombra back his sword. “Eric Von Shadow is Stronger than anypony I know, he was able to kill the stallion who killed my father after all.”
“Either way, I’ve come with an offer if anyone and pony is interested,” Black said as he crossed his arms.
"Please teach me!" Kyle said lunging at Black and falling on his chest, skidding to a halt at Black's feet.
“Me and Eric wouldn’t be against learning,” Sombra said, sheathing his blades. “After all this place….it’s messing with us...Eric and Thanos are friends and yet… it’s like they want to actually kill each other”
“You're not wrong with that,” Black said as he looked at Sombra, “I may not know how far their friendship goes, but if you say that this isn’t normal for them, I’m going to somewhat believe you.” Black said as he turned his attention to Kyle. “You alright?”
“It’s not just Eric and Thanos. Everyone is being affected” Sombra said with concern. “I’ve met Entity before and he’s a ass but he’s never once flat out insults someone”
“I haven’t been affected,” Kodo noted from outside the gravity chamber. “Mom hasn’t either.”
“I have, my nightmare had almost escaped, thank Dende that Thanos noticed something wrong with my eyes.” Black explained as he pointed to one eye.
"Everyone here is Infected with Dark Ki." Everyone turns their attention to Nappa, who stood there leaning on a wall in the chamber.
Kodo huffed. “Again?” he mumbled, glaring down at his claws. “Wouldn’t be the first time.” He clenched his claw. “Maybe that’s why Mom and I haven’t been acting the way the others have. I had experience with dark magic, and our pack link makes pretty much any magic we get exposed to partially beneficial.”
“I know what you mean, pup,” Sombra said, turning his gaze to the diamond dog. “It’s like out of everyone here, it’s like those who have been possessed by a dark spirit or dark magic are the only one’s acting sane.”
Kodo chuckled. “Never thought I’d have something to thank Umbra for,” he mused.
“Never thought I would come to the problem with Dark Ki,” Black mumbled as he put a finger to his chin. “The only one’s I know that could do such a thing would be Towa, Demigra, and Fu…” Black said to himself.
"When I fought Demigra, I obliterated him, he wasn't alive." Nappa informed The warriors, "It affects the purest of souls, such as Max, Gohan, Vegeta, Gotenks, and Trunks."
Overlooking the arena, Doom listens in using the hidden tech he has been planting around the complex “Dark Ki, I see. I would have to limit my time out of my Armor.” He returns to his thoughts arms folded over his chest as he adds the new information into his plans.
“But that doesn’t explain why Eric is being affected,” Sombra said putting a hand to his chin
“Maybe the dark ki is latching onto negative emotions,” Kodo offered. “I don’t know what kind of friendship he had with that ‘Thanos’ titan, but it sounds like the dark ki is increasing any competitive spirit they had to outright rivalries. Princess Twilight Sparkle said that Sirens did something similar in a parallel world, but I didn’t get that much detail on what was happening then.”
“You know, the kid’s got a point,” Black said. “It’s not that far fetched now that I come to think about it.”
“No, that's not it,” Sombra insisted, cutting them off. “When Eric killed Umbra, the dark king cast a spell and infected his mind, I used the same spell to purge him with the help of the Element Bearers and the princesses.”
“After that Eric was able to use any of Umbra’s spells with no corruption to his mind” Sombra said retelling his tale. “By the theory Kodo stated, Eric shouldn’t be affected by this Dark Ki.”
Kodo sighed. “Lucky,” he muttered. “When I got purged, I lost all of Umbra’s abilities. Nearly lost my pack link too.” He hummed, processing the rest of Sombra’s words. “But if Eric’s being affected despite being possessed… maybe we’re all at risk.”
"Which begs the real question: Where Is all this Dark Ki going to next? What Is the Vessel? And why are they doing it?" Inquired Nappa.
“Which is why I came with an offer that could help if this Tournament went to shit.” Black said as he walked to the middle of the chamber. “The offer is that I’m willing to teach anyone here how to harness and use Ki.” The Saiyan offered. “Any of you can decline the offer, but it can be very helpful not just here, but in your universes.”
Kodo watched his claws turn into smoke. “And we can use this Ki even with the abilities we already have?” Kodo asked.
“Oh yeah, I’m currently working on combining ki with my new abilities.” Black said with a smile. “But I doubt that I could teach you all how to use Ki to its fullest before the end of the tournament.”
“I’m not sure,” Kodo noted, flaring up his pack link. “My mom described pack linking as being able to connect to not just the magic inside creatures, but their energy as well. After all, diamond dogs can’t do magic spells like unicorns, but my mom found a way.” He dissipated his link. “If this Ki is anything like the energy she used to power the pack, I think I could make some headway.”
“If that’s the case, this will be a lot easier than I thought.” Black said with a sigh, “I don’t consider myself a teacher, I’m barely able to teach Nightmare Moon. Other than that, want to take up on that offer?” The Saiyan asked the pup.
Kodo nodded with a grin. “My mother may be the diplomat, but my father was the fighter.” His ears briefly flattened. “He’s not gonna be able to be there for her now, so whatever I can learn to be her champion… I’ll gladly take it.”
“You speak the words of a True Saiyan Warrior, puppers,” Nappa said with a grin. “And training you all will go faster if I help as well.”
“That’ll be a lot of help Nappa.” Black thanked his fellow Saiyan. “Anyone else up for it?” Black asked as he looked to the rest of the Displaced.
"I SMELL MEEAAATTT!!!" Luffy ran into the Gravity chamber
Immediately the rubber man was grabbed by a large black claw.
“That’s the gravity room you dunce” Eric’s voice rang out as he entered the room, his arm engulfed in the shadow that was holding Luffy. “The lunch room is….”
Thanos ran through Eric and tackled Luffy, "You son of a bitch, you're not going anywhere until you finish our round of checkers!" Thanos got up, "Hey, why's everyone here?"
“Really? Do you honestly think this numbskull has the patience or intelligence to play checkers,” Eric said as his body reformed
"I believe in my comrades like I believe the heat death of the universe is impending. Just like Thanos snapping half of the universe. Couldn't be me, yup… couldn't be." Thanos said rising up to his full height, bruises and cuts on his body.
Black rolled his eyes, “I'm currently offering Ki training to everyone who doesn’t know how to use it. Thought of it as a precaution if the tournament went to shit.” Black explained.
“Sure, anything to take out this large purple Lard Ass,” Eric said, staring Thanos down.
“Oh, no…” Kodo grumbled, sending out a pack link in search of his mother.
“Hey ,” Black growled, “None of that here, alright!”
"Listen, I'm trying to be at least nice for once. And you gotta do your homie like that? Remember me helping good old Bow and Pie learn to be serious and admit their weaknesses? What about all the things you've learned from my boys?!" Thanos asked Eric.
“If one of you even has the thought of fighting each other in this damn chamber. By Luna’s stars I will knock the both of you the fuck out! Alright!” Black hissed.
“Fine,” Eric sneered
"Understood Black." Thanos nodded, "By The way, want some hetap?" Thanos suggested it to the Saiyan.
Without hesitation, the can exploded spraying the titan in its liquid. looking at the can Thanos found ten thin black darts inside.
"...You can insult my body, kick me to the ground but you do not fuck with my hetap." Thanos pulled out his sword. while Eric summoned his scythe.
“ENOUGH!!!!!! ” Black roared, his voice being amplified to sound like the Royal Canterlot voice. The Saiyan went straight into perfected Super Saiyan Rose, the pressure of the transformation pushing everyone back. “One more damn insult or action against each other, I will see to it personally that both Eric And Thanos won’t be getting any training at all, got it!” Black roared with a commanding voice.
“No training?!” Kodo barked in alarm, before flaring up his pack link… and bursting into smoke again. “Dangit, this should’ve been more intimidating!” Kodo whined. “I’m not missing out on this training, though! I will have order! Somehow!” Kodo was reduced to inelegant barking as he tried to reign his conflicting powers in. The others stared at the struggling pup, trying not to laugh.
“Understood Black,” Eric said retracting his blade and moving away from the titan
Thanos nodded at Black's order, sheathing his blade. "Alrighty…"
Black let out a heavy sigh, dropping out of Perfected Super Saiyan Rose. He rubbed his face, groaning at the amount of shit happening. “You’ll get your training Kodo, don’t worry.” Black said as he looked around the room.
“I believe the best course of action would be training them separately,” Sombra advised. “Maybe give Thanos to Nappa, and let Eric train with you Black”
“Sounds like a plan,” The Saiyan then looked at Kodo once more, “Who would you like to train with, kid?”
Kodo glanced between Nappa and Black, before turning back to Black. “If you’re training Eric, I’ll stick with you.” He gave an apologetic look to Nappa. “No offense, but I’m thinking working with Eric can help me get some better control over this Devil Fruit and maybe that Haki stuff.”
"But Nappa already taught me! I want to train under Black!" Thanos complained.
“Sorry Thanos, but I’ve got to handle a few.” Black apologized to the titan.
“Plus, I know Eric. He’ll just shove Nappa into his shadow again,” Sombra said, glancing at the bald Saiyan. “He should train with someone with more discipline”
"Ya got a point." Nappa sighed before crossing his arms.
“Yo,” Ed said as he came out of a portal. “Looks like you guys got it going on in here. I see that you perfected your god form Black.” He looked around and saw the pup. “I have something for you if you want a new weapon.”
Kodo’s ears perked, intrigued. “New weapon?” he asked.
“Yes,” Ed nods. “Are you familiar with katanas?”
Kodo tilted his head. “Not really, no,” he admitted. “I grew up with pick axes and mining stuff.”
“Katanas are primarily used for attacking in the defense of others, at least that’s how I see it'' Ed waved his hand out to the side and an old sword came from a golden ripple. “This is the Tessaiga. A sword forged from the fang of the great dog demon. It is used to defend those you love.” He held the weapon up to the pup.
“Whoa,” Kodo whispered in awe, taking the blade and holding it reverently in his claws.
“Katanas are also the traditional weapons of Samurai warriors in feudal era Japan” Eric said, admiring the weapon. “It’s a great honor to be blessed with the label of a Samurai”
Kodo tightened his grip on the weapon. “Then it will be an honor I will do my best to live up to,” he said solemnly.
“This is not the only sword I have for you pup,” Ed remarked as he pulled a simmer but cleaner looking sword from another ripple. “This is the Tenseiga, the brother sword of the one you hold. Unlike its brother, the tenseiga can’t kill, but save those who have died from any injury and kill the undead permanently. Use its power wisely, as it can only revive someone once.” Ed moved to give Kodo the second sword, before another visitor entered the chamber.
“Um… Kodo?” Shiva asked, having been summoned by his pack link.
“Mom!” Kodo yelped, clutching the Tessaiga to his chest.
“Why do you have… that?” she asked cautiously, glancing at the other displaced.
Instantly, Kodo’s thoughts spiraled out of his mind: “Black’s going to train me in Ki, and Ed was giving me these swords so I could protect you.”
For a moment, Shiva was silent, her eyes wide like a deer in the headlights.
“I can explain…” Kodo started to say, before Shiva shrugged.
“Okay.”
Kodo blinked, and the others glanced at her in shock. “O-Okay?”
“Kodo,” Shiva said with a laugh. “I got my tail handed to me on a silver platter by one of these guys.” She waved a claw at them. “If they’re willing to train you instead of hurt you… who am I to argue? Heck, I want in on it if there’s an offer open.”
“It’s still open.” Black said with a smile. “I think it will also both benefit if you both trained together.” Black explained.
“Agreed,” Shiva said, taking to Kodo’s side. “Just know,” she added teasingly to Kodo. “If you start talking to yourself about evil plans of taking over Equestria again…” Her voice briefly darkened. “We’ll have problems.”
Kodo chuckled sheepishly, but Shiva’s grin was disarming, making it clear she was joking.
“Those are incredible weapons,” Eric stated. “However if it was me, I’d be more of a Incursio or Murasame wielder anyday”
“Are those the blades you want then?” Ed asked as he looked at Eric with a serious glare.
“They are by far the best weapons from the entire manga.” Eric said shrugging his shoulders
“If you want them I can give them to you but I only have the copies for this world, meaning I will not have access to them unless I go to another world,” Ed explains. “So, do you want them?”
“I do,” Eric said, reaching into his body and pulling out The Fish-Fish Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon. “Here consider this an even trade.”
“More than even actually,” Ed took the fruit and in exchange pulled out Murasame and Incurio and handed them over to Eric. “I’d say you actually have earned another weapon for the fruit if you want.”
“If that’s the case,” Eric thought for a moment. “Do you have Issei’s sacred gear after he absorbed Vali’s Divine Dividing.”
“All of them have it but it's a matter of unlocking it,” Ed pointed out. “You’re more than powerful enough to have the balance breaker if you train a bit so yeah you could have it in no time.”
“Training is a daily habit of mine” Eric commented. “Anypony can take and master power, but it’s another thing entirely to train with it.”
“No kidding,” Shiva mused, causing Eric and Ed to notice she had wandered over to them.
“You sound like my younger brother,” Ed laughed. “Here’s your new sacred gear,” Ed held out his hand and in it was a perfectly round emerald with a burning orange fire inside it. “Just know that he can be a handful, hehehe…” He gave the orb to Eric and it transformed into a bright red gauntlet.
“Thank you Ed,” Eric said, sending the gauntlet away before returning his gaze to the alchemist. “But I have a question”
“What?” The alchemist tilted his head.
“You said I remind you of your brother,” Eric stated sending both Murasama and Incursio into his shadow body. “Was he also Captain of the Royal Guard as I was?”
“No he was captain of the Black Bulls Magic knight squad,” Ed shrugged. “He’s the Wizard King now technically but he is called the Black King by his people and all others of his world.”
“That is awesome for your brother,” Eric said, a frown soon covering his face. “I too was a king once”
“So was I about two thousand years ago,“ Ed added. “But now I’m just a boogie used to keep calves in their beds at night.”
Lucci came in, “Did anyone say… Black?” Lucci grinned, his voice more African American, and his skin black. “I’m black again, bitches!”
Instantly, Shiva gave him a stunned look. She glanced around. “I’m the only female dog here,” she pointed out.
Lucci went into his Hybrid Form, “I’m the only cat man here, what’s your excuse?” Lucci in his Half Leopard Half Human form looked down at Shiva, taller than her.
“You called for female dogs to notice that you were black again,” she replied with a shrug. “I guess… hooray for you, then.”
“Oh, that’s an insult. Bitch for Humans is offensive towards women… And men, it means that you get to fuck around with them, basically you being the Alpha. Or at least it’s that way in Prison, just like Thanos is a prison-” Lucci's was gut punched by Thanos.
“Shut. Up.” Thanos said before walking off.
Shiva watched the whole exchange with a confused expression. She glanced between Lucci and Thanos before shaking her head in confusion.
“You humans have very odd customs,” she decided.
“You can say that again. I would say I’m the last of my kind, but we have Mr. Clean over here.” Black said, pointing a thumb to Nappa with a grin.
“Go fuck yourself” Nappa shot a grin back at his comrade.
“You first, Michel Phelps,” Ed commented. “Has anyone seen Fujitaro?”
“Who said my name? Also, it’s Fujitora.” Fujitora walked slowly inside the chamber.
Shiva’s tail wagged at the sight of the blind swordsman. “Issho,” she greeted. “Good to…” she stopped herself, before opting to get closer. “Hello again.”
“Hello lady Shiva, I’ve been walking around feeling the breeze, winning any type of gambling.” Fujitora grinned, Nappa tiptoed closer to Shiva.
“Hey Shiva, have you met Candice?” Nappa snickered.
“My bad,” Ed scratched the back of his head. “Don’t answer that Shiva.” Ed said flatly
Shiva tilted her head at him. “Why? Who’s Candice?” she asked. Ed slapped himself in the face.
“CANDICE DICK FIT IN YO-” Immediately Fujitora unsheathed his sword that was concealed with a walking stick. Fujitora swiped at Nappa and Nappa was sent flying into a wall, horizontal Gravity pinning him to the wall.
At the same time, Shiva’s pack link flared out, binding tightly around Nappa’s neck. With a clench of her claws, Shiva’s pack link glowed golden, and a wave of exhaustion fell over Nappa as his energy left him. Black ignited his ki blade, and Kodo unsheathed the Tessaiga, with many others who wielded swords unsheathed their blades and aimed them at the bald saiyan. Eric flared his shadows and aimed numerous pointed tendrils at the Saiyan’s body
“You know in hindsight I shouldn’t have said that.” Nappa muttered under his breath. The Blind Admiral clenched his sword/cane.
“Ya think,” Ed stared at the pinned Sayian.
“No, you shouldn’t have,” Shiva advised, glancing at the others with a grin. “Thank you all for your support,” she added, before retracting her links.
“Case and point on why Thanos trains with this imbecile,” Sombra said, retracting his Haki covered blade from the saiyan’s throat.
“Why do you think I have a Nappa barrier around my world,” Ed rolled his eyes.
“Would you mind putting one around my Equestria?” Eric asked inching his tendrils closer
“Sure,” Ed nodded. “Summon me sometime.”
“He may be a bone head, but he is really helpful in situations if he starts being serious.” Black said, still pointing his Ki-sword at the Saiyan.
“Wait, you’re the Crimson Sage! YOU MADE THAT DAMN SEXBOT!!!!” Nappa turned into Super Saiyan Two and started to struggle and try to break free.
Black slammed his hand against his head, “You're still on about that?!” Black exclaimed.
“I’m going to permanently wax that dirty sanchez off your face,” Ed glared.
“I could always use Umbra’s spells and get rid of that undisciplined mind of his,” Offered the Shadow Man. “Could make him better, faster, Stronger...”
“Don’t do that, he is the literal guy with comedic effect here.” Lucci said, crossing his arms.
“I have an idea,” Ed said. “Technically I’m not part of the Tournament but that doesn’t mean i can’t fight someone. Whoever does fight me if they lose doesn’t count as a loss,” He looked at Napa. “Wanna go, baldy my bald?”
“Fuck yeah, square up!” Nappa growled before pausing, “Wait… The Dark Ki is having an influence on me.” Nappa sighed, and took deep breaths.
“Good that means I can beat the crap out of you with a clean concious,” Ed smiled, cracking his knuckles.
Black lowered his ki blade, walking up to a wall and leaned against it, Welp, looks like this is the end of him...
“Okay Nappa, not appropriate to say that to a woman with a child, not to mention a dog. That’s fucking illegal.” Thanos commented, pointing his sword at the Saiyan.
“Alright, let’s keep calm and-” Kyle summoned a portal to the wall he was pinned to and Nappa fell in. Kyle walked over to Fujitora with a smile on his face.
Thanos and Luffy were playing checkers and Luffy destroyed the checkers board. “OI!!! Do you know how much that cost?!” Thanos stood to his feet, Luffy shrugged.
“...In any case, everyone out here is getting power ups. That’s nice… Actually not so nice for me. But I do have Dragon Slayer Magic so I’m fine.” Thanos crossed his arms.
“Why is everyone getting stronger and we’re just sitting here? Come on, fight me!” Luffy looked at Thanos, Thanos frowned.
“...Fine.” Right as he said that Luffy let off a quick Jet Pistol, Thanos caught it and pulled Luffy close and punched him into the ground.
“I think somepony should find out what this Ryker is up to,” Maud said behind Nappa, causing him to jump in surprise. “Preferably one who can move around unnoticed."
“I agree with the badass martial arts earth pony,” Ed nodded.
"Oh me? I'm up to nothing, just a bored lad." Ryker laughed appearing behind Maud undetected.
Kodo jumped, bursting into smoke again with a bark of frustration. “Not again!”
Ryker laughed, "Oh you all forget, I hear everything! Also Kodo, keep calm and clear your mind. That helps a lot." Ryker told the pup.
From the cloud of smoke, Kodo managed to reform his claw giving a thumbs up, before the rest of his body cleared back into existence. “Thanks.”
"Yer welcome!" Ryker grinned.
“Hey mastermind of all evil that brought us here“ Ed said, getting Ryker’s full attention. “Me and the Mr. Clean with the gay satchel wannna fight.”
“...This is the literal day of Dr. Doom vs Kyle. Also, I’m not evil, evil depends on perspective.” Ryker informed the Sage.
“Okay then after doom and Kyle we wanna fight, and from my perspective, your evil,” Ed said with a deadpan expression. “Right now at least.”
“Where did you send Nappa to, Kyle?” Ryker turned to Kyle, Kyle wore a sadistic grin.
“To the realm of Furries…” Kyle then full on laughed, imagining the rawr x3’s and the owo’s.
Shiva and Kodo exchanged a glance with each other. “I have no idea what these ‘Furries’ are,” Shiva commented. “But they sound terrifying.”
“Indeed they do. I’m going on a walk if any of you guys wish to join me.” Fujitora then sheathes his blade back into its sheath and walks out of the chamber, or rather tries to and bumps into a wall.
“Very much so,” Ed nodded.
Shiva glanced at Black. “So, is the training with Ki later?”
“Well, we can begin with the basics on ki before the fight with Doom and Kyle. After that we can get into the more complicated bits.” Black said, crossing his arms.
“Looking forward to it, Black” Eric said flashing a grin and giving the saiyan a thumbs up as he summoned his boosted gear
“Same here,” Kodo agreed.
“Excuse me, where is the door?” Fujitora turned back to everyone.
“I got you,” Shiva said, gently guiding him towards the door.
“You have sharp nails, or you could even say they’re claws.” Fujitora noted as he walked out of the door before giving Shiva a thumbs up… Not even in her direction and looking at a wall.
“She’s a Diamond Dog, Fujitora,” Eric said for the blind man to hear. “None of their nails are for decoration.”
“A… dog?” Fujitora asked. A wave of sadness hit him, but Fujitora, the master of emotions suppressed them.
“Okay this is going to getting annoying in the near future,” Eric said approaching the blind swordsman and placing a hand over his eyes
Closing his eyes Eric began whispering under his breath causing purple wisps of magic to leave the corner of his eyes, opening them everyone saw that the whites of his eyes had taken a more greener hue
Fujitora unsheathed his blade, “Can you not touch me, or my eyesight? No, don’t-” Fujitora warned, “IF YOU DO, RYKER WILL KILL MY FAMILY!!!” Fujitora shouted out.
“Eric?” Shiva whispered in concern, but the shadow man was focused on his spell.
“Recover what you have lost” Eric spoke in a dark voice; one that made Kodo and Sombra shudder at the familiar voice. “Dark Rejuvenation”
Fujitora kept his eyes shut, refusing to open them. His teeth gritted, remembering what Ryker said all those years ago. “If you open your eyes, your whole family dies!”
The magic circling Eric’s hands and eyes faded as he moved away from the swordsman
“That spell should give you temporary eyesight,” Eric explained. “However it will only last a couple of hours.”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s temporary!” Fujitora barked, Fujitora raised his blade to his eyes. “I. Can’t. Open. Them.”
“Eric, I’m sorry, but if it’s going to hurt him this badly...” Shiva said, before offering up a pack link. “Issho, remain calm. I’m here.” Carefully, she wound her pack link around his eyes, and they pulsed with the same green light.
The pulse of light flew to Shiva’s claws like she was Shang Tsung absorbing a soul, and the white rope-like pack link faded from Fujitora’s head. When he opened his eyes again, they were once again white. Shiva held up the green ball in her claws.
“If you change your mind… or Ryker does, I suppose,” Shiva said carefully, lifting the spell up. “I can return the effects. It’s your choice.”
Magic returned around Eric’s eyes as he fired a orb at the blind man causing him to collapse, fortunately Eric caught him with his shadows and set him down gently
“Why must you hurt me this way?” Fujitora asked to the heavens, which was actually Eric as he slowly began to lose consciousness.
“Eric, what did you do?” Shiva demanded, taking to Fujitora’s side.
“What I did was get to the bottom of his distress,” Eric said kneeling down and placing a hand on the swordsman’s head
Eric turned to Shiva before offering a hand.
“I will need your help, he seems to trust you enough.” Eric said
Shiva almost reached out for his hand, before pausing. “You’re not going to throw me into that shadow realm again, are you?” she asked cautiously.
“You have my word,” Eric said, reassuring the Pack leader. “I will never send you there again.”
After a moment of reading his face, Shiva saw the truth in his eyes, and took his hand, her pack link spiraling to life.
“And I always keep my word,” Eric said before whispering the incantation.
“Dig deep into the unknown” Eric said as Shiva began to feel the familiar feeling of sharing memories through the pack link. “Dark Invasion.”
Shiva lit up like a light bulb, and the world faded away into light and shadow. Opening their eyes they were met with an endless white void filled with nothing but numerous doors, each a different shape, color, and design.
“Huh,” Shiva noted. “This is… different from when my pack link usually shares memories.”
“Well Lady Shiva, while your pack link shares memories, Umbra’s magic spell invades one’s mind to see their memories and tamper with their personality”
Shiva backed up. “Tamper with… Eric,” she said firmly. “You can’t ask me to corrupt his mind like that!”
“Fear not Shiva,” Eric said, calming the dog down. “We are merely observers in here” Eric said walking down the void before stopping when he remembered something. “Oh, and don’t touch anything, one wrong move and we could trigger Fujitora’s defenses”
“I’m well aware of the mind’s defenses,” she assured him, following after him with caution. “Different species have different reactions to my link rooting around in their minds.” A wave of curiosity drew her. “What kind of defenses should we be prepared for?”
“Well, as you mentioned, it’s different with everypony,” Eric commented as he passed door after door as if he was looking for a particular one. “For me, my defenses took the images of my past, before I was displaced.”
Shiva listened intently, staying right by his side as he searched.
“Mother... Father... Even my friends and nobles I played for,” Eric said, dropping his head. “I honestly wish I could erase those memories, but alas I can’t enter my own mind and Sombra refuses to do it for me.”
Shiva nodded solemnly. “I understand what you mean,” she said. “Sometimes I wished I could get rid of the memories of my time in the fighting pits.” She shuddered. “What scares me is how easy it would be. To simply transfer them to another dog or a dragon or someone that isn't affected.” Her ears flattened, and her eyes steeled. “But I could never do that. No one deserves that pain.”
“I could get rid of them,” Eric said, stopping in his tracks before turning to look at the Diamond Dog. However, she shook her head.
“No,” she said. “Even if they are unpleasant, those memories shaped me. They gave me experience. They helped me grow strong. And taking them away…” she shook her head. “I don’t know what that would do to me, but I don’t want their loss to change me into something less of who I am.”
“Heh..” Eric chuckled, confusing Shiva.
“You find that funny?” she asked.
“No I don’t. It’s just you sound like Amber when you talk about what we gain in our most horrible experiences.” Eric said, laughing a little before stopping
Shiva smiled softly at his words. “It sounds like she was a wise woman,” she noted, her head lowering. “I’m sorry I never got to meet her.”
“Well she wasn’t that wise if she fell for an abomination like me,” Eric laughed out of sorrow for his loss. “She was the best thing to happen to me when I got displaced.”
“When I first started dating her she had this weird way of preventing me from saying no to her” Eric said smiling. “She even reignited the spark for my love for music. Funny right? On earth I had a love for it but my parents ruined it for me, you’d think I’d stay away from it at any costs on Equestria...”
“But she found a way to make it something wonderful again,” Shiva noted with a grin. “My Luke was the same way… diamond dog romance isn’t quite the same as pony romance, but… whenever other diamond dogs wanted to test my strength or thought I was only good for breeding… he’d be there for me. And… I could power him with the pack link, but he always insisted on fighting alone. He said that it proved his strength when he could fight without aid.” She smiled. “He’d get the utter diamonds beat out of him, but he’d always find a way to win in the end. And then, I’d patch him back up, and…” She smiled softly. “Oh, he was a wonderful male.”
“Love is the strongest magic of all,” Eric said smiling.
“Even stronger than friendship,” Shiva agreed.
Eric stopped all of a sudden, causing Shiva to bump into him
“We're here,” Eric said looking to his left
Shiva followed his gaze. Eric’s gaze was trained on a metal bolted door locked with chains and iron bars, on the door was a single black word written in dark red letters
Ryker.
Shiva glanced at Eric. “This is the place?”
“Yes,” Eric said approaching the door. “Everyone’s mind is like this, others are darker than this one, but all their memories are organized, it’s just a matter of finding the right door.” Eric said putting a hand on the door
It was then that Shiva noticed that every other door each had their own unique doorknob, while this one had none. Her eyes narrowed, and she stepped closer to the door. The smell of iron and blood filled her nostrils. She shuddered, before looking at Eric.
“So,” she said. “What we’re doing here… it will help him?”
“No it won’t” Eric said, noticing a small keyhole.
“However…?” Shiva asked hopefully.
“It will shed some light on why he tried to destroy his eyes” Eric said, turning his arm into shadow and putting it into the keyhole. “And it will hopefully tell us what Ryker is up to.”
“Cause I trust him about as much as I can out eat Pinkie in a cupcake eating contest” Eric said turning his arm and unlocking the door
Shiva huffed in amusement, before turning back to the door and helping Eric push it open.
“Whatever Ryker has on Fujitora will be in here” Eric said slowly forcing the door open.
Suddenly the door swung open causing the pair to tumble righting into the image of one of Fujitora’s memories. Immediately Eric stopped the two of them from making contact by grabbing the diamond dog by the nape and firing a tendril to tie itself around the door.
“Somepony definitely doesn’t want us here,” Eric said, pulling the Diamond Dog from the memory.
“No kidding,” Shiva mumbled, clinging to his arm like it was a lifeline, as her pack link bound itself around his arm.
What they saw was Fujitora in a town, not just any town; the town that they entered before entering the arena. Fujitora “looked” around and realized he couldn't see.
“I can’t see... I can’t see! Where’s the lights?” He waved his arms forwards and realized something was in his hand, he then felt it with his two hands and it was… A wooden sheath, not that Fuijtora could see it.
“Oi, old man, did you forget that you’re blind?” Someone walked up to him, someone who Eric recognized as Douglass Bullet.
“Blind? I’m not blind!” Fujitora clenched his fists.
“Your eyes say otherwise,” Bullet replied. He then poked Fujtora’s eyes, Fujitora tried to open them but it was strained yet… He couldn’t see.
“So this is the moment he became Displaced,” Eric commented, moving on to the next memory. “And remember what I told you touch nothing, not even the memory images”
“I understand,” Shiva assured him. “Even in my pack linking, it was dangerous to mess with memories. I still remember the mess that happened when I accidentally transferred a memory so one diamond dog thought he was with his blood brother’s mate.” She shuddered. “I’m not going through an experience like that again,” she added as they moved on to the next memory, showing Fujitora running. Bullet right on his tail.
“Hey! You’ll fall down old man!” Bullet chased after the Blind Swordsman, Fujitora pushed everyone and everything aside before falling. He then scurried to his feet only to run into someone.
“Sorry, excuse me, I’m very lost.” Fujitora said, rubbing the back of his head, the two walked past Fujitora and saw Ryker. His crown upon his head.
“I can see that... oh, I’m sorry, sir, didn’t mean to offend you.” Ryker said with a smile, Fujiotra sighed.
“It’s alright,” Fujitora sighed, Ryker put a hand close to his chin.
“What do you say you come with us? We can help you in ways you couldn’t even imagine, even revive your dog.” Ryker promised, Fujitora took a step back.
“How do you-” Fujitora was cut off by Ryker.
“We Eliatropes can see… EVERYTHING.” Ryker chuckled, Ryker grabbed Fujitora’s arm.
“This will be the start of a beautiful friendship!” Ryker laughed.
“I hope so…” Fujitora grumbled, as the memory came to an end.
“This is where he met Ryker,” Eric commented. “Good.”
“We’re close to the memory you’re looking for?” Shiva asked.
“Indeed,” Eric said. Together, the Shadow Man and the Howlite Howler followed the stings of memories as they played out into an office, Ryker on one side, and Fujitora on the other.
“So, Fujitora… You’ve been here for about twelve years, no?” Ryker said.
“Indeed sir.” Fujitora nodded.
“And in that time, you’ve done excellent work… But there’s a time where we must be serious." Ryker began, "And now, I'm sorry to say this but… If you open your eyes I will kill your family."
"What?!" Fujitora nearly fell back on his chair.
“Now understand this,” Ryker said with a grin on his face. “We’ll start a tournament with a few specific Displaced in mind, when they lose that is when….”
The memory froze, immediately the entire voice started to tremor very violently
“Oh shit” Eric cursed as the tremors got worse affecting Shiva in a negative way
Shiva curled into a fetal position, gripping her ears with her claws. “What’s happening?” she whined. “W-Why ‘Oh shit?’”
“We need to get out of here” Eric said as he slowly began to back up keeping his eyes on every memory image
Shiva backed up with him, turning back to the tendril connecting them to the door. She gripped his wrist, and a pack link strengthened the shadow tendril, pulling them away from the memory. without warning she was plucked from the Shadow Man's grip by a red-eyed clouded version of Fujitora
“Shiva!” Eric yelled, sending a shadow ball right into the blind man's head right as she lashed out with a pack whip, causing him to let her go.
Shiva yanked herself back to Eric’s side with her pack link, another pack link tendril forming a shield in case the red-eyed version tried again.
“Eric What’s happening,” Shiva asked. “Is that his defense?”
“Yes and no” Eric said hastily pulling himself and the Diamond Dog out of the memory room. “Help me with the door!” Eric said pulling on of the beams covering the metal door
Lashing her tendrils at the red-eyed images inside, Shiva pulled with everything she had, trying to close the door.
“Yes these are his defenses, the red eyes are always a dead give away” Eric said as the other images in the room turned to face the pair with their burning red eyes.
Fear gripped the Diamond Dog as the door slowly began to move. Winding her pack links tighter around her wrists, she pulled harder, willing the door to open faster.
“However, it wasn’t us who triggered them,” Eric said
“Then who?” Shiva asked. “Ryker?”
“That tremor was a Mental Quake” Eric explained as the images began to climb the wall leading to the door. “It’s like a secondary defense measure, a firewall to keep unwanted invaders out”
Shiva shook her head in shock, unfurling one of her links to lash out at the red-eyed defenders. “This is way more advanced than anything I’ve used with the pack link,” she muttered.
“Normally I’m in and out, remember this is Dark Magic” Eric said before firing another ball of shadow at the images. “Nopony wants that kind of shit in their mind, however this is a far stronger tremor than I’ve ever felt”
The Red-eyed images of Fujitora were almost upon them and the door wasn’t even a third of the way closed.
“Fuck it! Forget the door!” Eric said letting go and making a run down the void. Shiva gave chase after Eric, lashing her link-whips at the red-eyed images as they opened the door with ease and gave chase.
“So, out of curiosity, what happens when they catch us?” Shiva asked, running on all fours like a wolf. “I doubt they’re gonna give us biscuits and talk about the weather.”
“Well for starters any damage we sustain here will happen to our real bodies” Eric said using his powers to conjure a horse, mounting the shadow beast Eric grabbed the dogs arm and pulled her up. “Best conserve our energy.”
“Why?” Shiva asked, shifting to the shadow horses flanks and continuing to try and fend off the images with her pack link. However, Eric merely pointed ahead. And what he had to show caused Shiva’s pale fur to somehow get paler.
Ahead of them, all of the memory doors began to open themselves, from each door every Fujitora Images glared at them with primal carnage as they left their respective memories
“A mind’s defenses doesn't just send the memory you tamper with after you” Eric said forming a scythe in his hand.
“It sends them all,” Shiva realized, tucking her tail. “Please tell me you have a way out of this,” Shiva noted.
“I do,” Eric said not convincing the Diamond Dog
“Well, now’s a really good time to show me,” she replied, struggling to sound casual. “Because this is way out of my experiences with the pack link.”
“I need to recite the spell to get us out of here” Eric said before springing on the bad news. “However with Fujitora’s defences up it’ll take longer to break out.”
“How long?” Shiva replied, reforming her whips.
“I’ll need at least twenty seconds of total concentration,” Eric said. “Unfortunately we’re limited to our base powers and our magic, any abilities you got from the others is useless here”
“And to make matters worse the memories recover any damage done every ten seconds”
Shiva nodded, the fear rapidly replaced by a mask of determination. “Then get started,” she growled, spinning her whips into shields of light. “I’ll hold them off as long as I can.”
“Try not to die,” Eric warned as he rode through the images. “I’d hate to have to tell the pup I got his mother killed.”
Shiva almost barked a laugh at Eric’s advice at not dying, but the mention of her son brought a new fire to her eyes. Swinging her whips like a ball and chain, she smashed aside the images with a howl of defiance, carving a path through the images.
While atop his shadow steed, Eric tried to concentrate on returning to their bodies, unfortunately the images kept jumping after him.
Shiva did her best to fend them off, spinning and flipping as her whips crackled around her in arcs of pure destruction. But minute after minute of non stop flipping and spinning began to disorient the diamond dog. She started to struggle to stand on the steed, and nearly threw up in the face of one of the images.
“How’s it coming, Eric?”
“Not good,” Eric said before he and his steed fell to the ground from the unbearable weight of Fujitora’s gravity. “Not...Good...at...all”
Shiva hit the ground rolling, the ground spinning out from under her and keeping her from regaining her paws. Out of sheer desperation, her pack link surged out of her back, forming into spears of light that stabbed and pierced the images that tried to surround them like a crazed spider. Yet, even then, the pack links flickered and struggled to do damage.
“We… can’t lose,” Shiva growled, forcing herself up. “Kodo… Celine… I’m not leaving you yet!”
Forcing himself up to a single foot Eric grit his teeth from the pure will he displays. “You’re not… leaving them! And I’m… not… leaving… Luna!” Eric mustered out as the images of Fujitora jumping into the air, unsheathing their swords to deliver the killing blow.
Eric slammed his hand into the ground causing a eruption of shadow, knocking the images against the doors and walls
Shadow Soul: Soul of the Knight.
Eric’s size grew by an additional ten feet as the shadow covered his entire body becoming thick plated armor, in his left hand a large round shield, in his right was a twenty feet long claymore with a cross guard that looked like it was forged by god himself.
Shiva gazed up at Eric’s 17 foot tall form, her pack links flickering out as she stumbled on her paws in awe. “Holy…”
“Get. On.” Eric spoke in a deep commanding voice as his pointing his thumb to his back
Too tired and shocked to question it, Shiva jumped up and scrambled onto his back, climbing up to his shoulder and perching herself there like the world’s weirdest parrot.
“And Hang on” Eric said rushing forward breaking the sound barrier
Shiva’s pack links sprung to life, tying themselves to Eric’s shoulder. Shiva hung on for dear life, as hordes of the blind swordsman swarmed around the shadow knight. However Eric kept a calm demeanor as he raised his shield and plowed through the swarm with ease. Eventually they all retreated to their respective doors
“Yes,” Shiva whispered in glee. “Yes, go back. Go back and please don’t come back…” She leaned her head against Eric’s shoulder. “By everything sacred…”
“Not Over Shiva,” Eric said pointing to the area ahead of them with no door on a large Fujitora image. “The Final Boss!”
Shiva stared deadpan at the giant Fujitora, before making a choked sound that was somewhere between a laugh and a sob. “Why not?” she mumbled.
“Piece of Advice, never celebrate early” Eric said, tossing his shield away and gripping both hands on the claymore hilt. “It’s like begging the universe to say fuck you to yourself.”
“I could’ve sworn I learned that when Chrysalis did it,” Shiva pondered.
The Fujitora image stepped forward drawing his katana before pointing it at the shadow knight and his passenger. The force was nothing to Eric. However Shiva began to feel her bones start to break.
She clutched her trembling arms. “What’s he doing?!” she demanded.
“It’s the Power of his Devil Fruit, he can control the force of gravity, to the point where he could take the moon out of the sky if he wished” Explained Eric as he wrapped her in shadow and transferred her a safe distance away
“You guys are insanely overpowered,” Shiva mumbled from her spot. “Did I ever mention that?”
“It’s not power, it’s control” Eric said, rushing the image and crossing blades with it. “Any idiot can wield an overpowered force, but a powerful one knows how to properly control it.”
Eric pushed the image away and held his sword up.
“Observe” Eric said as the blade began absorbing the surrounding shadow. “Shadow Excalibur...” Eric said bringing the blade to his side holding it parallel to the ground
“...THRUST!!!” Eric Screamed rushing forward breaking the sound barrier
Both combatants charge each other, a single clash of their swords rang through the mind. an explosion of shadow utterly destroyed the memory Fujitora and sent a shockwave through the entire mindscape
With the Image defeated and all the doors sealed shut Eric powered down and helped Shiva to her paws.
“You alright?” Eric asked concern for his comrade
Shiva rolled her shoulder. “Been better, been worse,” she replied. “One thing’s for certain.” She glanced around. “This is easily the craziest adventure I’ve ever had. Of all time.”
“True,” Eric said looking over her injuries. “I’ll heal you once we return to our bodies.”
“Thank you,” Shiva agreed, settling next to him. Though her ears remained flat and her tail tucked.
Magic enveloped the pair as Eric began to speak the spell
“Dark Invasion”
The pair was enveloped in a dark light as they vanished from Fujitora’s mindscape, blinking their eyes they were met with not only the gravity room but the pain they sustained in the mind of the blind swordsman.
Eric’s hand was covered in a dark aura as he cast his Dark Rejuvenation spell on Shiva, concern entered her eyes as she shifted her gaze to the sleeping swordsman.
“This man is just as much a victim as we are,” she mused. “And yet… my heart tells me that we should fear him.” She looked up at Eric, and let her thoughts get carried to him in a pack link: “Whatever Ryker’s plans are… they involve him in some way.”
“Do us all a favor Shiva” Eric pleaded
“And be silent about that?” she asked.
“No, when it comes time to fight Ryker and his forces” Eric said, helping the Diamond Dog to stand. “Don’t fight him, if you thought they were strong in his mind then remember, those were memories of him.”
“And that big one was him from when he first got here,” Eric said, bringing more fear to the Diamond Dog.
"Dr. Doom and Kyle to the arena stage, Dr. Doom and Kyle to the arena stage please." The being over the intercom droned.
Doom chose to live up to the saying ‘what’s the difference between a villain and a supervillain? presentation.’ He activates his armor's antigravity systems and floats into the air, his cloak blowing in the wind A force field of blue around him.
Kyle just sighed, slowly and looked at his palm, a tiny little speck of sand was on it. Kyle clenched his fist. Kyle made a portal next to him, his palm glowing as he did he walked inside it, glancing at Doom before he did.
Dr. Doom stepped in the sunlight, Ryker cleared his throat.
"In this corner we have the mad lad, the man with a plan, the Doctor that doesn't recommend colgate as toothpaste; Dr. DOOOOMMM!!!!" Ryker said, the crowd going wild afterwards.
“Kyle, take heart that I take no pleasure in this. I shall let you attempt to hit me with all you can muster first.” Doom stats his force field shut off as he steps onto the sand.
Kyle walked into the sunlight, "And here in this corner we have Kyle. That's it, just Kyle." Kyle flipped Ryker off who returned it back with another warm smile.
"Alright, I'll make sure that I go full power from the start." Kyle nodded at Doom.
Doom was a man of his word having said he was going to let Kyle strike first he just approached Kyle with an easy stride.
"The battle begins in three!"
Kyle clenched his fists.
"Two!"
Kyle started to stretch.
"One"
Kyle then took a deep inhale and looked at Doom itself into its eyes.
"FIGHT!!!"
And so the battle began, Kyle ripped off his shirt. As he did that blue symbols appeared all over his torso, his legs, and arms too. Kind of like tribal symbols, the blue symbols glowed and Kyle summoned dual wielding blades made out of an energy Dr. Doom did not recognize. A blue aura erupted around him like a volcano, he then took off his hat revealing wings of dragons but made out of Wakfu. He started to float into the air, his wings keeping him afloat, portals appeared all over Dr. Doom surrounding him like a dome. Kyle then went in the portals, flying in portal after portal and speeding up. Kyle rammed himself into Dr. Doom.
One hit was what Dr Doom offered and as soon as his armor registered the blow his teleportation system kicked on and he was back in the air. His force field reactivates and two sword-like blades extend from his gauntlets. The Ionic Blades were sharpened to an atom thick and charged with energy. “My Turn,” with that Doom opened his palm and sent a blast of atomic energy hot enough to melt steel at Kyle.
But due to him flying in and out of portals, becoming faster and faster he evaded the attack, Kyle then shot a blast of Wakfu at the doctor, going back to the portal and flying about.
Doom had boosted his force field to resist the chi blast he saw Thanos use. The energy of the Wakfu struck the field producing a light show as the two energies react to each other, however that was all the result. The magical and technological powered force field could restand the blows of the incredible hulk as well as the energy of the beings of near omega level power.
With a rush of speed he shot down his Ionic blades charged up he released a slashing charge of energy at Kyle. “Portals won’t protect you for long. Keeping them open is a drain on your resources.”
“You’re right.” Kyle said, his voice seemingly coming from everywhere, the portals collapsed and Kyle stood there at the other end of the arena. “So, Doctor… What do you call a Banana when he needs to leave?” Kyle asked him as he clenched his swords.
“Now no need to split on my part, why don’t you stick around.” He made the finger gun motion a small black pebble appeared heading to Kyle, then it started growing to the size of a beach ball. The orb of blackness if touched would stick to the person, much like Syndrome used on Mr. Incredible in the Incredibles.
“Hey!” Kyle tried to shake it off, he then decided to try and cut it, however he failed. “What the hell is this?!” Kyle asked the Doctor.
“A little lead laced polymer. Or you might call it fire proof leaded glue. Got the idea from something Hans shared with me.”
Outer walls
Phoenix had been scaling the outer walls as the matches went on. He had little interest in the other competitors anymore, now that he had a mystery to solve. And by god did he love mysteries. He made multiple circles around the arena, but came across nothing of interest. “Shit, thought I was onto something earlier. Oh well.” So instead, he teleported to the room where his kunai had found Link.
Right as he did that he was punched in his nose by a metal fist, the force made him fall on his ass. Phoenix looked up to his attacker to see the Arkham Knight.
“You shouldn’t be here.” Arkham Knight looked down at the blue haired jackass.
“That, mister, is exactly why I’m here.” Phoenix gave a cocky grin before metal bending his armour off.
“You need to go back.” What he saw was a cybernetic African American, metal parts where metal parts shouldn’t be, he wore a cybotic eye which glowed red. “You must go now, you really need to go before Ryker comes over here.” Warned the cyborg.
“Now, just hypothetically speaking,” Phoenix put his hands together in front of him. “What if I didn’t?”
“You will be sent back to your universe or even worse… The White Void.” Arkham Knight shivered.
Bringing a hand to his chin, Phoenix thought over what he had just heard. “You do drive a hard bargain……. But then again…..” Phoenix spun his waist around and delivered a punch straight to the cyborg's face. “I’m a betting man.”
The Arkham Knight took the punch unflinchingly, he then grabbed Phoenix by the neck as an Eliatrope walked by.
“Alice, escort him to the arena.” Arkham Knight applied even more pressure onto the bastard.
“Pfffft, fuck that.” Phoenix squeaked out. And with a click of his fingers, he was gone.
“He could have gone far, lock down the castle!” Arkham Knight ordered getting his armor back on, switching it to the Sea Prism Stone setting.
“You’re right, I couldn’t have gone far.” Phoenix said from behind Arkham Knight. Placing a finger to the side of his head, Phoenix whispered. “Disaster, sleep.”
Arkham Knight fell down onto his side, asleep, Alice summoned her Wakfu weapon. A Wakfu Halberd, Alice ran at Phoenix spinning it around then trying to slam it down on Phoenix.
Slipping off his ring, he took the blow in the chest, before chopping Alice on the neck with the side of his hand. “Rules were, no healing when in a match.” Stepping back, he removed the halberd from his chest before closing the wound. He then slipped the ring back on, just in case.
Multiple armored up Eliatropes came from portals that were formed behind Alice. Their armor was similar to that of a Storm Guard’s but it couldn’t be different, being more human and not gorilla like. They summoned their Wakfu Shields and Swords.
“Ughhhh, can ya’ll just fuck off! I just wanna speak with Ryker for fuck sake!!” Phoenix shouted, before jumping back into a fighting position, his weapon drawn.
They stopped, looking at each other then back at Phoenix.
“Why didn’t you just say so?” The Guard asked, before walking through a portal and coming out with Ryker.
“What is it? I’m missing the match.” Ryker deadpanned at Phoenix before realizing he’s out of the arena. “Oh wait, I must’ve forgotten to incorporate that. Silly me,” He said before a collar appeared on Phoenix’s neck. “Okay now what are you saying?”
“First off, kniky.” Phoenix said, tugging at his collar. “Second, I think this would go a lot smoother over a game of chess. What say you?”
“Kinky indeed, but anyways, sure why not? May not be the best player but I’m not the worst. Unlike Bullet.” Ryker said dismissing the Guards, they took the Arkham Knight away. “To my room! And no, don’t even start.” Ryker walked forward then took a right, going through a wall.
Phoenix followed suit just behind him, but with a hint of distrust. Ryker and Phoenix walked down the hallways that followed the wall, they soon reached Ryker’s room. To their right, Ryker opened the door for Phoenix and he let himself in. Ryker soon followed and a chess table was right in front of them with their respective pieces.
“Mind if I go white?” Phoenix asked.
“Ya got a problem with black?” Ryker joked. “Shoot for it kiddo.” Ryker took a seat, mid air without any chair to support him, there was a chair on Phoenix’s side but not Ryker’s.
“Haha very funny.” Phoenix rolled his eyes before walking over to the table. Kicking the chair out the way, he levitated Chastiefol from his back before reverting it to it’s pillow form. Taking a seat on it, he levitated it just in front of the table, almost ressemblent of a genie. He then made his move.
“Ladies go first.” Ryker offered, his emerald eyes glowing.
“The worst part about the statement is that I can’t prove otherwise.” Phoenix chuckled, gesturing for Ryker to make his move.
“So, what do you want to talk about Phoenix Wri- Phoenix.” Ryker moved his pawn.
Moving his pawn, Phoenix spoke without looking up at Ryker. “What did you get from Link? Other than that potion thingy. I already read your mind, but somethings came out blurry, or unexplainable.”
“The Fierce Deity enchantments.” Ryker informed the blue haired man, he moved another pawn on the far right. “What I’m using it for is… To make someone stronger, and no, it’s not me.”
“I see.” Phoenix moved his horse to the center. “Well, may I ask as to whom else you plan on taking from? Looked to me that Shiva had nothing to your liking.” Phoenix hadn’t looked up at Ryker once, but instead studied the board.
“Shiva has a variety of abilities. Her Pack Links are fruitful, although Katakuri would be angry if I took her into my lab. Shiva reminds him too much of his mother, and you know men, always protecting those that are close to them.” Ryker moved his horse from his board and onto the far left.
“Can’t say I’d know about that.” Phoenix moved a pawn up. “So, predictions for who will win? I may be going off topic, but you and me both know I’m here to make you slip info; I’m not even going to try and hide that fact.”
“You are? I couldn’t tell.” Ryker said sarcastically. “I predict it will be either Eric or Thanos winning. Though Black has a multitude of abilities that can destroy this very earth we walk on, I do not believe he can handle Eric’s shadow souls. Especially from what happened to… him. ” Ryker put emphasis on him, as he moved his Bishop from the same spot that he moved his pawn from.
“No faith in me? I’m heart broken.” Phoenix chuckled, “Though, I get where you’re coming from. Those guy’s energy levels are like nothing I’ve ever seen before.” Phoenix moved his pawn on the far right.
“You know… I believe you may have a shot at beating Thanos. He seems… Off. Like he’s full of regret.” Ryker told Phoenix before he moved his other pawn. “If you can exploit that weakness you can crush his will to fight, as well as hisap resolve.”
“Noted.” Phoenix said, nodding to himself.
“Not going to lie ya both have very decent chess skills,” Ed faded into the room sitting next to the duo.
“Thank you Edward, joining into the conversation aren’t we?” Ryker raised an eyebrow looking towards the Sage.
“Ryker, we both know you knew he was there ages ago.” Phoenix said, pointing a thumb to the new company.
“Not gonna lie as I said, it took me a couple of tries to get in this place, you’ve got it pretty decently shielded,” He held up his arm to reveal his blackened hand. “I had to break out my void energy to get here.”
“Thank you Edward, from yourself, a Void Dweller, that’s a large compliment.” Ryker grinned, “Also, your move Phoenix.”
“Right, apologies.” Phoenix made his move, though he wasn’t too focused on the game anymore. His attention was on milking the info from the two with him.
“Not a fully realized dweller yet more like a seed,” Ed corrected with a sigh. “My deal with Truth let’s me draw on its power as its avatar. It takes a considerable amount of time to gather void energy of this amount on my own. Enough of the now, I’m here now. Who exactly are trying to save and why this tournament. I already gather the tourney to gather as much power as possible as fast as possible and now I have the incentive. The thing I lack is the knowledge as to why you didn’t just ask for help outright.”
“And what makes you think that I’m trying to save someone?” Ryker asked, “The Dark Ki? If that’s what you think then you are sorely mistaken.” Ryker then moved his pawn on the far left.
“Don’t toy with me boy,” Ed grew darker in color. “I could just as easily send them all back and seal off your world from ever being accessed by displaced again.”
Grabbing a piece that had been removed from play, Phoenix flicked it at Ed’s head. “Cool your jets, you oaf. That won’t get you anywhere. What we need is answers, not threats, and right now you’re failing to bring anything useful to my hand; so if that’s all you have to say, buzz off!”
“Hm… I guess I could tell you.” Ryker sighed, he moved his Rook, “I’m trying to save my daughter.” Ryker answered.
“I’m old not stupid but that doesn’t mean I won’t act on my own,” Ed held up the pawn. “I honestly think you’re a good person Ryker, that’s why I stuck around after you pulled me here, that and a tourney is good entertainment for one such as myself and my benefactor. So I'll help you save your daughter. I had one of my own children murdered and I couldn’t do a single thing. It was horrible as I watched it happen.”
“I’m a bored old soul, I need entertainment. It’s been around… A few ten thousand years before I actually got entertainment.” Ryker informed them, “Your move Phoenix.”
“You know, for a smart guy like you, you’re really quick to believe him.” Phoenix said, finally looking up from the table and towards Ed. “As much as I love a good sob story, I’m finding it difficult to believe a man with as much power as Ryker couldn’t save his daughter himself. Obviously no offense to you.” Phoenix turned to Ryker as he finished. He then moved his rook.
“It’s hard to lie to truth,” Ed said as part of his face was a black void.
“You’d be surprised bitch boy.” Phoenix scoffed at Ed. “I am the embodiment of ‘Lying’ itself.”
“You and I will never fully get along kiddo,” said another voice from all around. “Don’t forget I'm merely using my avatar to speak with everyone. I can't do more unless he says I can so. Don’t be so tense!”
“Fucking asshole,” Ed scoffed.
“She’s trapped in another dimension, I need the energy to get to that dimension. It’s impossible to reach unless you…” Ryker stopped before sighing, He then moved his Bishop to take out Phoenix’s Rook.
“I see. Well, as much as I want to believe you, I can’t. Or more specifically, won’t.” Phoenix moved a pawn. “My closest friends have lied to me, so why should I believe a stranger. A stranger who just so happens to be keeping monsters with power levels in the millions in your basement.”
“Ed, I’ll need you to sign this paper, because I kind of need you to do that to get my daughter back.” Ryker held up a paper to him that said.
“I Ed, will not interrupt any matches, nor harm anyone until Ryker says otherwise. I will also not leave until Ryker says otherwise.
Sign here ____________”
“Ed, I swear to god, if you sign that, I will gut you from armpit to asshole!” Phoenix shouted, almost knocking the pieces off the table. “We need more info!” He then picked his bishop and slammed it into place.
“You’re getting info out of me, are you not? How about something, I’ll tell you anything, but only if he signs that paper. Cross my heart, hope to fly, and stick a cupcake in my eye.” Ryker swore, moving a pawn.
“You, know, if Pinkie saw a god of war and destruction such as yourself copy her tradition, I think she’d faint.” Phoenix said, taking Ryker’s pawn.
“Yes we are but not what we want,” Truth cackled.
“I won’t be signing anything without my lawyer present,” Ed leaned back in the air as he folds his arms behind his head floating there. “I have no intention of stopping anything. Like I said before, this tournament is fun to watch. Unless I see the need I won’t step in, but that being, Black is my family and I won’t let you touch him unless he gives you permission, do and I completely destroy everything and devour you and every last soul in the universe.”
“That sounds dirty.” Ryker responded, “Also, noted.” He said before muttering “If you even can you prick…”
“Ed, you're giving him more info then we’re getting -useful info anyways- so if you don’t keep running your mouth we’re gonna have quite the kerfuffle!” Phoenix shot a glare at Ed before continuing. “God why do I always get teamed up with fucking idiots!!” He raised his hands in the air before letting them fall to his side.
“Calm down, we’re playing chess.” Ryker pointed out before moving another pawn, and Phoenix took it, taking a deep breath before he strangled someone.
“And how does that affect me?” Ed looked over. “We’re here for entertainment, not to help unnecessarily. It may seems like I help you guys but it’s only to further my own enjoyment.”
“Shut up you prick and quit using my voice to talk,” Ed yelled. “I fucking hate you.”
“You’re interrupting our game with that nasty attitude.” Ryker shot Ed a side-eyes glance, his green eyes glowing.
“Bite me asshole!” Ed returned the glares, his eye shifting to his Mangekyo sharingan.
“This is going nowhere.” Phoenix sighed, before moving up a piece. It was only then he realised he was losing badly in terms of positioning.
“I apologize, I was trying to be civil.” Ryker moved up another piece before grinning. “Checkmate.” Phoenix scoured the board for a move, but found none. He then looked up and nodded to Ryker in approval.
“I-“ “shut your whore mouth, link severed,” Ed growled as the black on his body faded away. “Sorry about that, that thing usually stays quiet.”
“As the kids say these days, gg no re.” Ryker stood from his “chair” and shook Phoenix’s hand.
“Oh don’t worry. There will be a re.” Phoenix said, squeezing Rykers hand. “Maybe not in chess however.” Phoenix grew an evil grin, having spent the entire game scouring Rykers brain for any ounce of info as to what's in store for the rest of the tournament.
Ryker smiled and squeezed Phoenix’s hand back damn near breaking it, “Perhaps in checkers?” Ryker inquired.
“Sure, let’s go with that. Though, I believe you had something else in mind.” Phoenix released Rykers hand and gave him a wink. “Don’t worry, I’m great at keeping secrets.”
“Just a fair warning Ryker,” Ed remarked. “Everything that Truth said for me, was meant. Tread carefully as it is far more merciful than I am.”
“Ah, I see.” Ryker said with a warm smile. “Now we must be off.” Ryker opened a portal to the arena, before he walked in.
“Agreed.” Phoenix said, frowning at the lack of info he had received. “All that acting for nothing…” He muttered under his breath before teleporting to the arena.
“In due time Lier,” Truth’s voice whispered in Phoenix's ear. “In due time…”
“I hate you so much,” Ed grumbled as he let through his own portal.
During the meeting with Ryker, Phoenix, and Ed.
Kyle then disappeared, turning into sand and blowing into the wind, anything that was on him gone. Kyle appeared behind Dr. Doom and grabbed him from behind and flew up into the air. Going above the clouds and going back down, going Mach three he then slammed Dr. Doom into the ground. Dr. Doom’s head was now stuck in the ground.
Or that what Kyle thought as the dust settled the force field did pop with the impact however himself was fine. His anti-gravity generators easily kept him from personally impacting the ground.
“Shocking you would attack from behind. Not very honorable.” Doom righted himself and then activated his armor’s electrical field. The result was Doom stood in the center of a ball of lighting and he sent that energy in a sweeping blast, even if Kyle dodged one strike Doom was generating a hundred bolts of lighting around him. Sand of the arena turned to glass as it absorbed the plasma discharge.
“CRAP BASKETS!!!!” Kyle was hit by the electricity, it shook him to his core and he started to thrash about, before falling on his back. It was right then Ryker had disappeared from everyone’s sight.
Doom was no longer in a good mood; he approached Kyle and lifted his hand activating his concussion blast. The effect was like standing in front of the world's most powerful subwoofer. Sound itself moved the air at such a deep frequency. This very weapon when used at point blank range could shatter rock. Doom did a quick calculation in his head to make sure he wouldn’t do lasting harm.
Kyle stood there, silent, taking two steps back before nearly falling. Kyle caught himself before looking up to Doom. He put his right hand up, “DEZARTO JIRASORE!!!!” He slammed his hand to the ground, suddenly Doom was standing on quicksand, Dr. Doom with his metal armor started to sink inside of the quicksand. Kyle jumped back, gaining breathing distance as he watched the Doctor sink.
One would think sinking into the ground would be fighting. Doom’s armor can withstand space and the deep oceans, a few feet of ground was not a problem. Doom took a moment to think and then teleported out of the quicksand and behind Kyle.
Kyle used the wings on his head to gain some breathing room and went back far, “Dezarto Supardo!” Blades of sand went after Doom, like air slashes but diagonally, the sand having intense pressure and sharpness.
Doom’s armor crackled as lines of damage appeared. It wasn’t so much the pressure but that it was all focused on the edge of the blade. “So you marked me. Impressive.” That was when his force field reactivated providing even more protection. Doom lifted his arm and released a blast of atomic energy. If Kyle was paying attention when Doom fired his blaster there was a gap opening in the field for the energy to leave.
Kyle was hit by the blast and was sent careening into the wall, coughing out some blood as he did. Kyle slipped down the wall and fell on his ass, Kyle looked at Doom and chuckled. “Might as well make this entertaining… SABURUSU!!!” Kyle held up a palm and a tiny little sand tornado appeared. Kyle stood up and ran at Doom and threw the sand tornado at him. On impact the small sand tornado became a full on sandstorm. He spun around in it, Kyle put both of his hands on the floor “Guraundo Desu!” The entire landscape became sand and Kyle pointed at Doom. “Sand Tsunami!” The sand on the ground became a tsunami and hit Doom like a truck and buried him, “And to finish it off…” He held up a hand to his face. “Sand Burial.” Doom was “crushed” under the pressure.
The force field shattered and soon Doom was hidden under the hill of sand. Then a flash of light and he once again Teleported into the air dents were clearly seen on his armor and not a bit of fabric remained.
Doom moved his hands in a pattern and called out “CRIMSON BANDS OF CYTTORAK!” ribbons of crimson light sprang from his glowing hands and wrapped around Kyle mummifying him in the crimson energy.
“That shit won’t work on me, I’m a Logia type Devil fruit, meaning I can reform my body!” Kyle then collapsed into sand and appeared above Dr. Doom fifteen feet in the air. “Dezāto Gurande Esupāda!” A sword of sand pierced Doom’s side, Doom stumbled to his right.
“Seven Rings of Raggadorr!” Mystical energy rings appeared around him spinning at such a pace they blur into a solid light deflecting direct attacks. Then Doom arms seemed to duplicate and suddenly there were five Doom’s in the air. Four fake images, one real. “FLAMES OF FALTINE!” five jets of flames burst out at Kyle each one could put Celestia to shame, only one was real however.
Everyone could hear a cry of pure unadulterated agony, dust surrounded Kyle’s area, Kyle was on his knees when the dust cleared. He looked up at Doom with a grin, blood dripping from his mouth. He then flew into the air, above Doom. “THIS IS IT DOOM!!! USE YOU’RE STRONGEST ATTACK ON ME SO WE CAN END THIS AND I’LL RETURN THE FAVOR!!!!!!” Kyle’s right arm turned into sand.
Doom looked up and visibly shrugged. “Very well.”
“DEZARTO RASUPADA!!!!” He shot blades of sand at Doom, four blades were shot at Doom.
Doom didn’t use a spell instead he flew up, going through the sand and punched Kyle, at the same time released another high voltage electrical attack this time all focused on his fist as the focal point.
Kyle was sent above the clouds, unconscious, his body fell from the clouds and hit the floor making an audible crack. Spider-web like cracks beneath him, Kyle’s eyes white. Ryker was back, and looked down saddened.
“Awww… I missed it! The winner Dr. DOOOOOOMMM!!!!!” The crowd cheered and Doom walked over ignoring the fact he was bleeding from gashes from sand swords that did get through his defences. Once he arrived near Kyle he cast a quick healing spell to make sure he wasn’t in life threatening harm. Kyle was then picked up by some paramedics and was hauled off to the infirmary.
Doom turned and headed off the Arena Stage his armor systems already tending to his wounds and repairing internal systems. Even his clothing regenerated from the unstable molecules in the golden disks on his armor.
Before he left the stage, he noted with grim resignation that Shiva was watching from the stands. Her ears flat with disappointment before she turned away and retreated into the locker room.
-Meanwhile in the infirmary-
Link slowly woke up with a groan, raising up from his bed while reaching up to grab a hold of his head. “That is the second worst I’ve been through.” Link said as he shook the daze out. “I thought Thanos would see reason when I said I didn’t want to keep going.” Link said as he let go of his head to look around. Link saw Kyle in a bed next to him, Kyle looked on over to Link weakly.
“Sup… Did you get your ass kicked too? Oh wait, I was there…” Kyle chuckled, weakly.
“You both got your asses handed to you,” commented someone from a corner of the room the two losers looked to see Ed. “Want some ibuprofen?”
“Why the- Why not?” Kyle grunted, trying to get himself in a comfortable position.
“Ibuprof- what?” Link asked in confusion. “Also, I could have chosen to fight seriously, but it would have lead up to my death.” Link explained as he reached into his pouches to search for something.
“Ryker is a cruel man, he doesn’t want people to just quit, he wants them to fight with everything they got until their end. That’s what I did and look what happened to me?” Kyle said looking at his bandaged torso.
“I’m pretty sure healing is allowed outside the fights,” Ed tilted his head and tossed a white bolt to Kyle. “The meds are for headaches fairy boy. As for fighting, you still would’ve had your ass handed to you on a silver platter. I can heal you both up if you like, want a Senzu?”
Link was about to take a Blue Potion out when he stopped half-way at the mention of a Senzu Bean. “I was going to share half of my potion, but a Senzu Bean would save it for later.” Link said as he pushed the bottle back down into his pouch.
At that moment, Shiva entered the infirmary, only to mope as she realized Ed was taking care of Link. “Tsk. Seems I’m too late to be of any aid,” she mused. Black followed shortly as he teleported into the room using Instant Transmission.
“No big deal, save it for when you need it,” Ed snapped and two green beans fill into the duo's hands. “Now for the reason I’m here,” he turned to Link. “Do you remember anything from before you were brought here. You were taken by Ryker and some of the others found you in one of his labs. He extracted the ability to use the Fierce deity mask from you apparently.”
“He’s going to use it for his project to save his daughter.” Kyle sat up, who already ate the Senzu bean. Right as he said that Thanos opened the door. Thanos waddled over to Link.
“Link, I apologize, I shouldn’t have gone that far. I just wanted to give the crowd a good finale for our duel. I realize you surrendered and I attacked you after you surrendered, you still got knocked out afterwards but I still apologize.” The Titan bowed his head in shame.
Link let out a sigh. “I’m not some planet buster like you guys. The worst I’ve ever had was when I went up against was some lesser void dweller who had way too many phases, especially when it turned into a building.” he said with a shake of his head of the memory. “And it was the last time I used the Giant’s Mask too.” he finished as he popped the Senzu Bean into his mouth and chewed it, watching all of his injuries vanish as well, especially the loud pop that corrected his broken nose.
“I hear you,” Shiva noted. “The worst I’ve gone up against before all of this was Day Breaker. And even then, I had help from the Elements of Harmony.” She sat next to Link’s bed. “I’d say I wonder if I should’ve rejected the invite, but Phoenix’s memories implied that I would’ve been taken regardless.”
“Worst thing I’ve face was my Sombra, not counting Edward.” Black said, leaning against a wall as he got a short glimpse of that fight.
“So… Do you accept my apology?” Thanos asked the Hylian Champion.
“Have you found any new leads?” Ed asked the mad titan. “I managed to get into his area with some help from my watcher and he fed me his ‘this is to save my daughter line’ with Phoenix there as well, not to mention Truth using me as a phone.”
“On Ryker? No, I’ve been training myself to sense Dark Ki to see who’s infected and who’s not.
Link went silent at first as he ran the fight through his mind. “...How long have you been Displaced?” he asked Thanos before turning to look at Kyle. “..He did what?” Link asked with minor panic in his voice, soon pulled out the Fierce Mask from his pouch. He runs his hand over it, still sensing the war god within the mask. “But it’s just the powers, right? I’m unsure if anyone else besides me can cooperate with the spirit if it was replicated..” he said in worry.
“1,700 years, or five years if you don’t count the stone sealing.” Thanos sighed, “I don’t know,” Thanos said, answering Link’s question.
“Kid, we all have our own demons that give us power and as for what he did I can’t tell you because I’m not sure, it was before he pulled me here in a moment of passion, weakness, and sleep,” The sage explained. “In short I think he just replicated your ability by force, similar to how we share power willingly. That’s the short version of it anyway. Perhaps I should see the good Doctor after this.” He tapped his chin. “His understanding of tech runs deeper than mine after all.”
“You mean the deity’s willingness to share a small amount of power with me? Or something else?” Link said before looking over at Thanos. “That’d explain a bit of how you acted. I bet you enjoy the power rush, huh?” Link asked Thanos curiously. Thanos just nodded slowly.
“You did say it was a god of war,” Ed reminded the room. “It probably heightens traits of aggression and eagerness to fight. Many displaced Igor each other to test themselves. Deep down we all have it ingrained in us in some form, even those who don’t physically fight have the urge to compete and test themselves.”
“More along the lines that it enjoys fighting powerful foes. If I came here a lot more earlier in my Displaced life, the deity would have fought to the end, even at the cost of my life.” Link said as he looked down upon the mask, remembering all the times the spirit within the mask wanted the thrill. “Goddesses above, it took years of reasoning with it to make it realize that I’m the only one willing to use the mask and that anyone, or anypony would have rejected it out of fear.” he explains, then paused. “..Imagine if it had its original body rather than a mask that appeared in my inventory upon Displacement.”
“We all have things like that kid,” Ed sighed. “You might not want to admit it but deep down that mask is still you in some aspect or other form.” Ed held his and up to his face and a cyclonic skull mask forms in his hand. “My hollowfication is a perfect example.”
"Hollowfication? Like from that anime whose title has nothing to do with the anime?" Kyle asked the Sage.
"Like seriously, how do you get Bleach out of hollows and demon slaying badasses.”
“I always believed they meant bleach white, as in the color of a ghost.” Link pointed out as he looked over at Thanos. “You’re forgiven, Thanos. Just remember to balance out that power with some wisdom and courage.”
"Balance." Thanos frowned at Link's unintended pun towards him, "Alright so anyways, why Bleach? Why not Hollow Slayer, or Hollows Grim Reaper?"
“Don’t say the B word in front of Thanos,” Ed advised Link, dispelling his mask. “As for bleach it refers to White, or Hollow Ichigo as the viewer knew him. Though his true name was actually Zangestu, old man was actually the manifestation of Ichigo’s Quincy powers.”
"I haven't really seen Bleach that much, but hood to know- Wait, we're getting off topic!" Thanos realized, trying to get the two back on topic with him. Kyle just laid there and took a well deserved nap.
“And which topic would that be, we’ve had nearly seven this whole time,” Ed mentioned blankly.
"Good point." Thanos said putting a finger to his chin. "But still, Link doesn't know about Dark Ki and everything else that has been happening." Thanos turned to the champion.
“Not for long,” Shiva offered, extending her pack link with the memories from their discussion.
“I wonder if Ryker is using the Deity’s power to amplify the fighters’ lust for battle so they’ll be more susceptible to become infected with Dark ki and once they are the Deity’s influence grows even stronger as does the ki,” Ed thought.
“Dark Ki… Is that something the fandom made, or is it something that was made after my Displaced? The last time I saw anything ki related, was dragon ball GT.” Link said.
"No, it's from Dragon Ball Z Xenoverse, a game that came out in… 2013 I believe." Thanos thought, "In any case the games increase the fighters powers by twenty five to five hundred, it depends on the strength of the enemy." Thanos informed the two.
“It was created by a demon women named Towa, she would infect different warriors from other points in time. It would create a sorta ripple that would generate energy, once she got enough, Towa would take it, using it to revive the demon realm.” Black explained with detail. “She never succeeded though.”
“Originally it’s from Dragonball hero’s the arcade game,” Ed pointed out. “Either way this stuff is very bad news to anyone and everyone.”
“So why does Ryker want everyone full of bloodlust as if this is Death Battle? Please don’t tell me he’s collecting energy caused by the conflict like he’s got a Majin Buu.” Link said with a groan.
"I don't think so, I believe he's like Towa collecting energy for a big project. To save his… Daughter maybe." Thanos added to the conversation.
“There was some truth behind his words, my hated void dweller confirmed it,” Ed glared up at the ceiling, ”Evil bastard, but he doesn’t lie.” He looked back to the others. “But he’s still hiding a lot. He actually tried to get to sign a contract saying not to interfere with fights unless he said to. I’m old not stupid.”
“A shame gossip stones don’t exist here. They’d reveal a lot about the universe they’re in.” Link said.
"I would put it right on my palm, IF I HAD IT!!!!" Thanos frowned, "A shame my Void-Dweller didn't give me it. Also, another universe too, can't use them." Thanos reminded the two before looking to Ed, "Speaking of Void-Dweller, have you met Kilton?"
“You mean your gauntlet’s functioning outside of its universe? Of course, it’d be a s-” Link paused, preventing him from unintentionally referencing what Thanos’s likes to do. “Simple.” Link finished.
“I have a contract with one that can’t be broken already. I don’t need more void dwellers in my life,” Ed crossed his arms over his chest. “As for gossip stones, I may be able to pull some here.”
"Eh? Don't that's cheating." Thanos waved his finger around with a frown.
“It depends more on the area, or at least that’s how they function back in my world. They tell a lot, but not always what you want it to be. Think of them as agents sharing everything they hear wherever you place the stone.” Link explained.
"Still cheating! Plus, wouldn't It be more fun if we were patient and wait for the plot to unfurl?" Thanos tempted Ed.
“I said I could maybe do it. Those things are tough to move,” Ed reiterates. “I’m not going to deny the entertainment aspect either. But I still don’t want to see anything bad happen. The last thing we need is another Displaced War.”
“Wait there was a Displaced War?!” Black exclaimed, never knowing such a thing existed.
“Be serious, Thanos. If Ryker means harm, one does not simply wait to know if they are or aren't.” Link said, almost holding his hand in a o.
"We don't know if he does, he could be just a sketchy bastard." Thanos crossed his arms, "We need proof before claiming- What's the word for it? We need evidence to support our claim before we present it to Lady Justice."
"One does not simply try to reveal Ryker's secrets." Kyle said, awaking from his nap.
“..Thanos is right.” Link said as he crossed his arms. “You guys have picked up a lot of information easily, and chances are he could be manipulating us much like Viggo Grimborn from Race To The Edge.” he said.
"Is that from How to Train A Dragon?" Thanos asked Link.
“Yes it is, Thanos. The guy's very cunning, always one step ahead.” Link explained.
“Cunning lad, and we should consult with Phoenix on that aspect,” Ed pointed out. “He was playing a decent game of chess with Ryker earlier when I popped in. I know he would’ve fared better had I not been there.”
"Whoever wins should wish to send us all home… Or something like that." Thanos planned.
“You really want to waste a wish like that?" Ed raised an eyebrow. “I can send you all home.”
"Now that you say that… I think we should wait until the end and ride this out, plus if Ryker turns out to be good, banquet?" Thanos said with a grin as wide as the ocean.
“Oh yea that reminds me,” Ed smirked. “How do rocks taste Thanos?”
“Speaking of sending people home..” Link began as he reached up to grab some sort of stone with a hole in it around his neck.
"They taste fucking epic, like the best thing you ever tasted in your actual life. I recommend it." Thanos said with a thumbs up.
“Good to know, and what ya got there kid?” Ed laughed as he wiped a tear from his eye.
“My howling stone. I was about to use it and see if I can’t go back to my world through the Twili portal.” Link explained as black pixels swirled around Link, changing him into a red, green, and white wolf very similar to the original Wolf Link, except the symbol on his forehead was different.
Shiva stood up, her ears perking in awe. “By everything sacred, that’s amazing…” she whispered.
Wolf Link looks past Ed, noticing no black and green portal appearing.
Ed moved to the side, “so basically is a homing device to your world. This the right portal?”
Link returns back to normal with a look of concern on his face, accompanied by a disappointed whimper from Shiva. “Something is preventing it from appearing, I don’t like the look of this.” Link said with worry.
“I think your stuck here until the end kid,” Ed reached his into the partial portal. “Hmmm…. yea something is definitely mixing in here.the void energy is off, like mixed in with another displaced. Did Ryker have all of you sign a contract when you got here?”
Shiva and Black both nodded.
“Yea, I gave it a good read before I signed mine.” Link said before blinking. “I should have used my Len’s Of Truth on it.” he said as he looked at Ed, thinking there was some fine print. Signing contracts was the least common thing in his world.
“That’s not good at all,” Ed shook his head. “In short, you’re all stuck here till otherwise. Even if I did send you home Ryker would just pull you right back.”
"For fuck's sake!" Thanos cried out.
Shiva hummed. “Then it sounds like we need to be prepared,” she said. “And if there’s one thing I learned from my time in Equestria…” she offered her claw it. “It’s that it’s better if we stand together.”
“If that’s the case, we should gather the others and start training immediately.” Black mused as he looked to Shiva. “We need all the help we can.”
To be continued...
Author's Note
A Forced Hero - By DisplacedWriter
Four Horsemen Come To Equestria - By Anomis
Howlite Howler - By Three Tails
Power Vessel - By Delta-Boio
The Shadow Of Equestria - By Screwball666
Equestria's Divine God - By Shirt Mechanic
DOOM of Griffonstone! - By ShadowStar_IMHP
Against All Odds - By The_Chill_Author (come on and go like it, he's almost at 100 likes!)
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Side Chapter, Around the Campfire.
On the arena stage, Thanos added some wood to the fire as all the Displaced (And Nappa) were sitting around it, Thanos had called them all as well as their companions. Maud just gave Entity a glare but Entity had a shameful look on his face. Thanos cleared his throat.
“Do you know why I all gathered you guys here?” Thanos asked looking around at the Displaced.
“You’ve got an epic plan on how we’re all going to band together and form an unstoppable team!” Shiva declared with a wag of her tail and a flare of her pack links.
“You would be wrong lady Shiva.”
“Aw,” Shiva moaned, dissipating her links.
Thanos sat down on a log that was provided by Ed for everyone to take a seat. “We’re all here for a reason, we all have a reason to be here. So… What is that reason? Let us talk about our past adventures and further increase our bond, after all the only way to increase our camaraderie and teamwork is to know more about each other.” Thanos crossed his arms, they were all around the campfire, Link next to Thanos, Phoenix next to Link, Shiva next to Phoenix, Ed next to Shiva, Eric next to Ed, Black next to Eric, Doom next to Black and Nappa next to Doom then back to Thanos.
Shiva pondered his words, before glancing around at the others. “Well, if it’s past adventures you want…” She formed a circular screen, with images appearing in the light of her magic as she began to share her story:
“I started off as a simple dog,” she said. “No real knowledge of the outside world. Then, out of nowhere, some kind of lightning bolt hit me and my master. I woke up in the world I would come to know as Equestria, changed into what you see now… and it had quite a welcoming committee for me.” Her images showed her stumbling across a group of ponies. “My first encounter with ponies was… well…”
She let the images speak for her, as the ponies in the vision promptly knocked her past self out, threw her in a cage, dragged her to a mysterious dark place, and threw her into a ring with an equally scared looking diamond dog.
“...less than pleasant,” Shiva finally admitted. She ran a claw across her screen, and the images changed. “Luckily, I was able to get out of there, but…”
Once again, the images spoke for her: the head pony that had knocked her out was shown being slaughtered by a deranged looking Shiva. A scared looking Twilight blasted her off the remains of her victim. But as Shiva merely glowed with power and lunged at Twilight… Fluttershy came up with the Stare. Shiva shuddered as her past self instantly folded under the yellow mare’s eyes.
“Later, I found out that Twilight and her friends had nothing to do with the ponies that had locked me up,” Shiva admitted. “They were there investigating these ponies, but the rogue ponies had been through bad experiences with diamond dogs, so… I didn’t really help my case by killing one of them. But I didn’t really care about that at the time. I just wanted out. Luckily, I was able to discover my ability to absorb and redirect magic. And with that ability…”
Her images showed a daring escape from Canterlot. A mid-air battle with Rainbow Dash. A brutal brawl with Prince Blueblood. And a flashy ending with Princess Celestia being blasted back with a ball of light as Shiva made a daring leap into a river.
“For a short time after,” Shiva said. “I wandered the outskirts of Equestria.” She grinned as her images showed her coming across a diamond dog pack. “I managed to find others like me. And together, we formed a pack.” Her eyes narrowed. “Unfortunately, a magic diamond dog is not something they see very often out in the outskirts. And it drew attention.”
Her images showed Chrysalis. Eagerly coming forward to Shiva. Offering her some sort of deal. At the same time, Twilight and the Mane Six were seen approaching Shiva from behind. Pleading expressions on their faces as they tried to convince Shiva not to take whatever deal Chrysalis had.
“It was a tough call, I’ll admit,” Shiva said. “But, this may just be me, but I’m pretty happy with the choice I made.”
The images showed Chrysalis lying dead before Shiva. The ponies cheered in glee… only for Shiva to turn her backs on them, and retreat back into the wastelands. With her diamond dogs taking a hefty amount of pony gems, food and other supplies with them. While the ponies could do nothing more than watch in stunned silence.
To make matters even better, the images proceeded to show other changelings finding Shiva’s pack. Friendlier changelings that celebrated the death of Chrysalis. Their new Queen and Shiva were shown shaking hands - or hooves and claws.
“Celestia felt so horrible about what had happened, that I was able to give my diamond dogs a life befitting the ponies,” Shiva continued, as her images showed her seated on the throne of the Crystal Empire. Her ears flattened. “Unfortunately, some of my dogs let the power go to their heads… and it cost us.”
The images darkened. The demonic visage of Umbra was shown coming up behind Shiva. Her past self fell into darkness, and a Kodo with Sombra’s green eyes and black fur was shown leading a crusade against the ponies. As he marched on Canterlot, Celestia rose to meet him. But not as her usual princess form. No, she rose as the fiery Day Breaker. Who unleashed a burst of flames that caused the image to destabilize and flicker with static.
Shiva lowered her head as the image re-focused to show Shiva and her dogs brooding in an underground cavern.
“We haven’t tested the ponies’ remorse ever since,” Shiva admitted. “But, some still remain hopeful that peace can be possible with them.” She smiled as an image of a younger diamond dog appeared, looking almost exactly like Shiva with her white fur, though the younger pup’s eyes were a brighter blue. “My daughter Celine is most likely trying to repair bridges with them even as we speak.” Shiva dissipated her image. “But one thing’s for certain: my dogs can’t afford to have too many enemies.” She leaned back. “That’s why I came here. I was hoping that the wealth would help us forge alliances with other species, like the dragons and griffins. And from there, we’d take steps to unite all of Equestria… something that Twilight told me I actually accomplished in another time where she and her friends never met and the Elements of Harmony were never reforged.” She grinned at Ed. “Thanks to you, Ed, I may just be able to unite Equestria without breaking Twilight and her friends up.” She turned back to the fire. “All I need is to survive this adventure, and get home to put my plan into action.”
“You were misunderstood from the beginning, and as someone who likes dogs… I want to make them pay for what they did to you. But they’re probably dead already.” Thanos said looking down to his palm and clenching it.
Shiva smiled softly. “I appreciate your sympathy, Thanos,” she said. “But I assure you: the ponies have more than paid for their crimes. The ones who directly hurt me are dead or wish they were, and the ponies that I interact with now have done their very best to atone for the sins of their fellows.” She stretched. “In the end, an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. It’s through cooperation, compromise and unity that I feel a much better life was forged.”
“Seems the power of friendship is lacking in your world, either that or xenophobia is a bit strong much like how humans fear what they have trouble understanding.” Link said with a gentle sigh. He had a good understanding of the multiverse but it still annoyed him that those kinds of worlds existed.
“It’s the same for my Equestria as well,” Eric said letting his presence known. “There are many who have killed for power and revenge and others who take whatever they wish with no remorse for their actions.”
“To be honest, I’d kill for a world like that. Mine’s boring, minus the whole ghoul thing.” Phoenix stated, cracking open a cold one; obviously a can of Hetap.
“Believe me, I’d trade worlds in a heartbeat if it meant me and my comrades could live in peace,” Eric said crossing his arms as Sombra nodded in agreement. “The creatures I’ve met thus far have been nothing but power hungry fools who seek to cover Equestria in their greed.”
Doom stood there, his arms crossed with his single ally Hans standing behind him. Once Doom learned of the possibility of Dark Ki in use he sent Gilda back. Hans technically being a symbiotic entity with him would share his armor’s protections.
“I take offence! May I remind you that I am literally the sin of greed!” Phoenix said sarcastically, placing his hand on his heart.
“I meant no offence, Phoenix.” Eric said to the Fairy displaced. “But Greed is a problem among my Equestria.”
"I believe we are slowly straying away from the story telling, I get why you two are talking but let us get back to telling our tales." Thanos turned to Eric, "Von Shadow, does thou wish to tell thy tale?"
“Could you stop being so polite? It’s freaking me out dude.” Phoenix said, turning to Thanos.
“I kinda like it,” Shiva noted.
“I’d say it’s an improvement over the last couple of days,.” Maud said, sitting next to Shiva. The Diamond Dog scooted over to give the earth pony room to sit, followed by Phoenix.
“I would have to agree with Maud,” Rainbow said sitting on a cloud above the group. “This is definitely an improvement since the end of the first match of the tournament”
"Fucking bitch…" Nappa muttered.
"I have decided that nothing good will ever happen to being rude to others. You get what you give, and I've been nothing but a jerk to all of you. And for that, I apologize." Thanos lowers his head, in shame.
Link shrugged his arms. “I’m used to the thys and thous to be honest.” he said.
“Whatever tickles your pickle I guess.” Phoenix said, shrugging.
“You said we would be regaling our tales and experiences” Sombra said, setting his swords down next to him and his friend. “So who, pray tell, will start?”
"Von Shadow?” Thanos looked to Eric, "You do not have to tell your tale if you do not feel the need to. I will understand and so will the others."
“Okay then,” Eric said, closing his eyes to think. “But where to start? Before or after I was Displaced?” Eric asked himself
“The beginning?” Phoenix offered.
“The beginning….” Eric muttered under his breath as his eyes and hands began to glow with magic
The campfire erupted into a massive plume of purple flames which opened what looked like a portal, from the portal showed images of Eric when he was younger and still held the fire of innocence in his eyes.
“Eric Monohan was my name. And me and my family were of the middle class of society,” Eric said retelling his past. “In my youth I held an incredible fondness for music: classical, jazz, rock and metal, you name it. The first instrument I ever played was an elegant piano that was at my school, and honestly I wish I never touched that infernal instrument”
The fire showed Eric gracefully playing a school piano shocking the classroom teacher
“Once I showed a talent in music my parents pulled me out of school and taught me nothing but music” Eric said his face shifting to a grimince
The flame now showed Eric having every manner of instrument shoved into his chest.
“On my earth, Musicians are the highest paying job title one can have, the pay is even higher if you are employed by somep..-body in the high class,” Eric said before showing an expression of rage. “My parents wanted money to elevate themselves from middle class to high class. They brutally taught me until I could play anything with my eyes closed. And if I refused… they’d punish me.”
The fire flashed dark red as images of Eric being tortured by his parents until his entire back was covered in blood.
Immediately Shiva covered her son's eyes, shivering. Even though she had heard about this particular part of his childhood, it still made her guts squirm and her blood chill to see parents willing to do such a thing to their own children.
"I am deeply sorry for the agony that you went through, torture is a sin and I hope that your parents got what they deserved." Thanos sighed, closed his eyes and shook his head, wincing at the images that were shown.
“Your sympathy is appreciated Thanos” Eric said before continuing his tale. “Over time, the fire I once held for music was snuffed out”
Eric’s spell now showed him playing a piano with a dead look in his eyes.
“But it never stopped...the beatings and punishment NEVER stopped,” Eric said through gritted teeth
Doom showed no emotion, that mask was useful in that regard. Hans however went from a smooth form to a figure with spikes and long blade like fingers. Softly he asks Doom “Could we go to this world, and cleanse it?” Doom shook his head “No Hans, focus on the issue before us rather than seeking revenge for another.”
The flame only showed a severely bleeding Eric lying on the floor holding a cello bow while the shadows of his parents screamed and slashed his back.
“My only comforts in my life were my younger brother...” Eric said, showing the image of his brother who tended to Eric’s woulds. “And my friend Callum.”
The flame showed the image of a grinning young boy with blonde hair, pale skin and bright green eyes, his attire consisted of articles of clothing showing an abundance of anime memorabilia.
“With my lessons beginning from dusk till dawn I was only allowed to hang out with both of them during the night,” Eric said, gaining a warm smile on his face. “Callum introduced me to anime and manga and eventually convinced me to join him to Comic Con which was happening the following month.”
“My Parents eventually found out and put bars on all windows and doors” Eric said as his spell showed his younger self staring outside behind the bars. “When my brother finally stood up for me they dragged him outside and into the car….That was the last time I saw my baby brother”
The flame showed Eric’s younger Brother being dragged into the car kicking and screaming, all the while Eric was helplessly trying to break out of his locked room.
As they watched Eric’s younger brother get taken, Kodo’s claws clenched Shiva’s fur. The mother wolf pulled her son close, silently promising him such a fate would never befall him.
“Part of me believes he’s alive, that they just put him in an orphanage or something” Eric said before getting up and removing his coat and shirt. “But I know that people who do this to their own son…” Eric said, showing everyone the scars covering his back, earning shocked gasps from the others. “Would have silenced him for good.”
"You had earned the blessing of a brother and they took it away from you… Damn them. If I had the power to go to their front door… God knows what will happen and he would be mentally scarred for all of his damn life if I did have a way to get there." Thanos clenched his fists until It bled. Lucci crossed his arms, clenching his teeth.
“Death is too good a fate for creatures like that,” Shiva said.
Once his shirt and coat was back on Eric continued his tale. “The only good thing that happened after that was when Cal risked his life and broke me out by destroying the bars on my window,” Eric said showing a pure smile. “He handed me the costume I prepared for the convention and we went to the wonderful world of Comic Con.”
“And your captors didn’t follow?” Shiva asked.
“No, thank god.” Eric said with relief. “I honestly don’t know if I could have lived with myself if I got my only friend killed.”
The fire showed Eric and his friend Cal both dressed as Original One Piece characters, it then showed Eric coming face to face with the Merchant that Displaced him
“I purchased a black Devil Fruit, the gun Mr. 5 used in One Piece and Edward Newgate’s Murakumogiri” Eric said as his spell showed him paying for the items and then disappearing in a flash of light. “Next thing I know I wake up in the frozen north of the Crystal Empire”
In the flame showed a confused Eric frantically looking around the snow covered area
“I blacked out from the cold and awoke in the castle's medical wing.” Eric said remembering when he met the king and the prince. “If Cal hadn’t been a brony I would have had no idea where I was, it had turned out I was displaced in the Crystal Empire, long before Sombra became corrupted and imprisoned in the shadows.”
“A time I had wished wouldn’t have happened” Sombra said looking away in regret
“It’s in the past, Sombra,” Luna said, placing hand on the unicorn's shoulder. “You must let go of your past in order to move forward. It’s what I did when I was freed from my father’s influence.”
"One must accept their mistakes and move on, look at me now, I'm different because I realized that… That being rude and insensitive isn't a good thing to be. Especially when you have other people, from other universes and having different teachings." Thanos said sagely.
“Indeed,” Shiva mused, before pausing. “Wait… your father? Who was your father?”
Hearing this question caused Luna to physically wince. She tried to find an excuse to leave but calmed when Eric placed his hand upon hers.
“Only answer if you are ready to share” Eric said, calming the alicorn.
“I want to, but some have been affected by him as well,” Luna whispered before inhaling deeply. “My father is….King….Umbra the Dark.”
"Nani?!" Luffy turned his whole body to face Luna, "Could he p-" He was slapped by Lucci.
"Shut." Lucci shook his head.
Kodo stood up, in shock. “Umbra?” he demanded, glancing at Sombra. “THE Umbra. The one that messed up Sombra’s life? Black’s life?” His claws clenched. “My life?”
“The very same,” Sombra said, his stature tensing slightly.
“Queen Lucinda, Celetia’s and Luna’s biological mother foresaw a war breaking out between Equestria and the Empire,” Eric explained having read about it and being told by Celestia herself. “To prevent this Lucinda ventured to the empire to negotiate with Umbra. However he broke the treaty and took Lucinda for his own.”
Shiva stiffened, her fur bristling.
“Outraged King Solaris, Celestia’s father, brought war to the empire to rescue his queen, Both Umbra and Solaris perished in their seven day battle.” Eric said, coming to a close. “However Lucinda was already with child. After giving birth to Luna, Lucinda died, leaving Celestia with no-one. Lucinda wanted Luna imprisoned in fear of becoming like her father”
“However Tia didn’t want to rule Equestria by herself,” Luna added. “So, she accepted me as if we had the same parents. Unfortunately, after the fight with Sombra, my fathers dormant magic flared. It instilled thoughts and lies until I gave into them and became Nightmare Moon.”
Kodo lowered his head. “She really is like me…” he muttered to himself, before looking up at Luna. “The same thing happened to me, Princess. Umbra’s influence just kept pushing at me. Telling me to attack the ponies and be Shiva’s vengeance.” He shrugged. “I was no Nightmare Moon, but… I was pretty close.”
"Speaking of "like me" I remember when I had to fight another Luffy, he was… Scared, being experimented on by the Ponies, crucified and tortured. I had him put him down by his request… It scarred me." Luffy shiver.
“I believe everyone here has suffered by the hands of Umbra,” Sombra said, causing everyone to remember the dark unicorn.
“He killed my father,” Maud said her tone taking on a slightly sad tone
“He killed Soarin,” Rainbow said in sadness. “My coltfriend at the time.”
“I can’t say I know much of him,” Phoenix began. “Never had any encounters, or even read any books. Though, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was just as bad in my world.” Phoenix finished by downing the rest of his drink and cracking open another
"Almost killed Lucci, and killed the old Cp9 of Equestria." Thanos added.
“Is it my turn to share?” Rainbow said, rubbing the forming tears from her eyes.
"Please, go ahead Ms. Dash, tell us." Thanos said with a warm smile.
“Okay this happened over two years ago,” Rainbow began lowering her cloud closer to the ground. “Upon the request of Cold Scale, we sailed to the Island of Minotaurs.”
“Now keep in mind, My Equestria is separated by water” Eric stated. “It’s exactly like the One Piece World”
"Any Yonko?" Asked Luffy, turning to the shadow man.
“You’re Looking at them,” Sombra said grinning at the rubber man. “Pirate Slayer” Sombrahesta, “Shadow Reaper” Von Shadow, “Fire Fist” Dash, and “Lightning Flash” Luna but Eric calls us the Four Emperors”
“And Maud Here” Rainbow said, jabbing a thumb towards the earth pony. “Is our strongest Warlord”
Luffy just grinned back, "COOOOLL!!! Back at my Equestria I was a Yonko too! I had under eight thousand men behind me. Thanks to Ussop. My other Emperors are Mihawk, Monkey D. Dragon, and finally Phil Swift!" Luffy grinned ear to ear.
“Rainbow, your tale?” Eric turned to Rainbow with a raised eyebrow.
“Right right sorry Eric” Rainbow apologized
“So we arrived at the Minotaur Island of Minos. About a full day after landing the spoiled 2nd prince decided he wanted Applejack as his bride.” Rainbow said sitting up on her cloud. “She told him she’d pass but the prince refused to accept her refusal.”
Shiva smirked. “Males,” she noted with a shake of her head. “Why do so many of them need to have ‘no’ be accompanied by violence.”
"He stole my line!" Luffy growled. "I refuse your refusal is my thing!"
"Tsk, we had a King who's pride was too large to surrender." Lucci sighed.
“The Kingdom of Minos works alot like the Sabody archipelago” Eric commented
“So when Applejack pushed the prince, everypony froze and gasped out,” Rainbow said, anger starting to show in her expression. “Immediately she was attacked and arrested.”
“We later found out that the royal family treat themselves as gods, much like the Celestial Dragons,” Eric said
“We also found out that we could settle any argument with a contest of combat.” Rainbow said smiling.
“However she failed to realise that challenging the royal family meant she would fight the kingdoms top three strongest,” Sombra said shaking his head
“Meanwhile I found Cold Scale’s enslaved mother and got myself arrested to free Applejack,” Eric said, crossing his arms. “She helped us escape and asked if her son suffered in his death, I told her I killed him quickly, he felt no pain when he died. I promised to free her but she said she’s rather join her family than be free and see the minotaur brand another day”
“Rainbow fought each battle with everything she had,” Sombra said. “However she was exhausting herself, at the time she had a problem with precision attacks and was expending more power to use widespread attacks”
“I was still having trouble with that part of my powers,” admitted Rainbow Dash. “I had beat my first two matches and was left to near exhaustion, but I wasn’t about to let that minotaur have Aj”
“However I had no idea my next opponent was going to be the crown prince himself” Rainbow recalled the pain in her wings. “He was fast, faster than me. He dislocated my wings causing me to fight on the ground
"You should be thankful he didn't rip your wings off your back." Thanos said before muttering, "Like I once did to someone…"
“He did” Rainbow said reaching behind her back and touching the scar around her wing. “Sombra was able to reattach it, and after months of healing I was able to fly again. it still stings every now and then”
“Halfway through the fight me and Applejack arrived at the arena and saw Rainbow on the ground, missing a wing and bleeding,” Eric said “Appljack went to help but I stopped her saying that this is her fight, she must face this on her own”
"I never once disable someone, that… It's unacceptable! As the Champion of Minos I would personally kill him in the arena!" Lucci growled turning into his full Leopard form and roared.
“When All seemed lost I slowly pushed myself to my feet and glared at the crowned prince” Rainbow said retelling her victory. “Eric once told me that my limits weren’t meant to stop me they were made to be broken”
“And she didn’t just break them” Eric said grinning. “She absolutely Shattered them”
“I acquired a Flame transformation that I called” Rainbow said, flying up and igniting into a rainbow flaming spirit with burning rainbow wings. “Rainbow Flame Spirit”
"Gay!" Nappa said in the background only to be punched by Luffy.
“She used that form to kill the prince and win Applejack's freedom,” Sombra said before turning to Eric. “However the king didn’t take kindly to that”
“The King had the powers of the Magma-Magma Fruit,” Eric said, remembering the burn he felt that day. “I used my shadow powers to transfer everyone to the ship”
“I then saw no need to hold back and destroyed the island” Eric said using his magic to show the island and kingdom of Minos being wiped off the map by an explosion of shadow
"...And it's inhabitants?" Thanos looked to Eric with a raised eyebrow, "Also it hurts because I am now the King of Minos."
“Dead...Each and every one of them either died when the island was destroyed or drowned” Eric said showing no remorse for killing the minotaurs
"I see…" Thanos held up two hands to his face, "That's disappointing, not in you, but the fact that they did not survive."
“Remember I’ve met your Minotaurs you have nothing to worry about,” Assured Eric “I killed them because they tried to kill and arrest me and my friends, they would’ve gone to war with Equestria”
"Emerald Gauntlet, Sapphire Sword, Ruby, and even… Golden Shield…?" Thanos asked the Shadow Man.
“I never met any of them,” Eric admitted. “However Minos wasn’t the only Minotaur island, it was just one of many, the others are untouched”
"If you ever meet them… Please, do not kill them, they are my people in my universe and the next." Thanos told Eric before looking into the fire.
“I’ll keep an eye out,” Eric said cutting off his spell returning the flame to normal
Shiva glanced at Link, who looked like he was patiently waiting his turn. “What about you, Link,” she asked. “You look like you have some stories to share.”
“Too many to count.” Link said with a chuckle. “Where would I even start?” he asked as he leaned forward in his seat.
“How about when you got Displaced?” she offered.
“Well.” Link began. "Considering how everyones is a little fancy with their storytelling, I might as well use a little bit of ancient hyrule magic. I won't bother telling who I was before displacement since a lot of that old life is gone other than my old name, which I can't tell to non-displaced." As he spoke, he reached into his pouch to pull out what appeared to a fairly sized red leather bag. Link untying it and opens it up, Reaching in, Link takes a pinch of some sort of powder. Holding his hand over the fire; his triforce of courage radiant softly as he waves his hand across, sprinkling the magic powder. Ed would sense it to be like alchemy, yet felt nothing like his own; similar yet different. There is a gentle fluttering whistle sound as the flame's within the campfire danced and moved around, soon changing colors to form an image.
"Long ago, twenty seven years, back when I used to go by the name Jeff. The news told of a mysterious merchant and how people vanished or went missing when they bought from this man. No cop nor even the best detectives could solve this mystery, and any attempt at apprehending the merchant, the man would always escape. Due to this, I had chosen to avoid all comic cons and gatherings, even places where the merchant was last spotted. I didn't want to become the next victim, alas despite my best efforts, I was still tricked when someone rang my doorbell, and left that large treasure chest " Link explained; his words shaping the flames and their colors to show what had happened, revealing a young adult in his twenties opening a chest. "When I opened it, it showed it contained the triforce of courage; a powerful golden relic that contained the essence of the goddess of courage; Farore. Out of curiosity, I reached up to touch that artifact, and before I knew it, I found myself flying out of control toward the Everfree Forest, with only a diamond-like barrier to break my fall." Link explained, the fire forming to show very panic and much younger Link screaming inside of a blue diamond.
"For twenty years I searched throughout Equestria believing the triforce of power and wisdom existed somewhere out there. Throughout those years, despite wanting to go home so badly, I had done so many heroic deeds saving pony lifes, taking down powerful monsters and foes alike either three times my size, wielding untold power, or were too fast to take on in normal time." Link explained as multiple images flashed across. "But of course, those are just multiple for another time. We'd be here all night if I told them all, but let's just say I never found the other pieces of the triforce and eventually learned this triforce is just a void copy of the original, not even a way to return home. So I gave up and instead tried to live my life in the Everfree Forest, hunting my own food, living inside a makeshift home." Link said with a sigh as the bad memories of his past. Slowly, the flames moved forward to show another timeline.
"Life was somewhat alright until a filly too curious for her own good came along seeking out a Stone Mask she read in a book. Right here, is when I fought against a Manticore, trying to protect a young Moondancer. I couldn't fight at my best without endangering her or Everfree. However, due to my paranoia, I paid the price when the manticore impaled me through the chest, narrowly avoiding my heart when it tried to go after Moondancer." Link said as he reached up to pull down his red cloak and his green tunic to reveal a rather nasty star shaped scar on his chest.
The flames soon faded to reveal a gruesome image of Link's impalement by the manticore as Link let go of his chain mail's collar. "The rest of my life was just me healing up, being recruited as a guard to protect a strange fox-like pony who came from the future, then the unicorn nobles being paranoid of me and how I became a hired guard easily, them sending out dangerous assassins wanting to kill me, so many near death experiences that I've lost count. In short, they wanted me dead badly." Link said as he tightly grasped his fist, then slowly eased it. "The other seven years I won't deep into detail such as saving my Princess Luna, protecting parts of Equestria whenever Celestia sensed an anomaly. Alot of the monsters I've take down were creatures of the zelda universe, either the same as, or drastically changed due to whatever Master they serve." Link said with a frown, remembering a certain boss who kept turning him into a pink bunny using a magical shield while it danced around him, mocking him.
"My will to live and my drive to do good is what kept me going. Sure, I'm not a planet buster like you guys, but I try to make do with the powers and items I was given." Link said; his words causing the triforce of courage to glow at its brightest. Overtime, it slowly fades away; hiding behind Link's leather gauntlets.
Shiva smiled softly at his words. “In that regard, we are very much alike,” she said. “I couldn’t destroy a planet even if I wanted to. I got by through uniting others in the pack.” She grinned. “I heard a wise changeling once say, ‘The strength of the timber wolf is the pack. And the strength of the pack is the timber wolf.’ I don’t know if he meant it as a warning or as guidance, but it’s certainly served me well in my own adventures.”
“Maybe it meant that a powerful leader can lead the pack. A stronger leader being someone to look up to, inspire and thus given a reason to get stronger so they may protect the leader.” Link said with a smile. “In all honesty, I’m more of a lone wolf. I work best alone considering anyone with me may end up hurt. It's like trying to cast a wide spell, but someone will end up hit by accident.” Link explained.
"I respect it." Nappa held up a fist Link for him to fist bump it.
“Sure, you keep others from getting hurt,” Kodo replied. “But in a team, you have someone to watch your back and make sure you don’t get hurt either.”
“It takes a lot to earn someone's trust like that pup,” Ed commented finally. “I trust very few outside my own family. Last time I did I ended up insane inside a stone prison and watched my wife be sent to the moon for a thousand years, all while being right in front of me as she changed into Nightmare Moon. To see the one you love every night but yet be unable to touch them…”
Kodo winced. “I… guess I didn’t think of it like that,” he mumbled.
“You do have to be careful,” Shiva agreed. “You shouldn’t entrust your life and all your secrets to just anyone. But, if you manage to find the right creatures to add to your pack; the ones that respect what you’d rather hide and stand with you when you need them…” She shook her head. “There should be balance to it at the very least.”
“Trust can be a powerful ally, or a deadly enemy that can manipulate you and betray your trust.” Link said with a nod.
“You are right about that Shiva,” Ed agreed with the alpha. “As I said there are very few I trust outside my family, but there are still some that have earned it. Trust should always be thought of as a dual-edged sword that can be thrust into you at any time.”
"...Can I lay on your lap?" Said the fully leopard Lucci looking at Ed. "Cat tendencies."
“Do I look like a crazy cat lady?” Ed deadpanned. “Or a cat person at all?”
"...N-no…" Lucci slowly backed away into the shadows.
Link gave Ed a disapproving look before looking over at where Lucci went. “You can lay in my lap if you’d like. I used to have five cats before I ended up in another world.” Link said as he patted his lap.
Lucci used soru and immediately was on Link's lap, purring.
“Like I said not a cat person,” Ed shrugged. “I don’t really do animals period, except for my Bastiodon.”
Shiva cautiously edged away from Ed. “Is the Bastiodon…?” she started to ask. “A dog?”
“No need to worry she’s the biggest softy in the world,” He held up a hand. “But she is back in my world and I rarely bring her on trips. And no she’s a pokemon.”
“Ah, I see,” Shiva said, looking away, before pausing. “Wait… a pokemon?”
“It is short for pocket monster. They are a race of animals that evolve through combat with each other, similar to Displaced in a way,” Ed explained. “Have my niece in my world for about a month lead them to start showing up in my world. They come in all shapes and varieties like modern animals do so yes there are a few dog types But Clipuem isn’t one, that’s Bastidon’s pokemon name.”
“...Speaking of pokemon, I’d hate to see or know the current number now…” Link said with a chuckle of amusement.
“Mine only go up to the season of mega evolutions,” Ed waved off the remark. “Don’t know why and I don’t really care. I do prefer the Umbreon over an opossum that Luna has though. Clip may come in handy here though, she is a level one hundred and as x and y mega evolutions not to mention primal reversion.”
"Alright, Ed, do you want to share your tale of adventure?" Thanos inquired, looking at the Sage. "You do not need to tell us if thou doesn't want to."
“Hmm..” Ed rubbed his chin. “There is that time Greed and I team up to take down the other homunculi, but that spans over eight hundred years. Hmm… There's also the time I fought Zoro. I’ve never seen Celestia so pissed before. I laced her cake with ghost pepper. I also changed all Brook’s instruments with cardboard and licorice. I managed to kid Sanji and Pink to flip out in the kitchen. What did I do to Luna? It was one of my funniest adventures really. Can’t recall them all. One of my favorites was recently though, I got a megazord out of that one.” He scratched his head. “I don’t really have a short tell guys. I mean The shortest one would be the wedding or the Minos War when I become the Crimson King.”
“The war was the turning point in my life though,” he sighed. “Mostly good but also some very bad.”
“War should be over before it even begins” Eric said shaking his head
“Tell that to battle hungry Minotaurs,” Ed glared.
“Believe me I know, it’s like those muscle headed buffoons know nothing except combat and war,” Eric said
“Their king was quite smart, he planned out everything to the last battle but didn’t take into account my regeneration,” Ed looked up. “He had a crystal sword specially made for the sisters and planned for them to be tired after calming down a certain berserk alchemist. You don’t give them enough credit my friend, they’re much smarter than you’d except.” Ed said as a ripple in the air appeared and out came a massive crystal sword. “Jagged Edge was much smarter than most though. His power was on par with mine back then, It was nearly four thousand years ago or was it closer to three. Any ways After I killed the bastard I became king due to traditions. I was then able to officially marry Luna due to my status. Like I said, some bad but mostly good things happened. That’s my tell though.” He put away the sword. “I have to say one of the worst things I’ve ever faced would be void eaters though. Nasty creature that shouldn’t exist in the first place.”
“Before anyone asks, a void eater is basically a Displaced’s evil clone spawned from the void,” Ed said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out his flasket and took a sip. “They are usually black with boney area on their bodies similar to Grimm from RWBY but they are also incomplete and seek out the original to feed on their origins void energy. Unless you beat them in a fight they’ll never stop coming for you. Do beat them and you have an eternal ally.”
“So something like this” Eric said, pulling out a copy of himself, only it had red lines all over its body and a more jagged skull mask from his shadow.
Link blinked. “So the lesser void dweller I fought years ago isn’t the only thing of the void that would present itself as a threat, grand..” he said as he started to pet Lucci softly.
“Void Eaters are much more dangerous, they’ll come after any Displaced in the area to feed.” Ed explained. “Even Void Dwellers keep clear of them. Worst part is the more they feed the more complete they become. They gain the powers of whatever displaced they feed off of too.”
“Yeah tell me about it, this little fucker was a huge pain in the ass to beat,” Eric said, shoving the bound creature back into his shadow
"You can’t kill void eaters no matter what you try,” he said with a very dark tone. “If you ever come across one, you can only do one of two thing. Fight it and pray you're powerful enough to beat it or run and pray it doesn’t track you.”
"Excuse me Edward, but are you done with your tale?" Thanos asked Ed.
“Yes I believe my horror story is done,”Ed waved. “So on to you then grape ape.”
Thanos turned to Nappa who stood there with his arms crossed, "Nappa I believe you said you had an adventure in Equestria, would you mind letting us hear it?" Thanos asked the Saiyan.
"Ugh… Does anyone want to hear it?" Nappa asked rubbing his eyes, groaning in the process
“...A question. Are you displaced as the original Nappa, or the abridged Nappa.” Link asked seriously.
"Nope! I'm the abridged Nappa, you'll know more about me if you guys want to hear my tale." Nappa grinned, putting a fist to his chest.
"All In favor of hearing Nappa's story say "Aye"." Lucci yawned.
“Aye! Might as well.” Black said, speaking for the first time.
“Aye!” Shiva and Kodo barked.
“Why not?” Eric said with his friends nodding in agreement.
“The floor is your,” Ed pointed at the saiyan.
Nappa just mouthed a swear before firing off a spell to the flame making a TV appear above it, not affected by the heat. Everyone leaned towards where it was facing.
Link almost jumped in his seat when Nappa fired off.
"Alright, let's begin. After becoming a Movie Producer, very long story, I was running out of ideas, I asked my good friend uh… Bill for advice to clear my Producer's Block. He advised that I go on a vacation and well…" The TV flashes white and it showed Nappa going on a mini-spaceship waving Bill goodbye.
"I went to go to the Bug Planet to…" Nappa looked back at the audience, "Kill their planet and I was stupid enough to spit out hot ass coffee on the control panel and…" It showed Nappa getting thrown around like a ragdoll in the ship before seeing the ship spin around and crash in Ponyville.
"Unlike you guys the locals were not bipedal, this is exactly the time when the Canterlot invasion happened. I called my Rainbow Dash gay, we started bickering, we went on a train, boom we arrived at Canterlot!" It showed Nappa crossing his arms and looking up at the palace, "The palace was bigger than the one on Planet Vegeta."
"Okay so I heard Princess Whorra wanted me to meet her, and so I did…" It showed Nappa and "Cadence" in her room, "She quizzed me, I failed because I was bad at math and well…" It showed Nappa falling from her room and going to "hell"
“...You went to hell for failing a math test? What kind of half-armos nonsense is that?” Link asked with a frown at how extreme the punishment was.
“I didn’t go to hell, just the mines… Also me and the actual Cadence bonded quite well playing games, Twilight came along and tried to kill Cadence, I however did not want that. Reasoning happens and we decided to go and save Equestria.” Nappa said as the TV showed Nappa, Cadence, and Twilight running, “Then we arrived I blanked out…” It then showed the events of Chrysalis revealing herself and Nappa standing there with a stupid grin on his face.
“I have a short attention span…” Nappa laughed, “Anyways, Chrysalis sent a few Changelings after me, and I played Patty Cake with them.” It then showed Nappa brutally pummeling the Changelings, and when I mean brutal I mean brutal. “Then a Lieutenant came along and we had an epic duel that turned out with me blowing my load all over his insides.”
“And when you mean ‘Blow your load all over his insides’ what exactly do you mean?” Luna asked raising her eyebrow
“I shot a hole through him!” It showed Nappa shooting a ki blast through the Changeling Lieutenant, the Changeling spewed out an ungodly amount of blood. And he fell onto the ground, dead.
“I knew what he meant,” Eric stated, still not liking the presence of the bald saiyan. “He just as idiotic and stupid as the show version.”
“Abridged or the actual one, because I am the actual abridged version.” Nappa raised an eyebrow.
“Both” Eric said with no hesitation
“Well, the actual Nappa wasn’t that dumb, but anyways, I fought Chrysalis and I pounded her ass like Eric would pound Luna.” It showed him beating Chrysalis with ease, breaking through her shield with an “Arm Crash” and sending her into a wall.
Without hesitation Nappa was hit by a bolt of red lightning that was followed by a flurry of small black darts
“Poor choice of words…” Link said with a frown.
“Very poor…” Ed agreed.
“So anyways…” Nappa said grunting the words out, “Then flashforward a few days and I fought King Sombra himself. I looked at him and said these exact words.” It showed Nappa between Sombra and Shining Armor, the cutscene Nappa then said “So anyways I started blasting.” And it showed Nappa shooting a barrage of Ki-blasts at Sombra. It then showed Sombra getting into his non-shadowy form and completely owning Nappa.
“My leg doesn’t bend that way, MY LEG DOESN'T BEND THAT WAY!!!!” It is then followed by a snap, “Now it does!” Cut-scene Nappa cried out.
Nappa felt Sombra grinning slightly, when Nappa turned back to Sombra it was gone.
“He then blasted me far and into a trench, so I had to wait until the Guards found me, which was a full day.” It showed Nappa getting rescued by the Crystal Guard. “Soon after that… The Brute Force attacked…”
“The brute force were under someone called King Colder, King Cold’s brother, the Brute Force were the hardest people I ever fought. Pause on that.” It showed silhouettes of five beings. Nappa looked over the Black. It then showed Nappa fighting an Albino namekian and a Yardrat, then an Android with pale skin and long silky black hair, then finally a Human with red hair. “It was a tough battle, nearly destroying the planet too.” Nappa claimed before it then switched to him fighting a bipedal Changeling.
“This mother fucker, THIS fucker right here is Raptor, a Changeling bred to kill me by none other than Chrysalis herself, she put her children in a Manticore pit and whoever came out alive… Will be her successor.” Nappa said as the TV shook when they clashed making a shockwave. “It was that time I went Super Saiyan because of the stupid plot device that is Raptor, I killed him without remorse and then I heard a broadcast from my scouter that told me I had two months to prepare before… Colder arrives.” Nappa sighed, there was then a flash and showed Nappa in Super Saiyan Two above Colder in his fifth form.
“Eventually I went into Super Saiyan Two and killed the bastard with a Dragon Fist through him.“ It showed Nappa kicking Colder far and flying at him, a golden dragon following the Saiyan as he went through the Frost Demon, the Frost Demon then fell. “After that my Author spoke with me, said I wasn’t going to let you die and threw me into Kaido’s Prison. That jackass… There marked my tale, it was bad, really bad. I hated it.” Nappa growled at the Authors.
Shiva glanced around, unsure who he was speaking to. “I thought it was rather nice,” she mumbled.
“So, Black, would you like to enlighten us about your past experiences?” Thanos added putting his fingers together.
“...Wait, how do you become a super saiyan? What does it even look like if you’re, I mean…” Link gestured to Nappa’s bald head that could rival Thanos.
“Well he’ll probably get a larger forehead” Eric said chuckling. “After all if you look at Super Saiyan 2 and 3 you’ll see their forehead grows, take away the hair and you’ve got caveman foreheads”
Link bursted out laughing at the imagine in his head.
Kodo hummed, glancing between Nappa and Black and remembering when Black when Super Saiyan Two. “Wouldn’t his moustache change color too?” Kodo offered. “I remember Black’s hair color changing when he went super.”
"When I'm Super Saiyan Three I get a Viking Beard and Moustache. You are correct, my beard and moustache turn yellow despite being naturally bald." Nappa informed the pup
“Well it would. All facial hair, tail, and your normal hair would change color depending on which form you take.” Black explained. “As for your question Link, to become a Super Saiyan, you have to experience something that gets you angry enough to trigger the transformation. Like when Goku saw his friend Krillen literally explode in front of him by Frieza.” Black explained as he held out a hand, an image coming out of it as it shows Goku turning into a Super Saiyan. “I experienced something like this when I fought Discord.”
“Wait.. What about their son? I remember the episode where they went super saiyan without anger.” Link asked with minor confusion.
“Well, that way was one of many, for example…” Black changed the image, showing an injured Prince Vegeta on a planet with meteors raining down. “He changed into a Super Saiyan after he declared he didn’t care for catching up to Goku anymore. He had been trying to turn Super Saiyan for months, but gave up in a fit of rage.” Black explained as the image disappeared. “There were many ways they turned Super Saiyan for the first time, but the most common theme was either losing something or a big fit of rage. As for higher levels, it was almost the same thing, but you had to train to hit a certain level.”
“That still doesn’t explain Goku and Vegeta’s sons turning into saiya- actually..” Link said as he waved his hand. “You can teach me more later, I don’t want to take up everyone’s time when they’re here to tell their stories.” he said.
“It’s alright, but I might as well explain my story to you all.” Black said, “Wazu!” The Saiyan suddenly called out, confusing the others. They waited a moment before Black realized something. “Right… he’s not here.” Black muttered.
“..Was that supposed to be a name for a cloud, like Nimbus or something?” Link asked as he looked around.
“No… it was supposed to bring out my angel assistant, but I realized I didn’t bring him with me.” Black explained. “Guess I’ll have to do this without him.” Black stood up, holding out a palm before facing it towards the sky. Shortly after, multiple images appeared above him, circling the campfire. All the images contained Black’s adventures, some of them making Black internally laugh. “Where should I start…” Black mused to himself. “Might as well tell you all how I first became a Displaced.” Black swiped his hand, an image coming towards him. He used both of his hands, expanding the image and making it become 3D, changing the surroundings around the group.
“I was just a normal guy, one without parents and ‘friends’, basically a loner. But that changed after the place I worked at was destroyed in a fire.” Black explained, the surroundings changing into a street with multiple buildings on the side. It showed a human in a black t-shirt with grey sweatpants and white sneakers. “I had gone to my favorite burger place and gotten myself a milkshake. And I noticed out of the corner of my eye, I saw a door in the middle of an alleyway, emitting a rainbow glow. Of course, curiosity got the best of me and I opened it, and got sucked into a vortex.” Black explained as his past human self did just that.
The surrounding changed, the street and buildings disappeared as it was replaced by a small bedroom with a theme of blue on everything. “Coming into Equestria was a bit of an experience, I may or may not have appeared in my future marefriend’s bedroom…” Black nervously laughed. This got most of the displaced curiously expressions onto they’re faces.
“I think I see where this is going, I’m guessing you saw her undressing?” Link asked with a mischievous grin.
Black blushed, “Thankfully she wasn’t, I actually came into the room before she did.” Black explained as a door appeared out of nowhere, opening and proceeding to spit out a younger looking Goku Black, a young adult. The younger Saiyan got up, being surprised at his new appearance as he looked into a mirror. “She came in crying as she was insulted by some ponies and getting into a fight with her older sister.” Black explained as his younger self walked up to the door, only to be slammed into the wall when the door smacked him. A young Luna ran into the room, slamming the door behind her and leaning against it as she was crying. “For awkward encounters, that may be one of them in my list.”
“After I calmed her down and explained who I was, we began to talk, exchanging information about where I came from and what Equestria was. When it became night, things got a bit awkward for me.” The Saiyan said as he began to blush. The image shows Black and Luna arguing about the younger Saiyan wanting to sleep on the floor, while Luna wanted to share the bed with him. The younger Black lost, almost being pulled to the bed and forced to cuddle with the Alicorn.
"PFFT-" Thanos put a hand to his mouth before looking at everyone, he cleared his throat, "Continue."
Black glared at the titan before he sighed. “The next morning, she wanted me to meet Celestia. On the way there, most of the guards gave me a dirty look. The image changed again, showing Luna draggin Black by hand. Encountering a few guards, but Luna gave them a glare. “I swear, I think one of the guards almost shat themselves.” Black laughed.
“Try being blasted by everything with a horn when you first meet them,” Ed looked off to the side as he took a swig from his flask. “Tia hit me so hard once I had a hole in me for about an hour.”
“Or being locked in a cage and forced to relive your worst memories,” Shiva added with flattened ears. “I know why the Luna of my world did it, but that doesn’t make me like it.”
“You and everyone else who still has a conscience,” Ed added.
"Or being forced to play bodyguard to a spoiled privilege brat," Eric said, causing sombra to glare at him
"I wasn't that bad!" argued the unicorn
"You made Blueblood seem like a holy saint," Eric said as Luna held back a chuckle.
“Uh…” Black scratched the back of his head nervously. “Well…” The image followed the pair as they walked into the Royal Courtroom, showing a younger Princess Celestia sitting on a singular throne. “After some explaining to her about where I came from, she welcomed me into Equestria. But she questioned where I slept, that led to… me being shot into a wall with a magical blast.” Black nervously laughed, the image showing one of Celestia’s eyes twitching before shooting the Saiyan into the wall.
“Luna did the same to me when I walked BACK into the castle and her life after about five thousand years,” Ed nods with a halfhearted chuckle.
“But after that, it was mostly peaceful, Luna showed me around Equestria while it was being formed, but that changed when Discord showed up.” Black spat. The Image changed a few years later, showing an older but still young Goku Black. The Saiyan stood side by side with Celestia, Luna, and the original bearers of the Elements of Harmony. “At that point, I was about the same strength as Goku before he fought Frieza. But it wasn’t enough to take on Discord, he had the same strength as a low tier god at that point.” Black explained as the image showed scenes of the group fighting against the chaos spirit, a massively one sided fight. “I turned Super Saiyan later into the fight as Discord killed one of the Elements of Harmony, one I considered a brother. The Chaos spirit even mentioned he would do the same to Luna.”
The younger Black transformed, his hair spiking up as it turned golden while his eyes turned light blue. But his pupils changed to draconic for a second before going back to normal. “I was still not able to compete with Discord since he’s a low tier god. Since one of the bearers of the Elements of Harmony was killed, Master Starswirl bestowed the power of the Elements to Celestia and Luna. I was more of a distraction then a competitor against Discord. But I held out long enough for the sisters to use the Elements against Discord, sealing him in stone.” Black explained the image showing the long fight between the Saiyan and the Spirit.
“Then years later you meet a comedic purple oven alien and he helps you deal with the chaos lord again. Then you two fought to a draw,” Ed smirked. “And Thanos tortures Discord via ghost Nappa.”
“AND I’D DO IT AGAIN!!!,” Nappa fist pumps into the air with a chaotic grin.
“No, that would be 1,007 years from now.” Black explained as the image changed, it changed into a snow wasteland with hundreds of ponies fighting each other.
“That’s why I said years later,” Ed pointed out.
“Didn’t specify,” Black bluntly said. “This was when I fought against Sombra and his Ruva army.” Black explained.
"He has a point." Thanos turned to Ed.
“Eh, touché,” Ed nods.
“This was a turning point in my life, I saw all of my friends and a filly killed right in front of me.” Black explained as the image shows Sombra proceeding to slaughter the Elements of Harmony with the exception of Starswirl, killing a filly in front of them while Black was impaled in the chest by Sombra’s hand. Then the tyrannical king caving Starswirl's head in. “This was the time I changed into the first Nightmare.”
“We all have times when we fall,” Ed sighed as an image of himself covered in crimson energy surrounds him. Merely as he walks through the landscape everything dies.
“Very true… something that we all can never be proud of…” Black sighed as the image showed Black transforming into a Super Saiyan 2, only to have his golden aura change into a black aura. The Saiyan’s eyes changed to full on draconic with a hazy image of black wings sprouting from the Saiyan’s back. “I went on a full on killing spree against the Ruva ponies, not having a spec of regret.” The younger Black went through Sombra’s armys, slicing them in half and punching heads off.
“I did the same during my time in my blind rage,” Ed looked at Black. “It’s what brings us back that is most important.”
“I eventually went to finish off Sombra, but he framed me before I killed him. But doing this, he had a curse that literally made the Crystal Empire and the Crystal ponies to cease to exist. The tyrant had framed me, making it look like I had killed both of the races. The pony populace hated me beyond belief, even though there were some attempts for assassinations against me.” Black explained as he sat back down with a sigh. “I went into depression for a year, later blaming myself for the Crystal ponies demise. But the Nightmare inside of me had begun spreading lies inside my head, until a few years later it tried to take control of me. I had asked the sisters to seal me in stone to prevent it.” Black explained as the image showing the events for the rest of the 8 years for the Saiyan, including turning him into stone.
“I came out a 1,000 years later, proceeding to fight Nightmare moon, being sent to another universe where I met Mr. Grumpy and your brother Gar.” Black explained. The image showing the short fight against Nightmare moon. Then switching to Gar and ‘Mr. Grumpy’ as it was a short trip. “After that fiasco, I met Edward after finding his token, calling him to see what would happen. Edward helped me with getting set up for the Grand Galloping Gala. Then we fought, he kicked my ass. Then after that, I meet purple Mr. Clean and he helps my fight against Discord. Then I fought him, agreeing to a tie.” Black explained as the events passed by on the image. “All of that leading to now.”
"Losing one's master is not that easy, going on a rampage is… Normal for Displaced." Thanos chuckled, 'I should know…' Thanos said to himself mentally, "Phoenix, Doom? Do you two wish to tell your story?"
Doom opens his hand and casts a spell creating a glowing orb of magic “My story is in the comics. I am Victor von Doom, and I am not Victor von Doom. To explain I let Hans start our tale, after all we are one and the same.
Hans' voice filled the air as he talked images from the globe of magic “I use the name Hans for now, but my name was not that at the start. Few of my memories remain but I do remember being poor, trailer park trash poor. My Father was a drunk abusive man.”
The image of a man hitting a brown haired woman and her falling banging her head against the table and a pool of blood forming around her fallen head played as Hans talked. “I think I was ten or twelve at the time my father killed the woman I think was my Mother. I can’t remember anything else about her.”
“A few years later he had a heart attack, I was 16 at the time. His abuse didn’t stop with my mother, I was beaten as well during his drunken rampages. So I made a plan.”
The image showed a brown haired teenager buying a bottle of potassium. “Potassium in high amounts could cause issues. His kidney was unhealthy from the drinking and the potassium built up in his blood. Enough so that his already weak heart… finally gave out.”
The display showed Han’s Father having a second heart attack and Hans stood there watching, making sure it was fatal.
“I was old enough to inherit the trailer. I wanted to be an artist, I tried to be an artist. One of the beatings I got was due to my father finding a book of male anatomy. The bastard thought it was gay porn. I never did learn to paint, but I did make costumes. I was a cosplayer, and my final work of art was the Doom armor you see before you.”
“Covid 19 stopped my trip to Comic con to show it off. I was bored one day and was looking at facebook when I saw an ad MultiversalTrader.com. One item I saw for sale on the site was the Infinity Gauntlet, I figured why not and bought it. When it arrived I suited up and put it on. Then the world I knew vanished.”
Doom spoke up then “That when I came into being, I am Victor von Doom. One feature of the Doom armor is that it rewrites the mind of who wears it. Doctor Doom takes over any fool who tries to put on the armor, and given that whoever makes Displaced tends to replicate the powers and abilities of the subject. My armor started to rewrite Hans’s mind.”
“There was one slight issue, the infinity stones also were displaced, with that was the Mind Stone. That is the reason Hans awareness wasn’t destroyed when I took over. There are gaps in my memories, I remember doing what Hans’ remembers reading about in the comics. So I am in many ways a product of his imagination and mind. At the time Hans was nothing but a voice in my head, and technically still is. The body you see is just a projection created from the Infinity stones so he could interact in the physical world. If it’s destroyed he will be back to being just a voice in my mind.”
Doom looked to the others then continued “We found ourselves in Griffonstone, our world of Equis has bipedal variations of the beings in the show, more humanoid. Griffonstone was in economic ruin and various forces took advantage of that. Turns out Equestria uses economic power to minimize the threat from other nations. Less need to worry about a race of predators if they are fighting among each other for scraps of food. The story is not much after our arrival, I easily took over Griffonstone, then dealt with Discord, a version of myself from some 90s cartoons then waited for when the Changelings attacked Canterlot to Save Equestria. Of course I saved it from Celestia’s rule at the same time. I moved the sun and moon into proper orbits, and turned every pony on the planet into Alicorns, ending the tribal saperations. Then I got invited to this event, I expected a trap and came prepared.” Doom then removed his blood sampling device.
“I had my agents plant six gems similar to the ones that made the Changeling throne. The type that absorbs any magic. I need a sample of your blood to include you in the spell so they wouldn’t drain your magic at the time of activation.” Doom chuckles then “Yes I tend to have multiple reasons for what I do.”
“We are not taking any samples of blood as of right now, now Phoenix, what is your story?” Thanos turned to the Fairy Displaced.
“I already have your sample Thanos, I think the others have the right to make their own mind. Double now that they know one of my plans for making things harder for this Ryker fellow.” Doom replied.
“I see,” Thanos hummed, putting a finger to his mighty chin, “Well then, Phoenix?”
Finishing his beer, Phoenix placed it down before clearing his throat. “Well, I can’t say it’s a pleasant one, but I’m sure you’ll all understand my actions at the time.” Creating a large stone statue of a woman and a man, he began to speak. “Once upon a time, a teen couple gave birth to a baby boy. As much as they tried to prevent it, she still managed to become impregnated. And so, after conceiving the boy, she sent him straight to an orphanage around a hundred miles away from them.”
Phoenix dissipated the statues and created one of a building. “There, the boy was raised by many adults, most of which he didn’t bother to remember their name. However, one stood out to him, being Mr. Clannahan. Mr. Clannahan had, well, done stuff to this boy. Unimaginable things. Things you’d most likely hurl from. But no one believed the boy. They thought of him as a man that was due respect. And so, the boy ran, ran as far away from him as possible, until he found himself in the slums of a nearby town.”
Getting rid of the old statue, he formed a rather tattered looking toddler. “By this point he was 7, and had been living off of scraps he would find in alleyways for around a year. But that changed when he met Sergeant Ansel. Ansel took the boy in, albeit in a way most fitting for his title. The boy was placed on a training regiment, and was registered in the army. But really, he was just certified cannon fodder. The boy knew this, but decided that he had nothing else to live for, so why not sell his soul to his country?”
Phoenix once again reduced the statue to the ground and reformed it as a young boy. “Five years past, and people began to realise that the boy was somewhat of a prodigy, having mastered every technique shown to him. He even rivaled some of his grand elders. The boy was soon allocated to a squad, and him and his teammates became a family. They had grown to always look out for each other, and always stand at each other's side; even though the boy was 8 years yonder than the second youngest in the group.”
Phoenix gave a warm smile, looking off into the distance. “And then, three years later, the incident happened.” His smile dropped and he began gritting his teeth as he looked to the ground. “I won’t go into specifics, but let’s just say that boy was the only one to survive.” Phoenix clenched his fists, drawing blood from his palms. “There was no way of escape, and the boy was too weak to do anything at the time.”
He took a moment in silence before relaxing his fists and continuing. “Another three years past, and the boy had been using drugs and alcohol to cope with the pain, but one day, he realised something. If Mr. Ansel could have seen him then, he’d scoff and keep on walking. And so, the kid, now legally an adult, began making a living for himself.”
Dissipating the statue of a kid, he created another one, now of a man holding a guitar and singing. “The man had seen many things on his journeys, but one thing he always loved the most was music. When you go from place to place, all around the world, you really get to appreciate how different music is for everyone.” Phoenix grew a small smile as he continued. “Also, on said journeys, the man had been able to uncover music from centuries ago, found within fallout bunkers from past wars. And with those tracks, he began to make a living as an up and coming artist. And within a year or so, he was dubbed, ‘the thousand year old boy’. A fitting title if you ask me.”
He then formed his final statue, that being a large space ship. “Then, due to America launching a stupidly large bomb on the planet, humanity had to leave it behind.” Phoenix looked down in slight anger. “Thankfully, a company by the name of Aurora designed a space shuttle, capable of holding around 1 billion people. And luckily, with the man’s military record, he was allowed to board it.”
Raising his head, he looked on at the ship he had formed as he spoke. “A few years passed, and a star exploded too close to the ship. It was bound to happen at some point, it was just unlucky that it was so soon. However, via a series of coinky dinks, the man met Frociesta, who was gracious enough to lend him a new body and unfathomable power..” He looked down to his hands. “As well as a whole new world of his own.”
Phoenix grew a large smile, before looking up to the rest of the group. “Well anyway, this and that happened after, fought a bunch of ghouls, yadder yadder yadder, and now he’s here!” He exclaimed loudly, placing both hands on his chest. “Thank you for coming to my TED talk.”
“I get it!” Nappa cried out in the background.
“It must be madness inducing when you guys got turned to stone.” Link said as he looked toward the stars.
“Indeed…” Lucci grinned, “Thankfully I got out early, and got to be the Champion of Minos for six months.”
“How did that even work?” Shiva asked. “The… being trapped in stone. Were you ‘aware’ of what was going on? Was it like some sort of fancy cage?”
“It’s like... You’re able to see everyone in front of you, hearing their conversations, you couldn’t feel anything, not the breeze nor the rain. You were just… There, forever a monument, unmoving, unfeeling, and if you’re like that long enough… Unthinking.” Lucci said shivering at the thought of the last bit.
Shiva shuddered with him. “That’s disturbing,” she muttered.
“It’s a different feeling turning into the shadow of a disappearing empire” Eric said with a shudder. “Hearing everything in the world and yet never able to see the source, it’s like floating on the top layer of a swimming pool unable to move and only able to listen to ponies' words: their lies, their screams.”
“In any case both being set in stone, sent to Tartarus, trapped in shadow, sent to the moon, being obliterated, is all equally horrible, depending on how agonizing it is.” Thanos commented, roasting a marshmallow close to the fire.
“And when you don’t deserve it,” Shiva added bitterly.
“I can agree with that,” Eric said sorrowly. “However I did deserved my fate, for failing to save my friend before it became too late”
“It was never your fault Eric” Sombra assured his friend. “I was the one who had the weak will and fell for Umbra’s words”
“Link you look like you're packed full of stories… Anymore?” Thanos asked slowly, turning towards Link, kind of creepily.
“I actually have a story” Luna said slightly raising her hand
“Oh? Share it then.” Thanos smiled.
Luna exhaled slowly before steeling her expression. “Are any of you familiar with the Changeling Queen Chrysalis?” Luna asked seeing many of them nod and answer
“I am!” Nappa raised his hand, “Beat her ass too!”
“I know her too,” Shiva admitted. “The succubus wanted my pack link to try and conquer Equestria.” She clenched her claws. “I never liked her; every time I talked with her, it felt like she was eyeing me up. How my husband didn’t blind her is beyond me.”
“I don’t know her, but frankly, I just got finished with Discord. I rather not know the future.” Black said as he plugged his ears with earplugs.
“Well about a half a year before Eric decided to exile himself,” Luna said slightly glaring at the Shadow Man. “The Changelings of the Chrysalis Hive decided to Ponynap Eric and succeeded in controlling him, his order was to kill me”
Shiva tilted her head. “That was Chrysalis?” she asked, looking at Eric. “I thought that was the Music Mistress.”
“Chrysalis was the line in the sand,” Eric said holding a slightly angered look in his eyes, “However the Music Mistress did control me after, I then tore apart her hands and feet and pinned her to a wall as Celestia’s sun turned her to ash”
“The Music Mistress not only had the power of a siren but she also possessed the powers of the Bat-Bat Fruit, Model: Vampire” Sombra explained
“Why am I reminded so much of the Music Meister?” Link said with a frown.
“Who’s that?” Eric asked before shaking his head. “Nevermind, tell us later. Lulu please continue”
Hearing Eric call her by her nickname made the Alicorn blush as she continued her tale. “Anyway after several failed attempts Eric returned to Chrysalis” Luna said slightly frowning at the memory. “When we found him he was completely under her control and wearing changeling armor wielding his beloved sword. Me Sombra and the elements battled a losing battle with the changelings.”
“Chrysalis and I fought one another, however she had the advantage, having the powers of the Glint-Glint Fruit as well as an axe made from Sea-prism stone.
“Pika-Pika No Mi.” Entity muttered under his breath.
This however was heard by Eric. “I prefer the englished Dub version”
“Her tactics were awful,” Luna continued. “She would strike from afar while Eric would fight me, even getting hit by some of her light beams. Whenever I got close to her she would strike with her axe,” Luna spoke her hands squeezing her skirt. “She was a horrible creature and I wished I had taken her wings and her horn”
“Calm yourself Luna,” Eric said, embracing his companion. “You’re shifting again”
This made Luna’s eyes widen as she looked down at her hands and saw the black coat of Nightmare Moon, closing her eyes Luna put a hand to her chest and inhaled before exhaling and pushing her hand away from herself. Luna did this several times before she returned to normal, Looking ahead Luna saw the others looking at her in concern
“I apologize for my outburst” Luna said bowing
“You still have the nightmare?” Link asked in minor confusion.
“Yes and No” Luna answered. “Nightmare Moon is gone and will never return. but the form was caused because of my fathers magic, I am able to call upon it but it sometimes flares up when I become extremely angry.”
“Anyway I lost because of my inability to hurt Eric and lay before the queen completely at her mercy” Luna saud inhaling before exhaling. “She lifted her weapon to kill me, but for some reason Eric had grabbed hold of the shaft.”
“My only thought was I couldn’t let another comrade die,” Eric said, remembering his past battles. “I’ve seen to many of my soldiers die in front of me, I wouldn’t be able to tell Celestia that I watched her sister be killed in front of me”
“Eric then threw her into her throne and stood between me and her,” Luna said, frowning at the next part. “When Eric didn’t move when she ordered she fired several beams of light into his arms and legs.”
“Ouch,” Kodo noted with a wince.
“After that attack Eric’s body struggled to remain standing, but he still stood his ground to protect me” Luna said lowering her head. “Everything after that was a blur, I saw Eric hit the ground. His blood splashing across my face. And the next thing I felt was rage. Pure rage.” Her fists clenched. “Rage I hadn’t felt since I became Nightmare Moon.”
Luna lowered her head even further recalling the events.
“I lost control of my emotions and once again became Nightmare Moon,” Luna said with regret. “Only this time I didn’t hold the desire to cause eternal night, it was to kill Chrysalis.”
“Tell me this princess,” Ed spoke up. “What would you do if she was reborn completely separated from you with little to no memories of who she used to be? What if she was reborn a filly and raised right?” He spoke with truth in his voice.
“I-I don’t know,” Luna admitted. “On one hand I’d want to keep her as close as possible but on the other I’d want her as far away from me as possible.”
“It’s an interesting theory,” Shiva admitted. “But one that’s distracting from the tale.” She nodded to Luna. “Please continue, Princess.” Luna nodded, returning to her tale
“When I recovered from my outburst I saw Twilight and her friends looking at me in fear” Luna said squeezing her clothing again. “I never wanted to instill such fear in the ponies who freed me.”
“What if I said it was possible,” Ed interrupted.
“Here we go again…” Thanos muttered under his breath remembering Black’s ally, Nightmare.
“I was referring to my own world thank you,” Ed said flatly. “In my world Nightmare Moon was reborn thanks to the cult Children of the Night.They used several rituals and blood magic using Twilight’s blood as a base. She was reborn as Nyx and is living happily with Twilight as her mother and my Grandson as her father.” He took a swig of his flask. “And she is very happy and a great filly. Not to mention a prodigy when it comes to alchemy.”
“Even still, even as a filly I would be conflicted with keeping her close and keeping her away” Luna s repeated to the Alchemist
“That was how Celestia handled it and it really hurt Nyx,” Ed explained. “Luna was hesitant at first but soon realized it was better to have her near lest drive her back down the path of anger.” He kept saying. “I understand your thinking but it is better to be there and guide her to be a pony then a demon.”
“I agree,” Shiva noted. “Kodo was born with Sombra… sorry,” she said to Sombra. “Umbra’s influence. And though their personalities were distinctly different, there are ponies and even diamond dogs in my world who believe they’re one in the same, who can be a huge detriment to the child’s growth and development. I can assume there were some ponies who thought the same with Nyx, yes?”
“On both sides in fact,” Ed nodded. “The elements, her family, and especially her father and uncle helped her.”
“Exactly,” Shiva said with a nod of thanks, looking sadly at Kodo. “If they don’t have a pack that trusts them and shows them how to be better… the path of darkness is going to look very tempting.”
Kodo huffed. “You can say that again,” he noted, before looking up at Shiva with appreciation. “I’m thankful to have your guidance, Mother… even when the others wanted to dismiss me as a monster.”
“You’re only a monster if you let others believe you are,” Luna, Eric, and Sombra said in unison.
“In this or any world, it is entirely your choice on how others view you,” Eric said speaking his words of wisdom
“Hn… you say that now but you can ask Black what that darkness turns you into,” Ed scoffed. “He’s seen what darkness has turned me into, at least a piece of it anyways,he even fought it.”
“And as much as I’d like to say you’re right, Eric,” Shiva added. “I struggled for a long time with convincing the poNies that I wasn’t a monster. And figuring out that not all of them were monsters either. And none of us were dealing with Nightmares or Umbras or demons at all; we were just trying to figure out what was going on with the other side. While it is your choice to try, the people you’re trying to convince need to try as well. Cooperation and understanding is a two way street, after all.”
“True,” Eric said, flashing a toothy grin to the Diamond Dog. “But fear based cooperation works better in my opinion.”
Shiva squinted. “I… don’t understand what you mean. Like, ponies only work with you because they’re scared of you?”
“What he means is before we became the Four Emperors, he would usually try to prevent pointless fight by inducing fear into our opponents”
“There is little that can be done to a four thousand your old boogie man story still used to this day,” Ed pointed at the Alpha. “My demon took parts of my nieces souls and would have eaten them too. Even took her mare friend’s arm. My other niece was able to recover the soul pieces,” he chugged his flask. “But not before Me and her siblings had to take drastic measures.” Ed sighed looking at Shiva. “Sometimes fear is the only way for some to listen and learn in other words, sometimes it is the best way to maintain a semblance of peace and order for a time.”
“Fair,” Shiva admitted, remembering the times she had to rely on fear to keep her pack safe. “But you shouldn’t have to rely completely on it. You should be able to have balance; be able to be approachable, and yet at the same time, able to show that you’d make a very dangerous enemy. I’ll admit, be too approachable, and others will see you as a target. But be too forceful, and others will see you as a threat.” She leaned back. “At least, that’s what I’ve learned from my world.”
“Did you say… Balance?” Thanos turned to Shiva, staring into her soul.
Shiva’s pale fur got paler. Kodo turned to Eric. “Eric, this fruit can let me turn others into smoke, right?”
Before Eric could reply, Shiva said. “Doesn’t matter!” Pack linking to her son, a gray pulse went through her white tendril. The diamond dogs burst into twin columns of smoke, and shot away into the arena stands.
“Shut up with the Balance crap already,” Ed rolled his eyes. “It happened then it didn’t you didn’t do it so leave it be.”
“In time, everyone will know what it means to lose, to feel so desperately that one is right, only to fail all the same.” Thanos began, “Dread it, run from it, grief comes all the same. All of our stories have at least one thing in common, it’s that we’ve had our loved ones taken away from us. By themselves, by evil, or by our own hands.”
“Yeah you’re right about that,” Ed gave a somber nod.
“Did you just copy Infinity war…” Black said as he pulled out his ear plugs.
“I am Thanos so it is fair that I should quote him.” Thanos raised a finger, as he said that.
“Touche…” Black said with a smirk, “Sorenara, watashi ga nihongo de hanaseba kō tairadesu. (Then it’s only fair if I speak Japanese).”
“Just don’t lose yourself in the personification and become the same as Thanos.” Link said with a frown.
“Please!” Shiva pleaded from the stands, before Kodo hid her again with a hush.
“Did that once before… Never again… Never again…” Thanos sighed, “I’ll never act like him again, last time I did… I was tempted to snap half the universe but calmed myself and snapped back to reality. Op, there goes gravity…” Thanos said that last bit quietly.
“Gokū burakku no yō ni naru nante kangaetaku mo nai, saiaku no akumu…(I'd never want to even have the thought of becoming like Goku Black, it's my worst Nightmare…)” Black muttered under his breath.
“You just had to go there..” Link said as he slapped his hand over his forehead.
“There’s only one way to go when all hope is lost and you feel everything is wrong, the right way.” Thanos took a sip of his hetap.
“Adam Sandler’s anger management style,” Ed interjected.
“Really? I just thought of that now.” Thanos turned to Ed, “I must be really philosophical or big brained due to my bowling ball sized head.” Thanos pointed to his head, “Shiny as one too.”
“Bangō… (No)” Black said.
“Self roasts, those are rare.” Lucci commented, earning a chuckle from Thanos.
“Careful, you might end up knocking down those pins.” Link said jokingly.
“I’ll knock out half of them and leave the rest to turn me into dust.” Thanos countered before full on laughing joyously, “This is really fun.”
“A whole choir of guys sing I’m so pretty never gets old,” Ed chuckled
Cautiously, the diamond dogs poked their heads over the stands, checking to make sure Thanos wasn’t watching them.
“Speaking of which, you haven’t told us your story.” Luffy turned to Thanos who’s eyes widened.
“Thanos tell them of your experiences on your Equestria,” Eric said as some of the other Displaced nod in agreement. “I’m sure there is an interesting story about you and Celestia”
“Kore wa subarashī koto ni narudeshou. Pāpurumisutākurīn no hanashi o kiku koto ga dekimasu! (This is going to be great. We get to hear Purple Mr. Clean's story!)” Black jokes, but of course, no one understood him.
Thanos pointed to the stands, “OH MY GOD IS THAT FUJITORA ABOUT TO FALL DOWN THOSE STAIRS!??!?!?!” Thanos shouted out.
“It is not,” Shiva replied, already in the stands.
“Don’t try and weasel out Titan,” warned the Shadow Man. “We’ve all shared our stories now it’s your turn”
“The who and the what??” Link said in confusion, looking between Thanos and the mentioned stairs as he had no idea who Fujitora is.
“Kare wa bakagete iru koto sura arimasen… (He's not even close dumbass…)” Black frowned at Thanos’s attempt to avoid storytelling.
“You’re going to share Thanos,” Ed placed a hand on the mad titans head. “We all have and now it’s your turn.”
“Whether you like it or not” Eric said after the Alchemist
“Ight, imma head out.” Thanos decided to run for it as fast as his body could go to his room.
A Pack Link snared him around the neck. “If you don’t want to share,” Shiva said. “I can share for you.”
“We could always venture into that bald head of yours with our magic” Eric said as his and Sombra’s magic flared in their hands and eyes
“I can always project you memories straight from your head to ours,” Ed added.
“That’s literally what my link does,” Shiva noted, lifting a claw sparking with light. “Shall I?”
“But mine invades one’s memories” Eric said looking at the Diamond Dog. “Isn’t that right Lady Shiva?”
“FINE!!! I’ll tell you guys god damn it!” Thanos admitted his defeat, clenching his fits and wincing. Shiva released him from her links with a grin.
Eric’s and Sombra’s magic ceased their vile glow as they flashed smiles at the Titan
“Kono otoko o shinji raremasu ka? (Can you believe this guy?)” Black asked the displaced with disbelief.
“The way he acts and talks, totally,” Ed deadpanned.
“I have no idea what Black is saying…” Link said with a frown.
Black rolled his eyes, “What I said was, Can you believe this guy?” Black said with a small frown, pointing over his shoulder at Thanos.
It was then that Eric remembered something
“Oh and Black” Eric said, drawing the Saiyan’s attention. “If you ever want that nightmare of yours snuffed out I’ll gladly get rid of it for you” Eric said magic coursing from his eyes
“Thank you for the kind offer, but that would’ve been helpful a few days ago.” Black explained. “Thanos had noticed my eyes changing to one that resembles Nightmares, so he convinced Ryker to take me and him to his universe to use the reality stone. I quite literally turned my Nightmare into atoms.”
“Gone, reduced to atoms.” Thanos quoted Thanos with a grin. “Anyways gather round the campfire. This is going to be two thousand words, meaning it’s longer than my will to live.” Thanos smiled.
“Subarashī… (Fantastic…)” Black deadpanned with fake excitement.
Cautiously, Shiva and Kodo returned to the campfire, still partially shielded by smoke.
“How many Nightmares have you gone through now?” Ed counted on his fingers. “Three now.”
“Are we taking Dream Nightmares or Nightmare Moons?” Eric asked
“I think he’s talking about Nightmares like Nightmare Moon.” Black explained. “And are you referring to me about Nightmare’s or someone else?
“Both actually,” Ed matter of fact.
“No, when we first met Eric,” Luna began to explain to the Saiyan. “His dreams were plagued by nightmares of the night he failed to protect his wife”
“Every night I had to watch her die” Eric said, lowering his stature. “And when I was trapped in my own mind I was forced to watch the memory over and over again”
“I’m sorry to hear that…” Black apologized to the man. “I wish I could say the same, but I wasn’t plagued by watching someone I loved being killed. I had to watch civilizations burn, but that’s nothing compared to yours.”
Thanos walked close to the fire, “I have some magical powers because I drank Alicorn’s blood, long story, don’t worry, Celestia donated it. Don’t ask.” Thanos said blankly before groaning, he shot a magic bolt from his finger and into the fire. The flames erupted into a pillar of fire, going above the clouds, like Eric it showed images through the flames.
"A few centuries ago, there was a man named John D. Oliver, the D standing for Drake, my father wanted me to have a kick ass name. I had friends, those who you all know as my "boys'' there are three girls, but I still call them my "boys"." The fire then showed a male young black African American, with another one with him, there was an Asian kid with glasses and a blond haired American. Next to them was a brown girl with silky black hair wearing purple, a white girl with bri'sh qualities, and finally a blonde woman with a "cape" around her neck.
"We were all together since Kindergarten, swearing a bond that will last to the ends of the earth, flash forward into 2022, Coronavirus ended so we all went to Comic-Con. It was there we found our Merchant, Kilton." The Campfire showed seven people in costume looking at Kilton with a mischievous look on his face, "Unlike other Void Dwellers he gave me an option to go to Equestria, we all agreed to go."
"We arrived at the Everfree Forest, and I was Thanos with all the Infinity Stones in hand, I was nothing, a loser and I suddenly got this… Power. I could destroy a universe, turn it all to dust but… I snapped out of it, however there was a voice inside my head telling me to snap. I refused, then we realized Lucci gained all of the Rokushiki techniques. he taught us." The Campfire then revealed Lucci, Thanos, Grievous, Entity, Supergirl, Sally, and Rapunzel under a waterfall feeling the water hit their bodies.
"Flash forward three months and we were ready to fight everything, well, almost everything when the clouds turned into cotton candy." The fire shows Thanos and the others looking into the sky, cotton candy surrounding us, "Discord had found us, taking a look at us before Lucci tried to beat him." The fire flashed to Lucci in his human form fighting Discord.
"As you can see Lucci lost that fight, so we all decided to take him on together, and with a sick ass combo, I knocked him out with a devastating uppercut." The flames show Thanos uppercutting Discord above the clouds and knocking him out, "Keep in mind this Discord isn't as strong as Black's. This Discord is at least… Don Chinjao Level, Don Chinjao can destroy a continent but never mind that. The Princesses arrived at the situation seeing us kicking Discord while he was down." Everyone saw the boys kicking Discord's unconscious body and the Princesses standing there wide-eyed.
"After talking, we and the Princesses came to an agreement and locked him in stone, and as a reward for helping us, they offered us a stay at their castle which we gladly took and appreciated." The flames flashed and it showed Thanos hugging Celestia and swinging her as Luna frowned. Thanos grinned, "Good times, we were living there for two weeks until Golden Horn arrived with my late master, Cloven Diamond, we didn't meet yet, so I didn't know him. Golden Horn was curious about us and started training us, since he had to go back to Minos because he was a king and all of that, he left the strongest living creature alive with us, Cloven Diamond." It shows a Minotaur with horns as long as swords, the same Minotaur that was bigger than Thanos, he had light blue fur and a mane that was white as snow.
Black looked to the minotaur with a smirk, “I’m sure he was a good master?” Black asked the titan.
“The best.” Thanos replied, “Able to teach a damn squirrel how to learn Armament Haki. I’m not kidding, I fought against the damn thing.” Thanos informed the Saiyan.
"Cloven Diamond had the raw strength to beat armies on his own, making mountains his punching bags, and making Dragons his pets." The flames shot up and everyone saw Cloven Diamond on a pile of unconscious bodies and a full moon behind him. "He was known as the warrior of the night and day, a… Celestial Warrior if you will. He taught us everything he knew about Haki, taught me how to use Conquerors after almost "killing" Celestia. The same tactic I tried to use on you Black." The fire waved and formed into Cloven Diamond holding up a great sword to Celestia's neck, wielding it in one hand.
"I still believe you have Conqueror's Haki, but it's untapped. Just like Sombra said we had a run in with Umbra the Dark, but in the form of Sombra. We were sent to combat him, Lucci decided he wanted to take him down with the old Cp9, but they all fell in battle, their Devil Fruits lost in history, he was about to do the same to Lucci when I stepped in." The fire shows Sombra about to step on the neck of Lucci and Thanos putting his foot under Sombra's, stopping it from reaching it. "We had a duel that resulted in me winning, due to my comrades landing multiple fatal hits on him it was only one Armament Haki Dempsey Roll away." It showed Thanos swirling around like the infinity sign and punching Sombra repeatedly with no pulled punches.
"After that before he could be declared unconscious by his own body's orders. He and the Crystal Empire vanished; I was… Not very happy with that." The flames show Thanos roaring to the heavens in rage, "I wanted an epic finale, but that bitch decided to leave like my father. And Sombra was black too… Just like my father…" Thanos cleared his throat.
“At least you got to be there,” Ed mumble. “I was stuck in stone. Maybe if I had been there Sombra wouldn’t have imprisoned his mothers and turned to dark alchemy for more power and to extend his life. I was so busy with the minos and ponies of Equestria I couldn’t be there for one of the ponies I considered to be a son.”
“Oh you were talking about Sombra, not my father…” Thanos blinked before clearing his throat.
“Sorry about that,” Ed sighed. “Context can be a bit jumbled with everyone else's stuff here.”
"Then a few months later Cloven Diamond had to leave for war, for there was a war going on between the Minotaurs and the Avians. I decided to join, my comrades joined me in the war and one fateful battle…" It shows Thanos and his boys fighting off Avians in a desert and there was a giant golem in the background as large as a mountain, "He was fighting someone with the codename Heir of Umbra, I was confident he was going to win but…" The flames show Thanos going to check on Cloven Diamond, the campfire shot a pillar of fire into the clouds above. It then showed Thanos looking at Cloven Diamond's dead body.
"Just like Black my master had died." The flames formed Thanos full on wailing while Cloven Diamond's body was in his arms. "There were no transformations, no flashy moments, just wrath and just like Ed said, "We all have times where we fall." And this is where I fell and didn't want to get back up again, just like Black I started to go on a rampage on the enemy army, my allies had to fall back due to my destructive capabilities." The fire then turned blue and showed Thanos ripping the wings of an Avian off, crushing another one's skull until its brains covered Thanos' hands, and Thanos surrounded by purple flames, his eyes full of tears and anger.
“Blinded by rage and anger” Eric said, closing his eyes and shaking his head. “Something everyone here has gone through more than once.”
“And paid for,” Shiva mumbled guiltily.
Thanos sighed before continuing on. "The King was on the Battlefield and I used the Reality Stone to remove his eyes, his legs, and his arms, I proceeded to use the Time Stone to loop him, then I used the Space Stone to send him to the bottom of the ocean. Now he is drowning, repeatedly. I needed something today and that… Indeed, put a smile on my face… " The blue flames turn to Thanos dragging an Avian with a crown to a portal then throwing the Avian in with a grin. "But it was then I realized what I had done." It showed Thanos looking around at the bodies, the whole desert covered in blood.
"And after that I shut down, forced myself in a cage for my crimes, I killed… I killed over 3,000 Avians that day, and I regret every single death." The blue flames calmed down and showed Thanos in a corner in a cell, darkness covering almost his entire form. "But this is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, so my friends got me out of that shit, and I married Celestia, finally." It revealed Thanos in a suit and Celestia in a bride's outfit.
“So he married my sister?” Luna asked, raising her eyebrow. “How did that work out exactly?”
“I am a Titan, a literal deity, able to live for one thousand years. I was more than suitable to be a husband for a Princess. Not to mention we beat Discord.” Thanos took a swig of a hetap.
“The titans actually pre-date the gods and are the gods parents,” Ed pointed out.
“Thanos take a sip of something a little harder?” Eric said, pulling out a bottle of Applejack Daniels. “Here.” the Shadow Man tossed the bottle to the Titan
“Y de fok not m8?” Thanos asked, catching the bottle and taking a sip, before his eyes widened, “This is the best shit I’ve ever tasted in all my damn life. I’LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!!!!” Thanos’ head compressed and his voice became wavy.
“What the hell does that phrase even mean by the way?” Ed raised an eyebrow.
“My Equestria may not be the safest,” Eric said using his shadow to snatch the bottle from the Titan. “But it does make the best damn Whiskey in the multiverse”
Eric took a sip from the bottle before turning to the Alchemist. “Hey Ed, think you could make us some cups, I’d like everyone..” Eric says before spotting the young pup. ..”Who is of age to taste the whiskey of my Equestria”
“Sure,” Ed snapped and everyone had a cup appeared in their hands. “I’ll stick with my grandson’s brew of Zap Apples and Poison jokes though.” He held up his flask.
“Fair enough,” Eric said before yanking the cup from Kodo’s hands. “Sorry pup, when your older” Eric said pouring a glass for himself then his friends before passing the bottle around the campfire
“Sorry pup, forgot you were under age,” Ed said as he summoned a new drink and levitated it over to the Diamond Dog youth. “This one is non alcoholic cider though. You can have as much of it as you want.”
“Physically, but not mentally, Thanos.” Link said toward the claim Thanos made about being a Titan. Link reached up and pointed at his head.. “Like me looking like Link, but I’m not a mute nor do I think exactly like him.”
“It is confirmed in the Breath of the Wild that Link decides to not speak because he only wants to focus on protecting the princess or something like that.” Thanos pointed out.
"It was good, but all good things must come to an end." The blue flames turn purple and form Thanos backing away from Celestia, "She wanted to destroy all evil in the universe with my gauntlet, I told her it would create an imbalance in said universe. She disagreed, and she started throwing pots and pans." It showed Celestia throwing literal pots and pans at Thanos, "So I decided to do what Luigi told me, "If she throws pots and pans, she can catch these hands." So, I… May or may not have hit a woman that day. I then ran away realizing what I did, so I got my crew and left. Searching for a new life beyond the forest… Celestia had other plans. She prevented me from leaving, sending guards after me for the sole purpose to take my gauntlet." The purple "hellfire" reveals Thanos and his crew running from guards and bolts of magic.
“You should’ve just hit her over the head with one of the frying pans,” Ed chuckled.
“That would’ve worked.” Thanos turned to Ed with a grin, “If I could turn back time…”
“I suggest NOT doing that, Thanos. Time traveling and manipulation isn’t a toy. One change in the past can split into many presents.” Link said with a disapproving look toward Thanos. Link was serious when it comes to time shenanigans.
“You’re right but it would’ve been funny as hell to see,” Ed took another swig of his flask
“I’ve experienced that first hand” Eric said, lowering his head in regret. “I went back in time and killed Sombra to save my wife, Unfortunately my bloodline set out to conquer the world, The Element Bearers, The CMC, and Luna perished from my actions, Celestia and Rainbow were the only ones alive” Eric took a sip from his cup
“But anyways I should’ve said Equal Rights, Equal fights when I hit her.” Thanos laughed, “And don’t worry, I wouldn’t time travel.” Thanos said, responding to the Hylian’s comment. Link nodded in thanks.
“That woman literally tears me apart if I piss her off or her sister, not to mention what Amore might do,” Ed actually agreed. “I will never raise a hand or pot to her. I love her too much for that. That being said, she still scares the crap out of me at times too.”
“You are not alone in that regard,” Shiva agreed. “I was scared enough of her when I saw her.”
“Then I pushed her into becoming Day Breaker,” Kodo added with a shiver.
“Same, last time I pissed her off… Let’s just say… Two days in the bedroom. And that’s it.” Thanos shuddered.
“I have to put us in another dimension for that,” Ed hung his head low, “For everything…”
“Last time I saw Luna completely pissed was when I came back after my two year exile,” Eric said, putting a hand on his check. “Slapped me so hard I nearly was thrown off the island.”
“OOF! I even felt that from hearing it!” Thanos rubbed his cheek as well. “Alright let us continue with ze story.”
“The slap heard throughout the omniverse as we know it,” Ed shuddered.
“Pretty Sure that’s every slap a Alicorn gives their partners,” Eric whispered
“The Snap, The Slap, what’s next?” Lucci chuckled.
“The crack,” Ed added, “Between the legs, not fun.”
“The fist.” Entity commented, “I heard good ol Looney Tunes here did a number on my ass. Don’t feel it because I’m a Minecraft Human though.” Entity took a sip of his water.
“How was Pops’ treatment by the way?” Ed smirked.
"Using the Space Stone, I reached the Storm Kingdom and pleaded my case, they decided to help me, providing me shelter, however… Celestia waged war on Storm Kingdom for "Land" when we all knew it was for me. The Storm Kingdom gained allies, the Minotaurs, the Griffons, and the Changelings. Celestia's side was the Avians, the Abyssinians, and the Diamond Dog tribes. We had two ponies on our side, Platinum Dusk and Platinum Shine, two sisters who made way into our brotherhood." It shows Thanos, Supergirl, Entity, Rapunzel, Lucci, Sally and Grievous with a unicorn with a silver coat and white and grey hair with the other being almost similar minus the grey.
"But… while Platinum Dusk was away a certain Changeling started to control Shine's body, mind control, she almost killed Sally." The fire turned into a wheel and revealed Platinum Shine on Sally about to stab a sword on her chest, "I had no other options, we had already killed the Changeling, but the spell still stuck… So, I… Killed her." The fire turned back to normal, and everyone looked in said fire and saw Thanos firing off a beam from his Power Stone, blasting Platinum Shine to smithereens.
"We decided to keep it a secret from Platinum Dusk, but she found out, and... I had to kill her too." Thanos' voice cracked as the flames showed a broken look in Thanos cut off the head of Platinum Dusk.
“She’s the one you told me about'' Eric started looking at the Titan. “The one with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit”
“...Yes.” Thanos said with a sigh taking a drink from his cup, “She was cocky, angry, and wanted to kill us. So… I had to.” Thanos looked down before wiping a single tear off his face.
“As Shiva said to me, ‘the hardest battles are the one fought against the ones we love’” Eric said, causing the dog to blush.
“The hardest choices require the strongest wills.” Thanos looked up and relaxed his body. Popping his shoulders.
“I’ll agree with you Titan” Sombra said drinking from his cup
"From then on, I became the Mad Titan, I began to act like Thanos, and nearly became him too, but a simple message from my Master made me realize… I'm not Thanos, I'm me. So me and the boys decided to camp out in White Tail Woods, we stayed there for one day and Celestia found out our location. She then went all "Kuma" on us and sent us to different locations… Except for Entity. They dueled." The flames show Entity clashing with Celestia.
The fire shows Entity getting blasted by a full power Alicorn blast from Celestia. "I'm not good with women." Entity laughed.
"Grievous was hunted down 1000 men…" The flames show the General running from a thousand men before being shot down by them because he was surrounded, the images flashed in red as it showed beams hitting Grievous mercilessly, they could almost hear the screams of agony. "Captured."
"Sally fought the Queen of the Abyssinians at the time…" The purple flames turn to white as everyone sees Sally getting ora'd by a cat. "Captured."
"Lucci fought Golden Horn," The white-hot flames show Lucci and Golden Horn clashing and appearing behind each other, Lucci falls to the ground. "Captured."
"Supergirl fought the Dragon Lord at the time." The white-hot fire shows Supergirl getting crushed repeatedly by a gigantic dragon. "Captured."
"Rapunzel was sent to Seaquestria, most likely captured. I was all alone, I got back to the Storm Kingdom and tried to let off an assault on the Castle of Two Sisters, their allies intercepted me, it was a big battle that lasted for a month. But nearing the end of the month I was exhausted; it was only me and the Princesses dueling." The flames form Thanos, Celestia and Luna dueling, clashing blades as sparks fly before both slashing at Thanos at the same time. Thanos stood there… Unmoving. "I stood unconscious, I was defeated and was sentenced to imprisonment via stone. By request we did it Gol D. Roger style." The white-hot flames show Thanos walking to a pedestal, the fire flashed to Thanos on the pedestal and being stoned.
"And after that I woke up, I freed Sally, Grievous, Lucci, and Entity, got the Power and Reality Stone, became the King of Minos, fought Von Shadow, fought Goku Black, and now we're here." The fire turned back to its usual orange as Thanos finished his tale. “Though it seems that I’m a brave bastard... I have a fear, not gonna tell ya too.”
“We all have fears, some greater than others,” Eric said before looking to his comrades. “Sombra’s fear is he’ll lose himself in the dark magic and become Umbra once again”
Turning his gaze towards Luna. “Luna’s fear is losing her sister and ruling Equestria by herself” Eric said looking towards Rainbow. “Rainbow’s greatest Fear is that she’ll be too weak to save her friends when they need her most” Eric then pointed to the earth pony. “And Maud…”
“My greatest fear is losing my sister and never seeing her warming smile again,” Maud said downing the rest of her drink
“And your’s?” Luffy asked the shadow man.
“My greatest Fear is that I’ll lose control of my powers and kill somepony important to me,” Eric admitted staring into his glass. “It's precisely why I hold back in every fight.”
Eric finished his cup before wiping his mouth before looking to his titan friend. “And you” Pointing to the Mad Titan. “Your greatest fear is making a mistake and everyone turning on you because of it.” Thanos chuckled lightly.
“Nah, it’s losing my friends, they’re the reason why I’m alive. Without them, I am nothing.” Thanos lied, yet only Eric could see through it.
“Try again, Titan,” Eric said. “You have more power than any of them”
“Bitch, you don’t know me, also you do realize Tirek exists? The same guy who could steal my magic and kill ALL of us?” Thanos asked the shade, raising an eyebrow.
“Thanos you are the type who flaunts his power but holds back in fear of doing something you’ll regret, such as hurting or god forbid killing your friends” Eric said raising to his feet and approaching the Titan as he slowly backed away
“Why must you lie?” Thanos chuckled, standing to his feet. “Oh? Are you approaching me? Save it for the match, then we can beat each other silly.” Thanos laughed and turned around to walk off.
Magic flared in Eric’s eyes as he vanished from sight, Eric appeared in front of the Titan with his eyes starting into his
“Reveal your darkest Fear” Eric ordered causing the Titan’s to cease movement
Thanos stared back, not budging before he spoke, his eyes taking on a greener hue “My darkest fear is… My friends dying.” Thanos had told himself this lie his entire lie so much that his body told his lie.
“How do you fear their deaths?”
“Grievous being slain by a Dragon, Lucci dying from Luna, Entity killing himself, Sally killing herself, Supergirl running away and never to be seen again, and Rapunzel getting her hair caught in something and paying for it with her life.” Thanos answered in a monotone voice.
“I can feel resistance in your words, so neither of us are completely wrong” Eric said freeing the Titan from his spell
“That’s a lie.” A voice from deep inside of Thanos spoke, “Me and John have been together for years on end, fought together, lived together, seen our allies die. He just doesn’t want to lose another one.” Words spoken like the real Thanos said as Thanos circled around Eric like a shark.
“We all have our fears,” Eric said walking away with a smile shortly followed by his princess. “Some will do everything to prevent them from coming true but I me fear will never come to reality”
“But some however, are telling the truth…” “Thanos” said before jumping into the stands, looking back at the others before walking off.
“Eric is not wrong,” Sombra said, finishing his drink before setting the cup down. “We all have fears, whether we let them control us or strengthen us is entire up to you,” Sombra leaving the arena
“To his defense, that was the actual Thanos talking for him, you must’ve made the actual Thanos decide to step in, because ya know you were trying to “invade” his mind and spill his secrets.” Lucci leaped off of Link’s lap before turning back to his normal form, crossing his arms.
“Everyone has a fear, even Gods have something to fear, even me despite, well..” Link paused to raise his hand, showing the triforce of courage. “The only thing I fear..” Link lowered his head. “Is the aftermath of what could happen if I failed to protect Equestria or someone’s life, especially if I ended up dead while trying. I don’t take failure very well when it comes to that.” he said.
“Well I think I’ve had enough of Eric’s whiskey and enough of this campfire,” Rainbow said stretching on her cloud. “I’m going to hit the hay and prepare to cheer Eric on in his fight against Goku,” Rainbow said dragging her cloud out of the arena shortly followed by Maud
“Thank you for your company and your stories,” Maud said bowing slightly
“Before you go, this campfire is sponsored by Raid Shadow Le-” Before Nappa could continue, Entity slammed his Scythe into Nappa, sending him into the wall.
“Thank you!” Link said as he threw his hands up into the air with relief.
“Entity,” Maud said with a slight eye twitch
“Yes ma’am? I apologize for what has happened back then, I was apparently under the influence of Dark Ki, thus making me more of an asshole than I was. And for that I apologize.” Entity bowed his head.
“You’re truly sorry?” Maud asked walking up to the minecraft player
“As true as Celestia raises the sun.” Entity nodded, unsummoning his scythe.
“That’s good,” Maud says back, handing Entity dislocating his jaw. “That was for insulting my sister.”
“I deserved that, and sorry for insulting your sister and calling you… A cunt..” Entity said before eating bread repairing the damage, as if nothing happened.
“You do,” Maud said, swinging her leg in between his legs causing him to clamp his boys and dropped to his knees. “That was for calling me a cunt”
Entity then ascends to heaven going above the clouds and into the unknown as Maud left to follow Rainbow Dash. Lucci looked up in shock, “He’s going to Valhalla.” Lucci claimed.
“Welp, when he falls back down I have a hole prepared for him.” Zabuza said, appearing out of nowhere with a hole and a tombstone engraved with his name on it.
"You'd think he'd learn to shut his mouth after she handed his ass to him," Ed ranked looking up as he slurped from his flask.
“My nigga apologized man.” Lucci chuckled, looking up and crossing his arms, “I get a feeling that he’s going to fall down tomorrow.”
“Alrighty… Tomorrow it is then…”
Author's Note
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Power Vessel - By Delta-Boio
The Shadow Of Equestria - By Screwball666
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Chapter Nine, The Divine God vs The Reaper of the Crystal Empire.
Chapter Nine, The Divine God of Equestria vs The Reaper of the Crystal Empire.
Above the ring the Displaced combatants and their comrades began to voice the odds of the upcoming match,
“The two Displaced I fought are now fighting… Two of my friendly rivals too, the Equestra’s Divine God vs the Reaper of the Crystal Empire.” Thanos chuckled, “If Eric did not give me that fruit, I wouldn’t have fought Black to a draw.”
“He’s a brilliant strategist,” Sombra said, giving the Titan a side glance. “He’s always thinking of a counter plan to every action he makes”
“So is Black, he can make Ki-mines, one step, boom. Eric is in the air, and the air is where Black shines, not to mention Black can multiply his power by turning Kaio=Ken
“Even still since he returned from his exile he has further improved his powers” Sombra said fully turning to the titan. “In the past even using a single Shadow Soul left him utterly exhausted”
Thanos looked at the Unicorn. “Shadow Souls vs Super Saiyan Transformations, I taught the Saiyan Haki, Armament Haki too.” Thanos informed Sombra.
“Any idea which one he’ll use Sombra?” Rainbow asked, turning her head to the unicorn. “I mean he has access to five of them”
“Correction Rainbow, Eric has access to four of them” Sombra stated turning back to the ring
“Also, different Shadow Souls? Describe them to me.” Thanos put a finger up to his mighty chin.
“Eric has five different forms,” Luna said to the group. “However he is only able to use four of them by himself”
“Let me guess the last one he has to be in immense mental stress to unlock it?” Thanos asked the Princess of the Night.
“I’m afraid you’re wrong Thanos,” Sombra said, cutting the Titan off. “Upon Eric’s request, I placed a spell on him preventing him from using his final soul without my expressive sayso.”
“He told me that it was too dangerous to be used unless it was the only option”
“We’ve been with him since he and Sombra were arrested three years ago” Rainbow mentioned leaning back in her seat. “And not once has he ever used his final form”
“Black has one more last resort too, Ultra Instinct, I just wonder if Eric could even push him that far like I did. Especially after the immense Zenkai Boost, he’s probably double the strength then when I fought him.” Thanos commented.
“First form, Soul of the Reaper. Turns Eric into the exact image of the grim reaper much like his shadow reaper construct,” Sombra explained as the Leopard Man spoke over him
“Remember Thanos, this fight will decide your fate.” Lucci side-eyed the Titan, Thanos nodded, “Also isn’t that the construct he used against me?”
“It was,” Thanos chuckled, “It was indeed but you still ended that fight in a draw.” Lucci remembered the fight like it happened yesterday.
“This form increases his speed to the point he could race Rainbow around the world and win five times before she could even finish once”
“Isn’t that an exaggeration? I mean he has to go through water, forests, volcanoes…” Thanos dragged on.
“He explained that he simple walked over it like a skeleton warrior named B..something
“Hm, interesting, let’s see if he can keep up with Black?” Thanos said with a grin wider than it normally was, almost rivaling Pinkie’s.
Doom made his appearance sitting down. “Truth is the only thing I don’t properly have a counter to, is the Saiyan’s speed. Unlike you other Displaced I haven’t been active for very long so my power hasn’t increased beyond far from the Marvel comics Doctor Doom. Though I have improved my forcefields.” Hans his trusty butler stood at the ready right behind him.
“If speed doesn’t work he’ll just switch to strength and defence” Sombra stated. “Soul of the Knight focuses more on both offense and Defence
“You do not want to try to outpower a Saiyan. You do not. While his form probably decreases his speed and upgrades his strength, Black’s transformation upgrades all of that. So how will Eric hit him?” Thanos asked the three-sword-style man.
“Power alone doesn’t really mean anything if you can’t land your hit or be able to deal any damage.” Link said with a shake of his head.
“I watched Trunks fight Perfect Cell and boy, that kid was getting his ass handed to him all because he went for strength, not speed.” Lucci chuckled.
“His third form is the Soul of the King,” Sombra continued. “This one gives him a minor strength and speed boost but boosts his shadow control, it allows him to do more with his shadow.” Sombra said to the group. “Truly a formidable form”
“Enhances his Devil Fruit ability, I do not see a way Black could outpower that in Ki, however… He does have his Ki Scythe, and his shards.” Thanos added, “However it all matters on who has the better control of their energy.”
“He has a chance to defeat it,” Sombra admitted to the Titan. “It has literally no base defence so one or two powerful hits dispel it immediately”
“No defense, so I’m guessing this form is to keep opponents away before the opponent could land a hit on the form?” Thanos quirked an eyebrow.
“Precisely, any opponent we’ve faced with that form hasn’t so much as caused it to move a single step” Luna said with a small grin. “But that doesn’t mean you’ll get the chance to get close to it,” Luna spoke, her expression returning to normal. “It’s able to create shadow out of nothing giving him an infinite amount of fuel.”
“I believe Black has the ability to make clones of himself, via the multiform technique, if Black could somehow occupy him at Black lands a lucky hit on Eric he might just have a shot.” Thanos thought off, snapping his non gauntlet finger.
“You forget Eric commands all shadow, which also allows him to sense shadow as well” Argued the unicorn
“..I remember that, doesn’t it cut the ki in half, even more so depending on how many you make?” Link asked as he does remember the multiform from Dragon Ball Z.
“However, if he transforms into a level that’s Super Saiyan Three and five little Goku’s fly at Eric… He could quite possibly get overwhelmed, with their yellow aura ready to light their way.”
“That would divide his max ki by five.” Link guessed.
“The multiplier of Super Saiyan Three is Four hundred so dividing that by five…” Thanos pulled out a calculator. “It enhances his strength by 80x for each clone. That’s barely even past Super Saiyan.” Thanos clutched his head in worry.
“Now his fourth form is the Soul of the Demon,”Sombra said, his gaze stealing on the ring. “This form terminates his intangibility”
“No Logia intangibility?” Thanos asked the Dark Prince.
“Correct this form takes all damage and converts it into power and strength”
“That’s new, like I said you should not try to outpower a Saiyan or a Titan, both of them were born for battle.” Thanos laughed, “I tried to outpower him and almost died.”
“You misunderstand Titan ,” Sombra said, turning his glare at the Titan. “When I mean ‘take damage and converts it’ you lose power every time you attack him”
“I remember using that form of Tekkai, Saiyan’s are quite adaptable for instance when I used my Heat Man transformation, he used Ki Blasts.” Thanos recalled, before wincing at the final-big-bang-kamehameha
“Soul of the Demon is much worse than you realize,” Sombra said, softening his gaze. “All forms of attacks get drained from the user and Eric’s demon form has no limit on how much it can take”
“Honestly...” Link said as he shrugged his arms with a sigh. “Saiyans are like white blood cells, always getting stronger and adapting to take on stronger viruses and the like.”
“Like Perfect Cell, he has Vegeta, Gohan, Goku, all inside of him, pause on that.” Thanos said, “But… You have to watch out for the Perfected Super Saiyan Rose or even worse… Chō hon'nō ” Thanos frowned.
“And if he gets enough he unleashes his ultimate attack” Luna said with a slight shudder. “He calls it Wrath of Gluttony”
“You people and your multiple super forms.” Link said with a frown.
“I’m with you there, Link. I wonder how a Saiyan would react to my Inhibitor Ray, it is more of a modified forcefield that reflects any kinetic attacks back at my attacker. Draw back is I personally can’t attack during the time it’s active and depending on how much force it reflects it can be a major power drain on my armor systems.” Doom motions for a drink and Hans hands him a glass of red wine. “I was going a bit soft on Kyle. Those sand claws were impressive but didn’t have the impact needed to disrupt the Inhibitor. If I had it on when he slammed me into the ground it would have reflected that same impact right at him.”
“Agreed,” Shiva muttered, just now joining them. “Why can’t you keep it simple and with one form?”
“Says the kid who transforms with masks,” Sombra said chuckling at Link
“Says the kid who turned into a damn woman!” Thanos seemingly shook with that last bit, grinning as well.
“Hey, each form isn’t stronger than the next, they all have their benefits and weaknesses. As for the woman part...” Link said, returning with his own grin. “Why not take a visit to Palutena’s world and see how you fare?” he said jokingly.
“How about no?” Thanos pointed at the Hylian, “Bitch, I- Wait let’s get back to the real topic. If you turned into a woman… Wouldn’t that make you a futa?” Thanos asked, seriously, peering at the Hylian.
Shiva glanced at them both. “What’s… futa?” she asked.
“A futa is both.” Link said with a deadpan expression. “And besides, I rarely use the Linkle Mask.”
“You call her Linkle…? I guess I would be Thanette, also… That can screw some people up, ima- Now we’re going too deep into this. Time to pull out, and I do not mean in that way!” Thanos groaned, slapping a hand to his mighty bald head. Shiva rolled her eyes, while Link bursted out laughing.
“Ah internet rule 63, I did a search of myself once… some of the female versions… Really you can’t call boob armor, armor if it just covers the nipples.” Doom grunted and took a drink. Hans tilted his head “I wonder if there's a female Slenderman, or slenderwoman in this case?”
Doom turns his head. “Yes Hans, there is, and yes there is also a Rule 34 of it.”
“Sorry I asked.” Hans muttered.
Thanos smiled and slowly pulled out a gun, “Care to take a laugh again you son of a bitch?” Thanos’ smile did not falter.
“Really now.” Link began as he held his arms behind his head. “You do that and you might not get the gifts I plan to give you.” he said.
Thanos fell silent, “You better talk or you get the glock.” Thanos put up his gun with a pained expression on his face. Link remains neutral with the triforce of courage brightly glowing, such an annoying relic.
“Ed did some sort of alchemy thing with ya and you blurted out how you didn’t want people hurt or killed, so I got to thinking you could use a bit of help. You mentioned you could learn some magic, so why not I give you some?” Link suggested.
“Alrighty then, but I remember specifically saying my friends, and I think of you as a friend,” Thanos smiled, his teeth reflecting the sunlight into others.
“You’ve got some loved ones as well back in your world, so the spells I’ll give you will be of great help.” Link said as he put his arms back.
“Alright how are you going to give me the spells?” Thanos raised an eyebrow
“It’s as simple as a handshake as I transfer some of the void energy and knowledge over to you.” Link said as he held out his right hand; the triforce still radiating. Thanos took the hand and shook it. At that moment, energy was flowing from Link’s hand to Thanos in a chaotic pattern of the void. At first, Thanos felt a paradox rush of feeling strong and yet weak; slowly his mind started to gain knowledge of two new spells: Nayru’s Love and the Light Arrow spell, however it started to provide extra instructions on how to channel that into Thano’s weapons and projectiles. Soon, the glow faded, leaving Link feeling a little drained.
Shiva watched the whole thing in awe. “That’s just like my Pack Link,” she whispered.
“If anyone wants some easy magic I can give you Skyrim Tomes,” Ed offered, sticking his head out of a portal and dropping down into a seat.
“Okay, Ed. You need to stop giving out things like these, it can fall into the wrong hands.” Nappa lectured the alchemist.
“I don’t give them out like candy and I’m the only one who has access to the library where they’re stored so shove it,” Ed held up a hand.
“Speaking of dangerous uh… If you find my Token in your world, Thanos? Don’t try to use the Twili magic within unless you want to turn into a wolf.” Link warned.
“So… Twili magic turns people into wolves,” Shiva mused, rubbing her chin. “But can it do the reverse: turn wolves into people?”
Eric sat in his room his eyes closed as the shadows around him swirled around him like lava-lamp
“Keep cool Von Shadow,” Eric breathed out before inhaling deeply. “Keep calm and….” Eric’s eyes snapped open feeling the presence of someone’s shadow approaching his room
Immediately all the shadow turned to spears all trained on the door, a large orb of shadow formed at the Shadow Man’s side before popping revealing a sheathed sword. Reaching to his side Eric gripped the hilt as the presence knocked upon his door
“Who is it?” Eric said slowly unsheathing his blade
“It’s Ryker,” Ryker opened the door, “I felt that you were… Stressed, and what better way to clear your mind other than chess?” Ryker asked, summoning a portal that made a chess set and a coffee table appear.
“I’m not stressed,” Eric said, moving to the side with the black chess pieces. “This is the first time I’d ever had a scheduled fight.”
“Nerve Racking is it not? I’ve been in my fair share of fights.” Ryker summoned a chair over to Eric and Ryker sat down on mid-air.
“That’s one word to describe it” Eric said looking over the game then Ryker. “I know you didn’t just come here just to play chess with me before my match, so what do you want?”
“Last time I played chess with Phoenix was very close mind you, I just want to see what you can do, in all honesty.” Ryker put his hands up before moving one of his pawns, “Now I’m not good at chess, I’m decent, nor perfect or bad. Half Perfect.”
“Half Perfect?” Eric scoffed, moving a pawn himself. “When it comes to chess there is no ‘half perfect’ you’re either perfect or your not me”
Ryker pulled out a notebook and a pen and wrote down something in it. “Noted.”
Shit List
Eric
Nappa
George Washingmachine
Phoenix.
“Alright let us play.” Ryker said with a smile warmer than the sun itself.
Eric moved his queen’s pawn forward one space before looking at the king. “You and I both know, you didn’t start this tournament just for shits and giggles”
“You would be correct, it’s to save my daughter.” Ryker said before moving a pawn, “Not to mention for entertainment, and… I shouldn’t say the last part.”
Eric saw the king's eyes, they didn’t have the fires of desperation for one's family, they had the dark dead eyes of someone who wanted power.
“I’ll assume you already know what I did to Fujitora,” Eric commented moving his kings knight forward
“Oh I know, I made sure to. Also, I can tell you doubt me, I speak nothing but the truth, the Dark Ki I’m gathering is to go to another dimension to save my daughter. She found a spell in a book after we had an argument, she took the book with her and ran away.” Ryker put a hand to his chess moving his bishop.
“So the source of us being at each other’s throats have been this Dark Ki, hasn’t it?” Eric asked castling his king
“Yes, when people who are infected with it fight, I collect it and you are no longer infected, I then store it… somewhere.” Ryker yawned, moving his knight.
“I suggest you stop while you’re ahead,” Eric warned moving his bishop
“Oh? And why is that? I already collected Thanos, Link, Phoenix, Shiva, Kyle, and finally… Dr. Doom.” Ryker inched his pawn close to Eric’s King.
“Take it from someone who has given everything up to bring a loved one back” Eric said, using his bishop to take Ryker’s pawn. “It would be better to leave them be, you’ll only be hurting yourself and the ones you care about”
“Well, she is the only one I ever loved with all me heart.” Ryker said, kicking in an Irish accent, moving his bishop to take down Eric’s.
“No need to go Irish on me; I’m just giving advice,” Eric said, moving his knight in front of Ryker’s bishop. “Check”
“I am Irish, lad.” Ryker looked at the Shadow Man, his emerald eyes glowed.
“I figured as much, you tried to hide it but that voice of yours had a subtle accent that would go unnoticed by some,” Eric said looking at the king. “But not by me”
“Alas, ye watchful eyes noticed it.” Ryker moved his king to evade Eric’s knight, “Quite impressive, I just visited Ireland, me home land. And by St. Patrick I missed it.” Ryker chuckled.
“From what I saw in Fujitora’s memories you had specific plans for some of us,” Eric said using his queen to take Ryker’s. “Check”
“Indeed, Dr. Doom will help me with my research to save me daughter, Thanos, to join me ranks…” Ryker slurred, moving his king.
“And what of me?” Eric asked the King. “How do I fit in this little game of yours?”
“Ye don’t.” Ryker looked up at shadow man, “Yer just here-”
“Then why bring me here?” Eric said using his second knight to take out Ryker’s rook
“I was gettin to that…'' Ryker grumbled, moving his other rook. “Yer here for entertainment, also who else would I invite? Such a troubled young man like yerself, you have some history with Thanos, yes?”
Eric couldn’t help but sense lies in the king’s words but he didn’t let it show in his words or his expression.
“I do,” Eric said, taking out Ryker’s knight. “He’s an asshole but he’s funny from time to time”
“I see, if you give me information about him and I shall give you information in return.” Ryker looked up at Eric before moving his pawn.
“I’d give it to you,” Eric said, using the same knight to take out Ryker’s remaining rook. “If I trusted you”
“Oh come on, information for something from me.” Ryker pleaded, moving his king to take down his knight.
“Sorry your majesty,” Eric said reaching for his remaining knight when the King spoke
“I will do anything for that damn info! Bitch, I will fucking suck your dick!” Ryker stood up shaking, triggered.
“Hard pass.” Eric said putting his fingers on his knight
Ryker frowned, and made a portal behind Eric before pushing him in and following him afterwards, they appeared at an archipelago, an empty plain island.
“So the king is finally showing his true colors.” Laughed the Shadow Man.
“No, ye just made me pissed off lad, I just want to blow off some steam, ye kinda put me on the spot like that.” Ryker shook his head before looking at the Shadow Man.
“I planned on it,” Eric said pointing to the kings ankle
Looking down Ryker was met with the sight of a shadow tendril around his ankle, Immediately Ryker was lifted and slammed into the ground several times before Ryker freed himself
Ryker jumped into the air and landed onto his feet. "I want you to hit me, as hard as you can." Ryker frowned, crossing his arms.
“Really now,” Eric said. “Feeling pretty cocky there your-”
"Now hold on, I think you might have misheard me." Eric scoffed, "Not "half as hard", or some arbitrary percentage. I want you. To hit me. As hard. As. You. Can." Ryker glared at Eric.
“And if I don’t play along?” Eri asked his powers flaring over his body
“Well I guess Amber was wrong about you.” Ryker rubbed his nose cockily.
Without hesitation Eric vanished from view before reappearing in front of the king with his signature scythe coming down on the kings neck, only for it to stop at his neck
“Oough, considered that nerve touched.” Ryker grinned.
Eric jumped back, in pure shock the attack had no effect on the King. “H-how?” Eric asked the Eliatrope King.
“Well as a soon to be broken man once said… You’re either perfect… Or you’re not me.” Ryker covered his foot in Armament Haki and delivered a devastating blow to Eric’s gut, making the shadow man coughed an ungodly amount of blood and his wind knocked out of him. Eric was sent through rock formations and onto another island before Ryker appeared above him. Ryker put a hand on Eric’s chest.
“I know you won’t tell anyone if… You don’t want the same thing to happen to Luna like it did to Amber. Now, beating you doesn’t mean I’m evil… it just means that I really do not want you to do anything bad to me plans lad.”
This made Eric’s eyes grow wide, slowly Eric rose to his feet before looking to the King.
“Just send me back to my room,” Eric ordered Ryker. “I’ve a match to fight soon”
“Also, I’m not evil, just throwing that out there. Not. Evil. No malicious intent at all, just want me daughter.” Ryker grinned, making a portal next to Eric before throwing him a Senzi bean, “Heal up lad! “
“I don’t give a fuck,” Eric said as he caught the healing bean before walking through the portal.
Once the portal closed Eric made his way to the Arena only to stop at the game he and the king were playing, grabbing the knight Eric moved it a few spaces towards the king
“That’s checkmate,” Eric said, walking past the board revealing a single king surrounded by a rook, queen, a knight, and a bishop. “Asshole”
As Eric walked off a portal appeared behind him and it revealed Ryker giving Eric the bird. “Horsefucker.”
Ryker felt something around his ankle before looking down.
“Oh here we go again…” Ryker laughed.
Ryker was pulled into his shadow appearing all over the colosseum smashing into multiple walls before being spat out into his throne
“Heh, that’s convenient. Saved me the trouble, THANK’S ERIC!!!!” Ryker cried out.
Arena Stage.
“So Nightmare, any ideas on who is going to win?” Luffy asked the parasyte.
The Nightmare hummed in thought, “I’ve only seen Black fight, I’ve got no idea what Eric can do. But I believe Black could land a guaranteed blow against him.” Nightmare looked to the straw hat pirate. “But that will be decided in the end.”
“Hm… My Belli is on Eric, he’s a Yonko!” Luffy shouted out.
“And Black is a Divine God.” Nappa countered, Luffy snapped his head to Nappa, his head spinning before looking at Nappa.
“Do you want a fight?!” Luffy growled, Nappa scoffed.
“Eric is no slouch either” Sombra stated with a smile. “He wasn’t known as the Reaper of the Crystal Empire for nothing”
“Black is not known as Equestria’s Divine God for nothing either, bitch.” Nappa countered.
“Hey how about you two sit down and watch the fight before we have another Eric and Thanos moment” Luna said getting in between the Saiyan and unicorn
“Agreed…” Nightmare growled.
“Thank you...um..Luna? or do I call you Nightmare?” Luna asked
“I’m no longer connected to her, just call me Nightmare.” The Parasite said to the Alicorn.
“Very well...N-Nightmare” Luna said, slightly uncomfortable saying that name.
“Call her Nig-” Lucci slammed his fist into Nappa, covering it in Armament Haki, Nappa was sent up through the stands and into a wall.
“Don’t.” Lucci sat back down with his arms crossed.
“ALRIGHT!!!!” They all turned to Ryker, who sat on his throne, “I wasn’t able to incorporate this because the first match it was so RUDELY interrupted, the second match SOMEONE was impatient.”
Ryker glared at Kodo, who snorted.
“Don’t fault me for loving my mama!” Kodo shot back defiantly.
Shiva gripped his nape with a cautious, “Kodo, easy!”
“Don’t make me get the sheleighleigh, ye fokin son of a literal bitch,” Ryker said in his Irish accent before turning to the Alpha. “No offense, Shiva.”
"A fighter knows when to let his anger fuel him, pup," Ed advised.
Shiva glanced at Lucci. “Seriously though,” she muttered. “Why is that an insult?”
“And I wasn’t there for the third match. We’re doing a count down system, to ten too. Now that we got that out of the way. In this corner we have The Captain of the Crystal Royal Guard, Reaper of the Crystal Empire, horsefucker, and One of the Four Emperors: Eric Von Shadow!” Ryker introduced the Yonko.
Shadow poured from the corner enveloping half the ring in a thick mist of shadow as a eerie voice spoke
When it comes time
No tear will you shed.
Your life is your own.
You don’t know me in life.
My one true love
It is him,
My ashes are one
They fly in her breeze,
Now my soul awaits
Until that day,
My fiery rage,
You may ignore me
For when the Grim Reaper
From the middle of the shadow came Eric Von Shadow decked out in his royal armor, a black sword attached to his right and a gold sword attached to his left.
“Heh,” Sombra chuckled under his breath. “He always enjoys striking fear in others with his entrances” The unicorn turned to the audience who had fear filled expressions plastered on their face.
Except for Shiva. Her tail was wagging, and she howled a diamond dog’s call; a call of support. A call that said, “The Diamond Dogs stand with you!”
“And in this corner we have the man who fought the fearsome Crimson Sage, the one who fought the Mad Titan to a draw, the one who has the body of the legendary Super Saiyan Goku, lover of his Princess Luna, we have Equestria’s… DIVIIIINNNEEEE GOOODDD!!!!!” Ryker introduced with greater hype than Eric’s.
Suddenly to everyone’s surprise, a thunderstorm with a sickly green aura to it rolled into the sky. It covered the sun as it casted a dark shadow over the arena. Lightning stuck all around, it hitting the borders of the shield. A swirling vortex formed as the wind began to pick up, forming a tornado as it stuck the ground. A silhouette formed, it had glowing red eyes. The Thunderstorm then seemingly vanished after a powerful shockwave pushed it away, revealing the Saiyan in dark clothing, Goku Black.
“Nice entrance, Black” Complimented the shadow man
“Gonna have to compliment you back,” Black said with a smirk.
“Now before we begin… I have news!” The Arena was suddenly teleported into an Archipelago, the same one where Ryker and Eric “fought.” Eric and Black appeared on an island. The arena was now a spaceship as a screen showing the two fighters. Ryker just grinned ear to ear.
“Sure. Add insult to injury,” Eric whispered under his breath
“Now the battle shall begin in three!”
“Two!
“One!”
“FIGHT!!!”
Eric placed both hands to the ground entangling Black in large thick tendrils made from his own shadow all the while covering the entire area in shadow
Black looked down to the tendrils holding him down, he scoffed. “If you think this will hold me, then you're sadly mistaken.” Black spat.
“They were never meant to hold you” Eric stated smiling. “I just need you in one place so I could prepare the field”
“Now rise Wolf Pack”
From the shadows came a bounty of large wolves with black fur and piercing red eyes all barked and snapped at the Saiyans general direction.
“Sic em” Eric said, throwing his wolves at the saiyan.
Black chuckled at this, he gripped his hands and threw them to the side, creating a devastating shockwave. It pushes back the wolves, “Wolves… that's cute…” Black laughed. The shockwave loosened the tendrils holding him down, but not enough for him to squirm free.
“Well they’re used for distractions” Eric said as Black was grabbed from behind by a giant Skeletal hand, Black was lifted up and was met with the sight of black skull with burning red eyes, eyes that begged for death.
“My Shadow Reaper” stated the Shadow man as his shadow continued to pour into the ground. “The strongest thing I’ve ever made before my exile”
The Reaper throws Black into the air before bringing it’s scythe down upon him knocking him into the ground with a cut over his chest.
Black looked down to see the cut had ripped straight through his gi, but not enough to draw any blood. The Saiyan laughed, “Did you really think that would be enough to injure me?” Black said as he stood up, dusting off any dirt on his gi.
“The king said nonlethal so I dulled my Reaper's scythe” Eric
“True,” Black commented as he looked back up to the Shadow Reaper, “I will say, that has definitely got the blood pumping now.” Black said as he began to stretch. He stopped his stretching a moment later as he grinned. “My turn…” The Saiyan roared as a dark aura surrounded him. He aimed his hand at the shadow reaper, shooting a devastating ki blast towards it.
It struck the Shadow Reaper, vaporising it instantly as it’s form disappeared from sight. Black turned his gaze back to Eric, “I think it’s time to get past the warm up, don’t you think?” Black asks as he transforms into Super Saiyan, his power increasing exponentially. Black charges forward as he leaves a mini trench behind him as he flies towards the Shadow man.
“I couldn't agree more” Eric said slamming his hand onto the ground causing a shockwave that knocked Black off course. “I assume you’re familiar with this form”
Shadow Soul: Soul of the Reaper
Eric’s body melted away with the shadows around him causing him to disappear from the Saiyans view
Black grabbed the ground, sliding across it before correcting himself and coming to a stop, “This will be troublesome.” The Saiyan muttered under his breath. Black jumped to the sky, leaving the ground at an alarming rate. Black looked back down to the ground and threw his hands forward, sending out a ki barrage towards the ground. The blasts hit the ground as it left a massive explosion after.
“Surprise,” a chilling voice said behind the Saiyan
The moment Black spun around his body was met with the business end of Eric’s Reaper Scythe, only this time the slash drew blood from the Saiyan. Black staggered a bit in the air holding the wound inflicted by the Shadow man as he turned his gaze to Eric’s Reaper form
“Non lethal huh… well that's a bit of bullshit if I’ve ever heard,” Black chuckled as he inspected the wound.
“I said I dulled my Shadow Reaper Scythe” Eric said in a voice that sent chills through everyone’s spines. “However this Scythe, isn’t made from my shadows and it has never been dulled a single day since I’ve owned it”
“Well, I congratulate you… for injuring a ki clone…” Black chuckled as his form disappeared in a sparkle of yellow ki. Eric was interrupted when he felt a white boot make contact with his cheek, sending him down towards the islands. The real Goku Black looked down and smiled, “They really do come in handy.”
“Ah, clones in battle” Eric mused to himself as he floated from the ground. “Reminds me a fight where some fool cast a Gemini spell that went haywire.”
Immediately Eric vanished from the Saiyans view, causing his eyes to grow wide, what followed next was the sound barrier breaking twice
“But can you match my speed, Saiyan?” The Shadow Man asked as the sound barrier was broken a third time
Without warning Blacks arm was cut surprisingly deep. Black yelped in pain as he gripped his arm, he glared at the air, looking for the Shadow man. His attempts bore no fruit as another gash appeared on his left shin, then another on his right shoulder.
The Saiyan growled, before letting out a primal roar, his aura growing twice in size as it pushed Eric back and stopping his barrage of attacks. Taking this chance, Black charged to the Shadow man and threw a right hook into his gut. Eric soared into the air from the impact allowing the Saiyan to unleash a barrage of his own. “Two can play at that game, Von Shadow.” Black roared as he threw a kick across Eric's face, it being followed up by a Kamehameha. The blast made an impact, a large explosion shaking the lands and skies.
Eric lay at the end of a long and deep trench his Reaper form completely decimated, Black breathed a sigh of relief seeing how the Shadow Man didn’t get up. However Eric soon began to laugh, that laugh grew and volume and depth
“Of course that wouldn’t put you down…” Black mumbled. Getting ready for another attack as he got into a fighting stance similar to Vegeta’s.
“I must admit, this is going to be hard.” Laughed the Shadow Man as he arose from the trench and stared at the Saiyan with his burning red Eyes.
“Well I knew this wasn’t gonna be easy, who knows what you can do.” Black said as he waited.
“I know right” Eric said, shadow began flooding from his body. “Do have any idea how hard it’s going to be to hold back and beat you”
“I’m just having a hard time figuring you out, once I’m done with that, the real fight will begin.” Black claimed as he activated his aura.
“You should feel proud, Black,” Eric said, cracking a few stiff bones before looking at him with hunger in his eyes. “Not many people can land a finger let alone a full punch on my Reaper Soul.”
Eric lowered his stance and placed a hand on the ground,
“Let’s see how you handle something with a little bit more… bite,” Eric said channeling the shadows around him
Black squinted at what Eric was playing, ‘Everything about him is shadowed based, what can I do to counter it…’ Black thought.
Shadow Soul: Soul of the Knight
Eric was immediately swarmed by the surrounding shadows, covering him in a cloud of darkness. Sensing a power stronger than the last form Black charged in only to be smack by what felt like a heavy shield, Black flew across the island and crashed into the same rock formation Eric hit hours prior.
Black layed in the rubble, “Huh… this is new…” Black commented as he stood back up, he looked to where Eric was, only to be surprised at the height of Von Shadow’s form. The Saiyan got brief flashbacks of him being crushed in Edwards' hands months ago. “Every time…” Black muttered as he started to pop his knuckles and his neck.
“Bring it, Saiyan.” Eric taunted in a now deeper and commanding voice as he raised his sword and shield
“If you say so,” Black chuckled as he gripped his hands, lightning now pulsating around him as his hair spiked up. With newfound speed, he charged forward and vanished from Eric’s sight. Von Shadow felt a strike against his chest, revealing Black with a grin. The blow made Eric stumble backwards a bit.
“Heh” Laughed Eric rearing his shield beck “Is that the Best you’ve got!!”
Eric backhanded the Saiyan with his shield, sending him right back into the rock formation’s rubble, Meanwhile up inside the stands...
“See, Eric’s knight form drastically increases both his strength and his defense” Sombra said crossing his arms watching his friend fight. “He would need something extremely powerful to get through Eric’s Armor.”
“Black definitely has a large arsenal of techniques that can get through his defense,” Nightmare commented as she watched Black being backhanded, “But he sure does like to take his time though…” Nightmare growled.
“Pfft-” Thanos held a hand to his mouth to stop himself from laughing at Sombra’s comment.
“Something funny, Thanos?” Sombra asked turning his gaze to the Titan
“Indeed Sombra, you said something drastically powerful to harm him, let me put scaling logic in here, one Kamehameha wave from Master Roshi can destroy the moon, what do you think a Super Saiyan 2 with a 100x multiplier on him can do to a tanky D&D character with good armor?” Thanos raises an eyebrow.
“Well unless he uses it soon he will eventually become too exhausted” Sombra said, turning to the screen. “And Eric knows this. Which is why he’s waiting for the perfect opportunity”
“Well good luck with waiting, he can hold those transformation’s of his for long periods of time.” Nightmare countered, “But the higher forms do take a strain on his body.”
“Too bad he doesn’t have whatever that thing Phoenix used on me,” Shiva grumbled. “It made using my own powers feel like I was tearing my muscles out.”
Back to the island Black rubbed his cheek as it had left a bruise. “Why is it always the bigger guys that I have to resort to this…” Black commented as he stood back up. He soon shot high into the sky, leaving a trail of dust behind him.
“Shadow Slasher!” Eric swung his blade sending a razor edge wave of shadow towards the airborne Saiyan, to Von Shadow’s dismay, the Saiyan was able to dodge the attack.
Black looked down upon Eric with a scowl, he threw his hands forward, chanting. “Big Bang…” A blue ball of ki formed in front of his hands as it grew in size, “Ka Me, Ha Me…”
“Nice try,” Eric said as purple wisps of magic formed from his eyes. “Dark Press” Eric raised his shielded arm to the Saiyan which caused Black to plummet to the ground from the unbearable weight that was pressing against him
“By Din’s fiery arms, that is some serious magic there...” Link said in surprise at how it was giving Black so much hard time.
“Tch, Black better get serious.” Thanos looked at the screen, and deeply at Black, “Come on kid… Show ‘em what you can do.”
Kodo glanced at Thanos before keeping his eyes on Eric. “Keep it up, Von Shadow,” he whispered. “Show us what that devil fruit can really do.”
“Dark Press…” Sombra stated slightly shaking his head. “It’s one of Umbra’s combat spells, it takes the weight of your sins and those around you and puts them all upon your shoulders” Sombra said, narrowing his eyes at the sheer level. “It is the very meaning of shouldering somebody's sins”
“So it's like San’s Gaster Blasters, but with gravity instead of damage over time.” Link said as he looked over at Sombra.
Black stood back up from the rubble with a dark haze covering his face. “Alright… I'm done playing around… ” Black growled as his aura began to grow rapidly.
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The Saiyan ripped off the top part of his gi and let out a primal roar. A sphere of yellow ki surrounded the Saiyan, letting off a power shockwave that sent Eric backwards. Moments later, the ki dispersed to reveal Black with a new look. Red fur covering his body for the exception of his hands, biceps, and abbs. His hair turned black and went down his back. His eyes had a red underline and his pupils turning yellow. His tail moved around him as the Saiyan stood there, fully transformed into Super Saiyan 4. “From here on out, things are gonna get ugly…” Blacks voice changed, it had a more grave effect to it.
“I wouldn’t have it any other way, Saiyan.” Eric said Raising his Shield. “Shield of Shade”.
Eric’s shield began absorbing the surrounding shadows increasing its strength as the Saiyan charged
“..With all this magic being thrown around, it’s making me wish I tried the Ultima Spell on you, Thanos.” Link said as he stroked along the blonde beard.
“That is no magic” Luna said, drawing the Hylian’s attention. “That is Eric’s Devil Fruit, It allows him to control, become, and manipulate all forms of shadow, even the ones he makes”
“...Damn it, Black you need to win this, I really do not want to fight Eric.” Thanos admitted.
Black charged forward, multiple afterimages splitting off of him as they began to charge Kamehameha’s. As the Saiyan drew near, he shot straight up into the sky with the after images following.
“3” Eric whispered under his breath
“Kamehame!!!” Black roared as the ball of ki began to grow in size, the after images splitting off while doing the same.
“2”
Much to Eric’s surprise, along with Black and his afterimages they all disappeared from sight.
“1”
They all appeared, but the afterimages were all there along with Black, charging real Kamehameha’s. “HHHAAAAAA!!!!” Black let out a primal roar with the rest, sending multiple blasts as they combined into one to the size of a mountain.
Eric almost failed in blocking the massive blast, but fortunately his shield did collide with the blast which exploded in a massive explosion of both Shadow and Ki, a massive dust cloud grew in size as it both engulfed Eric and Black.
“How ya holding up Saiyan?” Eric spoke through the dust
Watching the fight above Sombra noticed a brief flash of light which made him grin slightly. 'Heh, Clever' the unicorn thought as he watched the match
The dust then dissipated as it revealed Black charging at mach 3 towards Eric with a glowing yellow fist. “FIVE REN KUGI DRAGON FIST!” Black roared as a yellow dragon exploded from the Saiyan, charging forward.
“Oh shit” Eric said, casting a spell with haste. “Dark Pre….”
Black’s attack broke through the Shadow Man’s sword and armor forcing him back to normal, Eric stood tall before staggering to a single knee.
In the stands, Kodo’s ears flattened, as Shiva prepared to cover his eyes. “Come on, Von Shadow…” he muttered.
“YES!!!! Black with the Five Ren Kugi Punch!” Thanos pumped his right fist, “You can do this Son Goku Black!”
“S..shit..” Eric said, almost collapsing to the ground. “Looks like you are stronger than they say.”
Black said nothing as he hovered above Eric, staring him down.
“But I’m dying to know,” Eric said, magic coursing in his eyes. “Dark Bullet.”
Eric fired a bolt of lightning fast magic at the Saiyan which pierced his lower stomach
“How much longer can you stay in that form?” Eric asked as Black lowered himself to the ground, the Saiyan glared at Von Shadow as he held his stomach. He saw that his Stomach was cut deep into his gut.
Link softly cringed. “That’s gonna leave a mark...” he commented.
“You're just asking for me to kick your ass…” Black growled as he slowly stood back up.
“Hey it’s a nonlethal Shot” Chuckled the Shadow Man. “And besides I hit you in the one place that won’t kill you.”
“I can always heal you once We’re finished here” Offered Eric
Black smirked, ‘Thank you DW’, Tis but a flesh wound’, “Tis but a scratch.” Black jokes
“Sure whatever you say Monty” Eric swung his arm sending a wave of shadow at the Saiyan before bringing his hand to the ground again
Shadow Soul: Soul of the King
Eric’s form grew an addition five feet, his attire of shadows resemble that to a king in medieval times with a seven pointed crown atop his head
Black watched the growing man, but scowled as he looked to the side a spit a bit of blood. The saiyan popped his shoulder joint before creating a ki blade. He then plunged the blade into his hand, drawing a bit of blood before the Saiyan pulled it out. Molding it into a scythe as his power increased.
Eric’s King form said nothing as it raised it’s hand
“Come to me, My loyal Subjects” Eric ordered slightly confusing the Saiyan
The shadow covering the island began to rise and take the form of people, all pitch black and gazing at others with their dead red eyes. They all gathered around Eric who then closed his hand and pointed at the Saiyan
“Seize him”
Each and every shadow turned towards the Saiyan before letting out ear splitting shrieks, the shadow’s ran at the Saiyan their arms turning to blades as they rushing Black
“What in Faust's name are those...things?” Rainbow asked shocked.
“Oh that’s right,” Sombra said looking at the Pegasus, “This is your first time seeing this form.”
“She’s not the only one,” Shiva noted, the fur on her back spiked and her ears flat and covered by her claws as the shadows shrieked. “They sound like the cursed souls of Tartarus!”
“Those are Eric’s Army of Shade,” Sombra explained to those not familiar with the Shadow Man’s transformations. “Creatures made from shadow, he has full control of what they do, just not how they do it.”
“Damn it, come on Black try and beat their asses!” Thanos said, tapping his feet anxiously, “Can someone please take Eric down, I seriously don’t want to fight him. Come on Black!” Thanos pleaded to whatever god that watched over them.
“All he would have to do is order them to kill,” Sombra said, gripping his arms at the memories of that form. “And they would maime, dismember, tear limb from limb. Anything gruesome you can think of they will do it” Sombra shook his head and continued to watch the match. “As I said before a truly formidable Adversary
Black growled as he started to fly away, the shadows chasing him down as for every time they attack, he weaved out of the way before striking them with his scythe. The Saiyan continued to do this, blasting them left and right and slicing them apart. But a few had stuck the Saiyan as cuts split across his fur covered skin. Unfortunately for every one he killed two more took their place.
“They’re like damn hydra’s…” Black hissed, but a thought came to mind, “but their all shadows…” The Saiyan smirked as he increased his speed, flying high into the sky and stopping in front of the sun. He hooked the scythe onto his back and threw his hands to the side of his face. Black grinned before chanting,
“SOLAR FLARE X100,” Black yelled, a bright flash of light brighter than the sun grew.
“Son of a flying pot!” Link cringed as the holy mother of solar flare blinded him, forcing him to reach into his pouch and pull out the Lens Of Truth just to see through all that light.
Kodo and Shiva barked as they shielded their own eyes, slightly more used to the light show due to Shiva’s power, but still overwhelmed. “What’s Celestia doing up there?” Shiva mumbled.
“Celestia?” Kodo asked. “That’s gotta be Day Breaker’s essence, at the very least!”
“MY EYES!!!!!!!” Thanos roared while looking directly at it, not shielding his eyes.
Lucci looked at it with goggles before screaming, “THE GOGGLES!!!! THEY DON’T DO SHIT!!!!!” Lucci fell onto his back.
“Mother of Faust!” Sombra screamed as he and the others covered their pain filled eyes
Black opened his eyes to grab his scythe only to gaze ahead in horror to find the creatures were still there completely unharmed.
Black starred there with a pout on his face, “Well, this is a load of bullshit…” Black growled. Though the Saiyan took this opportunity to slice at the air, a blade of ki shot above the shadows before stopping in place. It opened wide to reveal streams of purple clouds coming out. The clouds forming into clones of Black, but almost drained of color. “You're not the only one who can do this.” Black called out.
“I’m afraid you are wrong” Eric said as his army retracted a little “This is not even the extent of my power in this form”
“That’s not even his final form?” Link asked jokingly.
“You bet your ass it isn’t!” Thanos laughed, “I can’t see, I’m legally blind not.”
“By the way, how’s your arm?” Eric asked causing the Saiyan to turn his gaze to his left arm
Without warning deep gashes appeared all over his arm, causing the Saiyan to roar in pain, feeling the limb losing all motor function. Turning his gaze forward the Saiyan was met with multiple blurs flying in the air before they all stopped behind the king, Behind Eric was ten of his Reaper forms each one wielding a shadow scythe.
Kodo gazed at the Reapers in awe. “Holy Mother…” he whispered.
“Damn it!” Thanos cried out, “For once in your goddamn life for fighting Displaced win for once! No draw! FUCKING WIN!!!!” Thanos bellowed, shaking the entire ship.
“Told ya power isn’t everything.” Link said with a shrug.
“I know but Black needs to win! I need him to win.” Thanos pointed at the screen looking at Link with a desperate expression on his face.
Black laid on the ground, his gi in taters as his left arm was covered in blood. The Saiyan shakely stood up to his feet, almost falling over. To Eric’s surprise, Black went back to his base form, shocking Thanos. The Saiyan breathed heavily, a dark haze falling over him.
Shiva whimpered at the sight of a bloodied Black, resisting the urge to jump down and try to heal him.
“Why do you want him to win through?” Link asked curiously.
“Because he fears what Eric will do,” Sombra said with no remorse. “And for good reason.”
Thanos breathed through his teeth, “It’s because…” Thanos swallowed his fear, “It’s because I’m afraid that if I fight him, we will both tear each other apart. Think about it, ever since we first met we kinda hated each other, I was some mysterious foe and he was a warrior that was better than me at the time. And now… Since he hates me, and I don’t really hate him I’m afraid this will divide our friendship further then it was once before. I don’t want to lose a damn friend!”
“..You built a friendship on power rivalry?” Link asked with a raised eyebrow.
“We built a friendship because it all started with me completely owning Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and helping Eric teach them, Eric gave me the Netsu-Netsu No Mi in return.” Thanos held up his right palm and clenched it.
“To be fair,” Shiva noted diplomatically. “There are stranger ways to form bonds with others. And any friendship, once formed, is priceless.”
“Indeed…” Thanos sighed, “Indeed, Shiva.”
Black had his eyes closed as he struggled to stand, “If you… think taking a… arm from me… is going to change the fate… of this fight.” Black whispered. He began to breathe softly, fully standing up without trouble.
“End this, Black,” Eric ordered, flaring his magic. “You don’t need to fight anymore, any more of this and it will kill you”
Black said nothing as he shakely looked towards Eric’s voice, “Don’t tell me… what I can… and cannot do…” Black whispered, a faint ocean like aura began to surround him. “Never tell me that…”
“It’s over Black, I have the high ground” Eric said pointing his hand at the Saiyan “Dark Slumber” A purple orb of magic fired at the Saiyan, only for it to pass through him and hit a nearby island.
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“You underestimate my power…” Black whispered, opening his eyes as they shined with his pupils turning silver. A cylinder of heat rose around Black as his hair flowed up and pointed in different locations. Soon after, a burst of light surrounded him as he literally began to shine.
“Pity, you are a powerful adversary,” Eric complimented. “Not many can get me to use this form.”
Eric flicked his hand and the reapers behind him vanished.
Link looked around curiously. “..Am I going to be hearing an announcer talking in a deep voice here?” He said with a frown. So much display of power and yet the match was dragging on a bit too long.
“Damn it… Black’s losing, if only the damn bastard didn’t show off Super Saiyan Four, he would already be at Super Saiyan Rose.” Thanos clenched his fists.
“Not possible,” Sombra stated to the Titan. “You forget Eric still has one more available form.”
"Black can handle this," Ed added looking at Thanos. "You and I both know he is more than capable. He always plays his cards close to his chest."
“I… Know. I want the damn bastard to conserve his stamina and go into Super Saiyan God, to conserve his strength.” Thanos frowned, clenching his fists harder, as well as his teeth.
Black’s shining display vanished and it was replaced by a shirtless Saiyan. But his hair changed, turning silver along with his aura and power growing, it reaching the Displaced watching the fight. A red line soon formed on the side of his cheek as the reapers were upon him
“Maybe he’s trying to prove he can win without it? Either that, or he’s pulling a Goku and just taking advantage of the power boosts by allowing himself to be beaten just to get stronger..” Link said.
“Get him” Eric ordered as his army and reapers closed in
Faster than anyone had seen, Black appeared behind Von Shadow with his right arm lifted. Soon, a flurry of punches attacked Eric while Black remained in place. This sent Von Shadow flying into his reaper army, crashing through them and into an island.
Eric’s form faltered slightly as he got to his feet
“Unbelievable,” Sombra said utterly shocked. “He actually managed to move Eric” Sombra returned to normal before frowning. “But it’s too late”
Black was hit in his side by a large object which sent him flying, looking ahead he saw he was flying right towards a group of Eric’s Knight forms. Black collided with one of their shields before being knocked back and forth, finally one swung at Black with his shield and sent him fight into the knight’s sword. The shadow sword trapped him inside the blade, raising the weapon Many of the other knights crossed their swords forming a prison for the Saiyan before burying it into the ground
But the Saiyan let out a roar, it being multiplied in size and it began to bend the sword. His power growing as the swords gave way as a massive explosion blew the island away. The reapers being vaporized and Black standing in the massive creator
“Farore’s wind..” Link said in shock as he could practically feel Black’s ki vibrating from here.
“Quite impressive to say the least” Complimented Luna
“Wait, where is Entity going to la-” Entity fell from the clouds and into water, Nappa blinked and saw bubbles from where Entity landed.
The Saiyan appeared behind Eric without a second thought, it was too late for the Shadow Man as Black threw a flurry of punches into Eric. Each punch got stronger as Black continued to improve his Ultra Instinct. This was followed by Black kneeing Eric in the gut and a massive blast of his impacting the man.
Eric was blown back into the remains of the island, his King form vanishing as he dug a trench on impact. Eric however laughed as the Saiyan approached him, his body close to failing him
“By far, the most fun” Eric began still laughing. “I’ve ever had in a fight”
“What are you waiting for?” Eric asked the Saiyan as Black just stared at him. “Go on. Finish me”
To everyone, and I mean everyone’s surprise, Black turned away from Eric and began to walk away.
“SON OF A BITCH!!!!” Thanos cried out so loud enough Black and Eric heard him.
“His mistake is turning away from Eric,” Sombra said shaking his head as he watched the shadow around his friend
“You keep underestimating me,” Black said, a second voice overlapping his. “You should never underestimate your opponent,” Black turned his head to face Eric, but a grin formed.
“I never do” Eric argued. “I always assume my opponent is stronger than me, and I plan ahead for that case scenario.”
“True, but did you ever stop to think about where I was?” Black asked, his form starting to shimmer.
“Are you referring to the real you that you’ve been hiding during the majority of the match?” Eric asked smiling
“Nope, but gathering energy for one final attack, but where?” Black asked with a laugh as he completely disappeared.
“..Don’t tell me its a spirit bomb…” Link said as he slapped his forehead. He’s seen so much of DBZ to the point it’s become almost predictable
“SPIRIT BOMB YES!!!!!” Thanos threw his hands into the air with a grin.
“Spirit bomb?” Shiva stammered.
Eric looked up to see the Saiyan in Perfected Super Saiyan Rose, topped with a Kaio-ken x50 charging a blast the side of a fucking mountain with one arm.
“Well now I feel like less of an ass now,” Eric said calmly
“FINAL BIG BANG-” Black disappeared from sight, reappearing right in front of Eric with a look of rage.
“KAMEHAMEHAAAAAAA!!!!!!” Black roared as he threw his one arm forward, engulfing Eric in the largest blast seen. It soared past the audience as it flew straight into space.
“Oh, I was wrong. It was a warp kamehameha, but with a bang.” Link said.
“I had to take the full brunt of that you know…” Thanos pointed out, pointing a finger at the blast. “Hurt like a mother fucker.”
“Of course you can, meanwhile I’d be nothing but the remains of my triforce if I took that without Nayru’s love protecting me.” Link said with a frown. The hylian was not used to being near so much goddess-damned power.
“You’re not alone in that, Link,” Shiva noted, her own ears flat. “I’ve absorbed dragon’s fire and unicorn or alicorn blasts before, but trying to absorb a blast like that?” She shook her head, equally unused to the high power levels all around her.
Black hovered, seeing the trench go on for miles as water from the ocean split into it. He huffed and fell into his base form, shaking before falling to the ground and onto his back. Still somewhat conscious as he groaned in pain.
Footsteps approach the downed Saiyan as Eric came into view Umbra magic flaring in his hands
“Dark Slumber” Eric said, hitting the Saiyan in the Chest causing him to slowly lose consciousness. “You aren’t the only one who can create clones.”
Black struggled to stay awake, feeling the effects of Eric’s spell taking hold. But fell unconscious as his body went limp and his pupils disappeared. But no one could hear it, but Black’s heartbeat slowed down..
Shiva watched Black pass out, before glancing at Thanos with a nervous swallow.
“...I’m going to take a walk.” Thanos went to his feet and walked away, punching a wall on his way out, shattering it like glass before vanishing.
“So I’m a little lost here.” Rainbow began scratching at the back of her head. “How did Eric survive that blast and what more have fewer injuries?”
“Dark Copy,” Sombra explained. “it’s one of Umbra’s spells, it happened when both were hidden by the dust cloud but there was a brief flash of light.”
"I don't follow," Rainbow said tilting her head
"It's simple if you understand the spell," Sombra said, explaining the dark spell to the pegasus. "Dark copy allows one to make a perfect replica of a living or nonliving thing. Copy a person and their strength, speed, durability, and endurance are all perfectly copied right down to the littlest detail"
“I CALL BULLSHIT!!!!” Ryker shouted out, “HOWW?!?!?!? HOW DID THE COPY SURVIVE THE ATTACKS FROM SSJ FOUR!???!? HHHOOOWWWWWW?!?!??!?!?” Ryker cried out looking at Eric.
“My Shadows are stronger than many think they are your majesty.”
“Two Devil Fruits?! Do you have another being inside of you!?” Ryker asked, his eyes turning a flashing red.
“I’m afraid you are mistaken, Ryker,” Eric said, dropping into his shadow and appearing from the shadow of Ryker’s throne.
“....I… Get off.” Ryker ordered the shadow man, “Get off my throne. Go to bed.”
Jumping off as ordered Eric explains to the King his fruit
“Take it like this if you condense energy you get a more powerful blast” Eric began “Well My shadows can be condensed to form a powerful shield or barrier and I usually have that.” Eric said, showing the extremely cracked shadow under his shirt. “Under my clothes at all times.”
“You know what? Get over here.” Eric was brought to Ryker, “No magic, no being who is not divine can candle that type of blast, who the fuck are you?” Ryker demanded.
During the rising arguments between Eric and Ryker, Nightmare had noticed something about Black’s body. His chest had not been rising at all, showing no signs of breathing. “Oh no…” Nightmare ran off the ship, and flew at high speed to the Saiyans body. Upon reaching it, she placed an ear against his chest, her eyes widened in fear before facing the stands. “HIS HEART ISN'T BEATING!!!!!” Nightmare cried out, the argument stopping.
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“Hang on!” Shiva yelled, leaping into the arena with the aid of her pack link wings. Skidding to Black’s side, she hovered a claw over him, sensing the dark magic within him. “Let me siphon off the effects of that ‘Dark Slumber,’” she said, wrapping a pack link around his eyes. She shuddered as the dark magic oozed into her link, turning it a sickly black, but condensed it into a small ball in her other hand.
Milliseconds later, Nappa immediately teleported to his side, “BLACK!!!! GET A MEDIC!!!!” Nappa roared, “Hold on I got a doctor’s degree!” Shiva backed up to a safe distance, her link still siphoning off the magic, while Nappa charged his hands with ki and put it on Black’s chest.
“CLEAR!!!” Nappa fired a Ki pulse into Black’s body.
“Move Imbecile,” Sombra barked, teleporting in. “Let the real doctor handle this.”
“His heart isn’t what?!” Link screamed out as he leaped over the stands to get over to Black’s body.
Sombra looked over the Saiyans body for any reason his heart would have stopped, his injuries were not that severe compared to his copies
“He literally used everything…” Nightmare muttered, “He used any drop of energy in that attack… even his life force…” Nightmare started to shed tears as she placed a hand over her muzzle.
“Nightmare,” Shiva said assuringly, the black spell of Dark Slumber becoming the size of a baseball in her claw. “He’s going to pull through. We’re going to do everything we can.”
Nappa fired off another pulse of Ki, tears welled up in Nappa’s eyes. “I’m not letting another Saiyan die!” Nappa fired another one off.
“It’s not just that,” Sombra said, closing his eyes and flaring his horn before his eyes grow wide. “His body is reacting violently to Eric’s spell.” Sombra said, looking to Shiva. “Shiva, get that magic out of him as fast as you can.” He turned to the stands. “Luna! Down Here! Now!”
Nightmare looked to Eric with daggers, walking up to him and holding him up by his neck. “Your spell is killing him… Undo it… NOW!!!” Nightmare roared as Eric struggled to breathe.
“I had no idea,” Eric said, trying to ease the former Alicorn.
“Both of you, enough!” Shiva barked, as the last of the spell oozed out of Black’s body and into her link. “I’m siphoning the spell off him right now.”
Eric was dropped when Nightmare’s hands were separated from her wrists
“This is no time to blame people,” Sombra said, his sword unsheathed and his powers flared. “And reversing it will only make it worse right now.”
“Go away Umbra! I’m saving one of my people, WITHOUT YOUR DAMN HELP!!!” Nappa went Super Saiyan Two and sent more Ki into Black to try and revive him.
“This is probably going to kill me, but fuck it.” Link said as he placed his hand on Nappa’s shoulder. “I need you to trust me on this and allow my magic through.” Link said.
“Please do whatever you can, Link, please!” Nappa stepped aside.
“First we need to extract the dark magic,” Sombra said.
Shiva offered the purple orb. “Already done,” she said.
“Destroy that,” Sombra ordered
Shiva gingerly handed it to Nappa, who crushed it into energy dust. “Link, do your thing!”
“Luna,” Sombra looked to the alicorn. “Think you can restart his heart?”
“I’ll try,” Luna said, her lightning sparking in her hand
“Low voltage Luna,” Sombra reminded her. “We want to restart; not fry.”
“Right, sorry” Luna said lowering the intensity on her lightning
“Hit em,” Sombra ordered as Luna put her hands to the Saiyans chest causing him to jump
Sombra put his fingers to his neck and found no pulse
“Again” Sombra ordered, causing Luna to repeat.
As they continued, Shiva sent pulses of her own through the link. “You’re not dying, Black,” she said. “Eric may have saved my life, but I didn’t want him to win like this…”
After three pulses, Shiva’s ears perked as she felt his mind flutter with life. “He’s coming back!” she called.
At the same time, Sombra began to feel the Saiyans pulse. “We got him!” Sombra said in excitement. “His heart’s beating again!”
Link let out a breath of relief as Black was now alive to a certain degree.
Nappa dropped out of Super Saiyan 2 and picked up Black before glaring at Eric and his group. Shiva wisely dissipated her link to the unconscious Saiyan.
“We still need to wake him up,” Sombra said to the group. “He’s still under the effects of the spell and as we’ve seen we can’t use dark magic to wake him.”
“I could still try talking to him through the link,” Shiva offered.
“No,” Nappa said firmly. “I’ll do that myself. thank you very much.” Nappa turned away from Sombra, “You guys have already done enough.”
“Nappa, don’t shake him awake.” Sombra warned.
“What the hell do you think I’m going to do? I’m going to wake him up, Ghost Nappa style,” Nappa turned into a ghost and went into Black.
Link facepalmed. “Goddess damnit, Nappa…” he groaned under his leather gauntlet.
Shiva blinked at him before sniffing at Black’s body. “Ghost Nappa style?” she muttered, before cautiously linking with him again. Leading her to see…
Black heard something tapping a microphone, “Ahem, is this thing on? Oh, I’m glad to hear your conscience is active. You must be questioning what happened. Well, Zarbon appeared…”
Black grunted in confusion.
“Yeah… He got you in the healing chamber, and you were naked. You now must be asking… What he did while you were naked.” Nappa chuckled darkly, “Have fun with that…”
Black jolted awake, his eyes widening as he felt a sudden surge of pain across his body.
Shiva jumped back, her link shredding as dark purple lightning arched and crackled along his body before exploding a lightshow, Black screamed in pain as it felt his body was being torn apart. A moment later, it stopped as Black fell face first, barely being caught by the diamond dog Alpha. Immediately Sombra checked his vitals with the aid of a spell and breathed a sigh of relief.
“He’ll live, He’s going to be asleep for a few days - which will give me plenty of time to repair any damage he sustained from their fight,” Sombra said, turning to Eric. “Eric...” only to find the Shadow Man gone.
“I guess we’ll talk to him later,” Shiva noted.
Sombra nodded, reattaching Nightmare’s hands. “Once he’s finished beating himself up over this,” he said solemnly.
Nappa popped out of Black and looked at Black with a grin, “You guys must be asking what did I do to wake him up. One word, Zarbon.” Nappa started to laugh chaotically.
Link waved his hand. “Yea, yea, yea. Most of us have seen the abridged version.” he said before looking at Nappa.
Shiva tilted her head. “I haven’t,” she noted. “I have no idea what this ‘Zarbon’ is, but it sounds like it was effective.”
“Both of you shut up ,” Nightmare growled, walking up to the Saiyan with daggers in her eyes, “You just caused more damage to him then helping… ”
“I didn’t mean to! He was my comrade. Also it is my requirement to say; Oh? You’re approaching me?” Nappa went into the DIO pose.
“Well I won’t know what kind of damage he caused until we get back to the Arena,” Sombra said.
But Nightmare didn’t care. She stood in front of Nappa, looking into his eyes as a dark aura surrounded the Alicorn. Giving them a cautious look, Shiva handed Black’s body to Sombra before cautiously approaching the two.
“Nightmare, don’t,” Shiva began.
“Mom?” Kodo whispered, creeping after her as his devil fruit started to act up.
“Dark Ki…” Nappa muttered under his breath, “Listen, I don’t want any trouble. I’m tired, he’s tired, you’re tired, we’re all tired!” Nappa cried out, “Let’s all take a nap and call it a day.”
“I agree,” Shiva said, stepping between the two, even as her son watched with worry. “Nightmare, Black’s still alive, and he’s going to be okay. Nappa helped with that.”
Nightmare ignored her, continuing to stare into Nappa’s soul, even creating a scythe out of dark ki in her right hand. Shiva’s tendrils began to spiral out, forming a wall between the two.
“You don’t want to tango with the rango, Nightmare…” Nappa peered down at the Nightmare.
“Okay, enough of this,” Shiva growled. Lashing her links, she seized both of them, and channeled her magic. “See as they see; feel as they feel!”
Instantly, emotions flooded the Saiyan and the parasite; their combined fear for Black, combined with their own mixed feelings of desperation, fear and anger. However, before they could act on the new emotions...
"SHUT UP!!!" Ed roared his voice echoing from everywhere, the force dispelling everyone's powers. "You're all acting worse than brats!"
Shiva blinked in alarm. “I wasn’t…” she tried to protest.
But Ed ignored her. He walked over to the Saiyan and held his hands over his Black. A green glow covered Ed’s hands and then Black'’s form.
"You're all stupider than I thought,” Ed growled. “I said I wouldn't let anything happen to my family and I meant it." Black's injuries were almost all gone. "Nightmare, have him eat this when he wakes up," Ed gave the alicorn a bean after he finished his work. "Before anyone asks, I am going to have a few chats with the others." Ed scowled walking out of the room via a portal.
Shiva watched him go with confusion. Kodo crept up next to her.
“Um… did we do something wrong?” he asked.
Shiva’s eyes widened in horror. “I’m probably about to,” she admitted, racing after Ed. “Kodo, stay with Sombra; make sure Black’s okay!”
“But…!” Kodo protested, only for Shiva to disappear with a flash of light.
Meanwhile, a flash of dark purple light covered Eric’s room, once the light faded Eric looked at himself in the mirror as saw someone with a look of pure regret on his face.
“This isn’t who you are,” Eric said, closing his eyes as his magic faded. “Next fight, I want you and your magic to stay out of it”
Eric opened his eyes and was met with a shadow resembling Umbra looking at him from behind his shoulder. The shadow just laughed at Eric.
“You forget, this isn’t my magic anymore,” Laughed Umbra. “It’s yours, Shadow Man”
Anger welled in Eric as he screamed in anger and punched the mirror. Breathing heavily, Eric saw the shattered reflection no longer had the image of Umbra in it. Pulling his fist back Eric formed a bubble of shadow. The bubble popped and dropped a dagger in his hands. Gripping the blade in his hand, Eric plunged it into his shoulder. Grunting from the pain Eric pulled the blade from his body before doing it again.
‘I almost separated Nightmare from Black. I deserve worse’
After several stabbings, Eric dropped the blade to the floor before leaving his room.
What he walked into wasn't the hallway, however, but an all consuming blackness that radiated anger. "I ought to do the same to you!" Ed's voice came from everywhere as millions of eyes looked at Eric seething in rage. "Retaliate, kid. I welcome it! Black and Nightmare are my family. Albeit extended, but still my family. And what you did has thoroughly pissed me off beyond REASON !"
You could hear the faint screaming and smashing of Thanos, “FUCKING DAMN IIIITTT!!!!” They heard the Titan cry out. Thanos kicked down a wall appearing in front of Eric.
“The. Fuck. Was. That Eric?!” Thanos rubbed his eyes. “You made a clone fight for you and not to mention, you literally… exploited a weakness. You kicked Black while he was down!”
"I use clones, but I make sure the real me is there," Ed remarked as the shadow dropped down and formed into the Alchemist next to Thanos. "I won't stand for the shit you pulled, though."
“Same here, don’t you think you couldn't have thought twice about that?” Thanos crossed his arms, “Did you think how… Pathetic Black would feel all because he was fighting a clone, not you?”
Nightmare teleported next to the Titan, glaring at Eric, “You’re nothing but a coward.” The parasyte hissed. “Were you also having a snack as well, as you watched others do the dirty work for yourself?!”
“That’s awfully dirty, wait… Could you get disqualified for that? Oh, oh! I remember when you made Black sleep while he was down, is that exploiting a weakness I saw?” Thanos asked, venom oozing down the Titan’s body.
“If you’re here to punish me then do it,” Eric ordered the group, slightly surprising them. “I know what I did was wrong, but Black also fought me with a clone.”
At that moment, Shiva had run into the room, desperate to try and stop a fight from occurring… only to skid to a stop as she heard Eric’s words.
“But it doesn’t excuse my actions, I almost crossed the line and nearly killed someone I had considered a friend,” Eric said, pushing past the others. “Do what you want with me, just know that after that, you won’t be seeing me again.” Eric looked back. “I’m withdrawing from the Tournament.”
“That’s not allowed,” Ed growled. “You put my friend through Hell, and now you chicken out cause we call you out on it? That’s even more of an insult to Black than fighting with a clone!”
“I don’t care!” Eric snapped back. “I nearly crossed a unforgivable line today, and right now I have no right to even face anyone!” Eric began walking away. “Not even Luna. To hell with the reward, I just want to go home.”
Ed was suddenly in front of Eric looking at him with death in his eyes. “You wanna leave? I can oblige with that.” Ed cracked his knuckles, “Just know it’ll be in pieces.”
“No!” Shiva yelled, jumping into view just as Ryker appeared from a nearby portal.
“Now Ed, ya don’t have to be outrageous,” Ryker noted. “If it makes you feel better, you can have a sparring match with me.” Ryker chuckled.
“I’m serious,” Eric insisted. “I've already caused enough problems for everyone.” He left the group. “They’ve suffered enough at my expense.”
“Not everyone’s suffered from you, Eric,” Shiva called after him. “Don’t forget you saved my life in Fujitora’s mind! You gave Sombra a chance, when any of us would’ve just dismissed him as Umbra’s pawn! You’re a good man, even if it’s hard to see that right now!”
Eric paused, contemplating her words. But he ultimately continued to walk away, leaving Shiva in the dust.
“Alrighty… Well Eric is being the edgy bastard that he is.” Ryker rolled his eyes before looking at Ed, “Wanna take me up on that offer?”
As Eric walked away, everyone took notice of the blood dripping profusely from his arm leaving behind a trail behind him
“You punishing yourself isn’t enough,” Ed called out.
Shiva turned back to him, her claws clenching and lighting up with her link. “Ed, I get that you’re upset,” she began. “Really, I do! Family’s beyond important, and what happened to Black was scary. But…”
“Excuse me, Shiva, but please don’t aggravate him,” Ryker recommended before turning to Ed. “Now, Ed, please-” Ryker was then cut off by Ed.
“Both of you. Shut your face holes,” Ed glared at Ryker. “And you!” his attention was back on Eric. “You stabbed yourself in the shoulder and now you think you can pussy foot out of this? No! You do NOT get to take the easy way out!”
“I know,” Eric said to the Alchemist. “Nothing I do will help.” The Shadow Man then stopped in his tracks before speaking to the group. “But if it’ll make you feel better... meet me in the infirmary in ten minutes.”
“You aren’t going anywhere until you hear me out, asshole,” Ed grabbed Eric and slammed him into the wall, forming spiderweb cracks.
“Ed!” Shiva protested, only for Ryker to hold her back as Ed growled at Eric.
“I don’t let cowards walk away, ever,” Ed snapped. “The only way you set this right is by finishing what you started. You stay, you fight, you win the right way until you can’t. You fight until you're completely broken and then, you fight more!”
Without warning cuts and bruises began to litter the Shadow Man’s body, his face contorting in pain and agony. Eric let out a scream as the damage from his clone was inflicted onto him.
“I don’t really care what the toll you pay is,” Ed said as he flooded Eric’s body with the same green energy he used on Black. “I can manipulate your void energy, kid, and turn back your personal time to undo everything done to you. But I won’t. Suffer in agony!” Ed threw him off to the side, cracking the wall. “You’re not backing out of this tournament. After what you did to my friend and my family, I won't let you!”
“FEEL AS HE FEELS!” Shiva bellowed, before a pack link ricocheted off Eric and hit Ed square in the chest.
Aside from knocking the wind out of it and pushing him back from Eric, it did little damage. However, it also caused Ed to get a brief glimpse into Eric’s mind. More specifically, the pain, sorrow and regret he was going through.
Not just from the wounds that continued to spring across Eric’s body as he fell to his knees. But also the agony in his heart, which he was clutching as he hit the ground. The sorrow. The self-hatred. The desire to take it all back. All of it filled Ed’s soul, weighing him down like lead anvils.
Blinking out of the haze of emotions, Ed found Shiva standing between him and Eric, her teeth bared to the gums and her pack links flared like a mother wolf defending her cubs.
Ed’s fists clenched, as he glared her down. However, the appearance of Katakuri gave them both pause.
“That is enough, Ed,” he declared in a M A N L Y voice. “Stop with the verbal abuse. It is not welcome.”
Ed narrowed his eyes at Katakuri before waving his comment off. “I don’t really care what’s welcome or not.” He returned his glare at Shiva. “You care so much about shadow boy?” He pointed at Eric, still clutching his chest. “Then do something about him before he K.O.s himself.”
Shiva didn’t turn around, keeping a consistent glare on Ed, but her pack link’s dove down and into Eric, drawing away some of his pain as she stood guard over him.
“Here, Shiva,” Katakuri threw a senzu bean at Eric’s head, “Senzu bean!”
“Oh god I think you made it worse!” Thanos and Ed screamed at the same time.
Katakuri held up a paper to Ed, “Can you sign this, please, please, please, please?” Katakuri asked the Sage.
“No,” Ed said flatly.
“IT DIDN’T WORK!!!!” Katakuri shouted out.
“God fucking damn it!” Ryker responds in the background.
“That’s it!” Ed scowled reaching into a portal then pulled out Ryker and threw his ass across the way in an open arena . “You want to mess with me fine, you got me.” Ed jumped down into the empty arena. “You wanted to fight, we'll fight. Once everyone is awake.”
Ryker caught himself, and leaned on a wall. “Alrighty… But first would you mind taking a sip of calming Jasmine tea?” Ryker teleported next to him with a smile, tea in his hand, offering it to the Dweller.
“Fuck your damn tea,” Ed walked away. “I need ale and bourbon!” He walked through a portal.
“...Irish Whiskey it is.” Ryker followed.
The group left the Shadow Man to his suffering. Except for Shiva. She slowly helped Eric to his feet. As they walked for the infirmary, he looked at her, silently questioning her loyalty.
“I owe you my life, Eric Von Shadow,” she whispered to him. “We fought as a pack to save Link, and we fought as a pack in Fujitora’s mind. You were there for me… now let me be there for you.”
Despite her link siphoning away some of the pain, the injuries still had to go somewhere. And as they walked, Eric realized that the pain and injuries were transferring to Shiva. He tried to pull the injuries back, but it only resulted in every step the two made causing their hearts and bodies to scream in mutual pain and agony. Eventually, they made their way to the infirmary where they saw Sombra and Nappa tending to Black, Kodo standing guard. Immediately, Eric withdrew from Shiva, staying out of sight from the pair.
“Now you’re positive this is the natural vitals for a Saiyan?” Sombra asked looking over the vitals of Goku Black
“Yup! Every time a Saiyan is closer to death they get stronger. They also heal a bit faster than ponies and humans as well.” Nappa informed the dark prince. “However you said it will take a while for him to go to the next level because he is unconscious. How many days until he wakes up? Because the next match is tomorrow.”
“I’m not sure,” Sombra admitted. “With the mental trauma you caused him... probably not tomorrow.”
“Sounds like the Zarbon thing was too effective,” Kodo noted, the mere mention of the name causing the unconscious Black to shiver.
“Zarbon? You know what, nevermind,” Sombra said as he glanced towards the door. He exhaled softly. “I know you’re there Eric, you don’t need to hide from me. I’m not angry with you like the others are.”
“Um… that’s great and all,” Shiva replied, wincing as Sombra spun to her in shock. “But… one problem with my link? It can only transfer wounds, not heal them. And, uh...”
Right on cue, Eric’s body gave out, and nearly brought Shiva to the ground.
“Mom!” Kodo barked, helping Shiva stabilize the Shadow Man.
“Nappa!” Sombra yelled, rushing to join them.
Nappa easily walked in and lifted the Shadow Man from the diamond dog’s claws.
"Gotcha ya horsefucker," Nappa said, putting Eric on one of the beds while Kodo tended to Shiva. Briefly, Sombra gave Shiva a look-over, but she waved him off.
“I’m fine,” she said. “That stubborn fool insisted on keeping his injuries; he’s the one you need to worry about.”
Not questioning her word, Sombra ran over to Eric and began to dress and care for Eric’s injuries, however, Sombra soon found himself looking at the Shadow Man in slight confusion.
“...Odd,” Sombra said, stopping his treatment.
“What’s odd now?” Nappa turned to the Prince.
“Well Eric is obviously experiencing the side effects of his Dark Copy Spell,” Sombra said examining the wounds on his friend. “However he only has the wounds from his knight form.”
Shiva grimaced, catching Kodo’s attention, but not the others.
“I like your funny words, magic man.” Nappa said with a grin, “Put it in a dumb way and maybe I will understand.” Nappa said flatly.
“Simpleton, Eric wounds mirror that his clone had after his clone returned to normal,” Sombra said, before realizing his words still meant nothing to the Saiyan. “Copy got hurt, now Eric gets hurt.”
“Oooohhh, why didn’t you say that the first time?” Nappa asked Sombra before shaking his head, “Anyways back to the topic at hand, these two need help, I’m not a doctor. I only got a Child Psychology Degree, this is not my field.”
“Yes but you are the closest source reference to Saiyan Biology that I have,” Sombra said as he noticed another cut forming. “But something isn’t right. His wounds are slowly surfacing, one by one.”
“The clone is still active, isn’t it?” Nappa groaned before walking to the door, “I’ll go handle that.” Nappa cracked his knuckles, grinning evilly.
“No. His clone was obliterated by Blacks final attack” Sombra said as multiple injuries start forming
“You mean the final-big-bang-kamehameha that had a 100,000,000 multiplier that could destroy the Solar System?” Nappa asked the prince.
“Something is causing a delay in the effects” Sombra said quickly dressing the appearing wounds. “All damage is supposed to happen all at once.”
Shiva keened, wanting to reveal what Ed had done, but unsure how Sombra would take it.
“Meh, I don’t know why, in any case I’m going to get some rest.” Nappa walked out of the infirmary, before Zabuza appeared in the shadows… Menacingly. Zabuza started to sip his calming jasmine tea… Silently.
But not silently enough to avoid Shiva and Kodo’s senses. The dark diamond dog pup turned to Zabuza with a growl, only for Zabuza to wave his caution aside.
“Calm. I come for Black.” Zabuza walked out of the shadows looking at the Saiyan.
“He’s in no condition to be moved,” Sombra said using his magic to set a monitor to Eric
“Alright. Going inside his head, then.” Zabuza put a finger to his head and onto Black’s.
“Don’t. His mental stability is already shot to hell because of that moron,” Sombra said referring to the bald Saiyan.
“Imma do it.” Zabuza threatened, “If you don’t tell me all you know about Thanos.” Zabuza turned to Sombra.
“I don’t know anything other than his connection to Eric,” Sombra said
“Do tell, what is his greatest fear?” Zabuza inquired, looking at the swordsman.
“His fear is losing his friends in death,” Sombra answered as his attention went to the rapid beeping of Eric’s monitor.
Zabuza unsheathed his blade, before chuckling darkly as he began to walk out of the room, “I may be a pacifist… But I’m going to be hunting tonight…”
“Wait, what do you mean?” Sombra said before turning back to the monitor as the beeping increased.
“Dream magic my friend, that’s all I’m going to say.” He said before mist filled the room. The mist then faded and Zabuza was gone.
Before Sombra could utter a word his eyes grow wide hearing the single monotone beep.
“Sweet Faust no,” Sombra began doing chest compressions upon Eric’s body.
“Eric?” Shiva demanded, lightning up her pack link again.
“Mom, no!” Kodo protested. “You’re already drained from carrying him here!”
“I owe him my life, Kodo,” Shiva insisted. “On my honor as a canine, I will see the debt repaid.” She raced to Sombra’s side, and with her pack link once again trying to sustain Eric’s life with her own, she began aiding Sombra with CPR.
Both Sombra and Shiva continued to restart the Shadow Man's heart only to be responded with the one sound of Eric’s monitor flatlining
“No! Dammit, Eric,” Sombra said pushing harder to save his friend. “You’re stronger than this! Don’t let a stupid spell kill you!”
Shiva linked to Eric. “Eric, I know you can hear me,” she growled. “You do not get to die while I still owe you. Not when I’m angry myself at what happened to Black! Wake up!”
“Cold Scale, Blueblood, Ronin, King Minos, Queen Carapace, Queen Chrysalis, King Umbra?” Sombra yelled, doing everything to bring Eric from death's cold grip. “You’re a strong, stubborn son of a bitch, You say you want death but your own body refuses to give in.”
Unknown to Sombra his magic covered his horn, Both in a grey and purple magic auras covered the stallion's horn. Wisps of magic flowed from his eyes, on his left eye came a grey wisp while his right eye flowed his usual purple wisp.
“I refuse to let you die like this,” Sombra said, his magic fueling his hands. “You are my bodyguard and I am your king, I am ordering you to return to the living!”
A sudden rush of weakness overcame Sombra, and he collapsed to the ground.
“I can’t lose you too.” Sombra whispered tears forming in his eyes. “You’re the only family I have left.”
Yet even Shiva was fading, her link the only thing keeping Eric’s heart going. She was slowly falling to her knees as well, the link from before taking a toll on her. Kodo gripped her, supplying her with energy, but even he was growing pale.
“Mom…” he whispered. “I don’t think we can keep this up.”
“We have to,” Shiva insisted. “Please, Eric… don’t do this…”
On the verge of breaking down Sombra’s eyes grow wide remembering the one spell to save the Shadow Man
“I could...I could use Umbra’s Resurrection Spell,” Sombra said, quickly jumping to his feet as he began to laugh like the villian he once was. “I could..cast the resurrection spell, give Eric life for a life.” A desperate grin fell upon the unicorn's face.
Shiva’s ears perked up, and she gazed at him. “Life for a life?” she asked.
“There is no such thing as a resurrection spell,” Sombra said, cackling as his magic flared. “It is basically trading one’s life for another.”
Shiva looked down at Eric. Her ears flattened, and she grit her teeth. “Curse it all,” she growled, before standing up. “Okay… take me.”
“NO!” Kodo barked.
“My life is his,” Shiva insisted. “I can’t let him die if there’s a way.”
“It’ll cost the life of an innocent, but I’m willing to make that sacrifice,” Sombra said
Kodo gripped his mother’s shoulder. “No,” he said. “You’re his best friend, Sombra.” He looked down. “I’m not welcome in my own world anyway…”
Shiva spun to him. “Kodo, don’t you dare say another word!” she snarled.
“Heh… it doesn’t matter which one of you dies,” Sombra looked at the pair, his eyes mirroring the dark king’s with increasing magic. “So long as my brother lives that’s all that matters,” his hand glowed a vile red as he aimed it at the two, his grin mirroring the Sombra from their world.
Shiva’s ears flattened, while Kodo’s eyes widened in horror. “Umbra…” he mumbled, before trying to move forward. Shiva tried to sweep him back.
“Kodo,” she warned. “Stay. Back.”
Kodo seethed, before glaring down at Eric. He slammed his fists into Eric’s chest, his pack link bursting in a shower of lightning. “DAMN YOU, VON SHADOW!” he roared, his voice turning demonic. “IF MY MOTHER DIES FOR YOU, I’LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!” Kodo forced his mother back, staring down Sombra with a snarl. “Not this time…”
Before Sombra could fire the spell his arm was grabbed in a tight grip before being tossed upward, soon rhythmic beeping was heard as the injured Eric stood next to Sombra. His magic syphoned Sombra’s until the unicorn passed out. Gently setting Sombra upon the bed he once lay Eric turned to the Diamond Dog with pure concern on his face.
“Are you guys okay?” Eric asked, slightly staggering.
Kodo seethed, wanting to claw the shadow man, but recognizing he was already hurt. “You…” he whispered, before he was swept aside by Shiva.
Careful not to touch him, Shiva sniffed him over with equal concern, before resting her head with a sigh. “I… was worried you weren’t going to make it,” she said.
“She almost gave up her life for you,” Kodo whispered, struggling not to cry. “Diamond Dog honor…”
“You have my thanks for that,” Eric said, kneeling to the canine’s eye level. “But never do that again. I’ve already have enough blood on my hands from the ones I’ve looked out for, I’d never forgive myself if either of you were killed on my behalf”
“Agreed,” Kodo said, turning to Shiva. “You hear him, Mother? You may owe him, but you also owe Celine, Skippy, Dad and everyone back in our Equestria. An Alpha without their pack may be nothing, but a pack without their Alpha is lost. You can’t do that to them.”
Shame gripped Shiva as she looked down. “I know,” she whispered. “But… Sombra made the offer, and…”
“I honestly do apologize for Sombra’s behavior” Eric said slowly getting to his feet. “His mental health hasn’t exactly been perfect since he became Umbra.”
Kodo nodded. “I can see that,” he noted.
“It’s probably why out of everyone here he’s the most calm,” Eric commented with a chuckle. “He must remain calm until I can find a way to help him.”
Eric backed up and rested himself on one of the empty beds. At the same time, Kodo guided an exhausted Shiva over to another one of the beds. For a moment, they were silent.
“Have you ever done something you regretted?” Eric asked, turning to the canines.
Kodo chuckled humorlessly. “Am I gonna get slapped again if I say ‘being born?’” Kodo asked.
“Kodo; yes you are,” Shiva snapped, clawing at him before he dodged out of the way.
“Not what I meant pup,” Eric said, his voice more serious. “What I mean is have you , yourself being of sound mind ever done something you truly regret?”
Kodo sighed. “Yes,” he said in a more solemn tone. “When Umbra first started talking to me, I knew there was something… off… about him. I didn’t fully understand, but he always made me feel strange.” His eyes closed. “Then he kidnapped Shiva. And he held her location over my head; telling me that he’d tell me where she was if I helped him conquer Equestria.”
Shiva winced and looked away.
“I could’ve asked Twilight for help,” Kodo admitted. “Asked Celestia… they knew something was off about me too. And they were more than willing to help.” Kodo shook his head. “Instead I listened to Umbra. And just like the Sombra before me… I hurt so many ponies… led my dad and countless diamond dogs to their demise.” He hung his head. “It’s fuzzy how much was Umbra and how much was me… but I know that he wouldn’t have gotten as far as he did if I hadn’t made the conscious decision to listen to him.”
“Have either of you killed an innocent pony?” Eric asked before looking down. “Who only wanted to use their powers to help others?”
Shiva whimpered, an old memory calling to her. “Before I had Kodo and Celine,” she admitted. “Shortly after joining my pack… Chrysalis tried to recruit me. Tried to turn me against the ponies of Canterlot. I wasn’t interested, but several of the ponies thought I was going to agree with Chrysalis. They sent royal guards to try and take me out. A fight broke out. And I just… lost patience.” She clenched her claws. “I stormed Canterlot right as the changelings attacked it. I took out pony and changeling alike. Fluttershy just barely managed to calm me down, but even then…” Shiva hung her head. “I saw one of the ponies that hated me get dragged off by changelings. And I did nothing to stop it. I could have… but I let hatred and anger blind me.”
“Do you know a pony by the name of Doctor Whooves?” Eric asked with regret
Shiva and Kodo glanced at each other. Kodo shrugged, and Shiva shook her head. “Never met him,” she admitted.
“Well in my Equestria he holds the power of the Time-Time Fruit, it allowed him to travel through time,” Eric Explained to the Diamond Dogs. “He used his powers to save ponies from horrible accidents and even evade their deaths.”
Shiva’s ears flattened. “Oh, no…” she whispered, already sensing where this story would go.
Eric’s face showed one of horror when he looked up. “I tracked him down, and forced him to take me to the past, on the day I lost Her . I used my sword to rend my best friends head from his body before he could kill Amber, my past self was erased and a new future was written.” Eric looked back to the ground, his body trembling at the memory. “But The Doctor came back. And I… I……”
“Eric, easy,” Shiva said, noticing his powers start to fluctuate. “You don’t have to…”
“I ran my blade through his heart,” Eric said, his powers growing unstabling in his emotional state. “I killed an innocent man just to be with my wife!” Eric then stood and slammed his fist into the wall causing cracks to cover the entire wall.
“Eric, easy,” Shiva insisted, trying to get up before Kodo forced her back down. Desperate, she gripped Kodo’s arm, a pack link sending a memory to him, while Eric exhaled slowly before retracting his fist.
“Luckily the one I killed was one from a future timeline,” Eric said plopping back to the bed. “I was pulled from my death bed along with a scarred Rainbow Dash and a one armed Celestia, the three of us were informed what would happen if the timeline was left as it was it would lead to the destruction of Harmony”
Shiva nodded. “I know your pain,” she said.
“Know my Pain?” Eric asked, turning to the dogs. “I learned from not only my future self but the Rainbow and Celestia that my selfish actions led to more than the death of my friends.”
“My bloodline, who all had the powers of MY Devil Fruit sought to conquer the entire world” Eric said standing to his feet approached the canines. “Can you fathom the pain I felt knowing that my actions led to the death of millions?
“Compared to the latest descendant King Shade Von Shadow makes Umbra seem like a tantrum-throwing child,” Eric said continuing his rant. “He would rape and impregnate any female he saw and would kill them just for shits and giggles.”
Shiva gazed patiently at the Shadow Man, before offering up a link. In the link, her own memories shined forth.
“Though I never met Doctor Hooves,” she said. “There was a pony in my Equestria who messed with time. She was called Starlight Glimmer, and she put me into a future where the Mane Six never formed. Where Celestia was weak. Where I beat her, and Chrysalis and every pony and creature that stood in my way to conquer Equestria.” She looked up at the ceiling, a conflicted gaze of wistfulness on her face. “I united the world. But it was not full Harmony. Anyone who questioned my rule… died.”
Her head lowered. “Not imprisoned. Not put on trial… I killed them. Not one of my descendants, but me. I killed anyone that didn’t get with my program. I programmed Kodo and Celine to think that such acts were good and just. And when Twilight and Spike from the original timeline came to try and fix it… I killed Twilight.” She looked up at Eric. “Not injured, not imprisoned. I. KILLED. Her.” She gripped her trembling wrist. “It’s only thanks to Spike that she still lives in my world. But if he hadn’t been able to fix Starlight’s spell…” She lowered her head. “I told you before that I didn’t want my memories messed with. Because I have seen first hand what I could become… if I didn’t become the wolf I am today.”
“Time travel is a shit show,” Eric exhaled out. “In the end I made a deal with the Doctor.”
“What kind of deal?” Kodo asked.
“I told him that I would never seek him out again. If… he would show me what my child would look like,” Eric said a smile creeping on his face.
Shiva offered her link again. “What did they look like?” she asked.
“Well turns out she was pregnant with twins. They looked more human than pony but still had the hooves and fur of a pony,” Eric mused with a warm smile. “The boy was named after my father, as funny as that is.”
Shiva hummed. “Odd choice,” she noted.
“Maybe. But the name Tiberius Von Shadow did have a nice ring to it. He took after me: my blue eyes, my black hair with just a few strands of amber” Eric said smiling. “Somehow I just knew he would be a ladies’ man. My daughter looked almost identical to Amber, same fur color, hair, even the beauty mark just behind her ear. However she had my eyes.”
“It was like looking in a mirror with her. Her name was Crystal, Crystal Von Shadow.” Eric said laughing slightly. “Somehow I have a feeling I would have been the scary protective father with her, scaring away any colt that even looked at her.”
Eric's expression turned to sadness as he regaled the next part.
“But every deal has a two way agreement,” Eric said, regaining his serious tone.
Shiva nodded sadly. “As all deals do,” she agreed.
“In exchange for seeing my children,” Eric said, his eyes taking on a more menacing look. “I had to kill Shade Von Shadow.”
Kodo’s eyes widened, and he glanced at Shiva, who’s grip on his claw tightened.
“And?” Shiva asked.
“I was sent to the future to save Celestia and Rainbow so the doctor could use them to convince me to not kill Sombra,” Eric said, shaking his head. “Then I fought and killed my blood descendant,” Eric then turned and sat back on the bed. “It was here when I made a promise to myself.”
“I will never kill my friends,” Eric said resting his hands on his knees. “And I almost broke that promise with Black.”
“But you didn’t,” Shiva said firmly. “Yeah, you scared everyone, but Black’s going to live. He’s going to pull through. And while the others have the right to be angry, you didn’t know that he was going to react to the spell that way, right?”
“No,” Eric said. “I had no idea he would react like that to one of my more harmless spells,”
Shiva nodded. “You know what you did was wrong,” she said. “You regret it, and Ed’s told you how you make it right with him: you continue this tournament, and you fight for Black’s sake just as much as your own.”
“But I can’t,” Eric said, slightly raising his voice. “My powers and spells are lethal. I’ve only ever used them to kill. I can’t fight seriously if I have to hold back.”
“You mentioned that you had tournaments back in your Equestria,” she noted. “Did you fight in those?”
“No, I was always just a spectator,” Eric said looking down. “I made it a rule after acquiring my Shadow Souls that I would never participate in a tournament. I only accepted this tournament cause I thought there would be someone stronger than me, someone that wouldn’t die if I went all out
Shiva twined her claws, and lowered her head in thought. She shut her eyes with a hum.
“And…?” she asked cautiously. “Phoenix, Thanos, and Doom aren’t stronger than you?”
“No-one can survive if I go all out,” Eric said, pulling away some of the dressings. “It’s why I had that formed sealed”
Shiva nodded solemnly. She glanced around, her nose twitching and her ears flicking as she looked for any possible eavesdroppers. She lifted her claw, and a purple ball flickered to life in her claws.
“Then you give them one final show,” her thoughts whispered through the link. She indicated her spell. “This is a Play Dead Spell; a magic of my own design. It allowed me to get out of the fight with Phoenix without him beating me into unconsciousness.”
The images flickered in her link. “You don’t have to go all out against your next opponent; just give them some flashy moves - some entertainment for Ryker - and then use the spell on yourself when they use a particularly powerful attack. You appear knocked out, they appear to win, and you leave with your honor intact.”
“Understood, however I’m the type who doesn’t take with giving something in return” Eric said cupping his arms together as multiple Devil Fruits emerge from his body. “Which do you want in return, Logia, Paramecia, or Zoan?”
Shiva carefully looked over the fruits, before carefully taking a brown Kiwi shaped fruit with black swirls from the Shadow Man. The Shadow Man laughed as he pushed the Fruits back into his body.
Shiva looked up at him in innocent confusion. “Something funny about this one?” she asked.
“Kinda ironic isn’t it?” Eric laughed, further confusing the Diamond Dog.
“I… guess?” Shiva asked. Kodo glanced between them.
“Do you know what Devil Fruit you hold in your hand?” Eric asked smiling
Shiva shook her head. “I’m still new to the different elements of your worlds,” she admitted.
“What you hold is called the Diamond-Diamond Fruit.” Eric said, snickering. “Kinda fitting isn’t?”
Kodo’s ears perked, and the irony came to him. He began laughing as well, leaving a very confused Shiva looking between them as she slowly connected the dots.
“So, that means…” Shiva gasped in realization. “Oh!”
“Do it, Mom,” Kodo said eagerly. “Let’s see a ‘diamond’ dog.”
Shiva chuckled at Kodo’s eagerness. “Alright-alright,” she said, biting into the fruit… and promptly giving a whimper of regret.
“Oh, sorry,” Kodo whimpered. “The taste isn’t that good. But the power?”
Right on cue, diamonds began to creep up along Shiva’s arms, turning them into solid gems. Shiva gazed in awe at the transformation.
“It covers the user in a strong and powerful Diamond,” Eric said, putting his hands into his pockets. “Which makes you great for both offense and defense.”
Shiva nodded, only half listening as the diamonds crept up to her shoulders. Luckily, Kodo quickly grabbed her claws, making her look at him.
“Don’t panic,” he assured her. “It’s a little strange at first, but I’ll help you through it.” He chuckled. “We’re gonna have some training ahead, but it’ll be worth it.”
Shiva smiled softly at her son, his assurance helping her turn the diamond armor back into flesh. She gazed up gratefully at Eric.
“Thank you,” she said.
“No problem,” Eric said as Sombra bolted up. “Ah good you’re awake,” the Shadow Man made his way to the unicorn.
Eric pulled his hands from his clothes and grabbed Sombra by his collar, rearing a haki covered fist back Eric punched Sombra across his face sending him to the floor. The punch caused Shiva’s diamond form to pop back up, but Kodo soothed her back to normal.
“Never...and I mean ‘neve r’ take another's life just to save mine” Eric said glaring at the unicorn who placed a hand on his reddening cheek. “If you do I will slit my own throat in front of you and make you watch every second.”
Eric turned away from the unicorn magic flaring in his hands as he cast his healing spell, leaving the unicorn alone with his sorrow.
“It’s not a threat Brother . It’s a goddamn promise,” Eric said, leaving the room with his wounds healed.
Kodo gave Eric a minute, before giving Sombra a glare. He silently led Shiva out of the room, his fur bristled and his tail tucked. Before he left, he gave one last look back to Sombra.
“Eric told us you were different,” Kodo noted. “But you sounded exactly like the Sombra from my world when he took Mother from me.”
Sombra winced, not facing the diamond dogs. Without waiting for his response, Kodo and Shiva left the room.
Author's Note
A Forced Hero - By DisplacedWriter
Four Horsemen Come To Equestria - By Anomis
Howlite Howler - By Three Tails
Power Vessel - By Delta-Boio
The Shadow Of Equestria - By Screwball666
Equestria's Divine God - By Shirt Mechanic
DOOM of Griffonstone! - By ShadowStar_IMHP
Against All Odds - By The_Chill_Author (come on and go like it, he's almost at 100 likes!)
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Side-Chapter, Training Montage!
Thanos was in an empty space, it was dark… cold, then he saw his comrades, Grievous, Entity, Luffy, Mogeme, Eden, Lucci, Sally, Supergirl, Rapunzel, Black, Nappa, Shiva, and Eric. Thanos grinned and he walked up to them.
"What's up guys? How have you been?" Thanos said, approaching them, right as he reached them. Eric was cut down, his head was flying and landed in front of Thanos. Thanos fearfully looked down.
"Oh… No…" Thanos squeaked out as Shiva and Nappa were cut down as well as an ominous mist swept over. "Nappa! Shiva! Show yourself!" Thanos pulled out his sword as he heard the death cry of Black.
"Stop it!" Thanos shouted out, right before he heard the oof sound of Entity, he heard footsteps and Sally running away.
"JOHN HELP US!!!" Sally shouted out which followed a slash, Thanos heard psychotic laughter afterwards.
"I can't, I don't know where you guys are!" Thanos shouted out, Rapunzel was then cut up into pieces and her rolling head reached Thanos. "STOP IT!!!! DO YOU HEAR ME?!?!?"
Cut after cut, slash after slash he heard blood spewing and limbs dropping, clutching his head as tears well up in his eyes.
"DAMN IT!!!!!"
Thanos' eyes went wide and he fell out of his bed. Thanos went to his feet and leaned on an adjacent wall, catching his breath.
"Just a dream, just a dream, just a dream. Just… A… Dream… deep breath Thanos." Thanos said, inhaling and exhaling to try and regain his composure. It worked slightly but he still had that feeling that he had to check on the others. Thanos walked out of his room, it felt like it was night.
“More like a Nightmare,” Ed said as he was leaning against the wall. “One of my girls is the ruler of the dream realm after all and I have a weapon that allows me to help her out from time to time. Someone is messing with you, Thanos.”
Thanos walked up to Ed, frowning, "And why do you think that? It could after all be me being homesick, wanting to go back to my friends." Thanos crossed his arms, "No one is messing with my head, I'm completely fine. Nothing is happening, just Thanos being John."
“You slipped up there,” Ed was sending eye level with the mad titan. “Don’t lie to me please. “I’m your friend. Your Blacks friend. Your Shiva’s Friend, and even though he was a dick you’re still Eric’s friend. If you were really homesick then why were all those others you’ve only met outside your world there?”
"Correction, comrade, because friend has an end to it, and I don't want my friendships to end." Thanos chuckled before leaning on a wall, cool-headed. "Also, you got me there, but the majority of them were from my homeland."
“Zabuza is messing with your mind,” Ed floated back down. “He was in the infirmary earlier trying to get info from the ones overseeing Black and trying to treat Eric. When they didn’t give any information he left to go dream hunting. I know because my nanomachines are everywhere in the place right now.”
"Tch, it could be any of us he was after. Black, Eric, Sombra, Kodo, even you! Whatever Zabuza is planning, it's not with me." Thanos argued.
“Trust me,” Ed tapped his head. “I don’t dream. Not even illusions work well on my mind. My mind was completely destroyed at one point in my life and it took me the better part of five hundred years to piece half of it back together,” he sighed. “Not to mention all the other living souls swirling inside me make it impossible to find my central mind even for skilled masters of the mind. The mind stone might help,” He pointed at Thanos. “But even then you would be lost for a good deal of time without the souls to guide you and that’s if they want to help.”
"I have no idea what you just said, nor do I care, I'm getting breakfast…" Thanos walked off, "Wait, is it night time? GOD DAMN IT!!!" Thanos cried out as he continued to walk away.
“You’ve been out for a good while,” Ed shrugged. “Oh yea I’ll be having a friendly little match with our host by the way,” Ed commented as a portal opened. “If you want gourmet food, come to the Toriko world with me. You game?” Before he entered he turned back to Thanos and reached into a ripple and pulled out a large sword who’s blade was completely wrapped in bandages wit a skull for a pommel. “Samehada, aka Shark Skin. It is one of the Seven swords of the mist like Zabuza’s Executioner's Blade. This one is superior to his though and will give you a better edge in your fight with him.” Ed gave the weapon to its new master. “Remember it's a living weapon so treat it right. Think of it as a thank you for coming after Eric with me,” he walked into the portal.
Hands in pockets, Phoenix sulked around the insides of the arena, making sure to cover every nook and cranny with his aura. “I really hope uncovering this whole shenanigan will be worth my while.” He muttered to himself, finishing the last area. “Whelp, now's as good a time as any to get some practice in.”
Nearby, Kodo and Shiva trained in their new Devil Fruits; Kodo flew in a whirlwind of smoke around Shiva, but every attack he gave, she managed to block, her body shifting from diamond to flesh and back again seamlessly.
“You’re getting the hang of this even faster than I did,” Kodo commented.
Shiva shrugged. “It’s a lot like learning a new spell through the link,” Shiva noted. “If you just focus on the magic of it, it’s not really quite as difficult.”
“Well, there’s more to it than just magic,” Kodo said, briefly pausing as he shifted into smoke, and tried to disorient Shiva by flying right through her. Her diamonds completely solidified her body, allowing her to stand strong even when Kodo emerged from the shadows with a kick at her back. “Von Shadow told me that there’s also this stuff called Haki, that can give you some extra power.”
“Oh yeah?” Shiva asked, catching his paw with a diamond covered claw.
"Hell yeah it can!" Out of nowhere Luffy appeared next to them with a grin ear to ear. Luffy showed his arm and covered it in a dark substance.
Kodo yelped and burst into smoke, while Shiva merely grinned. “Hello again,” she said evenly, peering at the dark substance covering Luffy’s fist. “Is that the ‘Haki’ my son’s so excited to share?”
"That's Armament Haki, the first form too, there's the invisible armor and then… Ryou Haki." Luffy said that last bit ominously.
“Oh, didn’t expect anyone to be in here.” Phoenix said as he stepped inside the room.
“Just learning and improving, Phoenix,” Shiva replied. “Don’t mind us.” Phoenix nodded and made his way to a corner of the room to meditate. Shiva turned back to Luffy. “So… what’s this Ryou Haki?”
"An enhanced version of Armament Haki, allowing it to bypass one's natural defenses. Having the ability to damage someone's internal organs and break something without touching it, like this!" Luffy's Armament Haki covered fist started to glow.
“Whoa-whoa-whoa, hold up!” Kodo barked, jumping in between them. “If you’re gonna show her, show it on me, not her!”
“Kodo,” Shiva barked. “You’re being paranoid again.”
"Nah, I won't, just on this wall." Luffy's fist had a red aura, Luffy slammed this fist at the wall and without touching it, it shattered into pieces "See?"
Shiva whistled. “Impressive,” she praised. She glanced down at her diamond claw. “Sounds like I should work on this Haki, just in case these diamonds aren’t enough.” She grinned up at Luffy. “Care to show us what else you know?”
"Observation Haki, I have unlocked it so much that I can see a little bit into the future. Try and hit me." Luffy said before his light-hearted gaze turned into a serious look.
Humming at his seriousness, Shiva prepared a diamond covered claw. However, just as she lifted it up, smoke formed behind Luffy. Kodo’s eyes briefly formed from the smoke, winking at his mother. Kodo moved to strike, but Luffy quickly stepped aside as Kodo… shot forward in a burst of smoke. As the smoke once again flew through Shiva, she lunged forward, only for Luffy to once again dodge her.
Briefly, the two wolves jumped back and forth, trying and failing to catch Luffy in the crosshairs of their attack. After about ten attempts, Shiva skidded to a stop, and waved her claw at Kodo, causing him to return to his normal form.
“That’s incredible,” Shiva noted. “You can see into the future, can’t you? I’ve met diamond dogs with sharp senses, but none that sharp.”
“You can see into the future huh?” Phoenix asked, stepping towards the group. “Mind if I have a crack at it?” He popped his neck a couple times before removing his jacket and placing it on the floor.
"Sure, though I can see so much into the future that I can see you trying to punch me in the nose!" Luffy grinned, saying all of that violent stuff in a cheerful demeanor.
“Interesting…. What about now?” Phoenix snapped his figures and spoke. “Disaster, total separation.”
“Uh, oh…” Shiva mumbled, remembering their match.
“Don’t worry Lady Shiva, this is different to what I used during our match. This completely separates me from everything. I am a ghost of what I once was. Nothing but a mere afterthought…… Though, believe me when I say I still pack a punch.” Phoenix smirked as he looked back to Luffy. “So, Luffy, still see my future?”
"...You may or may not be firing knives at me like DIO from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure." Luffy frowned, hating knives due to it being his only weakness.
“Close, but no.” Phoenix instantly shot forward, aiming for a roundhouse kick to Luffy’s head. However the straw-hat man leaned back and evaded the attack. “Nice reflexes.” Phoenix said using his momentum (and airbending) to try once more. Luffy however saw this coming and used Soru to appear behind the man.
As the two sparred, Shiva tilted her head, a thought occurring to her. Kodo glanced at her curiously.
“Mom?” he asked.
“Just… thought of something,” she noted. “Something I’m wondering if I could’ve used during my match with Phoenix.”
“What’s…” Kodo perked. “Oh…” he nodded. “But… how would it work?”
“Well, one way to find out,” she replied, creating a pack link and twining it around Kodo’s wrist. “You don’t mind giving your old lady a bloody nose, do you?”
Kodo shivered. “Only if I pay for it later,” he mumbled.
But, obeying her command, he lunged forward, using her link for momentum, and slammed his paw right into her undefended snout. Her head jerked back, and she stumbled across the ground. Yet, as she regained her paws, a pulse traveled through the link… and Kodo reeled back as the pain from his mother’s injury jarred hard into his snout.
Shiva nodded. “I was either too soft or a fool, Kodo,” she said, bounding to his side and tending his nose. “I could’ve transferred the pain from Status Promotion. Ensured that he felt exactly what I felt.” She sighed. “I’m not good at the whole ‘offense’ thing.”
Kodo’s brow knit in sympathy. “Then let’s make sure your defense makes up for it,” he offered. “Observation Haki could let you see any attack coming your way, and with a combination of the diamond armor and Armament Haki…”
Shiva nodded in understanding. Luffy evaded another attack.
"I can teach you Armament Haki if you want to, but there is one last form of Haki I didn't show you." Luffy grinned, before striking Phoenix. "That's enough, I have to teach some dogs some tricks!"
Shiva and Kodo perked their ears in intrigue. “Oh? What is it?”
Luffy appeared before them, "Conqueror's Haki." Luffy again said this in a serious manner.
Kodo’s eyes widened in remembrance. “Oh, right! Yeah, the Haki where you can make someone submit through sheer force of will!” He shivered. “Yeah, that Haki’s amazing.”
"And If it's strong enough, affect your surroundings. Like this," Luffy unleashed his Conqueror's Haki, the walls began to crack and the ground as well, there was an intimidating red aura surrounding the straw-hat man. What they saw was no man, but a demon, just like they saw with Thanos in the arena. He then let go of the Haki, turning back to normal.
Kodo nodded, looking to Shiva. “You have GOT to learn that form, Mom,” he insisted.
"It's only one in a million though, only a true ruler can wield this power, you have to be born with it. Now, I have to show you one of my many transformations, it focusses on Armament Haki and shows the side-effects of it if you use it. Armament Haki is dangerous, it can kill others and even yourself, exhaust you until you can't move, or until you can't breath. It's pretty dangerous." Luffy informed the duo before looking at his surroundings, "Meh, I can fit in here." Luffy took two steps back before putting an arm next to his mouth, coating it in Armament Haki.
Shiva and Kodo watched carefully as Luffy used all of his gathered air and bit down on his left arm, air going into it.
"Muscle Balloon!" Luffy's left arm grew to the size of a white sedan, the arm then had a red aura around it. Still blowing on it the air went to his body making him grow. It also made his right arm grow as well, air finally going into his fingers, each finger growing to the length of a snake, Luffy then proceeded to ball up the fist that finally had it's fingers blown up. Tribal like symbols start to appear on his chest, matching the pattern of the Gum-Gum Fruit that he ate. Steam then blocked their view covering Luffy's whole entire body in steam. In the steam they saw Luffy's silhouette appear, it was his head, bouncing side to side Luffy pushed some steam out of his way and opened his eyes from the steam. His eyes fueled with determination, the steam then dissipated, revealing Luffy in a fighting stance, steam came out of his mouth.
"Gear…" He threw his head back dramatically, "FOOOUUUURRTHH!!!" His whole body appeared, him being seven feet tall, he bounced menacingly. His arms were bigger than the Mad Titans, his legs normal size but appeared to be small. "Bounce Man!" He bounced on his toes, making a clunking sound like metal.
“Fuck me.” Phoenix said, whistling. “Gotta teach me that one later. “
"I'm made out of rubber, only I can transform unless you have the Gomu-Gomu No Mi." Luffy reasoned, his voice was rough and serious.
Shiva shook her head. “Not us,” she replied. “Mine turns me into diamonds, and Kodo’s turns him into smoke.”
"If I get really, really and I mean really-really hard, I can drop out of this form. When I use this form I can't use Armament Haki for ten minutes." Luffy informed the two, "And when it runs out, which is like in fifteen minutes I get an inch closer to death."
“I can’t say I do, though, all I’d need to do is change my molecular structure to become more rubber like. How hard could it be?” Phoenix said, shrugging. “Also, Shiva, you said you turn into diamonds?”
Shiva grinned and clenched her claws. Instantly, her white fur turned into the glittering gems, and in seconds, a diamond statue stood before them, before she popped back into a being of fur and flesh. “Now I can be called a diamond dog for a reason.”
“Interesting,” Phoenix muttered. “I have a theory…. And if it works, I’m not sure even I could break your diamonds. Well, in this form anyway.” He gestured to himself.
“Right,” Shiva admitted with a chuckle, remembering his armored form.
Phoenix formed a block of cement next to him, and spoke. “Shiva, would you strike this for me?”
Shaking her claw out, Shiva turned the tips into diamonds, and struck. Yet, it didn’t leave a mark. Not a scratch.
“See, not strong enough as it is.” Phoenix said, looking over the block. “You see, I was increasing the molecular bonds as you struck it. One of the basic laws of physics, a denser object will break one less dense.” Walking over to the block, Phoenix struck it with his left hand. It shattered to pieces upon contact. “See?
She peered at the pieces. “I think so,” she noted, before glancing at her diamond claws.
“To put it simply, it’s a matter of whose surface is denser. Tell me, if a 1k block of tofu hit a 1k block of steel at 100 mph, which would remain intact?” Phoenix gestured with his hand for her to answer.
She hummed. “I want to say the steel, since it’s denser than the tofu, but if they’re both 1k…”
“You were right the first time.” Phoenix nodded. He reformed the concrete. “Now, strike it once more, but this time, clench your fist as hard as you can. Make sure every atom is as packed as possible.
Nodding, Shiva turned back to the concrete, and formed a fist. She breathed, letting her fist transform into a diamond fist. Yet even then, she continued to breathe. The diamonds glittered brighter as their molecular structure was packed tighter and tighter.
After almost a minute of composure, Shiva lifted her fist up, and brought it down. The concrete didn’t waver at first, but soon it fell down into nothing but dust.
“Goes a long way huh.” Phoenix said, admiring her work. “The Neko style’s a nifty thing.”
“I’ll say,” Shiva agreed, staring at her claw in delight. “I show this to my dogs, there’ll be nothing we can’t dig through.”
“Now in return,” Phoenix walked over to Shiva and wrapped an arm around her shoulder. “You promise me to never use that technique on myself.”
Shiva nodded, crossing an arm over her chest in a symbol stylizing a salute, she did a bow that was probably strange to the human, but resembled a dog showing their chest in submission.
“As a diamond dog and Alpha of Outer Haven,” she said. “I solemnly vow this technique will never be used on you; the one who taught it.”
“Okay……..” Phoenix cocked a head in slight confusion. “Your word would have been fine, but whatevs.” Phoenix shrugged, before linking to her mind to speak. “Another thing, if all things go to shit in the tournament, you won’t betray me. My allies are few and far between at the moment, and I'm hoping you’re someone I can trust.”
Shiva smiled softly. “I assure you, Phoenix; magic may have altered me, but I’m still a loyal hound at heart. Though I’d rather prefer everyone get along, I will stand with you if the time necessitates it.”
Phoenix nodded in appreciation, before letting go of her shoulder. “And another thing, tell Kodo how to do that too. Even if it’s only with his bare knuckles, the same science applies.”
Shiva nodded, glancing back at her son. “He’s a fighter,” she said. “Same as his father. Anything that can help keep him alive on the battlefield, I will definitely share with him.”
“Whelp, I haven’t eaten in about two days, so I’m gonna grab some grub. Cya around!” Phoenix said, before walking off. He waved to Kodo and Luffy over his shoulder as he left.
“See you later,” Shiva said, waving at him as he left.
"I bet I can break your diamond!" Luffy laughed, "Wanna try out?"
Kodo laughed nervously. “Uh, no,” he said. “If what I’ve been learning about devil fruits is correct, her devil fruit is a Paramecia, which means she can’t grow anything back if the diamonds break.”
"Aw… That sucks." Luffy lowered his head as he went to sit down only for him to keep on bouncing.
Everyone heard the tapping of the ground, then footsteps following them. Shiva recognized this and turned around to see the eight foot blind man a few feet away from her.
“Issho,” she greeted. “How have you been?”
"I may or may not have created a blackhole, but don't mind that. I heard a crash so I went to go check on that." Fujitora stopped as he kicked in his Observation Haki, noticing her aura a few feet before him. "How have you been lady Shiva?"
Shiva glanced down at her claws. “I’ve been making some progress in my training,” she noted, her gaze turning ponderous. “Though, even with the progress I’ve made, I’m still way behind the others.” She settled against the wall. “Makes me wonder why Ryker invited me. I’m not exactly like the others.”
Fujitora took a breath through his teeth, "I should not say this, I really shouldn't…" Fujitora leaned close to her, "Ryker may or may not be trying to recruit you."
Shiva tilted her head, her ears perking. “Recruit me?” she asked.
"Well, you would add personality. Your Pack Links are intriguing to him, and you're a dog so he's hoping it will calm me down. It won't; you are a friend and I don't want you to stay because he will… Keep you here for thousands of years." Fujitora commented, wincing.
Shiva’s skin paled under her fur. “Thousands of years…” she mumbled. “But… I left my daughter back in my Equestria. My whole pack, I…” She rubbed her chin, horror fighting against regret. She looked back up at the blind swordsman. “I consider you a friend as well, Issho. And though I’ve heard of Ryker’s cause… how can he justify saving his daughter by separating another daughter from her mother?”
"...Ooo… He plans to-" Fujitora was grabbed by the head and was slammed into the ground. Shiva jumped back with a bark, finding the Arkham Knight standing over the blind swordsman.
"Are you a damn fool?!" Arkham Knight growled, Fujitora tried to stand but felt weak. "Sea Prism Stone Armor, remember?"
Shiva backed up, feeling the aura of danger emanating from his armor. But not all of her powers were devil fruit based. And she used her pack link on Fujitora, yanking him out from under the Knight. As the knight whirled on her, Kodo appeared in a burst of smoke, his sword unsheathed and held in defense of his mother and her friend.
“Enough!” Phoenix shouted, “I left the room for less than a minute….” Sighing, he walked up behind the knight and patted his shoulder before walking past him. “Take it easy would ya?”
"You bitch! That's it, killing you guys!" The Knight showed his palm to them and they were pushed back and slamming Into the wall Luffy as well. Though, Phoenix made sure to use airbending to prevent being blown away.
As they were pushed back, Kodo burst into smoke, seizing his mother and Fujitora in a cloud of smoke, and whisking them out of the Arkham Knight’s blast.
The Arkham Knight put his right hand onto the wall; mini trenches were dug into them and magma followed Arkham Knight's fingers. Arkham Knight tried to show his palm to the ball of smoke holding Kodo, Shiva and Fujitora. As he slowly got a bead on Kodo’s desperate attempts to dodge, his palm heated up, forming magma until… He was armored punched to the gut. Arkham Knight fell on his back, before looking up. Kodo burst out of the smoke, gazing in shock at their savior… Lord Twigo himself.
"That's enough, Mike." Lord Twigo looked down at the Knight. He clenched his fists.
"It's Arkham Knight, jackass!" Arkham Knight growled.
"Is it just me, or is that guy really weak?” Phoenix suddenly appeared next to the rest of the group and whispered to Luffy, pointing to The Knight.
“Probably why he hides in that armor of his,” Eric said walking in the hall from a nearby shadow, his friend Sombra dragged behind him by his collar
"Wanna say that again jackass?!" Arkham Knight charged up a beam of light as Lord Twigo stood between them.
"Yeah, weak." Luffy chuckled.
Teleporting behind Arkham, Phoenix placed a finger on his head once more. “Disaster, Sleep.”
"Oh you son of a bi-." That was all that the Arkham Knight could say before he fell into Lord Twigo's arms. Kodo cautiously lowered his blade.
"Thank you Phoenix Wri-, he is rather cool headed normally but he's kinda off today."
“You know, I might change my name to Phoenix Wright just to fix all the fucking confusion.” Phoenix said, frowning at his new nickname.
Shiva helped Fujitora to his feet, while the swordsman rubbed his head. "That kid needs to learn his manners, I'm old." Fujitora commented.
Kodo huffed, sheathing his sword. “He threatens you or Mom again,” he promised. “And I’ll be sure to give him a lesson he won’t forget.”
“Kodo…” Shiva chastised with a roll of her eyes.
“Calm down there, hot shot,” Phoenix began, walking over to Kodo. “You’ll learn that it’s a way better feeling to let your opponent know that they are not even worth the time of day. Don’t spare them the luxury of your hatred.”
“Indeed,” Shiva agreed. “The greatest insult an enemy can suffer is to be ignored. Be prepared, but don’t seek out a fight. Besides, we still have much to learn.”
Kodo sighed, but nodded at their words.
“You’ll make a fine warrior one day Kodo, just make sure your morals aren’t twisted.” Phoenix said, ruffling his hair because he knew he hated it.
“I agree with Phoenix,” Eric said smiling at the Pup. “One day nopony will be able to stop your righteous heart.”
Kodo shook his head like a dog drying itself. “Twisted morals are the last thing I want,” he assured them.
"Ugh, I swear one of these days I'm dropping a meteorite onto him.” Fujitora began with a shake of his head. “Also as thanks for helping me, if you ever want me to assist in your swordsmanship, just call me." Fujitora said with a smile.
Kodo smiled back. “I’d appreciate the aid,” he said, glancing back at his blade. “This sword’s good, but I’ve still got a bit of a learning curve; really wish the diamond dogs used more swords and less axes back home.”
“Does that go for me too? Your knight in shining armour!” Phoenix struck a pose with a hand on his chest, and used airbending to allow his hair to blow in a conjured-up wind.
"Twigo is a good swordsman as well, we can both teach you guys, isn't that right?" Fujitora turned to Twigo but he was on the other side of Issho.
"Indeed, as a Knight I will help you train! Hopefully when this is all over we can be friends!" Lord Twigo held a fist to his chest.
“I’d like that,” Shiva admitted with a wag of her tail.
“I was joking, if either of you know a style more efficient than the Amagiri Shinmei style, then I’ll buy you all the drinks you want for a whole week.” Phoenix said, forming a sword completely constructed from fire in his hand.
"I'll be off then." Fujitora said before a piece of the ground floated up as he sat down on it, it turned around and he rode off, "Weee~" Fujitora grinned, Lord Twigo then followed Fujitora, the Arkham Knight over his shoulder.
Shiva and Kodo watched them go with wagging tails, before Shiva’s pack link connected with Kodo’s. “If Ryker forces us to fight them, I’m probably going to cry,” she admitted forlornly.
Kodo keened, and nuzzled at her in a vain attempt to comfort her.
“You know, you should really think about strengthening your mind a bit. Even with your pack links it takes a simple grade 4 combination to get in.” Phoenix said, raising a finger to his head.
Kodo copied his gesture with a shocked look, while Shiva merely chuckled. “Telepathy isn’t really a sought after magic form on the Equestria I’m from,” Shiva admitted sheepishly. “I’ll see what I can do, but most of what I learned was self-taught, and the pack link encourages open minds, so...”
“I’m not saying you should learn to read minds or anything. God forbid you go looking through mine. I just think you should work on your defence. Anything from meditation to straight up picturing locked doors does the trick. It’s mainly a precaution for people like me and Ryker.” Phoenix finished.
At the mention of Ryker, both dogs’ tails tucked. Shiva’s thoughts instantly conjured up an image of a caved in cavern entrance, while Kodo’s depicted… a flock of chickens.
“Chickens? Really?” Phoenix cocked a brow at Kodo.
A growl bubbled from Kodo, but not his throat. He glanced down sheepishly. “I’m hungry,” he admitted.
Shiva held back a laugh. “Alright, my brave warrior,” she said. “Let’s find something to eat. We’ll train more later.”
“May I accompany you? I didn’t get half way down the corridor before I had to save your asses.” Phoenix said, rubbing his stomach.
“I’d like to join as well,” Eric said, pushing Sombra forward. “Afterwards somepony here has something he needs to say.”
Shiva curtsied. “An escort of gentlemen,” she noted. “I’m the luckiest girl alive.”
“Right. The only experience I’ve had with girls was when I was sixteen. Fuck that. Had to work so hard for a smile.” Phoenix’s face dropped in fake annoyance, before he began his way towards the door. “Let’s bounce!”
“Right behind you,” Kodo said, following after him.
Luffy followed them, bouncing with them while in his Bounce Man form.
“I didn’t mean literally, Luffy.” Phoenix turned to him and chuckled.
"I can't help it!" Luffy laughed, looking at the fairy man.
Diner
The party opened the Diner and saw Thanos eating his food in a sad state and Lucci eating next to him without much worry, and Nightmare who just sat next to them with a dead expression on her face.
“How are we doing today gents? And Ladies?” Phoenix said, waltzing into the room like he owned the place.
Shiva spared Thanos and Nightmare a look of pity, before Kodo made a beeline for the diner counter, forcing Shiva to follow him. Meanwhile Eric avoided looking them in the eye as he and Sombra approached the counter with Shiva
"And then, the whole world decided to turn on me! HOW FUCKING HILARIOUS!!!" Thanos laughed chaotically in a drunk manner, Throwing his head back and falling on his back before silently crying.
"Don't mind him; he just had a nightmare." Lucci shook his head at the Titans antics, taking a bite of fried chicken.
“Oh yeah, I remember that.” Phoenix said in realisation. “Can’t believe I wasn’t in it. I was heartbroken!” Phoenix placed the back of his hand on his head in sarcastic offence.
Luffy bounced towards the diner counter with a grin, Entity perked an eye at this. Nappa came into the room in a Cowboy outfit, Ryker in a Leprechaun outfit as well. Sake in hand.
"We're so fucking drunk!" They said in unison, kicking the air as they wrapped their arms around each other, before falling on their backs and cackling.
“Ummmm, and swiftly leaving.” Phoenix said with a thumb over his shoulder. He then proceeded to moonwalk over to Shiva, Kodo and Luffy.
Shiva shook her head at Ryker and Nappa’s antics. “And this is why I avoid alcohol,” she noted, turning to the counter. “Home-style chicken, please.”
The requested item appeared, with Kodo promptly diving on his like it was going to make a run for it. The bones crunched in his powerful jaws like chips.
“The whole immortality shtick means I can’t get drunk. My body instantly disintegrates any form of harmful drug.” Phoenix said, taking a seat next to Luffy. “I’ll have a light salad and some orange juice.” Suddenly his requested items appeared in front of him, and he began eating.
“Sirloin Steak with Sauteed mushrooms and onions, and a Coke Zero Sugar” Eric ordered his food being made the moment he finished ordering
Luffy started to gorge on his meal, which was a pile of meat. Throwing the bones behind him, Luffy grabbed a piece of fried chicken from Lucci before quickly regretting it as Lucci elbowed Luffy's hand. "So what do you guys wanna talk about?" Luffy asked, his mouth full.
“Nothing before you empty your mouth.” Phoenix said with a stern look.
Luffy emptied his mouth, gulping it down before he pounded his chest and went for a drink of water. "That's better, what were you saying?" Luffy, still in his Bounce Man form, spoke.
“I didn’t say anything.” Phoenix said in a ‘matter of fact’ tone, before he took a sip from his orange juice. “How bout truth or dare?”
Shiva’s eyes settled on Nightmare, who was gazing out into space. The diamond dog’s ears flattened in sympathy.
“Well, one truth I know,” Shiva noted. “That poor mare’s had it rough.”
“By the looks of her life force, I’d have to agree.” Phoenix said, turning his head to Nightmare with a blank face.
Shiva glanced away with a hum. “I never liked taking sides,” she noted. “I always preferred compromise and diplomacy.” She looked back towards Nightmare. “Eric didn’t mean for what happened… but it sure doesn’t take away from the pain she went through.”
“I honestly never meant for any of that to happen,” Eric said, taking a small bite of his food. “Ryker said victory by knockout, I assumed my slumber spell would fill that roll. I never sought to stop his heart.”
Standing up, Phoenix took off his jacket and rolled up his sleeves. “Well, when a woman's upset…...” He looked over to Luffy and Kodo and gestured towards Nightmare with his head. “It’s a man's job to cheer her up.”
"I can do that!" Luffy bounced up and turned around.
Shiva’s eyes darted back and forth between them. “Oh, I wasn’t implying…” she started to say. “I meant… I just wasn’t sure if I should talk to her, or…”
Before she could finish, Luffy then shot off like a rocket and hit a wall, he then turned to Nightmare with a grin. "Wanna see a trick?"
Nightmare turned her head slowly to face Luffy, her expression unchanging. “No…” Nightmare spoke, her voice sounding as if the life was sucked out of her.
Phoenix turned to Shiva and spoke in an understanding tone. “I get what you mean, but men are just annoying like that. They have to set things right. It’s a matter of pride.” Phoenix then turned his head towards Nightmare and began his way over.
Shiva keened, clutching her ears as Kodo ignored them, too invested in his chicken.
Luffy got two chopsticks out of nowhere and put them up his nose then stretched his mouth and put the other ends of them to his teeth. "Bleh!"
“That’s not amusing, it’s straight up gross.” Phoenix said, giving Luffy a hard slap on the back. The chopsticks fell out of his mouth from the force.
"How about… This?" Luffy held up his fist and the fist went inside of his arm like a spring going back to normal. "Tada~"
No response...
"Now what about…" Luffy then started to huff and puff, "Wh...Wha...What abo…" Luffy held a hand up to his chest as he started to catch his breath.
“Now what about….” Phoenix placed a hand on Nightmare’s shoulder and spoke. “Care to join us for a drink?” He used his other hand to gesture over his back to Shiva and Kodo.
Shiva gave a nervous smile, her body slowly turning to diamond. Eric stood from his seat, dropping a few bits on the counter and left, feeling the death Nightmare wanted from him before leaving the diner
Nightmare slowly looked between the two, understanding that they wanted to help. But she looked down to the table with the same expression.
"Blaruggahah!" Smoke came out of Luffy as he started to fly about, bouncing off walls and his body went back to normal just as he hit a wall. Luffy's body normal sized as he then slid off of it and hit the floor. "Side-effects…" Luffy squeaked out.
"Get fucked!" Lucci shouted out, laughing at the weakened Straw-hat. "Don't mind me just being… Me I guess." Lucci chuckled, kicking back in his seat.
"Then all of a sudden, Luffy got slammed by Jar-Jar Binks!" Thanos laughed as tears fell down his face, not out of joy but of sadness.
"...I can't move." Luffy frowned, before looking at a roach nearby, "AAA HELP ME THERE'S A ROACH!!!" Immediately busting down the door was Lord Twigo, Katakuri, Fujitora, Zabuza, and Arkham Knight.
"WE ARE THE EXTERMINATORS!!!" They shouted up, pointing their weapons into the air before running to Luffy and stomping on the roach. Shooting it, stabbing it, cutting it, doing whatever they can to damage it.
As they rampaged against the roach, Shiva sighed, and got up, settling herself next to Nightmare.
“Nightmare,” Shiva said softly. “I wanted you to know that, while I defended Eric, I don’t condone what he did to Black. And… if you need anything, I’m willing to help.”
Nightmare looked to the diamond dog with a blank look. The diamond dog’s diamonds crept up under her bristling fur. But after a few moments, a solemn look overtook Nightmare’s face. She looked back to the table, “Thank you…” Nightmare said softly.
Shiva nodded. “Of course,” she said, turning away and watching passively as the ‘exterminators’ went to town on the roach.
Eric was moving through the halls of the arena on his way to the training room, on his way he was met with Ed [whatever you’re doing]. Eric exhaled slowly before approaching the Alchemist who glared at him with a look that would kill.
“Ed I need to speak with you” Eric said stopping a full five feet from the Alchemist
"I have nothing to speak with you about," Ed coldly replies.
“Please.” Eric said, lowering his head. “I need your help, whatever you want from me I’ll give it to you.”
Ed turns and glares, "What is it?"
“Edward, I know the pain of losing the ones you love” Eric said dropping to the ground and bowing before the Alchemist. “So Please believe me when I say that I meant no harm to Black life, and I promise I won’t use my clone spell again. But to do that, I need more control over my powers. So, I’m asking… no, begging you to let me use the time chamber.”
"I'm not the one you should be begging from," The Alchemist crossed his arms. "And why not use the time chamber everyone else has been using?”
“Call it a hunch, but I have a feeling yours has a stronger time difference,” Eric said not lifting his head from the ground
“Did you think begging and apologizing to me would allow you access to my personal training area? What makes you even think I have a Time Chamber?" He scowled at the younger displaced.
“You want me to give it my all, I can’t if I keep holding back,” Eric said, digging his head into the ground further. “You have access to copies of almost everything. Please, I will do anything”
“Are you fully willing to commit to that everything, body and soul?” Ed continued to look down on the youngster.
“Yes.” Eric said still keeping his demeaning stance in front of the Alchemist. “Whatever it takes.”
“Good,” Ed said. “First, you’re going to prove you’re worthy of using my time chamber.” The alchemist noted. “You’re going to earn it like Black earned his. You’re going to fight me and I’m going to use the same form I used against him, but this time… I won’t be holding back nearly as much!” He points at Eric, his face completely obscured in darkness as two red circles pierced the younger displaced very fiber of being. “Only one of you whelps has faced me in a fight and he is currently under the weather meaning you have no idea what I am capable of or even what I look like. This will give you a somewhat good experience of what a displaced with a void dweller’s power can do. Make no mistakes, Eric Von Shadow, Ryker calls me a dweller but I haven’t evolved to that stage just yet. I am what you might call… a pseudo dweller.”
“Thank you, Edward,” Eric said, raising to his feet before rubbing the back of his head. “I honestly expected you to blast me through the walls the moment I asked for your help”
“I’m still considering it,” Ed squinted and Eric gulped hard. “Make no mistake, I have been throwing more power around without reason so far, now… I have a reason.” He explained. “This will give Ryker a little bit more insight on what I can do and give me the opportunity to vent a little.”
“I accept your terms, Edward,” Eric said
“You will meet me on the battlefield of Endgame,” Edward pointed at the youth allowing blood lust to feel the air. “When Celestia sun starts to show its first light tomorrow.”
“...Okay so Eric’s trying to get stronger.” Thanos crossed his arms, looking around in the Gravity Chamber. “I can not let him win, at all costs, if he wins I have failed Black and my master.” Thanos walked up to the console, “Is there a way to make it…” Thanos turns up the gravity and it goes past 5000 and all the way to 7500. “Higher…”
“Huh, alrighty then I’ll train in this place.” The area became red like blood and Thanos was forced to bend his knees, “Okay how about we kick it up to ten thousand?” Thanos shifts it to ten thousand and Thanos falls to his knees.
“...Well shit. Let’s do some finger push ups shall we?” Thanos put his fingers to the earth and started to do push-ups. “One, two, three…” Thanos then stops and goes to his feet. “This won’t do, I shouldn’t be doing some average training like this. I need to do… Something abnormal, something weird, something that will shock everyone!”
Then it all clicked to the Titan, “I have Dragon Slayer Magic… I HAVE DRAGON SLAYER MAGIC!!!! Okay, we’ll train in that.” Thanos uses some of his Ki to make Ki clones, the Ki clones took a stance. Thanos used his Magma Dragon Slayer Magic to make Magma Whips.
“Magma Dragon… Drake Attack!” Thanos then strikes his clones with his whip of Magma, the clones then explode and die. Thanos looks at his hands, then where the clones were. “Alright I’ll keep on training until I drop.”
“Care if I join you?” Maud asked entering the chamber feeling none of the effects of the gravity before walking over to the settings. “Do you mind if I change the settings?”
“Meh, why the hell not?” Thanos shrugged, taking down another Ki clone with his Magma lash.
Without warning, Maud shifted the gravity to a setting too much for Thanos to handle. He was forced to the ground, unable to move.
“Good now we can talk,” Maud said, sitting down right in front of the Titan. “It wasn’t his fault”
“Oh, you say that... '' Thanos grunted finding the strength to lift himself to a push-up position, “And yet he kinda almost killed a friend of mine, I know me and Eric are friends and all but I can not and will not lose a comrade. Not again, not ever.”
“Eric has killed others for good reasons,” Maud said standing up and sitting on top of the Titan forcing him back down. “Eric had no reason to kill Black, so why do you hold your anger for Eric?”
“Pffft! I’m not angry at him, I just don’t like how he won. When I fought Black, I tanked the whole attack, getting the feeling that he was putting everything he got into that attack.” Thanos responded to the stone cold mare.
“You’re referring to his use of his clone spell, Aren’t you?” Maud asked
“...Maybe, maybe not.” Thanos tried to force himself up once more, trying to get back to training or run away whichever was the better option in his eyes.
“Eric would not have survived that final attack, He would have died and then the roles would be reversed on everyone who disagreed with his choice.” Maud said before pulling the Titan’s head back. “And Eric gave that fight a lot more than he normally would. You forget though he made a clone that clone can’t use his Devil Fruit”
“Uh huh, you do know there was once this man named Zoro, a legendary swordsman, tanked the pain of Monkey D. Luffy which nearly killed him. However through sheer will power he survived.” Thanos used steam and shot to his feet, throwing Maud off of him.
“Then you should know that Eric is already suffering because of his choice,” Maud said, jolting to the Titan’s side, letting out a loud series of pops which seemed to relax the titan. “You should relax more often, this kind of stress will be murder for you in the future.”
“Hell yeah it is, I’m a King, in a body that could destroy the damn universe, a man who’s very confused, having nightmares… Yeah this whole thing is very stressful.” Thanos laughed, and sighed.
‘You can say that again, Purple Mr. Clean’ A voice ringed through both Thanos’ and Maud’s mind, ‘And what was that about Eric’s suffering?’ the voice asked.
“Eric’s Dark magic has drawbacks. While he is protected from the mental corruption, he isn’t protected from the Physical toll” Maud said, standing up and jumping on the Titan’s lower back. Another series of joints popped on the Titan. “His Dark Copy spell inflicts all injuries on the caster at double damage.”
“Eh? So double the damage huh?” Thanos raised an eyebrow, “Wait, that’s kinda bad for him.”
‘And I wasn’t going full strength on that attack. If I did that, it would’ve destroyed the planet from just the pressure of it.’ The voice noted.
“Your final attack killed his clone, meaning you killed him,” Maud said, causing Thanos nearly let out a laugh, Thanos held a hand to cover his laughter.
‘I did notice something off about him before I performed that Dragon Fist. But how was I supposed to know it would do more damage to him!’ The voice complained.
“However knowing Sombra he successfully brought Eric from Death’s cold grip,” Maud assured the voice of Goku Black. “More than Likely he will apologize for almost killing you once he sees you’re well enough
‘He doesn’t need to. He didn’t know that spell would kill me.’
“It’s how he is,” Maud said, jumping off the Titan. “He has a code he lives by and he never kills a friend.”
“Huh, that’s a different code my master taught me. Alas, we all have different forms of Martial Arts, masters, and universes.” Thanos grinned, “Well since we’re all from different universes and have the same goals, we’re all just a bunch of warriors trying to do what’s best for their families.”
“Technically I’m still a rock famer. Father gave me the farm when he passed,” Maud said
‘Well… not all displaced are good, what was that guy's name you were fighting after you left my universe?’ Black asked the titan.
“Kaido, the King of Beasts! He had an army of Displaced under him, everyone of his men across the universe, even yours Black!” Thanos rubbed the back of his head with a laugh.
“Eric told us about him,” Maud said. “He told us after he sent Azula, Pain, and some weirdo by the name of Enel, he had weird looking ears,” Maud said, sitting back on the ground. “They tried to take Eric to recruit him for his army.”
‘I haven’t come across his soldiers yet, but now I’ve got to keep an eye out for that.’ Black muttered, sounding irritated. ‘Either way, I’ve come to remind you two that just because my body has given out on me, that doesn’t mean ki training is cancelled.’
“Eric probably won’t take it since he’ll be training with Edward,” Maud stated before looking at the struggling Titan
‘HE’S DOING WHAT!!!!!’ Black roared in Maud’s ear, making the earth pony wince.
“THAT’S WHY I’M HERE!!! I WON”T LET YOU BEAT ME ERIC!!!!!!!!!” Thanos roared to the heavens, activating Ki clones and running at them, cocking back his fist and slamming into them.
“I was only here to help Thanos understand why Eric did what he did,” Maud said blankly
‘Thanos… I’m gonna need you to stop training and come pick something up at the medical bay, I have an extra token on me at all times.’ Black ordered the titan.
“I agree I don’t think your bone can handle much more of this gravity.”
“If my body can tank snapping half the FUCKING universe and snapping it again I can handle it again! Also I’ll be right there Black.”
Maud simply pointed at the settings showing the titan the level she set it to. “I just saying your current position being forced down with Twelve thousand times gravity will cause unfixable warping in your skeletal structure”
“Bitch I was training at ten thousand.” Thanos pointed out, raising a finger, “I can handle these things, I am a Titan.”
‘THANOS, MEDICAL BAY, NOW!’ Black roared into Thanos’ mind, making the mad titan wince.
“FUCK YOU YOU’RE NOT MY DAD!!!!!!!!!!!” Thanos roared back to the heavens.
‘... ok… John,’ Black said simply.
“You little shit, don’t say my actual name or I’ll put a pillow to your face and suffocate you.” Thanos growled.
‘Then get your Mr. Clean ass down here… right… now.’ Black lowered his voice.
Thanos put two fingers to his head, before flipping Maud off and leaving to see Black.
Maud shrugged her shoulders before getting up and walking out of the room before stopping in her tracks. “Oh right” Maud returned to the room and returned the gravity to normal. “Some can’t handle that level yet.”
Thanos loomed over Black and took the pillow beneath Black. “You think I’m fucking joking, do you?” Thanos frowned.
‘You do this Thanos, you will you do this Thanos, you will never see the light of day again.’ Black threatened.
“Imma do it.” Thanos grinned, peering down at the helpless Saiyan.
‘Did you forget Edward is here? Cause he will never stop hunting you down.’
“You got a point however…” Thanos pulled out a permanent marker, “I will get my pay back.” Thanos took a step closer to Black.
Black coughed in Thanos’ mind, ‘Do you wish to further piss off Nightmare?’
“Bitch, I’ll cla-” Thanos paused before clearing his throat, “Bitch I’ll bea… You know you’re right. But~” Thanos started to write things on Black’s face with an evil grin. Laughing like the mad man that he is.
There were hoofsteps echoing in the hallway, getting closer until they revealed a dark Alicorn with a blank look shortly followed by a Earth Pony and a familiar white diamond dog. As Nightmare spotted Thanos writing on Black’s face, a dark expression appeared on her face, she summoned a scythe, while Shiva summoned her diamond claws, Maud had a white aura covering her hands and both walked behind the titan. “What do you think you're doing…”
“Banana.” That was all Thanos had to say when he disappeared with an audible pop. Thanos was gone without a trace.
Shiva snorted, before glancing at what he had written. One of her ears perked like a raised eyebrow, and she started wiping the ink off Black’s face.
‘Thank you Shiva,’ Black thanked the diamond dog telepathically, catching her off guard and causing her to think of a caved-in cavern. ‘Now I know not to give that purple bastard any training’
“Apologies,” her thoughts whispered. “I’ve been training with Phoenix, and he’s recommended I start increasing my mental defenses.”
‘It’s quite alright, I understand that mental defenses are important.’
“Well you and Sombra agreed that he would train with Nappa” Maud said to the Saiyan
‘True, but Nappa is weaker than me. But other than that, Nightmare.’ The Saiyan asked the Alicorn, gaining her attention. ‘Do you mind grabbing the extra token in my pocket?’ Nightmare simply nodded as she walked up to the Saiyan, going into his left pants pocket, pulling out two golden earrings with green gems. ‘Say, where’s Kodo, didn’t he want to train as well?’ Black asked Shiva.
“I got him,” Shiva said. She sent out a pack link. A second later, the dark diamond dog pup trotted in, a full chicken clutched in his mouth like a dog returning from a successful hunt. Shiva rolled her eyes.
“Kodo, you had five of those already!” she said exasperated.
“And they were delicious,” he replied through a mouthful of fried chicken skin. “But this one ain’t for me.” He tossed it to Shiva with a grin, wiping the frown from her face.
Shiva smiled softly, and turned back to Black, nibbling on the chicken as the others gathered themselves.
“Do you want me to get Sombra or do you want to teach him another time?” Maud asked the Saiyan
‘With the way the tournament is going, I think it would be beneficial for everyone to have some control of ki, though I haven’t heard anything from Dr. Doom or Pheonix…’ Black said.
“Phoenix strikes me as the type of man who does what he wants when he wants,” Shiva replied. “Same with Dr. Doom. I’m sure they’ll show up when it’s convenient for them.”
Pop!
There stood Thanos with a bucket of fried chicken, “I have come with a peace offering, does anyone want some Fried Chicken?” Thanos asked, looking at everyone.
Kodo gasped in delight at the sight of chicken, before Shiva lightly touched his snout with one of her chicken’s legs. “You. Had. ‘Five.’ Already,” she reminded him. Before promptly slipping him the leg she had nudged him with.
‘Thanos… you’re doing this to further piss me off… aren't you…’ Black growled.
“No! I’m here to make peace, I apologize for writing on your face, I am also sorry for dissing Eric.” Thanos grinned.
‘Either way, if this is to get training from me… you're still training with Nappa.’
“GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!!!” Thanos threw the chicken to the wall but before he could Lucci came bursting through the wall and took the bucket and ran through another wall, leaving the scene.
“Not a fan of chicken,” Maud said blankly.
“Herbivore, right?” Kodo replied.
“No. One of our crew members is a Griffin,” Maud said to the Diamond Dog. “I avoid meat similar to my comrade in the likely scenario that we both get stranded I don’t eat them.”
Kodo’s face fell, while Shiva slowed her own chewing. “That’s… not a bad reason,” she noted. She glanced at her chicken. “Suddenly, I’m questioning the alliance I was thinking of forming with Griffonstone.”
“Go for it,” Maud said to the older canine. “Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”
“As long as we don’t have to give up chicken,” Kodo replied, investing himself in Black and Thanos’ argument.
‘You threatened to suffocate me with a pillow Thanos, as I’m vulnerable.’
“It was just a prank bro, you don’t gotta be serious about that. That was a joke, I’m sorry for threatening you.” Thanos bowed his head.
Black was silent for a bit, ‘Do you see the state I’m in? Anything like that is kinda dangerous for me at the moment.’
“Yeah and I’m sorry! PLEASEEE!!! This is the first time I would be trained by anyone outside of my universe except for the true Mr. Clean! I’m begging you!” Thanos got on his knees and put them both together and shook them in a pleading way to the heavens.
‘............... Under one condition…’
“ANYTHING!!!!” Thanos cried out.
‘Tell everyone in this room about… something with Celestia… something that can only happen in a bedroom...’
Instantly, Shiva gaped in alarm, and covered her son’s ears and eyes. “NOT everyone in this room,” she said firmly. “Just the adults,” she added with a suppressed smirk.
‘Right, sorry Kodo, your gonna have to sit this one out.’
“Yeah, not interested anyway,” Kodo replied, squirming out of his mothers grip and retreating from the room, keeping his ears covered and his mind filled with images of locked doors. Shiva planted herself next to where he had been, before giving Thanos a curious look.
“Celestia has been seeing Discord after his reformation,” Maud said, spilling the Princess’ secret relationship. “I know this because me and Pinkie saw both of them going at it in the Shadow Damnation store room.”
“Celestia slept with one of her reformed foes?” Shiva asked, before her ears perked up in horror. “Was that why she wanted me as an ally?”
“She did, if you ask me I think it’s a perfect match” Maud said slightly grinning. “Who else to bring order to Chaos than the Princess who brings Harmony”
Shiva instantly calmed at Maud’s words. “Ah, because of… of course. Yeah, order and chaos? That makes sense.”
“Eric said that Order and Chaos are two sides of the same coin so naturally they would be drawn towards each other” Maud said to the Diamond Dog before turning to her. “If you want I can help you with your Devil Fruit.”
Shiva looked intrigued. “I’m listening,” she said.
“Eric did give you a Devil Fruit like he did your son, correct?” Maud asked
Shiva nodded, lifting her claws, and showing them turn into diamonds.
“Hmmm…” Maud said, pulling the Diamond Dogs arms closer. “They’re weak” Maud said bankly
Shiva tilted her head. “Okay,” she noted. “And you can make them stronger?”
“Normally with heat and pressure until they form” Maud said looking the dog in her eyes. “So when you’re free you can meet me in the gravity chamber cause all it would take is enough force” the pony lifted one finger and tapped the Diamond Dog’s arm causing a series of light cracks. “To break them.”
Shiva swallowed and pulled her arm back, rubbing it as the cracked diamond returned to fur. She nodded. “Well... I can meet you after this ki training.”
“What specifically?” Thanos asked the Dark Saiyan.
‘Come on… you know what I’m talking about.’ Thanos didn’t know how, but he could sense the Saiyan had a devious smirk.
Thanos stood to his feet and sighed, everyone looked to Thanos as music began to play.
“...In the time that I was in the bedroom… For two days… Awful, AWFUL things happened to me.” Thanos said as he began to shake, “In that bedroom she… She… SHE DRESSED ME UP LIKE A DAMN GIRL!!!!” Thanos shouted out as manly tears began to fall down his purple face.
‘...Excuse me?’ Black was taken aback by this answer.
Shiva tilted her head. “Huh?”
“She would have me call her “mommy” and she made me her damn sex slave for two days! TWO WHOLE DAMN DAYS!!! I was running on sugar because she only fed me damn cake… CAKE GOD DAMN IT!!!!” Thanos then shook Shiva, “Cake… WHY CAKE!?!??!”
“I don’t know, but it sounds horrible!” Shiva stammered as he shook her.
“Interesting…” Maud says smiling. “Can’t wait for Pinkie and Eric to hear about this”
“I still have nightmares of that shit! I can still taste it, she made me dress up like an animal! I became her damn PET!!! I’m fucking black, THAT SHIT WAS RACIST!!! Then she brought three female royal guards THREE NIGGAS!!! THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! IT WAS THREEEE!!!!! THREEEEE!!!!!!!!!”
Shiva completely froze into a diamond statue, but Thanos threw her aside, clutching his head and continuing to scream.
“THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! And then… And then… After two whole days I learned my lesson, never fuck with an Alicorn when she’s crazy… She was chaotic… I… auaghah-” Thanos fell to the ground and rolled up into a ball and started to shake.
“I am so telling them about this now” Maud said enjoying the whole thing
‘... You know, I was expecting something else, but that’s terrible.’ Black said simply. ‘Alright, you can train in the art of ki with us.’ Black sighed.
“Thanks…” Thanos squeaked, “Word of advice… Never fuck… With… An… Alicorn when she’s crazy!” Thanos told the Saiyan.
“That’s offensive…” Nightmare snorted, crossing her arms.
“Your a little late to tell Eric that” Maud said her expression returning to normal
“I could’ve told you that,” Shiva noted.
“Told him what?” Kodo asked, poking his head in.
‘Nothing that you need to know kid, just some grown up stuff.’ Black said calmly.
Kodo hummed. “Grown up stuff seemed to have a lot of emphasis on ‘three.’”
Shiva turned bright red. “So, you heard it all anyway?” she asked.
“Just the three part and something about cake,” Kodo replied, scratching his ear. “Then again, I’d be surprised if there was someone in one of the other universes that didn’t hear him at that point.”
“Miss Shiva If I may?” Maud asked, approaching the pair.
The dogs glanced at each other. “May what?” Shiva asked.
Maud knelt down and turned the Pups head sideways placing a finger on the lower part of his head. “Eric taught me a little trick,” a small white aura cover the pony’s finger as she tapped the Diamond Dogs head.
Kodo blinked, while Shiva stared at him in confusion. “What just happened?”
“There’s a certain spot on every creature’s head that if you hit just hard enough makes them forget the last couple of minutes,” Maud Explained letting go of the pups head. “Now do you remember what we were talking about?”
Tilting her head, Shiva sent out a pack link to Kodo. Sure enough, any mention of cake and three was gone from his memories.
As for Kodo, he glanced up at Maud with a confused expression. “What were we talking about?” he asked. “Mom just asked me to go outside for a bit… and now I’m back here.” He blinked. “Why am I back here? Mom didn’t tell me to come back in!”
‘Were about to start training, that’s why!’ Black said with a laugh.
“Eric explained that it causes slight trauma to ones brain which messes with one’s short term memory” Maud said.
“Trauma?” Shiva asked, pulling Kodo to her side and looking him over. “W-Is he going to… suffer some sort of lasting injury or…?”
“He will be just fine, I wouldn’t have used it unless I had mastered it” Maud assured the pair. “No creature I’ve used it on has suffered any ill effects. Trust me when you travel on a ship with a lot of males and you have a...Matured sister like mine you tend to get a lot of practice”
S hiva lifted a claw. “You don’t need to say anymore,” she said in understanding. “I get it.”
Kodo shuddered. “You mean those guys that have been trying to replace Dad?”
Shiva ruffled his fur. “No one’s replacing your dad, kiddo,” she assured him.
‘Nightmare, could you put the token in the middle of the room?’ Black asked the Alicorn, and she did just that, placing the token softly on the floor and stepping back. A few moments later, a holographic image of Black appeared with a grin. “Ah… much better then seeing darkness.” The Saiyan said with a smile as his image stretched about.
Meanwhile Thanos was still on the ground, Thanos then snapped out of it and stood to his feet looking at the Saiyan. “I am in incredible pain.” Thanos put a thumbs up and grinned, his teeth shining like his bald head.
The Saiyan looked at himself, seeing that his image body wasn’t fully rendered, “Give me a sec,” Black closed his eyes, moments later his image was completely, no longer see through. “Ah, much better. Anyway, who’s ready to learn about ki?”
“We are!” Shiva and Kodo howled.
“I am” Maud said blankly as she lifted her fist
“I am…” Thanos raised his hand shakily, the whole room felt like it was shaking along with Thanos.
“You’ll be fine Thanos,” Black said, waving his hand to the side. “I might not be able to perform anything related with ki at the moment, but I will be able how to tell y'all how to access it, except for Thanos, he already knows how to.”
Kodo exchanged a curious grin with Shiva, but Shiva motioned for him to wait. When Black’s image sat on the floor, the diamond dogs did the same.
“So Ki is basically another energy contained in your body, in other words it’s your life force. With it you can either shoot beams of energy, fly, teleport, and so much more.” Black said with a smile, but it quickly faded as he frowned. “But it can also be very dangerous if not controlled properly. Let's say that you gathered enough energy for an attack, but it was too much for your body to handle. You would either tear your body apart, or detonate yourself.”
Externally Maud held her usual blank expression, internally Maud was actually excited. ‘So...cool’
Similarly, Kodo was struggling not to yip with glee. Shiva gently held him in place, even as he excitedly whispered to her through the link, “This is just like pack linking. This is when we take magic from non-magic creatures. Like the other diamond dogs! ”
“Pay attention,” She whispered, frowning as Black explained about the ki being dangerous. “It may be similar, but it’s still got it’s own rules. Rules we need to understand.”
“But I won’t let that happen to either of you, and you won’t be able to do all of that stuff right off the bat, it takes time to master Ki, but with me as you trainer, you will be able to fly and shoot beams of energy in no time!”
“I can help as well!” Thanos put a fist to his chest.
“Hush, my student.” Black said while holding up his hand.
Thanos had visual anger but said nothing, “Alright, until we get to the extreme training.”
“Agreed, but for now we’ll start with the basics.” Black said as his image held his hands in front of him, using his hands like he was holding a ball. “The first step is to clear your mind of unneeded thoughts. You won’t be able to access it if your mind is riddled with thoughts.”
Shiva nodded, lowering her head and clearing her mind, filling it with the image of a softly flowing river. Similarly, Kodo cleared his own mind as well, envisioning a smooth landscape
Luckily for Maud her mind was already pretty clear, the only thought she had was her whole family at home for Hearths Warming
“After your fully relaxed, try to draw it out slowly, you won’t be able to force it out.” Black explained, shortly after, a small yellow ball appeared between Black’s hands. It hummed to life as it lit up the room.
Maud exhaled and held her hand out a pulsing green orb the size of Kodo formed in her palm.
Shiva breathed deeply… and a small white ball formed between her claws, rapidly pulsing between white and yellow while her claws gained a slight diamond tint from her devil fruit powers. At the same time, Kodo’s own ki formed as well, mixing with the smoke of his devil fruit and the dark lightning of his pack link.
Thanos inhaled and exhaled and clenched his fist, he held it in front of him and opened it. A purple orb grew to the size of Thanos’ palm.
“Man, I knew Thanos would be able to do it easily since he already knew how to do it, but to see you three doing it almost instantly is certainly surprising.” Black said with a smile
Shiva smiled softly. “My pack link drew on magic initially,” she admitted. “But when I found a home with the diamond dogs, who weren’t as capable as unicorns or alicorns, I had to draw on a different source.” She lifted her ki ball with a soft chuckle. “I always assumed I was drawing on some sort of inner magic… but I wonder if it was just ki in another form. It feels so… familiar.”
“We’ll do this a few more times, make it feel natural so then you can do it like you knew it from birth.” Black explained.
Nodding, Shiva closed her claws, dispelling her ki, and steadied her breathing. Kodo copied her movements, even as his tail began wagging hard enough to resemble a fan.
Thanos crushes his Ki orb and purple specks fly about like sparks flying through the sky.
Maud closed her hand and dispeled her Ki orb.
“Black, real talk, I think I may have God Ki.” Thanos said looking at his hand.
Black instantly looked to Thanos with a serious expression. He squinted his eyes, “I can’t fully tell, my body is still unconscious so I can’t sense ki. I can make sure after I wake up.” Black told the Titan.
“Yeah because ever since Nappa trained me, he noticed that I had a slight affinity to God Ki, also do you know how Ed said the Titans reign from the Gods?” Thanos looked at the Saiyan. “I may have God Ki.”
“Yeah, that makes sense. But I’ll double check after I wake up.” Black promised. The Saiyan turned back to the party, seeing that they were accessing their ki like naturals. Black smiled at this, “Alright, now that you can access ki, what would you like to learn first?” Black asked as the Saiyan stood up while placing his fists on his hips.
“There’s Ki Blades, Ki Aura, Flight, shooting Ki Blasts, forming them into disks…” Thanos trailed off, putting two hands behind his back.
Shiva hummed, before Kodo piped up. “Are there Ki Axes?” he asked. “Or is that just a variation of the Ki Blades?” His ears flattened. “Or is it just Ki Blades?”
“You can form ki into just about anything, but ki blades are a bit quicker to learn. Doing techniques like my Ki Scythe takes a while to learn.” Black explained to Shiva. “There's a technique called the Destruction Disk. It can cut into just about anything and can be changed to any size.
“Like Eric’s Shadow Disks?” Maud asked tilting his head
“I haven’t seen that technique, but I’m gonna go in the dark and say yes.” Black confirmed
Kodo’s tail had somehow started wagging even faster, creating a rhythmic beating like a drumroll on the ground. Shiva chuckled. “I think we’ll personally start with the disks,” she replied.
“If so, we should probably get out of the medical bay.” Black said with a nervous laugh.
“...In theory could I make a hammer?” Thanos turned to the Saiyan, “Because I want to make a hammer.”
“I think I’d prefer the blade you used against Eric,” Maud said to the holographic Saiyan
“Great, first lets get out of here and head for the area, more room there.” Black said. His image disappearing, leaving his token alone on the floor. Nightmare walked to it and picked it up.
“Let's head there, unless Thanos wants to teleport us there.” Nightmare suggested to the mad titan.
“I’m a ladies man so why not? Everyone hold on my back we’re going to the arena!” Thanos grinned putting two fingers to his forehead. The others held onto his back, and in a few seconds, they were back in the arena.
“We’ve arrived at our destination please escort your children and your luggage off the ride, because I’m not helping you!” Thanos walked off to the center of the arena.
Nightmare rolled her eyes as she stepped to the middle of the arena and placed the token down, moments later Black reappeared. “A bigger space is much better than a cramped one.” Black commented.
“I agree with that,” Maud said, stepping away from the Titan.
“Seconded,” Shiva agreed, trotting around the wide space of the arena.
“Third-ed,” Kodo added, crouching on the ground and forming another ki ball in his claws. Narrowing his eyes, he started to try and compress it into a disk shape.
Black noticed this, “Slow down, take your time to do it. You’ve got to focus on what you want the shape to be.” Black told Kodo.
“Right,” Kodo said, taking a more composed stance. “Right…” He focused on the ball of ki again, but took a breath, concentrating rather than forcing.
Maud took herself to sit down and began to clear her mind, keeping her breathing normal Ki flared around not only her hand but her entire body. Closing her eyes the Ki around her hand began to take shape of a blade similar to Blacks
Black held his hand to the side, producing a ki blade almost instantly, “With Ki shaped weapons, you do need to be focusing on it most of the time. If not, it will dispel itself and fall apart, so practice with it a lot.” Black gave a tip to Maud, Shiva and Thanos.
Thanos coated his hand in Ki and slammed it into his other palm, then pulling it out and made a Great Sword. Thanos frowned and threw it behind him, he then repeated the process and made a knife, Thanos then crushed it. “God fucking damn it.”
“Thanos, repeating the same thing over and over again isn’t going to work. Plus cursing isn’t going to help.”
“Sometimes what you get is what you need” Maud said to the Titan
“Who are you who is so wise in the ways of words?” Thanos asked, turning to the Earth Pony.
Black just laughed, but he then remembered something, “Wait, before I forget, make sure one of you remind me to make my tokens for you so then if you need my help, you can call.” Black asked.
“Hey Black” Maud said gaining the Saiyans attention
“Yes Maud?” Black asked, quirking up an eyebrow.
“Don’t forget to make tokens for everypony” Maud said slightly smiling
“... Later…” Black said with squinted eyes.
“Pinkie has been teaching me how to be more...funny,” Maud said her face returning to her usual expression
“Right…” Black said with a quizzical look, but shook it off, looking at the Diamond Dog. “How are you faring so far Shiva?”
“Good,” Shiva replied, her ki already expanding out into a staff. “Sorry if I was a little quiet; I’m still trying to figure out the differences between my pack link and ki.” A glint came into her eyes. “Master Black… this might be a bit odd, but… can ki be channeled through voice?”
Kodo looked up with glee. “Oh, don’t tell me you’re going to try what I think you’re going to try,” he whispered, even as his tail somehow wagged even harder.
“You sure can, but a little warning. First time I did it, I couldn’t talk for a few days and I shattered every window in a 20 mile radius.” Black said as he nervously chuckled while rubbing the back of his head.
Shiva’s ears perked. “Good to know,” she noted.
“Alright… Let’s do this!” Thanos pumped his fist into the air.
The Titan’s word didn’t reach the earth pony as she stood up and began moving the Ki Blade through the air, the sound it made as it moved in the air sounded like it belonged to a Darth Vader Displaced.https://youtu.be/__sDEWIjQ_g
Thanos made a staff made out of Ki and spun it around and slammed it on the ground gaining attention.
“Let’s get down to business…
To protect our worlds.”
Thanos began to sing, getting in front of the group as they formed a line.
“Once, we stood as pups,
But now we’ll rise as warriors”
Kodo sang along, lifting a completed disk of ki.
“Shut up you Pup~
You guys are the weakest runts I’ve ever met
But you can bet before we’re through
Alright guys, I’ll make a Warrior, out of you~”
“And at only on-” Kodo was cut off as he was grabbed by the head and was thrown by Thanos.
“DODGE!!!!” Thanos roared.
Shiva yelped and shot after Kodo, catching him with a pack link and setting him down gently, before both of them noticed Thanos coming for them.
Maud Immediately got in front of the Titan and blocked a strike from him
“Raise your hands to the sky,
To collect, the Ki~”
Nappa suddenly appeared as everyone raised their hands to the sky.
“Face your problems head on,
and you are sure to see”
Maud sang pushing the Titan away
“You’re a useless, strengthless, stupid lot
And you guys don’t even have a clue
But somehow I’ll…
Make a Warrior out of you~!”
Mr. Popo said after nowhere, pointing first to Kodo for being useless, then to Shiva for being strengthless and then Thanos for being stupid.
“Dear Kami this is going to be my death!”
Lucci said out of nowhere as he evaded an attack from a Ki clone, then being pinned.
“Say goodbye to my Nakama, but make sure they’re not lonely!”
Luffy grunted trying to crawl out from under Nappa’s boot as they were proceeding in Combat training.
“How is this so hard; I never skipped track and hunting!”
Shiva gasped as she grappled with Nappa, who was easily overpowering the Diamond Dog. Kodo charged up a ball of ki, but as he tried to turn into smoke to sneak up behind Nappa, his ki exploded, throwing him out of his smoke and sending him tumbling as Nappa overpowered Shiva.
“This Ki’s more complicated than I thought!”
Kodo gasped as he rolled into a smoke-riddled heap.
“I hope to what god up there Black doesn’t see into me!”
Lucci groaned as he was knocked by the head by Thanos, Lucci hit the floor with a thud.
“With all these prodigies, I’ll soon be left behind”
Black crossed his arms as he watched everyone sparring, making the Saiyan smile. ‘If only you can see me now Master Starswirl’
“Be a Warrior
You must be swift as a racing Leopard!”
Lucci turned into his Leopard form and used Rankyaku with his tail and shot an air slash at Nappa who kicked it away.
“Be a Warrior
With all the smarts of Dr. Doom!”
Thanos looked to the stands, getting a feeling Dr. Doom was watching them.
“Be a Powerhouse
With the Strength of Von Shadow”
Maud sang feeling Eric’s presence close by
“Be a Wolf
Mysterious as the night lit by the moon!”
Shiva howled, putting a bit of ki into her voice, blasting Nappa right into a cloud of smoke. Kodo’s eyes glittered from the smoke, before he seized Nappa. A pack link shot between mother and son, and Nappa found himself encased in a diamond dog statue. Shiva quickly released Nappa with a nod.
“Time is racing forward,
Until Bullet, arrives~”
Arkham Knight said looking down at them from a distance, Lord Twigo looked to Knight with a frown.
“Shut the hell up Knight
And you might, survive~”
Lord Twigo said gracefully like the Knightly man that he is.
“Dear god is he here yet?”
Arkham Knight rubbed his forehead, though he had a mask on.
“No Knight no he’s not”
Lord Twigo sighed, Arkham Knight frowned.
“How about now?”
Arkham Knight looked to Twigo with a desperate look in his eyes.
“No god dammit Knight!!!!”
Twigo sang dramatically
“Be a Warrior
You must be swift as a racing Leopard.”
Thanos tried to land a hit on Lucci but used Soru he appeared behind Thanos and landed a roundhouse kick to Thanos’ side.
“Be a Warrior
“With all the smarts of Dr. Doom!”
Nappa blocked punches from Luffy’s Hawk Gatling. Then kicking Luffy in his jaw.
“Be a Powerhouse
With the strength of Von Shadow!”
“Be a Wolf
Mysterious as the night lit by the Moon!”
Mr. Popo appeared on the moon singing over Shiva, leaving her and everyone else looking at him in disturbed shock.
“But I’ll turn you lot, Into warriors
You’ll have the strength, To face anything
For the Challenge, For the Thrill!”
Black’s image turned into a Super Saiyan, gracing his student’s with a smile as he raised his ki blade into the air.
“Be a Warrior!”
Everyone in the arena started to chant, Kodo charged up a Disc of Ki as Nappa levitated a brick with his big brain powers.
“I must be swift as a racing Leopard”
Kodo sang as he directed his disk through the air.
“Be a Warrior!”
“With all the smarts of Dr. Doom”
“Be a Warrior!”
With the strength of Von Shadow
Mysterious as the night lit by the Moon!”
Swinging his disk back and forth he cut through the brick, he finished the song with a massive howl that was accompanied by a blast of ki, shattering the remains of the brick into ashes. When he glanced back at his mother, she nodded in pride.
“Awesome.” Nappa said blankly, before looking at the crew.
“You know,” Black said, gaining everyone's attention. “For you all being my first students, besides Nightmare Moon. Can I just say that I’m really proud of you lot?” Black asked with a big smile, going back to his base form.
“Ahem, I wouldn’t mind having to be called Sensei Nappa…” Nappa said with a grin.
“Not happening” Maud said letting her Ki fade
“Shut it Nappa.” Black said blankly.
Kodo tried to speak, but only let out a small cough from using his howl. Shiva chuckled and shrugged sheepishly.
“Ah hah… Sad.” Nappa laughed, “Anyways, Dinners on me guys!” Nappa walks to go to the Diner.
Black let out a short laugh before sighing, he turned to the rest of the group, “Well… go join him.” Black said as he pointed to the bald Saiyan.
Shiva and Kodo bowed to Black. “Thank you… Sensei Black,” Shiva said. Kodo coughed again, but pretty much indicated his mother as if saying, “What she said.”
“No problem, in the future if you want more training in ki, I’ll give you my token.” Black offered.
“I’d like that,” Shiva admitted, before noticing Maud. “Right, you had something else to show me, Maud?” she asked.
“First… Black,” Maud said, getting the Saiyan’s attention
“Yes Maud?” Black asked.
“You told me Later” Maud said approaching the Saiyans hologram. “It’s later. Your tokens?”
Black let out a short laugh, smiling to the earth pony, “That I did,” Black said with a smile, his image disappearing. Shortly, his token had started to glow, the token splitting up into 4 pairs of potara earrings. “My token allows others to fuse together for 1 hour, depending on how much power the fusion is using, that can shorten the time.” Black explains as his image pops up again from the extra token.
Maud takes hold of one of the earrings. Shiva cautiously reached for the other one, glancing up at Black for permission.
“Would it be bad if I said I wanted to see what this fusion you talked about felt like?” Maud asked holding the rings in her hands
“Not really, one thing I forgot to mention is that the earrings have to be opposite of the other users ear, like mine on the left and Thanos’ on the right. That will trigger the earrings, fusing into the ultimate warrior.” Black explained.
“Sup, I remember you giving me that, if we fused what would our name be? Thack or Blanos?” Thanos raised an eyebrow.
“Would anypony like to fuse with me?” Maud asked her tone speaking with excitement
“I’ll try it,” Shiva offered, taking the other earring. “My Pack Link has always been a fusion of minds, and… I’d like to see what this other fusion might be.”
“This will be interesting.” Black said with a smile, crossing his arms.
Thanos leaned to Black, “...Should we fuse? Because you and I know that Ryker is insanely powerful, we should probably get use to it now then later.” Thanos whispered.
Black looked to Thanos, ‘We should us it as a last resort, if we were to fuse now, Ryker would notice and prepare fro something like this.’ Black’s eyes widened for a second. ‘Wait, you think it’s possible that if we fused now, that I can skip my long sleep.
“There’s only one way to find out.” Thanos grinned brighter than the sun.
‘Lets see their’s first’ Black said with a grin.
“I thing you should give your pair to your son so we don’t get ours mixed up,” Advised the earth pony
“Yeah,” Shiva agreed, handing her pair off to Kodo. “Look out for these, okay?”
Kodo smiled, giving her a thumb up.
Maud took off the gold earring given to her by Pinkie and proceeded to attach the right token to her ear as Shiva did the same with her left ear. Both Pony and Diamond Dog flew into each other causing a flash of light, their bodies disappearing into a ball of light that shined throughout the arena. Moments later, the light died down, leaving one figure standing alone.
Kodo gasped in shock. The figure that stood before them was neither pony nor diamond dog. It had the back hooves of a pony, but the claws of a diamond dog. Her mane - predominantly Maud’s dark purple streaked with Shiva’s white - flowed down her back in Maud’s style, but the rest of her coat was Shiva’s white fur, streaked through with Maud’s gray. She wore Shiva’s armor under Maud’s dress.
“M-Mom?” Kodo whispered, his voice still scratchy from using his ki howl earlier.
“Kodo… My dear boy,” the Fusion said with a smile however her voice lacked expression but sounded like two people speaking in unison. The oddity caused Kodo’s tail to tuck, but though he lifted a claw like a curious dog, he didn’t flee.
The Fusion Lifted the Diamond Dog up and rested him in her arms.
“Who...Who are you?” Kodo asked confused at the creature in front of him
“Hmm. That’s… a good question, my pup,” the Fusion said slightly confused herself. “I feel like Maud Pie and Shiva but at the same time... I don’t”
“So how about you call me… M… Mia” Mia said, smiling at the pup. “It’s a combination of both Maud’s and Shiva’s names, sound good?”
Kodo nodded, too stunned to do anything else.
Black spoke up, “They’re powers aren’t just added together, they’re significantly magnified.” Black spoke to the fusion. “Also, that’s a good name, Mia.” Black said with a smile.
Mia curtsied. “It sounded right,” she replied.
“It would take twenty punches from you to kill me. Five to cripple me too.” Thanos pointed out, “Diamond-Diamond Fruit, Tremor-Tremor Fruit… Dear Kami I’m fucked if I get hit.” Thanos raised both of his hands and backed away.
“That’s if you didn’t use the potara earrings, although…” Black started to chuckle, looking towards the Mad Titan with a smirk.
“The time has come, execute order 66.” Thanos pulled out a potara earing that Black had,
“Thanos, you wouldn’t mind grabbing my body real quick?” Black asked
“That’s kinda gay but sure.” Thanos put two fingers to his forehead and disappeared, then reappeared with Black’s unconscious body. “One Black body coming up!”
“RACIST!!!” Lucci shouted out but Thanos waved him off.
“I have a feeling this is gonna be spectacular,” Black said as his hologram disappeared.
Thanos put a Potara earring on Black’s left ear then put his Potara earring on his right. They then both come together and impact each other. In a split second, the arena began to tremble as a yellow vortex surrounded the two. They disappeared in a storm of shear power as the arena began to crack. Lightning almost struck Mia, but she casually leaned her head back to avoid the lightning, smirking as it hit the stands. A few seconds later, the vortex disappeared in a powerful shockwave as it blew away everyone except Mia.
In the middle of it all revealed a silhouette, a tall and muscular figure stood in the middle with his arms crossed. His hair stood up like Black’s Super Saiyan, it had a deep shade of purple with his eyebrows and eyes doing the same. He had the same chin as Thanos and the skin color of Black. His body was covered up in heavy black armor with golden accents. With heavy black armored pants with white armored boots. He had white armored gauntlets, one of them containing the Reality and Power stones. On his back rested Thanos’ double bladed infinity blade.
The fusion let out a breath, steam escaping from the edges of his mouth. The fusion glanced over to Mia, who held a confident expression.
“And who do we have the pleasure of speaking with?” Mia asked
“I am neither Black nor Thanos,” the fusion spoke, the voice of Black and Thanos melding together. “Names Thack, and we’re bout to attack” Thack smirked, Black’s side of personality was definatly seen..
“I do apologize, but I would rather not start a pointless fight,” Mia said, turning away from the Fusion. “Come, Kodo.”
“As expected for a dog, you know what they say, it’s a dog eat dog world and it would seem we’re at the top. Especially because you have that brat following you around like a lost puppy trying to find his owner.” Thack mocked, Thanos’ personality taking over for a sec.
Mia stopped.
“I do apologize... ‘Thack,’ was it?” Mia began setting the Diamond Dog pup down and waving him to get somewhere safe. Kodo ran off, as Mia turned back to Thack, her smile almost like a wolf baring its teeth. “But would you please repeat that, this fusing has left my ears not in the best condition”
“Let me put it in simpler words,” Thack mocked as he began to roll his right shoulder, “What I’m trying to say is, your just a… coward.” Thack taunted as he began to roll his neck.
Mia hummed, considering his words. With a small nod, her claw lashed out, sending out a pack link that ensnared him around the neck.
Just as he grabbed the strange web like substance, a wave of exhaustion fell over him as his ki was drained from him, turning the link golden. Mia’s other claw clenched, turning to diamonds and covering in the aura of a Tremor fist.
“You should never judge a book by it’s cover,” Mia said, before yanking Thack into a devastating punch. “After all..”
Thack was sent flying into the arena wall from Mia’s attack
“Normally, I’m a pacifist,” Mia continued, striding casually towards the other fusion. “But mess with my family? I’ll pass some fists.”
A few moments went past, Thack covered in rubble, only to walk out of it with a smirk. From Mia’s punch, not even a bruise laid on the fusion’s cheek. ”That’s nice and all, but can your claim be backed up with evidence to show? If so, how about you show me it!” Thack laughed, preparing up a punch for Mia, winding one right up. He coats his fists in Ryou Haki and Hellish Flames.
Mia sighed softly, before bringing her fists up, both coated in Armament Haki, diamonds and the white aura of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and the other winding up another pack link.
In the split of a second, Kodo coughed, signaling the start. The two fusions rushed at each other, both yelling as they’re double voices shook the arena. Thack and Mia threw a fist at each other, clashing as the arena lit up like Christmas night, causing the entire colosseum to shake violently.
Next time in the Displaced Tournament Thack and Mia have an epic duel one that was heard by the heavens! Unfortunately it awakened Ryker and whoever this Bullet guy is, whatever happens next isn’t going to be nice!
Author's Note
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Side-Chapter, Mission Ball Dragging.
It was dark... But there was a light above me, I was ascending. As I floated to the light a tear came to my eye, I died, I'll never see Sally again but... On the other hand... I am going to meet Odin. I saw the Golden Gates of Asgard, as I approached it I saw then one eyed deity. I stopped ascending as I was but a few feet from Odin and the gates.
"Hello my son." Odin greeted, his voice was rough, like a true Viking and Warrior he is. I wiped the tears that were forming in my crimson eyes, I looked to him with a smile.
"Hello Odin," I responded, he smiled and floated over to me.
"You have done a great amount of deeds, saving your friends, fighting armies for your beliefs, you are worthy of being in Asgard." Odin held his arms out for a hug, I gladly accepted the hung and embraced him. "Welcome home, my son." Tears start to form in my eyes.
"Thank you." I squeaked out, "I guess I chose the right religion huh?" Odin let out a chuckle.
"Indeed you did, however, it is not your time." Odin let go of me and I did the same.
"W-what?" I said looking at him, rubbing my eyes.
"You have friends you need to protect, and a certain woman you need to marry, until you marry her you can not come to Asgard. Do not be discouraged young Zachary, I believe in you, I forged a weapon just for you. It is called, Hell Bringer, it is a scythe that has the power of the fire demon Aura himself locked inside of it. When you need it, call my name, farewell Zachary. I hope to see you soon..." Odin pushed me and I fell into the dark abyss, I threw my hand to him.
"ODIIIINNN!!!!!!!!!!"
I woke up just as water was splashed in my face, I got to my feet and looked at my surroundings before falling on my back.
"Don't think I should've woken him up with water?" I hear a male voice say, I then heard a slap.
"Of course you idiot!" A female voice snapped at the male, footsteps approached me and a hand was held out for me. I gladly took it, I was pulled up, I then stumbled forward. I look at the being who aided me, it was a female with a rose straw-hat that had a feather into it. She wore armor that was red like my eyes, I winced and looked at my damaged body.
"I need to take a seat..." I croaked as I stumbled forward to the bed that I was laying on, being careful to avoid the wet area. I took a look around, we were in a basement from what I could see, but it looked like a bedroom, posters and drawer everywhere. There was a Dragon with female features, another female with an orange hat and some orange armor, then a male with a black and blue helmet as well as black and blue armor, kinda looked like Tron to me, minus the medieval style armor. I looked to my saviors and rubbed my head. "What happened?"
"Well," The Tron guy leaned on a wall, "We found you at the bottom of the ocean and had to restart your heart and get all of that water out of your body. You were unconscious for a two or less days, you are a Displaced right?" Tron guy turns to me. I just nod having nothing much to say.
"Well, we need to tell you something..." Tron guy walked up to me and put a hand on my blocky shoulder, "All of your friends are going to die and you are the only one who can stop that." My eyes went wide and the drake hit the Tron guy in the abdomen. "What?"
"You don't think that you could have sugarcoated it a little? Look at him, he's obviously distraught!" The orange girl points at me, looking at the Tron guy, she turns to me. "I apologize for his... Bluntness but what he's saying is true, all of your friends are in danger, you thought Kaido was dangerous? Well you should look at Ryker."
Straw hat girl sits next to me, "You see, when Thanos signed that paper there was a hidden note on it, it reads none Displaced can exit this whole universe until you defeat Ryker, which the odds of you guys doing that is one out of a million. Ryker does this with every Displaced he summons here, he does an event and at the end of it... He kills them, but he does let one leave, the winner. However I don't think he'll take the chance this time, last time he did this well... Let's just say Buggy had some fun with Ryker. In any case you are the only chance they have, we need you to get the Dragon Balls and wish Ryker into a Blackhole so that he can be defeated and so that I can get my crown back. Ryker is not the actual ruler... It's me, Princess Elia of the Eliatropes." Elia introduced, the Tron guy grinned.
"My name is Blake, Ex-Captain of the Royal Guard, I was replaced by Arkham Knight because well... I couldn't beat him." Blake shook his head in disappointment, I look at him with sympany. The Eliatrope and the Dragon took a step forward, they both held a hand to their hearts.
"We are the Elia-Twins," They introduced themselves, "I am Ryola and this is Jasmyn." The drake pointed to her Eliatrope.
"And together we are the Freedom Fighters!" Elia said pumping her fist up, I looked among them and there was a silence in the air for a very awkward five seconds. Elia cleared her throat, "I know it's very... small."
"That's what she said." I grinned, Blake held a hand to his mouth as he took a step back and leaned on something. He tried to hold his laughter inside but it slipped out some. Elia deadpanned at us and I couldn't help but laugh.
"As I was saying I know it's very small-" Blake let out a cackle and he fell to his knees and pounded on the ground, "Blake I will shoot you in between your eyes!" Blake got out and dusted himself off.
"I am sorry Princess, just had to get my daily amount of joy out of my system." Blake responded with a grin, Elia groaned and pinched the bridge of her nose.
"I know we're very short on members but we had to keep it quiet, Ryker would notice and would kill us all should we recruit more. We're under a ramen shop run by my brother, Jack, but we're all one of the most powerfullest warriors here... That aren't Displaced. Hell, even I can't win against Arkham Knight without bleeding. However, now we have you on our side, meaning we have chance to break the cycle and save Eliatopia." Elia said grinning, I nod and went to my feet.
"Alright, I'm in, what do I have to do?" I clasp my blocky hands together and everyone stands to their feet.
"You have to find the Dragon Balls." Elia said and I nodded.
"Alright, get Dragon Balls, got it." I replied turning around before pausing, I then turn back to Elia, "Where exactly are the Dragon Balls?"
"Well... We don't exactly know but we do know someone who does know, Douglass Bullet, he often goes to a bar right next to the ramen shop we have as our head quarters." Elia told me, I nodded, "Remember be very slick about it, also wear this robe so that people won't notice you." Elia throws me an Akatsuki Robe with a hood, I take it and I wear it.
"Alright, I'll leave now, Mission Ball Dragging is a go." I take a step before waving them goodbye, Blake is full on laughing at the name I chose, I climb up the ladder that was on the far left of the room and I was right in the cooking area of the ramen shop. I saw a black scaled dragon with orange hair.
"Hey, you, you're finally awake," The black scaled dragon said, getting a bowl of ramen. "You must be hungry, eat up." I gladly took it.
"Thank you, Jack I assume?" He hands me chopsticks and I dig into my meal, gaining some of my hearts back.
"Yup, Arthur's the name and making ramen is my game. Good luck on whatever you're doing." Arthur grinned as I handed him my now empty bowl, I was hungry so I ate that shit quick.
"Thank you for the meal, farewell." I turn around and exit the ramen shop, he waved me goodbye and I returned the gesture. I looked beside me and there was a bar that read, "Crunky's Bar." I put the hood over my head and I swung open the doors to the bar.
All eyes turned to me, they then went back to tend to their drinks. I walked for the counter of the bar, I sat right next to a large Minotaur built man. The man just looked down to me.
"Oi, you new around here?" The man looked down at me, "The name's Bullet, Douglass Bullet." He stuck his hand out, I gazed at him.
"Yes, I'm new around here, the name is... Zachary, I come searching for the Dragon Balls." I told the man, Bullet looks down at me.
"Eh? Why're you lookin' for the Dragon Balls?" Bullet asked me, I look at him.
"I come to save this country from a King." Those are the only words I could manage out before Bullet grabbed my head and slammed me down on the counter. I then jumped back and summoned my scythe, I flicked my hood up and my eyes met his.
"You think you can beat Ryker huh? I'll show you how much you're wrong! Kahahaha!" Bullet jumps at me and fist and blade clashed.
...I think you guys know the rest...
Author's Note
Just to clear some confusion up, in Norse Mythology it was Odin who made us all so we're all children of Odin. Zachary AKA Entity chose that specific religion, and he does it pretty extreme so... Yeah.
Sorry for the short chapter my brain hurts right about now.
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Chapter Ten, The Molten Titan vs Master of all Four Elements Phoenix Wri-
Chapter Ten, The Molten Titan Thanos vs Master of all Four Elements Phoenix
As Black left the arena, a frown grew upon his face as he felt guilt rise up in his chest. Not for an action he made, but for what Thanos had said to Mia while he was fused with the Titan.
He had no right to say that… We had no right to say that… Black thought as he walked passed the training room, the thought of a training session to pass the time ran through his mind. But he brushed it off as he walked towards the room he was assigned.
As he made his way down the hall, the Saiyan felt a sudden spike of pain run through his body. Black’s eyes widened as he hunched over, clutching his chest as he began to let out labored breaths. Sweat rolled down his forehead as fell to his knees, groaning in pain as if his nerve system was shocked. “Damn… it… Didn’t think this-- would happen…” Black gasped out as he winced, trying to stand back up, only to fall back down, face first. Rolling over, he stared at the ceiling, feeling that it was becoming increasingly obvious as he began to let out labored breaths. “Thought I’d be… fully healed by now… but that doesn’t... seem to be-- the case…” The Saiyan waited there for a few minutes, waiting for the pain to die down until it was tolerable.
Black slowly stood up, wincing for every muscle movement he made until he stood up with the support of the wall. He made slow movements while he used his arm to help him walk down the hall, almost crying out in anguish as he felt the pain returning. After a few minutes, he made his way to his room, a small smile appearing as he limped his way to the door. Opening the door he made his way to the bed, tripping and falling face first into the mattress as it cushioned his fall. He let out a sigh of relief as he rolled his way across the bed, the comforter under him, the Saiyan not caring for the cold.
“Dear Dende, where’s Luna when you-- need… her...” Black groaned, his fatigue catching up to him as his eyes felt heavy. A few moments later, he felt his fatigue win, his mind falling unconscious as he fell asleep.
Thanos had knocked Phoenix’s bloody body down, he had won the match. Thanos grinned as he looked down at the Displaced... Only to see him unmoving and unbreathing, his breath couldn’t be heard. Blood dripped from his mouth and onto the ground. Thanos’ eyes widened before Eric appeared behind him in anger.
“What did you do?!” Eric said with anger in his eyes, “You killed him!”
“I... I didn’t! He-He's...” Thanos turned to Shiva checking Phoenix’s pulse and finding nothing. Shiva slowly looks to Thanos to glare at the Titan.
“You monster.” She stood to her paws and Thanos backed away from her and bumped into Black.
“You could’ve held back, but you didn’t.. You're not a true warrior, you just like the real Thanos, a true monster!” Black growled, advancing towards the Titan, turning Rose in the process, Thanos backed away slowly.
“I... I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to!” Thanos shook with pure fear, the other competitors soon filled the arena, glaring at Thanos.
“Why did you have to kill him, Thanos?” They asked at the same time, turning into shadow.
“I’M SORRY!!! IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!!!” Thanos cried out.
“‘I’m sorry’ is not going to fix someone’s death...” Dr. Doom noted, Thanos took a step back.
“I-I... Forgive me!” Thanos pleaded, clasping his hands together. They then turned to shadow and started to surround Thanos like sharks, he was in the eye of a hurricane of nightmares.
“What have you done Thanos?”
“ I’m sorry!” Thanos clutched his head.
“You killed another human being!”
“I’m sorry!” Thanos went on his knees and tried to hide himself on the floor, yet they could all see him.
“You damn murderer! You don’t deserve to call yourself a warrior!”
“I’m sorry...” Thanos whimpered, tears starting to fall from his eyes.
“You’re heartless!”
“I’m not heartless... I...” Thanos curled himself into a ball, deciding to shield his whole body from the world.
“You’re a monster! A Demon! The Devil Incarnate!”
“I’m not!” Thanos cried out, shaking like a leaf.
“Then what are you? A monster, a monster, a monster!”
They start to chant it over and over again, Thanos started repeatedly saying I’m sorry until...
Thanos woke up, gasping for air and falling off his bed before curling himself into a ball, chanting to himself ‘I’m sorry’. Thanos clutched his head as his tears hit the ground; his eyes turned into slits before he punched the ground with enough force to shake the arena. Thanos then slammed his fist into the floor repeatedly.
“DAMN IT, DAMN IT, DAMN IIIITTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!” Thanos roared before kicking down his door, the door slamming into the wall, making an imprint on the wall as the door collapsed. Thanos breathed heavily before slamming his head on a nearby wall muttering, “It’s alright, stay calm, it’s alright, stay calm, just a dream, just a dream, just a dream.” Thanos backed away from the wall before sighing.
“Back to being the asshole persona I guess...” Thanos sighed deeply, before calming himself deeply. “I should get breakfast, that would be nice.” Thanos then walked off in a random direction.
Meanwhile in another room. Why do I feel like someone just dreamt about me? Phoenix thought, taking another bite of his toast.
“It was probably cause they did,” Ed remarked as he suddenly appeared upside down in front of everyone.
“Morning to you too.” Phoenix said without looking at him, finishing his orange juice.
Shiva walked past them, her nostrils twitching and shifting from paw to paw. “I feel tremors,” she muttered. “Why is this place trembling? Is someone fighting again?” Her fur bristled. “Where’s Kodo?”
The door was opened by Fujitora, with a grin on his face he stepped aside and it revealed Kodo. “Shiva, we had a hell of a time! I may or may not be an awesome gambler and bought him anything he wanted.” Fujitora had bags with him, floating, while Kodo bounded in and jumped into Shiva’s arms, her worry fading as she embraced her son.
“Hope you bought a ring the way you’re talking,” Ed gave a sly smirk as he floated by.
“That's illegal!” Fujitora pointed at the Sage… Though he was pointing at a wall. Shiva quickly fixed where he was pointing.
“Not for the boy; for her,” Ed shook his head. “Why are sailors so dense? I need coffee.” A mug appeared in his hand as he turned right side up and put his feet on the ground. “Seriously you need to learn when to take a jab.”
“Still illegal. I’m a human, she’s a dog. Beastiality.” Fujitora pointed out.
“And I’m married to two pony princesses while dating another with one child on the way and have twins with another,” Ed deadpanned. “My point still stands so get over yourself.”
“So does his,” Shiva replied, checking out the bags. “I’m already mated. Or married or… whatever. Also, I’m from Earth, not Equestria, so there’s gotta be a difference between me and your princesses.”
“Also I gave up on love a long time ago because look at me, I. Am. Blind.” Fujitora pointed to his eyes.
“Those details I did not know,” Ed deadpanned. “Still a funny joke,” He sipped his coffee.
Shiva rolled her eyes before scenting Kodo’s breath. “Kodo, what have you been eating?” she asked. “Your breath, it’s…”
Kodo lifted up one of the bags with a grin. “You have got to try ramen,” he declared eagerly.
“I can already tell this is gonna be a lovely morning.” Phoenix groaned, resting his head on his palm.
“I can knock you into the middle of next week and back again if it helps,” Ed slurped his coffee as he held up his metal fist.
“Try it tough guy,” Phoenix chuckled, before coughing. His voice was a lot deeper due to only just waking up.
“Also, is Entity alright? He got quite the beating by Bullet.” Fujitora “looked” around at the group. Alas he was ignored. At least by the other humans.
“I’m honestly not sure,” Kodo replied. “I think he’s still in the Infirmary.”
“Oh scary voice, not like most of us can do that,” Ed said with a mock scare. “I also have time magic by the way.”
“Fuck you man, mornings are not mine or my bodys thing alright? Especially with this ring.” Phoenix lifted up his hand and shook it to emphasize his point.
“So what’s with the ring? Sorry I’ve been in like another world for like three years now,” Ed said nonchalant. “Time Chamber.”
Phoenix sighed. “It prevents my instant healing factor, which includes exhaustion and all that. Meaning I’m back to having a croaky morning voice.”
Shiva tilted her head before offering a pack link. “I can fix that, if you’d like,” she offered. “It won’t taste as good as some of the sugary things I’ve seen ponies use to wake up, but it’ll help.”
“I don’t see what the big deal is.“ Ed held up the ring looking it over. “It’s just a high grade suppression ring. I use them all the time when I travel to hide from the princess of other Equestrias.” He tossed it in his mouth and chewed thoroughly.”Taste like blueberries.”
“Uhhh….. Sugary things? That doesn’t sound child friendly.” Phoenix said, standing up and stretching a bit.
“You know,” Shiva clarified. “Cupcakes and…” She peered at Ed’s cup. “That stuff? Coffee? Is that what they call it?” She shrugged. “I don’t know; I spent more time on the outskirts of Equestria than actually in it.”
“Okay… You guys be you guys, I’m checking up on Entity.” Fujitora went for the door… And almost hit the wall, before Kodo pulled him back.
“To your left.” Phoenix stated.
“Thanks.” Fujitora took a step left, faced forward and hit the top part of the door as he was eight feet tall. “SON OF A BI-” Fujitora paused.
“There are kids here.” Phoenix interrupted.
“I agree with ya on that,” Ed nodded.
“Again, I don’t understand your need to make certain words bad,” Shiva noted. “A bitch is a female dog. It’s what I am, so…”
“Yeah, I’m a son of a bitch,” Kodo replied. “What of it?”
“Not in human terms Shiva,” Ed said. “To humans a bitch is the female equivalent to calling someone a bastard. It’s in bad taste for the most part but can be used in light humor too.”
“Oh… kay?” Shiva mumbled, still confused. “And a… well, the other b-word? That’s also bad? I don’t think I understand what that means. Unless…” she hummed.
“Just take it this way: Kodo, never say that ever again.” Phoenix stated, wincing at the thought of him telling someone else that in a conversation.
Kodo blinked at Phoenix’s wince, but glanced at Shiva. The elder diamond dog just shrugged, giving a silent, ‘Their house, their rules.’
“Alright then,” Kodo said. “Sorry for the faux paws.”
“Alright… I'm going to walk out the door now.” As Fujitora touched the door handle the door was kicked down by Lord Twigo and Fujitora was sent flying into a wall.
“Hello friends!” Lord Twigo introduced, before looking at Fujitora who was stuck on the wall.
“Pardon my language but fuck you Twigo.” Fujitora then fell flat on his face.
Kodo and Shiva raced over and helped Fujitora to his feet, though Kodo couldn’t help but glance at Twigo in shock. He almost sent a pack link to his mother, before remembering Phoenix and Ed, concealing his thoughts behind an image of rippling water. Atta boy. He heard in his head, before turning to Phoenix to see him smirking. Kodo nodded back with a grin of his own.
“Good morning, but I still wanna punch your face,” Ed remarked with a sip of coffee. “Nice mustache though.”
“Mornin’” Phoenix mumbled to Twigo.
“Morning,” Kodo and Shiva said in unison.
“Oops... “ Lord Twigo looked at Fujitora, “Sorry my friend.” Fujitora just grumbled and rubbed his head.
“You should really let me fix your eyes,” Ed said to the admiral. “Or at least give you new ones.”
“No, I can not and will not allow that.” Fujitora turned to Ed, finally not looking at someone or somewhere else. “As a Displaced I will stay blind!”
“Your choice,” Ed shrugged. “Also, Shiva. Do you need more gems other than diamonds?”
Shiva hummed. “Not really,” she admitted. “We’re not exactly called Ruby Dogs or Emerald Dogs after all.”
“We could be,” Kodo noted. “I remember a couple wild packs that named themselves after those gems. I think there was the Lapis Pack, the Amethyst Pack, the Pearl Pack…” he chuckled. “Those guys were easily the weirdest ones out there.”
Shiva chuckled.
“I ran into a pack called the Jade Wolves once,” Ed noted.
Kodo groaned. “That’s so much better than Iron Wolves,” he whispered. “Why didn’t I think of that?”
“Because the Iron Wolves got disbanded after what Umbra pulled,” Shiva said, a touch of sternness in her voice before she turned back to Ed. “Now that I think about it, though, other gems would go a long way in helping my alliance with the dragons. Different gems have different flavors for them.” She smiled. “Did you know that emeralds taste like lemon-lime soda to certain dragons?”
“Yeah,” Kodo noted. “And rubies taste like grapes or wine.”
“Here’s a few bag of endless gems,” Ed handed about three of four bags to the dog. “They’re endless carry bags so they’ll never run out.”
Shiva bowed gratefully to the Crimson Sage. “My thanks is eternal,” she said gratefully.
"Alright… I'm going to walk out of this room to check on Entity_303… I'm going now." Fujitora took a step forward.
“Right,” Shiva said. “Kodo, can you help Issho?”
Cracking off a salute, Kodo guided Fujitora out of the room. Nappa took a step in the way and Fujitora used gravity to slam him into the wall, adding extreme gravity that would crush a normal human. Fujitora and Kodo left the room.
“Good luck with that match against grape ape, Phoenix,” Ed finished his coffee and the mug vanished. “I hope it goes well,” He waved and left the room.
"Uh… Can someone help me?" Nappa was pinned to the wall by intense gravity. "...Okay."
Shiva rolled her eyes. “Issho!” she called. “I think you made your point; can you please set Nappa down.”
Fujitora then made Nappa hit the floor with intense gravity. Shiva patted his head as she made her way out.
“Thanks for restarting my heart back there,” she said gratefully.
"Uh… No prob, I just didn't want your son to be sad." Nappa responded to the Diamond Dog. "Now I can't get up."
Shiva’s ears flattened. “Issho…”
"I'm not letting him get up!" Fujitora shouted, "That's what he deserves!" But, as he felt Shiva’s puppy dog eyes on him, he reluctantly let the gravity waver.
Phoenix had been too busy drinking his coffee and internally groaning to process much of what went on, but he came to when Shiva shouted. “Remind me what he did again?” Phoenix said, looking like a dead fish. Only then did he realise that everyone had left.
All the fighters were at the newly built arena, or repaired arena, it was like the one from the original Dragon Ball anime. Nightmare looked around, looking for the dark Saiyan, not seeing his spiky hair anywhere in sight. Ryker still had a throne in some elevated area. The Parasyte looked to Shiva with a curious look, “Hey Shiva, have you seen Black? I can’t find him and it’s hard to sense him at the moment…” Nightmare asked the diamond dog, a hint of worry in her voice.
“Last I saw him, he was headed back to his room,” Shiva replied.
“Maybe he’s still sleeping,” Kodo offered. “He did kind of only wake up to fight, after all.”
“I guess you're right, but what if something bad happened? The potara earrings don’t heal you after you defuse.” Nightmare explained, putting a finger to her muzzle. “He wouldn’t want to miss a fight anyway, so something must’ve happened…”
Shiva stood. “Want me to go check on him?” she asked.
Nightmare stood up, “Don’t worry, I’ll go have a look.” Nightmare said as she put two fingers to her head. She teleported away with a *pop*, instantly vanishing.
Shiva nodded. “Let us know if he needs anything,” she noted before Ryker cleared his throat, gaining everyone’s attention.
"Okay,” Ryker declared, “So, just like Eric's and Black's fight we're going somewhere else today, we're going to the Island of Justice, Enies Lobby!" The arena turned into an aircraft and it flew over an Island that was… How do I describe it? In the middle of the ocean but had a waterfall in the center of it. Lucci grinned.
"Enies Lobby, the base of the Cp9, and I'm a part of it." Lucci put a fist to his chest with great pride.
"Alright first we have the asshole bird dude, who wields the power of all four elements, the guy who knows the fifth element, Jerk Bending, Phoenix Wri- Phoenix!" Ryker introduced as Phoenix dropped from the aircraft and landed on the area where Blueno and Luffy fought.
“Bird?” Phoenix shouted at Ryker from the stage.
"What else am I supposed to call ya, you asshole?!" Ryker snapped back.
“I’m a fuckin fairy god dammit!” Phoenix huffed as he took his position on the stage.
“Good luck, Phoenix!” Shiva cheered in support. He looked towards her and smiled, giving an appreciative nod.
"And now… We have the strongest fighter in this arena, he's the Mad Titan, the Destroyer of Worlds, beater of Celestia, THAAAANNOOOSSS!!!!" Ryker Introduced as Thanos appeared a few meters from Phoenix, in a suit similar to Lucci's. Thanos had his hands behind his back like a soldier.
Meanwhile, up on the crowd stands, Link slapped his hand over his face. “Beater of Celestia.. Those words do not sound right, like Thanos is some kind of wife beater.” he said with a groan.
“It’s true tho.” Lucci pointed out.
"Hello pretty little fairy man." Thanos looked down at Phoenix, being eight feet tall does have its perks.
“Well at least this ‘pretty little fairy’ doesn’t scare away bitches with his ugly-ass bald head.” Phoenix retorted, glad to have the old Thanos back.
"Oh shut up you limp dick jackass, your blue hair matches that of a lesbians coat." Thanos countered Phoenix.
“Go suck one you de-efficiently built cock juggling thunder cunt.” Phoenix replied with a smirk.
"At least I don't say "Fuck me" when something goes to shit you flamboyant prick." Thanos grinned.
“I take offense on Gordon Ramsay's behalf, you heathen.” Phoenix spat through his teeth, but still with a large smirk.
"Oh ho? Are you trying to one up me in assholishness?" Thanos did the DIO pose, his grin expanding like your mom.
*Suddenly Golden Wind starts playing*
“Indeed.” Phoenix struck a pose, his hand over his face and his back bent a bit to appear more edgy. After doing so, Phoenix couldn’t take it anymore and burst out laughing, holding his stomach.
Thanos then laughed along with him, clutching his chest and wheezing, "By god you are the best person I've ever met in my life. You are the best challenge I've faced in years." Thanos wipes a tear from his eyes.
“We are going drinking together after this, and that’s a threat.” Phoenix managed to squeeze out through his laughing fit.
"Definitely," Thanos nodded, silence… Ryker then cleared his throat.
"Alrighty… Let the battle begin!" The battle had now begun, Thanos had gotten a can of Hetap out of thin air and was taking a sip of it. After downing the whole can, Thanos then crushed it, and used Soru to appear in front of Phoenix. He cocked his fist back and used "Tekkai" to amplify its effects.
“Oh shit yeah I gotta fight you.” Phoenix said in remembrance, dodging the strike and jumping back before pulling Chastiefol from his back. “Increase and all that jazz.” Phoenix said in a nonchalant manner. Once again, the entire arena was filled to the brim with blue kunai. He then jumped backwards into a fighting position, his sword drawn. “Come forth! Or something…”
"Alright, bet." Thanos again used Soru to appear before Phoenix, he took out his sword and covered it in Armament Haki. Thanos then swiped down at the Fairy Deity. Phoenix raised his sword to parry the blow, before slashing at Thanos’ side. However Thanos nullified the blow via Armament Haki, defending his side. Thanos grabbed onto Phoenix with his off hand, reeled back his leg, covered it in Armament Haki, and kicked Phoenix in his chest. Thanos then let go of Phoenix as he was sent flying into one of the short pillars.
However, to Thanos’ surprise, Phoenix walked up behind him and placed a hand on his shoulder; he was chuckling to himself. “Sorry, had to do it,” He said, before clicking his fingers together. The Phoenix in the pillar disappeared. “Gotta love clones am I right?”
‘Is this going to end up like the previous match..’ Link thought in annoyance.
"Always gotta love the clones." Thanos nodded in agreement as he covered his elbow in Armament Haki and hit Phoenix in his rib. Thanos then grabbed his arm and threw Phoenix over him, slamming him into the ground. It made a small crater the size of Phoenix's body.
“I deserved that.” Phoenix squeaked out, raising his hand. He then teleported away, hiding behind his mist of kunai.
Thanos enhanced his body with Tekkai to toughen his body as he looked at the blades, he popped his neck and sighed. "Well, I really didn't want to use this but… Seimei Kikan: Kami-e Bushin!" Thenos' usual buff body became slim. His eight feet tall body became seven feet tall, his muscles became smaller but still huge. Thanos then took a single step… And was in front of Phoenix, the Kunai being knocked away.
“Shit.”
"You probably may have not noticed but I'm fast as fuck boi." Thanos then used the one-inch punch on Phoenix. Phoenix had the wind knocked out of him and Thanos flip kicked him up into the sky. Thanos then appeared before him and delivered a devastating spin kick to Phoenix' gut sending him crashing down.
Phoenix quickly teleported away from the Titan before he could continue. “Geez, man! If I knew we were gonna start like this I would have transformed already!” Once again, a bright flash of white covered the arena, and then dissipated; it left Phoenix in his levelled up form. He then teleported mid air behind Thanos, delivering a meaty spin kick to his neck.
Thanos was sent flying to the side, but then vanished from sight. Thanos appeared above Phoenix and attempted to release an Axe Kick down on the Fairy Deity.
Seeing the menouver coming, Phoenix held up his hand and simply caught Thanos’ foot.
"Well shit."
Swinging round, Phoenix lobbed Thanos into the distance, making sure to use enough air bending to put him at at least Mach 20.
Thanos went crashing into the building in front of them, there was a space between it. Thanos crashed inside of it, and he found himself in a space where there was grass and trees inside of the building. Thanos went to his feet and got into a stance similar to Luffy, expecting Phoenix to jump at him.
But instead, Phoenix teleported behind the Titan. He then blew some dust off of his fist before cocking it back and sending Thanos back to the spot they were at before.
Thanos caught himself using Geppo, and went back inside. Using the air to his advantage, Thanos spun around, going so fast it looked like a tornado. Thanos then punched the Fairy Deity in the gut before kicking him up to the roof. Thanos, again using Geppo, followed up the attack with a kick to the nose sending him up into the room above them and hitting the roof there. Thanos then appeared far away from Phoenix, sitting down at a table.
Phoenix stopped himself before he could be sent through another roof, and landed back down using air bending. “Fuck your stupid combos man.” Phoenix pulled out his trusty bow before firing at Thanos, exploding the entire room around them.
Once the smoke cleared, Phoenix jumped out the room through a broken wall, floating just outside, and shot three more balts at Thanos.
Thanos appeared next to Phoenix, "Wow, sucks to be him huh?" Thanos grinned, putting a hand to cover his eyes from the sunlight.
Gritting his teeth, Phoenix spun around and fired a bolt at point black in front of Thanos’ big ass forehead. He was sent flying away from the force. Phoenix then followed up by teleporting next to Thanos and booting him though a couple buildings. Dust surrounded Phoenix and in that dust, the Titan uppercutted the Fairy man into the sky. Thanos, using Geppo to follow him, spun around, his right leg now on fire, and kicked Phoenix in his gut then his jaw. Thanos continued to kick Phoenix over and over again before Axe-Kicking him down below. As Phoenix was falling, using Tekkai Go, Armament Haki, and his aflame leg, he launched a devastating kick to his gut once more and sent him crashing downwards.
Shiva winced at the damage, before Kodo nudged her, trying to suppress a grin. Shiva followed his gaze, her ears perking at what she saw.
Ten seconds ago
The arrow that Phoenix had shot at Thanos was not one of his normal ones, but an illusionists arrow. Phoenix watched as Thanos kicked the air, believing that Phoenix was there. The Titan then delivered an axe-kick followed by another flaming kick.
Phoenix watched on, chuckling to himself. “Guess I should undo it.” He shot at Thanos, delivering a roundhouse kick to his head, sending him through more buildings.
"Cheap ass son of a bitch!" Phoenix heard Thanos cry out as he was sent through the buildings.
"Couldn’t help myself!” Phoenix chuckled.
Thanos appeared before Phoenix before striking Phoenix in his right shoulder, which hit a pressure point making his right arm paralyzed temporarily. “Fuck.” Thanos delivered an uppercut then a gut punch.
"MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA!!!!" Thanos continued to chant this as he punched Phoenix, going through buildings before jumping back. Thanos used Soru to appear before Phoenix and kicked him in the nose. "Diable Jambe, Joue Shot!" Phoenix was sent flying into the building Thanos was comboing him in. Hitting the roof of it, Thanos with his speed was there in an instant. Sledgehammering the poor bastard down to the bottom of the building.
Phoenix teleported away, now bruised and beaten. He appeared a good 50 meters or so away. “Congrats, you made me bleed.” A single stream of blood ran down from his nose. The Fairy Deity then shot towards Thanos and stabbed a kunai through his neck. He then proceeded to stab him another 27 times using his ‘Disaster’ technique, leaving each of the blades planted in his skin. He then jumped back before chanting. “Status promotion! Times four!”
Thanos took a step back… Before disappearing, Phoenix looked behind him and Thanos stood there, unharmed. "To quote an asshole "Gotta love clones."." Thanos was leaning on a pillar.
“Gotta love clones.” Phoenix gave an evil grin before clicking his fingers. “Transfer, asshole.” Suddenly, all of the previous damage done appeared on Thanos’ body, and he began to feel the pain. Thanos winced and clutched his neck.
"Well then, we'll play that game. Tekkai Utsugi- Nah… I shouldn't, that's too overkill." Thanos crossed his arms.
“Go for it man, my pain receptors have already been removed from my body!” Phoenix gave a toothy grin to Thanos and a thumbs up.
"Are you sure? Because whatever pain that I would feel, you would feel instead. That's overkill." Thanos pointed out.
“Like I said, I physically can not feel pain anymore.” Phoenix stated, scratching the back of his head. “Though, that doesn’t mean it won’t hurt me physically………” Realising his mistake, “Scratch that, don’t you dare use that on me!”
"But you said- Never mind. Never fucking mind." Thanos shook his head, "Secret Technique, Owl Thrashing!" Multiple afterimages of Thanos appear and they run at Phoenix. They then started to pummel Phoenix.
Phoenix began teleporting sporadically to try and dodge the Mad Titan, but didn’t get far before he was launched into another building. He slowly got up once more, only to be hit again. This cycle went on a few more times before Phoenix managed to block a punch. He then spun round and kicked Thanos in the stomach, sending him a good distance away.
“Just fuck off would ya?” Phoenix said, his hands on his knees. He was panting heavily whilst hunched over. “Do you have any idea how much mana it takes just to take one of your fuckin punches?” Phoenix mumbled.
"Nope, in any case… I think it's time I stop doing that." Thanos then stopped moving. The "clones" disappeared and Thanos stood there with his arms crossed.
“Aight I’m pooped. This ain’t a match I can win.” Phoenix said, standing up straight and looking up to the sky. “I was bluffing it from the start. Of course I feel pain!” He began rubbing his hip like an old man. “I fuckin ache man!”
"Well, I kinda need to render you unconscious to win. So stay there and I'm gonna..." Thanos went back to his original eight feet tall form.
“You think I’m going down without a fight?” Phoenix asked with a large smile.
"Possibly…" Thanos pressed his fingers together and leaned back.
“Well you're damn right, Come glock me!” Phoenix moved his arms out as if to welcome a hug.
"That's kinda gay."
“Just shut and knock me out already you sack a shit, my back is fuckin killing me. One on ones have never been my thing. Always been better with hordes.” Phoenix explained, frowning at the Titan.
Thanos approached the man, "What I'm going to do to you is going to knock you out due to the extreme amounts of pain I will be inflicting. I will buy you all the drinks for you after this." Thanos stepped on Phoenix's foot.
“Just do it already! God you’re so soft.”
Thanos went into the Rokuogan Position, "Sai Dai Rin…" Lucci covered his eyes for this. Shiva covered Kodo’s eyes as he covered hers. Nightmare watched intently, squinting her eyes as she watched Thanos prepare his attack. "ROKUOGAN!!!!" Thanos had fired off a devastating shockwave that ruptured Phoenix's internal organs. The buildings and rubble behind them were now smithereens, the force made the Deity cough an ungodly amount of blood before passing out. Phoenix fell down on his back and Thanos winced.
Using his ‘Disaster’, Phoenix slipped off his ring, still in his unconscious state. His regeneration instantly kicked in, and he opened his eyes once more. “Fuck me that hurt.” He then got up from the ground, and rubbed the dust off from his back. “Just sayin’, if I didn’t have that ring, you would have been fucked.” Phoenix said, smacking the side of his head to get some dust out of his ear.
"Gg." Thanos held out a hand, and Phoenix grabbed him by the wrist, gesturing for Thanos to do the same. Thanos see, Thanos do.
“Warriors do warrior handshakes.” Phoenix stated with a smirk.
"Now let's have ourselves a drink!" Thanos wrapped his arm around Phoenix's neck as the area turned back to the arena. Thanos then walked to the exit.
"THE WINNER IS THANOS!!!!" Ryker announced as the two walked off.
Phoenix teleported out of Thanos grasp before speaking. “I’ll join ya another time, got some info to relay to a certain pair of dogs.”
"Well you know where I'll be." Thanos put two fingers to his forehead and vanished from sight.
“Right then.” Phoenix clapped his hands together, before appearing directly next to Kodo and Shiva, startling them a bit. “Hey there.”
“Phoenix,” Shiva gasped, standing up. “That was incredible! Are you… well, yeah, you’re okay, but…”
“What happened?” Kodo asked. “I thought you had that in the bag.”
“What happened, young Kodo, was a whole bunch of bluffing.” Phoenix said with a wide grin. “No way in hell can I defeat Thanos. Heck! I’m pretty certain he was holding back!”
“He was,” Shiva said solemnly. “He’s constantly holding back.”
“Powerful warriors like Thanos have to hold back, Black at one point accidentally broke 10 glass cups, a table, and multiple plates and silverware.” Nightmare said with a laugh, teleporting next to Shiva before looking at the Diamond Dog. “Black is fine, his body still isn’t ready just yet.”
Shiva nodded. “Good to know,” she said. “Thank you, Nightmare.”
“You see, I specialize in military warfare, not one on one bouts.” Phoenix began. “Sure, I wasn’t exactly taking the fight seriously, nor did I use my most powerful form, but still, a fight against a beast like him isn’t a great match up for me. Though, I could’ve taken that fight to a whole new level….” Phoenix mumbled the last part.
“I can relate,” Shiva admitted. “My forte is team battles; where I can stand back and give support.” She chuckled. “All things being considered, I’m glad I didn’t push your form back when we fought.”
“Call me sexist, but I don’t use my most powerful form on women. Well…. unless I have to.” Phoenix stated.
“I’m not complaining,” Shiva assured him.
“Well anyways, I came to speak to you two about something.” Phoenix said, changing the subject.
“Oh?” Shiva asked.
“Though, I believe we should go somewhere more.... Private.” Phoenix whispered, before clicking his fingers.The three appeared in a large purple void, with nothing to see for miles. “Make yourself at home.” Phoenix said, forming a couch behind him. He then took a seat.
Shiva and Kodo settled themselves in, Shiva still looking to Phoenix expectantly.
“So, to cut it short, you two are not safe.” Phoenix said in a nonchalant manner.
Shiva nodded in understanding. “From Ryker?”
“From Ryker’s underlings.” Phoenix stated. “I won’t go into the specifics for now, but I’m pretty sure we can expect a large rumble sooner or later. Chastiefol keeps warning me about it, and my gut agrees.” Phoenix formed two kunai, one in each hand, and floated them to the two diamond dogs. “Keep these with you, trust me when I say that just that individual blade could have given Thanos a run for his money.” Phoenix finished, smiling at the thought of Thanos attempting to take it on.
Shiva took the blade with a grateful nod, encouraging Kodo to do the same.
“I appreciate your aid, Phoenix,” Shiva said, her ears flattening. “Issho seems like a good soul. But if we must fight…” She held up the blade. “I appreciate any assistance I can get.”
“I assure you, if a fight does break out, I’ll personally see to it that no one dies. However, I can’t say you won’t have to go at him with full force.” Phoenix said with a frown. “Anyways, that is all. Just figured I’d give you a heads up, soon as I promised to tell you about my plans. Well, some of it…”
Shiva chuckled. “Right,” she said. “Got to keep some of your cards close to your chest.”
“I have been working on concealing my thoughts,” Kodo noted half-heartedly, his mind sure enough concealed by an image of a caved-in cavern.
“Nice cavern Kodo,” Phoenix said with a smirk. “Though, it still only takes a grade 7 combination.” Phoenix chuckled to himself before getting up and ruffling Kodos hair. “You’ll get there at some point, but don’t bank on your mental barriers just yet.”
“Agreed,” Shiva said, rising up. “Thank you again, Phoenix. If there’s anything we can do to help you, please let us know.”
“God you sound like you're my underling or something.” Phoenix sarcastically groaned. “Whelp, back we go.” The three once again found themselves in the training room.
Giving a final salute to Phoenix, Shiva and Kodo parted ways with Phoenix, only to notice a newcomer: it was a man with a sedge hat, leaning on a wall. He had robotic armor and looked like a mummy. He had an iron mask and the eyes of it were blue.
"Oh hello Lady Shiva and Young Kodo, my name is Noximilien the Watchmaker." Nox tipped his hat to the duo.
Kodo instantly looked to Shiva, who bent her head in a bow. “Hello, Noximilien,” she greeted. “I don’t think I’ve seen you around here. Are you new?”
Nox let out a chuckle, "Yes, indeed I am Ms. Shiva, I was dead and now I'm alive again because Ryker revived me via the Dragon Balls." Nox took a step from the wall and approached the two. Nox held out a hand for a handshake.
Shiva took his hand, shaking it with a nod. “Always good to have another life back,” she replied.
"Not necessarily, I had no say in the matter. Can you tell me about the fighters here? I'm afraid Ryker has not given me intel on them." Nox asked the Diamond Dog.
Shiva hummed. “Odd of him,” she noted. “But right now, the only fighters still in the rankings are Thanos and Eric Von Shadow. They’re the ones you’ll need to worry about. Thanos especially.”
"Thanos and Eric? God I haven't heard those names in quite a while. It's been two years now I believe." Nox crossed his arms and looked up, seemingly remembering the past.
Shiva’s ears perked. “You’ve crossed paths with them before?” she noted, humming in thought. “Those two are even more experienced than I thought.”
Nox chuckled once more, "Well, while I was serving under Kaido . I dwelled in Thanos' world for about three months. I became allies with the princesses, Thanos ordered his comrades, Lucci, Grievous, Entity and Eric, to steal the Mind and the Power Stone. I simply couldn't allow that and offered them to surrender, I didn't want violence off the bat. Alas, they didn't listen so I beat Lucci, Grievous, and Entity in combat. I was beating Eric too but due to his Conquerors Haki he knocked me out and decapitated me." Nox said unflinchingly, Shiva could sense no hate for Eric coming off of Nox.
“Sounds like you have more experience with them than I do,” Shiva admitted. “Though, if this… ‘adventure’ of yours was a while ago, they could have gotten stronger since then.”
"And so have I, I have unlocked my Conquerors Haki after… After doing many things that I regret. I have become stronger since then, I trained with a man called King Kai, the other Kais, and I participated in a Tournament for the Dead. I won it too, three times." Nox looked at his empty palm, "With my Wakfu I'm extremely powerful. I bet I'll have to fight Eric and I have a strategy to take him down."
Shiva nodded. “Well, I wish you luck,” she said. “Though… forgive this humble dog if she oversteps, but if I may ask… please take it easy on Eric. He’s got his faults, but he’s also got a good heart.” She glanced around the training room with a wistful, slightly sad air. “It honestly pains me to see so much conflict: so many good men fighting each other.”
"Conflict sometimes is the only answer, and sometimes to get what you want you have to hurt some people. I learned that firsthand, or paw in your case, oh and don't worry I will most definitely go easy on Mr. Monohan." Nox promised with a nod.
Shiva chuckled softly, glancing at her paw. “Thank you,” she said. “I have learned as well that sometimes you have to hurt others to get what you need or want. But I prefer to only take that option when there is no other choice available to me.”
"Well, that was the only choice that I chose when I was foolish, so very foolish." Nox said with some regret and sorrow in his voice. He then shook his head, putting his hands behind his back.
Carefully, Shiva pat Nox’s shoulder. “You’ve got a second chance,” she noted. “Let your experiences guide you into using it well.”
"I did so many awful things, I destroyed countries, a population full of innocent creatures, absorbed magic all because that blasted cube had to ruin everything. I had a family, they all died. I wanted to turn back time, they all said it was impossible, but the cube told me it was the only way. So when I won, I only turned back time… Twenty. Minutes." Nox clenched his fists.
Shiva winced, while Kodo shook his head in sympathy. “That’s rough buddy,” he noted softly.
"Indeed it is, young pup, the hardest choices require the strongest wills. Guess I didn't make the right choice. Steering the subject to a different course, I'm a Xelor." Nox put his hat onto his back, they then saw the full form of Nox's helmet.
Shiva tilted her head in intrigue. “What exactly are Xelors?” she asked.
"People who can do this." Nox put his hands in a peculiar position and suddenly Kodo was now in the sparring ring.
“What the…?!” Kodo yelped, turning back and forth as he tried to process his new location. “How’d I get here?”
"I have the ability to halt time itself, but keep this a secret between you two and me, alright?" Nox tilted his head.
Shiva nodded mutely, stunned by Nox’s ability. When Kodo ran to her side, she pulled him close without breaking her stunned expression.
"Now, now, you do not have to be scared that I might put Kodo upside down or anything. Though I did consider that when I was looking around this room." Nox jokes, his mask's blue eyes having a kind look to them.
Kodo chuckled nervously. “Well… thanks for not acting on it,” he said gratefully.
"You are very much welcome, now I believe I should take my leave, I have decided to keep my identity a secret. So please follow my wishes, as for now, I wish you two the best of luck in your future endeavors." Nox put his hat back on.
“To you as well,” Shiva said with a nod. Waving goodbye, Shiva and Kodo retreated to their room. As Nox saw them off he let out a sigh, then he "teleported" out of view.
However, as Shiva and Kodo returned to their room, they both noticed a familiar duo.
Eric was walking down the halls with Sombra trailing behind them. Both covered by the shadows of despair.
Shiva’s fur bristled as Sombra’s eyes strayed her way, and she pulled Kodo into their room, slamming the door shut behind them.
“Eric…” Sombra said, but Eric had his gaze fixed forward.
“I need to meet up with Ed on the battlefield of Endgame,” Eric said, placing a hand on a nearby wall. “You should rest up. My next match will more than likely be tomorrow against Doom. Wherever the hell he is.” the shadow man entered the wall
‘He’s still pissed,’ the Unicorn thought as he returned to his room. ‘Not surprising, considering what I almost made those diamond dogs do.’
Inside his room, Sombra shed his swords and set them against his bed.
“Heh...” Sombra chuckled in dark amusement. “I promised I’d never take another's life and yet..” anger welled in the unicorn’s mind as regret entered his heart “Fuck!” Sombra punched the wall, cracking it with his strength. “Why can’t you ever leave me in peace Umbra!?” the unicorn slammed his fist into the walls with every word
After his moment of rage, Sombra placed his hand on his head feeling the effects of magic around his eyes.
“I need to calm down,” Sombra said, throwing himself to his bed before closing his eyes and falling asleep. “Calm… Peace… Fluttershy.”
King Sombra opened his eyes and found himself wearing a simple dress shirt and pants as he approached his parents. They were alive; smiling as Sombra presented his queen
“Mother. Father. May I present Fluttershy, the Element of Kindness,” Sombra said
Fluttershy stepped forward and bowed. “It..it’s a p-pleasure to m-meet you, your majesties,” Fluttershy stammered, her voice low in deference.
“Oh look how nervous she is,” Lapis Shine - Sombra’s mother - mused, approaching the frightened pegasus before cupping her face. “And absolutely beautiful.” She still gave Sombra a worried look. “Are you sure about this, Sombrahesta?”
“I am mother,” Sombra answered with a nod. “She stole my heart over my crown, just as you did with father.”
“She’s meek,” Jasper Dusk - Sombra’s father - said, approaching the pair before smiling at his son. “But if you’re positive she’s the one for you, then I accept this Mare as my daughter and your queen.”
“How sweet” A all too familiar voice echoed in Sombra’s head. “The Little Stallion still wants what he’ll never have.”
Sombra gripped the side of his head. “No…” he muttered in denial. “No, you’re not real. Y-You’re dead! Eric killed you! We killed you!”
“Oh believe me... you and that imbecile tried,” echoed the voice inside Sombra’s head. “And to make matters worse that oaf is using MY magic”
“You’re not real,” Sombra muttered to himself, chanting it like a counterspell. “You’re dead, You’re not real, you’re dead. You’re not real, you’re dead.”
Screams answered. Sombra looked up in horror.
His father was sitting upon his throne, his sword plunged into his chest. His severed head lay sideways on his lap, his dead eyes stared right at Sombra. His mother was pinned to the wall by twin swords buried hilt deep in her palms, her legs severed at the knees which were shoved down her throat. A figure of shadow sat in his mother’s throne with a yellow pegasus within his grasp.
“I can assure you my former host,” Umbra purred. “ I am very real.”
“S-Sombra…” Fluttershy whispered, before the figure wrenched her head off with a powerful twist.
“UMBRA!” Sombra screamed, jumping up from his bed in a cold sweat.
But Umbra was gone. His parents were long dead. And Fluttershy was safe back in his Equestria.
Yet Sombra was not sated. He gripped his head. “That was no normal nightmare,” Sombra shuddered at the thought. “It felt like he really was there.” He looked up, fear and anger fighting for control. “Perhaps that Ryker brought an Umbra from an alternate Equestria?”
Outside his room, a flicker of smoke wisped through the air as Kodo listened in, having heard Sombra exclaim Umbra’s name. Having been a former host of Umbra himself, Kodo couldn’t resist listening in on Sombra’s musings.
The idea of an alternate Umbra sent a chill through Kodo. After the damage he had caused - the lives that had suffered…
Kodo’s eyes narrowed with determination, and his smoke cloud drifted closer.
“If there is an alternate Umbra,” he whispered to Sombra like a ghost. “You owe it to those you love to see it destroyed.”
Sombra spun, trying to trace the noise, but Kodo quickly withdrew from the room and floated away.
“You and me both,” Kodo added under his breath. Returning back to their shared room, he found his mother in an odd circumstance: With her eyes closed and claws held in front of her like she was praying, her pack links swirled around in front of her, almost… creating something. Something out of light.
Kodo wisely kept silent, but the pack links inevitably brushed against his cloud of smoke. Shiva smiled softly, but her eyes did not open.
“Eric’s Shadow Souls gave me an idea,” she explained. “Something that I’m hoping we can use when the time comes.”
Kodo tilted his head, before widening his eyes in awe… as his father reformed out of light before him. Though a Diamond Dog, he strangely resembled a Lucario. How Shiva knew of the Pokemon was anyone’s guess, though it is likely the appearance was simply coincidental.
“Father?” Kodo whispered, reaching out for him.
Unfortunately, the elder diamond dog male did not reply. He merely stared forward without seeing. And burst back into sparks as Shiva collapsed.
She huffed. “I’ll need to train some more on that,” she noted, as Kodo helped her up. “Even then, it’ll only be based on my memories of the real one.” Her voice cracked. “It… won’t actually be him.”
Kodo’s ears flattened in shame. “I’m… sorry you had to lose him,” he whispered.
Shiva nodded, her expression becoming pained. “All we can do is make sure we don’t lose anyone else,” she replied.
Kodo glanced back at where he had come from. “And that Umbra doesn’t come back,” he added.
Shiva’s eyes opened, staring at Kodo in shock. “Umbra?” she demanded. “But he’s dead!”
Kodo glanced back at her with worry. “Von Shadow’s Sombra seems to think otherwise.”
“Umbra… Well that’s bad.” Lucci shook his head.
Shiva and Kodo spun to find the assassin in their room. Instantly, Kodo jumped in front of Shiva, as the female diamond dog made a motion like she was covering herself.
“What are you doing here?!” Kodo barked.
“Eh? Why does it sound like you guys don’t like me?” Lucci raised an eyebrow, “Wait, is this your guys room? I could’ve sworn I was in my room.” Lucci couldn’t help but grin.
Shiva sighed and crossed her arms. “What do you want?” she asked.
“Mmm… Nothing, I kind of find it weird you and Fujitora hang out so much. Oh my god, look Shiva, it’s a human!” Lucci points to a wall.
Shiva flattened her ears. “You’re mocking me, aren’t you?” she noted.
"Oh no, no, no, no," Lucci his hands up before pointing to the door, "Shiva look, it's Fujitora!"
Shiva narrowed her eyes… before actually scenting the blind swordsman. “Issho?” she asked, turning… only to find part of his cloak laying before the door.
“BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!” Lucci pats his knee before clutching his eyes and falls on his back, laughing in hysterics and clutching his stomach.
Shiva glowered at the cloak, before sighing. Kodo seethed, but Shiva gripped him before he could do anything he regretted.
“And you wonder why I prefer Issho over someone like you?” Shiva muttered, scooping up the piece of Fujitora’s cloak and walking out of the room, leaving Lucci behind.
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Local Sage beats the ever loving crap out of Edgy Sasuke wannabe.
The Crimson Sage Vs. The Shadow of Equestria
Eric emerged from the shadows on the wasteland that was the final battlefield of Avengers Endgame sitting on a piece of rubble was Edward Elric, his eyes turning to the shadow man with a hard glare.
“Well… at least you’re serious about this,” Edward said standing up. “Now let’s see if you are worthy enough to use the chamber.”
“Let’s,” Eric said, his powers flaring as he pulled out his Murakumogiri.
“Just so you know,” Ed stood up. “I’ve fought Haki users before and the future sight does have an Achellies heel,” He thrust a finger forward and suddenly Eric felt like someone had fired a gun straight into his right shoulder. The force knocked him down. “One major flaw. The faster your opponent, the harder it is to see them properly.”
“No hesitation. I see,” Eric said, rubbing his shoulder as he got to his feet. “Even if it left no damage I still felt that.” Eric stepped forward and readied his weapon in hand, “I still won’t lose”
“Who said this was about winning or losing?” Ed cocked his head to the side. “Make no mistake kid I'm very pissed about what happened. And quite frankly you’re very lucky to even be breathing properly at this moment.” Ed’s shadow expanded behind him and forms started to rise from it. In seconds, hundreds of thousands of Ed’s stood before Von Shadow. “Seven Nations Army.” The air began to shine and ripple with power. “Every one of these copies is an individual me that will fight - even at the loss of their heads by the way - and they have my weapons and fighting prowess to Gate of Aries!” He flung his hand forward and thousands of weapons sprang from the ripples like missiles aimed at Eric.
Eric formed a pair of wings and flew above the speeding weapons, Magic flared in his eyes and he aimed his hand at the army. “ Bear the weight of the darkest sins,” Chanted the Shadow Man. “Dark Press.”
A large force of gravity pressed down on the army of Ed’s, however none were deterred as they simply ran through the magic area’s effect, grabbing the weapons as they did.
“You call that magic,” Ed raised an eyebrow. “Let me show you magic!” He jumped into the area, “Crimson Spiral Flame!” He threw his hand from and a twister of red flames consumed everything on the field. The army included. Eric looked on in horror as the sage landed right in front of him, the red reflected in his eyes. “You should be running from them.” The army emerged from the fires, on fire themselves.
Eric hovered in the air for a moment before shaking the fear away
Shadow Soul: Soul of the Reaper
Eric’s form melted away and was replaced with his skeletal form of his Reaper Transformation, reaching into his body Eric pulled out his reaper scythe, the blade forged from both Sea-prism Stone and Magic steel which drain any who’s is cut by it of their magic
“Sonic Slasher,” Eric whispered out before disappearing with a sonic boom
Eric managed to cut down two Ed’s before being grabbed and weighed down by the others, Eric tried to pry them off or even phase right through them. But they held on tight with Haki covered arms, it got to the point where Eric was forced to the ground. Several Ed’s approached the Reaper before covering their fists in armament Haki, each and every one of them began beating and punching the downed shadow man forcing him to flare his magic
“Warp through the Darkness and Hide thyself!” Eric yelled, receiving a hard punch to his jaw nearly dislocating it. “Dark Teleport!”
One of Edward’s clones came a full inch from striking the Shadow Man before Eric dissipated in a plume of black smoke, that back smoke drifted down into the shadows of the army. Ed and his clones searched for the Shadow Man.
“Always hiding in the darkness like a true coward?” Ed asked as he searched.
“I’m no coward,” Eric said, reforming into his now injured base form, a good distance from the alchemist army. “But I had no choice. Recover what you have lost,” Eric dropped his weapons as a purple aura covered him. “Dark Rejuvenation!”
The injuries across Eric’s body sealed themselves before disappearing like they never happened. Eric reached down and picked up his Scythe and his Murakumogiri from the ground
“I get it, Edward. Really, I do,” Eric said as he gripped his weapons. “To lose a loved one, or even a close friend is the worst feeling in the world”
“If you know the pain then why did you do it?” Edward said, floating above his army. “Why would you not only fight Black with a clone but hit his weakened form with a sleeping spell?”
This caused Eric to shrink back a bit looking at the ground in shame. “I...it’s what I would normally do in my world,” Eric admitted in sadness. “I kill...it’s all I’ve ever done since coming to Equus. Each and every opponent we’ve faced either me or the others have killed them, it’s all I know how to do.”
The Shadow man looked downtrodden at the Alchemist. “I did what I thought was the best course of action, with your help I felt you could help me make my powers less lethal.”
“Best course of action my ass!” Edward yelled. “This is a tournament! Not a war for you to play back seat driver to. You did not do some underhanded move; you outright cheated!” Ed slammed his fist against the air behind him causing it to shatter like glass and left a void . Reaching in, the alchemist pulled out a very distinct sword with a red dual-serrated edge, fire bird guard and a long handle that led into a fourway skull pommel. “I’m going to make you wish you faced Black head on!” Ed pointed the sword at the shadow man. “Extend field,” he said quietly and circle extended outward past Eric and he soon found himself back in his base form. “Just so you know this sword is a manifestation of my perception of reality. So whatever I say goes.”
Eric just looked down and exhaled. “So much for words,” Eric whispered under his breath before rushing the Alchemist. “Maybe my blades will show how much I regret my fight with Black.”
Eric reared both weapons back and swung at the Alchemist, both weapons clashing against Edwards as sparks flew into the air.
“Tell me something,” Ed forced Eric back with a wave of crimson power. “Do you know what happens when someone is consumed by negativity?”
“They lose control of both their mind and their powers,” the Shadow man answered
“Yes,” Ed smiled evilly. “Have you ever seen what happens physically?”
“I have not,” Eric said, keeping his distance from the Alchemist. “However I have heard from the other’s what happened to Luna after our fight with the queen.”
“Heheheheheehhahahahahaahahanahahaahhahahahaahaa!” The alchemist belted. “I never asked Luna…” he remarked as his sword faded to red dust. “I said you would face the form Black faced... and I meant it!” Ed roared as a pillar of red light consumed him completely only showing a black silhouette of the sage inside it. He began to grow as thousands upon thousands of red eyes covered his body. A tail formed, along with a set of silver and red tipped feathery wings while red twisted metal grew. A large singular golden Sharinnegan opened in a right downward slant with an ouroboros symbol in the center. The sage stepped out of the light pillar to reveal his new form: nearly five stories high, towering over Eric. His right eye was golden, with three blood red eyes on the left. He smiled with many mouths full of jagged teeth all over his body.
“Hello,” he said softly.
Before Eric could respond, he was sent flying with a hard right clawed uppercut.
Eric’s body slid across the ground, digging a large trench in the battlefield. Eric pulled himself from the ground and gazed at the large form of the Alchemist.
“Well...that’s nightmare inducing,” Eric muttered, as shadow began to swirl around the shadow man. “Looks like I’ll need to go stronger to defeat him.” He slammed his head into the ground.
Shadow Soul: Soul of the Demon
Meanwhile, as the two fighters battled, they were unaware of a portal opening, and a familiar host walking out to observe the fight.
"...Son of a bitch." Ryker muttered under his breath, looking on at the two, he made two portals behind him. Katakuri and someone with a Sedgehat walked beside him. A little silver bug with a blue eye flew out next to them. The one with the sedgehat was covered in bandages with metal armor.
"Hm… Quite interesting." The one with the sedgehat spoke. "I can use this knowledge."
Shadows began to flood the area as they converged on the Shadow Man. His size increased to another fifteen feet. His hands turned to claws as his skin came to resemble that of charred leather. The Shadow Man’s legs twisted backwards as his eyes burned red. His teeth became pointed and jagged. His hair burst into flames, and a pair of small horns and a pointed tail tore through his forehead and his back. A forked tongue flicked between his teeth.
Unfortunately, despite his increase in size, Edward still dwarfed the Shadow Man in size.
“I’m going all out Alchemist,” Eric hissed out.
The demonic Eric rushed forwards before jumping up towards the Alchemist’s head. However, halfway up, he was smacked to the ground, burying him into the dirt. Mere seconds later, Eric burst from the ground, his lips curved in a glasgow grin. His smile grew when he felt his power grow from the single attack of the Alchemist’s towering form.
“Is that all you got Alchemist?” Eric laughed. “You’re weaker than you claim to be.”
“Who said that’s all I got?” The Sage’s voice growled from everywhere at once. A mysterious force pulled Eric straight to the Alchemist’s face. “You truly don’t know how to shut up, do you?” The demon tilted his head.“Let’s see what we will do with you, ah I know,” he raised his left fist, “Two Thousand Times Kugi punch!”
Eric felt the crushing force of two thousand blows into every part of his body as he bounced randomly around the area.
Eric crashed into the rubble that was once Thanos’ ship. Yet, all the while, his maniacal laughing did not fade. Ripping away the metal concealing him, Eric emerged from the broken ship. His black body red with blood, yet his eyes glowing with magical wisps
“Recover what you have lost,” Eric boomed as a purple aura covered him. “Dark Rejuvenation!”
“One thing you should know about dragon slayers,” Ed commented as one of the clones ran next to Eric, “They eat magic!” Several of the clones jumped and started to eat every last ounce of his magic directly from his body. “I won’t let you recover. It’s against the rules, after all,” the main body said.
Walking forward, he backhanded Eric across the field. Teleporting ahead of Eric, he fired a ki blast, ricocheting Eric into another direction. For some time, Ed repeated the process. Until finally, with a devastating axe punch, he buried Eric in a massive crater.
“Did I ever say I deactivated my perception field?” The sage mocked. “The only power you’ve been stealing is nothing!” Ed flicked Eric with his pointer finger. “You don't get it,’ Ed held up his hand and hsi sword reformed in his hand. “How does it feel to have tha pain and not grow from it?”
“Didn’t you know?” Eric said, smiling at the alchemist. “This is my only form that feels no pain, it’s how I can keep going in a difficult battle”
“Oh let me fix that then,” Edward reached Eric with his hand and grabbed a fist full of what appeared to be strings and at that moment Eric felt his entire body freeze. “See I developed the ability to pull on the very magic that binds things together meaning I CAN ADD OR TAKE ANY MAGIC I SEE FIT!” A quick twist and the strings snapped and Eric was flooded to his very core with pain as he screamed out, every time he moved it intensified his pain. “You mock me for not being strong? You dishonor my family by sending a clone to face Black. You are not fit to fight on the same field as any of these Displaced!”
“I am… But the mocking... I can’t help” Eric explained, his voice cracking from the pain. “This particular Soul affects my mind slightly. Honestly, I respect everyone I’ve met... unless they turn on me and my friends. I still hold a lot of respect for you and Black but I can’t help but mock you in this form.”
"Jackass…" Ryker couldn't help but think.
Reaching behind him Eric pulled both his Scythe and his Murakumogiri to his hands, before stabbing both their blades into the ground. Without warning each and every Ed was quickly pulled into their shadows leaving only the big one standing, Pulling his weapons from the ground Eric gazed up towards the main Ed.
“Shadow Prison. They are now a part of me, no magic can free them unless I say so,” Eric hissed out before Edward began to sink into his own shadow. “The Shadows are my domain, why don’t we continue this fight there instead?”
Before Ed could utter a word, Eric vanished into his shadow. Without warning, hooks and ropes of shadow grabbed and bound Edward’s colossal form, dragging him into his shadow as well. Edward found himself in an endless void of darkness. Skeletons, armor, weapons, even rubble of buildings and earth all floated around aimlessly within the Void of Eric’s Shadow Zone.
“Hmmm… Quite odd,” Ed muttered, gazing around the void. “I can sense you… but it feels as though you are everywhere and yet nowhere all at the same time.”
“My Shadow Zone is my domain. I am as you said: Everywhere and Nowhere. All at the same time.” Eric’s voice echoed all around the Alchemist. “In here I can attack from anywhere and you’d have no way of countering.”
With no warning a small cut appeared on the giant Alchemist's face, nearly slashing one of his eyes out. Edward turned around, trying to locate the hidden shadow man.
“Just like a coward, staying hidden within his shadow,” mocked Edward, keeping all eyes on his surroundings. “Is this the only thing you know how to do?”
“I’m not hiding,” Eric said as another cut appeared on Ed’s lower forearm. “I’m standing right before you. You just can’t see me.”
“ You made a mistake absorbing those clones,” Ed smiled. “They have no magic on their own but are instead souls that seek to return to me, they can also act on their own remotely,” he pointed at several vien pulsed all over Eric’s form. He was paralyzed. “I wouldn’t try to eject them either, they might activate the matter self-destruction.”
Eric just smiled as his form turned to shadow and faded away. “Edward, have you ever read the Novel In the Tall Grass ?” the Shadow Man asked laughing in the void
“I have had enough of this play.” Ed said flatly as he reached into nothing and then play out his clawed fist opening it to reveal Eric completely stripped down to his base form unable to activate his power. “You want to know the horrors I have to live with every waking moment I live child,” He stared at the shaking man. “I shall show you,” Ed reeled back and swallowed him whole. Eric soon found himself in a torrent of red screaming faces distorted in every way possible. “This is what I hear constantly,” Ed’s voice rang from everywhere. “My form is composed of millions of living souls and I have news added every single moment I am alive. Don’t even bother trying anything either. You are nothing more than a normal human right now. I have no further amusement from you and you have proven to me you are not worthy of my time so I will not afford you more of it.” Everything cracked and Eric soon found himself out on the battlefield once more, Ed standing behind him in his human form. “You are not worthy of anything I hold, not even my time.” He starts to walk away.
“N..no….p..please...don’t” Eric fell to the ground. “I..I need...to get stronger” the Shadow man struggled to get up
“Why should I bother trying to help someone who won't even recognize that he was beaten before setting foot on the arena floor. “The smart move would,ve been to give up from the start. You obviously had no intention of actually trying to think.”
“Somepony….on my world….Stronger than us….Kills everypony….” Eric struggled as he made it to his knee.
“Why should I care about someone else’s world?” Ed kept walking away. “One such as yourself… Please…” He rolled his eyes.
“He’ll travel..the Multiverse...Stealing power...and growing stronger” Eric managed to get to his feet before flaring his magic. “Reveal...what...what has..yet to come…Dark Premonition”
Eric fired a beam of magic and showed the alchemist his future. The vision showed a large creature with red and black fur wielding the powers of all the Devil Fruit’s of Eric’s world, all Magic of Alexandria’s equestria and the powers and abilities from countless others. In his hands and magic was the dead bodies of the loved ones Ed held most dear.
“Enough,” Ed turned and flicked shooting debris and dust into the air. Eric looked to his right and saw the earth had been destroyed down to the core. “I have had enough of your bullshit. Dark magic is a staple part of everything in my world I teach college class about. False premonitions do very little to scare me boy.”
“Please I’m speaking the Truth '' Eric pleaded, his voice speaking in desperation. “What I showed you is the future if I don’t stop him”
“Do you even realize who you're talking to!” Ed shouted. “I am Truth’s Avatar! That was no Truth! I have had enough of you and your crap.” Ed walked away. “Consider this is your last warning boy,” He snapped and an hourglass shaped door appeared. “I will not stand for lies. You may use my Chamber for one day. I will not permit more or I will take everything you earned there and reverse it completely. Understood?”
“Thank you….Thank you Edward,” Eric said, dropping to the ground. “I promise I will find a way to repay you”
“I have set the time outside for one day, inside it will be nearly three years,” Ed remarked. “Just know that I still don’t like you and if you EVER pull that crap again. I will seal you and your world away so no Displaced will never access it again. No TOKENS NO NOTHING! Understand?”
Eric pushed himself and nodded to the Alchemist. “I understand Ed”
Eric struggled to get to the Time Chamber door but made it all the same, Twisting the knob and opening the door to the chamber, Eric was slightly in awe seeing it was as vast and colorful as the one in DBZ.
“Oh and one more thing,” Ed held up a finger then turned full, “CRIMSON DRAGON FORCE ROARING FUS RO DAH!” He roared, sending a star wars, dragon slayer, dragon born combo blast into Eric forcing him into the chamber. “That felt good,” Ed dusted off his coat. “I wonder what's for lunch,” Ed happily walked through another portal before locking his own Time Chamber door away so no one else could access it. The man with the Sedgehat laughed.
"Ryker, by any chance do you mind if I-" The Sedgehat man turns to Ryker.
"Nope, not at all, you are free to use it." Ryker waved him off, "After all… Eric is training too…"
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Chapter Eleven, Old "Friends"
Chapter Eleven, Old "Friends."
The next morning, everyone was at the Diner, eating their breakfast. Everyone apart from Phoenix that is; the group had not seen him around for a while. They did see someone in the darkest corner of the room, wearing a black cloak, no one could sense any Ki coming off of him. He wore a Sedge hat that added to his concealed form.
Thanos sat there eating his Salad because it was healthy for him. Thanos side-eyed the mysterious man, he had a cup of… Something in front of him. The man also had some bacon and eggs. Thanos leaned to Sombra.
"Who the hell is that guy? One of Ryker's men? I sense no Life coming from him." Thanos squinted his eyes as he looked at the man. "He's also wearing some bandages too like a mummy."
“Don’t really care…” Black said silently, slowly eating his pancakes and bacon.
“No clue but I wouldn’t put it past him to have more people working for him” Sombra said to the Titan eating his Salad
Link did not like the feeling of the newcomer, like something that is there, yet isn’t at the same time. Link reached into his pouch to take out the lens of truth just to take a look at the man, wanting to make sure it was actually there, sure enough the man was indeed there.
Kodo and Shiva glanced at each other, before Shiva nodded in the mystery man’s direction. Smoke hissed off Kodo’s fur as he left his steak behind, crossing over to the mysterious person.
“Hey there,” Kodo greeted. “You new round here?”
"Oh hello young Kodo, it is nice to meet you again." The mysterious man's head snapped towards Kodo's. Kodo saw an eye that was blue just like the sky.. "Don't tell me you have forgotten about me already…" The man shook his head and reached for his drink.
“Oh, Nox?” Kodo chuckled. “Sorry. The sedge hat makes you look way more mysterious.” He glanced back at the others. “The others were just curious who you were.”
"Keep quiet, I do not want anyone to know who I am… Yet." Nox took off his mask/helmet, the hat helped conceal it. Only people who are close enough could see his face, Nox looked old, having a white beard and neatly cut white hair. Which was odd to Kodo given that Nox sounded so young, though he did notice Nox hadn no wrinkles. Nox takes a sip of his drink and shudders, the drink smelled like oil. "This my friend, if thy is curious, is oil. I'm just following one of the commandments of Xelor." Nox then downed the whole cup and quickly put on his mask.
Kodo grimaced at the idea of drinking oil, but didn’t question it. “Well… I’ll leave you to it then,” he replied, returning to his mother’s side.
“So,” Shiva asked coyly, subtly grinning at Nox. “Who was he?”
Catching his mother’s coy tone, Kodo took on a cryptic tone of his own. “A mysterious newcomer. One who’d prefer his identity be kept secret.” Kodo chuckled. “Can’t blame him; secret identities are cool.”
Luffy popped up out of nowhere, "Does he poop? He looks like a robot mummy!" Luffy pointed at Nox.
“He probably does,” Shiva replied.
"Who is he? He looks so cool like a superhero too! Let me guess… His power is to… Shoot out his mummy paper and subdue his opponents!" Luffy guessed.
Kodo and Shiva glanced at each other, and Kodo shook his head. “I guess you’ll find out when he decides to show us,” Shiva replied neutrally.
“Can you do something like that, Mom?” Kodo asked. “Like… use the pack link to tie someone up?”
Shiva hummed, lifting her claws and causing the spider web like tendrils to flicker across her claws. “I could try,” she noted, before glancing at the others. “Though, these guys would probably just rip right through them in no time at all. The Pack Link’s not about containing someone after all; it’s about being able to share abilities and memories.”
"Abilities? Huh, could I theor… Theo… th… Could I stop ti-" Luffy found his head stuck into the ceiling. Luffy let out a muffled scream as he tried to get himself down, meanwhile Nox held a hand to his "mouth" to conceal his laughter.
Resisting the urge to chastise the time master, Shiva caught Luffy around the ankle with a pack link, and yanked him down from the ceiling.
"Thanks, who did that anyway? Was it Eric?" Luffy rubbed the back of his head, "I'll leave you guys alone, time to sing some Sea Shanties with Katakuri!" Luffy then vanished from sight, moving super fast.
“Oh-kay,” Shiva replied, glancing at an obvious lack of the shadow man. “Though I highly doubt Eric was behind that.”
"You two know something about the mysterious guy, who is he and what does he want?" Thanos asked the duo.
“He wanted his identity to be kept secret,” Kodo replied.
"I can respect that, I called myself "Thanatos" back then…" Thanos took a sip of his Calming Jasmine Tea that Zabuza had made for him.
The doors swung open and Entity was there, leaning on his scythe, bandaged up. "Sup guys… I'm back… I think." Entity stumbles forward a few steps, going to the counter to order his meal.
"What the hell happened to Entity?" Lucci asked, leaning back in his seat.
Kodo winced. “He got into an altercation with Douglass Bullet,” he replied. “I think.”
Thanos, Lucci, and Nappa jumped to their feet and turned to Entity. "D-Douglass Bullet?!" They all said as Entity winced at the sheer mention of him.
"Yeah… I was doing a secret mission and Bullet didn't like it when I said, "Where is the direct location of the Dragon Balls. So… Here I am now. I'm conserving my God Apples for later." Entity said, paying the woman behind the counter that took note of his order.
"What mission," Entity had chills on his back as he turned around, there stood Katakuri.
"Someone was too shy to ask where the Dragon Balls were and I did them a favor." Entity shook in fear, Katakuri peered down at Entity.
"Damn Bullet, always the idiot, no brains, no brawn. I'm sorry about that," Katakuri replied.
“No brawn?” Kodo asked, glancing at Entity’s bandages. “Begging your pardon, sir, but I think that’s proof of at least some brawn.”
"He sure as hell doesn't show any of that when he's fighting me!" Katakuri laughed, "Ah… Just reminding you all, I do not mean to sound cocky but… I am pretty sure I am the strongest in this room. In this universe besides Ryker, I remember slaying good old Whitebeard, fun times."
Katakuri was then punched in the shoulder by none other than Towa. "You do know you can't be saying things like that, or else due to some magical way someone gains omega super powers to best you."
Black glanced at the voice, seeing the demon lady and frowned, ‘So I was right, it’s all because of you everyone’s at eachothers throats… Towa ’ Black thought.
"It is called reverse psychology my dear, I'm saying that so that I don't get my ass kicked by someone with the power of Friendship. Tsk, the name sounds too girly, I prefer Camaraderie than that. No offense." Katakuri sighed.
“Or perhaps, the Strength of the Pack?” Shiva offered. “That’s what I call it.”
"There are many words for it, Strength of a thousand men, to hear the breath of all things, it goes on and on. Why can't- Ugh, I need to get to my floor of the tower and calm down." Katakuri rubbed his forehead, "I feel a little bit off today. I do not want to feel like bad company. I feel like I'm on the Wrong side of Heaven ." Nox then busts out laughing, Katakuri smiles under his scarf.
Not getting the joke, Shiva hummed softly. “I like ‘Strength of the Pack,’” she mumbled solemnly.
"The Ninja Way is co-" Arkham Knight said out of nowhere, his presence being unnoticed before getting yeeted by Fujitora who appeared from the earth itself.
“Oh goddesses..” Link said with a groan, being reminded of a certain orange-wearing Ninja that said that annoying catchphrase ‘Believe it!’
"Correction, Samurai Way!" The blind samurai cried out before Lord Twigo appeared above Fujitora, Fujitora hit the ground.
“Issho!” Shiva yelped, yanking him away from Lord Twigo.
"Wrong! The Knight Way is cooler!" Lord Twigo laughed. Only for Lucci to stand on top of Lord Twigo.
"False, it's Warrior Way that is cooler." Lucci grinned, putting his hands on his hips… Only to be knocked off of Lord Twigo by Luffy.
"Pirate Way!" They then all jump at each other… before Shiva jumped in the middle and forced them back with her pack links.
“Gentlemen, please!” she barked. “All of you have your preferred terms,” she said diplomatically. “Can we all agree that you like your specific terms?” She indicated each of them in turn. “The Arkham Knight likes ‘The Ninja Way.’ Issho likes ‘The Samurai Way.’ Lord Twigo likes ‘The Knight Way.’ Lucci likes ‘The Warrior Way.’ Luffy likes ‘The Pirate Way.’ And I like ‘Strength of the Pack.’” She lowered her pack links warily. “They’re all perfect for each of us. Can we agree on that?”
They all nodded dumbly before Katakuri said a few words. "Alas, we all agree that the Ninja way is corny." Fujitora nodded as did the rest, Arkham Knight slowly pulled out a pistol. Looking at Shiva and pointing the gun at Katakuri. Nodding as he was looking at Shiva.
Shiva shook her head. “It’s just his opinion,” she insisted. “That doesn’t make it fact.”
Arkham Knight slowly cocks the gun, "Imma do it." Arkham Knight tightened his grip on the gun to make sure Shiva doesn't yank it out of his hand.
Unfortunately, he didn’t count on her pack link. And as she caught his wrist with the white spider-web-like threads, he felt the nerves in his hand go numb, and his fingers slacken, dropping the gun to the ground.
"Good thing I always carry spares." Arkham Knight pulls out another gun… only for Kodo to catch his other wrist, and cause him to drop that one as well. Mother and son pulled the links tight, keeping Arkham knight from going for anymore weapons.
“Will you kindly stop?” Kodo asked.
"Okay." Arkham Knight lied as he raised his boot and pointed it at Katakuri, the boot glowed yellow as it charged up a beam. "IMMA DO IT AND NOBODY IS GOING TO STOP ME!!!!" Arkham Knight laughed.
Shiva glanced around the room. “Is that true?” she asked. “Is no one else going to help us?!”
"Nah, I don't really feel like it." Fujitora replied with a grin, "I wanna see where this goes." The others then nod in agreement, even Nox.
Shiva’s ears flattened, and she groaned in resignation, before wrapping her link tighter, and yanking Arkham Knight off his feet. Hurling him over his shoulder, she smashed him into the ground.
"Well that hurt…"
Shiva jumped onto his chest, and bared her teeth at him. “Stop it,” she warned.
"That's kinda suggestive don't you think?" Arkham Knight laughed to himself, "Also sorry if I harm you but I have decided that I would like to die." Arkham Knight's boots lit up and he blasted off and slammed into a wall, going through it and disappearing.
Shiva let her links shred, watching with a sigh as he disappeared through the wall. Kodo peered through the hole he left before glancing at his mother.
“That was a little suggestive,” he mumbled, causing Shiva to shoot him a glare.
“I’m married to your father!” she snapped.
"BAAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! EVEN KODO AGREES!!!" Lucci laughs as he points at Shiva, who crossed her arms with a pout, "Sorry for pointing at you, that was very rude of me. Thanks Fujitora for lending that piece of clothes, and yes, she fell for it." Fujitora held his laughter in, to little avail as he sensed Shiva staring at him in horror.
“You ‘gave’ that to him?!” she whimpered. “I thought he stole it from you!”
Fujitora then lets out a cackle, "YUP!!!" Fujitora laughed, walking to Lucci, they both did a high five.
“YOU TRAITOR; I THOUGHT YOU WERE DIFFERENT!” Shiva fake-sobbed.
"Stop saying things like that, it sounds like we're married and you caught me cheating." Fujitora said, holding his arms out and getting in a weird position whilst doing the Kermit voice.
Shiva huffed. “Fine,” she said, turning on her paw. “I’ve got training to do anyway.”
"We are four universes ahead of you," Both Lucci and Fujitora said in the Kermit voice, "Pfft-"
“Is that so?” Shiva mused, before promptly sniffing around the diner; looking under the seats of the other fighters, around their plates, and even on the other side of the counter. Finally, she popped her head up with a smirk. “Sorry, but I just can’t seem to find where I asked for your opinion!”
Fujitora then fell on his back, Lucci laughed. "CALL AN AMBULANCE!!!" Fujitora cried out before getting up and doing the "Ok" sign below his waist, unfortunately Shiva looked down and saw it. "But not for me."
Everyone in the room - Shiva included - not including Link - roared in laughter Katakuri held his chest and wheezed.
"Ah… This was fun, do you know what's even more Fun?" Luffy grinned ear to ear.
Kodo cautiously melted into smoke, while Shiva leaned against the counter. “Tell us,” she encouraged.
"Singing about Sea Shanties!" The commanders and any pirate perked up at this. Even the wolves’ tails began to wag eagerly.
“Those are like Howling Nights, right?” Kodo asked eagerly.
"I have no clue what that is but Sea Shanties are songs of the sea! Like this!" Luffy snapped his fingers and cleared his throat. Link quickly left the room, clearly not in the mood for joyous singing.
"What will we do with a drunken sailor?
What will we do with a drunken sailor?
What will we do with a drunken sailor?
Early in the morning!"
Luffy began to sing, suddenly Katakuri and Thanos joined in.
"Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!"
Luffy, Katakuri and Thanos began to sing.
"Shave his belly with a rusty razor
Shave his belly with a rusty razor
Shave his belly with a rusty razor
Early in the morning!"
Katakuri began to kick the air rhythmically with Thanos next to him.
"Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!"
Lucci, Nappa, Fujitora, and even the God that is Lord Twigo joined in on the party
"Put him in a longboat till he's sober
Put him in a longboat till he's sober
Put him in a longboat till he's sober
Early in the morning!"
Nappa sang, now being in a Pirate Outfit.
"Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!"
They all sang, now being in Pirate outfits due to Nappa's ability.
"Stick him in a scupper with a hosepipe bottom
Stick him in a scupper with a hosepipe bottom
Stick him in a scupper with a hosepipe bottom
Early in the morning!"
Fujitora sang, breakdancing like the mad lad that he is, though he was blind he knew how to dance.
Put him in the bed with the captain’s daughter
Put him in the bed with the captain’s daughter
Put him in the bed with the captain’s daughter
Early in the Morning
Sombra sang with glee as his neck was wrapped around Nappa's arm.
"Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!"
"That's what we do with a drunken sailor
That's what we do with a drunken sailor
That's what we do with a drunken sailor
Early in the morning!"
"Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!"
"Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning!"
As the song came to a close, Kodo was practically dancing on his paws. “That IS Howling Night,” he exclaimed.
Shiva nodded, before tilting her head up and howling. At first, all the others heard was a classic wolf howl. However, as her pack link glowed, the howl turned into a music not unlike a flute. Then, the wolves began to stomp their paws, creating a drumbeat. And with the percussion and Shiva keeping up with the flute, Kodo’s howl turned into words.
In the merry month of Spring, from me home I started
Left the girls of Brig, nearly broken hearted
Saluted Father dear, kissed me darling mother
Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother
Then off to reap the gem, leave where I was bed
Cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghosts and goblins
A brand new pair of brogues, rattlin' o'er the bogs
Frightenin' all the dogs on the rocky road to Rubble-land
Ryker appeared from the ground, grinning while wearing green all over his body. He then starts dancing in Irish Tradition.
One two three four five
Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Rubble-Land, Whack fol lol le rah!
Not even questioning Ryker’s appearance, Shiva and Kodo danced with him, as the song continued. Ryker then started to sing along, the more Irish lyrics slightly contrasting with the diamond dog lyrics, but still managing to carry the same beat.
In Jade Wolf Pack/Mullingar that night I rested limbs so weary
Started by daylight me spirits bright and airy
Took a drop of the pure
Keep me heart from sinking
That's the Wolf/Paddy's cure whenever he's on drinking
To see the lassies smile, laughing all the while
At me curious style, 'twould set your heart a bubblin'
An' asked if I was hired, gems/wages I required
'Till I was nearly tired of the rocky road to Rubble-Land/Dublin
Ryker grinned ear to ear, before multiple Irish people came through portals and started dancing. Ryker then spins on his head verily.
One two three four five
Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Rubble-Land/Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah!
Everyone suddenly had a glass of Irish Whiskey except for Kodo, they then raised their glasses high when they reached the "Whack fol lol le rah!"
In Rubble-Land/Dublin next arrived, I thought it such a pity
To be soon deprived a view of that fine city
Well then I took a stroll, all among the quality
Bundle it was stole, all in a neat locality
Something crossed me mind, when I looked behind
No bundle could I find upon me stick a wobblin'
Enquiring for the rogue, said me Connaught brogue
Wasn't much in vogue on the rocky road to Rubble-Land/Dublin
Ryker balanced the Irish Whiskey on top of his head as he danced, Lucci and him were arm in arm kicking the air. Thanos and Katakuri doing the same.
One two three four five
Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Rubble-Land/Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah!
Shiva and Kodo danced side by side, their paws like drums as their howls perfectly encapsulated the beat of the Irish song.
From there I got away, me spirits never falling
Landed on the quay, just as the ship was sailing
The Captain at me roared, said that no room had he
When I jumped aboard, a cabin found for Paddy
Down among the pigs, played some funny rigs
Danced some hearty jigs, the water round me bubbling
When off Holyhead wished meself was dead
Or better far instead
On the rocky road to Rubble-Land/Dublin
Ryker and every Irish man or woman started pounding their feet on the earth.
One two three four five
Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Rubble-Land/Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah!
Kodo almost went for one of the glasses of Irish Whiskey, but Shiva smoothly cut him off, forcing him back as they continued the next verse:
The boys of River’s Mule/Liverpool, when we safely landed
Called meself a fool, I could no longer stand it
Blood began to boil, temper I was losing
Poor old Ruby Isle/Erin's isle they began abusing
"Hurrah me soul!" says I, me pick axe/shillelagh I let fly
Some Pearl Pup/Galway boys were nigh and saw I was a hobble in
With a loud "Hurray!" joined in the affray
We quickly cleared the way for the rocky road to Dublin
Ryker and everyone got out their weapons and raised it high.
One two three four five
Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Rubble-Land/Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah!
Hunt the Hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Rubble-Land/Dublin, Whack fol lol le rah!
Whack fol lol le rah!
Whack fol lol le rah!
At the last ‘Whack Fol Lol Le Rah!’s, Shiva jumped forward, letting her own howl sound loud before Kodo joined her for the second and last ‘Whack Fol Lol Le Rah!’ Holding the note for a full five seconds, the wolves made one last stomp of their paws before ending the song.
"Alright shows ova, get back to Ireland ye lads and lasses." Ryker made portals for the people of Ireland; they waved goodbye to Ryker as they left, Ryker smiled. "God I love it there…"
“‘Rocky Road to Rubble-Land,’” Shiva agreed. “One of the catchiest songs the diamond dog pack had ever introduced me to.”
"We have one of our own, called Rocky Road to Dublin, the capital of Ireland." Ryker sighed, "Alright going to Eric, bye~" Ryker made a portal and stepped in, waving goodbye to Nox specifically.
Ryker walked into the void, looking around and spotting Von Shadow, his hair longer and much more shaggier than before.
"Oh Eric~" Ryker greeted, grinning ear to ear.
Upon instinct Eric flared his shadows all aimed at the king before realizing who was with him. “Oh..” Eric groaned slightly. “It’s just you.” the shadows returned to their master as he continued to train
"Sup ya horsefucker, I see that you have been trainin' you need it… Or should I say needed it. Guess what time it is~" Ryker said.
“It’s time for my match with Doom, isn’t it?” Questioned the Shadow Man
"Ding ding! You have gotten it correct do you want a cookie little man? Who wants a cookie? You do!" Ryker laughed, slapping his knee.
“I rather not,” Eric says approaching the king. “Unless it’s a oatmeal raisin then I will take it”
"Alright," Ryker struck a pressure point around Eric's head and his mouth hung open, Ryker then casually shoves an oatmeal raisin cookie down his throat and strikes Eric in his jaw sealing it shut.
Eric forcefully swallowed the confection before glaring at the king. “While I do enjoy them, I’d prefer to eat it myself” Eric said, forcing his way past him. “Just take me to the ring. The sooner I beat Doom the sooner I can train again”
"I really do enjoy pissing you the fuck off! Anyways, the portal is over here." Ryker points behind him. A portal forming behind him.
Walking through the portal Eric, stepped into the ring of the colosseum, he had noticed Ryker was already in his seat. Thousands of cheering fans screamed in both joy and slight fear from the Shadow Man’s last fight. Shiva sat among them, giving Eric a quiet smile and nod to show she was still rooting for him.
“Did Eric’s hair get longer?” Luna asked getting a closer look at the Shadow Man
"Nigga that shit looks like Yang's andRengoku's! Also Luna can you say Nigga for me?" Thanos turns to Luna seriously.
“I’ll pass Thanos,” Luna said looking back at her coltfriend.
"Please say it, you are dark coated and I'm literally Black." Thanos begged.
Shiva peered at him. “Why do I get the sense that word is similar to your insistence on making ‘female dog’ an insult?” she mused.
"Okay then, say nigga Shiva." Thanos said putting his finger tips together, looking into her soul like a phantom.
“Why?” Shiva asked, before her ears flattened. “Is this like what Nappa did with... that ‘other’ joke?”
"Nope!" Thanos nodded, "Nothing like that!"
“At this point I just ignore whatever he says” Rainbow said sitting atop her cloud
"I will step on you like I did before, you rat with wings." Thanos snapped at her.
“HEY!!” Rainbow said flames licking across her body, Thanos just responded with his fist being heated up by Magma.
Shiva cocked an ear. “She’s a horse with wings,” she corrected. “I’m sure a rat with wings would’ve been smaller.”
"It's hyperbole, bitch. " Thanos told Shiva.
Shiva merely tilted her head, before grinning. “You got me before as Mia,” she said, turning away from him. “But it won’t be so easy to rile me up now.”
"That wasn't to insult you, I was just calling you for what you are." Thanos smiled innocently.
Shiva rolled her eyes. “First, bitch is an insult, and now it’s what I am,” she commented. “I gotta say, I have no idea how you manage to keep it all straight; it must be so confusing.”
"I don't know how either." Thanos shrugged, getting a bowl of pure magma, Thanos pulled out a spoon of rock and he started to chow down on the magma unflinchingly.
“Ryker!” Eric shouted, getting the King's attention. “Where’s Doom? Did you interrupt my training for nothing”
"Doom? Whatever do you need him for?" Ryker replied coyly. "Well newsflash Cookie Bitch! You're not fighting him!"
“Then I win?” Eric asked before heading back to the portal. “Then I’m going to finish my training."
However the portal closed before Eric could enter Ryker shot him a dangerous grin, his eyes began to glow.
"However, since ye aren't fightin' Dr. Doom… ye're fighting someone who you beat through bullshit means. No it is not Black." Ryker teeth began to glow red.
Suddenly a giant clock made out of Wakfu appeared. Through it came the mysterious man from before, however now he was wearing a gigantic gauntlet on his right arm. The man sighed. "Hello, Eric Von Shadow. Been a while hasn't it?."
“Wait I know that voice,” Eric said with a raised eyebrow. “Noximilien? I thought I killed you”
"You did, and I thank you, I was reunited with my family." Nox bows towards Eric.
“Well… That’s a first” Eric said causing Nox to tilt his head in confusion, before nodding in understanding.
"Oh, I see. You are so used to people hating you because they were killed by you,” Nox figured out.
“Yeah, nopony has ever thanked me for killing them,” Eric said, kinda unsure how to feel. “Kinda weird to be honest.”
"As thanks, I killed your parents, and don't worry, I made sure your parents had a gruesome death…" Nox said his "eyes" giving off a heartwarming feeling.
From the stands, Kodo shivered. “That’s… disturbing,” he muttered.
“You didn’t have Eric’s parents,” Shiva reminded him grimly. “And I promise you’ll never go through what he did.”
Kodo still didn’t look placated, as they watched Eric process the information.
“And my younger Brother?” Eric asked . “Do you know what happened to him?”
"Well… I apologize, your younger brother has been slain." Nox held his hat to his chest and looked down.
“Did he...Did he suffer?” Eric asked in sadness. “Or did he go quickly?”
Nox clenched his fists, shaking, he sighed deeply, his voice shaking. "He… Suffered…" Nox put his hand to his eye to try and stop the tears, alas, he was wearing a mask.
“Thank you, for giving me closure on my brother’s fate” Eric whispered in sadness before pulling Nox’s old body from his Shadows. “I do apologize for killing you the way I did”
"I know how it feels to lose family. I tried to go back in time… Reverse all the wrongs I did… I only went back twenty minutes after two hundred years…" Nox grabbed his old body and buried it somewhere in the arena as he vanished and reappeared due to his Time stop.
“I wish you luck in this fight Nox,” Eric said, wiping the tears from his eyes.
"Aww, this is so cute!” Ryker cooed. “Two fools getting along. However as a penalty for cloning yourself and not fighting Black head on, no more doing that by the way, Noximilien is not your only opponent" A portal appeared, sickly purple and black. The sight of it sent shivers down Sombra, Black and Kodo’s backs.
“Then who else will I face?” Eric asked, looking towards the king. “One of your Commanders?”
“No. You will also be facing me, Von Shadow” echoed a voice that Eric and many others recognized immediately.
“No…” Sombra whispered jumping to his feet as the shadowy figure stepping onto the field
Kodo leaped to his feet. “You !” Kodo snarled, nearly racing at the demon before Shiva seized him.
Black looked towards the dark figure, clenching his fists and shaking uncontrollably. His teeth grinded together as his rage induced glare stared into the figure's red eyes. “You… YOU BASTARD!!!!” Black roared, bursting into Super Saiyan 2 and was about to rush from the stands, but Nightmare held him down while using all of her strength to do it.
Lucci and Thanos stood up, looking down at Umbra. "YOU DAMN BASTARD!!! YOU KILLED ALL OF MY FRIENDS!!!!!" Lucci roared. He was about to jump in but Thanos held him back
“Did you or my little host miss me?” The figure shed his shadow revealing a large stallion with a curved crimson red horn, a dark coat and grey and black armor with a blood red sword attached to his hip.
Nox scoffed, looking directly at the stallion. "By Xelor you are lucky we're on teams…" Nox said clenching his fists, his robotic eyes frowning at him.
“UMBRA!!” Eric roared drawing murasama and charging the stallion.
"BEGIN THE FIREWORKS!!!!" Ryker cried out as the match began. Nox crossed his arms and stood there.
Umbra quickly drew his sword as Eric’s blade clashed with Umbra’s causing sparks to fly as the Shadow Man glared at the unicorn
Quickly the whole area turned into an island, surrounded by water and having two volcanoes, the aircraft hovered over the Island. Nox immediately recognized this place, he turned around and there was a clock machine. He quickly went in.
“HAHAHA still haven’t lost any of that anger of yours,” Umbra Mocked as his horn began to glow.
Umbra fired a beam of magic from his eyes sending the Shadow Man back.
“But what I want to know,” Umbra said, turning to Luna. “Is how my daughter has been doing. She is of my blood after all,” Umbra laughed as Luna looked away. “The vile apple never falls far from the dark tree.”
Kodo stepped in front of Luna defiantly. “She is not yours,” Kodo snarled. “And you are nothing! I’d call you a parasite, but that’d be an insult to parasites!”
"Go fuck yourself you dark edgelord!" Thanos barked, crossing his arms before turning to Kodo, "Was that too much?"
Kodo scoffed. “Honestly, it was too little, but I can’t think of anything that’ll hurt him as much as he deserves.”
"Give me a moment…" Thanos got out an ink and quill and a book Entity thrown to him, Thanos began to write. However, before he could come up with anything, Kodo found the eyes of Umbra on him. Scanning his very soul.
Black forced more power against Nightmare, the Parasyte almost losing her grip. “Let go of me Nightmare… ” Black snarled, Nightmare shaking her head as he increased her power.
“Oh...I feel a little bit of myself inside of you, Pup,” Umbra mocked, causing Kodo to narrow his eyes. “And just to let you know, I am that mare’s everything. She would be nothing without her old stallion’s blood coursing through her vile veins.”
Kodo scoffed. “Just the same as you’ve always been,” he snapped back. “Nothing but lies and deceit. The shadows are mocked by your very presence! The night itself would reject you, if it could!”
“Shut Up!!” Eric screamed his powers covering the entire Island in a thick shadow mist. “Luna is nothing like you, She is far more pure than you ever will be Umbra, And she is nothing to you, She’s my everything, and I am her’s” Eric Spoke causing Luna to look at the human with a huge blush on her face
Shadow Hailstorm
Eric formed a bow of shadow before firing a single arrow into the air, the Arrow split apart into hundreds of thousands as they descended on the pair. However all the ones aimed for Nox moved and went straight after Umbra
“Nox!” Umbra shouted to the Xelor.
"What do you want you insufferable simpleton?!" Nox shouted back.
“The Arrows, you foal.”
"Sorry, but I do not recall when that was my problem." Nox laughed mockingly.
Kodo joined in. “Having problems, you pathetic excuse for a king?” Kodo mocked.
“Be silent you dog, before I finish what my other couldn’t! And you!” He turned back to Nox. “Kneel and serve your master” Umbra chanted a orb of magic hitting the Xelor straight in his chest. “Dark Enslavement”
The Xelor then exploded knocking the arrows away, only for Nox to appear next to Umbra and slapped him across his face, "We're teammates you buffoon! I was going to help you anyway." Nox dusted off his hands.
“Umbra doesn’t consider anypony a teammate, all he sees is somepony to boss around!”
"Goodluck then, I'm planning a strategy so please hold him off while I go think of a plan~" Nox booped Umbra on the nose and vanished in a flash of blue light.
Throwing the bow aside and pulling out Obsidian Blood, Eric’s Sword and Umbra’s clashed again as they both glared at each other.
“Brings back memories... doesn’t it Von Shadow?” Umbra laughed pushing Eric back before exchanging swing for swing. “Last our blades crossed, I tried to take the magic that resides in my precious daughter”
“She is no daughter of your’s Umbra” Eric said pushing Umbra’s blade back before slashing his right cheek which in turn caused Eric’s blade glow red
Thanos turned to Kodo, "Watch and learn." Kodo leaned forward eagerly, as Thanos put on his glasses and looked at his book before aggressively throwing his glasses aside and his book.
"You might have killed me once, but n-"
"Can you ever shut up you bitch ass mother fucker, stupid fucking dirtbag! I should get Mr. Popo on your ass to show you true fear! Your father probably left you prick, he probably saw you and said, "oh shit he's ugly!" And left you! Your mother was probably a slut and went off to fuck someone because she was tired of seeing your ugly mug! Your horns are as sharp as a butter knife, Satan wannabe! When Faust made you she probably added "asshole" to the mix, just because fuck it! Knowing you when you grew up in your shitty ass home you probably sucked dick to get money you dog fucker! Your mom was probably so stupid, she thought about giving you a gift! BAH!!! So funny am I right?! You are a worthless mistake, and I thought Eric was the edgiest edgelord ever! Boy when I saw you I stood corrected! You're so goddamn edgy just looking at you will cut me! Your a bag of horse shit, you idiotic, dog fucking, cock sucking, grey, black haired, red horn having, dark magic using, Satan cosplaying, STUPID PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!!" Thanos finished, his Ki flaring up, his words shook the whole aircraft.
Lucci, Nappa and Kodo fell to their knees and bow before Thanos.
"All hail the god of roasts!" They chanted over and over again, laughing.
Umbra just glared at the Titan with magic flaring over his horn. “Embrace the Darkness and enter a sleep-like death” Umbra whispered, firing several orbs of magic at the Titan and those around him. “Dark Slumber”
“THANOS! BLACK! KODO! LOOK OUT!” Eric shouted. But the others were ready.
Kodo immediately jumped up, his pack link seizing the orb that had been directed at him and stopping them in their tracks. “Bring it on!” Kodo dared. “I’ve taken your magic before, and I’ll take it again!”
"Hakai." Thanos said as he fired off a Purple Orb, destroying the orbs like they were nothing. "You fucking cock juggler, your attacks are the equivalent of a roleplayer godmodding."
Black broke out of Nightmares grasp with a powerful shockwave, before proceeding to catched the orb and crushing it in his hands. “No more… ” Black spat.
“My friend’s are stronger than you believe Umbra” Eric said, pushing himself back from the Dark King. “Even if some are assholes I still call them my friends” The Shadow Man said giving Thanos a glance, Thanos gave a thumbs up with a grin.
"I'm touched." Thanos held hand to his chest as a manly tear fell down his face, "I'm not crying, it's just that my eyes are sweating from looking at the edgelord."
“Time to get serious,” Eric said slamming his hand to the ground
"Time, you say?" Both of their attention went to Nox who sat on an elevated platform. "Do you know what time it is?" Nox tilted his head.
“No-no-no-no!” Kodo begged. “At least let him kill Umbra first!”
Nox turned to Kodo, sighing. "I…"
“Please Nox, Umbra first then you and I can fight fairly” Eric said before turning to Umbra. “Unlike this fucker”
"Fine… I'll go collect some seashells and make you a necklace, as well as all of you guys." Nox walked off to the other side of the island, on the beach collecting shells.
“So Which soul will you fight me with?” laughed Umbra.“In case you forgot I was faster than your Reaper. Stronger than your Knight, more powerful than your King, and Your demon form never came close to my power”
Shiva’s ears perked, and she looked to Luna. Glancing back at Umbra, she shielded her mind, and sent a similarly shielded pack link to Luna. “But what about Eric’s fifth form?” she whispered to the dark alicorn.
‘Eric can’t use it unless Sombra tells him to use it’ Luna said to the Diamond Dog. ‘And something tells me the king will not allow him to utter a word to Eric’
“What?!” Shiva turned to Sombra, who was gripping the railing to the point it was cracking
“That fucker should have stayed dead.” Sombra seethed through his grinding teeth, before Shiva sent a pack link to him.
“So make sure he stays dead,” Shiva hissed at him. “Give Eric the word he needs!”
"Let. Me. Beat. Umbra's ass! When he's sent to hell I'm going there to kick his ass!" Thanos roared, "That false King. Even I'm a better King than him. He's such a… Ohhh…" Thanos clenched his fists, "I should hold back before I go on another roasting stream."
"No, don't hold back, please!" Katakuri said out of nowhere.
“Agreed,” Kodo said. “Give that edgelord lump of clods what he deserves!”
Thanos pulls out a book, ink, and quill, "Alrighty, I will though, this one isn't going to be as long, however, it will cut through him deeper than any blade could." Thanos began writing away, Lucci looked over Thanos' shoulder to look at what he's coming up with.
“You won’t be able to face this one” Eric said
Savage Shadow Soul: Soul of the Savage Reaper
Shadow swirled around Eric, however instead of increasing his size it just changed his arms, legs and face. His arms and legs were nothing but thick bones while his face showed a pure white skull with a single red orb in his left eye socket. Eric dropped his sword letting it sink into the shadows as his Scythe emerged before the Reaper of the Empire
"That is so cool." Nox commented, sitting on top of a rock, making seashell necklaces.
“I have greatly improved since we last met Umbra,” Eric rasped out, taking the weapon in hand before putting a leg back behind. “You were indeed faster than my Reaper, but are you faster than the Savage Reaper?”
Eric blasted forward, several shockwaves visibly blasting the land around him as he left the entire area behind the Shadow Man completely destroyed, Umbra’s eyes grew wide at the level of destruction as he felt Eric phase right through his body. Shockwaves littered the area surrounding the Dark Unicorn as he tried to locate the Shadow Man
“He has indeed improved,” Sombra said, drawing both Diamond Dogs and the Titan to him.
“How?” Kodo asked. “How has he improved?”
“Normally when he uses his reaper form he basically runs around, but he had trouble making sharp turns with it, normally he kicks off an adjacent wall or tree to quickly move back to his opponent” Sombra explained before showing the group he was using magic to see Eric’s moments. “But now he’s using the Moonwalk technique to kick off the air itself, he’s also kicking at with such force he’s causing massive shockwaves” the Former king said before shuddering. “I shudder at the thought of how stronger his other forms are.”
Nox writes down what Sombra explained in a piece of paper, "Noted." Nox nodded before tending back to his necklace making.
"Well… Time to make up another form." Thanos then flips a page and writes down some ideas.
Slashes and gashes began to cover the Dark King quickly angering the stallion. “Shield Thyself from the Light.” Umbra chanted his horn flaring in magic as an orb formed around Umbra. “Dark Barrier”
Eric’s scythe hit the barrier, causing arcs of dark electricity to fly as Eric forced the Scythe to go deeper.
“You should know nothing can pierce my magic,” Umbra laughed as Eric backed off
“You are still nothing but a coward Umbra” Eric said magic wisps forming from his red eye
“And he gives yapping dogs a bad name,” Kodo added.
"Hush now Kodo, I'm going to make sure he wished he'd never been born, via words." Thanos said like the sage that he is. Lucci and Nappa grinned eagerly.
“I am no coward, I am the Dark King!” Umbra shouted his horn glowing “Recover what you have lost” Umbra said his injuries healed from his spell. “Dark Rejuvenation”
"You can not defeat me a se-"
"Excuse me you pathetic excuse for a King," Thanos cut Umbra off again. "I would like to say how… UGLY YOU ARE YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!!!" Thanos threw aside his things again. Lucci and Nappa laughed giddily.
"Umbra you have been nothing but a pain to everyone around us, you're a nuisance, a bully! Walking around like you own the place but we all know you own nothing. You take what's special of others so you can look at people and laugh at their pain so you can feel some type of closure! You're nothing, trying to marry a woman forcefully if disgraceful! DISHONORABLE!!! Dishonor on you, dishonor on your family, and dishonor on everything you hold dear, oh wait YOU HAVE NOTHING!!!! Nada, nothing at all, you're a slimy little asshole. Walking around like there's a stick up your ass! If you dare harm anyone for your pleasure, I will shove my fist so far up your ass that I'll control you like a puppet. Because that is what you are, a puppet! You think of yourself as the puppeteer, you're wrong, you're the puppet, the npc, you're a player in this game called life. And. You. Lose. You failed against me, Shiva, and Eric. You're nothing but a failure, and you'll always be. You are a moronic piece of utter garbage. I have no words for you, oh wait I fucking do! I hope you step on a lego, you pony equivalent of a participation award. Bitch ass mother fucking NIGGA!!!" Like before Thanos' words shook the aircraft.
“OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!” Kodo howled in glee.
"GET DESTROYED!!!!" Nappa and Lucci laughed clutching their stomachs. They both fell down and hit the ground, wheezing as tears of joy fell down their cheeks.
“Hey! He’s healing aren’t you going to do about that Ryker” Rainbow shouted to the king.
"Are you going to stop being gay?" Ryker replied with a snark.
“But your rules stated no healing” Maud said, holding an angered Rainbow back. “Umbra has clearly healed himself.”
Shiva pulled up her magic, revealing Ryker’s rules. She made the words ‘No Healing’ glow.
"Why, you all ask? We-he-he-hell… This is the only time he's gonna be healing, any more and I'm killing him." Ryker smiled wonderfully.
“Sombra. Does Umbra’s barrier spell have a weakness?” Luna asked coming behind the unicorn
“No.” Sombra said blankly. “That particular spell is unbreakable, It has the ability to withstand every dragon in the Dragon Lands”
Kodo gaped at him. “Hax!” he growled. “The Umbra that possessed me couldn’t stand up to Day Breaker’s Sun Beam! I got ten ribs broken and nearly lost my eye; are you telling me he could’ve kept that from happening?!”
“I honestly don’t think Eric can break through it by himself” Sombra then smiled seeing the magic around his friends body. “But Eric has already figured that out”
Down on the island Eric backed away from the shielded King.
Nox looked down from above, crossing his arms, "I apologize Eric but…" Three mummies with armor and weapons appear, one had feminine features, wielding a bow and arrow. The other had a gigantic shield, armored in Knightness. The last was armored up like iron man. "Meet Grab, Shield and Light."
Kodo clutched his ears. “Oh, no…” he mumbled.
"Go get them my children…" Nox muttered under his breath, they shot off like rockets. As Eric tried to break through the shield, his arm was caught in a… Hand? Not just any hand, a sea prism stone hand, the wielder was far away. He had stretched his arm out. Grab then slammed Eric down, he was buried in rocks, Light then shot an explosive arrow of pure electricity and light at him. Making an explosion that engulfed half the island. Eric was surrounded by dust as he got up, but he was then bashed by a shield out of the dust cloud and into several trees. Grab appears behind Eric and puts him into a full nelson. Suddenly, several Light's appear, seemingly cloning themselves, they raise their arrows… and shot Von Shadow mercilessly. As the dust settled… Eric was still locked in a full nelson, Shield appeared before Eric and gut punched Eric, his off hand wielded a gauntlet of Sea Prism Stone. Shield repeats the process over and over again mercilessly until he coughs out blood.
As the Shadow Man was beaten down, Kodo nearly lunged off the ship, Shiva snagging him with her pack links.
“No-no-curse-it-all-NO!” Kodo wailed, seething at the sight of Umbra standing smugly back as Shield wailed on Eric. “Let me loose! I’ll gut that sick shadow-shaming clod with my bare claws!”
“Kodo, you can’t interfere!” Shiva hissed, yanking him back like an owner with an overly aggressive dog.
“They’re using Sea-Prism Stone to negate his Devil Fruit abilities,” Sombra explained, shaking his head. “He’s an expert in swordsmanship, however this Nox fellow has caught him off guard” The Unicorn exhaled deeply. “And because of Umbra, Eric is only focused on him”
"So is Nox." Lucci replied to Sombra.
“Nox isn’t the one that possessed us,” Kodo snapped. “Nox didn’t kill your friends, Lucci. And Nox isn’t…” He paused, his anger briefly quelled by logic. “Okay, he is kinda standing back and letting his minions do stuff… b-but the principle still stands!”
“Eric’s only saving grace is if Umbra’s nature gets the better of him,” Sombra said for the first time praying on Umbra’s nature
Shield continues to gut punch Eric again and again. Nox sighed, "I'm sorry Eric but… I kinda have to win, I'm going to wish for a really cool toy that my daughter wants so… Yeah." Nox sighed as he heard another whack.
“I..get..it…” Eric said blood dripped from his nose. “You do...what make you...children happy”
"You were once a father yourself… Weren't you?" Nox looked in the distance, watching the sun as it sets. Hearing the waves brush against the sand.
“I was...In another Timeline” Eric said smiling. “Where I killed Sombra and saved my late wife.”
"Heh… I wish I could have done that… But time travel is… Pardon my language Von Shadow, I deeply apologize. Time travel is a load of bullshit." Nox stood next to Eric as he got punched again.
Without warning a red blade lifted Eric’s chin. “Touching. But this one’s head belongs to me” Umbra said, pushing Nox and Shield away as he moved his sword to the Shadow Man’s neck.
Kodo’s teeth bared, struggling against Shiva’s bindings. Shiva herself looked away, her fur bristling as she contained her own rage.
"Don't." Nox warned, frowning at the Dark King. "Please don't."
“Nopony orders me around” Umbra said pointing his sword at the Xelor
"Try me, let's see if you have the time to cut me before Light shoots your head." Nox said as Light held an arrow to the back of Umbra's head, made out of pure light and electricity.
“Do your children like spells?” Umbra asked smiling
"Yes, they like spells that I do, but they Hate dark and twisted spells like yours." Nox's frown deepens. Readying his hands to stop time.
“Pierce the Darkness and bring a halt to the flux of Time” Umbra said as a bubble formed around them “Dark Chronos.” Umbra then plunged his blade into Eric’s stomach and into Grab’s as well
Suddenly the bubble shattered, and Grab took two steps back, Nox raced to Grab's side to check on him. He had a wound in his chest.
“Go after him,” Eric ordered, pulling himself to the downed Xelor despite the blood coming from his body. “I’ll heal him, just leave me a piece of that asshole”
"I'm okay dad, it's just a flesh wound, oh wait I don't have flesh! YOHOHOHOHO!!!" Grab laughed, Eric's blood dripped onto Grab's body. Nox started to breathe heavily, his hands became shaky, Nox stood to his feet.
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"MY BABY BOY!!!!!" Nox roared a deep blue aura burst around him, crackling like Fire, Nox clenched his head and let out a scream of rage. The scream shook the whole planet, Nox roared and shot to the skies.
"HAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!" Nox roared yet again as his blue fiery aura expanded, his eyes locked onto Umbra's, Umbra's eyes were now full of fear. Nox shot off towards Umbra, he formed a hammer made out of Wakfu and slammed it against Umbra, Umbra was shot off from the island.
As the Dark King went flying, Kodo relaxed against his bindings, his enraged howls turning into howls of victory.
“Looks like I was right about Umbra” Sombra said with a smug grin on his face
Before Umbra could hit the water, Nox with his dual wielding Wakfu hammers struck Umbra above the clouds, Nox decided to play a game of ping pong and knocked Umbra around.
As Nox was raging out on the Dark King, Eric was using his magic to heal Xelor despite the sword still in his stomach. “Don’t worry kid, I’ve got you.”
"Pfft, Worried? Me? You should be worried about Nox destroying the island. I'm not alive anyway, Nox made us two hundred years ago as "replacements" for his old family. He treats us like we are one of his children and I… Thank him." Grab chuckles.
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s by blood or by bond Family is family” Eric said looking to the ship holding his family
Suddenly the whole Island shook as Umbra was slammed into the volcano, making a crater. As Umbra bounced off of the mountain he was SMACKED by another blow from Nox's hammer. Nox dispelled his hammers and slowly fell down, he stood above Umbra. He had dark blue aura radiating off of him, with the intent to kill, Nox grabbed Umbra by the head and raised him high. Nox then adds pressure, making the Dark King scream as he clutches Nox's hand. He throws the Dark King up before grabbing his leg and slamming Umbra onto the ground, making a cracking sound, Umbra let out a scream of agony.
"Oh we're not done yet." Nox said sadistically, slamming Umbra again and again, on his back, his chest, each slam made a fracture on either side of his body. Nox then grinds Umbra across the volcano before throwing him into the air and appearing before him, sword in hand. He then slashes the Dark King across his chest.
"Oops, didn't mean to make you draw blood!" Nox laughed before slamming both of his feet into Umbra, the Dark King hit the earth, shaking the whole island. Nox fired a blast at Umbra, then he did it again and again, Nox then reeled back his legs… And kicked him right in the balls.
As Umbra’s shriek sounded into the ship, Kodo, Sombra, and Lucci all suppressed grins and laughs.
"You don't deserve any more children." Nox then threw Umbra up, he flew towards Umbra and punched Umbra in his abdomen. Umbra coughed out an ungodly amount of blood. Then Umbra was held in place by some unknown force, Nox kicked Umbra up but not by much. Umbra was again held in place, his back facing the ground, Nox crossed his arms in an x position, putting them outwards before opening his arms apart, throwing them to the sky. A pillar of pure Wakfu engulfed the Dark King, everyone heard a screech of agony as a mountain sized mushroom cloud followed after.
"...Fatherly rage right here." Thanos pointed out taking a sip of his Hetap. "Fatherly fucking rage…"
Shiva shook her head in respect. “The sign of a true Alpha Male,” she agreed.
As the mushroom cloud cleared Umbra was on the ground bloodied up, Nox glared down at Umbra. Dragging Umbra to Eric as Umbra tried to grab onto something to escape Nox's wrath.
Seeing the wound healed Eric got to his feet and pulled the sword from his body, Grab stood up fine as a flower. Nox comes into view and tosses Umbra before Eric, Nox places his signature sword to his neck.
“No…” Eric said dropping the blade and binding Umbra in Shadow tendrils. “We should see him suffer,” Eric said, drawing Murasama from his shadows. “Wouldn’t you agree, Nox?”
"Yes, I do agree, but not some any form of torture, no, no, no…" Nox laughed an ounce of crazy laughter following.
“Just watch” Eric put the blade to Umbra’s bare skin. “This is Murasama, the one-cut killer. A single cut delivers a curse that makes the victim suffer every second of their death, wouldn’t you say this is fitting for somepony who harmed your son?”
"...Can I use a spell to make it happen for all eternity?" Nox asked the Shadow Man.
“You sir...are my kind of Sadist” Eric said with a smile. “Do it”
"Time to execute Order 66. Time Magic: Infinite Loop!" Nox said as Eric nicked the Dark King’s skin causing a series of marks to extend from the wound and cover his body
Every second Umbra suffered until his heart stopped only for time to rewind and continue when Eric cut him
"Can we drop him at the bottom of the ocean so he gets cut and drowned repeatedly?" Nox recommended to the shadow man.
“With pleasure” Eric said walking up to the king
Eric covered his leg with Shadow, Haki, and igniting it, triggering Devil Leg. Eric stood in front of the king before his expression showed rage and kicked him in the face which sent him through the dirt and off the island.
Up on the ship, Kodo sighed, and sat back down, shutting his eyes and breathing. Shiva rubbed his back, leaning against him for support.
Black watched the Umbra sink to the bottom of the ocean, anger still plastered on his face. But the Saiyan had calmed down enough to sit down, but still remained in his Super Saiyan 2 state.
"...Was I roasting him too much?" Thanos turned to Black with a raised eyebrow.
“Just shut it Thanos, I just saw my second worst nightmare face to face again…” Black hissed, hanging his head low.
"...Good fight though…" Thanos said with a shrug.
“...” Black remained silent, past memories running through his mind. Nightmare sat down, sweat rolling down her forehead as she used all of her strength to hold the Saiyan back.
"Er… You look like you could use some water. Take it." Thanos got a bottle of water out of nowhere.
“Thank… you,” Nightmare thanked the Titan, taking the bottled water and chugging it. She let out a sigh and layed down on the bench. “Holding back an enraged Saiyan is Tartarus…”
"Tell me about it…" Thanos chuckled to himself opening a can of Hetap and taking a sip.
Back on the island, Eric dropped to a single knee feeling the pain of the sword that was once in his gut
“I should fight you at full strength, but I don’t have it in me” Eric apologized before looking at the Xelor. “But I still need to win.”
Nox held out a hand for a handshake, Eric took it, as they shook hands Nox blinked a few times. "...Can I please render you unconscious without trouble?"
“I need to win, Someone needs that wish more than me, but they already lost”
"I can do it for you, I figured out a way to entertain my kids, making a video game based on Teamwork to defeat the Dark Lord, Numbra." Nox said.
“Clever,” Eric chuckled standing to his feet. “But I feel it would mean more if it came from me”
"You're talking about Shiva, are you not?" Nox tilted his head as the two continued to handshake.
“I am,” Eric said, his shadows flaring. “I really don’t want to fight you when you have done so much for me.”
"I'm a family man, I believe it would make more sense for me to give her the wish." Nox said with a warm look in his eye. Silence… The two continued their handshake. They both stared into each other's soul.
"I insist that you give up, I do not want to harm you after helping my child." Nox said, in the exact same way Eric told him he would not like to fight him. "Now please, surrender." Nox peered down at the Shadow Man.
“Fine” Eric whispered out letting go of Nox’s hand
"Good, now just close your eyes because this is only going to hurt… A lot." Nox snapped his fingers and Eric exploded. A huge dust cloud filled the island.
"Wait I could've let him use the play dead spell! Ah!" Nox clenched the sides of his head. He slowly looked down and saw Eric's unconscious body, lying there. Nox then picks Eric up. "Hm, I do wonder what is inside of that mind of yours, death, pain, sorrow?" Nox touched Eric's forehead and paused. He saw Eric and Luna standing in the palace sculpture garden of Canterlot. His black violin in hand playing ‘Can’t help falling in love with you’ as he approached the princess who looked at him tears forming in her eyes, The scene changed to the deck of Eric’s Ship as he and Luna Dance under the stars accompanied by his music, both laughing and smiling as they cherished each others presence. The scene then turned to a storm riddle sky as Eric sat alone on the deck defeated, his violin broken in front of him with a broken blue horn next to it.
"Aw, how romantic and tragic… Romance and Tragedy go together like bread and butter." Nox chuckled.
“Eric!” Luna as well as Sombra came down to the island and stopped in front of the Xelor. “Is he alright?”
"He's quite alright, come here young lady I have something to show you." Nox waved Luna close.
‘It would be best to show her only the good parts of the memory.’ Nox thought as Luna approached, when she got close Nox pointed a finger to her head whilst he had the finger to Eric's head. He then projects the memories of Eric over to Luna Sol.
Luna gasped in surprise seeing the memories playing through her beloved’s dreams. “But..he hasn’t gotten his wish...How was he able to…”
“My guess… Is that hearing Umbra speak to you like that caused Eric to realise he doesn’t need a wish to love you with all his heart." Nox said to the Lunar Princess, "For he already does." Nox had a nice look in his eyes, standing up and picking Eric up.
“Here” Luna said, handing a black dragon fruit shaped Devil Fruit to the Xelor. “It’s Eric’s token, eat it and you’ll gain his power to minimal degree, you also be able to call upon us if and whenever you need our help”
"Thank you, however I follow Xelor's Commandments and I'm first mate on Shank's ship so I do not believe I will be eating this Devil Fruit. However the thought is appreciated." Nox nods to Luna.
“Thank you Nox,” Luna said, bowing her head to the Xelor. “You have brought peace to not only Eric, but myself and Sombra” The Unicorn bowed as well to the Xelor
"Also beware, Azula, Pain, and Enel were sent to recruit you there is still someone in your Universe. However I sent a message to him already, he's on the Island of Graves. His name? Well he is known as King. That's his name, just King." Nox chuckled.
“Thank you for the information, Noximilien,” Sombra said, raising from his bow. “This will be valuable once we return to our world”
"I know it will, if you excuse me, I must take Eric to the Infirmary." Nox does a peculiar hand sign and reappears Eric not on him. "I'll just put this fruit somewhere, I shall give it to someone who truly needs it. Now, I'll go talk to Link, he seems like a nice fellow." Nox vanishes from sight and appears before Link in the arena stands.
"Hello." Nox said casually, his children landed behind him.
“Hi.. Something on your mind?” Link asked curiously.
"I just thought about how we are both so similar, think about it, we use our resources cautiously, we fight with our brains, I could go on and on." Nox chuckled.
“Hey, gotta make due to what I’ve got rather than get what I need.” Link said with a nod.
"Not to mention we use light arrows." Nox commented, Light deadpans at Nox, "She uses light arrows…"
“But which kind? Holy, or just bright burning light?” Link asked as there was a difference between the two.
"Yes." Light says blankly, Nox rubs his "eyes"
"Excuse my daughter's lack of… Something, the words leave me. She means both, combining both she can destroy evil and stun the opponent." Nox said putting two fingers apart then putting them together.
“My light arrows just causes evil targets to evaporate. The only time it stuns is if they can resist it, much like Ganondorf- I mean the original, not the one here.” Link said, quickly correcting himself as to not give the wrong idea.
"Hm, well I could give your arrows an upgrade and even some tutoring. " Light grinned, Grab just slowly face palmed.
Link shook his head. “I don’t believe you can,” he said as he took out an arrow. “Alot of mine regenerate from my inventory using the void as energy to reshape.” he explained to Light.
"Huh, that stinks but what about the tutoring~?" Light asked right before Grab shut her up via putting a hand over her mouth. Shield and his knightliness looked down at Link, he showed off his hefty shield and looked at Link's Hylian Shield.
"You have a pretty nice shield, fine craftsmanship." Shield noted with a nod.
“Would it truly be of craftsmanship? I mean, I’ve had it since I was displaced. For all I know, it's a copy rather than something made by the dragon Lanayru.” Link explained.
Shield stood there in silence, "I… See…" Shield said as he took a step back, then another step. Nox sighed.
"Don't mind him, he's the oddball of the group." Nox then tips his large sedge hat to Link. "It has been a pleasure meeting you, I must go now, to replenish my energy."
“Alright, have a good one.” Link said with a casual wave, a little bothered by how short lived the conversation was.
As they turned around to leave Link heard them talking to each other. "He was fun, too bad it was short lived." Grab laughed.
"Also too bad he didn't take my hints…" Light grumbled before she was slapped on the back of the head by Nox.
"He has a lover already, Princess Lunar Sol." Nox frowned, Light let out a swear as they left. Link sat there alone with the Purple Mr. Clean, Edgy Saiyan, and the others. Link shook his head in amusement as this may end up as a conversation piece to tell to Luna. The hylian mentally paused, thinking how Luna would respond to it. “...She’d probably berate me saying I should have taken the hint as she’d want me to be happy.” he mentally said with a frown.
"Dew it." An unknown voice spoke through Link's mind, "Dew it…" the voice repeated, somehow Link could feel a grin. Feel.
“...What the flying pot…” Link asked in confusion as he looked around trying to find the voice that sounded too much like Palpatine.
"You know you want to…" The Palpatine voice spoke to Link, "Feed your primal instincts Link."
“Hey-hey-hey!” Link mentlaly said as he waved his hand in the air as if there was a thought bubble floating about. “One does not simply dew it on the first go.” Link mentally said as he held his hand in the shape of an O. “Damn jedi mindtricks.” he said with a frown
"One does not simply walk away from your literal first time having sex with an elf." The Palpatine voice countered, "She wants it, you want it, the time has come… Execute Order 69."
“Goddess damn it.” Link said with a groan followed by a sigh, soon getting up to go somewhere to cool his mind off. Being the only humanoid in a world of ponies, even with a goddess who chose to live their life in a smaller form to be among their creation, there are just some things that cannot be replicated.
"Bruh, don't run away from your problems!" The Palpatine voice guy was no longer doing the voice. Instead his true voice came out, it was a deep voice. "Get it on man! She's an elf, she has pointy ears, like yours! For fuck's sake man!"
“You only saying this so you can see some elf action or there some demented planned behind those words?” Link asked mentally, curious of who this mystery voice was.
"CHRIST!!! I'm helping you, you feel uncomfortable when you're dating four-legged Luna and you're uncomfortable when ya fuck a literal fucking horse. She has qualities that Luna doesn't, she can stand on two legs, she can use a bow and arrow, she can talk normally, she isn't a fucking horse! Plus I can't see anything unless George tells me." The voice mini-ranted.
Link stopped in mid-step as the telepathic voice in his mind spoke some words of truth. “...We’re aware of that fact, mr. mystero, but I still love her despite the difference, but you are right about everything else.” he said as he brushed his unkempt blond hair out of his eyes.
"SEE?!?!? I may be wrong personally wise but not physically! I mean look at her, she's gorgeous, the white hair, the intimidating yet calming red eyes… Also, the name is Chill, I'm reaching out to you by committing several war crimes." Chill spoke.
“Chill, what are you doing, you know we can’t interfere!” A second voice joins in.
"Shut! I do what I want! I'm trying to get my man Link some… Oh god I shouldn't say that, no, no, no, no…" Chill chuckled to himself.
“Why can’t you just be quiet about this crap and just watch with a bucket of popcorn… Like me. ” Link then heard the sound of crunching popcorn. “Sorry about this Link, the names ShirtMechanic. ”
They both hear the sound of a table being flipped over, "NO!!! I WILL HAVE THIS!!! I WILL FUCKING LET FUJITORA DROP THE SUN RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!!!!! Sorry Link, but anyways, get it on like Don- Wait that's beastiality. Just fuck her dude." Chill said blankly.
The conversation drops suddenly as a third voice entered. “Are you boys done?” a female voice asked, belonging to the goddess Farore of another timeline.
"No, FUCK LIGHT LINK!!! Do it! Fuck her in the down under! You ne-" Chill was cut off.
“ENOUGH ALREADY FOR DIN’S SAKE!” Link shouted, drawing attention to the others nearby. “I’ll give it a try, but I’m not promising anything,” he said with a groan as he headed down the stairs, not having any idea where Light’s room would be.
"WOOOO YEAAAAHHH BABY THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!!!!! WOOOO!!!" September by Earth Wind and Fire plays full blast. Chill laughing in the background evilly.
“I guess I’ll wish you luck Link…” ShirtMechanic said with a sigh. “But you’ve gotta stop interfering, Chill, soon you’ll break the space time continuum. Now I’m gonna have to make a phone call. ” Shirtmechanic says with a sigh, the sound of footsteps walking away. Soon, a phone began to ring, the sound of the Doctor Who theme began to play.
"When I lose my virginity! They say saving your virginity until your 40 gives you superpowers. I need them…" Chill laughs evilly.
“This is as crazy as being chased by ponies when I was summoned during mating season.” Link said with a sigh. “What is with the multiverse and its constant need to have me do it with others?” he mentally said to himself. Links got urges, but he’s got standards of what he can and can’t accept.
"Have fun~" Nox, Shield, and Grab said as they walked past Link, there was a room that had a bow and arrow there. Link raised his fist, then paused as he ran her appearance through his mind of what exactly could be an attraction to her. So far, he did like the white hair and dark skin combination, but everything else about her was a blank other than the few words they exchanged. Taking a nervous breath, Link gives the door a gentle knock. The door slowly opens and out peeks Light, there were no bandages around her like a mummy, she had some… Elf clothes on. Light's crimson eyes peering into Link's.
"Oh hello, what brings you here?" Light grinned coyly, twirling her long silky white hair.
“I got curious about the tutoring you mentioned.” Link said as it was the only conversation starter he could think of.
"Why come on in my student. " Light stepped aside and opened the door, she then closed it. The room was… Forestry and natural. Grass for the flooring, no plastic whatsoever, the walls were painted to replicate trees and the animals. There were some targets here and there with arrows stuck to them, the bed however was green as grass, but the wood that supported the mattress was so… Majestic.
"Welcome to my room, or should I say my indoor camp." Light welcomed Link inside her home, there was a chest next to the bed. "Don't mind the chest, it's where I keep my arrows… Yeah Dad may or may not have threatened the man who was selling it to lower the price on that."
“Gotta admit, you’ve got some good taste here.” Link said as he looked around the room that was made to look more outside.
"It took a lot of time and effort to make this come along, when I say time I mean no time, my Dad can kinda stop it whenever he pleases. He can also allow people to walk around while time is stopped, so the correct terminology would be; it took no time and a lot of effort to make this come a long." Light laughed at her little jest.
“Well, freezing time does have some benefits. Certainly can keep the place clean too.” Link said after taking a moment to run the concepts of time through his head.
"Well, time for the tutoring." Light rubbed her hands, she bent down and reached for the chest, unlocking it with a key that resembled an arrow. When she opened it, the brightness could rival that of when any Link opens a chest in their game. Light got two arrows, she walked on over to Link. "One for you and one for me, but now hold on, demonstration time." Light pulled out her bow which was massive, Light held up the bow and pointed it towards the targets. Light closed her eyes and readied her bow, she pulled back the arrow… And fired it off, landing a bullseye in the middle.
"And that's how it is done, now you try landing a bullseye with your eyes closed." Light moved next to the Hylian.
At first, Link was going to object, but paused to think about it. He reached into his pouch to pull out his own bow, which wasn’t as impressive nor as big as Light’s own; a simple wooden bow with what looks to be metal guards on the front with a handle in the middle. Link took aim at the target, then took a gentle breath to steady his arms. The hylian closes his eyes to release the arrow. Link was good at shooting at stationed targets, however with his eyes closed, his aim might be a little off. Despite the firm arms, Link's hands were shaking, seemingly nervous he might miss. However Link felt something touch him, a hand wrapping around his, Light had mimicked Link's stance perfectly like they were one.
"It's alright you don't have to be nervous, just keep calm and let the wind blow through your hair. Wait, there's no wind, let me fix that." Light starts to blow in Link's ear, he felt a kind of comforting feeling to it, like he truly was out in a forest. He felt the sunlight against his skin, he heard the trees shake in the wind and he heard the birds chirping. Link had become one with nature and nature had become one with him. "And… Fire." Both Link and Light let go, the arrow had tore through the one Light had shot previously and hit the bullseye. Light backed away from Link and Link opened back his eyes.
“..By Farore’s breath.” Link said in shock as he lowered his arm. “That’s a r-” he paused to look at Light. “That’s a deadshot that’d make a fable archer legend jealous.” he said, avoiding having to explain who Robin Hood was.
"You mean Robin Hood? Nox used to tell me stories about him, he's a part of my inspiration, along with Green Arrow, Hawkeye, Evangeline, I could go on. There are so many powerful archers, I feel like they are underrated, to feel the wind and become one with nature is a good feeling. I know that first hand," Light walked up to the arrow they had shot together, taking it out of the target. Light throws it to Link, "You keep it, I have much more." Link caught it in his hand as he moves it over to place in his pouch as a good reminder of the lesson.
“There’s another archer I know, although not as impressive as the ones you mention, but she was someone who wanted to prove herself she wasn’t just a pretty face. Now, I don’t know her personally, but she could exist across the multiverse one of those days, If I’m not misremembering, I think she was scottish woman by the name of Princess Merida, she was able to do what Robin Hood, but in a tight dress that restricted her movements.” Link said as he still remembered the orange haired woman from the movie Brave.
"Hm, another fine addition to my collection of archers I would like to dual." Light reaches for a book that was hidden under the bed, she catches it, "And noted." She writes Merida's name down.
“Heh, trying to become the very best archer, huh?” Link asked curiously.
"You could say that. I already dualed every single archer in my Equestria, Shining Armor, Evangeline, every single Cra there lost to me. So me, Nox, and my brothers, Grab, Shield, and Brute searched the multiverse for warriors. My total win to loss ratio is… 9999 wins to 7 losses, I won't say who they are, I already surpassed them." Light flashed a cocky grin.
“Were they at least normal and not all those planet bustering and ultimate attacks that alot of the fighters here have shown?” Link asked, and judging by his tone of voice, he wasn’t a fan of such power, Link always believed you needed more than just a bulldozer.
"They were pretty average people, one was from early Japan, the guy was a simple rice farmer but in reality he was a retired general." Light chuckled, "The others were from planets that were pretty average, all of the people with good muscle and basic training of archery are the ones who lost to me. Just because you're ripped doesn't mean you can shoot your arrow farther or quicker than I can."
“Well, unless you’re some giant named Gough who can shoot down a dragon, which by the way, was blind when he shot it down.” Link explained with a shrug. “The multiverse is vast, you’d be surprised what kind of characters you could meet or find out can exist.”
"I remember meeting a man who turned himself into a pickle and called himself Pickle Rick, the funniest thing I've seen. Jokes aside the multiverse is vast, the people from each planet of their respective universes are amazing at their own talents. They have good personalities, kind of like you, Link. You're by far the most interesting warrior I've met, not aiming to get stronger, faster, or tougher. I respect that," Light looked to Link with a smile.
Link had a confused expression on his face as she mentioned someone being turned into a pickle. Link didn’t understand the joke, but nodded not wanting to make it awkward. “Really now, you know me for only a few minutes and you say that?” Link said with a chuckle, not of mockery, but of amusement. Link wasn’t sure if she was being friendly or trying to break the ice.
"Uh…" Light had a little blush on her face, "I-Uh… I don't know what to say about that." Light chuckled softly. Link blinked when he saw her blush.
“..Wait, her feelings are legit, it's not a lust being driven?” Link mentally said in disbelief. This was going alot different than the other times someone had interest in him.
"DEW IT!!! Dew it Link, the time has come, execute Order 69!" Chill ordered the Hylian Champion in his Palpatine voice.
“Go jump in the deepest lake of hylia..” Link mentally said in annoyance.
"Alright bet." Link hears a splash and sounds of joy, "You can't beat me! I have the power of- Wait is that a monster anime girl down there? OH GOD IT GRABBED MY LEG!!!" Link then has a slight smirk on his face.
"Ara, ara~" The monster girl mused.
"Wait, is that the monster girl version of Morpheel? NOOOOOO!!!! I'M NOT GETTING SUCKED OFF TODAY!!! VIRGIN SHIELD ACTIVA-" Suddenly Link only heard a long beep. "Your call has been disconnected, please try again later."
Link was mentally amused when he heard ‘sweet victory’ play in his mind. “Right, thank Nayru that’s taken care of.” he mentally said as he snapped back to reality op there goes gravity… Link mentally groaned how his mind went on auto pilot there.
"Are you alright? You kinda blanked out on me for a second." Light cocked an eyebrow.
“Yea, I’m fine. Just a lot of thoughts on my mind..” Link said with a smile to Light.
"...I'm running out of things to say, uh… Ya like jazz?" Light leaned on her bed railing.
“Don’t make me quote the whole bee movie.” Link said with a snort of amusement.
"Don't make me quote every single Einstein meme quote." Light countered with a grin as wide as the ocean.
“Don’t make me quote the philosophy of Mr. Hippo from FNAF.” Link warned with a grin as equally wide.
"I'll do you one better, I will quote everything they say in Xavier's something, something, the black man with the snake arm. They say some pretty weird shit." Light chuckled.
“Touché.” Link said before bursting out laughing. Soon after Light follows after Link with a hearty laugh. Once the laughter died down, Link was looking at Light with a smile, then fading into a short pause. “...Am I the first or only elf looking person you’ve fallen for?” Link asked curiously.
"Yup, quick question, wanna bang?" Light asked casually like she didn't just ask for sex.
Link let out a long cough that took a lot of his breath away, especially how sudden and straight forward it was. Link had quite the furious blush on his face that left him speechless. “...Welp,” Link began as he took a moment to collect himself. “No weird stuff, alright?” he said as he didn’t want something outrages happening like in the other Equestrias he’s been too.
"I don't have any weird fetishes," Light then turns to the readers, "Now go, this isn't porn for you guys."
“...Who?” Link asked in confusion as he didn’t have the powers of fourth wall breaking.
"...You're too young to understand." Light chuckled to herself.
“..Right.” Link said, choosing not to question it any further as he felt it would turn into another hour of pinkie pie. Without further or do, the two made love that night, showing the lovely Cra he had plenty of committable love, passion and affection.
Later...
As Black walked down the hallway he saw a bulky Minotaur shaped silhouette in the distance. The Saiyan quirked an eyebrow, walking down to the Minotaur shaped figure, “I don’t believe we’ve met?” Black asked the figure. The man had some type of soldier outfit, with bulkiness that dwarfs Thanos, the man turned to the Saiyan.
"Kahahaha, you would be right, we have not met." The man turned his whole body to Black, and by Kami he was so bulky it replicates Broly. He held out a hand "The name is Douglass Bullet, the Heir of Umbra. A pleasure to meet you, people call me that because my strength is that of a demon's, I'm no heir of that bastard."
“For a minute I was about to call you Broly,” Black chuckled, but frowned when he heard Umbra’s name being spoken. “But… what does Heir mean?” Black asked nervously, scratching the back of his head.
"Uh… Towa! What does "Heir" mean?!" Bullet turned around and called out.
"It means student, dumbass!" Towa shouted back.
"Thank you!" Bullet turned to Black, "She says it means student."
“Oh… damn I really am Goku…” Black muttered to himself. He looked back to the Minotour shaped man with a frown reappearing. “So… you're a Student of the Bastard at the bottom of the ocean.”
"For fuck's sake! I literally just said people call me that because I have strength that rivals a demon's! They don't exactly have Satan so they call me Umbra's Heir." Bullet said with his arms out.
Black looked to Bullet with a dumb expression plastered across his face. “That is literally the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, right next to a Purple Mr. Clean having the ability to use the powers of a God of Destruction…”
"Speaking of which, how is the old guy doing? Saw that man crying after I… Uh… Gave him a gift…" Bullet chuckled as sweat dropped from his forehead.
“... … … You killed someone he cared about didn’t you?” Black said as he squinted his eyes at the Minotaur shaped man.
"Uh… I plead the fifth." Bullet chuckled, scratching the back of his head.
Black just stood there, his Super Saiyan eyes peering into the man's eyes. “Uh huh… sure…”
"Cloven Diamond told me to kill him because he didn't want to come back alive knowing he lost to a mountain man! Ya gotta believe me!" Bullet cried out.
“Sure I believe you…” Black said as he began to walk passed the man. “I’ll believe it when I see Nightmare turn into a Super Saiyan.” Black said as he walked away from the minotaur shaped man.
"Which is very close!" Bullet shouted out. "...I hope he does well." Bullet sighed turning around, seeing Arkham Knight.
"Hello Bullet, do you have what I told you to get?" Arkham Knight asked Bullet.
"Yeah, yeah, take it." Bullet throws a capsule to Arkham Knight, he catched it casually.
"Farewell…" Arkham Knight pressed a button on his armor and smoke filled the area, Arkham Knight was gone…
"Fucking ninjas and their smoke…"
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Chapter Twelve, A bunch of random stuff
Thanos again had gathered all of the Displaced, except for Link, Phoenix and Nox. Link was probably still sleeping with Light. Phoenix hadn’t been seen since just after his fight with Thanos. Nox was probably in his room/lab. They were all in his room that had scrolls on their walls, weapons, paintings, and more. Thanos cleared his throat.
"So… Everyone, have you all noticed that we were all so different to each other when we first began. Eric was happy to see me, now he's not, which was my fault, I did not need to go that far, I already apologized to Link. When I was sitting here remembering the past couple of days, which felt like fucking weeks, I had noticed something odd. Some people are not fond of others, and in order to stop whatever scheme Ryker has and beat him, not kill him. We do not kill, no matter how many sins they commit, no killing. Black has been very distant from everyone, not talking much. Edward despises Eric for what he has done to Black. Eric's… Nah, nevermind. The point is, we need to fix our problems with one another, if we are out on the battlefield fighting against one another and not our enemy, we will fall. By ourselves or the enemy, have you guys not recognized what I have been trying to do for all of you? I have been trying to boost our camaraderie, do you remember the campfire? Anyways that's not the point, everyone is at each other's throats, first it was Eric vs Me, then Entity vs Maud, Eric vs Black, Thack vs Mia, what's next? What will happen next? Shiva and Nox arguing? We need to stop the violence amongst ourselves, and we need to stop it now. Is that clear?" Thanos asked, looking among the Displaced with a very serious look in his eyes.
“Agreed,” The Saiyan said with a nod “but most of this happened due to Dark Ki, am I correct?” Black asked the Titan.
"I can sense Dark Ki now, the fights with Eric, Ed, Thack, Mia, and me were not caused by Dark Ki, tension? Who knows? We need to focus on cooperation, this is coming from the "Big Purple Mr. Clean funny man" of all things. This is serious, we need to put all of this… Fighting among ourselves to an end." Thanos crossed his arms, then his leg and kicked back in his rocking chair.
“I also have to point out that Dark Ki didn’t influence my fight,” Ed added. “I beat the crap out of himcause he pissed me off. I do feel better now but I still want to curb stomp him about twenty more times.” Eric shrunk back a little. “But I do agree as well. Cooperation is key here.”
“I agree that we need to work together,” Shiva noted. “Though I should also point out that while Maud and I were Mia, we were willing to keep the peace. Thack was the one who provoked us when he brought up our family.” She paused. “Also, I wouldn’t start arguing with Nox.”
"That was me, I talked shit to your family and I apologize. Also when I said Nox and you could fight and or argue… That was hyperbole." Thanos told the literal female dog.
“I understand,” Shiva assured him. “And I accept your apology. What matters now is that we put our differences behind us, and try to work together.”
“The thing is Ryker has you all under his thumb with signing those contracts,” Ed pointed out.
“Technically, he only has us as long as the tournament’s on,” Shiva pointed out. “Once Thanos takes on Nox, the tournament’s technically over.”
"Well, we'll just have to wait and see what he has planned. In any case let's point out why everyone dislikes each other. I should go first, I'll admit, I'm a huge asshole, a "brainless dolt", someone who's willing to destroy the Alicorns if need be, since the start everyone's been hating on me. I just wanted to point that out, so yeah those are the main reason why everyone views me as a piece of shit." Thanos rocked back in his chair. "Anyone else want to admit their faults?"
Shiva sighed, lowering her head. “Well, Thack was right about one thing,” she admitted. “I’m a coward. And that’s mostly because I’m weak without someone else.” She lifted her claws. “The only trick I have is basically Tirek’s ability, except I don’t horde all the magic for myself.” She huffed. “And even then, my fight as Mia clearly proved I can’t absorb enough energy to be a credible threat.”
“Stop that,” Eric said to the Diamond Dog. “Strength doesn’t just come from power, it also comes from support and healers. Power isn’t everything.”
“Easy for you to say,” Shiva replied. “How many different super forms can you take on? There was the Reaper, there was the King, there was the Demon… and I think I’m missing two more that are even more powerful than that.”
"Well… With your Devil Fruit you could beat the Arkham Knight in combat easily, I hear he's the weakest one.”
Shiva chuckled humorlessly. “So I can beat their omega,” she mused. “That’ll look great when we look back on this; everyone else heroically stands up to the powerful king. And somewhere in the background is so-called ‘Alpha’ Shiva, ganging up on the weakest of their number.”
Kodo scoffed. “The ‘weakest of their number’ tried to form a rivalry with me; a one-year-old pup! That’s not exactly something that makes someone pitiable. And besides, someone needs to fight him; otherwise he’ll go off and cause trouble for someone else.”
"I just wanna say, if you look at all of us, you seem reasonably strong. Plus Rivalries are made for both parties to grow stronger, who knows? Maybe you could become stronger just by fighting him." Lucci shrugged, "Entity got stronger just by fighting me, so why not you?"
“Lucci is right, so long as you never give in you will grow stronger” Sombra said, flicking a stand of hair from his face
Shiva hummed, considering it.
“Hey, I have anger issues out the door and not to mention numerous souls and two other personalities, entities actually, inside my head. I’m the last guy that’s going to point fingers here, but we need a way to see Ryker’s plan,” Ed rubbed his chin. “I still have a fight planned with the Irish son of bitch. Maybe one of you could break into his lab or something. Honestly I’m only here because I like some of you guys and Black is family,otherwise I’d stay out of it.”
"I doubt we can get there, Ryker could have one more Commander camping there." Thanos countered.
“Well not necessarily, I can move through the shadows, any place with darkness or shadows I can enter,” Eric explained before coming up with a plan. “But something tells me Ryker will want us all to attend that fight so use Umbra’s cloning spell and send him to the lab”
"Alright, we could do that!" Thanos snapped his fingers.
“And nothing short of another Uber displaced or void dweller could match them at this point,” Ed sighed.
"We haven't seen Arkham Knight's, lLord Twigo's, Katakuri's, Towa's, Fujitora's, Akainu's, Necrozma's, Ganondorf's, or even Zabuza's full power." Thanos countered, "For all we know the weakest one can destroy a whole city."
“The only way to do this is to get him to spill,” Ed looked at the other. “Or get him drunk off his ass, which is nearly impossible.”
"I mean… That could work, get him super drunk, I literally have the power to drink a lot of alcohol. I could do it." Thanos chuckled.
“I would be the better choice for that. I Literally drink cause I can,” Ed raised an eyebrow. “I don’t even need to eat but I like to cause I like food.Course if I do it he’ll suspect something. What we need is an uber drink too. One that will get you so waste it only takes a couple of hits.”
"...Let's do it! That's a good plan! This plan has no way of failing, RYKER!!!!" Thanos shouted out, Ryker walked through a portal.
"Whomst has summoned the almighty one?" Ryker asked, a can of Hetap in hand.
“Seriously?” Ed raised an eyebrow, again. “That’s it you and Thanos are going out bar hopping to the one island from Toriko that has all the alcohol you need!” Ed remarked opening a portal.
"Ey yo, we literally have all the drinks from ALL the planets in the fuckin' multiverse cause me void dweller decided, "Fuck it"." Ryker argued, taking a step back from the portal.
“No choice, get your asses in there!” Ed booted both displaced through the portal and locked down the world. “I must now attend to my pregnant wife post haste!” Ed pointed at the ceiling and rushed out through another portal.
Luffy suddenly walked in, the room, Lightsaber in hand, Nappa stood up and brought out his red lightsaber. "All women are queens!" Luffy said, frowning at Napp, Nappa grinned.
"If she breathes… SHE'S A THOOOT!!!!" They both let out a battle cry and charge at each other.
“Ditto,” Ed said as he popped back in holding up a green lightsaber then left as soon as a clock hit the back of his head. “No clock throwing in Morning!” He ran off.
Shiva watched the men fight with a deadpan expression. She lowered her head with a sigh.
"Just guys being dudes, ever since Luffy had the talk he's been slowly dipping to insanity." Lucci took a sip of Hetap that he found in Thanos' fridge, "I wonder what made him get the talk…" Lucci squinted as he downs to the can, Lucci slowly turns to Shiva. "Shiva… Did you…?"
“No!” Shiva protested.
Lucci stared at her.
“I mean…” Shiva stammered. “I didn’t know that he didn’t know.”
"...I am disappointed in you…" Lucci looks away from Shiva, who blinked in indignation.
“Easy for you to say,” she said. “With your ‘anime’ and your ‘video games.’ We don’t have any of that. Usually, it’s either fighting, mating, or talking about fighting and mating. There’s literally not much else we have to entertain ourselves.” At that moment, Luffy came up.
"...I just realized women can masterbate with chairs…" Luffy frowned.
Shiva gaped at him, before turning her back on everyone. “Thanos, I know we left working out our problems back there, but I just realized the problem I have with you guys,” she decided. “You all are completely immature.”
"I'm not immature, you're all immature! Especially you Nappa!" Luffy pointed to Nappa who just grinned. "YOU ALL MADE ME IMMATURE!!!! AAAAAAA-" Luffy screams and runs out of the room.
Shiva sighed tiredly. “You know what? I’m done,” she said. “I’ve got no interest in conflict with any of you - not that I’d be able to do anything even if I wanted to - and my link can tell me what great plans you guys get for dealing with Ryker. So, you know what? I’m out.” She marched out, Kodo trailing nervously along behind her.
"Well, Luffy broke Shiva, which is fucking ironic." Nappa laughed, they then heard Entity scream in pain in the distance, with Fujitora's laughter following afterwards.
"Alright, Eric you should get ready for your fight with Phoenix, I hear for whoever wins the Bronze Match, you'll get a Stand Arrow." Lucci grinned.
“The Fuck’s a Stand Arrow?” Eric asked raising his eyebrow in confusion
"I'm too lazy to explain it to you, you'll find out when and if you win." Lucci turned to Eric.
“It matters not whether I win or lose, so long as we enjoy our fight,” Eric said smiling before pulling the Titan to follow him
"Waddaya want? I was gettin' drunk with Ryker." Thanos deadpanned.
“I need to talk with you real quick,” Eric said, pulling the Titan into his Shadow Zone. “Afterwards you can get shitfaced until the sun rises”
"Uh huh… What do you want? Wanna learn something that I can do?" Thanos frowned.
“No I need to show you something,” Eric’s voice echoed through the void of darkness
Thanos sighed, slowly pinching the bridge of his nose. "What do you want Eric?"
“I know for a fact we will survive and escape Ryker’s plan,” Eric said with certainty. “It’s what happens after that I’m really concerned with.”
"Why are you concerned? Scared of one of Kaido's men destroying a whole Island?" Thanos asked the Shadow Man.
“No. Reveal what has yet to come. Dark Premonition” Magic hit Thanos causing him to see his future,
The saw Tirek standing over Entity, rage in his eyes with a new scythe. Tirek had Thanos' Token on his left arm and Eric's head on his off hand. Tirek cackled, soon after that Lucci, Nappa, Luffy, Grievous, Mogeme, Reaper, and Eden Spark arrived.
"Holy shit, what the hell happened?" Thanos chuckled to himself, looking at it as his comrades charge Tirek, activating their fruits, Ki, abilities, etc. "I doubt I died." Thanos said, he said right before looking down at his dead body. "Well shit… Welp, gotta make sure that doesn't happen. So uh… If ya need training, just ask."
Thanos shook his head as the vision stopped before seeing Eric’s fading form in front of him. “What the hell was that Eric?”
“That was our future should he escape from my world,” Eric explained. “Unlike the show he isn’t a centaur, he is of the lost race known as Titan’s..and yes I’m aware of your race as well.” The Shadow Man said, fading away before appearing standing upside down on a chunk of floating rock. “His strength is on par to the gods themself, combine that with my Devil Fruits as well as your token stones he will be near unbeatable.”
"So we're technically related. Got it." Thanos nodded slowly, "Well I'm gonna just ask Ryker to send me back to my universe. Use the reality stone to make a time chamber, train there for a few years… Then boom; I'm strong. Also you forget Eric I am a descendant of the Gods, so is he technically but shut up. Unlike you, I can use Hakai, aka Destruction, it can obliterate the body, the mind, and the soul. Nothing left, no afterlife, just vanished, one Hakai is all it takes." Thanos laughed, looking down at the Shadow Man, "Also I just wanna say… I can't go down that easily. MCU Thanos can arguably beat all of the Avengers without the stones, Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Black Panther, all fodder for him. Now multiply that from my years of experience in Haki, Rokushiki, Magic, and Ki, Tirek will die after I step foot in that time chamber."
“Thanos, No amount of training can change your future. Believe me, I’ve tried”
"What if I cut access to my universe?" Thanos countered.
“It’s possible to spare your world from my Tirek, but what of the others? Shiva’s, Black’s, Doom’s? Would you cut off your world and let theirs suffer?”
"...Good point, but if I use the Hakai on Tirek he dies." Thanos snapped his fingers, "Speaking of which, get Black here."
Using his powers Eric pulled the Saiyan into his Shadow zone. Black was taken by surprise at the scenery as the Saiyan looked around.
“Welcome to the Shadow Zone, Black” Eric said to the now present Saiyan. “Me and Thanos were conversing about a potential target that threatens all Equestria’s. In the future Tirek from my world will kill me and gain access to the Equestria’s that I’ve been to with the aid of the tokens growing stronger with every world he conquers.
“If you already know this information of the future, why don’t you find the source and cut it like a string?” Black asked with a raised eyebrow.
“I’ve tried. He’s keeping himself hidden to the point that no magic in all Equestria can locate him,” Eric Explained
“Why not trying to use ki sensing, every being in the multiverse should even have a scrap of ki.”
“You haven’t taught me yet,” Eric said to the saiyan. “In case you forgot you were kinda unconscious.”
“I was still teaching others how to use ki telepathically through my token, it appeared like a hologram almost.” Black explained to Von Shadow.
“I was elsewhere during that,” Eric said before flashing the earrings. “Thanks for the Token by the way,”
“But enough about you missing out on training. If I recall future timelines, there can be multiple of them. Like what if I called to stop Nightmare, that timeline I could be ruling by her side as a nightmare for all I know. The point is, there are multiple timelines with different outcomes.” Black explained.
"When Trunks interjected and gave Goku and the others insight on the androids, they trained and beat the androids. So we can stop Tirek, easy fucking clap!" Thanos cheered.
“But when Trunks warned them of the androids, they trained to become stronger, but that also made android #17 and #18 stronger because of it.” Black interjected.
“My premonitions have never been wrong,” Eric said, his form fading and appearing standing behind the pair. “I’m warning you because I may need your help to nip this in the bud before it’s too late.”
"Fuck your stupid ass premonitions, I decide my own fate! I can kill Tirek easily if I train hard enough!" Thanos pumped His fist into the air. "Also you do have King in your Universe, right?"
“A Devil Fruit user is no problem for all four Emperors.” Eric commented, his form starting to fade.
"What if he doesn't want to fight? Since I killed Kaido, there is no reason to recruit people." Thanos countered.
“But what if there’s a timeline where you didn’t kill Kaido, what if he discovered time travel? Anything is possible at this point,” Black pointed out.
“More than likely he’ll try and find the current user of the Time-Time Fruit,” Eric commented putting a hand to his chin. “She may be in danger.”
“She?” The dark cloaked Saiyan asked.
“Yes She, the First User was Doctor Whooves, but he was killed by Umbra in a future timeline,” Eric said to the Saiyan reappearing on the roof of a floating house. “The Current user is Flurry Heart, Princess of the Crystal Empire”
"The point is, I have a shot at killing Tirek easily, and no one can stop a damn Hakai, unless they have God Ki or they have a way to crush it, which takes a lot of energy." Thanos crossed his arms, firm on not having any assistance. "I do not need anyone's help. At. All."
“Never say things like that Thanos, soon it’ll kick you in the ass until you’re a bloody heap.” Black argued.
“I’ll have to agree with Black on that,” Eric said, crossing his arms. “It’s an open invitation for the universe to give you the finger”
"Fine, fine, I am capable of combating Tirek and defeating him in combat, is that better?" Thanos looked among the two.
“Possibly, but you should never underestimate someone, look what happened with my fight with Eric. Sure it was a dick move and it hurt my pride, but…” Black grit his teeth, a vein popping out of his forehead. “It was wrong for me to underestimate you, Eric.” Black said through gritted teeth, a vein popping out of his forehead.
“I do apologize for that,” Eric said in sadness before returning the jab at the saiyan. “But in all honesty that final blast of yours would have killed me.”
"Okay, Eric has big bad man. I can beat said big bad man, I don't underestimate big bad man: I use Hakai and he fucking dies. Multiverse is saved. We should not kill Ryker. Hear me out, if we kill him, we won't have a shot at him."
“Oh I am going to kill him,” Eric said to the pair. “I hold no mercy for that man.”
"Don't." Thanos rubbed his eyes.
“He threatened to kill Luna! Why shouldn’t I return the favor?” Eric argued
“HE WHAT!” Black shouted, immediately going Super Saiyan without realizing it.
"FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!!!!" Thanos shouted out, "He is our only shot at beating Tirek, look what he can do! If he can beat you with no problem, he can probably beat Tirek." Thanos reasoned.
“But something does seem off, I’m not seen in this premonition,” Black asked curiously after calming down.
“Because my premonition spell shows you your future and unfortunately our futures are connected by the same bastard”
"Come on. I sense some good in Ryker. Let's not kill him. Look what Ryker can do, make portals to our Universe, is stronger than all of the commanders combined, I bet Ryker can assist us." Thanos reasoned.
“But the question is would he willingly kill someone for nothing?” Eric asked knowing full well the answer
"He said and I quote, "I'm just a man who wants some entertainment, I'm just a bored guy." so, what's stopping him from doing that?" Thanos grinned ear to ear.
“I would get that, but that doesn’t seem like the full reason he did this whole tournament.” Black said, scratching the side of his head.
“He’s told me it’s to get his daughter back from another dimension...However,” Eric said standing before the Saiyan and Titan. “I didn’t see desperation in his eyes or his voice. Think about it: You’re a father with a daughter who’s in another dimension, would you do everything you could to get her back.”
"Yes, I would do anything to get my Shieldy back." Thanos grinned.
“I would…” Black said truthfully.
“But would you remain calm and collected or slightly desperate?” Eric asked the two.
“I would be increadly desperate, I would do anything to find a way to bring them back.” Black said.
"He could've done this for years, rinse and repeat, over and over again, Masking his personality so he doesn't raise any suspicion." Thanos snapped his fingers, guessing the reason why.
“Masks aren’t perfect, they always crack and break,” Eric said to Thanos. “If you train yourself to separate the lies from the truths you’ll notice it.”
"So it's only a matter of time before he snaps?" Thanos leaned to Eric.
“But what’s gonna push him over the edge?” Black asked, putting a finger to his chin. He then takes a glance at Thanos with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh I can do that…" Thanos grinned ear to ear. "You guys come with me, use this invisibility potion to stay hidden, hide your Ki and boom, watch the fireworks." Thanos laughed.
“But should we do that? We have no idea how strong he is and he’s been playing this game carefully.”
"I know how to break people, my nightmare taught me how." Thanos chuckled evilly, tapping the side of his head.
“Within the shadow my presence is completely concealed,” Eric said, his body turning to shadows before returning to normal. “I’ll stick to you like the shadows cling to the darkness.”
Thanos then throws the potion on invisibility at Black, before he could react, he was now invisible from sight. "Ta da! Now let's break that mask." Thanos rubbed his hands together.
“Thanos play this smart, but act as stupid as you normally would,” Eric said with a grin to the Titan
"Bet." Thanos returned the grin, "Let's get out of here."
Eric sent Thanos back into the land of light and living leaving only him and the Saiyan
“Two hundred bits says this blows up in his face.” Eric offered the Saiyan with a grin
"RYKER!!!!" Thanos cried out, Ryker appeared from the depths of hell, grinning. "After I piss you off can I go to my universe and use my Time Chamber?" Thanos asked Ryker.
"Meh, sure why not." Ryker shrugged then paused, "Wait what do you mea-"
"Your mom." Thanos said blankly, Ryker just looked at Thanos with a "Seriously?" Look in his eyes. "Anyways why do you want your daughter back?"
"Me daughter? Oh, did Ed tell you about that? Well, she's the only family I have. Me commanders are me family but it isn't the same with me daughter." Ryker leaned on a wall.
"What would you sacrifice to get your daughter?" Thanos asked the King.
"Millions. Literally millions." Ryker frowned, Thanos' eyes went wide and he whistled.
"Oh...kay… Why did you put this whole thing together?" Thanos inquired, Ryker rolled his eyes.
"Part boredom and mostly to get me daughter, I've been collecting Dark Ki for millennia, and I think this batch may be the last." Ryker chuckled, opening a portal to reach for something.
"Wot do ye meat about "this batch," big R?" Thanos raised an eyebrow, Ryker shrugged.
"I've been putting Displaced here in events for thousands of years, I send the winner home, and I give everyone else the option to join me crusade." Ryker smiled softly, remembering the past events.
"Huh, where are they now? I only see a few."
Ryker then frowned, turning to Thanos.
"You're asking too many questions…" Ryker’s frown deepened, Thanos began sweating.
"Pfft, no I'm not. But one last question, what do you want out of all of this?" Thanos was suddenly pulled down to Ryker.
"Do you know what I want? I want my daughter back." Ryker then throws Thanos aside and Thanos goes through the walls next to him, going through rooms of the competitors, first Shiva's.
"Hi Shiva!" Thanos said as he crashed through the wall.
Kodo stared at the wall, before looking at Shiva. “Mom, did you see that?”
She didn’t turn from her training. “They told him it was a stupid idea,” she replied.
Kodo blinked. “They?” he asked.
Shiva merely grinned… and indicated a pack link that went straight into her shadow. “It takes us time,” she replied. “But any magic I see… I’ll learn.”
Meanwhile, Thanos went on to Nightmare's, "Hi Nightmare!" Thanos shouted out.
Then Thanos went onto Luna's, "Hi Luna, don't mind me!" Thanos waved to Luna, looking at her naked as he crashed through another wall.
Immediately Luna screamed as she covered her wet form with the nearest towel
Thanos went onto Nappa's, "Hey Nappa, nice suit!" Thanos chuckled.
"Why thank you." Nappa bowed to Thanos as he crashed through another wall.
Thanos went onto Rainbow Dash's, "Hi Lesbian, off checking out ladies aren't ya?" Thanos laughed as he crashed through another wall.
Thanos went into Phoenix’s room. “Hi Phoe- Wait what the fuck?” Phoenix was seen doing a handstand on one finger, whilst reading a book on combat. He had a burning aura around him, that made his surroundings look like a sahara desert. Thanos crashed through another wall.
Thanos went onto Sombra's, "Hi Sombra, nice outfit by the way, you look epic." Thanos pointed finger guns at Sombra as he crashed through another wall.
Thanos went into Light's room. "Hey, nice sleep huh?" Thanos said as he crashed through another wall.
He was sent through Nox's next and just gave him a thumbs up before finally landing in the Diner, slamming against the wall and sliding off of it. Slowly. He then hit the floor. "Ow."
‘I told you tp play it smart and dumb, not to go full dumb!’ Eric shouted within the Titan’s head. ‘Well now i’m two hundred bits richer because of you.”
‘Shit!’ Black cursed.
"Smart this, dumb that, there is no smart or dumb there are only people who aren't brave enough to be enlightened." Thanos said, muffled as his face was buried in the earth. "Can someone help me get out of here? Please…?"
Eric pulled himself from the shadows and pulled the Titan’s buried head from the ground, he was met with a very angry crowd.
"...Ryker did it." Thanos told them, putting his hands up like he was caught by the police.
“Probably should have sent Nappa to do the job,” Eric muttered under his breath as he helped the Titan to his feet
"Yup, probably should have." Nappa told the Shadow Man With his ghost powers.
“Nice suit Nappa,” Eric said, complimenting the bald Saiyan.
"Why thank you, I don't Mean to brag but I made it myself." Nappa grinned.
“There is one problem with it though,” Eric said eyeing said problem
"The problem is me isn't it?" Nappa sighed.
“No it isn’t,” Eric said, a shadow tendril fixing the Saiyan’s tie. “Your tie was a few inches off center”
"Thanks Eric, I'll repay the debt when this all blows over, if you want me to annoy the crap out of someone evil, call me." Nappa points a thumb to his chest, grinning.
“Appreciated, but don’t take this the wrong way..” Eric said with a smile. “I don’t want any of my enemies to have to suffer through you, death is a easier punishment.”
"I know King Kai,” Nappa replied. “When they die, I can teleport to Otherworld and annoy the ever loving shit out of them."
“Still no thanks” Eric said in a more desperate manner.
"Suit yourself." Nappa grinned, happy with his pun.
“God Dammit Nappa,” Eric groaned letting the Titan go
"Okay, so apparently Ryker has a weakness mentioning his daughter…" Thanos wheezed a little, "He kinda wrecked my cr...AAAAAP!!!!" Thanos' head turns a particular direction and Thanos falls down.
"Isn't that one of the techniques of Kenshiro?" Lucci said scratching the back of his head. "Well anyways, what did he spill?"
"He would sacrifice millions to save his daughter, he hosted events like this for thousands of years, uh… He doesn't say what happens to the losers, he only lets the winners go, gives the losers an option to stay or leave… Doesn't say what happens to those who stay…" Thanos coughed some more.
Hearing this Eric began to think of a strategy to further push Ryker to his breaking point. “I may have an idea,” Eric said, drawing the attention of the others. “He needs this Dark Ki and it’s only extracted from us fighting right?” Eric said, seeing some nod their heads. “Well it’s quite simple, We don’t fight, or at the very least we used a fraction of a fraction of our true strength.”
"Let's cast an illusion Spell on Ryker and make him think all of the Dark Ki is gone!" Thanos planned, "That will make him snap."
“Sure, if we must fight we make it so pathetic the King get’s nothing from us” Eric said with a grin. “So who’s in?”
"Not me." Thanos chuckled, "I want to best Nox with all I got. Nox already doesn't use too much of his power." Thanos reminded everyone.
“Very well. Pheonix what about you, our fight is scheduled for one hour." Eric said looking at the Sin of Greed. “Want to see the king lose his cool?” Only to realise he wasn't there. Phoenix then teleported in, wearing nothing but jogging bottoms, and sweating bullets.
“Sounds good to me.” Phoenix stated between panting breaths. “If it’s a plan regarding pissing off another party then you can count me in.” And just like that, he was gone as quick as he arrived.
"I like my illusion idea, it will make him angry, very much so…" Thanos grinned evilly, then rubbed his hands together like a mastermind.
"You would die." Nappa deadpanned at Thanos, "We would fucking die."
"But-" Thanos was cut off by Nappa.
"No, we would all die." Nappa said blankly, "We all agree that we would die. Right?" Nappa turned to the others.
“Very, I may not know the depths of his power, but I do sense it and it honestly scares me. It’s almost calm, but if he snapped, I’m sure it would be the end of us all.” Black said with a shaky voice. ‘It kinda reminds me of DBS Broly’s power…’
"That's the same power I sensed when he arrived, he is… A fucking demon." Thanos crossed his arms and looked up. Lucci tapped Eric's shoulder.
"Watch this." Lucci chuckled mischievously, "Hey Thanos, three female Royal Guards." Thanos teleported before Eric. Thanos' eyes wide open, his whole body shaking causing Eric to shake too.
"WHY CAKE ERIC!?!??! WWHYYYY!?!??! For two whole days Celestia made me her sex slave, TWO DAYS!!!! In the middle of day one… SHE FUCKING DRESSED ME UP LIKE A GIRL AND FORCED ME TO CALL HER FUCKING MOMMY!!!! Not to fucking mention she made me her pet, I'm black, that's fucking racist Von Shadow. That… That killed the old John… Even my nightmare, the actual Thanos was scared…" Thanos stared into Eric's soul. "Then she… Then she…SHE BROUGHT THREE NIGGAS!!! THREEEE!!!!! IT WAS THREEEE!!!! THREEEEE!!!!!!!!" Thanos threw Eric aside, his Ki started to flare up.
Thanos let out a bloodcurdling scream, "THREEEEEE!!!!!!!" Thanos shot through the roof screaming. Lucci just laughed at him, clutching his chest and wheezing.
“And what good would come of this, Lucci?” Eric asked dusting himself off as he rose to his feet
"It's fucking hilarious!" Lucci wiped a tear from his eye.
“Course...” Eric said to the leopard man
“Yeah, reminding someone of something that gives them PTSD is hilarious…” Black muttered sarcastically under his breath, looking up at the new hole in the ceiling.
“Flare up my PTSD and no power on any world will fix what I do to you” Eric threatened, his eyes shifting to black and red
"Pfft, no one's gonna try that, last time anyone did that, you turned into a fucking monkey wanting it's banana." Lucci turned to the Saiyans, "No offense."
“None taken…” Black hissed through gritted teeth, his tail twitching in anger.
A blocky figure with a blue shirt and jeans was at the daughter of Umbra's front door. His eyes were a shimmering white, no pupils showed. He had a gift in hand, like a robot he knocked on the door.
“Yes?" Luna said opening the door now fully clothed but still embarrassed from earlier. “Oh..you’re Herobrine, right?”
The blocky man nodded and said no words as he just handed the gift and turned away to make his leave. Luna looked at the gift with a raised eyebrow as she closed the door, Sitting herself on her bed Luna opened the gift and found a book inside of it. It had a title called "You need to read this, for the safety of Eric and all of you."
Curiosity got the better of the alicorn as she opened the book and saw the letters that filled the book.
"Princess Luna,
I bring you this for the safety of the Displaced here. Ryker has been getting Displaced here to #### #### not just the #### ## he plans to #### ### Displaced. You need to warn them. I may not have much time, Ryker's probably going to send me to The White Void again but just-"
The note cut off there.
Confusion entered the princesses mind as she read through the note, some of the words seemed to staticed out of the message. But it made one thing absolutely clear to the Alicorn, Ryker was up to something and it would put Eric and the others in grave danger. Suddenly Luna heard a teleport sound, however, it was similar to that of an Enderman. Luna turned towards the noise and found Herobrine with a text box appeared over his head.
"Did you read it?" Herobrine texts out, crossing his blocked arms.
Luna nodded to the creature. “I did but some of the words I couldn’t read” Luna said closing the book
"Tch, I knew it, Towa is blocking the communication. What I mean is, Ryker is trying to #### ### ###." Once again, Herobrine's text was tagged out.
“Beg Pardon?” Luna asked
"Darn, I can't tell you because Towa is being a jerk, an evil jerk." Herobrine was going to lean on something only to fall on his side, he then shots back up. "You saw nothing."
“Fret not Herobrine, I won’t speak a word of that to anypony” Luna said stifling a chuckle. “However I thank you for confirming my suspicions about your king”
"You're welcome." Herobrine spoke in his actual voice, it seems like thousands of voices spoke with him. "Sorry about that, but you're welcome. I just want you to change Ryker, reform him, show him the Magic of Friendship. He has… He is a very troubled man. I can not tell you now but… Don't kill him, he's the closest man I have to a father."
“You have my word,” Luna said nodding her head to the Minecraft Myth.
"Thank you Princess Luna." Herobrine bowed to Luna, turning to the door.
Herobrine was interrupted when a black scythe blade was pressed against his neck. “You don’t have my word, I will kill Ryker”
"Please don't, imagine being born with nothing and then someone gave you everything you ever wanted. A family, a home, food…" Herobrine told the man.
“You’re preaching to the choir buddy” Eric said to the creature. “But he threatened to take something I hold most dear, his head will roll.”
"Don't you do the same? Hyp… Hypo…" Herobrine turned to Luna, "Ma'am can you please help me out?"
“I’ll talk to him, Herobrine,” Luna said, moving in between the two, the shadow scythe moving to avoid touching her.
“Eric please understand,” Luna said, moving Eric’s weapon down. “You may not trust Ryker or his commanders, but that doesn’t mean you have to kill him”
“Very well Lulu,” Eric said with a smile causing Luna to blush hering her nickname. “But know if he hurts you - in anyway - I will kill him without hesitation”
“Then Let’s make sure he doesn’t hurt us,” Luna said to the Shadow Man
It was here that Herobrine understood what Ryker had threatened to take from Eric.
"Yuck, romance." Herobrine shuddered.
“Hey don’t knock it before you’ve tried it” Eric said to the Minecraft Myth
"I am eleven years old, I'm not trying anything." Herobrine told the Shadow Man.
“Fair point kid” Eric said with a shrug.
"I must take my leave, to the Nether Realm!" Herobrine quickly built a Nether Portal and lit it up before heading in. He walked out and placed TNT there. "Sorry, have to deactivate the portal." He lights it up and heads back in.
Without missing a beat Eric absorbs the TNT into his shadows. Herobrine comes back out.
"Er… I'm sorry but that was kinda the only way this portal can close. Unless you have a diamond pick-axe or a netherite one ya can't really break the portal." Herobrine informed the two.
“My mistake,” Eric replied, putting the block back where it was.
"Thanks, Vessel 367!" Herobrine called out, suddenly, a white-haired blocky man dressed white appeared, he had the same white eyes.
"Yes?" 367 spoke, it felt like he had hundreds of voices speaking with him.
"Make sure you rebuild the room when it gets exploded." Herobrine told the Vessel, it nodded as he lit the TNT once more walking back in the portal. The TNT becomes white as 367 makes Iron Blocks appear to block the explosion from reaching Luna and Eric. They heard an explosion. The blocks were then torn apart and made into a smaller variation by 367. The structure of the portal still stood but the purple portal was gone. 367 gets out a diamond pick-axe and starts to mine.
“Well while you’re doing that I think I’ll walk around for a bit before my fight with Phoenix,” Eric said extending his arm to his princess. “Care to join me your majesty?”
Luna giggled lightly before hooking Eric’s arm. “Of course my Shadow”
"Enjoy your walk,” 367 replied. “Beware of those that lurk in the shadows."
“The shadows are my plaything,” Eric boasted. “There is nothing within them that can hide from me.” With that, he and Luna left the room.
As they walked, they saw Kyle and Ganondorf playing rock-paper-scissors.
"Damn, you got me again!" Ganondorf grumbled as Kyle grinned.
"Okay, I'm going to pick rock this time." They both do the signs and Kyle does scissors instead of rock, Ganondorf used paper. "I can't believe that actually worked."
"Curses." Ganondorf frowned.
“Ganondorf of the Gerudo Tribe,” Eric said, gaining their attention. “Are you here because of Link or are you another follower of Ryker?”
"I'm another Commander Of Ryker, rank five." Ganondorf said, crossing his arms. Kyle quickly copied his stance.
“Wait what are Gerudo?” Luna asked slightly confused
“The Gerudo is a tribe that only gives birth to females, however once every hundred years they birth a single male,” Eric explained, remembering his time playing many of the Zelda video games. “That male becomes king of the tribe until his death.”
"Yeah, that's about it,” Ganandorf agreed. “Ever since I won one of Ryker's tournaments, I decided to stay here. Too many women… Waaaay too many." Ganondorf chuckled. "I'm actually the first one to win the Tournament and stay. The others usually go home."
“And did you regret it?” Luna asked the Gerudo Male
"No, I have friends here, people that understand me. Unlike the ponies back at my homeworld who think I'm a monster, but, in any case no. I have Douglass Bullet, my best friend!" Ganondorf grinned, remembering his fond times with Bullet.
"Damn powerhouses, all of you guys can destroy a mountain, city, country, or a damn planet!" Kyle snapped at Ganondorf, "But look at me, I lost to Dr. Doom, easily! The only thing I can destroy is a damn house!" Kyle clenched his fists.
“You realize he was holding back?” Luna asked the Elitrope
"Of course I did! He is Doctor Fucking Doom." Kyle turns to the couple.
“He truly is a difficult opponent to read,” Eric said to the Elitrope.
"Look at me, I only have my Eliatrope powers, and my Sand Sand Fruit or Suna Suna No Mi, whatever you prefer." Kyle shrugged.
"You'll understand when you grow older."
“I watched the English Dubbed version.” Eric said to Kyle with a shrug of his shoulders. “But the Sand-Sand Fruit is quite powerful. When used properly,” he added with a grin.
"Look at me, I fucking lost. With YEARS of experience with the Sand Sand Fruit." Kyle said, frowning as he made his hand into sand. "I will never be as good as Crocodile."
“You too?” Shiva asked from the corner. Kyle glanced over, seeing her with a sympathetic look. “Welcome to the club, friend.” She snapped her claws, and her pack link flashed, forming a jacket. “I have jackets.”
"Yay for you, meanwhile the only thing I can do is make this whole entire arena into sand." Kyle frown deepen, "Fucking sand. I can fly with it, but I could already fly. What the fuck are you suppose to do with sand, make a sand castle or a sand city? The only thing good I can do is suck the moisture out of someone's body." Kyle said flicking the sand around in slight anger.
Shiva hummed in thought. “So why were you here?” she asked. “Why’d Ryker make you fight Doom?”
"Ask him. I don't know. However, I believe it was because Ryker would have to get one of his Commanders in to fight Dr. Doom. You do know how dangerous the commanders are, right?" Kyle looked to Shiva.
Shiva formed a screen from her pack link, showing an image of Douglass Bullet throwing Entity around like a rag doll. “I have a faint impression,” she replied with a deadpan expression.
"Douglass Bullet, Clank Clank Fruit user, slayer of the most powerful Minotaur alive, Cloven Diamond. He ended a whole war on his own." Kyle crossed his arms, "Why is he so damn powerful? I just don't get it."
Shiva sighed, and pat Kyle’s shoulder. “Because life isn’t fair, my friend,” she replied, heading back to her quarters. “Life. Isn’t. Fair.”
"...That is true, fucking Bullet… Too damn powerful for his own good." Kyle turned into sand and the wind blew him away.
"The battle between Phoenix and Eric Von Shadow begins in five minutes, I ask you two to go to your sides of the arena stage's entrance." The one on the intercom spoke, though it's been awhile.
“Well looks like my match is up,” Eric said, turning to Luna. “Cheer for me, my Princess.”
Eric then planted a kiss on Luna’s lips as the princess returned it. “I will, my Shadow.”
Eric dropped into the shadows before resurfacing at the entrance of the arena.
“Already?” Phoenix sighed before appearing at the arena gates. “Now the real question is, shall I stick with the plan…….”
The arena was filled with Drakes and Eliatropes, Kyle sat next to Ryker crossing his arms. Towa stood next to Ryker who just smirked.
"Alright, we all know that these two lost, but whoever wins this match… Obtains a Stand Arrow!" Ryker raises the arrow high, everyone looks at the arrow with curiosity. "I already have my stand, his name? Emerald Fury! You can't see it because you guys are non-stand users. Now in this corner we have the Shadow of Equestria!" Ryker points to a side of the stage where Eric comes into view.
"Boo, get off the stage!" Mr. Perfect Cell shouted out from one of the seats, undetected, he was next to Black. "You stink!"
Black turned to look at the biological android, “Mr. Perfect Cell! What are you doing here?!” Black spoke in surprise.
"Since my Cell Games got demolished and I’m serving under that slut," Mr. Perfect Cell pointed to Towa. "I have some free time, so I decided to watch the game begin."
“Is that so?” Black said with a raised eyebrow. “Then where’s Frieza, I know he’d be here,” Black said with a growing smirk.
“Well… He’s out getting us some food from the concession stands. We played Rock, Paper, Scissors.” Mr. Perfect Cell shrugged.
“Don’t listen to the haters!” Kodo howled. “Von Shadow Rules!”
“You know it kid,” Rainbow cheered from atop her cloud
“Rainbow, why don’t you sit with us?” Luna asked tapping the row of seats next to her
“Because the seats here aren’t very comfortable” Rainbow said, giving a light tap to her cloud. “But clouds are soooo….. Comfortable to sit and sleep on.”
Kodo chuckled. “You should try talc beds. Amazing how soft that gemstone can be.”
“I think I’ll pass on that, squirt,” Rainbow said, leaning back on her cloud. “I’ll stick to my clouds.”
Kodo shrugged. “Whatever makes ya happy,” he replied.
"Huh, you guys are… Wolves?" Yamcha tilted his head, looking at the two canines.
“And you are… people,” Shiva noted with a grin. “What’s your name?”
“My name is Yamcha. Also known as the Hyena who made the desert his stronghold, er… That’s a long title but don’t mind that. I kinda have a thing for wolves given that I call one of my attacks Wolf Fang Fist.” Yamcha grinned.
“Oh-ho, neat,” Shiva said. “Always good to meet someone who likes wolves.”
"..." Sitting next to Yamcha was a tall saiyan with long hair. Everyone who has seen the DBZ Movie recognized him as DBZ Broly.
Black looked that way, and immediately started to cover his face with a blanket he created. “Shit, he can’t see me here, I don’t need him screaming ‘KAKAROT’ and going insane…” Black said, fearing for the worst.
“Oh hey Goku Black.” The Saiyan turned to Black, his voice mirroring that of the abridged version, “What’s your power level.”
‘Oh good, as long as no one here says Kakarot, we should be good. ’ Black thought as he removed the blanket. “It’s pretty big.” Black replied to the tall Saiyan
“Mine’s pretty big too, uh… Mr. Perfect Cell taught me how to transform into Super Saiyan Three, I don’t know how he knows, probably because of plot.” Broly replied to Black.
“That's cool,” Black said with a smile, Broly doing the same.
"I wonder, why are these two pathetic losers fighting? Shouldn't they have already accepted their defeat? It doesn't make sense to me, those who lose deserve to die, and hell, I've never lost a fight." Mira spoke, literally above them because he is too cool for seats.
"Oh shut up, you and I both know that you could kill all of them with a flick of your wrist. Stop flexing your absolute power, Mr. "I can destroy the universe because I am a literal bomb!"." Metal Cooler snapped, Mira kept quiet with that remark.
"Janemba! Janemba!" A tall demon chanted standing up next to the railing, grinning. A little pink man, about three to four feet tall was next to him. He was the size of a child, he was also chanting a sound like a monkey.
"Damn majins…" Omega Shenron scoffed, looking down at the two. "Another mistake of the Dragon Balls."
“Oh quit complaining will you, your arc was garbage anyway.” Black mocked.
“So was yours, Mr. Let me become someone else because I’m too weak.” Omega Shenron crossed his arms, looking down at the Saiyan.
“Baby did the same, and it was still terrible because of his voice and his motives. Atleast his arc was better than yours.” Black remarked, looking to the dragon.
“Says Mr. Super Saiyan God. What the hell kind of name is that?” Omega Shenron mocked Black.
“Would you rather take this up to Akira Toriama and tell him to just have every transformation be a number?” Black remarked.
“Alright, we’ll call it a draw.” Omega Shenron grunted, turning away from the Saiyan.
“Alright terrible character design…” Black spat, looking away from the dragon.
Behind Shiva loomed a shadow over her, the shadow has an intimidating feel to it. Like something that could kill her in an instant. Her fur glowing as her powers prepared to protect her, she looked behind her. There stood General Grievous from the 2003 Clone Wars Series. Grievous peered down at Shiva then looked over to Kodo.
"You must be Kodo. I sense that you may have a sword that interests me. Do you mind if I see it? Do not fret, I won't steal it and run away with it, that is dishonorable." Grievous spoke, his metallic voice being heard from everywhere.
Kodo and Shiva exchanged a glance, before Shiva shrugged. Unsheathing his sword, Kodo displayed his blade to the General. Grievous held up a metal claw to his “chin.”
“Interesting, it seems to be… A Supreme Grade Sword, impressive. It has a nice hilt to it and sharp edges, nice.” Grievous pushes his cape aside revealing five sheathes, one brown, blue, red, white, and yellow. “I do not have all of my swords, but I do have my Four Elemental Swords, except for Fire. This sheathe is where I would put it.” Grievous held up the red sheath that had fire decorated on it, “IF I HAD IT!!!! But you know how some ponies are, wanting what isn’t theirs… Or trying to keep something away from someone dangerous like me.”
“Or caging someone because they aren’t a pony, and then being surprised when that someone isn’t exactly happy with them,” Shiva added bitterly.
“... You’ve been through a lot huh…” Black said with a nervous laugh.
Shiva shrugged. “Hasn’t everyone?”
“Touche.”
“She has a point. Look at all of us, we all have our experiences, our pain, our rage. That is what led us to what we are today, look at me: I got slapped by a giant man, just look.” Grievous snapped his fingers and a TV screen appeared, showing Grievous and Kaido clashing. Grievous then gets yeeted across the landscape, he then shuts it down. “I have bad luck.”
“Dear Dende, the size of that man reminds me of the time Edward was crushing me in his hands… and making me squeak like a rubber duck…” Black shook at the memory.
“Oh really? What about his actual Dragon From and his Hybrid form?” Grievous shows a giant serpent like Dragon towering above them, then changing to a hybrid between the man they saw before and the dragon. Grievous and Kaido clashed once more, and once more, Grievous was launched skyward. “I have incredible amounts of bad luck, and I’m my Equestria’s Strongest Swordsman, the Dragon Slayer of the East.”
“It’s one lesson I’m glad the ponies taught me,” Shiva admitted. “‘No matter how big and tough you think you are, there’s always going to be someone bigger and stronger than you. So always be on the lookout for them.’”
“Yup, Kaido was the strongest opponent I’ve ever faced, we’ve ever faced, it took me, Mogeme, Eden, Lucci, Reaper, Sally, Luffy, and Thanos to take him down. But since I’ve trained for one year in the chamber… I’ve grown stronger, I mastered all four styles of my blade. Lightning, Water, Earth, and Wind. I’m so sorry, I must be rambling am I?” Grievous chuckled, putting his cape back around him.
“Not really,” Shiva replied. “Something that’s great about dogs? We’re really great listeners.” She glared over at Kodo, who had curled up and was snoring. “At least… some of us should be.” She woke him up with a nip.
“I’m awake!” Kodo yipped, blinking awake.
“I do not blame you, I believe you two can be great warriors one day, not that you already are, but greater warriors. You guys are the best… Er… Family I’ve seen in quite some time. Kodo, I do hope you can become a greater swordsman than you already are, so that we can cross blades.” Grievous looked down to Kodo, his 7’11 tall form mirroring that of Thanos’.
“I’ll definitely do my best,” Kodo promised, sheathing his sword.
“Well the-” Grievous was cut off as a purple beam was sent flying towards his skull. Grievous ducked, still looking at Kodo. “Well then, I hope you’ll go even further beyond.” Grievous chuckled walking off, making footsteps into the ground as he unconsciously stomped off.
Black traced where the beam of energy came from, finding a small white figure with a round purple gem in his head. “Well well well, the emperor of the universe shows himself.” Black smirked.
“Oh shut up you cardboard copy of Goku.” Frieza said, levitating literal bags of food behind him, he then sends the bags to their respective owners. “I could care less if you insult me, as long as that dimwitted mon-” Immediately Lucci stood up, a gun to Frieza’s head.
“Finish that sentence,” Lucci threatened. “That’s also racist towards me. Say it again!”
“Enough Lucci, you are not gonna get him to stop saying that, it’s a part of his character.” Black said, shaking his head.
“Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho! My, my, you learned. Well then off I go.” Frieza waved his tail as he left, Lucci slowly put away his gun, fixing his suit off with a scoff.
Black shakes his head, “Plus, I’ve grown used to it at this point, before I turned into stone, some guards would say shit like that.” Black said with a sigh.
“Okay, now, where are they now?” Mr. Perfect Cell turns to Black, “Because I would like to have words with them. They’re probably dead but shut up.” Mr. Perfect Cell frowned.
“Dead due to time, a thousand years can do that to anything, well, except for The Doctor.” Black said while leaning back on the bench with his hands behind his head.
“Would anyone like to play Russian Roulette?” Grievous said, raising his gun, suddenly from the depths of hell Fujitora popped up.
“Hello Issho,” Shiva commented with a grin. He briefly nodded at her before returning his attention to the General.
“Russian Roulette? I love that game!” Fujitora grinned, Grievous would grin back but he had no mouth.
“Alright, Nappa, Mr. Perfect Cell, and Cooler get over here.” The trio joined Fujitora before Grievous.
“This should be interesting…” Black muttered.
“Let’s do this!” Grievous unloads his gun and places a bullet, he then spins it, the players all huddled around in a circle.
Grievous “shoots” Cooler.
Nothing.
Then onto Mr. Perfect Cell.
Still nothing.
Nappa?
Nothing.
But when he got to Fujitora…
BANG!
Shiva lashed out with her claws, and a pair of Pack Link tendrils shot before Fujitora, catching the bullet and holding it like a pair of tongs. Shiva’s ears flattened when the others stared at her. Sheepishly, she dropped the bullet.
“Instinct,” she said, turning away. “Sorry.”
“Eh, it’s alright. We all know you have a massive crush on Fujitora.” Nappa joked. Mr. Perfect Cell held in a laugh. Black lunged forward, putting his hands to his mouth as he tried to hold in his laugh.
“She’s married,” Kodo grumbled, though Shiva merely rolled her eyes like she didn’t care.
“You can’t say people don’t suspect you two are… doing it when Young Kodo isn’t around.” Mr. Perfect Cell pointed out, “ I don’t mean to offend but… you two meet up a lot, you call him Issho, no one else calls him Issho here. Kinda like this…” Mr. Perfect Cell turned to Kid Buu. “Kid Buu; do the thing.” Kid Buu morphed into Shiva.
“Hello Issho.” Kid Buu had mimicked her voice perfectly and Fujitora busted out laughing. Mr. Perfect Cell turns to Shiva, who hadn’t even glanced at their tomfoolery.
“Again, I don’t mean to make fun of you, and I’m sorry if I make you feel sad in any way, shape or form.” Mr. Perfect Cell raised his hands up like he’s been caught by the FBI.
Shiva merely shrugged. “I’m used to it,” she replied. “Ever since my husband died, it’s been males constantly trying to see if I’ll let someone else into my heart.” She chuckled. “But let’s be honest… they just want to get inside me.”
“SHOT THROUGH THE HEART!!! AND YOU’RE TO BLAME!!!!” Luffy shouted out, trying to drown out Shiva’s additional words, Mr. Perfect Cell merely grinned.
“You give love a bad name!” Mr. Perfect Cell shouted back, grinning like the mad man that he is.
‘Black… Black… Blaack~ ’ A voice ran through the Saiyans mind, catching his attention. ‘There’s somepony that wants to visit you~ ’ Ghost Nappa sang.
“And who would that be?” Black snarked back, already having enough of the ghost’s shit.
“BLACK!!!!!” A voice ran through the stadium, making Black freeze up and beginning to sweat. The Saiyan turned his attention to Mr. Perfect Cell.
“I entrust you with my last will, for I will be dead in a few minutes.” Black said, handing the bio-android a piece of paper.
“Alright bet,” Mr. Perfect Cell, rubbed the bottom of his nose as he took the piece of paper. Frieza just smiled darkly.
The Saiyan turned around, only to see a raged induced look from a blue Alicorn. “Hey… honey… how are yo-” Black said shakely, but was then slapped into the ground, a massive hole being made as it tunneled through the ground.
“DON’T THOU ‘HONEY’ WE!! ” Luna Black roared as she spread her wings and flew into the hole. Mr. Perfect Cell looked down the hole with a raised brow.
“Popcorn?’ Nappa asked Mr. Perfect Cell.
“Gladly,” Mr. Perfect Cell said with a grin.
“Please,” Shiva added, settling next to them.
“Oh, ho, ho, ho! Well it seems this monkey is going to get it’s lashes, isn’t he?” Frieza laughed, Nappa just clenched his fists at this.
“Honey, I can explain!!!” Black’s voice echoed through the hole, an explosion following shortly after.
“THOU HAD THE NERVE TO GO TO A TOURNAMENT WITHOUT WE?!? ” Luna Black roared, another explosion shook the arena. Shortly after, Black as a Super Saiyan God proceeds to fly at maximum speed out of the hole, Luna Black following shortly. “DON’T THOU RUN FROM WE!!! ”
“Thanos would love to watch this…” Nappa chuckled. Mr. Perfect Cell nodded afterwards, chewing on his popcorn.
“Too bad too, I would like to laugh at the monkey with him.” Frieza shrugged, peering down at the hole.
Kodo peeked over the edge, while Shiva watched, an unreadable expression on her face.
“Um… Mom?” he asked. “Isn’t this…?”
“After the mess you made with Umbra,” Shiva said, her eyes not straying from the fight below them. “The fact that you are my son was the only reason that you didn’t end up like this. And the only reason your father didn’t get this for letting Umbra control you was because he was already dead.”
Kodo wisely didn’t reply to that, turning his attention back to the hole as Black’s voice came back up.
“I didn’t know if you wanted to go! I thought you’d be too old for it!” Black shouted back.
“ARE THOU SAYING WE ARE OLD!!!! ” Luna Black then produced a magical blast and shot the Saiyan through the stadium and into the Displaced bedrooms. The Saiyan flew straight into Thanos’ room and out of it, breaking down the walls.
Thanos stood there, now out of the chamber, “The fuck man?” Thanos frowned, taking a sip of his Hetap.
“NO TIME TO EXPLAIN THANOS’, GOTTA RUN FROM MY HOT ALICORN GIRLFRIEND!!!” Black yelled as he stood up and ran down the corridor, Luna Black shortly after following with a sword.
“Okay, since I have debt I need to fulfil with you, I’m following! DON’T WORRY BUDDY!!! I’M COMING!!!!!!!!” Thanos ran after the Dark Saiyan. Thanos with Soru appeared beside Black, “Let me guess she’s angry because you didn’t invite her to the tournament with you?!” Thanos yelled to the Saiyan.
“Correct, I didn’t think she’d want to come!” Black yelled in panic as he turned down a corridor, almost slipping across the floor.
“That’s a good point! We should probably stop talking now, it’ll take up our breath!” Thanos shouted to Black, as he ran faster.
“Agreed!!” Black yelled, a magical blast flew past the Saiyan and hit a wall, vaporizing it on sight. The Saiyan went wide-eyed and proceeded to run faster. “I THINK SHE’S GONNA KILL ME!”
“BETTER NOW THEN LATER, AM I RIGHT!??!?!” Thanos yelled at the Saiyan, but Thanos was interrupted as a magical rope was hoisted around the Titan. He was then pulled back towards Luna Black’s direction. “TELL MY FAMILY I LOVE THEM FOR MEEEEEEE!!!!!!!” A huge explosion followed soon after, Thanos did the Patrick scream as well.
This made the Saiyan more determined to run faster. But to only cry out in fear as he ran into a dead end. “Welp… this is how I end…” Black muttered, turning around he saw Luna Black with an angry expression. But she then grinned maliciously at the Saiyan, making Black shiver.
“Did thou think thee would escape thine wrath! ” Luna Black’s voice boomed throughout the stadium.
“No… no I didn’t.” Black muttered weakly. The Saiyan looked around him for an escape, but failed miserably as Luna Black closed the distance between them. “Is there anything I can do to repay you?” Black said nervously, this made Luna Black grin.
“Your room, 15 minutes.” Luna Black says as she walks away from the Saiyan. Black slid down the wall and began to shake.
Thanos let out a grunt as he crawled to the corner, he looked at Black. "Thank god you already signed your will. Now you're going to experience my PTSD." Thanos groaned, wounds all over his body.
“The will was only all of the Hetap I had stored back in my Hyperbolic Time Chamber…” Black muttered.
"That shit is better than any amount of money, ever." Thanos remarked, pain written all over his face.
“Well… it was nice knowing you Thanos… but I’m about to witness something worse than all of my enemies combined…” Black shook with fear as he slowly stood up and walked to his room, taking a whole 15 minutes to get there, buying him time.
20 Minutes later
Thanos was in a wheelchair all bandaged up, except his face, everything was bandaged up. "I want to die." Thanos said blankly, Nappa pushed Thanos' wheelchair.
Nightmare appeared next to them with a worried look, “I heard multiple explosions, what the hay happened!?”
“A woman scorned,” Shiva’s voice replied, as a Pack Link formed her image like a hologram. She shook her head in pity at Thanos’ appearance.
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Thanos stood there blank, as he remembered his time in Celestia's room. Then picturing Black going through the hell he went through, his eyes showed the internal pain he went through as he stared into Nightmare's soul. The pain, the embarrassment, the absolute agony. He began to freeze as Thanos felt his blood run cold, he had died. Mentally, the old John died when he went into that room. The actual Thanos died as well, Thanos' Nightmare shuddered, along with Thanos. If Thanos could curl up into a ball right now, he fucking would.
"...Poor young soul…" Thanos managed to get the words out as his eyes continued to stay open, like he's seen some shit.
Nightmare took a step back, seeing into Thanos’ eyes as she saw the gate to actual hell. “No… don’t tell me… she… got to Black…” Nightmare shook.
"...Yes… " Thanos muttered softly, lowering his head down, to pay respects, and to hide his tears for Black.
Nightmare’s ears flicked, hearing a faint sound. Growing in volume as someone was saying something.
“Ka… Me… Ha… Me…” Black’s voice was heard by Thanos, Nappa, Nightmare, and Shiva.
"May he rest… In peace." Thanos said with a shudder.
“HAAAAA” A large beam of dark purple energy flew out the side of the stands and into space, thinning out shortly after as smoke was emitted from the side of the stands. No one dared to look down as Fujitora levitated a chunk of rock and replaced their roof. Nightmare shivered at the thought of seeing what happened there.
"They're probably not done… Only just begun… Just wait a few days… An… And he'll come out like me." Thanos shivered as tears finally fell down his face. "Dear… God…"
"Well, looks like I get 9001 cans of Hetap." Mr. Perfect Cell noted while daydreaming on how many cans of Hetap he would have. "I believe we should head back to the Arena Stands, because I seriously do not want to… Be anywhere near that." Mr. Perfect Cell said in disgust before he flew off, Nappa looked over to Nightmare.
"Do you mind pushing Thanos? I need to go… Clear my mind." Nappa turns around before she could respond and walks off.
Shiva scoffed, before looking to Nightmare. “Do you… need any help?” she asked.
Nightmare looked to Blacks room before shaking in fear, “I think… I’m good…” Nightmare got out, walking to Thanos and pushing the wheelchair to the stands. Shiva followed after her, glancing nervously at Black’s room before letting her projection fizzle out into sparkles, leaving behind a comforting scent of lavender.
Nightmare and Thanos had arrived at the Arena's stands. Cooler looked at the two in shock.
"What the hell happened to you two?" Cooler asked the pair.
“You don’t want to know… if you wish to keep your sanity.” Nightmare shakily said, looking at the metal man. Metal Cooler quickly backed off as Broly looked around.
"I sense Black's power level shrinking, what's happening?" Broly mumbled, trying to pinpoint where Black is.
“He scorned his woman,” Shiva replied.
"Oh, what does that mean?" Broly asked the Diamond Dog, looking down at her.
“Some men can destroy moons,” Shiva replied ominously. “Others can destroy galaxies. And some can probably destroy entire universes. But… all of that pales in comparison to the damage a woman can do… when you let her into your heart and then anger her.”
"Sorry, I can't hear you from down there." Broly mumbled quietly.
Sighing, Shiva launched a Pack Link up to him. And in the link, Broly saw a demonic visage of Luna. Cackling in malicious glee as she held a weakened and terrified Black over her head like a predator claiming its prey. Lightning flashed in the background, and her eyes glowed with an eerie light.
"Oh, that's bad, I should probably save him." Broly turned to go down the stairs and into the corridors. But was halted when an explosion happened shortly, the tall Saiyan then slowly backed away and walked back to the stands.
"After being interrupted by Black's Lulu, and everyone is back here, I think it's time to begin the fight. Oh and this is the gay God Phoenix," Ryker points to Phoenix, as he just stood there on the arena stage.
Phoenix squinted in annoyance at Ryker, before putting on a more thoughtful demeanor. “I mean, you’re not that far off….. Fuck it yeah I’ll take that.”
"Ah yes, making fun of someone by how they look and act. Funny." Mr. Perfect Cell commented in obvious sarcasm. Mira just scoffed.
"The trash should be treated like trash, the gold should be treated like gold, that's just how it is." Mira crossed his arms looking down at Eric with a disgusted look on his face. Mira then looks around at Eric's comrades. "Are none of you ashamed of how he forfeited and lost on purpose? Dishonorable." Mira gritted his teeth.
“There is no shame in admitting defeat to somepony you can’t beat” Sombra said to the android. “Though most see it as shame, many others show it as a sign of respect, it means that you are the better of the two of us but we are still equals” the unicorn spoke giving his wisdom
"Oh really? If that's the case, Phoenix is better than Eric, given your philosophy. Phoenix lost honorably, unlike Eric who never laid a single hand on Noximilien! At least Phoenix got a few licks on Thanos before surrendering, and knowing he could never beat him," Mira looked down to Sombra, still in the air.
“Eric knows that.” Sombra agreed with the android. “But he knows better now, You will see an honorable fight this time around.”
"Hopefully we get a no holds barred fight, except of course the killing, if none of them so much as transform, I'm getting Towa to…" Mira grumbled out that last bit. Mr. Perfect Cell raised an eyebrow at this.
"Now hold on, you know that's dangerous to the young boy's body. Right?" Mr. Perfect Cell asked Mira, Mira just gave Mr. Perfect Cell a glare before shutting up. "Well, this may be a shit show if these two don't fight with enough heart." Mr. Perfect Cell told the Displaced and their comrades.
"How so?" Grievous asked the bio-android.
"Just wait and hopefully not see…" Mr. Perfect Cell shook his head.
"Now the battle begins in three, two, one, FIGHT!!!" Ryker declared.
Eric started off by immediately slamming his hand to the ground.
Savage Shadow Soul: Soul of the Savage Reaper
Entering his Savage Reaper form, Eric pulled his signature scythe from his body.
“Shall we get this started, Phoenix?” Eric asked, his voice bringing chills to everyone.
“Let’s.” Phoenix pulled Chastiefol from his back before switching to his Configuration Zero form, a bright light bursting once again. “Let’s dance!”
Eric gave a boney smile as his red eye began to emit purple wisps of magic. “Break the Reality of Darkness and make one into two,” Eric’s voice echoed as plumes of purple magic separated from Eric, creating two identical copies of himself. “Dark Copy.”
“Interesting...” Phoenix mused, seeing the three in front of him. “I’m surprised you’re using that spell considering it nearly killed you last time.”
“That was then,” Eric replied, as his clones brought out their weapons. “And this is now!”
The clone to Eric’s left - Dragon Eric - called forth his sacred gear before aiming it forward. “Boosted Gear!” In a flash of light the clone was in a full suit of red armor. “Balance Breaker: Scale Mail!”
“And we’re all the stronger because of it” Eric said as Armor Eric - the clone to his right - stabbed a sword into the ground
“Incursio!” Armor Eric yelled as chains coiled around him as a large armored giant rose behind him with its arms crossed before he was clad in a suit of white armor with a red spear in his hands.
All three Eric’s were now clad in their own powered up form turned to Phoenix.
“Let the party begin!” All Eric’s said in unison as they all dash in different directions
Stopping in his tracks Dragon Eric ran towards Phoenix keeping his focus on him rather than Armor Eric as he turned invisible. As Phoenix tried to focus on Armor Eric, Dragon Eric slammed his fist into the Fairy’s stomach. However, he did not move a muscle.
“C’mon, you’re gonna need to try a bit harder than that to break through my armour.” Phoenix stated, before grabbing his wrist. “Ever heard of a kote gaeshi?” He slowly began twisting Dragon Eric’s wrist, using a technique from the martial art ‘budō’. Soon Dragon Eric was kneeling before him, his arm threatening to snap with a single twist.
Armor Eric rushed Phoenix using his body to slam into him, causing him to drop Dragon Eric’s wrist, Dragon Eric jumped back as his armor glowed green as a voice yelled out “Boost!” Every ten seconds. Without warning Eric appears before Phoenix and slashes him across his chest before vanishing with a kick to his chest, the kick from Eric had such force to not only send Phoenix flying into the arena but also broke a few of his ribs.
Flipping off his back and onto his feet, Phoenix teleported behind Armour Eric before delivering a swift kick to his neck. He spun around so that his back was touching Eric’s, and grabbed him by the front of his neck. He then began to pull down on his neck as if to flip him over his back, making sure to add pressure onto where he had kicked him. Not long afterwards, a loud pop sound could be heard, and Armor Eric fell to the ground. “One down!”
“Hey, why didn’t you use any of that when we fought?!” Thanos shouted out, still bandaged up.
Phoenix looked over to the hulking man as he kicked Armor Eric’s unmoving body away from him. He pointed to himself and cocked his head to the side in confusion. “Me?”
“Yes you! We fought and you used none of those Budo techniques on me, I thought we had something special!” Thanos held a hand to his chest insulted.
"You really think everyone will show you all their tricks outright in this thing?" Ed remarked with a soda in his hand. "I never even showed a quarter of what I can do."
“Using such a technique on someone like yourself would be fruitless. Sure it is supposed to be used on big opponents, but basic martial arts wouldn’t cut it with you.” Phoenix stated, turning to Thanos fully and ignoring the fight. “And yes Ed is correct, I didn’t even use my final form in our bout, let alone my lesser known tactics.”
“Well... I didn’t either, so it’s kinda reasonable you didn’t go full power.” Thanos sighed, looking down at the Fairy God “Parent.”
“Oh don’t get me wrong, if I didn’t have this stupid ring,” Phoenix raised his hand. “You bet your ass I would’ve used a more powerful form. However, they are too taxing on this limited form.” He looked down and gestured to himself. “And Thanos, I can read your thoughts, fucktard.” Phoenix flipped him the bird with a frown on his face. Thanos broke out his cast, filled with cuts and bruises, and returned the gesture.
"It takes a lot to maintain full power," Ed nodded. "My mentality is what's under pressure if I go into my full form. Not the most stable of personas."
Phoenix winced at Thanos’s fucked up appendage before speaking. “You know, you could’ve just asked and I could’ve fixed that up.”
“You can?” Thanos raised an eyebrow, “This is from interfering with an affair between a Saiyan and an Alicorn. Never again.” Thanos informed the God Parent.
“I think you underestimate me.” Phoenix placed his hand on his hips as he stared at Thanos, and Thanos stared back. “I could regrow a new limb for you if you requested. Hell, all I’d need is your head and the rest of your body could be replaced!”
“I’d rather not fucking die.” Thanos told the God Parent once more.
“Thanos I swear to god if you use that nickname one more time, no fighter in this arena will be able to stop me from getting to you.” “Phoenix said with a half annoyed half amused face on.
“Okay, Cosmo.” Thanos told the God Parent again, grinning.
Phoenix looked up to Ryker and spoke. “Permission to use fox hunt?”
The host nodded.
“Great.” Phoenix took all the power from Thanos’ vocal box, before flipping the bird once more.
Thanos proceeds to use sign language to say, “You Cosmo rip off, you’re the God Parent that would be captured by the F guy. Damn, cockwasher.” Thanos said via sign language.
A vein could be seen popping out from Phoenix’s forehead, before he used fox hunt to take away the power in Thanos’ fingers and wrists. “Shut up rainbow bender, I could kick a football through that field goal you call a smile.”
Thanos proceeded to use a bit of his Alicorn Magic to speak to Phoenix telepathically, “How’s Timmy, Cosmo the God Parent?” Thanos mocked.
“Frociesta, forgive me for what I’m about to do.” Phoenix placed his hands together and prayed, before taking the power from Thanos’ heart, stopping it from beating.
Thanos proceeded to fucking die, but as Phoenix thought it was over… “Cosmo… Cosmo… How’s Timmy?” A ghostly voice of Thanos spoke to Phoenix.
Phoenix proceeds to pull out a gun and point it to his own head. “I’d rather pass on then be haunted by your sorry ass!” However, before he could pull the trigger he was interrupted by Ed.
"ENOUGH ALREADY!" The alchemist yelled as a steel plate bolted to Thanos's mouth and flowers came out of the barrel of Phoenix's gun. "Christ! It's like listening to my kids argue over a damn toy." He grabbed Thanos' ghost and shoved the mad titan back into his body. "How about I fix your arm?" Ed looked at the grape colored Titan. "He can't really do it on account of the fight anyways." He reached his hand out and placed it on the Titan's arm and covered in a greenish aura and the limb immediately healed up good as new. "There ya go big man now stop complaining about it. Twisler?" Ed held up a bag of the red licorice candy.
“Alright bet. Can I become living again, Cosmo?” Thanos’ voice echoed across Cosmo’s head.
"I already fixed that numb-nuts," Ed deadpanned.
“I don’t doubt you could, but trust me when I say that it won’t be for long,” Phoenix said, chuckling at the thought of Thanos’ deformed corpse after he had finished with him.
“I will make sure you don’t sleep tonight you fucking cunt ass bitch.” Thanos snapped at Phoenix.
“Bold of you to presume I sleep, limpdick! And on the topic, I can arrange a very very long slumber for you if you wish?!” Phoenix glared at him challengingly. He then proceeded to turn to the Eric’s. “Oh hey.” They all had their arms crossed and rolled their eyes, waiting for us to be done.
“Bold of you to assume that I have a limpdick, I will not be insulted by some privileged, no account, soft penis, jackass, I doubt you know my real name, I’m the fucking Lizard King.” Thanos snarked at Cosmos.
“Bitch, I am literally a God!!” Phoenix shouted back, enjoying the fact he could throw that title around now.
"I'm gonna get a bar of infinite soap if you don't shut up," Ed shook his head. "And anyone that claims they're a god is very far from it."
“What, cause your mom will force it into Thanos’ mouth to cleanse him?” Phoenix asked, Ed.
“Newsflash you cockjuggler, I’m a God too!” Thanos informed the Fairy God Parent.
"THAT'S IT!" Ed threw a bar of rainbow glowing soap in the titan's maw and then appeared a brush that went to work scrubbing. "I warned you jackass." He turns to Phoenix. "You want some too? Keep up the crap flinging and see what happens, fight or not." The mad titan drowning in sparked bubbles on the ground wasn't a very comforting sight.
“‘Keep up the crap flinging and see what happens.’ Title of your sex tape Ed.” Phoenix stated, making finger gun gestures towards him.
"I warned ya," Ed snapped and Phoenix went poof and he was in a baby outfit sucking on a pacifier. "Don't screw with me, I'm still very pissed."
“RYKER!! I call cheating!!! Eric has received out of arena help!!!” Phoenix shouted, teleporting out of the baby clothes and into his regular clothes. “Man you have a weird kink….” Phoenix mumbled as he looked over to Ed.
"You're the ones acting like babies so I will treat you as such," Ed shrugged. "And I hate that asshole and I'm not hindering your fight but also, not bound by the tourney rules either."
“Well sorry ! Maybe if you loosened up a bit you’d get some pussy on your dick.” Phoenix crossed his arms and pouted jokingly.
“If ya want me to make Eric lose, I’ll do it for twenty dollars and a can of hetap!” Ryker shouted out down them
"Excuse me I have three girls back home thank you very much," Ed crossed his arms. " And fuck you Ryker."
“Oh I’m well aware! I nicknamed them Build ‘a’ bear 1, 2 and 3. Cause I stuffed 'em all myself!” Phoenix stated with a sly smile.
“GET ROASTED!!!!!” Ryker laughed at Ed.
"Says the guy that's on a rotisserie," The Alchemist shot back as their roast was slowly being turned over a fire.
Phoenix chuckled to himself before turning to the Eric’s and taking a fighting stance. “Yeah we should probably fight now.”
“Yeah probably should” Eric said, cracking the bones in his neck. “I’m only lucky you killed my clone in the least lethal way.”
Dragon Eric approached Eric doing the same to his neck. “Any ideas?”
“Well for starters transfer all the power you’ve been gaining this entire fight.” Eric said as his clone put a hand on his shoulder.
“Transfer,” his armor shouted, increasing his strength and power. “Now...I think it’s best you go away. One wrong move and I’m down for the count”
“Yeah..I guess you’re right,” Dragon Eric said, shaking his head. “You really hate losing don’t you?” the clone vanished in a plume of purple magic smoke
“Now, Go Boosted Gear!” Eric shouted as a red Gauntlet appeared on his right arm. “Boost!”
Eric jumped into the air before kicking the air causing a shockwave and vanishing from sight, the only thing Phoenix saw or heard were the cracks that formed in the arena as well as Eric’s gauntlet screaming “Boost” . Before long Phoenix grunted in slight pain as something sliced up his back, Turning back he was met with nothing but cracks on the ground
“You’re getting faster,” Phoenix analyzed as he jumped back from a well hidden attack that carved a trench into the ground. “Stronger too.”
“I’d better be after three years of Training in Ed’s time chamber,” Eric’s voice said as it sounded like it came from everywhere, meanwhile from the stands, Thanos suddenly got from his chair., bubbles littered his body, his phone rang and he picked it up.
“Hello?” Thanos asked.
“Hello?” A voice similar to Thanos responded.
“Who’s this?” The voice spoke, Thanos cleared his throat.
“Who’s this?” Thanos asked the voice with a raised eyebrow.
“I am asking the questions, I called you .” The other voice spoke. Lucci raised an eyebrow at this.
“No, I called you. And you sound like the ugliest son of a bitch I’ve ever heard.” Thanos snapped at the voice, frowning.
“Well you sound like the physical manifestations of some losers inner demons.” The voice countered.
“Well you sound like some total chode’s inability to confront the reality of his past actions.” Thanos countered the voice’s counter, Lucci laughed at this.
“If I ever see your stinky mug in my line of sight, I swear to jack off, I’ll cock your clock off.” The voice responded to Thanos, Grievous almost fucking died due to him drinking water, which was fucking impossible.
“Well, I’m going to be the bigger man and hang up first.” Thanos told the voice only for the voice to hang up. “Damn it!” Thanos puts up his phone then suddenly, next to Thanos was… Thanos?! They both jumped back from each other.
“Listen, we don’t cotton to freaks around these parts! Scram weirdo!” The other Thanos told Thanos, Nappa was just wide-eyed at this. No words, just pure awe.
“Oh yeah? I don’t poly cotton to coping tropes, even my own. So why don’t you split?” Thanos countered, glaring at other Thanos.
“Looks like I already did.” The other Thanos was split in half, the other Thanos then brought himself back together. “You’re the sad figment of my twisted psychies tragic dividend.” The other Thanos crossed his arms, “You are the un-me, I am the real me, you wannabe, me.”
Thanos scoffed at the other Thanos remark, “Kiddo, I was the real me when you were still in my short pants.” Thanos smirked, thinking he had the upper hand.
“Hate to break it to you, but I wore them first.” The other Thanos shrugged, smirking like Thanos did but a few seconds ago. “Me bequeathed thee, the psychological. pathological, hand-you-down.” The other Thanos went upside down then back to normal.
“So you’re the one who stained them!” Thanos pointed to the other Thanos accusingly.
“Whoever found it, browned it.” The other Thanos kept his smirk, Thanos frowned.
“You like me to be you, wouldn’t me? But it’s too late, you snoze, you loze.” Thanos laughed, saying snoze instead of snooze.
“You sleeped, you weeped.” The other Thanos countered.
“You nappa, you get slappa.” Thanos said going close to the other Thanos’ face.
“You slumber, a cucumber.” The other Thanos frowned at Thanos, Thanos then smirked.
“You catch up on some zeds, you get out of my heads.” Thanos attempted to rhyme but fucked up.
“You slumber… Ham… Burger I don’t wanna talk about nothing else!” The other Thanos turned around, taking two steps forward before facing Thanos again.
“Listen, this psyche is not big enough for two manifefisional seekers.” Thanos said as they both circle each other around like wolves.
“You couldn’t seek your way out of a cardboard bag!” Laughed other Thanos, Thanos' smirk turns into a grin.
“Yeah, I know, because it would have been an egg!” Other Thanos recoiled at this response, turning around as a single drop of sweat appeared at his forehead.
‘This guy might be better than me!” Other Thanos thought, however, due to Thanos’ Alicorn magic, he heard this.
“You’re right, I am better than me.” Thanos crossed his arms, looking all high and mighty, other Thanos turned to Thanos.
“Look buddy, know when you are defeated! Accept your defection.” The other Thanos pointed at Thanos.
“No thanks, I’m full, because I eat pussies like you for breakfast.” Thanos countered, Lucci fell back in his chair at this comeback.
“Look at you, you look so superficial, you probably judge things by their physical appearance.” The other Thanos chuckled, mocking Thanos. Thanos just scoffed.
“Oh yeah? Your mom’s so shallow, she probably thinks this quip is about her.” Thanos shot back, the other Thanos was taken aback by this.
“You’re about as deep as a bowl of soup, and you tongue is as sharp as a soup spoon.” The other Thanos said in a weird voice, Nappa slowly facepalmed at this.
“Say what you want about me but lay off the soup.” Thanos chuckled, grinning ear to ear.
“If you love soup so much, why don’t you marry soup?” The other Thanos mocked, putting his hands on his hips.
“‘Cause I’m already married to justice.” Thanos struck a Jojo’s Pose at that. Other Thanos scoffed.
“Yeah, only a blind girl will marry you.” The other Thanos said, approaching Thanos once more, they both approached each other.
“I know everything you’re gonna-” Thanos was cut off by the other Thanos.
“Say.” The other Thanos finished for Thanos, Thanos just smirked at this. “And I know everything you’re gonna-”
“Don’t.” Thanos replied, the other Thanos turned around before facing him again.
“Oh yeah? When god was passing out insight you thought he said, that when, uh, god was passing out prophets. You thought he said oily faucet because your soul has diarrhea… Of the mouth… Faucet.” The other Thanos formed up the words to say that, they could all tell the other Thanos was losing this roast battle.
“Are you so dumb you ask even retorical questions?” Thanos snarked, what the other Thanos replies may end the conversation.
“I don’t know, do you?” The other Thanos shot back, this made Thanos jump back, not expecting this raw power to come out. “We can play this game all night.”
“First of all it’s day time, and this is no game.” Thanos frowned at the other Thanos.
“Checkmate.” The other Thanos smirked, Thanos then had a big brain roast.
“Oh, so you admit that you were checking me out and you wanna mate.” Thanos laughed at the other Thanos, the other Thanos smirk did not falter.
“You probably have one Peni, let me see it.” The other Thanos leaned his head back trying to look high and mighty.
“See with your eyes, not with your mouth.” Thanos shot back, Mr. Perfect Cell burst out laughing, no longer able to contain it.
“I’ll call your bluff, I’ll see your penis with your mouth. And I raise you with my hand.” The other Thanos laughed, saying your instead of my for some reason.
“Okay count of three, we show what’s under the pants, wiener take it all.” Thanos' voice echoed across the arena as everyone averts their gaze from that specific area.
“One… Two… Thr-” As soon as they got to the three, Grievous slammed their heads together.
“The fuck is wrong with you two?!” Grievous shouted out.
“Morons….The lot of them” Sombra thought as he watched Eric move around the ring
“So Sombra care to give us a play by play” Rainbow asked seeing Sombra magic fueled eyes dart back and forth looking in the arena
“Eric is using his Savage Reaper to keep himself from being seen by Phoenix” Sombra explained as he had to strain his eyes a bit. “However that red gauntlet of his is somehow increasing both his speed and strength which is making it harder to keep track of him”
Sombra looked at the racing form of his friend with concern
“You hold a look of concern, Sombra” Luna said drawing the unicorns attention
“His clone had said he hate’s losing but he’s only using Reaper,” Sombra said as Phoenix received a deep slash across his back. “But that form is one of his weaker forms”
Sombra then turned to Ryker who held a look or rage as he gripped the arms of his thrones, Immediately it clicked
“It would seem they’re both holding back, the king isn’t getting any of his Dark Ki from this Fight” Sombra whispered to the Princess and the pegasus
"Don't make me come down there, Eric…" Ryker frowned, tapping the resting space of his throne.
“Why would you?” Maud said to the king. “They are fighting as you requested”
Ryker suddenly grinned ear to ear, "You're right, why would I? Oh Kyle~" Ryker turned to Kyle, he suddenly stiffened.
"Please no…" Kyle shivered slowly turning to Ryker.
Maud ran over to the Eliatrope and chopped the back of his neck, knocking him out.
"Huh, well, that plan is ruined. If I didn't know magic!" Ryker laughed as suddenly like a puppet, Kyle stood up. Ryker's hands were not moving as Kyle did so. Ryker snapped his fingers as Kyle woke up.
"Dear fucking god did I get hit by a rock?" Kyle turned to Maud. "Oh, it's you."
"Towa." Ryker turns to Towa and Towa simply taps Kyle's head with her staff suddenly, Kyle's pupils vanished. Kyle then appeared on the arena stage, no one could even see him do so. Like suddenly vanished then reappeared, Kyle's head snapped to Eric. A dark aura enveloped Kyle, Kyle then clutched his head screaming in pain before his dark aura flared up. Pushing all the dust aside, there was an infinity sign of Kyle's head, his skin turned a greyish purple, his hair turned white, along with his hat.
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Kyle suddenly roared and blue orbs shot out of his body, the blue orbs multiplied and the orbs of Dark Ki bounced on the ground. Bouncing off the shield and going towards the competitors.
“Bind in a web of Darkness and engulf my foe” Eric said as Kyle's body began to be grabbed by purple webs of magic “Dark Bind”
"WEAK!!!" Kyle roared and the binds blew apart. Kyle appeared before Eric and shot a dark Ki blast at him, launching him far. But he flew very, very, slowly. Like he was in slow motion. Kyle appeared behind Eric, letting out a flurry of punches and kicks, it knocked Eric away and Kyle appeared behind Eric doing the same thing. He repeats this process a final time before kicking Eric to the ground.
Eric dispelled his reaper form and stored his scythe into his shadows before smiling. “Oh no..I guess I overused my reaper form, I feel...so...exhausted” Eric mocked faking exhaustion as he uttered a silent spell, one that Shiva recognized. “Play Dead.” Shiva grinned quietly.
Eric fell to the ground unconscious which in turn angered Ryker to no end.
"Kill him." Ryker said plainly, Kyle took a step forward… And appeared before Eric. He charged up a purple beam to go and kill him.
Without warning Eric’s comrades jumped down and tackled the Eliatrope. Sombra had all three Swords drawn while Rainbow was in her Rainbow Flame Spirit form, Next to them Maud had her entire body covered in the aura of her Tremor-Tremor Fruit. Kodo had his sword drawn and smoke coursing from his body, while Shiva powered them all with her Pack Link, herself glittering like a diamond statue. However Kyle failed to stop Princess Luna.
"If y'all are down..." Thanos whistled as he jumped down, Lucci in his Hybrid Form, Grievous having all four swords out, Nappa in Super Saiyan 2, Entity in his Flaming Form. They were all there, Ryker just laughed clapping in joy.
"Alright, whoever beats Kyle gets the Stand Arrow!" Ryker declared, Kyle then let out a roar and pushed everyone back. Embedding herself in the ground, Shiva spun Kodo towards Kyle, only for Kyle to then punch Lucci, sending him into Kodo and sending both flying into the wall. Grievous ran at Kyle and attempted to strike with his blades however, Kyle saw this coming and evaded the attack. He then attempts to spin kick Grievous, only for the swordsman to jump back.
Storm clouds below above lightning and thunder booming across the skies, bolts of lightning hit the arena separating Kyle from the Displaced and their comrades
"What in Popo's empty soul is going on here?" Mr. Perfect Cell raised an eyebrow.
“She’s pissed,” Sombra said sheathing his swords
"Eh? Someone wants to fight? Hopefully they aren't complete garbage like EVERYONE here." They could all tell, Kyle's personality had changed he was arrogant, cocky, and a tad bit insane.
Without warning he felt a hand against the nape of his neck. “20 Trillion Volt Hydra'' A large three headed serpent burst through Kyle's body burning it to a crisp his eyes turned completely white as he fell to the ground as a complete glass statue. The statue then starts to move, getting up, Kyle looks at his body, still in the dark aura. Kyle slowly turned to Luna, breathing heavily, he looked at his body with unbridled anger. He then slowly calmed down, taking deep breaths. He chuckled.
"Well, looks like I'm Mr. Glass Man now… hehehehe… I can no longer be normal again. Thanks Luna for making me a genuine freak." Kyle turned to Luna.
Unfortunately he was cut off when Luna slammed her fist into his face shattering his entire being.
Shiva jumped up with a bark. “Luna, whoa!” she yelped.
Ryker went wide-eyed. "I said beat him, not fucking kill him. You do know you could've beaten the darkness out of him, right?" Ryker asked, "He could've lived, you literally killed a teenager. In cold blood. It wasn't even his fault, it was my fault. I knew him for years, come on man, he was like a… Nephew to me. My lad is dead." Ryker said looking at Kyle's broken body.
"The trash belongs in the trash." Mira laughed, Mira had a trash bag and used levitation to bring Kyle's shattered body into it. He then throws it into the nearest trash can. "Pathetic." Suddenly all of the crowd roared into laughter, laughing at Kyle's defeat.
Luna ignored everyone as she lifted Eric from the ground and left the arena with him in her arms,
Ryker just looked at the trashcan and brought it to him via portal. He just looks at the can, he then looks to Towa.
"Towa, gather the Namekian Dragon Balls, we're reviving this son of a bitch." Ryker snapped his fingers and everyone felt a tremor in the Earth. Towa just smiles, Ryker makes a portal, he then walks back out. "I did not intend for my damn nephew to die you savages! You didn't have to kill him! Sombra and Eric could've fused to Soric to beat Kyle's ass. But apparently not!" Ryker shouted out.
Luna stopped before glaring at Ryker with a side glance. “You ordered him to kill Eric, so all I did was protect what was mine!”
"Did you have to shatter him?! You did not have to kill my nephew. One of my few people I consider a family, Kyle was broken mentally when he was glass, you didn't have to go that far. That is unprofessional and pure unadulterated savagery." Ryker said, disappointed in Luna.
Luna however ignored Ryker and vanished in a flash of lightning.
"I swear I'm going to destroy their universe after this. I fucking will. Their families, friends, races, homes, everyone they love or care for is going to fucking die." Ryker said quietly no one could hear but only the sharpest, sharpest, of ears. Ryker turned to the portal and went inside.
As Sombra turned to leave his ears flicked upon hearing Ryker’s words, his eyes turning red and green, the eyes of Umbra. “You won’t even live long enough to leave this world,” Sombra thought as he looked at the ring on his finger before gripping his weapon tighter.
Kodo glanced at Sombra, recognizing Umbra’s power. “Careful, Sombra…” he muttered. “You shouldn’t have to become a monster to fight a monster.”
Broly just shed a small tear before turning around, "This Is why my father doesn't allow me to have friends, they always die." Broly sighed, walking off.
“They only die if you fail to protect them” Rainbow said returning to her normal state
Broly's green aura suddenly flared up. "There was nothing I could do to stop that from happening." Broly rubbed his eyes.
“There’s always something you can do,” Rainbow said before leaving the arena to find Eric and Luna.
"...Women are so darn complicated." Broly sighed, walking off. Mr. Perfect Cell sighed.
"Another young soul gone, but not forgotten." Mr. Perfect Cell said before the skies turned dark. "That was fucking quick." The skies turned normal after that.
"Ryker's gonna yell isn't he?"
In the distance, an ice wasteland was Ryker, looking up to the Gods, sighing.
"You know Nora, I'm starting to believe it may be impossible to bring you back. Because the plan is slowly breaking, luckily, Luna used a strong move, soon the plan will carry out. Soon, but forgive me Equus for what I'm about to do." Ryker looked down at the earth before his Ki flared up, a purple aura surrounded him, mimicking that of the Destroyer Gods.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-" Ryker let out a scream as the planet began to shake due to the volume of his voice.
“My, my, my, somepony is really angry today aren’t we?” a voice echoed throughout the air. A voice Ryker recognized belonging to this worlds resident chaos spirit
"What do you want from me now? I already gave you your own damn dimension. What more do you want?" Ryker asked the spirit.
“I was feeling a little homesick and decided to visit you, Little Ryky” the voice said as a massive row of grinning teeth appeared before Ryker.
A female body faded in revealing a woman with unruly long light purple hair with white strips, a purple dress with a string of purple pearls, two stockings cover her legs one dark purple and light pink the other dark purple and a light purple. While her clothing choice was rather odd, it was her eyes that were the strangest, pinkish purple in color with no pupil, only a spiral that swirled around her iris.
"Don't call me Ryky, I am older than ye. Now fack off will ye?" Ryker deadpanned at the Spirit of Chaos.
“Oh Ryky you know you love that name” Screwball grinned at the king
Ryker reached for one of his rings, that was on his hand "Don't make me pull the Ring of Suppression." Ryker frowned.
“What, this ring?” Screwball said holding the ring in her hands, Ryker looked at his hand finding it was now a ring pop gone. He then lunged towards Screwball accidentally crashing into her.
The two were now on the ground, Screwball smiled as Ryker noticed his hands were right on her breasts. “Oh Ryky if you wanted to have some fun all you had to do was ask?” Screwball said smiling seductively at the king
"Fack off ye daft cunt! Give me my ring!" Ryker frowned, his purple aura still there.
“Whatever you say Ryky” Screwball exploded in a cloud of Confetti, Ryker then felt a hand on his shoulder as Screwball held the ring in front of him. “Normally the man is suppose to give the lady a ring and not the other way around”
"You are so lucky I find your presence mildly amusing, or else you would be dead." Ryker snapped, putting the ring back on and sighing.
“Oh don’t say that you know you ~Love~ me” Screwball said planting a kiss on the kings cheek
"I will destroy everything you love and then some." Ryker frowned.
“Destroying everything I love?” Screwball question before giggling. “Cause you and I know both know I love you, would you destroy yourself?”
"Yes, If my plan doesn't work and I can't get my daughter I'll go hang myself. Though the rope would break… I'll find some way to kill myself." Ryker turned away from Screwball.
“She’s my daughter too” Screwball Grinned
"You are SO god damn fucking lucky I met you that day and decided to have fun. SO. FUCKING. LUCKY. I will destroy a damn galaxy or rip my dick off to make sure you leave me alone." Ryker frown did not falter.
“Hmm...Not gonna lie Ryky” Screwball said leaning against Ryker’s back and wrapping her arms around the king. “That’s pretty Kinky, but you know I can heal you instantly
"That's it blowing up the planet." Ryker charged up a small orb of Hakai and pointed it at the earth.
However the blast immediately turned to cotton candy rendering the attack harmless. Screwball’s comic mask dropped from her face revealing a face full of tears and sorrow
“I know why you’re doing this, and believe me I’ve tried to get her back as well” Screwball said placing her chin against Ryker’s shoulder. “But my magic can only do so much”
"I've been doing this for 7,000 years, I'm not giving up. I've collected so much Dark Ki and Wakfu to last us for years."
“It’s all my fault” Screwball said to the king. “My magic clashed with yours and took her from us”
"...I'm not giving up until I get our daughter ye lassie, and I won't rest until I get her back home. It's been 7,000 years. 7,000, I'm not giving up that easily, because just as the great Goku once said… "It isn't over yet." And that is what she said." Ryker finishes that sentence with a Goku voice.
"I should get the local Supreme Kai here…" Ryker thought but shook it off.
“Why don’t you blame me?” Screwball asked Ryker.
"You can't fix the past, and you can't blame others, you must move on, look what happened to Nox? He tried going back in time, and fucking failed. This plan is full proof." Ryker laughed putting his hands on his hips.
“Please….I just want to see her again...but I don’t want you to become that which you are not” Screwball said wiping the tears from her eyes
"...I'm getting me daughter, even if It-" Ryker turns around then trips on and ice block, he then gets up. "Even if it kills me."
“Ryker you were a kind hearted man, It was particular why I fell for you. But recently you have becoming cold and mean” Screwball said thinking back. “I understand losing her broke your heart as well as my mind but I just want you the way you were before”
"Pfft, I'll spare the winner, which is going to be Thanos, the Eliacube predicted it." Ryker said, pulling out the cube ominously, "It has told me the way, it told me there was a way to get back our daughter! And I am not losing my daughter."
“But...you had ordered Kyle to kill someone,” Screwball said, turning Ryker to face her.
"Kyle is revived, a bit traumatized but fine." Ryker Said making a portal and bringing Kyle out.
“Hello Kyle, so nice to see you again” greeted the Spirit
"...I have decided that I would like to become stronger." Kyle said blankly, Ryker just grinned.
"Ye already are, didn't you hear the second wish? You're as strong as… Uh… Er… As strong as Ogrest!" Ryker said nervously around Screwball.
Screwball Exhaled as she turned to look back at her husband, she put her hand on Ryker’s cheek turning his face to hers.
“Just promise me you won’t kill anypony else” Screwball said to Ryker
"No."
"Wait, who are you?" Kyle said pointing at Screwball, "Don't tell me you're the one the God of Epicness, Chill, worst fear…" Kyle winced, remembering the tales Chill had told him.
“Oh no Sweetie.” Screwball said popping right in front Kyle causing him to flinch back in surprise. “I am Screwball, the Goddess of pure Chaos. Or as of seven thousand years ago the queen of this world”
"Oh, thank god, I thought you were the gal that Chill had the mistake of saying "What would you do with a Drunken Sailor?" to." Kyle
“Oh sweetie I could tell you but you’d turn redder than the ripest tomato”
"YOU'D COVER ME IN BLOOD?!?!??!?!?" Kyle jumped back in pure fear.
“No… She’s just incredibly… Obsessive with sailors. Even fictional ones, like Garp, Sengoku… And Akainu… God I had to peel Akainu from her every damn time." Ryker shuddered.
“Speaking of you still got that Akainu fellow under your command?” Screwball asked grinning. “I just really love getting under that man's collar”
"Yes." Ryker nodded but then realized that it was a mistake, "Wait-" Ryker turned to Screwball, suddenly the ice beside them bursted, Akainu walked out.
"Did someone say my name? Oh it's- Oh. Oh no." Akainu looked at Screwball in absolute fear.
“Ohhhhh….Akainu~” Screwball sang causing fear to grip the sailors body
"You probably may have not noticed, but I'm fast as fuck boy! NIGERUNDAYO SMOKEY!!!!" Akainu ran away like Joseph Joestar.
However without warning he fall to the ground and was lifted in the air by a rope trap around his ankle
"You'll never catch me, when I go into maximum overdrive, HIYAH!!!" Akainu turned his body into magma and shot off.
“I know” Screwball snapped her fingers causing the rope to snap
Akainu fell to the ground as a portal opened up
"I knew I should've bought the turbo…" Akainu said as he fell in.
Akainu fell down the portal screaming as his deepest darkest fears were showed to him
“Oh...Hearing him scream in fear really gets a lady worked up” Screwball said grinning madly
"Well that was idiotic, off to hang myself. Watch and lea-" Ryker said as suddenly there was a noose around his neck and he did a backflip.
However his rope turned to red licorice as Ryker fell into Screwballs awaiting arms
“Reminds me of the villains you and I put down. Their fear filled screams were absolutely magical” Screwball said leaning towards Ryker
"Oh and by the way, Towa took advantage of me while I was drunk." Ryker said plainly.
“Good to know” Screwball’s expression changed as she dropped Ryker as she created a iron hammer
Snapping her fingers a portal appeared above the one Akainu fell in. “I’ll be right back sweetie, but I need to kill a bitch” she said as she prepared to followed Towa down the portal
"How do we end this chapter Screwball? I mean, the readers saw me yeet Thanos, Kyle die, and now us talking." Ryker turned to the author.
“We could always end it with us going to bed
"Come on, that happened with… Bah what the hell, it what the readers will want. Damn perverts." Ryker frowned, looking at the Readers.
“Well then my King” Screwball closed the distance placing her hands on Ryker’s face as a portal opened behind him. “It has been a long time waiting but your queen has returned” Screwball and Ryker fell back into the portal and onto the king's bed.
"Ahah… Romantic…" Ghost Nappa said in the distance.
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Side-Chapter, Maximum.
It was two days before the final battle in the tournament had begun, Nox was walking around checking the rooms and what not. He then stops, Nox slowly turns to a door that struck him as odd. It was none other than Sombra's. Nox looked to his left, then right, Nox slowly sensed the presence for Wakfu. He felt Sombra's presence there, along with his swords, obviously. Nox knocks on the door.
Sombra opens the door with his sword partially drawn. “Oh… Noximilien...the time wizard who made Umbra suffer” Sombra fully opened the door sheathing his sword
"Correction, I am a Xelor, in any case, I was walking down the hallways when I saw that your name was spelt wrong on the door." Nox told the Dark Prince.
Sombra looked at the door, it read, "Sombruh."
Unsheathing his sword he carves up the door around the U and H making the name spell SombrA. “Thank you Noximilien”
"Please, call me Nox, you are welcome. Though it wasn't like that in the first place, I wonder who could've done it? Oh well, but there have been a lot of swordsmen lately, Grievous is a quite strong swordsman. He yearns for sword duels, I too am a swordsman, look." Nox held out a hand and a bunch of particles formed a blade that looked similar to a clock. "Meet the Blade of Time, named it myself."
“It’s a great blade,” Sombra complimented, admiring the sword. “Blade, hilt even the design is of the highest quality”
"I used it in many of my battles, not only is it a great sword, it can shoot powerful beams out of it. I do not believe I should show you a demonstration, unless you want a crater somewhere." Nox threw his blade up and it vanished from sight.
“I understand the many battles,” Sombra said unsheathing his third sword, a shimmering, glowing and pulsing blade made of a blue steel. “My family's sword, Crystal Heart. Can cut through Evil but nothing of pure heart”
"Rather intriguing, reminds me of the Master Sword," Nox chuckled softly.
“Funny... Eric said it reminded him of a glowing weapon called Sting,” Sombra chuckled before sheathing Crystal Heart
"Now, I know I shouldn't be saying this but… Ryker has a Tower of Deities. I used one of my little robots I called Noxines to follow his men around and I found out that there is a tower located under Ryker's Castle and it can go up." Nox told Sombra quietly as Broly passed them by.
“A Tower?” Sombra said with a raised eyebrow. “I never saw a tower anywhere”
"I just said it was located underground and it can go up, they call it tower because it can go up to the gosh darn clouds. It's very ominous and frightening, each floor is big as an island." Nox told the Prince in a loud whisper. As Sombra and Nox were talking a certain tall Saiyan made his way to Rainbow Dash's room.
Broly stood before Rainbow Dash's door, he then knocked on the door.
“Whatcha want?” Rainbow said above the Saiyan
"Hello, would you like a tour of Eliatopia? I'm bored out of my mind and I'm surrounded by nasty people. You seem decent." Broly mumbled to Rainbow.
“Sure, Maud decided to train with Shiva today so I’ve got nothing to do,” Rainbow said with a shrug
"That's cool." Broly said, having no other way to respond to that, "The exit to the arena is next to your door." Broly points to a wall next to her door. As Rainbow tilted her head in confusion as there was no door, Broly just shot a Ki blast and the wall shattered. There was the outside.
"I make my own exits." Broly said before walking out like an unintended badass.
“I think I’m starting to understand how everypony feels when I act like that,” Rainbow said, dropping her head.
Rainbow followed Broly as he walked through the hole he made, they made their way to the town they had entered the first time they came here. They stumble on a ramen shop, Broly points to the shop.
“Here we have Arthur’s Ramen Shop, he makes the best ramen in this universe, next to the shop is Cranky’s Bar. It’s where Douglass Bullet usually stays, I don’t recommend going in there.” Broly introduced the two shops as Arthur, who was in the shop, cleaning the dishes. Suddenly a dragon was thrown out of the bar and crashed into a building Douglass Bullet walked out laughing.
“Kahahaha! Come back when you’re stronger!” Douglass Bullet had noticed Broly and Rainbow Dash, “Oh, it’s you two, are you two going on out on a date or something?” Douglass Bullet laughed pointing at the two, Broly said nothing.
“No,” Rainbow said blankly. “Muscles over here is just showing me around”
“I’m not really that buff…” Broly looked at his slim yet fit arms, Bullet just shrugged.
“Dude you’re bulkier than Bulk Biceps” Rainbow said to the Saiyan. “And he’s the biggest guy I know”
“Oh well, go on ahead, make sure to show her the Dojo, the Pokemon Town, the Dark Alley Town, and the… Uh… What is it called again?” Bullet rubbed the back of his head, Broly helped him out.
“Ponyville?” Broly asked Bullet who just nodded and gave him a thumbs up.
“That’s the one! Now go along you two, be sure she does NOT meet someone who can snap her like a twig if angered. Ironic isn’t it?” Bullet laughed and headed back in the bar, Broly turned to Rainbow.
“What’s ironic?” Broly asked the cyan mare.
“I think it’s when something like a king serving as a slave,” Rainbow said to Broly. “At least that’s how Twilight explained it to me”
“...But I’m not a king…” Broly looked at her with a confused look in his eyes. “And I’m not a slave either, ever since I got that headband off that is.”
“I don’t follow,” Rainbow said, meeting the Saiyan’s eyes. “Eric is the displaced I don’t know anything from his world”
“Do you want to go to the Dojo? Be warned though, Arkham Knight usually trains there, he doesn't like to be interrupted. But Master Juzu is a jolly man, I’m sure he would love some guests.” Broly turned to the left, walking past Arthur’s Ramen Shop,
“Not particularly, When I train I tend to burn things down” Rainbow replied to Broly. “Nearly set fire to Eric’s ship a few times”
“Oh, that’s cool,” Broly responded to Rainbow Dash’s reply, there was a bamboo forest up ahead. Broly walked towards there silently, he tried to spark up a conversation, “So uh… Tell me more about being a… Pirate or a Kaizoku.”
“Well while we are pirates we’re mostly Pirate hunters, either killing rogue Devil Fruit users or arresting them for money before putting them in our prison” Rainbow explained
“How much money? I’m not a money man but how much money?” Broly asked the flaming cyan mare.
“It varies depending on their crimes” Rainbow said moving her hand back and forth. “Lowest is about maybe….one thousand bits, highest thirty billion”
“So when you say crimes you mean bounty right?” Broly asked, receiving a nod from the pegasus. “I wonder what my bounty would be…” Broly mumbled, as a bird flew down and landed on Broly’s shoulder. Broly didn’t care all that much about it.
“I wouldn’t be able to tell you yours but I can show you mine” Rainbow reached into her pocket and pulled out a wanted poster. “After Eric Exiled himself we all went our separate ways, I became the feared Rainbow “Fire Fist” Dash. I attacked islands that were being ruled cruelly, like the island of Minos”
The wanted poster had a picture of Rainbow Dash in her Rainbow Flame form as she was beating down a minotaur twice her size, her bounty was worth ten billion bits
“Oh, that’s awesome, you’re quite admirable to save a whole island.” Broly commended Rainbow Dash, a phoenix flew down and landed in his hair. Her chicks soon followed, a whole family was in his hair.
“Not just one, Before Eric stopped my crew we had liber..liber...saved twelve different islands” Rainbow boasted with pride. “And all twelve are still under my protection”
“That is cool, I guess you could call us a crew, darn I want to be a pirate now and protect some islands too…” Broly smirked, a butterfly went down on his other shoulder.
“I wouldn’t...I was relently hunted by many of the marines we have in our world, both Celestia’s and the Crystal Empires.” Rainbow explained. “I may be an Element Bearer but Anypony who waves the jolly roger will be arrested”.
“I don’t have to worry about that, if you’re strong enough, no one can mess with you. Like Kaido, he fought with us a couple of times, he and Ryker clashed too.” Broly informed Rainbow Dash as a deer began to walk next to him. “With strength, you can do pretty much anything, it doesn’t have to be physical too. Mental is good too, if you’re strong mentally no one can beat your… Smarts.”
“I just use my environment around me to get the upperhand in a fight” Rainbow admitted
“I punch them really hard, that usually works, I use Ki mines as well…” Broly said with a soft smile remembering his past fights as more avian animals land on this golem of a man.
“That’s sounds pretty cool” Rainbow said feeling a familiar presence which caused the hair on the back of her neck to stand on end
“Not here too” Groaned Rainbow
“What do you mean?” Broly asked the Pegasus, a butterfly on his nose.
“This place has a Chaos Spirit,” Rainbow said before shivering. “Not just one but two of them”
“Oh, we only have one but that’s cool we have two now. I hope the other one is strong, our one is horny. What does horny even mean?” Broly turned to Rainbow Dash.
“It’s a lust of one's body,” Rainbow said remembering the Carapax hive
“...What does lust mean?” Broly said blankly.
“I don’t know, the only thing I know is that it’s a type of aphrodisiac created by a changeling queen,” Rainbow explained to the Saiyan
“...I like your funny words.” Broly let out a chuckle, now littered in any and every type of animal.
They approached the Dojo and Broly opened the door and saw Screwball sitting on top of Arkham Knight.
“Get off of me!” Arkham Knight growled trying to get up, “This is not professional!”
“Make me” Screwball ordered making her weight increase without changing her appearance
Arkham Knight then turns into a log and Arkham Knight reappears on her left, groaning. “For real, why do you always do this to me?”
“Cause it’s fun to torment my Ryky’s followers,” Screwball said floating upside down in mid air looking straight into the vigilante’s eye
“Commanders!” Arkham Knight corrected, his gaze was locked onto hers.
“Wait…” Rainbow said, gaining both of their attention. “Your Ryky? You mean Ryker?”
“Meet Ryker’s ex, but still wife.” Broly mumbled pointing at Screwball, the animals around him ran away from him.
“There was no divorce Broly, I am and always will be Ryker’s Queen,” Screwball said, her bare feet touching the ground causing a slight ripple like she just touched water. “We just needed some time apart after I went…..insane,” The Chaos goddess said, muttering the last word.
“Ryker didn’t tell me that…” Broly said blankly, looking right at Screwball. Arkham Knight looked at Broly, then Screwball.
“Care to repeat that last bit” Rainbow asked raising an eyebrow
“Don’t.” Arkham Knight turned to Screwball with a “frown.”
“You must be Rainbow Dash of Equestria 1293,” Screwball said, clapping her hands together. “The one where that Von Shadow fellow is from.”
“Yeah, the most edgiest man I had the pleasure of coming across.” Arkham Knight scoffed,
“Quiet you,” Screwball waved her hand at Arkham Knight turning him into a cardboard cutout
“...That’s mean…” Broly looked to Arkham Knight who stood there, unmoving. "Really unprofessional given that you are queen or whatever that means…" Broly continued to look at the Knight.
“Try me, I’ll turn you into a duckling next” Screwball dared her magic pouring from her body distorting the arena around herf
"...You're being aggressive…" Broly blinked, "That's not nice."
“Since when is any chaos user nice?” Screwball asked her head tilting speaking the question
"You're a nice Chaos Goddess though…" Broly mumbled.
“I’m nice when I want to be” Replied the goddess
“Hey!” Phoenix shouted, suddenly popping into existence. “Who said chaos users can’t be nice?!”
“Have you seen the universes Chaos Users, none of them are nice.” Screwball said lifting a hand. “There’s Discord, Eris, Beetlejuice, Alastor, Rushu, Orphelia Landlufen, Ainz Oal Gown, Dormamu And Galatixus." Screwball counted using her magic to add a finger for every name. “All of these Chaos Users are by far the bad of the bad”
"Oh hi Mr. Phoenix…" Broly waved at Phoenix, "It's nice to see you."
“Sorry but uhhhh, do I know you?” Phoenix asked, cocking his head to the side. “I don’t believe we’ve met.”
"My name is Broly, and I'm a Saiyan… I think…" Broly blinked, being the tallest one out of all of them.
“Pleasure to meet you, Broly.” Phoenix extended his hand to the saiyan as he spoke. “Phoenix Elvenkind, fairy god/human/celestial, and proud member of the Power Vessels.”
"Nice to meet you Mr. Elvenkind." Broly took Phoenix's hand, shaking it very slowly. "I am not good with women and I made the mistake of touring a woman. Help." Broly mumbled to Phoenix.
“Well you're in luck.” Phoenix spoke telepathically. “Cause I’m a total ladies man!” He proceeded to let go of Broly’s hand, and make his way over to the woman in question.
"Oh that's cool." Broly responded to Phoenix.
Phoenix wrapped an arm around Rainbow Dash smoothly, before whispering in her ear. “Hey, that guy over there.” He pointed towards Broly. “He says he ain’t good with women, go seduce him or somin. It'll be funny.” He spoke at a volume only Rainbow could here as he looked over to the saiyan. He then walked back to the man with a thumbs up, as if he had just solved the whole audial.
"I don't like that thumbs up. You're up to something." Broly looked down at Phoenix accusingly.
“It’s not nice to accuse people you only just met.” Phoenix said, shrugging his shoulders. “What could I have possibly done? I don’t even know the girl.” Phoenix pointed over his shoulder to RD with his thumb.
"Oh, but I meant I don't understand them or know how to talk to them. I am surrounded by men." Broly told the Fairy Deity.
“And that’s what’ll make this even better.” Phoenix stated with a grin. He then turned to Rainbow and spoke. “I’ll give ya twenty bucks if ya do it.”
“DON’T IGNORE ME!!!” Screwball yelled causing the room to shake. Phoenix clasped his hands over his ears in slight pain, but not after mumbling a few unfamily friendly words.
"Why must you shout?" Broly asked with a mumble.
“Because I hate being ignored” Screwball pouted crossing her arms and sticking her tongue out
"Oh, what were you saying again?" Broly asked Screwball with a tilted head.
“You guys are very…” Screwball said snapping her head towards the west. “Somepony just summoned a Chaos Spirit
"Oh, that's nice." Broly commented, looking at her with a curious look.
“Okay…..?” Phoenix gave Screwball a confused look.
Screwball than heard somebody speak
“Leave the blind man alone and tell us where the Chaos Spirit went!”
“Sorry pals and gals, but I must take my leave” Screwball said before exploding in a burst bubblegum which splattered all over them
“What the fuck?” Phoenix looked himself over before levitating the gum off of him.
"Like Mr. Perfect Cell once said, "You have a pretty weird kink" whatever kink means…" Broly shrugged.
“I could've sworn I said that…..'' Phoenix mumbled to himself, raising a hand to his chin.
“I’m not entirely sure,” Rainbow said, coming from behind Broly. “I’m just glad I saw that coming and used your massive body to shield myself”
"Thanks Rainbow Dash…" Broly wasn't sure if that was a compliment or an insult.
“It was a compliment” Rainbow said observing the bubble gum explosion that happened. “If I was insulting you I would have said that you were an adequate meat shield and nopony can ever take that away from you”
"Thanks." Broly replied before looking at his gum covered body. "Well, this stinks… Or sticks…"
“Let me get that for you.” Phoenix levitated the gum from Broly’s body, before sending it off into the distance to smack Thanos in the head. “He’ll enjoy that.” Phoenix mumbled under his breath.
“That’s mean…” Broly told the Fairy God.
“Thanks Kowalski.” Phoenix replied with a large grin. “In Thanos’ words, ‘you are one of the best humans I have ever met’, so I think it’ll be fine.”
Suddenly Phoenix was blown out of the Dojo for Master Juzu had arrived and you can bet your ass he was an old man with a long beard. "Oh, it's you Broly! And… Rainbow Dash of Universe 1293! A pleasure to meet you." His voice mirrored that of Master Roshi as Juzu stuck out a hand for Rainbow Dash.
“Um..” Rainbow Hesitantly took Juzu’s hand. “Like..wise”
"So, is Broly showing you around?" Juzu asked the Cyan Mare.
“He is” Rainbow said kinda uncomfortable being around this man
"Alright, that's nice of you Broly." Juzu turned to Broly, who just nodded, "Well, my name is Master Juzu of the Wind, and Master of this Dojo." Juzu introduced himself.
"...Rainbow do want to go to the Dark Alley Town or Pokemon Town or whatever Pokemon means…" Broly asked, turning to Rainbow Dash.
“Personally I would like to fly around a bit, I’ve been walking around for this entire time and I’d like to give them a good stretch” Rainbow said flaring her wings
"Hm… Let's fly to Dark Alley Town." Broly said as he turned to leave the Dojo. He opened the doors and opened a door just for Rainbow Dash. "Ladies go first… I think." Rainbow Dash took this WORDS!!! they both exited the Dojo. "Keep up." Broly commented with a slight grin before shooting off to the sky.
As Shiva trained in her powers, Kodo and Maud noticed small circular runes appearing in the ground.
“Mom?” Kodo asked. “What are you doing?”
“I was watching Ryker do some of that portal magic,” Shiva admitted. “I’m wondering if I can replicate the portal magic he uses. Maybe make it so we can at least see Celine again.”
Maud hummed. “Or you could end up opening a portal to somewhere else entirely,” she noted. “Bring someone that shouldn’t be here.”
Right as Shiva considered that, one of her portal runes opened. And with a burst of fireworks, some… ‘thing’ cannonballed out.
“YEAAAAHHHHHHHHHH-AYE!” the figure gagged, clutching his neck. “Ten thousand years will give ya such a crick in the neck!”
“Mm,” the flaming figure behind him grumbled.
“Yes-yes, I know it wasn’t ten-thousand years, but it’s the principle!”
Shiva and Kodo’s jaws dropped, and even Maud’s eyes widened in shock. The creature before them resembled a human - Vaas Montenegro from Far Cry 3, to be specific - but had a monkey tail, monkey feet, and even patches of monkey fur along his arms. His jet black hair was shaved in a mohawk, allowing them to see several scars along his head. One scar in particular stretched from his ear down to his lips, setting his face in a permanent smirk. He wore a Hawaiian pattern t-shirt with the buttons open to reveal another sleeveless t-shirt, which contrasted badly with the camouflage pants that covered his legs. Behind him was a massive dragon - more like a mix between a charizard, a raptor and a zbornak, all while covered with flames that seemed to generate automatically from its body. It’s eyes - a strange shade of pink - watched the group with an expression similar to Maud’s default look of boredom.
“So!” the monkey man declared. “Who summons the ladvicious, ludicrous Loco Luco?!”
Shiva and Kodo glanced at each other in stunned disbelief. “We were… hoping for someone else,” Shiva admitted.
Loco Luco gasped, putting a hand to his heart. “I’m HURT!” He declared. “HURT, I tell you! I go to all the trouble of showing up, and I get answered with the equivalent of a ding-dong ditch?!” He looked at the dragon. “Disgraceful. Scandalous! Isn’t it, Blazy Blue?”
“Mm,” the dragon hummed with a nod.
“We don’t need to take this!” Luco declared. “Come, Blazy Blue; let us find someone who appreciates the time we took to come here.”
“Mm,” Blazy Blue replied - even though there was no blue on her. Seizing her partner’s shoulders, Blazy Blue’s wings folded over her companion, and they disappeared with a burst of fireworks. Shiva, Kodo and Maud stared at where they had gone with dumbfounded expressions.
“So… is he gone?” Kodo asked.
“Everything sacred help us if he isn’t,” Shiva bemoaned.
Meanwhile, as Ryker resided on his throne, he suddenly lifted his head.
“Why do I get the sense that someone opened a portal to another dimension without my permission?” Ryker grumbled.
In response, a crackle of fireworks exploded in front of his throne.
“Oh-ho, my friend,” Luco cackled as he stepped out of the flames. “My darling. My amigo! When it comes to chaos, ‘permission’ is more of a guideline.”
"Who the hell are you?" Ryker asked Luco with a raised eyebrow.
Luco chuckled. “Oh, now don’t tell me you haven’t heard of the ludicrous Loco Luco! Disciple of Discord, Apprentice to Anarchy, Concubine to Chaos and Wearer of Wolves?”
“Mm,” Blazy noted, pointing at him.
“Oh, right,” Luco noted. With a snap of his fingers, Shiva suddenly appeared around his neck with a flash of fireworks.
Shiva looked around in shock before gazing up at Ryker with fear. “I don’t know how he got here,” she insisted. “I was just trying to contact my daughter and…”
“Oh-ho-ho, my Shiva,” Luco said, fluffing her like she was a fur coat. “My darling. Mi amore. You forget that while you may be from one Equestria, you’re also from another Earth entirely. And Earth isn’t just restricted to you!” He pulled her off him and set her down in front of him. “What? Did you think you were the only one that could be displaced? How selfish!” He wagged a finger at her. “Shame on you!”
Shiva glanced at Ryker. “My deepest apologies, Lord Ryker…” she began.
“Lord Rider?” Luco yelped. “But he’s not riding anything!”
Before Ryker could reply, Luco darted up with a coy smirk.
“How about we fix that?” he offered, before winking at Blazy. The fire dragon rolled her eyes, but proceeded to seductively pose in front of the King, wagging her tail invitingly.
“Lovely, isn’t she?” Luco praised. “A phoenix-dragon hybrid.” He giggled, leaning in closer. “Just guess how I got the phoenix and dragon to breed. Guess! Guess!”
"You made a drake incredibly horny and needy that they would have sex on sight and a phoenix was the first thing they saw and so then…" Ryker just clapped his hands mimicking that of something naughty, "And boom, you have her."
Luco laughed giddily. “Along with a wine cellar that resembled the Fallout Universe,” Luco added before pointing a finger at Shiva, who was covering her face in embarrassment. “And that, children, is why alcohol is bad for you.”
Shiva looked to Blazy in exasperation. “How do you put up with this guy?” she asked.
“Mm,” Blazy replied with a shrug.
"Also Shiva…" Ryker slowly turned to her with an unreadable look on his face, he was smiling, though it was a scary smile. Not the nice smile, "I'll need you to have a talkwith me."
Shiva just sighed. “Yeah,” she muttered, like she knew she was heading to the gallows.
Luco gasped. “You’re going to teach her about the birds and the bees?” He asked, before glancing back with a hum. “So was that puppy her younger brother? Coulda sworn they looked related.”
"Excuse me for a second, Lady Shiva," Ryker stood up from his seat walking over to Luco and covering his fist in Armament Haki before punching Luco in the jaw. Luco, however, exploded into fireworks on impact, vanishing into sparkles, while Ryker’s Armament Haki dripped from his arm, changed into squid ink.
“Hmph,” Luco’s voice scoffed from everywhere at once. “Another grumpy wumpus woo. Come, Blazy Blue, let’s go find some nicer folks to play with.”
“Mm,” Blazy hummed, before vanishing in a burst of fireworks as well. Shiva was left alone with Ryker. A fact she accepted with a slow sigh of resignation.
"Shiva…" Ryker slowly turned to Shiva, smiling as he crossed his arms. "Level down with me here: what the fuck were you thinking?"
“You say you’ve spent eons looking for your daughter," she replied. “Surely you can understand my desire to see my own daughter.”
"Touchè. In any case… I have a Chaos Spirit to kill…" Ryker said darkly as his emerald eyes glowed violently, Ryker then made a portal next to him. Slowly walking in whilst looking at Shiva, "If ya need anything… Just ask." Ryker then headed in.
“What I need is what you already want,” Shiva promised, turning to the exit. “That freak either dead or back where he belongs.”
Meanwhile, as Eric and Luna were training with one another, they sensed a presence familiar to Discord’s.
“Please tell me this world doesn't have a Discord as well,” Eric said, pinching the bridge of his nose. “I can barely tolerate ours.”
“I believe so,” Luna said, noticing something about the presence. “But this one is different compared to Discord’s.”
“My master’s reputation precedes him,” a voice declared with glee. “Lovely. Just as lovely as you, Princess Luna. Queen of the Moons, yes? Oh, yeah, you just know how to raise them moons, right?”
Luna’s eyes narrowed, before the crackle of fireworks sounded behind them. They spun to find Luco with his back to them. He grinned cheekily at them, his scar making his grin look unnatural.
“Like this one?” he declared, before dropping his pants and mooning both of them with a wild laugh.
“Oh, this fucker’s dead,” Eric said, enraged as he and Luna turned into their respective elements.
Just before they could unleash holy hellfire on the trickster, a pack link shot right between them, hitting Luco right between his cheeks.
“WOO-HO-HO-HOO!” Luco called, before exploding into fireworks again.
“Maldita sea! Casi lo tenia!”
Eric and Luna spun to find Kodo… yet not Kodo. All of his dark fur had fallen off, and he now resembled a chihuahua. He tried to bark at them, but all they got was spanish.
“Guys!” Shiva called, appearing a second later. “Did you see some weird monkey freak? Probably…” She took one look at Kodo, and her diamond form appeared as she snarled. “That tears it!” She tore away down the hall. “WHEN I FIND YOU, YOU FREAK, I’M GOING TO MAKE YOU EXPERIENCE TARTARUS, YOU HEAR ME! TARTARUS!”
“Gotta catch me first,” Luco’s voice taunted. “Gotta catch em all!”
An explosion suddenly sounded from the direction of the bar.
“Blazy Blue!” Luco chastised, though he sounded less ‘mad’ and more ‘parent amused by their child’s antics.’ “Did you get into the bar?”
“Mm,” hummed back at him.
Meanwhile, while Thanos was sharpening his blade, he suddenly found a figure seated in front of him.
“Hey,” Luco greeted. “You’re Thanos, right? The one that fought Celestia because she wanted to get rid of everything bad?”
“Yeah, Thanos is the name and beating Celestia is my game!” Thanos laughed, grinning ear to ear.
“Yeah, I’m a big fan of your work,” Luco assured him. He pat the titan’s shoulder. “I appreciate you standing up for what’s right. Too many people think they gotta get rid of evil entirely. But it’s not really evil and good that people are worried about, it’s order and chaos. And regardless, both are nothing without each other. Without order, chaos has no point. And without chaos, order has no point.” Luco smiled a genuine smile at Thanos. “I appreciate you seeing that, and being willing to fight for it.”
Luco walked to the door, and glanced back. “I want to say something else that’s inspiring,” he admitted. “But, I don’t think I got the time.”
Sure enough, Thanos’ door slammed open, and Luco was flattened against the wall, bursting into fireworks as Shiva, Kodo, Eric, Luna and Ryker stormed in.
“I smelled him!” Shiva snarled. “Is he here?”
Thanos pointed at the sparkles still dissipating from the door. Shiva glared at them, fumed with fury, before spinning and taking back off into the hallway. “You miserable monkey!” she screamed. “We’re gonna find you; you’re only pissing off everyone you meet!”
“Ey yo, that’s fucking racist!” Thanos called.
“Did you not see the monkey tail?” Shiva shot back.
“Just because he has a monkey tail doesn’t mean that he is a monkey!” Thanos countered with a frown, “Luco is my boy now, man. He respects me so I gotta defend my man.”
Meanwhile, as Phoenix was walking around the arena reading a book on martial arts, he noticed the chaos going down as the fighters tried to track down the chaos spirit. He grinned before turning, finding Luco staring at him in awe.
“Look, Blazy Blue,” Luco declared. “It’s yer mama!”
Turning to behind him, Phoenix found the fiery visage of Blazy staring at him, an entirely unconvinced look on her face. She glanced over at Luco and cocked an eyebrow. “Mm?”
“I read Lord Rider’s invitations,” Luco argued, waving a paper at them both. “His name is Phoenix. Your mom was a phoenix. And while there’s no fun in making sense, you can’t deny the resemblance.”
Phoenix and Blazy exchanged a look. Blazy said nothing, but her look conveyed, “Yes, he’s an idiot, and yes, I’m past done trying to reel him in.”
Phoenix simply eyed the two, not having seen either around the place. “How many more people is Ryker planning on inviting…. And a fuckin pokemon no less…..” He mumbled to himself, before giving a curt nod to the two and teleporting out.
Luco blinked as he vanished, before shrugging and hopping onto Blazy. “On to the next one,” he declared happily.
It was Grievous in his room, he had tied Fujitora to a chair and had a blindfold on. Grievous walked around Fujitora, a TV in front of him, Grievous snapped his fingers to try and wake the blind man up. No use, he did it again, Fujitora didn’t wake up, so Grievous poured some water on him. That jarred Fujitora awake, Fujitora turned left then right.
“Where am I? Who are you?” Fujitora said between breaths, Grievous chuckled.
“Nice, Observation Haki, able to sense my presence naturally. I am Grievous and you are going to tell me what Ryker is hiding. You see, Nox filled me up on everything and you seem like the weakest mentally. Breaking down so easily in front of people? Pathetic.” Grievous scoffed, Fujitora sighed.
“The blindfold is useless, you know that right?” Fujitora raised an eyebrow.
“It adds effect, now, what is Ryker hiding? What is he planning?!” Grievous asked the blind swordsman.
“He is planning on bringing back his da-” Grievous slapped Fujitora across his face.
“I already know that! What is Ryker planning? What does he want to do with us after this tournament ends?” Grievous asked Fujitora, Fujitora growled.
“I’ll never tell you, you piece of scrap metal!” Fujitora said defiantly, Grievous let out a sigh.
“Then you leave me with no choice…” Grievous snapped his fingers and then put headphones on before playing whatever was on the TV. The piece of technology played something awful… So damn awful.
“All the single furries, all the single furries, all the single furries~!”
“Dear god make it stop! Make it stop!” Fujitora shouted out.
“Tell me, what is Ryker’s plan?! What does he want to do with us?!” Grievous glared down at the blind man as the song continued to play. Fujitora tried to break free, grunting.
Meanwhile, as Shiva chased Luco, she heard Fujitora’s shouts. Phoenix also heard his voice from a few halls away, but decided that against interfering, as he had trust someone else would deal with it. Not like he really knew the blind swordsman.
“Issho?” she stammered, before looking back. “But… the chaos spirit…” She looked back and forth.
Something that Luco noticed. Glancing at where she was looking, he brightened with glee, before snapping his fingers.
Back in Grevious’ room, the song suddenly changed to Rick-Rolling.
Grievous spun back to the screen… to find Luco sitting cross-legged on the TV.
“What’s going on here?” Luco asked. “Looks like a party.”
“God damn it, you got me. Nice Rick Roll, don’t mind me just torturing a blind man.” Grievous said right as he put headphones on Fujitora that blasted all the single furries in his ears. “That’s better…”
“Hm…” Luco hummed. “Yeah, you see, normally, I’m into the whole BDSM thing - really, I get it, it’s cool - but, someone doesn’t want this guy tortured, so…” He snapped his fingers, and once again, ‘all the single furries’ changed to ‘rick-roll.’ “Yeah… no, sorry…” He didn’t sound the least bit sorry.
“Well then… I’m just going to use the power of my claws to..” Grievous then pinches Fujitora and he yelps.
“I’m-a don’t think you can do that,” Luco replied, right as Grievous felt a blistering heat at his back. Turning around, Grievous was met with the sight of Blazy Blue; a massive Charizard that managed to dwarf the already tall General, and boiled and blistered with flames on top of it. She glared down at him with pink eyes, her expression bored, but clearly seconds away from getting angry.
Grievous just glared back, “I have killed thousands of your kind, I will not be frightened by some drake with beautiful pink eyes. Really, nice eyes.” Grievous complemented. Blazy smiled slightly at his compliment.
“Oh, you like her eyes?” Luco asked. “Watch this!” He turned to Blazy. “Blazy Blue?”
She glanced up.
“Sylvia’s the worst character in Wander Over Yonder!”
Instantly, Blazy’s eyes turned a dark red. She roared… and her flames punched a hole through the ceiling. Unfortunately, she then charged Luco.
“WHOOPSY-DOODLES!” Luco yelped as she carted him out the other side of the wall.
“Cool,” Grievous then continued all the single furries whilst pouring water on Fujitora’s face. “What is Ryker planning! TELL ME RIGHT NOW!!! Or so help me I'll make your deaf, cut your fingers off one by one, and many other things. What. Is. Ryker. Planning?”
“He’s planning to-” Fujitora was cut off when Shiva burst through the door.
“Alright, I got you…” she paused, her eyes darting between the melted holes in the wall and Fujitora.
“ISSHO!” she yelped. With a massive lunge, she carved the headphones and bindings into ribbons. Lashing out with a pack link, she restored the blind swordsman’s strength, and together, they stood, the pack link forging a sword of lightning for Fujitora’s hands as they prepared to take on the General.
Grievous just frowned and pulled out his swords, glaring at the duo, before Eric joined them, shadows of rage pouring from his body.
“Grievous! Tell me where the fucker went,” Eric said full rage mode covered his body.
Shiva blinked, remembering her goal. “Right,” she noted. “The monkey man. Tell Eric where the monkey man with the phoenix dragon went, and then leave Issho alone!”
“I don’t know, nor care,” Grievous dismissed, keeping his gaze on Fujitora. “Fujitora! Submit now or else this will get very…”
Grievous paused, tilting his head as he felt something slither up his legs.
“Why must you always interfere… Eric Von Shadow?” Grievous glared over to Eric, his glare burning into the Shadow Man’s soul.
“Leave the blind man alone and tell us where the Chaos Spirit went!” Eric refuted, his own glare countering the General’s.
“...” Grievous ignored Eric and went for the door.
“Did somebody call a Chaos user~” a voice echoed through the room.
Shiva’s ears flattened. “Oh, no…” she whimpered. “There’s more?”
In a puff of cotton candy smoke and confetti, a female with long light purple and white stripped hair made her presence known to all
“Bask in the glory that is Screwball, the Goddess of Chaos!” Screwball said in a boasting tone.
“Goddess of Chaos?” a voice asked.
Shiva snarled as Luco reappeared, a still red-eyed and fuming Blazy now carting him along like a horse. He grinned at Screwball, sinking himself and his dragon into a bow.
“Your servant!” he declared. “The ladviscious, ludicrous Loco Luco!”
“Mm?” Blazy grumbled. Luco winked.
“And his sidekick, Blazy Blue,” Luco added.
Grievous clenched his fists, gripping his weapons, he slowly turned to Shiva with unbridled rage, dragging her angry look from Luco. “Give me the blind man, I need that information, do you not understand the situation we are in?!” Grievous stomped on his room as he flicked the lightswitch as everything showed torture machines.
Shiva blinked at the contraptions before narrowing her eyes. “All I understand is that I have to contain that crazed monkey man and protect my friend.”
“Hello Issho,” Screwball said to the blind man. “How’s my favorite gambler?” Screwball said with a smile
“Hello Screwball, I’m fine but Grievous kinda wants some information on Ryker’s plans and I can’t allow that...” Fujitora chuckled.
“Well you know Ryky won’t allow that, and honestly I don’t want you to suffer more than you already have” Screwball snapped her fingers summoning a portal behind the swordsman
“Oh alright, that’s nice of y-” Fujitora was met with the claw of Grievous’ foot, the claw wrapped itself around Fujitora’s skull and Grievous slammed Fujitora’s head to the ground. Shiva snared Grievous' neck with a pack link, but the General brought a sword to Fujtora’s nape, putting them in a small stand off.
“Ohh...Rustbucket” Screwball sang teleporting behind Grievous
‘I need that information to protect my friends, I know something is up, I will do anything to see it that my friends escape and I find out what Ryker is hiding!” Grievous growled, putting the blade closer to Fujitora.
“Wait,” Shiva said. “You don’t have to kill him.” She concentrated on her link, and Grevious heard her voice, even though she didn’t speak. “Issho. I’m trying to help you. What’s gotten him so riled up?”
“Dark Ki…” Fujitora’s thoughts mumbled.
“What he’s hiding is a way…” the room began to tremble as a shadow was cast over Screwball’s eyes, the Chaos Goddess grabbed Grievous by his mechanical neck as a aura of death and insanity covered Screwball. “....to bring back our daughter”
“I already know that, but there is another motive behind Ryker!” Grievous insisted. “I know it! I feel it!”
“Leave Fuji” Screwball ordered lifting Grievous from the ground
“Earth Sword, Pillar.” A pillar of earth shot up beneath Screwball and she hit the roof, Grievous grabbed onto Fujitora, but Shiva held on valiantly with the pack link. “Kaioken times three!” Grievous then shot off faster than my dad left me, going through walls and into town, while Shiva held on for dear life.
“It’s foolish to run, you bucket of bolts” Screwballs voice echoed in the mechanical Swordsman’s mind. “I am Everywhere and Nowhere all at the same time”
“Welp,” Luco’s voice replied. “If a Goddess of Chaos needs this guy too… well…”
Luco reappeared in front of Grievous, Blazy Blue’s back talons burying into his chest plate and knocking him into the dirt. Grievous struggled to his feet, Blazy landing as her eyes turned red and her body turned blue with hot flames.
“Damn you all… That’s it!” Grievous kicked Fujitora into a building before turning around and sheathing his blades. “Onto Herobrine…” Grievous said darkly right before a dark aura enveloped him and disappeared.
Blazy, Luco and Shiva looked around in shock, before Blazy turned back to red flames with a groan.
“Oh, don’t stress it, Blazy,” Luco said, patting her side. “There’ll always be more fights.”
“Like me?” Shiva demanded, her pack links crackling to life as her arms turned diamond.
“Or me?” Eric added, shadows pouring from his form.
Blazy merely turned to face them, grinning ominously as her flames crackled and turned blue again.
As explosions sounded against howls and battle cries, Luco turned to Screwball with a grin. “So, Lady Screwball... Goddess of Chaos?”
“What?” Screwball said, sending a glare in his direction.
Her anger only seemed to please him. “And feisty,” he purred. “I love it when a tigress has claws.”
“Show respect when speaking to the Chaos Goddess.” Screwball ordered with a look that could kill
He grinned, as if the glare had no effect… but then promptly sunk to one knee. “As the Goddess of my faith commands,” he replied, lowering his head in deference.
Fujitora then walked out of the building, rubbing his head. “That’s the second time I’ve been hit by a ruffian… For fuck’s sake… Pardon my language.” Fujitora groaned.
“Glad to see you’ve freed yourself Fuji” Screwball said her anger dissipating seeing her friend
Fujitora “looked” at Screwball, “How dare you, how fucking dare you. You said see in front of me. Did I not tell you I was a… Why… Why must you hurt me.” Fujitora held his chest.
“Oh Fuji..You know I don’t like to see you cry” Screwball said shedding tears. “I do apologize my little Fuji”
“Would you mind taking your anger out by helping?!” Kodo screamed, racing by them as Blazy carved both Eric and Shiva down identical twin trenches. Hefting the Howlite Howler and the Shadow Man up, Blazy kicked them both over the town and to the other side.
Kodo gave chase, but as Blazy tried to move after him, Fujitora pinned her via 10,000 weight. Blazy crouched, growling as she supported the weight, before Fujitora caught her attention by walking into her line of view. Fujitora then pat her nose… or tried to, as merely getting near her was like trying to get near a volcano.
“Come on,” he encouraged with a smile. “You don’t have to be mean.”
His soft words had an effect, as her blue flames faded to red, and her eyes returned to a soft pink color. She glanced at Luco, who was still bowing to Screwball.
“Mm,” she hummed, lowering her head in apology.
Suddenly Katakuri walked on by, looking at the party. “...What in the actual fuck is going on with you guys?” Katakuri asked them stoically.
“Kata!!” Screwball Cheered as she jumped and hugged the champion. “How’s my Champion doing since I’ve been gone?” The goddess asked, noticing a new scar on his body. “Where’d you get this scar?” Screwball asked, tracing the scar over his right shoulder.
"I have fought countless battles while you were gone, this one was just recently. I had battled a Neighponese Swordsman, er… Japanese Swordsman. He was strong enough to at least wound me so that's a first in a couple hundred years.
“I don’t like it when somepony hurt’s my family,” Screwball said, waving her hand over the scar. “If you wish I can heal you”
"No, scars like these are a monument of a fine battle. I still won, my win to loss ratio is 184620648 wins to 0 losses." Katakuri informed the Goddess.
“But…..have you ever beat me in combat before” Screwball asked with a smug grin on her face
"No, and I don't think I want to, I do not fight people who are married to Ryker." Katakuri said blankly.
“Then can you help us put that chaos spirit back where he belongs?” Shiva asked, limping back as she indicated Blazy and Luco. Luco peered around innocently, while Blazy stepped in front of him with a look that warned, “Whoever touches the monkey is gonna catch these talons.”
“Of course my Wittle little doggy woggy” Screwball said petting the Diamond Dog on her head
"If you don't mind me…" Katakuri Then launches A devastating gut punch to the drake, punching a solid hole through the dragon’s stomach.
Blazy peered down at the hole with a bored look, before fire crackled back up, sealing the hole like it never happened.
Katakuri then landed a kick to her ribs covering it in Ryou Haki to damage it like the scales aren't there. However, there were no scales; to his surprise, he found himself kicking at pure fire. Despite her draconic appearance, she seemed to be more of a fire spirit; with no internal organs to damage. Blazy cocked a curious eyebrow.
"Well then, how about this?" Suddenly a giant fist grabbed Blazy, Katakuri's right fist was covered in a white aura. Katakuri raises the fist high, the giant fist mimicking it, Katakuri then slams Blazy before punching her repeatedly.
And yet… the punches still didn’t seem to do anything. When Katakuri looked at his fist, the white aura had been replaced with something else that was white and sticky. Luco peeked out from behind a bored looking Blazy, giggling like the dog hunt dog. Katakuri began to laugh along as he began to slam the fist down upon her, her fire bouncing and adjusting like he was punching a spicy version of a dough girl.
“Alright, Kata. I believe the little dragoness has had enough of your massive power,” Screwball said, snapped her fingers causing both Luco and Blazy to fall into the rainbow colored portal. “It’s time to seal them within their realm.”
"Don't!" Katakuri begged in a pleading way, "They're fun!"
“Oh, someone wants us around? Well, then,” Luco replied, turning away from Katakuri and waving at Screwball and Shiva. “Thanks for the trip, you two. Ten outta one. See you next time.” He grinned in particular at Shiva. “You especially, my little snowball.” He turned to Screwball. “Keep an eye out for ‘Of Scales and Fur.’ Coming next year, assuming Three Tails isn’t a cowardly little bitch.”
Shiva snarled and fired a pack link at him. But he simply ducked back down, while Blazy zipped up the portal like a pants zipper. With a final *pop*, the chaotic duo was gone.
Shiva groaned and slumped to the ground. Kodo nuzzled at her worriedly.
“Kodo…” she mumbled. “The next time I screw around with portal magic, and risk that freak showing up again… hit me.”
“Mom!” Kodo protested.
“Seriously,” she begged. “Punch me, and make sure it sends me through at least one wall.”
Grievous then drops out of the sky next to Shiva. "Listen Shiva, Ryker's not only planning to get the Dark Ki, after this tournament he intends to get Thanos into his army, make Nox make things for him, and then kill all of the remaining Displ-" Katakuri then kicked Grievous shutting him up temporarily.
“I can assure you my Ryky would never do something like that,” Screwball said with a sincere smile.
“I really don’t care right now,” Shiva moaned.
"It's true!” Grievous insisted. “He intends to do that. The book told me! The eliacube told me! My vision fucking told me! He's going to kill you all! Shiva, you gotta warn the others before Ryker finds ou-"
“Drop it, Grievous,” Eric said to the mech. “None of us will perish in this tournament”
Ryker stood tall over Eric, "Indeed, you are correct you cookie slut!" Ryker mocked the Shadow Man. "Screwy, send Grievous somewhere that will… Make him regret saying those lies." Ryker grinned, Grievous turned to Shiva.
“How bout my home dimension, The Chaos Realm.” Screwball said with a vile grin. “His screams will be legen…..Hold it I hold you’re not lactose intolerant cause the last part contains ..dary.”
"SHIVA!!!! I'M TELLING YOU!!! YOU GOTTA BELIEVE ME!!!" A Portal opened behind him, As a Claw stuck Out Of The portal and grabbed Grievous' legs. Grievous clawed st the ground, "Beware, Ryker will activate the Torikage and trap us all! There will be no escape! There was an extra note on the contract!"
Rolling her eyes, Shiva caught Grievous with a pack link. And unknown to Ryker or Screwball, she downloaded the information he was trying to share into her own mind. Her fur glowed and she gave Grievous a small wink, before thudding her head back down, and returning to her exhausted post-slumber. Before Grievous could sigh in relief, he was yanked back into the portal, and was gone.
Hearing Grievous mention the Torikage made Screwball pause for a split second before shaking her head and pulling the mech into her home realm. ‘no..Ryker would never use the Torikage...he wouldn’t….Right?’ Screwball asked herself as she followed behind Grievous
"I'M GOING TO BRAZIIIILLLL!!! AAAAAA-" Grievous let out a bloodcurdling scream as he was sentenced to Screwball's Realm.
A few minutes before...
Grievous was in a rocky terrain, alone as a dark aura enveloped him once more. “Damn dragons… I’ll kill them all, I’ll slay em all! Gr… tch, snap out of it, Thompson… Stay calm. Fight this..” Grievous sat down sighing trying to recuperate. Grievous then let out a roar to the heavens.
“DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!” Grievous’ shout was heard from miles echoing across whatever rocks that were there. “You know what? I need to slay that dragon, I need to, it’s in my nature, my teachings! I need to kill her, but wait, Chaos Gods! I hate God so much! I need a way to kill them both! I’m going fucking insane! I need someone out there who knows my pain, WHO CAN UNDERSTAND THE ONE AND ONLY GRIEVOUS!??!?!?!” Grievous shouted out again, he then sat down on a rock.
“That’s right, no one understands me, no one at all. They’re all stupid, all of them! Can’t they understand the grave danger that we’re all in?!” Grievous kicked a rock that then hit something. Suddenly a book came from the skies and fell before him, he looked up, nothing .”Huh?” He then reads the book, “Ryker’s Plans.”
“Convenient.” Grievous chuckled as he began to read the pages, his eyes widened, he saw Ryker’s evil plan. He then flipped page after page, reading it until he dropped it. “Oh god I have to warn the others.” Grievous then shot off far away.
“Knew if I waited around They would turn up,” Ed remarked as he picked up the book and quickly read through it. “Naughty boy,” he chuckled and set the book down. “Not my problem though. That chaos spirit could throw him for a loop for a bit though. I’ll let things run their course for now,” the sage shrugged as he walked through a portal.
Katakuri looked at the portal, blinking a few times. "May his soul rest in peace." Katakuri sighed.
Shiva said nothing, the information she had absorbed still on her mind. She made her way after Eric.
“You okay, Shadow Man?” she asked, as he checked over the ashen talon print Blazy had left on his chest.
“Yeah I’m fine” Eric said as Luna used her magic to heal him. “Nothing a little healing magic can’t fix,” he said with a grin
Shiva pat Eric’s shoulder… and carefully, ensuring her mind was blocked from everyone but Eric, she transferred what Grievous had shown her. Be on guard, she hissed as the information transferred.
‘I understand, but I’ve been on guard since I got here’
Katakuri looked down at the two and raised his eyebrow, "Hm? Are you invading his mind Shiva?" Katakuri asked the Diamond Dog. "And what about you Eric?" Katakuri looked over to Eric. "Are you two doing something you might regret?"
“Just talking, Katakuri,” Eric said turning to leave
"Your mouth didn't move, nor did I hear anyone speak." Katakuri crossed his arms as he saw Eric leave as out of nowhere from the depths of hell, Thanos popped up.
"Where the hell is Luco?! He's my boy!" Thanos cried out looking around and not seeing him or his dragon. "I missed him didn't I?"
“You did,” Eric said as he, Luna, Shiva, and Kodo then left the town leaving Thanos there with Katakuri.
"...Huh… Guess they're fast."
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Chapter Thirteen, Trauma.
In Shiva’s dream, she saw Celine. The pup, though young, slaved over a pile of forms.
“When’s the Alpha coming back?” the poor pup read. “‘When’s Shiva returning?’” She sighed and looked right up at Shiva. “Mom, what do I tell them? When are you coming back?”
“I want to come back,” Shiva tried to say. But her voice wouldn’t work.
Suddenly, a portal appeared. Shiva and Celine turned to it, Celine lifting herself up.
Celine’s scream rang in Shiva’s ears, making her heart pound. Shiva stared in dumbfounded shock as her own head was tossed through the portal, rolling to a stop in front of Celine. Her daughter’s scream doubled as Kodo’s head joined her.
Ryker stepped through the portal, a look of triumph on his face. Behind the portal, diamond dogs were gathering, unable to comprehend why their young Alpha looked so horrified. Only starting to register the heads at the foot of her throne.
“Your Alpha has fallen,” Ryker declared, turning to the diamond dogs as Celine sobbed. “Surrender yourselves to me, or share her fate.”
Immediately, several dogs bowed. The few that hesitated… Ryker blasted them with beams of light. Shiva silently screamed as she saw one of the dogs shift to her changeling lieutenant Skippy, his compound eyes wide with shock as he crumbled to the ground.
Ryker turned back to Celine, who’s eyes had not left her mother and brother’s remains.
“Now… what to do with you...” the King of Eliatropes mused, as he reached out for the young pup.
Shiva thrashed, screaming out in silent agony. Wanting to intervene. Wanting to stop him. But unable to. How could she? That was her head on the ground! She had failed. As expected; she was always so weak.
And, of course, Ryker had his plan.
It flashed before her eyes again… the meteor falling. The screams in the air. The death.
“Mom!”
Kodo’s voice. Interlacing with his scream. She couldn’t protect him. How was she supposed to protect anyone? She was too weak! She’d never…
“ MOM!”
Shiva jarred awake, scrambling out of the nest she had built. Her heart pounded in her ears.
They sat in the quarters Ryker had provided for them. Kodo was watching her in concern. Still alive.
“But…” she thought worriedly. “What about Celine? And Skippy? And all the diamond dogs?” She had a gut feeling that they were okay - for now. But she still couldn’t get that image of Celine at home. Waiting for them. Wondering when they were going to come back.
Kodo nuzzled her as she shifted to her haunches. “Nightmare?” he asked.
“You got it too, didn’t you?” She asked, noticing the tremble in his left arm. She sighed and stroked his head. “I’m sorry, baby. You shouldn’t have had to see that.”
Kodo huffed. “I’ve seen worse,” he admitted.
Shiva stiffened, remembering Umbra and how Kodo had reacted to him. “Right,” she mumbled.
He looked down at her claws. “How are we going to do this?” he asked. “How are we supposed to get back… when we’re at the bottom of the food chain.”
Shiva winced, the very same thoughts running through her mind. But she couldn’t afford to show weakness now. Not with her son; not when he needed her.
“We’re not alone,” she noted. “We have Eric, and Phoenix, and Thanos… even Issho.”
Kodo’s ears rose by a fraction. “But Issho’s on Ryker’s side. You think he’ll spare us,” he noted half-heartedly.
“We can always hope,” Shiva encouraged.
Kodo still looked towards the door. “I’m still going to train,” he decided, grabbing his sword.
Shiva glanced at their nest, before following him. “Same,” she said. “I hate sleeping alone.”
Thanos was in an empty void, it was quiet, no wind rushing to him. He felt like he was standing on something but when he looked down… It was nothing.
"What the hell? Where am I?" Thanos looked around the void, "Hello?" He called out, nothing, his voice echoed across the nothingness. Thanos started to breathe heavily.
"I gotta get out of here, I got… To…" Thanos closed his eyes then opened them, he was in the wasteland, the same wasteland where his master had died. It was all covered in blood, corpses and weapons littered the lands.
"No, no, no!" Thanos backed up and stepped on something or rather someone, he looked down and there was Cloven Diamond's corpse. Suddenly the corpses started to stand up, they turned to look at Thanos.
"You… Why didn't you spare us?" Their voices were that of ghosts, they were nothing but husks. Thanos took a step back, he started to breathe faster like he was hyperventilating. His breathing was loud, though it wasn't in reality, everything became loud suddenly.
"Why didn't you give us mercy?" They had all spoken at once, it all shook the Mad Titan to his very core. Thanos blinked and they all surrounded him.
"I… I don't know!" Thanos cried out, suddenly, the corpses became that of the living. The dead avians became the parents and children of their dead relatives.
"Why didn't you hold back?" A young voice asked softly to Thanos, "My daddy is dead!" Thanos clutched his ears to try and cancel out the noise. They continue to beat down the Titan with their words, Thanos clenched his teeth as screams of the people he had killed echoed across in his mind. The cries of begging and pleading for mercy made his heart drop. Thanos then tried to rip his ears out, clawing at them over and over again. Thanos let out one final scream before he jolted awake.
Thanos fell out from his bed then went into the darkest corner of his room, curling up into a ball. "Just a dream John, it's alright, just a dream, just a dream. Stay calm… Stay… Calm…" Thanos sighed, clutching his ears and feeling blood.
‘Hey Thanos! Are you alright? I just sensed you power skyrocket for a second!’ Black's voice ran through the Titans head.
Thanos' eyes shot open, he remembered the voices that cried out for mercy. 'Get out of my head! Get out, get out, GET OUT!!!!' Thanos stood to his feet and clutched his ears one more time as his Ki began to skyrocket once more. Thanos' aura crackled, shattering the lights in his room and the furniture.
There was a sound of a teleportation, Black appearing shirtless and a pair of boxers on him. The Saiyan ran to the Titan and grabbed him, shaking him. “Hey! Calm down!” Black shouted.
Thanos looked down at Black, seeing an Avian on his knees pleading for the Titans mercy, Thanos pulled back his fist and let out a scream before slamming the fist into Black. Thanos then ran out of his room seeing the walls covered in the blood of his past enemies. "Get the hell away from me!" Thanos began to run down the walls running past the "corpses"
Black rubbed his cheek, looking towards the door his friend ran out of. “It’s happening to him now…” Black muttered. He stood up and began to chase down the Titan, running through the corridors. “Thanos! Whatever you're experiencing, it’s just a Nightmare! Don’t let it control what you see!” Black shouted.
"Shut up!" Thanos shouted back darting through an adjacent hallway, and suddenly Nappa walked out of his room, Grievous, Entity, and Lucci opening their doors as well. Looking at Black.
“What’s with the redead screaming out here?” Link asked as he stuck his head out.
"The hell happened to the bean?" Grievous yawned, stretching his body.
“He’s experiencing what I had in the past! A Nightmare! He must be experiencing his past!” Black shouted before he continued to chase down Thanos.
"Oh damn, we gotta chase after him before he harms someone!" Nappa and the boys ran after Thanos with Black, Thanos running through walls first the Diner where Nox was drinking his oil, then the training room where Katakuri was doing push-ups. Link blinked in confusion, wondering how a dream would cause someone to scream as if they were being murdered.
Black eyes widened, coming to an idea. He turned to the guys, “I’m gonna go grab Luna! She should be able to stop whatever he’s experiencing!” Black plans. Using instant transmission to teleport to his room.
However, as Thanos stampeded, he ran into Shiva, who instantly saw the horror she had just experienced reflected in his eyes.
“Kodo, stand back,” she barked, raising her claws as her pack link flared to life. “I got this.”
She jumped away as Thanos ran past like a freight train, and jumped onto his back, tying her pack links around his head like reigns on a horse.
Black teleported back with Luna Black in tow. Spotting the master of dreams, Shiva tossed a pack link to the lunar princess.
“Grab on!” Shiva declared, before her mind dove into Thanos’. Luna Black without question grabbed the pack link, diving into the Titans mind.
Immediately, Shiva saw what Thanos saw. The bodies accusing him. Beating him down with their words.
Hoping for the reality shifting of dreams, Shiva took a breath, before letting loose with a howl, intermixed with Conqueror’s Haki.
“ENOUGH!” she boomed.
Though she had no idea if she could use Conqueror’s Haki in real life, her howl seemed to do the trick well enough, as the voices backed off from Thanos’ crouching form. Slowly, carefully, Shiva approached the titan.
“Thanos?” she whispered, crouching in front of him. “Take a breath, okay? It’s Shiva.”
Luna Black appeared next to the diamond dog, looking at the Titans form. She carefully kneeled next to the Titan, placing a careful hand onto Thanos’ head. “How long?” Luna Black asked softly.
Shiva hummed, caressing the Titan’s troubled brow. “For some time,” she said. “He carries a heavy burden. Wars that have left unhealed scars.”
Luna Black nodded as her horn lit up, humming a soft yet calming note. “Rest now, for thou needs it,” The Alicorn says softly. The Titans eyes began to flutter, a wash of fatigue ran through Thanos. The Titan begins to slowly lay onto the ground, Luna and Shiva helping him down slowly. A few moments later, the titans eyes closed.
Luna Black stood up with a sorrowful look. “We didn’t think others could experience thy past like Black…” Luna muttered softly, looking down at the sleeping Titan.
“One shouldn’t have to bear pain like that alone,” Shiva noted, lifting her links. “Friends and family can help, but only if they understand and know the pain themselves.”
Luna Black nodded, “Should we make a meeting? Have the ones with nightmares like these ,explain them to help?” Luna Black asked.
Shiva’s tail wagged. “It’d probably be more polite than the method we just tried,” Shiva noted.
“Agreed, Black doesn’t like this method we use to help him,” the Alicorn noted.
“Then, let’s not test Thanos’ patience.” Concentrating, Shiva and Luna left Thanos’ mind. Opening their eyes, they found themselves standing next to the sleeping titan, everyone else waiting patiently.
“So,” Shiva said conversationally. “Who wants to talk about their darkest fears?”
“I already told you guys mine back at the campfire.” Link said with a shrug.
Black raised his eyebrow, “That’s all the sudden…” Black muttered, “I’m in favor of that, but shouldn’t we get him to his room, I don’t think he’d be happy when he wakes up in a corridor.” Black explains, pointing to the sleeping Titan.
Glancing at the titan, Shiva shrugged. “True.” She pack-linked to him once more, and with his strength flowing into her body, she managed to lift the titan and hold him in a bridal carry. Suppressing a smirk at the odd display of a dog carrying a titan, she tottered down the hallway towards Thanos’ room.
Everyone followed as they then shortly arrived at Thanos’ room, seeing it trashed and pieces of glass all over the ground. “He sure did make a mess…” The dark Saiyan mutters as he lifts his hand, pointing it at the destroyed room. His hand glowed as the destroyed window and furniture disappeared, being replaced by a brand new window and set of furniture.
Everyone except for Shiva and Luna Black looked at him in shock. The Saiyan just gave each of them a raised eyebrow. “What? Never seen a Supreme Kai repair furniture?”
Shiva chuckled, seating herself next to Thanos. “So… thoughts? Comments?” She grinned at Nappa. “Smart remarks?”
"Damn, Thanos got that scream, damn banshee." Nappa grinned back at Shiva with a thumbs up. Shiva chuckled.
Black pointed a hand at the ground, creating chairs for himself and Luna Black. The two sat down, Luna in thought while Black had a sorrowful look. “Thanos is experiencing what I had after the Crystal Empire disappeared. And most likely, he’s got a Nightmare in his mind.” Black explains.
"You would be correct, Thanos has the literal Thanos in his mind. You know, the guy who snapped half the universe?! But he made peace with him a long time ago, they're basically Nail and Piccolo." Grievous told the Dark Saiyan.
“...That sounds.. Troublesome..” Link said with a frown, wondering what in Din’s fiery wrath on what Thanos’ Displacer was thinking.
“I wish that would be the case with me, but we don’t always get what we wish for.” Black grumbled. The thought of Zamasu made the Saiyan growl. “Zamasu wouldn’t see reason, no matter how hard I tried to convince him Mortals were good.”
Shiva huffed darkly. “Sometimes, you can become trapped by beliefs. It can convince you to do horrible things, all under the mindset that it’s justified.”
“Oh and that was the best part! He claimed that all mortal life in the multiverse needed to be exterminated. All in the name of Justice, claiming that us mortals were a mistake created by the Gods!” Black growled. “Clouded by his judgement, he went on to kill all the Supreme Kai’s of all 12 universes. Then going on a killing spree of every being in existence.” The Saiyan hissed. Seeing the memories of the Kai doing such atrocities.
Shiva shuddered. “And I thought Beast Breaker was bad,” she muttered. When she got a few curious looks, she looked down morosely. “Beast Breaker was a unicorn. He thought that since Diamond dogs had enslaved him once upon a time, it was okay for him to enslave Diamond Dogs. He captured me and most of my original pack. Tortured us. Forced us to fight each other. Each time, he’d tell us how we deserved what we were getting; that we were monsters and that we didn’t deserve sympathy.” Shiva chuckled. “It’s funny; he was getting back at us for something some dog did to him. And yet… he wasn’t so eager in that ‘eye for an eye’ philosophy when I finally had enough with his crap.” She glanced at Black. “Did something similar happen to Zamasu?”
Black sighed as he leaned back in his chair. “Not really. He couldn’t take on the Supreme Kais with his body, he was too weak. But earlier he fought a Saiyan named Son Goku. After being humiliated in a sparring match, he decided to steal the Saiyans body using the Super Dragon Balls.” Black explained. “He began his killing with Son Goku’s family on Earth. The body you see in front of you is Son Goku’s.” Black said, patting his chest. He realized he was half naked, he quickly materialized his Gi back on before coughing.
“He almost succeeded in his plan. Plan Zero Mortals. But he was stopped by Past Son Goku, Past Prince Vegeta, and Future Trunks.” Black explained.
Shiva nodded. “And Zamasu… lived in your head?” she asked. “Or did Thanos help you get rid of him? I remember you two taking a trip somewhere.”
Black leaned forward and rubbed his eyes. “I can’t tell for sure, the first time I had an edgy displaced person take his soul out of me. But Zamasu must’ve left a bit of his conscious inside my mind. Because he returned when Thanos noticed my pupils changed.” Black explained to the diamond dog. “Thanos used the reality stone after we convinced Ryker to send us to the Titans universe. From there I destroyed Zamasu with a Final Big Bang Kamehameha. But I don’t think that’s the last I’ll see him…” Black finished.
Kodo huffed. “Can’t the guy take a hint?” he grumbled. “Chrysalis and Umbra were pains in our world, but when Mom and the Elements killed them, they at least had the courtesy to stay dead.”
The Saiyan looked at the young pup, “That’s the thing, Zamasu would stop at nothing to erase every mortal from existence. He even challenged the king of all, the creator of everything. Zeno-sama.” Black shivered at the king's name. “It ended badly for him and the universe they were in. Zeno-sama didn’t hesitate to wipe that universe from existence.”
Shiva shuddered. “I get why it had to be done,” she noted. “But that sounds awful for the people that lived in that universe. They weren’t involved in what Zamasu did… right?”
“What people? Zamasu had erased of all mortal kind. Plus, Zeno-sama doesn’t hesitate or care for the mortals of the universes. Interestingly, there used to be 18 universes. But one day Zeno-sama was annoyed for some reason, and he decided to erase 6 universes.” Black explained, sighing. “Yet again… Zeno-sama is a child.”
Shiva had no response to that. Leaning back against Thanos’ body with a sigh.
“The one upside to that was that it was in the future timeline. Future Trunks went to the past for help, bringing Son Goku and Prince Vegeta to help his fight against Zamasu and Goku Black.” The Saiyan said, leaning back in his chair and stretching.
"Well, hopefully this doesn't affect the fight that is… oh dear god it's tomorrow!" Entity clutched the sides of his heads looking at Thanos.
Shiva hummed, looking at Thanos with concern. “It doesn’t seem to be a question of if he can win,” she mused. “Just that he can win without permanently hurting those he fights.” Her head lowered. “It must be terrible; like living in a world of glass. Always taking care not to break anything or anyone around you.”
“You would believe the amount of times I broke plates and glass because I wasn’t careful.” Black nervously laughed.
"Heh, that's fucking irony right there." Lucci took a sip of some Calming Jasmine Tea that Zabuza had provided for him, meanwhile Zabuza was leaning on the darkest of corners, silent.
"We all told our worst fears at the campfire." Nappa noted, reminding everyone. "Now that I think about it, Thanos did a lot for us. Got us all together for the campfire, gathered us to get our shit together, he helped Black deal with his Zamasu, helped teach the beginners about Ki with me and Black, helped beat Black's Discord, helped Eric teach his Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, he gave Maud the permission to beat the Dark Ki out of Entity 303, and if it wasn't for him, Kodo wouldn't have gone out to train with Fujitora and Twigo after the fight with Thack and Mia! He had helped us all in some shape or form, that's why I have a big brain plan to help him. The biggest of brain plans!" Nappa grinned ear to ear.
Seeing as everyone had the whole Thanos issue under control, Link leaves the group to their own muses. Right as he left the Mad Titan's room and went into the hallway he saw Nox with his sedge hat. Leaning on a wall.
"So how was it?" Nox asked the Hylian, not turning to him and facing the wall in front of him.
“How was what?” Link asked in minor confusion.
"You know what I mean Link, don't tell me you forgot already?" Nox turned to Link, his blue "eyes" locking onto Link's.
“You’re going to have to be more specific.” Link said.
"Your time with Light." Nox said bluntly, hoping that Link would understand this time.
Link was silent for a moment. “You’re rather casual about this..” he asked with caution.
"But of course I am, is this not what parents do when someone… "pounds" their daughter?" Nox asked as he tilted his head.
“Well, usual of the world, I mean the original world I came from, they’d be upset.” Link explained with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh, I see, well then. I'm going to be upset with you." Nox cleared his throat, before looking at Link. "You're a piece of shit."
Link frowned. Sure, the words were there but not the emotion. “Ok, maybe it’d help if you explained a bit of your world, like there’s a different meaning there than my world.” he said with a nod, wishing to understand Nox’s current emotion rather than the one Nox believes he needs. “Come to think of it, how’d you learn that we did it?” Link asked curiously.
"I know everything, I have these little trinkets everywhere. I know all and I see all, and don't worry I shut this one off right then you took your shirt off." Nox said as a little beetle like robot crawled up his shoulder, looking at Link.
“Tunic.” Link corrected Nox. “What did you feel when you saw this?” he asked.
"Why I felt proud of Light for finally losing her virginity to a man I respect!" Nox suddenly wraps his arm around Link's neck and pulls him in close. "You two are perfect for each other, that's why I paid Chill to talk to you!"
"You better thank me for getting you laid, jackass." A voice echoed through Link's mind.
“Ok, when you put it that way, your reaction makes a lot more sense.” Link said with a smile before addressing the voice in his head. “I will if I’m still alive when I return home.” Link mentally responded
"Now then, would you like to see my other gadgets and trinkets? They would prove fruitful to you!" Nox said with heartwarming eyes, though Link wouldn't see it, Nox was smiling.
“That’s going to be difficult to see considering how much stuff i’ve got.” Link said with a sigh.
"Oh, ho, ho! Don't mind that, I have a lot of stuff to give you, to deal with enemies and allies. Not allies but you know what I mean." Nox snaps his fingers and they both wind up at Nox's room. Imagine any lab from any show and then you have Nox's lab/room, it was all Clock based though. There was a silhouette in the room, Nox flipped a switch and a lamp brightened up the room and also revealed a robotic version of Eric Von Shadow. "Meet Eric but better, aka Eric 2.0."
“Alright, but I can’t promise you they’ll be used.” Link said before they arrived at his lab. Link chose to be silent when the robot Eric was revealed.
"He's armored with Obsidian Armor, has an Obsidian Blade to mimic Eric's blade but this time, with the help of Minecraft knowledge has sharpness three, unbreakable three, and a flame enchantment on it. Not to mention Eric 2.0 has Eric's Devil Fruit powers! ...To an extent, however if supplied with enough Wakfu, he can transform and morph into… Demon Emperor Eric 2.0! He's faster, stronger, more durable, has more stamina, more everything! And let's not forget his… Netherite Scythe! Supplied by Entity 303, with it, he's basically the strongest Eric, Eric could ever be. I know that's confusing but in any case… Onto the trinkets!" Nox walks over to the other side of his lab with curtains. The curtains were labeled number style, one, two, three, four, and five.
"What's behind curtain number one you ask? Well it's none other than, a dragon egg, not just any dragon egg, a Black Coal dragon egg! These dragons are extremely loyal to their masters, can survive heat up to six thousand degrees fahrenheit, and pack quite a punch." Nox revealed the dragon egg and it was indeed, as black as coal.
“What world is this one from?” Link asked curiously.
"My world." Nox responded before moving onto the next.
"Then you have curtain number two, which has the legendary sword of Wano, Shisui! It is a blade that is so powerful, it can create giant air slashes. It's a powerful blade, should you ever dual wield this blade with the Master Sword, you would find interesting results." Nox commented as the blade revealed itself to Link, it was very awesome looking. It was black and red, the ultimate badass combination. Link didn’t look very impressed with such a strong weapon.
"Now let us move onto curtain number three! Here you have a Pokeball, what's in the Pokeball you ask? Why it holds a Litten, it's a cat and I hear you are quite the cat person. It is very loyal to you and will fight tooth and claw for you." Nox pointed at the pokeball as the curtain revealed itself, there was a screen that showed a black and red cat doing a bunch of cute things.
“As much as I like cats, this little guy might end up being with Fluttershy, more or less as I rarely have time to myself.” Link explained.
"It evolves into a Libre, a cat wrestler not to mention it can spew fire. If trained properly, you can do anything!" Nox replied to the Hylian. Link still looked unsure about this one.
"Behind curtain number four is the Iron Man suit, the same suit that Tony Stark used against Thanos on Planet Titan. It can also turn into Hulk Buster to fight heavy hitting enemies! Be it a Manticore, Dragon, Ursa Major, or even Thanos himself, this thing will hold on until the very end." Nox informed the young man as he was over two hundred years old and Link was not. The curtain revealed the Iron Man suit just standing there menacingly.
“So basically if I threw on Nayru’s love and put on the Giant’s Mask.” Link said, making a comparison.
"Yup!" Nox nodded, "It's strong but after a use it needs an hour to recharge, however if you have some electricity magic. You can work this baby until it rusts! Which it can not!" Nox chuckled before moving onto the next.
"And then finally we have something I think would fit you the most, don't worry you can still pick anything out of all of these. Heck, I'll give you all of them if you so desire. Here you have a Devil Fruit, a Zoan type one. The Neko Neko No Mi, Model: Lion. A Lion represents courage and strength, just like you, not to mention it has an epic mane, just like you! Now you can pick all of them if you want!" Nox let go of Link and pointed at the Devil Fruit as the curtain revealed it. It was caramel colored with swirls on it.
Link ran the choices through his head, his expression showing a lot of uncertainty. “I don’t know…” Link said with a frown. “I’m afraid all of them would end up forgotten in my inventory or neverused.” he said.
"The Devil Fruit, you eat, the Iron Man suit, you wear, not to mention it can be attached to your chest. It also smells like a new car, also the Black Coal dragon egg isn't an item but a living creature, as well as Litten." Nox informed Link as he looked at the items.
“For now, I’ll accept the black dragon and the fruit. At least Volvagia will have a playmate.” Link said as he took the dragon egg and the fruit, soon placing it in his pouches as they shrunk down to fit in.
"Good choice, can you get the egg out so that I can put the loyal enchantment on?" Nox asked the Hylian Champion. Link blinked in curiosity as he took the dragon egg back out.
“Why an enchantment?” Link asked.
"Just to make sure they do not attach to someone else." Nox takes the egg and presses the egg against the Hylian's head. "He is your father, you are loyal to him, you shall protect him, and you shall be with him during his darkest hours." The black egg glowed red for a bit, the embryo of the dragon being revealed.
Link raised his hand. “Might want to mention Luna as the mother.” he pointed out.
"Er, Princess Luna Sol is your Mama." The embryo glowed once more before going back to normal, "It will hatch… In a month." Nox told Link.
“My Luna will love it, might even cut down on her jealousy toward Celestia having a phoenix.” Link explained as he places the egg back into his inventory.
"It's REALLY powerful when it's an adult. I just wanna say, my Black Coal drake at home… Oh boy he would decimate a Manticore's den if they so much as scratch me. But they're sweet, especially the teenage years, they're very sweet but are still overprotective." Nox put his hands on his hips, taking a step back from Link.
“Not to worry, I’m sure Luna can keep it under control just fine. It's not like I accepted a creature created by a God.” Link said half-joking half serious.
"I just want to say, I'm also a God, the Time God. You and I are seriously close, I'm smart, you're smart, and we're both Gods." Nox said blankly, "Oh, and here are the arrows that Light has. Don't tell her I snuck in her room." Nox raised a brown bag that glowed yellow.
“I… wouldn’t count as a God. That title would go to the Mask if its restrictions were lifted.” Link said as he tapped his pouch that the FD Mask sat in. “...Why would you sneak into your daughter’s room though?” he asked with a disapproving frown.
"Why not?" Nox countered, "She's my daughter, I do know it's an invasion of my privacy but… Yeah you got a point. Why would I do that? That was rude on my part. But still, take the arrows." Nox told Link, pushing it closer to Link.
Link slowly raised an eyebrow at Nox’s behavior, feeling like something is off but choosing not to question. “Alright then.” he said with a shrug as he took the brown bag that contained the arrows.
"Open the bag." Nox requested Link.
“But it's just arrows, right?” Link asked confused as he opened up the bag to peer inside. Only for a portal that showed the video of Never Gonna Give You Up to Link. Link had a deadpan expression as he slowly looked at Nox. Before the man could react, Link had placed the bag on top of Nox’s head. Nox began to laugh, pointing at Link.
"BAAAAH!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!" Nox tapped his knee as he wheezed.
“Really.. I mean… really?!” Link asked with a groan.
"Yes really! But no really here are the arrows," Nox said, gesturing for Link to look down. Link looked down… Only to be duped for Nox did the "Okay" sign. "That's neck, neck yourself."
“A noose?” Link asked, confused, not understanding the joke or prank.
"No, it's a classic "Made you look" game, so uh… Made you look! But in actuality it's behind your ear." Nox reaches behind the ear and he pulls out a quiver that holds the Light-Lightning arrow hybrid. "Ta da~"
“I haven’t seen that trick since I was a kid.” Link pointed out.
"Hm, well that's a trip down memory lane for you, now go on. Eat the fruit if you need it, and it tastes bad but you can push through it!" Nox pushes Link out of his room positively before locking the door as lets his Noxines guard the door.
Link blinked as he looked behind him. “Wonder what’s eating him..” he said with a shrug as he headed over to Light’s room.
As he went there there was a man in heavy duty armor leaning on the door, he had big steel gloves, a Viking beard, and a Viking helmet. The man turned to Link and stuck a hand out, "You must be Link, Champion of Equestria! My name is Brute, Light's brother!" Brute informed the Hylian. Link stuck his hand out to meet the hand in the middle, giving Brute a firm shake.
“It's good to meet you, Brute.” Link said with a nod.
"Well, if you want to meet Light she isn't here. I waited here for… A few hours to tell you that." Brute said unflinchingly, not in the slightest tired.
“Oh, how long will you be here? I came to give her her arrows.” Link said as he held the mentioned arrows.
“I literally just said she isn't here, I could take the arrows then I can put them into her room." Brute said, trying to reason with the Hylian. As the two began to converse, Zabuza hummed from the darkest corners, concealed.
"It's almost time…"
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Chapter Fourteen, A Battle for the Ages! Team Titan vs Team Xelor! Part 1.
Chapter Fourteen, A Battle for the Ages, Team Titan vs Team Xelor!
The air was different today, everyone was in the Diner Room, except for Nox. Thanos was sitting there eating a bowl of magma with a rock spoon. He held an emblem, the same emblem he took out before. It had a Dragon Symbol on it, his hands shook before he clenched them. He then began to eat his magma. Phoenix stood in the far corner of the room like the edgy bastard he is, eating an apple and observing the group.
“What’s with you guys? Why is everyone so fuckin tense all of a sudden?” Phoenix asked, growing tired of the awkward silence.
Black looked towards the edgy man, “Today’s the last match in the tournament. But I also believe something bad is coming our way.” Black explained as he turned away and continued to eat his breakfast… which was a buffet.
“Whether good or bad, I seriously hope we can return home and enjoy some peace away from this place.” Link said as he allowed the back of his head to rest against the nearest wall
"Yeah, I sense it too, it feels… Ominous. But let's not talk about that, who are you guys betting on? I'm betting on my pal Thanos!" Nappa said, patting Thanos' back who just ignored him.
“You felt it as well?” Eric asked the Bald Saiyan with concern as he guzzled down his morning coffee. “Pushing that aside I’d say Nox has the upper hand if he has a chance to use his time magic. However Thanos has the upper hand in every other aspect.”
“Fighting Nox will be a lot different than knowing him personally, so there might be tricks up his sleeve we don’t know about,” Link pointed out.
“Would say Thanos, I mean… we kinda turned a wasteland into the next apocalypse event.” Black said with a nervous smile.
"So I've heard." Nappa said blankly, sipping some coffee. Meanwhile Kyle just floated about, just like he was in space. Grievous was sitting next to Nightmare, Grievous gazed at the mare.
"So, er… Who do you think will win this final battle?" The General asked the Mare, "It's alright, you don't have to tell me if you wish."
“Who knows, only time can tell,” Nightmare said simply, sipping a cup of coffee.
"Ah, the stoic type, I respect that." Grievous said, not knowing how to finish the conversation.
“We would say Sir Thanos would win the battle. Thou’s strength is impressive,” Luna Black interrupted.
"Indeed, though I wonder, will Thanos bring out… him? " Grievous asked, Lucci scoffed.
"Like he would ever." Lucci looked to Thanos, "I hope he doesn't…"
“Honestly, my money is on Thanos, but I’m a bit biased as I am yet to witness Black in action.” Phoenix finished his apple and stepped towards the group.
"Speaking of bringing out, I had decided to offer an idea." Ryker popped up from the ground with a TV screen. It had three different things on it. First was the area called Planet Titan, the other was a question mark and the last was DB's Antarctica. "You've noticed that there is a question mark here, we're doing a poll, the other two are the maps for the fight. They will change over the course of the battle, what are your options for the second one? Well…" The TV revealed the Village hidden in the Leaf, Planet Namek, Wall Maria, and the Future in Ruins. "I'll see y'all later, the voting booth is right here." A table reveals itself below the screen and there was a pen and a paper on it. "Bye now!" Ryker made a portal and struck a Jojo's pose before going in.
“..I don’t know any of those places except Namek, but I suggest something that’ll survive being blown up.” Link suggested with a sigh
Eric stepped forward and cast his vote for Planet Namek which caused Luna to raise an eyebrow in confusion
“Why another planet?” Luna asked slightly confused
“Planet Namek has three suns, more suns more shadows to command” Eric answered with a grin
Shiva, who had been quietly sitting off to the side for most of the conversation, took one look at the poll, and immediately wandered over, casting a vote for the Leaf village.
“Forests are nice,” Shiva commented to anyone that looked at her with curiosity.
"Uh huh…" Lucci, Nappa, Grievous, Luffy and Entity made their way over to the poll and they cast their vote one at a time.
"Did you really just vote for a place where naked giants eat you?" Entity asked Luffy.
"But blades are cool." Luffy said blankly, they all just walked off. They walked by Thanos who closed his eyes and then talked to… Thanos.
"So, you finally want to talk to me in the daytime?" Thanos asked John.
"Yes, I think it could help us bond more." John replied to the Titan.
"Hmph." Their conversation left at that as Thanos continued to eat his bowl of magma. The doors swing open and all of the Commanders entered. Towa, Akainu, Fujitora, Katakuri, Arkham Knight, Lord Twigo, Zabuza, Herobrine, Necrozma, Ganondorf, and Douglass Bullet.
Shiva’s tail wagged at the sight of Fujitora. “Hello, Issho,” she greeted.
Fujitora, unusually kept silent, before Herobrine tapped Fujitora's shoulder. Fujitora jumped,
Shiva still tilted her head at his odd silence from before. “You alright?” she asked.
"Y-yeah, I just feel… A little off." Fujitora chuckled, rubbing his head, Zabuza glanced at black.
"Had a good sleep last night?" Zabuza jokes, before Herobrine just rubbed his blocky forehead.
"For Notch's sake Zabuza, can you not?" A text box appeared over Herobrine's head.
“I slept well actually, thanks for asking.” Black said with a smile, continuing his breakfast buffet. Luna Black snickered a bit.
"Oi, you." Akainu pointed at Kodo before he lit up his cigar.
Kodo tilted his head. “What?”
"You're around the same age group as Herobrine, are you not?" Akainu asked the canine.
Kodo glanced at the blocky humanoid. “You mean to tell me that guy’s only one year old?” he asked.
"In Dog years, yes." Akainu told the young pup as Herobrine had a text box over his head.
"Well yes I kinda am." Herobrine shrugged, Akainu turned to Herobrine to read his text before turning back to Kodo.
“Huh,” Kodo hummed. “I guess I am, then.” He looked up at Akainu. “Why? Is it important?”
"No, I just thought you two would make good friends. Heh, though it looks like you guys won't have much time to talk when you guys-" Before Akainu could finish he received a glare from Katakuri. "Leave."
“I don’t like that pause……” Phoenix stepped over to Akainu with a bit of wariness.
"Oh don't mind him, he's bad with words!" Bullet laughed suddenly behind Phoenix and patting Phoenix on the back with his massive meaty arms.
“You do realise I’m a fuckin lie detector?” Phoenix looked over his shoulder at Bullet with increasing unease.
"Your mom's a lie detector?" Bullet asked, "Well looks like Dad won't have any fun when she's gone! KAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Bullet laughed joviously.
Phoenix elbowed Bullet in the gut, sending him into a wall, before speaking with venom. “I wouldn’t know, never met em.”
"Kahahaha! You got some spunk hitting me! I wonder how long you'll last, pause on that." Before Bullet could pursue Katakuri stepped in the way.
"For God's sake, Bullet learn when to SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!" Katakuri shouted, his Conqueror's Haki putting immense pressure on those around him, some of the furniture and walls cracked.
"Bah, alright, alright…" Bullet scoffed, Katakuri walked over to Phoenix, giving a bow.
"I sincerely apologize for Bullet's actions, to make you cheer up and not angry, would you like my token?" Katakuri asked Phoenix, raising a broken mirror.
Phoenix moved the mirror away from him with the back of his hand and scoffed at him. “A few things, one, a man should not bow on another's behalf. Otherwise, the apology is meaningless. And two, I have no idea who you are, so why would I be inclined to use your token.” Phoenix glared at the man, before hearing a familiar voice in his head. His demeanor suddenly changed and he looked back at the man.
“That’s Katakuri,” Shiva explained to Phoenix through a pack link. “Easily the strongest fighter in this world. Whoever wins - Thanos or Nox - has to take him on next.”
“I see…..” Phoenix nodded to Shiva in appreciation before turning back to Katakuri. “Sorry for my rudeness, however today is a touching day for me, and my mood is well….. Less than pleasant……” Phoenix looked down and clenched his fist, dragging up memories he’d rather leave behind.
"I understand, we all do have our off days." Katakuri said soft chuckle, "You all must be wondering why we're all here…"
"Well, we're here to inform you that… Uh… I don't think I have the heart to say this…" Arkham Knightlooked to Towa who rolled her eyes.
"Okay, what he's trying to say is that Black, you are no longer able to buy a fucking buffet of food." Towa said blankly, Lord Twigo sighed.
“OH Come on! I’m a Saiyan, I kinda need to eat this much!” Black complained.
“Wouldn’t a Senzu Bean be more helpful than consuming a weeks worth of food?” Link asked curiously.
"Though you are a Saiyan, are you sure that you want us to go out of stock?" Lord Twigo asked the Saiyan.
Black looked at them blankly, before pointing a hand towards the corner of the room. A moment later, his hand glowed and the entire corner of the room held towers of bits and gems. He then went back to eating his food, “Buy more then…” Black said blankly
"Nigga, there is only so much food in this world! Do you know how many times we had to feed you Saiyans or Luffy?! There have been over 300 Saiyans here!" Arkham Knight said to Black.
“Why don’t you go to another planet and set up trade?” Black asked, his voice going deep like the Arkham Knight.
“Now, how the fuck does someone like Ryer have a food sortage? Hell, anything that’s grown I can make in an instant!” Phoenix gave Arkam a confused look.
"A. That's Invasion, B. There's a lot of Saiyans and Shounen anime characters with big appetites that come here. C. Fuck you." Arkham Knight gave Phoenix the finger. Phoenix simply took the power from his hand, and it fell limp. "Smart."
“How’d survive for so long then?” Black asked with a raised brow.
"Potatoes." They all said at the same time, Herobrine shivered.
"We've been eating nothing but potatoes for FIVE WHOLE FUCKING YEARS!!!" Herobrine shouted out.
“You guys couldn’t just eat the gems?” Shiva asked.
"Not everyone is a Diamond Dog or a damn Dragon, Shiva!" Fujitora snapped, turning to Shiva, who raised her claws in a placating gesture.
“It was just a suggestion,” she said. “No need to get snappish.”
"Did you say… Snap?" Thanos slowly turned to Shiva. Shiva rolled her eyes with a sigh.
“Whatever,” she muttered, walking out. Kodo trailed along behind her.
“I don’t think they could digest gems, tried it once… never again…” Black said as he continued to eat.
“You know,” Phoenix chimed in, a hand on his chin. “How bout I make ya’ll what I call a tree of giving. It’s basically just a big ol’ tree that will provide any grown plant in an instant, edible or not. It does take a lot of energy, but it’s not like I’m due to fight.”
"In anycase, that was a joke, the real reason is that… We all want to say…" Fujitora said, the Commanders loosened up.
"Fuck you!" The Commanders all say at the same time, raising their middle fingers high. "And also, have a good day."
Phoenix blacked at them all, before turning to the rest of the group. “Any objections towards me taking the power from their vocal chords?” He pointed over his shoulder to the Commanders.
"Objection!" Thanos stood up pointing at Phoenix, his boys doing the same.
“Overruled.” Link said with a facepalm.
“You just wanted to say that to a guy named Phoenix, didn’t you?” Phoenix cocked a brow at Thanos.
"Perhaps…" Thanos said leaning back and putting his fingers together.
“That’s my line, cock juggler! I say perhaps! That’s my whole shtick!” Phoenix yelled at the mad titan.
"Says the boy who lost to a damn purple bean! You flamboyant, no dick having ass motherfucker!" Thanos countered.
“Bitch if I wasn’t wearing this god damn ring I would have gutted you from armpit to asshole in a nanosecond!” Phoenix shot back.
"Nigga I would be throwing you in space So that you could be frozen like the cold hearted bastard that you are. Fucking edgy protagonist, Sonic the hedgehog hair having, you probably dyed it like that so you can spin off a bridge you dickwad!" Thanos spat back.
“Pretty bold coming from a guy who literally looks like a fuckin baboons ass cheeck!!! Your just jelous cause I have hair you toe eyed fuckin cabage!!!”
"Well I'm bald this way you Rotten tomato! It's probably red because you're so moronic, you thought tomato sauce was soap and you washed yourself in your clothes because you're such a damn dumbass!" Thanos grinned.
Phoenix went to respond, but suddenly two pack links shot out and grabbed the two by the throats. Shiva stormed back in, her ears flat and her eyes black.
“Will you STOP!” she growled. “MEASURING! DICKS!” With a lash, she knocked the two’s heads together, before her voice boomed in Thanos’ head. “Thanos, you know that we need to work together for what comes next. You’re literally the biggest man in the room. Start acting like it!” As his brain rattled from her inner voice, Shiva also sent a thought Phoenix’s way. “Same goes for you, Phoenix. We need to stand together. Just because he can’t control himself doesn’t mean that you should rise to his taunts. His words are nothing but pimples on a gnat's ass. So, stop sinking to his level.”
Dissipating her links with a flick of her wrists, she turned on her heel and stomped out of the room, her head held high.
“You know, she might be the one person here that I’m afraid of…..” Phoenix mumbled, staring at Shiva as she left with wide eyes.
"Pissing off?" Thanos finished for Phoenix, pause on that.
“Something like that. Limpdick.”
"Oh fuck off, no dick, at least I have one." Thanos crossed his arms.
“Bitch you look like the kinda guy to pull out a guitar at a party, and proceed to play nothing but wonderwall you failed abortion.” Phoenix shot back, forgetting everything Shiva had said.
"Oh shut up you ineffectual cock sucker, you are built like a vampire reject. Go back to your horrible dramas, fucking pretty little fairy." Thanos turned to Phoenix when he countered.
“Well at the end of the day, vampires get the pussy, and Thanos does not.”
"Bitch, have you ever fucked an Alicorn you miserable bag of horse dicks." Thanos snarked.
“Yeah, pretty sure it was the same one too, same universe and everything you low life weasel ass cunt.” Phoenix retorted.
"Oh ho ho! You wanna do this again? Bitch I will turn your life upside down like it's Prince of Bel Air." Thanos chuckled.
“I have no idea what that means, but no u.” Phoenix crossed his arms as he looked at the giant oaf. Thanos looked down at the vampire fairy thing, unaware of Shiva wandering back in with a resigned expression. She paused, peering at the two like she was figuring something out.
"Uno reverse card." Thanos countered.
Phoenix rolled his eyes at the response. “And also, can you keep it down with the vampire thing? The people reading my story don’t know that yet.” Looks at camera.
"Oh I see, you're from your stories future, I don't get that, but alright. Expect me to say nothing else, Reader!" Thanos turned to the camera as well.
“Thanks limpdick……” Phoenix muttered under his breath. Thanos just stared at Phoenix motherfuckerly. before noticing Shiva watching him, like his next words would decide what she was going to do. “Be the bigger titan,” was written across her face.
Phoenix turned to Shiva, before pointing at Thanos. “Whatever you’re mad about, it was his fault.”
"Bitch ass motherfucker…" Thanos said softly under his breath turning away from Phoenix. Phoenix took the opportunity to try and slam him into a wall face first. Unfortunately, Shiva caught his wrist, and forced him back.
“Enough,” Shiva growled. “If you two really can’t be civil about this, settle it in the sparring room.” Grabbing Thanos with a pack link, she teleported them both to the gym. Phoenix immediately teleported them back.
“That won’t be necessary, besides, I don’t need that much room to take him down.” Phoenix scoffed and pointed to the titan.
Thanos' suddenly relaxed, his face no longer goofy but regal. "Oh really, is that so? It only took me little room to take down Earth's mightiest warrior, quite easily in fact." Thanos said in a regal tone.
“You mean the Avengers?” Phoenix laughed. “You could tie my hands behind my back, disable half my abilities, blindfold me, and those guys would still be utterly defenseless.”
"Oh really? How about we test that theory when the witch and that blonde haired woman comes into play." Thanos replied, "And what about Thor? With his… Might, you may have a hard time." Thanos replied to Phoenix.
“Two words.” Phoenix raised two fingers and looked Thanos in the eye. “Mind hacking.”
"Not very honorable, are you?" Thanos chuckled, this sent shivers up Lucci's spine. "I can respect that, one must do anything to win. After all that is what I did when I went for the stones."
“Well, I suppose. However, if they themselves did not initiate the fight, then I would not use such tactics.” Phoenix glanced over to Shiva with an apologetic look. Shiva, however, nodded in thanks.
"I'll go give the control back over to John," Thanos said before he looked left, then right. "What the hell happened?" Thanos asked as he looked down at Phoenix.
“Nothing but some friendly bonding.” Phoenix replied with a grin.
"Thanos took control didn't he?" Thanos sighed, rubbing his eyes.
“Seems like it,” Shiva replied.
“Perhaps.” Phoenix added.
"Oh that motherfucker! For god's sake, don't interact with him you two. In this body, he is a fucking God. He'll literally kill all of you without a second thought, please, do not speak with him. Scratch that, don't antagonize him." Thanos pleaded.
“Ooo a challenge…..” Phoenix rubbed his hands together, scheming ways to bring ‘Thanos’ back out.
“Phoenix, please,” Shiva said, before giving a more sympathetic look to Thanos. “I assure you, I have no intention of antagonizing anyone.” She cracked a grin. “I wasn’t willing to risk Celestia’s wrath, there’s no way I’m antagonizing someone stronger than her.”
“I too shall not provoke him, but that’s only because I’m afraid of the lecture Shiva will give me if I do.” Phoenix shivered and tried not to look at Shiva.
"Thank god…" Thanos sighed, "Well-" Thanos was interrupted by the intercom.
"Thanos go to the deployment room, please."
“Sounds like it’s time,” Shiva noted, patting Thanos’ side. “Good luck.”
“Give it your all, limpdick!” Phoenix made sure to slap Thanos on the back with more might then usual.
Thanos then pulled out a shotgun and cocked it before looking at Phoenix. "I will burn Ponyville first because you did that." Thanos said with a heartfelt smile.
“Go for it man, currently, another version of Chastiefol is sittin pretty, waiting for pricks like you to start some shit!” Phoenix gave the titan a toothy grin.
"I meant my universe dumbass!" Thanos snapped before walking off.
“Why the fuck would you do that…” Phoenix mumbled to himself as Thanos left.
“Dunno,” Shiva noted. “Why do you feel the need to keep insulting him?”
“No offense, but he seems like the only person here that can take it. And also, he’s also one of few who have the balls to insult me back. I don’t think either of us actually hate each other, I respect him greatly in fact, it’s just he’s fun to piss around with..” Phoenix explained, closing his eyes and nodding to himself.
Shiva hummed in intrigue, watching Thanos go as she rubbed her chin. “I see…” she murmured in thought.
“Thanos,” Eric said, gaining the Titan’s attention. “Good luck… And don’t forget to have a little fun.” the Shadow Man smiled as he vanished in the shadows of the room
Arena Stage.
Everyone sat there idly, Ryker's Commanders were there as well as Mr. Perfect Cell and the others. They were all there waiting to see the outcome of the battle. Lord Twigo slowly turned to Kodo.
"So, have you managed to cut through steel yet?" Lord Twigo asked the canine with a raised eyebrow.
“Better,” Kodo replied, withdrawing a diamond from the bag Ed had given Shiva. Tossing it into the air, he narrowed his eyes and drew his blade. With a quick slash, the diamond popped cleanly in two. Kodo sheathed his sword and caught the two diamonds with one smooth motion.
"You've learned well, young padawan, but I have a question for you." Lord Twigo said as he looked at Kodo in the corner of his eye.
“What is it, Master?” Kodo asked, leaning forward.
"Have you ever heard of the tale of Darth Diabetus the wide?" The Holy Knight asked the pup.
Kodo glanced at his mother, who shrugged. “I… don’t think so,” he admitted. “There was Darth Vulcan the Vicious, but he was just a legend. At least, I hope he was.”
"Well, Darth Diabetus had the power to… Stop evil just by blinking, the evil would just… Disappear… He also had this ability to make sure he could not become what he was fighting… Evil." Lord Twigo said.
Kodo’s brow furrowed. “But… how was he able to define evil?” he asked. “Like, if a dog did something bad… but he was trying to help his family… is he still evil? Does he disappear completely?”
"He had another power to Look into someone's heart, to see their true desire, what they were fighting for, who they were protecting, and why they're doing… Crimes." Lord Twigo told Kodo.
“It’s a load of horse shit Kodo.” Phoenix interrupted, “No one has the power to prevent turning evil, because it’s impossible to prove. No matter what you tell yourself, it is always a possibility.”
"Nothing Is impossible if you have the right mindset." Lord Twigo, glanced at Phoenix. "I mean, look at you Shiva. You never thought you would do the things you are doing and yet here you are."
“When you say mindset, I think you mean influence, power, and connections. I’m sorry to break this to a fellow holy knight, but some things just can’t be achieved.” Phoenix said, crossing his arms.
"Hm, I guess young Kodo will never know…" Lord Twigo said looking at a random Dragon, he was all angry and one could see the evil in his eyes. But with a blink from Lord Twigo, the dragon calmed down. And looked around, confused. He looked over to Kodo with a look that whispered, 'I told you so.'
“Don’t get me wrong, the kid can believe what he wants, but he should probably see the other side of the coin before he makes his decision.” Phoenix explained, ruffling Kodo’s hair. “Maybe I’m just a pessimist, but believe me when I say that plenty of things are impossible.”
Shiva chuckled. “‘A pessimist is what an optimist calls a realist,’” she commented softly.
"If you are ever interested… Give me a call young Kodo, and I will teach you the ways of the Blink. " Lord Twigo chuckled, looking at Ryker who nodded. Noticing the silent exchange between Lord Twigo and Ryker, Shiva subtly drew a pack link around Kodo. The link pulsed, but all Phoenix or any other mind readers saw was a field of gems. She suddenly heard a voice in her head. “Noice.” She turned to Phoenix to see he was holding a thumb behind his back. Shiva nodded with a grin.
“Didn’t you get your ass handed to you by Meliodis that one time? If you had a technique like that, why didn’t you use it?” Phoenix asked out of curiosity.
"That was in the show, I was taught by Darth Diabetus." Lord Twigo explained to Phoenix.
“Seems legit.”
"Alright everyone, this is the final battle between Thanos and Nox, so let's introduce the Mad Titan, the one the only-" Ryker was cut off as everyone heard a loud thunder thingy.
"What the hell is going on?!" Fujitora asked as the clouds turned gray and a shadow loomed over all of them. Everyone looked up and they saw a giant eastern azure dragon.
"WORORORORORO!!!!" The Dragon laughed as he entered the arena, or at least tried to, given that he was the size of Ponyville. Ryker frowned.
"Kaido…" Ryker seethed, frowning Kaido ignored Ryker and flew over to where the competitors were. He looked down at Phoenix.
"Nice hair, also Ban from Seven Deadly Sins, nice." Kaido complemented.
“It’s polite to introduce oneself before initiating a conversation with a stranger.” Phoenix summoned Shadowfall to his back just in case, having noted Ryker’s reaction to Kaido’s entrance.
"Stranger? I already know you! Phoenix E.. e something. I already have one of my men lurking around in your Equestria. I won't tell you where but they're there." Kaido looks over to Shiva, "However, I do not know you, my name is Kaido, King of Beasts.”
Shiva glanced at Phoenix, before managing a curtsy. “King Kaido,” she replied. “I am Alpha Shiva; once a humble dog, and now the leader of the diamond dogs.”
"Nice to meet you, is that your son? He looks like a brave soul, would you mind if I recruited him into my army?" Kaido asked, his giant draconic eye looking over to Kodo.
Kodo and Shiva glanced at each other, panic briefly shining in Shiva’s eyes. However, it quickly faded when she saw Kodo’s look of determination. She looked back up at Kaido. “If he joins you,” she asked. “What do our world and pack get in exchange?”
"We have a lot of services we can provide, money, power, some fame here and there. We have a lot we can do for you, god it sounds like you're trying to enroll your kid to a school." Kaido jokes.
Shiva shrugged with a grin. “He is around that age,” she replied.
Kaido then turns to Goku Black, "And then there's you, Black, don't you worry you have someone with you too! His name is Percedel or Dally, whichever you prefer." The Dragon told the Saiyan.
Black looked to the dragon, “And… does it look like I care?” Black asked with a raised brow.
"I like people like you!" Kaido grinned ear to ear, laughing as it shook the whole arena. "Ah, good luck with that."
Phoenix gritted his teeth at the man, before attempting to shove his index and middle finger through the side of Kaido's scaled shoulder, but not piercing. “Mind elaborating on your earlier comment.” Phoenix’s voice was laced with venom as he stared at the ground.
"If you really want to know they're at the bottom of the ocean hanging out, his name is Jinbe and he's a Fishman."
“Don’t expect any more reports from him after I return home.” Phoenix practically spat out.
"Don't hurt him, he actually enjoyed that place, he's retired now, maybe an ally for you later on. Who knows?" Kaido chuckled before he heard a whistle, his eyes turning slits and he turned to the Arena Floor and there was Thanos.
"Back in the sword!" Thanos ordered, Kaido cursed under his breath as Thanos held up his sword. Kaido then went inside of the sword, Thanos just stood there. Thanos then holds his emblem to his chest, then expands and engulfs Thanos. He was then covered in black armor, black spikes stuck out of Thanos' shoulders and just like he had said before. It was Dark Souls type shit, his fist that wasn't a gauntlet was not a black gauntlet that had spikes on it. But his chest plate was a sight to see. The emblem before was on his chest and on the back was spikes that resembled Omega Shenron. His lower half was just heavy black armor.
"This… Is my Demon Slayer Armor!" Thanos announced, Ryker still in shock from Kaido's appearance. "Get Nox in here."
"O-okay." Ryker nodded, "Here is Team Nox, the man, the myth, the legend, and the God of Time, Noximilien!" Nox appeared with many beings cheering for him, his children accompanied him with four puppets that held swords.
"WHYYYYY?!?!?!?" Thanos screamed, all eyes were on him. "WHEN CAN I CATCH A BREAK!!?!??! All I've been fighting is Gods! Black, fucking Fierce Deity Link, this asshole Phoenix, and now Nox. When did this all happen?! I BLAME YOU KAIDO!!!!" Thanos shouted out.
“That’s what happens when you gain too much power, Thanos, god-like beings are the only thing that can match it!” Link shouted from the stands.
"Now who wants-" Grievous immediately appeared at Thanos' side. Faster than anyone could see. Ryker blinked, "Oh… anyone else?" Ryker then turned to Luna, "Alright, you're in Luna."
"Wh-" Before Luna could respond she was next to Thanos.
A distant rising voice began to echo in the arena, “Mine mine mine mine mine,” not long after, Black appeared next to Luna, “Mine.”
Kodo glanced at Shiva. “Uh…” he sighed. “Eh, screw it.” Bursting into smoke, he shot down into the stands, appearing next to Black.
“Kodo!” Shiva barked, but before she could stop him, he had joined the others in the arena.
“This should’ve happened with Phoenix, Mom,” Kodo insisted.
“But what if you get hurt?” Shiva demanded.
Kodo kept his eyes on his opposition as he drew his sword. “What doesn’t kill me will only make me stronger,” he replied.
"The rules are simple, only fight your opponent and no one else, do not interfere with other fights, and now… G-" Ryker was cut off.
"Well howdy there, Black." A country accent echoed across the arena.
Blacks eyes widened slightly, recognizing that voice. “Is that… Android 13?” Black muttered.
Kodo tilted his head in shock as the source of the voice appeared. “Why does Nox have Von Shadow, and why is he talking like Applejack?”
"Nope, it'a me, mah name is Eric 2.0 look at mah trucker hat." Eric 2.0 spoke appearing before Black, via shadow, he had the same trucker hat as Android 13.
"I JUST FIXED THAT!!!!" Nox shouted out, Eric 2.0 scoffed.
"Now doc, ya can't fix what ain't broke." Eric 2.0 flashed Nox a grin.
“Oh… Oh this is precious.” Black chuckled, he looked to Nox with confidence, “You expect to beat me with this automaton of fun?”
"Yesn't." Nox replied blankly. "However, Luna I have the perfect opponent for you." Nox turned to Luna.
Luna tensed hearing this and took a defensive stance, suddenly an Iron Man suit dropped out of the sky, then proceeded to superhero land. The Iron Man suit stood up.
"Oh hey Moony, how's it going?" The Iron Man suit asked.
“Have we met before?” Luna asked lightning arcing around her body
"Eh, you could say that," Iron Man shrugged, "We met but… Damn this stuff is complicated time wizard." Iron Man turned to Nox.
"I'm a Xelor." Nox deadpanned at Iron Man.
Luna raised an Eyebrow at the group of robots as her hor glowed
"We have an Iron Man, Eric but better, my children aka Androids, and four samurai."
“So how do we divide this up?” Luna asked her teammates. “Who fights who?”
"I'll take Nox and his children." Thanos popped his knuckles, grinning.
"Alright, I'll take the swordsmen. Alone. " Grievous said, looking to the others.
“Let the child back you up” requested Luna. “Besides I’d feel better he fights with somepony rather than having him fight alone.”
“It’s true,” Kodo admitted. “Wolves are pack animals.”
"No." Grievous said blankly, "He needs to learn to fight alone. Also fighting swordsmen is my specialty. I hunt them for fun and kill them. This is literally made for me." Grievous told the Alicorn.
“Fine then” Luna shook her head. “Kodo I’d ask that you stay close to me” a midnight purple portal opened up as Luna pulled out a purple claymore with a star covered blade. The weapon of the feared Nightmare Moon.
“Will do,” Kodo replied, stepping closer to her with a grin.
"Ah'm fightin' the Saiyan." Eric 2.0 looked at Black.
“I was hoping you’d say that…” Black said darkly, popping his neck.
"Er, that leaves just you and me Moony. I'd rather not fight a kid, I'm not Cap. Bucket head, let Kodo fight with you." Iron Man turned to Grievous.
Grievous looked to Kodo, then the swordsmen, then Kodo, then the swordsmen. "Fine." Grievous turned to Kodo and waved at him. "Boy, get over here."
Kodo tsked, but strode to Grevious’ side all the same.
"Alrighty… The battle begins in three!" Ryker grinned holding up three fingers as the area around them transferred to Planet Titan.
"Two!"
Grievous clenched his swords, looking at the swordsmen as they shifted to a wreckage. Luna gripped her blade as lightning ran through the weapon and her body, Haki began to cover her arms and legs before covering her sword. Iron Man clenched his fists, his body humming. Kodo’s fur began to steam and crackle with lightning like a storm cloud, while Haki covered his claws and paws.
"One!"
The aircraft flew above Titan, four different screens revealed themselves.
Thanos clenched his fists steam began to emanate from his body as red lightning appeared on him as his eyes turned red, Brute clenched his fists as well before slamming his gauntlets together, Light just popped her neck before getting her bow and arrow out, Grab got his arms ready, Grab stretching his right arm in the air., Shield readying his… Shield. Nox just stood There idly.
"Fight!"
The Swordsmen shot off to the skies and flew to the wreckage, Grievous looked at Kodo, the two exchanging a nod before Grievous ran towards it at breakneck speeds. Kodo kept pace behind him, turning into a literal storm cloud with lightning blasting him forward. With Grievous jumping over rocks and other items, and Kodo flying behind him, the two closed in on their opponents.
Luna rushed forward as Iron Man got out his Halo type blade. They clashed unfortunately for the Iron man the sheer force of Luna's weapon knocks the blade out of his hand.
"Well shit." Iron Man said looking at his weapon before turning to Luna. "This should be fun." Iron Man said, sarcasm oozing out of his body.
Luna raised her lightning charged weapon and brought it down on the robot’s shoulder, however any damage dealt on the robot was repaired instantly as the light on his chest glowed brighter.
"Thanks for the power boost Loony!" Iron Man said before he stomped on Luna's foot, the foot expanding before digging itself into the ground. Iron Man's fist turned into rams, Luna had noticed that the rams were outlined with rubber. Luna then felt the force of two rocket powered rams, Iron Man struck her in the gut before landing an uppercut. Iron Man stepped off of Luna's foot as his Arc Reactor glowed blue before firing at Luna. Sending her a good way backwards, she then hits a boulder.
“Luna!!” Eric shouted rushing to help her only to be stopped by Sombra
“She’s a Logia type Eric, That blast won’t kill her an she’s been thrown into worse” Sombra assured his friend keeping his hand on his sword in case Eric turned violent. “Remember: she was once the dreaded Nightmare Moon! She’s not a weak flower, she’s an alicorn it’ll take more than being thrown around to defeat her.”
"Have faith in your friends." Fujitora told Eric as he ate his bowl of Ramen provided by Arthur who was passing out Ramen to everyone.
“Not just friends,” Shiva said quietly, her eyes on Kodo. “Family too.”
As she spoke, Kodo blasted past Grievous and reached the swordsmen. Avoiding a slash from one of his foes, Kodo blasted a pack link right into their chest. The swordsman stumbled, a brief bout of exhaustion making him pause, as Kodo flew back into the air.
“General!” Kodo shouted, throwing a ball of energy at him. “Power Boost coming your way!”
He threw the ball, which was caught in the clawed hand of Grievous. He crushed the ball in his hands, his metal body glowing as he stood tall over the swordsman. Grievous peered down at the swordsman.
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"You must realize… You. Are. Doomed!" Grievous grabbed the swordsman by his head and slammed it onto the ground, making a satisfying crack another swordsman went to come at Grievous from behind, only for Kodo to snag them with a pack link. Briefly, the swordsman struggled over the pack link, before Kodo dissipated his link instantly, allowing Grievous to catch them with a backhanded slash. Kodo reformed next to Grievous and tossed him another ball of energy.
A swordsman looked at the duo, then back at the other with a weird sword that had an eye. "Jack! Release Rubilax!" The swordsman ordered, Jack nodded looking at the sword before throwing it into the air. He then spoke French as the sword was engulfed in light, Grievous looked at that, knocking out the duo that had faced him. He raised his Sword of Lightning and went for a diagonal slash, only for it to be held back by the swordsman, though the swordsman was being pushed back as Kodo caught him with another pack link and drained his strength. Though through sheer will he went to a knee.
"Hurry Jack!" Jack began to speak faster as the sword with the eye's pupil became a slit. Letting out an evil laugh before both Jack and the other swordsman was blown away. The sword with an eye was now a four foot tall golem. Grievous deadpanned, turning to Kodo.
"Now I just feel bad for them, go handle it." Grievous sheathed his blades and turned around.
"Come at me bro!" The Golem held his arms out like he was going for a hug.
Cricking his neck, Kodo charged the golem, splitting into smoke and passing him by, before catching it with a pack link from behind. Yanking himself forward, Kodo carved into the Golem’s heel before splitting back into smoke and flying away.
However, as Kodo rolled away, his eyes widened in shock as the Golem grew to five feet. Spikes jutted out of his back, and he cackled in delight.
“Oh… kay,” Kodo muttered.
"I'm going to start punching you." Rubilax said.
Kodo grinned. “No. You’re going to try,” he replied, before bursting back into smoke.
However Rubilax used Kamisori to appear above the Pup, covering his fist in Armament Haki he slammed the fist down towards Kodo's noggin. However, Kodo’s cloud zigzagged away.
Grievous blinked as the pup desperately tried to dodge Rubilax’s attacks.
"Yeah you can handle this, I'm going to just watch."
“WHAT?!” Shiva howled in rage, rising up as her fur crackled with lightning.
“It’s fine, Mom!” Kodo insisted. “I got this!” He barely dodged another attack, paling as he saw his leg get skimmed by the Rubilax’s punch. “I think…”
Grievous then shoves some chips into his "mouth," crumbling them into crumbs. "Jolly good show!"
Rubilax then spun before slamming both of his feet into Kodo. As Kodo hit the ground rolling, Rubilax pounced like a tiger wailing on the pup. Kodo blocked, dodged and endured as best he could, but no punches were pulled. Grievous just smiled, though he had no mouth.
"Kick his ass! Fight back!" Grievous shouted to the canine as he watched him struggle.
Growling, Kodo caught two of Rubilax’s punches, his claws coated in Armament Haki and the Pack Link. His fur sparked with lightning as he absorbed the energy from the punches and the inner energy of the beast, before he let loose with a howl. The howl formed a vortex not dissimilar to a Fus Ro Dah, blasting Rubilax across the area. As Rubilax hit the ground, Kodo leaped over him, catching him with another pack link, and absorbing more of his strength before yanking him off the ground and slamming him back into the wreckage.
Suddenly the Demon grew to the size of the wreckage, walking through it. His spikes had more detail to them now as Rubilax charged at Kodo, using Soru to go there faster, covering his fists in Armament Haki and moving faster than anyone would expect from his size; he landed a colossal punch on the canine.
Kodo exploded into smoke, but the momentum still carried the majority of his body across Titan before he managed to fade completely into a cloud. His teeth and glowing eyes briefly reforming as he growled, he raced right back into the fray, letting another howl of defiance loose.
Rubilax then shot something out of his back: a stone golem that looked like Rubilax was shot at Kodo. However, Kodo’s arm and sword reformed, and with a brutal swing, he bisected the mini-Rubilax in half. Spinning, he ensnared the head with a pack link, draining the energy from the clone before tucking back into smoke and charging forward even faster than before.
"Heh…" Using Kamisori, Rubilax appeared above Kodo and sledgehammered the pup, the canine met with the soil and they had an "awesome" time together. Grievous stood there watching.
For a moment, Rubilax stood triumphant. However, a low chuckle sounded from where Kodo had fallen. Rubilax noticed steam once again floating around him. Not just from the crater where Kodo met the ground, but also from around the battlefield.
"Where are you, you damn brat?" Rubilax looked around as Grievous just chuckled.
"Oh boy… This will be fun…" Grievous muttered under his breath.
Indeed it was. As one several bolts of lightning sparked all around the beast. And as Rubilex turned, trying to track which one was real, hundreds of pack links suddenly spiraled out from hundreds of Kodo clones. The beast quickly found himself constrained by ropes of lightning, as an army of smoky wolves bared their teeth in wicked smiles.
"You forget one thing…" Rubilax said before releasing thousands of his rock clones into the air, then proceeded to crash down raining down like meteors.
Sure enough, the smoke clones burst away into nothing. Yet, as Rubilex grew, he felt the earth shift underneath him, and noticed the pack links slither down into the depths like snakes.
“I forget?” Kodo’s voice, magnified, mused with a chuckle. “I believe you forgot one thing…”
The ground began to quiver and shake. Rubilax struggled to keep his footing.
“I’m a magic DIAMOND DOG!” Kodo boomed, before bursting from the ground.
To say the pup had gone through a growth spurt would’ve been a severe understatement. The pup was the size of a fully empowered Lord Tirek, his fur crackling and smoking like a living hurricane. With a roar like a dragon, he hit the ground, and a massive pit opened up underneath Rubilax. The Golem plummeted down into the darkness, before Kodo hefted the ground up like a blanket, and covered the golem like he was tucking it in for a nap.
"I knew you could do it." Grievous chuckled, looking up at the… Young pup?
Glancing over at the General, Kodo let a howl loose, shrinking down back to his regular height. He nodded at Grievous.
“That’s how the pack works,” he said. “We contribute.”
“Take a look at that Shiva,” Eric said with a massive grin on his face. “I told you he was stronger than he believed.”
Shiva smiled softly, before hearing Katakuri tsking.
"They think they won already… Oh dear…" Katakuri sighed, face palming. Fujitora just winced as he knew what was coming.
"Uh huh, though I was expecting to step in given that you are indeed, still weaker than me. I'm not trying to- Well, it's a fact I guess. We can't really interfere so we're stuck here." Grievous explained to Kodo, "What is your opinion on cheese?"
Kodo tilted his head, before everyone on the battlefield felt a tremor, it nearly knocked both Grievous and Kodo off their balance. "OH COME ON!!!" Grievous shouted out.
Kodo growled. “Just can’t take a hint, can you?” he grumbled, reverting back to his smoke form and launching into the air as Rubilax rose from the ground, now imagine the Mega Kaiju from Pacific Rim Uprising, now multiply the height and width of it by ten. A mountain of a fist slammed into both of them at speeds that left Rainbow Dash gawking. Kodo’s cloud form exploded away into pieces, while Grievous was sent flying, crashing through the star objects before finally stopping when gravity took its effect and slammed him onto the ground. Grievous just looked up at the sky.
"Why do these things happen to me?" Grievous grumbled, going to his feet, very slowly and sluggishly.
Kodo reformed next to him, helping him up.
“Okay, I was really hoping I could beat this and prove my worth,” he admitted. “But…” he turned to Grievous. “How the heck do we beat this thing?!”
"Kodo… Leave this to me, I have a plan. The greatest plan. Do you have a helicopter?" Grievous turned to Kodo.
Kodo tilted his head. “What’s a helicopter?”
"Onto plan B I guess, Author! Can I get a Giant's potion?" Suddenly a potion appeared before Grievous, "Thanks! Now Kodo, watch and learn, do not interfere. This is for me, and me alone. This is my time to shine, where I finally get to beat a villain!" Kodo nodded, stepping back, while Grievous then poured the Giant’s Potion onto himself then in a flash he grew to be the size of Cherno Alpha. "I've been watching a lot of pacific rim."
Grievous then proceeded to run at Rubilax, while Rubilax ran at him. Grievous clenched his fists, for though he grew, his swords did not. Their fists then clash…
Meanwhile a couple of a hundred meters away, Luna burst forth from the remains of the boulder before disappearing in a flash of lightning, Iron Man looked around trying to locate the alicorn
"Friday, try and detect her heat signature," Iron Man mumbled before he spotted the signature.
Without warning a pair of arms wrap around the Man of Iron's waist as he is lifting up and into the ground, Luna then Pulls off a German suplex on the tin man, his head stuck in the ground.
"Shit…" Iron Man then shot up, looking at Luna, Iron Man made his rams again and decked her in the muzzle. He does it again, and again, and again. "You know, over time, you should really know how to DODGE!!!" Iron Man gut punches the Lunar Princess before slamming a fist down on her noggin. Making her have a very personal meeting with the soil.
Pushing off the ground lightning struck the ground where Luna stood, one the flash was gone Iron Man noticed the Princess was gone. Iron Man checked his scanners to find her, unfortunately lightning began to strike the area around him throwing his scanners off
"Clever," Iron Man complimented, he then pops his shoulders, getting ready to attack Luna when she pops up.
Luna reared her fist back and slammed her fist into Iron Man’s gut sending him flying, Using her magic Luna brought her blade back into her hand.
Iron Man flew back to where he was, "You know, knocking me back isn't going to do much.”
With a flash of lightning Luna was above the robot with her haki covered blade raised high, Luna swung her sword severing Iron Man’s arm from his body
"I just want to say, I have pain receptors." Iron Man told Luna, putting a hand on Luna's shoulder as he suddenly regained his arm back from some flying object that swooped by and dropped a piece of metal. "Why? You're a nice Alicorn right? You literally cut my arm off, the reason why I'm not screaming is because I want to get this out before doing so." Iron Man told Luna before screaming bloody murder for five seconds before stopping. "That's better, now, Luna. Level down with me here, why did you cut my arm off? That was unprofessional." Iron Man said right before a big gauntlet appeared, Iron Man then gut punches Luna. The force felt like she was hit by the Mad Titan himself. Suddenly, Iron Man stabbed Luna's arm, she felt weak for it was made out of Sea Prism Stone. Suddenly Iron Man got armored up and he was the size of Thanos.
"I'm going to beat you now." Iron Man pulled Luna close… And bashed her with his fist, over and over again, ruthlessly and relentlessly. The punches were fast, Iron Man decided to do the same thing he used on Hulk back in that town, this fist shot at Luna then retracted. It then sped up, Luna getting hit more and more. "I can do this all day!"
Flaring her magic Luna teleported out of the mech's grip before reappearing a few feet away, reaching to her arm before pulling out the Sea Prism Stone blade. Regaining the control over her Devil Fruit Luna charged her entire with lightning
Iron Man then took to the skies before firing a bunch of repulsive shots at the mare. Trying to harm her and purposely missing sometimes to block her view as it made dust.
However each blast went harmlessly through her lightning charged body. “30 million volt: Thunder Bird.”
From around Luna’s body came a large bird that arc’d yellow and blue lightning, the creature of lightning flew up and went after the man of iron.
"Oh you gotta be shitting me," Iron Man muttered under his breath, he then fired a powerful beam from his chest to destroy the bird, the plasma and electricity made an explosion.
Without warning another charged at him before he realised he was surrounded by countless Thunder Birds
"Shit, shit, shit, shit!" Iron Man blasted off going to the star like structures and went inside using the ruins to his advantage he sleekly evaded the birds as they crashed into other ruins.
As he evaded the birds and dodged their attacks he failed to notice the streak of lightning rush in front of him, the streak changed into Luna who had reclaimed her sword and stabbed Iron man through his arc severely damaging it. Without missing a beat Luna pulled the blade from his chest and slammed the pommel into his left repulsor damaging it that one as well.
Iron Man grunted, Iron Man clenched his fist which made a blade show from his… Fist. Iron Man shoved the blade into Luna's rib, slightly cutting into Luna's left lung. Iron Man ripped it out and grabbed the horn of Luna, clenching it, Iron Man then slams the princess down on the earth. He then grinds her face against the earth before making his way up through the star building ruins. He went through the roof before wrapping his arms around Luna before spinning around, he then went back down the building and pulled off a Hidden Lotus on the mare.
Luna crashed into the ground, digging a crater into the ground. Luna stumbled out still covered in lightning, however something threw off the man of iron. The Lunar Princess was smiling at the mech
"...I don't like that smile…" Iron Man said pointing at Luna.
“Haven’t you noticed I’m not holding the dagger anymore” Luna said, flashing her hands causing Iron Man to quickly looking to his right hand and noticing the dagger dug deep into his remaining repulsor. “Now let’s see how you deal with THIS!”
60 Million Volt: Thunder Dragon.
Without a moment to dodge a yellow and blue electrical dragon rushed from Luna’s body and phased through Iron Man causing him to stagger a bit before aiming his hand forward trying to dispel the excess energy only for it to backfire and damage his arms.
"You know, I'm starting to get real tired of your shit." Iron Man frowned, looked at Luna, crossing his arms as he looked down at Luna.
“The feeling is mutual” Luna said, firing another Thunder Dragon at the metal man, this time the Iron Man saw it coming. Using the environment to his advantage he rolled for cover.
"If you and Thor met you would be great friends from what I am seeing from you." Iron Man told Luna.
Peering behind his cover, Iron Man found Luna missing.
"Oh for God's sake!" Iron Man said as he clenched his fists and shook then angrily in the air. "Why doesn she always do that?"
Iron Man closed his eyes turning back, opening his eyes he found a midnight blue hand on his face “1 Trillion Volt Electrical Discharge!"
"Fuck." That was the only thing Iron Man could say as he was thrown back by the force of the attack and out of the wreckage. The force Made Iron Man flying out of his HulkBuster suit. Iron Man crawled away and onto some rubble to lean on as he saw Luna walk out.
"I think we can be friends as long as you don't kill me." Iron Man grunted out as he used a spray to stop the oil from his body to leak out. Iron Man looked at Luna, "So range attacks don't work on you, but if I get close I get shocked, great. Just fantastic," Iron Man said, still leaning on the rubble.
“You are in quite a difficult situation” Luna said her lightning taking on a more yellow hue
"Oh you don't say? I have no way of beating you so why don't we just calm down okay? You can't even Interfere with the others due to the rules anyway, all you get for beating me is some bruises. I'd preferably not want to get hurt, so why don't we sit down, and have a chat. We can know each other better." Iron Man offered.
“I don’t wish to hurt you any more,” Luna said, turning to Ryker. “But you and I know Ryker won’t end this fight until one of us is out”
"Come on, Ryker's only focussed on those who'll dish out the most Dark Ki. Like Rubilax and Grievous, Thanos and those guys, Black and Eric 2.0, he doesn't care about us. As far as I know, you've been kicking my ass! So let's just have a nice talk over some… Tea?" Iron Man tilted his head.
“Very well, so long as you won’t object if I cast a sleep spell on you when the time comes” Luna said lifting the robot to his feet
"I literally can not sleep, have you not noticed I am a robot. I can power myself down, sheesh."
“I am the Alicorn Princess of the Night. Nothing is immune to my slumbering spells,” Luna boasted with a smile
"Now what if they literally have no brain?" Iron Man asked before stumbled to the side, catching himself. "I am a computer, you're an Alicorn, you have a brain, I do not."
“It matters not, I have the ability to give anypony no matter what they are a peaceful slumber”
"So you can even make a brick sleep?" Iron Man asked the Alicorn.
“So long as it shows intelligence I can” Luna said with a warming smile
"...You're unbelievable…" Iron Man shook his head at Luna in disbelief, "Oh anyways do you want to know more about this Thor fella? You're basically the same people… But one is Asgardian and you're a furry… Thing." Iron Man pointed at Luna.
“Alicorn...You were actually pretty impressive absorbing my lightning” Luna said to the metal man
"Technology at its finest… I'm gonna… I'm gonna lay down…" Iron Man walked over to the place he was flung into and sat there, he leaned his head back on a steel slab. "So comfy." Iron Man chuckled, looking at another wound before spraying it with his armor.
“Please don’t hate me for this,” Luna said placing a hand to the ground
"Don't you dare! We made peace!" Iron Man warned reading a blade.
A lightning arc cage appeared around the metal man. “I have seen a lot of people fall when they let their guard down around their opponents” Luna said with a tone of sadness. “This is merely a precaution.”
"I'm hurt… You put me in a cage like an animal. Why? I trusted you, I thought we could walk around! Have a nice talk, walk and talk… Traitor." Iron Man scoffed.
“When you’ve had as many assassination attempts as I have you learn to be cautious,” Luna said lowering her head. “I do apologize for damaging your orbs,” Luna pointed to Iron Man’s repulsors
"Meh, they're fine, I can repair them. Also, can you come close real quick? I can close up that wound of yours." Iron Man pointed to where he stabbed her.
Luna scooted closer moving through the bars, Iron Man got up and stumbled a bit before reaching her. He held up an arm and began to spray it down, closing up the wound. "You're welcome, also sorry for punching you in the nose… Repeatedly."
“It’s fine” Luna said with a warming smile on her face as she stepped out of the cage.
"...Can I get out now?" Iron Man asked the mare.
Exhaling a bit Luna dispelled the lightning cage, Iron Man walked up to Luna.
"I'm gonna go to space!" He was suddenly armored up with the HulkBuster armor, he then shot off to the skies.
“I’ll prepare you some tea when you return,” Luna said to herself. Flaring her magic Luna summoned a kettle filled with her and her sister’s favorite brew of tea.
"Eh, good fight." Lucci said looking at the part of the screen before gazing at Maud, "Wouldn't you agree?"
“Definitely” Maud said seeing Entity out of the corner of her eyes
Entity slowly inched his way further from Maud, hoping that she would not notice the blocky man. "Don't mind me…"
“Entity...” Maud said getting the creatures attention
"What do you want from me woma… I mean what do you desire from me? You look stunning today." Entity said a sweat droplet appeared on his face.
“I’m sorry about our fight” Maud said, not looking at Entity. “I understand you and I were affected by the Dark Ki. I’m sorry for letting my emotions getting the better of me,”
"I already apologized but… did you really have to kick me in the balls?" Entity asked the stone cold mare.
“You called me a cunt” Maud said
"And I apologized!" Entity countered.
“You never call a mare that.”
Thanos lunged to Nox cocking back a fist to strike the Xelor only for the attack to be blocked by Shield. Thanos grunted as he tried to push Shield, it was working, Shield was then pushed back by the might of Thanos.
Brute then flew at Thanos, cocking back a fist to punch Thanos, however Thanos was prepared for it, but he wasn't prepared for Grab's… Grab. Grab grabbed Thanos by his ankle and then his arm stretched, he then slammed the Titan down. Thanos jumped up as Grab and Brute took their stances, they ran at Thanos and Thanos ran at them, the duo then went to the side as Light shot her arrows at Thanos. Thanos raised his sword and parried the attacks.
"Parry this you filthy casual!" Light then put three arrows onto her bow and shot it at Thanos, the arrows combined and made a super arrow. Thanos tried to parry it and he exploded, dust filling the air.
Thanos stood up, “Okay, is this how we’re going to play it?” Thanos ran at the duo, Grab lunged at Thanos, Grab went for a punch. Thanos grabbed his arm, he then spun around and threw him into Brute. Thanos then shot a Ki blast at them, it made a big explosion, dust filled the air. Thanos then fired another Ki blast at Shield, using his shield to block the attack it made a huge purplish cloud that surrounded them, blocking their view. Suddenly two chained blades shot from the dusty cloud. Thanos blocked the attacks, they were pulled back and out came Grab.
“I’ve been watching a lot of Kung-Fu Equestria.” Grab chuckled looking at his two weapons. Thanos’ body suddenly relaxed, he then stood up all regal.
“Let’s see how your shows will help you.” Thanos said, clenching his fists, Grab ran at Thanos and threw his chained blades at Thanos. Thanos evaded the attack by making his body slimmer, he heard a crash and looked behind him. The chain blades connected with a broken house, Grab then pulled on them and stuck his feet out, by the time Thanos turned around he was kicked into the house. However Grab didn't exert enough force for Thanos to crash through the house. Thanos stumbled forward, Grab pulled his blades from the house and started slashing at Thanos. Thanos with his gauntlet blocked most of the attacks, gaining some injuries here and there.
"He's back against the wall," Sombra said observing the Titan’s fight, Lucci shook his head.
"No, Thanos has Grab right where he wants them." Lucci peered at the screen, seeing Thanos' small grin. "Right where he wants him…"
Back on the battlefield Thanos suddenly caught Grab's arm, he then threw him into the house, Grab was now cornered. "Oh how the tables have turned…" Thanos mused, covering his fists in Armament Haki.
"Oh no…" Grab said shakily, Thanos landed a solid punch to the rib. Grab grimaced at this, Thanos landed a strike right to the abdomen Grab wheezed at this assault. Thanos continued his assault on the poor android, punch after punch Grab was suffering, to the point that the bandages that covered his mouth were ripped open so that he could cough blood without choking himself. Thanos punched Grab in his forehead sending Grab's head through the wall. Thanos then landed a punch to his thorax, everyone felt a bone crack and Grab let out a weak shriek of pain. As Thanos punched Grab, Entity turned to Eric.
"This, this right here, is why you were so lucky that you didn't fight Thanos." Entity pointed out.
“Maybe, but in a fight nothing is guaranteed to go the way you plan it” Eric said to Entity
"You guys should not piss the actual Thanos off so much that he takes control, that is bad, that is very bad and could get us all killed." Entity informed any and everyone.
"Noted." Metal Cooler said, bringing out a small notebook and a pen to write that down. Mr. Perfect Cell, Frieza, Fujitora, Bullet, Katakuri, Arkham Knight, and pretty much anyone who values their life, did the same.
Thanos landed a final punch on the poor android, this time it was boosted by steam, Thanos punched Grab and sent him through the house. Thanos then tilted his head, but that was a good call for a yellow arrow whizzed by him. Thanos turned around to see Light and Shield angry.
"I see that the cloud had finally dispersed, could you have not walked out of it?" Thanos asked, Light clenched her bow.
"Light, I'm going in," Shield shot off to Thanos like a rocket, Brute was about to join in when Thanos appeared before the Viking and shot a Ki blast to his gut, it sent the Viking far. Brute let out a Goofy scream as the Ki blast detonated and let out an explosion. Shield and Light looked at that then growled, Nox sat there and read a book. Shield attempted to punch Thanos with his gauntlet only for the Titan to catch the attack. Thanos then crushed the gauntlet along with Shield's fist. Shield grimaced, before Thanos tried to gut punch Shield, but like his name suggested he had a shield and it was ready for Shield had blocked the Titan's blow. Though the punch sent Shield flying, Shield fell on his back. Thanos jumped in the air, Thanos then unsheathed his blade for he was about to slam his weapon down on the man. Shield rolled out of the way, Light then fired a conjunction of arrows at Thanos. Luckily Thanos had instincts sharper than Sombra's blades and evaded the attack.
"You'll have to be quicker than that." Thanos commented, Light then raised her bow to the skies and then shot her arrows rapidly. By the time she stopped there were hundreds of arrows raining down at Thanos. Thanos raised his hand.
"Steam Blast." Thanos shot a wave of steam at the arrows and just like it did with Link's they dispersed. Shield looked to Light, she had used up all of her arrows. She then raced off to Nox.
"Looks like it's just you and me," Shield said, raising his shield, Thanos said nothing as he fired a Ki wave at Shield. Shield had blocked the attack with shield, doing a maneuver like Iron Man, Shield had gotten out of the Ki wave. He was about to slam his foot down on Thanos' fist like Iron Man did but moves like that only work once. Thanos caught his foot and slammed the android down on the ground. Thanos let go and Shield jumped to his feet and uppercuts the Titan. Thanos was forced to look up, Thanos then slowly looked down at the Knight. Shield saw there was no damage that was shown on the Titan.
"I have made a mistake." Shield squeaked, Thanos raised his blade, Shield held up his shield. Thanos then starts to bash his blade down on the android's shield. Thanos then quicked up the pace, covering his sword in Armament Haki as he brought down his blade on the shield. And like it did with Captain America's shield, it began to form cracks and break. Bits and pieces were shed from his shield, Thanos mercilessly continued, all that was left of Shield's shield was just a brick sized shield. Thanos cocked back his fist, covering the fist in Armament Haki, his fist began to heat up.
"HEAT CRASH!!!" Shield then felt the full brunt of the Titan's signature move, Shield was then sent flying. The force made trenches as Shield tumbled across the soil of the planet before finally stopping when he hit some rubble. Thanos then turned to Light who had just popped up again.
"Oh Light~!" Thanos mused, everyone could tell that this was the other Thanos. Light then suddenly tensed up. "You let your brother get knocked out, you dirty girl."
"...Dad get me off this planet right now." Light turned to Nox who was still reading his book, Nox flipped a page. "I'M NOT JOKING!!! GET ME OFF THIS PLANET RIGHT FUCKING-" Thanos appeared before Light and shoved an Armament Haki covered fist straight in her abdomen. Thanos then shot a Ki blast there, the Ki blast sent her flying into the sky before it detonated causing an explosion as big as your mother. Thanos then turned to Nox.
"Your children are defeated, it's just you and me now." Thanos commented, Nox didn't even bother turning to Thanos as he read his book.
"Oh I wouldn't be too sure about that…" Nox chuckled, before Thanos could say anything he was punched in his right cheek. This sent him for a tumble as he hit the ground, Thanos got up to see his attacker. It was Brute but his armor was gone as well as his gauntlets, Brute had Viking like tattoos all over his body. Brute was suddenly the size of Thanos and he was ripped, Brute's pupil's were gone too.
"I am Brute, and I am… THE STRONGEST THERE EVER IS!!!!" Brute cried out, his voice was heard from miles as Nox and Thanos covered their ears.
"Okay, Hulk." Thanos scoffed, Thanos ran at Brute preparing a punch. Brute mirrored the exact same thing, their fists then clashed. Any dust around them was blown away as these two goliaths duked it out to see who can out punch each other. Thanos and Brute covered their fists in Armament Haki as they began slugging each other, punch after punch they were pretty even. Suddenly Brute caught his fist, Thanos went for a punch with his other but it was caught as well. Thanos looked at his hands then he headbutts the Viking, it did nothing, nothing at all. Thanos whimpered as Brute looked down at Thanos, Brute threw Thanos into the air and landed a punch on the poor bastard. Thanos' pupils flickered, his pupils appeared and reappeared faster than his Dad had left him. The punch sent the Titan flying into several pieces of rubble, Brute then looked at the skies and stuck his hand out to them.
"Jeg innkaller guddommens drager!" Brute cried out in Norwegian, suddenly a portal was conjured, six different Dragons flew out of the portal. They all flew next to Brute, there was a brown Dragon with yellow eyes, the drake was as huge and bulky as Brute. There was a red one that was a Western Dragon. There was a white one with light blue mixed up with it, it's wings were as white as snow. There was a grey one with four wings and a slim body. Then there was a blue one with aquatic like features, one could infer that it was a Drake that worked well underwater. The final one was a yellow one with blue lightning tattoos over its body.
"Oh come on!" Thanos cried out looking at them, Brute looked to his right, then his left. Three Dragons were on each side of him, he then nodded and the Dragons let out a screech. They then fly at the Titan.
"OH SHI-"
Somewhere on the battlefield, far from Grievous and far from Thanos. The Dark Saiyan stood there with a mischievous smirk, chuckling to himself as his arms were crossed. “I have a faint feeling you're not gonna make it out alive, androids are usually destroyed.” Black said as he began to pop his knuckles. He began to do some stretches, Eric 2.0 stood there unfazed by this, suddenly Black took off the top part of his gi, confusing the better version of Eric.
"Uh, ah'd rather ya not kill me." Eric 2.0 told Black getting his Obsidian Blade out. "Ah have a family, that's a lie, ah have nothin'. But don't kill me anyways, it's kinda against da rules." Eric 2.0 clenched his blade.
“I’ll try not to, but I’m not gonna make the same mistakes I did before.” Black grunted as he struggled to take off his turtle neck shirt. The Saiyan managed to pull off the shirt, it falling onto the ground and making a considerable crater in the ground. This shocked the Android as the Saiyan continued by taking off his wrist bands and boots, each having the same effect.
“Foo, that’s much better!” Black exclaimed as he pulled his top Gi back on. Doing a few hops in the air before doing a quick warm up with punches and kicks. Only this time, the Saiyan was quicker, his punches and kicks were sharper as he moved around the Android.
“There goes 500 tons!” Black chirped, stopping his warm up and taking a fighting stance. “Let’s say we get down to business.”
"Uh, can we talk about dis?" Eric 2.0 asked, seeing the Saiyan's look in his eyes Eric 2.0 sighed. "That's a no ain't it? Welp." Eric 2.0 lunged at Black and brought his blade down upon the Saiyan.
Black smirked as he produced a ki blade in his right hand, before clashing with the obsidian sword. The Saiyan didn’t hesitate to then grab the blade and pull it out of the androids hand before crushing it with his hand. Black then spun and kicked Eric 2.0 away, swinging his blade in the android’s direction as explosive needles flew from the ki blade itself. Luckily Eric 2.0 was fast as fuck, Eric 2.0 sprinted, jumping over some debrie and rubble to avoide the attacks, the androud then rushed at Black, taking out his scythe, Eric 2.0 then slammed the blade down upon the Saiyan.
Black bursted into Super Saiyan 2 as he used his forearm to block the attack, the blade having no effect against his skin. “You sure are fast for a cheap duplicate of a good fighter, I wonder if you would use cheap tactics like the real one.” Black snarked as he kicked the androids leg, tripping Eric 2.0.
“Oh hell no, ah would never, ah was programmed to be a warrior, not a rogue like Eric is. ah’m him, but better.” Eric 2.0 commented jumping to his feet and landing a solid uppercut on the Saiyan. “Shoryuken!” Eric 2.0 then kicks the Saiyan away, he cups his robotic hands together. “SHADOW HADOKEN!!!” Eric 2.0 shot a Big Bang attack sized attack at the Saiyan, full of shadow.
Black placed his hand in the ground, dragging across it as he recovered, landing on his feet. He looked up to see the Shadow Hadoken soaring towards him. Black smirked as he faced a hand in the direction of the attack. “BIG BANG ATTACK!” The Saiyan shouted, a small condensed ball of ki flew from the Saiyan’s hands, impacting against the Shadow attack. The two energy attacks exploded, creating a massive crater and mushroom cloud. “But that doesn't make you the real Eric, like how I’m not the real Goku, I’m just a carbon copy of him!”
“Ye’re right, ah’m not Eric, ah’m my own being. And ah’ll see to it that ah make mah own choices, ah live mah own life, and not others. Ah’m Eric 2.0 and ah’m not Eric!” Eric 2.0 shouted out, inhaling deeply and blowing the dust away so Black could see him. Eric 2.0 then lunged at Black, Eric 2.0 spun his scythe before unleashed a horizontal swipe at the Saiyan.
Black grunted as he narrowly dodged the scythe before creating his signature ki scythe. As Eric 2.0 went for another swing, Black clashed with his Netherite scythe. “Then how about we enjoy ourselves, battle for a while while we have the chance. Cause I’ve got the feeling this final battle won’t be the end.” Black commented.
“A’right.” Eric 2.0 nodded, Eric 2.0 then spun his scythe before suddenly stopping and bringing out a pistol.
“OH SHIT HE’S PACKING HEAT!!!!!” Mr. Perfect Cell shouted out, Eric 2.0 shook his head before shooting multiple Shadow Bullets at Black.
The Saiyan squinted as time seemed to slow down for him, seeing the bullets in slow motion as he began to dodge them. He jumped in the air and spun around as the bullets flew by him, narrowly dodging them. To Eric 2.0, it looked like Black had dodged the bullets just like Spider Man would. Eric 2.0 threw his gun up and lunged at Black, he then launched a diagonal slash down upon Black.
Black threw his hand forward, yelling as a beam of energy shot forward, engulfing Eric 2.0. From the smoke revealed the Android crossing his arms, blocking the attack. The Saiyan smirked, “If you wanna be your own person, why don’t you make yourself your own name? Why use Eric’s name and add a number after it?” Black questioned, pointed his iconic ki scythe at the Android.
"Uh, ah don't know… What 'bout Erebus? That means God of Shadows, ah don't wanna toot mah own horn but uh… ah'm good at controlling shadow." Erebus rested his scythe on his shoulder. "A prime example is dis." Erebus touched the ground and suddenly the surrounding area was shadow. Black stood on shadow, he tried to take a step forward but found himself stuck. Suddenly a spike lunged from the shadow and pierced Black in his chest. Then Shadow Crows emerge from the shadow, they then circle around Black like sharks. Circling faster until Black was in the middle of a Shadow Storm.
"Shade-Shade, Shadow Storm." Erebus named his attack as Black was hit by all sides by nothing and by something at the same time. "Ah know dis looks dishonorable but if ya can git out of dis, ah will go full power on ya. No holdin' back."
The Saiyan hunched forward, his face hidden as he continued to be struck by the dark spikes. “You claim you want to be your own being, cut loose from the strings of your creator.” The Saiyan looked up, his eyes turning blood red, “Your nothing but the same as Eric… Dishonorable…” Black growled as his hair turned blood red, an explosive aura showered the area as the Android was pushed back.
“Alrighty then... Ah’ll show ya what for…” Erebus said with a grin, his teeth and eyes become crimson. His “skin” turned black and horns appeared from his forehead, going to the length of four feet tall. His hair began to grow and just like Raditz it hung on his back, wings of shadow began to sprout from his back like flowers. Mimicking that of a crow’s, both his teeth and his nails became as sharp as blades. Erebus was then armored in black and red, Erebus glanced at his scythe before slamming it down. The scythe began to grow and his height was now mirroring that of Katakuri’s, exactly fifteen feet tall. “Let’s fight, mah friend, for ah’m Shadow Emperor Erebus!”
Black chuckled as he began to move his neck side to side, a satisfying popping noise accompanied it. “You know, for every opponent I’ve faced, they’ve always got the ability to change size and looks. The only one to make me shit myself was Edward.” Black commented as he did a few stretches before taking a stance.
“Well, ah’m not Displaced, ah’m a carbon copy of Eric er…” Erebus chuckled, his scythe being outlined in shadow.
“And I’m a copy of Son Goku, what's your point?” Black chuckled as he readies a ki blade in his right hand, the size of a longsword. Erebus lunged at Black, not attacking with his scythe but rather his fist. He slammed his fist into Black, the force sent the Saiyan flying. Erebus then swung his scythe at Black and shadow balls were fired at Black.
The Saiyan recovered in the air and saw the balls incoming. He smirked as he deflected one of them and sliced the rest with his blade. He shot forward with tremendous speed, taking Erebus by surprise as he kicked the Android in the gut. The Saiyan then spin kicked him away. “Now you’ll taste my blade!” Black exclaimed as he did multiple motions with his ki blade, hundreds of thin needles shot from it and stuck into the Android.
They did a few more motions with his blade before striking a pose, “Divine Lasso!!” Black shouted. A split second later, the needles exploded, sending out a powerful shockwave. Nightmare shivered at the sight of the attack, remembering her fight with the Saiyan a year ago.
“Ya pack quite a punch.” Erebus commented, he then pointed to his trucker hat, “But with dis hat, ah’m unbeatable.” Erebus then lunged at Black, he then spins his scythe.
Black smirks as he charges forward, clashing with the androids scythe with his ki blade. “Well I wouldn’t say unbeatable, but it does look damn good on you.” Black complements as the two continue to clash with each other, looking for openings. Suddenly the air morphed into the Future In Ruins, they both then stopped their battle and looked at their surroundings.
“Um…” Black was interrupted when he felt something vibrating on his right index finger. Looking at it, his eyes widened, “This can’t be right… how does Ryker have this power!?” Black questioned himself.
“Da hell?” Erebus tilted his head, suddenly Thanos blew past them, crashing into buildings as six dragons fell on him. “...Wanna continue to fight?”
“We shouldn’t be here… none of us should.” Black said, looking towards the Android. “We can’t see what happens here, it could change everything.”
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“Do ya hear dat?” Erebus asked the Saiyan, looking around to locate the music.
Blacks eyes widened as he began to look around, feeling a tremendous power in the distance… like his… “We need to leave now!!”
“BEGONE!!!” A fused voice cried out as Vegito came crashing towards them, Merged Zamasu soon followed after them before looking at the pair. “What… Are you two?” Merged Zamasu asked the two.
“Vegito?! We’re in this Future?!” Black exclaimed, but upon looking at the disgust fusion of Zamasu, he began to growl.
“Black how… Wait, you’re not Black…” Vegito said, getting up from the rubble, looking at the scar on the Saiyans cheek, “And who the hell are you?” Vegito turned to Erebus.
“Mah name is Erebus, look at mah trucker hat!” Erebus pointed to his hat.
“I am Black, but let’s just say I’m nothing like that cunt dirtbag known as Zamasu…” Black hissed.
“Quite the potty mouth, well, doesn’t matter if you want to help me take care of this freak, be my guest.” Vegito said, getting in a fighting stance, Merged Zamasu scoffed.
Black looked to the superior fusion with a smile. “Oh, it’ll be my pleasure.” Black said as he got in a stance, bursting into Super Saiyan Rosé.
“Let’s go!” Vegito smirked before rushing at Merged Zamasu, Merged Zamasu clenched his giant fist and flew at Vegito. Vegito and Merged Zamasu’s fists clash before Erebus cuts Merged Zamasu’s back, crying out in pain, Merged Zamasu turns to Erebus.
Black took this chance to fly under the disgusted fusion and gut punch Merged Zamasu. At this the fusion gasped, feeling the air taken from him. He then kicked the fusion in the chin, sending Merged Zamasu flying into a destroyed building. He pointed a hand at the structure, “Big Bang Attack!” Black exclaimed, sending the ball of ki into the building. A huge explosion followed as a massive dust cloud grew.
“Damn, you really know your moves.” Vegito complemented before he was gut punched by Merged Zamasu, the deity grabbed Vegito by his leg and threw Vegito right at Erebus. Unfortunately for both Vegito and Merged Zamasu, Erebus appeared above Merged Zamasu and unleashed a large cut down on the deity’s purple arm. Vegito took this opportunity and used his signature attack.
“FINAL KAMEHAMEHA!!!!” Vegito launched his Ki wave at the Fusion, Erebus teleported beside Black to avoid the attack. Merged Zamasu wasn’t so lucky as he took the full brunt of the attack, sending him flying. “Hmph.”
Black teleported behind Merged Zamasu, kicking the fusion into the ground, “I’ve got a better one!” Black exclaimed as he shot towards Merged Zamasu, sending a barrage of punches and kicks before launching the fusion into the air. He threw his hands to the side, “FINAL BIG BANG…” Black then began to charge the attack next to him, the blast growing larger by the second. “KAMEHAMEHA!!!” Black roared, sending the ki wave towards the fusion, the blast growing to the size of multiple buildings.
“...Holy crap…” Vegito was wide-eyed at the attack, “Is he even alive after that attack? I doubt anyone could survive that.” Vegito chuckled.
Black teleported to the fusion’s side with a growl. “I don’t know… he does have Zamasu as a part of him. Yet again… Gowasu did say that if you hit him with a strong enough blast…” Black mumbled.
Suddenly Vegito diffused and out came Goku and Vegeta, Erebus leaned his weapon down on his side, Goku then sensed multiple strong power levels as did Vegeta. “Whoa! What’s that energy?” Goku jumped on top of a building, he saw Thanos fighting Brute and the dragons, the giant Grievous fighting the demon that is Rubilax.
Black sensed the energy and smiled, “Oh that would be the others, we cannot intervene with the fight. It’s against the rules of the tournament.” Black explained, looking up to the cheerful Saiyan.
“What tournament?” Vegeta turned to Black, with a raised eyebrow.
“The Displaced Tournament. A gathering of fighters not from your 12 universes, but thousands of different universes with loads of warriors and fighters,” Black explained.
“Wow! So there’s more, but I have a quick question, how strong is that guy over there? He seems crazy strong!” Goku points to Thanos who was currently dodging and punching the dragons.
“That purple Mr. Clean is Thanos, one of the many Displaced I’ve fought. We fought to a draw when he kinda broke one of the rules when I accessed Ultra Instinct.” Black informed the cheerful Saiyan, watching Thanos fend off the dragons.
“Huh, what’s Ultra Instinct?” Goku tilted his head.
“Might as well explain, already ruined this timeline…” Black sighed as he was about to explain.
“Don’t.”Erebus warned, “Just say it’s food.” Erebus warned mentally.
“But we’ve already changed this timeline by interfering.”
“They were going to win anyways.” Erebus reminded Black.
Black sighed as he looked at the two Saiyans with a serious look. “I can’t say much but I’ll say this… movement.” Black said, confusing the two rivals
“Hmph, well whatever this Ultra Instinct thing is we’ll achieve, I just know it.” Vegeta scoffed before looking on as Thanos was getting ganged up on, “This Thanos guy is getting outnumbered, he can transform, can he?” Vegeta glanced at Black.
“He can, but he’s afraid he’ll kill them in the process.” Black commented, watching his friend trying to fend off the dragons, but failing to. “I wish I can help him, but I’d be breaking the rules.”
“Tch, all we can do is cheer him on, but they seem so strong! I want to fight them!” Goku whined, looking as Thanos landed a kick to the White Drake.
Black looked on, but then getting an idea, he quickly looked to the Android with a serious expression. “Can those two join the fight, Ryker said I cannot intervene with the others fight, but he didn’t say anything about these two.” Black asked Erebus.
“Well, last time I checked he didn’t specify who can intervene.” Erebus pointed out, “Damn, it looks like we’ll just have to watch…”
“And if I have them fight with Thanos, they could help…” Black told himself. He waited a few moments before looking at the two Saiyans. “Ryker, the one who put the Displaced Tournament together said us two cannot intervene, but nothing about you two.
“Alright!” Goku cheered, “Let’s go Vegeta!” Goku shot off to go join the fray.
“Don’t tell me what to do!” Vegeta snapped, following after Goku.
“Wait real quick… “ Black ordered as he walked to the two Saiyans. He pointed at them, the two then covered in a green glow. Soon all of their injuries were gone with their power fully replenished.
“Thanks!” Goku nodded with a grin… Right before he was kicked by none other than Noximilien. Goku stumbled towards the area where Nox had kicked him, Goku then turned to Nox. “Who are you?”
“I am Noximilien, and I will not let you intervene.” Nox said, Vegeta scoffed, going straight into Super Saiyan God.
“Get out of our way you mummified rust bucket!” Vegeta ordered, Nox frowned.
“Make me.” Goku went into Super Saiyan God as well as the pair flew at Nox who just clenched his fists.
From the distance, Black had a sad frown upon his face as he watched the two rivals fight against Nox, “Wished I could fight alongside them…”
Thanos jumped out of the way of a fire breath, Thanos began running on the buildings, jumping from building to building. As he was about to jump from another one, the Rock Dragon appeared and slapped the Titan with his tail. This sent Thanos into the ground, Thanos jumped up and the Water Dragon was above him. The Water Dragon fired a wave of high-pressure water at the Titan. Using Armament Haki to make the pain not as bad, Thanos stumbled backward, suddenly the water around him turned into ice as the Ice Dragon made its way into view. “Oh, for fuck’s sake!“ Thanos cried out as the ground turned into ice, Thanos was now unable to move. The Fire Dragon made its way into view puffing out smoke from its nostrils, the Fire Dragon took a deep breath.
“Seimei Kikan: Kami-e Bushin!” Thanos cried out, his body became seven feet tall as opposed to his normal eight feet tall, his body became slim but still muscular. Thanos then shot off to a building crashing inside, he rolled and stood to his feet. He was in a wrecked office, and suddenly the Air Dragon appeared with its six wings. The Air Dragon flapped his wings, and it made a miniature tornado, unfortunately for Thanos it hit him, Thanos spun and spun around, Thanos was suddenly launched out of the building. The Lightning Dragon shot lightning at Thanos as he was flung out, but Thanos was prepared for this, using Kamisori, he appeared to another rooftop. Thanos groaned and went to his feet, the Fire Dragon bursts from below. The drake then dove down and flew at Thanos, Thanos frowned and appeared before the Fire Dragon using Soru, Thanos then spun around like a ballerina and landed a solid kick to its jaw. The drake was sent to the skies, the Fire Dragon caught itself before looking down at Thanos. The Fire Dragon let out a roar before going down again.
“Come on you filthy animal!” Thanos said as he awaited the dragon to come, right as the dragon got close Thanos landed an uppercut to the dragon. Using this to his advantage Thanos grabbed the Fire Dragon’s tale, he then spun around and threw it into the Rock Dragon that thought he was being sneaky. Thanos ran after them as they were thrown off the building, Thanos covered his two legs in fire before slamming them both down on the two dragons. Sending them down to the earth, as Thanos went down for gravity took its effect, the Lightning Dragon shot his lightning at Thanos. Thanos narrowly evaded the attack, though his side was burnt due to the lightning, Thanos winced. The Lightning Dragon continued to fire lightning at Thanos as Thanos ran on the side of the building to evade the bolts of lightning. Thanos went to another building and the Lightning Dragon followed after Thanos. As Thanos went from building to building, the Ice Dragon lunged from a building, unleashing a sneak attack on the Titan. Thanos was hit by the Ice Dragons talon before he was blasted by ice, Thanos was now falling because he was covered in ice now, the Lightning Dragon fired its lightning at Thanos, and the ice exploded.
“GRAGH!!!” Thanos cried out as he hit the floor, Thanos grimaced as he looked at his injuries, Thanos got up slowly, his Demon Slayer armor still holding out. Thanos looked at the two elemental dragons as they took a step forward, Thanos then bolted to the right, trying to flee from them. Jumping onto building to building, trying to find somewhere to recuperate, but the Air Dragon appeared from the skies and shot air slashes at Thanos. Thanos cried out in pain as he hit the floor, Thanos struggled to get up this time, Brute and the Water Dragon were there. Thanos frowned, he then got in a fighting stance.
“What are you doing, you purple bastard?!” Thanos looked around to locate the voice, he found it to be the voice of Vegeta. Not even questioning how he’s here he tilted his head. “Just transform already! You’re strong, are you?” Thanos nodded dumbly, “Then fight with all you got!”
“Oh… Alright.” Thanos said right before he was punched by Brute, the force sent Thanos flying through the wrecked buildings. Brute looked at the last building Thanos crashed at, suddenly Thanos jumped from the building. Back to his normal form but his skin was light purple as steam went off his body, Thanos looked down at Brute for he was flying due to the steam.
“Netsu-Netsu… STEAM MAN!!!” Thanos said dramatically, Vegeta smirked as he was punched by Nox. But back to Thanos, Thanos shot off to Brute, he used steam to propel himself towards Brute. Thanos then spun around as steam circles around Thanos. Thanos appeared before Brute, a boatload of steam following him. “STEAM SHOCKWAVE!!!” Thanos fired an explosion of steam into Brute sending him flying, the force of the attack blew the buildings around Brute to smithereens. Thanos grinned as the Elemental Dragons appeared before him.
“COME ON!!!” Thanos demanded, the dragons let out a screech before they flew at Thanos as Thanos ran at them. Thanos punched the first dragon in the snout, which was the Rock Dragon, the dragon cried out in pain. Thanos spun around and let out a steam boosted kick down on the drake, the Rock Dragon hit the ground. “Steam Kick!” The Lightning Dragon fired off lightning at Thanos, Thanos just tilted his head, and he evaded the lightning.
“Too slow.” Thanos taunted which got a reaction out of the drake, the drake then shot more and more lightning at Thanos, Thanos evaded them. Thanos looked up and saw the Fire, Air, and Water Dragon there. Thanos frowned, using Soru, Thanos appeared before the Lightning Dragon. Sending an Armament Haki covered fist to the drake’s abdomen, the Lightning Dragon unleashed a cry of pain. Thanos then fired a Big Bang attack on the dragon, sending the Lightning Dragon into a wrecked skyscraper. Thanos then shot off to the skies, cocking back a fist, the Ice Dragon then appeared from the clouds, the drake shot an icy breath at Thanos. Thanos frowned, using his Magma Dragon Slayer Magic, Thanos inhaled.
“Magma Dragon… ROAR!!!” Thanos magma at the Ice Dragon, ice, and magma clash, unfortunately for the ice dragon. Thanos had the elemental advantage, the magma singed the Ice Drake. The drake let out a screech of pain before falling to the ground in pain. Thanos looked up as the Fire Dragon fled to the clouds, Thanos scoffed. The Water Dragon and the Air Dragon dive down to face the Titan, Thanos clenched both of his fists. “Magma Dragon’s IRON FIST!!!” Thanos’ fists were covered in magma, Thanos then punched the Water Dragon. The drake let out a whimper of pain, the Air Dragon then blew the magma off Thanos. Thanos turns to Air Dragon, suddenly he was blasted in the back by water. Thanos turns around.
“Hot Wind Fist!” Thanos shot a fist of fire at the Water Dragon, the drake shot water at the attack. When the two attacks met each other, it made an explosion of steam, the Water Dragon flew into the steam. The drake looked around to try and locate Thanos, then was suddenly punched on the head by Thanos, Thanos’ fist was covered in Ryou Haki.
“Super Sonic Heat Crash!” Thanos cried out, the steam was blown away as the Water Dragon hit the earth, Thanos then flew at the Air Dragon. The Air Dragon shot air slash after air slash, Thanos was avoiding them all. Then Thanos clutched the Air Dragon’s horns before doing a backflip and throwing the drake into a skyscraper. Thanos then let gravity take its effect as Thanos went down, but unknown to Thanos, the Fire Dragon flew down from the clouds, behind the Titan. The drake opened his mouth as he looked at Thanos’ arm, aiming to bite it off.
“Oh, no…” Shiva mumbled.
“THANOS!!!” Luffy cried out, looking at the Titan, though Thanos couldn’t hear them, for the audience were in an aircraft. Lucci and Nappa were wide-eyed as they saw the Fire Dragon close in on Thanos.
“LOOK OUT!!!!” Goku cried out, Thanos turned around and instead of his arm, it was him. The Fire Dragon had engulfed Thanos but didn’t swallow the Titan. The Fire Drake then spat him out, Thanos was flung out, he was on fire and crashed through multiple buildings before hitting the ground. A massive crater formed under him, Thanos’ armor was melted. Thanos closed his eyes and winced at the pain.
"Damn… It..."
Grievous had landed a solid uppercut on the Shushu. Rubilax grew in the aftermath of the attack. Grievous looked down at Kodo who was pint sized to him. "Have you ever heard metal punch solid rock?" Grievous asked the pup.
Kodo smirked. “More than once,” he replied.
"WELL YOU'RE GONNA HEAR IT AGAIN!!!" Grievous cried out, unleashing his other arms, Grievous then started to punch the Shushu at a rapid pace. The punches were quick for someone his size, as Grievous punched Rubilax, he began to laugh.
"More, MORE!!!" Rubilax demanded, Grievous frowned and continued to punch the Shushu.
Kodo grimaced. “General, we’re just making him stronger!”
"WHAAAT?!?!?" Grievous couldn't hear the young pup as he continued to punch Rubilax.
Kodo growled, before amping his voice up with a howl. “YOU’RE JUST MAKING HIM STRONGER! HE’S ABSORBING THE ENERGY FROM THE ATTACKS!”
"HOW?!?!?!" Grievous shouted back, continuing to punch the Shushu unknowingly.
“I DON’T KNOW!” Kodo bellowed. “I ABSORBED ENOUGH ENERGY TO GIVE HIM A HEART ATTACK, AND HE JUST REPLENISHED IT LIKE NOTHING!”
"THAT'S BULLSHIT!!!" Grievous began to shrink as Rubilax grew, Grievous kept on punching Rubilax.
“ABSOLUTELY!” Kodo agreed.
"Am I getting smaller or is he getting bigger?" Grievous asked before turning back to normal sized.
“Both,” Kodo deadpanned, as Rubilax towered over both of them.
Imagine the biggest thing you've ever seen, now multiply that by six, that's how big Rubilax is. "Grahahaha! You fools!" Rubilax said looking at the two.
"Kodo, I have a secret technique that will help us." Grievous turned to Kodo, his cape blowing in the wind like a badass.
“Whatever it is,” Kodo said, his eyes not leaving Rubilax. “Do it fast!”
"Oh I'll be doing it fast! FUCKING RUN KODO!!!" Grievous started to run away from Rubilax as the area turned into the Future In Ruins.
Kodo followed suit, his canine heritage allowing him to easily keep pace with the General. They ran like their lives depended on it, jumping building to building, leaping over wrecked cars, then Grievous didn't hear any colossal footsteps, Grievous then stopped and hit behind a building pulling Kodo close. "Boy, I think he's either not following us, a lazy motherfucker, or we lost him. I want to say the last one but I don't think it's likely."
Kodo didn’t look behind him. “The guy’s the size of…” He shook his head. “I’ve never even seen anything that big before. He doesn’t need to follow us.”
"Kaido looks like a damn scarf compared to Rubilax, no, he looks like a belt. Alright now the actual plan that I had for a long time. This plan is risky, very, very, risky… I'm sending him to space." Grievous told Kodo, unflinchingly.
Kodo nodded. “Alright. What do you need me to do,” he replied.
"I have a blade called the Air Sword. It helps me walk on clouds and it makes wings of air. With the wings of air, Geppo, Soru, Kaioken, and Ki I should reach him. But I'll need to be faster. That's where you come in: you use your Smoke Smoke Fruit to propel me faster. I'll need you to go full power, we'll most likely break the sound barrier, it's not the first time and it' not the last." Grievous planned, "This plan has no way of failing, but I also have a plan to send him into the sky to make it easier."
Kodo merely nodded. “Well, as one of Skippy’s books said,” he muttered, as his fur shimmered and faded away into smoke. “‘Ask, and ye shall receive.’”
Twining around General Grievous, Kodo’s smoke form condensed, ready to propel him at maximum speed towards wherever he needed to go.
Suddenly a large shadow loomed over them. With Kodo concealed in his smoke, General Grievous looked up to see Rubilax grinning down at them. "How in the actual fuck did we not hear him coming?" Grievous asked.
"Grievous the Dragon Slayer, Grievous the Murderer, your judgment day has come… DIE!!!" Rubilax shot a fist at Grievous, Grievous turned to Kodo.
"Have you ever played Asura's Wrath?" Grievous asked as the building they were hiding behind crumbles.
Kodo merely blinked at him from his smoke. “I’m the son of a diamond dog,” he reminded him. “I wasn’t born a human or whatever you guys were before you became… this.” He indicated… everything.
"Tch, well I'm going to pull an Asura, Kodo move aside!" Grievous looked up as the fist came closer.
Kodo’s smoke condensed against Grievous’ cape, and he prepared for flight as Grievous lifted his right leg up and slammed it down onto the ground, he repeated the process with his other leg. Grievous spread apart his arms like he was going to catch the fist which was his exact intention.
"COME ON!!!!" Grievous dared, ask and you shall receive, the fist was slammed onto Grievous but fortunately he caught it. Grievous was pushed to the ground, his metal body groaned, as if warning that this is above his pay grade. Grievous grunted as he tried to push back the fist, Kodo helpfully loaning energy with his pack link. Grievous then coated his fists in Armament Haki, Grievous then started punching at the fist. Repeating a phrase.
"ATATATATATA!!!" Grievous repeated, punch after punch, suddenly cracks began to form on his arms. Grievous grimaced at the pain but with Kodo’s energy pushing through him like an Uber charge, the General pushed on anyway. Grievous then covered his fists in Ki. Suddenly Grievous' yellow eyes began to glow.
"Eric, Celestia, and Kaido, these are the people that've lost too. All of these people I lost to… A year ago… I'll show them what a year of training in that damn void can do to someone like me! Kodo when I start to break the atmosphere, let go." Grievous warned as he continued to punch the fist.
Kodo nodded. “I made a mess of things when I took charge,” Kodo mused. “I’m not trusting myself with giving orders. All I’ll trust myself for now is following them.”
"You'll grow up to be a good leader one day. Who knows? Maybe I'll give you a book about leadership." Grievous chuckled, Grievous then kicked it up into Kaioken times ten, his metal body groaning more at this. His body wasn't made for such pressure but through sheer willpower and some aid from Kodo's energy. Grievous pushed on, unleashing a mighty roar that would put a Dragon to shame, Grievous unleashed a final punch. And that punch sent the giant up to the clouds. Grievous unsheathed his Air and Water Sword, the Air Sword made Grievous sprout invisible wings. Grievous raised his Water Sword high and it began to rain, as it rained the water droplets went to the Water Sword. It made a Water Drill.
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"KODO DO IT!!!!!" Grievous ordered, still in Kaioken, Grievous shot off to the skies as his wings flapped, using Geppo and Soru to boost his speed. Obeying, Kodo leaped off the General, sending one final vortex of smoke to help him as he tumbled out of harm’s way.
Rubilax then unleashed over a thousand of his rock clones down upon Grievous the clouds then went to the General as Grievous' Water Drill grew to be massive. "This dril… Is the drill… THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!!!!" Grievous cried out, Grievous suddenly became slim, he then broke the sound barrier. A trail of white and red following Grievous as he went through the clones like a hot knife through butter. Clone after clone, they were dropping like flies. Grievous then struck Rubilax, his weapons drilling into Rubilax, the damage only made Rubilax bigger. Grievous shot above the clouds, Grievous then began to break the atmosphere, Grievous and Rubilax were both in the thermosphere. However, Grievous kept going before cutting a diagonal line across Rubilax's chest.
"I AM THE MULTIVERSE'S STRONGEST SWORDSMAN!!!!" Grievous cried out, suddenly his Water Drill became ice. "Oh shit…" Grievous muttered, Grievous then unleashed a Ki blast, sending him back to earth. As he did it Grievous just put his Water Sword back to its respective sheath.
Below him, a glowing web spread out like a net; a pack link net made by Kodo to catch the General. The Son of the Howlite Howler watched, his brow furrowed, as the giant Rubilax tumbled off into the void of space, before shifting his concentration to Grievous, as the General hit the net, and landed safely on the ground.
"I… Am the multiverse strongest… Swordsman." Grievous said tiredly, before Kodo’s pack link spiraled around him, making him glow as his injuries were healed and his stamina replenished. Grievous rose, his armor sparkling like it had never been damaged. "See, this is why we're the best team!" Grievous told Kodo.
“Sure,” Kodo said distractedly, his eyes still focused on the sky just in case Rubilax came back for Round Three.
"Well, our battle is over, let's go watch…" Grievous looked up, he then saw a red dragon go behind Thanos. "AAAH THANOS WATCH OUT!!!!"
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"AAAH!!! THANOS WATCH OUT!!!" Grievous shouted out, the Titan was then swooped up by the dragon, now in the drake's jaws.
Kodo spun, wincing as he saw Thanos struggling against the drake. “Oh, that’s not gonna be good,” he mumbled.
"Do what you want, I'm going after Thanos." The Dragon then spit Thanos out and like a meteorite, Thanos slammed to the ground. Grievous then flew off, Kaioken boosting his speed.
“Aren’t we not supposed to interfere?” Kodo asked, turning into smoke to keep up.
"Yeah, but I just want to see if he's alright." Grievous commented, the pair then spotted Thanos, his armor melted and damaged. Grievous then dropped down walking up to Thanos.
"Wa do ya wa…?" Thanos asked sluggishly, Grievous blinked.
"We wanted to see if you were okay," Grievous told the Titan, Thanos then gets up.
"Do you fucking see the state that I'm in? I'm not okay." Thanos said like he was stating the obvious, which he was.
"Well now we know, anything you want to say to Thanos, boy?" Grievous turned to Kodo.
Kodo glanced up at the dragon and then at the Titan. “Offer it diamonds,” he suggested, before vanishing into smoke and retreating underground.
"...The fuck does that mea-" Thanos asked before the Dragon swooped down and shot fire into Thanos' face. Thanos took the full brunt of that, unflinchingly. The Fire Dragon then stops and looks at Thanos in surprise.
"Boop." Thanos booped the Fire Dragon's nose, before scratching under its chin. Like a dog would the drake began to tap on the ground, the dragon's tail began to wag. "Looks like I found your good spot…" Thanos chuckled before the dragon rolled over, Thanos began to scratch its belly. Brute walked over next to Grievous and they both just looked at Thanos in shock. The Fire Dragon then rests its eyes, going to sleep. Thanos stood up and looked at Brute and Grievous.
"I'm a Dragon person." Thanos said blankly, Thanos was then punched in the nose and was sent flying through buildings by Brute.
Kodo watched him fly from his spot under the rocks before glancing at Brute. “Apparently, that guy’s not a Thanos person,” he noted wryly.
"You could say that again." Grievous chuckled, now next to Kodo undetected.
“I could, but I don’t want to,” Kodo replied. He watched as Brute took off after Thanos. “So… now we just wait and watch?”
"Yeah, we can't exactly go back up there, since you know, it's fucking invisible, and to top it off we can't sense their Ki." Grievous said flatly, "But a quick question for you, boy, do you have a girlfriend or a mate?"
Kodo shrugged. “Not yet,” he replied. “But one day, I’ll get one.”
"Is there someone who catches your eye?" Grievous asked the Diamond Dog.
Kodo’s ears flattened, and he looked away sheepishly. “Yeah, but… I don’t know if she’d ever feel the same for me,” he admitted. His eyes drifted to Luna, who, while far away, could not hide from the diamond dog’s gaze.
"Damn, you have good taste! ...Wanna see something cool?" Grievous asked Kodo, if he could grin, he would.
“Sure,” Kodo replied. Grievous' arms were then in… His body, he was now an armless man.
"I fought sixty nine women with this tactic." Grievous chuckled, "Works every time."
“That is cool,” Kodo noted with a grin.
"I have literally nothing else to talk about… Er… What's… No that's a Thanos question. Would you like to know why I slay dragons?" Grievous asked Kodo.
“Is it for something other than their treasure?” Kodo asked. “There’s a diamond dog pack that was all about slaying dragons for their hordes.” He chuckled. “Mom got into such a huge fight with them about it; she kept claiming dragons were more valuable as allies, but… apparently the pack had their reasons.”
"It's not for treasure I assure you that much… It's for vengeance." Grievous said darkly, peering down at Kodo. "You see… One day, I had a special someone, a mate if you will. She lived in a village called Pony Town, where everyone was happy and nice to each other. One faithful day while I was walking down the road to see my lover, I found that the whole town was slaughtered by dragons. They had all killed the inhabitants, so guess what I did?" Grievous tilted his head, looked at Kodo.
“You killed all of them in return,” Kodo said with a nod. “Umbra would give me nightmares of the same thing happening: visions where Celestia slaughtered my mother and sister and all of my pack, so I slaughtered her and everyone she loved.”
"A soul, for a soul, but I wanted to know why this happened. I went to the Dragon Lands to talk to the Dragon Lord at the time… Her name? Scorch, mother of Torch, I had a talk with her. Which ended up with me being captured by the dragons, apparently they had sent them to destroy the town, but they wanted no witnesses. So guess what I had to endure for… Six months." Grievous asked Kodo, walking around him
“Torture,” Kodo replied. “Endless suffering for the crime of existing.”
"Indeed, I was melted and rebuilt; a slave for Scorch. Doing what she wanted, fighting for her, and even taking care of young Torch, that part I enjoyed. We were great friends but anyways… Thanos found out, mind you Thanos didn't have his Devil Fruit at the time. Thanos got so mad, he punched her head clean off! Know that this dragon was as big as… A Great Ape. But you don't know what that is." Grievous shrugged, "She was not as big as Rubilax though…"
“I don’t think anything will ever be as big as Rubilax,” Kodo agreed. “But I have seen dragon lord Torch. I can assume his mother was even bigger.”
"Well, enough of that story, what not-gruesome-torture-Umbra-evil stories do you have?" Grievous inquired.
“Well…” Kodo said, before grinning. “There was this one time where my sister Celine came up to me, right? And she tells me, ‘Kodo, if you try to make a candle with Pinkie Pie’s sprinkles, please know that the sprinkles will just sink to the bottom of the glass, alright? And then the flame will eventually reach the bottom and catch fire. And it becomes one giant tall flame that you can’t possibly blow out. Then the glass will start to crack. But if you throw water on it, it only makes the sprinkles pop and shatter the glass. Please take my word on it.’ And so, I’m standing there, looking at her like Dad would, and I just say, ‘Okay, Celine, what did you do?’ She bursts into tears and cries, ‘A terrible mistake!’”
“DON’T YOU BLAME YOUR SISTER FOR THAT DEBACLE, KODO!” Shiva’s voice howled in the distance. “YOU WERE THE ONE THAT MADE THAT MISTAKE!”
"BAH!! HAHAHAHA!!" Kodo heard laughter similar to Lucci's in the distance, Grievous laughed at the story before glancing at Shiva.
"EY YO FUCK YOU!!! He helped me beat a demon, he is now ma boy! Not like a son but as a… Son." Grievous said before looking at Kodo. "Don't take this wrongly, also, SHIVA FOR ONCE LET HIM HAVE THIS!!!!"
“To be fair,” Kodo noted. “Celine did give me Pinkie Pie’s sprinkles in the first place.” He chuckled. “I swear, if that girl could marry all of the Mane Six at once, she would have.” He looked up, and his tail wagged. “Oh, my gems… what if she actually does that? She’s running the dang pack while we’re here! Like, what if we come back from this tournament, and we’ll find out Celine united the diamond dogs and ponies together, and is now happily married to all six of the Elements of Harmony in a big polyamorous relationship.”
"Dear. God." Grievous went wide eyed, "That would be fucking epic."
“I wouldn’t put it past her,” Kodo admitted. “She always looks for the best in others. Like one time, she and Mom had to go to Ponyville for some sort of mission. And she runs into Diamond Tiara; the one who gives bitches a bad name. And she goes and starts insisting to Celine that she has fleas. Well, instead of getting mad, Celine decides to get herself checked out. And it turns out she actually did have fleas. Really nasty ones.” Kodo shuddered. “Anyway, Celine managed to get them removed, and she ended up sending a thank you card to Diamond Tiara for letting her know about the fleas.” Kodo chuckled. “I was ready to burn Diamond Tiara’s house down for mocking my sister, but I honestly think Diamond Tiara was more put off by Celine being nice to her than any revenge scheme I could cook up.”
"Celine is a carbon copy of Pinkie Pie." Grievous noted.
“Eh, not really,” Kodo said. “She’s not quite as… peppy as Pinkie. She’s a little more soft-spoken. Kinda like Fluttershy, if Fluttershy had Pinkie’s optimism.”
"Flutter Pie." Grievous said, "My brain is too fat for this metal helmet."
"Hey Shiva, can you say addicted after every sentence after this one?" Lucci asked Shiva.
“No,” Shiva said.
"...I'll give you all the gems in the vault back in Minos…" Lucci told Shiva.
Shiva slowly turned back to look at him, her eyes scanning him for lies and deceit. After a solid minute of her giving him a very firm and very tense ‘Mom Glare’... she stood up and howled.
“I’m ADDICTED to the madness,” she sang. “This hotel is my Atlantis. We’re forever gonna have a fucking reason to sin, let me leave my soul to burn and I’ll be breathing it in, I’m addicted…!”
"AAAAAA STOP!!!" Lucci then falls on his back, "That wasn't what I wanted you to do!"
“Welp,” Shiva said. “Sorry, but I’ve been checking out more of this multiverse stuff, I saw something about a ‘Loona’ character that looked like me, and it led me to some sort of song that was called ‘addict’, so... that was the first thing I thought of when you said ‘addicted.’”
"Just say the word 'addicted' after every sentence I say starting after I say, okay, okay?" Lucci tilted his head.
Shiva hummed, before pointing a claw at him. “Addicted?”
Lucci nodded, "What happens when someone drinks too much alcohol?" Lucci asked Shiva.
“Addicted.”
"What happens when one plays a game too much?"
“Addicted.”
"What hit you in the face last night?"
“A…” Shiva paused, pointing at him again and chuckling before snapping her claws. A hard light copy of her mate Luke - who looked like Lucario - formed behind her, his arms over her shoulders.
“A dick did,” he said with a grin. “My dick.”
Multiple clones of Lucci pointed at Shiva and the link. "BAH, BAH, BAH!!!!" They all said before a giant Lucci head appeared before Shiva. "BAH!!!"
Shiva ignored them all, proudly frenching with the link copy of her mate.
"Hey, is that the mouth present Nami gave me?" Luffy tilted his head, pointing at where the link was. Both Fujitora and Nappa then burst out laughing. Luffy was just confused, "What?"
“Well, all that’s left is just Black, Erebus, Thanos, Brute and Nox.” Katakuri said before glancing at Shiva, “Do you still have my token?”
Shiva hummed, pulling away and letting her link copy dissipate into sparkles. “Yeah,” she replied. “Why?”
“Just wanted to make sure, because I have a theory… You know of Kaido, am I correct?” Katakuri inquired.
“The dragon that tried to recruit my son for some army before suddenly becoming part of Thanos’ armor?” Shiva clarified.
“Yes, I believe… When Kaido died at the hands of Thanos, one of his men went to your universe. Because I want to make sure that they all go to their own universes again. And I just might have a theory… That soldier is Lord Boros.” Katakuri told Shiva, “Should you need me to beat him, which is highly likely, just say my name and I’ll be at your doorstep.”
Shiva’s eyes widened at the thought of another displaced in her universe, and nodded gratefully to Katakuri. “Thank you,” she said. “I’ll definitely seek your guidance if… no, let’s be honest, ‘when,’ I need it.”
“Should it be an edgy overlord, a powerful dragon, Umbra, or even the God of Tartarus himself I will aid you. Because that… Is what heroes do.” Katakuri said, the audience cheering for Katakuri's speech. Katakuri rolled his eyes in annoyance.
Shiva nodded in thanks, before a thought occurred to her. She turned back to Lucci. “Didn’t you promise me all the gems in the vault at Minos?” she asked.
“Yeah, EY CHILL!!! GIVE ME ACCESS TO THE VAULT!!!!” Lucci cried out.
“I fucking hate you all.” A voice grumbled, it could be heard from everywhere, a portal appeared above Shiva. Suddenly all the gems were poured onto Shiva, even Netherite for some reason.
Shiva endured, forming a net to catch the gems, and giggling with glee as she was showered with the gemstones. “My dogs are going to lose their minds,” she whispered giddily, before composing herself and bowing thankfully to Lucci. “Thank you.”
“What can I say except you're welcome, for the gems that I gave you.” Lucci said in a rhythmic way. “Now, let's watch the fight unfold…" Lucci said, gazing at the screen as Thanos got up from the punch, Brute was right in front of the Titan. The two then begin to slug each other.
Luna had taken notice that the area had changed to a ruined city, suddenly she heard a massive stomp. The massive stomp was Iron Man in a new suit. He had some bags with him, and Iron Man raised up the bag. “I come with food.”
“Welcome back,” Luna said offering the metal man a cup. “I’ve prepared you a cup of Equestrian Kava Tea.”
“Thanks,” Iron Man’s helmet face popped off revealing a middle aged man. ”My name is not actually Iron Man, but it’s Stark, Tony Stark.” Stark reached for the cup, seizing it and taking a sip,
“A pleasure Mr. Stark,” Luna said, pouring herself a cup. “Luna Solaris, Princess of the Night.”
“Don’t call me Mr. Stark, that’s what the kid calls me. Also, a pleasure to meet you Luna, quick question, do you have superheroes in your Equestria?” Stark asked the Princess of the Night.
“Afraid not,” Luna said to the android. “We have pirates and criminals, of course some do work under me and my sister as the Seven Warlords.”
“Hm, a One Piece world, interesting, well I was created and not created at the same time. I have memories that aren’t mine and I act like someone I am. I’m sorry if that confuses you but you know how things are. I am Iron Man, I have all of his memories. Including the tragedies that happened to him.” Stark said before he took a sip of his tea.
“It seems everypony here a has had some form of tragedy” Luna said sipping from her tea
“Yeah you’re right… Directing from that, did you see anything interesting happening when I was gone? Did someone lose or…?” Iron Man inquired, looking around at the broken buildings muttering, “God this looks like New York after the fight with the Chitauri…” under his breath. “Oh, by the way we did agree that our battle ended in a draw, right?”
“Yes we did,” Luna said watching Thanos’ fight as she finished her tea. Stark noticed that.
“Oh, so uh… Do you think Thanos can win now? He’s in Steam Man. One of his strongest forms.” Stark asked Luna as Thanos took a hit from Brute, Thanos then pulled back his fist and slugged Brute in his nose.
“I find it difficult to determine that. I’ve met him once before when Eric and Thanos fought each other,” Luna said as she observed the Titan’s speed. “It looked like both were holding back.”
“Hm, this Thanos is very strong though it looks like Brute can match his strength. If Thanos takes advantage of his speed Thanos could win, however if Brute has Future Sight… Damn, Thanos needs to transform. Also Luna, did you ever personally meet him, I don’t think you two ever spoke with one another.” Stark glanced at Luna.
“I was just there to watch,” Luna said to the metal man. “He told me not to talk to him, and I’m not gonna lie. He is a disrespectful imbecile. But...He cares for his friends more than anything”
“When someone is acting stupid, it’s probably just to hide the pain.” Stark said, stepping aside as Thanos flew past them. Brute ran after Thanos at breakneck speeds.
“I understand that,” Luna agreed with the android. “Eric hid his pain behind his cold exterior. Celestia hid her pain behind her smile”
“...What would you do if Thanos and Eric swapped bodies for a day? That would be fun, living each other's lives to see if they have it better or worse.” Stark chuckled.
“Knowing Eric he would try to discipline the Titan’s friends,” Luna said
“I HIGHLY DOUBT HE COULD!!!!” Grievous shouted out from afar.
“Anyways, knowing this Thanos, he probably would try to fight the strongest being or find Emerald Gauntlet, Sapphire Sword, Ruby, and Golden Shield. To make sure they hadn’t died during the whole destroying an island thing.” Stark then finishes his tea. “But let’s enjoy the show, shall we?”
Thanos looked at Brute, they circled around each other like two wolves. Thanos studied Brute; the creature’s pupils were gone and he was muscular. Brute studied Thanos as well: he saw that steam came from his body and Thanos clenched his fists. Brute mimicked the gesture as they circled around each other.
“...What are they doing?” Entity asked to no one in particular, Entity looked at the screen quizzically as he watched the two circle each other.
“Sizing each other up,” Shiva replied, recognizing the wolf-like pattern. “Figuring out how to beat each other. It’s a lot easier to think when fists and teeth aren’t trying to cave in your skull.”
“Ah, I see.” Entity nodded in understanding.
“Jeg ser at du er sterk. Men kan du slå meg med din makt?” Brute inquired, his voice invoking a Godly display. Thanos raised his eyebrow.
“I don’t know what you’re saying, but I can tell that you want me to show you my power. I won’t yet, you’re not ready.” Thanos told the Viking, Brute clenched his fist, Brute then frowned.
“Jeg er ikke klar sier du? Vel, la oss se hvor lenge den dårlige formen din kan holde ut.” Brute threw a punch at Thanos, Thanos stepped to the side. He put the back of his hand on Brutes arm as he evaded the attack. Pushing it to the side, Thanos used his other hand and pushed Brute’s arm past him. Using his palm to do so, Thanos then punched Brute in his nose, sending him flying. Brute crashed through a building, using steam to propel himself Thanos followed after him. Brute then caught himself before he flung into another building, using his mighty arms to halt himself. He looked up and Thanos was flying after him.
“Heat Crash!” Thanos tried to slam his fiery fist into Brute, but unfortunately for the Titan. Brute sidestepped the attack, Brute then used his mighty leg and slammed his knee into Thanos’ gut. Thanos wheezed, it sent him into the skies, Brute used Kamisori to appear before Thanos. He was about to strike Thanos but using steam to his advantage. Thanos appeared behind Brute, grabbing Brute’s arm, Thanos did a somersault before throwing Brute into the ground. Thanos fired off a Ki blast but fortunately for Brute, he recovered fast, Brute caught himself on the ground. He looked up and saw not one, not two, but ten purple Ki blasts being sent his way. Brute then ran, doing zigzags to try and evade the attacks.
Thanos growled and flew after Brute, Brute was far from Thanos, Thanos approached Brute rapidly. Thanos made a sonic boom as he closed in on Brute, Brute raised his arms to the skies. “Kom til meg våpnene mine!” A portal appeared from the skies and two Great Axes fell from it, the two Great Axes shot to Brute. Brute caught the Great Axes before grinning at Thanos, Thanos quickly pulled out his Infinity Blade, they then clashed weapons. The force of the two goliaths blew the rubble surrounding them away. Thanos and Brute grunted in effort as they tried to push back each other. They then both jump back.
“Tch, you sure are strong, I’ll give you that much.” Thanos frowned, Thanos spun his weapon to try and be intimidating, though the Viking’s will did not falter.
“Dette er ikke engang min fulle kraft! Hva med at vi bare hopper over oppvarmingen og går med full kraft allerede?” Brute asked as he spun his twin Great Axes. Thanos rolled his eyes.
“Don’t you understand I don’t understand you? But I think you’re saying let’s continue to fight like this.” Thanos said dumbly, Brute looked to Grievous who was on top of a building watching the battle with Kodo. The General of Droids shrugged, he then turned to Iron Man and Luna, Iron Man shrugged as well. Brute then groaned before he ran at Thanos, the Titan mirrored his moves and they clashed weapons. This time, Brute used more power than before, Brute threw the Titan and Thanos slammed into a building.
Thanos was dazed, Brute then chucked one of his Great Axes at Thanos, Thanos snapped out of it and avoided the attack. Using steam to evade his attack, the axe was then stuck in the building. Thanos tried to pull it out of the structure as Brute closed in on the Titan, Thanos then jumped up, using the stuck axe to his advantage and kicked Brute when he got close with his two legs. Brute slammed into building after building as Thanos got the Great Axe out, looking at the axe then at Kodo. He threw the Great Axe to Kodo, who caught it with his mouth. Despite the axe easily being bigger than him, the dog was only thrown off for a second before using his smoke to return to earth, the hilt firmly gripped in his teeth.
“Keep the damn thing, but be careful it weighs a couple of tons!” Thanos shouted out before Brute shot out from where he was kicked to and rammed his head into Thanos. Sending both of them through the building.
“What do you say?” Grievous turned to Kodo with a grin, though he had no mouth.
“Thank you,” Kodo said, spitting the axe into his claws with a nod of approval. “Serious ‘thank you,’ this thing is awesome.”
Thanos and Brute stopped running themselves through buildings and stopped, Thanos and Brute rose to their feet. Brute spat out some blood that was in his mouth before growling. Thanos looks up to a skyscraper, Thanos then runs up the wrecked building.
“Kjører du ikke feigen!” Brute slammed his Great Axe into the building and propelled himself up the building, carrying the axe with him. Brute reached Thanos before he got to the top, Brute then curbstomps Thanos into the building, Brute then jumped off of Thanos and into the building digging his feet into the building so that he wouldn’t fall down. Thanos got up, almost falling before digging his feet into the building as well. They both stood on the side of the building, suddenly it began storming, lightning hit the building next to them as rain began to pour.
“Dramatic.” Thanos said, Brute then roared and slammed his axe down on Thanos, using his double bladed sword, Thanos parried the attack. They both strike each other with their weapons, striking each other with their weapons as sparks fly into the sky. Only for the sparks to be put out by the rain. Thanos then spun around and slammed his blade into Brute, making a gash appear across his chest. Thanos then Spartan kicked the Viking up into the sky, Thanos ran up the side of the building before jumping up and striking Brute into the ground. Brute hits the roof and Thanos falls down, Thanos then slams onto the roof. The building cracking under his weight.
“Du er ganske mektig, selv om du har såret meg, er du fortsatt svakere enn jeg.” Brute remarked as Thanos and Brute began to circle each other.
“No one’s going to interfere with us, not Nox, not Stark, not Eric 2.0 and definitely not Rubilax, it’s just you… And me…” Thanos said, Brute chuckled, the two warriors circled around each other. Their eyes locked on to each other like dogs, then clenched their weapons, feeling the rain hit their skin.
“This is going to be epic!” Entity grinned, his crimson eyes glowing in anticipation.
Thunder boomed across the skies, signalling to continue their battle. They clashed, Thanos tried to push Brute off the building but Brute dug his feet into the roof. Thanos took a hefty swing down upon Brute who jumped above Thanos and struck Thanos across his chest with his Great Axe. Thanos took two steps back to recover from the attack, Thanos then chuckled, grinning like a mad man or rather Mad Titan. Thanos jumped and swung his weapon down at Brute who sidestepped the attack, Brute tried to take advantage but Thanos used his double blade sword and used the other blade to block the attack. Thanos then swept Brute off his feet and Brute hit the ground, Brute swore before jumping to his feet.
“Come on!” Thanos taunted and Brute did just what Thanos had told him to, Brute went for a horizontal strike to Thanos’ side, using Armament Haki, Thanos lifted his leg and blocked the attack effortlessly. Thanos then jumped back and almost went off the edge, Brute then ran at Thanos, aiming to ram him off. However, like the acrobatic bastard that Thanos is, Thanos performed a frontflip and evaded the attack. Thanos was now behind Brute.
“What’s wrong? Can’t keep up?” Thanos taunted, Brute then huffed steam out of his nostrils before turning around and running at Thanos. Thanos jumped over Brute, before slamming his boots into the Viking, Brute was sent through the floors of the skyscraper and hit the bottom floor. This made the building collapse, Thanos yelped as he fell down with the building. This made a huge dust cloud. Grievous jumped down from his building and ran to a building close to the wreckage to get a closer look, using Observation Haki he sensed the aura of the two combatants.
Thanos jumped from the rubble and on top of it, Thanos looked around the dust trying to sense Brute’s Ki, unfortunately for Thanos he wasn’t using Observation Haki like a chad. An arm wrapped around Thanos’ leg, Brute jumped from the rubble and slammed Thanos down on the rubble. Thanos groaned, Brute then spun Thanos around and threw him onto the roof of the building next to Grievous. Grievous blinked as Thanos jumped to his feet, Thanos held his hands to the ground steam began to flare up.
“Netsu-Netsu Steam… HOPPER!!!” Thanos shot off like a rocket to Brute, Brute jumped out of the way. Thanos used his steam to “bounce” off the ground, propelling himself to a building, then back to the ground then another building. Thanos begins to bounce off the buildings going faster than anyone could see him, Brute looked around trying to locate the Titan.
“Hvilken hastighet!” Brute exclaimed as he saw Thanos bounce around like a ping pong ball, Brute tried to follow Thanos’ movements but failed. Brute looked in front of him and he was struck by Thanos. Brute coughed up some blood as his Viking Helmet fell off from the force of the attack.
“Netsu-Netsu Steam Knock!” Thanos cried out, this sent Brute into a building but then he was stuck from the attack. Thanos sighed and charged up, he was enveloped in a purple aura, Thanos put his palms in front of him as he charged up a purple blast.
“HAAH!!!” Thanos’ voice echoed across the planet as the rubble before him began to levitate due to the sheer energy Thanos was exerting. Brute walked forth and clenched his fists.
“Ta det videre!” Brute cried out, Thanos grinned.
“I’ll give you everything I got, if you’re a real warrior you’ll endure it! But beware, this attack… WILL SEND YOU INTO OBLIVION!!!!” Thanos cried out as the storm started to intensify, the gusts of wind started to blow across the arena. Grievous crossed his arms as his cape blew violently in the wind, Grievous nodded.
“HRRRAAAHHH!!!!!!” Thanos roared as his purple Ki began to grow, Thanos then charges up the attack like a Galick Gun, Thanos’ purple aura grew violently. Brute pounded his chest like a Gorilla, hyping himself up before coating his entire body in Armament Haki. Thanos began to levitate, lightning struck all around him.
In the distance Goku and Vegeta jumped back away from Nox as they both felt a tremor in the earth. Goku turned to Vegeta with a shocked expression.
“Do you feel that power Vegeta?” Goku asked, Vegeta just smirked.
“So he’s taking this seriously, hmph.” Vegeta flew off and struck Nox in his chin, Nox countered the attack and kicked Vegeta in his armpit. Vegeta grunted and then felt the full brunt of a Wakfu blast.
“Heh…” Nox chuckled, Back to Thanos, Thanos then stopped levitating. Thanos slammed into the ground, the Titan slammed his feet into the rubble.
“TITANIC FLASH!!!!!!!!” Thanos fired off a devastating Ki wave at Brute, Brute opened his arm wide like he was going in for a bear hug. The Ki wave engulfed the Viking, the Ki wave didn’t stop there, it went past Brute, and went towards the location of Grievous and Kodo. Though the two leaped as one, Grievous noticed Kodo getting weighed down by the Great Axe. Grabbing the pup by his scruff, the General used Ki to fly to another building away from the blast before dropping Kodo down. Just in time too as the blast vaporized the building that they were on.
“Thanks,” Kodo mumbled, his fur bristling at how close they had cut it.
“You’re welcome.” Grievous said as he looked at the building.
The blast went off to space and there was a huge dust cloud, Thanos gasped for breath as the attack took a lot of his energy. But… Thanos saw a silhouette through the dust. Brute.
The dust cleared. Brute still stood, but was bloodied up. The viking took two steps forward before falling to his knees.
“Det var… One of the best fights I had… In a long time…” Brute wheezed out before falling on his chest unconscious. Thanos sighed before slowly turning to Nox, who had just appeared a few meters next to Thanos.
“I commend you for beating the strongest child, your strength is quite noteworthy.” Nox commended, Thanos pulled out his blade. Nox then summoned his, grasping the blade with two of his hands. Thanos then ran at Nox before jumping, coating it in Armament Haki, Nox coating his sword in Armament Haki as well. Red Lightning enveloped them and their eyes became blood red, Thanos brought down his mighty blade onto Nox and Nox raised his sword up to the Titan. At that moment the area turned to the ice continent, Antarctica, but not just any Antarctica, the Dragon Ball Antarctica. The two didn’t even meet blades, an unknown force appeared before them and they clashed, their Conqueror’s Haki flexing as they “met blades.” Like a barrier something was keeping their blades from meeting, the competitors were transferred over to the ice continent with the two. Goku and Vegeta weren’t present. The two forces made a huge gust of wind Iron Man brought out a shield and slammed it down on the ice to not be pushed away, Grievous dug his claws into the ice before putting his arms inside of his body before tucking himself. Thanos and Nox jumped back, Nox chuckled.
"I think I figured out how you put Kaido in that blade of yours." Nox said, Thanos raised an eyebrow.
"Is that so? Pray tell, how did I do it?" Thanos stuck his blade on the ice and leaned on the sword.
"That is not the real Kaido, that's his spirit. He went into your blade because of some Dark Magic, one of Oblivion the Shadow's spells I believe." Nox said, Thanos nodded.
"Indeed, Oblivion the Shadow is the embodiment of shadow. Any hate, anger, and sorrow is fuel for this demon. I realized if I let Kaido die, he would be revived, so I used one of his spells to seal him in the blade. Now he's basically my pet, to do with as I please." Thanos then picked up his blade and put the blade on his back/sheathe. Nox sheathed his blade as well.
"Oblivion the Shadow, hmph, I didn't believe someone like you would know who he is. Now, Thanos, shall we?" Nox got in a fighting stance.
"Shall we what?" Thanos asked, "Shall we hang out? Shall we go out to dinner? Shall we do something other than fighting? You need to finish your sentence, people can take that weirdly." Thanos informed the Xelor, Nox stared at Thanos for a full thirty seconds.
"...I think I'm going to enjoy this far more than I should." Nox commented before shooting off to Thanos, Thanos ran at Nox and their fists clashed. Armament Haki covered their fists and reddish, blackish lightning began to fly. A crater was formed underneath them, Thanos jumped back and shook his hand in pain, wincing as Nox stood unaffected.
"Damn you have strong Armament Haki, where'd you learn it from?" Thanos inquired, Nox crossed his arms.
"I was the First Mate on Shank's crew when he worked under Kaido, he's long gone now. I hear he's watching over a Buggy displaced with a world similar to Eric's." Nox said coating his fists and feet in Armament Haki, Thanos did the same. Nox and Thanos lunged at each other, Thanos went for a kick to Nox's side, powered by steam. Nox ducked under it, Nox then went for a Superman Punch to Thanos' jaw. However, he failed to realized that Thanos was fast as fuck, using Soru, Thanos appeared behind Nox. Thanos grabbed the Xelor by his arm, throwing the mummified man over him, Thanos then slammed Nox onto the ground. Knocking the wind out of Nox. Thanos was about to stop on Thanos but the Xelor put his hands in a particular position that Kodo knew all too well. Suddenly Thanos was blown away and there were bruises on his body, Thanos hit the floor and rolled to his feet. Blood dripped from the Titan's mouth, wiping it off Thanos frowned at Nox.
"I forgot you were a Time Mage." Thanos said, rolling his shoulders. Nox frowned.
"It's Xelor," Nox reminded, "Did you know Xelor-" Thanos then cuts Nox off.
"I'll call you whatever I damn want, I'll call you Timmy, Mary Poppins, Pennywise, John Walker, or Deviln!" Thanos then gave Nox the bird, Nox turned to Black.
"Do you believe this guy?" Nox asked the Dark Saiyan, looking at Black quizzically.
“Believe me, I know him so that isn’t surprising.” Black said simply as he had his arms crossed, a wave of boredom on the Saiyans face.
"I literally have a nickname for ALL of you, Moanohan, Sparky, Tin Man, Discount Goku, Bucket Head, Humphrey, Bucky, White Eyes, Rolex, Paragirl, Pointy Ears, Phoenix Wright, Cat, Edgy Pony, Lesbian, The Rock, Mr. Clean, Rubber Boy, Green Glow, Yamcha, Discount Ace, Pacifistic Murderer, Evil Slut, Hot Head, Blind Fuck, Twig Man, Robo Nigga, Psychic Bitch, Power Boy, Bulk, and Mochi Boy. Did I miss anyone else?! No? Okay." Thanos said with a scoff, Nox just stood there with a blank expression on his "face."
“Discount Goku?! Bitch I’m better than crazy hair style!” Black growled, a vein appearing on the Saiyans forehead. He then quickly turned to Erebus, “You know what, I need to let out some anger, let’s finish our fight!” Black declared as he powered up to Perfected Super Saiyan Rosé.
"A'ight." Erebus nodded before slamming his fist into Black unexpectedly. Erebus using Kamisori appeared above Black before slamming both of his feet into the Saiyan. The saiyan was then buried in ice, Erebus took out his gun and began shooting Shadow Bullets at the Saiyan while he was down.
The ice was destroyed in seconds as a burst of pure pressure broke through, shattering the ice. A pissed off Black stared at Erebus as he pulled out his ki blade, slicing the shadow bullets in half. He then shot forward, catching Erebus off guard as he was punched in the gut.
Erebus dashed at Black and they clashed blades. Though Black had more control over his power he lacked in raw strength, this was shown as he was pushed back by Erebus. Erebus had a Shadowy Aura, Erebus let out a dark chuckle before Spartan Kicking Black. Black was knocked onto his back but rolled to his feet only to be met with a punch to his nose. Erebus grabbed Black by his leg, Erebus then threw him above him, Erebus then fired off a mix between Magic and Shadow at Black. Engulfing the Saiyan in a fiery shadow, the attack rivalled a Kamehameha.
“Shade-Shade, Shadow Pillar!” Erebus named his attack.
Black put up his arms in front of him as the attack propelled him through many icy mountains. The Saiyan planted his feet into the ground, immediately stopping. Black scoffed as he used his hands to point the attack away from him, it going off and destroying a small mountain. The dark Saiyan then dusted off any ice on his Gi before teleporting behind Erebus.
“Nice attack, I’d call that a dark Kamehameha, but that just sounds edgy.” Black commented as he used his tail and wrapped it around Erebus’s leg, he then pulled his tail which pulled Erebus’s leg, tripping the Android. He pointed a Ki blast towards Erebus as shot it.
This attack sent Erebus for quite a tumble, Erebus stopped himself and stood to his feet. Smirking, “Ya see Carrot Boy, ye’re not dealing with the average Android anymore…” Erebus began.
“Oh my god… He’s gone Super Android!” Black yelled in mock surprise. “Are we just gonna make TFS references, cause if that’s the case.” Black coughed in his hand, “Call me TFS Black,” the Saiyan said in a high pitched voice.
“CORRECT!!! Shadow-Ken!” A shadowy aura bursts around TFS Erebus, mimicking that of the Kaio-Ken.
“Shadow wha?” TFS Black asked confused, only to get struck across the jaw by the Android. Sending him through mountains of ice before landing into an ice mountain, making a crater as deep as a cave.
“This… proves… nothing!” TFS Blacks voice echoed through the new cave.
“Are ya okay in there?” TFS Erebus cried out, his voice reaching to the cave.
“Yeah, I’m fan fucking-tastic, nothing but ice cream and gumdrops in here.” TFS Black yelled out in obvious sarcasm.
“Ooo! Can ah come in?” TFS Erebus shouted, all giddy.
“... … I’m surrounded by idiots…” TFS Black growled.
“Ah thought ya were surrounded by gumdrops and ice cream.” TFS Erebus pointed out.
There were a few seconds of silence, until there was an ungodly roar that shook the lands as the mountain was vaporized by a massive and decistating aura that created a massive crater. In the middle stood a livid TFS Black as steam was rolling off his body. “THAT'S IT!!!! NO MORE PLAYING AROUND!!!!” TFS Black roared.
“Aw, sounds like someone has an ice cream headache~” TFS Erebus cooed, grinning.
TFS Erebus didn’t register what happened the next second as he was punched in the gut. The Android hunched over at the sudden pain, but was then punched in the ribs, then the back, then every single part of his being was struck by an invisible force. It stopped seconds later as Black appeared in front of him, pointing two fingers towards his chest.
The two stood still for a few moments before Black formed his two fingers and balled them into a fist.
“Oh no…” Erebus whimpered.
Black struck Erebus in the chest, a shockwave could be seen passing through the androids body. Erebus fell to his knees as he tried to register what just happened. He looked up to see Black looking at him, a dark haze over his face.
“Well, ah’m screwed aren't ah?” Erebus said, going to his feet and looking down at the Saiyan.
Black pointed at the Android, forming his hand into a finger gun. “Bang…” Black said as a Ki blast shot forward, impacting the Android in the arm. The Saiyan continued to shoot more blasts across the Androids body before kicking him away.
“Ow... “ Erebus struggled to his feet, he then discarded his scythe by sticking it down on the ice. Erebus then gets in a stance similar to Sanji’s, sticking his right leg up, he then spun around. Then stopping, his right leg was caught on fire. “Diable… Jambe… JOUE SHOT!!!” Erebus dashed at Black and decked him in the schnoz.
Black took the hit head on as his head recoiled back. He held it there before chuckling, “What a shame…” Black said, confusing Erebus. The Saiyan slowly looked back to Erebus, revealing he had a little blood trailing down his nose. “It looks like you just initiated your shut-down sequence… let me give you a countdown.” Black said as he took a step forward.
“I get it!” Nappa shouted in the background.
“5!!!!” Black roared as he kicked Erebus in the stomach, it seemed like his foot almost went through him as he was sent tumbling across the ice.
Nightmare went wide eyed at this, “Did I just see his foot?” Nightmare questioned.
“Yup.” Lucci said, looking at the screen
Erebus laid on the ground as Black walked up to him. “Well well well, looks like I’m a size 13.”
“Good for ya, Table Party!” Erebus got up and went to a handstand before spinning around, making a fiery tornado. Erebus then landed a kick to Black’s cheek only to realize his mistake for the impact made his head tilt slightly.
“4!!!!” Black went back and did a handstand, recoiling his legs and kicking the Android in the gut, sending Erebus into the sky. Erebus yelled out as he recovered in the air, only to have Black teleport above him with a smirk. “So have you rusted your pants yet?”
“Yeah, have you?!” Thanos shouted before they heard a large whack.
“Ah hate you, hate ya both.” Erebus grumbled before firing a Shadow blast at Black, hoping to get the Saiyan away from him.
Black teleported away with ease and reappeared above with his hands balled together, “3!!!” Black roared as he struck Erebus in the head, sending the Android flying towards the ground, creating a large crater and dust cloud.
Erebus slowly got to his knees, gasping for breath, “Damn it, time to activate mah escape protocol, AAAAAAHH!!!!” Erebus turned around and began running like crazy.
Black looked down with a frown, “So much for a better Eric…” Black mumbled before teleporting away, reappearing in front of a scared Erebus. “2!!!!” Black sent a right hooking in the androids jaw, making him fall onto his back. The Saiyan pointed a hand and a condensed blue ball of ki appeared. But he didn’t fire it, instead he looked at Erebus with a serious look.
“Yield…” Black said seriously.
“AH YIELD FOR FUCKS SAKE YA WENT VEGETA ON MY ASS, KAMI HAVE MERCY!!!” Erebus shouted out.
“All I needed to hear.” Black said with a smile, the ball of Ki disappearing. Black then powered down to base form and held out a hand to the Android.
Erebus' form vanished; he sank back down to normal height, Erebus’ clothes were ripped and only his pants were intact with a few holes in them. Erebus took his hand and got up.
Black noticed this and pointed a finger towards him, “Clothes Beam!!” Black exclaimed, a yell beam overtook the Android and repaired his clothes with ease.
“That is by far yer best skill.” Erebus grunted out.
“Damn right,” Black commented as he put a hand on himself, a yellow light overtaking him as he went to his original Gi with the long sleeves. “How about we go hang out with Luna and Ironman and watch the fight.” Black said as he pointed a thumb over his shoulder.
“Sounds like a plan,” Erebus nodded and walked over there, they noticed that the General of the Droid army and young Kodo were there. Grievous turned to the pair.
“Oh hello, finished with beating down Android 19- I mean Erebus?” Grievous jokes, Iron Man popped up.
“Yeah, the rage against Eric is out of my system.” Black said with a smirk, sitting down next to the tin man.
“Well, now that you two are done slugging each other we can watch the show. By god you Saiyans are hard hitters, you might even give Hulk a run for his money…” Tony said with a chuckle.
“Yeah, good thing I didn’t use more power, or I might have actually kicked a hole in Erebus’s gut.” Black chuckled nervously, rubbing the back of his head.
“Ah ha ha…” Erebus chuckled before looking at Black seriously, “Ya did not have to go that hard on me. Pause on that.” Erebus frowned.
“Sorry that you happen to look like a man who bullshited his way to a win against me…” Black countered.
“Ah blame Nox.”
“Sure, but why Android 13’s accent? How in the Omni-Kings name did you get his accent?” Black asked as he pointed his hand next to him, making a tea cup already prepared. He picked it up and took a sip, before he let out a relieved sigh. “Supreme Kai powers are fun.
“Who knows?” Erebus shrugged.
Black shrugs before taking another sip of his tea before looking at Tony, “So, which Mark suit is that?” Black asked, trying to make some conversation.
“Mark 85, the same one I used on Thanos.” Tony replied, they then heard a tremor coming in the direction of Thanos and Nox.
“Looks like things are starting to heat up.” Black said with a laugh before sipping his tea.
“...Was that an intentional pun?” Tony asked the Saiyan, “Because I feel like it was.”
“Maybe…” Black said with a smirk as another tremor came in. Everyone then turned their attention to Thanos and Nox who were trading blows. Fist met fist, foot met foot, it was like watching Dragon Ball Z but with a purple Mr. Clean and a discount Tony Stark. Nox then landed a spin kick to Thanos’ gut, Thanos winced then grinned. Thanos grabbed his leg and slammed his fist into Nox’s gut, he repeated the process repeatedly. Thanos was then surprised with a Wakfu blast to his face by the Xelor. Thanos let go of Nox and shook his head, he then saw Nox doing some footwork in a boxing stance.
“Like the kids say these days, square up thot. That is what they say, right?” Nox turns to Black quizzically.
“How would I know, it’s been 1,032 years, 5 months, 8 days, 4 hours, 2 minutes and 32 seconds since I’ve been on earth.” Black comments, with everyone except for Nox, looking at him shocked. “What, I’ve kept count…”
“I did that too, glad I’m not the only one!” Grievous did a thumbs up.
“How long for you?” Black asks.
“1699 years, 7 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes and 34 seconds when I was locked in Tartarus.” Grievous said unflinchingly.
“Looks like you are slightly older than me.” Black laughs as he drinks the rest of his tea.
“Believe it or not, we’ve all been imprisoned at that year, Thanos has been sealed in stone the longest since he was blasted by that gay lazer.” Grievous explained to the Saiyan.
“Stone isn’t fun, can’t move or talk to anyone unless it’s your darker side. But I took the time and mentally trained all those years, but got bored after year 342…” Black explained.
“When I was in Tartarus, I looked down at the prisoners and I assumed their lives, sometimes I got visits from the Princesses. Usually by request some for stories.” Grievous said, before chuckling, “I could assume how you live if ya want me to.”
“Huh, that’s-” Nox was then cut off as he was punched in the face by Thanos, Nox hit the ground. Thanos looked down at Nox, Nox then shot up and uppercuts Thanos. Thanos stumbles backward before getting in a stance similar to Daewi.
“Thanos, skip the warm up and get into Burst Man.” Nox ordered, Thanos shook his head.
“No, you’re not read-” Thanos was suddenly punched in the gut, and just like Black, his fist was shown through Thanos’ body. Thanos wheezed.
“Don’t give me that, Titan, you’re strong and I know it. Go to Burst Man or I will force you to. And trust me, you don’t want me to.” Nox said, Thanos stumbled backwards, before scoffing. Thanos jumped back a few meters.
“Fine then, you asked for it…” Thanos went to one knee and dug his fingers into the earth, he suddenly became to heat up drastically, the people in the shield feeling it too. Suddenly he was set aflame, his back suddenly bursting into flames and dying down then bursting again, he dragged his finger across the dirt leaving behind molten magma. “Netsu-Netsu… BURST MAN!!!!!!!” Thanos then rocketed at Nox and punched the Xelor in his cheek. Nox covered his head in Armament Haki to nullify the heat. The force sent Nox flying across the icy landscape, melting some ice as he was on fire due to the heat of his body. Steam escaped from Thanos’ mouth, Thanos clenched his fists.
“Damn… I never even saw Thanos in that form and it’s pretty dangerous!” Entity shouted out from the aircraft, Katakuri slowly nodded.
“It was devastating, it turned the rock wasteland into a hellish landscape during his fight with Black.” Nightmare replied.
Nox jumped up from where he landed which was an iceberg, he was surrounded by water. Suddenly Thanos appeared before Nox, fire boosted his leg as he slammed his foot into Nox. But it was blocked by him, nothing moved for a split second, Nox was suddenly blown by the force and crashed through the icy terrain. Nox flew by the audience on the battlefield, which nearly knocked them on their asses. Thanos followed after Nox, blowing by the audience, which caught Grievous’ cape on fire.
“Do you smell something burning?” Grievous sniffed the air.
“It’s your cape…” Black says blankly as he watches with amusement.
“AAAAA!!!!!” Grievous shouted out as he ran out to the battlefield like a mad man.
“Whoa, General!” Kodo yelped, racing after him. “Not towards the…”
Unfortunately, he was too late: Nox and Thanos clashed around Grievous as he ran about. Which caused Grievous to go completely on fire as he let out a terrifying scream. Grievous then stop, dropped, and rolled across the ice as Thanos pushed Nox back, Nox taking a step back as Thanos continued his assault on the Xelor. For every step Nox was close to stepping on Grievous, Grievous continued to scream as he rolled across the ice. Grievous then pulled out his Water Sword and splashed it onto himself.
“Somebody stupid get in my way!” Nox shouted out before he crashed towards Kodo.
“I’m not stupid, I’m young!” Kodo barked, dodging out of the way and catching Nox with his pack links. “There’s a difference!” Kodo added as he threw Nox towards Thanos.
Thanos and Nox clashed, Thanos then covered his fists in Magma, “Magma Dragon’s Iron Fist!” Thanos then punched Nox in his gut, Nox letting out a scream before he jumped back and rolled across the ice to ease the fiery pain. Nox got up and chuckled.
“I must say, you're quite strong when you’re serious, maybe this is why you hold back so much. Your power is beyond compare, your power can turn a rocky biome to a hellish wasteland, your speed is comparable to Eric’s Savage Shadow Soul Reaper, and your durability is uncanny, for you survived the-” Nox was cut off by Thanos.
“Oh my god baby work the shaft.” Thanos said with a sly grin, Nox paused.
“Excuse me?” Nox tilted his head.
“I’m sorry I can’t help but talk dirty when someone is sucking my dick.” Thanos looked down at the Xelor, Nox blinked.
“...Eric, you know him longer, is he always like this?” Nox asked to the heavens, which held the aircraft.
“Unfortunately he is,” Eric shouted to Xelor. “But only when he isn’t taking a fight serious”
“Oh shut up Oogie Boogie, you’re built like Pitch Black from Rise of the Guardians.” Thanos called out, Nox’s eye twitched.
In response black shadow sand poured from Eric’s hands. “You’re not wrong, plus with Umbra’s magic, I can make people see their worst fear. Just like Pitch.”
“Pitch Black is a good villain, honestly you remind me of him.” Thanos chuckled, ignoring the Xelor who just couldn’t believe the Titan.
“Why? Why aren’t you taking this seriously?! AM I NOT A THREAT!?!?!?!” Nox shouted out to the Titan, who still ignored Nox.
“Trust me on this Nox,” Eric said to the combatants. “You will not survive if he takes it seriously, he went seriously in our fight two years ago and even I almost wasn’t able to beat him”
“I’m going to start beating him now.” Nox said before he flew off to Thanos, Thanos then caught Nox by his neck. Not even looking at the man before slamming the old man down onto the ice, melting the ice beneath him.
“To quote a wise man, “Insect!”.” Thanos said right before Nox chuckled, suddenly appearing far from Thanos.
“I am going to make you draw out that power of yours, you will show everyone what makes you so strong…” Nox said darkly as his Noxines surrounded him.
“But why do you want me to show everyone my full power?!” Thanos shouted out, “Doesn’t make sense!”
“Thanos,” Eric called out to the Titan. “Finish this already”
“NO!!! FUCK YOU ERIC!!!” Thanos cried out, “I will never-!” Thanos was then hit by Nox with his two Wakfu Hammers, sending Thanos for a tumble. The force dug a trench and Thanos tore across the landscape and hit an ice mountain. Nox appeared before Thanos.
“Thanks Eric for keeping him distracted for me.” Nox snarked, Thanos got up to his feet and looked at Nox groaning.
“Gr… Magma Dragon… ROAR!!!!” Thanos shot out magma from his mouth and magma was sent to Nox’s way. Though a clock made out of Wakfu was forged and blocked the magma.
“You see Thanos, that’s the difference between you and I, you can punch someone and kill them. I can punch someone and kill their kingdom.” Nox told the Titan, Thanos frowned.
“Earth Dragon’s Sword Horn!” Thanos ran at Nox and his body was then covered in rock, Thanos rammed the shield and fell back down on his ass. Nox chuckled and lowered the shield.
“Thanos, you may be powerful, but you lack skill. I’ll show you how that’s the case…” Nox said darkly, Nox then slammed his hammer into Thanos’ right cheek sending him careening towards the water. Before he could hit the water Nox hit the Titan up into the air, Thanos then caught himself and looked around, for Nox suddenly vanished. Thanos was then hit on the back of his head sending him downwards towards the water only to be hit away to the main battlefield. As he was launched, Nox followed after the Titan, hitting Thanos with his hammers before landing a hefty swing to Thanos’ chin. Sending him above the clouds, catching himself Thanos then sent Ki blasts down at the clouds hoping for one to hit the Xelor.
“You’re too slow.” Taunted a voice behind him, turning around he found no one was there, Nox was behind Thanos and he slapped Thanos with his hammers once more. Sending him flying through a cloud, but was hit upwards by Nox. The force sent him high, to the point that he could see the atmosphere. Thanos then breathed heavy looking around to spot the Watchmaker, Thanos turned around and Nox was flying after Thanos. He then broke the sound barrier, he then slammed his hammer into Thanos but Nox stuck the hammer to Thanos’ face instead of letting Thanos fly down. Nox then flew down at breakneck speeds, the fighters on the battlefield then turned tail and ran, fearing their safety, Nox let out a roar before slamming Thanos onto the ice. Making a colossal explosion that covered a majority of the battlefield. Thanos got up, his armor was tattered and he spat out some blood. Growling quietly.
"Oh now you've done it… Netsu-Netsu… ERUPTION!!!" Thanos cocked back a fast and Nox flew up to the skies, Thanos then hit the ground and then everything went white...
It was a hellish landscape, the ice was replaced with rock and the water was lava. Grievous coughed up some smoke before looking around at everyone.
"Is everyone okay?" Grievous asked.
“I think so,” Kodo said, reforming from smoke.
Tony slowly got to his feet. His armor was damaged. "No…" Tony wheezed out, his armor was tattered and his glasses were crooked. Tony quickly fixed the glasses before sighing.
Black pointed his hand towards Tony, a green aura taking hold and covered Tony’s form. Any injuries the human had taken disappeared. “Supreme Kai powers are useful huh.” Black said as he turned back to the fight. “Thanos is taking this seriously now.”
Nox flew down from the skies and looked at Thanos, Thanos then powered up to Blue Inferno Edition, mimicking the aura of Super Saiyan Blue. Nox scoffed, Thanos scoffed back.
"You really think that form can handle me?" Nox asked, Thanos tightened his stance.
"Likewise, Watch Guy," Thanos responded, Nox slowly flew down, landing his feet on the ground. The Watchmaker stared at Thanos.
"You asked for it…" Nox then dispelled his hammers before he charged up, his blue eyes had more added detail to them. He then had a dark deep blue aura, the world then began to tremor. A Wakfu Clock appeared behind Nox, and Nox let out a roar, knocking Thanos back. Thanos stumbled backwards, almost touching the magma, not that it would affect him.
"I told you that I was the God of Time, did I?" Nox inquired, his voice was echoey. Thanos was taken aback by this level of power, Nox then summoned a chain made purely out of Wakfu. Nox slowly spun the chain, looking at Thanos in the eyes, Thanos looked Nox back in his. The stare down lasted a few seconds before their fists clashed, sending magma flying and rocks flying too. Nox then wrapped his chain around Thanos' foot before slamming the Titan into a rocky mountain. Nox then pulled on it, Thanos naturally followed after it, clenching his fist and covering it in God Ki, Nox slammed his fist into Thanos. Thanos clenched his teeth, Nox let go of Thanos' leg and Thanos was sent flying. Skipping across magma like a rock before eventually landing on a… Rock.
"Here goes nothing," Thanos flew at Nox and slammed a foot deep in Nox's gut, Nox wheezed before regaining his composure. Thanos and Nox then crossed fists, their fists colliding with another, they then proceed to fly across the place. The two deities clashed over and over again, trails of their aurs followed as they engaged in combat. Thanos fired a few Hot Wind Fists at Nox, Nox in return fired a few Wakfu Blasts at Thanos. The two energies collide and make a dust cloud, Thanos then punches Nox his his gut.
"Netsu Netsu, Dragon's Claw!" The force sent Nox to the magma but Nox stopped himself from reaching it. Nox grunted for some magma had touched him, Nox then flew at Thanos. Nox then elbowed Thanos in his abdomen, before spin kicking Thanos to the ground. Nox then began to charge up a blast, while on the ground Thanos looked up at Nox.
"Hey isn't that one of Gogeta's moves?" Thanos asked, in response to Thanos' question he was met with a thousand Ki and Wakfu blasts raining down upon the Titan. Thanos let out a yelp before trying to escape only to be hit by the blasts. Nox fired more of them off, dust then filled the area where he had blasted Thanos. Nox was suddenly shot in the back by an arrow of light, Nox turned around and it was Thanos. His gauntlet was growing.
"Thanks Link!" Thanos cried out before firing the arrows at Nox, "YOU GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE YOU PRICK!!!!" Nox then flew off to try and escape the assault but Thanos followed Nox. Firing the arrows down on Nox, Nox flew down a crevasse where Thanos destroyed in the process of following Nox. Nox then turned around, facing Thanos and then put his hands in the Time Stopping manner. Time then froze, then continued as Thanos coughed out some blood before getting launched into the magma. Nox looked down as Thanos sank into the magma like Terminator, Thanos stuck out a middle finger as he sank down.
"Get back here Thanos, come on out and don't hide like a coward." Nox taunted but found Thanos to not respond, behind Nox. Thanos' hands appeared above his head, whilst still in the lava like a shark.
"Dun nun." Thanos said before sinking, Nox turned to the noise only to find Thanos got, Thanos appeared behind Nox, still in the lava.
"Dun nun." Thanos repeated, Nox turned to face Thanos only to find him gone again. Nox rolled his eyes.
"I'm done with this game Thanos, get up here already!" Nox demanded, Thanos appeared behind Nox, no longer in the magma.
"SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER!!!" Thanos then punches Nox onto the air, Thanos then flies above Nox. His fists covered in Blue Flames, "Infernal Rainshower!" Thanos began punching Nox at speeds faster than his dad had left him. From his torso to his arms, no place was left unburned, Thanos landed his final punch to Nox's face. Nox hit a rock that began to float on the lava, Thanos landed on the rock. Nox went to his feet and pulled out his sword, Thanos did the same.
"Square up!" Thanos cried out, Nox chuckled actually enjoying this. Nox and Thanos then begin to cross blades like pirates as "He's a Pirate" plays in the background.
"That's gotta be the best pirate I've ever seen…" Katakuri commented from the aircraft
"So it would seem…" Nightmare commented.
“And what the hell about us,” Rainbow asked, motioning to the Four Emperors of Eric’s world.
"Amateurs." Katakuri said, glancing at the living Pride flag.
“Rainbow, leave it be.” Eric said watching the fight unfold. “The Title of Emperor is merely a fear tactic to cease any conflict before it begins.”
“But…” Rainbow began before stopping herself. “You’re right, titles mean nothing all that matters is how you fight.”
"Wrong, titles mean something, it shows how strong you are and how everyone sees you. Your title is what people see you, I am the Strongest in the Universe, what does that make me?" Katakuri turned to the cyan mare.
“It probably means nopony could defeat you.” Rainbow said before thinking a bit. “Save for a Chaos user.”
"That fight was unfair, it was my first fight and first loss. Other than that I bested all of the Gods in combat, and when I say all… I mean, all. Of. Them." Katakuri told the cyan mare.
“That is impressive to say the least,” Sombra said, stepping next to Rainbow. “But like Eric would always tell us, there will always be somepony stronger.”
"...It's been thousands of years and yet I haven't found one who made me fall on my back. Not to mention I haven't encountered anyone who made me go full power." Katakuri pointed out, "It will be a few more years until I find my greatest opponent."
“You know I could show you the stronger opponent you will face?” Eric offered to the Mochi Man
"Eric, look at me, I have been doing this for a long time. Fighting foe after foe yet no one could ever match me, does it look like I would want to be spoiled a chance to see the strongest opponent I would fight, the fighter that would beat me?" Katakuri asked the Shadow Man.
“So is that a yes?” Sombra asked before Eric shook his head
Katakuri stared at Sombra for ten seconds. "No."
“Sombra a strong Champion like Katakuri would rather give up his strength than ruin the surprise of a strong advisory,” Eric said earning a nod of approval from the Mochi Man
Thanos and Nox crossed blades, fighting rhythmically as the song plays every beat was met with a slash. It was like they were dancing and fighting at the same time, the lava then began to go up and down like they were at sea.
"I don't know how any of this is possible but it's amazing." Tony said with a chuckle watching their duel from afar.
“If you think this is amazing, you should’ve seen my fight against Thanos months ago.” Black said with a chuckle.
"I was talking about the sword duel." Tony turned to the Saiyan.
“Sword fight, fist fights, it’s all the same in the end.” Black said with a wave of a hand.
Nox then jumped to land, the "ship" then stopped as if the Gods commanded it to do so. "It's over Thanos, I have the high ground!" Nox said, doing the exact same thing as Obi-wan.
"You underestimate my power. " Thanos frowned, Nox shook his head.
"Don't try it!" Nox told the Titan but Thanos didn't listen for he jumped above Obi-wan- I mean Nox. They then crossed blades, Thanos pushed Nox towards the magma, Nox pushed back before Thanos knocked Nox's blade into the magma. They then both stare at it as it sank.
"Well I'm fucked." Nox said but he was then met with a punch to his temple, sending him into a rock that looked quite familiar, similar to the one Golden Frieza was getting wrecked on.
"C'MERE BOY!!!!" Thanos ran after Nox who groaned, Nox walked out from where he was thrown, clenching his fists and covering them in Ryou Haki, when Thanos arrived, he grinned and did the same. Their fists clashed and it sent a tremor that was felt across the planet, they were both blown back by the force. Nox looked down at Thanos above, for he had teleported above the clouds. He then dove down, both of his fists in front of him like superman. Thanos looked up but it was too late, Nox slammed both of his fists into Thanos, the Titan wheezed as the force made a crater as long as Katakuri himself.
"STOP USING ME FOR MEASUREMENTS!!!" Katakuri roared, a vein appearing on his forehead, "I'm not that tall!"
"You're the tallest mother fucker in the room." Eric reminded Katakuri. Katakuri huffed.
"I- You have a point but… Damn it!" Katakuri knew this was a battle he couldn't win and he shut up.
Thanos jumped from his crater and grabbed Nox's helmet and tore it off. Everyone saw an old man but had no wrinkles.
"Oh shit." Nox said before he was punched by Thanos, Nox hit the ground like a bag of rocks. Nox then gets another helmet out and puts it on.
"You guys didn't see that." Nox frowned, Fujitora inhaled.
"I CERTAINLY DIDN'T YOU ASSHOLE!!!!" Fujitora shouted out, growling afterwards.
"Easy there Casanova,” Eric said, patting the swordsman on the back. “You and I both now he didn’t mean it like that”
"...Would you like some Ramen?" Fujitora asked, turning to Arthur who was passing out ramen.
“What’s Ramen?” Eric asked, tilting his head.
"..." Getting flashbacks to Kodo he slowly shared a grin with Shiva, both of them grinning like the Grinch. "Arthur, Ramen's on me." Arthur let out a salute before suddenly in the laps of everyone, was a bowl of Ramen and Chopsticks.
“You know if he’s a food vendor why doesn’t he have a stall set up in the stands?” Maud asked curious about the “Ramen”. “He would make more bits he the audience ate it in the stands”
"Arthur doesn't care if he gets money, he's not that kind of dragon. He enjoys giving people warm stomachs… Dear god that sounds wrong out of context." Fujitora chuckled before digging into his ramen.
“Don’t worry, I understand what you mean,” Eric said to the Blind Marine. “I would love some of it, all I ever ate was Proper food and pony food”
"Already in your hand." Fujitora said, his mouth was full.
Looking down Eric was slightly shocked to see a steaming bowl of food. “How in Hera’s name did you do that?”
"Fastest man in the west." Arthur boasted, flashing Eric a toothy grin.
"Psst, Entity." Entity heard a voice, Entity looked around before looking downwards which was an Eliatrope in a robe.
"GAH WHAT ARE YOU DOING DOWN THERE!!!" Entity shouted out, the Eliatrope then hushed the Minecraft man.
"Blake, Ryola, and Jasmyn are in position." The Eliatrope informed Entity. Entity nodded.
"Alright." Entity responded to the Eliatrope.
"Do you mind me sitting next to you?" The Eliatrope asked Entity, Entity shook his head, "Thanks." The Eliatrope appeared next to Entity, she was met with a steaming bowl of ramen with chopsticks in it. "Good ol' Arthur at it again!" The Eliatrope laughed before digging in
‘I think I’d be best if you speak within your minds,’ Eric spoke within Entity’s mind.
"How do…" Entity turned to Eric.
‘Dark Telepathy...enables me to speak to anypony who has been touched by either my magic or my power. It also prevents anypony from eavesdropping on our conversation’
"Of course, Eric is so Edgy he is able to invade people's minds. Fuck you Eric." Entity snarked, rolling his eyes.
"Oh don't be like Entity." The Eliatrope told Entity in a baby like manner.
‘Look Entity I wish to apologize to you for earlier. I do believe Ryker is up to something’ Eric spoke into the Minecraft Human's head
"I heard this song and dance before. You apologize then you say you don't apologize about what followed afterwards…" Entity said flatly, "And me and my group already have a plan to beat Ryker."
‘I mean it Entity, I just needed to keep out of the king's eyes, especially since he has a Chaos user for his queen.’ Eric said
"He doesn't really like her from what I heard, he says she's annoying. He told me that when we were in the White Void." The Eliatrope told Eric. The Eliatrope looked at Ryker, a portal suddenly appeared behind Ryker's throne as he sat on it.
‘Even still, from what I’ve heard from the shadows, she still loves him and will do anything to protect him, best to stay on her good side. I don’t think anyone of us could deal with her, I don’t even think Murasame could kill her’
"Hmph, you're right. Let's see who's on the other side of the portal." Entity looked behind him.
‘Way ahead of you’ Eric said lifting his arm as a teardrop shaped shadow blob dropped him his arm and splattered on the floor before rapidly moving through the portal as it closed
“What good will that do?”
The portal revealed Ryker in a library with his back facing them, a portal was there in front of him and Ryker was holding a photo of a young woman that had brown hair and green eyes. They could see Ryker smile. "I can't wait to see you again… Nora."
Merging with natural shadows the blob grew a dark eye as he watched the King.
"...Reveal yourself, I know you're here." Ryker sighed, still facing the portal.
Without warning the Eye shut itself and traveled along the shadows to hide itself, however Ryker sped around before firing a blast of Ki which fried the shadow blob entirely.
Eric’s eyes grow wide as his face shines brightly before exploding and sending him flying into the walls. Ryker leaned on a wall next to Eric.
"Eric, oh Eric, Eric, Eric… You really thought that I couldn't see you?" Ryker asked the Shadow Man, shaking his head.
Eric held his nonexistent head as it started to regenerate with the shadow surrounding him, as one of his eyes regenerated he couldn’t help but glare at the King.
"Oh don't look at me like that, it's your fault for invading my privacy." Ryker rolled his eyes at Eric.
“Well forgive me” Eric said as the last of his head recovered. “I tend to not trust anypony who tries to kill me and threaten the life of the mare I love”
Ryker wrapped his hand around Eric's mouth and pulled him close to Ryker's height which was ten feet tall. "Listen here, Monohan or should I call you Moan-ohan because you always moan and groan. First off, I am no pony, second, I didn't try to kill you. I kicked you in your chest, then the last one was just a precaution, do you think I would kill someone who means so much to someone else? Your late wife is dead, my daughter is gone, we both don't want to lose them again. So please understand that it was nothing but a bluff." Ryker spoke through his teeth, his emerald eyes glowing as he did so.
In turn Eric’s eyes turned pitch black as his Iris’ turned crimson red. “Yeah. And I’m married to Chrysalis, the Changeling Queen.”
"You never know." Ryker chuckled before tightening his grip. "Look, I know why you don't trust me, because you got hurt by big ol' Ryky, and I threatened to kill Princess Luna. For the last time, it was a bluff, I'm not going to kill her." Ryker told Eric, Eric felt his jaw bone begin to crack.
Rubbing his jaw Eric muttered his healing spell under his breath. “Yeah I’ll believe that when Pinkie stops eating sugar,” Eric said moving past the King
"...You know Eric, the more you antagonize me, the more violent our little squabbles are going to get." Ryker told Eric, his back facing his, he summoned his staff and leaned on it.
“Like I care,” Eric said flaring his shadows
"Well, it's a good damn thing I have his token…" Ryker muttered under his breath, opening a portal and a black devil fruit appeared.
“You know your incoherent muttering is useless when someone has heightened hearing.”
"Okay that's It." Ryker appeared beside Eric to land a kick.
Only to be blocked by a shadow shield and the barrel of a gun planted right on his forehead only for him to grab it. He added some pressure to it.
"Oh ho, ho! You wanna go beastie?" Ryker chuckled.
“Look Ryker,” Eric said, causing the King to pause as Eric took the fruit from his hand and absorbing it into his shadow. “I know the pain of losing someone you love so I won’t kill you, only so Screwball doesn’t feel that pain” Eric removed the gun from Ryker’s forehead and stored it into his coat holster.
"Like you can kill me." Ryker said plainly, opening his palm. "How about you just give me the token. Please?" Ryker said, smiling.
“I only give my fruit to those who I trust,” Eric said, evaporating into shadow. “And I don’t trust you.”
"Last warning, give me the token. I said please too…" Ryker warned, his hand then glowed as he opened his palm. Like he was about to open a portal.
However he stopped when he felt a series of blades at his neck. “Leave Eric alone, Ryker” Sombra said pushing his blades into the king's neck
"Alright," Ryker sighed, opening a portal, he brought out three ponies. The ponies were… Amber and both of Sombra's parents. Ryker grinned.
Ryker then snapped his fingers and they both exploded, "Pop goes the weasel!" Ryker sang.
Now while Sombra didn’t bat an eye at his parents second death, Eric was pissed however he quickly put his skull mask on his face.
“Like I said, I don’t trust you,” Eric said to the King as shadow vapor covered the area. “And trust me I am absolutely livid”
"Why do you in particular piss Ryker off so much? You realize he could just send you away or even kill you, right?" Herobrine asked the Shadow Man.
“Eric, stop it,” Maud said slowly walking in between the Shadow Man and the King. “Give me the token.”
"She's right, I apologize Eric, what I did was unprofessional. I am so sorry that you had to witness your lover die again, Sombra. I am sorry for killing and at the same time not killing your parents. I am really sorry, is there anything I can do for you two?" Ryker sighed looking at the two, they sensed nothing negative from his being.
“My Parents died long ago,” Sombra said to the King. “It doesn’t effect me anymore”
"Yeah but I'm still sorry, I will literally give you anything to make you feel better. Do ya want Yoru?" Ryker pulled out Dracule Mihawk's blade out of nowhere.
“Just leave us alone,” Maud said popping the stem off the fruit and handing the fruit to Ryker
"Oh… Alright… I see… If there's anything I can do for you guys let me know. Popcorn, chicken… Yada yada, also I know the token is nothing when it's not complete but I'm keeping it as a souvenir." Ryker said, looking down at it.
“You’re wrong,” Maud said, pushing the stem into Eric’s body. “You’ll still get the power, but without the stem you can’t travel to our world with it”
"Well this is useless," Ryker crushed the fruit, shattering it to pieces, completely forgetting that he would keep it as a souvenir. "I already have Eric's fruit in my vault. Anyways, just to apologize and make it up for you guys. Here's some apology gifts, and I INSIST you guys keep them." Ryker said, focusing on the insist. He held up a bag from a portal each with their names on them.
He then peered down into the bags, "...SCREWBALL GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE!!!!" Ryker roared, shaking the ship.
“Has somebody called upon the Goddess of Chaos?” Screwball sang erupting in a pink cloud of stars
"Goddess of Chaos? More like the Goddess of Idiocy, damn moron! Anyways, what did you do with the bags, they're all stuffed animals! And why not beavers?!" Ryker frowned at Screwball.
“Here love,” Screwball snapped her fingers and stuffed beavers fell into everyone’s arms
"THANKS SCREWBALL!!!!" Thanos shouted out from the battlefield, petting his stuffed beaver.
“You’re welcome Crome dome,” Screwball shouted back
"I would be loving this, IF I WASN'T FUCKING BLIND!!!!" Fujitora shouted out, the volume of his voice shook the aircraft.
“Fuji, can you follow the sound of my voice please?” Screwball asked the blind swordsman
"Just because I'm blind doesn't mean I can't see! Wait- Shut up!" Fujitora grumbled, walking over to Screwball.
Placing a hand on the marines head, Screwball's eyes began to spin. Screwball looked at the Stuffed beaver.
“Our minds our linked, you should see what I see”
The beaver wore a white marines jacket with a wooden cane in his hand with a scar over his button eyes
"Aw, it looks so cute!" Fujitora cooed, "Wait you look like that? Dear god you're a lot more beautiful than I expected. Also, that's an insult I expected you to be a dumb looking person given on how you act 24/7." Fujitora told the Chaos Goddess.
“Fuji, While I admit some Chaos users are freakshows” Screwball said looking at the Swordsman showing him exactly how he looked. “I am not.”
"I can't say anything about that." Fujitora replied, he then turned around. "Dear god I can see through someone else's eyes, I HAVE THE POWER RYKER!!!!" Ryker rolled his eyes, snapping his fingers, Fujitora opened his eyes. Being able to see.
"You can see now, I reactivated Moanohan's spell back then because ya know, I do have Dark Magic and some Chaos Magic here and there…" Ryker muttered, Fujitora looked at Ryker.
"Wow, you look like an asshole!" Fujitora noted with a grin, as they hugged each other, "A nice one at that!"
“Fuji be nice.” Screwball said, flicking the marines nose.
"Let him have his moment," Ryker grinned, letting go of Fujitora, Fujitora did the same.
"I am so happy I could sing!" Fujitora said, grinning wildly. Arkham Knight groaned.
"Please don't…" Arkham Knight groaned, reeling his head back.
"You look like that? I expected you to be…" Before Fujitora could finish that sentence Ryker sent off an intimidating aura, Fujitora then stopped. "More… Nice looking…"
"Anyways, I should be off, I must go now to plot an escape if I need one. Which I highly doubt!" Ryker made a portal next to him that led to the library, Ryker then took a step in and left the aircraft. Though they saw Ryker on his throne yawning, Fujitora was dumbstruck at this.
"I have so many questions…" Fujitora mumbled, he then looked at Eric. "Oh my god your look so edgy! Edgy Bastard!" Fujitora then laughed at Eric, doing the whole "Bah! Hahahaha" schtick.
Back on the Battlefield...
“ATATATATATATATA!!!” The two combatants cried out as their fists crossed each other, Thanos threw a kick, Nox blocked it, Nox threw a punch, Thanos blocked it. The process repeated about ten times before they both landed a solid hit on each other’s skulls. Thanos hit the magma and skipped onto land, Nox caught himself and looked down at Thanos.
“I had enough of these games, John, go full power already and I’ll do the same. I want to finish this.” Nox crossed his arms, down at Thanos, Thanos slowly went to his feet.
“No, if I do I would kill you!” Thanos told the Xelor, Nox just tsked, he then brought out a blue cube. This made Ryker stand up.
“The Eliacube...” Ryker said mentally, looking at the screen, Nox just put both of his hands on the Eliacube and began using its power. Noximilien began to charge up, the force of the energy he was exerting pushed the Titan back. Nox then stopped, his aura was similar to Ultra Instinct’s.
”You see Thanos, you’re not dealing with the average Xelor Warrior anymore... I have ascended, I have become a Super Xelor!” Nox declared, Thanos shook at this power, shivering in slight fear.
“Dear god that’s like three Kaido’s in one being!” Thanos shrieked, Thanos looked to the skies. “I need a vote, who wants to see my full power?” Thanos asked literally everyone.
Eric, Sombra and Rainbow Dash were the first to raise their hands causing a large three to appear above the fight
Black stood up and powered up to Super Saiyan Rosé with a smirk. “Thanos! Show them the strength you showed me in your fight!” Black shouted through the battlefield, raising his fist to the sky with Luna Black and Nightmare doing the same. Soon a large six appeared above the fight.
“WOOHOO!!! Show them your strength Beanos!” Luffy shot his hand up, Grievous chuckled before raising his hand, Lucci turned into a leopard, Nappa went to Super Saiyan Four and they raised their hands, grinning. This made it go up to a whopping ten.
“Show us your power, Titan!” Katakuri shot his hand up, the Commanders followed after, Lord Twigo raised his hand up. Towa’s underlings did the same.
“Ho, ho, ho, why not?” Frieza raised his hand up, Mr. Perfect Cell did the same Omega Shenron reluctantly raised his hand. The combination of the Commanders and the Underlings made it go up to twenty eight. Ryker just raised his hand with a smirk, Kyle did the same, bringing it up to thirty. Link didn’t bother voting as he didn’t really care if Thanos did go full power or not, the hylian just wanted to go home as he’s had enough to last a year.
“Oh you gotta be shitting me…” Thanos muttered under his breath, seeing the amount of hands being raised, Erebus and Iron Man raised their hands, it made it rise to thirty two. The Eliatrope raised her hand as well sheepishly making it rise to thirty three.
Shiva arced an eyebrow at the others, before shaking her head. “Do we really need to be reminded of how powerful these people are?” She asked.
“EXACTLY STOP THE VOTE!!!!” Thanos shouted out seeing the vote increase, “God damn it!”
“Why’d the increase?” Shiva asked, “I voted no!”
She then noticed Kodo, his tail wagging like a guilty dog as his claw raised into the air. Shiva face planted on the ground in exasperation.
“Curse it,” Shiva mumbled.
“Are you alright?” Fujitora asked looking at the dog, “Oh, and I can see now.”
“Huh,” Shiva mused. “I thought something was going on beyond my worry for my son.” She rolled to her side and grinned up at Fujitora. “So, Issho; what do you think?”
“I think you are a dog, and an adorable one at that.” Fujitora walked over to Shiva and pat her on the head with a smile.
Shiva grinned, her tail wagging as she leaned into his touch.
“Though my sight is temporary, I wish it could last a little more than an hour.” Fujitora chuckled before pulling his hand back.
Shiva hummed softly. “Well,” she replied. “Enjoy it while it lasts.” She watched Kodo, who was thankfully staying on the sidelines.
“...Kodo looks like that?” Fujitora asked, pointing at the canine, “Dear god he is shorter than I expected. Star Wars Reference.” Fujitora whispered that last bit.
“He is still a child,” Shiva replied quietly. “Despite what the world has forced him to do.”
“Oh… I forgot about that.” Fujitora hummed, “Wait, what happened when he fought Rubilax?”
Shiva chuckled. “He impressed me,” she admitted. “Somehow, his smoke-smoke fruit allowed him to increase his size to that of a dragon. Then he used his diamond dog heritage to bury the Rubilax.” Her grin faded. “A shame it didn’t work to beat the creature, but at least Grievous was there to finish the job by launching Rubilax into space.”
“...What?” Fujitora asked Shiva, looking at Grievous through the screen who’s cape has caught on fire yet again for standing too close to magma.
Before Shiva could reply, Kodo raced over to Grievous and dragged him from the magma. Only for Kodo’s fur to catch on fire as well.
Shiva yelped in sync with her son as he darted away from the magma. “Kodo!” Shiva shrieked, “Stop, drop and roll! Remember the dragon protocol!”
Kodo dove into the ground, smothering the flames in dirt, while Grievous then stop, dropped, and rolled, unfortunately for the General he was close to magma and rolled into it, only for both his Water Sword and his Air Sword to activate and turn the magma to ice. Grievous rolled across the ice screaming as pieces of magma shot from the ice as he rolled to other land.
Kodo’s pack link launched from the dirt and seized the General, dragging him back for safer land.
“...They’re fun.” Fujitora chuckled.
Shiva sighed. “You have a very… interesting definition of fun.”
“At least Kodo has Grievous to watch over him, er… They watch over each other. Honestly I think Grievous is faking it, he’s a Dragon Slayer, he should be resistant to…” Before Fujitora could finish he noticed Grievous just stood there on fire and standing there unflinchingly, “Fire…”
“This is fine.” Grievous said while looking at Thanos, Grievous took a sip of tea, holding it to his mouth. His mouth then opened mechanically and he ingested the drink.
Kodo watched Grievous burn for a moment, before glancing up towards Shiva. Shiva shrugged, causing Kodo to just shrug, before settling in the dirt and curling up like a sleeping dog.
“Fine, I’ll show you guys my power.” Thanos groaned, which earned cheers from the crowd. Grievous quickly put water on his body before looking down at Kodo.
“Boy, get behind cover pronto.” Grievous warned the pup, wide-eyed.
Kodo nodded, diving deep into the earth and creating a foxhole. Grievous just dug his claws deep into the ground and crossed his arms, Iron Man just flew off, fearing for his safety. Black stood his ground as he crossed his arms, smirking.
“Now… I’ll show you all how just outclassed you all are…”
“As if we didn’t know that already?” Shiva mused, but everyone ignored her, more focused on the spectacle.
“Let me show you my full power!” Thanos began to charge up, and just like it did with Goku, lightning began to strike all over the place, because he is a metal man, Grievous was struck first.
“Ow.” Grievous groaned, Thanos’ blue aura changed to white, magma and rock then form on his fists.
“Tekkai, Go!” Thanos covered his body in Tekkai before covering his body in Armament Haki. He then used Conqueror’s Haki to multiply his strength. “KAIO-KEN TIMES FIFTY!!!!” A deep red aura surrounded the Titan and a pillar of white shot up from his location. Going above the clouds and clearing the smoke in the air. There was nothing but blue skies and there was Thanos, lightning was around his body with a mixture of a white, purple, and red aura. Thanos took a singular step before appearing at Nox’s face. Nox and Thanos then clashed fists which sent Grievous flying, doing the Goofy scream he was launching over the horizon. A bugs bunny styled worm sign followed after him as Kodo dug through the earth to follow him.
“Is it hot in here or…” Fujitora asked, feeling the heat against his body, Katakuri noticed that his scarf was on fire.
“Oh…” Katakuri said before patting it out only for it to burn again, “God fucking damn it.”
Shiva felt her own fur start to burn. “What is happening?” she demanded, patting and whacking at her smoldering body.
“I don’t know! AAAAA!!!!” Luffy shouted, running around in circles as he was on fire.
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Thanos and Nox clashed, the earth began to shake and quake at the force of the two gods. Every fist clashed sent a tremor, Thanos landed a sledgehammer down on Nox, sending him flying to the magma. But the cheeky bastard stopped time and reappeared next to Thanos, time was now continuing. Nox landed a right hook to Thanos’ right jaw, Thanos was sent flying into the ground. Thanos halted himself from flying into the magma by digging his feet into the ground. Thanos flew at Nox, raising his leg Nox blocked the attack.
“I hate you man,” Thanos grinned, before landing a punch in Nox’s face. Nox then landed an uppercut to Thanos’ jaw, Thanos then headbutts the Watchmaker sending him flying down. Thanos followed after Nox, using his Wakfu Reserves, Nox forged a shield of Wakfu. Thanos punches the shield and it, again, makes a tremor. Nox then pushed the Titan off of him, Nox then resummoned his chain. Nox threw the chain and it wrapped around Thanos’ foot, Nox then threw the Titan over him and slammed Thanos into a pile of rocks.
“Get up, Titan!” Nox demanded, Thanos got up and got in a fighting stance. Thanos then shot off at Nox and landed a devastating punch to his gut.
“First Stance… FIST OF THE BLACK TURTLE!!!” Thanos cried out, Nox wheezed, Nox stumbled backwards.
“Second Stance… VERMILLION BIRD!!!” A pillar of magma absorbed the Xelor. Luffy and Shiva winced at the aftermath; Nox was burnt yet wasn’t dead yet. Nox squeaked.
“Third Stance… WHITE TIGER!!!” Thanos unleashed hell upon the Xelor, Nox felt the full force of Thanos’ might. Punches and kicks all landed on the old man. Then Thanos stopped and put up his fists to Nox, one on top of the other.
“Last Stance… AZURE DRAGON!!!!” A blue dragon tore through the Xelor like a hot knife through butter, Nox wheezed as a trench about as wide as Katakuri is long and as deep as thirty meters. Nox fell down the trench and lava began to slowly fall down there… Only for a tiger made out of Wakfu to jump above Thanos. Inside of it was Nox, it was like Kung Fu panda 3 all over again.
“Bullshit.” Thanos said with a frown, Nox flew at Thanos and slapped the Titan away with his paw. Thanos was sent hurling across the hellish landscape and into a boulder. Nox then flew at Thanos, Thanos got up and slammed his fist into the boulder, now wearing it. Thanos flew at Nox and landed a punch to his muzzle, causing the boulder to shatter. Thanos then did a backflip in the air and landed a kick on the Wakfu Tiger’s nose, this sent Nox up. Nox then stopped and looked down at Thanos, Nox then fired off balls of Wakfu down upon Thanos. Thanos then fired light arrows at the Wakfu balls. The two forces collided and made a dust cloud. Iron man turned to Black.
“I think this is going to be quite a rousing finale…” Tony said cheekily, seeing the two combatants fly from the dust cloud and clash.
“Definitely, their final blows will probably shake the entire planet, no...” Black said, smirking. “This’ll probably shake the solar system.”
“HWATA!!!!” Thanos and Nox clashed, then the two stopped. Thanos looked at Nox with a grin, “I think it’s time we end this.”
“I couldn’t have said it better myself.” Nox then appeared far away from Thanos, on the other side of Antartica.
“Hey guys, you might want to hold onto me,” Black said as the Saiyan motioned his hand to get close to him..
“Don’t mind if I do…” Tony scooted closer to the Saiyan and put a hand on his shoulder, “This is awkward.”
Black let out a little laugh and created a barrier around them. “This won’t be able to hold, but it'll at least keep us from being injured by the shockwave.” Black explained as he created a few more barriers.
“Save some for us,” Kodo called to Black, popping out of the ground with Grievous’ leg clutched in his teeth.
“Pain.” Grievous grunted, “Boy, let go of my leg.” Grievous ordered the canine weakly.
“Once you’re safe,” Kodo replied, jumping into the barrier as Black opened it. Once they were inside, he let go of Grievous’ leg. “See?”
“Alright, let’s enjoy this.” Grievous crossed his arms looking at the event that was yet to unfold. Grievous dug his claws into the ground.
Black then closed the barriers. “You still might want to hold onto me, these barriers won’t be able to hold once the shockwave hits.” Black explained.
“You got it,” Kodo said, immediately latching onto Luna’s leg, as she held onto Black. Grievous held onto Tony who held hands with Black.
Nox began to fly at Thanos, Thanos then flew at Nox, his gauntlet fist was covered in Armament Haki, strengthened by Tekkai Go, added with Magma and Rock, added in Alicorn Magic and Ki, not to mention Lightning and Fire. He then broke the sound barrier, Nox flew at Thanos and converted the Wakfu around him to a gauntlet.
“OMEGA… HEAT…!!!!” Thanos began, the pressure of the attack already shaking the planet.
“CLOCKWORK…!!!” Nox began as well, the two forces were about to clash.
“CRASH!!!” Thanos threw a punch.
“FIST!!!” Nox threw his punch… Suddenly everything went white, the aircraft was flipped upside down by the force. Immediately Katakuri then used his Mochi to make a spiderweb to make sure everyone didn’t get harmed. Link had to use his lens of truth just to see what was going on.
Black saw the shockwave coming, “Shit…” Black muttered as he prepared himself. As soon as the shockwave made contact with the barriers Black set up, they shattered like glass. Black grunted as he grabbed everyone and let out a roar. “KAIO KEN TIMES 50!!” His aura appeared with red on the edges as the Saiyan planted his feet into the ground. But Black was being pushed back as he made mini trenches in the ground. “HOLD ON!!!” Black yelled as the group tried to hold their ground against the powerful shockwave.
“Princess Luna,” Kodo cried as he hung onto her. “If this doesn’t work out, I want you to know I really-really like you!” He paused, glancing around for Eric. “Or at least the version of you from my world!”
Luna chuckled softly. “This will work out, young one,” she assured him. “And when you return to your world, follow your heart.”
“MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!!!!” Grievous went Kaio-Ken and he tucked himself downwards, using his metal claws to halt himself. Though he was still being forced back, grunting as he tried to not get blown away like earlier.
Black felt himself being lifted off the ground, he scoffed as he created a Ki climbing axe, he struck the ground as it held. He created ki ropes as threw them around everyone, he then tied them to the ki axe as he held on. Additional pack links bound around his arms, strengthening the ropes and anchoring them to the ki axe. When Black looked back, he saw Kodo glowing, channeling the pack link to aid them. Kodo caught Black’s eyes and gave him a nod of support. Using his Earth Sword, Grievous made a rock wall behind them to support themselves as well as using his Air Sword to push the roaring winds.
“OH SHI-” Nappa cried out before he fell into the net, everyone else following right after.
“Thank you, Katakuri,” Shiva called.
“You’re welcome, Lady Shiva.” Katakuri grunted, “Kinda stuffy in here…”
But on the battlefield there lied both Thanos and Nox on their backs, Thanos tried to get up but his body failed him. Nox attempted to get up as well, though his old body forced him back down. Ryker slowly got up shaking his head.
“Alright… Start the countdown!” Ryker ordered.
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“Five!”
Thanos grunted, moving his arm to try and get up. Nox used a bit of his Wakfu to thrust himself onto his stomach.
“Four!”
Thanos went to his stomach, pushing himself up, his muscles being strained. Nox was doing the same trying to get up as well.
“Three!”
Thanos went to his knees, Nox doing the same letting out a loud grunt doing so.
“Two!”
Thanos and Nox shot up from the ground, letting out a roar of determination, though their voices were hoarse due to the shot from earlier. Thanos got in a stance and Nox just stood there, looking at Thanos.
“Damn…” Nox then fell on his back, Thanos paused, he peered down on his downed foe, Thanos stumbled backwards before forcing himself to keep his balance. Thanos then grinned, Link, Phoenix, Nox’s Children, the Dragon, and now Nox had been defeated.
“I WON!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!! LET’S GOOOOO!!!!!” Thanos ripped off whatever he had on except for the clothes that hidden his nether regions.
Shortly after, Black dismissed all of the ki ropes and axe as he stood up. He turned to the others who seemed to be in a daze. “You guys alright?” Black turned his attention to his friend. “Son of a Bitch, you fucking did it… you did it you sexy son of a bitch.” Black then jumped into the air with a raised fist. “THATS IT MY FRIEND, YOU’VE WON!!! HAHA!!!” Black laughed with glee, Grievous began to laugh with Black as well.
"Well the purple man won… Yay…" Tony grunted, shaking his head to try and regain his composure.
“I can’t feel my fur,” Kodo mumbled, his fur spiked up like he had been hit by lightning.
“PELVIC THRUST!!!!!” Thanos then did a Vector and began pelvic thrusting, “I’M THE BEST AROUND!!! NOBODY CAN EVER TAKE ME DOWN!!!!” Thanos sang, grinning like a mad man.
“Just wait until a Displaced Chuck Norris exists, Thanos' ego will quickly deflate.” Link said joking to the others as he hid the side of his face using his left hand.
“Please, by everything sacred, no more ridiculously overpowered displaced,” Shiva moaned.
“WOOHOO!!!” Luffy pumped his fist up, grinning, Nappa, Lucci, and Entity doing the same.
Black landed back on the ground and turned to the others, noticing they had some little injured. He pointed a hand at them and they began to have a green glow. Shortly their injuries were gone.
“And my body is failing me, oof.” Thanos hit the floor, wheezing when he impacted the fiery ground.
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Black noticed this and flew over with haste towards his friend. He landed and looked down at Thanos with a smile. “Well, you won your first tournament, how do you feel?” Black asked.
“I feel like I’m the strongest there is… besides Ed of course…” Thanos groaned.
“Just don’t let it get to your head. Let's get you healed up” Black commented as he began to heal the Mad Titan and used ‘Clothes Beam’ to replace his damaged clothing.
“The winner is… Thanos The Mad Titan!” Ryker announced and everybody began to cheer, the aircraft went back to normal, not upside down. Katakuri nodded in pure respect.
“W-well… I was close… T-to winning…” Nox said like a husk, forcing his head to look at Thanos and Black.
“And you gave it your all, which you have my respect for.” Black said as he walked over to him. “But I doubt you could move right now… Supreme Kai Powers activate!” Black exclaimed as he healed Nox.
Nox slowly got up, now healed. “That is by far one of your most useful skills.” Nox said with a grin, his smile partly showing.
“The only useful thing I learned from Zamasu…” Black commented, a hint of anger in his voice.
“Bah don’t worry about that best buddy!” Thanos wrapped his arm around Black’s neck, “You come here too for that great fight!” Thanos wrapped his arm around Nox’s neck. Thanos began to hug them tightly, making them choke.
“Thanos… air! You're doing the… thing again!” Black choked out as he tried to gasp for air.
“What thing?” Thanos asked the pair.
“When we first met, you did the same thing!!” Black explained as his face began to turn purple.
“You’re... choking us you dimwit…” Nox wheezed.
“Oh.” Thanos let go of them and they fell down like a pile of rocks. “You’re welcome.”
“Uh huh.” Blacks voice was muffled as his face was on the ground.
“Now you guys! Let me give you guys a hug!” Thanos looked at the people who were on the battlefield. Link was reminded of a scene in Ocarina of time where the Gorons would try to give you a hug.
“FUCKING RUN KODO!!!!” Grievous then turned tail and ran, and boy did he go Forrest Gump on this bitch. Kodo was only able to keep up by catching the tail end of his scorched cape with his teeth, which he held onto for dear life as Grievous booked it across the field.
Black sat up and looked at the running pair, letting out a laugh. He got a glimpse of a flashback, seeing him and the original bearers of the elements of Harmony training together. A sad smile appeared on the Saiyans face. “Thanos and his friends are just like you guys…” Black muttered.
“Banquet!” Luffy shouted out, earning cheers from everyone but meanwhile… Fujitora looked at Shiva, letting out a sigh before leaving. Shiva watched him go with a worried expression.
Fujitora walked down the hall as everything transferred back to normal, the arena was here and everyone was back at said arena. His eyes returned back to “normal” and he was blind again.
“It’s soon…”
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It is now the next day, everyone was in the diner again. Though this time Katakuri was there, Katakuri began to lean on a wall, though his head was touching the ceiling.
"It has been increasingly obvious, I can deny it no longer! ...I am tall." Katakuri spoke, Thanos rolled his eyes.
“Told you,” Eric said with a mouth full of steak and mushrooms
Black looked up from his breakfast, it being taken down to a simple meal of pancakes, bacon and egg. “Did you just call me short?” Black asked with a raised eyebrow.
"You're not tall, you're normal sized! Unlike these shorties here…" Thanos pointed a thumb towards the others.
Shiva scoffed. “I’m a dog,” she reminded him. “Of course I’m going to be short.”
“Until I put on the giant’s mask or the deity mask.” Link said in a half joking tone.
"I doubt the giant's mask can match the size of Rubilax." Grievous told the Hylian, "Nothing can match his height…"
“And how big is Rubilax?” Link asked curiously.
Kodo shuddered at the memory. “Big,” was all he said.
"...He is the size of the moon basically, the biggest demon I've ever seen. Me and Kodo had to fight that monster." Grievous said, shuddering a little.
“..Fair point. I think the giant’s mask makes me forty three feet tall.” Link said after he ran the math through his head.
"Oh, hello Link!" Light waved at Link, she was in bandages as were her brothers. Nox was perfectly fine for he was healed. "How's your morning?"
“Fair so far, other than me wondering if we’ll be going home soon.” Link said with a hopeful expression on his face.
“Indeed,” Shiva agreed. “Not that this hasn’t been fun, but my daughter and pack will probably be worried about us.”
“You maybe,” Kodo replied morosely. “They still haven’t forgiven me for what happened with Umbra.”
"Though, you guys have to wait it out until Thanos gets his wish. Now, Thanos has to fight me. Though if he loses he still gets his wish." Katakuri explained to Link.
"I'm not fighting you." Thanos told the Mochi Man.
Katakuri immediately forced his Conqueror's Haki upon the group. Everyone got pushed to the ground by the pressure.
"YOU WHAT!?!??!? DO YOU KNOW HOW STRONG YOU ARE?!?!? YOU ARE THE STRONGEST DISPLACED OF THE NEW GENERATION!!!!" Katakuri roared, Thanos groaned.
"Ya can't blame me! I fought nothing but Gods, I'm like fucking Kratos! Can I please just relax for once in this damn tournament?! I need my rest…" Thanos explained to the Combat King.
"Okay then, who's gonna fight me?!" Katakuri let off his Conqueror's Haki. Katakuri looks around at the group, first at Black, then Eric, Shiva (who was shaking her head so fast, her head was blurring), Link, Maud, Nox, and finally Phoenix. "Who?!"
“Don’t overly praise the guy. He’s strong, sure, but he isn’t the strongest considering the multiverse, and of course with it constantly growing, there will always be someone stronger.” Link explained and pointed out.
"...I said of the new generation." Katakuri deadpanned at the Hylian, "I am an old gen guy, when people like Gilgamesh or Zoro were around. Ed is an old gen, look at him." Katakuri points to Ed.
“I can’t really tell who is what generation anyhow.” Links said with a shrug of his arms. “I don’t have access to some book of knowledge telling me the history of the Displaced.” he said with a deadpan expression of his own.
"...I am tempted to throw you in the ring and completely wreck your shit. But that would be unprofessional, so you get to keep your kneecaps." Katakuri peered down at Link, red lightning formed around him and his eyes turned red for a split second.
“And what good would that do?” Link said with a frown and a raised eyebrow.
"It would help me blow off some steam because SOMEONE not saying name, Thanos, doesn't want to fight me." Katakuri glanced at Thanos before turning to Link.
“To be honest, I think the guy’s had enough. No need to pull a vegeta and pester him every waking moment.” Link said with a shake of his head.
"Yeah man, I was dissed, insulted, my best buddy and I had an argument, had nightmares, fought nothing but Gods, had to fight when I was outnumbered, and YOU the STRONGEST person in this room, except for Ed, wants to fight me." Thanos points at his chest, "Haha… no."
"Fight me!" Katakuri ran at Thanos, Thanos then ran through a wall, screaming in pure fear. "FIGHT ME!!!!"
“And this is why you shouldn’t try to be the strongest. It’s either a never ending cycle of people wanting to prove they’re better, or there is no one or nothing to use that power on, thus you would end up depressed and possibly never satisfied during your conquest to become the strongest.” Link ranted to himself with a sigh as he ate another piece of his pancakes.
“That is why I’m glad I stuck being a simple pack Alpha rather than going for Princess or Queen,” Shiva noted. “Much better to have people requesting I help them rather than fight them.” Link nodded in agreement with Shiva’s words.
Thanos walked back with a box of pizza in hand, "Okay, I'm back, I have breakfast pizza for everyone." Thanos set the pizza box down, before opening it only for Katakuri to pop out.
"FIGHT ME!!!" Katakuri demanded, Thanos fell on his ass in utter shock.
"No!" Thanos told the Mochi Man, Katakuri began shaking Thanos.
"Did I stutter?" Katakuri asked the Titan, Thanos was wide-eyed.
"I need an adult." Thanos squeaked.
"You are an adult." Katakuri deadpanned at the Titan.
"Fuck!" Thanos swore, Katakuri began shaking Thanos around, chanting "fight me!"
"...So, Mr. Evel… I forgot your last name, you have so many names." Nox looked at Phoenix.
“Elvenkind, Phoenix Elvenkind.” Phoenix looked at the strange man. “And who might you be?”
"My name is Milien, Noximilien the Watchmaker." Nox stuck out a hand to Phoenix, "I lost to Thanos in the finals."
“A pleasure.” Phoenix took Nox’s hand and gave it a firm shake. “It’s a shame you lost, would have loved to see Thanos begging for mercy.” Phoenix gave a bright innocent grin to Nox and subconsciously began to tighten his grip on his hand.
"Quite a strong grip you have there, though, why would you like to see him beg for mercy? That's awfully mean." Nox then tightened his grip as well, not wanting to be one-upped.
“Well you come to find that I am an awfully mean person.” Phoenix’s smile didn’t falter. “Let’s just say I wasn’t able to give it my all during our bout.” Phoenix glanced at his ring. “Maybe someday we’ll be able to duke it out for real.”
"Kaido did tell you that Jinbe was in your world? Kaido is dead so… Jinbe should be chilling in Seaquestria." Nox let go of Phoenix's hand, rubbing his metallic chin.
“Oh I am fully aware. But trust me when I say he will be returning very soon. Perhaps with a few third degree burns.” Phoenix stated.
"Believe It or not, the base has been destroyed. Thanos beat Kaido, I should know, I worked under Kaido. But since he's dead there has been no need to follow his orders… Though a being known as Boros is out there destroying planets…" Nox sighed.
“Give me directions, and he won’t be for much longer.” Phoenix pulled out some butterfly knives and began to fiddle; you know, because he’s edgy as fuck.
"Hm… I don't know where he is…" Nox said in a thinking pose, which quickly turned into a Jojo's pose.
“That’s a damn shame…..” Phoenix murmured. “Also, nice.” Phoenix struck a Jojo’s pose. But far superior to Nox’s.
Black tried to continue eating his pancakes, but the sound of katakuri chanting ‘Fight Me!’ Over and over again began to get on the Saiyans nerves. He gripped his fork as it began to bend under Blacks frustration. He lasted a few more seconds before he slammed his hands on the table and stood up.
“I’ll fight you Katakuri if you’d just shut up!” Black shouted, the whole room going quiet at the Saiyans outburst. Black looked at everyone silently before sighing, sitting down and finishing his ‘snack’.
"You're a Saiyan… Right? You fought Thanos to a draw, honorably at that. I accept, but we fight on my terms, got that?" Katakuri said, towering over the Saiyan.
Black looked up to Katakuri, “And what terms would those be?” Black asked as he finished his food and stood up.
"The same rules as the tournament, but… You can't fly and you only have to use martial arts. No Ki." Katakuri told the Saiyan.
“So back to the old days of Dragon Ball,” Black commented. “I reckon that also means no transformations as well.” Black asks.
"Yes," Katakuri nodded before crossing his arms.
“This could actually be an entertaining fight,” Sombra said, causing Maud and Rainbow to nod in agreement.
“So when do we fight?” Black adds the tall man.
"In an hour, seeing as you’re finished eating, and seeing as it takes an hour for food to be digested… Yeah I'll wait." Katakuri planned, before turning to the door.
“Alright, see you in an hour,” Black said, holding up a fist.
"Farewell." Katakuri then turns into a white donut shaped… Thing, and he began rolling, crashing through the door he left the room.
“... ok… that’s a thing…” Black utters out before taking a seat.
“At this point,” Shiva said. “I just don’t question anything anymore.”
Kodo chuckled softly. “Just like Pinkie Pie,” he mused.
"You just sealed your own grave…" Grievous told the Saiyan, "He's going to wreck your shit."
Sombra nudged Eric before giving him a look. “Give them to him,” the unicorn whispered causing Eric to exhale.
“Black,” Eric said tossing a pair of gloves to the Saiyan
Black catches them and looks at it curiously before turning to Eric, “Why’d you give me gloves?”
“They’re the gloves from my Royal Armor,” Eric said before motioning him to look at the knuckles. “The knuckles are made from Sea Prism Stone. Should make fighting him just a little bit easier.”
Black looked at the gloves for a few moments before sighing, placing them on the table. “I refuse.” Black says, confusing Eric. “I’d rather fight him with my own strength.”
“I can respect that,” Eric said, taking the gloves back. “I really do,” the Shadow Man said before leaving the Diner.
Black stood up from his seat, “I’m gonna go clear my head and meditate for a bit. I need as much concentration to face Katakuri.” Black explains as he leaves the Diner.
"I wonder why only Katakuri came here," Brute inquired, looking at the open doors that Katakuri broke down.
“Maybe the others had other matters to attend to,” Shiva offered, glancing at the doors wistfully. Anyone with mind reading capabilities - and pretty much anyone else - could tell she was thinking of Fujitora.
"Well, if that was the case, don't you think Katakuri wouldn't even bother coming down here? Sure he is coming on by to check on us, but…" Brute trailed on.
“Maybe he was coming to check on Thanos,” Kodo replied. “He was supposed to fight him… until Black took his place.”
“Yeah it kinda bothers me why he was here too,” Rainbow said as Maud and Nappa clasped hands before arm wrestling.
“Ready?” Maud asked the bald Saiyan
"No." Nappa said plainly, "Due to the author's wishes I'm gonna break my arm…" Nappa shuddered.
“You don’t have to arm wrestle if you’re worried,” Shiva offered.
“I’m positive the monkey can handle Maud’s strength, ” Sombra said with a grin
"Call me, monkey, one more time you racist motherfucker." Nappa turned to the Vessel of Umbra the Dark. Kodo glanced around, sensing the use of a title that could apply to him as well.
“Well if it walks like a monkey and talks like one...” Sombra said finding the Bald Saiyan’s reactions quite amusing
"..." Nappa said nothing, taking a deep breath before looking into Maud's empty eyes. "Okay, Maud, are you ready to break my arm?" Nappa grinned ear to ear, trying to hide the pain.
“Sure.” Maud said, lacking any emotion in her voice as she tightened her grip, Nappa didn't even try to add some force because he knew what was coming. “Three….”
“Two…”
“One…” Maud said as the Saiyan tried to force the mare's arm down on the surface of the table, however he only managed to move her a solid quarter inch. “Go…”
Maud slammed the Saiyan’s arm into the table causing several things to happen. One. A gust of wind blows through the diner knocking everyone’s food to the floor. Two. Nappa’s arm is bent at an angle where he could scratch his entire back, and Three, Nappa’s body was flung over the table and crashed into the floor breaking both the table and the floor
“I win” Maud said blankly
Nappa laid there, unfazed by the result. "My arm is shattered, along with my pride…" Nappa blinked.
“Not for long,” Shiva said, binding a pack link around his broken arm, and resetting it with a flash of light. “For your arm, I mean. Can’t do much about your pride.”
“Hey,” Maud said, poking the Saiyan’s bald head. “You did better than most”
"Yay!" Nappa jumped to his feet, "Haha, I'm not a failure! Like Raditz…" Nappa squinted his eyes.
“I don’t know what this Raditz is,” Shiva admitted. “But it sounds like wasted potential.”
"I hate you all…" Raditz said, standing in the middle of hell with a bunch of corpses.
“Most can’t even move my arm a single centimeter” Maud said raising her fist to the Saiyan, Nappa just did a very soft, fist bump.
"Go team! Fuck you other people! GET NAPPA'D!!!!" Nappa laughed at the losers before him.
“Nothing wrong with losing, it’s a learning experience for most.” Link pointed out.
Maud lifted her hand and chopped the Saiyan’s head lightly. “Be respectful.”
"Okay." Nappa said plainly, "...Do you smell that?" Nappa asked Maud. "Do you smell that smell… That smelly smell… That smell that smells…. Smelly…" His eyes bugged out. "Anchovies.”
Shiva tilted her head. “Anchovies?”
“ANCHOVIES!!!!” the guy behind the counter screamed as ducked behind the counter. Sensing trouble, Kodo seized Shiva and ducked behind the counter as well.
Immediately a bunch of bipedal anchovies crashed through whatever wall, Nappa screamed and went behind the counter, Kodo yanking him over with a pack link.
“Alright I’m out!” Rainbow said jumping out the Window,
Sombra and Maud followed her example by Using Sombra’s powers to switch places with two stones outside.
"AAAAAA!!!" Lucci became a leopard and jumped to the ceiling, his claws digging into the roof. Grievous then turned into a box, being raised by the anchovies before Kodo snagged him with a pack link and yanked him behind the counter as well, Entity used his fire to propel himself behind the counter.
Link pulled out and used his hookshot to quickly yank himself up to the ceiling. “Where in the name of Hylia did the fishes come from?!” he asked, confused.
Arthur popped up out of nowhere, "Don't worry I got this! Ramen time! SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!!!" Arthur popped out a Machine Gun loaded with ramen noodles. Arthur then let out a scream before firing it off, laughing like a mad man as the anchovies gorged on the ramen.
Kodo gasped in awe, before Shiva yanked him back. “Not until the anchovies are taken care of,” she reminded him.
Kodo whimpered, but stayed where he was, glaring at the anchovies as they were stuffed with the delicious noodles.
Arthur then blew his ramen noodle gun, "Now, leave you smelly bastards!" Arthur pointed to the door, and like moths to a flame they left the room. Arthur then puts the gun on his back, dusting off his claws. "Done."
“Uh… you got any noodles left?” Kodo asked hopefully.
"Does the sun rise every morning?" Arthur asked, before bringing out his gun. "I don't always shoot ramen, but when I do…" He then fills the room up with ramen. "You're welcome, HAHAHAHA!!!"
Laughing in glee, Kodo dove into the noodles, as Shiva shook her head. Though she was unable to hide her grin.
“Most crazy morning i’ve had in weeks.” Link said as he pulled on his hookshots handle to release the hook’s grip, allowing him to drop down to the floor below.
This time there was Arkham Knight on the arena stage with a Microphone, everyone was at the arena stands. Ryker wasn’t at his throne, he was with the fighters with a wide grin. Arkham Knight cleared his throat.
“Welcome boys and girls, someone has… What’s the word for it? Oh yeah, someone has ordered their own defeat today by challenging Katakuri!” At the sheer mention of Katakuri there were cheers in the crowd. “Ka...” He didn’t even finish when he was earned with cheers.
Shiva chuckled. “They’re like Diamond Dogs when you bring them jewels,” she mused.
“No, more like Changelings in a love hotel,” Eric commented, earning a chuckle from Link.
“...Another young soul is going to suffer a gruesome defeat.” Fujitora sighed, looking down at the stage, looking at Arkham Knight. “You know what’s funny? This is the first time cheers have been around when he was on the stage,” Fujitora chuckled, though it was not of joy, but of sadness. “Poor, Michael…”
Kodo followed his gaze. “I’d feel bad… if he wasn’t such a jerk.”
“Kodo,” Shiva chastised. “All living creatures find different ways to hide their pain. Some just hide it by giving pain back.”
“On this side, we have the Saiyan sacrifice, SON GOKU BLACK!!!!” Arkham Knight pointed to the left corner where Black stood there doing some stretches in a new Gi with a power pole in his back.
Meanwhile in the crowd, Link showed a surprised expression at seeing the powerpole. “I haven’t seen that since Dragonball.” he said with a nod.
“Nice look, Black,” Kodo praised. “You look awesome!”
Black stopped his stretches for a moment to give the pup a thumbs up. “Thanks kid!” Black exclaimed as he finished his stretches.
“And now… We have the God of Combat, the strongest in the Universe, the man with 184620648 wins and zero losses… KATAKURI!!!!!” From the other side of the arena, Katakuri walked out. Link let out an annoyed groan at the high number of wins.
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Katakuri walked forth and everybody began to chant his name, fire shot behind him, his eyes glowed blood red. Katakuri then crossed his arms before a new outfit was conjured onto him. He had a martial arts Gi, he still had his scarf that covered his mouth.
“Sup.” One word from Katakuri earned wild cheers from the clouds.
“A bit of an ego.” Link whispered with a shake of his head, not sharing the crown’d fan enthusiasm.
Black put his hands to his side, “Wasn’t the fire a bit much?” Black asked with a laugh.
“It was Knight’s idea.” Katakuri points to Arkham Knight who waved at Katakuri, Katakuri stretched his arms and pats the teenager’s head. Katakuri retracted his arm, looking at Black. “I like it, and I roll with it, Arkham Knight is a little brother to me. Well, enough of-” Katakuri turned back to the roaring crowd. “SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!” The crowd then went silent before Katakuri turned to Black. “So where were we?”
“Something about getting ready to fight?” Black asked as popped his neck and got into a stance Goku used against Vegeta.
“Knight, prepare the area.” Katakuri ordered, Arkham Knight let out a salute before he blasted off. Katakuri sighed deeply as the area changed to New York City. Katakuri looked around, “This will do.” Like in the other fights the ship turned into an aircraft.
“Oh, looks like Manehattan,” Shiva noted.
“Ah… New York City” Eric mused at the city. “Such memories in this place, only wish they were happy ones.”
Black looked around with a smile, “Would’ve been nice to visit this place before i became Displaced.” Black commented.
“Now, the battle begins in three! Two! One! Let the battle begin!” And just like that the battle had begun, Katakuri stood there before slowly shifting into a boxing stance.
Black waited as sweat rolled down the side of his head. Before the Saiyan could even react, Black was hit by multiple blows as Katakuri’s fists were in the same spot. Black was then sent flying into an eighteen wheeler.
Black jumped out of the truck, ‘I didn’t even see his movements, he’s serious…’ Black thought as he wiped any dust on his Gi. Black pointed his hand towards his hand to the 18 wheeler, and began to lift it with telekinesis. He then threw it at Katakuri as it impacted the man. Katakuri didn’t move as the truck broke around, but then received a punch to the gut by Black with an Armament Haki covered fist. Though Black jumped back and grimaced in pain, Katakuri had coated the area where Black punched in Armament Haki.
“Oohhh that hurt…” Black winced at his bruised hand, he looked back up to meet Katakuri’s gaze. “I never asked, but why’d you not allow ki? Kinda of a disadvantage if you ask me.”
“I wanted to see what you’re made of without it, I am also a Ki user, unlike you I do not rely on my transformations to see me through.” Katakuri shot his leg at Black only for Black to realize he wasn’t being hit. Then a tendril of mochi shot out of it and it wrapped itself around Black. Katakuri pulled his leg back, bringing Black close, Katakuri then shot his foot deep into Black’s face. Not even bothering to use Armament Haki because that’s overkill, Katakuri pulled Black back and repeated the process. Katakuri was testing Black, trying to see if he could get out of it without the use of Ki.
Black screamed in pain as he was repeatedly kicked in the face. He growled as he created a sword made of Katchin and slashed at the tendrils. They cut through as Black jumped off of Katakuri’s chest and recovered on the ground. Black spit to the side, blood flying out as the red liquid dripped from his nose. “That hurt…” Black growled.
Katakuri said no words before suddenly appearing before Black, Katakuri then grabbed Black on his shoulders tightening his grip. Katakuri threw his head back which stretched due to his mochi, covering his head in Armament Haki, everyone then closed their eyes for they knew what was going to happen. Katakuri’s head then shot back to Black at blinding speeds, Katakuri’s head collided with Black’s the force sent Black to the ground. His head now buried beneath it, the God of Combat let him go before grabbing Black’s leg. Katakuri then threw him up, touching a building he turned it into mochi. Katakuri’s fist began to glow white, the mochi then turning into a fist, covering the fist in Armament Haki. Katakuri threw his building sized fist at Black, sending him far, crashing him into building after building before stopping at a skyscraper. Katakuri then calmly walks after him.
Black groaned as he pulled himself out of the rubble, feeling pain all through his body, more importantly his head. ‘Fucking hell… he hits like a fucking train with a few nuclear bombs attached to it.’ Black thought as shakily stood up. Black breathed heavily as he saw Katakuri walking towards him calmly. “Is this how you win your fights?” Black asked curiously. “Making one of the things a fighter uses so then you can win?” Black huffed as he gripped his shoulder.
“You’re too reliant on your transformations and your Ki, what are you without it? What if someone… Steals your Ki? What would you do?” Katakuri asked the Saiyan.
“I keep fighting until I drop, I keep fighting till I draw my last breath. Even without ki, I’m the same man, mortal, just like everyone else.” Black said as he stumbled a little.
“Then tell me this, what is your strategy when all is lost? When you don’t have access to your precious Ki or your flashy transformations. What is it?” Katakuri asked Black.
“Same thing, sure I rely on my ki and transformations too much. But even without those things, I’ll keep on fighting, cause if I stopped and gave up, I’m throwing away everything I am.” Black said as he got into a fighting stance. “I had no strategy for this fight, hell I almost never have a strategy, I only focus on the things that matter most.” Black finished. “What are you without your strength?”
Katakuri clenched his fists, the area began to shake, “So you’re telling me you have NO strategy? No idea to use my weakness against me?! You… You… Let me show you the difference between us…” Katakuri landed an uppercut to Black’s chin sending him upwards but with just the right amount of force to get Black to Katakuri’s height. Katakuri began to punch Black over and over, repeatedly. “I know your weaknesses, just by looking at you I could tell from the very start! I already established your first two weaknesses, allow me to tell you about your others!” Katakuri landed a kick to Black’s cheek, before grabbing Black’s leg. “Weakness three, you lack defense.’ Katakuri then threw Black to the skies, using Kamisori to appear above Black. “Weakness four, you’re too reliant on your flight!” Katakuri slammed both of his feet into Black sending him downwards, Katakuri followed Black and kicked Black to the earth. Black was now in a deep crater, Katakuri then picks up Black by the collar of his Gi. “Weakness five, you’re not using you Armament Haki practically,” Katakuri then slams Black down, Black jumped up to punch Katakuri with an Armament Haki covered fist only for Katakuri to counter Black with his Armament Haki coated fist. Katakuri’s Armament Haki was superior to Black’s an the force broke the Saiyan’s wrist, “Weakness six, you don’t use your Armament Haki enough in battle, causing your Armament Haki to be weak!” Katakuri then pushed Black far, sending him for a tumble. “Need I list more, Saiyan?”
Black huffed as he struggled to stand up, the side of his face covered in blood. Yelping in pain at his broken wrist. “But that makes me what I am, everyone has weakness, that’s what makes them the way they are.” Black looked up to meet Katakuri’s gaze. “And I know it makes flaws in battles, but that’s what makes it a fight. This however isn’t one… this just a massacre to add to your win count.”
“...Use your transformations, and use your Ki, you’re right. This is a massacre.” Katakuri sighs, crossing his arms.
“No… I won’t use my ki and transformations. Cause you’re right, I’m too reliant on them, it’s like a drug.” Black refused. Wincing as he stumbled into a stance. “Cause I know your weakness, it’s your strength, your title as the strongest, cause there’s no one you could rival.”
"Hm, you pass the test. Though, there's something on your face." Katakuri approached the Saiyan, going down to eye level.
“I’m not falling for that…” Black deadpanned. “And I already won.” Black as he walked away from him, he looked up to the sky. “I GIVE UP!” Black shouted.
"Worth a shot…" Katakuri, Katakuri walked next to him. "Well you might have won the battle, but you have yet to win the war…" Katakuri said, epically foreshadowing something.
“Well ain’t that fucking ominous.” Black muttered as he transformed into Super Saiyan God, the transformation’s ability healing all of his wounds. He sighed and went back to base form, his injuries gone.
"Beam us up Scotty!" A light was slammed onto them, not causing harm as they appeared on the ship. The ship then turned back to the arena, all of the fighters were here in one place and the audience were gone. The Dragon Balls were there, a chest, and another chest. There stood Ryker and his men, plus Towa's underlings.
Black looked at the Dragon Balls, memories of the show running through his head. “Man those would’ve been useful ages ago… but they’d only cause trouble.” Black commented.
"Thanos," Ryker spoke, he wielded a sheleighleigh, putting it onto his shoulder. "You are hereby, the strongest Displaced of the New Generation. Thus your prizes, what are the Devil Fruits you ask? Fujitora?" Fujitora opened the box, Ryker levitated the fruits towards him. "Dog Dog Fruit Model: Hellhound, Tori Tori No Mi Model: Phoenix, Acid Acid Fruit, Float Float Fruit, and finally… The most powerful paramecia… The Roulette-Roulette No Mi, able to roll whatever fruit in the entire multiverse! What is it going to be? Quake? Magma? Gravity? Who knows?" Thanos looked at the fruits curiously, he then nodded slowly.
"Uh… Huh, welp, anyone want a fruit? I’m keeping the Roulette one." Thanos took the Roulette Roulette No Mi. And stashed it somewhere.
“I was giving one as a gift by Nox.” Link said as he pulled out and showed the devil fruit, then placed it back in his inventory.
“I’ll pass, we’ve already got enough in my world” Eric said to the titan
“Not me… already got one, still thinking if I should use it” Black said as he put his hands up.
“We’ve got fruits as well,” Shiva replied, lifting a diamond arm, while Kodo turned into smoke. “Thanks for the offer, though.”
"One for your daughter or you pack mates?" Thanos looked back at Shiva with a raised eyebrow.
Shiva and Kodo exchanged a surprised glance, before Shiva’s tail wagged. “Good point; think you can spare the float-float?”
"This fruit is extremely powerful, capable of levitating Islands to the Skies! Able to make the head of anything from the ground, make you fly, levitate water, or even make pillars from the earth!" Thanos said dramatically, "You will receive one overpowered daughter, should you give this fruit to her."
Shiva grinned, and lifted up a screen displaying her memory: Umbra, possessing Kodo, standing before Celine, as she defended essentially every species in Equestria from him.
But did they engage in battle? Did brother and sister battle each other to the death? No. Celine instead embraced her brother.
“Kodo,” she whispered to him. “I know you’re in there. You’re better than this.”
And, to everyone’s shock, it worked. Kodo fought against Umbra. Broke his influence. Just in time to defend Celine from Day Breaker.
Shiva dissipated the memory with a smile. “I have faith that my daughter will use the power responsibly,” she said.
"...Da queen! She knows da wae! She deserves the fruit!" Thanos gives Shiva fruit, grinning like a mad man or should I say… Mad Titan, ah ha ha!
Shiva accepted the fruit with a bow, carefully handing the fruit to Kodo, who stored it in a smoke hammer space.
"Now, we have the Phoenix, Hellhound, Acid, fruit left. Anyone else?" Thanos looked around at the group.
“I’ll take it” Rainbow yelled zooming forward and taking the Hellhound Fruit from the Titan
"...Ya don't just snarch something out of one's hand when they offer ya something…" Thanos said looking at his free hand.
“She did the same thing to me when I found the Flame-Flame Fruit” Eric said to the Titan.
“This is going to make Tank 20% cooler” Rainbow said clenching the Fruit with glee in her smile
"Okay, rude. " Thanos said, looking at Rainbow Dash in a deadpan expression. "How would that even wo- nevermind. I shouldn't ask." Thanos shook his head.
“If a Reindeer can Eat the Human-Human Fruit than a tortoise can eat one as well” Eric explained to the Mad Titan
"Well, at least they'd be matching…" Thanos shook his head.
“Yeah…”Eric said, shaking his head. “And I’ll need to add more fire resistance to the Shadow Damnation”
"Badass name for a ship by the way," Grievous pointed out, "Like, very badass."
“It felt right,” Eric said to the Swordsman
"Ah, ah, ah. Don't explain it, it'll ruin the badassery." Nappa waved his finger at Eric.
"Alright! Now… Shiva, I give you the gold. Fujitora?" Fujitora then chucks the box at Thanos, which hits the Titan in the noggin faster than he could register. "...Take… Da… Gold…" Thanos told Shiva in a dazed manner.
Shiva grabbed the gold with a chuckle, wrapping a healing pack link around Thanos’ head. “You all are wonderful,” she said thankfully.
"Now Thanos, would you do the honors?" Ryker points to the Dragon Balls, Thanos gasped like a fan girl.
Black crossed his arms and smirked, turning his attention to Shiva and Kodo, “You two are gonna get a kick out of this.”
"I have been waiting for thousands of years, so many years I've been waiting for this moment… SHENRON!!! AWAKEN AND GIVE ME MY WISH!!!" As if responding to Thanos' demand, the Dragon Balls glowed and a yellow serpent shot out of it, flying to the skies. The sky became blacker than black itself, a green dragon, about the size of Kaido in his Dragon form appeared.
“Holy flying pot..” Link said as he gazed up at the long dragon as he looked alot more impressive than on screen.
Kodo gaped up at the dragon in shock. “That’s a big dragon!” he whimpered.
“Should we offer him gems?” Shiva mused.
“This isn’t Spyro.” Link said with a laugh.
“Don’t worry, he only grants wishes, so you won’t have to be afraid of him eating you or stealing stuff. After the wish is granted he’ll go back into the dragon balls. The orbs would then scatter across the world and turn to stone for a year before being used again.” Black explained to the diamond dogs.
"Who has summoned me? State your wish and I shall fulfill it!" Shenron declared, looking down at Thanos.
"My name is Thanos the Mad Titan, I wish… For the mate of Shiva to be revived and sent here!" Thanos ordered the dragon.
Shiva’s jaw dropped. “Huh?” she stammered.
"That is two wishes, but it's for a good cause, so I'll let it slide just this once." Shenron said as a blue light appeared next to Shiva.
Shiva gaped in disbelief, awe, and a bit of terror as the blue light formed into the visage of her husband Luke. So similar to a Lucario, and yet, when he opened his eyes, they were not red, but a soft brown. And quickly dilated as he caught sight of his wife.
“S-Shiva?” He whispered. “You’re alive!”
Shiva pressed her claws to her snout, struggling not to cry. “Luke!” she wailed, flinging herself at him.
Luke caught her easily. And as they held each other, fur tangling together, they forewent words entirely, keening and whimpering in a sort of diamond dog language as they reunited with each other.
Kodo backed away, almost too ashamed to join in, before Shiva snagged him with a pack link, and yanked him into their embrace. Luke didn’t even question it, nuzzling Kodo and continuing to keen and whimper to him in their own language.
Black smiled at the scene, looking at the mad titan, “That was very selfless of you, using your wish for that.”
“I’ll agree, it seems you and I are alot more alike than I like to admit” Eric said patting the Titan on the back with a large shadow hand
"What can I say? I'm a nice guy. You are welcome, doggos." Thanos grinned, looking at the three Diamond dogs.
Shiva briefly looked up from her family, briefly barking in her own language before switching back to english. “There… I have no words… to describe my gratitude…” she whispered, before nuzzling against Thanos’ leg. “My pack is forever in your debt.”
"You're welcome, now this is the good part…" Thanos turns to the Dragon Balls.
"I have answered your wish… Farewell…" The Dragon went back to the Dragon Balls and the Dragon Balls levitated before shooting off to the skies and spreading in different directions. Ryker smiled at everyone, before his smile deflated and he became a sad man, looking at the three reunited dogs. Ryker raised his hand up… Then he snapped his fingers, Shiva, her family, Thanos, Black, and Luna Black then all vanished from sight. Ryker stood there, his face showing remorse.
"R is for Ridiculous, the looks on your faces."
"Y is for Yielding, you should know your places."
"K is Knowing, knowing that you'll die"
"Now with that lyric done, allow me to reprise."
"E is for Eventful which is what this day is."
"R is for Rage, I'll punch your faces, and now the song ends."
“...What.” Link said in confusion of what was the point of the song, slowly Link started to feel uneasy.
“Bastard!” Eric said jumping into a defensive stance as shadow poured from his body
Nightmare blinked a few times before frowning, “What’d you do?”
"I sent them to Eliatopia." Ryker said, then the others noticed that they weren't on the Planet they were on before. But rather one with a red sky. "I'm sorry to say this but… This is your doom…" Ryker and his men began to fly over them.
“Now hold on a Dodongo minute! We all fought in your little tournament, we’ve got a winner, you got your dark ki from all the violence. What sort of cliche idiocy are you doing now!?” Link asked, now clearly pissed off.
"...You know, you should always check for invisible ink when you're reading something." Ryker told the Hylian.
“Invisible Ink my hylian behind.” Link said as he reached back to draw the Master Sword.
“Huh?!” Nightmare said, confused.
"That isn't for you to decide you bastard!" Luffy said before jumping towards Ryker, "Gomu Gomu No… JET PISTOL!!" Luffy shot a fist at Ryker only for the blow to be blocked by his weapon. Luffy fell back down shocked at the level of power.
"H-he's… Way above our league!" Luffy said, trembling in fear.
"What are you going to do with us?" Grievous asked the Irish King.
"I… Am going to kill you all. Why am I going to kill you all? Well… Eons ago I was but an Irish man, living in Equestria. But… Kaido came with his men, he then rained hell on my Equestria, destroying ALL that I love, my friends were dead. As well as all I held dear, then a Void Dweller recognized my anger, my rage, my wrath… So guess what happened next? He gave me power, I was then sent to here, where I trained my power, and gained allies. The same ones you see now. You already know my daughter is gone, but where is she you might ask? Well… She's in the Dark Realm, anything evil, ALL things with just the slightest of evil in their hearts get sent to there. Being tortured, I've been trying to get my daughter back by getting Dark Ki as well as killing you Displaced since I had this power! Now… Fujitora… Drop. The. Meteor." Ryker made a portal and the others but him and Fujitora went in. Purple rings shot out of his back, being sent to the heavens, a Galaxy Sized Meteor began to drop. "Hehehehe… Hahahahaha…. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!" Ryker began to laugh maniacally.
Link face-palmed. “I feel like I’m facing Majora’s Mask, Sephiroth, and Freiza all wrapped up into one..” he said with a long sigh.
"I blame you Eric!" Nappa marched up to Eric, grabbing him by the shirt and pulling him in close. "You kept on antagonizing him, YOU GOT US ALL KILLED!!! I hope you're happy!" Nappa shoved Eric away, Nappa then turned around. Nappa went to look at Nightmare.
Nightmare growled as she took a stance, “If we’re all going to die, I want to at least do something!” Nightmare exclaimed as she cupped her hands to her side, the Parazyte began to charge a ki blast between her hands.
"..." Ryker and Fujitora were silent, Ryker just made a barrier around the two. "I'm sorry." The meteor was now in view and boy, was it massive.
"WE CAN NOT CUT THAT!!!! WE'RE DOOMED!!!!" Grievous shouted out, pointing at the Galaxy Sized Meteor. Ryker and Fujitora then vanish as the meteor comes close. Entity had no worry on his face, looking at the others. Link could practically hear that eerie music when Majora’s Moon was falling.
"I would be scared, if I didn't have a plan." Entity said, right on que a portal was formed next to them. "Get in!" Entity cried out. Nightmare stopped her attack and ran into the portal, Grievous and the boys ran inside. Link was behind the others, not wanting to deal with this doomsday headache.
Eric and his comrades ran into the portal before firing a shadow Tendril around Phoenix's waist and pulled him into the portal, Tripping over others Eric Looked ahead and found Entity standing with Arthur, Elia, Ryola and Jasmyn. Thanos was there drinking hetap, Shiva and Kodo had a panicked-looking Luke tied down with pack links.
“WHAT IS THIS?!” Luke was screaming. “WHAT DID DAYBREAKER DO TO ME…!”
“Easy, Luke,” Shiva said, her head pressed against his. “Just focus on my voice, and watch the vision. I know it’s crazy, but we’re going to be fine.”
“I’m sorry for all this, Dad,” Kodo whimpered. “It’s all my fault. I…”
“Kodo, we do not have time for the blame game,” Shiva said. “Either help me or figure out what plan the others have.”
“Right… I can do that. Yeah…” Kodo agreed, racing over to the main group.
"Good to see you guys made it here, now that you're all here… It's time I tell you the plan. Ryker has already activated the Tower of Deities." Entity pointed to the Tower, suddenly Nox fell out of a portal above them. Tony, and his children fell down after.
"Told ya Sombra!" Nox told the Dark Prince.
“Yes-yes, this is all our fault, we should’a listened to you, blah-blah-blah,” Kodo grumbled, before focusing on Entity. “What was that about Tower of Deities?”
“Tower of What now?” Rainbow asked, tilting her head now.
"The tower is their homes, where they live. Now, every single deity is a Commander, and at floor ten is Katakuri. Now we need to split up into three teams. Team One is Team Tower, we are going to climb the tower." Entity pointed to the tower with his blocky hand.
“Team Two, Team Evac is going to navigate everyone into the bunker below the Ramen Shop. The last one is Team Flex Tape, should Ryker turn tail and run you'll be there to stop them."
“Team Flex Tape…?” Link said with a deadpan expression “Be serious.” Link said in minor annoyance.
"Flex Tape can fix anything, it's so powerful…" Entity began, before everyone piped up. "It even works on villains!"
“In Chuck Norris’s dreams.” Link said with a sigh before looking at the others.
“You have a bunker under your shop,” Eric asked the dragon with a raised eyebrow
"It was our base of operations for a while,” Arthur replied with a sigh. “My sister here, Elia,” he pointed to his Eliatrope twin, “pulled a prank on me by purchasing a bunker when we were little."
“That aside,” Sombra said, cutting the Dragon off. “I think Thanos, Eric and Myself should be on the Tower Team, while Rainbow, Maud and Luna should be on the Evac team” hearing this Luna snapped her head in Sombra’s direction, however instead of speaking up she held her tongue.
"Bitch who are you to decide if I should be on the tower? You're right but fuck you, now boys, do what you guys want. I'm going to the tower!" Thanos marched off, Nox chuckled.
“I don’t think it’s going to be that easy, Thanos..” Link said as he watched Thanos march toward wherever he thinks the tower is.
Nox turned to Entity, "Always the riot, well, I'm going to be evacuating everyone, as well as my children." Suddenly an Eliatrope ran to Entity.
"Sorry if I'm late, I had to save a beowmeow from a tree." Blake chuckled, "Oh, hello everyone, my name is Blake, and I am the Captain of the Eliatopia's Royal Guard." Blake introduced himself.
“Charmed,” Kodo replied with a salute.
“Speaking of evacuating.. Where is Light?” Link asked curiously as he looked around.
"Boo." Light was behind Link, grinning like a mad woman.
“Howlonghaveyoubeenthere?” Link said in surprise as he twirls around to look at Light.
"Now, Black, Luna Black, what team are you on?" Entity points through three different groups. There was Grievous with Blake, Luffy, Ryola, and Jasmine. Entity with… A lot of people and Nox with… A lot of people.
“You already know my answer,” Black said as he turned his attention to Luna Black. “You on the other hand need to go to the bunker,” Black ordered.
Luna Black looked offended, “Why would we go to the bunker? We should stay with thou if thee gets injured.” Luna Black stood her ground.
"She has a point," Entity said, siding with the Alicorn.
Black looked between the two, complementing the choices. Before he let out a heavy sigh, “Fine, but if she gets hurt, I’m counting you as countable.” Black said as he pointed to the minecraftian.
"Understood, I will do my best to protect her." Entity put a blocky fist to his chest, Entity then adorned some Netherite Armor and a Saiyan Tail popped out of it.
Black turned his attention to Nightmare, “Your staying here incase Ryker makes a break for it, I’m counting on you.” Black ordered. The Parazyte looking like she was about to protest, but held her tongue and nodded.
“I’ll do my best.” Nightmare declared, making the Saiyan smile.
“Sombra” Luna said getting the unicorns attention. “Why did you put me in the Evac team when I Could serve better on the tower team”
“Because I told him last night” Eric said to the Pair. “Should my feeling be right, which it did, you would be put as far away from Ryker as possible”
Luna went to speak but the Shadow Man cut her off. “I won’t lose you to this man,” Eric said to the Lunar Princess. “Not you.”
“I don’t know about them,” Shiva said, walking up with a much calmer Luke behind her. “But I’m going with the Tower Team.” She glared up at the Tower of Deities. “If Fujitora is up there… I need to see him.”
Luke’s ears flattened. “Any reason…?” he started to say.
“Oh, stop it, Luke, you know this is yours and yours alone,” she replied, putting his claw on her crotch.
"I don't know Shiva, you've been making a lot of googly eyes with him." Nappa joked with a grin.
Luke chuckled darkly. “Sounds like he and I need to have a ‘serious’ talk, then,” he replied. Shiva just rolled her eyes.
"He can make a blackhole, ya can't do shit." Nappa told the discount Lucario.
“Not on his own, no,” Shiva admitted, before twining a pack link around Luke’s wrists. Luke chuckled, cracking his knuckles as his fur glowed, and he assumed a form similar to a Mega Evolved Lucario. With a simple flex, his form became encased in diamonds. And as Kodo added his link, his fur churned with smoke.
“Go ahead and add more, if you like,” Shiva invited the others with a wagging tail. “He’s used to attacking with all the new powers.”
“Get me within five feet of this Fuji-guy,” Luke said. “And I’ll be making black holes of my own.”
“...Even though we would have ‘no’ reason to do that if the circumstances weren’t life and death… ‘my King,’” Shiva added. Luke chuckled.
“Of course, my Queen,” he replied. They nosed each other with the giggles of lovers.
"...Ight imma give it a shot. Bomber… DX!!!" Nappa Shot the same Ki blast that he killed with Piccolo at Luke. True to form, Luke caught the blast with a single paw. And grinned as his Mega Evolution evolved further to resemble a Super Saiyan, his dreadlocks growing and turning golden, while his eyes changed to blue.
"Now you know Ki control, thus, you can use that to your advantage. You're welcome." Nappa said with a grin.
“Thank you kindly,” Luke replied, grinning as Shiva gazed in awe at his new form. Kodo suddenly gagged and cut off his link.
“Mom! Dad!” he protested. “Stop thinking that stuff!”
“Kodo, your father and I have been away from each other for FAR too long,” Shiva declared. “Once we take out Ryker, we have got A LOT of catching up to do.”
“Easy, my Queen,” Luke said. “Before we can think about that… we’ve got a fight ahead of us.”
“He’s right,” Eric agreed. “Something tells me nopony is going to let us get to the top without a fight,” Eric said, shadows rapidly swirling around him. “Savage Shadow Soul: Soul of the Savage Knight!”
Eric’s body turned black with his eyes turning red as Azure-black armor began to cover the majority of his body leaving his right arm and chest bare, a large sword with a red eye in the middle. His arm began to swell up with muscle before gripping the blades hilt
“So this is your Savage Knight?” Sombra said, seeing the Shadow Man’s stature. “Must be stronger than before”
“Damn Right,” Eric’s voice was on the verge of being demonic as he spoke.
BANG! Luke had snuck up behind Eric and put his claw on his shoulder. However, the shadows launched Luke away from Eric and into a pile of hay, pack link tendrils fizzling away from Eric’s shoulder. Shiva raced to Luke’s side, as he pulled himself, cursing and sputtering from the ground.
“Sorry,” Shiva mumbled. “Luke sometimes gets a little too… ambitious when it comes to power copying.”
“With good reason, that power is awesome,” Luke mumbled, his form flickering as shadows briefly spun around him before fizzling out.
“Heh, you’ve seen nothing yet…” Black commented as he repaired his damaged gi from Katakuri’s ‘fight’. Black looked towards the tower before frowning, “But we’re wasting time here, we should get a move on.”
"PONY BOY!!!" Thanos shouted from afar, laughing his ass off at Eric causing him to glare at the Titan
"Well, let us go," Entity held a hand up to the skies, there was silence as he did so. It looked like he was trying to summon Mjolnir. "Any minute now…"
"...The fuck are you doing?" Nappa asked before a ray of heat hit Entity, suddenly Entity had a scythe with words written on the blade. The scythe was massive as it was awesome looking, Entity then marched on.
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"Let's go… To the tower!" Entity pointed in the direction Thanos was heading, which was a colossal tower, going above the clouds.
Shiva looked between her husband and son. “What do you two say?” she asked.
Luke grinned, and clasped his hands around Shiva. “Tonight,” he promised. “We fight hard… and then we fuck harder.”
Shiva’s tail wagged, and they pressed their heads together, before following Thanos.
"SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!" Nappa cried as he waved them goodbye, walking away to the other group.
“Romance later, fight all powerful man and his commanders now.” Black said as he walked towards the tower.
“Puh-lease!” Kodo agreed, joining him.
"Hey, Kodo!" Grievous cried out to the Diamond Dog, drawing Kodo’s attention. his cape blowing in the wind like a badass. "Don't die on me okay?"
Kodo’s tail wagged, and he saluted. “Sir, yes sir,” he said, Grievous nodded proud of Young Kodo for moving on bravely.
“You ready for a challenge, Kodo? Cause this one is for all the marbles.” Black asked.
Kodo gazed at his mother and father as they walked claw in claw. His tail wagged, though his smile was sad.
“It was my fault Dad died,” he admitted. “You can say whatever you want, but I know that in my heart. Now he’s back, and my Mom has a chance to have things return to the way they were.” His eyes narrowed in determination. “I will do everything I can to make sure they have that. I owe it to them.”
“That’s good, do whatever it takes…” Black said as he turned his focus to the tall tower, his smile turning to a frown. “Whatever it takes…” Black muttered again.
"For battle, for glory, FOR FREEDOM!!!" Everyone chanted as they went off to their respective places.
To be continued...
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The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
First Floor! The Arkham Knight vs The Son of the Howlite Howlers
First floor! The Arkham Knight and the Son of the Howlite Howlers duel!
Team Tower made their way to the entrance of the… Well, tower. Thanos was already there, talking to Mr. Perfect Cell, a cooler next to them with hetap. They were both drinking from it, Mr. Perfect Cell spotted the others.
"Hello there," Mr. Perfect Cell waved at the party.
“Hey,” Luke greeted amiably, while Shiva curtsied.
“Get out of the Way Cell,” Eric ordered the perfect creation
"Mr. Perfect Cell," Mr. Perfect Cell corrected, "Also, use your head for once Eric, you're walking into new territory here. You don't know how the tower works, which is why I'm here." Mr. Perfect Cell said with a chuckle.
“I don’t give a flying fuck” Eric said to Cell.
“Eric!” Shiva chastised, before looking to Mr. Perfect Cell. “What can you tell us, Mr. Perfect Cell.”
"Well, I can tell you how the tower works, what you should be expecting to see, and finally who are the Gods that the Commanders represent." Mr. Perfect Cell explained to Shiva. "Would you all like to know?"
“I would,” Shiva admitted, glancing at the others. Phoenix shrugged. “Thank you.”
“Same,” Kodo admitted from behind her.
“Whatever they say,” Luke agreed. “I’m just happy to be alive again.”
"You're welcome by the way," Thanos chuckled before raising a hand, "Yeah I'd like to understand my surroundings before going into uncharted territory with NO knowledge whatsoever, cough, Eric, cough." Thanos coughed into his fist.
“Bite me, Chrome Dome” Eric said through clenched teeth
"No need for name calling, also that's gay." Thanos told the Shadow Man.
“I know you two have… whatever is going on,” Shiva commented. “But could you try listening to him? He does have some points.”
Luke grumbled. “Shiva, don’t suck his dick in front of me,” he asked.
“It’s not dick-sucking to state a fact,” Shiva protested.
“Also, this is because of Eric’s powers,” Sombra explained to the Diamond Dog. “His Shadow Souls affect his personality.”
“Drunk on strength, right?” Luke noted, running a claw through his dreadlocks. “Yeah, happens to the best of us.” He grinned. “Has he tried to eat his way through Canterlot Plaza before?”
Sombra visibly flinched hearing this. “I have...And I refuse to forget the pain I inflicted”
Luke’s grin faded. “I… meant as in ‘literally’ tried to eat a palace. I didn’t mean to bring up painful memories.” He looked down with a dog keen. “Sorry.” He paused. “I had to get my stomach pumped,” he added, as a small stab at humor.
"Anyway, what would you guys want to know first?" Mr. Perfect Cell asked, leaning back on his chair.
“Where’s Ryker!” Eric ordered
"Top floor, but the only way you can reach him is by the tower. He made an enchantment, if you go up there, you will grow old in a matter of nanoseconds and you would turn to dust." Mr. Perfect Cell explained to the Shadow Man.
Luke blinked, glancing up at the tower. “Then… how’s he up there?” he asked.
“He made the enchantment,” Shiva explained. “I’m pretty sure it won’t work on him.”
"It also only works outside," Mr. Perfect Cell informed the discount Lucario.
“Ah,” Luke realized. “So we go inside, and we fight the Commanders on the way to the top. Just like that one story about the martial arts pony who’s name I don’t know.”
"Yeah, I love that story by the way, really awesome." Mr. Perfect Cell grinned, remembering the story.
“Oh, heck yeah,” Luke agreed. “Those moves are sweet…”
“Yes-yes, we can all agree it’s good,” Shiva said. “So, what order can we expect them to be in. Who will we be facing first?”
"That Is the one thing I can't tell you, other than what will happen when the sun explodes because that story always makes me depressed…" Mr. Perfect Cell shuddered.
“Oh-kay,” Shiva said. “Then… what about these ‘Gods’ the Commanders represent. What does that mean?”
"Well, Katakuri represents the God of Combat. Due to his immense strength he fought him once, bested him in combat and obtained his powers. Not to mention his uh… Ways of teaching people about the subject… Yeah let's just say he's very passionate about teaching… And Donuts." Mr. Perfect Cell nodded.
"Now, Arkham Knight is the God of Fear, he enjoys inflicting fear on his prey before he takes them out. Gives him some satisfaction that someone else is feeling what he felt in the… Let's not talk about that." Mr. Perfect Cell shook his head.
"Bullet is the God of War, you ALL knew it was coming, he is a maniac when it comes to raw strength. Nothing much to say about him really…" Mr. Perfect Cell said with a shrug.
"Ganondorf is the God of Power, Triforce of power, you all know he is good at power. I mean he has a bunch of women under him so he gets all the hoes." Mr. Perfect Cell explained with a chuckle.
"Er… Necrozma is the God of Freedom, he wanted to be free for he was a slave back in ancient Greece, yes, he is old. VERY old." Mr. Perfect Cell told the party.
"Herobrine is the God of Pain, the mental pain he's been through is unrivaled, dwarfs all of yours too. And the poor kid is eleven years old, sheesh…" Mr. Perfect Cell shook with fear.
"Then we have Lord Twigo, the God of the Holy Light. He worships the sun like it's his father, he is a nice guy." Mr. Perfect Cell explained.
"Zabuza is the God of Dreams, you could say he is a Dream Slayer, he goes into dreams and slays nightmares like Princess Luna Sol." Mr. Perfect Cell explained once more, getting a bit tired.
"Towa is a Demons so is no God, Akainu is the God of Justice, he was a part of the Marines way back then. His whole squad died so that's sad." Mr. Perfect Cell said before he was cut off by Eric.
“False justice you mean.” Eric said
Mr. Perfect Cell just stared at Eric, "Okay before I was so RUDELY interrupted, finally we have the God of Silence, Fujitora."
Shiva said nothing, but Luke and Kodo glanced at her as she visibly tensed up. Phoenix was trying to suppress a chuckle, but was failing.
"He's a warrior, a samurai, a strong one at that." Mr. Perfect Cell finished explaining the Deities, "Now, go on." Mr. Perfect Cell stepped aside.
“Shiva and I have had first hand experience of how strong he is,” Eric said, looking to the Diamond Dog, who nodded silently.
"Oh, ho ho! You'll be surprised at how much strength he's hiding!" Mr. Perfect Cell said, watching the group walk on, "You'll be surprised alright…" The party walked down a hallway, hearing rain though they were inside. They saw a light at the end of it as they walked by, Thanos suddenly relaxed and took a deep inhale before grabbing Kodo on his shoulder.
"Do ya smell that boy? That is the smell of danger…" Thanos grinned, walking forth.
Luke and Shiva sniffed as well. “Smells like the lower sections of the Empire,” Shiva commented. “Where the thieves dwelled.”
“And the underground caverns,” Luke added. “They always did smell similar.”
“That’s not all” Eric said, sniffing the air. “I smell Iron...lots of it...It’s the smell of blood.”
"All of them link towards danger." They walked out of the hallway, they saw Gotham City, the tallest of buildings reached to the top and supported the floor. Everyone looked around to admire the city, Thanos looked around the city.
“Is this Manehattan?” Shiva asked.
"I can't believe it! It's just like in the Arkham Series!" Thanos said with a grin, "WELCOME TO GOTHAM CITY BOYS!!!!" Thanos introduced the group to Gotham City.
“And… girls?” Shiva asked, as she, Luna Black and Elia tilted their heads, feeling left out.
"Hmph, boys are all the same, brutish brutes… I said the same thing twice didn't I?" Elia asked herself, before she was interrupted by a screeching sound. It was from the speaker, suddenly they noticed a TV, there was a news reporter with the Twin Towers behind him.
"Hello my name is Jack Daniels, yeah, I know, the name of the alcohol, and welcome to Fox news! Today is the anniversary of the most horrible day known to mankind, 9/11. This marks a tragic day for everyone, old and young. Before we get too far into that topic, the Government has taken down the Organization called Creed. A guild full of thieves and assassins, though they have yet to find one last person. He goes by the name of Michael Johnson, he's an African American male and he has multiple scars on his body."
The TV then shows like the description said a young African American with scars on his face.
Without warning the tv’s were cut off when a large black sword was sent through the glass destroying the tv’s, the black eye looked at Shiva and Luke before blinking at them. As Luke pulled Shiva behind him, Eric stepped forward grabbing the hilt of his blade before pulling it from the glass.
“I fucking hate Humanity and their bullshit,” Eric said slinging his massive sword across his back.
“Clearly,” Luke mused.
“Let’s get out of here and find the Arkham Bitch,” Eric said moving past the group.
"Baa baa Black sheep, have you any wool?"
Thanos perked up, looking around. "Did you guys hear that?"
“I feel that,” Kodo admitted, his fur bristling.
"Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full."
Thanos walked down an alleyway, Entity followed the Titan, followed by Luke.
" One for my master, one for the dame, and one for the little girl who lives down the lane…"
“Well looks like the fucker finds us instead” The Black Azure Knight said reaching for his sword.
“They said he was the weakest of the Commanders,” Shiva noted, her pack links gently resting on the shoulders of her group. “We can take him if we stick together.”
Everyone walked out of the alleyway, they saw the Arkham Knight holding a watch photo of someone, Arkham Knight sat on the Batmobile. "My uh… Papa used to sing that song to me when he put me to sleep. It was my favorite…" Arkham Knight said, chuckling sadly.
Shiva and Luke exchanged a glance, before Luke stepped forward.
“We just need to get to Fujitora and Ryker,” he said. “You point us to them, and we’ll be on our way.” He shrugged. “But, if you wanna fight all of us… that’s your choice.”
"I'm afraid I can't allow that, I must make my father… Ryker… Proud of me, I must prove my worth." Arkham Knight stood up from his car.
Kodo backed up, his fur spiking as he shut his eyes, recognizing how the Arkham Knight felt.
"I know I can't beat you all, you guys can destroy planets, copy my skills, cut through buildings, me? I'm just a broken kid in a broken world." Arkham Knight said, looking down at them all. Lucci frowned looking at the Knight.
“Damn Straight,” Eric said slowly drawing his sword, however, the Knight was not a dumbass and noticed this.
"Sheath the sword, Eric, would you really want to cut down a seventeen year old teenager?" Arkham Knight asked the Shadow Man.
“I’ve killed changeling hatchlings before, so killing a teenager wouldn't make me lose an ounce of sleep” The Black Azure Knight said pointing his blade to the Arkam Knight
"Hehe, you're a cruel man Von Shadow. The door is behind me, though. One of you shall stay behind and fight me." Arkham Knight pointed a thumb behind him.
“I think I will Enjo…” Eric was however interrupted by a smaller but more stern voice
“No, Von Shadow,” Kodo said. “I’ll fight him.”
Shiva spun as Kodo crept forward. “Kodo?” she asked.
“I’ll fight him,” he replied. “If he only needs one of us...”
“But we’re supposed to fight together,” Shiva insisted. “The strength of the wolf is in the pack!”
“Heh… A Warrior must walk his own path to strive for greatness” Eric said Sheathing his sword. “Remember that well for they were the final words of a great swordsman in my world.”
"Kodo… Hmph, I apologize for the things I said earlier, they were mean." The Knight said to the Diamond Dog pup.
“We all do things we regret to try and prove ourselves to the ones we love,” Kodo replied, stepping ahead of the group. He drew his sword, his fur steaming as he prepared for battle. “Go, you guys,” he told the group. “Find Ryker. Find Fujitora.”
“Kodo…” Shiva whispered. “You more than earned my forgiveness. This won’t change how everyone in our world feels about you.” Luke glanced at her, staring at his son in despair as he realized what she was talking about.
“Maybe,” Kodo admitted. “But it’ll be a start.”
"I like you, you're finally showing some skin!" Arkham Knight walked forward, unsheathing the legendary blade, Shisui.
“Come on, Let’s go” Eric said, causing the others to go for the door. Shiva reluctantly followed, pulled along by Luke. Eric however stopped at the exit and looked back to the Pup. “Hey Kid,” Eric said in a calming tone
Kodo glanced his way.
“Don’t you dare die on us,” Eric said Lifting his helmet enough to show a fanged smile. “And drag his ass all over this floor” The shadow man lowered his helmet and ran up the stairs
"Especially don't die on Grievous! That man would go to Hell or Heaven and kick your ass!" Thanos cried out before walking off.
“If you fuckin die I’ll kill you!” Phoenix shouted with a thumbs up.
“A-And Kodo,” Luke added. “I’m sorry. I failed you.”
Kodo gazed towards his father, unsure of what to say. “You’ve got a second chance, Dad,” he said. “Use it to keep Mom safe.”
Luke’s eyes narrowed in determination, and he nodded. Shiva herself exchanged one last, meaningful gaze with her son, before she turned away.
“Don’t grieve, Mother,” Kodo said, focusing on his opponent. “Today’s not the day I die.”
“Don’t worry Shiva, your pup is strong.” Eric said to the parents as they ran behind him. “That little Spitball you have won’t fall by that cowards’ hands.”
“I appreciate the words, Eric,” Shiva said. “But when it comes to motherhood… you never stop seeing your children as your babies.”
"Thanks for calling me a coward! I appreciate it!" Arkham Knight shouted.
“Forget about him,” Kodo declared to the Knight, raising his sword. “Your fight is with me. And tonight, one of us is going to prove our worth to our parents.”
"Hehehe… I don't know why I didn't like you before, you're quite a warrior! Who taught you, Kodo?" Arkham Knight asked the Pup.
“Lord Twigo,” Kodo recited. “Fujitora. General Grievous. Goku Black. Eric Von Shadow. Princess Luna. Skippy of Vespin Hive, my father, Luke… my mother, Shiva…” Kodo’s grip tightened. “And Emperor Umbra, under the visage of King Sombra.”
Phoenix pouted playfully as he looked back at Kodo. “What about me……..?” He mumbled.
"I am happy that you have a lot of talented teachers, who taught me? Well… Ryker did…" Arkham Knight said before T-posing, suddenly the Batmobile went into Battle mode and fired non-lethal bullets at the Pup.
Kodo exploded into smoke, the bullets tearing through his cloud, before he shot down into the ground, apparently vanishing from view.
Arkham Knight then backflipped into the Batmobile, "Activate the Anti-Devil Fruit mode!" Arkham Knight declared, suddenly the Batmobile was coated in Sea Prism Stone armor, getting non-lethal Sea Prism Stone bullets as well.
“Clever,” Kodo’s voice rumbled from the ground. “But Devil Fruits aren’t the only trick I’ve got.”
Suddenly, a pack link curled around the batmobile, yanking it down into the earth. The pack link bent the sea prism like metal under a steel beam, as Kodo tried to fold the vehicle in half.
Arkham Knight pushed a button and he flew out with a backpack, not a jetpack, Arkham Knight then landed on a building. Kicking Observation Haki in Arkham Knight pulled out his Sea Prism Stone gun armed with Sea Prism Stone bullets. With Observation Haki he managed to locate Kodo, and like a badass he began to unleash hell upon the Pup.
At first, Kodo stayed underneath the wreck that used to be the Batmobile. Careful not to touch the Sea Prism, Kodo coated his arms in rocks, and launched the Batmobile out of the ground, trying to hit the Arkham Knight with the projectile.
Though the nimble ninja dashed out of the way, still firing down on the Pup but this time at another angle. "Oh what's that next to you?" Arkham Knight asked, he then fired off a bullet at a crate packed full of explosives. Causing the crate to explode along with Kodo.
“Not falling for…” Kodo started to say as he launched out of the ground, only for the crate to explode, knocking him off guard and sending him tumbling across the ground. “Ow,” he muttered.
"Good, you're alive, I'm making sure to not kill you." Arkham Knight remarked before throwing a flashbang at Kodo.
Prepared for the explosion, Shiva’s son went into smoke mode, vanishing from view in the short time that the flashbang kept the Arkham Knight from seeing what was going on.
"Shouldn't have done that!" Arkham Knight groaned, putting his pistols up he pulled out his sword and flew at Kodo, using rocket boosters to do so. Arkham Knight bounced off of a building a propelled himself at Kodo, ready to strike the pup, not to mention covering it in Armament Haki.
Dodging with his smoke, Kodo matched Arkham Knight’s sword with his own. Both were covered in Armament Haki, and both swords sang as they struck against each other. Kodo briefly struggled against the superior Knight, before bursting into smoke, flowing around the Knight and reforming to strike at his back.
Arkham Knight used his boosters the thrust his foot, Arkham Knight spun around, covering that foot in Armament Haki. Arkham Knight slammed his foot into Kodo's muzzle, sending him into a building. Arkham Knight followed Kodo in a calm demeanor.
However, following him was a mistake. As he dove in through the hole he had sent Kodo through, he found another hole in the floor waiting for him. Right as he remembered that Kodo was a Diamond Dog, he felt the building shudder, and began to collapse on top of itself. Using Observation Haki, he saw Kodo at the bottom, having already shred through the supports of the building, and diving deeper underground as the building collapsed.
"Clever boy…" Arkham Knight said right as the building fell on top of him. Arkham Knight was then buried beneath the rubble of the building. Then he wasn't because he jumped up from the rubble, looking at Kodo as the pup rose out of the ground. "You know, what's funny? I'm having fun doing this! I don't normally have fun at all but you are so fun to fight!" Arkham Knight laughed, placing a hand on his hip.
“Well, I don’t have the power to shear a moon in half,” Kodo noted. “Can’t blow up star systems or planets.” He chuckled. “No need to hold back that much.”
"Indeed, unlike most fighters I've seen, you used your head! Unfortunately for you… I use my head too." Kodo noted that his face was flashing red, he started to dive down for the ground… only to see a bomb placed on his cheek from the kick Arkham Knight pulled on him. "Killer Queen, Bitez Za Dusto." Arkham Knight knew the pup wouldn't understand the reference, but the Knight activated the bomb and watched the fireworks unfold.
Kodo tried to turn into smoke to avoid the bomb, but it exploded just before he could completely vanish into smoke. He was flung backward by the force of the bomb, yelping as his fur was set aflame by the fireworks. Diving back into the ground, Kodo smothered as much of the flames as he could, but his face still stung from the impact of the bomb, and the sound of the blast had left a ringing in his ear, leaving him disoriented as he tried to recover under the earth.
Arkham Knight threw grenades down the holes Kodo had burrowed into, using Observation Haki to locate the Diamond Dog.
Kodo’s barks, yelps and cries sounded as grenade after grenade went off, knocking him around and collapsing the tunnels he had burrowed. Finally, with a big BOOM, and an explosion of dirt, Kodo careened out of the earth, and landed hard on the streets of Gotham, blindly swiping around with his sword while clutching his battered and dazed head with his free claw.
Arkham Knight dragged his blade across the streets of Gotham as he approached the dazed Pup. The Knight ran at Kodo before doing a jumping swipe down onto the Pup, of course coating it in Armament Haki.
But as the Knight charged, Kodo’s ears flared, and he just managed to pick up the Knight’s attack. He spun, catching the Knight’s sword with his own. The two crossed blades, as Kodo valiantly tried to hold up under the Knight’s strength.
"Kodo, you and I aren't so different. You and I are both fools trying to redeem ourselves, so… What do you say you join us, Kodo? I can ask Ryker to spare your family, you can join us! Be happy, and have people who treat you like family. So why don't you join the family? Brother." Arkham Knight offered pressing down on the Pup, his immense strength overwhelming the growing boy's body.
But as Kodo writhed under the Knight’s strength, his ears flattened, and his eyes shined with memories.
“You sound… just like… Sombra,” he noted. His eyes briefly flashed with purple energy, and his fur darkened as he recalled the dark king’s words. “Your Mother is weak. She seeks peace with those that would see you enslaved. Join my plan. Help me take over Equestria, and find true peace for your family.”
Kodo snorted, and the Arkham Knight noticed him begin to rise up, gaining new strength.
“Well, I’m sorry to disappoint,” Kodo continued. “But I have family. My mother. My father. My sister.” His heart fluttered in his chest. “Princess Luna…” His eyes focused. “General Grievous. They would never forgive me if I took the wrong path again.”
He lifted himself up, matching blades with the Arkham Knight.
“They gave me a second chance,” he said. “And I will. Not. WASTE IT!”
As he howled the last part, a shockwave of smoke and his own pack links burst from his maw, throwing the Arkham Knight back and freeing Kodo from his grip.
Arkham Knight hit a lamppost before falling down onto his chest, Arkham Knight stood up. "He h, Loo ks like you 've damaged my armor." Arkham Knight's voice switched up, the Knight hit his helmet a couple of times. "That's better, now where were we?" Arkham Knight tightened his grip on his blade, "You know what they say, Kodo. One shall stand…"
“And one shall fall,” Kodo agreed, baring his claw in his free hand and crossed his sword arm and claw arm over his chest, ready to rush at Arkham Knight and swipe both across his body.
"One Sword Style…" The Knight covered his body in Armament Haki, exhausting the Knight a little bit.
“Jitte Ranbu…” Kodo muttered, as smoke crept up his arm.
"Get ready to burn in hell, Kodo! Hiryu: Kaen!" Arkham Knight cried out.
Kodo said nothing in English, instead letting out a wolf howl as he charged forward, his pack link encircling his smoky arms and extending his claw and sword arms so they almost trailed behind him. Arkham Knight appeared behind Kodo, his sword halfway in its sheath.
"Heh, I wi-" As Arkham Knight Knight sheathed his blade, he was cut, as Kodo’s body exploded into smoke, and his sword and claws carved through the Knight’s body. He stopped his Armament Haki and his armor fell apart, leaving a cybernetic young African American with scars all over his body. The Knight turned to Kodo as he reformed, fearfully. "You… You!" Arkham Knight clenched a robotic fist, glowing in red energy. The Knight fired his most powerful plasma bolt at Kodo.
But the young diamond dog spun, dodging the bolt and carving his sword - coated in armament haki - right through the Arkham Knight’s fist.
The Knight cried out in pain as his cybernetic hand fell off, he grunted. "This pain… IS NOTHING I'M NOT USED TO!!!" The Knight roared, another fist grew in its place. The Knight began to fire Magma balls at Kodo as the Arkham Knight tried to put some distance between them.
Kodo dodged, weaving between the magma balls, and eventually taking refuge up on the rooftops. With the high ground on his side, Kodo began to leap from rooftop to rooftop, keeping the Arkham Knight in his sights as he tried to run away.
For as he ran, Kodo recognized the look of fear in his eyes. A fear that he had seen in his parent’s dreams. Back when they were slaves.
It was a risk, but…
“Michael,” Kodo called. “Your offer of family. Are you sure I’m the one who needs it?”
"Of course you do! You're just like me! A fool, a mistake, and born from hell!" Michael spat, anger filled his eyes. "But we can prove them all wrong… We can prove to those pigs, those who are rich, those who had a family when they needed them- No… Together you and I can be a family together. Along with your original family! Ryker is a nice guy, he'll understand what's going on." Michael ran up a building to follow Kodo, shooting Magma balls at him to subdue him.
“You think so?” Kodo asked, dodging the magma balls, as his voice echoed through the smoke. “Because right now, he’s reminding me a lot of Sombra.”
"DON'T YOU DARE TALK TO MY FATHER LIKE THAT!!!" Using one of the Rokushiki techniques, Soru, Michael appeared before Kodo. His robotic fists covered in Armament Haki, Michael threw a punch at the pup.
But Kodo burst out of his smoke cloud, deflecting the strike with his blade. “Look at what he’s having you do,” Kodo insisted. “Helping him murder men and women who did nothing to him. Taking them away from their homes…”
"Shut up!" Michael pulled out his sword, slamming it down onto Kodo in a fit of anger. "Ryker is family! He is doing it for a good cause, the greatest cause I know!"
Kodo caught the sword with his claws, his pack link spiraling around his claws and down the sword to Arkham Knight’s wrists.
“I thought the same thing when Sombra promised to help me find my mom,” Kodo said softly.
And as the pack links dug into Arkham Knight’s wrists… he saw Kodo was right. Visions flashed before his eyes of Kodo storming Canterlot. Dragging ponies into the dark earth. Selling them off to wild diamond dog clans to be slaves. All while Sombra’s voice whispered in his mind.
“ It’s to get your mother back. It’s a good cause. The greatest cause in the world.”
"You're lying, THOSE VISIONS ARE A LIE!!!" Knight continued to strike the Pup mercilessly, anger fueled his eyes. "I will not let you defile the name of my father!"
“I’m defiling no name,” Kodo said firmly, his pack links shining brightly as the Knight failed to pull his wrists free. “I’m showing you what I’ve experienced.”
The visions continued to flash across Arkham Knight’s mind, even as he tried to resist. Sombra standing side by side with a young Kodo. His horn glowing in sync with Kodo’s fur.
“ You are destined for greatness, young one,” Sombra said. “ You were born to do great things.”
The vision shifted; Shiva was missing. Kodo was desperately looking for her. But there was no sign or scent of her.
“Do not fear, young one,” Sombra’s voice soothed. “ We will get her back. I will help you, even if the others will not.”
And as the Arkham Knight saw Sombra’s manipulations, he felt how Kodo had felt: represented. Appreciated. Loved.
The Arkham Knight clenched his teeth, covering his head in Armament Haki, tilting his blade to the side. Michael slammed his head into Kodo's, dazing him but just enough for Arkham Knight to grab onto Kodo, discarding his blade as he jumped down an alleyway.
But Kodo managed to twist in mid-air, slamming Michael into the ground. His claws flashed, briefly pinning Michael’s arms under the rocks before he seized his head, his pack links wrapping around Michael’s head.
“But tell me this,” Kodo’s voice echoed in Michael’s head. “When all is said and done, and Ryker gets what he wants… does it ever feel like you’ve truly gotten his love? Do you ever fully feel appreciated?”
Michael’s memories answered against his will: Standing solemnly off to the side. The weakest of his fellow commanders. And as Ryker congratulated his men, Michael would always see it in his eyes: he appreciated them far more than he appreciated him. Arkham Knight was the weakest. The least needed. The omega.
Kodo’s grip slackened. “Why settle for scraps,” Kodo asked. “When you could have more?”
Kodo’s memories swam into Michaels. Except… Michael didn’t see Kodo in them. He saw himself. Standing by Shiva’s throne… no, on a throne of his own. When she looked at him, Michael saw the love that Shiva had for Kodo.
The vision shifted. He saw Luna. Guiding him as she showed him how to protect the dreams of ponies. When they came to a rather erotic dream, Luna quickly shut the door on the dream with a blush. Yet, Michael only felt humor. And as he laughed, Luna laughed with him.
Emotion flooded his core. Love. Appreciation. The bonds of a pack. As Kodo shared his memories with him, he let the Arkham Knight feel how it was to be part of a pack. Not where he was the weakest, but where he was a pack mate. Loved no matter what he did. The Fallen Knight had stopped struggling, tears had begun to form in his eyes.
"Is that… How it feels to be loved?" Michael asked the pup, getting his arms out of the rocks, as if submitting to the Diamond Dog.
Kodo lifted himself up. “That’s how it feels,” he promised. He offered his claw. “I can’t promise it’ll be instant. But it’s worth fighting for. And there could be a place for you too, if you were willing.”
"...Hehe… you know what you saw earlier on the screen… 9/11… The Twin Towers… My parents died there. When I was eight, I went to check on them, running past the Firemen, Ambulance, and the Police Officers… When I found their bodies. I saw both of them, embracing each other for the last time. Both… Dead." Michael chuckled, sitting up.
Kodo’s ears flattened. He crouched, letting the Arkham Knight talk.
"After that I grew up on the streets, being an African American on the streets was horrible, Police Officers constantly taunted me. Being the fat pigs that they are, giving me food that I desperately needed only to destroy them. I turned to a life of crime after that, became a petty thief, soon the Organization, Creed, accepted me. They raised me, and I had a home… But that was all ruined as you saw on the TV." Arkham Knight explained to the pup.
Kodo nodded. “I saw,” he assured the Knight. “They took everything from you… and then Ryker came to pick up the pieces, right?”
The Fallen Knight chuckled brokenly, "Yes… He taught me everything… But I wasn't learning well. So he replaced my limbs, ripping them out… Even my eye." Michael looked at Kodo, his one red glowing eye peering into Kodo's. "But… I forgive him, it was all him wanting me not to feel useless." Michael told the pup.
Kodo could only stare at the machinery that had replaced so much of Michael’s body. “Well,” he said quietly. “Was it worth it? Do you feel… ‘not useless?’”
"Hehe… Yup…" Michael said, nothing else to add on.
“Even now?”
"Eh, not so much." Michael grinned, hiding the pain before he went back into his sad state.
“So why stay like this?” Kodo asked. “We can start over.”
Michael slowly glared up at Kodo, smiling, "Tell that to the dead." Michael quickly grabbed his gun and put the pistol under his chin.
“No!” Kodo barked, lunging for the pistol. Before the Knight could pull the trigger Kodo knocked the pistol away from Michael to prevent the Arkham Knight from reaching for his spare pistol. Kodo locked his claws around Michael’s neck, and let his claws glow with a purple light. “Suicide is a coward’s way out… and despite what Von Shadow said, you’re not a coward.”
The Arkham Knight felt the energy leave his body, and his eyes fluttered shut. He went limp, locked into the Play Dead spell Shiva had created. Resting his claw over Michael’s face, Kodo added a spell he had learned from Luna.
“Rest, brother,” Kodo said. “And dream of a better life.”
In the Arkham Knight’s mind, he dreamed of a life where his parents had lived. Where his Creed had lived. Where he had a real family. As the Arkham Knight smiled softly in his sleep, Kodo lifted himself up.
“I’ll be back when Ryker is taken care of,” Kodo promised, before racing after his group.
Climbing the tower stairs the Displaced burst through the door leading to the second floor, inside was a wasteland. Littered with weapons of war and skeletons, skeletons of Avians.
“By everything sacred…” Shiva whispered.
Lucci and Entity tensed up at the surrounding, a sweat drop appeared on Lucci's forehead.
"Th-this is…" Lucci's eyes widened before turning to Thanos, Thanos looked on at the floor with a one hundred yard stare. "The battlefield where Cloven Diamond fell!"
To be continued...
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Second Floor! The Clash of the Titans!
Second Floor! The Clash of the Titans!
Thanos looked around, the screams of the Avians he killed flooded his mind. Thanos shook his head but continued to stare at a singular skull of an Avian, some bones stuck out of the sand.
“Well, welcome to the second floor everyone,” Elia chuckled, the Princess slowly turned to Thanos. “Er, why is he staring like that? It’s creepy...”
Shiva lifted a claw, her pack link trying to soothe Thanos. “He fought in a brutal war,” she warned. “This is bringing back… bad memories.” She focused on Thanos, trying to reach him as he struggled not to panic. “Thanos… John, listen to my voice. You’re among friends. The avians aren’t here; there’s no battle. Just your pack. Deep breaths, John. Deep breaths.”
“It’s alright best buddy!” Thanos kept still like a stone statue, Lucci reached to pat Thanos’ shoulder, the Titan swiftly grabbed the man’s arm. “Uh… Thanos? Can ya let go of my arm?” Thanos tightened his grip on the man, Lucci grimaced at the pain. “T-Thanos…?” Thanos then shattered Lucci’s arm like glass, Lucci’s arm was bent in another direction. “SON OF A MOTHERFUCKER!!!” Lucci fell onto his back.
“What in Hylia’s Lake has gotten into Thanos?” Link asked in confusion, looking around thinking there was some sort of curse.
Shiva yelped and transferred her link to Lucci, as Thanos snapped his head towards the south-east. Thanos shot away, much to the confusion of the others. As the others struggled to keep up, Thanos reached a large crater, staring down at the center in confusion.
“The skull,” he whispered. “It should be here.”
“It’s not!” Shiva insisted, skidding to his side. “Thanos, it’s…”
“Ah, my student it’s nice to see you again!” A gruff voice spoke. Thanos turned the head towards the sound.
“Master?” Thanos' disappointment was now immeasurable and his day was ruined. For it was Douglass Bullet with Cloven Diamond’s skull, controlling it like a puppet. Thanos’ eyes widened.
“Kahahaha! You got duped purple man!” Bullet laughed. Thanos just looked into Bullet’s eyes, surprisingly to Bullet, he wasn’t angry.
Black growled at the ‘joke.’ “That’s just fucking wrong man, you don’t do that shit.” Black argued.
Luke shuddered. “Please tell me no one did anything like that with my corpse,” he whispered.
“Daybreaker didn’t even leave a corpse,” Shiva whispered solemnly, before powering him up with the pack link. Luke glanced at Eric’s furious expression.
“Oh, and who is this ‘Daybreaker’ you keep speaking of?” Black asked as he looked to Shiva with a raised eyebrow.
“Imagine Nightmare Moon,” Shiva replied. “But instead of Luna, it’s Celestia.” Her pack link flared as she spoke, giving Black an image of Celestia, but with golden fur, and black and gold dragon eyes. Her mane was a wreath of flames, and sharp teeth were bared in a malicious laugh as she rained what looked like miniature suns down onto a battlefield. Hearing mention Nightmare Moon brought up an old memory back when he fought her so many years ago.
Black shuddered at the image of a Nightmarish Celestia, “And here I thought Nightmare had a chilling laugh.” Black said as he severed the pack links and let them fizzle away.
Luke winced at the memory. “Worst part is, it was our own fault she showed up: one of my pack mates made a really dumb decision to bomb Canterlot with these experimental weapons we had.”
Shiva’s ears flattened. “I knew it was a mistake to keep those,” she grumbled.
“I’d say sorry, but… we paid for it already,” Luke noted, before turning back to Black. “Celestia lost her mind from the number of ponies that died… and Daybreaker took over. She disintegrated every diamond dog that had bombed Canterlot, then went after the rest of us.” He clutched his wrist. “I tried to fight her - to protect my son and the diamond dogs that weren’t involved - but…” he looked back to Shiva. “You’re serious; there was nothing left of me?”
Shiva shook her head. Luke visibly paled under his fur, before he focused on Bullet, clearly trying not to go into another panic attack.
“I’m guessing like they won’t leave anything left of him either,” Luke noted.
“Damn right. You do not tamper with the dead,” Eric seethed out through clenched teeth as the shadows slowly slithered to the laughing displaced.
“KAHAHAHAA!!! If you guys wanna take me on…” Bullet fired off a huge burst of Conqueror’s Haki at them, “...You must have a strong will!” Everyone was absorbed into it, Bullet’s eyes were red as well as his mouth as he grinned like a demon. Thanos looked back at the others, the force of Bullet’s will taking a toll on the weaker willed, Thanos then fired off his Conqueror’s Haki at the God of War. Their Wills clashed, blowing dust away before it let off a harmless explosion. Bullet and Thanos locked eyes, Thanos looked back at the others. Link reached back to grab at this master sword, only to halt when Thanos spoke.
“Leave.” Thanos said firmly, looking at the others.
Luke, already on edge from retelling his death, took one look at Thanos, then back at Bullet. “Alright.” He lifted Shiva up and marched away, clearly struggling not to sprint away crying like a pup.
“Hey,” Shiva protested, looking up at Thanos as Luke marched off with her. “Thanos, are you sure…?”
“He’s got this,” Luke assured her. “No way we’re taking that on. Not dying again. Nope-nope-nope-nope!” He kept on chanting ‘Nope’ as he marched his way to the exit.
“Hey Thanos,” Black said, looking to the Titan as he ascended the staircase. “Don’t make the mistakes I’ve made, killing won’t justify what happened back then, it’ll only cause more pain.” Black said as he turned away and followed the others. Thanos just nodded, not facing him.
“...Let us go,” Entity spoke, Lucci, Link, and Elia followed the Minecraft man, they went after the pair. Entity stopped and looked back at Thanos while they were marching on, “Don’t kill him, it can not fix what was done.”
“Alright.” Thanos nodded, not facing Entity. Entity let out a grin.
“Heh,” Entity chuckled as he continued his march, trying to catch up with the others.
“Think you can do me a favor, Chrome Dome?” Eric said walking past the Titan
“What is it, Oogie Boogie?” Thanos asked the Shadow Man, not looking towards the man.
“Teach this bastard why you never disturb the dead,” Eric said, receding his shadows. “You’d better bring his head back as a trophy.”
“Eric Von Shadow,” Thanos turned his head to the Shadow Man, slightly disappointed in him. “We need to lower the casualties. They are just like us, but with differences. I intend to kill no one, you should too, killing someone can not bring back what was lost. When you fight fire with fire, you both get burned.” Thanos turned away from Eric, looking into bullet’s eyes before taking a stance.
“Just make sure you don’t lose to somepony like him,” Eric said still using the term out of habit
“Somepony, KAHAHAHAHAHA!!!” Bullet laughed, Thanos couldn’t help but laugh as well. “PONYBOY!!!!”
Eric grabbed his blade and swung it in an arc causing a wave of razor shadow to dig a trench into the ground in front of Bullet Though unfortunately for Eric, Thanos shattered that attack like glass, producing a shockwave from his palms.
“Do not mock what is a habit for me,” Eric growled, running to catch up with the others.
The two fighters stared at each other, the sand was blown in the wind, Thanos frowned, looking into Bullet’s eyes.
“It’s just you and me Bullet, everyone has left.” Thanos told the God of War, Bullet just grinned.
“Thanos, how about we fight with just our strength. No Devil Fruit, no Ki, no magic, just our Armament Haki and Rokushiki Techniques.” Bullet asked the Titan, Thanos chuckled softly.
“Why not? I’m used to it anyways,” Thanos told Bullet, Thanos got in a fighting stance, Bullet got in his. There was a pregnant pause, the two didn’t even dare to move. Everything went black and they only saw their opponents. The two then lunge at each other, Thanos cocked back his fist, Bullet cocked back his fist as well. They coat their fists in Armament Haki, they then punch each other in their faces. The force sent them flying into the pillars, Thanos shot from his pillar and rammed Bullet through his pillar. The pillar fell, Thanos then caught the pillar and he then threw the pillar at Bullet. Bullet then threw a Rankyaku, splitting the pillar in half.
“HRAH!!!” Thanos jumped above the dust that was spread from Bullet’s attack, Thanos then flew down at Bullet, using Tekkai to enhance his body. “Tekkai Sai!” Thanos slammed his fist down, but unfortunately missed, Bullet laughed before uppercutting Thanos. Sending him flying far, Bullet chased after the Titan. Thanos then hit the ground, he then got in Daewi’s Fighting Stance. As Bullet got close Thanos unleashed a punch.
“First Stance… FIST OF THE BLACK-” Thanos was cut off, Bullet had evaded the attack, Bullet grabbed Thanos’ arm and threw the Titan over him. Bullet then slammed Thanos onto the ground, knocking the wind out of the Titan. Thanos then jumped up and landed an uppercut to Bullet, Bullet stumbled backwards, Thanos got into a stance and covered his head in Armament Haki. Bullet did the same as the Titan and their heads collided, the force of the two goliaths shook the whole tower. Thanos and Bullet stumbled backwards and rubbed their heads.
“Damn, you sure do have a hard head!” Bullet complimented his opponent, Thanos winced and then looked at Bullet.
“I could say the same to you!” Thanos cried out before running at Bullet, coating his fists in Armament Haki. Bullet replicated the Titan’s gesture and dashed at Thanos. Their fists met each other's face and they would’ve been thrown back, if they had not prepared for this. Digging their feet into the soil they began slugging each other, fists were thrown and fists clashed.Thanos landed a gut punch to Bullet, Bullet wheezed at the sheer force of the Titan’s mighty blow. Bullet clenched his teeth, looking at Thanos, Bullet then threw his fist and the fist found it’s target. Thanos was punched in the kidney, Thanos then launched an uppercut onto Bullet, the force sent him flying, and Bullet was launched several meters away.
The Titan followed him, though due to his handicap of no Devil Fruit he couldn’t reach Bullet in time to strike him again. Bullet hit the floor, a dust cloud swept over, Bullet jumped up, looking at Thanos who was a comfortable few meters behind him. Bullet jumped onto the pillars, bouncing off of them like a ping pong ball. Thanos then stopped as he was being surrounded by Bullet, Bullet hopped around like a grasshopper.
“What’s wrong Thanos? Can’t keep up? Kahahahaha!” Bullet laughed, Thanos struggled to keep up with Douglas Bullet as he bounced around. Bullet then crashed into Thanos, striking the Titan in his gut, the force sent Thanos for a tumble. Skipping across the sand like a rock getting skipped on water, Thanos then hit a pillar.
"Ugh… That was the first time I ever passed out during a fight, this guy is the real deal." Thanos said to no one in particular as he looked up at Bullet. Bullet was meters away, flexing his muscles and punching the air as a warm up. Thanos walked out of his pillar, getting into the stance of Cloven Diamond.
"Oh ho ho! I recognize that stance! It was the stance of the strongest being on Equus, Cloven Diamond. He was the first non-displaced person that made me go all out, when I had defeated the man. He asked me one thing, to kill him. I really didn't understand why because he had a student, which was you, he said that if he died his student would grow stronger because of it. Heh, I guess it's true, he wanted me to tell you this." Bullet coughed into his hand, clearing his throat. "Thanos, you have soared above the limits of my students before you, you are a strong warrior and a better friend. Even though I'm the master, you taught me many things. You taught me how to love, how to cry, and how to live. Thank you, Thanos."
Thanos was taken aback by this, his eyes opened wide and a little tear formed in his eye. Memories of Cloven Diamond flushed his memories, Thanos chuckled.
"If you're up there Cloven Diamond, thank you. Bullet I knew you didn't want to kill him, I honestly thought Ryker ordered you to kill him but now I understand. Thank you Bullet for giving me his last message." Thanos tightened his stance, Bullet went into his stance, grinning like a mad man.
"You're welcome! May this fight be one for the ages!" Bullet roared as he used Soru to approach Thanos, Thanos used Soru as well. Their fists clashed and it made a huge tremor in the tower that shook it. Thanos coated his arms in Ryou Haki and coated his whole body in Armament Haki, Bullet covered his whole body in Armament Haki making him purple. Bullet's fists were coated in Ryou Haki.
"Franky Boxing!" Thanos cried out, shooting a multitude of punches at Bullet.
"[Insert Move Name That I Forgot.]!" Bullet roared, shooting an armada of punches at the Titan. Their fists collided and with every punch thrown it made a shockwave that was felt throughout the tower. Bullet launched an uppercut on the Titan, Thanos then headbutt's Umbra's Heir. Thanos grabbed Bullet's head and dragged him across the sand, making sure to run into bones along the way to cause extra damage. Thanos then chucked Bullet far, and Bullet went through a series of pillars before nearly getting launched off the floor and getting launched out of the tower. Bullet then ran to the fallen pillars, throwing them up, Bullet then kicked the pillars at Thanos.
"That's not going to work on me!" Thanos cried out, punching the pillars and knocking them away. It was making then shatter from the strength of the Mad Titan. Bullet then appeared behind Thanos, reaching around Thanos' waist. Bullet then pulled off a German Suplex on the Titan, the force shook the floor below. Thanos wheezed before Bullet let Thanos go, Bullet wrapped his hand around Thanos' neck, Thanos wrapped his hand around Bullet's neck. They both lock eyes and they start punching each other in their heads, with their Ryou Haki aka internal damage Haki, they were punching their actual skulls with no skin protecting them.
"Fuck the rules, let's go full power! But only use Devil Fruits," Bullet grinned, Thanos let go of Bullet. Bullet jumped back and a submarine popped up, Bullet stood on the submarine. It then turns into a giant robot, "I ate the Gasha-Gasha No Mi, which made me an Assimilation Human!" The robot was finished as it towered over Thanos.
Thanos looked in pure shock at the contraption, the robot’s fists were then coated in Armament Haki, Bullet then threw a punch at the man. Thanos made his arms go in an X shape as he blocked the blow, though the sheer force of the blow threw Thanos across the floor and he hit several pillars before stopping. Thanos grunted as he got up, he landed in a rocky structure, he saw Bullet approach with his giant mech. Thanos’ purple skin became light purple as steam floated off his body.
“Netsu-Netsu…. STEAM MAN!!!!” Thanos announced dramatically, Thanos then shot off to Bullet like a rocket. Bullet pulled back a fist, Thanos did the same, their fists once again clashed, shaking the whole floor. Though Thanos transformed into one of his strongest forms, he was still no match for the raw strength of Bullet. Thanos was forced to the ground, making a tiny crater. Bullet then starts to wail on Thanos, not letting Thanos get a chance for escape as he punches Thanos mercilessly. The force of the punch sent tremors to the lower floor, Bullet began to laugh.
“What’s wrong Thanos? Where was that spunk?! Tell me who’s the strongest of the New Generation? Tell me! Tell me! TELL ME!!!” Bullet cried out as he slammed his fists down onto Thanos, Thanos then used Kamisori to appear before Bullet’s face.
“I’M THE STRONGEST OF THE NEW GENERATION DUMBASS!!!!” Thanos landed a punch on Bullet forcing the goliath back, Thanos then flew at Bullet, coating his fist in pure heat. “HEAT CRASH!!!!” Thanos punched the Bullet in his robotic shell’s gut. The force sent the goliath crashing into a pillar, Thanos landed on his feet. Kicking it up to Burst Man, a red fire swarmed the Titan from all sides as he took his stance. Bullet groaned as he was on his back, Bullet slowly got up.
“THEN SHOW ME!!!” Bullet responded to Thanos, getting to his feet Bullet ran at Thanos, Thanos flew at Bullet at breakneck speeds. Their fists clashed, Thanos threw another punch and Bullet mimicked the gesture.
As they punched each other they both cried out, “ATATATATATATATA!!!!” Their punches made a sandstorm due to the shockwaves, it also made a sand tornado here and there.
At that moment, Kodo arrived, having dealt with the Arkham Knight. He took one look at the battle before him, and flashed back to Entity’s ‘fight’ with Bullet.
“Okay, not getting involved with that,” Kodo mumbled, diving into the earth and digging his way for the exit. “Don’t mind me; just digging along. Nothing to notice here…”
Thanos ripped a pillar from that held the roof, he then chucked the pillar at Bullet. Bullet punched the pillar, making it go in two, and unfortunately for all of them, the pillar was picked up in the sand tornado, it then spun around before getting thrown into the exit. The supports of the exit then crashed, Thanos and Bullet just stared at what they had done before resuming their fight, not bothered by it at the moment.
As it turned out, Kodo was barely bothered either. Briefly poking his head out to survey the damage with a hum, he shrugged before diving back underground, digging his way through the wreckage and reaching the other side.
“Sorry to leave you, Thanos,” Kodo mused. “But I think we both know what would happen if I got involved.” He turned his sights to the next floor. “And I believe I promised everyone I’d come back alive.”
As Kodo made his way up to the next floor, Thanos and Bullet both jumped back, as the sandstorm raged on. Thanos frowned.
“I think it’s time we end this,” Thanos then let out a roar, kicking it up to Netsu-Netsu Burst Man: White Hot Edition. Bullet let out a cackle.
“Well I quite agree!” Suddenly rocks began to pile onto Bullet’s robot and he turned into a Demon, he truly earned his title as the Heir of Umbra. His height rivalled that of Godzilla’s and he had antlers that stretched on for miles, it was like Thanos met Satan.
“OH SHIT!!!” Thanos cried out, Bullet covered his demonic arms in Armament Haki before throwing a punch to Thanos. Thanos tried to counter that punch with his but he was outpowered by Bullet, the first person to ever outpower the Titan. Thanos was sent careening, getting sent through pillars before he was launched outside of the tower. Thanos blinked, then by some unknown force he was dragged back in. Thanos shook his head, dazed at the sensation that he felt when he got outside, it was unnerving, like something bad was happening.
“Kahahaha! What’s wrong Thanos? Can’t match my power?” Bullet asked the Titan, Thanos shook his head once more to get a clearer vision on Bullet. Thanos tried to locate his weak spots and he saw…
“Heh… I know how to beat you,” Thanos unsheathed his blade, coating his Infinity Blade in Armament Haki as he looked at the golem.
“Oh really? Tell me them!” Bullet cried out, he threw a punch at Thanos as he got close. Thanos vanished then appeared before Bullet’s very eyes as his golem’s arm got cut off. Bullet yelped at the unknown strength coming from Thanos. Thanos then spun his blade before he chucked the blade at Bullet’s other arm. And just like Bullet’s other arm, it came clean off, the blade went back to Thanos.
“Your whole body is made out of rock! NETSU-NETSU HEAT DRILL!!!!” Thanos then began to spin around, a white drill was formed as he went into Bullet’s chest. Going through Bullet’s first line of defense, Bullet cried out in pure fear. Thanos then went on to pierce through his last one, the last one was Bullet’s robot. Thanos stopped spinning, he was now in Bullet’s control room, putting his blade in his sheathe as he saw Bullet panic. Bullet looked down at Thanos from his control room, he didn’t see Thanos, no, he saw Cloven Diamond.
“How did you-” Bullet was then cut off by Thanos, for he prepared one final attack, the oxygen began to dwindle as the area began to heat up. Thanos clenched his fist. Thanos went into a stance, his fist being enhanced by Armament Haki, Tekkai Go, and White Fire.
“Because I’m Thanos, bitch. SKADOOSH!!!!” Thanos shot his fist into Bullet’s stomach, Thanos then jumped forward, going through the robot and the golem’s back. Thanos then looked at the last pillar and like a sane person would, he crashed into it. The last pillar that held up the floor.
Everyone felt something drop like they were descending in an elevator, Lucci let out a shriek for he wasn’t expecting this to happen.
“What is Thanos doing down there?” Luke yelped, covering Shiva with his body.
“Something stupid!’ Elia cried out before she hit the floor with a loud thud.
Thanos was on his back, as well as Bullet. The roof began to close in on them.
“That… Was one hell of a fight…” Bullet chuckled, Thanos grunted, going to his feet.
“Hell yeah it was… Looks like I have to save both you and Arkham Knight… Tekkai, Go!” Thanos cried out, his body stiffened, Bullet took one look at Thanos, once again seeing Cloven Diamond. Bullet then closed his eyes as he slowly passed out. The roof then impacts Thanos and he catches the roof as well as the tower itself. Thanos grunted as he was forced to squat down, he then winced as his body was strained.
The falling stopped suddenly as it came, Lucci landed on his feet for he was a cat man, Entity just placed a water bucket beneath him and scooped up the water with his bucket again as he safely landed. Luke twisted, hitting the ground on his back, while Shiva was cushioned by his furry body. Shiva used her diamond-diamond fruit to encase them both in diamonds. Though they hit the ground with a hard CLANG, they reformed into flesh, unhurt. Black floated down carrying Luna Black bridal style. The Alicorn blushing at the smiling Saiyan. They softly landed on the ground as the Saiyan sets down Luna Black softly. Link was in freefall casually, however just as he drew close to the ground, his leather boots took on a yellow glow; soon materializing into golden wings that let out a light that allowed Link to hover softly, forcing his fall into a slow descent. Eric however didn’t bother to prevent his fall as he made contact with the ground and splattered like a bug in a windshield, His sword pierced the stone near the splash zone. The black sludge swarmed near the sword forming a large deforemed are which grabbed hold of the hilt, Eric pulled himself up as his entire body reformed entirely.
“Is everyone alright?” Entity asked the group, Elia replied with a groan and Lucci just put his hands behind his back. Not responding to that.
“Fine” Eric said dusting himself off
“I can heal if anyone needs it.” Link offered.
“I think so,” Shiva muttered, before gasping. “Kodo and Thanos! They’re still down there!”
“It's Thanos.” Link said with a shrug of his arms. “He’s a bit immature and maybe a little stubborn, but he’s a tough cookie you shouldn’t worry about.” he said with confidence.
“Shiva, Kodo can turn into smoke and you fought Thanos,” Luke reminded his mate. “I think you and I both know they’ll be alright.”
“He has a point…” Elia grunted out, going to her feet. “Well, I’m sure they’ll catch up… Hopefully…”
Shiva whimpered, but Luke pulled himself up.
“Not ‘hopefully,’” he insisted. “They ‘will’ catch up.” He took the lead. “All we’ve gotta do is keep moving forward.”
Shiva’s tail wagged, and she followed after him. “I love it when you’re confident,” she whispered.
“Alright, let us go-” Entity was cut off when they heard a click echoing across the staircase. All was silent.
Black immediately turned to the clicking noise. “No… that, ‘thing’ can’t be here…” Black muttered.
“...Thing?” Link asked confused as his eyes gazed warily around the room, quickly taking out his Master Sword and Hylian Shield.
Cautiously, Shiva linked back up with Luke, and both of them went into diamond mode.
There was a click again and a silhouette appeared up on the staircase, Entity grabbed a torch off of the wall, he then moved it forward. Unexpected to all of them, they saw Ugandan Knuckles.
“A… deformed retarded knuckles?” Link asked with a frown as he stared at the shortstack abomination.
“Much, much worse…….” Phoenix muttered.
“Oh no…” Black muttered, Luna Black raising an eyebrow at the interesting being.
“What in Tartarus…?” Luke mumbled.
“You gotta be shitting me…” Entity muttered under his breath.
“Afraid not” Eric said raising his sword
Link looked between Ugandan Knuckles and the group, clueless and very confused of how this thing was of any sort of deal. Sure, it was ugly, but that’s about it.
Phoenix gave no comment, but instead began to throw up as soon as he laid eyes on the thing in front of him.
To be continued…
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Third Floor! The Ninja of the Mist, Zabuza!
Third Floor! The Ninja of the Mist, Zabuza!
Everyone looked at the deformed creature, the creature began to click three times before speaking.
"Hello my brudda, my name is click Elae." Ugandan Knuckles said, greeting the party.
Luke and Shiva exchanged a glance. “Um… hello,” Shiva greeted with a bow.
Black starred at Elae with an intense stare. “Can I please kill this stupid meme…” Black said simply, taking Luna Black by surprise.
“Wait, THIS is a meme?” Link asked in disbelief.
“Gladly,” Eric charged Raising his sword to bring it down on the K-mart brand Knuckles. The Ugandan Knuckles simply clicked and the sheer force of that knocked Eric back down the stairs.
"You guys saw what happened to Cell…" Lucci deadpanned at Black. "What do you think is going to happen to you?"
“No.. I never saw what happened to Mr. Perfect Cell… Of course I saw what happened in that DevilArtimes video!” Black shouted as he turned to Lucci, “But all that happened in that video was for pure content!”
"I have come to ask you one question." Elae began, "Doe u kno de wey?" Elae asked the group.
“Pretty sure, yeah,” Luke said, pointing up.
"Dat is not de wey." Elae told the canine with a click.
One of the Dark Saiyan’s eye twitched when hearing the question. “Oh… Oh I know the way.” Black said through gritted teeth, lifting up a hand.
"MY BRUDDA!!! Come join me, let us sing the song of our people! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Elae sang like the true talented deformed echidna he is.
“I’m already starting to hate his thing…” Link said with a sigh as he turned around to see if there was a way to progress to the next floor.
Black began to growl as a ball of ki grew in his hand. “I know the way… PAST YOU, YOU DUMB MEME!!” Black roared as he went Super Saiyan and threw the blast at Ugandan Knuckles.
Like Eric, Elae just clicked and the ball disappeared, "But for real tho, I am on your team, we Ugandan Knuckles are discriminated against, we are a part of the resistance." Elae explained to the Displaced.
Link halted in his step at the mention of resist and how it was on their team. “...Was the clicking and the stereotypical jamican voice necessary?” he asked with a frown.
Noticing a chunk of stone on the ground Sombra kicked it towards the Ugandan, the stone landed behind the creature as he drew his ancestral sword, Crystal Heart
“I wouldn’t recommend that Sombra, if he can just click and send your friend into a wall and make my blast disappear, I don’t think we can stand a chance against this dumb meme…” Black said as he glanced over his shoulder.
“Agreed,” Shiva added. “Plus, he said he’s on our side.” She glanced at the Knuckles. “Even if his howling skills need work,” she added in a deadpan manner.
“But Crystal Heart wasn’t forged to kill.” Sombra said to the group. “It’s purpose is to bring eternal calm to who ever is hit by it”
“Guy seems pretty calm already,” Luke pointed out.
“Even still, you don’t want to mess with a meme, especially this one… He has the power of Ebola on his side…” Black said as he continued to stare down Elae.
“....That doesn’t even make sense!” Link said with a groan.
“Ebola?” Luna Black asked with a raised eyebrow.
“A disease back on earth that was extremely deadly, basically turning your organs into mush in a few weeks.” Black said, a shiver going down his spine.
“Just charge up one of your blasts,” Sombra said to the Saiyan.
“That sounds like a really bad idea,” Shiva insisted.
"You don't say? With that disease, if you… Touch him you'll die!" Elia said, trying to add her two cents in.
"I only choose who gets Ebola and who does not." Elae informed the Eliatrope.
“You don’t understand, this meme was able to blow up Mr. Perfect Cell just with a click,” Black said as he turned to Sombra. “Even going full power on him won’t have any effect, plus I think I would get the Ebola Virus…” Black explained as he turned back to the meme.
"I am already calm for I kno de wey and I have found the path to enlightenment." Elae explained to the Displaced once more, before peering into the eyes of Sombra.
Sombra stood his ground as he swung his sword several times causing several chunks of stone to float amissly. All who were familiar with One Piece realized what he was using. With a flick of his wrist the stones were sent past the ugandan.
“I’m ending this,” Sombra said, expanding his ‘room’ diameter. “Now… Shambles!”
Each and every displaced vanished from Elae and were replaced with several chunks of stone, without hesitation Sombra casts a Teleport spell to send him and the others further up the tower. However he was only able to get them to the next floor which was covered in a thick mist.
Mere seconds after they vanished, Kodo ran up the staircase, pausing as he took in the sight of Ugandan Knuckles.
“Uh…” Kodo mumbled, completely stunned by what he saw.
Black looked around the new area before looking behind him and down the staircase. “Welp… Sombra’s dead…” Black says plainly.
“Who’s Displacer or Void Dwellers idea was it to make a meme a living thing?” Link asked with a shake of his head.
“Whoever it was,” Shiva replied. “I’m assuming they won’t be missed.”
“Amen, let memes be memes, just jokes to laugh at, not fear.” Link said as he looked around the area.
“You all speak as though I’m already passed from this world, Saiyan” Sombra said sheathing his sword.
“Impressive, you managed to get past one of the strongest memes ever known, right next to El Hermono…” Black says, looking over his shoulder towards the dark unicorn.
“It was either that or do what Eric did and get blasted down the stairs” Sombra said before realizing he didn’t bring Eric with them
“That fucker is beyond annoying” Eric said, kicking the door open with a familiar pup on his shoulder. “Almost makes Thanos seem mature.”
“Just wait until you meet any other memes, like Ultra Instinct Shaggy or Doge or Kronk.” Black said with a laugh.
“...How about no?” Link asked with a groan. The hylians had enough of overpowered beings to last him years.
Sensing his thoughts, Shiva smiled, similarly ready to go back to her world of underpowered beings. Though her focus was quickly yanked to the pup on Eric’s shoulder. “Kodo!” Shiva cheered, catching him when he leaped into her arms. “Are you okay?”
Kodo held himself up with triumph. “Arkham Knight is taken care of,” he replied. “Also, I’m pretty sure Thanos will be along shortly.”
“You did great, pup,” Eric said, praising the pup in Shiva’s arms. “And you manage to not get blown away by that abomination.”
“Yeah, I was meaning to ask about that,” Kodo noted to the others. “What was that?”
“They called it Ugandan Knuckles,” Shiva replied.
“It’s something called a ‘meme,’” Luke added, before glancing at Shiva. “Is that some kind of human thing?”
Shiva shrugged, before Eric spoke up.
“It is,” Eirc said with slight irritation. “They are the product of all the fucking millennials in the world, they deserve to burn in hell with all the other fucking memes of earth.”
“Pretty much. Some memes are good when there is creativity, but most just take a random scene or image, then spam or quote a million times thinking it's funny.” Link said as he remembers the times his human friends back on earth would piss him off with stale memes.
Kodo and Luke both glanced at Shiva. “Humans do that?” Luke asked.
Shiva just shrugged again. “Need I remind you guys, I was a dog,” she noted. “I had no idea about any of these ‘millennials’ or ‘memes’ or stuff. I just knew humans as the masters who gave food and shelter. Anyway, what’s important is that we’re together again.”
“Almost,” Kodo rectified. “Thanos is still down there, but he should be along shortly.”
“Good, We’ll need all the people we can get when facing Ryker,” Eric said when he saw a shifting in the mist causing him to draw his sword. “And it looks like Zabuza is upon us.”
Black immediately frowned at hearing the name. “Oh… This is that Jackass's level…” Black growled.
“Zabu-who?”Link asked as he wasn’t familiar with Naruto.
“Zabuza, the Demon of the Hidden Mist,” Eric said, readying his weapon. “Wielder of the Executioner's blade: one of the Seven Swords of the Mist. A weapon that can repair itself using the iron in the blood of it’s victims”
“Yeesh..” Link said with a cringe.
Shiva quickly sent pack links out to everyone, while Kodo and Luke prepared for battle, Luke turning his arms to diamonds while Kodo lifted into the air on a ball of smoke.
Sombra quickly put his family sword in his teeth before drawing a pair of twin swords. “Three Sword Style…” Sombra said, spinning on his heels creating a spiral motion. “..Dragon Twister”
Sombra’s attack created a spiral vacuum which blew away the surrounding mist revealing a dark skin toned man with a large sword across his back.
Link still had his sword and shield out at the ready since things started getting weird since the first floor. Kodo had his sword ready too, though he kept giving nervous looks at the absolute beast of a sword on their opponent’s back.
"Hello," Zabuza greeted, "Would you like some tea?" Zabuza suddenly had a cup of tea in his hand. "It's quite calming."
Shiva’s eyes darted between her companions. “I’d take the tea,” she admitted.
“Either move or die” Eric growled out in anger. “I’m already had to fight a Fucking Meme, and right now I don’t want to screw around”
Zabuza chuckled darkly, "Looks like I'm gonna die then, my name is Zabuza, brother of Ryker. I will not let you pass and harm my family!" Zabuza cried out, suddenly disappearing and turning into water. A thick deep mist surrounded our heroes, before they then heard a chuckle.
"My family is everything to me, I may not like violence but you began the attack. You guys already beat Arkham Knight, and Bullet. Two of my family members, I will NOT let you go past me, Fujitora is on the next floor and I'd rather not let you guys disturb the poor man." Zabuza said, though it felt hundreds of them were speaking.
Shiva’s ears perked at the mention of Fujitora. “What if we promised ‘not’ to disturb him,” Shiva offered. “I just want to talk to him.”
"I know you have a thing with him but I simply can not allow that, since you guys are not killing my family. Which is very polite of you, I'll let one of you pass, wait, no. I won't, because Fujitora ordered me to not let you pass Shiva, under no circumstances. Dying or ill." Zabuza spoke, more voices added onto them.
Shiva’s ears flattened, while Luke’s fur bristled. “What kind of ‘thing’ did he have with my mate?” Luke growled.
“Luke, calm down,” Shiva ordered. “We were friends. Believe it or not, it’s possible for a male and a female to be friends with each other. Especially when the female is already mated to the male of her dreams.”
“Guys, can we focus please?” Kodo barked at both of them before perking his ears. “Do you feel that?”
Luke and Shiva paused, sensing it with seconds to spare. From the earth, Thanos jumped up, launching rock everywhere. Thanos then crashed down with Bullet in his arms.
"Ow…" They both groaned, laying down on the ground.
“Thanos!” Shiva barked, transferring her links to him. “Hang on, I got you.”
"Thanks, Bullet lost, I couldn't leave him down there as I held up the tower." Thanos got to his feet and he then lost sight of Bullet. "...Wherever he is…"
“Hopefully not about to ambush us,” Kodo said worriedly, looking around for the God of War.
“Look. I know you’re only protecting, but I don’t think it’d be wise to take on so many of us…” Link said slowly as he reached into his pouch.
"Oh really? Just you guys… VS A THOUSAND?!?!?" The mist cleared up and on the trees were over a thousand Zabuzas.
From out of his pouch, Link threw out what appeared to be a black and yellow striped grenade. After a few seconds, it exploded, releasing many tiny bees bouncing between the trees. The bees would bounce harmlessly on Link’s allies, but to the Zabuzas or his clones though? Though the beenade was effective,, the other water clones pushed on.
Eric swung his blade dispelling a large number of his water clones with a razor wave of shadow
Black smirked as he pointed a hand towards the clones. With a shout, he shot a pressured wave towards them, dispelling a majority of them with ease. “Water… really?” Black mocked.
"Jutsus are tricky," The Zabuzas replied in synchronization.
The Zabuzas rained down on the others, raising their blades high, they all fired off a particular jutsu. Shiva briefly launched over Luke before spinning and hurling Luke like a ball and chain. The male diamond dog turned into a full diamond statue, and Shiva began spinning him like a ball and chain, smashing Zabuza clones left and right.
"Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu!" Thousands of dragons forged out of water flew at them, specifically the Devil Fruit users. A Zabuza snuck behind the others and dragged Bullet away.
“Hey!” Kodo barked, slashing at the Zabuza sneaking Bullet away. The Zabuza just turned into a log, which promptly fell into pieces from Kodo’s strike, before the Zabuza towered over Kodo. The Zabuza raised his blade and attempted to strike the young pup. But as Kodo caught Zabuza’s strike, he flattened himself against the ground, allowing Shiva to hit Zabuza with Luke’s diamond form while the dark ninja was distracted by Kodo.
"Tch!" They hit the actual Zabuza, "Listen, just let me get my brother to safety and I'll let you and your family pass."
Shiva, Luke and Kodo exchanged glances. Before they could speak, however...
“Three Sword Style, Secret technique” Sombra whispered, twirling his swords in his hands. “Billion-fold World Trichiliocosm!”
Zabuza smartly grabbed Bullet and shot off to the skies, vanishing into thin air as the unicorns attack dispelled all of Zabuza’s water clones
Link reached into his pouch again, soon pulling out some sort of long rod with an orange gem at the top as Link aimed it to unleash a blast of fire at the water clones, believing it would vaporise the fakes.
"Well, well, well. Looks like you guys can beat fodder quite easily!" Zabuza mocked, his silhouette appearing far away. There was a thick mist that appeared suddenly, and just like it came, it went away. Zabuza was directly in front of the party.
Shiva’s ears flattened. “To be fair, we did let you leave with Bullet,” she pointed out.
"Indeed. So, Shiva, Kodo, Mr. Skywalker," Zabuza did some ninja hand signs before a water bubble engulfed the trio. Zabuza then throws them far, all the way to the exit to the floor. "Have fun!"
“Mr. Who?” Luke yelped as they were flung away. Though he was drowned out by Shiva’s response.
“Thank you!”
"You're quite welcome!" Zabuza waved farewell to the trio. Zabuza then looked back at the group. "Guess what you guys just did?"
“What?” Eric said gripping his sword
"You done fucked up," Zabuza said darkly as a huge… Thing of water crashed down on our heroes right as he ended his sentence.
“Dark Flame!” Sombra shouted launching a flurry of black and red flames at the water
The water evaporated covering the entire area covered in steam. “Eric get everyone to the next floor, I’ll handle Zabuza” Thanos was already at the other side drinking hetap, everyone was so caught up they forgot their main purpose. To get up off the floor.
“Got it,” Eric said, pulling everyone into his shadow before using the Shave Technique to race to the door with the Titan.
“Don’t you dare make me tell Fluttershy you won’t be coming back” Eric said tackling the door down
“I would never put that burden on you” Sombra said, tightening the grip on his weapons. “My friend”
"DON'T KILL HIM SOMBRA!!!!" Elia cried out as she walked up the stairs, Entity following her.
“I’ll do my best,” Sombra said, widening his stance. “No promises”
"Quite the killer, are you?" Zabuza said, leaning his sword on his shoulder. "Tch, killers, I despise them."
“I try not to kill, But I will if it means protecting my friends,” Sombra said, charging the Ninja swordsman
"Fun Fact, did you know Monkey D. Luffy never killed anyone who deserved to be killed?" Zabuza turned into water as soon as Sombra struck Zabuza.
Sombra looked around to find the Ninja but the thickening mist proved to hide him quite thoroughly.
"Would you like some tea? You seem stressed." Zabuza said, his voice echoing across the thick forest.
“As tempting as that sounds something tells me you aren’t just going to let me leave this floor” Sombra said constantly looking around trying to locate the swordsman
"But of course I am! So why don't we just enjoy some tea while we get to know each other better? I am currently setting up some tea right now!" Zabuza told the Dark Prince.
“I’ll pass Zabuza,” Sombra said to the ninja
"...Alright…" The mist cleared up and there was Zabuza drinking tea through his mask, with a pinkie out. Zabuza then showed Sombra his palm, as if saying, 'wait'. Zabuza then finished his drink placing it down, Zabuza pulled out his blade and coated it in Armament Haki. "Let's dance." Zabuza then shot off at Sombra at tremendous speeds.
Sombra coated his blades in Armament Haki before blocking Zabuza’s Executioner Blade with all three swords, Zabuza then exerts some force into the attack, pushing Sombra back slightly.
“You’re strong,” Sombra mused as his arms tensed. “One Gorilla,” Sombra’s left arm bulged. “Two Gorilla” Sombra’s right arm bulged. “Three Sword Style..”
"Oh." Zabuza said before using Tekkai to enhance his body and reduce damage.
“..Demon Crow!” Sombra puts his head at an angle, and with the other two swords creates the shape of a bird's leg. Then begins to turn over himself and, passing over his opponent, causes multiple injuries, simulating the traces of a crow walking on his legs.
"Oh ho ho! That would be painful as hell if I didn't have a high pain tolerance!" Zabuza chuckled, suddenly Zabuza appeared below Sombra. "Hello, I am under the water, please help me." Zabuza said in an Indian Accent. Zabuza then popped out a few meters from Sombra. "Water Release: Stormy Blockade!" Like a waterfall, water poured down onto Sombra from the heavens.
Sombra was forced to the ground from the pressure of the water, suddenly as he was getting pushed down Zabuza fired off another water style.
"Rising Water Slicer!" Zabuza fired off a water slash that dug its way to Sombra.
“Dark Incinerator!”Sombra shouted erupting in a mountain of black and red flames
The Water holding him down as well as the water blade evaporated into steam, Sombra gripped his weapons as he stood up with slightly singed fur
"That's hot." Zabuza said with a chuckle.
“Enough with the jokes,” Sombra said, igniting his twin blades with his Dark Flames. “Dark Flame Three Sword Style..1080 Pound Flaming Phoenix” Holding one of his swords horizontally above the shoulder of his sword arm, Sombra then performs a circular swing that launches the blazing air compressed projectile spiraling towards the target.
Zabuza just coated his sword in water, as he effortlessly did a mountain sized slash to combat Sombra’s slash. “Water Sword Style, Poseidon’s Anger!”
Sombra’s and Zabuza’s attacks clashed with one another with such force it caused a shockwave that knocked the two of them away from each other. Zabuza dug his sword onto the ground to cease the knockback, fortunately it worked. Sombra seemed to have a similar idea, by digging his blades into the ground, however once he slowed down enough he pulled on his swords launching himself towards the ninja. Holding his blazing swords parallel from each other Sombra prepares to attack the ninja
“Dark Flame Two Sword Style..” Sombra said. “Flaming Twin Cutter”
Zabuza then sheathes his blade surprisingly, Zabuza then begins to do some hand signs. Zabuza was a fast boi, doing the hang sign fast enough. “WATER RELEASE: GREAT WATERFALL TECHNIQUE!!!!!” A mountain sized force of water, the size of a mountain. The water shot towards Sombra in a horizontal tornado type way.
Using his born magic Sombra teleports a good distance away from the Jutsu, Sombra however couldn’t help but smile at the Human.
“You’ve got quite a few tricks in your repertoire, don’t you Zabuza?” Sombra asked grinning
“Hell yeah I do, would you like to see another one?” Zabuza asked, cloning himself via water. The water surprisingly filled the whole floor to about knee level.
“I would if you want to see another one of my Dark Spells” Sombra said bursting into a toothy grin
“Well isn’t this nice? Just guys being dudes and showing off their skills?” Zabuza asked chuckled, standing on a tree branch.
Sombra stabbed all three of his swords into the ground as balls of dark fire formed in his hand before erupting like a active volcano
“Hell flame” Sombra said hurling the fire at the ninja however they missed the ninja entirely
“That’s one trick pony…” Zabuza said, appearing from another tree. “Now, I suggest you move to a tree top.”
“I’m not done yet” Sombra said hurling more Hellflame balls at the ninja, however Zabuza noticed the aim of the Unicorn seemed rather off the mark
“... This is intentional…” Zabuza said blankly as he saw the Hellflame balls fly past him. “It’s a Hellzone Grenade isn’t it?”
“Look behind you Ninja” Sombra said as Zabuza looked behind him seeing Sombra’s Hellflames hand limited him to a specific area
“I fucking knew it.” Zabuza said, sighing as he knew what was coming.
“Ring of Hellflame” Sombra said, causing the fire to connect before forming a dome around them. “And now..Dark Hellzone ” Sombra said causing the heat to increase drastically causing the water below them to evaporate instantly
“...Pain.” Zabuza grunted as he looked to the skies, his back onto the ground.
“What’s the matter Human?” Sombra said with a grin. “Feeling a little hot under the color?”
“....You know what? That’s a good one,” Zabuza chuckled before going to his feet.
“Now Room!” Sombra said as an invisible dome spread from the unicorn. Reaching down Sombra lifted two small rocks before they were replaced by Sombra’s twin swords. “In my Dark Hellzone combined with my Devil Fruit I am practically untouchable”
“Tch, well it’s a good damn thing I’m good at this,” Zabuza then points behind Sombra, “OH MY GOD FLUTTERSHY IS WITH ANOTHER MAN!!!!” Zabuza cried out.
However Sombra just blinked at the Ninja with a look that said “really? Did he think that would work?”
“...” Zabuza looked at Sombra, there was an awkward silence as the two just stood there.
“I’m not Thanos, I won’t fall for something so idiotic” Sombra said growing irritated
“... OH MY GOD!!! IT’S UMBRA THE DARK!!!!” Zabuza cried out, pointing behind Sombra, Zabuza then turned into a log that caught on fire. Zabuza had vanished.
“You do realize unless you can control fire you can hide inside my Hellzone” Sombra said rearing his weapons back.
Outside of the Hellzone there stood Zabuza with fourth degree burn marks on his body, there was a clone next to Zabuza that used water from a vial to repair his skin. Though the burning was still there. Zabuza let out a sigh.
“1080 Pound Flaming Phoenix!” a Flaming compressed air shot hit and destroyed Zabuza’s clone as the unicorn bent the flames to avoid getting burned
“... You know what?” Zabuza then got his hands ready, “Water Release: Exploding Water Colliding Wave!” Suddenly a colossal, no, imagine multiple mountains stacked on top of each other. That is the size of the tsunami, the tsunami then crashed down onto Sombra as Zabuza vanished from the water.
The wave knocked Sombra back into the Hellzone, evaporating the wave and causing severe burns to form on the unicorn. Jumping to his feet Sombra smiled as he sheathed his sword and held the other in both hands.
“Fine then” Sombra said using his Dark Magic to gather all the Hellfire around his sword. “Hit me with everything you’ve got”
“Alright, if you wish.” Zabuza said, looking down at Sombra. “Water Release…”
“Dark Flame One Sword Style…”
“GREAT EXPLODING WATER COLLIDING WAVE!!!!!!!” Zabuza cried out, imagine ten Mega Kaiju stacked together, that’s the size of the tsunami, the water then crashed towards Sombra. Zabuza then rode on top of the tsunami like a surfer.
“Flying Fire Dragon: HELLFLAME BLAZE!” Sombra shouted, charging the ninja with fire around his sword with the size of hell itself.
An explosion rang through the entire floor causing it to crack and shake violently, the steam began to clear showing both opponents stood ten feet from each other, both facing away from each other. Blood mixed into the water below their feet as both Sombra and Zabuza staggered clenching the large deep gashes on their chests, While Sombra’s was deeper than his opponents Zabuza was inflicted with the most pain as the entire area surrounding the gash was severely burned with fifth degree burns.
“I...I can still...fight,” Sombra said, turning to his opponent. “This is nothing more than a flesh wound”
“D-Do... you wanna fuckin… Square up?” Zabuza got in a fighting stance, pulling out his sword. “Tis but a scratch.”
Sombra gripped his swords and lifted them weakly. “As That cat once said. ‘Square up Nigga’” Sombra said almost falling only to catch himself
“…” Zabuza said nothing, almost falling due to his blade’s size.
“Stand...Down Zabuza” Sombra said, his eyes showing Dark wisps as his wound began to slowly heal. “I have a family to protect”
“I… Have a family to protect too, and even if I die, at least I’ll go down-” Bullet just walked up behind Zabuza and chopped his neck, and like a ton of bricks he fell down.
“Thank me later.” Bullet deadpanned at Sombra, pulling a healing flask from Zabuza’s pouch. He then poured it on Zabuza, the water fell out of the flask and Bullet just stood there blankly.
“Let me pass” Sombra ordered Bullet. “You are in no condition to fight”
“Are you mentally handicapped?” Bullet asked Sombra, “Because does it fucking look like I want to fight you? Do you HONESTLY think I would you pea for brains? I’m helping my brother, go fuck off.” Bullet pointed to the door to the next floor. “Go on, leave, do it now.”
Sombra sheathed his sword and quickly made his way to the door- or what’s left of it- leading to the next floor.
Click.
To be continued...
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Fourth Floor! An emotional battle! Fujitora vs the Howlight Howler Family!
Fourth Floor! An Emotional Battle, the Blind Swordsman vs the Howlite Howler
As the group made their way up, they found Shiva, Kodo and Luke staring at a stone door. Before anyone could greet them or ask what they were doing, they felt a tremor that nearly knocked them off their feet. Then the tremor continued, it began to vibrate the staircase as they felt an unknown force coming.
"What the hell is that?!" Lucci asked as the shaking became more violent.
"EEEEEEEEEE-"
"Oh no…" Elia groaned as she recognized that African accent.
“Shiva, figure it out!” Luke demanded. “Figure it out before…”
“God Dammit” Eric groaned
"-BOLAAA!!!!" Elae appeared before them, Elae let out two clicks before speaking. "Hello my bruddas! You thought you could escape me, you can't. I have come to join you on your quest to da top!" Elae declared.
“I don’t think that will be necessary…” Link said as he didn’t trust Knuckle’s half-baked adopted brother.
“Who has been here longer?” Elae asked Link, “I have been around here for ten years! How long have you been here? A few weeks! I will show you de wey.” Elae told the Hylian. Link showed minor disgust, finding the fake jamican accent to be annoying.
Black crossed his arms and looked to Elae with an amused look. “Why show us the way up the tower?” Black asked with a raised eyebrow. “Cause I’m sure it’s not for content.”
“Like this door,” Shiva added, indicating the door that had blocked them off. “It won’t open.”
“There are secrets in this tower, right here is your first challenge, if you want to get to Fujitora you must solve a riddle.” Elae told the Saiyan, his African accent sticking to him like pollen on a bee.
“Of course…” Black deadpanned. “Why is it always a riddle…” Black grumbled as he placed his hand upon his forehead.
“Hey, there’s more of us together, at least solving it will go faster.” Link pointed out.
“Does it look like I would know?” Elae asked Black.
“Your a meme, you should know the secret to life, but you spend your time harassing Devilartimes’s Perfect Cell half the time.” Black countered.
“Look at me, look at me.” Elae said, looking up to Black, staring into his eyes. “I am da Captain now, you do as I say, I know the secrets of the tower.” Elae said firmly.
Black stared into the meme’s eyes, looking for any hints of deception or lies, but found nothing. The Saiyan sighed as he crossed his arms. “Alright… what’s the riddle?”
“Well… I don’t know the riddle because they change it every time da tower sinks back into da ground.” Elae told Black.
Luke groaned, resting his head against the door.
“So in other words, we’re in the dark…” Black mumbled.
“Not exactly, look.” Elae said, pointing to a stone tablet that had something in morse code.
Elae walked up and pointed to the tablet. It read ‘.. …. .- …- . … - .. .--. . … -… ..- - .. .- -- -. --- - .- --.. . -… .-. .- -- -.-- ..-. ..- .-. .. … .- -.-. .-.. .- … …. --- ..-. - …. . -.-. --- .-.. --- .-. … --- ..-. ..-. .. .-. . .- -. -.. .-- .- - . .-. .-- …. .- - .- -- ..?’
“...Binary?” Link said before tilting his head. “Or that one pokemon language in pokemon crystal..”
“You’ve gotta be shitting me…” The Saiyan grumbled as he stared at the text.
“I am too dumb to understand dis.” Elae told Black, looking at the tablet then at Black.
“Don’t expect me to figure it out,” Shiva added. “I can’t even read regular writing.”
“Give me a second…” Black said as he held out a hand, summoning a book titled, ‘Morse Code For Dummies’. The Saiyan made a pair of glasses, putting them on he began to flip through the pages, his eyes darting across every bit of important information. “This could take a bit.”
“Hold on, I got this,” Thanos spits on his hands before facing his palms towards the door. “Open Sesame!” The door remained unmoving, Thanos walked back down. “Well that’s all I can do.”
Luke, Link, and Kodo face-palmed.
“Oh for the love of Hylia..” Link said with a shake of his head.
Black starred at the Titan with a stupefied look. “Are kidding me Thanos, a god that can fight me to a draw… that’s what you came up with?”
“I am not good with codes, I’m not a nerd!” Thanos told the Saiyan with a shrug of his shoulders.
“Neither am I, and here we are.” Black countered as he turned back to the book.
“Man, fuck this door!” Lucci then kicks the door, Lucci then gets yeeted back down the stairs. “OH NIGGA!!!!” Lucci shouted out as he tumbled down the stairs. Link watched as Lucci ragdolled.
Kodo clamped his claws over his snout, resisting the urge to chuckle. “That wasn’t funny,” he insisted to himself. “That was not funny.”
“My ears burn!” Lucci cried out from the bottom of the stairs.
Black rolled his eyes at that, continuing to read the book and constantly turning to the tablet multiple times. He closed the book, it echoing down the staircase. “Alright, I think I’ve got it down…” Black said as he turned to the others. He pointed to the tablet. “It reads out, ‘I have stripes but I am not a zebra, my fur is a clash of the colors of fire and water, what am I?’” Black read out. “Any ideas?” Black asks as he takes off the glasses.
“...Tiger Shark!” Elae declared, looking at the tablet, the tablet flashed red.
“Access Denied.” The tablet told the Ugandan Knuckles, Elae’s mouth was agape.
“... Clown Fish?” Luna Black asked. Black looked at her with a raised brow. “What?”
“Access Denied.” The tablet boomed, Elia flinched at the volume of the voice.
“... a Tiger?” Black asked, throwing the book away and crossing his arms.
“Access Denied.” The tablet spoke once again, Thanos rubbed his epic chin.
“A Zorse?” Thanos asked the tablet, throwing his two cents in.
“Access Denied.” The tablet told the Titan, Thanos just snapped in irritation.
“I’m getting the feeling we’re gonna be here a while…” Black groaned…
“Wait, I think I got it!” Kodo cried, he turned to the tablet. “A candy cane!”
“Access Denied.” The tablet once again, drowned out any hope for them.
Kodo growled. “Well, thanks a lot, Pinkie…” he muttered.
“Okay-okay, let me think…” Shiva grumbled, pacing back and forth. “‘I have stripes, but I’m not a zebra. My fur is a clash of the colors of fire and water…’ fire and water’s red and blue, and it’s got stripes, so… something that’s either red with blue stripes or blue with red stripes…”
“Maybe it’s a combination of blue and red!” Entity said, his eyes widening. “Wait, what is Fujitora’s title?” Entity turned back to the others, his red eyes glowing.
Shiva’s ears perked. “Wasn’t it the Wisteria Tiger?”
“Access Granted.” The door opened and a bright light was shown from it, due to being in the dark everyone who wasn’t a Diamond Dog flinched at the light.
“Huh… that worked…” Black mumbled, rubbing his eyes at the sudden brightness.
Her eyes narrowing in determination, Shiva strode forward, Luke and Kodo only able to stay at her flanks, Link followed behind. She found herself in Kuri, Wano; a lush green field with pillars like trees holding up the floor. They found themselves in a town, they heard a yawn and their heads snapped towards the sound. There stood a purple tiger on top of a building, the tiger hopped down and glanced at the group.
“...Da fuck?” Elae asked, looking at the tiger with a confused look.
Shiva said nothing. Her eyes had gained a new light to them. She calmly strode after the tiger, even as Luke and Kodo’s fur bristled, and they walked after her like they were ready to attack.
“What is she doing…” Link whispered curiously.
The tiger walked down an alleyway, in the alleyway there was a ramen shop. Fujitora wasn’t there but they felt his presence was there, the tiger turned right and they saw a shop full of photos of scenery.
“What is he leading us to? It could be a trap.” Thanos said, peering down at the purple tiger.
Shiva’s ears flattened. She glanced at the ramen shop, where she could sense Fujitora. “Would you do that, Issho?” she asked. “Would you try to kill us without even…” Her ears flattened. “Oh, right,” she mumbled, looking away with embarrassment.
“What?” Luke asked. “Because he’s blind?”
“Dad, no!” Kodo barked, looking around worriedly. “The last time someone pointed that out, he freaked. It’ll be bad enough fighting him calm; I don’t want Mom to have to fight him when he’s angry.”
“IF you have to fight him, IF.” Lucci said, looking at the tiger as it took a right.
“If? If is good” Eric said Following the tiger
But, as the tiger glanced back at them, Shiva steeled herself, and followed after it. “Stay behind me,” she warned the others. “Just in case this does turn out to be a trap.”
Luke grimaced. “I got your back…” he assured her.
The tiger then stopped, in front of them stood Fujitora. Fujitora stood there unmoving like a stone statue, his walking stick/blade was gripped tightly in his hands.
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Shiva shifted on her haunches, sitting before him and staring at him with a sad light in her eyes. “Hello, Issho,” she said softly.
Fujitora didn’t reply and stood silent.
Black squinted his eyes, “I’ve got a bad feeling about this…” Black muttered.
For a moment, Diamond Dog and human simply stood there. Shiva had gone as still as a statue herself. Luke bristled and shifted in the back, while Kodo kept watching his mother, tense as a rubber band slingshot and equally ready to fly into the fray. Shiva, however, didn’t seem perturbed. She just continued to gaze up at Fujitora, almost like a mother, waiting patiently for her child to fess up to a crime.
Yet Fujitora kept silent, refusing to budge. Link started thinking the man was busy with a telepathy conversation.
“Uh… Is anyone gonna talk or…” Elae trailed off, looking between Shiva and Fujitora.
Shiva glanced back at the group before turning back to Fujitora. “You don’t need to fight them,” she said. “Just…”
“Shut up, Shiva.” Fujitora told the Diamond Dog, his voice wasn’t as nice as it normally was. Rather it was firm.
Shiva’s ears flattened, but she didn’t move. “Just let them pass,” she said, her own voice growing stern. “We have to stop Ryker, but I want no quarrel with you.”
“This is war Shiva, you don’t get to choose who you want to fight. And, Ryker is family, even if he’s done some bad things in the past, he’s still family!” Fujitora said, tightening his grip on his blade.
“..Right, Family... “ Link whispered with a deadpan expression due to Fujitora’s stubbornness.
Shiva grimaced. “Family?” she mused. “Ryker threatened to have your family killed. You said so when Eric healed your eyes.” Her fur pulsed with light as she spoke. “What ‘family’ would take the lives of the innocent for the crime of sight?”
“While you do have a point, he’s been with me through thick and thin, and I think that was most likely an empty threat. After all, if he wanted to do so, he would have done so already. Now, you declared war on us, we have no choice but to fight back.” Fujitora told the Diamond Dog.
“...The man summoned a huge ass meteor on us...” Link pointed out.
“Exactly,” Shiva agreed.
“You’re both wrong” Eric said drawing his sword before pointing it towards the blind swaordsman
"I summoned the meteor actually." Fujitora corrected the two with a frown.
“We declared war? When? When my friends refused to lay down and die?” She waved a claw towards the group, as her pack links slowly arced out of her back, resembling Eric Von Shadow’s tendrils. “It seems to me that the one who has declared war here was Ryker.”
“He OFFERED you escape, he gave you a chance to not fight back. You could have walked away from this, but it would seem that you would care for some low life people who need to atone for their sins.” Fujitora said “frowning” as pieces of rock began to float up due to his Zushi-Zushi No Mi.
“Atone by death?” Shiva demanded, her pack links stabbing into the ground and lifting her up so she stayed on his level. “There are no saints in this universe, Issho; I’ve made mistakes in my past as well. And death is not the way for them to atone.”
“You do not deserve to call me Issho, Shiva, Ryker saw you happy with your TRUE family. Ryker has a daughter so he let all of your sins slide, mistake or not he gave you a chance to run away and go to safety yet you stand here before me. Trying to reach out to me like you're some type of hero, trying to use Talk-No-Jutsu on me, well looks like you fail. That jutsu doesn’t work on me.” Fujitora began to levitate, some buildings began to float up.
Shiva’s brow furrowed in confusion, before she smiled, like Fujitora was just a rambunctious child. “You say it doesn’t work,” she noted, as her pack link curled gently around him. “But I can sense your conflict. I can sense your guilt. I know you don’t fully believe what you say.” As she spoke, Fujitora began to feel it; almost like his powers were working on his heart. But he tried to ignore the guilt.
“I’ll give you one more chance… Surrender or die.” Fujitora said, clenching his teeth as he tried to block the feeling by remembering his rage for all that was around him.
“Death before We wave the white flag” Eric snarled as he reared his sword back, the weapon glowing with energy
“...I didn’t endure the insanity just to lay down and die like an injured wolf with no will.” Link said in annoyance. “I’ve been through TOO much shit, and i’m not in the mood.” Link said as his hand hovered over the handle of his master sword.
Shiva stood tall. “I choose neither,” she growled, before lowering her head and chanting. “Now this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky. And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die…”
As she spoke, her tendrils began to spark and curl like lightning. Luke and Kodo stood next to her, bathing in light as the tendrils connected to them.
“This is between him and us,” Luke declared to the others. “It’s time for you to go.”
Black nodded, “Be careful you lot, especially you Luke, if you die, we can’t wish you back to life again…” Black explained as he stepped back.
Link blinked as he loosened his grip on his sword. “Why is everyone making it personal for those floors...” he mentally asked in confusion. Link takes a few steps back to allow Luke and Kodo to do what they need.
“Not sure about the others,” Shiva admitted to Link through a pack link. “I don’t know what Arkham Knight or Douglass Bullet had with Kodo and Thanos. But I know Issho was my friend. And I’d rather prefer to take care of him myself.”
Fujitora’s was surrounded by a purple aura, the whole floor began to shake. “Arkham Knight, Herobrine… This is for you…” Fujitora said under his breath, Fujitora then floats back onto the ground, feeling the vibrations through his feet. Locating everyone, his Observation Haki being a great help.
“As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth forward and back,” Shiva continued to chant, her tendrils boiling and bubbling into equine shapes. “For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the Pack!”
From the pack link tendrils, a small army burst forth. Not just diamond dogs, but changelings and ponies as well. Those familiar with them recognized the outline of Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, and even Celestia and Luna. The changelings did not come in any patterns they recognized, and neither did the diamond dogs. But as the figures of light surrounded Fujitora, the others knew it would not matter.
“The jackal may follow the tiger, but cub, when thy whiskers are grown,” Shiva growled from above, looking almost like a second sun, and blinding anyone who gazed at her. “Remember the wolf is a hunter - go forth and get food of thy own!”
Letting out a howl, Luke and Kodo led the army of light forward. And they crashed into Fujitora like a tsunami, burying him in lightning, diamond and smoke covered bodies.
“OPEN FIRE!!!” Fujitora shouted out from the light, immediately bolts of yellow light fired down onto the beings that buried him. A full army of ten Pacifistas fired beams of light from their mouths as they stood on top of a mountain. The Pacifstas fired mercilessly down upon the bodies, Fujitora then used some unknown force to thrust himself upwards. Using the roof of a building to catch himself as he had escaped the force.
However, as the Pacifistas fired down onto Shiva’s army, the beings burst into smoke and lightning… only to reform in seconds. Shiva glared at the Pacifistas, and extended her claw towards them. Several of the bodies rushed the mountain, quickly engaging the Pacifistas in combat, while Shiva pulled one pack link from the rest. Luke launched out of the crowd of light figures, turning into a diamond ball that she promptly launched at Fujitora like a kunai.
Though as Luke shot after Fujitora, he used one of the pillars as a baseball bat, making it float due to his Devil Fruit. He then used the pillar to slap Luke away and into one of the Pacifistas, the Pacifista raised his fist and slammed it down onto Luke. Fujitora laughed at this before he sent buildings towards Shiva at mach speeds.
Luke, however, was protected by his enchanted diamond armor. And Shiva narrowed her eyes before pulling him back and launching him right back at the buildings. Luke crashed into the buildings like a wrecking ball, sending rubble and debris flying in every direction. As both diamond dogs were concealed by the wreckage, Fujitora became aware of another presence behind him. Kodo burst out of a cloud of smoke behind him, slashing at his back before vanishing into smoke. At the same time, a pack link figure of Rainbow Dash caught him across the chest. Yet, when both of them hit, Fujitora felt his guilt flare in his chest, almost like heartburn.
Fujitora growled, knowing what they were doing. “Tch, damn it they’re smart…” Fujitora said, he then levitated every building (including the rubble) and he shot them at the now revealed Diamond Dogs. Though prepared for another sneak attack Fujitora turned himself into a log using Ninjutsu.
Shiva snarled and spun Luke. The male diamond dog turned into a glittering arc of destruction as he smashed the buildings aside, almost forming a shield around Shiva as she tried to gauge where Fujitora had gone. Her nose twitched, her ears flattened and straightened, and she looked up with a grin… before promptly nose-diving into the ground. Luke followed after her, and the light figures promptly followed her lead. In seconds, only the Pacifistas - most of them beaten down by the pack link figures - remained.
Fujitora reappeared in the sky, then a pillar of purple shot from his back and Fujitora began to charge up an attack. The remaining Pacifstas shot to Fujitora's side, ready to take any hit the others might give them. The Pacifstas began firing off beams of light around them, aiming at the light and wherever they thought the Diamond Dogs might be.
However, as Fujitora charged his attack, the very ground turned to diamonds. The beams of light bounced off the reflective surface, and with an ominous rumble, the diamond converted ground began to rise up towards Fujitora, almost like it was looking to sandwich him between it and the roof.
Fujitora grunted, before he sighed. “Tch, that’s it…” An intense gravity began to push down on everyone, rivalling that of the Sun’s gravity.
The diamond floor slowed, and eventually stopped. For a time, the two struggled; Shiva pushing the ground up, while Fujitora’s gravity pushed it down. But as they struggled, a small wisp of smoke struggled up from the ground. Kodo appeared, his face wracked with determination, before he fired a pack link up and around Fujitora’s ankle. Though his smoke was affected by gravity, his pack link was not. And Fujitora felt another stab of guilt and remorse shoot through his heart before Kodo let himself plummet back under the diamond floor.
“ALMIGHTY PUSH!!!!” Fujitora shouted out, suddenly everything was pushed away from him as everything shot to the wall of the floor or the pillars that held them up. Fujitora then used the pillars to his advantage, he then shot the pillars down upon every lifeform on the floor.
However, Shiva, Luke and Kodo were still under the diamond floor, and the pillars burst apart as they collided with the gem-encrusted ground. As dust and debris rose into the air, three pack links hit Fujitora in the heart. His guilt and remorse tripled, along with a throb like his heart was trying to stop.
“Stop. Taking. Advantage. Of. My. Emotions!” Fujitora said through his teeth, “Damn mutts!” Fujitora shouted out, coating his entire body in Armament Haki. He raised his sword and then spun like Sonic The Hedgehog towards Shiva to which he had located with Observation Haki.
However, as he smashed through the diamond floor, he felt Shiva move. And as he shot by her, he briefly saw her face. Saddened and disappointed.
“You think you’re the only one hurting?” she asked, before hitting him again with a pack link.
This time, instead of bringing forth his emotions, Fujitora felt hers. Her sadness at having to fight him. Her longing for a peaceful outcome. Even guilt and empathy towards Ryker.
“I have a daughter of my own,” her thoughts assured him. “If she was lost to the multiverse, I would probably do the same as Ryker.”
Fujitora dropped his blade before clenching his head, the emotions flooding inside his mind. “Shut. Up. Get. Out. Of. My. Head!” Fujitora slowly approached Shiva, still clenching his head, a fragment of him wanted the pain to stop. However, his will to prevent them from harming Herobrine, the most hurt of them all, was still there.
Shiva sensed his fear for Herobrine. She immediately looked to Kodo. “Kodo,” she ordered. “Get after the others. Make sure they do not hurt Herobrine.”
Kodo nodded, before leaving the battlefield in the burst of smoke. Shiva looked back to Fujitora as he struggled towards her. “I refuse to let them hurt a child,” she said. “He will be safe if you let us pass.”
“Grgh!” Fujitora then felt something hit his spine. Fujitora became still, as they heard a chilling laugh.
“Eghehehehehehehe….”
“R-Ryker!” Fujitora recognized his laugh, Fujitora then picked up his blade. “Damn it! He’s using his parasite string!” Fujitora said, Fujitora raised his blade.
“No!” Shiva yelled, catching Fujitora with her pack link. Though it pained her to do so, she poured her strength into Fujitora, trying to control his body and keep him from doing what she thought he was going to do. But despite her power, she had never fully mastered controlling other bodies - having always preferred to let others have free will over becoming part of her.
Fujitora and Luke tried to help her fight back. Unfortunately, Ryker was far more stronger than any of them combined. Fujitora pointed the end of his blade to his heart, “And now I welcome the sweet release of death…” Fujitora chuckled, grinning.
Luke moved to smash the blade with a Diamond and Armament Haki covered claw. But Fujitora’s words caused him to hesitate. And before he could recover, or try to ask if he meant it Fujitora had stabbed himself through the heart.
“ISSHO!” Shiva wailed, catching him and slowly easing him to the ground.
“Shot through the heart!”
“I love that song…” Fujitora said weakly.
Shiva whimpered, hesitantly reaching for the sword in his heart. “Issho…” she whispered. “I didn’t want this. I…” She struggled not to weep, laying her head on his chest.
“It’s alright… It was meant to be…” Fujitora told the Diamond Dog, "Though being stabbed shouldn't be as painful as it is… Because I should be dead, I think your strength is what's making me survive longer."
Shiva stared at the pack link tendrils, still curling around his body. She looked down at him.
“Did you mean what you said?” she asked. “Would you prefer the release of death?”
"Look at me," Fujitora said pointing to his face, "I've died before and got revived, this ain't changing shit if I died. Heh… I've already been dead a long time ago, right when I sold my soul to be here."
Shiva’s ears flattened. She looked down with a sigh, before Luke’s claw covered hers. She looked up at Luke, gaining strength from his gaze, before looking back down at Fujitora.
“Then be in peace,” she whispered. “My pack mate.”
Her tendrils slowly returned to her, taking her strength and the last of Fujitora’s. And as his life faded like a flickering candle, Fujitora closed his eyes with a smile.
"Do you know the muffin man…?" Fujitora sang as he slowly died, "The muffin man? The muffin man? Do… You… Know the muffin man who lives on… Jewelry L-lan...e?" Fujitora slowly closed his eyes as he smiled.
Shiva sat back, shutting her eyes, before tilting her head back and letting out a howl of mourning. Luke joined her, their voices echoing over the battlefield.
Meanwhile, with the rest of the group, Kodo heard the howl as well, and tilted his head back, baying like a dog that heard the Twilight Bark.
"What was dat my brudda?" Elae asked the pup, clicking a few times after he asked the question.
Kodo lowered his head. “Fujitora is dead,” he said solemnly. “My parents will be along shortly.”
"Dis is not da wey!" Elae shouted, running over and sniffing to locate Fujitora's corpse.
"...Well, may his soul rest in peace." Thanos said, looking down as he held a balled up fist to his chest. Entity did the same though he didn't have a fist but just a cube. Lucci looked to the others before whistling. Link sent a silent prayer.
“He was troubled, even still when we met him I could see the shadow of Death on him” Eric said in a rather somber tone. “He was one who did not deserve this fate”
"Well, if you don't mind me, I'm heading to the next floor. I don't mean to be rude but his death might have not been necessary, we still have to move on." Lucci turned to the exit of the floor.
“You’re right,” Shiva’s voice replied. The group turned as she joined them. Her voice held no passion, and her tail was drooped, yet she still pressed forward, forcing herself onward. “We need to keep moving forward.”
"We still have Lord Twigo, Necrozma, Herobrine, Akainu, Towa, Ganondorf, and Katakuri . We need to all move on, it's what Fujitora would've wanted. To free everyone else," Lucci said to the others, turning to them individually.
“...Ganondorf?” Link asked, his voice a mixture of amusement and disappointment.
Luke glanced at Shiva’s still depressed looking form, and huffed. “Well, then, what are we waiting for?” he asked, before racing up the staircase. “Onward to victory!”
"To victory!" Thanos ran after Luke, Lucci grinned and ran after Thanos.
“Victory!” Kodo agreed, racing after them. Then they heard a click, Elae was running after them, now bigger than before, bigger than Thanos even.
"EBOLAAA!!!!" Elae shouted as he ran after the boys.
“Enough with the ebola nonsense!” Link shouted as he sped up in his dash.
"FUCKING RUN!!!!" Thanos cried out, scared that he would catch Ebola as he ran up the stairs.
Shaking her head, Shiva raced up after them.
Black just shook his head in amusement, “Man… I miss the internet…” Black commented as he ran to catch up with the group.
"Dis is da wey."
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As the group advanced up the staircase Elae began to spit some jokes to pass the time.
"Do u kno what my favorite part of da female body is? It's de ebola." Elae told the group, Elia groaned.
“Hylia damnit, please stop talking..” Link said mentally to himself.
“That’s… not a part of the female body,” Shiva pointed out. “Not one I’m familiar with, anyway.”
“Why are we forced to travel with this monstrosity?” Eric asked with a groan
"He knows the tower like it's his son, if he had one." Entity told Eric as they climbed the stairs.
“Or so he claims.” Link said with a shake of his head.
“Apparently,” Luke grumbled.
"Do you kno what my favorite food is? It's ebola with cheese!" Elae said but this time more enthusiastically.
"Oh. My. FUCKING. God." Thanos said, clenching his fists as a vein appeared on his forehead. They then read a door with a math problem on it. The problem was… Yeah none of them who weren't in college could understand this shit.
"...I'm not good with math." Lucci said blankly.
“Math? Can I eat that?” Luke asked.
"I think so," Elae said, looking up at the equation curiously.
Tempted by Elae’s suggestion, Luke jumped up at the equation and sunk his teeth into it… and promptly regretted it.
“YUCK!” Luke howled, jumping away with the equation dented. “Even if I can eat it, I don’t want to anymore!”
“Luke, for the love of everything sacred!” Shiva chastised, checking his teeth.
"...Imma eat it." Elae inched himself closer to the equation, menacingly. Only to be held back by Entity, using his new scythe that was quite the sight to see, to block Elae from getting to the tablet.
"While I do not doubt that you can eat it, I don't think eating it would solve anything." Entity told the Ugandan Knuckles, Elae just let out a click of disappointment before backing down.
Thanos looked at everyone.
"The answer is sixty nine." Thanos told both the tablet and the group.
"Access Granted." The door then opened wide, Elia just looked at Thanos with surprise as he nonchalantly walked into the light.
“Bwah?” Link asked, confused.
"How did this idiot-" Entity just slapped the back of Elia's head.
"Just because he acts dumb doesn't mean he's stupid." Entity told the Eliatrope, Elia then rubbed the back of her head, wincing.
“Let’s just get through this floor,” Eric said to the group before walking through the door. “The sooner we get to Ryker the less I have to listen to this fucking retard.”
Everyone stepped into the light and they saw…
“Canterlot?” Shiva whispered.
“It’s actually ‘Camelot,’” Lucci corrected her. “Similar, though.”
“Ha, I’d fit right in.” Links said in amusement.
They saw colossal golems holding the floor, the golems all matched the height of Godzilla. There was a giant tree as they walked through Camelot, it was the center of the city, in front of the tree was Lord Twigo who had a picnic ready.
“Master Twigo,” Kodo greeted with a bow.
"Hello!" Lord Twigo greeted joyously, "How are you guys today? Looks like Fujitora died and came back, I felt his life force come as it went."
“..So that little scene of sadness was all for nothing.” Link said with a shake of his head.
“Issho’s back?” Shiva asked, briefly looking back the way they came.
“Don’t get distracted, Shiva,” Luke reminded her.
“Where’s the door Twigo?” Eric asked the Holy Knight.
"Excuse me, but can you please ask me nicer? That's quite rude of you to come on MY property and boss me around. Sorry for calling you rude but you were at the time, I hope you can improve your soiled mood." Lord Twigo told Eric.
“Fuck off,” Eric said going to move past the knight.
"Alright then," Lord Twigo got up, packed his bags, and walked away, "I wish you luck on finding the door, farewell for now." Lord Twigo waved goodbye before going into a Cafe.
“Oh for the love of-” Link began just as Eric spoke next.
Eric grit his teeth before looking at his comrades. “Find the door and get to the next floor,” Eric said, drawing his sword.
“Um… you know, he sounds like he can be reasoned with,” Kodo noted. “Maybe…”
But Eric ignored the pup, as his swords started to pulse with a dark aura as he raises it above his body
“Sword...Give me STRENGTH!” Eric said slamming it down causing a wave of shadow to crash into the cafe. “Razor Shadow Edge”
The building was knocked away, but the foundation was still there, on the counter was a cup of tea. Sitting on a chair was Lord Twigo who was reaching for the beverage. Lord Twigo turned to Eric.
"Eric, can we be more civilized and talk over some tea? I mean, the past people wanted to just chill. Zabuza, Arkham Knight, and now me. Can we not be more civil? Shed that form, it makes you more mean and disrespectful like Thanos. I mean no offense, Sir Thanos, I was just making a comparison." Lord Twigo raised a hand, Thanos smiled and gave him a thumbs up.
“...Does the whole Ryker family love tea or something?” Link mentally said.
"None taken! I actually like that you're giving me respect unlike SOME PEOPLE!!!" Thanos turned back to the group, his head catching on fire like Hades before Thanos turned back to Lord Twigo.
Shiva flinched at his brief burst of rage. “I respect you…” she mumbled.
Suddenly there was a face of John Cena next to her, "Are you sure about that?"
“AgaFlyingwhatnow!” Links said as he flailed his arms back at John Cena who pulled a goddamn pinkie pie.
Shiva jumped back, blinking at the face of John Cena before it vanished. She glanced up at Thanos and then at Luke. “You revived my mate,” she said. “The father of my children. How can I not respect someone with that kind of nobility and generosity?”
"Okay but you're an exception, Link doesn't respect me, Eric definitely doesn't respect me, Phoenix doesn't respect me, Black doesn't respect me, Sombra doesn't respect me, uh… Who else is here that is not one of my boys? Oh right, uh… Yeah I think that's all the people that diss me constantly on a day to day basis." Thanos held up fingers while he did so, popping them one by one.
“I respect you Thanos” Eric said to the Titan. “You’re just insufferable sometimes”
“Oi, you fukin’ twat, the hell?!” Black shouted, visibly pissed off. “What do ya mean ah don’t respect you?!”
“Hey now.” Link said with a frown.
"It is no problem my friend, if you ever need someone to talk to, I'll be here to help you sort your emotional troubles." Lord Twigo flashed Thanos a harmless smile.
"Thank you so much for being there for me, unlike Eric, Black, Link, Phoenix, Shiiii…" Thanos turned to Shiva, who raised an eyebrow. "... Nevermind, just those people."
Black’s eyes turned blood red with his hair floating up slightly, “You wanna say that again?” Black growled as his hair began to turn blood red.
"No, but I want to, because ALL OF YOU FUCKING DISS ME ON A DAILY BASIS!!!!" Thanos cried out, his head going back on fire.
Link wanted to slap Thanos upside the head so much...
"I mean, there's no time to be wasted, all of you guys are doing is just making your way up the tower. Ryker isn't going anywhere because the portal to get his daughter's right in his library. So why don't we get some tea? Look at me, I am the second weakest member but I'm a strong fellow. You know what? Why don't I join you guys! I don't like Ryker's ways whatsoever so why don't we all just-" Before Lord Twigo could speak the area was shifted to a ship at sea.
"God fucking damn it," Lord Twigo grumbled, he then noticed Kodo and held up a palm, "Pardon my language young one, it's just that… We may be screwed…" Lord Twigo said, shuddering slightly.
“Oh, dear…” Shiva mumbled, glancing over the side of the ship. Luke lurched with a moan, having never been on a ship before.
“Suddenly, I’m really happy I didn’t eat that math stuff,” Luke groaned.
“...Oh, graaaaaaaaand… Please let this be an illusion and not us teleport out of the damn tower…” Link said with a sigh. “I just want to go home.” he said as he leaned over the edge of the ship.
“Why is the floor moving?” Kodo stammered, shifting into smoke to get off the ground. “Is there some kind of quake going on? Why’s the floor moving?!”
"...Since I'm not fighting you, my floor has been replaced with… his…" Lord Twigo said, spookily.
Shiva’s ears flattened, turning to Eric. “Someone from that ‘One Piece’ anime, right?” she asked.
"Well yes but actually no." Lord Twigo said before a second ship burst out from the water. Davy Jones himself stood there on the ship looking at the Displaced.
“The Flying Dutchman” Eric said with sneer
"Well, well, well! What do we have here boys?" Davy Jones looked behind him and there stood Arlong and Jinbe, "We have lost birds, lost birds that never learned how to fly!" Davy Jones laughed, Lord Twigo looked at the Displaced.
“Don’t try it, dead man…” Link said with a warning, knowing who Davy Jones was.
"Dead man? The only dead man I see is you." Davy Jones said, looking at the Hylian.
“Been dead before, came back.” Link said half jokingly as there has been three or five times he’s stared death in the face. “Besides, you won’t be saying that for long.” Link said as he had his hand on his sword handle.
"Okay, I may or may not be a commander, I think I have been stripped of my title and Ryker sent these guys to kill me." Lord Twigo said pointing at Davy Jones.
“Looks like Ryker gives no fuck, not for even his commanders” Eric said feeling at home on the vessel
Shiva glanced at the others, before sending out her pack links. An empowered Luke and Kodo stepped forward, both shifting into smoke covered diamond armor.
“Okay, squid-beard,” Kodo muttered, drawing his sword. “I don’t know what kind of grudge you got against Lord Twigo. But as his student in swordsmanship, I’m gonna give you one chance to walk away before I show you what he taught me.”
"Oh, lad, you don't even know how to kill me! Well, unlike most villains I won't tell ya, hm?" Davy Jones tilted his head, looking at Kodo.
“You don’t need to,” Shiva replied, before flicking a link right at him.
“My thoughts exactly.” Link said with a grin.
The link Shiva threw out caught him around the neck, and sparked before her tail tucked. “Oh, clods…” she muttered. Davy Jones let out a hearty laugh, his crew doing the same.
“What?” Kodo asked, before she transferred the information to him. “Double Clods,” he growled.
Luke just hummed, before glancing around at the ship he was on. “This is a pretty nice ship you got,” he noted, before pointing at Jones. “It’s yours?”
"Nay,” Jones replied, pointing to the ship he was on. “This is me ship; the Flying Dutchman. A nd it must always have a captain…" Davy Jones said with a grin, he then brought out his pipe.
The trio of dogs stood tall for a moment, their links dancing between each other as they tried to formulate some sort of plan. Any mind-readers, however, only saw an image of a caved-in cavern, though the rocks were all replaced with beating hearts.
"Oh how touching," They heard an unknown voice call out, Lord Twigo looked up.
"Not him too!" Lord Twigo cried out, there stood a man In a black robe with black hair, yellow eyes too. Then at the right of him was an Eliatrope with a wakfu arm and tribal symbols dancing around him. "Qilby and Pitch…"
"You would be correct! And whoever kills you takes the spot of one of Ryker's men. Or so he told us," Qilby said, forming a scythe of Wakfu, the other making one out of black sand.
"Boo." Horses of black sand rained down on the ship and the Flying Dutchman rained fire on the ship.
"OH SHIT!!!!" Thanos shrieked, covering his fists in Haki and he began swinging at the nightmares.
Link raised his arm as the mirror shield took its place, absorbing some of the fire that fell from above.
At the same time, Shiva shot herself into the air. Spinning Luke like a ball and chain, she launched him like a cannonball into the side of the Flying Dutchman, while Kodo burst into smoke and vanished from view.
Eric raised his hand, firing a large cloud of shadow and absorbed the horses of black sand into his shadow body. “I’ve got Pitch, However I’m going to need to play it smart” Eric said dispelling his Knight form returning to normal before reaching into his coat and putting on his skull mask before going after Pitch Black with a large shadow scythe in hand
Jinbe looked at the Flying Dutchman and dove after it, Arlong following the Whale Shark.
"Let us duel, Jones!" Lord Twigo ran at Davy Jones and right when their swords clashed it began to storm wildly.
“Lord Twigo!” Kodo’s voice echoed in the Holy Knight’s head. “Do you need my help? I can locate Jones’ heart, but I don’t want to leave you unaided.”
"No, I think I'm quite alright!" Lord Twigo cried out before ducking under an attack by Davy Jones, "But I'm not sure if any one of us should stab the heart!"
“You don’t suppose we could just hold it hostage, could we?” Kodo asked.
“That’s a bad move Kodo” Eric said to the others. “You can never fully control the Dutchman”
"Jack Sparrow tried to do that and one of his friends died! Davy Jones knows that none of us would sacrifice any of our comrades to kill him!" Lord Twigo shouted out from the storm as Davy Jones and him crossed blades.
Kodo hummed. Lord Twigo heard the grin in his voice. “Then I got another idea!” His link faded, and he soared through the hole his father had punched in the Dutchman. For a moment, the group just fought.
However, as Lord Twigo and Davy Jones dueled, Kodo returned with something clutched in his claws.
“Jones!” he called. “I got a question for you.” He lifted Davy Jones’ heart, as a pack link curled around the beating organ. “If a fish ate your heart, does the fish become the captain?” He dangled the heart by his pack link, almost like it was a sling. “Care to find out?”
"Nay, the captain must be able to speak, fight, and walk on land every ten years. Trust me I tried it once and I'm still alive," Davy Jones said before slicing Lord Twigo's moustache off. Lord Twigo yelped before ducking under an attack by Davy Jones.
“...Oh, you do NOT mess with a man and his stache!” Link said as he turn to glare at Davy Jones.
Kodo narrowed his eyes, before noticing how Davy Jones was wildly slashing.
“Another query for you then,” Kodo replied, spinning up the heart like he was about to fling it across the sea. “What if you slice your own heart yourself?” With that, he flung the heart right at Jones’ sword mid-swing.
"Well that me friend," Davy Jones sliced his heart then he caught it, "Is just a paradox, or whatever that means." Davy Jones then whistled and the ship began to rock wildly. Making some fall to their backs. "A question for you Kodo… Do you fear death?"
Right as he finished that sentence two tentacles lunged up and tried to wrap itself around Kodo… only for Luke to carve through them with a wild slash from Shiva, who landed next to him with the snarl of a mother wolf.
“You might want to get something stronger there, ol’ Jonesy.” Link said jokingly with a grin.
“I fear it far more than he does,” she said, before bringing Luke up and smashing Davy Jones with Luke like a hammer. Hard enough to send Jones right through the floor boards and down to the lower decks.
"Gah! ARLONG!!!" Davy Jones cried out, immediately something shot out from the bottom of the ship.
"Shark on darts!" Something then bit down into Shiva's forearm like a wild animal, that something was the sawfish shark, Arlong. "Shahahaha!"
Yelping at the pain, Shiva sunk her teeth into his face, causing him to release her arm to scream. At the same time, Kodo shot forward, linking with his mother and sinking two diamond-and-Haki covered fists into Arlong’s face.
Arlong jumped back, then shook his head. "Alrighty then…" Jinbe jumped from the floor and struck a fighting stance, Arlong did the same, as Luke, Shiva and Kodo closed ranks.
"Shark Tile True Punch!" A force that rivaled the Sai Dai Rin Rokuogan was shot at the trio of Diamond Dogs.
Shiva crossed her arms, and all three dogs turned into smoke - though it more resembled a storm cloud. Either way, three bursts of clouds separated, and the attack passed by them, though the trio reformed and dropped to the ground, drained but determined to remain standing.
"Oh no, whatever shall we do?" Arlong shrugged his arms before a fishman, jumped up from the water and onto the ship.
"Luckily I know some jutsus." The fishman began to do hand signs an right behind him, a tsunami came into view. "KAHAHAHA!!! Have fun!"
"EBOLA!!!!" Immediately the wave dispersed as a wave of Ki was shot out of Elae's mouth. "U r welcome my bruddas!" Elae clicked.
“..Thank you, but please don’t call me your brother..” Link said with a groan.
“We appreciate it,” Shiva replied with a salute.
“The guy’s growing on me,” Luke agreed.
"I appreciate the appreciation!" Elae said before tentacles grabbed him from the floor of the ship and dragged into the depths.
“Oh, no they don’t,” Kodo said. “Mom!”
Shiva understood. Turning Kodo into diamonds, Shiva threw him at the water. Kodo shot through the waves and carved through the tentacles before seizing Elae and rocketing back up for the surface, Shiva and Luke working together to yank them up.
Suddenly a gigantic blue arm wrapped itself around Shiva. It came from Qilby, Qilby then shot her towards him and landed a solid punch to her gut, powered by Ryou Haki.
Shiva cried out, her pack link flickering as she was sent tumbling across the deck. An enraged Luke jumped over her tag-team style, his claws covered in Armament Haki. He caught Qilby by the shoulders and flipped over him to suplex his foe into the ground.
"Gah! Damn mutt!" Qilby cried out, suddenly a nightmare rammed itself into Luke and at the same time Qilby. Making a portal, Qilby teleported to the mast where Pitch stood looking down at the chaos.
Thanos then shot his way towards Pitch, to assist Eric, Pitch, using his scythe he knocked Thanos away as Thanos crashed down. Thanos got up… And got grabbed by the Kraken.
"FUCK!!!" Thanos then slammed his elbow into the Kraken, powering it with his heat. The Kraken then sharply pulled away. Thanos was then cut in his back by Davy Jones himself, turning around Thanos went for a strike only to be pinned down by one of the dark equines. Then all of the equines piled themselves onto Thanos and carried him to the skies.
"TELL MY DAUGHTER I LOVE HER!!!!!" Thanos said before he was carried to the clouds.
"Ah… Love, such treachery…" Davy Jones said, looking at both Shiva and Luke.
Though dazed from Qilby’s blow, Shiva was still pulling herself up. She fired a link to Luke, and the added strength allowed him to catch the nightmare that had rammed him, lifting it up and ripping it into black sand. She pulled Luke back to her side, and the two slowly circled Davy Jones as he approached them, almost flanking him like actual wolves on the prowl.
“I saw your mind, Captain Jones,” Shiva noted. “I saw your pain. The treachery of the one who claimed to love you.”
"Oh do ya now?" Davy Jones said, coating his blade in Armament Haki, gripping it tight as his tentacle squeezed the blade.
“I’d ask why you’re taking your anger out on us,” Shiva noted. “But Calypso isn’t exactly someone you can take revenge on, is she?”
"She is the sea, is she not?" Davy Jones said with a dark chuckle, "You forget too, I am the sea ." Davy Jones then spun around with his blade making a donut shaped air slash that shot at the two canines.
Just before it could carve into their bodies, two pack links shot down and seized them, turning them into smoke and pulling them up into the mast.
“The sea,” Kodo growled, depositing his parents next to him. “Not a good place for dogs.”
“Nor a good place for Devil Fruit users either,” Eric shouted to the dogs from above before kicking Pitch into the mast
"Do you know what is a good place for dogs?" Davy Jones asked the pup, tilting his head.
“Somewhere beyond the sea,” Kodo replied, before the trio turned to smoke and flew into the clouds.
"Well you're kind of right, but you forgot to specify, it's Davy Jones' Locker." Tentacles grabbed the ship and began pulling it down, Davy Jones began to laugh before teleporting after Kodo. Nightmares began to swarm everyone and Qilby made a portal to the Flying Dutchman, the nightmares began to ruthlessly attack our heroes.
Link reached into his pouch, quickly taking out the Zora’s mask and keeping it in hand in case the ship goes down.
However, as the ship began to sink, and the nightmares started to swarm the heroes, Kodo returned from the sky, Thanos behind him and formed a square of lightning.
“DUNK THEM HARD, GUYS!” Link shouted as he cheered them on.
“Together!” Shiva barked, before they smashed into the ship like meteorites, crushing the Kraken’s tentacles under their bodies, and sending shockwaves of lightning out that disintegrated the nightmares nearest to them.
"Bullshit!" Arlong shouted out before making another hole in the ship, drilling through the floor. Jinbe jumped after Arlong as Thanos went down to one knee with an 'oof!'
"They all kicked me in the dick… Why? Why'd they kick me in the dick?" Thanos asked tiredly.
“Because they’re all jack holes?” Shiva offered.
"...Do ya see that?" Thanos got up and pointed at the giant wave of nightmares coming towards them. "They're gonna kick me in the dick!" Thanos yelped.
“Will you be serious for once, Thanos? You won’t be making those remarks when you’re dead.” Link warned.
Shiva hummed, before striding towards them. “Not necessarily,” she muttered, as she spun her pack links into a vortex.
Luke winced. “Shiva, remember what happened with Sombra!” he barked.
“‘Umbra’ got me once, Luke,” Shiva admitted. “But there was one thing he and all creatures that use dark magic fail to remember.”
The wave of nightmares drew closer. Shiva spun her vortex faster, tendrils of light jumping from her back and twining around her pack.
“All magic - dark, light, or elemental - is, at its most basic form, energy. And while energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can certainly be transferred.”
She blasted her vortex right into the wave of nightmares. And as the dark magic seeped through her tendrils, Shiva’s eyes turned black… and the dark magic began to turn into a multicolored stream.
The others began to feel themselves become stronger and more powerful as Shiva absorbed the magic from the nightmares. The wave dwindled and lessened, and as Shiva started to falter and strain in her endeavor, Luke and Kodo began howling, blasting excess energy out and allowing Shiva to slowly wean the energy out from Pitch’s attack.
“Oh… Look who’s right there…” Pitch said, flying above them, watching Eric fight his nightmares that he sent to stall the Shadow Man. He then averted his gaze and looked at Lord Twigo. Qilby was right next to him with his scythe in hand. Grinning maniacally. Pitch readied an arrow and looked at Lord Twigo who was fighting off the fishmen who jumped onboard to kill them. The man was facing his back to Pitch, and Pitch smiled with evil intent… He then fired the arrow.
However, Kodo - empowered by Shiva’s energy draining of the nightmares - saw the attack coming. He shot forward, almost teleporting, and caught the arrow out of the air. He glared up at Pitch with bared fangs. And as the arrow turned multicolored, he flipped it around and hurled it back like a throwing knife.
Qilby just conjured a portal in front of them, taking the arrow elsewhere, that elsewhere was the ship. The ship shook at the force of the attack and it began to sink. Thanos just looked at the ship and at Qilby, Qilby then snapped his fingers. There was then a portal above the ship, outcome the Kraken who was about to devour any and everyone on the ship.
“...Hakai.” Thanos shot a ball of destruction at the being as it crashed down, on impact turning into a million speck of purple energy. Lord Twigo looked at Thanos in pure awe.
“Hak’what?” Link asked confused as he’s never heard of that move.
“Is he real?!” Lord Twigo asked, his mustache somehow regrown from the amount of manliness he exerts.
“Oh, he’s real, and more importantly, he’s with us,” Kodo replied with a wagging tail.
“When push comes to shove he is one of the only people I trust on the battlefield,” Eric said grinning under his mask
“Or is he?” Asked Davy Jones appearing behind the pup, Davy Jones leaned on Kodo’s shoulder. “Are ya sure he’s with you people? All it needs is one… Push.” Davy Jones said looking at the group. Arlong and Jinbe standing next to him.
Kodo glanced at Davy Jones with a smirk, before bursting into smoke and flying to his mother’s side, who was glowing with a celestial light.
“Oh well, Thanos!” Suddenly another Titan appeared next to Davy Jones, the same one Thanos talked to on the phone.
“YOU!!!” The Titans cried out, pointing at each other, they both growled.
“Which one is which?” Davy Jones asked, they both had the exact same look, the same scars and features which was shocking yet impressive.
Luke’s eyes darted back and forth. “Wait… so… what? Who’s… which one…?”
Shiva rolled her eyes. “Not going through this,” she muttered, before lashing out with two pack links. Her eyes shut as she began to read the minds of the two Thanoses. What she saw was nothing but pure fucking stupidity for miles wide. “You’ve gotta be kidding me,” Shiva muttered. “Come on… which one of you is our Thanos?”
“I am the real Thanos!” Thanos shouted out only to be pushed aside by Thanos.
“No I am the real Thanos!” Thanos cried out, Thanos glared at Thanos and they began to but heads.
“And as much as I hate to say this.. Will the real Thanos please stand up, we’re gonna have a real problem here, please stand up.” Link said with a serious look on his face
“Here’s a better offer,” Shiva said, turning back to the two Thanoses. “Whoever’s the real Thanos…” She pointed at Pitch, Davy Jones and Qilby. “Help us take down these guys.”
“...We… Are Thanos.” The two Thanos clasped each other's hands like they were doing an arm wrestle, they then turned to Pitch, and Qilby who were above them. Davy Jone stood there on his ship, just smoking his pipe while he looked at them in pure amusement.
“Ka…” The two Thanos stuck their hands out before tucking them to their sides. “Me…” Lucci blinked before looking at the others.
“..mmmmk.” Link said as he took a seat on the floor, already knowing where this will lead. Just one big kameha-fuckyou blast.
“I don’t know about you guys, but I’m going to get the FUCK out of here to safety!” Lucci said, pointing a thumb to a nearby island. Using instant transmission he went there to whatever animal that was near; which was a crab.
“Can’t believe I’m taking advice from a cat man,” Luke noted. “But… Shiva!”
Nodding, Shiva grabbed her family, and teleported after Lucci.
“Ha…. Me…” The tides began to rise up and down as the Thanos charged up their epic ki blast. “SUCK MY MOTHERFUCKING DICK!!!!” The fired off a Ki blast at the pair, suddenly Elae somehow pulled a Full Nelson on Pitch as Qilby teleported away.
“GOD DAMN IT!!!” Pitch shouted as he was engulfed by the Ki wave and was vapourized unlike Elae who tanked the attack like it was nothing. When it was done the two Thanos looked up victorious… Though Thanos, the fake one began to turn into dust.
“NO!!! My homie! Don’t go!” Thanos said to Thanos, Thanos took a seat as he was turning to dust.
“Um… what?” Link said, confused.
“It’s alright… You were always the real Thanos, I must go… To Valhalla…” The other Thanos said softly before he turned into dust, the dust began to float in the air as Thanos cried manly tears for someone he just met a few days ago.
“NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!” Thanos cried out, “THANOS!!!!!”
“A bit over dramatic…” Link said in minor amusement.
“Come on, Link,” Shiva chastised. “He did help us. He deserves some sympathy.” She glanced at where Thanos was mourning… well, Thanos, and lifted her head, howling in respectful mourning. Luke and Kodo glanced at Link, both equally amused, but shrugged and joined their matriarch in the howl.
“...Gone, but not forgotten.” Entity said as he looked down solemnly, Thanos then stood up and wiped a tear from his eye.
“We must go, it’s what he would’ve-” Thanos was then hit by a cannonball knocking him overboard though through sheer instinct he used Kamisori to go to the island. Entity grabbed onto Elia and Elae and shot off to the island.
Lord Twigo was on the island, somehow being there before anyone had noticed him, it was simple; he was fast as fuck boy. Though on the coast there waited the Flying Dutchman, Lord Twigo looked back at his “crew.”
“Here, take these!” Lord Twigo threw pirate outfits at them, “We do this Jack Sparrow style.”
“I’ll stick to my Pirate clothing,” Eric said landing on the island before folding his shadow wings into his body
"Pathetic." Thanos looked down on Eric, disgusted and disappointed.
“Fine” Eric reached into his body before pulling out a triangular hat with a large feather on the side as a larger leather coat hung from his shoulders. “Better?”
"Yeah, that's perfect. It would seem that I am really good at peer pressure, a new super power." Thanos looked at his palms and grinned.
Shiva gazed at the rags with trepidation. “Goodness, someone wore these?”
“Oh, yeah, they did,” Kodo replied, having already donned his pirate garb with a cheesy grin. When Shiva looked at Luke, he had similarly donned his pirate garb.
“Feels kinda nice, all things considered,” Luke replied to her dumbfounded look.
Shiva sighed, but couldn’t hide her grin as she donned her own pirate garb.
Thanos had put on his pirate garb, “I will become the King of the Pirates!” Thanos declared pulling out a cutlass, Elae had a cute little pirate outfit because he was so fucking adorable.
“You’d need to be an Emperor of the Sea, first” Eric said with a smile. “But you wouldn’t be the worst choice for that role” The Shadow Man said drawing his sword
"Look at me," Thanos said, pointing to his eyes. "Look at me."
Eric turned his head and looked at the Titan
"I am the Captain now, I would become an Emperor of the Sea in a fucking hour." Thanos said firmly.
“Well then Captain...What are your orders?”
"Sit here and do nothing until I build a ship." Thanos said before he vanished.
“Do I look gud in dis?” Elae asked looking at his pirate outfit, “A bit different from what I wear; which is nothing.”
“You and me both, my friend,” Shiva replied with a laugh.
“Well, we still have to fight Qilby and Davy Jones… And Arlong.... And Jinbe… And that jutsu guy- We have to fight a lot of people.” Lucci said, wearing pirate attire. A cutlass in hand.
Luke groaned. “If this was before I died, I would’ve liked that,” he said. He briefly donned an eyepatch, before grimacing and lifting the eyepatch up.
“You know, I’m tired of sitting around and doing nothing, it’s time to show you what this princess can do.” Elia said, her hands glowing blue due to her wakfu/magic.
“Hol’ up, we don’t have a ship.” Entity reminds the crew, “How are we possibly going to fight back if we…” Instantly, the problem was solved when all of the trees of the island was cut and made into a ship by none other than Thanos. Thanos looked down at everyone from the ship.
“Come aboard!” Thanos cried out, Elae had his mouth agape.
“Dat is de power of ebola! HE KNOWS DE WEY!!!!” Elae cried out, suddenly more Ugandan Knuckles came from the bushes and began clicking.
Link was trying to hard not to outright murder the annoying meme, Link knows he can’t just kill something overpowered…
“Just let it go kid” Eric said to the Hylian. “No matter was day, age, or world you’re in you can never rid yourself of any meme, the best you can do is ignore it”
“...How?” Elia asked, turning to the left and the right, as if searching for an answer. Shiva shook her head.
“From one leader to another,” Shiva replied. “I say don’t question it.” She moved to board.
“Look at me, I am the captain, I build the ship.” Thanos declared, everyone, (Including the Ugandan Knuckles) walked on board. Thanos then walks to the helm that held the location of the wheel, and just like Mickey Mouse he began to whistle. The ship took off and Thanos steered the ship towards the Flying Dutchman.
“...Ha, classic. “ Link said in amusement.
“Any ideas?” Shiva asked, looking at Thanos.
“I have a plan, the greatest plan.” Thanos grinned, the ship closed in on the Flying Dutchman as it began to show it’s canons. “This is the greatest plaaannn~” Thanos sang, not stopping the ship as it closed in on the Flying Dutchman.
“..You’re going to kamikaze into it, aren’t you…” Link said as he recognised Thano’s words.
“Works for me,” Eric said flaring his powers over the entire ship. “But let’s give this fine vessel some much needed fire power” Eric’s powers began to apply shadow armor around the hull of the ship before forming cannons along the front and side of the Titan’s ship
“Fire!” Davy Jones ordered, the triple cannons fired off at the ship which caused Eric to return fire with his shadow cannons, Thanos continued to whistle merrily as they were fired upon.
Exchanging a grin with each other, Luke went into his diamond cannonball form, and Shiva began using him like a paddle ball, bashing him into the Flying Dutchman and tearing holes into the side of the ship.
Lucci grabbed their ships anchor and chucked it at one of the holes of the Flying Dutchman, the wind began to pick up and the ships were locked together. Suddenly, it began to storm and a whirlpool was forged. Meanwhile, Link was firing Bomb Arrows at the Flying Dutchman, aiming at every possible weak point.
“Just like the simulations!” Thanos called out, thunder striking near their ships. Thus began boarding of the ships as Jinbe jumped aboard and the Jutsu Fish pulled out a sword.
“Hi, my name is Phil!” Phil the fishman called out, grinning like a… fishman… Get it? AHAH! Multiple fishmen began to board the ship, even Davy Jones himself.
“Hello,” Davy Jones greeted, waving his crab arm at our heroes.
“Hello there,” Shiva replied with a grin. “Care to give my mate a hug? He loves to cuddle.” As she spoke, she spun Luke and hurled him right at Davy Jones. Indeed, Luke had changed his position so it looked like he was ready to pull Jones into a hug.
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“No, I’m not very huggable! Five Thousand Tile True Punch!” Davy Jones punched Luke with enough force to hurl him off the ship and make him skip across the “ocean” like a rock. Shiva struggled to pull Luke back, and nearly got yanked off the ship, with Kodo having to grab her with his own pack link before she was pulled away.
“Shark on Darts!”
Shiva yelped. “Oh, not again!”
But as Kodo struggled to pull Shiva back, Arlong spun around like a drill before digging his jaws into Shiva’s rib. Kodo and Luke yanked themselves forward, hoping to sandwich Arlong between them. But Arlong, with his superior fishman strength, knocked the two males away and began shaking Shiva like a dog would chew it’s toy. As Arlong shook her, Shiva coated her body in diamonds.
“A Devil Fruit Eater, eh?” Arlong mused, before performing a somersault and went under water with Shiva with him, going all the way down to the bottom of the ocean as she elbowed his eyes and face with diamond elbows, the water pressure doing a great help to Arlong.
However, as he tried to go all the way down, Luke and Kodo grabbed Shiva with pack links, trying to pull her back. However, Arlong now had the natural advantage, multiplying his strength far more greater than it was on land. Worse still, Shiva was in the absolute worst territory for a Devil Fruit user, and felt her strength sapping with the water.
“SHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You should have thought twice about eating a Devil Fruit you mutt!” Arlong cried out, while Arlong had her in his jaws he began to punch her, Ryou Haki doing a great help.
As Shiva struggled merely to breath, her body spasmed, and she started to lose consciousness. However, her pack link still glowed. And as Arlong began to believe he had the advantage, Luke careened down and got him from behind with a pack link garrote.
“This ain’t a Devil Fruit, partner,” Luke growled through the link, wrenching Arlong up with both the strength of his family and his own protective rage. “Hands off my mate!” As he wrenched the garrote tighter around Arlong’s neck, he followed it up with a brutal double punch to Arlong’s temples.
“Gragh!” Arlong cried out, letting go of Shiva, then quickly regretting this as he looked at Luke. Arlong then grinned, using Fishman Jujitsu and making a whirlpool, as Luke began to spun in the whirlpool, Shiva being dragged along by the pack links. As Arlong slipped out of Luke’s grip, Arlong began his attack on the poor canine, using his shark heritage, ripping his teeth out and using them as weapons as they regrow again. Using his chompers to bite down on Luke, using everything on the “Skywalker.”
As Luke was beset by attacks, his eyes shifted downward to the floor bottom. He began pulling Shiva towards him, grimacing as Arlong ripped and tore at his fur.
“Shiva!” he barked through the link. “Can you get to the bottom?”
“So wet…” Shiva moaned. “So cold…”
Luke grimaced, and poured his strength into her. “Come on, girl. You’re not just a Devil Fruit User. You’re a Diamond Dog!”
As his strength fought against the weakness of the water, his words registered in her mind. She gripped the sand, and dug down into the depths. The ground parted before her even easier than the mountain rocks she had grown used to. And as she delved deep into the earth, her pack link tightened, and yanked Luke from Arlong’s grip. Bloodied, but unbroken, Luke flipped off the fish man before vanishing into the ocean bottom, covering the hole Shiva had punched in the sand and vanishing from view.
“You can run, but you can’t hide! Soon enough you two are going to be running out of oxygen, and let's not mention the intense water pressure on your bodies! Shahahahaha!” Arlong laughed before swimming away.
Unfortunately, he didn’t get far before a pack link punched out of the sand and tangled him up.
“Aw, you do care,” Luke mocked, as Arlong felt his gills start to collapse. “Not to worry, your energy should more than suffice.”
Arlong began to feel himself suffocate, as Luke used Shiva’s pack link stole the very air from his gills. Stole his ability to survive underwater.
Using a last hurrah using his fishman speed he shot out of the water like a rocket to catch his breath, using Observation Haki he aimed for Luke. However, as he shot out of the water, the pack link tightened, and Luke burst out after him, Shiva limply hanging from his arm. As they hung in the air, Arlong clenched his fists, using Soru and appearing before Luke.
“Sai Dai Rin: ROKUOGAN!!!!” Arlong wheezed out, shooting a devastating shockwave towards the Diamond Dog.
“AURA SPHERE!” Luke bellowed back, matching the shockwave with a sphere of blue lightning that would’ve made the original Lucario nod in respect. The two forces of energies clash, Arlong poured all of his fishman strength into the attack, though it strained his body afterwards, he still pushed on. Letting out a roar in defiance against Luke’s aura sphere.
However, Luke wasn’t looking to overpower. Letting the shockwave push him over Thanos’ ship, Luke then spun his wrist in a circle. And to Arlong’s shock, the aura sphere became an aura vortex, absorbing his power into Luke. The pack link thickened as the energy pulsed through it, and Shiva let out a gasp like she had been hit with a defibrillator.
“Deep breaths, my queen,” Luke assured her. “I got you.”
“DA QUEEN!!!!” Elae shouted out, all of the Ugandan Knuckles on the ship went towards Shiva.
Arlong then fell back into the water, unable to move against his body's wishes. A second later, Luke and Shiva hit the deck of Thanos’ ship, Luke crackling with power from Arlong’s attack. Luke lifted his Queen up.
“You okay?” he asked.
Shiva nodded. “Anything you had in mind involving water,” she noted. “Consider it officially off the table.”
Luke hummed in mild disappointment, before the two touched heads.
“I thank you two for sparing my friends' life,” The couple turned their heads towards the Knight of the Sea, Jinbe. “You two have survived quite the battle, I’m impressed with all of you, including Arlong. Unfortunately I must do as I am ordered to do, no hard feelings, Shark Tile…” Jinbe struck a pose, looking at the duo, before a familiar diamond dog pup shot up from below deck, and yanked Jinbe down into the lower decks, before standing protectively before his parents.
“No hard feelings either,” Kodo said. “But my parents are off-limits.”
Jinbe fell down, and Phil just looked at that, “Okay, I recognize your strength. I’m going to smartly walk away from you guys because you are dangerous as a family, which you guys are an ADORABLE family. Absolutely adorable. I love it, I’m going to go now.” Phil smartly left with his body intact.
Luke, Shiva and Kodo let him go, settling against the deck to rest.
“He thinks we’re adorable,” Kodo noted. “He should’ve seen Celine.”
“Oh, Kodo, behave,” Shiva said, her tail wagging. “If Celine was here, he’d probably have a heart attack from her cuteness.”
“Betta yet, sent to hell!” Davy Jones laughed kicking Lord Twigo down the stairs of the ship.
“Master!” Kodo yelped, leaping to Lord Twigo’s defense.
“Kodo, wait!” Shiva cried, trying to get up, only to fall to one knee, the effects of the water still somewhat affecting her.
“Shiva, remember your links,” Luke advised, allowing her to empower Kodo as he jumped between Lord Twigo and Davy Jones.
Davy Jones looked at Kodo, then at Lord Twigo. “You protect this pathetic fool?” Davy Jones asked, taking a step forward towards Kodo.
“He trained me,” Kodo insisted. “Showed me how to protect my family.” He held his sword ready. “I owe him. And my mother may fear death… but I don’t.”
“Then, off to the depths with ye!” Davy Jones then let out a battle cry, swiping at Kodo with his blade, covering it in Armament Haki.
However, with Shiva’s link flowing through him, Kodo was able to not only empower his blade with Armament Haki, but also with diamonds. He matched Davy Jones’ blow, briefly struggling against it before bursting into smoke, flying behind Jones and attacking with a swipe at the back of his legs.
“Grah!” Davy Jones cried out, he then turned around and grabbed Kodo’s blade with his crab hand. Davy Jones covered his arm in Ryou Haki, “How much do you value your blade, boy?” Davy Jones asked Kodo.
Kodo hummed. “I’m pretty sure it had an important name, but for the life of me…” Kodo chuckled before releasing the blade. Darting behind Jones, he swiped again at his back legs with his claws before launching over his head, wrenching his hat over his eyes and retrieving his blade, and rolling away.
Davy Jones pulled his hat up, he then laughed. “Boy you must have forgotten your purpose for fighting me, allow me to remind you.” Davy Jones stabbed Lord Twigo in his arm, digging the blade deep in his flesh.
Kodo gaped. “Master why didn’t you run?” Kodo demanded, slicing at Davy Jones’ sword arm before taking a shot at his throat.
Though with quick thinking, Jones leaned back and evaded the attack, he then kicked Kodo away with his crab leg. Jones tore his blade from Lord Twigo’s arm and stomped on the Holy Knight’s head, over and over again.
However, as Kodo rolled away, Luke rose to take his place. Howling in fury, Luke launched Shiva, who had tucked into a diamond cannonball, and caught Davy Jones with a hard hit to the chest, quickly wrenching her back as Kodo took to his side, rubbing his chest with a grimace.
Davy Jones was knocked off his feet, he hit the deck and rolled to his feet. Jinbe jumped from the floor and took Jones’ side along with Phil.
“I’m sorry, I regret doing this, but you are in the way of our Cap’n, and I can’t really allow that so… Water Dragon Jutsu!” A water dragon shot from Phil and flew at Shiva. Shiva shifted diamonds from herself to Luke, but just as she threw Luke, Jinbe ran at Luke, covering his head in Armament Haki. Jinbe rammed Luke off the ship and back into the water where Jinbe followed after Luke. Shiva was yanked off course by the attack on Luke, allowing the water dragon to hit her and knock her into the wall. She hit the ground with a yelp like an injured dog, her pack link fading as she went still in defeat. Without Shiva’s pack link, Luke’s diamonds faded, and he was left paddling after the ship. Kodo was left on his own, his sword slowly lowering as he realized the gravity of the situation.
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“It’s just you and me boy!” Davy Jones cackled, clenching his blade as he ran at Kodo, Davy Jones then slammed his blade down onto the growing body of the pup.
However, Kodo matched his strike, growling darkly as his body flickered and sparked with lightning.
Covering his blade in Ryou Haki to break Kodo’s blade, Davy Jones began to mercilessly attack Kodo. Not giving the pup a chance to counter, Davy Jones began to laugh. “Do you realize the gravity of the situation boy? You are but a young pup against a dead man with centuries of combat experience!” Davy Jones continued to laugh as he continued to strike Kodo.
Kodo burst into smoke, moving back to gain distance. “That may be true,” Kodo admitted. “But if there’s one thing a dead man and a diamond dog have in common… it’s that both belong in the ground.”
Tucking into a cannonball, Kodo shot at Davy Jones, bursting briefly into smoke to appear behind him. Seizing the undead captain by his jacket, Kodo yanked him over the side and into the water. Utilizing the weakness of the Devil Fruit, Kodo let himself plummet like a stone, dragging Davy Jones behind him. And as they reached the ocean bottom, Kodo utilized his diamond dog heritage, smashing into the ground and dragging Jones further down, almost like he was going to bury Jones at the center of the earth.
“KILL LORD TWIGO!!!” Davy Jones shouted, it echoed across the floor. Davy Jones then used his crab claw and stabbed it into Kodo along with Davy Jones’ blade. Meanwhile on the surface fishmen began to surround Lord Twigo.
Kodo yelped, and was forced to release Jones, the water weakness working against him and leaving him trapped in the ground. Back up top, Shiva’s eyes briefly fluttered open as the fishmen surrounded Twigo. She reached a claw out for him, but the battle had taken too much out of her, and she slumped back to the ground.
Phil looked down at Shiva before pulling out a flintlock, “I’m sorry in advance.” To prevent Shiva from interfering, Phil shot Shiva in her kneecaps, “You don’t get to keep yer kneecaps.”
Shiva stared in stunned silence at her kneecaps. “I was already down,” she mumbled, glaring up at Phil. Her fur began to spark. Her eyes turned black like a demon. “I was… ALREADY DOWN!”
A pack link shot out, seizing Phil by the neck. She clutched and scrabbled at the magic rope as it crushed his larynx, draining his life - almost his very soul - into Shiva. Her legs healed, as she rose up, her teeth baring, and her face becoming a nightmarish wolf snarl.
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"Okay, I deserved that, I'm sorry for shooting you in the kneecaps.” However, Phil’s protests went up in choked gurgles, as he began to dry up like a fish out of water.
“YOU WANTED ME TO STAY OUT OF THE FIGHT? ” Shiva snarled, her tendril smashing him into the floor with every exclamation. “THEN YOU REALLY! SHOULDN’T! HAVE DONE THAT!”
"Yeah…" Phil cried out from the water, Phil then shot up, fully repaired as he readied his flintlock. "I'm the fastest eye in the west."
Shiva responded by seizing his arm, her link burning into his arm and digging up his deepest, darkest fears, draining him like a sponge as he was thrust into his darkest, worst nightmares. The nightmare… Was cheese! As Phil began to suffer, Shiva turned her sights on the other fishmen, her pack links rising from her like the tentacles of the kraken. Even Lord Twigo felt the hostility and hate in her gaze.
“YOUR SLIME-RIDDEN SOULS ARE MINE, MOTHER FUCKERS!” Shiva howled.
"I DON'T GET PAID ENOUGH FOR THIS SHIT!!!!" The fishman cried out, slamming his spear down. "I don't even know why I'm fucking here! HOW!??!?!" The fishman cried out.
But his protests were for naught, as Shiva’s tendrils launched at them, taking the form of wolves lunging for blood.
"GAH PLEASE MERCY!!!!" The fishman cried out, raising his hands high. But there would be no mercy for them. Not from a wolf that had just gone rabid.
Shiva’s links were a terrifying mixture of kraken tentacles with snarling wolf faces for ends. They bit into the fishmen and lifted them into the air before smashing them into the ground, trying to break every bone in their bodies. While plunging them into the darkest, scariest nightmares they could dream up. All while their powers, abilities and souls were sucked into Shiva’s body like a vacuum. The wolf watched it all with a wild sneer of malice.
"LADY SHIVA!!!!" Lord Twigo cried out before grunting in pain, for a stab wound was shown in his abdomen. Rather than help, one of Shiva’s tendrils seized the holy knight as well, and began to drain him without regard for whose side he was on.
"Lady Shiva, you are my student's mother. Thus you are my friend, please, stop this senseless violence!" Lord Twigo cried Out.
But despite his words, Shiva didn’t seem to hear. All traces of the kind and gentle diamond dog were gone, replaced only with the visage of a wild and very angry wolf. Until, without warning a white mask was thrown onto Shiva’s face as it shifted to fit her face causing her to lose all sense of anger.
Shiva gasped, stumbling to her knees. Her tendrils retreated, and Shiva looked around in horror at what she had nearly wrought.
"Thank Odin…" Lord Twigo said before he slumped back down, the Holy Knight grimaced at his wound.
“L-Lord Twigo?” Shiva stammered, stumbling towards him and desperately linking a healing spell to him. “I’m so sorry, I just… I got so furious when he shot me. I-I couldn’t control it!”
"...It's alright, well, at least the man apologized so everything should be alright!" Lord Twigo jumped to his feet with a thumbs up and a warming smile.
Two gunshots echoed on the ship as Phil shrieked in pain as his legs were shot, snapping him and the Diamond out of their trance, turning around the Fishman was met with a smoking gun being held by Eric. Meanwhile the other Fishman just jumped into the water, fleeing back into his natural habitat.
“Shiva it does you no good to lose your cool in battle” Eric said walking towards the fishman. “I will ask that you keep that mask on until you completely calm down.”
“Not a bad idea,” Shiva muttered, brief flashes of an unconscious Cadence, a starved Tirek, and - most disturbingly - an unfamiliar stallion ripped to shreds flashing in her mind. “I’m sure you’ve heard the tales of ‘werewolves?’ Well, it seems that despite being accepting the life of a Diamond Dog, I still carry the temper of a werewolf. I’ve tried to keep it under wraps, but… well…” The images of Cadence, Tirek and the stallion more than stated what happened when she lost control.
"You don't want to tango with the rango Eric, I am the fastest sniper on Fishman Island." Phil said, pointing his gun up to Eric's head.
“That may be true but you are on a ship covered in my shadow” Eric said as multiple shadow clones rose from the deck. “This is the worst environment to fight me”
"Oh that can be arranged quickly. Water Clone Jutsu!" Water clones of Phil appeared when he did a singular hand sign with his one hand.
“Let’s dance fishface” Eric said sheathing his gun before drawing his sword and creating a scythe of shadow, His shadow clones all formed twin scythes in their hands as their took defensive stance
"Beware, I'm quite the dancer, Boogie Man." Phil said with a grin, his Shark like genes getting shown off for his teeth was as sharp as Eric's blade. Phil put up his gun in it's holster and got out his warhammer. His clones doing the exact same.
Both displaced stood their ground waiting for the other to make the first move, neither one wanting to underestimate the other as they circled each other like a pair of challenging wolves
"Quick question, what is your goal here? I know if you beat Ryker you'll escape but there's something else you want." Phil spoke, looking at him, clenching his warhammer.
“Call it an ill omen.” Eric said, tightening his grip on his sword. “A feeling that something bad will happen if I don’t fight”
Inside Eric’s mind he saw a clouded image of himself screaming as he held Sombra’s dead body, his eyes white as a cloud, void of all signs of life as shadow flooded from Eric’s body
"Something… Bad?" Phil tilted his head, but then shook his head, focusing back on Eric. "...I smell fear , fear of something harming your friends. Fear of the death of loved ones." Phil chuckled, looking at Eric.
“Just a vision I wish to remain a vision” Eric said to the Fishman
"Well, if you stop thinking about that vision; maybe it won't happen! It's like a redheaded stepchild, if you ignore it for long enough, it'll disappear!" Phil said with a laugh.
“Maybe so,” Eric said, rushing forward, locking his weapons against the Fishman’s weapon. “But I can’t take that chance If I have chance to save somepony than I will”
Meanwhile, inside the water…
“You see boy… You’re not dealing with the average pirate any more…” Davy Jones began, looking down at Kodo before kicking him in his snout. “I have become the pirate of legend, I have become the legendary Pirate Lord!” Davy Jones stabbed Kodo in his lung, he then twisted the blade making it go deeper into Kodo. “Now Kodo, I’ll ask you; Do ya fear death? ”
Kodo merely bared his teeth at the pirate lord, and caught him with a pack link, drawing him close and taking a bite out of Davy Jones’ tentacle beard.
Davy Jones let out a cry of pain, pulling his blade out of Kodo, “Well, have fun in hell Kodo!” Davy Jones raised his blade high aiming for Kodo’s neck.
Fwip, fwip, fwip, fwip , the sound made Davy Jones pause.
“What is that annoying sound?!” Davy Jones asked to no one in particular, turning around to try and spot whoever was making the sound.
Though the moment he turned to look, his hat was cleanly sliced in half by a pair of weird fin-shape boomerangs, barely inches missing the top of his scalp. The boomerangs loop around, returning to the arms of a weird looking humanoid fish. A split second later Kodo realized it was Link! Although in the form of a Zora.
“Talk about a close shave.” Zora Link said half jokingly as he crossed his arms, throwing out his fins like boomerangs again at Davy Jones.
Though the Captain merely parried the blows before reaching for the remnants of his hat. “That was my lucky hat you bastard!” Davy Jones kicked Kodo one last time in his face before swimming towards Zora Link, sword covered in Armament Haki.
“The hat wasn’t so lucky though!” Zora Link said with a grin, his voice sounding weird in this form. Link quickly raised his arm; the fin became solid to form a shield to block Davy Jone’s slash.
Davy Jones could do nothing but growl at Link’s snarky comment as he continued to slash away at Zora Link, though with every strike, Davy Jones became quicker with his attacks. Zora Link suddenly fwip down, quickly swimming to get behind Davy Jones, soon wrapping his limbs around the captain’s chest and waist.
“Let go of me you insufferable fake fishma-” Though the Captain of the Flying Dutchman couldn’t finish his sentence as Zora Link unleashed a powerful blast of his Electrical Barrier, giving the captain quite a strong shock through his system.
Davy Jones let out a howl of pain before he swam to the bottom of the ocean and slammed Zora Link into it. Wanting to get Zora Link off of Davy Jones, the Captain dragged Zora Link across the rocks and crabs that dwelled at the bottom of the ocean.
Zora Link quickly let go as his magic reached half empty, not wanting to waste it all trying to shock the captain to… well, not necessarily ‘death’ but the next best thing?
“Hey! The sea beds for the sleeping fishes!” Link said as he wiped the blood that was softly coming out of his wounds.
“Then sleep with em!” Davy Jones cried out raising his sword high before spinning like a certain blue hedgehog. Surprising both Kodo and Zora Link he was spinning fast, Davy Jones then stopped spinning and flew at Zora Link. Rivalling the speed of a torpedo before drop kicking the poor bastard into the boulders that formed under the sea. Zora Link collided rather hard, and luckily for him, there isn’t any breath to be knocked out. Ignoring the pain, Zora Link quickly swam up and above the captain, quickly pulling out some kind of weird ball shaped fish, allowing them to drop down toward Davy Jones. As the ball got near the captain, Zora Link threw out a boomerang fin at the fish ball, causing them to explode on contact. What Zora Link dropped were Water Bombs.
“Grah!” Davy Jones was forced to the bottom of the ocean, Davy Jones they grinned, feeling the death of Lord Twigo near. “You betta hurry Link, there’s someone else who needs more saving than this bugger,” Davy Jones points to Kodo who was still under water.
The young pup looked up with a growl. “He’s right!” he snarled, lashing out with a pack link and ensnaring Davy Jones around the neck.
To Davy Jones’ surprise, he began to feel… weak. Every breath became harder and harder to take. At the same time, Kodo began to rise, his fur sparking and glowing.
“What… Have you done?” Davy Jones asked the pup, Davy Jones looked towards the surface and began to swim towards it desperately.
Kodo smirked as he was pulled along. “You may not be able to die,” Kodo said. “But you only can’t die because of the curse Calypso put on you. That curse is magic. And like my mother said…'' He tightened his grip. “Magic is but energy waiting to be spent. Or in this case… taken.” He wound his link tighter, and yanked Davy Jones back down, looking to Zora Link. “Go! I got him!”
“Lock him up good in his locker while you’re at it!” Zora Link said half jokingly half seriously.
“I’ll certainly try,” Kodo replied, either not getting the joke or just not caring.
With the speed of a dolphin, Zora Link darted off toward the surface.
‘Mercy, have mercy on my soul! The only reason I’m doing this is because I want to earn a spot on Ryker’s Commanders. I need to kill Lord Twigo, he’s not even a part of the Commanders anymore! Why do you care for him?! ’ Davy Jones asked mentally, slowly getting sunk down.
Kodo said nothing, but as Davy Jones was dragged back into the ground, his mind was flooded with images of Lord Twigo and Fujitora. Training Kodo how to fight. Believing in him. Telling him he was destined for the life of a warrior.
‘...Ah… I see now… You’ve bonded with them in such a short amount of time, how touching…’ Davy Jones chuckled in his mind as he laid down on the ocean floor. The energy drained from him. And with Kodo endowed with the energy, he blasted himself back up, fighting against the Devil Fruit and blasting back up at the surface.
Landing next to Lord Twigo, Kodo let the energy loose with a bark that threw the fishmen back. They backed up; Kodo had used the rest of the energy to take his bigger form, his eyes glowing like a demon and his fur crackling like a storm cloud.
“Who’s the bastard who made my Mom cry?” he demanded. Causing Phil to cease his fight with the Shadow Man to turn towards the Diamond Dog
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Phil screamed, running on top of the water as he went Forrest Gump on this bitch and ran away.
“Remind me not to piss you off...” Zora Link said as he sat on board looking around.
Kodo would have replied but stopped when Eric put his skull mask on the pup, all anger and rage he had somehow vanished immediately.
“Keep yourself calm,” Eric said leaving the mask on the boy “Focus on your mother right now.”
Kodo and Shiva glanced at each other. Kodo noticed the mask adorning Shiva’s head as well.
“Nice mask,” he quipped.
“Eric gave you one too, I see,” Shiva noted.
“Yeah, meaning to ask about that,” Kodo turned to Eric, tapping at the mask. “What is this thing? And why does it make me feel so… calm?”
“That mask is carved from a changeling skull, it nullifies all negative emotion” Eric said before pulling another from his body. “You’re welcome to keep it, they change shape to match the wearer and I have hundreds more” the Shadow Man said, putting the mask on his face. “They're good for keeping one’s emotions in check. A level head on the battlefield is a tremendous advantage in battle.”
“I regret having so chunky armor…” Lord Twigo grunted, trying to move his body and get up.
Kodo picked him up - with his new size, he was able to do it like Lord Twigo was the pup - and he channeled his energy into healing the Lord. At the same time, Shiva leaned over the side of the ship, and yanked Luke back on board. Luke gave Zora Link a grateful look.
“Thank you,” he said to the hylian. “I saw Kodo fighting Jones down there and…”
“Our fight is not over!” Jinbe cried out, shooting from the water with a nearly dead Davy Jones, Jinbe tossed Jones aside and got in a karate fighting stance.
Shiva groaned.
“Stubborn little-” Zora Link began, but Thanos interrupted with a loud, almost Homer-like Doh.
“DOH!!” Thanos hit the ship, injured and bruised, Thanos got up and looked around. “Where is that Qilby bastard with his Six Dofus and his fucking God Ki?! Oh hi Shiva.” Thanos looked at Shiva like she was Mark.
“Hey, Thanos,” Shiva greeted.
"Hello, Shiva." Thanos waved at Shiva.
“My savior!” Luke agreed.
"Hello, Son of Youngling Slayer 9000." Thanos waved at Luke as well.
“Sup,” Kodo replied, grinning as he now found himself able to stand almost as tall as Thanos.
“How ya holding up Thanos?” Eric asked the Titan before walking up and helping him to his feet. “Need a hand?”
"No, No, I'm fine. Well, Qilby is a good fighter, able to destroy a Galaxy, so he says…" Thanos said before cracking his knuckles, looking up at the skies.
“Noone is unstoppable, not you, not me, not Black, and certainly not him” Eric said looking up at Qilby. “If you need some help I can lend you some weapons or armor from my shadow”
"Nah, I think we're fine, given that we have Black, Phoenix, Entity, Lucci, Luna Black- Wait where's Sombra? Don't tell me he's gone Zoro on us…" Thanos sighed, looking behind him.
“No Sombra isn’t like him, More than likely he’s on his way” Eric said
Sombra was halfway up the staircase leading up to the fifth floor, however he was exhausted and sweating.
“D..Damn” Sombra said as his wound from Zabuza was still healing slowly despite using his healing magic.
“Bastard used a poison blade,” Sombra said Closing his eyes and forcing more of his magic to heal his wound. “Been a long time since I was injured on this scale, kinda impressed almost hopes he survives to we can fight again”
Sombra couldn’t help but smile at the dark skinned man. “After all he was still standing after my Flying Fire Dragon: Hellflame Blaze. Not many can survive that attack”
“Shorty.” Thanos laughed at Kodo, “But anyways what do you guys need me for? We’re kinda fighting-” Lucci crashed behind Thanos, “A God who is more Op that all of you combined.” Thanos pointed at the bunch of fish and dogs.
“..Even more op than you?” Link said to Thanos as a friendly jab.
"Perhaps...” Thanos shrugged, looking around at everyone.
“Oh, that’s what you were doing?” Shiva asked, looking up at the sky. “Sorry. I was just wondering what the others were up to. Phoenix, Black…” She paused. “Are they up there?”
An explosion and a Goofy scream answered her question.
“I’m no psychic but I’m going to say yes,” Eric said sending his clones back into his shadow
“By the way I saw your fights and by God you guys were getting your asses handed to you on a silver platter. Except for Luke, you were fighting with Jinbe closely. By the way, continue your fight, it’s awesome.” Thanos said pointing at the two warriors.
Shiva growled, before the changeling skull negated her growing rage and frustration at being one of the weaker links. With a mutual look at her pack, she and Kodo channeled their links into Luke. He went Super-Saiyan/Mega Evolution, and pressed his knuckles together, advancing on Jinbe.
“See was that so har-” Thanos was then slammed by a warhammer and his head crashed into the bottom deck. His body sticking out straight like a bow and arrow, the attacker was Phil.
“Hah! I beat Thanos, that chump wasn’t anything after all!” Behind him, Thanos slowly got up, Conqueror’s Haki pulsing around him.
Phil was quickly cut off as Kodo got in his face. “ You made Mama cry!”Kodo growled, his fury rendered tranquil by the mask, but failing to make it any less terrifying.
Phil tried to turn back, only to find Thanos waiting for him.
“...You hit me… With a puny ass attack… And you had the nerve to call me weak?” Thanos asked Phil, standing tall over the fishman.
Kodo briefly glanced up at Thanos, cracking his knuckles. “ Shall we?”he asked.
“We shall indeed… YOU’RE GOING TO BRAZIL!!!!” Thanos and Kodo kicked Phil into the heavens where Qilby and the others were fighting, Thanos followed after the motherfucker. Jinbe just blinked, looking at his nearly dying Captain then back at Luke.
“It would seem that you have turned into a Super Saiyan and you’ve Mega Evolved, it would seem that I must kick it up a notch.” Jinbe got in a fighting stance, covering his fists in Armament Haki as well as his legs.
Luke tilted his head. “I turned into what and I did what?” he asked.
“You’ve transformed into something greater than you could ever imagine.” Jinbe told Luke in more simple terms.
“Eh, that makes sense,” Luke replied. “I don’t have that much imagination.”
“Nor do I yet we are still here.” Jinbe told the Diamond Dog, “Wait, is this the normal amount of weird you’re in? You’re fighting a Whale Shark, on a ship Captained by one of the most infamous pirates known to mankind not to mention you are in the sea that is in a tower which a genocidal maniac controls.” Jinbe said, looking at the surroundings.
“Oh, this is totally weird,” Luke replied. “I got brought back from the dead. Last thing I recalled was Daybreaker roasting me alive.” He shrugged. “But right now, I’m back, and I’m with the ones I love. Don’t really care about much beyond that.”
“We’re Displaced! of course it'll be weird when everyone is a good variety of characters..” Link said deadpanned.
“Don’t give me that look, what is weirder, being in this or just being transformed into a character you dressed up as?” Jinbe asked the Hylian.
“Can’t really choose when I've seen much weirder things across the multiverse. ” Link pointed out with a shrug of his arms.
“... Luke, let’s just fight.” Jinbe said, looking straight into Luke’s eyes, “Attack me first, it’s only polite to let ladies go first.”
Luke blinked, glancing at Shiva. “If you say so,” he replied, before touching Shiva’s shoulder. The white demi-wolf turned into a diamond cannonball, and he spun her before throwing her into Jinbe’s chest.
The Whale Shark however used one of his more useful Fishman Karate techniques, “Sharkskin Palm Block!” Jinbe slapped Shiva away and into the mast of the ship, the mast quickly fell on top of Shiva, not hurting her since she was in diamond form. Jinbe stomped on the floorboard and a wooden plank shot Luke up from the Whale Shark’s weight. Jinbe then leaped towards Luke. “Seven Thousand Tile Roundhouse Kick!” he declared, before doing a devastating roundhouse kick, which Luke blocked with his arms. The pack link flared, and Luke glowed even brighter.
Catching Jinbe by the leg, Luke spun and hurled Jinbe back down to the ship. The floorboards cracked as Jinbe bounced off the floorboards, before Luke used his pack link to Shiva and Kodo to slingshot down, smashing Jinbe through the lower decks and nearly into the ocean.
“Hmph!” Jinbe got to his feet, “Arabesque Tile True Punch!” Suddenly Luke felt multiple blows impact his body without Jinbe even impacting the Diamond Dog. Luke struggled to find who was punching him, before Jinbe then punched Luke through the ship and into the water. Jinbe followed the Diamond Dog, just in time for Luke to hit him with another kick, having used his pack links to sling shot right back into the whale shark. As Jinbe reeled, Luke delivered a one two palm strike before following it up with a brutal front kick, ending it in a split as Jinbe tumbled backward.
Jinbe then shot at Luke at an alarming speed. Luke held up his fist with a grin, hoping Jinbe would run right into his fist. “One Hundred Tile True Punch!” Jinbe had ducked and punched Luke in his gut, but he wasn’t done yet, he was just beginning! “One Thousand Tile True Punch!” Landing another punch on the Diamond Dog but this time with more force packed into it, though Jinbe kept up the tempo. “Four Thousand Tile True Punch!” Jinbe landed another punch even more devastating than the last, the force could be heard from miles. To finish his combo Jinbe went for one final punch. “Five Thousand Tile True Punch!” This time the force sent the Diamond Dog flying down the ocean.
For a moment, the ocean was still. However, as Jinbe watched, he noticed the ocean bottom… shift. The pack links glowed, tense and tight as they slowly pulled Luke back up. A second later, Jinbe saw why:
Luke was carrying a huge chunk of the ocean floor up. As he neared, he split it in half, and hammered both sides into Jinbe, turning him into a whale shark sandwich before beginning his own combo. (Hang on)
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Hammering Jinbe with pieces of the ocean floor, Luke uppercut the whale shark back onto the deck. Slamming him with one of the pieces of the ocean bottom, Luke flung one of the ocean walls behind him before batting Jinbe into it. He bounced Jinbe back and forth between the ocean floors, letting the ocean rock chip, crack and break. Until finally, when Jinbe was battered, dazed and covered with ocean rock, Luke gave one final kick, and punted him through the remains of ocean rock, scattering his improvised weapons into debris and standing tall. He glanced at Shiva.
“Did I do good?” he asked. “I did the combo thing, just like he did.”
Before Shiva could answer, Jinbe answered for her, delivering a drop kick to the canine's chest. But learning from his mistake, Jinbe landed an uppercut on Luke sending him out of the water. Using the Rokushiki Techniques, specifically Geppo, Jinbe shot after Luke and landed a headbutt… that Luke caught with his palms. Jinbe began to spin around and he flung Luke into the clouds.
“If you can match this blow with nothing but your strength alone, I will submit, you and I both know that the two of us can fight for days before this battle ends. So let us end it now!” Jinbe cried out flying after Luke, clenching his right fist covering it in Ryou Haki and enhancing it with Tekkai Go.
“Yes, please do.” Zora Link said as he leaned against the wall. “An unstoppable force vs. an unmovable object can get really annoying and old quickly.” he said with a sigh.
“Fishman Karate Secret Technique: Mighty Reliant Piercing!” Jinbe shot a punch that dug itself deep into Luke, so deep that his fist was shown at the other side of his body. Out came a wave of water, the force of the blow blew the clouds to smithereens as Jinbe looked into Luke’s eyes who was still attached to his fist.
Luke merely tilted his head, before he grinned, and opened his mouth. A tiny little ball of Ki glowed on his tongue.
“Ka… me… ha… me…”
“So looks like we’ve got another Ki user,” Eric said with a grin
Black glanced at the diamond dog, visibly annoyed, “Can everyone just do that attack now…” Black grumbled.
“Nappa showed him when he gave him Ki control,” Shiva replied. “And he has access to all the training you gave me, Black, thanks to the pack link.”
"God damn it, Nappa." Thanos grumbled, looking at the fight.
“Pardon my language but I fucking hate you.” Jinbe growled.
“Oh, I’m sorry,” Luke replied, as his attack sparked and his ball increased. “But I don’t give a flying HAAAAAA!” His ball turned into a beam that would’ve made a dragon blush. It smashed Jinbe past the ship, down to the ocean bottom, and even down into the ground below the ocean bottom. The ocean parted like the red sea, before a strong tidal wave soaked everyone on the ship.
Gently, Luke lowered himself to the ground, taking a slow breath and touching his chest. Shiva ran up to him, and he pulled her into his arms. They touched heads gently.
“...You tanked a blow that destroyed the clouds…” Lord Twigo looked at Luke, before drinking some tea. “I call hax.”
Link looked around in paranoia, expecting someone to yell ‘HAAAX’ followed by a flying monitor.
“Call it whatever you want,” Shiva replied, her claw not leaving where Jinbe had hit Luke. “I’m just happy he isn’t dead.” Her ears flattened. “Again.”
“No but seriously, how? That is amazing!” Lord Twigo asked, “I could definitely use that against Ryker.”
“Then you’re going to want a very powerful friend at your side,” Kodo replied, revealing that he had shrunk back down to his pup form, his energy having gone to his father.
“...THAT DOESN’T ANSWER THE GODDAMN QUESTION!??!?! Is this deus x machina?!” Thanos shouted from the background before getting whacked by Qilby.
“Kinda,” Kodo admitted. “I still had the energy from Davy Jones’ curse, so I gave it to Dad before the fight.” He shrugged. “It’s not like I was using it.”
“Plus,” Shiva added. “We were tired of constantly losing because we weren’t willing to push our powers to the max.” She rested her head on Luke’s shoulder. “I certainly wasn’t going to let him die when I had a way to keep him going.”
“Speaking of Davy Jones…” Lord Twigo slowly turned to Davy Jones who was using his sword as a walking stick.
Kodo growled and lifted his claw. “Am I gonna have to drain you again?” he snarled, before lifting his paw. “Paws, though.”
“No, I’m already beaten… Can I have me immortality- Oh wait I’m still immortal.” Davy Jones said weakly.
“Oh, yeah,” Shiva said. “No way we’re strong enough to take an immortal’s life. You don’t have to worry about death. At least for now.”
“Well…” Black said while rubbing the back of his neck, “I kinda could…” Black said nervously.
“Don’t you fucking twat.” Thanos glared at Black, slowly pulling out a shotgun.
“...You’re threatening a super saiyan with a shotgun?” Zora Link asked confused as he reached to pull at his face, briefly flashing as he reverted back to normal.
Black put his hands up, “I’m not gonna, for the Omni-Kings sake, I’d rather not kill anyone.” Black looked to Zora Link, “Never underestimate the power of a shotgun, it erased Kermit the Frog from existence.” Black reminded Link.
“Damn straight.” Thanos said, putting up his shotgun… Somewhere...
“...Hylia damned multiverse theory.” Link said with a sigh.
“Anyway-” Qilby falls from the sky next to Thanos, “Anyway we are victorious where is the exit?” Thanos asked, Davy Jones chuckles.
“Well, if ya want to go to the exit, you must sail over there.” Davy Jones pointed his sword to a port, on the port was a door that said, “Exit,” in bright red.
“Huh, who would’ve known?” Thanos nodded.
“Why didn’t we see that earlier!?” Link asked as he threw his hands up in the air.
“I dunno…” Black said, shrugging his shoulders.
“Only happens if ya beat the others in combat, which ya did. Speaking of which, we Fishmen gave you Diamond Dogs an arse whoopin’.” Davy Jones laughed.
“Yes,” Luke growled sarcastically. “You beat up a one year old pup and a woman that hates fighting and almost got driven into a blood rage. You must be so proud of yourselves.” He scoffed. “Seriously, if you’re going to have a dick-measuring contest with a woman and a kid , you clearly started off with the world’s cruelest handicap. Right, Shiva?”
He turned to Shiva… only to find her gone. With a quick ‘pop,’ Luke vanished as well. The others turned to find the diamond dog trio already at the exit. Shiva glanced back.
“You coming?” she asked.
Kodo giggled. “Paws though,” he noted.
“That’s what she said!” Thanos cried out, laughing like a mad man.
“Yeah yeah… I’m coming…” Black said.
“Oh my…” The voice of a certain flamboyant alien said.
“MOTHER FUCKER!” Black shouted in rage, his voice echoing through the floor.
Shiva shook her head and wandered into the exit. “I’m getting real tired of this,” she muttered.
“And that ladies and gentlemen, is what she said.” Thanos said, earning some clapping from the audience that were the Fishmen and the Ugandan Knuckles.
“EEEEBOLLLAAAAAA!!!!!!!!” Elae cried out flying off towards Shiva and her family, Thanos flying after him as well.
“...Could you use that erasing-from-existance shotgun on the annoying meme, please?” Link asked with pleading eyes to Thanos.
“I can always use a Hakai, but I doubt that would work…” Black commented as he walked into the exit.
“Aight, expect the things up ahead to be more bullshittery.” Lucci groaned, Entity using his Frost Walker boots to walk towards the exit.
“I am about this close…” Link said mentally as he followed behind Lucci.
“I will sacrifice their souls to de devil…”
To be continued…
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Our band of heroes made their way up the tower, after the battle of the sea and Sombra joining shortly after, Elae began to sing an abridged version of chala head chala.
“Suck mai dick!” Elae shouted as that was part of the lyrics before he sang more words.
Black however had begun to get annoyed at the meme’s abridged song. ‘Just ignore it Black… it can’t get worse than this…’ The Saiyan thought.
Elae then stopped as they reached a room, it was dark, pitch blackness.
“I can not see I’m legally blind!” Thanos cried out, looking around the darkness. THWAK! Thanos got slapped upside the head by someone.
“Who the fuck just slapped me? I will clap your ass, pause on that!” Thanos cried out, looking behind him.
“I don’t know! It’s too damn dark in here.” Link said as he reached into his pouch to fish something to help with the darkness, only to stop when Lucci went to speak.
“Racist.” Lucci said, next to Link, Lucci crossed his arms, looking at Link disapprovingly.
Black rolled his eyes as he held out a hand, a pink ball of ki appeared, brightening the room, in front of Black was Ugandan Knuckles.
“Alright, so… What’s the challenge here?” Link asked as he looked around the room.
“Hello.” The Ugandan Knuckles greeted the Saiyan.
“Hello? Why’d we stop?” Black asked as the meme was blocking the door.
“I am de challenge, u must get past me! Tho u can not beat me, you must sit here and make me… Do something I do not rememba.” Elae said with a shrug.
“May Odin have mercy on us all…” Entity said looking at the Ugandan Knuckles with fear.
“Oh Nayru above..” Link said with the longest of sighs as he placed his leather covered hand upon his face.
Black stood there, his expression unchanging as he squared down to meet Ugandan Knuckles eye level. The two stared at each other as none of them spoke.
“Do u kno de way?” Black mimicked Ugandan Knuckles voice and accent.
“I kno de wey me brudda, come with me and join ur people! Let us meet our queen!” Elae said with a click.
“Oh for the love of Fuast, Fuck your queen!” Sombra said in both anger and irritation, causing everyone to freeze
“What de fuck did you fucking say about our queen you son of a bitch?” Elae turned towards Sombra, a creaking sound following it.
“Oh shit…” Black murmured causing Sombra to draw his blades on the Ugandan
“Welp, I’m digging a grave.” Thanos said, getting a shovel out of thin air.
“Lemme help you out.” Link said as he pulled out his own shovel out of his pouch.
“I’m a Diamond Dog,” Luke agreed. “Digging’s my speciality!”
“There will be no remains after this, not even their soul!” Elia yelped, looking at the volume of anger in Elae’s eyes. And the anger… The Anger was unmatched, Kratos, Asura, Doomslayer, Guts, they all paled in comparison to what anger Elae had. Elia squealed and hid behind Thanos who was still digging a grave for the hell of it with Link helping out.
“I need a plaque, does anyone have a plaque nearby?” Thanos asked, looking at the group. “No? Gotta work with what we got.”
“Do u have any last words before we sacrifice ur soul to de devil?” Ugandan Knuckles asked the being, his eyes flickering from red to it’s normal black.
“Alright both of you” Eric said, using two shadow claws to hold Sombra and the Ugandan from killing each other. “Need to stop trying to kill each other, yes he’s annoying just learn to ignore him”
“Look at me Sombra, look at me in the eyes.” Elae demanded the Dark Prince, frowning. “Look at me!” Elae said, looking into Sombra’s eyes.
“Fine,” Sombra said, causing Eric to let the two of them go. “Let’s just get to the next floor.”
“Ah, ah, ah! The challenge is not ovah!” Elae shouted out, getting in the way of the door. “You must kno de wey to pass.”
“What is the way?” Sombra said sheathing his swords
“De wey is what makes you live , what makes you the wey dat u are? That is de wey, when you understand de wey, u achieve enlightenment.” Elae explained to the group, Lord Twigo glanced at Kodo.
“My students,” Lord Twigo said plainly, “I want to see how far they grow, and hope they never stop growing until the day they die. That is meh wey.” Lord Twigo said, doing a Ugandan accent at the end.
“Dat is de wey!” Elae clicked, Lord Twigo then grinned, going next to Elae.
“To push myself beyond my limits, to grow stronger for the next strong opponent,” Black said as he stood up and clashed his fist into an open hand. “Cause there will always be someone stronger, I will become stronger to protect everyone… Even if it takes my life ! Dat is da way!” Black exclaimed as he turned Super Saiyan Rosé for a moment before reverting back.
“U may pass muy brudda!” Elae exclaimed, motioning to Lord Twigo.
“My Power” Eric said clenching his fist, “I want to use my power to protect the weak as well as my friends so no harm befalls them, That is De wey I follow”
Elae looked at Eric, trying to spot a lie, "Is dat truly de wey?" Elae asked, squinting his eyes.
“It is” Eric said, not looking away from the Ugandan Knuckles.
"U mey pass." Elae motioned to Lord Twigo.
Sombra stepped up placing a hand on his swords. “My Swords” Sombra said to Elae. “Deh Way I follow is the way of the sword, I only use them to protect what is mine, be it my home or my family that is Meh Wey”
"Alright, u mey pass." Elae turned to Lord Twigo and Eric who stood side by side.
"Well, my wey is-" Thanos was about to say something but Elae cut him off.
"U already kno de wey, so, I grant u dis transformation." Elae then clicked two times, Thanos then turned into a purple Ugandan Knuckles.
"EBOLAAAAAA!!!!!" Thanos cried out, being surrounded by a Super Saiyan aura as images of the virus floated around him.
“That is the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever fucking seen… that is the ultimate meme.” Black said with a laugh.
“He has achieved de ultimate enlightenment, u see Black, ur not dealing with de average Ugandan Knuckles anymore, he has ascended, he has become the Ugandan Knuckles of legend, he has become our Legendary Super Chief!” Elae cried out, Thanos stopped powering up.
“I have found de wey, I feel more powerful! I also have a new power, one that is betta dan ebola…” Thanos began.
“And what might that be?” Entity asked the Saiyan, looking at him with a raised eyebrow.
“CORONAAAA!!!!!” Thanos cried out, the images of the virus floated around him as he had a Super Saiyan Aura once more.
Black watched on with a straight face, not making any emotion. But on the inside, The Saiyan was having trouble keeping it together. “I’m trying to keep my composure, but I’m failing.”
“Hey Black,” Thanos then turned back to his normal form, “Before going to Africa,” He then turned into his Ugandan Knuckles form, “After going to Africa.”
“Don’t you pull this TFS Trunks bullshit Thanos, I swear to the Omni-Kings name.” Black said as a small smile started to form.
He then goes back to his Titan form. “This is my voice one day in Africa,” Thanos then changed his voice, “Dis is my voice two days in Africa.” Thanos then changed his voice yet again, “Dis is meh voice three months in Africa!” Thanos then turns into his Ugandan Knuckles form, “Dis is de wey.”
“Stop… please…” Black begged it became increasingly harder to keep himself from laughing.
“U see Black, I am neither Thanos or Ugandan Knuckles, we are de tru wey!” Thanos said, clicking afterwards as a sign of achievement.
Black stood silent for a few moments, until the dam broke. “AHAHAHAHAHA!!!” Black bursts out laughing as he holds his gut before falling into his back.
Thanos and Elae began to click, Lucci went to his knees and slammed his fist on the floor. “BAAHAHAHAAHA!!!!” Lucci then points at the two Ugandan Knuckles before flipping over and laughing.
“It’s not funny, it’s not funny, it’s not funny…” Entity said before Thanos clicked, and Entity bursts out laughing.
“I can’t fucking breath dude!” Black exclaimed as he continued to laugh.
“By da powa invested in me, u kno de wey!” Elae clicked and Black turned into a Ugandan Knuckles.
Black stood up and looked at his new form for a moment before staring at Thanos. “Do ya know de way muy brudda?” Black asked before clicking afterwards.
“I kno de wey me brudda, let us sing! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!” Thanos then screamed.
“AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!” Elae screamed afterwards.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!” Black joined with the others as their song echoed throughout the tower.
“DEAR GOD THERE’S THREE OF THEM!!!!” Elia shrieked, suddenly the Ghost of Nappa popped up, and with a click he turned into Ugandan Knuckles.
“Together, we r, TEAM FOURSTAR!!!!” Nappa declared, and all of them began clicking.
Luna Black starred at the four, before eventually laughing at the sight. “Oh, that makes us laugh,” Luna Black commented as she wiped a stray tear.
“This made my day, honestly, we all peaked during this. This is peak comedy.” Lucci then stood up, with a grin that couldn’t disappear.
“What do we sey dat we all move on? These people could neva kno de wey!” Elae asked, looking at the confused group, clicking afterwards.
“I agree muy brudda, let us go.” Black exclaims with a click. Shortly turning back into his normal form.
Thanos then turns back to his normal form and Nappa just disappeared all of a sudden. “Ahem, now, let’s go.” The door then opens and with Elae walking towards it, the rest follow his lead.
They reach a floor that Thanos knew all too well… They heard some loud music.
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“What is that music?” Kodo asked.
“...Justice.” Elia said, some of them raised an eyebrow but said nothing else. When they arrived at the floor they couldn’t help but gape at it, it was Marineford. There was a pillar of water holding up the floor, reaching up to the ceiling. There was a long bridge in front of them that led to the Island of Justice. There stood Akainu, Towa was sitting on top of her staff, Mr. Perfect Cell stood there with the others but they saw one being they didn’t recognize. It was a being with a Dark Aura, towering tall over the others.
Link let out a whistle. “Fancy.” he said as he gazed around the room.
Black however knew all too well who it was, his large bushy white mustache was all too known. ‘So he’s here too…’
“That’s the Lorax! Wait, no it’s Toppo…” Thanos pointed out, Akainu glanced at Thanos before looking at Black. Link shrugged as he couldn’t think of anyone with a fancy white stache.
“Welcome to the Island of Justice, Marineford! Where Justice rules supreme, which is ironic given that we have someone who gave up justice on our side…” Akainu grumbled, Towa laughed.
“Oh Sakazuki, you’re quite a comedian. This island is not of justice, but of corrupted people…” Towa said with a sly grin, this earned a glare from Akainu.
“Shut the hell up you evil slut! Anyways make yourselves at home, because you’re not going anywhere…” Akainu frowned looking at the band of heroes.
“Is that supposed to be a threat, cause if that is, it’s laughable.” Black taunted.
“It’s cute you think we’ll just stay put” Eric said with a chuckle
“..Right, other than Towa as far as I’ve learned in terms of the most powerful, Blacks ninety nine percent right” Link pointed out.
“Sorry, I’m still working on my threats, they’re really hard when you're a nice guy…” Akainu said, lighting up his cigar with his magma.
“Then why work with a man trying to kill us?” Black asked, crossing his arms.
“You just don’t get it do you? Ryker is a father to us, a brother, a cousin, he’s family!” Akainu shouted, as they were far away. “I will not let you defile the name of Ryker, not on my life.”
“He’s your father, not your slave driver.” Link said with a shake of his head of how brainwashed Ryker’s family was. “Sure, family is everything, but there’s a fine line of what is morally right and wrong.” he pointed out.
“Fuck you, suck ma dick! Pause!” Akainu shouted out, giving Link the finger.
“Look, I get that, wanting to protect the guy who gave you a home. But it’s different when you decide it’s alright to put us six feet under.” Black countered.
“He’s not gonna kill you, you’re Kin with Ed of all people! All he wants… Is your comrades dead, not your friends from your universe, Eric, Link, Shiva, Phoenix, and the others!” Akainu tried to reason with the Saiyan.
Black stood there silently, a dark haze overtaking the Saiyans face. The area began to shake violently as rocks began to float into the air. “And that was a big mistake you’ve made…” Black muttered violently, a storm beginning to form above them. He looked up, anger filling his eyes, “I’ve already lost so many friends, some even considered family. I WILL NOT LET HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF!!!” Black roared as his aura exploded around him.
Link’s eyes went wide as the rush of power exploded from Black. They’ve only known each other for weeks, but for such power to react to friendship, made Link think of the saiyan differently. This was a powerful reaction, the power of friendship as Twilight Sparkle would say proudly.
“...Tch, I can’t reason with people like you… Frieza, Cooler, Mr. Per-” Akainu looked back and saw Mr. Perfect Cell gone, “...Cooler, Frieza, attack!” Akainu commanded. Frieza and Cooler were suddenly possessed with Dark Ki. The brothers then flew at Saiyan, cocking their fists back.
“Welp! Good luck, Black!” Link said as he took a step back, actually waaaay back. “I can’t hand a candle to those three…” he said in fear, most of it being shrunk by Link’s triforce of courage. Link may have the deity mask, but such a heavily suppressed mask would do poorly against the likes of dragonball z powerhouses.
Shiva walked up right next to Link, and sat herself down. “Sitting this one out too, right?” she asked the hylian. Luke sat next to them with a bag of what initially looked like white candies.
“Pearl popcorn?” he asked, offering some to the hylian.
"... I wonder how the others are doing," Entity asked to no one in particular, he felt something ominous happening. Then again, it was probably Towa.
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The brothers threw their fists forward, but the Saiyan caught them effortlessly. His hands catching the fists, Black began to crush them as a crunching sound was heard.
“Well shit.” Cooler said, Frieza just went wide-eyed.
With a primal roar, Black let go of their fists and grabbed their faces. He then launched forward and began to drag the brothers across the ground. He then planted his feet in the ground before throwing the two across the ground. He pointed a hand towards them, “Big Bang Attack!” Black shouted as a ball of ki shot forward.
Though the attack was feebly demolished for a fist of magma was shot, destroying the Ki blast. Akainu sighed, “This could’ve been avoided… BROLY, ATTACK!!!” Akainu demanded Broly, he let out a roar before flying at Black just like his DBS counterpart.
Black threw his arms in an x shape, blocking the attack as he was pushed across the ground. Although, Black smirked as he let out a roar, breaking free from Broly’s attack. The Legendary Saiyan tried to land attack after attack, but was either blocked or dodged by Black who was beginning to act like Vegeta, his arms crossed as he flew backwards.
“I’m sorry Black, but I have no other options,” Broly mumbled to the Saiyan before throwing a kick to Black’s head. The dark Saiyan blocked the attack with his arm, but grunted as he was pushed to the side slightly.
“You do have options! You don’t want to be under control like your father Paragus!” Black countedered. Blocking another attack as he began to be pushed back by the Legendary Saiyan.
“I didn’t mean it like that, I just heard it on the internet…” Broly explained to the Saiyan, “This is where I feel accepted, where I feel at home. Most importantly, I finally have a family!” Broly shouted, Broly’s Ki began to flare up. Broly then cocked back a fist coating it in Armament Haki before gut punching the Saiyan. Broly then fires off a Ki Blast sending Black flying, the Ki Blast then detonates and it makes a huge green cloud.
A powerful shockwave pushed the cloud away, revealing Black hovering above with a small trickle of blood at the corner of his mouth. Black wiped it away, growling. He looked down to Broly before clenching his fists. He began to yell as a yellow aura surrounded his body, his hair flailing up and changing yellow. His aura exploded in size as his yelling seized.
“Why don’t you transform, then we can get serious…” Black asked, waiting for Broly to reply.
"Alright." Broly then charged up and became a suppressed Super Saiyan, though Black took notice that Broly was still packed with power.
The Dark Saiyan Smirk as he descended from the sky, “Why Suppressed Super Saiyan, do you go berserk if you go Legendary?” Black asked as he landed on the ground, taking Vegeta’s fighting stance.
Broly descends from the sky as well and lands on the ground. "Yes, I can't afford to risk my family getting injured. They mean everything to me." Broly got in Goku's stance.
“If you ever go Legendary, I’ll do everything to keep you from hurting your family… You’ve got my word.” Black promised The Legendary Saiyan, waiting for him to make his move.
"Thanks," Broly's tail revealed itself from his pants, Broly then flew at Black. Broly covered his fists and feet in Armament Haki, Broly then went for a jump kick to Black's head.
Black covered his right fist in Armament Haki, coiling it back. He took a deep breath before outering, “Five Ren Kugi Punches…” Black struck Broly’s foot. Immediately, Broly yelps in pain as he recoils back. He held his foot in pain but was then pushed back as Black sent pressure blasts into the Saiyans chest.
Broly jumped from the ground Broly wiped some blood that made its way out of his mouth. He then grinned, Broly began to cover his whole leg in Armament Haki. He then performed a cartwheel before spin kicking Black, vibrations were emitted from it. "Eight Impacts Fist Secret Technique: Drill Dragon Drill Nai!" Black then felt the full brunt of an attack that could shatter a continent, the force of the attack made the bridge crack… Then it shattered. Broly flew above the broken bridge.
Black grunted from the force of the attack, he stood on a piece of the broken bridge. He fell with it as he looked up at Broly while rubbing his left arm. As the piece was about to strike the water, Black shot straight up into the sky, leveling with Broly. He took a glance at his tail, smirking, “So, can you go 4?” Black asked suddenly.
"Yeah, but I'd rather not use it, I lose control and I go all… Apeshit, is that the word Towa?" Broly turned to Towa who nodded, Broly turned to Black. "Also what does apeshit mean?"
“Another word for losing you mind.” Black explained. But was then caught off when a teleportation happened behind him. Black turned his head slightly to see Frieza trying to get the jump on him. But all the tyrant received was a backhand from Black. “Don’t interrupt the fight you piss stain lizard.” Black hissed before spin kicking Frieza to the ground. He turned back to Broly with a smile. “Anyway, where were we?”
"We were talking about apeshit. Anyways, did you know that fish have karate?" Broly asked the Saiyan.
“No, I never knew, yet again you tend to forget stuff after a thousand years. But I have an important question…” Black asked the Legendary Saiyan, “Are you enjoying the fight?”
"Yup! Hundred Tile True Punch!" Broly punched Black down into the water, Black was then submerged in said water. Broly followed right after, Black looked around, trying to spot Broly. "Sea-Speed Stomach Drop Kick!" Broly then drop kicked Black in his rib at blinding speeds, Black then hit the bottom of the ocean. Broly crossed his arms.
Black recovered as he planted his feet into the ground, ‘Broly, your gonna want to move…’ Black telepathically told the Legendary Saiyan, confusing him. But Black threw his arms to the side quickly, “PROMINENCE…” Black somehow shouted in the water, pulling his hands to the side as a violent blue and yellow ball of ki formed in his hands. Black lightning began to arch around it as Black threw his arms forward. “KAMEHAMEHA!!!!” Black roared as a blast stronger than his Final Big Bang Kamehameha shot towards Broly. The Legendary Saiyan took his advice and quickly moved out of the way, the blast streaking past him as it vaporized the water around them. Then water began to fill the spot back up.
Broly blinked, "Poor fishies… " Broly said to Black.
Black took this chance at the distracted Broly, shooting forward with his left leg glowing. “FIERCE GOD KICK!” Black yelled as he kicked the distracted Saiyan in the cheek. A powerful shockwave pushed the water out of the way as Broly was sent out of the water and into the sky. Black appeared above him with his hands cupped together, before bringing them down into the Legendary Saiyans gut.
Broly wheezed before looking at Black with a grin, Broly landed an uppercut to Black's jaw. Stunning the Saiyan slightly, Broly cocked back his fist, covering it in Ryou Haki. "Five Thousand Tile True Punch!" Black felt the full brunt of Broly's monstrous attack, this sent the saiyan into one of the towers. Broly flew after the Saiyan. Broly covered his whole leg in Armament Haki, "Seven Thousand Tile Roundhouse Kick!" Broly landed a roundhouse kick to Black’s rib, this sent Black down into the ground. They were now in the city of Marineford
The Dark Saiyan recovered as he landed on his feet, skidding across the floor until a complete stop. Black looked up to see Broly charging at him, Black growled as a faint red aura surrounded his Super Saiyan one. “Kaio-Ken!” Black shouted as a spiky red aura overtook his body.
"Kaio-what?" Broly asked the Saiyan.
But Broly didn't have time to react as Black appeared in front of him like it was teleportation. Black began to land punches and kicks against Broly, the Saiyan not having enough time to react. Black landed a powerful spin kick into Broly’s ribs, the Legendary Saiyan wheezing in pain, only to stop as he felt a powerful uppercut punch into his gut. Black stepped back as Broly went onto a knee grasping his stomach. Without warning, Black jumped into the sky with his hands to his side.
“Ka… Me… Ha… Me...” Black chanted as a blue orb of ki generated in his hands.
Thanos grinned at this, "Goodbye Broly!" Thanos chuckled.
“HA!!!” Black roared as he threw his arms forward, the beam of energy shooting towards Broly as he realized what was about to hit him. He screamed in fear as the attack overtook him and a few buildings. Shortly after, Black is seen doing flips as he lands on his feet. He looks towards the crater the kamehameha created.
Black then saw Broly slowly get up, his body all charred. "Well, I think it's time I kick it up a notch, you're basically in Super Saiyan two because… Kaioken multiplies your strength by two." Broly told the Dark Saiyan before going to a suppressed Super Saiyan Two.
“True, but I’m doing it to save some energy and for another thing.” Black explained as he crossed his arms.
"Alright…" Broly then appeared before Black, covering his palm in Ryou Haki. "Shark Tile True Punch!" Black then coughed up an ungodly amount of blood for he just took the Fishman Karate equivalent of Sai Dai Rin: Rokuogan. The force sent Black into the water, Broly then got in a defensive fighting stance, ready to take on whatever Black has.
A few moments passed as the water was being pushed away from a certain point. Slowly, Black rose out of the water, his Kaio-ken aura slightly bigger and more violent. But what confused Broly was the lack of a scratch or bruise on the Saiyans face, not even a trace of blood. “Was that all?” Black mocked as disappeared from sight, reappearing behind the Legendary Saiyan.
"Well this is a load of bullshit." Broly mumbled.
“What was that, I can't hear you from up there!” Black taunted as he turned around and kneed Broly in the back. This time the kick felt more powerful than before, sending Broly into the city and into a building.
Broly slowly got up, wiping off some blood that was on his chest. Broly then flew at Black, putting his fingers in a position like a Chinese Dragon. "Dragon's Talon!" Broly imbued his fingers in Armament Haki before striking Black in his gut. Knocking the wind out of him, Broly pulled back a fist covering his whole arm in Armament Haki. "Saiyan Karate, Boulder Breaking Strike!" Broly then struck Black in his chest, Black felt his ribcage crack before he was sent flying.
Black spun backwards in the air, coming to a stop as he gripped his chest, he grunted in pain. But he began to laugh… “heh… hehe… Haha… HAHAHA!” Black laughed, unnerving a few of the band of heroes and Towa’s underlings. Black’s laughing ceased as he looked at Broly with a shit eating grin. “Go on, keep on damaging me all you want… The pain will only make me stronger.” Black chuckled.
"...You have a weird kink, or whatever that means…" Broly then walked forth, approaching the Saiyan.
“A complete masochist” Eric said
Black just kept on chuckling, before letting out a yell, his aura bursting in size. This caught Broly’s attention as Blacks power increased even further. The Saiyan pulled a hand to the side, a large lime ball of ki gree in his hands, before Black had thrown the attack. Broly growled as he caught it and threw it into the air. But Black took this chance and sprinted forward, covering his fists in Armament Haki while coiling them back. “Five Ren Kugi Meteor Combination!” Black roared as he struck Broly in the jaw. This sent The Legendary Saiyan backwards, but the Dark Saiyan didn’t let up as he continued to land punches into Broly before finishing it with a punch in the arm.
Broly let out a gasp of pain before his pupils vanished, Broly then fell into the water. Black watched the Saiyan fall into the water with a sad look. But that all stopped when his eyes widened, a sudden spike in power had begun to ripple the water. ‘So… he’s in control now…’ Black thought as the water swirled into a violent whirlpool. There rose a large muscular Saiyan, in a legendary aura as lightning formed around him.
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Black looked on at the muscular Saiyan with a grin, “So, you decide to let him take the ropes for now on huh…” Black then went serious as he turned off his Kaio-Ken and went Super Saiyan 2. “But now I’ve got a promise to keep…” Black muttered as he got into Goku’s fighting stance.
"Hey Black, you said your power level was pretty big, huh? Well mine is… MAXIMUM!!!" Broly shouted.
“...” Black stayed silent for a few moments before smirking. “Prove it…”
Broly flew at Black then he grabbed Black, crushing the Saiyan. Broly then flew down into the water, then the water pressure began to get to Black, they went down a water trench. Broly then cocked back his fist before slamming his fist into Black, sending him to the bottom. Broly then let out a mighty roar, letting out a Ki blast from his mouth. Absorbing the Dark Saiyan in his wrathful Ki.
Black was pushed back by the mouth blast as he was sent flying back into the city. The Saiyan recovered after grabbing the side of a building, dragging across it until he recovered.
Broly followed after the false Saiyan, Broly then grabbed Black by his head. Broly then dragged the false Saiyan across the ground. Broly then threw Black into the top of the Marineford building.
Black crashed into the building as the rubble began to fall on top of him, covering him. A few moments went by before the building exploded, the pressure pushed The Legendary Super Saiyan back a few feet as a large aura incinerated the building. The dust revealing Black with long spiky hair with a single bang hanging from his forehead. He also had no eyebrows as he looked to Broly with a look that could kill. “It’s over Broly…” Black said in a deep voice, lightning arcing around him as thunder echoed throughout the city.
The Dark Saiyan disappeared from sight, reappearing as he elbowed Broly in the gut, The Legendary Saiyan coughing up blood as Black went for a right hook across Broly’s cheek.
Broly then began to power up a red aura surrounded. The red aura became a sphere, the sphere began to grow. Before it engulfed Black, pushing him back, then there was an explosion of Ki knocking Black back. There stood the Legendary Super Saiyan Four Broly. "MAXIMUM!!!!"
Black spun in the air and recovered by planting his feet into the ground, looking up he growled. “He wasn’t bluffing… well shit.” Black muttered as he clenched his fists. He began to let out a growing roar as the echo of an oozaru was heard through the area. Soon a orange sphere of ki surrounded Black, lightning arcing around it before it began to morph into a tall spire. It soon dispersed as it revealed Black back with his base hair, but blood red. “Not risking Super Saiyan 4…” Black told himself as he waited for Broly to charge him.
"Blackarrot! BLACKARROT!!!!" Broly roared as he flew at the carbon copy of Goku.
Black smirked as the Legendary Super Saiyan 4 charged him, but Black was prepared as he brought his arms to the side, a liquid like aura surrounded him as he threw his hands forward, two fingers extended as Broly was about to strike him. Unfortunately, Broly’s rampage was stopped as the liquid like aura surrounded Broly as it stopped his motion. Black grunted as he struggled to hold The Legendary Super Saiyan 4.
“Hey, hey Broly! You kinda going apeshit, kinda can’t let you hurt anyone.” Black taunted, Broly yelling at him as the area around them began to crack and crumble under them. “You’ve got a family, remember?! You don’t want to hurt them, right?!” Black shouted.
Broly paused and his pupils began to reappear as he slowly went back to normal. "F-family…" Broly sighed.
Black nodded, a concerned look appeared on his face. “Look, you don’t have to fight anymore.” Black said with concern.
"Heh… It was a good fi-" Broly was then shot through the heart by a purple beam, also piercing through Black as well. Broly let out a cry of pain before he fell onto his back, bleeding out.
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Black gasped out in pain as he looked towards his wound, it going clean through his gut. Black looks up to see Frieza staring at him with a devilish grin. “You… you bastard…” Black hissed, his god form already beginning to work on healing his wound.
"Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho! You let your guard down, monkey…" Frieza laughed, Lucci took a step forward, though Janemba took a step forward, looking at the African Warrior.
“NO, Stay back Lucci, this is my fight and my fight alone!” Black roared, putting a hand up. Black looks towards Broly, the Saiyans eyes widening as he sees the tall Saiyan bleeding out. “Broly?” Black asked, worry spread across his face.
"Tch… Damn you Frieza…" Akainu grumbled, Akainus clenched his fists, his fists began to glow.
"Sakazuki, you know you can't kill him, or even harm him…" Mira warned, glancing at Akainu from the corner of his eye.
Black tried to run over and help Broly, but Frieza was quicker as he appeared in front of Black and kicked him away. “Out of my way Frieza…” Black growled.
"Alright, I'll get out of your way…" Frieza walked to the side only for Omega Shenron to appear in his place. The Shadow Dragon threw a Ki laced punch in Black's face, sending him far.
Black let out a primal roar as his aura exploded, pushing back Omega Shenron. “I'VE HAD ENOUGH!!!” Black roared as he rushed forward at unseen speeds, taking the Shadow Dragon by surprise. He appeared before Omega with his right fist covered in a yellow glow. “FIVE REN KUGI DRAGON FIST!!!!” Black exploded into a red dragon as it rushed Omega.
Omega Shenron grinned… Before replacing his form with Broly's. Broly stood there weakly as the Crimson Dragon flew at him.
Black noticed this, but he was too late to stop the attack as the Crimson Dragon pierced through Broly. Leaving a massive hole in Broly’s gut. The Crimson Dragon dispersed, revealing a distraught Black.
Broly stood there for a few seconds, "Ryker… I… Wish... T-to see you again… My f-fath…" Broly couldn't finish his sentence before he fell face first, dead. Then, Frieza began to laugh, Omega Shenron began to laugh along with him.
Black turned around slowly, facing the dead Saiyan as tears began to form on the corner of his eyes. “No… no…” Black muttered as he began to walk slowly towards Broly’s form. Black began to shake uncontrollably as he began to cry. “No… not again… no… …” Black dropped to his knees as he looked over The Saiyans form.
"OMEGA SHENRON!!!" Akainu shot a magma fist at Omega Shenron. Only for Mira to gut punch Akainu.
"Die." Mira then fires off a Ki blast, sending him up the building of Marineford, it then detonates.
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A thunderstorm had begun to slowly roll in, catching the attention of everyone. Black began to breathe heavily, flashbacks to the Crystal Empire War re-entering his mind as he saw instead of Broly, but a dead filly, Frieza’s laugh echoing in his ears.
“no more…” Black muttered, a dark haze overtaking the Saiyan as a new aura took hold. A black and purple aura formed around him as the land and sea began to shake. “no more…” Black hissed as he began to slowly stand up, his heart rate increasing a lightning struck around him.
Luna Black watched the display unfold, recognizing the aura, the one of him. “No…” Luna Black shuttered.
"Welp… TAKE COVER!!!" Thanos dove down behind whatever little cover they had. Elia followed behind Thanos, using the Titan's giant body as cover.
Shiva grabbed Luke, Link and Kodo, digging down into the ground and creating a foxhole for them.
Eric covered both himself and Sombra in thick domes of shadow
Black winces as memories of the past flooded in, voices screaming in his head.
“You promised you’d protect me! ” A young fully cried out weakly, her breast becoming shallow.
“Another one, you’ve murdered blindly. ” King Sombra’s voice mocked as Black clenched his fists to the point they bled.
“They're all dead because of Me!! ME!!! ” Blacks own voice ran through his head as the Saiyans' mind began to spin.
“NO MORE… ” Black hissed as a second voice joined his, his pupils changing shape to one of a cat. The land around him broke and rose around him as they were vaporized. A set of misty black wings sprouted from the Saiyans back as one last roar from the Saiyan.
“NOOO MOOORRREE!!!!!! ” Black roared as there was a blinding explosion that pushed everyone back. Luna Black watched on in horror to what just happened.
“Eric, I don’t suppose you have another one of those calming masks,” Shiva yelped, ducking underground.
“I do, but I don’t think I can get to him without being pushed back”
"HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN?!?!??!?!" Thanos cried out, getting out of his cover as he was surrounded by his Ki aura.
"Janemba, Janemba!" Janemba chanted before getting possessed by Dark Ki, Omega Shenron, Cooler, Frieza, Yamcha, and Kid Buu.
Suddenly a hand had impaled the hellspawn known as Janemba, the monster gasped at the sudden pain. Turning around, he saw Black in his Super Saiyan Rosé state, but different. Janemba didn’t get to say anything else as his head was knocked off by a devastating kick.
Kodo blinked as Janemba’s head bounced across the ground. “Sweet jeez-us,” Kodo mumbled.
"It's pronounced Jesus!" Lucci cried out, hiding behind Thanos.
"Hey uh, guys? This is way above my pay grade…" Yamcha said, looking at everyone, Mr. Perfect Cell came back just for Yamcha. Putting a hand on Yamcha's shoulder, two fingers on his forehead, Mr. Perfect Cell then took his leave.
Black turned to the rest of the villains who stood in shock. “None of you are leaving here alive… ” Blacks voice sounded distorted, almost demonic.
"Even me? I didn't even do anything but punch you!" Cooler said before he went into his Metal Fifth Form, Frieza then went Golden Form.
“...” Black kept silent as he watched the brothers going full power.
"Justice Flash!" The brothers step aside as Toppo fires off a series of Ki blasts from his fingertips. Black didn’t move as he took the ki blasts head on, them exploding in contact as a large dust cloud formed.
"Go my underlings, rain hell upon this Saiyan!" Towa ordered, Omega Shenron flew at Black, Kid Buu, Cooler, and Frieza following after the Shadow Dragon. Omega Shenron cocked back a fist, covering it in Armament Haki he then threw a hefty punch at the Saiyan right as Akainu got out of the rubble.
The smoke cleared, The Saiyan taking no damage from the recent attack. Black merely glanced at Omega Shenron, a flurry of invisible punches knocked The Shadow Dragon away as Black caught Frieza’s fist. “You mortal, you have caused the greatest sins here. ” Black hissed as he proceeded to dislocate Frieza’s arm.
"Gah! You stupid monkey! How dare you lay your hands on me!" Frieza fired off a Ki blast in front of Black's face.
“How dare me…? YOU CAUSED THIS TO HAPPEN TO YOU, YOU INSIGNIFICANT MORTAL CUNT!!!! ” Black roared as he proceeded to throw Frieza around like a rag doll, so much that on the final throw, Black ripped the Tyrant's arm off.
"ARGGHHH!!!" Frieza cried out in pain.
"Looks like he's been… Disarmed!" Cooler chuckled, laughing at his brother. Thanos laughed at this too.
"I get it!" Thanos cried out, laughing hysterically.
Black appeared above the fallen Tyrant with an outstretched hand, facing Frieza. “Hakai… ” Black said as there was a pulse around Frieza before he began to disintegrate into purple particles, his screams raiding as the Tyrant ceased to exist.
"You get what you fucking deserve, jackass." Cooler spat, suddenly behind Black was Kid Buu, Kid Buu tried to shoot a piece of himself onto Black.
Black stood unmoving as the piece of the Majin tried to cover him. But that was short lived as Black roared, the piece being vaporized by his aura. The Saiyan turned around to see a frightened Kid Buu as the Majin began to take a few steps back.
“5… ” Black hissed as he prepared a Ki Blade in his right hand. Kid Buu began to run away, knowing that this is a battle he can not win. But Black wasn’t having none of it as he teleported in front of the scared Majin.
“4… ” Black prepared another ki blade as they grew in size. Kid Buu shot a Ki blast out of fear, impacting the Saiyan. But the Saiyan walked out of the dust cloud.
“3… ” Kid Buu turns to Mira, Kid Buu then flees towards Mira to try and hide behind the man. Toppo was about to step in to help his comrade but he then saw Akainu about to destroy Omega Shenron. Akainu was marching up to Omega Shenron when Toppo held him down.
"You better keep on holding me down Toppo! Because I'm gonna kill him if you don't!" Akainu grumbled, Toppo just nodded.
“2… ” Black charged forward at blinding speeds as thousands of pink needles appeared everywhere around Kid Buu. Each of them charging and implanting themselves into the Majin. Black appeared a few feet away with his two ki blades crossed.
"GRAH!!!" Kid Buu cried out.
“1… ” Black finished as he grounded the ki blades together, signaling for the needles to go off individually until Black sliced the air, the rest of the needles exploding. Incinerating the Majin, leaving nothing behind. Black threw his hands to the side, dispersing his weapons.
"Hehehe… Hahahahaha! This will end you, GO TO HELL!!!" Omega Shenron fired off a condensed Ki blast at the Dark Saiyan behind his back. Cackling like a mad man.
Black didn’t turn his back as the Dark Saiyan used his tail to deflect the Ki blast away and into a building. Omega Shenron took a step back in fear.
"Damn you all!" Omega Shenron aimed a charging Ki blast at the ground. "SAY GOODBYE TO THIS PLANET!!!"
The Saiyan turned around and charged forward at tremendous speed. Just before The Shadow Dragon could launch his attack, a foot made contact with it, pushing it into Omega Shenron palm. The Dragon looked to see Blacks dead look, unchanging as his own attack began to overtake him. Omega Shenron screamed his last as his own attack was used against him.
A skull of the dragon fell on the ground next to the Saiyans feet, Black took a glance at it before stomping on it. Turning the skull in dust.
"...I surrender." Cooler went back to his normal form, his Dark Ki and 5th form disappearing. Cooler then went on his knees, putting his hands up in the air. "Please, hath mercy on my soul."
Black slowly walked to Cooler, staying silent the whole way as his feet echoed throughout the destroyed city. He stopped a foot away from Cooler as the second fiddle began to shake in fear. Cooler shakely looked up to the Saiyan to not only find him there, what cat pupil eyes staring daggers into his soul.
Black slowly raised his hand, facing it towards Coolers head, the second fiddle beginning to shake in fear once again. However a black tendril wrapped around the Saiyan stopping his movements.
“Black! That’s enough! He’s given up!” Luna Black shouted.
“I don’t think that’s gonna work,” Kodo noted.
"But he has no will to fight on! Cooler has given up." Elia told the Saiyan.
Black didn’t turn his body, but turned his head, facing the band of heroes. And to confirm Luna Black’s fear, they saw his cat-like pupils. Black’s dead look turned into a devilish smirk.
"Well I'm fucked." Cooler said calmly.
“Wait, Black! Don’t do i-” Luna Black didn’t get to finish her sentence as Black broke free of Eric’s tendrils and blasted Cooler with a dark purple beam of ki, incinerating the second fiddle instantly. The blast created a fire that spread across the ground. It gave a depressing and intimidating aura around the dark Saiyan as he continued to grin devilishly towards the group of heroes.
"...Ka…" Mira stuck his palms in a cupped position, sticking them outwards before cupping them to his side. "Me…" Black then began to approach the Android. "Ha… Me…" Mira's demonic eyes opened wide before he unleashed a blood red Kamehameha. "HAAAAAA!!!!" The blast was deflected by an invisible shield. Mira then ripped off his armor before flying up to Black, landing a kick to Black's face. The force made his head snap to the left, Mira then kept up the tempo, launching attack after attack on the Saiyan. As Mira did he noticed that his attacks were doing nothing to the Saiyan, as a last hurrah, Mira uppercuts the Saiyan with Ki before firing a devastating Ki blast at the Saiyan. The impact made a mountain sized explosion.
A large dust cloud covered the area, Mira huffing as he put most of his power into the attack. There were a few moments of silence before a thin black beam pierced the air, flying at blinding speeds as it pierced through Mira’s mouth, exiting out the back of his neck. Instantly killing the Android with ease as Mira’s body fell to the floor.
Toppo let go of Akainu and that was a mistake, Akainu then fired off a Ki wave at Towa, decapitating the witch. Akainu was about to punch Toppo before he was slapped away into the largest building. Toppo then flicked his fingers upwards and it made an explosion, causing a huge wreckage. "Now… It's just you and me, villain."
“Villain? Sure go with that, but I’m their Divine God… Goku Black… ” Black spoke as he struck a pose similar to Fused Zamasu. “But I believe I should kill you for interfering with killing those pieces of trash. ” Black spat as he got into a stance.
“I will defeat you Villain, no matter the cost!” Toppo claimed as a dark purple aura surrounded the Pride Trooper. He then let out a yell that shook the tower as a symbol began to burn through the top of his shirt. A symbol resembling a God of Destruction state.
Black saw the display and began to clap slowly, “Wow, how amusing… you sure can put on a light show… for a Doctor Eggman ripoff. ” Black commented as he chuckled. Toppo merely stared at the Dark Saiyan, Black chuckling as he pointed a finger and shot a thin beam of energy towards the Dr. Eggman ripoff. But to the Saiyan’s surprise, the attack had no effect as it was destroyed by Toppo’s aura.
“Don’t think such a pathetic attack would work on me, Villain.” Toppo said boldly. Black scoffed as the duo starred each other down, not glancing away from each other's glares. “You’ve made a mistake Villain, fighting me alone will be your downfall.” Toppo declared as he got into a stance.
“I don’t need the others to defeat a false god like you. Those mortals would only get in the way… ” Black scoffed as he got into a stance. “Quoting a famous tv character… One Shall Stand… One Shall Fall… ” Black spoke as he let out a roar, charging towards the stoic God of Destruction.
Black jumped in the air, spinning as he made a ki blade and swinging it apon Toppo, but the god was ready as he put up an arm to block the attack. Black growled as he landed on the ground, going for another swing, Toppo dodging it as he sent his own punches. The Saiyan moved his head to the side, but was struck across the cheek, sending him sliding across the ground. Black dispelled his ki blade and charged forward once again, throwing punches and kicks, only for Toppo to deflect them or dodge them.
The god of destruction moved out of the way of an oncoming punch, cocking his arm back for a devastating blow against the Saiyan, striking Blacks head. It disoriented the Saiyan as Toppo went on the offensive, sending punches and kicks into the Saiyans gut. Black growled as he caught one of the punches, preparing a ki blast in his other hand, “Don’t get cocky ” Black shouted as he threw his hand into Toppo’s chest. The ki blast going off and pushing the god back a few feet.
Toppo spat as he stuck his hand into the ground, coming to a stop. Black took this chance and charged forward, making a ki scythe and bringing it down upon Toppo’s skull. Only for the god to grab the scythe’s blade and shattered it with his strength. This took Black by surprise as he was pushed back. This time Toppo threw his hands in forward and began to shoot a barrage of ki blasts. Black threw his arms in front of him, protecting himself from the ki blasts.
“Black’s being pushed back…” Luna Black commented, clenching her fists as she could only watch…
"Well that's not gud." Elae said, looking at Black, though the meme had the power to stop this. He chose not to.
[someone’s response]
Black growled as he was being pushed from the attacks, dragging small trenches from his feet. Black moved out of the way, the blasts flying past him as he charged forward. He appears in front of Toppo with his hand facing the god of destruction. Toppo quickly threw his hand in front of Black’s as the two shouted.
“HAKAI!!!!! ” two purple energies began to push against each other, the land below them beginning to crack and shatter under the power of a god of destruction. Black grunted as sweat began to roll down his cheek, Toppo seeming unfazed by the two energies clashing against each other. Black roared as he put more power into it as the land below them was vaporized. There was a huge explosion shortly after, pushing back both of the fighters back several meters away.
Black dug his hands into the ground to halt himself, upon looking up, he could already see Toppo charging at him. The Saiyan scoffed as he hit the ground with his fist before getting up and charged at the God of Destruction. The two roared as they pulled their fists back for a devastating punch.
“Get down!!” Luna Black ordered as she tucked down.
"AIGHT!!!" Thanos forced Entity and Lucci to the ground, going down with them. Though Elae was yeeted by the force, getting sent flying. Link was holding with all his feet onto not one, but two hookshots that were firmly planted in the earth followed by wearing golden gauntlets and wearing the Iron Boots. Link was trying his damndest to not go flying like a ragdoll. Eric Fired several tendrils deep into the ground keeping him from flying off.
“Too… Much… Power..” Link cried out, before Shiva seized him and dragged him back into her fox hole.
“Too less power!” Thanos replied with a laugh, pushing his friends deeper into the ground.
"EBOLAAA!!!!" Elae cried out as he was flung away like trash.
“And Jinbe got on ‘my’ case for being overpowered?” Luke grumbled, hanging onto his son and wife.
"To be fair that was his ultimate technique and that attack shattered the clouds the force of that blow would take…" Elia trailed off, saying a bunch of big girl words that neither Luke or his family understood.
There was a powerful shockwave that knocked down multiple buildings in the area, creating a decent sized crater under the two. Luna Black looked up to see the two had struck each other across the cheek.
A few moments later, there was a bright flash of light that signaled a power struggle. Black and Toppo had begun to clash, energy rippling around them as the area was crumbling under their might. Black using all of his strength to try and overpower the God Of Destruction. But was failing as it seemed Toppo was pushing the Saiyan back.
Black backed off and landed on top of a building, empowering his aura as it grew in size. He threw his hands to the side before throwing them forwards, “Prominence Flash!!!! ” A massive orange blast shot from the Saiyan, heading straight to the God Of Destruction, who held a stoic expression.
He held a hand in front of him, “Hakai!” He yelled, the dark sphere of destruction forming and putting a stop to the Saiyans attack. Black roared as he tried to increase his power, pushing Toppo back slightly, but was stopped.
“I REFUSE TO BE BEATEN BY THE LIKES OF YOU!!! ” Black roared. But deep down, he could feel he was reaching his limit. At this time, Toppo put more power into the attack as it grew in size, overpowering the Final Flash. “What !” Black shouted in surprise.
The Saiyan ended his attack and jumped to the size, seeing the destruction energy fly off and hit a building. A second later, the building seized to exist as it exploded into purple particles. Black looked to Toppo and growled. “You won’t be able to beat me Saiyan, accept your fate,” Toppo said.
Black growled as he and Toppo began to have a staring contest. “I’ve got to win this, not for my sake, but for Broly’s promise. I’ll get to the next level and I’ll beat Ryker, I can’t afford to lose. ” Black muttered, but Toppo took this chance as the Saiyan was distracted.
The God Of Destruction charged forward with speeds unseen by the Saiyan. Black cried out in pain as he felt Toppo gut punch him, the Saiyan spitting out blood as he was sent into the air. Toppo sent a Ki blast and it hit the Saiyan, the explosion shaking the area and making everyone fall over.
Out of the explosion fell the Saiyan, who quickly recovered and slid across the ground before getting his footing. Toppo appeared in front of him, throwing a right hook, but Black dodge and kicked Toppo in the leg. But that didn’t falter the God of Destruction, who went to kick the Saiyan, but he managed to block the attack. Black was sent skidding across the stone tile as he left mini trenches in his wake.
“It’s hard to believe how strong he is, how did Vegeta keep it up for as long as he did?” Black asked himself, getting a brief flashback of him watching the fight between Vegeta and Toppo. The God of Destruction launched forward, as did Black as they went back to clashing. Black sends kicks and punches to Toppo, but the God of Destruction would either dodge or block the attack.
The clash ended as they locked hands with each other, trying to overpower the other. Black grunted and struggled under Toppo’s strength. “You know, it’s quite a transition from being a Pride Trooper to a God of Destruction. What made you go from hero to destroyer? ” Black snarled as he felt himself being pushed back.
“I have no need for justice if I can’t beat an insignificant villain like you,” Toppo growled as he broke the hand lock and kicked the Saiyan in the chest. The sent Black flying backwards as Toppo shot another Ki blast, exploding as it made contact with the Saiyan.
This propelled Black through many buildings, they all crumbled as the Saiyan took out the supporters. Black eventually stopped as he crashed into a wall and got stuck in the stone. Black coughed up blood and saliva as he opened one eye to see Toppo standing with an unchanged glare.
“And what of you? You merely made a promise to an uncontrollable Saiyan Monster to protect his family. Do you really think such a trivial cause will outmatch a Destroyer’s resolve?!” Toppo questioned with visible anger. “I ordain what will and will not exist, that’s my cause.” Toppo’s eyes widen as he slowly lifts his hands to the sky, creating a large orange blast that looks like the sun. “And to serve it, I forsake all else!” Toppo growls, yelling as he continues to grow the diameter of the blast.
Thanos looked on in horror, “BLACK YOU FUCKING CUNT!!! MOVE YOUR FATASS OUT OF THE WAY AND DODGE!!!!!” Thanos roared as he could only watch.
“Piccolo will be disappointed if you don’t!” Link yelled out half serious half joking.
“Perish, Son Goku Black! AND BE NO MORE!!” Toppo roared as he threw the blast, rolling across the ground as it left a trench in its path. Black tried to pull himself out of the wall, but it felt like his strength was gone as he could hopelessly watch his demise.
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‘What the hell am I doing? I don’t kill… that’s what Zamasu would do! Toppo threw everything he was… and he’d dare call my cause trivial?! ’ Black thought. ‘I fight for Luna, for Nightmare and Broly, all of those who I’ve lost! I fight so then I can protect them! I fight to keep my promise to Broly! I fight for everything I’ve built and who I am!’ Black looked forward as the blast was about to hit him. “UNLIKE YOU I WON'T ABANDON ALL OF THAT TO PLAY GOD!!!!! ” Black roared, his pupils returning to normal with his black wings and dark aura disappearing as the blast connected with him, engulfing the Saiyan.
Toppo smirked and the others looked on in horror, but all of that was thrown to the side as the blast was destroyed. It left in the middle with Black with his normal aura surrounding him. Toppo looked on in shock, but couldn’t register what was happening as Black shot forward and threw a right hook into the destroyer’s cheek.
“The hell was that all the sudden?!” Luke said, shocked at the sudden rise of power.
“Wait, his pupils are back to normal! Does that mean he regained control?” Kodo asked.
“But for how long! Black is still filled with grief over the loss of another friend. He might return to that state when he realizes what he’s done…” Luna Black explained.
“He’s going even further beyond!” Lucci cried out, shielding himself from the energy that was being exerted via Ki shield. Entity began to chuckle
“Even further? Don’t tell me Black is going to become super saiyan five!” Link said, remembering the fan creations.
“Well… Time to chant for my man. You can do it! Rah, Rah, Sis Boom Bah!” Entity laughed as he was unusually calm about this situation.
“If this get too out of hand I’ll have to use my mask to calm him down” Eric said pulling a skull mask from his body
“Let’s hope thine’s mask won’t be needed,” Luna Black commented.
This sends Toppo flying into a building, but the Saiyan wasn’t done yet as he threw his hands forward and sent a barrage of Ki blasts. Black flew through the flames and smoke, finding Toppo trying to recover. The Saiyan threw a barrage of punches and kicks, sending Toppo out of the flames and through multiple buildings as the Saiyan chased after him. Toppo recovered and formed a Ki blast in his hands, but for it only to shatter under the Saiyans resolve. Black used this chance of distraction and sent a barrage of punches across the destroyer's head and chest.
“You think your destroyer form will save you, that it gives you the strength you need?! WELL NOT IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT!!!!” Black roared as he sent a kick into Toppos chin, sending him into the air as he came crashing back down into the ground. Black took a deep breath and his aura disappeared.
Toppo growled as he got up, seeing the Saiyan wouldn’t let up as Black was charging towards him. Toppo brought a hand to his side, forming a sphere of Destruction in his hand. “You will go down villain, like all the others! HAKAI!!!” Toppo yelled as he sent the Haki in Black’s direction. Unfortunately for Toppo, the Saiyan was prepared as Black threw his fist forward, it being covered by an aura as it collided with the sphere of destruction. Instead of it engulfing Black and destroying the Saiyan, it instead bent under the Saiyans strength.
“What?!” The Hakai shattered as this left Toppo in shock. But the fist then collided with the destroyer’s cheek, leaving a shockwave that was felt by everyone.
“Only a failure like you would abandon your pride!” Black accused in anger, Toppo groaning in pain from the sudden attacks sent his way. “DID YOU REALLY THINK YOU COULD BEAT ME?!?”
“Hakai!!” Toppo shouted in desperation, sending 3 spheres of Destruction in Black’s path, but the Saiyan dodged them as they struck a building and disintegrated it. “Haki!!” But Black kicked him in the gut, the Haki flying in a random direction as it hit a rock and disintegrated it. Toppo stepped back, preparing another sphere of destruction. “Haki!!!” Toppo shouted with labored breath, but Black punched him in the arm, the attack disappearing as the Saiyan spin kicked Toppo across the ground. He skipped like a rock in a pond before making contact with a building, it crumbled on top of the destroyer.
Black stood there, letting out labored breaths as he looked at the crumbled building. He thought of using a Prominence Kamehameha, but he’s almost out of energy for it to be effective. He then got an idea as his frown deepened, “I’m going to hit you with an attack that you won’t be able to destroy!” Black claimed as he clenched his fists, yelling as he felt his power skyrocket. Soon, a dome of yellow energy surrounded the Saiyan as a second aura flared around him like a wildfire.
“...He’s gonna do the thing isn’t he?” Thanos grimaced, watching the slowly expanding dome of energy.
Luna Black squinted her eyes, seeing the attack Black had begun to produce. Her eyes widened as she recognized the move, getting a flashback of one of the original elements of Harmony doing it. “Don’t tell us thou are using that suicidal move, not the one Sir Rockhoof used!” Luna Black told herself, hoping this was a trick.
“Yup, he’s gonna do the thing…” Lucci groaned, “Well, he’s dead.”
“What? What are you saying?” Shiva spun around, facing Lucci.
“He’s going to push so much energy out of him that it will most likely turn him into stone.” Lucci told Shiva, not looking back at Black.
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‘Thanos, I’m going to need you to take everyone to the level above us, it’ll get you out of the blast range... ’ Black told Thanos telepathically.
“Nigga you do know that you will fucking die, right? I will not lose another friend!” Thanos argued, fearing the death of another friend.
‘... I’ve caused so much pain and death from my past… Crystal, Master Starswirl, the rest of the original bearers of The Elements of Harmony, the Ruva and Crystal ponies… including Broly… every time I try to do some good, I always end up killing somebody… let me do this… let me control my own fate.’ Black argued, the Titan sighed, getting the message as he began to huddle everyone to the floor above. Using her magic, Shiva spared him the trouble of getting her, Link and her family, teleporting to the exit. Luna Black noticed that she was being pulled away, but she began to resist. Thanos grabbed her by the arm and dragged her up the staircase. The Saiyan had a sad smile as he saw them leave, but frowned as he looked back to the destroyer. Toppo crawled out of the rubble, spitting out blood as he looked towards the Saiyan with pure anger.
“That’s it using the mask” Eric said vanishing from view with the aid of the Shave Technique, Eric appeared in front of Black before slamming the skull mask on the saiyan before being thrown back by Black’s energy however the mask broke from the level of rage the Saiyan had. The force of the attack had sent Eric flying towards the exit.
Toppo stood up as he let out a primal roar, the symbol on his chest glowing as he created a Hakai in each hand, combining them in front of him as it grew in size. It crumbled the rock beneath him as he sent the Hakai in Black’s direction. The energy blasts connected with each other as they struggled against each other. Black roared as he was letting out as much energy as possible, Toppo doing the same as the blasts grew in size.
Eventually, the Haki slowly engulfed Black’s attack with him in it. But inside Black was still pushing, he could see his blast being pushed towards him. But the Saiyan gritted his teeth and let out a primal roar as his blast began to overpower Toppo’s, putting everything into the attack. The Saiyans muscles begin to bulk up with his hair growing taller with it becoming a deeper hot pink. Dark grey pupils appeared in his grey eyes. Eventually, Black’s attack broke the Haki as it was now free to grow in size. But in the process, the energy began to not only envelope Toppo, but Black as well. ‘This is gonna hurt… farewell everyone.. ’ Black thought as his figure seemed to disappear from sight.
Toppo screamed in horror as the blast was now growing at an alarming rate, it spanning out for several miles as it engulfed Toppo. The Destroyer screamed his last as he felt his body disintegrating before the destroyer was ‘destroyed’ from the face of the planet. The blast grew larger, growing to a size of a continent as it remained that way before a massive explosion. A crater was all that was left as it dug into the earth, the weather now dangerous as storms began to brew. Lightning struck all around the crater as it spanned throughout the sky. Water from the sea began to flood in and fill the hole.
The dust soon settles moments later, revealing Black in his base form, his Gi in tatters as he struggled to stand, heavily breathing. He stumbled forward, feeling pain arch around his body like a thousand of his explosive needles just detonated as he dropped to one knee. “Ohh… pain… oh all I feel is pain… well except my left ar-“ Black stopped mumbling to himself as he realized something. He looked to his left, expecting to see his arm, but his arm wasn’t normal.
His left arm had turned into stone, little bits of it crumbled in front of his eyes.…
“Why… can’t I just… have my… rest...” Black huffed out before falling face first, passing out from exhaustion. Upon impact, his left arm shatters into dust, it being carried away by the wind. Soon the Water reached him and began to overtake the Saiyan, the large amount of water covering him and making the crater a new lake.
“Karma…” Akainu grunted from the rubble, giving Black the middle finger before passing out.
Outside the tower, the houses were burning, Nappa was on his knees as he looked up to a figure in the dust cloud. From the dust they saw Emerald piercing eyes. Nightmare was on her feet but barely. The ground began to shake violently, knocking Nightmare off her feet..
“The hell was that?!?” Nightmare exclaimed, she looked towards the tower to see the entire thing violently shaking, any dust or loose bricks falling from the tall structure. A faint yell could be heard with a yellow light emanating from the tower.
“Was that Black?” Nightmare mumbled as she then began to sense for energy. She sighed in relief when she sensed the others were perfectly fine, but stopped when she sensed Blacks energy dropping. Her eyes widened when she realized what was happening.
“ No… he didn’t,” Nightmare gasped as she fell to one knee, keeping an eye open as she looked to the glowing emerald eyes. “He couldn’t have fallen, we need him… without him… even with all of Thanos’s strength… all is lost…” Nightmare rasped out as she fell face first into the dirt. She grunted as she struggled to get up to her knees.
“DAMMIT!” She shouted as she punched the ground.
"You know, you should really watch your tongue." Ryker mused, standing before Nightmare.
She looked up to the man with a pained look, “You know Edward won’t live for what happened, he’ll go for you.” Nightmare hissed.
"Eghehehehe!" Ryker laughed, "Oh, I can just revive Black, Ed surely doesn't give a damn about you. After all, family comes first, and you sure as hell not family." Ryker pointed a finger at Nightmare, he then began to charge up a wave of purple plasma.
“You… dare assume… that I’m not Family?!” Nightmare hissed, her navy blue eyes flashing cyan for a brief moment. Her hair flashing gold for a split second.
"Oh I dare, now… Owari Da." He then fires off a purple plasma wave, engulfing her.
"NIGHTMARE!!!!" Luffy cried out, injured as blood ran down his mouth. Luffy then coughed some out before nearly falling down. Ryker then began to laugh, looking at everyone experiencing despair.
Luna pointed her hands at Ryker before firing off a massive bolt of lightning, however Ryker just backhanded the bolt of burning light before rushing the Alicorn and lifting her by her neck
"Ah, you… I'll make sure to not kill you, after all, I'm not a monster. I will however put you in a deep sleep." The Irish King said before punching her in the abdomen, knocking Luna out, Ryker then kicked her into the air. Using one of his Devil Fruit's he followed Luna as fast as Plasma before he unleashes a roundhouse kick sending her flying into Tony.
"Who's next?"
As the group scaled the tower, worried for the dark Saiyan. Luna Black thrashed against Thanos’s grasp as she kept hitting him. “LET US GO!” Luna Black screamed, tears streaming down her face. They then felt a sudden rumble that shook the whole tower, followed by the sound of a massive explosion, dust falling from the ceiling. They almost fell on their asses from the shockwave, the group looked down from where they came.
Link sat down on the ground, trying to get his nerves under control. So much power, so much vibrations, so much light and heat. The Triforce of courage shined brightly, helping his nerves vanish.
“Don’t go back for him.” Entity said to the group, “He trusted us to move forward and so we will.” Entity turned to the Dark Alicorn.
“Take it from somepony who speaks from experience” Sombra said, placing a hand on the Alicorn's shoulder. “He gave us the means to move on to the next floor, I promise we will come back for him once Ryker is dealt with”
Luna Black stopped resisting as she felt Black’s energy starting to disappear. Thanos let her go as the Alicorn fell to her knees, her hands covering her mouth as she began to sob. Her cries echoing throughout the tower's staircase, the band of hero’s watch her silently as the Alicorn of the Night is reduced to a sobbing mess. Link seeing her this way pained his heart, being reminded so much of his own Luna. Kodo silently nuzzled into Luna’s arms, comforting her like a service dog.
"I am not good with crying people!" Thanos then grabbed Luna Black and booked it back down stairs.
“Hey!” Kodo barked, racing after them. Entity tsked turning to the others.
“Found the exit” Eric groaned his face void of his mask which lay at his feet in pieces
"Go up stairs, I'll be heading back down." Entity then proceeds to run back down stairs. Though he wasn't first, but was second as Thanos, Kodo and Luna Black saw the destruction, seeing the city of Marineford reduced to nothing but a massive crater filling with water, lighting striking the rim of the crater. Entity came on by, Entity glanced at Luna Black.
“...Damn, the place looks like if a creature from Spore messed up the ecosystem…” Link said as he looked around the battletorn area.
"Black is under the water," Entity told the Lunar Princess. Luna Black didn’t hesitate as she jumped into the water, swimming deep down the new lake. It took her a few moments , but she found the Dark Saiyan laying at the center of it silently. She had noticed he was missing his left arm.
Luna Black quickly teleported to his side, before teleporting to the pair above, gasping for breath. She later put him down on his back as she put an ear to his chest, hearing a slow heartbeat. She let out a sigh, “He’s still got a heart rate, but his arm…”
Kodo instantly linked with him, trying to heal him, and at the very least keeping his heart rate steady. “It’s gonna take a long time for my magic to restore him,” Kodo grumbled. “A lot of time, and a lot of energy.”
"Well, we can not help his arm restore itself. We must advance." Entity told Luna Black, turning towards the door. "Let's go." Entity walked off, resting his scythe on his shoulder.
"He's right," Thanos stood up, "We must go." Thanos gazed at Black and Luna Black, before seeing Entity walk off.
“..Well..” Link began as he tried to think of something positive. “At least he can practice his one handed kamehameha?” he suggested, only to earn a glare from a few people of the group. “..Right.” he said with a gentle clap. “I’ll shut up.”
The night Princess simply nodded as she hoisted the Saiyan onto her back, supporting him using her wings. She looked at him, his face full of pain and guilt. “Why’d you do it…” Luna Black whispers to herself before walking to Thanos’ side.
"Dis is de wey to de devil."
To be continued...
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Namekian Got Talent!
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(Fight, Fight, Fight!)
Our Blood Is Pumping, Ready, Lets Go!
Holding Back My Tremendous Strength! (Go!)
(Woo-Hoo!)
Nerves Taking Hold!
(Woo-Hoo!)
Chaining Down Our Hope!
(Let’s Finish The Fight)
(Woo-Hoo!)
So, Let's Stop Our Plans!
(Woo-Hoo!)
See what This Tournament Brings, Joined As One, We Can Win The Fight~!
Just See What We’ll Achieve, With All These Possibilities!
We’ll Surpass Our Limit Break, This Tournament Will Be A Challenge!
Everyone had arrived at a room, the room was the size of an auditorium. There were four chairs and a big desk with four X's on it. On one of those chairs is Piccolo.
"Oh, hello, and welcome to… Uh, your next challenge! It's a talent show! Namekian Got Talent if you will." Piccolo said before frowning, "Oh shut up you two, it's a good name! Anyways, as you see I don't have any judges… So I'll pick them." Piccolo then stood from his chair, walking over to the group.
“Well green chu-chus, this will be an easy challenge then if we’re just judging.” Link said with a confident grin as there’d be no fighting this time.
"Racist!" Piccolo cried out.
“Fuck…” Eric cursed
“Who were thou talking to?” Luna Black asked the Namekian with a raised brow, setting Black onto the ground softly before sitting next to him. Kodo sitting next to them as the young pup continued to heal the Saiyan.
“He fused with a dying man and Kami, now they’re in his head, just like how Thanos and Thanos are in my head. One is the actual one, the other is the one that turned to dust.” Thanos said, tapping his noggin.
"So you mean you have two people inside of you?" Elia asked the Titan.
“OOOHHH!!!” Zarbon moaned in the background.
“You just ask it that way?” Link asked with a shake of his head.
“Y- Wait a minute,” Thanos frowned, looking at Elia, she began to snicker at him. “I will do bad things to you, woman.” Thanos frowned, popping his knuckles.
"So I'm not the only one? Oh thank the Angels…" Piccolo said, rubbing his forehead.
“Black had… We mean he has Zamasu in his head.” Luna Black corrected herself.
“I don’t know if it counts, but… a side effect of the pack link is that I was always hearing the thoughts and memories of my pack as long as I was connected to them,” Shiva interjected. She looked away. “Not that it really matters…”
“Even the really dirty ones?” Link asked half jokingly.
Shiva reluctantly nodded. “Even the real dirty ones,” she replied.
"OOOHHH!!!" A certain green haired alien moaned.
“You’re learning well young Padawan, good Luna, good…” Entity said in a Palpatine like voice before clearing his throat, “Right, you said you needed judges for a talent show, right?”
"You would be correct, and I will choose. Those judges will be…" Piccolo looked at the Displaced and their comrades, "Black's Luna, Sombra, and Shiva. Now, to your seats, do not touch the seat I was on. Or I will Hakai you." Piccolo grunted out, pointing a thumb to the desk and the seats. A big red button for each judge and a yellow button in the middle of the desk.
“...Isn’t Hakai for the more stronger beings?” Link whispered to the group.
"I'll Hakai whoever I damn well please!" Piccolo cried out, his ears weren't for damn show.
“No arguing with that, they’re all good judges of character and talent. Notably Shiva.” Lucci said before pulling out a nail file and beginning to sharpen his nails/claws.
Luna Black turned to Kodo, the pup still healing the one-arm Saiyan to an extent. “We trust you’d keep thou’s eye on him?” Luna Black asked the Diamond Dog.
“Yeah, I got him,” Kodo assured her, grinning softly.
“We thank you.” Luna Black thanks with a soft smile, standing up and walking over to the judge's seats.
As she left, Kodo blushed, his tail wagging. Goku Black hand shifted slightly, the pack link allowing him to see Kodo’s thoughts.
“Don’t forget, you got your own Luna back in your world,” Black’s thoughts reminded the pup.
Kodo twitched. “Y-Yeah, of course,” Kodo replied back. “I wasn’t…”
“I know, just reminding you. It makes me happy, you finding someone you like. ” Black thought.
Kodo’s tail wagged. “Thanks.”
Luke chuckled at his son’s reaction. “Interesting choice in mates,” Luke noted.
Kodo yipped in shock. “What?! I…” He stammered, before turning away. “S-Shut up, I’m healing here!”
Shiva snickered. “Nothing to be ashamed of, Kodo,” she replied, wandering over to the judge’s stand.
“You know,” Thanos said, leaning on a wall. “I just don’t get it, why do people love Princess Luna out of everyone? I mean no offense, while yes she’s adorable and a tragic pony… Celestia has good qualities! She’s a nice pony, she’s fat- Wait, she’s stern, she’s… Uh…” Thanos was failing to conjure up some words.
“Different strokes for different folks.” Link said with a shrug of his arms.
“She’s fine but a little uptight” Eric said to the Titan. “Don’t get me wrong, I’m uptight too but not every hour of every day, You have to know when to take a break and have a little fun. Luna has that perfect balance.”
“DO NOT MENTION THE B WORD!” Link said nervously.
"Balance?" Thanos asked, creaking his head towards Eric, a purple aura flowed around him.
“Actually, I think Celestia’s okay,” Shiva replied. “At least, my version of her was one of the few ponies willing to give me a chance back when most of Canterlot was convinced I was a monster. A little manipulative, but hey, when you’re trying to keep all of Equestria safe, you kind of have to be.”
“Honestly, Black loves Luna, Eric loves Luna, Kodo loves Luna, WHO ELSE FUCKING LOVES LUNA!?!?!?! Celestia is fucking adorable when she wants to be!” Thanos said, putting the emphasis on adorable.
“Tia’s cake diet doesn’t help her be ‘adorable’, just makes her fat.” Luna Black commented with a laugh as she took her seat.
“Second that,” Sombra said, knowing he was safe to say that.
Shiva hummed. “‘Adorable’ and ‘fat’ aren’t really the words I’d use to describe her,” Shiva said. “‘Fair,’ yes. ‘Approachable,’ definitely. But I’ve yet to see her as ‘adorable’ or ‘fat.’”
“Oh, ho, ho! When you get to know her better she is a bundle of pure unadulterated cuteness. When she was young she used to puff her cheeks when angry, oh wait… She was young… Damn it!” Thanos cursed before punching the wall, “I feel left out…”
Shiva chuckled. “Well, I’m sure I’ll get to see more of her ‘adorable’ side when I get back,” she replied. “No doubt my daughter Celine re-opened communication between ponies and diamond dogs. She’s always been interested in…”
"Can we stop with the talking and get on with the judging?" Piccolo asked, frowning.
“Sorry,” Shiva said, settling back in her seat.
“My apologizes” Sombra said sitting next to Shiva
“Thou art grumpy.” Luna Black muttered.
Though his Namekian ears heard that, "I fucking heard that, when you have a dying jackass and an old coot stuck in your head you tend to be grumpy. Especially after standing there alone in a wasteland FOR HOURS TRYING TO GET A FUCKING FRIEND!!! Sorry, I just get a bit… Emotional sometimes." Piccolo said, his frown not disappearing.
Link wondered if the Song Of Healing would be of great use, just turn the two extra voices into masks, problem solved.
Luna Black smirked, “How about having a psychotic nightmare bent on making night eternal in thines head yelling, ‘Revenge against Celestia’ over and over again in thous subconscious for a thousand years. Experience that, then we can talk about who’s grumpy.” Luna Black ranted against the namekian.
"Oough, she's got ya there." Nail said to Piccolo, Kami then chuckled.
"OH HAHA!!! Very funny!" Piccolo cried out.
“Hello there,” Shiva’s voice added to the trio in Piccolo’s head. “So, I’m confused. Which of you is the dying one? Are you ‘still’ dying, or are you all better?”
"That would be me, and yes, I'm all better." Nail responded to the Diamond Dog.
“Ah, excellent,” Shiva said with a grin. “You seem like a friendly sort; I’d be loath to see you suffering.”
"The old man would be me, would you like to play some pool?" Kami spoke, they then heard a clack and some balls rolling.
"You know, you still haven't explained to me how you got that here, Nail." Piccolo told the "Dying" Namekian.
“The benefits of an open mind and a creative imagination,” Shiva replied, followed by another clack and the sound of balls rolling. “Whatever you wish to have, your mind can make it real. At least as long as it’s in your mental plane. Don’t expect it to come out and into the physical plane.”
"...Well that is not how I got it in here, all I did is…" Nail then proceeded to tell the tale of having to slay the jabberwocky and save Narnia. Shiva listened in intrigue until...
"GRAH!!!" Piccolo shouted, interrupting Nail, "Let's get on with the damn show already, and get out of my head. I already have two idiots in my head, I don't need a dog in there as well."
Shiva shrugged, and withdrew her link.
“...I only heard what Piccolo said, and that makes it fucking hillarious.” Entity laughed, before shaking his head, trying to get back in the game.
“We can agree,” Luna Black said with a smirk.
"Ahem, I'll give you about… Ten minutes to decide what you'll be acting, in the meantime- NO! We will not pet Shiva! I don't care if she looks fluffy, we're not doing it!" Piccolo snapped, talking to his mind-people er… Mind-Namekians? Shiva smirked at his outburst, and stretched, looking like an actual dog.
“Dew it…” A Palpatine like voice echoed across the room.
"Nail! She has a husband, and with all the weird cultural differences here, that might be sexual assault. I know we don't have a reproductive organ but we can go to jail for that! Think, Nail, think!" Piccolo said, pointing at his head while frowning, which he always does.
Shiva perked her ears and looked to Luke. “Wait, is petting sexual?” she asked.
Luke hummed. “I… think? Other species don’t pet us back home. They usually just want us to go away and stop digging up their lands.”
“For us ponies, it counts as affection. But not sexual harassment.” Luna Black pointed out.
“Still, Luke pets me,” Shiva added with a coy grin.
Luke chuckled. “Yeah, well...”
“...So it’s sexual assault… You are her mate, only you can do that. Wait, Entity, remember the time Shiva pounced on Arkham Knight?” Thanos asked, trying to hold some laughter in before turning to Entity.
“I remember him saying, ‘That’s a little suggestive, don’t ya think?’ YOHOHOHO- Wait, I’m not being a part of this shit! Thanos, ya almost got me.” Entity said, pointing his blocky hand at Thanos.
Shiva sighed. “So, Piccolo, it’s been ten minutes, right?”
"No it has- Wait it has? How in the hell has it been ten- Wait, I forgot to specify which ten- GRAH!!! Fine, it's been ten minutes." Piccolo then went to his chair, unlike the others it had wheels.
"Alright, who wants to go first?" Piccolo asked, "We'll be judging by the performance, the skill, and the… Come on! Ergh… Fine, and the hype…" Piccolo finished rubbing his eyes.
Luke glanced around, before stepping forward. “So… what exactly counts as talent?” he asked.
"Whatever that impresses us," Piccolo shrugged, putting his feet on the desk.
“Careful, Luke,” Shiva cautioned. “I’m easy to impress, but I get the sense they aren’t.”
"Well? Who volunteers as tribute?" Piccolo asked, "I need to be there to save Gohan when he calls my name."
Luke glanced around again, before sighing. “Looks like I’m first,” he replied. He cracked his knuckles. “Welp…”
For a moment, he breathed, his claws in front of him in a martial arts pose. Shiva leaned forward with a grin.
Then, with a bellow, Luke punched into the ground, and was gone from view. Dirt briefly exploded into the air like Johnny Depp’s death in Nightmare on Elm Street, before the dirt suddenly changed into diamonds. The diamonds stabbed into the roof, embedding themselves into the ceiling and each other.
And as the others watched, the diamonds slowly began to form an image, like a 3d printer at work. Arms - No, wait… tendrils - appeared. Attached to claws. A canine head that was quickly pushed up between the arms. A chest.
“Oh, my goodness…” Shiva whispered, as a diamond statue of herself, almost appearing to be holding up the ceiling with her pack link tendrils. Regal, yet also alluring. Sexy, yet powerful.
As the last diamonds sealed up the hole from which they were spawned, Luke burst out of the ground, covered in dirt and panting, but did a low bow, before grinning up at Shiva.
Shiva chuckled, before glancing at the others.
“Neat,” Luna Black said simply as she had her arms crossed, her face being neutral. “Flattery can only get you so far though…” The Alicorn concluded as she hit the big red X, being followed by a blaring sound.
"Okay, now I notice what you did. Trying to win over one of the judges, but that's not talent, it's flattery. So, that is a no for me." Piccolo then pressed the red button, making a big red X show as well as a blaring sound.
Luke scoffed, glancing at Shiva, who simply shrugged. “Probably shouldn’t have gone for me, love,” she replied, before hitting the red button as well.
Luke turned back to his statue with a hum. “Okay,” he said, sharpening his claws. “So, someone a little less near and dear to my heart.” He hummed again, sharpening his claws, before lunging onto his statue. A burst of dust rose into the air, hiding his work, and at first, it looked like he was destroying it.
"WE'RE NOT DONE YET!!!! You can still win the others, but not me! Also with that sore loser attitude you might have just blown your second shot!" Piccolo cried out.
“What ‘sore loser’ attitude?” Luke asked, genuinely confused as the dust cleared to reveal a statue of Thanos. Just as big, just as imposing, and - somehow - just as sexy. Flexing with the infinity gauntlet in hand.
"..." Piccolo just blinked, before shutting up.
“Don’t question it, don’t try and figure it out, just roll with it.” Lucci said, before he suddenly had a top hat. “Wait, my top hat! I lost it when I fought Golden Horn!” Lucci said, laughing as he admired his long lost possession.
"...Well, you still get to pass IF someone can impress me, trust me, I'm a tough egg to crack… Why didn't I say cookie? Because Cookies are for pussies!" Piccolo shouted to the people in his mind.
Thanos was just sitting there eating some cookies before quickly turning them to ash because peer-pressure is a bitch.
"Alrighty… Does anyone want to join in?" Piccolo asked, looking at the audience, though while this was happening. Something awful was happening in Black's mind...
Black was in a dark hallway, some light was above him. He laid there on a wall before he awakened from his slumber.
“Wha… where am I?” Black thought, as all he saw was darkness.
“Still breathing, don’t worry,” Kodo replied, as the young pup became visible. Though his fur was bristling, and his tail lowered as even he sensed something… off.
"Hi…" Mr. Popo said, his face now being visible from the dark.
“Holy Shit!!” Black screamed.
“Who in the nine circles of Tartarus...?!” Kodo barked, rapidly trying to back away into the shadows as he stared in fear at Mr. Popo.
"Bye…" The face of Mr. Popo vanished, the light above him then went out. Then from the darkness at the end of the hallway was Click Elae, he had a red light emanating from him.
"Ebola." Elae said before charging at Black. A hellish screech following after.
Link’s mind fired off. “Murder the meme-Murder the meme-Murder the meme!” he mentally repeated as he gently started grinded his teeth in annoyance.
“OH HAY-ELL NO!” Kodo howled, grabbing Black and racing away as the demon charged them. Though the Ugandan Knuckles caught up to them in a matter of seconds.
“AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!” Black and Kodo screamed in sync. Black’s eyes shot open, the Saiyan lurching forward as he accidentally head bumped against Kodos snout. Black put a hand on his forehead as he winced at the pain. “Dear Kami, that hurt!” Black exclaimed.
“Eh…” Kodo whimpered, staring up at nothing. His fur pale as snow as he held his snout.
“Kodo?” Luke asked.
“By everything sacred, Kodo!” Shiva yelped, racing over to the pup.
Black glanced at the pup, “Oh, I’m sorry Kodo… I didn’t mean to headbutt your snout!” Black apologized.
“I’m fine,” Kodo insisted, even as Shiva and Luke grouped around him. “Just…” he shuddered. “Was that… Mr. Popo?”
The mere name sent a shudder through even Shiva and Luke. She glanced at Black. “Mr. Popo’s in your head?”
“I don’t know? He goes as he pleases, you don’t question why.” Black complained.
“Damn straight you don’t,” Luke replied, lifting his son up. “We’re lucky he’s never bothered with our universe.”
"Hello my bruddas!" Elae said, next to Black undetected.
Black jumped at the sound of Elae’s voice, while Shiva yelped, instantly snaring the four together in a pack link.
“Dear Kami, don’t scare me like that.” Black complained.
"What happened my brudda? U seem jumpy, literally." Elae said, clicking afterwards.
“We saw Mr. Popo,” Kodo replied, his fur still pale and resembling Shiva.
Black glanced to his left shoulder, seeing his missing limb. Black frowned, “That sucks…” Black growled as he put a hand on his shoulder.
“Yeah, it’s gonna take me a while to regrow the thing,” Kodo admitted. “And we’re gonna need like… twice the amount of food you normally consume to get the necessary mass needed to regenerate the arm.”
"I can help u with dat my brudda! I have a lot of fud in Uganda!" Elae said enthusiastically.
“You don’t have to, I can think of something eventually.” Black assured the group, “For now… I guess I’m Future Gohan.” Black said as he then went into thought.
“Question, was that your good arm?” Thanos asked, turning towards the Saiyan.
“No.” Black said simply.
“Good, because you won’t be able to- oh wait, you have Luna for that.” Thanos said before putting on a pair of sunglasses.
“Shut the fuck up, cause I will beat your ass, with or without my arm.” Black threatened the Titan.
“OOOHHHH!!!!” Zarbon moaned in the background.
“Shut up Devilartimes Zarbon!” Black shouted.
“And even still, when you first fought me, you saw how you were failing to take me down a couple notches…” Thanos said, pointing out.
“And I recall that you didn’t even win that fight, neither of us did. But now with this Zenkai Boost, I’m at least a hundred times stronger than a few minutes ago.” Black claimed.
“Oh, no…” Shiva moaned.
“Now who do you think would win now? A good fighter who fought someone to a draw that has now one arm or a seasoned fighter who has the raw strength to pick this whole tower up and throw it to the kingdom come?” Thanos asked Black, sipping on some Hetap.
“We’re both seasoned fighters! But I recall Future Gohan holding off Android 17 and 18 over and over again, even with one arm!”
“That was just recently his arm was cut off, and you don’t think they were holding back? Toying with their prey, watching him suffer? I’m sorry Black, but you need to face the facts, without that arm you can’t fight me like we did beforehand.”
“That cockiness is getting to you, just because you're the strongest fighter of the new generation doesn’t mean you're unbeatable!” Black argued as he stood up, staring into Thanos’s eyes. The Saiyans hair flaring up with his eyes turning grey.
“Guys…” Shiva started to say, trying to get between them, before Luke wisely pulled her back, shaking his head.
“I know that! I’m weak compared to Ed, Katakuri, Ryker, and the others! I’m not being cocky I’m just putting some logic into this, you just got your arm blown off recently! You have to get used to it before we can fight each other on equal ground!” Thanos said, taking a full step back.
“DON'T TELL ME WHAT I CAN AND CANNOT DO!!!” Black roared as he bursted into Super Saiyan Rosé and struck Thanos across the cheek, sending the Titan onto his back. “You have no right to say that!”
Thanos simply got up, rubbing his chin. “I’m just saying man, you need to get used to fighting without your arm before we can fight fairly again. Okay, let’s put this in perspective, what if you had your arm cut off and you were racing against an old rival racer. Would you still be able match his speed?” Thanos asked the Saiyan.
Black stared angrily at the Titan before turning away, scoffing as he reverted back to his base form, ripping off the pack links from Kodo as he walked to a dark corner of the room and leaned against a wall. “Jackass…” Black muttered.
“I… don’t get it,” Kodo muttered. “What does arms have to do in a race?”
Elia winced, looking at the two before looking at Thanos angrily. "What the fuck was that, Thanos?"
“I don’t know, okay? I finally got a rival who can match me to an extent.” Thanos said clenching his fists.
"But you can't go saying things like that, his arm was just blown off a few minutes ago." Elia frowned at the Titan.
“YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE!!!!” Thanos cried out, slamming his fist into a nearby wall. “I have the body of a Titan, one of the strongest races in the universe. I was taught by the strongest Minotaur known to Ponykind and I surpassed him, I have too much power. I’m too damn strong, everyone that I fight. Every. Single. One. Has either died or been too aggressive when they fought me, Black, Black here is the only one that can keep up with me. He’s the only one, my only rival… And now that… And now that his arm is gone… I don’t know what to do… My wish before I met Black, was to find someone that can fight me, no one with hacks, no one that can destroy a universe with the tap of their fingers. Just someone like Black, someone who I can enjoy company with, someone who gets me, someone who gets my jokes, and makes me want to grow. But now… That’s gone.” Thanos said, looking at Elia, struggling to not let his tears show.
“...Then seek out more tokens and summon them for fights until you find a strong warrior.. Seriously, Goku Black here isn’t the only dragon ball character in the multiverse.” Link said with a roll of his eyes at Thanos’ over dramaticness.
Thanos then points a palm at Link, a Hakai ball begins to form. Expanding to the size of a beach ball. “This. Does. Not. Concern you.”
Expression-wise, Link showed no fear, mental-wise, he was deeply regretting even speaking up.
"T-Thanos… I…" Elia said, looking at Thanos, Thanos turns away from both of them and destroys the Hakai ball.
“I need to take a walk… “ Thanos then turned around and began to walk back down the stairs, “Just call me when it’s time for me to show my ‘talent’ which is messing up EVERYTHING!!!” Thanos slammed his fist against the wall before he vanished from view.
"Uh… Thirty minute recess anyone?" Piccolo said, looking at everyone. "Hold on, Gohan's calling me, I'll be right back." Piccolo then vanished into thin air.
“Hylia damnit.” Link said as he allowed his head to hit the back of his chair. “Is this nightmare ever going to end...” Link asked no one as he let out a groan.
Shiva heard him, and pat his shoulder. “Hopefully soon,” she replied.
Black watched both the Titan and Namakien leave the room, the Saiyan scoffed as he turned away. “He has no right to say that… telling them I’m no longer his rival…” Black growled as he clenched his fist, a smidge of blood escaping his palm. “He thinks he’s better than me, just because I’m down an arm… I’ll show him…” Black hissed as he sat down in the dark corner and began to do image training.
Luna Black looked worried as she stared at Black. She turns to Entity, “Thine knows thou friends is an ass,” Luna Black said as she put her hands on her hips.
"Well, after that rant, I really pity him. No other rivals. It must suck having that much power." Entity said, leaning his new royal scythe on his shoulder.
“Thous friend hurt Black, by saying thous no longer thines rival because of a missing limb hurt Black.” Luna Black argued. “Just because Black lost thous arm isn’t the end of thines rivalry.”
"Well, it will take a while for Black to get used to having no arm. Thus they won't be able to fight for a small amount of time, but I have faith that the Saiyan will adapt to having no arm. Hopefully they'll be rivals again, wait am I saying the exact thing Thanos said?" Entity raised a blocky eyebrow, before putting his scythe down. It then stood from the ground, Lucci then whistled and walked over to it.
“Did thou forget how adaptive Saiyans are in battle?” Luna Black asked as she crossed her arms. “When Black learned under Master Starswirl, thine adapted to masters fighting style in a day. A Day!” Luna Black argued.
"Hm, I guess Thanos is scared that he'll kill him. I believe that Saiyans are adaptive, but Thanos must have forgotten, even still, his fear of going all out and killing someone is still there…" Entity said, before hearing grunting, Lucci tried to pick up his scythe. "Good luck trying to pick that up, only those deemed worthy by Odin can pick that shit up." Entity said with a laugh before filling his hunger bars up with steak.
Luna Black sighed as she glanced back at Black, seeing a godly aura surround the Saiyan. “Black’s already going back to training, probably learning a new fighting style with one arm.” The Alicorn said.
"See? All he needs is to learn and Thanos will recognize it, then things will be back together again!" Entity said, looking at Black before continuing to look at Lucci struggles.
“But we wonder who he faces… thines past… thines present?” Luna Black muttered as she watched Black wince. Black growled and a moment later, spit out a bit of blood.
"...I'm not gonna ask how that happened…" Entity said, before turning to Lucci who was now in his Leopard form.
"HRRR!!! How?!" Lucci asked in a near shout, still trying to get the scythe out.
“We do believe thine said ‘only who is worthy can lift it?’”Luna Black said with a shrug.
"How am I not worthy?! Is it because I'm black?!" Lucci said, now giving up and turning back to his human form.
"Hey I'm Asian and I can still do it." Entity laughed, smiling afterwards.
Luna Black walked up to the scythe with a raised brow. Shrugging, she grabbed the handle and tried to lift it, only to fail. “Well, was worth a shot.” Luna Black said with a shrug.
"Now let's-" Entity turned around, then he turned towards the scythe and there stood Elae with the scythe in hand.
"I kno de wey." Elae said simply, as if answering Entity's question.
"Nigga how the fu-" Lucci asked before Piccolo teleported back, a couple of bruises were shown and his clothes were ragged.
"Don't ask, I had to fight a Legendary Super Saiyan." Piccolo said, before walking over to his chair.
Black winced a little at hearing Broly’s title, a second later, he spit out a little more blood. Luna Black watched with worry.
"...Who is he fighting? Could he be fighting somebody else?" Lucci asked, leaning on a wall.
“It could be him …” Luna Black shivered a little at the last part.
"Perhaps, how about Thanos? That would be interesting." Entity chuckled, leaning on his scythe.
“Not likely, when Blacks pissed and does image training. Black usually fights against opponents thine hates. Discord, Sombra, him .” Luna Black explained as she watched Black earn a scratch across the cheek. “And doesn’t stop until thine loses thous concentration or earns too many injuries.”
"...Good to know that nobody hates em," Entity said before hearing footsteps coming from the staircase.
There was a silhouette of a familiar squid-bearded Pirate, walking up the stairs.
Shiva suppressed a growl at the sight of Davy Jones, her pack link pulling Kodo behind her.
Out came Thanos, Mr. Perfect Cell, Yamcha, and Davy Jones, Davy Jones had buckets of water glued to his feet. "Hello everyone, here is my crew for my act. Don't mind me," Thanos said with a smile before dropping the smile and seeing Black train and seeing the blood and scratches. Like any normal rival would watching a rival trying to one-up him, he then proceeds to image-train.
"Alright I'm going to be calling names… Luna Black!" Piccolo said, thinking of a random person.
“Wait, aren’t we a judge?” Luna Black asked with confusion.
"Oh, that's right… You had the most interaction out of… ALL OF THEM!!!!" Piccolo cried out, looking at everyone. "Okay, eenie, meenie, miny, mo, catch a- You." Piccolo points at Lucci.
"Nigga what the fuck?" Lucci asked, opening his arms wide as if asking, 'why me?'
"...Honestly, I believe Black is going through the five stages of grief. There's Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and finally Acceptance. Or that could be just me." Lord Twigo shrugged.
“Definitely agreeing with the first two.” Luna Black commented. “But we fear what thine will bargain.”
“Who knows?” Lord Twigo said with a shrug, Lucci then dragged his feet to the stage.
“Hello, alright so I’m going to roast someone… That’s my talent, insulting somebody to the point they catch on fire. That someone is… Entity.” Lucci groaned, Entity just walked up begrudgingly.
“Alright, shoot me,” Entity said, opening his arms.
“Ahem, they say having sex is like running six miles, so that means Entity can run six miles in ten seconds.” Lucci said, covering his mouth to hide his grin. Yamcha then laughs at Entity, Entity stood there unflinchingly before he caught on fire, he then began to turn red as he got knocked backwards as he says, ough.
“Ough, ough, ough, ough.” Entity then put water on himself.
Shiva lifted an unamused eyebrow, her claw hitting the red X button. Sombra soon followed after with Luna Black not hesitating as she hit the red X button. Piccolo then slowly hit the red X button.
"Ha ha! Yes! I can get out of here now!" Lucci cheered before doing a moonwalk off the stage, tipping his hat downwards.
"Alright, let's see here…" Piccolo then pulled out a stack of paper, "Let's get… Uh…”
“Psst!” Lord Twigo said, nudging Kodo.
Kodo jumped, still remembering Mr. Popo, before realizing it was Lord Twigo. “Oh, Master, uh… what’s up?”
“Would you like to see something hilarious that is centered around Thanos?” Lord Twigo asked with a mischievous grin.
Kodo’s ears flattened at the mischief in his eyes. “I feel like I should say no,” Kodo noted.
“Don’t worry, it will be fine,” Lord Twigo said before dropping the mischief.
Kodo didn’t say anything, but he merely tilted his head, watching Lord Twigo with intrigue.
“Well, I’m going to do it anyway!” Lord Twigo declared before conjuring a portal in the center of the room, out came Celestia.
“Where in the bloody he-” Celestia then spotted Thanos “THANOS!!!!” Celestia roared in her royal Canterlot voice, making Thanos jump.
Blacks eyes opened, revealing his eyes of a silver color, his pupils like a reptilians for a second before reverting to normal. He looks up to see Thanos’s Celestia. “You’ve gotta be shitting me.” Black groaned as he stood up, wiping a little blood off the corner of his mouth.
“OH HELL NO!” Luke shrieked, Daybreaker flashbacks shining in his eyes as he went for Kodo… only to find him with Shiva already in hand.
“NOT AGAIN!” Kodo agreed, burrowing with his father into the ground and out of sight.
“Oh no…” Thanos said, looking at Celestia. Thanos then gets up. “This has gone far enough Celestia!” Thanos said, pointing at Celestia.
“THOU MAY HAVE ESCAPED US ONCE BUT NOT THIS TIME!!!!!” Celestia cried out, summoning a flaming warhammer, surprisingly to everyone, this Celestia was extremely fit.
“Well uh… Nice abs bro.” Thanos said backing away from her.
“THOU SHALL NOT SWEET TALK US OUT OF THIS!!! THY DEATH IS NIGH!!!!” Celestia then summoned her armor before flying towards Thanos as fast as light, Thanos screamed in pure fear. Thanos then runs away and with a combination of her powerful wings and her Devil Fruit she gave chase to Thanos.
“AAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!” Thanos cries out, looking behind him and seeing Celestia there. Thanos then disappears, Celestia then stops in her tracks all the while Lord Twigo was laughing.
“COME ON OUT YE COWARD!!!!” Celestia roared, causing everyone to hold their ears to block the noise.
“You already took my virginity, what more do you want?!?!?!” Thanos cried out, still hidden.
“You were a virgin?! How? You’re attractive, you should’ve had no problem getting mares.” Celestia said, looking up to the skies.
“...You have a point but fuck you!” Thanos said before slamming a barrel down upon her, Celestia’s head stuck through it. “Ha ha!” His laughter soon turned into fear as Celestia bared her teeth and hissed at Thanos, her hair flared up, almost akin to Daybreaker.
“AAAA!!!” Thanos yelled before turning around and ran, then Celestia burst from the barrel and began to beat Thanos’ ass. “Doh! Ourgh! Gaugh! Boh! BRbrbrbrbrbrbrbbrb!” Lord Twigo just smiled as he watched the mayhem, Entity was struggling to not fall into laughter. Elia and Lucci are rolling on the ground laughing at Thanos.
“No one interfere, this is actually the best actual talent I’ve seen so far. Lord Twigo is responsible for this… He passes for me if I’m being honest.” Piccolo leaned back on his chair.
Shiva poked her head up from her hole, staring at Piccolo and at Celestia’s beatdown of Thanos in disbelief. “What is wrong with you people?” she whispered, before Luke and Kodo yanked her back down into hiding.
“Everything!” Lucci cried out to Shiva.
“Thanos!” Davy Jones shouted.
Thanos then rolled to that somebody, looking up to the being. “WHAAATT?!?!?!” Thanos cried out as Celestia just stood there, waiting for Thanos to roll back to her.
“Ye best be apologizing for whatever ye did to her… A… What do they say? A scorned woman is more dangerous than your worst enemy.” Davy Jones asked, turning to Shiva’s hole.
“SHE IS MY WORST FUCKIN’ ENEMY!!!!” Thanos cried out, Celestia just rolled her eyes.
“Square up,” Celestia ordered looking at Thanos, the Titan proceeded to get up.
“Okay… Celestia, Tia, Sunny, my Ex-Wife, listen-” Celestia then decks Thanos in his face, making his face… Go into his face? Picture Thanos as Hades and Celestia as Hercules. Thanos’ face came out, “Okay I deserved that… Now can we just talk over some hetap?” Thanos asked, raising a can of hetap. Celestia proceeds to slap the beverage away.
“Do you realize, you destroyed half of Canterlot with the bucking Power Stone… Right?” Celestia asked Thanos.
“Excuse me…” Black growled, his voice sounding distorted. The others turned around to see that Blacks hair was a mess and had a light silver aura around him and he had silver eyes. “You did what, Thanos?”
“Did not! S-Shiva… You’re a dog, you can sniff out lies, tell her she’s lying!” Thanos said, looking at the hole. Shiva cautiously poked her head out, her nose twitching.
“I mean…” Shiva started to say, only for her family to yank her even deeper.
“DO NOT INVOLVE US!” Luke cried out from the hole.
“We’re good diamond dogs, Queen Celestia,” Kodo whimpered as well. “Please don’t break every bone in my body again!”
“O-Or disintegrate me into ash and then do weird things with the ashes!” Luke added.
“The only bones I want to break is Thanos’, you need not worry about your own well being.” Celestia said stoically, Thanos just deadpanned at Celestia.
“I don’t want to raise my blade against you Celestia but I will,” Thanos said, frowning at the Solar Princess.
“Well you certainly didn’t want to raise your sword after the incident. ” Celestia snapped at Thanos.
“DO YOU FUCKING REALIZE THE PTSD YOU GAVE ME IN THOSE TWO DAYS?!?!?!?” Thanos cried out, looking at Celestia. And soon after they began to argue like a married couple.
“You are built like a fucking eggplant!” Celestia insulted the Titan, earning some chuckles from the audience.
“Well at least I’m not built like you with your fat ass!” Thanos said, pointing at the perfectly fit Celestia.
“Do you believe this man?” Celestia turned around and pointed a thumb to Thanos. Thanos then begins to run away, screaming as he runs back down the stairs.
“Thanos…” Luke started to say, before Kodo hushed him.
“If we’re very quiet, maybe she’ll go away,” he whispered.
“What about Thanos?” Celestia turned her head to the diamond dog’s hole, looking into the darkness quizzically.
“Nothing!” Luke yelped, as the sound of further digging emanated. Kodo briefly poked his head up and sealed the hole over, leaving only a smooth patch of ground in the hole’s place.
“...” Celestia said nothing and crossed her arms, looking down at where the hole used to be. “Well okay then, Than…” Celestia turned around and found Thanos gone. Suddenly the whole room began to heat up.
Celestia clenched her fists as her hair was lit ablaze for a split second, “THANOS!!!!!!” Celestia roared, a pillar of fire shot from her hair and nearly pierced the rooftop. Snapping her fingers Thanos was suddenly there, covered in alcohol.
“...Listen here you little SHIT!!! If you keep running away from your problems, I will shove my warhammer when the sun doesn't shine, and that’s coming from me.” Thanos then nodded rapidly, “Good, now can somepony please explain WHERE THE BUCK AM I!?!??!”
Carefully, Shiva’s pack link poked up from the ground and twined around Celestia’s leg. Instantly, information surged into Celestia’s head: Ryker, the tournament, Ryker’s betrayal, Ryker’s claim that he needed to find his daughter, and more importantly, their journey up the tower. She even included Luke getting fried by Day Breaker as the reason why he and Kodo were so scared of her. As Celestia’s head was filled with the information, Shiva withdrew her link and pulled it back into the earth.
“Yeesh, and I thought my Celestia had anger problems.” Link whispered while covering the side of his mouth.
“My Celestia was actually quite calm,” Shiva’s voice noted in his head. “But it made her anger all the scarier to behold when she had enough of my son and husband’s antics.”
“Her anger is an annoyance, like listening to Rainbow Dash ranting about how she's the best or the fastest.” Black interjected. “Oh, hello Celestia , your hair seems to be on fire?” Black chuckled as he mocked the Alicorn.
"Oh ha, ha, very funny…" Celestia rolled her eyes, "I am only after Thanos' head, not any one of yours. However it seems that you need this purple retard." Celestia said, looking at Thanos.
"That was uncalled for!" Thanos frowned, Celestia then stares at Thanos. Her eyes half closed, Thanos just stands there. "DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT!!!"
“Nice one, I’m not exactly… what’s the word…” Black put a hand on his chin. It felt weird for the Saiyan as he had no other arm to support his other arm. “Oh yeah! I’m not exactly jovial with the mad titan.”
“That would seem to be the case, I know that we had an encounter but… If Thanos runs away, I will do bad things-” Thanos then proceeds to run away laughing in victory. “Hold on one second.” Celestia then follows after Thanos and what followed after was a scream of pure agony.
“WHY CAN’T I WIN FOR ONCE!?!?!?” Thanos roared, before a large WHACK was heard. Black tried to cross his arms, only to remember he only had one. He instead balled his fist and put it on his hip.
“Ah… that’s hilarious…” Black chuckled before sighing.
“...Should I send her back?” Lord Twigo asked, turning to Black, “Because this is a sight to see.”
“I don’t think so, but you can if you wish.” Blaxk said with a wave of a hand.
“If you want Luke and Kodo to let me go, yes please,” Shiva’s voice echoed from the ground. “Nothing personal, Celestia, but the version of you from my world really traumatized my pack.” She paused. “Wait… that is actually pretty personal, when I think about it.”
“DO NOT ATTACK HER!” Kodo insisted. “I had the power of Umbra on my side, and it did NOTHING against her fury!”
“I will attack her.” Lucci said with a shrug, “HEY FUCK FACE!!!” Lucci cried out, making Celestia turn her head to Lucci.
“What is it Lucci?” Celestia asked the feline man, standing over Thanos and having his arm in a lock.
“...You’re beautiful.” Lucci said with a thumbs up, Celestia just smiled.
“Why thank you,” Celestia then let go of Thanos, “I appreciate the-”
“That is what I would say IF YOU WEREN’T A FUCKING THOT!!!!!!” Lucci yelled, Celestia sighed.
“I’m not going to get angry because of you, I already exerted most of my anger out on Thanos. Sorry but you just don’t piss people off, you’re a chill person, unlike Thanos who is an asshole.” Celestia said with a shake of her head.
“OH FACK OFF YE FACKING BITCH!!! No offense Shiva.” Thanos said before he shot up from the ground and into the air. He promptly lands as Celestia just stands there, looking up at Thanos.
“...I’m tired, I’m going home.” Celestia blinked before turning around with a yawn, “That’s enough Thanos-Abuse for today.” Lord Twigo forged a portal next to her.
“Bye everyone, have a good time wrecking Ryker’s shit.” Celestia waved farewell to everyone before leaving. Lord Twigo then closes the portal. Thanos then collapses and wheezes. Luke cautiously poked his head up from the ground.
“She’s nice,” Black chuckles before turning to Thanos. “You also kinda deserved it, you did kinda offend me after all.”
"You… Don't fuggin… Say?" Thanos said before jumping to his feet, "So, we cool?" Thanos said, holding a hand out.
Black looked at the hand, “We’ll see after this whole debacle. But for now, just don’t say anything that’ll deserve a punch to the jaw.” Black explained.
"I'll do my best." Thanos said with a nod, putting his hand back to his side.
Black sighed, “look, I’ll just say this out loud.” Black said as he took a deep breath. “Thanos, the mad titan. Your a dick, a jackass, and sometimes really annoying. But your a good friend, my ally, my rival. Nothing will change that, but I just need some breathing room after you… insulted my pride.” Black explained as his silver eyes stared into the Titans.
"Correction, it's comrade." Right after Thanos said that the Communist anthem starts blaring.
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"YEEEAAAHHH!!!!!" Thanos said as he was suddenly wearing red and yellow clothes. Black mearly rolled his eyes and turned back to the diamond dogs.
“Is she…?” Luke started to ask, before Kodo covered his mouth.
“Don’t jinx it!” Kodo hissed, glaring up at Lord Twigo and Thanos and all the others. “The minute you say it, these guys are gonna bring her back just to watch us freak out again! No offense, but I’m right, aren’t I?” he quickly added, before ducking down into the earth again.
"My poor heart, even after I trained you the ways of the sword..." Lord Twigo said holding his chest, dramatically.
"I'll ignore that insult…" Thanos said, crossing his arms.
Black laughed. “None taken Kodo… but wow, after the special training I gave you.”
"I taught u de wey!" Ugandan Knuckles gasped, turning his head away from the hole.
“I got EVERY! BONE! IN MY BODY! BROKEN! By Celestia!” Kodo snarled from the ground. “Again, no offense, but I do not want to be around ANY version of Celestia!” He ducked back into the ground.
“Even the ones that have done nothing wrong?” Black asked with raised eyebrows, looking down the diamond dog’s hole.
“Nothing wrong?” Kodo demanded. “She was already angry! That was the first sign of Day Breaker coming out!”
"What about the ones that give you fried chicken… For free…" Lucci said, his voice echoing.
“Oohh, he’s got a point young pup… think of it. Free fried chicken !” Black exasperated with a laugh
“And you think about having Every! Bone! IN YOUR BODY BROKEN! Skull, arm bones, ribcage, pelvis, foot bones, teeth…”
Black got a mischievous smile. “You wanna talk about injuries with me?” Black had a short laugh. “How about being impaled both in the chest and stomach, having a mangled arm, dislocated arm, scars that’ll scare you. And to top it all off.” Black took a deep breath. “And a missing arm. With some broken bones… should I list any more?” Black asked.
“List all the injuries you want; it’s not getting us out of this hole!”
“She’s… she’s been gone for about 3 minutes now… and I don’t believe Twigo is gonna bring her back…” Black said as he pointed a thumb over his shoulder.
"AND THE FRIED FUCKING CHICKEN!!! You think you'd know someone…" Lucci said, disgusted at Kodo.
“DON’T CARE! TOO SCARED! WE’RE NEVER COMING OUT!” Kodo and Luke howled in sync.
“Oh, for the love of…” Shiva appeared out of the hole, dragging two pack links behind her. “Help me haul them up…” she said as she pulled on the link tendrils, eliciting screams from inside.
“NO-WAIT-HANG ON-STOP!! YOU DON’T WANNA DO THIS! LISTEN, I’VE BEEN A GOOD BOY! I’VE BEEN A GOOD BOY, PLEASE! I’VE BEEN SUCH A GOOD BOY! DON’T DO IT! NOOOOOOO!”
Black rolled his eyes as he helped the queen pull out the scared dogs. Thanos did the same, assisting his comrade. “You two are more stubborn than Nightmare in dodge training.” Black said.
"Does someone need to train someone to dodge? Because I am good at that shit." Piccolo said, looking at Black.
“Yes, she’s terrible at it.” Black explained to the Namekian as he finished helping Shiva pulling out Luke and Kodo.
"Just say my name and I'll be at your doorstep. Er… I'll be at your house." Piccolo said with a shrug.
“For the love of everything sacred,” Shiva chastised the shivering males. “Have some dignity, you two!”
“I swear, don’t make me slap you two…” Black growled.
Luke and Kodo grumbled, but settled down. Shiva let out a long sigh.
“I am so sorry for their behavior,” she said.
“It’s alright, just seeing them from being brave and willing to go against Ryker, only to be reduced to squirming pups at the sight of a different Alicorn.”
"They're like me when I see an Avian…" Thanos said, shivering.
“Celestia killed me,” Luke reminded them. “She is our version of your avians!”
“She made me watch as she tried to kill the other members of our pack,” Kodo added.
"Well I forgave an old enemy, what is your excuse, fucking donkeys." Thanos said before pulling out a can of hetap. "You all must forgive and forget, it is the only way people can move forward." Thanos then walked off.
“Easy for you to say,” Luke snapped. “With your power level and your experience and-and… everything that makes you better than us! Celestia kicks you around, and it’s funny. She pulls the same stuff on us, and it kills!”
"I'm talking about Kaido, Kaido is a fierce monstrous enemy and as you heard… He destroyed and pillaged Equestria. Yet, I forgave him, why? Because I believed he could change." Thanos said before taking a swig of hetap.
“Celestia isn’t the one who needs our forgiveness,” Kodo said. “We’re the ones that need forgiveness from her! We’re the ones who almost got Equestria screwed over, just because we chose to trust S-Umbra over her.”
“And don’t even start with how stupid that was,” Luke growled. “We know it was stupid. I died because of that stupidity. So just stop lecturing us on how we’re both stupid dogs and GIVE US A FREAKING BREAK!”
"Alright, I apologize, tch, it seems like I can't get a break. I always piss off everyone… Guess that's my 'cutiemark' welp, farewell. I'm going back down." Thanos waved them goodbye before heading back downstairs, Mr. Perfect Cell and Yamcha followed the Titan. Davy Jones stood in the far side of the room with a heart-thing in his hand.
Shiva sighed. “Luke…”
“Shiva, I love you with all my soul,” Luke said, before pointing at Thanos. “I owe him everything for letting us get back together. But please… I really don’t need to have it hammered in ‘again’ about how weak and inexperienced we are compared to them, so just give me some time to calm down.” He walked in the opposite direction from Thanos, settling against the wall with a grimace. Kodo glanced between them, before following after his father.
"Ye know," Davy Jones spoke, eliciting a growl from Shiva instantly, "It would seem that ye should talk to someone about this whole… Scuffle.” Shiva merely glared at him. “I know you do not trust me. Given that me and me crew nearly killed ye all. But trust me on this, ye should never leave someone else to solve their problems. Ever."
“You don’t think I know that?” Shiva asked snappishly. “I’m a dog - a pack animal; I’ve never gotten anywhere without friends. And if that’s seen as pathetic by some people, well that’s just their problem.” She turned away, and went to her family. “We’re not adventurers like all of you. We don’t thrive on combat. I don’t know what Ryker saw in us to bring us here.” She touched Luke’s shoulder softly. “But the Celestia in our world killed him. And there’s no afterlife for us; not like it in whatever worlds you come from. So don’t mock them - especially my husband, who just got back from being killed by her - for being nervous around any version of that alicorn. It’s not funny.”
Davy Jones sighed, "Alright, I bid ye kind canines farewell." Davy Jones tipped her hat before walking off.
Shiva didn’t reply, her pack link glowing as she and her family comforted each other.
“I’m terrified of Spiders, what’s your point, you’ll have to eventually get over your…” Black went silent as he spotted something out of the corner of his eye.
A spider…
“AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!” Black roared as a water like aura bursted around him. Black threw his hand forward, shooting a devastating Ki blast.
Shiva glared at the Saiyan with a raised eyebrow. “You were saying?” he asked.
“Hey! Leave me alone! They’re fuckin creepy…” Black complained as he let out a shiver.
"Yeah, he may be a bitch, I'm a…" Thanos turns to his left and sees Kaido in his human form. "LEAVE ME ALONE KAIDO!!!!" Thanos cried out, he then ran away from Kaido.
Shiva huffed. “You think you’re so funny…” she muttered, focusing on her family. “But trauma isn’t something they can just ‘get over.’ Not without time.” Her ears flattened. “Time we don’t have…”
"Alright because Link is a fucking pussy, Eric, go up." Piccolo asked the Shadow Man.
“I refuse to go up there,” Eric said in a stern tone. “And there’s nothing you can do to make me.”
Unfortunately Eric was grabbed by Thanos and was thrown onto the stage. "YEET!!!!"
Finally it was Eric’s turn to present his talent, which everyone knew was his music. However the moment he recovered from being thrown by the Titan, he immediately ran from the stage causing Sombra to get from his seat.
“I’ll go talk with him,” Sombra said to the Namekian.
"Fucking better…" Piccolo grunted out, crossing his arms.
Sombra ran to find his comrade only to turn up nothing, Closing his eyes Sombra began to sense the Shadow Man’s presence with his Observation Haki. Sensing the entire floor the dark unicorn found his friend leaning against the walls a few feet away, running ahead Sombra found nothing but a dark shadow against the walls.
“Eric you need to show the alien your talent,” Sombra said
“Sombra I can’t and I won’t,” Eric said, leaving the shadows to face his friend before putting his back against the wall and sliding down.
“Yes you can.”
“Sombra, my music isn’t for stuff like this,” Eric said banging his head against the wall. “I’ve been through that once and I won’t feel that again”
“Eric I know how you feel about playing for others in this kind of setting, trust me I’ve been in your head,” Sombra said to the Shadow Man. “But if we want to get to the next floor…”
“My music is special, it isn’t for personal gain or even a fucking talent show” Eric said before exhaling. “I can’t. Please don’t make me do this,” Eric said, almost begging.
“Eric, if you don’t get out there and start playing, Ryker will kill everypony here,” Sombra said, putting a hand on the Shadow Man’s shoulder. “Including Luna”
Eric’s eyes widened before he exhaled. “Fine,” Eric said before standing up. “But I’ll need some instruments.”
“Which one’s?” Sombra asked
“A piano, guitar, bass, and drums” Eric said to the unicorn
“Consider it done,” Sombra said, returning to the Namekian before using his transformation magic to turn various objects into the instruments Eric needed.
Eric walked out onto the stage only he wasn’t alone, he was followed by three clones each one grabbing hold of an instrument while the real Eric took a seat at the piano. Eric placed his hands over the piano however he hesitated to physically touch the instrument.
"You can do it buddy! I believe in you!" Thanos said with a grin, giving him a thumbs up.
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“Iiiiiiiiii… Remember” Eric said, playing a few keys on the piano. “When rock was young,”
“Me and Luna had so much fun...” Eric said hitting more of the keys. “Holdin' hooves and skimmin’ stones”
“Had an old Silver Chevy and a place of my own,” Eric said, slamming his hands on the piano as his clones began to play their instrument.
But the biggest buck I ever got
Was doin' a thing called the Cragadile Rock
While the other foals were rockin' ’round the clock
We were hoppin' and boppin' to the Cragadile Rock
Eric sang with a wide smile on his face as he jumped from his seat and continued to play the piano
Well, Cragadile Rockin' is something shockin' When your feet just can't keep still
I never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will
Eric sang before kicking his chair away from him
Oh, lawdy mama, those Friday nights
Eric sang before bringing his foot onto the end of the piano
When Luna wore her dresses tight And the Cragadile Rockin' was out of sight
Eric sang kicking his feet up, before standing, a shadow double taking his place on the piano as he stood in front of his clones as they all sang in unison
La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-laa La-la-la-la-la La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la
But the years went by and the rock just died Luna went and left us for some foreign guy
Long nights crying by the record machine Dreaming of my Chevy and my old blue jeans
But they never kill the thrills we’ve got
Burning up to the Cragadile Rock Learning fast as the weeks went past
We really thought the Cragadile Rock would last
Well, Cragadile Rockin' is something shockin' When your feet just can't keep still I never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will
Oh, lawdy mama, those Friday nights When Luna wore her dresses tight And the Cragadile Rockin' was out of sight
La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-laa La-la-la-la-la La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la
I remember when rock was young Me and Luna had so much fun
Holdin’ hooves and skimmin’ stones Had an old silver Chevy and a place of my own
But the biggest buck I ever got
Was doin' a thing called the Cragadile Rock
While the other kids were rockin' ’round the clock
We were hoppin' and boppin' to the Cragadile Rock
Well, Cragadile Rockin' is something shockin' When your feet just can't keep still
I never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will
Oh, lawdy mama, those Friday nights When Luna wore her dresses tight And the Cragadile Rockin' was out of sight
Eric and his clones sang as their voice now went higher and softer
La,la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-laa La-la-la-la-la
La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la
La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la
Eric and his clones sang before singing normally
La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la
La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la
La, la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la
"..." Piccolo was silent after it ended, all eyes were on him. "This… Is the most talented I've seen so far you pass! All of you pass!" Piccolo slammed his fist down on the golden star and the door slammed open. "Go, off you go! Leave! " Piccolo ordered.
Eric dispersed his clones as he made his way to the door being followed by the others, all but Thanos. Shiva, Luke and Kodo spared the doorway to the previous floor, which held Thanos, a brief glance back, before following after the others.
"Finally, they're gone…" Piccolo said with a sigh, "I'm going home now.
"We have lost a brudda…"
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Seventh Floor! It Was Only Fate
Seventh Floor! It was only Fate.
Ryker stood tall over Nappa, Ryker slammed his foot down on the Saiyan making him wheeze. Ryker then grinned sadistically and began to slam his foot onto him over and over again. And each time Nappa screamed in pain.
"Eghehehehehe! Who is left after you? Maud, Luffy, Grievous, Blake, and Nox! But I'm sure they're preoccupied…" Ryker looks around and he sees his clones beating them down within an inch of their life.
"Damn you… Y-you won't get away with this… Thanos will-" Nappa was interrupted by a bloodcurdling scream from Blake.
"Ooh! And another one bites the dust." Ryker laughed, he then raised his blade, aiming to kill Nappa.
“RYKER!!!!” A voice that had nothing but wrath oozing out of it shouted throughout the entire planet.
In a black thundering cloud Screwball emerged her anger, causing the skies above to darken and spew lightning.
“What in Faust's name are you doing?” Screwball said her fists clenching
"I'm doing what the Eliacube told me, if I make enough sacrifices… Well, our daughter will come home. In our arms, safe and sound." Ryker turned to her with a smile.
“This is not the way to go!” Screwball yelled, swinging her arms, destroying Ryker’s clones.
"This is the only way, and if you want to interfere I will not hesitate to destroy you as well you wench." Ryker then steps off of the bruised Saiyan.
“I’d like to see you try.” Screwball said lunging at Ryker dragging his body along the ground digging a trench in the process
Bringing his body up Screwball spins around before hurling him into his own tower Ryker stops himself, no damage appears on his form. The Irish King then looked down at Screwball.
"Screwball, dear, why don't you just screw off?" Ryker suggested before seeing Screwball stay there like a stubborn child, "How about we just talk for a moment my darling." Ryker said with a smile, his teeth were akin to sharks. Ryker then makes a floating chair out of the earth with his Chaos Magic.
“This is Madness Ryker!”
"Madness? No, this is Eliatopia." Ryker jokes, looking into Screwball's chaotic eyes. "Now how about you, walk away? And not interfere with my plans…" Ryker deadpans at Screwball like an annoyed adult looking at it's child asking for the umpteenth time 'Are we there yet?'.
“I’d never thought I’d say this...but I’m glad our daughter is gone” Screwball said to Ryker. “I think she’d banish herself from seeing what you’ve become”
"Would you like to repeat that my dear? My ears are not like they used to be." Ryker pointed his ear towards Screwball.
“I’M GLAD OUR DAUGHTER IS GONE!!”
Right as she said that she was surrounded by a green wave, her body was then distorted and Ryker appeared before her. There was a bottle beneath Screwball, Ryker then grinned.
"EVIL CONTAINMENT WAVE!!!" Ryker then imprisons the deity and places her in a bottle, swiftly putting a cap onto the bottle.
The bottle began to shake violently before shattering. “Did you really think that would work on a Chaos Goddess?” Screwball asked fury in her eyes and voice
"Screwball, Screwball, Screwball…" Ryker shook his head, "Your heart represents our love." Ryker said before driving his hand into Screwball's chest. Holding her heart on the other side.
Screwballs eyes grow wide as she grasps at the king. “H..How?”
“Chaos nullifies Chaos,” Ryker said with a smile.
“I..always...said...my...heart..belongs...to..you...my...love,” Screwball muttered out before Ryker pulled his arm from the goddess body and crushing her heart
"And this is me crushing our love, you bilge rat." Ryker said before he locked eyes with an injured Maud. "Looky here? A lost bird, a lost bird that never learned how to fly!" Suddenly a wave of Armament Haki threads shot towards our heroes. Ryker cackled… before a flaming pile of yellow scales fell on his head.
As he lay underneath what felt like a pile of fire, a voice started tsking.
“Oh-ho, naughty-naughty-naughty,” a familiar monkey man declared, wagging his finger at Ryker. “Where’s the fun in murder?” Luco glanced over at the goddess of chaos. “And your wife on top of it?” He hissed through his teeth. “The courts would have a field day with this.”
Ryker sighed and shook his head, turning towards Luco. “Where's the fun in being a fucking wanker?" Ryker said with a smarmy look in his eye. "What are you doing back here?”
“Chaos nullifies chaos, remember,” Luco replied. “Now…” he hoisted Screwball up. “My goddess here seems a little thirsty for blood. And you know who else gets thirsty for blood?” He pulled out his bat. “Lucille.”
Ryker’s eyes narrowed, and he wrenched himself up, sending the ball of scales off his back as he punched at Luco… only for Luco’s form to shatter into glass, leaving glass shards embedded in Ryker’s knuckles. Though they didn't even pierce his body, Ryker then picks them out. One by one.
“Luckily for you,” Luco’s voice added. “This ain’t Lucille.” As Ryker turned to Luco’s voice, Luco tossed his bat, bonking it off Ryker’s head. Ryker then rolled his eyes at that. “But I’m… very thirsty.” He grinned. “So I’m-a go get me a drink.” He cackled, before disappearing with Screwball in a flurry of sparkles. “Blazy, go have fun,” his voice declared.
Ryker turned back just in time for Luco’s Charizard/Riptor/Zbornak/phoenix-dragon hybrid Blazy Blue to hit him across the face with her tail, the mere hit not just stinging him, but also setting his face on fire. Spinning into a combat pose, her eyes red, her flames turning blue, and her increasing to a big enough size to match Ryker at eye-level, she beckoned at Ryker with a grin. The heat had not bothered Ryker for he was used to Star levels of heat. Ryker then brings out a sheleighleigh, coating it in Armament Haki and making it shine with purple plasma, before spinning it. He began grinning back at the fiery dragon thing.
"Hello beastie."
"...Do u know where ma brudda-" A purple blur then runs past them, making everyone spin around. "Is…"
Link suddenly sneezed as the word ‘Sparta’ echoed in his mind. “Did anyone else hear that?” Link asked confused.
“You’re not the only one,” Eric said to the Hylian Champion.
"Well, it would seem that you all have the case of the shivers." Lord Twigo said, resting his abnormally large golden greatsword on his shoulder.
"Do u kno de wey?" Asked Elae, he looked at Eric.
“No,” Eric said to the Ugandan
“FFFFUUUUUUCK YYOOOU” Link said with a strained anger tone of voice as he pointed at the ugly-ass knuckles.
“Link, you're gonna have to get used to it, he’s not gonna stop asking the question.” Black said as his hair remained a mess, his silver eyes looking into Links. “It’s all he knows after all, da way and da queen.” Black said with a sigh.
"Doe u knoe de wey?" Elas asked the Shadow Man.
“I don’t,” Eric said pushing open the doors to the seventh floor
"Do u kno de wey?" Elae asked the Shadow Man once more as they analyzed the beautiful kingdom of Hyrule.
“That’s a neat town.” Black said as he looked over the large kingdom.
Link shook his head rapidly. “Wait What?” Link said as he blinked his eyes, scanning over the land as he tries to figure out which version of Hyrule it was, or if he recognized any landmarks.
"Doe u kno de wey mothafucka?!" Elae asked, climbing up the Shadow Man and staring the man down in his eyes. The Shadow Man just pushed the Ugandan Knuckles off of him.
“Don’t get your memes in a bunch. Considering you said Hyrule, I just started recognizing where we are. I’m just surprised I’d find myself ever coming here...” Link said as curiosity slowly faded into his mind. Pulling out his Ocarina, he begins to play some notes that sounded a lot like Epona’s song.
Next thing he knew, Epona was next to him. Link looked on in pleasant surprise that the song actually worked.
"HEY!" A gruff voice cried out, turning their attention to the voice. It came from Ganondorf, Ganondorf was far away, standing on top of a building.. "Welcome to my Kingdom! We have pastries if ya want some!" Ganondorf then raises a cute kitty cupcake and takes a bite out of it.
Link stared long and hard at Ganondorf in disbelief. “..Please tell me you’re not the boss of this floor...” Link asked, especially since Ganondorf claimed he was no longer evil.
"I'm sorry to say that I am but we can eat some cupcakes and tea! Try 'em!" Two guardians from Breath Of the Wild held up some tea and cupcakes. "Seriously, they're awesome!" Ganondorf said, his mouth full from eating the cupcake.
“...The Hylia are those things? They look like robotnik octorocks…” Link said with a frown.
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Then, they all heard some music that others found terrifying. Such as Lucci and Entity.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!" Lucci and Entity screamed, they then ran in a random direction.
"I FORGOT HOW TO PARRY!!!!" Entity cried out, before digging down and putting a block over himself to hide him. Meanwhile Lucci ran around as a Leopard, trying to hide himself.
Black looked at the two as they ran off. The Saiyan was confused as he scratched the side of his head. “I don’t know why they’re scared. What are they scared for?” Black muttered.
Shiva’s ears flattened. “I don’t know…” she mumbled, with the sense that she already didn’t know a lot of things.
Ganondorf then jumps off a building and lands next to our heroes. "I don't know what they're screaming about, these little guys are adorable! Aren't you a good Guardian, Brudus? Oh yes you are!" Ganondorf said, hugging the Guardian holding the cupcakes and talking to it like a dog. The guardians matched Thanos' height, hell, it may surpass it.
“...This is… “ he began, soon facepalming at the sight.
"Odd." Lord Twigo finished for him, "Hello Ganondorf, how is your day today?"
"What's up Twigo, I heard the news, you're no longer a commander anymore. Unfortunate, but you're still a commander to me, but more importantly, you're still my friend." Ganondorf hugged the Holy Knight, having enough strength to swing him.
"I'll always be your friend until the day that I die, you have my word!" Lord Twigo flashed the Gerudo a smile and Ganondorf let him go.
"And you have mine best buddy!" Ganondorf said before returning to pet and love on his Guardians.
"...Uh…" Elia just looked at the once Evil Tyrant hugging one of his machines and treating them like his pets. "...E-Eric…?" The Princess turned towards the Shadow Man, pointing at Ganondorf.
“Yes your majesty,” Eric said to the Princess before following his gaze.
"Ganondorf, the best fighter, the most gentlemanly man, one of the most respected commanders… is treating his machines like dogs… I don't know what to think…" Elia rubbed her head. Looking at Ganondorf for he grabbed a cupcake from the Guardian, he then takes off the wrapper before taking a bite out of it.
“I’d understand if it was a stalfos dog brought back with machinery, but this is just ridiculous...” Link whispers.
"Oi! Even machines deserve some compassion!" Ganondorf said, suddenly back on the building. "Wait how did I get here?! Hold on, I'll come on down." Ganondorf walks off the building before he unceremoniously falls down. He crashes into a garbage can, then gets up. "I'm alright!" Ganondorf then walks over to the party.
During his trek, he walks over a bridge. He trips and falls, making him somehow fall off into the river below him. "I'm alright, don't worry about me!"
“This is just…” Link said as he shook his head. This was the demon king of evil, thieves, and darkness; the man who held the curse of demise… Turned into a walking joke. Link knew Ryker got rid of his evilness, but this such a pathetic sight to behold. No doubt Din, the goddess of power would be embarrassed by such a display to see her triforce wasted in the hands of a joker.
"Well at least I washed myself." Ganondorf said with a shrug, he continued his walk towards our heroes. He finally reached them after accidentally setting himself on fire. "Sup! I’m here and ready to talk to you guys up close and personal!"
“Um… you do realize you're on fire right?” Black said with a raised eyebrow as he pointed towards Ganandorf.
“I am?” Ganondorf looks at the fire, he then snaps his fingers, causing the flames to go out due to the force of his snap. “Well that is fixed, so what is it you guys wanna do? We can walk around, go to the park, get some cupcakes, have some tea, tour around the castle… We can do a LOT of things!” Ganondorf said, grinning ear to ear.
"Well, as much as we would like to stay. We must go." Elia told Ganondorf, the man of malice just looked at Elia. A confused look plastered on his face.
"But why? Why do you want Ryker anyway? I know it says right here," Ganondorf pulls out the contract, "Written in invisible ink, that 'You may not leave unless you beat Ryker aka me.' But… Come onnn… Michael wanted to chill, Zabuza wanted to chill, Lord Twigo wanted to chill and I wanna chill! Why don't we ALL relax and have a sip of some calming jasmine tea." Ganondorf holds up a cup of tea.
“Towa didn’t want to…” Black grumbled as he rubbed where his left arm used to be.
“...Ryker does not wish to chill.” Link said as he crossed his arms.
“He wants nothing more than Fire and Brimstone,” Eric said to the Gerudo Male
Ganondorf went to interject but was cut off by Shiva.
“And some of us have families we want to go back to,” Shiva said darkly.
"...I can't argue with that logic but why the rush? Ryker isn't going anywhere! He's just sitting there in his library, fueling his portal with Dark Ki." Ganondorf said coolly, he then got some sunglasses on. He then takes a sip of tea.
“Why the rush? Why the rush?! We’ve been here for weeks! Luna is probably worried sick, and she’s scary when she’s worried, especially when the stars start swirling around her.” Link said, not pointing out the fact she is a goddess in a mortal body.
“You're not wrong with that.” Black whispered.
“Exactly,” Shiva replied. “So why don’t you just let us go up to him, and ask him to let us go?”
“Yeah good luck with that” Eric said, sarcasm present in his voice
"...But I still have to fight you, but hey! We can have fun before we fight! We can do uh… What I said earlier!" Ganondorf said with a grin.
“But… Celine…” Luke mumbled, a dog whimpering escaping his snout as he looked up. “I haven’t even gotten to see my daughter yet. She doesn’t even know I’m back.”
Link reached out to pat Luke on the head to try and comfort him. Luke smiled at Link’s support, before...
"Ya can wait, my man, I mean come on! I already had Thanos blaze through this floor! I can't allow anyone else to simply walk away. Come on!" Ganondorf said, shaking the Diamond Dog.
Luke’s eyes narrowed. “You clearly haven’t had a daughter before, have you?” he noted.
"I've been with too many women, and I'm not interested in a relationship. I mean sure I have a pet pig, but that isn't a daughter." Ganondorf said with a shrug.
“No,” Luke growled as his fur glowed. “It’s not.”
Exploding with light, the diamond dog briefly blinded the Gerudo. When the light faded from his eyes, the diamond dogs were gone. Vanished into the earth.
"... Why do we have to do this the hard way…?" Ganondorf then teleports back to the house he was standing on prior to being a complete fool. He then whistles and thousands of flying Guardians carrying Walker Guardians fly over to the exit door. They all drop them and they land flawlessly, a total of over two thousand Guardians were ready for war. "I may be a goof, but I'm not a fucking retard! Oh wait, I am, damn autism…"
“...No, you’re a disgrace.” Link said with a shake of his head. Ganondorf didn’t deserve the Triforce of power, this was just too much of an insult for this version of Ganondorf to even have this piece of a goddess's power.
“Damn Link, what makes such a calm guy like you go full ruthless?” Black said as he activated his aura in ready of defense.
"That's a little mean…" Elia said, looking at Link.
“Not as mean as disregarding a father that wants to see his daughter,” Luke growled, his voice making the ground rumble under the guardians.
As the guardians prepared for an attack, the ground shook underneath them. Before they could process what was happening, the ground opened up underneath them, and the guardians plummeted into a deep, dark pit. There was no sign of the diamond dogs, and as the guardians plummeted, the shadows soon swallowed them up as well.
Ganondorf just stared as his massive army was fucking demolished. He sat there in silence, before a sudden realization hit. "Wait a minute… BRUDUS!!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" Ganondorf cried out in anguish, going onto his knees and slamming his fist onto the ground.
Ganondorf then stands up and stares into Link's eyes, "Come to me with a thousand corpses pulling you: Shadow Pull! GET OVER HERE!!!!" And with the Mortal Kombat reference, Link was pulled towards Ganondorf before the Hylian received a punch to his abdomen. The blow was fueled with Dark Magic which made it all the more deadly. In a dragon ball z like fashion, the world around Link’s vision slowed down as his breath and saliva was forced out of his mouth. As time resumed, he found himself clashing into the nearest wall.
"You say that I'm a disgrace, yet, who got his shit knocked?" Ganondorf said with a smarmy look in his eye, "Anyway, you're not worth my time. I'll get the blights to handle you. You’re not worth my time." Ganondorf turned away from Link and walked towards his castle.
One by one, the blights fell from the sky and made their presence known. Windblight, Thunderblight, Fireblight, and Waterblight were all there. Each having their weapons ready.
There was a suddenly blinding flash as a light arrow came flying out of the hole Ganondorf created using Link as the wrecking ball. The arrow was coming straight for the gerudo thief himself.
However Thunderblight didn't allow that for he dashed in front of the arrow and blocked the arrow, its shield taking the blunt of the powerful erupting of light.
“Don’t take me so lightly, I didn’t survive this long just to be taken down.” Link said as his triforce was glowing fierceful, hand on hilt as he pulled out his Master Sword and Hylian’s shield.
Thunderblight turned its head towards Windblight, then turned it to Waterblight. The two blights nod and Windblight readies his weapon. Pointing it at Link before firing multiple rounds at Link, Waterblight was making cubes of ice. Making sure to keep Link at bay, the blight shot the giant blocks of ice at Link. The hylian leapt high into the air via the use of his enchanted red hood with Hylian shield held firmly to block the multiple shots. Swinging his blade around, Link fired off a fiery snake created through the use of his Bombos Medallion coming straight for the Waterblight.
The Waterblight hissed as the reptile began to gnaw on it's forearm. The Waterblight then began to shake it off. But as he was doing that Link felt something warm coming in close to his back. Feeling inclined to glance back he spotted a small fire packed fireball but a few meters away. Right as he was somewhat distracted Windblight fired off a Guardian laser from it's eye. Firing it off at the Hylian. Link twisted his body in mid air just as his shield changed to the Mirror Shield, however it did not change fast enough as the laser sent him off course from his original leap, causing him to come dropping back down.
Right as he hit the ground, several metal pillars hit the ground. Link was surrounded by metal pillars and Thunderblight unleashed his lightning. The metal proved fruitful with his assault on the Hylian, shocking Link. Link let out a powerful scream, slowly and shakingly reaching for his pouch, putting on the Goron Mask to nullify the electricity. With heavy steps and a Goron Punch at the readdy, he swung with all his might to punch at the Thunderblight.
Waterblight then chucks his mighty spear at Link, aiming to knock the punch off course. For extra precaution, Thunderblight raised his shield high. Ready to protect itself from the Goron's blow. The spear managed to push the fist, however due to a gorons weight, it was only by a little as the punch collided to the side of the Thunderblight’s shield. Breaking some of the shield off.
Fireblight then looked at Goron Link, knowing that he could not be of use. It was now Waterblight's turn to be on the attack, using its magic, he conjured a weapon of ice. Waterblight began to attack Goron Link with his spear. Goron Link turned to raise his hands, blocking the swing and sliding back a bit, with a mighty swing and the Golden Gauntlets appearing, he threw Waterblight into Fireblight as if they were an oversized goat he had to wrestle.
The two blights got to their feets then then ready their weapons, though unbeknownst to Goron Link. Windblight unleashed a miniature tornado at Link. He then kept the pressure and threw another and another. Goron Link reverted to normal as he took out the Gale Boomerang, throwing it out in an attempt to either cancel or reverse the tornados back.
As he canceled the tornados, he felt that warm thing again. This time the warm mini sun was at his chest. Fireblight, with a swipe of his blade, made the mini sun explode, engulfing the Hylian in a fiery blaze. Link thrusted his sword into the ground as the flames covered his whole being, soon unleashing a wave of freezing winds through the use of his Ether Medallion to push the flames back. Link kneeled down, taking out his Hero’s Bow and taking aim at the FireBlight; his arrows tip glowing fiercely with magical ice. Letting the Ice Arrow loose, it shot straight for FireBlight.
However with Windblight’s swift eye he knocked the arrow off course with his arm cannon. Link then heard some tsking, and he heard the voice of Ryker. “By the Gods I know you are bad but really? You can’t even land a solid hit on them! It’s a four on one fight but you’re Link of all people. Yet here you are, getting beaten and bruised by the forces of evil, some hero you are… ” Ryker spoke, his voice seemingly coming from everywhere.
“Fine then! I’ll just have to cover a wide ratio then!” Link shouted as he sheathed his sword and shield, quickly thrusting his hands back he started charging up Dins fire, but it didn’t stop there as Quake’s Medalion and Ether’s Medalion joined in; causing vibrations to be sent in all directions as his magic gauge started to rapidly drop. A quarter- no, half- no, all of it? Link was charging as much as he could into this attack with only Paluntina’s blessing restoring 3% with every passing second. Link could feel pain rush through his body as this wasn’t something he would usually do. Swinging his arms around, he slammed the combine spell, sending out a powerful elemental dome-like explosion of fire, ice, earth, and electricity in all directions all around them as it swallows the closet Blights.
The blights all make a bone chilling screech before they all explode in a demonic red. Link then heard slow clapping, very slow clapping, turning towards the noise he saw Ganondorf. “Well done, not bad at all. Honestly that was quite the spectacle, quite the spectacle indeed.”
“I’m not in the mood f-” Link paused as his body went through a painful shudder, forcing him to drop to his knees due to the overusage of magic.
“And right on que, really, you should have thought about that. Now, it’s time for me to fight my fated opponent.” Ganondorf shot off towards the exhausted Link like a rocket. Coating his fist in Armament Haki, and furthermore enhancing the attack with Dark Magic. He slammed the back of his fist into Link’s gut, sending the Hylian through the people of Hyrule’s homes. Ganondorf then lands on his two feet before kicking in Observation Haki to keep track of Link, making sure that the Hylian doesn’t unleash a sneak attack. Link let out a groan followed by weak shaky breathing as he tried to will his body to move, but it would not respond to his command. “Hylia damnit.. Gotta.. Get..” Link said through strain teeth as he managed to free his arm soon reaching into his pouch. Link really didn’t want to do it, but he had no other choice, Link’s hand moves into the pouch as he gripped onto something; It was the fruit that Nox gave him, the Neko Neko No Mi fruit: Model Lion. “..It’s only fair.” Link said as he bit into the fruit, cringing hard at the vile taste of it’s flavor. Considering Ganondorf, despite his idiocy, had other means than the Dark Magic at his disposal, Link had to take this chance just to get stronger despite his hatred of those who were overpowered. Chewing with haste, he eventually swallows the bite, leaning in to bite the rest of the fruit and enduring the souriness of it all.
“Come on out Link, I know that single punch didn’t render you unconscious. After all, I didn’t go for your temple, your chin, or behind your ear.” Ganondorf began to approach where he had knocked Link away. The Dark Magic in his hands crackled to life like fireworks, all the while Ganondorf had a mischievous grin on his face.
Link, pushing every single will he had to left, he forces his body out of the rubble, clinching every single muscle in his body to endure the pain and the way his muscles screamed at him to stop moving. At that moment, Link found newfound adrenaline coursing through his body, numbing the pain. Step by step, his body started to change, slowly gaining lion like qualities as he reached and pulled out his sword and shield
Ganondorf had reached Link and found the Hylian in his Hybrid form. “It would see that you have obtained the power of the Devil Fruit, hm, what a shame. I thought you would be the one who didn’t eat one, well, allow me to show you… The difference between Devil Fruit users and those who don’t eat them!” Ganondorf said before pulling out the Sword of Six Sages, grinning like a madman he readied his blade. Letting out a battlecry, Ganondorf coated his sword in Armament Haki before kicking off to Link at highspeeds. Link said his shield as the sword of six sages slammed into it, slightly taken back at the feeling of strength and how his senses have gotten sharper. Link’s sword took on a gentle blue glow as he started to channel magic into it. “You should have let us pass,” Link said as he swung his sword around in a quick spin attack, releasing a ring of blue flames all around him.
“Oh, ho, ho! You’re not the only one who can unleash flames.” Ganondorf said with a snark, Ganondorf did a backflip before releasing a ring of several fireballs around him. They then expand outwards towards Link, the fireballs then turn into bats, fire bats. The bats then fly towards Link, some clashing with Link’s quick flaming spin attack, the others going straight for Equestria’s Champion.
“Fire bats? Come on..” Link said as he raised his shield, which had changed to that of the Mirror’s Shield to absorb the fireballs; causing the shield’s surface to glow.
“Hm, impressive, you are better than I expected. You get a cookie if you get that reference,” Ganondorf said with a smirk, suddenly he swapped wielding hands, swapping it with his left hand. Ganondorf’s right hand began to glow red and a familiar triangle appeared on the back of his fist. To produce maximum damage, he amplified the charging “Power Punch” with Dark Magic. “You done fucked up,” Ganondorf said before he cackled, pulling back his fist he looked at Link with a grin as twisted as the Jokers. Ganondorf then unleashed the blow, shooting his fist out towards Link. The Hylian made no comment as the Megaton Hammer appeared in hand, swinging it with all of his might, however, there was something off about it and the way it glowed. The moment fist and hammer collided, a VERY powerful explosion of magic erupted from it; a spell his friend Azure applied known as Ultima. Link had been saving this one for this special moment.
Recoiling from the massive explosion, Ganondorf was unprepared for another. Ganondorf let out a shriek of pain as the Gerudo was knocked away from the explosion, his back had a very up and personal moment with one of the houses. Ganondorf then hit the floor before quickly recovering and going to his feet, though the explosion was strong, he still had the Sword of Six Sages with him. “Not gonna lie, dick move Link, dick move.” Fueling the blade with magic he calmly walked towards Link, it emanated pure darkness, getting a dark and powerful feeling from it. The Lion Hylian did the same, for his Master Sword took on a rather bright glow being empowered by the Light Arrow spell.
When the two clashed blades it felt like two Divine beings of Light and Darkness clashing. Each time they clashed blades made an impression on the world around them. When Ganondorf struck there was a dark boom and when Link struck there was a scatter of Light. As they two crossed blades Ganondorf switched his blades for the Swords of Demise, fueling them with his magic. Ganondorf then began to mercilessly attack Link, a perfect balance between precision and power, each strike was well calculated. Link allowed the fruit’s effects to guide his senses, either swing his master sword to redirect the attacks, or blocking it with his mirror shield. Link had a very nasty thought though, he could swing his butterfly net or his fishing rod around to distract Ganondorf. Link decides to file that thought to the corners of his mind if things got very dangerous. Ganondorf notices a slight shimmering to Link’s tunic as the chain mail changed to Brigine Armor.
“Strength up.” Link said, activating one of the armor’s enchantments and increasing his strength and surprising the Gerudo King as Link pushed his sword down on his Demise Swords.
“If you can get enhancements, then I can too! Give me the strength of all the people I've slayed: Shadow Enhancement!” What little power Link had over Ganondorf at that moment was quickly foiled as Ganondorf received a power boost. Ganondorf was now pushing down on Link, forcing the Hylian to his knees as Ganondorf gave him a wicked smile. “Don’t you get it? Whatever you can do; I can do better.”
Link summoned the Golden Gauntlets back on, gaining a bit more strength as he pushed right back. “The harder you push, the more you’ll force me, Ganondorf.” he said before suddenly leaping out, causing all that strength Ganondorf was pushing to cause the swords to slam into the ground. Before Ganondorf could react, he felt a very painful Back Slice slash against him.
“Gragh!” Ganondorf cried out in pain before turning around towards the being who cut him, Link, he then readied his blades. “Seventy-Two Klesha Phoenix!” Shooting two air slashes of his own, though being enhanced with Dark Magic, the two slashes tore through the earth and made their way towards Link. Link raises his mirror shield to absorb the wind, canceling out the fire he had absorbed previously, Link threw out his hand as a Din’s fireball fired out toward the Gerudo King.
“Pathetic!” Using Kamisori he appeared behind the Hylian, “You seriously didn’t think that I recognized that spell? That’s a variant of the spell you used on Thanos, and we commanders watch the matches!” Ganondorf wrapped his arms around Link’s furry form and performed a German Suplex on the Hylian. Burying his head into the ground before plucking the Hylian from it like a radish.
“I have decided…” Ganondorf then threw Link into the air, “...I will beat you with all my might!” Ganondorf declared, before jumping towards Link, twirling himself he landed a kick to Link’s side, sending the Hylian flying, however Ganondorf twists his body, Link had the same Idea and they locked eyes, both in the air. However one had Ki control and one did not, you can probably guess who didn’t. Letting out a deep chuckle Ganondorf raised his leg high, almost akin to Smash Bros. Melee he slammed his leg down onto Link, sending Link flying toward the ground. Link quickly took out his Ocarina to play the song of soaring, allowing angelic wings to sprout out of Links back. Link gave them a flap, reducing the force and allowing him to skyrocket into the air and above Ganondorf. Link held his hand out, appearing as if he was going to use Din’s Fireball, however Ganondorf was caught off guard as Link was thrusting his hands in and out to unleash a barrage of smaller Din’s Fireballs. This was Link’s third variation known as Din’s Fury.
Ganondorf snarled at the full on platoon of fireballs being sent his way, though his snarl became a grin. A grin that could put the Grinch to shame. “Come to me, my pets and send my enemies to oblivion: Shadow Creatures!” From the shadows, Crows of Shadow shot from their home and went towards the fire to cancel the attack out. The aftermath left a giant cloud of smoke due to the flames and mana being exerted. Ganondorf flew into the cloud, and unleashed a Ryou Haki drop kick into Link’s thorax.
“Feel your internal organs getting punished, Hero of Equestria!” Ganondorf cried out before launching Link down into the ground, he fled into the cloud again and used observation haki to keep tabs on Link.
Link quickly loaded an arrow into his bow and took aim. Ganondorf would notice the arrow was different, not like the usual wooden ones Link usually used as the arrow head glinted with Silver. Fwip, the arrow flew quicker toward Ganondorf.
Ganondorf then tilts his head to the side, watching as the arrows whizzed past him. He then flew down from the cloud and went to ground level, he looked into Link’s eyes. “I believe… it is time to get serious…” Ganondorf said before he let out a boarish roar, his whole body began to change and he grew in height. Tusks began to sprout and his hair grew in size, Link was now in Ganondorf’s shadow as he towered over Link. This… Is Demon Boar Ganondorf.
“...Fine.” Link said as he shook his head, reaching into his pouch to take out the Fierce Deity Mask, quickly doning it and transforming in that same burst of energy. “But this time, I won’t be holding back like I did with Thanos.” Link said as his voice had gotten deeper, however the appearance had a different take to it due to the hybrid form’s influenced.
“You held back?” Ganondorf raised an eyebrow, his blades were larger, at least building sized. To be prepared he coated his swords in Armament Haki before further enhancing them with Dark Magic.
“Yes. Kun Vulom!” Link shouted out, confusing Boar Gerudo.
“I COME!” A voice shouted out, a rather thick looking sword spinning out of portal. The sword looked like a strange hybrid between Death Sword boss and Soul Edge. The sword spun, flew by, and slashed across Ganondorf’s back.
“Is that a talking sword?” Ganondorf asked once more, obviously confused about this situation. He then shook his head and got said head back into the game, the game of thro- I mean uh… combat. “Let’s continue our duel, Hylia’s Guardian!” Despite his size he shot towards Link with such speed that would leave even Spitfire gawking. Raising his blades high, Ganondorf prepared to slam his blades down upon the Deity. Link leaped out of the way as he simultaneously took out his helix sword, rolling around to get back the giant boar and deliver a Back Slice to Ganondorf’s tail as it was one of the weakspots Link remembers from the games.
Turning around faster than Thanos’ father had left him, he slammed the flat side of his blade into Link. Sending the Deity towards the castle, going through its walls, using his tremendous strength. Ganondorf leaped after Link, as Link recovered he found himself in the walls of the castle. Just as Ganondorf crashed through it.
Link started to swing his Helix Sword in a frenzy, sending out energy disc after energy disc toward Boar Ganondorf’s face and chest. Boar Ganondorf let out a roar, and he turned orange; he had used the same spell Calamity Ganon uses during his second phase. The Flaming barrier, he watched as the disks crashed into him without pain, Link looked in in shock as he knew those discs were the strong things in the zelda verse capable of taking down bosses within seconds. Boar Ganondorf began to laugh and readied his blades.
“Oden-Nitoryu… Paradise White Waterfall!” Boar Ganondorf swung his two colossal blades at Link, the whole castle was cut in half, Link had to play this safely in the most Dark Soulish way possible, roll dodge out of the fucking way. Link got up to his feet as he starts channeling the Ice Arrow spell into his Helix, soon throwing out ice-powered energy discs in an attempt to bring the flaming barrier down.
Ganondorf just walked through the ice arrows before Spartan kicked Link, though the Hylian rolled out of the way. Ganondorf then slapped Link away with one of his swords. “Come on! Aren’t you supposed to be all high and mighty? Couldn’t you have use more skills to take me down?” Ganondorf asked before miniature thunderclouds began to form, immediately after, devastating bolts of lightning rained down on Link. Some of the bolts he managed to deflect away while some shocked him. Link felt pain, but the deity wouldn’t allow himself to flinch. With a mighty leap and empowered by his cloak, which was now white in this form, Link jumped over Ganondorf before spinning himself forward to execute the Helm Splitter sword kill in an attempt to cleave Boar Ganondorf’s head in two. However he found himself unable to do so, instead the blade clanked off of his head. Then at that moment, both Jeff and Fierce Deity Link knew, they fucked up.
Covering his hands in Ryou haki, thus making his blades be covered in the Haki, Boar Ganondorf readied his blades. The Boar Demon rammed his head into Link’s body, sending him through the castle roof and near the roof of the giant floor. Jumping after Link, Boar Ganondorf readied his blades as Link was recovering from the attack. “Oden-Nitoryu…” He said in a deep growl, he was surrounded in a red aura that was wreaked of malice. He clenched his blades tighter than Thanos’ hugs “ Togen…” Boar Ganondorf shot like a torpedo towards Link, a trail of red following him. “TOTSUKA!!!” Link was met with a devastating X like slice across his body, the blow made the Hylian spurt blood out of said chest. A lot of it.
“D-damnit… Can’t get to the tail, the head is immune to damage, nothing happens to the chest. Where in the Fly Pot is the weakness!? Think, Link, Link!” Link mentally thought to himself as the talking sword known asKun Vulom continued its assault either slashing widely, or firing random blasts of Light, Darkness, or harmony, but every attempt was met with no results.
Suddenly, a pack link slid out from the ground, and twined around Link’s ankle.
“Stay calm, Link,” Shiva’s voice soothed, as he felt his magic and health refill, and his wounds heal. “You’re not alone in this fight.”
At the same time, a pack link caught Ganandorf by the ankle. Ganandorf briefly felt a chill along his spine. But when he turned to the ground, there was no sign of whatever had grabbed.
Link felt his link to the diamond dog pulse. “He has a weak point,” Shiva explained, as Link saw the weak point highlight on Ganandorf’s body. “Every time he makes an attack, his barrier goes down. One of us needs to attack, and then the other can hit him while the barrier’s down.”
“So in a way.” Link said as he held his Helix Sword with both hands. “Wind Waker Ganondorf boss fights in a different formula.” he guessed with a breathless sigh.
“I… guess?” Shiva asked, before Link felt her link probe at his mind. An image of Wind Waker Ganondorf flashed before his eyes. “Oh. Yeah, pretty much.”
“If you’ve got anything holy on you, we can take turns alternating attacks.” Link mentally said as his Helix Sword shimmer with the light arrow spell.
“Hmm…” Shiva hummed, before he felt a golden light envelop her from below. “Well, I’ve got some tricks from Celestia. That’ll work, right?”
“I’m sorry to say this, but for me to keep my rank as commander, I must slay you. Prepare and may your soul rest in pepperoni.” Ganondorf said before raising his blades high, he then swoops down for one final attack.
“Oh, crap, look out!”
The ground exploded between Ganandorf and Link. Ganandorf’s entire body shuddered as his swords rang against a diamond wall enhanced by Armament Haki, eliciting a gong-like ‘WRONG ~!”
As Ganandorf reeled from the sudden defense, the wall dropped, and Link took this opportunity to slash out a Light Arrow powered energy disc straight into Ganondorf’s gut.
“...” For a moment Ganondorf felt nothing, no pain, or a need to scream. “Well that’s- OH MOTHERFUCKER!!!!” Ganondorf shrieked as he felt the agonizing pain of the attack, light began to shine from his mouth then his eyes. “BULLET HELP ME-” There was then an explosion of pure light, sending a booming shockwave that knocked all of the supports to the floor but one. Ganondorf then falls from the sky, his armor shattered, his cape ripped and burnt. He then hit the roof of a bakery, or what was left of it. Ganondorf’s top half of his body was showing.
“...I can’t… Move… My body… Nor can I feel my dick…” Ganondorf wheezed weakly, “GG, I won that fight, but GG no re.”
Link’s shoulders slumped in annoyance. Meanwhile, Shiva popped up from the ground like she was climbing out of a swimming pool. She regarded Ganandorf with a confused expression before glancing at Link.
“I think I preferred the one you remember,” she noted.
“Silence wench, I do not wish to be evil anymore, I only wish to be happy.” Ganondorf said weakly, trying to give Shiva the middle finger but failing on the account that he can’t move.
Link was going to make a quip, but he was simply too tired of it all to try. Link reached up to remove the mask, returning to normal as his hybrid lion body did the same- a surge of pain shot through his body, as the adrenaline finally wore off.
Noticing his pain, Shiva quickly tied a link around his wrist, leeching away his pain and exhaustion.
“A-are we done here? Please say yes..” Link asked with a groan as he was getting tired of punishing his body past the limit.
“Yes, leave this old injured man to continue to suffer as you skip along a path full of sunshine and rainbows as the “evil” guy slowly withers away.” Ganondorf snarked. Link’s hand twitched on the helt of his master sword, however he has to chant a mantra to remind himself that this is a Displaced, not the real ganondorf and that killing him now would be meaningless.
Shiva glared at the Gerudo, before throwing a pack link bolt at his face. Instead of hurting him, it gave him a vision of not just her daughter - a beautiful labrador-like pup - but also of the family awaiting Link back home, who was Princess Luna; a goddess in a mortal body alongside what looked to be his daughter, a pony wolf-like fox named Trinity.
“All we’re trying to do is get back to our families, Gerudo,” Shiva said darkly. “Think about that.”
“Look, can you at least… At least heal me man? Look at me, I already lost, I want to go back down the floors and talk to Bullet, Zabuza, Davy Jones and Arkham Knight man… Sheesh…” Ganondorf begged, looking into Shiva’s eyes. Before the diamond dog could reply...
“Recover what you have lost,” Eric said, appearing from the shadows and placing a hand on the Gerudo’s shoulder. “Dark Rejuvenation.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-C-ApyyHBA
The choir of Gangsters Paradise began to play as Ganondorf floated to his feet. “Alright, have fun getting past the next challenge! Hehehe! Welp, I’ll be off, bye!” Ganondorf then puts on a fancy hat and sunglasses and he moonwalks out of the ruined bakery.
Shiva sighed, shaking her head in exasperation, before turning to Link, focusing on healing him. “You alright, Link?” she asked gently.
“Physically alright. mentally? Starting to lose it a bit.” Link said with a sigh.
Shiva chuckled. “Same, pack brother,” she said. “Well… hopefully it will be over soon. And we can all go home.”
“You fought well, kid,” Eric said, offering a hand to the Hylian.
“Hey!” The voice of Ryker cried out, “Get your sorry ass up those stairs, fucking lazy asses!” Ryker ordered from the monitor.
“Gladly” Eric said, as Link took Eric’s extended hand to help the Hylian to his feet. “Cause I have a size 12 boot to shove so far up your ass you’ll be using my shoe laces as Dental Floss”
“Hey Shiva, would you like to help me search for who fucking asked? Oh and I left you guys a present during the way to the challenge room, It’s another door, check it out if you guys want to. I’m not forcing you, which is pretty fucking ironic given that I forced you guys to come here. Well, go! Leave! Now! Continue your fucking trek so that I can talk to you guys in person!” Ryker ordered once more. Link’s mind fired off with all sorts of violent thoughts of what he would do if he could get his hands on that Irish motherfucker.
Shiva sighed, heading for the exit with Link and Eric in tow. “Can this place get any more crazy?” she wondered.
“EBOLA!!!”
Shiva covered her face with her claws, as Link and Eric glowered at her. “Why did I open my mouth?” she bemoaned.
“And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what she said.” Ryker said over the intercom.
“You just had to jinx it.” Link asked with a shake of his head.
“AARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
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Ryker Reveals Horrifyingly Dreadful Past!
Ryker Reveals His Horrifyingly Dreadful Past!
Ryker and Blazy stood there in a hellscape, some people have died in the crossfire such as Nox but Ryker didn’t pay it no mind. Ryker looked at Blazy, he was not tired nor was Blazy. The phoenix-dragon was grinning, tongues of fire licking at the sides of her mouth as her eyes glittered in delight. Instead of being annoyed, Ryker was grinning. His carnivorous teeth were showing, he then began to laugh.
“You are by far de mahst challengin’ ahpponent I've fooehght yet! It wooehld seem dat we're at a standstell, yooehr fire can do nahthin’ to me and me plazma can't do nahthin’ to you! dooehgh, I semply do naht want dis battle to end, come at me!” Ryker said, his Irish accent kicking in, turning into plasma he shot his way towards Blazy, landing a Plasma kick on her.
“Mmmm…” Blazy purred suggestively, curling around Ryker’s kick and seizing his leg in her jaws. Judo-flipping him to the ground, Blazy flipped and began to river dance on his chest, her back talons like fiery gauntlets as they pummeled his body into the ground.
“Oh-ho, the Fire Dance of Death,” Luco commented, popping in from the side. “She only saves that for her bestest, brightest…”
WHACK! Blazy’s tail lashed as she spun in her dance, sending Luco flipping through the air until he became a glitter in the sky. Yet even then, his laughter still echoed.
“OH-HO-HO! Looks like even she doesn’t want the fight to end! Ryker, you lucky man!”
"What?! Comn ahn!" Ryker groaned, resting his sheleighleigh on his shoulder. “I want to finesh ooehr battle, dis stenks.”
Blazy paused, peering down at him. “Mm?” she asked.
“Blazy’s right!” Luco protested, popping up over Ryker. “Just a second ago, you said ‘Ah seemply do naht want dis battle to end!” He glanced up at Blazy with a grin. “I LOVE THIS MAN! Twisting and turning like an M. Night Shyamalan film!”
“Mm,” Blazy rolled her eyes, but did one more tap dance before jumping off Ryker’s body. At the same time, Luco somehow fell from the sky and dropped onto her back.
“Welp, let us know when you want to continue our dance,” Luco declared, as Blazy made the ‘call me’ gesture with a wink. “And don’t forget to be on the lookout for ‘Of Scales and Fur,’ coming out next year. Assuming Three Tails isn’t a cowardly bitch and procrastinates again, of course.”
“Mm-mm,” Blazy hummed with a shake of her head. Then, with a flap of her wings, she vanished with a burst of fireworks.
“...Fuckin’ ‘ell man…”
While they were walking up the staircase they spotted a familiar Titan leaning on something that was definitely not a wall. Thanos then spots the group and does a thing with his body so that it was covered up.
“It is ou brudda! Hello Thanos!” Elae greeted, Thanos continued to lean on the wall.
“Greetings.” Thanos said awkwardly, “Go along, nothing to see here, nothing at all.” Lucci reached out to pat the Titan’s shoulder only for Thanos to catch it in the same manner he did on the second floor.
“...Shiva, help m-” Lucci then got his arm broken by Thanos… Again… “MOTHERFUCKER!!!!” Lucci cursed, looking at his broken arm, which Shiva was quick to set with a grimace.
“I’m getting way too used to this,” Shiva grumbled.
“Anyways, what are you hiding?” Entity asked, resting his scythe on his shoulder. Thanos was silent. “...Thanos....”
“Move along, I’m hiding nothing but my PTSD, you don’t want to see what happened in that room. Go. Leave.” Thanos ordered, pointing up the stairs.
“Move out of the way Thanos, we don’t have the time!” Black then pushes Thanos out of the way and what was there, is a door with the Irish flag.
“What is that?” Elia asked, tilting her head at the door,
“It’s a door, I don’t know what it is but it’s most likely a trap.” Thanos said with a shake of his head, “I was trying to get you guys from falling for it, I guess curiosity is too powerful for even me to fight.”
“I’ll fight it!” Shiva declared. “Come along everyone; we don’t need to get distracted now!”
“Oh, let’s open it, I mean come on it can’t be all that bad!” Elia opens the door and they see DIO himself standing there behind a desk, some food on top of it. They were food that you would expect to come from the movies.
Shiva reluctantly came back with a sigh. “Never mind.”
“Hello and welcome to the Theater of Eliatopia or the Tower, go on in everyone. Today's show is about Ryker’s past!” DIO said, “Also, the name’s Chill, I met with Link, I’ve been in his head. I’m the God of Epicness, now take the food and enjoy the show!” Chill said with a grin, Lord Twigo looked towards Kodo and shrugged. Taking a bucket of popcorn he moves on with Thanos and the boys following.
“..Hold up, hold up, hold up..” Link began as he raised his hands. “You’re not going to be memeing, are you?” he asked, since this was Dio who alot made memes of and is known for his psychotic time freezing stand.
“I can, but not now.” Chill said with a shrug, “Also you’re welcome, I got you laid!”
They all took their seats, Lord Twigo getting some glasses to protect his eyes. He sat at the best spot in all movie theaters; the back.
Thanos sat a few seats from him, due to his height he has to sit in the back. Not that he minds it, meanwhile Elia was sitting next to Entity who was a few paces below the top. All the while Lucci sat next to Thanos, meanwhile Elae sat on top of Thanos’ head. Link decides to sit in the middle, not too far, but not too close; the perfect bal- I mean… center.
“Dis should be entertaining my bruddas!” Elae said.
Shiva settled herself near the exit, as did Luke and Kodo.
“Finally, a good break from a fight.” Black said as he leaned against a dark side of a wall, Luna Black looking at him curiously. “I think I’m tired.”
“Well, you could always take a nap.” Luna Black suggested.
“No… not like that.” Black said as he waited for the movie to start.
“At least it's just a movie, not a fight..” Links mentally said as he got comfortable.
They all see Ryker appear on the screen. Ryker was sitting on a chair with a desk in front of him, Ryker was facing the camera. It seems like Ryker was recording from his monitor, Ryker yawned and began to stretch.
"Okay, what is going on everybody? I don't really uh… Show this to people. Oh! I almost forgot, this is being recorded before I cause mayhem. You guys, out of every single batch, you guys just intrigue me so much! I mean Shiva is so kind and for what reason? Thanos is really, really, REALLY smart, I've seen your head. Stop being dumb and maybe you won't get treated like shit." Ryker pointed towards Thanos just by pure luck.
“Ya got a point.” Thanos said before taking a bite out of his fried chicken.
"Well, anyway, here's my past shown on screen. I probably didn't give you guys a better understanding since… Ya know, I'm gonna drop a giant fucking meteor on you guys. To that, I apologize for my future activities. Well anyway, you know some bits and pieces so let's start it from the top!"
The screen then shifts to Equestria, like usual everything was booming and peaceful. There was one specific house that had an Irish flag on it. Out came Ryker, though he didn't look any different from who he was now.
"Good morning Ponyville! And good morning to all!" Past Ryker said with a grin before he walked down the streets. Many ponies were waving at him, he waved back. Suddenly Ryker’s voice spoke over the images shown.
"It was peaceful, all was nice, I'd been in Equestria for five years then. Everything was nice! I had friends, family, friends that I considered family, but that all changed when Kaido’s Forces attacked. Get the Avatar the Last Airbender reference?” Ryker said with a laugh.
The screen flashes red and they saw nothing but fire, Ponyville was on fire and they saw Kaido from it. There were some ponies in front of him, notably Vinyl Scratch, Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, Luna, and Applebloom there, battered and bruised…. And in chains. Kaido wasn’t alone though, he had King, Garou, Azula, Enel, and Pain there with him. The screen then switches to Past Ryker, he was being pulled towards them and injured a rather large piece of wood stuck in his ankle. Also in chains. The people who were pulling him were Kai and Turles, he was then placed next to Luna.
“Honestly, this is nothing personal, nothing personal at all. I was running a little low on resources so I pillaged you guys! However,” Kaido then rests the top of his Kanabo on the ground, making a booming sound. “I ask you but one question… Do you fear death?”
The screen focuses on Past Ryker and Luna.
Luna glanced at Ryker, she found the poor man battered and bloodied with some slashes on his body. “Hey, er… What is your name again?” Luna asked Past Ryker, Past Ryker weakly turned his head to Luna.
“It’s… Ryker…” Past Ryker said struggling to not cough, for it would alert Kaido and his men.
“Ryker, I need you to drink my blood.” Luna said, looking straight into the Irish man’s eyes. Ryker was flustered at this.
“W-what?” Past Ryker pulled back, Enel glanced at Past Ryker, Past Ryker then shuddered. “It’s nothing sir, I’m just playing out scenarios in my head, I got so caught up I accidentally said it out loud.”
The lie was far too detailed for it to be a lie, so Enel just shrugged him off, “Oh well, you do you I guess.” Enel then walks off.
“I need you to drink my blood Human, just enough to make your body heal.” Luna said, looking at Ryker, though Ryker was still flustered.
“Why?” Past Ryker asked the Alicorn, “You’re royalty, a princess for crying out loud, why should I?” Past Ryker gave her a look of confusement and judgement.
“Alicorn Blood is something of legend, it can heal, cure diseases, and even grant you eternal youth. I need you to drink my blood, grab young Applebloom and run. Run like your life depends on it, because it does.” Luna motioned Past Ryker to look at Applebloom he does and turns back to Luna.
“...But… Wouldn’t it make you feel weird? This is way too odd…” A determined look from Luna shut him up, “Alright… But if we get out of this, don’t put me in jail.” Past Ryker started to lick at one of Luna’s wounds, sending shivers down her spine. Luna had a little blush on her face but powered through it, meanwhile Kaido was continuing his speech.
“I offer you guys a choice, join me, since you guys are the only survivors in Ponyville. And if you guys make any sudden movements, I will order my men from space to annihilate the remaining cities. Join me and become something more, you will gain power, wealth, fame, and most of all, freedom. Wouldn’t that be nice?” Kaido raised an eyebrow, Rainbow Dash clenched her teeth.
Link felt Vader vibes from this scene.
“You don’t know the first damn thing about freedom! You stand here, talking all high and mighty, just you wait until I get myself out of these chains and I’ll shove my hoof so far up your-” She was then promptly decapitated by King, her head rolled over to Twilight. Twilight gasped and tears formed into her eyes.
Shiva covered Kodo’s eyes, even as the pup yelped in shock. “What in Tartarus?!” he stammered.
“And Ryker wonders why I don’t pick fights with others?” Shiva muttered.
“You will not talk to the King of Beasts like that! Let her death be an example to all, we nor I will tolerate such behavior!” King said, glaring down at Rainbow Dash’s corpse before promptly kicking it. Making it tumble into a collapsing house, right as Rainbow Dash’s headless corpse reached the house it crumbled.
“You cruel demon from Tartarus!” Twilight said through her teeth and tears. King snapped his head towards Twilight.
“Life is cruel, why should the afterlife be any different? Join us, this is very rare and generous of Kaido to do, usually he’ll let us rip and tear until you are all bones. What is it going to be? Live a life with full stomachs and be happy or live in a barren wasteland all alone trying to get what little pieces you have home back together while you're suffering!” King then kicks Twilight onto her back before stepping onto her, “What will it be, Twilight Sparkle? Will ye serve?”
“I-I’ll serve!” A voice different from Twilight spoke out, snapping his head towards the voice he spots Vinyl Scratch. “I’ll… I’ll serve…”
“Good… Bring her here.” Kaido said, looking towards Kai and Turles, they then lugged her over to Kaido’s side. “She made the right choice, which one of you guys will make the wrong one?”
“Now!” Luna ordered, suddenly Past Ryker bursts from his shackles and grabs Applebloom, he then turns towards the burning Everfree Forest. Going to an all out sprint towards it, though he was hindered by the wood stuck in him. Luna then breaks her shackles with a war cry and summons her battle armor, looking at Kaido and snarling.
“Right then and there, I had fear and adrenaline coursing through me, it didn’t matter I had a piece of wood making me weak, I still ran. I was scared, scared that I was going to die and scared of letting Princess Luna down. I wasn’t sure if I could’ve made it, well, that question was answered soon enough…” Ryker narrated darkly.
The screen showed Past Ryker desperately running with Applebloom in his arms, jumping over fallen trees and dodging the fires and trees that were currently falling.
“W-why are ya doing this?” Applebloom asked the Irish man, “Ah always teased ya over and over again, why are ya savin’ me?”
“Because that’s what heroes do.” Past Ryker said, looking at Applebloom with a smile for a split second. Though that was a mistake as one of the trees collapsed onto Past Ryker, making him fall down. Applebloom then rolled, and Past Ryker was stuck. “H-help me Applebloom…” Past Ryker reached out towards Applebloom, they all then heard a Pterodactyl screech echoing across the forest. Past Ryker then looks towards Applebloom desperation in his eyes. “Help!”
Applebloom looked at Past Ryker long and hard before she turned around and ran away from him. Past Ryker’s eyes widened, before slamming his fist down onto the ground. Accidentally getting a splinter, “Applebloom! Applebloom don’t you run away from me! Help me! I’m begging you, PLEASE!!! APPLEBLOOM!!!” Past Ryker begged, tears began to form in his eyes as he desperately clawed at the floor. “Applebloom!”
“She left me to die there, she left me in the hands of those beasts, she left me to burn and suffer… That… That scarred me, literally.” Ryker then appeared on the screen, he then showed them a sixth degree burn mark on his back. It then focuses on the past once more.
There Past Ryker laid, trying to push the tree off of him but failing to do so. “Bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger!” Past Ryker swore, tugging on the tree before he heard something drop. He then winces as he looks up for the fire that has now finally reached him, catching him on fire. He sees King with his blade out.
“Look at you, wasted and gasping for air. But you don’t get to go yet, when you’re burning and slowly turning into ashes, then you have my permission to die.” King said sheathing his sword and turning his back on Past Ryker.
“Please… Save me… I-I’ll work for your master, please! I don’t want to die! Mercy!” Past Ryker cried out, tears making their way down to his chin, King then turned to Past Ryker and squats to his level.
“You’re far too weak, and you’ll always be like that, nothing but a weak, pathetic, irredeemable, ineffectual Irish. All of this you’ve worked for, you friends, families, pets, home, and possessions, that… All of it is now burning. And now, you are too.” King then stands up and turns into a pterodactyl, “Oh, and don’t worry, I’ll make sure that Applebloom dies.” King said before he flew off, the flames finally engulfed Past Ryker, he then began to scream in pure agonizing pain.
“So there I was, burning and like he said, gasping for air. And as I was dying, a Void Dweller showed up.” Ryker said as the screen turned to Ryker looking up as a blinding light revealed itself. Out came a young female woman, she had an awful lot of pink on her, she also had a pink umbrella, carrying it over her shoulder. She looks down at Past Ryker and holds a hand to her mouth as she did an over dramatic gasp.
“Oh my cosmos! What happened to you? You look like you’re in pain.” The Void Dweller said looking down at Past Ryker, Past Ryker gave her an annoyed look as he was slowly dying. “Oh and my name is Atola by the way.”
“H-hello, m-my nam… n-name i-is Ry-Ryker..” Past Ryker said, struggling to manage to words out. “C-can y-yo… you please help m-me?”
“Oh why didn’t you say so?” Atola then picks the tree that was on him up before throwing it to the side. “Hm… You seem weak, too weak for my tastes. What say I give you power and a new home?”
"I-I wo-wooehld be fahrever in yooehr debt." Past Ryker said, still looking up at her, Atola flashed him a mischievous smile.
“Irish! I likey, likey, well you can repay my debt when you get better.” Atola then snaps her fingers and Ryker disappears, “Welp, I’m done here!”
“Yeah the debt wasn’t sex, it was getting put in a fighting pit and having to win a thousand fights. Wasn’t easy.” Ryker said with a chuckle, the screen then shows Ryker holding a baby in his hands. Smiling down at her. “This… is me daughter, Nora, so beautiful yet so fierce. I had an affair with the local Chaos Goddess, because I was drunk. She decided to keep it and I couldn’t be much happier, all was fine, all was peaceful, and all was happy. Until guess FUCKING what? A Void Dweller popped up and put her in the Dark Realm!”
It shows a hooded figure pushing a twelve year old Nora in, hand out towards her father and mother, she then vanishes. Ryker then flies towards the Void Dweller, anger in his eyes before he was slapped away like an unwanted puppy.
“That day… I lost my world again, and to the ethnicity of one of my saviors no less. That pissed me off, he gave me a cube, the Eliacube. It spoke to me, told me that there was a way to save my child, my world. Kill the Displaced, take their energy, fuel Dark Ki to the portal to the Dark Realm! And that’s what I did…” Ryker shows his past self mercilessly killing the likes of Beerus, Galactus, Superman, Whitebeard, and more. Past Ryker was on a rampage, “I made events and offered people freedom, those who declined, died. I know this is hypocritical but it was for a great cause, to save my world, my Nora.”
“And now… After seven thousand years here we are, you guys sitting here and watching a screen of me telling you my struggles. All of the people I’ve lost, every single one of them, my regrets, my pain, my suffering, my betrayal, all of it you’ve witnessed. And now… I thank you guys for uh… Sitting through here, I’m not going to kill some of you. I’m not gonna kill Thanos because you are going to be my commander, I won’t kill Black because Ed and I would fight for months. That’s too much of a hassle, everyone else is going to die, I may change my mind on Shiva because she’s the only person who isn’t a fucking asshole! Yeah, I’m looking at you Eric Von Asshole. Or should I say Eric Monohan, and don’t you break this TV screen, or I will do bad things. Very bad things, well uh anyway, leave. Go. That’s all. Byeeee!” Ryker then waves at the camera and the screen gets cut off.
Black remained silent as he watched the screen turnoff, the bright light disappearing as the room dimmed. ‘You see now Saiyan, this is what you do to each other, conquer, slaying, murdering for what goal? You're all brutes that need to be put down like the rabid dogs you are. But you can help me… do what the gods had failed to do!’ A second voice joined his mind, Black remained un-flinched by this.
‘You will remain silent, you're a psychopath and I won’t hear another word from you. ’ Black scoffed as the second voice decided to remain silent. The thought of what Ryker would do to them, pissed him off. But as the Saiyan had his mental crisis, the others began to voice their opinions on the movie, Shiva briefly looked at Black in concern before being drawn to the opinions of the others.
“...I feel bad for him.” Thanos said blankly, “Sure he’s trying to kill us- Er… You guys but look what the world has done to my man.” Thanos said, pointing at the screen.
“Yeah…” Kodo mumbled. “Doesn’t sound like he’s had it easy.”
“Indeed” Eric agreed. “I don’t think any of us has suffered more than he.”
“I guess I'm chopped liver.” Link said with a shrug since he appeared to be on Ryker’s kill list.
“Not necessarily,” Shiva noted. “He’s still on the fence about me; maybe I can talk to him.” Her tail wagged hopefully. “I’ve always preferred diplomacy over fighting.”
Luke chuckled. “No kidding,” he said. “Every time us dogs started to get into fights about anything, she could break it up just by walking into the room.”
“We can use Talk No Jutsu on him; change him for the better with the right choice in vernacular.” Thanos said with a grin, “Just you watch.”
“I hate it…” Black commented as he got the others attention. “I hate the fact I’m gonna live and watch all of you suffer because I’m kin with Edward.” Black growled as he clenched his fist. “It boils my blood.” Black then looked up to meet everybodies gaze, “I couldn’t live with myself knowing I could’ve prevented your guy's death…”
“Same here, he wants my strength, but with the power of Talk No Jutsu I can save him from the dark side!” Thanos declared heroically.
“It’s unlikely… I feel like he’s far to gone, look what he did to the Displaced before us. He destroyed them for energy so then he can bring back his daughter. To slaughter hundreds, if not thousands of Displaced for thousands of years, that does something to one’s brain.” Black argued as he held out his hand, showing the images of most of the displaced before them. “I’m sorry to say this, but I think he’s unreasonable…”
“Then let’s beat the corruptness out of ‘em!” Thanos said with a grin, putting a fist into his palm.
“What chance do we have?!” Black argued. “He killed a Beerus displace! The strongest God of Destruction known in Dragon Ball. He even killed Superman!” Black argued.
“We have something he doesn’t, we have a hail mary, we have something that could beat him we have… Elae.” Thanos said with a grin, “Also we can beat him with Thack and Mia.”
“I don’t even think Thack and Mia together could beat him…” Black let out a sigh as he slumped against the wall. “The only one who I could think of beating Ryker is Edward, and dear the Omni-Kings know where he is…”
“Didn’t say anything about Elae though…” Thanos pointed out.
Black looked up to the Titan with tired eyes, “Thanos… what's the chance Elae could be Ryker?” Black asked.
“...According to my calculations, there is a fifty percent chance. But if we help him…” Thanos said with a grin.
“It won’t matter…” Black said as he rubbed his eyes. “I’m too damn tired for this crap.”
Meanwhile Chill was flying over Link, “See this guy, he got laid because of me, I’m the perfect wingman. I’m the reason why he pounded Light!” Chill said with a grin, pointing at Link.
“Whoa,” Luke whispered, before turning to Shiva. “Who’s Light and how did he pound her?”
Shiva snickered. But before she or anyone else could explain...
“Hey-hey-hey!” Link cut off while giving Chill a look of disapproval. “What goes on during love, stays with love.” he said.
“I do what I want, ZA WARUDO TOKI WO TOMARE!!!” Chill boomed and time began to freeze, Chill then ran away then proceeded to continue time. Thanos blinked. Unfortunately Due to the Goddess Of Time that blessed Link, he was unaffected by the time freeze.
“What?” Link said during the time freeze and before time resumed.
“...Where is that rat bastard?” Thanos asked, looking around to search for the God.
“He ran that way.” Link pointed where Chill yeeted him off to.
“FLINT LOCKWOOD!!!!” Thanos cried out before running after Chill like Officer Earl.
Link shook his head at their shenanigans. “Discord would have a field day here…” he said in amusement.
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
A Challenging Challenge For A Challenge!
A Challenging Challenge for a Challenge!
Ryker blocked a punch from Luffy, smiling as Luffy tried and failed to defeat him.
“Who else is dead now? Maoehd, Blake, and Nappa! It's ahnly you and Grievooehs now.” Ryker said before dodging out of the way of a punch by Luffy.
“Thundering Strike!” Grievous cried out, readying his Thunder Sword, slamming it down on the ground a huge bolt of lightning slammed down on Ryker.
Luffy huffed and so did Grievous, “Did… Did we get him?” Luffy asked before he was grabbed by the throat by Ryker.
"No, you've joehst pessed me ahff." Ryker growled before sending a plasma wave into Luffy’s rib, sending him flying through rubble as he let out a scream in pain. He turned around only to be kicked in the face, Ryker crashed onto the ground. “Who in the-” He then gets up and he sees Ultra Instinct Grievous.
“Well, this should be interesting.”
“Indeed,” Luco quipped, appearing on the sidelines. “Hi~ me again.”
“Leave us be!” They both pulled out their guns and shot at Luco, only for the monkey man to teleport away with a burst of fireworks.
“Now hold on a second there, partners,” Luco chastised in Applejack’s accent. “I ain’t here to cause trouble.” He paused. “Oh, who am I kidding? YES I AM! Just like Eris and the Golden Apple. Though I wouldn’t recommend eating this apple; it bites back! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
Another burst of fireworks exploded between them. But Luco wasn’t the one that appeared. Instead, it was someone else. Someone that made Grievous' eyes widen in shock. Ryker, however, just growled, severely pissed off at Luco, Blazy, Grievous, and her.
“OVERHEAT!!!”
Meanwhile, the Diamond Dogs paused, glancing back at the way they came.
“You feel that?” Shiva asked.
“A disturbance,” Luke whispered. “Yeah.”
“But… it’s not possible…” Kodo added. “M-Maybe…”
The dogs looked at each other with fear in their eyes, before...
“Oi, you guys comin’? Pause on that.” Lucci called out, glancing back at them.
Briefly glancing back, Shiva and her family rushed to join the others, just as they reached a new room. Inside, they saw Asura sitting with two wheels next to him. One wheel had all of the Displaced but Phoenix and the other had all of their mortal enemies.
“Is that fucking Asura?” Thanos asked, pointing at the Deity of Wrath. Thanos was then fangirling he wrapped his arm around Black, “That’s fucking Asura!” Thanos squeaked.
“Never heard of the guy.” Link said with a shrug.
Black looked dumbly at Asura before getting out of Thanos’s grasp. “Who the hell is Asura?”
“Asura, from Asura’s Wrath” Eric turned to the Saiyan. “A video game my friend played constantly. Very angry, and very powerful.”
“..So similar to Hulk or Kratos, minus the green or the deep hatred for Gods.” Link guessed.
“Well he held great anger for his fellow Godly Deities,” Eric corrected.
“Hmmm… neat,” Black said simply as he looked at Asura.
“Well, his daughter is being a tool for war and he wasn’t happy about that, got defeated and got knocked out for 12,000 years while his daughter suffers. Asura proceeds to kill a lot of Gods, a lot.” Thanos explained more to Link.
“Sounds reasonable,” Luke replied.
“You forget the Five-hundred years after he was defeated by his brother in law” Eric pointed out to the Titan.
“Oh, thanks, I almost forgot that. Yeah, family is complicated with Asura, but Asura and Yasha then proceed to fight the King of Monsters, aka Vlitra.” Thanos explained once more.
“Tch, I don’t know why I’m here but someone wanted me to spin some wheels. I fought him and lost,” Asura said with an eternal frown on his face. “Whoever it lands on your fight, the ones who fight them are chosen by this wheel.” Asura said, tapping the Displaced wheel. “As you see, it’s very simple, if you don’t get it you’re an idiot.”
“So basically a wheel of fortune… lucky me…” Black muttered.
The wheel beside the Displaced wheel had Kaido, Zamasu, Daybreaker, The Avatar, and Umbra.
Black looked at the Zamasu option with gritted teeth, the voice in his head laughing. ‘Well well well, looks like I'm up there Saiyan.’
“...The Avatar Aang?” Link asked in confusion as he saw the name.
‘Shut the hell up Zamasu… ’ Black growled.
“Dammit, why can’t we ever be free from that bastard?” Eric muttered through gritted teeth as he saw Umbra’s icon.
“Ohhhhhhh…” Luke and Kodo moaned at the sight of Day Breaker.
“How many times do we have to teach you this old man?!” Thanos cried out, lookin at both Zamasu’s and Umbra’s icons. “Not you, you stayed dead.” Thanos pointed to the Kaido icon.
Asura looked at Black, sensing his anger, “Hmph, take your anger out on one of these fighters. Now… I’m going to spin these damn wheels!” Asura then stood between them and took a mighty spin of both of them. It then lands on Thanos and Daybreaker.
“Oh son of a-” Thanos said before he was cut off and was teleported to Ponyville, though it was in flames. But in the room a table popped up and there was the surrounding area with miniature Thanos and miniature Daybreaker.
“Ain’t that fucking ironic.” Black said as he eyed the miniature Thanos and Daybreaker.
“I have to agree with Black on this one, Thanos,” Eric said trying to hide the chuckle forming in his throat
Thanos looked up from the table/arena and gave Eric a tiny middle finger. “Fuck you.” Thanos said blankly, though he couldn’t see Eric, he figured he was there.
“You can do it, Thanos!” Luke declared, a sudden burst of courage empowering him. “Beat that demon!”
“I have a way you can deal with Day Breaker” Eric said looking to the Titan. “Throw cake at her” At that Black began to snicker.
“Fuck off, that’s offensive and I still love her! Jackass.” Thanos cried out, showing him the finger.
“Yeah, how will that even help?!” Luke added.
“I’ll find it hilarious” Eric said busting into a full blow laughter
“I second that.” Black commented.
“When I get out of here, I will rip off your other arm and shove it up your ass. And as for you Eric, I will turn you into a fucking donut and give you to Satan!” Thanos snapped.
“Donut? It’s not pink it’s a lightish red” Eric said howling in laughter
“...I’m going to break your spine.” Thanos said with a growl, pissed off, it takes a lot to piss him off.
“Besides, it's just a rapidash, alot of fire, and anger problems.” Link said jokingly.
Shiva glanced at Luke with an intrigued grin. “Getting your confidence back?” she asked.
“I’m not gonna let her traumatize me,” Luke said. “I’m back… and she’s going away!”
“Y-Yeah!” Kodo agreed. “Go Thanos!”
“Hmph.” Asura crossed his arms and peered down at the two minis.
On the stage Thanos was raising both of his hands.
“Celestia, I feel your pain, you’re hurt, I am too.” Thanos approached Daybreaker, a hand on his chest. “You and I are similar, we both have a fire in our hearts that will burn everything when we lose control, look around you, look at the destruction you’ve caused. The homes you’ve burnt,” Thanos said looking at the ruins, “Come on, we can fix this together, I can help you.” Thanos reaches a hand out and smiles innocently.
“Aw…” Entity said, holding a hand to his heart. He was touched, very touched. But to Black, he recognized what Thanos was doing, and a small mischievous smile crept onto the Saiyans face.
“Why am I getting a Hulk and Thor vibe right now,” Eric said slightly worried for his friend
“Dis is not de wey!” Elae said with a click or two, looking at Thanos’ almost replicated Thor smile.
SHINK . Elae drops dead- No, that’s not what happened. It was just Link imagining it in his head as he was getting rather sick of the living meme.
Thanos continued to smile at her, his hand out, with the most cheeky smile ever.
“You got this, Thanos…” Luke whispered, glancing at Shiva. “He’s got this!”
Shiva merely quirked an eyebrow, before cautiously tying a pack link around Luke’s wrist. “Go on, Thanos…” Shiva muttered. “Do your thing.”
“Take my hand and we can change the world for the better, we can fix this, ALL of this with the right mindset and a good heart we can-” Thanos was then cut off as Day Breaker blasted him full in the face with a sunlight beam.
“Well, so much for Thanos taking her to a ‘Whole New World’” Link said with a shake of his head.
“PFFFFF…” Black bent over and began to laugh, “Oh that's hilarious!” Black gasped out as he continued to laugh.
“BAH!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!” Lucci erupted into laughter, slapping his knee before he fell over. “AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!”
“YAH!” Shiva yelped. When the others turned to her, Luke and Kodo had vanished down another hole. Shiva had been dragged so fast, that her paws stuck out like Wil E. Coyote after a pratfall. The white diamond dog groaned as Day Breaker’s laugh ripped through the stands.
“You foalish purple oaf,” Daybreaker mocked. “Thinking I need ‘YOUR’ help to change the world for the better? You, who stink of the mutts who tried to destroy my beloved Canterlot?!”
Thanos then grabbed her by the neck and stood to his full height, “I tried my best, I tried to be reasonable but no… Do you know what you just did my girl?” Thanos asked, Conqueror’s Haki twirling around him.
Day Breaker merely grinned at the demon that the Conqueror’s Haki tried to intimidate her with. “I made my position clear,” Celestia replied, her aura boiling the air around them both. “Those who stand against my ponies…”
“...You done fucked up.” Thanos said darkly.
Kodo and Luke poked their heads out, blinking in astonishment.
“Oh dear god.” Entity said, his red eyes dying down to an orange.
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Thanos then coats his fists in Armament Haki before gut punching Day Breaker in her abdomen, knocking the wind out of her sails. Flaring her wings, Day Breaker growled animalistically at the Titan before raising her hooves. The air began to heat to an unsettling degree. The grass beneath them caught fire, and Thanos felt every breath bake his lungs.
Though the Titan never froze and began to fight fire with Hell, kicking it up to Netsu Netsu Heat Man he grabbed her by the horn and made her face go on a date with his fist. I don’t think it’s needed to say that they smashed that day, Thanos then repeats the process over and over again.
“Urgh!” Day Breaker growled. “So you’re more powerful than my usual rogues. An intriguing setback, but ultimately pointless!” Daybreaker reared up and caught his fist, pulling him down before delivering two cloven hooves to his chin. Though she may not have carried the power of a Devil Fruit or a Super Saiyan, she did still carry the magic of an alicorn that wasn’t holding back. And her force was enough to jar his grip off her horn and send him into the air. Rolling back to her hooves, Daybreaker launched into the air, delivering another mule kick that sent him higher, before teleporting above him and summoning a meteor that she introduced to Thanos’ heart. Thanos was sent hurtling into the ground, the impact creating a nuclear-styled explosion that Daybreaker hovered in front of, smirking maniacally.
“You see, this is what we should’ve done with Chrysalis,” she muttered to herself. “This is what we should’ve done with Tirek! This is what we… wait… why is he still moving?”
From the smoke out came Thanos, his fiery aura still there. “Rip and tear until it is done.” Thanos said with a low growl, spitting some blood out. He then flew at Celestia, covering his fist in Ryou Haki as his fist began to heat up to the hundreds. Celsius specifically, using Soru he appeared before Day Breaker. “HEEAAAT!!!!!” Thanos prepared his attack as he watched Day Breaker smirk.
“Heat?” she asked coyly. “You think that I will be harmed by a little heat? Me?! The master of the sun! The…?”
“CRASH!!!!” Thanos then punched Day Breaker in her face, making her face… Go in her face. But Thanos kept going he then made her body meet the ground, making a satisfying CRASH.
“Dear fucking God she fucked up…” Lucci said, getting a handkerchief and rubbing his forehead as if feeling the heat from there.
“I know, and it’s wonderful,” Luke whispered, giggling in glee as he watched his killer get decimated.
“I wish I could cry, but I don’t have tear ducts!” Kodo yipped.
Eric tried to trifle a laugh. “Heh..Brook joke.”
Shiva merely patted both her husband and son’s heads in silence, watching Day Breaker with a contemplative look as the alicorn struggled to pull herself up.
“This… can’t be possible,” Daybreaker growled. She glared up at Thanos, struggling to stay on her hooves. “You… can’t be that strong. This world belongs to me! ME!” Hellfire blazed around her as she shrieked. “I AM EQUESTRIA’S GODDESS!”
“Do you want a cake girl, want some cake?” Thanos said, holding a luxurious, white colored cake with symmetrical sides. It had sprinkles and all in all it was good looking. He slowly smiled.
Day Breaker growled darkly. “You think some cake will distract me from this…?”
“Here, have some cake girl!” Thanos then threw the cake into Day Breaker’s face. Crossing his arms.
She sat there, steaming in rage, before slowly scraping the frosting and cake off her snout. Glowering, apparently just as mad at herself as she was at him, she slowly began nibbling on the crumbs, as her magic enveloped Thanos, and began bouncing him off the ground like a tennis ball.
“Play ball bitch! STEAM HOPPER!!!” Thanos then propelled himself with steam, and he began bouncing in the air like a ping pong ball. He then picked up speed and vanished.
“What?” Daybreaker stammered, looking around. “Where did you go? What did you do? What…?”
“Surprise motherfucker!” Thanos then appeared above her and kicked her head, and like an ostrich her head was stuck inside of the earth. Thanos then proceeds to tap dance on her body, with a top hat and all. “I’ve been watching too much Wander Over Yonder!” Thanos cried out.
“EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!” Blazy shrieked like a fangirl, suddenly appearing in a burst of fireworks and dancing with glee before Luco yanked her back.
“Yes-yes, Sylvia is best waifu, now back to the void!” Luco declared, popping away before anyone could comment on their sudden appearance.
“I agree!” Thanos called out back, before Day Breaker launched him off her with a roar of rage.
“I’ve had enough of this madness!” Daybreaker screamed. “WHAT IN EQUESTRIA ARE YOU?!”
Thanos then grins before looking down at Day Breaker like she was beneath him. Which she was. “You see Day Breaker, you’re not dealing with the average Titan warrior anymore…” Thanos began looking at Day Breaker with a smirk.
Day Breaker blinked. “Wait a minute… have I been here before?”
“I have become the Titan of legend, I am the fire that puts out the darkness, I am the Drill that can pierce the heavens, and I am the Train that fucking could…” Thanos said, clenching his fists.
“Nope, nevermind. This is definitely a new one,” Daybreaker admitted.
“I AM THE LEGENDARY SUPER TITAN!!!!” Thanos cried out his fiery aura upgrading to a full on Hellish flame. “MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA!!!” Thanos stomps on Day Breaker’s forelegs and begins to pummel her face. Punch after punch with no remorse. Though the heat did nothing to her naturally heat resistant body, the punches packed more than enough power to get the job done on their own. And in a matter of minutes, the dark side of Princess Celestia lay beaten and broken at Thanos’ feet.
Luke and Kodo exploded into a fit of cathartic howls and barks.
“YEAH!” Kodo exclaimed. “THAT’S HOW IT FELT, YOU PSYCHOPATH!”
“NEVER MESS WITH THE SUPER TITAN!” Luke agreed.
“And now… For the finale, this is for you Luke, this is for all of the things you destroyed. Everyone’s prized possessions, all of it, everything they bought, paid for, and enjoyed to their heart’s content.” Thanos then dislocates Day Breaker’s wings and throws her into the air. Thanos got his gauntlet wearing fist ready, lightning struck him and fueled the gauntlet, covering it in Armament Haki and enhancing it with Tekkai Go. “This is for Shiva, Kodo, and Celine! They had to suffer with one loved one down, all of them!” Thanos cried out, clenching his fist as Day Breaker dropped down. “THIS IS FOR THE DIAMOND DOGS!!!! CORONAAAA!!!!” Thanos roared in an African Accent, he then connected his fist into Day Breaker’s skull and on impact spider webs like cracks formed on the earth and Ponyville crumbled. When it shattered Thanos was summoned back, Thanos then blinks.
“...What happened?” Thanos asked, “I was right in Ponyville.” Thanos squinted his eyes.
“You just beat the living shit out of Daybreaker, that’s what happened.” Black chuckled.
“Beat the sh… no-no, you just BEAT THE HELL OUT OF DAYBREAKER!” Luke cheered.
“It was so cool,” Kodo gushed. “You totally wrecked her!”
“Dear god I went Whitebeard on her ass, for god’s sake, and all that I said back there was true. I kinda did those things for you guys, especially that finale,” Thanos said, putting his hands up as he smiled.
Shiva’s tail wagged, and she inclined her head. “Well, we appreciate it,” she said in gratitude, before turning to Luke and Kodo. “Think you two will be able to be around Celestia, now that you’ve seen how her dark side has limits?”
Luke’s tail was wagging. “I think so,” he admitted. “It’s nice to know that the things you fear can be beaten.”
Kodo chuckled as he played with one of Shiva’s pack link tendrils. “And you were thinking of therapy? Who is this ‘Dr. Wolf’ you’re thinking of?”
Shiva sighed, and severed the link. “No one we need to worry about now,” she replied, grinning up at Thanos. “Thanks to you.”
“You’re welcome, I would have done more but she was fragile, pause on that. I would have done the whole back breaking thing, go Hulk on her ass and slam her over and over again… That’s just the tip of the iceberg. But hey, you’re welcome.” Thanos said with a smile.
“Alright, if you guys are done talking I’m going to spin the wheels.” Asura said, the frown still there he then spins the two wheels.
“...Why is he so angry all the time?” Elia raised an eyebrow, “He did get his revenge…”
The wheels rolled and the Displaced one landed on Shiva - “Oh, heck,” the white diamond dog grumbled - the enemy one landed on Kaido - “OH HECK!” all three diamond dogs yelped.
“OH SHIIIITTTTT!!!!!!!!” Thanos roared, clasping his head with his hands, “OH FUCK!!!! FUCK!!! FUCK!!! FUCK!!!! FUUUUUUUCCCKKKK!!!!!!!!!!”
Black’s eyes widened, he slowly looked to Shiva with a grim look. “Shiva… I don’t think you can win this one… “ Black gulped.
The white diamond dog said nothing, her fur somehow paler than it usually was.
“No!” Luke and Kodo wailed, clinging to her. “W-Wait, take us in too! Take us!”
“You two can’t interfere with this…” Black said as he glanced at the two diamond dogs. “She’s on her own with this one… I’m sorry…”
“Stop speaking ill about her,” Eric said with his arms crossed. “She’s stronger than you believe she is”
Without warning, Shiva was transported to the ruins of Kaido’s base. There stood or flew Kaido in his Dragon form. Kaido then looks down at Shiva with an intrigued look in his eyes.
“Oh it’s you, lady Shiva, it’s kinda weird not being in a sword… But hey, I’m out and about and you better prepare or I will blow your brains out! Haha that rhymed!” Kaido laughed, his voice shaking Shiva and the surroundings.
Shiva said nothing, staring up at Kaido before shutting her eyes, and breathing, almost like it was her last breath.
“Mom?” Kodo whispered.
“But… I just got you back!” Luke protested
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“Well, there be some days worth living for and this is a day worth DYING FOR!!! BORO BREATH!!!!” Kaido shot a Final Flash like fire breath from his maw, the blast was headed straight for Shiva.
Shiva didn’t look up… but she didn’t stay motionless. As the Final Flash ‘apparently’ impacted her form, she vanished in a blinding flash of light. At first, there was no sign of her. But then…
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“As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth forward and back; for the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.”
Kodo and Luke’s ears perked, as the light condensed, re-shifted, and reformed into a pack of diamond dogs.
As one, they spread eagle like wings and launched onto Kaido, the diamond dogs digging right through his scales and carving into the soft flesh underneath. Shiva was nowhere to be seen, and though the army of spiritual dogs had tendrils that dug into the ground, there was seemingly no central point from where the tendrils seemed to spawn.
“... If it’s a one on one fight, Kaido will win. It’s still true to this day because apparently, THERE’S A BUNCH OF YOU!!!!! How many armies must I fight?” Kaido groaned before unleashing a barrage of fireballs across his body, trying to burn the dogs off. Yet, small vortexes of light shielded them, and seemed to make them grow bigger and stronger as the fireballs were absorbed into their bodies. Their digging accelerated, and Kaido began to feel them tearing into the muscles of his body.
“... So this is what it feels like to feel pain again... Huh.” Kaido said, blinking, “Do a barrel roll!” Kaido then spun around and flew up to the clouds. Aiming to go to space given that some people, such as Shiva, can not survive in the vacuum of space. “We’re going to Brazil boys!”
“I’m afraid not,” a voice echoed in his head. For as he tried to carry the dogs up into space, they began to flicker and lose their form. Turning into simple ropes that dug into his carved up flesh like grappling lines, they strained and pulled him back towards the ground. Normally, it would have been easy for a dragon such as Kaido to snap the links. But as he strained against them, he felt his energy waning. Almost like his own strength was being used against him.
“Oh fuck you all!” Kaido roared, he then turned into his human form and dropped down to the ground like a ton of bricks feet first.
As he hit the ground, however, the ground opened up like a pair of jaws to meet him. And as he sunk into the ground, the tendrils doubled, tightening around him like a cocoon and sucking him of energy like a vampire. As he struggled, his skin began to change, turning into solid diamond. Not diamond that he could move; he was slowly being turned into a diamond statue.
“Well, I’m meeting Satan.” With his last vestiges of strength, Kaido pulled out a cup of sake and began to pour it down. “Gather up all of the crew, it's time to ship out Bink’s sake…” Kaido sang as he turned into a Diamond statue.
The tendrils withdrew from the now still statue, embedded in the ground like the world’s greatest treasure. From above, Shiva popped out of the ground, her fur shimmering like a star. She glared down at where she had buried Kaido, and then let out a massive breath of exhaustion before falling to the ground. “Holy crap, he was strong,” she mumbled.
Luke’s jaw was on the floor, before it curled up in a smile. “I love that woman,” he whispered in awe.
Black’s eyes widened at the finish, completely speechless. “Holy shit...” Black muttered as he tried to comprehend what happened.
“Have you ever seen Meg? When each Megaladon died and another one came and killed the previous one? There is no way, no possible way that Kaido-” Thanos said as raising a finger.
“Just shut it Thanos, let her have this one…” Black said as he elbowed Thanos in the ribs.
“My enemy got fucking destroyed, my hardest opponent got defeated by someone weaker than me! No offense, Shiva, but my pride!” Thanos said, holding a hand to his heart.
Luke chuckled. “She just stopped holding back, that’s what happened,” Luke said. “A side effect of her abilities is natural empathy; she can’t fight without seeing the side of the person she’s fighting. In this case… she just didn’t care.”
“All in favor of never messing with Shiva ever again? Say aye,” Black said as he raised his hand.
But before anyone could say that, the ground from the arena began to rumble.
“HAHA!!! I knew it! See?” Thanos said leaning on the table pointing at the tiny arena.
Shiva moaned as she felt the ground shift. “Oh, come on, man…” she mumbled.
“REEEEEE!!!!” Kaido screeched, he then burst straight from the ground, “I’m just getting one hit in, I deserve that much.” He then turns into his Hybrid form, going to the size of an Oozaru he readied his Kanabo and lightning struck him. “RAIMEI HAKKE!!!!” Kaido roared as he slammed his Kanabo into Shiva.
Shiva growled as the attack came down towards her, before grinning at the fact that her link was wrapped around Kaido’s leg. With a smile, she didn’t move. “Alright,” she said. “Enjoy your ‘one hit.’”
The force of the blow shook the entire stage and shattered it just like when Thanos did it, Kaido then roared and threw her into the two cliffs that Thanos and the boys walked from. “...I’m satisfied now.” Kaido said blankly, pulling out his sake and drinking it.
Shiva chuckled, drawing his gaze. To everyone’s shock, she was standing up. But… something wasn’t right about it. Her body was contorted and broken. Several of her limbs were bent in ways they shouldn’t have gone. Yet, as she stood up, they reset. She pushed her limbs back into place and adjusted her jaw. She grinned darkly at Kaido as she completely reset her body.
“Well, I give up, there’s no use for this. Want to drink some Sake some time? This fight will go on forever if we continue!” Kaido grinned as he turned back into a human.
“Oh, be careful,” Shiva said, glancing at her link, as an ominous black lump coursed into Kaido’s body. “You ever hear that expression, ‘I’m rubber, you’re glue?’ Well, you just bounced a pretty hefty attack off my rubber.”
Kaido got it a moment later, as he felt exactly how it had felt for Shiva to get hit and thrown into the cliff. His body bent and contorted the same way Shiva’s had been. And as she severed the link, he was left a broken mess just as he had left her.
“... You know that was a dick move, couldn’t you have… Oh wait, that’s right, you would be dead. And I would be laughing.” Kaido said finding a way to drink his Sake, “Oh and to clear things up I would’ve said ‘couldn’t you have fought me like Thanos did?’ Yeah that wouldn’t be a great idea. But hey! The fact that I would’ve killed you though!” Kaido laughed, taking a shot of Sake afterwards.
“Mm-mm,” Shiva agreed. “Asking me to fight like Thanos is like me asking you to fight like a pony. It’s not how we fight, and we’d just get killed trying.” She paused. “Or rather, ‘I’d’ get killed trying.”
“I would invite you to my army, BUT I LOST IT!!!!” Kaido said, glaring up to where Thanos was, Thanos raised his hands and backed away, while Black laughed in the background.
“A generous offer,” Shiva admitted. “But I think this adventure’s been more than filling for me. Give me some time with my home and family, and I’ll get back to you. For now…” She turned to the audience. “How do I get out of here?”
“Hold on, I got this, can you fix me real quick I can get you out of here. Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you, I just need you to fix my broken bones so that I can whack myself with my Kanabo. HARD .” Kaido said, looking at his Kanabo.
Shiva hummed in thought at that, before re-extending her pack links; one to him and one into the ground. As his bones re-knit, however, the ground around them died; trees were snapped in half, the grass withered, and the ground turned to dust. But as Kaido was risen to his feet, he rose a restored man.
“Alright, thank you ma’am.” Kaido bowed to Shiva, “Only respectable to bow before royalty.”
“To you as well,” Shiva said, bowing back. “I will certainly consider your offer in the future.”
“Well… It’s time to knock myself out. YEET!!!” Kaido then whacked himself on the head hard, though it didn’t knock him out. “OH MOTHER FUCKER!!!!” He hit himself again, “WHY AM I SO FUCKING STRONG!??!?!” Kaido whacked himself on the head again, screaming in pain. “OHOHOHO THAT HURT!!!!”
“Well… He’s doing-” Thanos was then cut off by a whack. This time, Shiva tilted her head, and used her pack link to add a small bit of extra power to Kaido’s next strike.
WHACK!!!
“Hey Shiva are ya doin’ yer homework if not your master will KICK my ass!” Kaido then spun around like a ballerina before hitting the ground with a thud. He then squeaked in pain before Shiva was teleported next to her family, who promptly swarmed her with yips of relief.
“I’m fine, guys, I’m okay,” she assured them, as their overenthusiasm sent her to the ground.
“I knew you were okay, but I still worried regardless,” Luke whined.
“Don’t leave us again,” Kodo whispered. “Not unless you have to.”
“I’ll certainly try, guys,” Shiva said. “I’ll certainly try.” She winced. “For now, can you let off on my ribs; that display took a lot more out of me than normal.”
Quickly, they let her up, lending her their energy as she healed.
“I’m still mad though.” Thanos said with a small growl.
“Oh be quiet Thanos, stop whining.” Black said while shaking his head.
“Choke on a fat one, Bucky.” Thanos said jokingly, trying to hide a grin.
“GRAH!!! Stop it with the damn talking!” Asura cried out, glaring at the two rivals.
“Man your grumpy,” Black said with a laugh.
“I’ll show you grumpy when I rip out that other arm of yours and shove it up your ass!” Asura shouted, Elia then promptly plugs her ears. Ryker then walks out of a portal.
“Asura, be kind to my guests please.” Ryker was rather tired, he was in sandals and he had a bathrobe on him. “They’re here to kill the Ryker at the top of the floor, also, I’m a clone. Don’t hurt me, I’m not real, so how is this challenge? It is hard?” Thanos then grinned.
“That’s what she said.” Thanos laughed, pointing at the Ryker Clone.
“I’m leaving.” Ryker Clone then leaves, giving Thanos the bird. Asura scoffs and goes back to the wheels.
“Alright, it’s time to spin, don’t whine or complain like someone did,” Asura glared into Shiva’s eyes. Shiva blinked in confusion - she had only briefly shown well-deserved fear - but she said nothing to contradict the God, and Asura spun it. It lands on Zamasu… And Link.
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“Oh shit… That isn’t good.” Lucci said before slowly turning to Link with an expression of dread. Entity just shook his head and began to pray for Link.
Shiva gasped, remembering Zamasu from Black’s vision, but clamped her snout shut, glancing at Asura nervously.
“No. Com-plain-ing.” Asura grunted out from his teeth.
Shiva nodded, her claws fastened over her snout.
Luna Black looked to the Dark Saiyan, who chose to remain silent as Zamasu laughed in his head. ‘Well well well, looks like I’ll be killing a mortal today afterall’ Zamasu laughed as Black said nothing as a dark haze covered his face.
“Not another word from you… you hear me…” Black muttered.
Thanos then clones himself and gets in a suit with a hat on and then gets a coffin ready. Four clones circled around Link all towering over him doing the Drip Goku stance.
“What in the Underworld?” Link asked in confusion as Thanos’ clones put Link inside said coffin faster than he could register. They then close the coffin.
The Titans then dance with said coffin, doing the whole coffin dance. The others just look at Thanos with astonishment as he and his clones do the dance.
“HEY!” Link yelled as a Goron Fist punches its way out. “I am not dead, I was not given permission to die!” he said half joking and with a serious tone of voice as he tore his way out of the coffin. “What’s this about a green faced white haired guy?” Goron Link asked as he stepped out.
“Link… you're facing my opposite… you're facing Zamasu…” Black said grimly as he looked at Link.
“..Oh, grand. I’m going to be killed as quickly as Hercule, minus the comedy relief.” Link said with a… rather depressing sigh as he got back in his coffin, minus the goron form.
“It was nice knowing you, Link,” Shiva said solemnly.
“My brudda! I will guide u to our queen in de afterlife!” Elae clicked, looking up at Link, somehow being adorable. Link ignored Elae, he was too busy sending silent prayers to the three Goddesses Din, Nayru, and Farore.
“Link,” Thanos said, motioning Link over to him. Link sat up in his coffin as he looked over at Thanos. Oh boy, that sad depressing look on the hylian’s face did fit the chill attitude he often shows when nothing annoys him.
“Link, I know you feel like you can’t win but… If you use Manticore poison…” Thanos pulls out a blade and some poison, “Douse it in the poison and it will paralyze Zamasu, then finish him off and knock him out by becoming a giant and wrecking his shit.”
“...Funny, the very thing that almost killed me, is going to help me.” Link said minor amusement as he looked at the bottle of manticore poison.
“If we’re allowed to help,” Shiva added, resting her claw on Link’s shoulder and imbuing him with a feeling of energy. “The Diamond Dogs stand with you. I can give you a temporary link to my pack. It won’t last forever without me powering it, but if you act fast, you’ll be able to absorb the energy from pretty much any attack, and deal it back in equal measure. Just make sure you act fast.”
Link nodded as the help from everyone assisting was helping him gain back confidence.
“And if we are… there's no knowing it would work…” Black said solemnly. ‘Not that it would help… damn Super Dragon Balls. ’ Black thought.
“You never know unless you try, and I’m willing to try.” Thanos looked to Black with a nod before handing Link the two items. “I wish you luck, young Hylian,” Thanos gets on one knee and is still taller than him. He then pulls out a blade, the same blade Thanos gave to Gamora, “I gave a copy to my daughter, this one is real, it’s dangerous, use it.” Thanos looked into Link’s eyes.
Link takes the odd looking blade, inspecting its design. Before Link could give them his thanks, he was gone.
Link was then teleported to a place that resembled the future timeline. Bodies layer everywhere as they were mangled or ripped apart, covered in blood. Amongst the bodies laid Goku, Vegeta, and Trunks, covered in blood as their faces revealing horrified death expressions. Link slowly walked along the literal valley of death as his heart raced in his chest; the triforce of courage trying its best to help Link keep going.
“It looks like I missed one… Mortal…” A voice boomed in the destroyed city. Link looked up to see Zamasu in all his glory, standing atop of a building looking like it was going to fall. “Soon… the Zero Mortal Plan will be finished, and I will reign supreme!”
“Goddesses give me strength...” Link whispered as he dipped the switchblade into the manticore poison.
Zamasu looked amused as he hopped off the building and descended to the ground a couple of feet away from Link. “You should feel honored, Mortal. For you are the last of your filthy kind. You should be grateful that you’ll get a quick death.” Zamasu claimed as he prepared a Ki blast. In a split of a second, Link was overwhelmed with fear, causing the Triforce Of Courage to shimmer at its brightest; like a beacon within the darkness. Link suddenly ran at Zamasu with a loud warcry; dagger in hand, prepared to ram the dagger into Zamasu’s neck.
The Kai rolled his eyes as he put a hand up, the dagger piercing straight through Zamasu’s hand as the Kai was unfazed at the face he’d been impaled. Link gulped as he saw Zamasu raise his other hand carrying the ball of ki. But stopped when Zamasu felt a staring sensation run through his body.
“What did you do, you disgusting ape.” Zamasu growled as he couldn’t move, being paralyzed.
Letting go of the switchblade, Link quickly pulled the giant’s mask, placing it onto his face, causing a rush of purple energy to shoot from the mask. Link is forced to let out a yell, which quickly grew deep as he grew up in size.
“...WHY DIDN’T HE USE THAT ON ME??!!?!?!” Thanos cried out looking at the mini giant.
Zamasu growled as he looked up to the giant Link. “If you think such a pathetic poison will last, you’ll be dead before you know it, Mortal!” Zamasu exclaimed as the kai’s body began to shake violently.
Blacks eyes widened, “Link, that poison isn’t going to last. FINISH IT NOW!!” Black shouted.
Without any hesitation, Giant Link took out the Master Sword, which has grown with his size. Anyone watching this would realize that the Giant’s Mask the hylian wore, was the one from the N64 rather than the 3DS where it forced you to use only your fists. Giant Link thrusts the sword straight down on Zamasu’s; the blade’s edge glowing as if Majora’s Moon was descending at a very alarming rate.
By the time the sword began to cut through Zamasu, the poison had worn off. But it was too late for the Kai as the sword sliced clean through Zamasu, cutting the god in half. The two halves of Zamasu fell to the side as The Kai let out a groan of pain. Due to Link not having any knowledge of Zamasu and wanting to make sure the God was actually dead, Link is unleashed a… dangerously big Din’s Fireball as he doesn't want the Zamasu to regenerate in a similar fashion to Cell or Majin Buu. A dome like explosion erupted as the fireball slammed into Zamasu.
Thanos then begins to hum Attack On Titan opening, the first one at that. When he got to the Yaeger part he… “YAEGER!!!!” Thanos cried out.
There would be nothing but a small smoking crater where Zamasu’s once was. Reaching up and removing the Giant’s Mask, Link shrunk down back to normal size. Link let out a bloody cough as the powerful magic had taken its toll. “The reason why I didn’t use that against you, is that it puts a magical strain on my body. My equipment doesn’t run on video game logic, otherwise I’d have tried a glitch to combine the Giant’s Mask and the Deity’s Mask.” Link explained as he took a moment to take slow steady breaths.
Black remained silent as he looked into the smoldering crater, the smoke rising from it as it went high into the sky. “That wouldn’t have finished him off…” Black muttered, but loud enough for Thanos to hear.
“Come on Link!” Thanos cried out slamming his fists on the table, “You can do this!”
Out of the smoke, walked out an uninjured Zamasu who had a smug smirk. He didn’t say anything as he looked to his left. And what walked out of the smoke made Link's heart drop… another Zamasu…
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“What a fascinating show, mortal. But such a… pathetic attack couldn’t erase me.” The two Zamasu’s boasted, their voices in perfect synchronization.
“...The Four Sword would be helpful right about now..” Link said mentally to him as he pulled out his Hylian Shield to wield with his Master Sword, raising it to protect himself. “Or at least my own Goddess Luna..” he said, knowing she’d charge into the fray.
Luna Black looked down the table with worry. “There’s must be something we can do!” Luna Black cried out, looking to the group. Black remained silent as he had a grim look.
Link held his hands into the air as a ball of blue magic formed. Link allowed the ball to enter his body as he casted Nayru’s Love to atleast give him three minutes of a fighting chance. A diamond shaped barrier hums to life; slowly moving around the Hylian.
“Oh, is this another futile attempt at stopping me, mortal?” The two Zamasu’s said with amusement.
“Better this than your idiotic plan.” Link spat out as he held his Master Sword at the readdy.
“You remind me of a certain blue-haired Saiyan, always interfering with my plans to cure the multiverse.” Zamasu boasted as the two floated into the air, moving in synchronization as they prepared a Ki blast. Not feeling so confident but still being pumped with courage, Link threw down a Deku Nut, releasing a very bright flash of light.
The two Zamasu cursed to themselves as they launched the ki ball, the two separated attacks combining into one large ki ball. It was aimlessly flying towards Link as the two Kais couldn’t fire it directly. Giving his Master Sword a twirl, Link swung it in a downward motion in an attempt to knock the ball of ki right back.
Link struggled against the attack as the ball of ki began to push him back. But Link felt a sudden burst of power coarse through him. Looking above him, Link saw Black pointed his hand towards him, a thin blue energy flying into the Hylian. Link smiled as he let out a yell, knocking the blast back towards the two Zamasu’s as they recovered from the blinding light. Link knew what Ki was, but didn’t know how it felt until now. Deciding to use this gift, Link starts charging the Quake Medallion into his sword. Link quickly slams it into the ground, unleashing a powerful earthquake of lightning. Due to Black’s Ki, the attack was further enhanced, becoming a wild crackling of blue and yellow lighting traveling toward Zamasu.
With the combined power of Zamasu’s own attack and Links, together it created a massive attack that had engulfed the two kais as they began to scream in agony. “Impossible!!! How… can this… be happening?!?” They cried out in anguish as the combined attack began to vaporize the Kais. Eventually erasing Zamasu from every last cell, shortly after a massive explosion that sent Link flying backwards, shaking the city.
Black looked down with a smile, ‘Well done, my friend.’ Black thought.
“Yeah, great job, pack brother,” Shiva agreed.
Link landed, although a bit of rough landing, Link got up onto his feet, rapidly spamming his Wide Angle to make sure he was actually not out there, or about to reform as if Zamasu was the T-1000.
“Don’t worry Link!” Black exclaimed as he looked down on the table. “I can’t sense his ki, he’s gone… you just beat a Dragon Ball Villain!” Black cheered as a faint image of him appeared in the sky.
“Thanks to your ki!” Link cheered toward the sky where he heard Black. “I really don’t want to do that ever again. I can hear the Fierce Deity screaming at me for not using him.” Link said with a laugh.
“Yeah, consider the ki I gave you a gift! It’ll stick around for a while if you use it wisely.” Black explained.
“Fair enough!” Link said before being teleported back. Nayru’s love stuck around for a while longer before flickering out.
“You helped him?!” Asura then stomped on the ground, gaining the Saiyans attention.
Shiva’s grin instantly faded. “Aw, crap.”
Asura stomped towards Black and grabbed him by his shirt, “Who the hell do you think you are?!” Asura cried out, clenching the Saiyan’s shirt with an iron grip.
Black looked at Asura, “Who am I? I’m just a man who walked through a door.” Black said simply. “If you're gonna hit me, hit me. It won’t change a damn thing.”
“It will change one damn thing, it will change your attitude!” Asura then tosses Black aside, sending him into a wall, and at that moment he is transferred to the Crystal Empire.
“I don’t think it will do anything as much as I've seen Black fight. The guy can take more than just a punch.” Link complimented before Black was taken away.
“Do you want to fight?!” Asura snapped his head towards the Hylian, “If not, then shut the hell up!”
Link let out a sigh at how everyone in this dimension was always fight-crazed. Link, for a moment, was tempted to lie and say Thanos wants to fight. Thanos just stared at Link motherfuckerly as if knowing what Link would do if things got intense for him.
Black simply got up as he dusted off… snow? This left Black confused as he looked around and his eyes widened, seeing the tall crystal buildings with the Crystal castle in the middle of the city.
“Is that a meek little fly I see” Umbra said appearing before the Saiyan in a plume of black smoke
“I guess we all have to face our demons eventually…” Black groaned gazing upon the Dark King and noticed the dark marks covering his body “those marks there for decoration or did Lucifer give them to you?” Black mocked.
“They’re a reminder of the man I plan to kill once I deal with you, little fly” Umbra said running a hand over the curse marks left by Eric’s Murasame
“Little fly huh? A very astute observation of you, claiming me to be an insect, what a joke.” Black laughed.
“Last time I met a monkey like you.” Umbra said, stepping in front of the Saiyan. “He was nothing more than a feeble. Little. Fly.”
Black said nothing as the two stared each other down, the Saiyan then smirked, “Oh but I’m not like this other, “Fly” you so boldly claim.” Black said as hair began to sway in a nine existing breeze.
“Let’s get this over with” Umbra said stepping away from the Saiyan as he drew his sword. “After all” Umbra turned to the Shadow Man and his former hosts. “I have others I plan to kill.”
Kodo growled darkly at the threat.
“..I wonder, is this from different timelines or universes, or were all those fighters recreated much like Zamasu?” Link asked as he watched the fight go on in this mini recreation projectery on the table.
“Time and space are bitches.” Thanos said with a frown before for five seconds, Dialga and Palkia appeared behind him before they vanished.
Link turned his head at the sudden presence of the two pokemon of time and space. “...Those two are dangerous..” Link said in fear, remembering how the movie showed them clashing and causing bits of reality on earth to disagerating as if Thanos with all of the infinity stones was playing pattycake with his fingers.
“Why do you look scared, is it because I’m over Eight feet tall?” Thanos said, raising an eyebrow at the Hylian.
“What, you didn-... Ah, apparently you didn’t see the two legendary pokemon that appeared behind you for a split second.” Luke said.
Ghiratina appears behind Luke, peering down at the “Lucario” before talking to Luke telepathically. “You better shut the fuck up, we weren’t here.” Ghiratina said before vanishing from sight. Luke blinked, and looked around, but wisely didn’t say anything about what he had seen.
“Okay so I saw…” Thanos felt a dark aura behind him, “Nothing.” The aura vanishes, Asura then frowns at Thanos who promptly hides behind the nearest person next to him. Which was Shiva and Luke, the two loyally huddling together to make it easier for Thanos to hide.
“Nobody here but us dogs,” Luke insisted, before Shiva nudged him for silence.
“Do you think I’m fucking blind?!” Asura cried out, his iris being white, he clenched his teeth in anger.
Luke and Shiva glanced at each other. “Well, you have white eyes,” Luke pointed out. “Where we come from, people with white eyes are either blind or see the future.”
“Luke, please stop talking,” Shiva whispered.
“That’s because I was shocked with electrocution, dumbass!” Asura snapped, Thanos slowly grabbed onto the Diamond Dogs shoulder and teleported the trio to Brazil.
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As Umbra took his eyes off Black, the Saiyans hair spiked up and turned blond. Black turned into a Super Saiyan as his aura exploded around him. “I’m sorry, but those plans are gonna have to be put on hold.” Black claimed as he took the stance of Future Gohan. “And this time… no one is gonna die by your hands!”
Black vanishes and reappears before Umbra as the tyrant turned back to the Saiyan, only to revive a gut punch. Temporarily stunning Umbra as Black began to land kicks on repeat. “Never take your eyes off your opponent!” Black roared as he spun around, using the momentum to carry his fist into the tyrant's jaw, a miniature shockwave propelling Umbra into a building.
Black let out a deep breath, “That was for Crystal…” Black hissed as he saw the crystal building beginning to crumble and fall on top of the tyrant.
“Call upon the Darkness and grant me blades to sever the Light” Umbra Chanted as the building slammed on top of him
The Building was cut clean in half as Umbra strode towards the Saiyan with two longswords in his hands made from pulsating magic.
“Honestly if you couldn’t beat Von Shadow, what makes you think you can beat me?” Umbra said with a smile
“It’s called holding back, I didn’t want to kill him. The only one to let me go loose was both Thanos and The Crimson Sage.” Black explained as he rolled his shoulders. “You, however… I can let loose.”
“Spread the Darkness and make me untouchable” Umbra said with a vile grin on his face
“That’s not good,” Sombra said, hearing the spell.
Luna Black turned to Sombra, “What did Umbra just do?”
“Umbra just made it harder for Black to attack that cowardly bastard,” Eric said to the Alicorn
Thanos and the two Diamond Dogs arrived, some wearing hats with Brazil’s flag on them, some wearing green and yellow outfits. “What is with you edgy people and your fucking hax abilities?” Thanos turned to Sombra, Eric, and Umbra. “Not you Shiva, you’re good.” Thanos points at Shiva before giving her a thumbs up and smiling. Shiva smiled and gave him a thumbs - or in her case, dew claw - up in return.
“Because D A R K N E S S,” Link said jokingly as he wiggled his fingers.
“Just because we use Dark Magic doesn’t make us Dark,” Eric argued
Suddenly, a six red eyed purple draconic long horned headed popped out of a portal. ““Just look at me for example.” the dragon said before vanishing.
“He’s got a point,” Shiva noted. “At the end of the day, dark magic is pretty much just energy being used in a magical - and sometimes very dark - manner.”
“...Was that Grima from Fire Emblem Awakening?” Link asked in surprise.
“Who’s Grima from Fire Emblem Awakening?” she asked.
“A powerful massive serpent-like dragon known as the Fell Dragon, although why he’s smaller just now?” Link said as he shrugged his arms.
“Oh. Okay,” Shiva replied.
“GET BACK HERE YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!” Ryker cried out making a portal to the room and making another one to follow Grima.
“You’re all edgy, I use dark magic sometimes and at least I don’t wear black and talk about revenge. Not to mention I don’t HAVE SEX WITH AN EDGY FUCKIN’ PRINCESS!!!!!” Thanos cried out, pissed off. “No offense Luna.” Thanos held up a hand to Luna before putting it down.
“This is the ultimate power!” A black hedgehog appeared for three seconds.
“...Did the universe get bored?” Link asked in concern.
“EBOLAAAA!!!!” Elae said as he was surrounded with a Super Saiyan aura as images of the virus floated around him.
“Why is everyone showing up!” Asura cried out, clearly pissed, he then slammed his fist into a wall, making the tower shake.
Umbra’s spell took effect as Black blinked, seeing a short Crystal pony with light blue curly hair, wearing a dress. The Saiyans eyes widened as he realized who he saw, a young filly that guilted his heart.
Under the guise of Crystal Umbra ran towards the Saiyan with a vile smile on his face, but to the Saiyan Crystal was crying.
“Why couldn’t you save me, Mister Black?” She screamed as she jumped at the Saiyan.
“I-“ Before Black could respond two blades of Darkness were plunged deep into his stomach
“Like I said little Fly, if you couldn’t beat Eric and his Magic, then you can’t beat me and mine” Umbra said diggin his blades deeper causing more damage to the Saiyan
The image of Crystal faded and was replaced by Umbra, Blacks eyes widened at the pain. But to the Saiyan, it was a mistake for Umbra to take the image of a filly he promised to protect.
“Eric won because I held back!” Black scrunched up his eyes as they changed color, turning grey as his hair turned pink. “You dare… have the… audacity to take her image… and twist it…” Black growled as he pulled out the blades. He stared into Umbria’s eyes with rage. “YOU WILL DIE BY MY HANDS!!!” Black roared as he transformed into Perfected Super Saiyan Rosé. The pressure pushing Umbra back. Black hovered a hand over his wound, a green glow covering it as the wounds began to close up.
“You and your Pathetic ‘friends’ all share a common weakness” Umbra laughed at the Saiyan’s anger. “Your all hold such love and compassion to others, it’s why it’s so easy to kill them”
“That may be true, but it’s also our will to go on, our will to fight, our will to face tyrants... LIKE YOU!!!”Black charged forward, Umbra not being fast enough to register what happened as he was kicked in the jaw. This sent him flying into the air as Black appeared above him, his fist covered in a yellow glow. “FIVE REN KUGI DRAGON FIST!!” Black chanted as he threw his fist into the tyrants gut, a yellow dragon exploding from the Saiyans fist and engulfing Umbra as a large explosion followed after.
“I have to learn that…” Thanos mumbled
“You’ve got enough powers as it is.” Link said with a frown.
“But I love fisting people.” Thanos said, looking at Link.
“Isn’t that what she said?” Kodo asked.
“Kodo, Grievous would be proud of you, and I am too.” Thanos said with a hand over his chest as he sheds a proud tear.
“Well, I aiiiiiiiin’t having that sh-stalfos!” Link said, then groaned at how he failed to quote Jontron. “Times like this, I wish I could curse without my words being replaced by the names of Zelda enemies.”
“Wait what? Didn’t I hear you cry ‘fuck’ when you pounded Light? Thanos asked jokingly.
“Shut up!” Asura then slammed his fist down on Thanos’ head, making his head get stuck on the ground. His whole body then stuck up straight like an arrow. Link decided to zip it as he didn’t want to end up like a stomped Goomba.
As the Explosion subsides Umbra emerges covering in blood and missing and arm and a leg, Umbra’s magic flared erecting a barrier around himself as the blood over his body crawls back inside his body and his arm and leg begins to regrow themselves.
“Think I’m a little fly now?” Black mocked as he hovered above the dark king.
“I’m going to enjoy ripping your limbs from your body” Umbra growled at the Saiyan
“I’d like to see you try, you miserable excuse for a king.” Black taunted as he looked down upon Umbra. “You know… You don’t deserve my full power.” Black said as he dropped down to Super Saiyan 2.
“Bear the Weight of your sins” Umbra chanted causing the Saiyan to plummet in the ground. “Dark Press”
“Feels heavier than your fight with the Shadow Man, doesn't it Monkey?” Umbra laughed
Black began to laugh as he shakely stood up to his full height. “You think these sins are heavy? Then you don’t know what I’ve experienced.” Black claimed as he stared into Umbra’s eyes.
“You’re right. Why don’t I add in my Sins as well” Umbra said as the force drastically increased causing the ground below the Saiyan to crack and break
But Black stood his ground as he didn’t falter. “Your sins mean nothing to me Umbra, you haven’t eradicated two pony races off the face of the universe, you haven't caused the death to your loved ones.” Black said as he began to walk towards the tyrant, every step shaking the earth.
“Insolent Child!” Umbra Yelled casting Dark Bullet into the Saiyans good arm
“You didn’t live with that for thousands of years,” Black said as the Dark Bullet made a visible bruise on the Saiyan’s arm. His pupils changed shape, one to of a cat as a dark aura surrounded the Saiyan. “You don’t know what it’s like to lose everything you care about,” Black’s voice warped as rocks began to float around him. The Saiyan prepared a ki blade as it extended to the length of a longsword. “All that you know… is how to be cruel, heartless, and how to be an insignificant little cunt… and that I won’t stand for.” Black said as he charged forward, appearing in front of the tyrant before he began to slash at the barrier with the ki blade.
“In my base form, I could destroy this planet… In my Super Saiyan form, I can eradicate a solar system… In my Super Saiyan 2 form, I can eradicate a galaxy… What hope do you have in beating me?” Black asked as he twisted the ki blade in Umbra’s barrier as it began to crack..
“Stop it,” Umbra said Jumping back blasting Black again only this time in his leg. “I am the King of the Crystal Empire, I order you to stop!”
“What is a king… to a supreme kai? To a god?!” Black roared as he charged forward with tremendous speed.
“No...S..stay back” Umbra said in fear firing a large black orb of Magic at the Saiyan which pierced his chest but the Saiyan continued to strike and destroy his barrier spell
“Remarkable,” Sombra said in astonishment. “He’s destroying Umbra’s barrier.”
Black let out a roar that seemed to be overshadowed by an Oozaru’s roar, Black broke through the barrier and sliced Umbra’s arm clean off, the tyrant screaming in agony. Only to be silenced as he was grabbed by the head and then slammed into the ground, shattering around them.
Umbra clenched his arm before trying to cast his healing spell, only for the Saiyan to stamp his foot on the Dark King's horn, shattering it into hundreds of pieces.
“I’m gonna give you one chance to give up… or…” Black said as he faced a hand towards the king's body, a dark purple orb forming in it. “Or be destroyed, might I remind you though. You won’t appear in the afterlife, your soul will cease to exist.” Black informed as the orb grew in size.
“I...Am….King Umbra...the Undaunted….I...will..never...CONCEDE!!” Umbra charged, rearing his armored fist back at the Saiyan.
Kodo sighed, shaking his head at the sight of his former - hm, he wasn’t sure what to call Umbra - about to make a fatal mistake.
“Oh brother…” Link face-palmed at the ignorance of Umbra.
“And I am inevitable,” Thanos said looking down at the mini Umbra.
“Now don’t you start that.” Link said with a frown of disapproval.
“I’m not starting it, I’m finishing it, like I will finish the universe.” Thanos said to Link, turning to face the Hylian.
“..The one we’re in? I mean I'd understand most of that and this insane situation.” Link said with a shrug.
“Not this ones, or mine, yours, given that there’s a high percentage that you won’t be able to stop me, I could.” Thanos said darkly, Thanos then shook his head. “What happened?! Did Thanos take over again? Oh for fuck’s sake!”
“You really need to lock that guy up tighter than Naruto’s nine tailed fox.” Link suggested warily.
“You mean tighter than Light was?” Thanos said, joking once more, he then covered his mouth.
“Why you little-” Link said as he placed the fierce deity mask on and skyrocketed in height slightly above Thanos as he started choking him as if he was bart. Sadly for the hylian, Thano’s neck was too thick to properly struggle him.
“You transformed, thus that is unfair, so I will transform. HRRR!!!” Thanos then tensed his muscles becoming the exact height of FD Link, “Damn it I’m still not taller, also I’m lying, this isn’t a transformation. I’m pulling a Michael Jordan and becoming taller.”
FD Link let go of Thano’s neck, then a sigh to calm himself down. “Don’t be pulling a Trunks and buffing yourself out.” FD Link said as he looked back down at the table.
“Oh I can do that, Buff Boy, activate!” Thanos became buffer his muscles bulging, “I’m fuckin’ swole!” Thanos then looks back down at the table.
“Think you should change your name from Thanos to Memos.” Link said with a shake of his head.
“You should change your name to your actual name with your ‘My Name Is Jeff’ lookin’ head ass. No offense by the way.” Thanos said, a hetap in hand.
“...What is with you and hetap anyhow?” Link asked since Thanos is constantly drinking the stuff.
“It’s the only drink that makes me happy.” Thanos said blankly.
“Suit yourself… Hakai...” Black said as the orb disappeared, only for a pulse of purple light to appear around Umbra. Slowly, the dark king screamed in agony as he began to disintegrate into purple particles, which ceased to exist. His echoes of agony fading as his form disappeared with his soul vanishing. Black sighed as he went back to his base form, his eyes and aura returning to normal. “Dick…” He then gets transported back to where he was before he was teleported.
“THAT’S MY BOY!!!!” Thanos cried out, pumping his fist up into the air.
Black looked towards Thanos before giving him a thumbs up, but he didn't smile as the thought of the past reminded him of his failures.
Eric walked past the Saiyan and approached the remains of Umbra’s Horn before picking up each piece
“Why are you collecting his horn fragments?” Kodo asked. “He could still be in those.”
“Exactly why we can’t leave any part of him,” Eric said, absorbing each and every piece into his shadow. “Any part of him can corrupt even the purest of people.”
To prove his point, he pulled a crystal horn from his body and went towards Luna Black with it. Immediately Luna Black backed off and proceeded to make a barrier around her. “We get thou’s point, no need to prove it.” Luna Black hissed as she stared daggers at the remains of the tyrant's horn.
“Seconded,” Shiva agreed, putting herself between Kodo and the horn fragments. “No live demonstrations!”
“...That was from Jungle Book,” Thanos then turns to Shiva with a disapproving frown.
“What? My chant from when I fought?” she asked. “Yeah, and it’s not wrong; dogs are better in packs. I just thought it sounded cool.”
“SHIVA!!!!” The voice of a certain Blindman shouted out, coming from down the stairs they had to climb to get to this room.
Shiva turned to the source of the voice, her ears fully perked in shock. “Issho?”
“That can’t be the disturbance we felt,” Luke muttered. “Can it?”
“C’MERE YOU LITERAL BITCH!!!!!” Fujitora then runs to the floor and tries to go through the door, only to get punched in the face by Asura. Sending the Wisteria Tiger back down the flight of stairs.
“Issho, oh my…!” Shiva stammered, before wisely backing off from Asura.
Kodo then felt a horrible sensation in his mind, like a pounding migraine.
He found himself in a desert, there were bones everywhere, weapons sticking out of the ground like grass.
“Oh, by everything sacred,” Kodo groaned. “What’s happening now?”
He then sees off in the distance, a mask sitting on top of a dune. His ears flattening, Kodo approached. As he approached the mask he recognized it as Grievous’ helmet/mask. The mask was burnt and bloodied.
“G-General?” Kodo whispered.
Suddenly a red light flashed over him and as he turned around, it was Ryker with ruby eyes instead of emerald eyes. Ryker had Yoru as his blade, raising it high he slashed Kodo.
Kodo snapped awake with a bark of shock. “The General’s in trouble!” he barked.
“You mean Grievous? He’s fine, Ryker’s on the top of the floor, knowing him and his pride he’ll be waiting for us.” Thanos said, before flashing him a grin. “Grievous is a tough guy, he can’t die.”
Shiva, Luke and Kodo exchanged nervous glances. “I mean,” Luke pointed out. “He’s a lot tougher than we are.”
Kodo, however, still kept glancing back at where they had come from. Shiva and Luke couldn’t help but follow his gaze, still sensing that disturbance. Like they were missing something very important.
“He did catch Rubilax too,” Thanos added, trying to reassure the family of Howlite Howlers. “He fought Kaido, survived an assault from Celestia herself and not to mention fought an entire army by himself. He’ll be alright.”
“Hmph!” Asura then turns around, crossing his arms. Thankfully, he ignored Shiva, turning instead to Eric. “Well, it’s about damn time you fight,” Asura puts his hand on Eric’s shoulder before swiftly chucking him towards the table. Eric then shrinks to size, soon finding himself in some sort of weird time distorted area constantly flickering in and out. In the middle of the room, appeared to be a grey and white cloaked figure; its facial features hidden within the hood. Every so often, its head would twitch and jerk. If Eric had any way of knowing, they would have a feeling that this was not its true form.
Seeing the side of the figure caused Link to bring his hand up to his head as a rush of pain caused him to groan. “I.. remember this? I remember this guy, but I can’t remember where and why.. It’s like it happened, but it didn’t?” Link said as he tried to make sense of this weird enigma, as if he was in the paradoxal void of the Displaced universe.
“You could be remembering something, but it's probably being blocked by a memory spell?” Black said with a raised eyebrow. “Yet again, what do I know of magic?” Black said as he held out his hand, making a cup of tea, the Saiyan taking a sip before letting out a sigh.
“That’s not it, I remember this whole thing, yet at the same time I know this never happened… I think this has something to do with what Sans The Batter told me years ago. Someone or something reseted time,” Link said feeling a little afraid before looking down at the table that showed everything. “Be careful down there, Eric. From what little I can remember but can’t…?” Link said before shaking off the contradictory feeling from his mind. “This is actually a lesser void dweller...” he points out.
Thanos spits out his hetap, which falls onto Shiva, causing her to yelp in shock. Thanos then shakes his head and looks down at the table. “HE WHAT?!?!?!?!?!” Thanos cried out.
Link slightly flinched at the raised voice. “Are you actually surprised?” he asked curiously.
“Of course I am! There’s only one person I know who knows of the void and I didn’t even meet him yet!” Thanos said, turning to Link before downing some hetap.
“Who?” Link asked confused.
“Ed, he’s the one who demolished Goku Black, and did a bunch of other stuff that would kill me.” Thanos said after crushing the hetap and throwing it to the nearest garbage can, which was Sombra because he’s trash.
“Edward overpowered Ultra Instinct like it was a toy… hell, he treated my Haki like it was a bug.” Black explained as he took another sip of tea.
“....So he’s more overpowered.” Link said as he let out a long groan. “Enough with the overpowered beings, multiverse...” Link thought in annoyance.
“To be honest, I don’t like him, it’s like the creator of the multiverse decided to go suck a dick and make Ed a half-Void Dweller.” Thanos said tsking at Ed’s overpowered being.
“That’s like every single Displaced asking why their Displaced Displaced them, but the answer would either be the same, because of some important fate, or their Displacer wanted to be a dick about it.” Link said with a shrug.
“I mean, I CHOSE to be Displaced, unlike ALL OF YOU!!! Kilton was generous enough to give me a choice.” Thanos said, remembering his Void Dweller.
“Bitch I walked through a door and then I’m a younger Goku Black, I didn’t get a choice.” Black commented.
“...I didn’t have a choice in the matter, I didn’t want to be Link, I just wanted to enjoy a normal life before that treasure chest containing the triforce appeared at my doorstep.” Link said with a frown mixed with annoyance.
“Curiosity killed the cat,” Thanos said with a blank stare, “You could have simply picked up the box, walked back to the postal place, put it there, and been on your way. However, Shiva, you had no choice in the matter, you got struck by lightning and here you are.”
“Pretty much,” Shiva agreed.
“YOU HOWEVER!!!!” Thanos boomed, making Elia get flung from the force of his voice. Thanos glared down at Eric and slammed his fists down at the table. “YOU FUCKING ATE A PROP THINKING IT WOULD GIVE YOU A DEVIL FRUIT POWER AND CHOSE TO BE A DISPLACED BY BEING A FUCKING RETARD!!!!!!!!” Thanos roared, clearly pissed off. “Which it did but what were you thinking? That could have been bad for your health, teeth, and digestive system.”
“Not really no,” Eric said plainly. “If the fruit killed me that day, it definitely would have been a plus compared to what my parents would have done to me.”
“Why are you worried about his digestive system…?” Luke asked.
“Science always fascinated me when I was in school, as did Mathematics, ELA, P.E, World History… Yeah I was a fucking nerd. I still am, I just hide the nerdness.” Thanos said, crossing his arms.
“...By quoting memes and being retarded on purpose? Why?” Link asked confused.
“Fuck you I have autism, jackass.” Thanos gave him the middle finger. “Oh and why fucking not? Do you want me to be serious?” Thanos asked, peering down at Link’s soul. “Do you want me to, J̷̢̢̝̥͔̺̤̬̘̠͍̬̄̂̈́͋̎̊̔̍́̌͌̏͜͝ē̸̹̹̈͊f̵̢̡̥̯̮̹̜̙̥̫͙͈̤͇̟̈́̅̐̈̄f̵̨̨̧͍̭̫͚͓̥̯̘̠̣͓̈́̈́́̃̒̽͛͂̽̕̕͜?̵̡̧̧͍͇̘̣̮̙͈͚̪̣͉̈́̅̄̋̎͑̊̀͂̽“ Thanos asked, looming over Link, a dark and deep purple aura surrounding him as he did so. Thanos’ eyes turned blood red like he was enveloped in Dark Ki.
“Alright, alright, chill.” Link said as he held his hands in self defense. “Here, have a Snickers, you’re not you when you’re serious..” he said, somehow holding a Snickers Bar in his hand.
Thanos slowly took the Snickers Bar, “That’s what I thought,” Thanos then disappears in the shadows to eat his Snickers Bar in peace. Like nigga sneaking off with a piece of fried chicken in its little hands. (This was written by Chill for context and yes, I am black)
At that very moment, some roblox kid yelled out in slow emotion. “O O O o o o f”
“...I’m losing my mind here…” Link said in full forced confusion.
“Nigga what the fuck?” Lucci asked, looking around in the same confusion as Link, trying to spot the Robloxian. “You and me both, Link…”
“Stay strong, my friends,” Shiva said, patting them both on the shoulder. “We’ll make it through this together.”
“Dat is true my bruddas! With de powah of EBOLAAAAA we can nevah freeze!” Elae said with a click. Thanos proceeds to turn into a Purple Ugandan Knuckles.
“Dis is true my bruddas!” Ugandan Thanos said, agreeing with his brudda. Thanos then goes back to normal, “Ahem, so… Does anyone want to talk to Asura here?” Thanos looks to Asura who crossed his arms and glared at Thanos.
Luke peered over Thanos’ shoulder at the God. “About what?” Luke asked. “Anger management? The joys of fatherhood, maybe?”
“Yeah, you guys should talk about that, that seems nice.” Thanos said, “I’m a father too but Imma sit this one out.” Thanos then gets in a Michael Jackson outfit and moonwalks away, leaving Luke to awkwardly sidle next to Asura.
“So…” Luke mumbled. “Ripped apart the heavens for your daughter, right?”
“Yes, those bastards framed me for murder, killed my wife, and me and took my daughter away from me. And I was killed by that bastard Deus and was sent to Naraka, 12,000 years passed while I was there.” Asura grunted out through his teeth.
Luke nodded. “But you got those bastards back, right?”
“I killed my master Augus, killed my wife’s killer Sergei, killed Kalrow, pummeled Wryzen to death, and killed Deus, the only one I hadn’t killed was Olga. She was killed by that bastard Chakravartin.” Asura explained.
Luke huffed. “Sounds like she got off easy compared to the others.”
“No, she was killed, brutally.” Asura said with a frown.
“Hm…”
“...You have a daughter, right?” Asura inquired with a raised eyebrow.
Luke’s tail wagged. “Aye, a beautiful pup named Celine. She has her mother’s eyes and my fur color.” He chuckled softly. “And she’s always so eager to see the world, and to learn about the other species. When a skirmish put us at odds with the ponies, Celine didn’t look for a way to defeat the ponies; she looked for a way to make peace instead.” His head lowered. “I wonder how she’s doing right now; she doesn’t even know I was revived.”
“Revived?” Asura then turned to face the Diamond Dog, intrigued at Luke’s story.
Luke nodded solemnly. “I died,” he admitted. “To Daybreaker.” He huffed. “It was my own fault. I let anger and envy drive me to accept the aid of the madman Umbra, and that madman drove Celestia into darkness. I simply paid the consequences.” He gazed up at Thanos. “But thanks to the Titan’s kindness, I was brought back. Reunited with my wife and son.” He took a breath. “And soon, I will be reunited with my daughter as well. All I have to do is make it through this.”
“Hm… When… When my daughter was born, I couldn’t hold her. I… I just couldn’t when I was a commander during the war against the Gohma, I felt… Guilty holding her. I despised her crying, I despise when anyone cries. It makes… I hate it when someone feels sadness! We Demi-God’s gain power from souls also known as Mantra. The Seven Deities began killing Gohma and Humans alike. Do you know how many souls they collected?” Asura turned away from Luke, clenching his teeth in anger.
Luke’s grin faded. “Far too many,” he guessed.
“Seven. Trillion. Seven trillion lives, gone all because they wanted to put an end to Vlitra. Me and Yasha killed Vlitra, and all of that… All of those lives, wasted! It pisses me off,” Asura growled, Thanos then slid in.
“Let’s change up the topic, what is your daughter like?” Thanos asks the Deity of Wrath.
“What is Mithra like? Well… She’s kind and will always help out when things get rough, and… Gentle. When I embraced her I felt like everything was right where it should be, she’s always willing to experience pain if her loved ones live. That’s why I despised her becoming a priestess…” Asura said with a shake of his head.
“What about your daughter?” Asura turns to Thanos, Thanos puts a hand under his chin.
“Well, I have a Minotaur daughter named Golden Shield, ancestor of Golden Horn. She’s… Well she takes a lot from her ancestor, she’s nice, strong, and a good soul. Golden Shield is about… Four years old in Minotaur Years which is the same as human so… About four months, Dog Years. Her father, Golden Hoof, is a jerk. Me and her are the best of pals, and boy was I proud when she beat her first EVER Manticore.” Thanos wiped away a tear and sniffed, “They grow up so fast.” He then blew his nose with a paper tissue that he forged with Alicorn Magic.
“What in Naraka is a Manticore?” Asura asked the Titan, Thanos cleared his throat.
“It’s a lion with wings and a scorpion tail.” Thanos explained to the Deity of Wrath.
“What the Naraka are those?” Asura asked once more, Thanos gasped in utter shock.
“You’ve never heard of lions and scorpions?” Thanos held his chest, doing an overdramatic step back.
“There were some animals on Gaea but they’re almost all dead because of the Gohma.” Asura explained, Thanos then stopped his overdramatic chest holding and nods.
“I see, that’s unfortunate, well the scorpion is as big as Wryzen in his normal form.” Thanos explained. Asura quirked an eyebrow.
“Huh, so your daughter… She must be a fighter.” Asura said, crossing his arms.
“Not really, no, she’s more of a bookworm than anything. She always goes to the Royal Library to read about history to find where I was, what happened, and always read science books. Shieldy wants to build a country in the sky one day, as in making our WHOLE country float in the sky. She’s a dreamer, that's for sure.” Thanos said with a chuckle.
“Aren’t all kids?” Luke replied with a grin.
Thanos opened his mouth and raised a finger, he couldn’t form the words together. “You have a point.” Thanos put down his hand and closed his mouth.
“...See? Isn’t this nice? All of us talking about our children. Just dads being dudes.” Thanos said with a smile.
“Oh yeah… sure…” Black said with a sip of his tea, being distant for the whole conversation on daughters.
“Do not worry my brudda, u r not missing out on anything! My daughter is a nice person, though not exceptionally nice just the right… Amount of… Nice…” Elae said in his African accent looking at Black as he just stood there, drinking his tea.
“Uh… Thanks?” Black said awkwardly.
“U will get an offspring one dae my brudda!” Elae clicked, “And I will be there to see ur mate birth ur child!” Elae said, Lord Twigo had to cover his face to conceal his laughter.
Black blushed and turned his head away as he continued to sip on his tea. “Yeah… sure, thanks…” Black muttered as he tried to blush.
“You’re not helping my dear friend, he is clearly shy,” Lord Twigo then slides over to Black and pats his back.
“I’m sorry, but this is my second time talking about having a child.” Black said as he quickly turned around.
“For such powerful warriors, you have rather odd hang-ups,” Luke commented. “My children loved the story of how I impregnated their mother.”
“OOHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!” Zarbon moaned in the background.
“NOPE!” Black raised his voice and created earplugs quickly, before proceeding to whistle.
“It was rather educational,” Kodo mumbled.
He suddenly heard the moaning come closer.
“SHUT IT ZARBON!” Black shouted, his voice rivaling Luna’s Royal Canterlot Voice in volume and force.
“OHHHHH!!!!” Zarbon then crashes into Black like an arrow and disappears.
Black quickly got up, the rest of his tea spilling on his gi. He growled as he hovered his hand over his clothing, getting rid of the stain using his ki. “Fucking hate that guy…” Black growled. He then took out the ear plugs as he created a new cup of tea.
Asura, however, frowned. Unable to understand the events that were currently unfolding. “What the hell does ‘dude’ mean?” Asura asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Oh! I know this one!” Luke insisted. “Rainbow Dash would use it all the time! Um…” He scratched his chin. “It means… someone. Like, it can just be another way to refer to someone as… ‘someone.’” His tail swished as he glanced away. “I think.”
“...I still don’t get it.” Asura said blankly, Thanos just pats Asura’s back.
“Another way to refer to someone as a friend.” Black comments as he finishes his tea.
“We’re not friends.” Asura brushes Thanos off.
“In Thanos’ eyes, you are.” Black said as he stretched, finding it off a little with his missing appendage.
“... I don’t… Tch, how?! What the hell?!” Asura cried out.
“I dunno, Thanos just being Thanos,” Black said with a shrug.
“If he can beat me, then I would consider him as a friend.” Asura then turns away from Thanos, Thanos just backs away from him.
“Man, he’s got some issues with us.” Black says as he created a chair and sat down.
“His comrades betrayed him and someone he trusted tried to take over his daughter, I don’t blame him.” Thanos said with a shrug.
“Yeah…” Black says as he leans back in his chair and glances at the table. “I wonder how Eric’s handling his fight.”
As they spoke with one another, the battle was just starting. All around Eric, looked like a mess of static; broken in shards flying about all around with bits of it revealing two different time periods but never connecting. In the middle of the room was a figure wearing a grey and white cloak, its face hidden within the hood. Any light that shunned through, it’s face was unidentified.
“So..” Eric said, dusting himself off as he rose to his feet as he looked towards the figure standing before him. “To whom do I have the pleasure of facing”
Its head twitched as time glitched all around them. “I am the Avatar Of Despair….” It said as its head jerked again. “I am the Avatar Of Despair…” It repeated, its head jerking around. It appears this creature was stuck in some sort of time loop.
“Reaper of the Seven Seas. ‘Shadow Reaper’ Von Shadow” Eric said, giving a courtesy bow before drawing his sword. “Well then, let us dance Lord Avatar.”
“YOU ARE BENEATH ME!” The avatar screamed in a distorted voice as it’s body took on a gentle shimmer, the surrounding area becoming more messed up than ever, making all sense of direction pointless. Eric would find the floor was suddenly missing alongside gravity weakening, allowing both the Avatar and Eric to float. The longer this went on, the more chaotic and senseless the area became.
“Better end this quickly,” Eric saud drawing in the shadows around his body. “Savage Shadow Soul: Soul of the Savage Reaper”
Eric took on his Savage Reaper form before pulling out his Imperial Arms Incursio rather than his signature Scythe, his right hand glowed green before revealing his Sacred Gear. Holding the sword in front of him, the Shadow Man called upon the power within the sword
“INCURSIO!” Eric called out as a suit of white armor formed around him, however it was different than last time he used it. His arms and legs still had the shadows of his reaper form along with his Boosted gear which began glowing every ten seconds
Eric kicked the air behind him creating a massive shockwave that blew the ruins flying at blinding speeds, before anyone could so much as try to find the Shadow Man, the Avatar was sent flying with an impression in the shape of a fist located on his left cheek. It didn’t take long for another tremor to shake the area as another impression appeared on the Avatar’s back, Eric summoned the red tipped spear of his armor before bringing it down on the Avatar. Unfortunately the Avatar spun around and sent Eric flying with a swift kick to the Shadow Man’s face
“Keh ha ha ha ha ha! You can’t do anything to me!” The Avatar taunted as it hopped around like a maniac. “Eh ha ha ha- Patire!” The avatar screamed as a wave of darkness came flying toward Eric.
However due to his immunity to Dark Magic Eric was unaffected by the Avatar’s dark spell.
“Eeeeh?” The avatar said confused as its head rotated like an owl.
Correcting himself in the air, Eric uses the Moonwalk technique to keep him from drifting in the void. Reaching into his body Eric pulled out his scythe and held it in his left hand while his spear was in his right, leaning forward Eric kicked behind him and raced towards the Avatar with his weapons crossed across his body. A X shaped slash appeared on the left side of the Avatar’s body. The attack connected, slashing open its cloak and revealing a swarm or wriggling tentacles that quickly hide themself deeper.
“This is all wrong! WRONG! WRONG! Demolir!” The Avatar yelled, causing an explosion of arcane energy to erupt from him.
The Eruption of the energy caused Eric to knock off course and drop from his speed, “Teslae-AAHAHAHAAHAHA!” The Avatar yells, laughing while casting a spell, causing a bolt of lightning to shoot out of its hood at Eric.
The bolt hits Eric’s chest, electrocuting the shadow human. “Something is very wrong about you Link! Where’s your spells? Your sword? Your toys?!” The avatar asked as a twisted ugly smile formed within its hood.
“I see.. you believe I’m the champion” Eric said looking towards the Hylian Displaced. Link shrugged his arms with a confused expression on his face, as if knowing but not.
“Don’t make a fool of me! Sellsword!” The avatar yelled as it flew straight at Eric; arms held back as if prepared for an attack.
“I don’t know what you did to him Kid but he’s definitely planning your funeral” Eric shouted out as he flared his magic. “Surround me with the Darkness and protect me from the Light, Dark Barrier”
A thick dark purple magical barrier covered Eric as the Avatar slammed into the barrier sending him flying into the surrounding ruins like a pinball
“Kyeh! You hold no hope to a God!” The Avatar said as it shook off the remains of the daze, it appeared to feel no pain despite the obvious damage inflicted. “Here! CATCH THIS! GAEA!” The avatar screamed as a tentacle arm took out a large spire of earth, soon flinging it straight at Eric like a Javelin.
Eric immediately dispelled his barrier before aiming his hands forward, a flood of shadow erupted from the Shadow Man’s hands swallowing the spire into his shadow. Narrowing his gaze Eric began to pour shadow from his body
“The only way one can kill a god is if he becomes a demon” Eric said as his shadow body soon turned solid. “Savage Shadow Soul: Soul of the Savage Demon”
Eric’s Sacred Gear and Armor dispelled as his skin turned to charred leather, his teeth became jagged fangs, his eyes turned pitch black, the knuckles on his hands turned to spikes as well as his shoulders and knees. Jutting from his back and his sides were pairs of taloned arms in the palm of both hands where eyes which twitched in any and all directions, Black flames bellowed from his head forearms and his back. However he was much smaller than before, in comparison he was the height of Link himself.
“A demon?” KYEH HEHEHEH!” The avatar said as it leaned its head back, continuing to laugh before suddenly, its hood lowered, revealing a blackened head with large sharp teeth. As the Avatar continued to laugh, its cloak ripped apart, slowly growing bigger. A large blackened claw slamming onto either side of Eric. “You can’t even comprehend!” The avatar said said as it let out a bellowing scream, causing a mixture of liquid void energy and saliva to hit in various places on Eric’s body, all the while Eric was laughing with each and every strike, his body swelling and growing along with his laughter
“Dear lord! Eric has been slobbed!” Lord Twigo said, clasping his forehead. “And. He’s. Enjoying it!”
“That’s kinda gay Eric. Really gay.” Thanos said, shaking his head at the man's antics.
Shiva shook her head, turning away. “Nope, can’t handle this,” she mumbled. “Too weird.”
“I agree my sista!” Elae turned his head away from Eric.
“Yesss!” Eric laughed out, flicking his forked tongue. “Again, but this time you weakling I want you to hit me. As. Hard. As. You. Can”
“Hit you? Ahahahahaha, HIT YOU?!” The Colossus Of Despair yelled in amusement. It raised a gruesome claw high into the air, reaching out and plucking an oversized meteor out of the void, soon swinging it straight down on Eric. A very powerful erupt of fire would explode upon impact, blinding everyone watching. There was a long length of silence before a sound could be heard from beneath the rubble
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The Laughter only seemed to grow as did the trembling on the stone meteor, the meteor exploded revealing a Hysterical laughing Demon Eric whose body looked like it belonged to a professional bodybuilder like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“I thought I told you to hit me with every ounce of strength you have” Eric mocking in a laughing manner as he effortlessly pulls out a chunk of rock from the meteor. “Cause it felt like it was made from paper mache.”
“You’ve been too much FFFUUUNNN.” The Colossus Of Despair said a mist of vile smelling poison spread all around Eric. “To kill now!”
Eric just smiled and took in a deep inhale of the poison, his body growing larger in response.
“Quite tasty,” Eric mocked with a wide smile. “Got any more?”
The Colossus Of Despair turned his head sideways, confused and perplexed at how Eric resisted so much.
“What are you waiting for? HIt Me! Fight Me!” Eric screamed out, launching himself at the Colossus of Despair. At that moment, tentacles shot out of its body straight at Eric; each one thin and sharp enough to puncture almost anything.
Eric just laughed as his body grew to the point where the Tentacles could not remove themselves from the pressure around them, Eric grabbed hold of all of them before pulling his opponent towards him. Once within reach Eric placed a hand on the Colossus’s chest
“Suffering of Gluttony” Eric called out as all pain and damage was compressed in the palm of his hand
The compressed damage was fired into the Colossus at point blank range. The giant was sent flying through the void, crashing into meteors and left over bits of the room. Once the impact of the attack had ended, the Colossus was bleeding out void, and anything it touched would suddenly cease to exist.
“STOP FUCKING AROUND, KILL IT!” Link shouted out as bits of time erased memories returned to him. “Its true form will just make things worse.
“STOP BEING A DRAGON BALL Z CHARACTER YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!” Thanos cried out before turning to Shiva, “No offense.”
“... DRIVE TO… DESPAIR… CRUSH… HOPE ITSELF…” The Colossus said as it floated toward Eric; its body flickering from glitches in time. The void was starting to crumble and fade, disgrating one by one as the shell from The Colossus Of Despair’s body was falling. Every so often, Eric would keep seeing different timelines all around and the Colossus Of Despair’s form flickering from the millions of forms it had used.
As the flickering figure began to move towards Eric, it’s body began to be hit by hooks of shadow. Looking down he found his own shadow had surrounded his feet, the Colossus was dragged down into his own shadow as he tried to forcefully remove the hooks. The Colossus screamed as his head was swallowed into Eric’s Shadow Zone
“YOU CAN’T.. STOP DESPAIR.. FOREVER!” Colossus said as it opened it’s maw wide to cast a spell, only for his own shadow to clamp it shut. The moment the Colossus Of Despair left this existence, everything faded back to reality. Link let out a breath of sigh now that the danger was averted.
“Congratulations you edgy pianist.” Thanos said, clapping slowly, very, very slowly.
Kodo blinked at Thanos, before glancing at Eric and then at the others. “Goodnight, everybody,” he said with a grin.
“...What the hell?!” Asura cried out, “None of you are making sense! You’re pissing me off!”
“Welcome to the club,” Shiva deadpanned. “I’ve got jackets.”
“Shut. Up.”
“I remember fully now I fought this being before, I was only able to kill thanks to Ash who applied a lot of buff spells on me..” Link explained.
Suddenly Eric was now back inside of the room, Thanos then cleared his throat. “Now that we have our edgy boy back, let’s go!” Thanos then kicks down the door that had… More stairs to it.
Dispelling his Shadow Soul, Eric collapses in Shiva’s arms, who started healing any injuries he had with her links. However he still ended up coughing up a bad amount of blood much to the Diamond Dogs' worry.
“Easy there, Eric,” she said, glancing at the others. “Does anyone have any orange juice or something?”
“Get the hell out of here and move on!” Asura barked, glaring down at Eric and pointing to the door.
“I’ll be fine,” Eric said, lifting himself to his feet.
“Yes, whatever you say,” Shiva replied, before barking. Luke raced to her side, and together, the dogs carried Eric up the stairs to the next level, Kodo wandering behind them.
“That was reckless of you” Sombra said, tailing behind Eric and the Diamond Dogs. “Dangerously Reckless, you could have died!”
“But I didn’t, Did I?” Eric asked with a smile
Sombra however wasn’t happy with that response and bonked Eric in the head with the back end of his sheath
“SO MANY FUCKING STAIRS!!!!” Thanos roared as he began to climb up the stairs.
“Po from kung-fu panda, the grumpy cat meme, Hulk, and Francis from left four dead would agree with you.” Link said half jokingly, half seriously to Thanos.
“I will rip off your spine and choke you with it! I am at my breaking point! Any other remark and I will drag your skull across the walls until your head is burnt TO A DAMN CRISP!!!!” Thanos roared, his head on fire with white.
*Linkin Park - One Step Closer plays as Thanos’ hair caught on fire.*
“Save it for Ryker, please,” Shiva replied.
Thanos slowly turned towards Shiva, not even saying a word. He slowly continued his walk.
“Let us go my bruddas! To de top!” Elae followed Thanos.
“Whatever you say, *Click* Elae,” Entity said, walking up to the stairs. Elia followed after him.
“We r close to de top!”
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Ninth Floor! Oh yeah, it's Pokemon time.
Ninth Floor! Oh yeah, it’s Pokemon Time.
The TV then turns off as the series has met its end. All was silent.
“...This was by far the most…” Grievous clenching his fists, looking at the screen. “AWESOMEST SERIES I’VE EVER WATCHED!!!!” Grievous cried out, jumping to his feet. “Sylvia is the best girl in ALL OF THE GALAXY!!!!!” Grievous said, hopping around.
“MM-HMM!” Blazy agreed, dancing with him. Ryker just sat there, staring at the TV.
“THE VERY BEST!!!” Grievous said with a laugh, “Ryker, remember that episode where Sylvia doubted the hat? That was my favorite one! Oh who am I kidding? They’re all my favorites!” Grievous said with a laugh, Ryker slowly rubbed his eyes.
Ryker then punches Grievous in his face unexpectedly, sending him flying into some rubble. Ryker then gets up and hands the controller to Luco as he walks towards Grievous. Grievous got up and went into a fighting stance.
“You think you’re so high and mighty don’t cha?!” Grievous said, his voice echoing.
“Five…” Ryker began to count, holding up five fingers.
“Why are you counting?” Grievous tilted his head.
“Four…” Ryker said as he put down a finger.
“Uh… Well anyway I will beat your ass!” Grievous said, pulling out his Elemental Swords.
“Three…” Ryker put down another finger.
“Here I come, Irish boy!” Grievous then flew at Ryker.
“Two…” Ryker put down another finger, his eyes half closed as he looked at Grievous.
“ELEMENTAL-” Grievous then begins to spin like Sonic The Hedgehog. “SPIN!!!”
“And… One.” Grievous then let out a wail of pain as he dropped out of Ultra Instinct, purple Ki surrounding him as his pupils disappeared and he was white-eyed. Grievous then fell to the ground unable to move.
“I forgot that it was a side-effect of Ultra Instinct…” Grievous grumbled, Ryker then shook his head.
“You seriously didn’t even think for a moment that I was stalling? Yes, while it may be the greatest Disney Show of ALL time and Sylvia is THE best girl. You are a retard, a complete and utter fool. You fell into my trap and now I will beat you silly.” Ryker then readied his fists, covering them in Armament Haki.
“... If the multiverse is a big place… And you two are out there… Wander, Sylvia, PLEASE GET THIS IRISH PRICK AWAY FROM ME!!!” Grievous cried out, Ryker raised his fist and slammed it down onto Grievous skull.
Luco tsked, glancing at Blazy. “Well, Blazy? You are part Zbornak, after all.”
“Mm…” Blazy started to step forward, before Luco hopped on her back.
“That’s right,” Luco agreed. “Your name’s not Sylvia. You’re just one of her fans.” He shrugged. “Sorry, Grevy.” And with that, they teleported away with a burst of fireworks.
“Bye, have a wonderful time!” Grievous said, before getting kicked in the chin.
“No one is going to help you! I am inevitable you bag of bolts!” Ryker said as he stomped on Grievous, over and over again.
“Doh!” Grievous said, wheezing. Ryker raised his foot, and with a cackle he stomped on him again.
“...Do you feel that?” Thanos said, stopping in his tracks. “Feels odd.”
“I taste that!” Kodo said, looking around. “Seriously, there is something really-really wrong.”
“Only way we can make it right is by getting to the top,” Shiva insisted.
“..I recognize the feel of time, but the other part makes me feel a little queasy…” Link said as he looked toward the feeling of spaciality.
Black stopped and looked around, Luna Black raised an eyebrow. “Now that you mention it… can anyone sense anyone outside the tower, cause I can’t sense their life force…”
Eric, who had timed out of the fusion with Sombra, Closed his eyes and tried to find anyone with his observation haki. Snapping his eyes open Eric saw and outline of people outside the tower, however he couldn’t spot nor sense and of his friends or the others that came with the other Displaced
“You’re right Black, our friends are nowhere to be found” Eric said blinking as his vision returned to normal
“We’re too far away, when we go up the stairs and move to floors we go to different dimensions. Right here, is a bridge to a dimension AND we couldn’t even sense them from the start when we got in this tower!” Entity replied, walking passed Thanos.
“Yeah, now… Wait, do you see that?” They all make it up to a room and there stood Giratina with Palkia and Dialga with him.
“Hey...” Luke noted before remembering their threat. “Uh… who are you guys?”
“The Legendary Pokemon of Space, Time, and Distortion” Eric said, slightly upset. “Out of all the legendaries they don’t have Darkrai” Eric muttered to himself
“...What was the last time you played pokemon?” Link asked Luke curiously.
“I don’t wanna talk about it,” Luke replied morosely.
“I control Antimatter and the Distortion world, I am Giratina!” Giratina said, spreading his wings, the beast was taller than Thanos.
“I am Palkia and I control space.” Palkia introduced himself, Dialga perked up.
“And I am Dialga, I control time.” Dialga said before turning to Giratina, “You ask the questions.”
“Man… The Supreme Kai of Time would have trouble with that.” Black commented, crossing his arms.
“I ATE THE SUPREME KAI OF TIME!!!” Dialga cried out, his red eyes glowing.
“Yeah sure, and I’m evil.” Black said with sarcasm.
Dialga then coughs up a potara earring, before inhaling it.
“Huh… that's new…” Black said with a raised eyebrow. ‘At Least he didn't eat Toki Toki, that would cause problems.’ Black thought.
“Er… Fine, alright, okay we have some questions that need answers if you want to pass. Understand?” Giratina tilts his head, looking at the group.
“Understood, Pokemon Satan!” Thanos said with a salute. Link facepalmed at that.
“Okay, question one, who would be the Main Protagonist if this was a show.” Giratina inquired, Thanos just smiled.
“I’d say whoever is here who’s good with bonding with pokemon.” Link pointed out as it made the most sense.
“Easy, Shiva.” Thanos said, putting hands on his hips.
Shiva’s ears perked. “Me?” she asked.
“Come on, you’re a kind soul,” Thanos said, giving her a thumbs up. “Not to mention you helped the others, beat Fujitora… Yada, yada, yada.”
“False,” Giratina said with a frown.
“What?!” Thanos cried out, “But how? You know what? You try Shiva!” Thanos pushes her in front of him. Going behind her.
“Um… okay…” Shiva mumbled, glancing up at Giratina nervously. “I was going to say Thanos. He’s the strongest of us, is pretty much the leader, and the one who has the most hope of getting us through to the end.”
“Correctomundo, Thanos is the protagonist, think about it, he won the tournament, helped his friend, Black, met Eric, knows the Crimson Sage by name, beat your worst enemy, WON THE TOURNAMENT saved your husband two times and I can go on.” Giratina said with a laugh, Thanos just had a confused look on his face.
“Nigga how the fuck?!” Thanos said, looking around, “How? Why? WHEN!??!!?” Thanos cried out. “WHY AM I THE MAIN FUCKING PROTAGONIST?!?!?! I DON’T WANNA!!!!!”
“Now, who is the best girl?” Giratina asked, looking at everyone.
“Shiva,” Luke said instantly, pointing at his wife.
“Absolutely Mom,” Kodo added.
“G-Guys!” Shiva stammered, blushing as her tail wagged.
“Correct!” Giratina exclaimed, “You are such a nice Diamond Dog, you care for Fujitora, have two wonderful offspring and have a mighty husband!”
“Stop, you're making her blush,” Entity said, pointing to the Diamond Dogs. Indeed, Shiva was turning more red than white, though Luke and Kodo just laughed as they embraced her blushing form.
“Now, who has never defeated a Displaced?” Giratina asked, Thanos then pointed to Black, as did the rest of everyone.
“Black.” They all say at the same time.
“Correct.” Giratina said, “He didn’t win against Crimson Sage, never really beat Thanos, lost to Eric, Towa was killed by Akainu and Akainu was defeated by Mira. So he never defeated a Displaced.”
“Get fucked, Black.” Thanos said, flipping Black off.
“Fair… but I feel personally attacked here…” Black said as he looked down, frowning.
“Sorry,” Shiva said sheepishly.
“We all get attacked, personally, physically, mentally, and socially.” Giratina said plainly.
“Now, who gets traumatic flashbacks when someone says Three Female Royal Guards?”
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Thanos froze, looking straight at Giratina, his pupils shrunk and just stood there.
“‘Thanos’ enough for you?” Shiva asked the trio, before reaching for Thanos. “Thanos, you’re not there anymore, you’re with your pack. Stay calm. Deep breaths, and remember, you’re not there anymore.”
Thanos does exactly what Shiva told him… And he was turned into a purple bean. “Black! Black! I’m over here, flip me over.” Bean Thanos ordered the Saiyan
“First… no… second, why the fuck do I have to flip you?” Black asked.
“I gave you your arm,” Bean Thanos said plainly.
“That's a fair point, but it doesnt tell what purpose it would serve flipping you.” Black said as he crossed his arms.
“I could look at you because my ass is facing the damn ceiling.” Bean Thanos said, as he tried to turn his body only to fail.
“Oh… then why didn’t you say so?” Black said as he walked over to Thanos, then pulled him out of the ground like a vegetable. “Better?”
“Yup better, look at me, I turned myself into a bean, I’M BEAN THANOS!!!!!” Bean Thanos said in a perfect Rick impression.
Black then dropped Thanos onto the ground and walked away, saying nothing at the Titan. ‘How do you deal with these… ‘Displaced’?’ Zamasu asked who sounded disgusted.
“I just got used to it…” Black said.
Link wanted to make a joke about Bean Thanos getting along with Picklerick, but considering the death stares Thanos keeps giving, Link decides it's not worth it at the moment.
Shiva blinked. “This was not my intention,” she admitted.
“Okay, now you all can pass.” Giratina then opens the door, Thanos just sat there, still a bean. Until Shiva walked back to him, picked up the bean and carried it with her.
Link felt a bit upset, as no questions were asked about himself, making him realize he has made the least impact on this whole journey. Sure, he’s defeated some powerhouses thanks to his friends, found another love, saved the Ender Dragon from extinction, saved one or two people from dying, but that appeared to be about it.
As soon as they passed the door Thanos turned back to normal, his 700 pound body was like it was. Shiva nearly staggered under his weight, but luckily, Luke returned to her, and helped her set Thanos on the ground.
They then find themselves in a waiting room, a door was out there.
“...We’re in the stadium from Pokemon Sword and Shield wait, why do I have a pokeball in my hand?” Thanos asked, then pokeball just chilling,
“Not just that,” Shiva noted, gazing in shock at Luke. “Did you… get a makeover?”
Luke now looked much more like a Lucario than before. Though, granted, the changes were minimal.
Eric’s black coat moved from his body to his shoulders as a black hat was on his head and a pair of black shorts and Sneakers adorned his lower body. Along with his changes he also noticed a single Dark Ball attached to his belt
“The Fuck” Eric said before seeing Sombra laughing at Eric in a white sleeveless shirt and a pair of blue pocket shorts a Ultra Ball on his belt
Eric used his shadows to cover his legs like a pair of pants.
“Let’s see what’s in this ball,” Thanos throws the ball on the ground and out comes a 9’6, 785 pound wolf. “...Brudus?” Thanos said, raising an eyebrow, Brudus then shook itself like he was a wet dog. And looked at Thanos in his eyes, Brudus then sniffed the Titan and his tail wagged. “BRUDUS!!!!” Thanos said running at Brudus and the giant of a dog tackles him.
Shiva, Luke and Kodo’s jaws were on the ground. “That guy was in that ball?” Kodo stammered in shock.
“Pokeballs are a fickle,” Brudus replied, as Thanos gets up. “They’re weird but it gives me shelter so I’m alright.”
“In theory, I think it's like the capsules from Capsule Corp, except instead of smoke, it's a flash of light. I’ve always believed that pokemon get turned into energy and get shrunk down to fit inside the ball. Inside said pokeball, is a room or an area fit for that pokemon’s needs. Some pokeballs are specially designed in terms of capturing or taming, like the Love ball. It’s kind of a mixture of the hyperbolic time chamber and the PC from the Pokemon games since you can assign an area for them in each Box. I used to be a bit of a pokemon nut years ago, then stopped playing them after Black & White 2.” Link explained in full detail as he smiled at his memories.
“If you say so… ‘Brudus,’ right?” Shiva asked, before inclining her head. “I’m Shiva.” She indicated her family. “This is my son Kodo and my partner Luke.”
“I am called Brudus but my original name is Zamazenta, I am the guardian of this country and I carry a mighty shield. Though you can’t see it… Yet.” Brudus then proceeds to stick out a paw for a hand shake. Shiva took his paw and shook it with a grin.
“I look forward to working with you,” she replied.
“God you sound like my sister…” Brudus said, though only the Diamond Dogs could understand him, others only heard barks. Thanos tried to pet Brudus’ back, but failing on the account he was too short. So he just went for the head.
“This is a big boi, he’s adorable,” Thanos said, Brudus looked like he was ready for war and had been in a war but he was still adorable in the eyes of Thanos. “This is the biggest boi you’ll get,”
There was a pokeball that Link had in his hands. He looks down in confusion, wondering how it got there without him feeling in.
Similarly, Kodo noticed a poke ball in his claws as well, blinking down at it in confusion.
Black felt something in his hand, seeing a pokeball in his metal hand. “Huh, I guess we all get pokemon… Neat!” Black said with a smile, they all noticed someone hiding in a dark corner, a bulky figure. “Vegeta?”
“WRONG!!!” The stranger called out, the man walked out of the shadows and had a massive chin. Lucci gasped and pushed everyone to the other side of the room.
“THE NIGGA CHIN!!!” Lucci cried out.
“That’s not how you say it...” Link said with a frown.
“Well that’s how they said it,” Lucci snapped, “Fucking donut.”
“The fuck you just say?” Black said with a raised eyebrow.
“Indeed I am, I am the Nigga Chin!” Nega Chin said, Thanos put himself before everyone.
“What do you want from us?” Thanos said, shaking in fear.
“I’m just here to tell you that Luna Black, you’re up.” Nega Chin walks out of the room like nothing happened. Thanos then sighs.
“..ok?” Link said plainly with a shrug of his arms.
“We get to live… For now.” Thanos said before he then shivered.
“Huh?” Luna Black said in confusion.
“You must best Necrozma in a pokemon battle. Necrozma is fighting,” Lord Twigo explained to the Alicorn.
“We don’t know how to play this game of ‘Pokemon,’” Luna Black said with worry.
“Throw your singular ball onto the ground, and out come a pokemon that you will order. Here is its moveset.” Thanos then hands her a book.
“... Sounds like slavery to us…” Luna Black pointed out as she took the book from Thanos.
“S-Slavery?” Shiva asked, her voice going up an octave.
“With all due respect,” Kodo asked. “Why’d you mention the S-word?”
“Pokemon get caught, bond with the trainer, love the trainer as the trainer loves it back and then boom. Forced Friendship through slavery.” Thanos said blankly, Brudus then licks Thanos’ head.
Kodo and Shiva stared at Thanos, horrified, before Kodo stared down at his pokeball like it was a live mine.
“I don’t feel good…” Shiva mumbled, as memories of her time in the fighting pits flickered around her form. Some got triggered by a certain number of female guards. Shiva got triggered by the S-word.
“Mom, it’s okay…” Kodo said, taking her links.
“You’re not in the pits anymore,” Luke agreed. “Just take it easy, you’re all good.”
“Hey, come on, Brudus is fine, see?” Thanos said looking to Brudus the guardian of the Shield. Brudus was just vibing and laying down, catching some Z’s. The sight of him relaxed calmed Shiva, though her fur still remained rather pale as she collected herself with deep breaths.
She still turned to Kodo with a growl and pointed at his pokeball. “Whatever creature is in there,” she told him firmly. “You treat him or her like the living being he or she is, understand?”
“Of course, Mom,” Kodo assured her.
“The one inside there is a fighter, young and strong.” Brudus said drowsily, yawning, when he opened his mouth it looked like it could fit Thanos’ head inside it.
Kodo chuckled. “Then we’ll get along very well,” he decided, opening the ball and releasing the pokemon inside; a strange bear-like creature with a bandana not dissimilar to a kung fu fighter.
“It’s a Kubfu, a fighting type pokemon, the weakness to fighting is flying and psychic.” Brudus explained before shifting his body for a more comfortable position on the floor. “Super effective to normal, ice, rock, and steel. I’m a fighting type in this form but when I get my shield… Oh boy I become one HELL of a fighting steel type. Pardon my language.”
Kodo nodded in appreciation to Brudus’ explanation before turning his attention to the Kubfu. “Well, uh… Kubfu?”
“Kubfu!” the pokemon clarified.
“I’m Kodo,” Kodo said. “And we are gonna make one heck of a team.” He offered his claw. “Partners?”
“Kubfu!” the pokemon declared, shaking Kodo’s claw.
“This is so adorable!” Lord Twigo said, having his pokemon next to him, a Sir Fetch’d that was muscular. Having it’s blade resting on its shoulder.
“Sir Fetch’d!” The Knight agreed with the Holy one.
Eric tosses his Pokeball into the air, the ball opens releasing a flash of light revealing the tall form of Incineroar, immediately Eric grew a massive smile on his face
“Incineroar! Fuck Yes!.” Eric said in excitement. “My all time favorite, A Fire and Dark type”
Seeing the excitement on his friends face Sombra threw his ball only to shrink back when he saw it was small rodent looking one, this in turn caused Eric to bust out laughing
“Blaziken!” The Fiery Bird said, clenching it’s claws and pumping it into the air.
“Hoopa!” The Deity of Rings said floating next to Elae.
“We have pokemon my bruddas!” Elae said, clicking wildly, “DIS IS DE WEY!!!”
The Alicorn blinked for a moment before looking at the pokeball in her hand. She then got a determined look, “Alright, we shall beat Necrozma in the battle of pokemon!” Luna Black says with determination as she raises the pokeball in the air.
“You can win!” Thanos called out before running to a person who was betting, “I put all of my bits on Necrozma.” Thanos said quietly. Black thought he heard something as he looked to Thanos, but said nothing as he looked back to the Alicorn.
“Alright, let’s go to the stands,” Entity then walks out, glancing back at Luna Black and giving her a nod.
There stands Necrozma in the middle of the arena as he watches Luna Black walk out.
“Greetings and welcome to a Pokemon battle, here are the rules. There will be no items in battle, held items are allowed, when your pokemon faints you lose and go to the stands. And this will be a turn based battle, that means no attacking when I’m attacking. Understand?” Necrozma said, tilting his head, he was 7’10.
“That seems inefficient,” Luna Black remarked as she looked at the poke ball in her hand. She noticed a button in the middle of the ball. Out of curiousity, she pressed it as the ball began to glow. She tossed it out of her hand at the sudden light. As the ball hit the ground, it opened as a shimmering light slinked from the ball.
Out came a creature in the shape of a crescent moon, one eye on either side of it. It floated there while the Alicorn watched in awe at the new creature.
“She’s fucked.” Thanos said blankly.
“What is it Thanos?” Black asked as he sat down next to the Titan, moving his metal arm about as he got used to his new appendage. “Is that not a good Pokémon?”
“Yup, one it’s a psychic type, Necrozma is a psychic type as well. Two, it can’t evolve and has trash stats. And… Yeah… Good thing I bet on Necrozma.” Thanos said aloud.
“Well…” Black said as he looked down to Luna Black. “Lulu’s doesn't have a chance…”
“Not to mention I calculated that Necrozma is level one hundred!” Thanos cried out.
“You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me.” Black looked to Thanos with a raised brow.
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The battle had now begun, since Necrozma had a higher speed stat, he went first.
“Night Slash!” Necrozma then swipes his massive at Lunatone, with 100 percent accuracy it hits.
Super Effective.
And just like that, the pokemon fainted, Necrozma blinked.
“That was easy.” Necrozma said flatly.
The Alicorn’s jaw dropped as she didn’t get a chance to even get a turn. Her mouth was opening and closing, The Alicorn trying to process what happened.
“Ah yes, pokemon, where you’re either level 100 or you’re nothing.” Lucci said with a shake of his head.
Luna Black shook her head out of her stupor and began to pout as she crossed her arms.
‘Man she’s cute when she pouts.’ Black thought.
“Well, the victor has been decided, Necrozma wins!” Lord Twigo said, motioning a green flag to Necrozma.
Luna Black picked up the pokeball as it flowed, taking the fainted lunastone back into the spherical orb. She looked back at it before she left the arena and back to the stands without a word.
“Back to the locker room I guess…” Thanos said walking back to the locker room, Brudus following his trainer.
As the Alicorn sat next to Black, looking back at the arena with a pout. Black put a reassuring metal arm on her back. “Don’t worry Lulu, you tried your best.” Black said with a smile. The Alicorn turned to the Saiyan, the look she gave the Saiyan said to be quiet. Black had gotten the message and looked back to the area without a word.
‘She’s a feisty beast, how’ve you lived this long?’ Zamasu asked with genuine fear.
“Even I wonder that.” Black asked himself.
“Women, am I right?” Necrozma said suddenly, he levitated over Black. “They’re scary and nice, perfectly balanced.”
“Especially the strong ones,” Black said.
Thanos immediately appeared before Black and Necrozma, “Did you say… Balanced…?” Thanos asked, doing the Drip Goku stance.
“Don’t you dare go on that whole ‘everything must be balanced by erasing half the universe’” Black said as he waved his hands around.
“How old are you?” Thanos said, looking down upon Black.
“I’m currently 1034 years old, if we count imprisonment in stone.”
“If you cut it by half...517.” Thanos calculated.
“And your point?” Black asked as he crossed his arms.
“It’s balanced.” Thanos explained blankly.
Meanwhile on floor 5
Phoenix stood there, drinking tea with the other commanders, wondering how he got here.
“...So what are ye doin’ out here?” Davy Jones inquired, not drinking tea because he was too cool for it.
“That is a very good question.” Phoenix states, calmly sipping his tea.
“...How did you get lost? All you have to do is go up the damn stairs!” Bullet cried out, pointing towards the stairs.
“I smelt beer, and so I followed.” Phoenix explained without looking at the man. “I’m quite a simple creature.”
“...You do know you have to make your way up the floors to catch up with the others… Right? That includes the challenges.” Akainu said, lighting his cigar with his magma.
Phoenix dropped his tea in realisation, shattering it on the floor. “No……. NO…. NOOOOOOOOO!!! ” Phoenix fell to his knees and began quietly sobbing in self pity.
“And Ugandan Knuckles is one of those challenges… May god have mercy on your soul…” Arkham Knight said with the shake of his head.
“Whelp, it was nice meeting you all.” Phoenix states, slowly raising a gun to his head.
“Hey, I did that too!” Arkham Knight pointed out, Fujitora just kept on eating his ramen.
“Difference is, people care about me.” The fairy king stood back up and began looking over his gear, ready to set off.
“Have fun,” Fujitora said after finishing his ramen.
“Soo uhh,” Phoenix began looking around. “Where am I going again?”
They all stood on the Flying Dutchman, Davy Jones just pointed to the door that says “Exit” in bright red colours.
“Huh, am I getting old?” Phoenix mumbles, waltzing over to the door. “Have fun with ya tea guys!” He shouts behind him, waving over his shoulder.
“Farewell, and don’t ye worry, everyone else didn’t notice it too!” Davy Jones called out, waving his crab arm, the others just waved their normal arms.
Phoenix found himself standing in a staircase with a bunch of stairs, thousand of them. After walking up the stairs he finds himself at a door. There stood Elae.
“Do u kno de wey?” Elae asked Phoenix, clicking a few times.
“Yeah, to your mum's house.” Phoenix remarks, staring down the bipedal peace of shit.
“Dat is not de wey!” Elae said frowning at Phoenix, “What is something that u fite for?”
“I fight for Joe!” Phenix shouts, pulling a salute.
“U mey pass.” Elae then disappears and the door opens, after waling through it he finds himself at Marineford, Mr. Perfect Cell and Yamcha were there.
“Kachiga ma squigga.” Phoenix greets, pulling out Chastiefol. “So all I have to do is kill everything I see and then I can meet up with the rest?”
“Well… No, go on ahead, we’re chilling out here.” Mr. Perfect Cell motions to the exit door.
“Seems legit.” Phoenix shrugs before walking to the exit door… And finding more stairs there. “I see a pattern here…”
After climbing up the stairs he finds Piccolo meditating, opening his eyes Piccolo just stares at him.
“Go, leave,” Piccolo ordered, pointing to the door behind him that led to the seventh floor.
“Do I seriously not get to kill anything?” Phoenix moane, “This is such a drag.” The Fairy god sulks his way over to the exit door, dragging his feet along the way. He finds himself at Hyrule castle, the door right in front of him with a big red sign that read, “Exit.”
“Get fucked, bird brain!” Phoenix heard the voice of Thanos, though it was very faint.
Phoenix proceeded to pull out a kunai before giving it it’s orders. “Find Thanos, and kill on site.” He then walked through the door… And found even MORE stairs than before. He then proceeded to climb the stairs, though it had no end before he looked to his right and found himself in the End dimension with a bunch of corpses. And like before it had a door with a sign that read “Exit.”
Walking over to one of the corpses, Phoenix used disaster to resurrect it. It made a light breathing sound, and looked happy to be alive. The fairy king then instantly killed it. “Yay, I got to kill something.” Phoenix said sarcastically, before doing it another five times. Once he was satisfied, he went through the exit door… And finding stairs there. After a LONG and tired journey, he was finally caught up with the others.
“Phoenix!” Shiva greeted. “I was wondering where you went off to.”
Just before Phoenix could step into the room, Thanos threw the hilt of the Kunai, Phoenix sent to kill him at Phoenix’s forehead. Thus making him go off balance and fall down the stairs.
“HAHA TAKE THAT BITCH!!!!” Thanos laughed at Phoenix, hearing his body fall down the stairs.
“Thanos, for goodness’ sake!” Shiva barked, racing to Phoenix’s side… only to find him gone.
Teleporting behind Thanos, Phoenix whispered in his ear. “Go to sleep.” And he did. Thanos fell to the ground face first, as Phoenix began wiping the dust off of himself. “God I did not miss you.”
Lucci just stood there, eating his bucket of KFC, “Five… Four… Three, Two, One and…” Thanos then gets back up.
“GET AWAY FROM ME MOLESTIA!!!!” Thanos got in a fighting stance before dropping it when he saw Phoenix, “Oh hey, Phoenix Wright.”
“Heeey Thanos.” Phoenix put out a fist for Thanos to bump. “Sorry, got caught up with some fine alcohol, what did I miss?”
“Black has a metal arm now, Luke is a pokemon, Necrozma is waiting for a pokemon battle, we fought an army, the Diamond Dogs got wrecked by Davy Jones and his crew, Lord Twigo is with us now, the Ugandan Knuckles is still here, Eric is still an asshole and a jerk, we know about Ryker’s past, and… Link is Link.” Thanos informed Phoenix, bumping his fist with Phoenix’s.
“Oki dokes, now when do I get to kill someone?” Phoenix asked, stapling his fingers together.
“We’re not killing anyone here, the Commanders are victims, like us. So is Ryker, we won’t kill anyone except minions, also I need to show you something.” Thanos said with a devious grin before turning himself into a bean. “I turned myself into a bean! I’M BEAN THANOS!!!!”
“That’s great Thanos, that’s really amazing.” Phoenix agrees in the most condescending manner possible. “How bout Eric? Can I kill him? He’s a dick.” Phoenix began rubbing his hands together and etching towards Eric.
Thanos turns himself back to normal and puts his hands on Phoenix’s shoulders, “Please do, he almost killed an eleven year old child that has been traumatized and scarred. Please do, out of everyone here, he is the one that I actually do not like.” Thanos begged Phoenix.
“Whelp! Guess we’ve come to a conclusion!” Phoenix begins happily stolling towards Eric, but is stopped by Shiva. She just puts a hand on Phoenix’s shoulder and shakes her head.
“Dew it young Phoenix, join the dark side, kill ‘em!” Thanos cried out, “Just do it for my morals!”
Looking between the two parties, Phoenix contemplates whether to satisfy his want for blood and get lectured by Shiva for an hour, or just sit still. “How bout this?” Phoenix finally asks, encasing Eric in a healing orb. “Boom! Now he won’t die.”
“YESSS!!!!!!!!” Thanos said, laughing like an evil villain, which he was.
Shiva sighed, but backed off. “I guess I can’t argue with that,” she admitted. “Sorry, Eric.”
“Don’t be, he’s beating up a shadow double,” Eric whispered in the Diamond Dogs mind from the shadows
“IT STILL FEELS GOOD YOU FUCKER!!!!!” Thanos laughed, showing Eric the middle finger. His intense Observation Haki, Ki Control, and Alicorn Magic spotting Eric.
“This is where the fun begins….” Lifting Eric’s shadow double up with telepathy, Phoenix began slamming him against any surface he could find at unreal speeds, before launching him into the distance. He then teleported the now bleeding Eric back, before kicking him over to Thanos. “Now you try.”
“...Really? For me,” Thanos said, smiling and holding his chest. “This is the best early Christmas present… EVER!!!!” Thanos then proceeds to go That Ain’t Falco on his ass. Performing a back breaking technique, shoryuken, MUDA MUDA MUDA technique, he then proceeds to kick the crap out of Eric. Lucci just took a sip of tea before joining in, this my friend, is a Jojo’s Reference.
Phoenix began chanting as he did so. “Happy feet! Wombo combo!”
Eventually, Entity joined in, it was Thanos, Lucci, and Entity kicking the crap out of Eric.
Gesturing to his feet, Phoenix shouted to the others. “One Two!”
“Join the party buddy!” Thanos cried out, the others made room for Phoenix to join in. And then there were four.
Shiva sighed, as Kodo crept next to her. “So… should we… help him?” Kodo asked.
Wordlessly, Shiva transferred what Eric had said to the young pup.
“Oh,” he mused, before turning away.
“Salutations my canine companions.” Brudus greeted the dogs, Brudus was now wearing his 1300 pound shield. It was rather impressive, matching the Shield Pokemon’s colours.
Shiva chuckled. “I can see why you were so eager to show off your shield,” she noted.
“I usually bash into my enemies and the force of my attack causes an explosion. It’s called Behemoth Bash… Yeah I have a lot to tell you regarding Thanos,” Brudus said, glancing at Thanos who was kicking Eric.
“Such as?”
“...I know him from somewhere, we haven’t met before but it feels like… We’ve been on a whole journey. We fought a being known as Eternatus and I fought by his side… Though it was with someone else, someone named John .” Brudus said, squinting his eyes as he glanced back at Shiva.
Shiva glanced at Thanos. “I’ve heard that name,” she admitted. “John Oliver. It is a name that he identified as once ago… but not one that he prefers others know about. Eric Von Shadow knows it, and… well.” She glanced cautiously down at the Shadow Man’s double as he was beaten by the four warriors.
“John Oliver… John Oliver… He’s my trainer. He’s the one I won the Pokemon League with, the multiverse is insane.” Brudus said, surprised looking at Thanos as Thanos just glanced back at Brudus. Giving him a thumbs up before continuing to kick Eric.
Shiva chuckled. “A fact that is well-known to us by now,” she replied.
“He wasn’t as tall nor was he purple, but he was human. It would seem he has gone through some type of evolution during our time apart, this explains his new strength and… Do you evolve?” Brudus asked, looking at Shiva quizzically.
“Not in the ways you are familiar with,” Shiva said. “I grow and develop, yes, but I am incapable of changing forms. At least not without supernatural aid.”
“Mega Evolution, I see… So… Not even Gigantimax?” Brudus asked the Diamond Dog.
“No. Though…” She glanced at Luke. “My mate seems to have become one of these pokemon. Perhaps it is possible…”
“Lucario can only Mega Evolve, hm… So how is John? I haven’t been around him for a few weeks.” Brudus then sits down, though he’s still taller than Thanos.
Shiva hummed. “I’m not as familiar with John or his ‘Thanos’ persona as you are, but I’m guessing he’s changed quite a lot from the trainer you knew.”
“Hm, well have you picked an item for your mate?” Brudus asked Shiva, gazing at Luke and noticing he didn’t have a held item.
Luke and Shiva exchanged a glance. “What kind of items?” Luke asked.
“Do you see my shield? It’s a held item, when I take it off…” Brudus then pauses, the shield then spreads apart and falls onto the ground. The item shrinks down to an old and rusted shield, “Boom, there are a LOT of items to choose from. Like uh… Leftovers, they heal you with every turn.” Brudus then turned around and there was a whole shelf full of items.
“There are Z crystals,” Brudus motioned over to crystals, “Mega-Stones,” Brudus turns to the orbs, “And the regular everyday items like the Shell Bell, Black Belt, this… Iron thing.” Brudus pointed to the spot where there was an iron ingot.
Luke’s ears perked at the Black Belt. “I heard black belts are worn by masters of combat,” he noted. “Does this black belt do something special?”
Shiva closed her eyes and held her claw over the belt. Her claw glowed with magic, sensing the abilities of the item “It should boost the power of Fighting-Type Pokemon.” She grinned as she turned her claw to Luke. “And wouldn’t you know it; you’re a Fighting Type.” She paused. “Well, a Fighting/Steel Type, but, nonetheless…”
“It’ll make me strong!” Luke concluded, happily taking the belt and tying it around his waist. “Ha!” He struck a triumphant pose.
“It will make your physical attack increase, not your special attack.” Brudus pointed out, “However, there is a way for Luke here, to go Mega. And that… Is with the Mega Stone. Lucarioite, all you need to do is get a ring, put the Mega Stone inside of it, do a cool little speech and boom. Luke is now a Mega Evolved Pokemon.
Luke and Shiva exchanged a glance, before Luke shrugged and tossed the black belt away - ironically causing it to fall on Kodo’s Kubfu. As the two pondered the new item, Luke took the Mega Stone, while Shiva yanked out a chunk of earth and crafted a ring from it. Briefly gazing lovingly into each other’s eyes, Shiva slipped the ring onto Luke’s claw, before they entwined their claws together.
“The strength of the pack is the wolf,” Shiva whispered. “And the strength of the wolf is the pack. You are my pack, and I am yours. Let our bond power us through any conflict.”
“I am your sword,” Luke whispered. “And you are my shield. Our partnership will see us through this fight.”
And sure enough, with a burst of light, Luke Mega-Evolved.
“... It has become increasingly obvious… You are small.” Brudus said, the tallest being in this room.
Luke deflated with a disappointed growl, before Shiva pat his shoulder.
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight,” Shiva replied. “It is the size of the fight in the dog.” She considered his height. “Though size can play a part if you’re not careful.”
“Yeah, look what happened to Link when he fought me.” Thanos said, done with kicking Eric and a hetap. “He was severely outclassed and he had a lot of fight in him.”
“Hey, I ain’t one for dick measuring contests. I fought hard, but not to the end where I would die.” Link explained.
“Exactly, you tried your best and had a lot of fight in you, and failed. Miserably.” Thanos replied, “Like seriously, I didn’t even use any of my powerful skills.”
“Better to have room to grow than being overpowered and having nothing to look forward too.” Link said with a shrug.
“Exactly! That’s why after I FINALLY WON I’m going to sit down… Watch my daughter grow, retire, and live on a farm for the rest of my days. The dream life.” Thanos said with a smile.
“Take a page from Goku’s book. He’s powerful but villains kept going after him or planet earth, I don’t feel you’ll be able to live peacefully.” Link pointed out.
“I’m not Goku nor do I have villains that can threaten me after I am in complete control of Equus, and who’s to say I have to fight? I have a full Avengers at my disposal, Lucci, Grievous, Entity, SUPERGIRL, Sally, Rapunzel, and more.” Thanos snapped.
“...You really think it’d be enough considering the multiverse’s endless possibilities? I mean, there are those who can visit your universe without needing a token.”
“We have a Supergirl and a Nappa, a Kryptonian and a Saiyan on our side. If things get hairy, then I’ll call Elae, the Ugandan Knuckles.” Thanos replied blankly.
Link shook his head and waved his hand off, seeing as Thanos doesn’t understand the logic of the multiverse, Displaced and how ridiculously they can get in terms of power.
“Well… Back to the original topic at paw, I’m not Link, and I’m not fighting you,” Luke replied.
“...I hate that you have a good point, but Necrozma has a second transformation, his TRUE one. He turns into… Yeah he becomes a God of Light.” Thanos said before squinting his eyes, “...Or so I remember.”
“Great,” Shiva replied. “We’ve already taken on how many Displaced with the title of Gods now?”
“To be honest, I’ve always felt that anyone calling themselves ‘God’ is just using it as a title. If they can bleed and die, then they’re not a true God.” Link explained.
“So is Fierce Deity a God or is it just a title?” Lucci asked, “Because honestly, I don’t know.”
“I haven’t bled as him yet, and I'd rather not see if I can die while in that form…” Link said as he felt uncomfortable about the subject.
“Would you like to find out if he can bleed?” Thanos said, raising his Infinity Blade and coating it in Ryou Haki. Pissed at Link for their little quip.
“I’ll answer you in the future.” Link said casually as the triforce of courage hid his fear.
“Oh the future… I see…” Thanos then flashes Link a devilish grin, “Oh and you fail to specify.” Thanos then raises his sword high over his head, “GET THE MASK ON!!!”
“Nope.” Link said as he pulled out the ocarina of time, played the song of soaring, and suddenly vanished in a flutter of golden feathers. Link had used the song’s second function rather than the angelic wings. Thanos just slowly puts his sword up with a scoff.
“Well, back to the topic, as for how many gods… Bullet, Arkham Knight, Fujitora, Akainu, Zabuza, ...Uh… Who am I missing? Oh right, Herobrine and… Eh… I forgot the others.” Thanos said with a shrug, “I mean, Necrozma IS a legendary Pokemon.”
After a few minus, Link returned with a bag of popcorn in his hands, hearing the last part of the conversation. “...Makes me wonder where they all came from, Mew, or Arceus?” Link pondered as he tapped his chin.
“Mew was made by Arceus, Arceus is the creator of the Pokemon universe, he made space and time, the skies, the ground, and the seas. He is an ACTUAL God.” Lucci explained to the Hylian.
“Sadly for his video game counterparts, he can easily get captured by a Master Ball or taken down by normal pokemon.” Link said in amusement.
“Does he die or bleed though? The answer is no.” Lucci said flatly.
“I wouldn’t be able to answer that since I never watched the movies he was in.” Link said with a sigh. Lucci can tell Link misses his own world. Lucci just gives him a sympathetic look before he turns away.
“We’re going to find a way back,” Shiva insisted, both to Link and Thanos. “We found a way through the others, surely we can find a way through this.”
“...I can’t fight every fucking God! I’m not Asura, I’m not Kratos, I’m not fucking Goku, I BLAME YOU KAIDO!!!” Thanos shouted at his blade.
Link wanted to make a comment, but chose to keep quiet about wanting to point out that when you become powerful, you end up a magnet for God-like or powerful beings.
“You don’t have to be any of them,” Shiva insisted. “You’re doing great so far.”
“Well you are right…” Thanos then loses his balance, he then shakes his head as he was hit with a wave of some… Mysterious magic. He then leans on one of the lockers that was in the rooms. “Oh god what just happened?”
Shiva scanned him with her magic. Her eyes narrowed. “A vision,” she growled. “Hang on…” She clutched his side before it hit them both: They saw a person with white hair, wearing a white and blue prestigious coat. He had sharp teeth as he grinned, it then flashes to Thanos punching the man as they flew into a ship and made contact with some type of… Reactor. It then flashes to the grave of Thanos, a statue there with it.
“Oh god, fuck, shit, fuck!” Thanos then went to his knees before going on all fours, “Oh god my head…”
Shiva backed up, clutching her head. “No…” she mumbled. “No-no-no-why…” She sat back against the wall, Luke and Kodo going to her side.
“What is it?” Luke asked.
“We’re never getting out of this,” Shiva deadpanned. “Link, this universe is never going to let us leave. It’s just going to keep throwing psychos and dictators at us until we snap or die or both!”
“I… Kaido… KAIDO!!! He’s one of Kaido’s men,” Thanos said before clutching his head, “Damn it!” Thanos then stands up, “Why won’t Kaido’s men die?!”
“Jasper…” The voice echoed in Thanos’ mind, Thanos then clenched his head.
“Ooough… I’mma go… Clear my mind…” Thanos said, walking to a corner of the room.
“Alright,” Shiva mumbled. “Sounds nice… ugh…”
“What did you see?” Brudus asked the Diamond Dog.
Without a word, Shiva touched Brudus’ head, and the vision transferred to him. He saw the man in the white hair and coat. He saw Thanos fight him. And he saw Thanos’ grave.
“Oh dear Arceus!” Brudus barked, jumping back and looking at Thanos. “Who was that?! What was that? John...”
“I don’t know,” Shiva whispered, shaking her head. “I don’t know…”
Link held onto his chin as he started thinking to himself, wondering if Displaced Pokemon were considered as Pokemon, or just mere imitations in the eyes of Arceus.
“Okay, I’m alright, nothing happened.” Thanos said casually as he walked out of the corner, “I totally didn’t have a panic attack.” Thanos said, looking at everyone staring at him. “Okay I may or may not have had a panic attack but nothing happened.”
“Oh you totally had a panic attack,” Eric said as he rose from the shadows causing his double to vanish
“Shut up Marcus,” Thanos snapped his head towards Eric, “You’re built like a fucking eggplant. Also, I had a vision but I’m not telling you guys what happened. Way too personal.”
“I understand,” Eric said, turning to the Battle ring. “What you see is your business, nopony can make you reveal it.”
Thanos then laughs for no reason and points at Eric, going to his knees he hit the floor with his fist.
“Yes I know, I use the pony term instead of saying nobody, Everyone Ect.” Eric said to the Titan. “After 1,012 years being among the ponies It just became a habit for me.”
“Mood.” Link answered amusingly since his world is the same way.
“Well unlike you I had a certain universe destroying jackass in my head to keep me mentally tip top.” Thanos said, pointing at his head.
“Repeat what you said, though I may not be in control of your body, I can still take over you.” MCU Thanos snapped.
“Oh fuck off,” Thanos said, looking to the heavens.
“He does have a point…” Abridged Thanos mused.
“Pfft, like some insensitive ja-” Thanos was cut off and he took a more regal and intimidating posture. “As a little bit of revenge on John, his vision ends with him dying.” MCU Thanos explained to everyone, “By someone of white hair.”
Link took a step back when he noticed the sudden facial and attitude change.
“Do you know how he died, little one?” MCU Thanos asked, approaching Link, each step was like a tremor.
“No, I don’t, uh… Thanos? Buddy? Come on out?” Link asked nervously, wanting the Thanos he knew out and not this jackass Thanos who appears to still want to do whatever despite knowing there are others who can kick his ass.
“He died a fool, he purposely grabbed the enemy and rammed himself into an explosive. That is how he died, he died risking his life to save his so called friends. He perished all because he was too afraid and too weak to beat his opponent. He dies a coward, and a weak one at that.” MCU Thanos spoke, looking down at Link. “And he’ll always be remembered as one.”
Link let out a sigh, feeling very tempted to play the Song Of Healing and force MCU Thanos that dwells within Thanos, to be turned into a transformation mask. After a
Thanos then shook himself, “Oh for fuck’s sake Thanos, can you leave a guy alone? Link are you alright? Did he kill you? Did he kill any of you?”Thanos said, looking around and seeing everyone alive. “Okay good.”
“You need to put that guy on a leash.” Black said as he leaned back, putting his hands on the back of his head.
“A mental leash made out of adamantium.” Link suggested as it was the strongest metal he could remember.
“He helps,” Thanos pointed out to Black, “Who do you think taught us how to fight when we were in the Everfree?” Thanos said with a shrug.
“I wasn’t there, but you’ve got a point. Just wished that Zamasu was the same.” Black mumbled.
“Hey, what would happen if MCU Thanos and Zamasu spoke with one another?” Thanos pondered.
“Let’s find out, shall we?” Black said as he put a hand on the Titans head, a second later, two voices began to speak up.
‘Hello mortal, I’m the most wonderful god, Zamasu.’ The corrupted Kai said, ego dripping from his voice.
“I do not appreciate beings with egos, however it would be rude if I didn’t introduce myself. I am Thanos, the real Mad Titan, and destined being that will balance the universe.” MCU Thanos said calmly.
Zamasu let out a short laugh. ‘Ah yes, I’ve heard of your plan. A comenderable plan I must say, but ineffective, why not erase the whole universe?’ Zamasu asked with curiosity.
“Because some deserve a chance at life, there are beings who have good in their hearts, pride. When I was on my conquest, I destroyed half of the population of a planet, do you know where I found one of my best fighters? On a planet I saved,” MCU Thanos said, explaining his reason behind it.
Zamasu scoffed at the mad titan. ‘Blasphemy, mortals don’t deserve to live, they destroy the planets they corrupt. They were a mistake created by the gods.’
“That’s all because they have little resources, by destroying half of them they have room to grow. To evolve.” MCU Thanos said, trying to sway the Kai over to his side. “I’ve met many people like you, and when I tell them my plan to erase half of the universe… They understand.”
‘And I like it, but it’s ineffective. I’ve traveled to the future thousands of years to watch a certain mortal race with my master, Gowasu. Even after gaining some sort of civilization, they always go back to their primal instincts… to kill. That’s why I killed my master, and used the Super Dragon Balls to swap bodies with Son Goku. Erase all 12 universes of their mortal beasts. I did it for Justice!’ Zamasu ranted
“You have become the very thing you swore to destroy, you kill and for what reason? Because they’re brutes, because they’re primal? Look what you’ve done, you’ve killed countless men, women, and children. You claim to do it for justice, the only justice I see is you dead.” MCU Thanos said, his calm voice somehow appearing threatening.
The Kai began to laugh like a maniac, unnerving the mad titan. ‘And that’s the cherry on top, I can’t die, I used the Super Dragon Balls to make myself immortal, I can never die!’
“Oh really? When I was searching through John’s mind I saw you die at the hands of a little boy with a sword, and history repeated itself when you fell against Link.” MCU Thanos pointed out.
Link took a big step back, not wanting The Kai to seek revenge. Link is even lucky his Master sword and Black’s ki helped knock that ki ball back.
Zamasu growled as a mental image of the Kai appeared in Thanos’s head, he prepared a Ki blade. ‘How dare you!’
“That’s enough!” Blacks voice came in, getting in between the two while holding Zamasu’s arm.
“Yeah, yeah, that’s enough for you two.” Thanos said, walking next to Black. MCU Thanos didn’t even take a stance and just stood there.
“Your anger just proves my point,” MCU Thanos said before turning to Thanos. “John, I wish to get away from this… False God.”
“Okie dokes!” Thanos said and he erected a wall.
“Is that a Trump joke?” Abridged Thanos said, raising an eyebrow.
“Perhaps…” Thanos mused.
Zamasu continued to growl at the Titan, only to be silenced by a swift punch to the jaw by Black, making the Kai burst into smoke. “Man, I wish I could shut him up permanently…” Black muttered.
“Well, now we know what happens, it looks like Thanos is more mature than Zamasu.” Thanos said before whistling, “Man that didn’t go well.”
“Yeah.” Black commented as he took his hand off the Titans forehead. “Haven’t done that in awhile.”
“I kinda thought they would get along,” Thanos said with a frown, “Well, I can’t force Thanos to be friends with him.”
“Like you said, Thanos is more mature than that false god.” Black said as he shrugged.
“Alright so who’s…” Thanos was cut off when THE NIGGA CHIN!!! Walked out from the shadows. “THE NIGGA CHIN!!!!” Thanos cried out. Black rolled his eyes at that.
“Indeed I am, and one of you is going next, take a guess who it is.” Nega Chin said, raising an EVIL eyebrow because he’s EVIL.
“Is it Purple Mr. Clean?” Black said as he pointed a thumb to the Titan.
“CORRECT!!!” Nega Chin answered like Plankton, Thanos was then dragged by an invisible force.
“OH NIGGA!!!!” Thanos cried out before he crashed into the arena stage, Brudus then jumped down onto the arena stage, right in front of Thanos.
“Right, now we’ve got our Pokémon expert fighting, this should be easy,” Black said as he leaned back while crossing his arms.
“Outta be interesting to see Thanos command a pokemon to fight for him.” Link said as he also leaned back to watch the show.
Meanwhile down below.
“Okay then, let’s do this.” Thanos said, looking at Necrozma… Though he was blocked from his view, Brudus was just so damn massive. Stepping to the side he looked at Necrozma.
“You already know the rules, let’s do this.” Necrozma said, getting in a stance.
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To no one’s surprise, Brudus went first. Thanos then ordered his pokemon to do a move.
“Brudus, use Howl!” Thanos said, the dog then howled and an orange aura appeared around him when he did.
Brudus’ attack rose sharply.
“Psychic!” Necrozma said, and Brudus was surrounded by a pink aura and was flung into the arena wall. Brudus grunts in pain and goes to his feet before taking his master’s side again.
Super Effective.
“Now, it’s my turn, Brudus use Crunch!” Thanos ordered Brudus, the dog then bared his teeth and huge teeth appeared before Brudus. Brudus then runs at Necrozma and with a jump he bites into Necrozma. Necrozma howled in pain as he hit the ground.
Super Effective.
“Okay, okay, that hurts… Try this on for size, Earthquake!” The arena began to shake and Brudus began to stagger. Grunting in pain, Thanos frowned.
Super Effective.
“Come on, you can do this buddy. We can do this, now… USE BEHEMOTH BASH!!!!” Thanos orders, Brudus then howls in excitement. He was ready to show off his special move.
Brudus’s shield locked tight and a red shield flashed before his eyes. Brudus then ran at Necrozma and jumped before ramming into him. A huge explosion went off and a cloud filled the air, the cloud cleared when they saw Brudus. His eyes were red, they then spotted Necrozma on his back.
“Ow… Ow… Ow…” Necrozma then gets up, “If you used your special, then I’ll use mine!” He then gets a Z crystal out and grins wildly. He was then surrounded with a powerful aura. Brudus was then caught in an invisible box.
“SHATTERED PSYCHE!!!” Brudus then hit the invisible box over and over, not by his own will like he was being smacked into it over and over. The box then shattered and an explosion followed afterward.
Super Effective.
When the cloud dissipated… They saw Brudus laying down, defeated.
“Brudus is unable to battle, the winner is Necrozma!” Lord Twigo declared, Thanos just walked over to Brudus.
“You tried your best mate, you tried your best…” Thanos petted the dog on his head, he then pulled out his pokeball and the dog went back inside. “Good fight,” Thanos said before he walked towards the stands.
“Damn, I thought you had it,” Black said.
“You fought well Titan” Complimented the unicorn swordsman. “Be proud of that.”
“Your fight won’t be in vain, Brudus,” Kodo said. “We will finish what you started.” He looked at his Kubfu. “Right, Kubfu?”
“Kubfu!” the pokemon agreed, fist-bumping with his trainer.
“Thanks guys,” Thanos said with a thumbs up. Thanos then looks at Black for a moment, he stares at him for a moment before looking away. “...Forget it…” Thanos shook his head and went to the Locker Room to tend to his devices.
Black stared back as the Titan left, furrowing his eyebrows as he thought of what Thanos was going to say. But the Saiyan shrugged it off and looked back to the stage.
“Okay, who’s next?” Necrozma chirped, “Who will it be…? Eric? No, Sombra? No, now what about… Shiva!” Necrozma said, and with a snap of her fingers both Shiva and Luke appeared on the arena stage.
But the Diamond Dogs were ready. Before the teleport spell could even begin to fade away…
“Aura Sphere,” Shiva ordered, and Luke blasted the blue projectile at his opponent.
“HEY HEY HEY!!!” Necrozma shouted and flew above the blast before watching it hit the wall. “No! This is not how you’re supposed to play the game, you’re level sixty nine, I’m a hundred. And I got you here faster, I teleported here so we can start the battle. But instead of being nice and patient, you shot a fucking Aura Sphere at me. I know Aura Sphere can’t miss but ya broke my heart, so I broke the rules.” Necrozma said, putting a black claw where his heart would be.
“A game?” Shiva asked. “You think making me watch my husband get beaten to near death again is a game?”
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Briefly, she chuckled; a dark, humorless chuckle with hints of madness to it. Suddenly, Shiva snagged Necrozma with a noose-like link, and yanked him down to her level, allowing him to see the rage burning in her eyes. Even though she wore the changeling mask, all it really did was keep her restricted to a tranquil fury, which may have been more dangerous than a berserker rage. Merely staring into her dark pupils gave the pokemon the sensation that fire was creeping up his skin.
“Every instinct I’ve got is already screaming at me that my daughter and the rest of our people are in danger.” Shiva growled in a level and calm, but cold and very ominous voice. “And even if they weren’t, I’m sick of this place. I’m sick of your repulsive definition of ‘games.’ I’m tired of being the weak and pathetic ‘nice girl’ that everyone can beat up because she’s not a fucking level nine thousand beefcake powerhouse that thinks the solution to every problem is to punch it. I’m sick and tired of being subjected to your immature ‘memes’ while you congratulate each other about your ridiculous power levels.” Her fur glowed brighter and brighter with every sentence, until everyone had to look away or risk losing their eyesight. But even when they looked away, they could still see her snarling face, like a wolf that was five seconds away from sinking its fangs into their faces. “I want to find my daughter, and get my pack home. And if that means going all out on the next creature that wants to piss me off…”
“Holy flying pot…” Link whispered as the sheer measurement of Shiva who has enough of it all. Link thought he was getting sick of it all, but Shiva’s beyond his.
The noose tightened until Necrozma couldn’t breathe, and as his lungs squirmed in his chest, pleading for air, visions began to flash before his eyes: a terrifying spectacle of diamond dogs empowered with alicorn magic diving into a fight that was not honorable or glorious, an earth pony screaming as he was ripped limb from limb while being gutted like a fish, while in the distance, a diamond dog’s skull was crushed under a pegasus’ hoof like a grape. She showed griffons suffocating as they were buried underground, dragon throats exploding with fire and blood as diamond dog axes carved them open. But more than that, she displayed the pain and agony that came with it. As the others watched, they felt the sensation of swords sliding across their bellies. Felt the dirt that suffocated the griffons in their throats. Felt the burn of fire as diamond dogs were incinerated by dragons. All with the subtle feeling that Shiva was only showing but a hint of what she was capable of; what she had seen of war and fighting in her own world, and exactly how she felt about it. There was a feeling that she was more than willing to show the displaced worse things; that she was ready to plant a disease in Necrozma’s mind that would leave him wearing a strait-jacket in a rubber room for the rest of his life.
Her glow dimmed by a fraction, but only enough so that Necrozma could see her now demon-black eyes glaring darkly at him.
“... …” Necrozma was silent… Never had he seen such rage and terror. Not even from Ryker on his off days, not Screwball, nor Katakuri. Hell, even Asura for that matter. “... … … …” Necrozma then bends space and the door to the next floor appears. “You guys may pass, though you didn’t even beat me traditionally, you beat me in the mind. And I’m a Psychic type, meaning that you bested one of the greatest minds known to Pokemon kind! Go on ahead.”
Instantly, Shiva was through the door, Luke, Kodo and even Kubfu getting yanked after her.
“Alright bet,” Thanos then gets in a Michael Jackson outfit and was moonwalking towards it. “Wait, why do you fight for Ryker?”
Link gave Thanos a blank stare, wondering why keeps MJing away.
“Honestly, I don’t want my man's plan to fail. He’s been doing this for 7000 years and that is too much time for a plan to just flop.” Necrozma explained, “Like all of that time, all of his pain, the beings he’s killed, would be for nothing.”
“Oh, I see, that’s a new one. Alright Displaced, roll out!” Thanos said, pumping his fist up and walking through the door. Lucci, Entity, and Elia followed him, Elia glanced at Necrozma once before leaving.
“Hurry,” Shiva said from the door. “The others need our help. And soon.” The others heard the fear in her voice. “Hopefully, we’re not too late.”
“And hopefully this is the last hylian damned floor…” Link said as he follows the others downstairs.
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Grievous lay there, bloodied and bruised. He slowly got to his feet and clenched his swords and glared at Ryker. Ryker simply looks back, boredom in his eyes.
“You know…” Ryker then fired off a plasma beam from his finger and it tore straight through Grievous’ kneecaps. Screaming in pain he went to his knees, “I don’t understand why you keep on getting up.”
Grievous gets back to his feet shakily, and clenches his swords, “Why do I keep on getting up? It’s because I have faith in my-” Using the force Ryker plucked Grievous from where he was at and dragged him closer to him. Ryker then gut punches Grievous.
“Don’t give me that bullshit!” Ryker snarled, his eyes flashing Ruby red for a split second, “You’ve been saying that as an answer for the past three fucking days!” Grievous wheezed as he rolled on his back.
“It’s because it’s true…” Ryker growled at Grievous’ comment and kicked him in his face, grabbing the Cybernetic Samurai by his neck and lifting him up.
“I will enjoy killing you in front of your friends, and especially in front of Kodo…” Ryker then licks his lips, “Oh the despair will be delicious!” Ryker cackled and threw Grievous aside. Grievous then hits a building and goes through it.
“Oh this will be fun…”
“...Why is the feeling getting worse?!” Thanos cried out, “Is this some black magic going on?” Thanos said, observing his surroundings.
“No, it isn’t” Eric responded with his own magic flaring in his eyes. “There isn’t a trace of magic here, Pure or Dark.”
“...I’m starting to think this might be Ryker’s presence, much like a void dweller. The closer you get, the more intense the pressure..” Link explained.
“Maybe it’s just your nerves getting to you, I mean, we’re so close to Ryker it makes sense. Not to mention the huge brick wall we have to topple that is Katakuri.” Elia pointed out, “And besides, I know Ryker, he’s trying to get in your head.”
“This isn’t just Ryker; or if it is, he’s been doing something bad to the ones we love,” Shiva said, her fur bristling as she led the way. “We gotta hurry! Something really bad is going down!”
“...Maybe you’re right… Maybe…” Thanos said he then looks back at the others, “Alright men and women, we’re so close to Katakuri. And who knows how… Strong…” Thanos then looks at a screen that was on the wall. It shows Katakuri in Ultra Instinct and Ryker in his Destroyer Form, both were evenly matched and each fist colliding broke reality.
“OH COME ON!” Link almost screamed as he threw his hands into the air. “I’ve had it with these mother flying super forms in this mother flying tower!” Link said, mostly serious with bits of joking.
“Amen, my pack brother,” Luke said, patting Link’s shoulder. “Amen.”
“THEY’RE EVENLY MATCHED!??!?!?” Elae cried out, “There is no hope for us my bruddas! We will perish!” Elae cried out.
“...Well, I’m going to kill myself.” Elia said, “Does someone know how to tie a noose?” Elia asked jokingly.
“There will be no hanging!” Lucci cried out, “Unless you wanna get bitch slapped by me.”
“We’re so close! Come on! Let us not…” The party all arrived at a room, in that room was a giant TV with seats in front of the Displaced… Was Kyle.
“...” Kyle stood there silent.
“...So what’s the challenge?” Elia inquired, Kyle crossed his arms.
“Simple, it’s a simple Try Not To Laugh Challenge, but this time, instead of random humans on the internet doing stupid things. It will be you, er… It’s basically clips of you guys doing the same thing as the memes. Kind of like a… Animatic.” Kyle explained, “Yeah, like an Animatic.”
“Oh dear lord.” Elia murmured under her breath.
“We don’t have time for this…” Shiva insisted, pacing back and forth.
“...No fighting? No riddles? No puzzles? No over the top adventuring to get through the floor? No overpowered guys that take a hundred episodes of dragonball z to fight?” Link asked in skepticism.
“Oi!” Black exclaimed.
“What do you take me for? I’m not a fighter after I was turned into Mr. Glassman and revived again. All you have to do… Don't laugh.” Kyle explained to the Hylian.
“Ah, so maybe five or ten minutes and we’ll be outta here then.” Link said with a relieved sigh since this floor was just vibing at times.
“IF you don’t laugh.” Kyle pointed out, “But pretty much yeah, it's a resting spot, we have drinks, food, beds…” Thanos immediately flops onto the biggest bed of them all and pulls the covers over him. And out of nowhere Brudus appeared from Thanos’ Pokeball.
“Oh, I forgot about-” And Brudus flopped onto Thanos and lays on top of him, burying him in fluff. “Mmff!”
“We have board games to pass the time,” Kyle points out and motions over to a table where Arkham Knight, Ganondorf and Zabuza sat, playing Sorry!
“But you all still need to attend the Try Not To Laugh Challenge, you can bring food and water here. Oh and restrooms are over there.” Kyle points to where there were bathroom stalls. “So uh… Until you’re ready just vibe, you can either vibe and not rush. Or you’ll have to fight a Jiren Displaced we have armed and ready to fire at you, this is a threat. Chill out, don’t rush.” Kyle said in a laid back tone.
“I’m not gonna laugh,” Shiva insisted, jumping in place. “I got no time to laugh. Give me the challenge, and I’ll be on my way. Hurry!”
“What did I say about the rushing?” Kyle said, looking at Shiva with a deadpan expression.
Shiva seethed, her fur starting to glow, before Kodo pulled her away. “Mom? Mom! I know you’re worried about Celine, but losing your cool isn’t going to help. Breathe with me, okay. Deep breaths…” A link formed between the two as the young pup tried to calm his mother down. Luke settled next to Kyle, watching as his family interacted.
“Isn’t a family wonderful?” Luke asked.
“Ryker’s my only family, and he’s nice to me, even though it doesn’t seem like it. He really does,” Kyle said as he looked at Shiva and Kodo, then the ceiling. “He’s probably bored out of his mind, but he’ll manage.”
“You’ve been through a lot…” Arkham Knight said with a cup of calming Jasmine tea. “Would you like a cup of calming Jasmine tea?” Arkham Knight offered, “It’s really nice.”
“A cup for me and my wife,” Luke said, as Kodo’s efforts started to turn strained.
“MAMA SENSE IS TINGLING!” Shiva wailed as Kodo wrestled her into a sleeper hold.
“Big brother sense is tingling too, but it’s not gonna help if you’re in werewolf mode!” Kodo insisted. “Subdue the beast; remember the consequences!”
“Alright, allow me,” Zabuza offered, then he looked at a tea set with two cups of tea. He hands one over to Luke and he slowly and calmly walks over to Shiva. “Hello, the sun’s getting real low… Take the tea.” Zabuza offered, pushing the tea out towards her.
Careful not to let her out of his grip, Kodo tilted Shiva towards the cup. Her tongue stuck out, and dipped into the tea like a cracker. Her ears perked, and she started lapping at the tea, her fur smoothing out and her posture relaxing. At the same time, Luke lapped at his own tea, his tail wagging at the taste.
“Very nice,” he said. “Almost makes me regret siphoning all my fatherly worry into her pack link.”
“This is very peaceful, no yelling…” Zabuza was cut off as a swear from the familiar voice of a Cyborg made its way into the tower.
“FUCK!!!” Grievous cried out distantly.
Kodo instantly released Shiva and turned. Luckily, Shiva’s rage had been quelled by the calming jasmine tea. “General?” he asked.
“Not that arm! NOT THAT- AAAAAGGHH!!!!!” The faint voice of Grievous shrieked.
Kodo turned to his parents. “Step-dad Grievous is in trouble. We gotta… oh… right,” his protests died as he realized his parents had been soothed by the calming jasmine tea. For his part, Luke merely tilted his head at his son at the mention of the General.
“Step-dad?” he asked, sounding more amused than angry.
Kodo rubbed the back of his neck. “It’s… well, he helped me defeat a big monster, and we bonded.”
Luke hummed. “As all good packs start.”
“MY FUCKIN’ ARM!!! Oh wait I have four of those… WHY DO I HAVE PAIN RECEPTORS?!??” Grievous cried out, the voice becoming more distant.
Kodo looked up with worry, but took a breath to steady himself. “Don’t worry, General,” he said. “We’re on our way.” He turned to Kyle with a calming breath. “So… a try not to laugh challenge?”
“Indeed, but to make it more entertaining there will be animations of you instead of random humans.” Kyle explained, “And before you ask… Fuck you.” Kyle said in a cheery manner.
Kodo blinked, glancing back to make sure his parents were still soothed. Luckily, Calming Jasmine Tea was not only the quenchiest, but also the calming-est. “What did you think I was going to ask to validate that?” he asked.
“Honestly I just wanted to say it.” Kyle explained with a shrug, and from the ashes of hell Fujitora ascended. The choir of Gangster Paradise played as he ascended like a Holy prophet.
“I have no Idea how I’m here.” Fujitora said.
“Hi, Issho,” Shiva slurred, sounding almost drunk. “I feel so high right now.”
“Same!” Bullet said, he was upside down, his head on the ground and his body sticking up like a stop sign pole. “This room is relaxing.”
“I’ll say,” Davy Jones said from the shadows of the room, observing them all. Still in a water bucket.
“Mm-hm,” Blazy said, lightning up the room as she suddenly appeared with a cup of Calming Jasmine Tea as well. Luco appeared seconds later with her.
“She says she’d say, I’ll say, but she can’t.”
“Oh hey Blazy, Luco, how are you two doing this fine evening?” Zabuza inquired, drinking tea through his mask.
“Splendid,” Luco replied. “I’ve made Papa Discord proud.” He grinned at Shiva, but she was still in a stupor, and Luke didn’t seem to notice the monkey man. “I can’t say exactly how yet, but let’s just say when Shiva gets to Ryker… there’s going to be some fireworks.”
“...You did something stupid did you? Did you turn Ryker into a pickle?” Thanos asked, muffled under Brudus’ fur and weight.
“...Rykcle? Pyker? Pykcle?” Link was trying to fuse the names, but none of them rolled off the tongue very well.
“Oh, don’t be silly,” Luco chastised. “His name’s not Rick. A pickle that’s not named Rick? No-no-no.”
“I turned myself into a bean once, making me the Beanos meme.” Thanos said as he slowly sank deeper into his bed.
“Exactly,” Luco agreed. “Because a bean and a pickle are two different things.” He pulled out a notebook. “I do like the idea of turning him into something though, I’m gonna write that down.”
“...Could you combine them? A bean and a pickle?” Thanos asked.
Luco gasped in delight. “My man, you are a genius!” Luco declared, excitedly writing that down.
“I didn’t get a negative score for an IQ test for a reason,” Thanos pointed out, “I don’t know how though…”
“Mm,” Blazy hummed.
“I agree, Blazy Blue,” Luco agreed. “IQ tests are fun to burn. The water marks provide a challenge.”
“So is everyone ready to laugh…?” Kyle asked, Thanos then screamed though it was muffled as he tapped Brudus, telling him to get off. The dog was sound asleep.
Kodo turned to his Kubfu. “What do you say, Kubfu?” he asked. “Ready to take this challenge?”
“Kubfu!” the pokemon declared, fist bumping with Kodo.
“Yeah!” Kodo declared. “We’re ready.”
“You guys are so cute,” Shiva mumbled.
“I remember when I was that age,” Luke agreed.
Thanos then went limp, and stopped screaming.
“He’s dead.” Lucci said, looking at Brudus laying on the Titan.
“Hmm, you sure?” Luco asked, before seizing Kodo and Shiva. Rubbing them together, he caused their pack links to glow and their fur to spike. “Clear!” He pressed them both into Thanos’ legs, which were poking out from under Brudus.
Brudus bounced like he was on a trampoline, while Thanos was jolted up right… only for Brudus to fall on his head.
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Thanos then ascends to the skies, his back facing the ground and like a God he lands on his feet. “I’m here to not laugh!” Thanos points a thumbs up at Kyle.
“Alright, take your seats,” Kyle then points to the chairs, and like the meme God he is, Thanos floats to his chair. Brudus and the boys followed too. Kodo dragged his parents after him, settling Shiva into her seat while Kubfu settled Luke. [Insert What The Others Do.]
“The try not to laugh challenge… begins now!” Kyle announced and the room went dark and the screen lit up.
The screen forms into Thanos standing there with a microphone and a piece of paper. Three people with him behind the podiums, their names plastered on the podiums. Those people were Grievous, Black, and Luke.
“Someone who isn’t familiar with sexual activity, that would be Grievous.” Thanos said, looking at the flashcards. The screen focusses on Grievous just staring at the screen with a deadpan expression.
“...video manipulation magic, or did Thanos record himself before we went to the tower??” Link thought to himself.
Elia just looked at Grievous and held a hand to his mouth, trying to cover a smile from forming. “That’s sad… That is so sad…”
Luke tsked. “That means he doesn’t have a…” Kodo quickly shut his mouth.
“We’re here not to laugh, Dad,” he reminded the diamond dog. “Don’t make it more difficult for everyone.”
“My man has a woman head over heels in love with him but… She’s kind of an Ara Ara Thot.” Thanos says, pointing at the screen.
The screen then reveals Thanos, Grievous, Luke, and Kodo walking down a suburban street.
“So what are we doin-” Kodo then bumps into a trashcan, Thanos, Grievous, and Luke look back to the trash can. The screen then cuts to the trio beating the garbage out of the trashcan. Thus making the screen go black.
Entity bit his blocky tongue to not laugh at that old but wonderful meme.
Luke, Shiva and Kodo nodded. “Pack stands together,” Kodo said.
“As we always should,” Luke agreed.
The screen then shows Thanos talking to Link.
“Hey wanna meet my dog?” Thanos asked Link.
“Yeah sure.” Link said with a shrug, then Brudus busts down the door, barking and snarling. “GET YOUR FUCKING DOG BITCH!!!!!’ Link shouted out.
“...Ok, this is some sort of funky videomancy editing here...” Link said as he knows damn well he did say any of that.
“It don’t bite.” Thanos said calmly, a plate of bread on his head.
“YES IT DOES!!!!” Link cried out, then the screens turned black.
“I can see this happening,” Thanos said, pointing at the screen, “Like… Brudus is the biggest boi I’ve ever seen.”
Kodo nodded, holding back a grin. “We do be like that though,” he noted.
Link didn’t laugh, only confused.
Elia then bursts out laughing, “WHY DOES HE HAVE A PLATE OF BREAD ON HIS DAMN HEAD!??!?” Elia then falls over her chair, “WHY DID THAT MAKE ME LAUGH?!?!?! So fucking random!”
“And Elia is out.” Kyle then crosses her name off of a check board.
The screen reveals Thanos boiling water, nothing in it, Shiva then walks up to him.
“What are you doing?” She inquired, Thanos turned to her.
“I’m making Holy Water.” Thanos replied, this just made Shiva even more confused.
“How is that making Holy Water?” Shiva asked, Thanos just grinned.
“I’m boiling the hell out of it.” Thanos said with the most cheeky grin ever. The clip then ends.
Link didn’t laugh as he managed to contain his laughter, even the grin that threatened to grip into his cheeks.
Thanos then goes onto the floor and punches it before hitting his head on it. Trying to beat the laughter from forming. Shiva’s face, on the other hand, looked just as deadpan as she had been on the screen. She glanced at her family.
“I still don’t get it,” she said.
Luke shrugged. “It must be a religious thing,” he replied.
“Next,” Kyle said, looking at Davy Jones who had the controller.
The screen then shows Lucci, in a house.
“Ey yo the Fried Chicken is here!” Kodo called out from downstairs. Lucci then jumps to his feet and runs downstairs only to trip.
“OH NIGGA!!!!” Lucci cried out as he fell down the stairs, “My ears burn!” The clip ends there.
“PFFFFT-” Lucci held his mouth and went to his knees, the video was so stupid that it almost made him luagh.
Kodo clamped his claws over his snout. “No, not funny,” he reminded himself, even as he struggled to keep his laugh in. “A pack mate got hurt. That’s not funny!” Luckily, his words helped, and he kept himself from laughing.
Once again, Link did not laugh. He was going to be a tough nut to crack.
The screen reveals Grievous and Luke.
“Look at me,” Grievous ordered, pointing to his face. “Look at me.”
“I’m looking,” Luke then nods, looking at Grievous in his fiery eyes.
“I’m the father now.” Grievous said, squinting his eyes, the clip then ended.
“..What?” Link asked confused. “I don’t get it..” Link said with a frown.
“Grievous is a father figure to Kodo, while in Luke’s absence.” Elia explained.
“Ah.. So he’s the father? That’s suppose to be the funny part?” Link asked with a shake of his, but of course, Link came from a different year, thus different humor.
“Not. Funny. N-Not…” Lord Twigo said, looking at the screen. “Definitely isn’t.”
Luke blinked in shock. “He’s WHAT?!” he demanded.
“A classic,” Elae said, looking at the screen.
The screen reveals Thanos cocking his fist back, his gauntlet on fire. There was a caption above him.
“POV, you’re Day Breaker.” It read, the screen turns black.
“I thought that’d be a Falcon Punch joke for the first few seconds.” Link said.
Luke and Kodo glanced at each other, shrugging. “Well, that’s just facts,” Kodo noted, causing Luke to nod.
“I- I can’t, this isn’t good for me.” Lucci said, holding his chest as Thanos just blinked at that.
The clip then flashes to Obama.
“Let me be clear,” Obama spoke, he then turned invisible and the clip ended.
“That joke was too predictable.” Link said with a frown.
Shiva tilted her head. “Isn’t that what that John Cena boy did before…” Her ears perked, and she formed a serious expression. “Not funny,” she growled to herself. “Will never laugh.”
Despite her words, Lucci burst out laughing, it was so unexpected and yet so… Obvious. “What the hell man? That’s how my father left me!” That comment from Lucci made Lord Twigo laugh.
“Ugh fine, I guess you are my little pogchamp, come here.” Ryuka spreads her arms apart for a hug and at that exact moment a certain caucasian captain slides in onto the screen. He then proceeds to punch the screen, the screen then flickers to Lucci.
“OH NIGGA!!!” Lucci cried out before falling down the stairs.
The man walked down the stairs and cocked his pistol.
“Soap trusted you, I thought I could too.” Price said with a frown.
Link starred in puzzlement. “That didn’t make any sense..” he said as he scratched his head.
Thanos covers his mouth and he hits the back of his chair, over and over again, tears forming.
Yet despite the struggles of the others not including Link, Shiva’s face was set. “Betrayal of trust,” she growled to herself. “The ultimate sin.” Her words were enough to cause Luke and Kodo to fade from ‘struggling not to laugh’ to ‘dead serious’ in a second.
The screen then shows Grievous walking his Titanoboa that was bigger than him,
“Do you ever wake up or in the middle of something and you don’t know what the fuck is going on? Yeah, that’s what’s happening here.” Grievous said blankly, Rose then hisses as a bird flew over her and the clip ends.
“I go through that on a daily basis,” Thanos points out, “Every day.”
“Every minute of every day,” Shiva agreed.
“One moment I’m human, next I’m fighting an Irish God.” Thanos said before taking out a hetap.
The screen shows Grievous, standing on top of Luke who was on all fours.
“This… This is so stupid.” Luke said, whilst walking.
“The higher I am the more I can see.” Grievous explained, Luke just rolled his eyes.
“You can fly.” Luke argued, Grievous crossed his arms and spun his whole top half of his body around to look behind Luke.
“Hush now Luke, I am searching.” Grievous then puts a metal hand over his eyes. And the clip ends.
Link kept that serious confused expression.
Thanos then spits the alcoholic beverage out of his mouth and holds his chest. “Dear god I wasn’t prepared for that.”
Shiva pat his back, helping dislodge any hetap still in his throat. “He does have a point,” she mumbled, more to keep her expression serious and deadpan.
The screen then shows Grievous standing in front of two humans with a bible in hand.
“You may now kiss the bride,” Grievous said proudly, the male human just smiled.
“Astrists nuzzles and kisses astrists.” And everyone began clapping the screen focusses on Grievous and he just stared at them motherfuckerly before closing the bible. And like that the clip ends.
“Those videos are just making less and less sense…” Link pointed out.
Shiva’s expression faded to confusion. She glanced at Luke, who looked equally confused. “What?”
“DAMN FURRIES!!!” Fujitora cried out before giving a middle finger to Kyle on accident, due to him being blind.
The screen flickers the Grievous in a kitchen.
“I’m gonna prank my girlfriend,” Grievous said rubbing his hands together evilly, he then gets a bowl, and fills it with cold water and ice. He then makes his way to the bathroom, he then looks over the shower curtains… And saw no one, nothing. Grievous then cries softly and hits his head on the wall in anguish. The clip then ends there.
“BAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!” Thanos erupted into laughter and fell back on his chair, “Grievous, no!”
“..ok, that one made sense, but it looked too sad to be funny.” Link said with a frown.
Shiva stared at Thanos in horror. “I agree, Link,” she said, gazing up at the screen with sadness. “He has no mate.”
“Awful,” Luke whispered, holding Shiva close.
The screen reveals Grievous, with a dice and gun in hand.
“If this lands on a six I’ll kill myself,” Grievous then rolls the dice and it’s a one, “Eh, close enough.” Grievous then cocks the gun.
“ That’s not even funny at all!” Link said as he threw his arms up into the air.
“Grievous no!” Elae and Kodo cried out.
“Grievous, yes!” Grievous cried out faintly from the background.
“Hehe,” Blazy giggled from the back. Luco pat her side.
“I know,” Luco agreed. “What are the chances he’d just spit the bullet out.”
Kodo glanced back at them. “But… he doesn’t have a mouth,” he noted.
“Hush, Kodo,” Shiva said. “We’ll be able to see him if we stay strong.”
The screen then flicks to Alex Jones in Minecraft, a creeper in front of him.
“You know what? Come over here, come over here coward. No, you flipped me off, you’re a fake and a fraud!” Alex Jones runs at the creeper and it explodes.
“EEEEBBOLAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!” Elae cried out, now in a fit of laughter.
Luke and Shiva glanced at each other again in confusion. “Who the heck was that?” Luke asked. Shiva shrugged.
“The creeper or Alex Jones?” Thanos said, glancing at the pair.
“Alex Jones?” Shiva asked. “That’s the human, right?” Thanos just gave her a nod. “Yeah, him.”
“He’s a theorists, the context is that another human, “flipped him off” meaning “Fuck You” and that’s an insult. Sometimes when people aren’t having a bad day, they get angry at the smallest insult, thus…” Thanos said, pointing at the screen.
“Ah,” Shiva nodded in understanding, but no laugh graced her lips.
The screen then shows Gordon Ramsey in a kitchen with chefs.
“Is there any dish that wasn’t microwaved?” Gordon Ramsey said with a snark, then a chef perked up.
“The salad?” The chef said like he was asking a question, Gordon Ramsey just stared at him.
“You donut, of course you don’t fucking put a salad in the-” The screen then cuts to black.
Shiva narrowed her eyes, but Kodo looked away, struggling not to laugh.
“It’s true,” he noted. “You don’t put a salad in a fire.”
“I wouldn’t even know what a salad is without the ponies,” Luke replied.
The screen shows Grievous pointing at Nappa who was buried in buns.
“Look at the buns on that guy,” Grievous jokes, a door was kicked down and the two who kicked it down were Kodo and Luffy.
“This is the comedy police, the joke is too funny!” Kodo cried out, Grievous then pulled out a gun and pointed it at Kodo, his hands shaking.
“I’M NOT GOING BACK TO TARTARUS!!!!” Grievous cried out, and at that moment the screen turned black.
Kodo took a huge breath, struggling even harder not to laugh. “I remember you!” he called out. “I remember the comedy police!”
“And I fucking ran away,” Thanos said, “And shot at them-” Thanos then laughs as he remembers the stupid shit that occured.
The screen shows Nox with a spoon, mixing macaroni around, making a squishing sound. Grab then walks up behind him.
“That’s what’s good pussy sounds like,” Grab then walks away, Nox then snaps his head towards Grab.
“Grab!” Nox called out, the clip ends.
Luke’s fur spiked, and he looked away. “It’s true!” he whispered. “It’s so true!”
Shiva just sighed, rubbing the bridge of her nose like she had seen - and heard - it all before.
The screen then flickers to Black at a beach, his body was buried and his head was sticking out of the sand.
“I am the sand guardian, guardian of the sand!” Black said, Lucci then slides in and pats the sand below him.
“Poseidon quivers before him!” Lucci declared, water came close to Black’s head.
“Fuck off!” Black yelled at the water and the clip ended.
“Ok, that one's a classic, it used to be funny when it was new back then. Now, it's just good memories.” Link said with a nod of approval.
A smile formed on the Saiyans face while Luna Black put a hand over her mouth as she tried to contain her giggles.
“Yeah!” Kodo cheered. “Go Guardian Black!”
“...That title makes it sound like if Black became a poweranger.” Link said jokingly.
“That would be awesome! Quiver before the might of the Black Power Ranger!” Luke agreed.
Shiva’s jaw clenched, but her serious expression did not fade.
The screen then shows Luke walking down a cave, humming the opening to come and get your love, he then turns to his left and calls out.
“Hey~!” Luke sang, though someone responded.
“Hey~!” Luffy replied, Luke then blinked.
“What?!” Luke cried out and the clip ends.
Luke gasped, before turning to Shiva. “Shiva, tell me you didn’t…!” he demanded.
Shiva merely stared at him, her serious expression not fading. “Luke, why would I do that to you?” she asked.
Luke moved to argue… but his argument died in his throat. Kodo, however, shook his head.
“It’s stuff like this that makes me wonder how wise it is to go after Luna,” he mused.
The screen then switches to Thanos walking into a bedroom.
“WAKE UP SLEEPY HEAD!!!!” Thanos cried out, Eric then got up from the bed, Black appearing in Eric’s bed as well.
“What the fuck man…?” Black said, rubbing his eyes, Thanos then covers his own mouth and laughs. The clip ends there.
“Oh~” Kodo noted, glancing at Eric and Black with intrigue.
Luna Black tried to contain her fits of laughter as she looked at the Saiyan, the smile disappearing as a stone faced stare replaced it.
“I don’t get it,” Eric said, tilting his head. “I don’t get any of these.”
“Hah!” Ganondorf then clapped, “GAYYYY!!!”
The screen then shows Thanos and Phoenix just standing there.
“There has been a capital murder,” Thanos informed Phoenix.
“Oh, what’s next? Lowercase murder?” Phoenix then looks to the screen with a cheeky smile and the clip ends.
“Godamnit…” Link face-palmed with a snort of amusement.
“Oh, by everything sacred,” Shiva groaned. “Puns!”
The screen then flickers to Phoenix.
“Are you searching for a fast, reliable, internet connection?” The camera zooms in on his face, “Fuck you.” The clip then ends there.
“H…” Shiva stopped herself, covering her snout. Luke, however, had far less impulse control.
“HA! I’m not even looking for internet, f…” Luke realized what he had done. “-UCK! You, Phoenix, you got me!”
The screen shows Thanos in a classroom with students... and Shiva.
“Hey Shiva can you read paragraph four?” Thanos asked Shiva.
“No I can not.” Shiva then looks at the screen, “Hello, I’m Shiva and I never learned how to fucking read.” The clip ends there.
“I never did understand that one.” Link said with a frown.
Shiva shrugged. “Well, I didn’t ever learn how to read, so...,” she noted.
“But why tho?” Fujitora asked, not even facing her and facing a wall.
“Didn’t seem that important,” Shiva replied. “Plus, I tried once, and all the books just looked like scribbles.”
“It’s hard to argue with her assessment.” Thanos said, and then there was a Caesar laugh.
“SHIRORORORORORORORORORO!!!” This caused Brudus to laugh,
“Who laughs like that? Oh man we’re fucked, half of us are gone.” Brudus said with a smile.
“Don’t worry, Brudus,” Kodo said. “Mom and I are still in the game. And Mom doesn’t look like she’s cracking anytime soon.”
The screen then switches to Thanos and Eric, Eric begins to speak.
“Let’s tell secrets about each other, I hate you.” Eric said with a smile and the clip ends.
Shiva merely shrugged. “You two give that vibe off a lot,” she noted to Thanos and Eric.
“Ya have a point!” Thanos responded, raising a finger.
“Yeah I get that too” Eric admitted nodding his head
The screen flicks to Luke with a pair of nunchucks in her paws, in front of a cave.
“You messin’ with my pack? You messin’ with my pack dipstick?!” Luke was swinging the nunchucks around before one hit him in his face and he fell over. The clip ends there.
Link cringed as that one looked painful.
Shiva smiled faintly, but no laugh came from her. She pat Luke’s head, her tail wagging. “My hero,” she said, before they nuzzled. But even then, she was able to restrain herself from giggling. Luke had no such compunctions though.
Herobrine then fakes gags, “Ew, love and affection for one another, disgusting.”
Kodo kept himself from chuckling. “If you think that’s bad, you don’t want to know what they had for bedtime stories,” he said.
The screen then shows Entity.
“This is how we name our children,” Entity then drops a pan down, and begins to raise his fingers one by one. “Ting, ting bing bong…” The clip then ends.
Shiva tilted her head. “What?”
“My word exactly...” Link said with a frown.
“Fucking racists! I’m Asian,” Entity said, “Oh and Shiva, this is how our children are named. Xiang, Wang, Ting, Bing, Kong, Lee, and etcetera.” Entity clarified for her.
The screen shows Chill, looking at the screen.
“ I was reading a great book about an immortal dog the other day. It was impossible to put down.” Chill then laughs, “Okay, okay, another one. What’s yellow and can’t swim? A bus full of children! GYAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!” The clip then ends.
“Boooooo.” Link said with a thumbs down.
Far from laughing, Shiva’s jaw dropped in horror. “By everything sacred,” she mumbled.
“Dark puns,” Kodo shook his head.
The screen then shows Luffy and Sombra.
“So you’ll take care of my dog right?” Luffy said, quirking an eyebrow.
“Yeah,” Sombra said with a nod.
“Alright, c’mere.” Luffy said, and Nappa busted down the door on all fours.
“Bark, bark, bitch.” Nappa said with a grin.
“That’s a whole ass man.” Sombra then looked up to Luffy, the screen turned black.
“I’m starting to think I’m out of date on today’s humor, or at least what was made in the last twenty four years..” Link said with a frown. Link wasn’t sure if him not laughing was an advantage here, or a little on the sad side.
Kodo held back a laugh, only to gape as he saw Shiva not just straight-faced, but pondering.
“You have to wonder, are we technically part human?” Shiva muttered to herself. “I mean, I was fused with a human before, so…”
Kodo shook his head. “The ways you get out of laughing,” he muttered. “I can’t even…”
The screen then shows Phil Swift with a chainsaw.
“Just FUCKING kill me!” The screen then shows a truck going after Phil Swift, thankfully it didn’t show what happened. But Phil Swift reappeared, a huge boat in front of the screen. The boat then splits apart and Phil Swift walks out.
“I saw my boner!” Phil Swift said, with a smile and the clip ends.
Once again, Shiva looked more confused than amused. “Humans get stranger and stranger by the day,” she muttered.
And she was correct, Phil Swift reappears.
“Imagine what you can do with a penis!” Phil Swift said with a smile, it then shows Phil Swift with a combat knife standing over a bucket.
“You may have seen a bucket, but you’ve never seen me fuck it!” Phil Swift then stabs the bucket with a knife, repeatedly.
Link looked away with a cringe at that one.
“AAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!” Bullet laughed in the background, “I’m not a part of this but this YTP’s make me laugh!”
“I don’t get it,” Kodo said. “That’s not even…”
“Careful,” Shiva said. “They don’t like kids using language.”
The screen forms into Kodo with a microphone, a photo of Luke on the top right.
“You are my dad.” Kodo sang and the photo of Luke expanded to full screen, “Boogie woogie!” The screen flashes to Grievous for a split second before it turns black.
Luke grimaced, while Kodo snorted, struggling to breath as he held in his laugh. Shiva remained stone-faced.
The screen shows Link just sitting there on a chair, a table in front of him.
“Okay so what you do is-” He was then punched by Ganondorf, “Aw fuck, I can’t believe you’ve done this.” The clip promptly ends there.
“I can’t believe how this is funny.” Link said with a frown.
“PFFT-HAHAHA-DANGIT!” Kodo barked. “I can’t believe that got me either!”
Shiva just huffed, shaking her head, though her pursed lips and complete silence didn’t fully hide the fact that she had almost cracked.
The clip shows Grievous and Luke, Luke holding a blue lightsaber, Grievous holding a red one.
“All women… Are queens!” Luke declared, Grievous then spun his lightsaber intimidatingly.
“If she breathes… SHE’S A THOT!!!!” With an epic battle cry, the two lunged at each other and clashed saber, the clip ends there.
Shiva huffed, her ears flattening in disapproval. Link shared his disapproval as well.
The screen then reveals Thanos driving a car.
“My main goal is to blow up, and act like I don’t know nobody! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!’ Thanos cackled before the screen turned black.
“Well, obviously, you won’t know anybody if you blow up,” Shiva noted. “Unless you mean blow up as in… expand like a balloon…”
“SShhhh… you might attract the fetish fandom..” Link said as he looked around.
“He’s right, there are freaky people out there,” Elia said in a whisper.
The screen reveals Moana’s father, a coconut falling into his palm.
“We have the coconuts and it’s all you need~” Moana’s father then rolled the coconut across his shoulder before it flung off. The screen then shows a human getting hit by a carton of orange juice… In the face. The clip ends there.
Link was holding his breath on that one holding in the laugh as that scene shifted randomly and unexpectedly.
“Ha,” Luke and Kodo cackled, though they were long out. Shiva, on the other hand, just touched her nose with sympathy.
“That poor fellow,” she said. “That wasn’t even a coconut he got hit with.”
The screen then reveals Eric playing a piano.
“I’m really good at piano,” Eric said blankly, it then shows Thanos with the piano, glaring at Eric.
“Shut the,” He then presses a key, “Up~” The clip ends there.
Shiva flicked an ear. “Yes, Eric’s good at piano,” she said just as blankly. “I’m pretty sure he established that at this point.”
The screen shows Thanos playing a guitar, though a human was vocalizing the guitar. Then there was clapping and there was Fujitora, he then spoke, but instead of words it was a guitar. The clip ends there.
“Welp, that one way to make a voice box.” Link said jokingly.
Shiva hummed. “Impressive,” she replied. But she didn’t laugh.
The screen shows Arkham Knight and Ryker.
“Hey, there’s a mushroom on your shirt.” Ryker points out, Michael looks down.
“Aw… I’m a failure.” Michael said, the clip ends there.
Shiva tsked in sympathy. “Come on, you’re not a failure…” she said sadly.
“Thanks,” Arkham Knight said in the background.
The screen shows a human mother and a human child. The child playfully screams at the mother and the mother screams back, instead of a human scream it was the roar of a T-Rex. Then the screen flickers to a T-Rex with the medley of Jurassic Park. The clip ends there.
Link suddenly spit out his water drink, making a mess all over Brudus. “What!” Link said in reaction at that random bit.
“...” Brudus said no words as he looked at Link motherfuckerly.
“Sorry!” Link said as he held out his hand, providing a rather weak flame of Din’s fire to try and dry off Brudus.
Shiva’s ears perked, but instead of being amused, she looked impressed. “Now that’s a dominant mother,” she praised.
“I still don’t understand any of these” Eric admitted
The screen now reveals Luke driving a car.
“Road work ahead? Yeah, I sure hope it does.” Luke said, clueless about the situation. The clip ends like life, quickfully.
“Oh come on.” Link said with a shake of his head in amusement.
Shiva shrugged and nodded, just as clueless as her husband. “Well, it should work,” she replied. “What good’s a road that can’t be used?”
The screen then shows Grievous with a cup of coffee in hand.
“You know, it’s times like these when-” Grievous was cut off when Nightmare ran past him and purposely spilled coffee on him.
“...” Grievous stood there before sighing, “Remember kids, when you finger a woman, make sure it hurts.” Grievous lifted up a finger, using Soru with murderous intent. He appeared above Nightmare and jammed his index finger into her shoulder. The clip ends there.
“...Eh, she might end up liking that mo- Link paused when Grievous jabbed Nightmare in the shoulder and not exactly what he thought it’d be. “Touché..” he commented as it was clever how that turned around.
Shiva winced and rubbed her shoulder. “Not that she didn’t deserve it, but… mm,” Shiva shook her head with a sigh.
“Congratulations! You guys pass! That was the last clip!” Kyle said.
“Wait, pass? But alot of the people here laughed.” Link said confused.
The screen then suddenly flickers to Grievous just standing there. “Eh… Why is it showing that?” To Kodo and Kodo alone he saw Grievous had a hole through where his heart should be.
Kodo stood up. “We’re running out of time,” he said grimly, turning to the others. “We need to move. Come on.”
Shiva’s ears flattened, but she didn’t lose her cool again. Pulling herself up with a nod, she and Kodo led the others out for the next floor. Even as Shiva felt fear pulsing through Kodo’s link.
“We’re going to save him,” was what Shiva wanted to say. Yet, she didn’t trust herself to say it without doubt. For there was a good chance that despite their hurry, they would already be too late.
There were more stairs but this time, Thanos was running up them like Officer Earl. “RYKER!!! C’MERE BOY!!!!” Thanos cried out, running up the stairs, Brudus following after him. As Link ran up the stairs, he pulled out his Master Sword and Hylian shield as a eerie feeling of day-ja-vu creped into his mind, as if he was running up Ganondorf’s tower in ocarina of time again, except there was no epic pipe organ music playing.
“Leave Grievous and my sister alone!” Kodo agreed.
“Don’t just leave them alone; give them back!” Shiva added.
Eric rushes ahead before engulfing his arm in shadow and bursting through the door.
They finally make their way to the entrance to the tenth floor. They all nearly collapsed due to the pressure of Katakuri’s power, they saw the Mochi man standing in front of them.
“Greetings and welcome to…” Katakuri then put his hands to the skies, “The stage of the Tournament of Power!” Katakuri announced, and immediately fireworks went off. “The fireworks were a bit too much but you get the point,” Katakuri wagged his finger in the air. “Now… Who’s first?”
“..You mean the matches we had weren't the tournament?” Link asked, misunderstanding as he has not seen dragon ball super yet.
“ME!!!” Lucci cried out pushing past everyone and running to the front.
“An actual volunteer? Oh my god I am delighted!” Katakuri said, pumping his fist into the air. “This will be an epic battle!” Katakuri declares, he then gets in a stance. “Beware, I will be using my Future Sight for this battle and the next.”
“Got it,” Lucci nods, he gets in his character's fighting stance, “Let’s do this.”
“...My bet is on Lucci,” Elia said, raising a finger.
Link let out a sigh as he sheathed his equipment. Link can tell this was going to take a while since it was going to be one of those one-V-one fights.
“Now, come at me.” Katakuri ordered, Lucci immediately shot at Katakuri. Covering his fist in Armament Haki he threw a punch at Katakuri. Using his Special Paramecia body, he made a hole through his stomach, wide enough for Lucci to slip in. Lucci went out on the other side of the Mochi man and the hole filled up.
Lucci gazed back at Katakuri, his eyes widened. “How the fu-” Katakuri then shot a Conqueror’s Haki wave at Lucci. Knocking him into some rock, Lucci then jumps out. “Rankyaku!” Shooting an air slash at Katakuri, Katakuri shot one right back. Katakuri’s air slash was FAR bigger and more impressive than Lucci’s. There wasn’t even a struggle, Katakuri’s air slash tore right through Lucci’s, with a yelp of surprise, Lucci rolled out of the way.
“Is this some type of dick joke?” Lucci said, raising an eyebrow.
“Indeed!” Katakuri cried out before sprinting at Lucci. Lucci sprints back, covering their fists in Armament Haki, Lucci has to jump to clash fists with Katakuri. When they clashed, Lucci was being pushed back before a grunt of effort from Katakuri threw Lucci aside, making him skip across the ground like a rock. Lucci then makes impact on a huge rock, making a dust cloud.
“...Lucci…?” Thanos said, staring at the dust cloud.
Katakuri’s forearms become like blocks due to his Mochi. He was compressing them to make more density, kind of like the same thing Phoenix taught to Shiva. He then coats his arms in Armament Haki, Lucci ran out of the dust cloud like a lightning bolt. Covering his fists and feet in Armament Haki, he then attempts to slam his heel down upon Katakuri’s skull. Raising his forearm he blocks Lucci’s attack, Lucci then winces at the result of the attack. Lucci then jumps back for breathing room.
“He can read my movements before I make them... It’s impossible to beat him by normal means, I’ll need to-” An idea occurred in Lucci’s mind and he snapped his head towards Thanos. “GIVE ME VODKA!!!”
“Alright,” Thanos then throws Spirytus Vodka towards Lucci, the size of a gallon. Lucci catches the alcoholic beverage.
“And down it goes,” Lucci then proceeds to chug the whole gallon, Katakuri just standing there.
“What is he doing?” Katakuri inquired, he waited there patiently, crossing his arms.
When Lucci was finished he slammed the glass down onto the ground, and with a burp he was done. “Excuuuuuuuuuuuuu…” Lucci said, leaning backwards, “...Sseee me.” Lucci leaned forward. He then “danced” around, his feet wobbling. “Man, that’s some strong alcohol I mean it’s so…” Lucci then falls on his back, asleep.
“..Hold up, Drunken Fist?” Link asked as he recognized it from a movie.
“A Kung-Fu style developed by a man named Kou-Sze.” Eric said with a slight grin. “It is an ancient style and its origins are mainly traced back to the Buddhist and Daoist religious communities. The Buddhist style is related to the Shaolin temple while the Daoist style is based on the Daoist tale of the drunken Eight Immortals. Drunken Fist or Zui quan has the most unusual body movements among all styles of Chinese martial arts. Hitting, grappling, locking, dodging, feinting, ground and aerial fighting and all other sophisticated methods of combat are incorporated.”
“Well then,” Katakuri then approached Lucci, stepping on the shards of glass. He then raised his foot high and slammed it down on Lucci, only for it to be caught. Lucci then pushed Katakuri off of him, Katakuri regained his balance.
“Don’t you look at me like that… Muffin man!” Lucci says drunkenly, he then gets in a fighting stance.
“...The Drunken fighting style technique, how peculiar.” Katakuri said, tilting his head, he then got in a stance as well. Their fists and feet collided, it was like they were dancing but they were fighting. Katakuri then performs the Table Party technique and does a handstand and spins his body around. His legs spin like a helicopter.
Like he was doing a limbo contest, he leans his body backwards before kicking at Katakuri. However the Mochi man made a hole through his body like before, Lucci’s attack went through Katakuri. Though it would seem Katakuri has had enough, he infuses his fist in Chakra and he slams his fist into Lucci. Sending the Leopard Assassin towards a pile of rocks, impacting them with a THUD. Lucci then gets up.
“Huh… I don’t feel drunk anymore.” Lucci said, looking around the place, he was then gut-punched by Katakuri. Sending a Ki blast into Lucci he was carried off into the skies, Ki blast then exploded. With a cry of pain, Lucci fell from the explosion’s cloud and hit one of the giant boulders.
“Alright,” Katakuri said, he then wiped the dust off his gloves and turned to face everyone. “He’s going to come back out in five, four, three, two and…” Lucci then jumped from his rock that he was laying on. He then goes into Hybrid Mode, his Leopard characteristics showing more.vivid reactions. Thanos noticed that Lucci had become slightly bigger in height.
“He’s one step away…” Thanos said softly, looking at Lucci getting in a fighting stance. A grin appeared on the Leopard Hybrid’s face.
“Let us commence our battle!” Katakuri said stoically, “Musō Dōnatsu!” Donut circles appeared around Lucci and out of the holes came fists covering in Armament Haki, Katakuri’s fists were glowing white. The fists stretched out towards Lucci, Lucci then ducked under one attack and blocked another.
As Lucci blocked and evaded the attacks, static electricity began to form around Lucci. “You better prepare yourself, because this is gonna get shocking. Thor’s Hammer!” Lucci then slammed his fist onto the ground, sending a wave of electricity towards katakuri. Jumping into the air he evaded the attack, Lucci using Seimei Kikan: Kami-e Bushin to make his body slimmer and faster; appeared above Katakuri unexpectedly.
Lucci then slams an electricity powered fist at Katakuri who raised his forearm and blocked the attack, however right as he raised his forearm, he transformed back to his normal big Hybrid Form. The unexpectant speed and force sent Katakuri off his feet, though Katakuri landed back down on his feet, not letting his back touch the floor. Using Kamsori, Lucci appeared above Katakuri and slammed both of his electricity powered fists into Katakuri, and like before he blocked them. But instead with one arm, he did it with two.
This sent Katakuri downwards but even still he didn’t let his back hit the floor, it was a mere five inches from touching it too as he was sliding backwards from the momentum. Katakur then quickly gets to his regular standing position and slams his head into Lucci. Dazing the Leopard man, Katakuri proceeds to go Jotaro on his ass and punches him repeatedly.
Punch after punch Katakuri didn’t stop, easing the pain with Tekkai and Armament Haki. It helped some for Lucci, but it all changed when Katakuri activated Ryou Haki. Katakuri then cocks his right fist backwards, inflating the arm he then causes it to explode. “YakI Mochi!” The fist shot towards Lucci and hits him in the gut, it punched him so hard it replayed three different times.
“Damn he hit that nigga so hard it replayed three different times!” Thanos exclaimed.
The fist continued to venture forward, sending Lucci through a bunch of rocky landforms before hitting a big one, causing a nuclear sized explosion. Nearly knocking everyone off their feet, Katakuri then turned backwards, because cool guys don’t look at explosions.
“...Damn it,” Elia said, snapping her fingers in disappointment, she then turned around and pouted. “I thought he was going to win…”
“Oh don’t count out Lucci just yet, he has far more things to show you, FAR more.” Entity said, looking at the rubble where Lucci crashed at.
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“Get up Lucci…”
“Come on, I need to get up! I’m so close to doing it…”
“Please body… All of my human instincts are screaming at me to stop but… Wait… That’s it!”
“I mustn't need to act like a human, I must become one with my animal counterpart, I must become a Leopard.”
Lucci pictured the East savanna of Africa, a Leopard laying on a tree. He was home, this was the home of his past ancestors, the ones who built their civilizations before they were slaves. He read about one tribe in particular that worshipped the Leopards. They would always offer them tribute and in return the Leopards provided them protection from other dangerous beasts, like a… Like a Leap. They were a Leap!
Lucci then appeared in the East savanna of Africa, surrounded by Leopards, each of them stared at him. One Leopard with a scar on his eye approached him.
“Are you ready… To become one with your ancestors…?” The Leopard inquired, “Are you ready… To awaken?”
Lucci looked at the Leopards, “...Yes.” Lucci said with a nod, the Leopard smiled and chuckled softly.
“By the grounds that were forged by the Elephants, the trees made by the Leopards, the waters made by the Crocodiles, and the skies made by the Fish Eagles.” Lucci then bows before the Leopard as the Leopard approaches him. “You are… Awakened.” The Leopards closed its eyes and touched heads with Lucci, Lucci doing the same and with that… There was a flash of light.
A pillar of power shot from the rubble and out came Lucci, he was in his Leopard form and there were African battle symbols on his body. Glowing a bright and radiant orange, with a mighty roar Lucci lunged at Katakuri with insane speed and punched Katakur in his face. The force sent Katakuri backwards but he held his ground and stopped himself in his tracks. Katakuri chuckled.
“Well, well, that was fast…” Katakuri said, “You’ve grown…” Lucci didn’t even say anything, he flew at Katakuri and immediately, Katakuri slammed his fist into Lucci. Forcing the Leopard man down, but Lucci caught himself and punched Katakuri in his face. Nearly knocking his scarf off, Lucci jumped back to gain breathing room. Lucci ran at Katakuri, landing a few hits in before being kicked away, landing on the ground. The process repeated for a while.
“This is a battle between a man that won’t fall down and a man that will always get back up.” Elia pointed out, watching the two go at it, pause.
Lucci then jumps into the air, and lit his feet on fire with friction. “Diable Jambe… Extra Hachis!” Lucci then kicks at Katakuri rapidly, Katakuri punches at Lucci to counter his attacks. Katakuri then jumped high in the air, he then shot his legs at Lucci. He then performs a headlock with his feet, he then spun his top half around. Almost like a wind up toy, spinning his top half round and round, until his legs looked like screws. He then spun Lucci over and over again before doing a backflip and slamming him into rocks.
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“Do you hear that?” Thanos said, looking around, “Katakuri has his own fucking OST! GOD DAMN IT I WANT ONE!!!”
“Mochi-Mochi Big Mallet!” Katakuri named his attack, rocks then fell on top of Lucci. Landing on his feet he prepared himself for attack.Lucci then burst from the rocks and flew at Katakuri, Katakuri put his arms in a X position to block the attack. Lucci then kicks Katakuri through a giant rock, making a hole. Katakuri then shook his body, he then looked at the dust cloud that formed from the attack. Out came Lucci, roaring like Leopard.
“Where do you think you’re going, jackass?!” Lucci then fired off a Ki blast at Katakuri, Katakuri’s eyes turned red, his top half of his body turning to mochi. Evading the attack, the Ki blast went past Katakuri, and made mini trenches in the ground. “We’re not done yet!” The Ki blast went to the skied and attempted to slam into Katakuri, Katakuri then turned his body into Mochi. Becoming a Donut shape, he then begins to roll towards Lucci.
“Tch, HAH!!!” Lucci then fires two more Ki blasts towards Katakuri, one Ki blast tried to ram into Katakuri, but the Donut man hopped over the attack. Katakuri then rolled towards somewhere else, the Ki blast he evaded followed him. Then there was another Ki blast in front of him, attempting to pincer him. Doing a hard right, Katakuri evaded the attack easily, then the Ki blasts went into the air and split apart into hundred pieces. Some of them try to slam into Katakuri and he avoids it again.
“I’m stronger, faster, and more durable than you!” Katakuri said, stating facts.
“Catch up to him!” Lucci ordered the balls of Ki, the Ki blasts shot towards Katakuri and Katakuri jumped over them. Causing the Ki blasts to impact each other, making and explosion. From the cloud of that explosion Katakuri emerged, he was now in striking distance from Lucci. He turned normal and his right arm was… Weird, he made his forearm into a Kanabo shape, his hand was normal. There were spikes on it as well, Katakuri then coats it in Ryou Haki and slammed it into Lucci. Causing a huge tremor, it knocked Elia off her feet, it also made Lucci cry out in pain. It also made the Leopard man’s top hat get thrown off.
“BUZZCUT MOCHI!!!” Katakuri named his attack.
“Shit!” Elia cried out, like the gentlemanly man that Thanos is, he caught her.
“I am a gentleman…” Thanos said with a squint of his eyes.
“...Okay…?” Elia then gets back on her feet.
“He’s awakened” Eric said slightly shocked before breaking into a wicked smile. “That bastard actually awakened his Devil Fruit”
Katakuri then spun his arm around, his arm began to fling and stretch around. Lucci couldn’t get off of Katakuri’s arm, for the mochi was too sticky.
“Why is the mochi so sticky!” Lucci tried valiantly to get off Katakuri’s arm but failed miserably, Katakuri’s arm stretched so much that Lucci then hit the rocks nearby. Letting out a cry of pain as the rocks dug into his back. “I think I’m gonna barf…” Lucci groaned, Katakuri then threw his arm up into the air. His arm stretching to the roof, Luffy was mere inches from the roof of the guargatiun room.
“What are you doing?! LET ME DOWN!!!” Lucci demanded, he tried and failed to get off Katakuri’s arm, the spikes still dug into Lucci. “Damn it! I can’t get down!”
“This is it… Leopard Man…” Katakuri’s eyes turned white, raising his left foot high, he readied himself to slam Lucci down. Katakuri’s right arm began to bu;ge with muscle, his veins began to show as his right arm was becoming bigger than before. Showing that he practices .
Katakuri then slammed his left foot down, and made his right arm go down to the floor, making Lucci go down too. “DAMN IIITTTTT!!!!!” Lucci wailed, and Katakuri then slams Lucci down onto the ground. Making a huge mushroom cloud, the whole room was then covered in dust.
“Gah! MY EYES!!!” Thanos cried out, clutching his eyes.
The dust then clears and they see Katakuri in front of a massive hole, his eyes were red and he was panting. Katakuri then goes to his full height and crosses his arms. “Anyone else?”
Thanos then races to the hole to go check on Lucci. “Lucci!” Thanos cried out, “Lucci are you...O… Oh shit.:” Thanos peaks down the hole and they see Lucci all the way down to the fifth floor where Lucci was, shirtless aboard the Flying Dutchman. Lucci had holes in his body from the spikes on his body, Arlong looked down at Lucci before looking up.
“The fuck man?!” Arlong said, though Thanos couldn’t hear him he read his mouth movements.
“Oh shit, fuck, shit!” Thanos then walks away from the hole and looks up at Katakuri. “Fuck! Shit! Motherfucker!” Thanos then turns around and runs away, “AAAAA!!!!” Thanos screamed from fear.
“The winner of the tournament, ladies and gentlemen.” Link said sarcastically and earned a middle finger from Thanos.
“Run Forrest, run!” Elia jokes, seeing Thanos run like a coward.
Thanos then jumps and hides behind Shiva. “OH SHIT!!!”
But as Shiva rose, her fur already starting to glow ominously… Luco appeared in a burst of fireworks.
“HOLD UP!” He called, before briefly dancing. “Eh…” he sang before stopping. “Alright-alright hang on. Let’s all be real here.” He pointed at Shiva. “This one… is a spoil sport.”
Shiva blinked at him. “Excuse me?” she growled.
“You heard me,” Luco replied. “You didn’t want to play by the rules, and so you copped a hissy fit and tried to put a guy who just wanted a fair fight in an asylum.”
“You’re not wrong,” Thanos pointed out, “Necrozma just wanted to fight a fair battle man, that’s… Pokemon abuse.” Thanos said, snapping his fingers.
Shiva nearly whirled on him, before Luco spoke up again.
“So, how about instead of getting a bunch of bitches that aren’t going to play nice…” Luco grinned towards Katakuri. “I bring back a real fighter. Your old friend - come to think of it, everyone’s friend.”
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Katakuri stood there stoically as fireworks burst behind him, and Blazy Blue stepped out and into the ring.
“Hello, how have you been Ms. Blue?” Katakuri greeted, turning to face Blazy.
“Mm,” Blazy hummed, waving her talon in a ‘so-and-so’ gesture.
“Ah, I see,” Katakuri said, nodding. “So this is my opponent? It is an honor to fight with you, may our battle be one of legend,” Katakuri puts a hand out towards Blazy.
“Mm,” Blazy hummed, taking his hand and shaking it with a grin. Yet, as they shook hands, her eyes shifted from pink to red, and she glowed in preparation for a fight.
Katakuri’s eyes glowed red, using his Future Sight to predict her movements ahead of battle, Katakuri took a step back… And fell in the hole. He then jumped up, his right fist the size of a Giant’s and like before he made his arms square shaped. “Mochi-Mochi… Giant Pistol!” Sending an Armament Haki coated fist towards Blazy, the fist stretched towards the ignis-drake.
Blazy grinned, and sent her own arm out, the limb stretching like rubber, yet colliding with Katakuri’s fist like a tank. Despite not having Armament Haki, Blazy’s fist not only matched Katakuri’s, but it caused a small explosion to rock the arena. When Katakuri’s fist retracted, he saw his fist’s Armament Haki had been replaced with squid ink.
“...Bruh.” That was all Katakuri had to say, Katakuri then screamed and ran past Blazy. He then put a hand on a boulder and ran as his arm stretched. When he was at enough distance, he jumped up and let his body shoot at Blazy. Attempting to crash into the dragon.
Blazy cackled and lifted her arms, catching him in a bear hug. Once again, hitting her produced an explosion, but she still matched up to the mochi-man’s charge. Briefly giving him a hard squeeze, her arms suddenly shattered into explosions again, before she head-butt him hard enough to send him skidding backward several feet. By the time he forced himself to stop, her arms had regrown out of the flames that made up her body. She bent her head low with a seductive purr that suggested she was enjoying this far more than she should, and she charged forward like Armstrong about to box Sloth in FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood.
“To quote a man that has nothing but my respect, ‘Square up!’” Katakuri coats his fists in Armament Haki before turning them back to normal. Katakuri then flies towards Blazy, using Tekkai to increase the force of his attacks. He then threw out a fist to punch the drake.
Blazy rolled at the last second, and matched his fist with her foot. Briefly, they exchanged blows, Katakuri’s fists flying, while Blazy balanced on her tail, and struck with her powerful back legs. After a few brief seconds of fighting - enough for a camera to spin around them once - they both leaped backward. Though when Katakuri glanced at his hand he blinked in surprise when he saw his Armament Haki had been replaced with latex.
“Sorry!” Luco called from the stands. “That’s a side effect of my chaos magic. Here, let me…”
BOOM!
Whatever Luco tried to do only resulted in another explosion, and he was flung out of the arena, while Shiva and Thanos, who were standing near him, were left soot faced and stunned.
“Whaaaaaat the heeeeeellllll?” Shiva whispered.
“Ah yes, I am now Wilber Soot, none of you will get that reference.” Thanos said blankly, “None of you.”
“Well, it’s time to use Tekkai. Tekkai, Go!” His body became hard like a rock, he then slammed his fists together.
“Mm-mm-mm,” Blazy giggled in glee, her own fists glowing white hot and shaking with power as she pounded them against her chest.
“Mochi-Mochi Stamp Gatling!” Jumping into the air, Katakuri stretched his feet out and began to kick at Blazy rapidly. Like a machine gun.
“Mmph,” Blazy grunted as the kicks pulverized her body. Yet, just like Majin Buu against Vegeta, the blows only seemed to please her rather than hurt her. As her body split into flames, tangling in Katakuri’s blows, the flames changed form into snake-like beings, which wrapped around Katakuri’s legs and caught them, getting yanked close to Katakuri’s being. Blazy reformed and caught him with a powerful double-legged kick, knocking him off balance, though he refused to let his back touch the floor, and allowing her to retaliate with a River Dance of Death on his chest; the same one she had utilized against Ryker.
“Get off me!” Katakuri used his Conqueror’s Haki to produce a shockwave, blowing her away. He then ran after her, “First Stance, Fist of the Black Turtle!” He enhanced the blow by covering his fist in Ki, slamming his fist into Blazy’s gut. “Second Stance, Kick of the Vermillion Bird!” Katakuri’s left foot was white with fire, he then slams his foot into Blazy’s chin. “Third Stance, Dance of the White Tiger!” Punching and kicking at Blazy faster than Thanos’ father had left him, punch after punch and kick after kick. He was merciless, “Last Stance…” Katakuri was surrounded by a blue aura. “AZURE DRAGON!!!” Katakuri shot his fists at Blazy, doing a Rokuogan stance, a large blue dragon went through Blazy and came out her other end. Making a huge fifteen meter trench.
Blazy hit the ground tumbling and crashed into the wall at the far end. She writhed and moaned, but, to the collective shock of everyone, she did not sound hurt. If anything she sounded… rather suggestive. Luco suddenly landed next to Katakuri, garbed in BDSM gear.
“For anyone wondering,” Luco said. “She’s saying, ‘Harder, Daddy.’”
“Sus.” Thanos said with vivid concern. Katakuri was wide-eyed.
“This is basically… Is this…? Eh, a fight’s a fight,” Katakuri said with a shrug.
“Mm-HM!” Blazy agreed, rolling so her feet were planted against the wall before she launched forward again. Her teeth bared in a dangerous smile, flames licking at her jaws like tongues.
“Oh, no…” Luco whispered. “Oh, whoa…” he began to run.
“What?” Kodo asked. “What’s she going to do?”
“EVERYBODY DOWN!” Luco screamed. “SHE’S GONNA… SPEAK !”
“NIGERUNDAYOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Thanos then grabbed Entity and Elia and ran behind a rock.
And as Blazy raced at Katakuri, her jaws opened, her vocal chords flexed.
“White Dragon!”
A wall of fire burst from the deepest, darkest parts of her throat, racing like an Azure Dragon right at Katakuri.
Katakuri was hit not only by the White Dragon blast, but he was hit again as Blazy crashed into him again. Her jaws locked around his arms, and her head flexed like a serpent, smashing him into the ground, though even still he didn’t let his back touch the floor, sending him down the other floors.
Briefly, Blazy paused, wincing as she saw Katakuri fall into Davy Jones’ stage.
“Whoops ,” she mumbled, only for another blazing inferno to burst out of her snout and conceal Katakuri from view. She covered her snout with shock, but the damage was done.
In front of her, she found Katakuri's scarf in front of her. Immediately Katakuri bursts from the ground and grabs the scarf and puts it on his face. “Did you see my face?” Katakuri asked, clutching his scarf, pressing it on his face.
Blazy quickly shook her head. “Mm-mm,” she promised.
“Good, Flowing Mochi!” Katakuri touched the ground and a huge wave of mochi swept towards Blazy. Mirroring that of a tsunami. Katakuri surfed on the tsunami with a surfboard that he somehow got. “Surf’s up!”
Blazy hummed. Planting her feet like Asura, she lifted her head and unhinged her jaws again.
“COME ON!” she boomed, and the words, written in what could only be described as exploding stars, crashed against the mochi tsunami. Katakuri was sent soaring through the air as his mochi was stopped dead in its tracks, and Blazy followed up with an uppercut to the chin, and another powerful kick to the gut.
“You seem stressed, how about a hug?” Katakuri then proceeds to bear hug the drake, “And I’m doing that one technique from Naruto that I can’t remember!” Katakuri proceeds to spin as he and Blazy fly down towards the ground. They then crash into the burnt mochi and like all of his skill, make a huge dust cloud.
“Jesus,” Luke mumbled, but Luco just rolled his eyes.
“Blazy, you better not be grinding on him!” Luco chastised. “This is a fight, not a porno!”
Thanos then beat boxes the Pornhub intro.
As the dust cloud cleared, they heard Blazy giggle. Sure enough, she was straddling Katakuri in a very suspicious looking way, her head turned towards Luco like a teenager whose parents had just caught them with their lover.
Shiva huffed and tossed her head. “And you thought I was sus with Arkham Knight?” she growled.
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“SUS!!!” Thanos called out as the Among Us Drip song began to blast at full volume. Link walked over and pulled the cord on the speaker that had suddenly appeared.
“No. NONE of that.” Link said as he appeared to find annoyance with that song. Then it reappeared on the ceiling and began blasting that same song.
“AMOGUS!!!!” Ryker cried out from the intercom.
Blazy giggled, before suplexing Katakuri, and flipping away into a combat stance. She formed another combat stance, trying to wipe the grin off her face.
“WILLOW MOCHI!!!” A thick thread of mochi shot towards Blazy, and wrapped around her. The dust cleared and it revealed Katakuri sticking his leg out. “GET OVER HERE!!!” Katakuri then pulled his leg back, yanking Blazy towards him. Covering his fist in Ryou Haki, Tekkai, Ki, and a Chakra he slammed his fist into Blazy’s face.
Blazy’s jaws unhinged like a snake, and she swallowed his fist entirely. Biting down hard, she ripped off the limb, before pausing. “Mmm?” she whimpered, staring at the severed limb like she had gone too far.
Like the absolute chad that Katakuri is, his Special Paramecia body regenerated the limb, Katakuri then gets up. “Keep the hand,” Katakuri then fixes his scarf, before putting both of his hands on Blazy’s shoulders. He then clenched her shoulders tighty, before throwing his head back and it stretched far, so far that his whole head was merely inches from Luke’s face. “We’ve been trying to reach you about your cave’s extended warranty.”
“Wha-I paid that… how long have I been dead?” Luke turned to Shiva, but before she could answer...
Katakuri’s head then shot towards Blazy, and hit Blazy’s head with his making a huge CRACK.
Blazy’s head exploded in a burst of fireworks. And for a moment, the drake staggered around, a headless body. For a moment, she sank to her knees, almost looking like she was about to keel over. But as Katakuri was about to walk away, her head suddenly shot out of the stump, and head-butt him back just as hard, sending him skidding as she shook residual flames off her regenerated head and whooped, accidentally sending another burst of flames scorching the arena.
“...I’ll need to get the others to clean this up,” Katakuri said, putting a hand on his forehead. He shook his head, loosening his scarf, he then fixed said scarf.
“Hang on,” Luco said, appearing with a broom. “Let’s see if we can’t sweep this whole incident under the rug. Considering I had a stint as a janitor, I can promise you that won’t be a problem.” He cackled as he began sweeping… yet only caused the broom to ignite. He glared at his broom with a sigh. “No one’s going to get either of these references, are they?” he muttered.
“Nope.” Katakuri replied, and like Hulk did to Thor, he slammed his fist into Blazy’s temple, sending her into a rock. Bouncing off the rock like rubber, Blazy kicked back and sent Katakuri into a rock as well.
“Hee-hee,” Blazy tittered, burping up another flame that she quickly suppressed. “Mm… mm-mm,” she corrected.
“Okay, okay,” Katakuri said, walking out of the rock. “It would seem that you deserve this, you are a good fighter and an even better opponent… Is that the same thing?”
“Mm-mm,” Blazy said, once again wagging her talon like, ‘Kinda, but it is what it is.”
“Well, whatever, you shall witness, you’re all going to witness, my second form!” Katakuri declared his voice booming, he then adopted a white aura. With a powering up charge, the whole tower began to shake like a magnitude 10 earthquake was going on. Katakuri’s hair began to go up like he was going Super Saiyan. Then the aura got sucked into Katakuri… They exploded, making a Universe shape, everyone saw mini solar systems.
From the universe they saw a white silhouette, Katakuri then readying his stance.
Blazy started panting with excitement. She clenched her fists, her flames turning white as her red eyes started to turn black. But as she prepared to charge…
“Oh… snap,” Luco said, looking at his watch. “I’m sorry, boys and girls, but we gotta go.”
Blazy turned to him, her jaw dropping in horror. “WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?!” she screamed, bathing him in flames. When the flames cleared, his clothes were all burned off, but he still shook his head.
“I know-I know I feel your pain,” Luco said sadly, cupping Blazy's devastated face. “But we have many important things to take care of.”
“But… But…” Blazy indicated Katakuri’s second form, like that was all the explanation he needed for why this was beyond a bad time.
“Sorry,” Luco said, before glancing at Katakuri. “Actually, wait. I’m a chaos spirit. What do I have to be sorry about?!” He hopped onto Blazy with a cackle.
“No, but… NOOOOO!!!!” Blazy wailed, reaching out for Katakuri. But then Luco snapped his fingers, and they vanished in a burst of fireworks.
“My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.” Katakuri said, turning his form off and looking down at the ground, it then began to storm.
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Rain hit Katakuri’s body as a depressing song began to play. “...She was the only one that pushed me to this form… Other than Ryker… My next form would be my final form... “ Katakuri said, sadness oozing out of his voice.
“No one has made me so happy in a fight. Fighting Ryker is boring but her… I have a question for God…” Katakuri then looked up, he was actually crying. “WHHHHYYYYYYYY!??!!?!?!?!??!?!”
The tower began to shake with his yell of anguish. Katakuri then just stood there and got a bouncy ball, he then threw it, it hit the floor and hit a rock before going back to him. He then repeats the process. “Life is pain… Pain is life…” Katakuri said as he repeated the process over and over again.
“This feeling… Is the same feeling I felt when I realized that my mother had… Abandoned me…” Katakuri said solemnly, “This… This pain… Oh it wounds me…” Katakuri sighed before catching the ball, “Wait, I refuse! She wouldn’t have left me! She’s probably hiding!” Katakuri then picks up rocks and throws them, trying to find Blazy though she is gone. “She’s here! COME ON OUT!!!!” Katakuri then kicks the rocks, making them shatter.
“My man is going through the first stage of Grief.” Entity said, shaking his head.
“DAMN YOU BLAZY!!! WHY COULD YOU LEAVE ME?!!??! Wait… This is Luco’s doing! YOU FUCKING DAFT MOTHERFUCKER!!!” Katakuri then ignites his aura and strikes the ground in anguish.
“Second stage…”
“PLEASE LUCO, GIVE HER BACK!!!! I’ll give you my golden gun! I’ll do anything!” Katakuri bargained, looking at the skies.
“Third stage…”
“Why…?” Katakuri said, his voice muffled as he faced the ground, “Whhhhyyy???” Katakuri sobbed.
“Fourth stage….”
Katakuri then gets up and wipes his tears off, “Okay, I accept it, she left me to fight these fighters. She must be hungry after our fight, I understand..” Katakuri then looked at the fighters, “Who would like to fight me?”
“Don’t look at me, think you’re way out of my league.” Link said with a shrug.
“That’s the last last stage,” Entity said, pointing out to Katakuri.
“...So…” Katakuri mused before walking up to the group and pacing back and forth, “I need someone who can rival me. Which isn’t likely given that I beat Ryker on multiple occasions, I need someone that can… Satisfy me, pause on that. Someone who fights fair, and DOESN’T USE CLONES!!!!” Katakuri glared at Eric.
“Use a Fusion for all I care, I’ll check back in fifteen minutes.” Katakuri then turned into a Donut shaped mochi and rolled away.
“...Fusion..” Link repeated Katakuri’s word. “...Two of you might need to use the earrings, or one of you to weaken and to be on the same level of power as another for the Fusion dance. As far as I know, there aren't many equals here.” Link explained from what he remembers of dragon ball z.
“Except beings like Thanos, Eric, Black, Lucci and… Yeah that’s all.” Elia said, “But there’s also the Fusion Dance.”
“The Fusion Dance requires the person to be at the exact level of power, mind, height, and movements for it to be properly done. If done wrong, you’ll mess up the fusion and you’ll be stuck with whatever messed up being for 30 minutes.” Black explained as he crossed his arms. “It’ll be more wise to use the Potara earrings.”
“Well, you guys discuss it, I’ll sit here and watch.” Thanos said, getting a bucket of Fried Chicken, he hands it to Kodo before getting another one. “...Is Lucci still down there?”
Kodo peered over the side. “I think so,” he said, before Shiva gasped.
“Guys, look!” she exclaimed.
The others followed her gaze; a door was open at the far end. The exit to the final floor.
“We can go through!” Shiva cheered. “Come on!” She seized her pack mates and sprinted for the door
“Now you listen here buckarooskee!” Katakuri then jumped in front of the door, “You ain’t goin’ nowhere! Until one of y’all satisfy my lust for a good fight!”
Shiva’s fur started to glow… before a shriek sounded from the hole Lucci had punched down. Someone was flung up into the ceiling.
Kodo blinked up at the person that had just been embedded in the ceiling. “Is that… that’s not Lucci.”
It was Luco. The chaotic monkey man groaned as he slowly peeled off the ceiling and plummeted down after Lucci
“OH NIGGA!!!” Lucci cried out, as he got hit by Luco.
“KATAKURI!” a familiar voice bellowed, producing a ball of flames.
“Ms. Blue?!” Katakuri said, turning to face Blazy.
Shiva wisely slunk away as the ignis-drake reformed from the flames, and lifted her head, her red eyes glittering with happiness.
“No one has ever managed to fight me on this level,” Blazy said, fire swirling around her as she spoke. “No one has even managed to hear me SPEAK without getting hurt.” She re-formed her combat stance. “Luco may be my father. I have obeyed his every chaotic order without question. But I will not obey him on this one.” Her wings and talons spread like Freeza or Cooler, as her flames condensed and turned white like stars. “Our fight is not over.”
“Indeed!” Katakuri cried out, going to his Ultimate Transformation, “I feel the same way Ms. Blue, I have never fought someone who can push me to this level other than Ryker! You are the first one that I want to go all out on, you are truly a worthy opponent!” Katakuri then pulls out his blade, Wailing Dark. “Let us engage in our ultimate battle!”
“Yes,” Blazy agreed, a saber of light forming in her own talons. “Let our battle rearrange the cosmos. Let our cries of war be heard by every man, woman and child in the multiverse!” With a battlecry, Katakuri and Blazy flew at each other. And a single blow produced an explosion that hid the fighters from view, and decimated the walls of the arena. Every fighter could feel the energy emanating from the two fighters.
Thanos proceeded to run up the stairs dragging Lucci, Entity and Elia up them. “Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope!” Thanos said, his voice fading away as he distanced himself.
“So much nope!” Shiva agreed, dragging Luke, Kodo, and all the other fighters by her links as she practically raced Thanos up the stairs. “Come on, everyone,” Shiva howled.
“TIME TO LEAVE!” Black shouted as he grabbed Luna Black and flew to the exit and up the stairs.
“DON’T FORGET US MY BRUDDAS!!!!!” Elae cried out, running up the stairs, Lord Twigo however stayed behind.
“Master Twigo!” Kodo cried.
“GO ON MY FRIENDS!!!!” Lord Twigo roared, “MY TIME HAS COME!!! You must best Ryker on your own, I am a Commander, and I can not assist you in your cause. I came as far as I did to see you grow, Kodo, I wish you good luck on your journey.” Lord Twigo said, holding a hand to his chest like a CHAD.
His ears flattened in sadness, but Kodo copied Lord Twigo’s motion, before Shiva’s link dragged him up the stairs and out of sight.
They were all close but they didn’t realize… They were still so very far...
To Be Continued...
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
It’s a Trap!
As the Displaced walked up the stairs they found trophies on the walls, the bloody chain of Beerus’ collar for instance.
“...Poor man,” Elia said, wincing at the collar.
As they walked up they spotted a scroll, Thanos recognized it as the one from Dragon Ball Xenoverse. “...Anyone wanna see this?”
“No,” Shiva said firmly, walking firmly ahead.
“Another time” Eric said moving on
“Maybe later. The sooner we get this done, the sooner we can return home. I’m going to take a nice warm shower, have a good meal, sleep with my sweet Luna, and spend time with my daughter. This whole adventure has been an off and on deathtrip for us all.” Link said as he walked past Thanos.
Black spotted the scroll after Thanos, walking up to it with a raised brow. “Might as well, go for it Thanos.” Black said with a wave of a hand.
Thanos looked at Black before nodding and opening the scroll.
The scroll shows Black flying down Eliatopia, everything was burning and there were corpses of his friends littered everywhere. He clenched his teeth.
“Thanos, what did you do?” Black growled, anger in his voice, he was then shot down by light, causing him to hit the ground. From the dust cloud that surrounded him he saw eleven red eyes,when the dust cleared it revealed Thanos in front of the commanders.
“Why are you doing this? You're our friend! Look what you've done to everyone!” Black cried out, putting his hand to his right, revealing Shiva’s corpse. There was more corpses lying about, Eric’s, Link’s, Phoenix’s, and even Kodo’s.
“You know why,” Thanos said, taking a step forward. “It’s all because of you, you’re a Saiyan with no limits, each and every day you break a limit. Becoming one step closer to a Void Dweller, what happens when you’re the strongest? What happens then?” Thanos said, raising an eyebrow.
“I…” Black didn’t have time to finish, all of the commanders, including Lord Twigo got in a running position.
Thanos was grinning, the Commanders were all covered in Dark Ki, including him. When their eyes flashed red he gave out an order, “Let’s go!”
“Right!” The Commanders said and all of them flew after Black, with his eyes widened he went into a blocking position. Though, with Arkham Knight’s new suit, he pushed Black into rubble, making his block for naught. Black was then uppercut in his chin by Bullet, sending him to the skies. Lord Twigo and Zabuza swung their swords at Black, he then pushed the two awar with his aura.
“Hrah!” Black cried out, Katakuri then cut off his robotic arm, Black looked at the arm in horror as it fell down. He was then kicked by Akainu, sending him into the ground. Thanos then appeared before Black and gave him a punch to the face, sending him upwards.
“Ka…” Thanos then cups his hands, grinning evilly, “Me… Ha… Me…”Thanos then releases the destructive Ki wave. “HAAA!!!!” The wave shot towards Black, doing his best to block it but failing miserably. With a scream of pain the Ki wave detonated, leaving a big dust cloud. The Commanders begin to laugh.
“BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!” Thanos laughed as well, the scroll then focuses on the corpse of Lucci.
Thanos looked at the scroll, “I uh… Totally didn’t plan on that if things went to shit,” Thanos said, “Totally…”
Luke had covered Kodo and Kubfu’s eyes, backing away. “I’m gonna… uh…” Luke quickly pushed the younger members of his pack after Shiva.
Black looked down at the scroll with a blank look, Luna Black walked up and put a hand on his shoulder. “Thanos, you wouldn’t do such a thing… right?” Black asked, his voice being unreadable.
“I…” Thanos was cut off as the scroll shook.
The scroll reveals Black standing in a forest and mountain area. His metal arm is nowhere to be seen. He was battered and bloodied, blood dripped from his mouth, eye, and head. And I mean a lot, his other arm wasn't good either. It looked like it's been burned. He was then met with a kick, sending him flying into the trees. He was then elbowed into some rocks before a being grabbed his leg and threw him up. The being followed after him and kicked into a mountain, making a crater. Black coughed some blood out and wheezed. Then someone lands next to him… A certain purple Titan.
Thanos looked down at Black, bloodied and bruised. His arms were covered in blood but not his. Black slowly looked up at Thanos.
"This wouldn't have happened if you just followed Ryker's plan. Join the commanders, we'll be unstoppable!" Thanos said, raising his bloodied gauntlet fist. Black then struggled to get up and sluggishly took a stance.
"I… I'll st… stop y-you…" Black said, trembling due to his legs not being able to work properly after a beating. Thanos clenched his fists in anger and punched the injured man onto the ground. Black pathetically hit the ground with a thud, he was in a Yamcha laying pose. Black then goes on his back and faces Thanos.
"Fine then, what's a few months?" Thanos said, raising his fist and punching Black in his face. It was enhanced with Ryou Haki for his arms were now coated in it. "I could always get another comrade," Thanos then begins to punch Black in his face over and over again. Blood spilling out Black's head, knocking his teeth out, making him spew blood. Both of his eyes were black ones. The punches made an echo so loud that the trees were getting knocked over due to the shockwaves.
"Oh dear…" Elia said, holding a hand to her mouth.
"Welp, good thing I packed this just in case," Entity said, getting a bucket out. He then proceeds to barf inside of it.
Thanos continued to wail on Black, punching him over and over again. Non stop, Thanos then hesitates on a punch. Seeing Black's face, he then closes his eyes and growls. Thanos then gets up and looks to the skies. Black was still breathing albeit barely, each breath a squirt of blood went out. There was a deafening silence.
Thanos then clenches his fists as he looks down at Black, conflicted. Thanos then groans and glares down at Black. "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can cause everyone to die. Think, Black. You're a Saiyan, you crave combat, you'll fight until you make your planet crumble to dust and blow away! EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING YOU KNOW FOR WILL BE GONE!!!" Thanos said, his eyes red and tinted with anger. "What happens when you're the strongest? What will you have left?!"
Black couldn't open his eyes, Black with his knocked out teeth and chipped ones spoke. "...Y… You Thanos… I'd ha… have you…" Black said weakly. Thanos then looks at Black.
"..." Thanos then looks at his hands and clenches them. "...I'll do what I must…" Thanos then pulls out his Infinity Blade, then proceeds to raise it high over his head.
Thanos then stabs the blade next to Black's Thanos then clenches his teeth. He couldn't do it, he couldn't kill anymore of his friends.
"...Thanos…?" Black said, wondering if he was still there.
Thanos then clenches his fists until the point blood was dripping from his non gauntlet fist. "... Errggh.. RAAAAAGGHHH!!!!" Thanos shouted in frustration and he flew off, leaving Black there, alone and helpless, slowly bleeding to death.
“...I... “ Thanos then shuts the scroll and drops it, “Let’s move on.” Thanos then walks up the stairs.
Black didn’t move as he stared at the scroll, the images replaying in his mind. He picked up the scroll, before the scroll began to glow red, slowly being consumed by flames. As it turned to ashes, he turned away and went up the stairs with a blank look.
“Let’s ignore that my bruddas! We r so close!” Elae stated before climbing up the stairs, it was kind of a struggle, he was a small boi.
“What’s hold up? Come on.” Link said as he gestured his arm around.
Shiva, on the other hand, had taken the lead. Her motherly instincts were going wild, and her fear for the pack was almost overwhelming. Anyone close to her felt their hearts speed up as her fear and paranoia washed over them, and it was all they could do to keep up with her.
As they made their way up, they saw a picture of Shiva and her family and another one of the corpses of everyone but Black and Thanos. There was another one next to it that had Ryker, Thanos, and the commanders. Written in blood above them read, “What Could Be.”
Black stared at the photo before raising his hand and vaporizing the picture with a ki blast.
When black vapourized the attack they all heard the spine chilling laughter of Ryker. “Eghehehehehehe….” The laugh echoed.
Shiva slowed to a stop, her tail tucking as hesitation overcame her. Luke came up next to her.
“You okay?” he asked.
Shiva chuckled humorlessly. “Our daughter’s up ahead, Luke,” she said. “I can feel it. But the others…” she shook her head. “I can only sense Grievous. And…”
“General Grievous?” Kodo asked, looking ahead with worry. “I-Is he alive?”
“OH GOD THERE’S TWO OF THEM!!!! THIS WAS A BAD IDEA!!!!” Ryker cried out ahead, making Thanos quicken the pace. As he passed by Shiva, Shiva quickly sent out a link to him and the others.
“..Two?” Link asked in confusion as he quickened the pace.
“Stay together, everyone,” she said, her voice struggling to sound confident. “Ryker may be strong, but we are many. That has to tip the balance… somehow…”
“Ex-nah on the balance-nah” Link whispered to Shiva.
“Balance…?” Thanos said, squinting his eyes at Shiva.
They then see a door up ahead, on that door was the Irish flag. Thanos then clenched his fist, coating it in Armament Haki, he punched the door off its hinges. Sending the door flying and causing it to hit a wall, getting out his sword readied for battle only to find Ryker playing Subnautica. Fighting two Reaper Leviathans with his Prawn Suit.
Link let out a groan at how casual Ryker sat as if his life wasn't in actual danger.
Ryker looked back at Thanos, “Oh hello Thanos, how are you?” Ryker said, waving at him. “I’m currently fighting two Reaper Leviathans, wanna watch?”
“What the…” Thanos said, he looked around, he saw no blood, no gore, no anything.
Shiva stepped forward. “My daughter,” she said. “Celine. I could sense her. Is she…?”
“Oh she’s fine, she’s on the Galaxy Sized meteor, don’t worry, it has an atmosphere. I even gave her company! An Iron Golem is just chilling there with her,” Ryker said, with a smile.
“Check it out,” Luco added, suddenly appearing with a burst of fireworks, though he still looked peeved about Blazy. With a snap of his fingers, a portal gun appeared in his hand, and he fired it at the ground before Shiva.
Shiva’s whole body relaxed in relief as she saw her daughter, playing a game of chess with the iron golem.
“Celine!” Shiva said in relief, catching the younger wolf’s attention.
“Mom!” Celine stammered, getting up. “W-What happened? What’s going on?”
Shiva looked up at Ryker. “Why’d you take her?” she whispered. “What did she…?”
“I didn’t do anything!” Ryker said, laughing at her, he found it all funny. They were ready to throw down but they saw Ryker chilling.
“He’s right,” Luco said. “I did.”
Shiva glared at the monkey man. “You?” she demanded. “Do you have any idea what you’ve done?”
Luco glanced down at Celine. “Uh… reunited a family?” he asked. Indeed, Luke had gone down into the portal, and he and Celine were having a very heartfelt reunion.
“My universe’s diamond dogs run on the pack link,” Shiva insisted. “If all of us are here… who’s keeping my dog’s technology and economy in check?”
Luco chuckled. “They are.” He pointed, and the group turned. What looked like some sort of argonian from skyrim, but with a wider snout that made it resemble a crocodile, had appeared behind them, with grassy-green scales and glazed brown eyes. She was smoking a joint, and briefly glanced at the fighters before her, before glancing back at her weed.
“This that good shit,” the creature noted, before taking another puff.
“The heck is that?” Kodo asked.
“What Three Tails calls a ‘terra-drake,’” Luco replied. “Pretty much an earth dragon, which means they can get diamonds and jewels even quicker than your precious pack link could. They’re quite fascinating when you think about it…”
But Thanos ran out of patience with Luco. Throwing his sword at the monkey man - though he ducked and let it hit the TV - Thanos grabbed Ryker by his head. He then slams it on the ground.
“Why are you acting so damn casual about this?!” Thanos asked, Ryker just winced and rubbed his head.
“I’d like to know the same thing. I don’t trust this whole piece of Deku Scrub,” Link said as he walked up behind Thanos.
“Is it not obvious?” Luke asked.
“Never start with the head, it gets the victim all fuzzy…” Ryker said, Thanos then stomps on Ryker’s hand. Ryker just looked up, “See?”
“Answer my question!” Thanos demanded, Ryker just laughed at Thanos.
“Because I don’t feel threatened!” Ryker answered, everyone paused.
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“Why don’t you feel threatened?! We have you outnumbered, we can kill you!” Thanos said.
“I don’t know about that, fellas,” Luco replied, taking the terra-drake’s joint and smoking it. “Blazy Blue’s a little too busy to save your asses this time.”
“Blazy Blue?” the terra-drake asked. “She’s here too?” She took out another joint and lit it. “How about that.”
Ryker then gets up to his feet. “Eghehehe! Did you guys honestly think I was up here all along?” Ryker tilted his head, but the surprised look on everyone’s faces answered for him. “OH MY GOD!!! EGHEEHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! You guys are stupid!” Ryker said, clapping, “I’M NOT EVEN REAL!!! I’M A CLONE!! EYEHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!”
“....A clone..” Link’s right eye twitched. “A clone?” he repeated. “A. FUCKING.CLOONE?!” Link yelled. “I’ve had enough with this whole hylian damned meme filled reality breaking cesspool of total flying pottery!” Link said as a golden gauntlet equipped to his right hand, then slamming his fist into the nearby wall to leave a hole- wait.. That hole looks bigger than what Link usually punches. By Black’s ki senses, he’d notice a blue ki swirling around Link’s shoulders, the ki was being triggered by Link’s anger, his face was absolutely seething with anger, the kind where someones had enough of your crap.
Shiva’s tail tucked. “That warning I got… the sense…” she whispered. Kodo’s eyes darted between them.
“W-Where’s General Grievous?” The young pup growled. “A-And Nappa?”
“Maud?” Shiva whispered. “Nox?”
“Where are they Ryker?” Eric asked his shadows falling over his body
“HEAHAHAHA!!! You’ll have to find out! I won’t say anything!” Ryker then ‘zips’ his lips. Link pulled his arm back to give Ryker a fierce punch across the clone’s jaw.
Black’s eyes widened as he began to tremble, his body violently shaking. He clenched his fists as small rocks began to break from the floor and rise around him. The blue Alicorn took notice of this as she put a hand on the Saiyans shoulder. “Black, calm down.”
“WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM!!!” Thanos demanded grabbing onto Ryker and slamming him into a wall.
“EVERYTHING!!!! EYEYEHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!” Ryker cackled, he was then punched in the face by Thanos making him hit the ground followed by a strong swift low kick by Link to Clone Ryker’s face.
Black let out a primal roar as it echoed throughout the tower, overshadowing the Royal voice. Black charged towards a wall and punched it, shattering the bick as it showed the outside. When Entity went out… He immediately got old and went inside.
“The spell is still there.” Entity said, looking down at the tower.
At the same time, Kodo got his pack link around Ryker’s neck.... And he saw the battle. What Grievous had been put through. Luffy, Maud, Nox and Nappa.
“No…” Kodo whispered, backing up. “No!”
“Kodo, get back!” Shiva insisted. “Luke, you and Celine stay in there!”
“Not gonna question it,” Luke said.
“Why?” Celine asked. “What’s…” she quickly went silent as Shiva linked to her, revealing everything they had gone through.
“HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!” Ryker cackled, “You best be believing in horror stories Kodo…” Ryker then grew in size, “YOU’RE IN ONE!!! EYEHEHEHEHEHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!” Ryker then disappeared in a puff of smoke, enveloping everyone in it.
“I hope you burn in the deepest pits of Death mountain!” Link yelled out.
When the smoke clears… They found themselves back where they started… On the entrance to the tower.
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And what they saw…
“Teeth-for-Days’ fangs,” the terra-drake swore. “What in Tartarus happened to this place?”
Even Luco could do nothing but shake his head. “God…” he whispered in utter horror.
Eliatopia burned, and corpses littered the arena. The first corpse they saw was Blake, he was lying there on his chest. Multiple threads stabbed through him, he was trying to reach the tower. Elia put a hand on her mouth and looked down at Blake.
“Blake…?” Elia whimpered, going down to knee level she then pulled his head up to look at his face and saw half his face burnt off.
“In Faust's name…” Eric whispered looking around
“Is that…?” Thanos said, looking towards the corpses of the Elemental Dragons, they saw a primal and more draconic version of Arthur lying there dead. They all had a huge gash on their bodies, like a giant claw.
The terra-drake gazed at Arthur’s body with shock. She gripped the ground, causing rocks to grow around her as she shivered at the sight of the dead dragon.
“Ryola, Jasmyn?” Elia ran forth, and saw their corpses immediately as she was stepping on them. Letting on a shriek she scrambled backwards, the two twins lay there in each others arms, dead. “No…” Elia went to her knees and began to sob, Thanos walked forth and put a hand on her shoulder.
“I’m… Sorry little one, we could have prevented this but we were all… I… Was stupid.” Thanos said with a sigh, looking down at Elia he took a step forth. And stepped on a chest plate, taking a step back he saw… “BLACK!!! LUNA!!! Get over here, I think you might wanna see this!”
The Alicorn and Saiyan ran to the Titan to see what he was calling for, but as they saw the chest piece, the Saiyan’s heart dropped. It was Nightmare’s...
Black picked up the chest piece as all sound seemed to become void. The beating of his heart was all he could hear as he stared at the crescent moon chest piece. As he clenched the piece of armorn, letting out a cry of rage.
Shiva could only stare at the destruction in dumbfounded horror. “W-Why?” she whimpered, gently touching Arthur’s claw. “These were his subjects… they all had… so much to share…”
“He doesn't see them like that,” Eric said through gritted teeth. “He’s just like Umbra. In every way.”
A straw hat flew towards Shiva, when she caught it she saw it burnt and covered in blood. Her claws trembled, and she held the hat to her chest as Luke hesitantly rested his claw on her shoulder, his other claw trying to shield Celine’s eyes.
“G-General Grievous?” Kodo whispered, sniffing through the carnage. “General!”
“This way!” Thanos then snapped his head towards the location the hat was flung, as he ran he saw Brute’s axe in his corpse. Grab’s head on a pike, and Light… Stabbed with thousands of threads.
“W-w..” Link gulped down a thick amount of Saliva. “No.. N-no..” Link said as he dropped against his knees. “L-Light..” he said softly as sadness and pain swelled up inside of him, only for it to turn to rage. Slowly stepping back up to his feet, the golden triforce glowly at its brightest, Master sword drawn and blazing brightly with the power of the Light Arrow. “..I’ve had enough of this forsaken place.” Link said as he gripped the sword’s handle. “Let’s find Ryker and end this now,” he said.
Shield had a massive hole in his body. Thanos skidded to a halt as he saw Luffy, his back against a wall and a gash where his rib would be. Thanos approached Luffy.
“None of them deserve this fate,” Sombra said tightening the grip on his swords hilt
“L...Luffy…?” Thanos said, looking at Luffy, Luffy then shot up and punched Thanos in his face. Sending him into the ground.
“RYKER!!!!” Luffy cried out, he then fell on his face before getting up. “WHERE ARE YOU, YOU BASTARD?!??!” Luffy roared, turning to his left and his right, he saw Thanos as he got up. “Where have you been? It’s been three days since you’ve been on that tower.” Luffy said weakly.
“Three days? It’s been three?!” Thanos said, pulling back.
“Wait, days? How!? It feels like we’ve been down there for hours!” Link asked in disbelief.
“The challenges… the fights…” Shiva gagged. “We wasted so much time while this was happening!”
“I-It’s okay, Shiva,” Luke tried to say. “W-We couldn’t have known!”
“But I DID!” Shiva almost screamed, hyperventilating in horror. “I knew something was off, and I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING!”
“Kodo, Kodo, I need to tell you something,” Luffy said, wobbly.
“What?” Kodo demanded, racing to Luffy’s side. “Who else is alive?”
Luffy then leaned on the Diamond Dog. “Grievous… is alive, I’ve been hearing his screams of pain for two days! He’s the only one left… I…” Luffy then drops limp, his body hitting the floor with a thud.
“The… only… one?” Eric said in shock.
His crew, His friends, his princess. All dead. Anger welled within the Shadow Man causing his powers to become erratic and become dangerously lethal to those around him, moving quick Eric place on his skull mask. However the mask shattered like glass, there was no quelling the Shadow Man’s anger. Eric’s eyes soon shifted to his signature red and black.
“No-no-no-no-no-nO-NO-NO-NO!” Shiva growled, lunging forward and wrapping her link around Luffy. “I am saving someone ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!”
“Gather up… A...ll o...ff the crew…. It’s time to ship out… Bink’s brew...” Luffy’s life fades away with a smile.
Undeterred, Shiva started using her pack link like a defibrillator. “Damnit, COME ON!” Shiva screamed, but Luffy was unresponsive.
“I sense his ki, but it's fading, grab onto me!” Black said as he put two fingers to his hand, holding a hand out.
Then a huge migraine swept Black, then a chilling voice said. “Oh no, no, no… You get to see EVERYONE!!!” The migraine intensified and it was like Ryker himself was strangling his brain.
The Saiyan growled in pain before letting out a mighty roar, bursting into Super Saiyan. “GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!” Black roared as the ground around him shattered. Moments later, Nightmare’s presence became known.
“EYEHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!” Ryker roared in a fit of laughter, the migraine fought back against Nightmare. “I’ll always be here, in your dreams, your memories, ALWAYS!!!”
“Thanos, go to the main path, there’s got to be survivors. I’m going to stay here and search for what I can! Goddesses, please let there be someone alive around here.” Link said as he ran off to search.
Thanos then races out to the main path while being followed by Eric, then seeing Nox’s corpse, trying to reach his family. His hand out towards them and his own blade stuck in his back. Gasping at the sight he turned around and saw Rainbow Dash, dead as well. Her wings were ripped off and she was completely bald, a huge gash across her face, making it barely recognizable.
“Rainbow!!” Eric said, dropping in front of her.
“No… No, no! This is wrong…” Thanos then looks at a burnt house and on that lawn was Erebus on a cross, his trucker hat still on him. There was a sign that read ‘Punishment’
“Erebus!” Thanos cried out, ”Still rocking the trucker hat so that’s good.” Thanos pointed out jokingly, trying to make light of the darkness that surrounds them.
Hearing the Titan’s words Eric became angered to the point he almost attacked his ally. “This isn’t the time for your jokes, Than…” Eric began before hearing something
They all heard a beeping sound, Lucci, who followed Thanos, saw Nappa’s corpse in front of him. “Nappa…” Lucci couldn’t help it anymore and began to cry, “No….” Entity looked down at Nappa and went to his knees.
What they saw next… Was Maud, stabbed by threads from all angles and standing up.
“No….” Eric uttered, falling to his knees. “She’s already lost her father, now she’s lost her older sister?” Eric said as an image of Pinkie Pie flashed across his mind. “Dammit!!”
Eric slammed his hand into the ground causing spiderweb cracks to form. “Why! All this power? All this strength? Why? Why can't I protect anyone!”
“Maud?” Kodo whispered, edging closer to her body. As he checked her over, he lowered his head. “Dad, do not let Shiva come near…”
Shiva’s howl of agonized grief reminded Kodo too late of his link.
“...Here,” Kodo finished pathetically.
Then, a piece of a cape of a familiar General landed on Kodo’s snout. Kodo ripped it off, before smelling it. His ears perking, he began to trace the scent, moving past the corpses and to where Ryker was holding the General.
They were all interrupted as Black let out a roar of pain as he bursted into Super Saiyan God.
“Whatever you say… Monkey…” Ryker then faded away. Black fell to his knees as he let out heavy breaths, holding a side of his head. Black let out a grunt as he stood up.
“Come on, let's go! We know where Grievous is at!” Thanos then raced after Kodo, “COME ON!!!” The Displaced, like a group, ran to where Kodo was going, like policemen following a tracker dog. Suddenly, they all stopped in their tracks, none of them could move and there was a clock enchanted below them. They couldn’t move their legs, feet, arms, they couldn’t move anything but their faces.
“Eghehehehehe….” They all hear the laugh of the genocidal maniac, “Looky here Grievous.” They all saw Grievous hit the ground with a thud, he had two arms, and his other two were ripped out. His helmet was bent and his cape was charred, Grievous then tries to get up only for Ryker to appear and stomp on him. Burying his head into the ground. “People have come to save you,” Ryker reached down and grabbed Grievous by his head and raised it, making Grievous able to see them. “Isn’t that nice?”
“Grievous…” Kodo struggled not to whimper.
“Grievous!” Thanos and his boys cried out.
“Why did you come for me? You should have ran,” Grievous wheezed out before Ryker threw him aside and made him hit the ground.
“We don’t abandon out friends,” Eric said rising to his feet magic and shadow engulfing his body
“D’aww! The widdle boy is gonna cry!” Ryker said, looking up at Kodo, “I need two more sacrifices and I can make a portal to the Dark Realm. Two. More. One for Grievous… And one for who pisses me off.”
“Hrah!” Grievous shot up and tried to punch Ryker in his face, only for Ryker to catch his arm. He then tears it off, Grievous lets out a scream of pain before hitting the General in his gut.
“Since I’m a nice guy, I’ll let you say your last words to them.” Ryker said taking a step back, Grievous then got up. Looking at Ryker before looking at Thanos.
“John…. We’ve been through a lot together, we fought together, lived together, and ate together. We laughed, cried, and were with each other through thick and thin. You said we’ll always be together but… This is the end. Tell the others… I said goodbye.” Grievous said, putting a hand on Thanos’s shoulder.
“I… I will…” Thanos said, solemnly. Grievous turned over to Kodo.
“Kodo,” Grievous began moving towards Kodo, “When I first saw you I knew you were someone special. You have great potential, and I believe that even one day, we can fight evenly. Though, it seems like we won’t be able to cross blades, when we fought Rubilax together… It was the first time I connected with someone who wasn’t a part of The Boys. Well Kodo, I now grant you the rank of Boy, oh and remember. I’ll always be in-” Grievous was cut off as Ryker grabbed Grievous’ metal heart, his hand shot through him. Ryker held his heart in front of Kodo, Grievous gasped for air.
Kodo grimaced, but refused to let Ryker see his despair. His pack link crackled, making him look like a storm.
“GRIEVOUS!!!!” Thanos roared, he then tried to release himself from his trap.
“Oof size… large…” Grievous then fell on his back, lying there dead. Ryker then laughed and crushed Grievous’ heart.
“EYEHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Looks like that robot did have a heart!” Ryker laughed.
“Bastard!!” Eric charged the Vile King using the Shave Technique only to be smacked into the tower.
“Why…” Shiva breathed, her eyes glazing over as her mind seemed to break. “Why…”
“For my daughter, one more death and all of this can be over. I offer you a choice, Shiva, save your family or die with your friends.” Ryker said, getting in the face of Shiva, “Run away with your tails tucked between your legs or die with your… Friends.”
Shiva didn’t even seem to notice him. She stared ahead like a woman who’s mind had been utterly broken.
“Mom…” Celine whispered, shaking her head, but Luke hushed her. But no one noticed him stuffing a familiar fruit into his daughter’s mouth.
“Tick tock the clock is ticking!:” Ryker held a blade to Elia’s neck. “Answer Shiva! Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, TICK… tock?
He blinked as a flicker of light coursed from Shiva’s form and twined around his waist. In front of him was… Nora. Complete. Safe. But… her face was streaked with tears.
“Why, Daddy?” she whispered. “All this death. All this destruction. I’m not worth it.”
“N-Nora…” Ryker said, approaching the Irish Princess, “You are worth it.”
But Nora didn’t seem to hear him. “I’m not worth it… I’m not worth it…” she continued to chant it even as her flesh melted off her bones, dissolving Ryker’s hands as he tried to hold her, despite his durability.
“NO!!!! DON’T LEAVE ME!!!!!” Ryker cried out, hugging himself. “YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE I HAVE!!!!”
Ryker snapped out of Shiva’s vision just in time to feel his feet leave the ground. As he looked around, he noticed everything was rising into the air. Corpses, buildings, and himself. His eyes darted to Celine, who was convulsing in Luke’s arms, the remains of the Fuwa Fuwa No Mi at her paws.
As he realized what was happening, the ground underneath him suddenly turned into vines, which wrapped around his body with intent to crush bones. Further away, the terra-drake Luco had summoned was glaring at Ryker, her glazed brown eyes sharper and slit-pupiled.
“What are you doing?” Luke demanded. “This isn’t your fight!”
“It is the sacred duty of the Knights of Drake to protect humanity from any and all threats,” the terra-drake declared, her fist slowly closing as the vines pressed down on Ryker with crushing force. “I’ll admit, it feels weird to crush a human. But with all the blood on this freak’s hands… I’m willing to make an exception.”
Ryker merely laughed and ripped the vines apart. But he couldn’t rip away the pack link that had stabbed into his heart. For in the eyes of Shiva, Ryker did not see the kind and sweet diamond dog he had witnessed in the tournament. He instead saw a demon. Someone who had been pushed so far beyond rage and frustration that she had come right back around to a tranquility that was offset by razor sharp focus and determination. Determination to deal back every ounce of damage he had done to them.
Ryker felt his magic drain into her, before his clock magic popped like a cork. Shiva’s links spiraled out to seize the other fighters, and her voice lifted in a howl.
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“EYEHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!” Ryker roared in laughter before getting his fists ready, jumping back for some breathing room as Shiva rose into the air like an Avatar of Vengeance. “Come at me, beasties!”
To Be Continued…
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
The Final Battle Begins!
Ryker was surrounded by his enemies, they weren’t the biggest army but they had strength. And like an army, if you cut off it’s head, it will collapse, Ryker’s eyes laid upon Thanos. With a devilish grin, Ryker shot towards the Titan, covering his fist in Armament Haki. Thanos did the same and their fists clashed, though to everyone's surprise, Thanos was crushed under Ryker’s strength almost immediately. Ryker then looked upon the others, his eyes darting between Black, Eric, Link, the so-called Terra-Drake, Lucci, the diamond dogs and… even Luco, who held a grenade and a baseball bat with a maniacal grin. Ryker then turns his body into Plasma, which the Sun radiates, and bounces off of thin air. He then shoots himself at Black, covering his foot in plasma.
“Plasma Kick!” Ryker sends a devastating kick to Black’s gut, forcing him to spit out saliva in a Dragon Ball like fashion before the force of the attack sent him flying into some rubble. Ryker then moved on to Eric and shot himself around him, bouncing along the air and making a Plasma Trail. Ryker then stops moving, the plasma surrounding Eric. “Plasma Cage!” Ryker then forces the plasma bars to close in on Eric, and the heat plus the light of the attack causes massive damage on the Shadow Man. Now onto the Hylian, Ryker then gets two pistols out and loads them with plasma. He then shoots around Link, as Link pondered why Ryker was missing purposely he found himself surrounded by aerial Ki mines.
“Boom!” Ryker said with a twisted smile on his face, firing a plasma bolt at the Ki mine causing a massive explosion, onto the Terra Drake. Using what he knows so far he assumed that she controlled the forces of nature, given what her race is and what attack she pulled on him. “Eight Impacts Fist Secret Technique: Drill Dragon Drill Nail!” Slamming his leg into the ground he made an Earthquake that shattered the ground beneath the Terra-Drake.
As the explosion cleared, Link had Nayru’s Love up to protect himself from harm, however it did stop the hylian from being launched.
“Hey, NO!” the terra-drake boomed, instantly quieting the ground. “Bad earth. You calm down.”
Though the earthquake was calmed, it’s damage still caused most to seek salvation in the air. Using his Ito Ito No Mi and his awakened prowess, Ryker touched the floor. The buildings around him turned into thousands of threads, each were sharp and had Armament Haki to enhance the attack. He then fires off thousands of these at everyone.
Link, in a quick movement of desperion, raised his Hylian Shield, equipped his Golden Gauntlets, and activated the strength boost enchant of his armor, to block the shards, forcing the hylian back into a skid.
“Tch,” Spinning his Infinity Blade Thanos begins to deflect the attacks, Elia smartly hides behind Thanos during all of this. Elia helped the Titan out, using her Eliatrope abilities to make a shield behind him, protecting Elia and Thanos.
“Ryker’s taking advantage of our weaknesses,” Entity pointed out, making a firewall and trying to incinerate the flames only for the threads to pierce through it. Flying into the air, Entity spun his scythe around and began to deflect the attacks. Lucci assisted his comrade byd kicking them away. “We need to figure out the weaknesses he’s taking advantage of and try our best to overcome it!”
“Hm, it would seem you ARE sharp.” Ryker said with a smile, Ryker then began to make Shadow Clones using his Chakra, the Shadow Clones flew at Shiva and her allies. Ready for the kill.
“Shark on Darts!” The clones cried out, they all had sharp teeth, akin to Arlongs and they spun around as they approached the family. Thanos however was having NONE of that, flying towards the clones and drop kicking them.
“Netsu-Netsu, Heat Wave!” Clapping his hands akin to the Hulk he sent a devastating wave of heat and burnt the clones to a crisp, “You’re welcome.” Thanos said before flying off and getting punted across the area by Ryker. Link gave the purple man a thumbs up.
“Come on ye bilge rats, come at me!” Ryker taunted, doing a little tap dance. “Or are ye too scared?”
Link cringed at the dancing. “Feels like I’m fighting Majora’s Incarnation..” Link said as he louded an arrow into his bow, empowering it with Light, taking aim at Ryker, and letting the Light Arrow Loose.
“Severing Shadow!” A X shaped shadow blade was sent at the King only to be evaded by Ryker.
“Too slow, Shadow Boy .” Firing off an X shaped Plasma slash towards Eric, it was the same as his ‘Severing Shadow’ but far superior. Eric could feel the heat as it got closer to him, like he was approaching the sun.
Raising his arms he created a barrier of shadow around himself, as the plasma burned through his barrier the king found no trace of the Shadow Man.
“You will suffer for what you’ve done.” Eric said, rising from Thanos’ shadow.
“The fuck man? I did not give you consent to that!” Thanos snapped.
Without hesitation Eric slapped a strip of shadow over the titan’s mouth. “I’d rather focus my anger towards an enemy rather than an Ally, Thanos”
Thanos just stared at Eric, and using his Netsu Netsu No Mi, heat means light, he burned through the shadow. “While you do have a point, fuck off man,” Thanos said, charging up and flying after Ryker. His gauntlet fist began to heat up, “HEEEAAATTT-” Ryker made a portal in front of him, sending Thanos in, Thanos was now in front of Black. “CRASH!!!!” Thanos then punches Black in the face with scorching heat. “OH GOD I’M SORRY!!!!” Thanos yelped.
“Son of a Bitch!” Black growled as he got back up. “And I just got back up as well!” The Saiyan just shook it off as he let out a roar. Jumping straight into Super Saiyan God, him knowing that any other transformation below it wouldn’t be effective.
“Eghehehe! Hilarious,” Ryker said, smiling before turning to Eric. “It would seem like you want to tango with the rango,” Ryker then tap danced on the air. “Hello my honey, hello my baby~”
“Anyone know a Silence Spell?!” Link yelled out to his allies
"Nope!" Replied Thanos, "But why? He seems pretty chill… For now…"
“That's what it always seems like it in Final Bosses, always toying with you until you beat them as they yell in pride how you shouldn’t.” Link said
"Well fuck you too!" Ryker said with a smile tap dancing over to Link, spinning around and kicking Link in his forehead. Link was knocked back, however using this momentum to spin his body around to unleash a flaming spin attack around toward Ryker, alas the attack gave him a tan more than anything.
"Thanks for the tan," Ryker said with a snark before flicking Link away like an annoying bug.
“This fucker is really pissing me off,” Eric said, pulling his naginata from his body. “Even more than the Titan”
“Hey! Call me by my name or I’ll call you by your race, human .” Thanos snapped, Entity chucked his scythe at Ryker only for it to be dodged by Ryker.
“LESS INSULTING, MORE TRYING TO KICK RYKER’S ASS!” Link yelled to Thanos in an attempt to get his head in the game.
"LESS YELLING AT PEOPLE AND MORE TRYING TO KICK RYKER'S ASS!!!!" Thanos snapped back at Link.
“Did I just see Odin’s enchantment?” Ryker said with a blink.
“No,” Shiva growled, hitting him with a pack link. A flash of Nora screaming sent Ryker reeling, as she turned to the titan and shadow man. “Now can you two save your hate boners for later?”
"Dat is gae," Elae said with a click, looking at Shiva.
“Yeah, focus on Irish Boy here!” Black shouted as he got into a fighting stance similar to Goku’s while making a ki blade.
“Agreed,” Sombra said, drawing his swords. “Let’s end this, the longer we fight the harder he is to defeat.”
“Ain’t that every Dragon Ball Villain ever…” Black muttered.
“Alright, Big Bang-” Ryker then grabbed Thanos by the neck, his emerald eyes glowing.
“No.” Ryker said darkly, he then throws Thanos to Black.
“SOMEONE STUPID GET IN MY WAY!!!!” Thanos yelped as he got closer to the Saiyan.
Luke popped up in front of him. “Okay.”
“What da fu-” Black was interrupted as the Titan rammed into him, sending the two falling into their asses..
“Sombra..Be honest with me” Eric said, sneaking a glance at the Displaced then to Ryker. “What are our odds of beating him.”
“Slim...at best,” Sombra said, tightening his grip on his weapons. “And that’s if we fight as one!”
Ryker then begins to dance, having plasma bracelets around his wrists. “Here, take these light up things! IT’S TIME TO PARTY!!!!!” Ryker whooped, he threw the light up thingies and Thanos caught one.
“Want one?” Thanos offered to turn to Black, and immediately it blew up in both of their faces. Making both of them covered in soot. Thanos squeaked in pain for a moment.
“How about no…” Black growled, as he charged forward. Appearing behind Ryker as he prepared a large ki blast in his robotic hand. As he went to fire it, Ryker disappeared, shocking the Saiyan.
“Yoohoo!” Ryker said in a taunting manner he then tapped the Saiyan’s shoulder when he turned to look at Ryker… He saw him in a women’s outfit. “OKAMA WAYYYY!!!! SWAN ARABESQUE!!!!” Ryker then kicks Black in his gut, with enough force to send him flying into multiple broken down houses. “EYEHAHAHAHAHA!!!!” Ryker cackled as this was a game to him as he began to dance like a ballerina.
Out of nowhere, Ryker was hit hard as if a boulder had rolled into him. Indeed he was his by Goron Link who was curled up into a ball. Quickly, Goron Link made a u-turn to come at Ryker. As Goron Link picked up speed, his body suddenly erupted with metallic thorns being powered by magic as he sped at full speed.
Ryker covered his fists in Armament Haki, "FIST OF THE BLACK TURTLE!!!!" Ryker then punches Goron Link as he rolled towards him, a horrifying CRACK could be heard as Goron Link was sent flying. Ryker followed Link, "Off White!" Two thick pillars of threads slammed into Goron Link, sending him to the skies. "Woohoo! He's way up!" Ryker then spins like a ballerina.
Link removed the mask to turn himself to normal, looking a bit bruise up that could have ended badly if he wasn’t in Goron form. Link, using his height to his advantage, he delivers a powerful bolt of lightning empowered by the Quake Medallion coming toward Ryker. Ryker simply used his awakened Devil Fruit to make a wall of threads, blocking the attack. As lighting shot past Ryker. “Hylia damnit..” Link said as he landed a distance away as his mind raced to think up an effective attack.
“Great, he knows Bon Clay’s fighting Style” Eric said out loud before coating his arms and legs in Armament Haki, His arms and legs began to take on a slight reddish hue rather than the usual jet black.
“Nice Armament Haki bro, but mine’s better,” Ryker covered his hand in Ryou Haki and slammed his fist into Eric’s head, doing a Karate Chop, but it was way more feminine. “Crossdresser Chop!” Eric hit the floor like a bag of bricks, his whole body was buried except for his head. Ryker then spins away, scatting while he does so.
Kodo and Celine raced forward, their pack links making them glow as one. Kodo delivered a series of slashes and cuts to the Irish King, but when he moved to retaliate, Celine spun into Kodo’s place, redirecting his attack.
“BAHAHAHAHA!!!” Thanos laughed at Eric as he ran past the Shadow Man, “Infernal Rainshower!” Using Ryou Haki to enhance his punches, Thanos began to shoot his fists at Ryker at a rapid pace. However the blows were evaded as Ryker spun around like a ballerina before kicking Thanos in his gut.
A demonic aura began to cover Sombra as he held his blade. “Demon Aura: Nine Sword Style…” Sombra rushed Ryker. “Piercing Might!” Sombra begins slashing at the King only to being sent back by a single flick of his finger
“Don’t you guys see the pattern here? You guys can’t touch me.” Ryker said, and immediately after Thanos flew at Ryker and slammed his fist into Ryker’s schnoz. Ryker reeled back from the blow, nearly knocking him over. “Okay, you guys can’t cause serious damage to me.”
His words was halted when a bang rang out causing Ryker to turn his gaze to his now bleeding cheek
“My point still stands,” Ryker replied blankly.
“TRY THIS ONE FOR SIZE THEN!” Link yelled as he came charging at Ryker with Megaton hammer raised to clubber the son of a bitch. Ryker just pulled out some frozen chicken and the hammer slammed into the Irish King. Making an explosion of blue when the dust cleared it showed Ryker eating his now roasted chicken.
"Like I said," Ryker said, his mouth full. "My point still stands."
"Not gonna lie, I'm going to be pissed if there's a target on your body that unleashes damage upon you that we have to hit.” Link said as he took a backflip away from Ryker.
“Well, the fight just started.” Black said as he inighted his aura, it burst around him in flames.
“And if we can’t break your body,” Shiva growled, as her pack links hovered up above her like spears. “I will break your mind.”
“You can’t touch my mind, I’ve seen hell, you know NOTHING of it. Oh and before you fucking start, don’t you dare throw that link missie,” Ryker warned with a frown.
“So why don’t you start small? Why are you going Super Saiyan God? Save it for later for gosh sake,” Ryker said, waving his hand. “It’s Anime Logic, go Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan Two, then Super Saiyan Three, THEN go into Super Saiyan God.”
“Cause this level of power is needed, and we’re not in an anime…” Black explained as he began to gather power.
“Agreed” Eric said as shadows began to gather around him. “Savage Shadow Soul: Soul of the Savage King”
“Oh the irony here is amazing,” Ryker said, smiling as he pointed at Eric.
Unlike his previous use of his King soul he hadn’t grown like before, instead he had a armor breast plast along with gauntlets adorning his body, a black crown sat atop his head. Shadows flooded his body like a raging river
Ryker began to clap slowly and condescendingly as he looked at Eric’s new form. “You hate corrupted kings and your Savage Shadow Souls corrupts you, how ironic. The irony here is AMAZING like seriously it’s shocking. I’m applauding you, do you see me clapping very, very, slowly and condescendingly?” Ryker said, tilting his head as he continued to clap… Very slowly.
“You talk too hylia damned much…” Link said as he reached up to put on the fierce deity mask, once again exploding in a burst of blue light to ascend the form. “And I hate it when villians and final bosses talk too much!” Link said as his body bulked up into a hybrid lion deity, however instead of yellow fur, it was white.
Shiva growled, before slamming her claws together. “Strength of the wolf…” she whispered, as her own army of glowing diamond dog spirits arose as well.
Eric said nothing as the shadows began to rise, taking the shape of his various transformations.
“Get him” Eric ordered as his reapers, knights’ and Demons charged the King.
At the same time, Shiva howled, and her own spirits joined Eric’s charge. An army of light and shadows combined together, racing for the Irish King.
“Your army against mine,” Ryker said as he leaned back in his newly made chair he made with his Chaos Magic. Multiple Shadow Clones of him pop into view. They all activate their Devil Fruit Powers, some going for his Ito Ito Powers, some going for his Plasma Plasma. The point was, it was clones against clones.
“You will not win,” Eric said to Ryker as both sides lost fighters. “We will stop you, and you will pay for your crimes”
“Hypocritical much? You claim you want to stop me of my crimes, but what of yours? You have done countless war crimes, killed countless people, you’re no different than I. Infact, we are much alike as much as you hate to admit it.” Ryker said, getting a smoothie out of thin air and drinking it. “Banana strawberry, my favorite…”
Deity Link raised his blade as light, fire, and ice fused with his Helix Sword, causing the blade to grow slightly in size.
“You may be right Ryker, but that doesn’t mean I will become you” Eric said lifting himself off the ground
“Uh huh, so you want to kill me because I am like you, should you… I don’t know uh… Commit the art of self death?” Ryker said, teleporting before Eric, he was above the Shadow Man. Using Plasma like Kizaru would use his light, Ryker kicked Eric.
However he was blocked by multiple shadow Reapers
“Hm, loyal to a false king, how ridiculous.” Ryker mused before bursting in a fit of light, nowhere to be seen.
“At least they are Loyal to a king who doesn’t use them as pawns” Eric said blasting Ryker’s clones with a flurry of Shadow orbs
“You’re using them as pawns now!” Ryker exclaimed, “You’re using them to fight me, ordering them like puppets to do your bidding!” Ryker said, his voice coming from everywhere yet his voice seemed to be right in Eric’s ear.
“I have little to no control of what they do.” Eric said using his power to create his Savage transformations. “I just tell them what I wish, it’s up to them to attack or defend”
“Well, you’re boring so I’ll move on to Black, a real warrior. And not someone who hides behind their puppets, tata~” Ryker appeared next to Black. “Greetings.”
As this happened, Black jumped back, firing a barrage of ki blasts that made an impact with the Irish man. As Black landed, the smoke cleared and revealed Ryker took no damage.
“Come on Black, you and I both know that this trick NEVER works.” Ryker then took up a fighting stance, “Now, let’s dance.” Ryker said with a smile.
“Tsk…” Black growled as he took up a stance. The two remained unmoving until the movement of a small pebble. Black shot forward as he disappeared multiple times in the air before reappearing in front of Ryker. At that moment, Black covered his right arm in Armament Haki as he threw a punch. But Ryker lifted up one finger to stop the attack.
“Hm, impressive, “ Ryker said in a Shaggy-like tone, “You made me use one percent of my power.” Ryker jokes, laughing like a Hyena.
“OH Shut up!” Black shouted as he covered his robotic arm in Armament Haki, then proceeded to throw hundreds of attacks at Ryker. But he blocked every single one of them, this time using his hand. Every impact made a shockwave then pulsated around the area.
“Hmph!” Ryker’s aura pushed Black a good ways away. Ryker raised a leg and beneath his foot three Ki orbs formed, “I love that dog,” Ryker said with a smile. He then threw a kick at Black and the three Ki orbs flew at Black.
Black recovered as he planted his hand in the ground, doing a handstand and then multiple backflips as he planted his feet in the ground. He cupped his hands and a red and black orb formed in his hands. Without much time to charge the attack, “LIGHTS OUT!!!!” Black roared as he threw his hands forward, the beam of energy shooting forwards and exploded against the three ki attacks.
Black was then hit in the gut by a tremendous force, “Second Gate, open!” Ryker then uppercuts the Saiyan into the skies and out of the dust cloud that had formed due to the energies. Ryker followed after the Saiyan, using a combination of his Ito-Ito No Mi and his Purazuma-Purazuma No Mi, he made both Plasma and String his bitch. Wrapping Black in a plasma rope, “Now we’re doing that game that a child would play!” Ryker pulled on the rope and Black followed to Ryker, Ryker proceeded to kick Black. The attack knocked him away and Ryker pulled on it again and repeated the process over and over again.
Black let out a roar of pain each time he was kicked. The Saiyan got a brief flashback from his… brutal beatdown by Katakuri. But was interrupted as he was kicked again. In a flash of desperation, The Saiyan let out a roar, his godly aura doubling in size as a secondary aura joined him. “KAIO-KEN TIMES 10!!!” Black roared as he formed his ki blade, slicing through the plasma rope. Black took this chance to charge at Ryker and kneed him in the gut before letting out a primal roar and threw his hands forward, a blast of energy propelling Ryker to the ground.
Ryker blinked in shock and clenched his teeth, that attack had actually stung. The force of the attack sent him careening to the ground, Entity noticed this opening. “EVERYONE, PULL OUT EVERYTHING YOU HAVE ON THIS GUY!!!!” Entity transformed into his Infernal King form, Thanos went to Burst Man: White Hot Edition, and Lucci went to his awakened form.
Deity Link was still pushing more and more magic into his sword, causing it to start flashing in the colors of yellow, red, and blue.
Black nodded as he clenched his hands and began to roar, jumping into Perfected Super Saiyan Rose, “KAIO-KEN TIMES 60!!!!” Black roared as his power grew. He teleported to the ground as he threw his hands to the side, gathering two ki orbs in his hands. “Prominence… KAMEHAME…” Black chanted as he threw his arms forward, combining the two ki orbs into a massive one. Black lighting arched around the attack as it grew in size. The Saiyan brought the attack to his side as the attack had begun to shake the earth, the ground being ripped up under him.
Luna Black landed next to the Saiyan as she began to gather up her magic, it going on par when Black is in Super Saiyan God. “STAR…” The Alicorn chanted as she threw her hands forward, a navy blue orb of magic formed in her hands as it grew in power, black lightning arching around the attack as well.
Hearing his words, Sombra closed his eyes as Magic poured from them. Opening his eyes showed they were green and red, his horn had taken on a red hue, and his fur became darker. Gripping his blade black flames began to envelope them. “Hellfire….” Sombra said, Rearing his sword back.
“TITANIC…” Thanos charged up his ultimate attack, the world shaking as he did so. Putting his hands to his side, purple orbs formed and he put them together. Making a purple hellish orb that began to grow in size, like a balloon getting pumped full of air.
“BREAK…” Lucci began to charge up a Ki wave from his mouth. Lucci’s fangs began to show as he did so, the intensity matched Thanos’.
Entity put his hands together and a small fireball reveals itself. “HELLISH…” The fireball began to grow in size, it was like a mini-sun, there were some dragons made out of fire circling the fireball.
Eric Shifted to his Savage Knight as his eyes pour magic like Sombra. “Soul Sword of Purgatory..” Eric uttered as black wisps began to swirl around it, soon bursting into flames of Shadow.
At the same time, Kodo, Celine and Shiva linked together, forming a triangle of light that Luke shot through, going right past his mega-evolution and super saiyan forms, and turning into a wolf resembling the goddess Amaterasu from Okami. “Great…” Luke whispered.
The terra-drake stabbed her talons into the ground, and a terra-drake face formed in the earth, rising up to eat Ryker.
Even Luco got in on the action, transforming into a flaming Oozaru and lobbing what looked like a small sun into the air before cracking it at Ryker with enough strength to break his baseball bat.
“Oh… Shit.” Ryker said, looking at the attacks as he recovered from the attack.
“FLASH!!!!!!!” Thanos unleashed a devastating wave of purple Ki, shooting it straight towards Ryker. As it passed the ground, it incinerated the grass or what was left of it.
“...Purgatory Incineration!” Sombra yelled swinging his sword releasing a wave of burning fire
“DESTRUCTION!!!” Entity chucked a Spirit Bomb sized fireball at Ryker, the even Thanos was surprised at the amount of heat it put out.
“HHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!” Black roared as he sent the earth shaking attack forward, ripping up the ground beneath it like dust.
“BLAST!!” Luna Black shouted as the magic attack shot forward with Blacks attack, the two combining in an increasingly violent attack.
“..Black Excalibur: Burning Soul Slash!” Eric swung his massive black releasing the souls and unextinguishing fire from his blade, aimed directly at the Vile King
“CANNON!!!!” Using Nappa’s Special move, Lucci fired off a massive mouth beam at Ryker.
“HOWL!” Luke bellowed, as a vortex of sound and energy burst from his throat and rushed at Ryker.
At that moment after everyone released their attack, Deity Link swung his sword overhead in a power slow moving blade of Light, Fire, and Ice. Everyone near him would notice cracks on his face, Deity Link had been channeling the dangerous energy of the void by pushing his body to make a new attack that he never used before.
“NOM!” the terra-drake’s earth face teased as her jaws bit down towards Ryker.
The attacks combined into a Rainbowish blast, swirling around like a screwdriver. “Oh… MY… GOOODDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!” Ryker roared in fear as he was engulfed by the attack, the sheer force of the wave sent everything behind Ryker into oblivion. It was a good damn thing that the bodies of the fallen were in front of Ryker and behind Eric and the gang. When dust filled the air, everyone gasped for oxygen because that attack took most of their energy.
After
“Did you guys get him?” Elia said, sticking her head out as Brudus was next to her to ensure her safety.
“I pray to Din we did..” Deity Link said with a cough as he focused on healing up his face via Din’s Care as he fought off the vertigo that threatened to make him lose his balance.
Thanos gasped for air and went to his knees, “God damn it… That was a doozy…” Thanos said, he then looked over his shoulder and to Brudus. He gave the good boy a thumbs up.
“Oh man,” Lucci then fell on his rump in exhaustion, “That was exhausting.” Lucci exclaimed. Entity nodded with Lucci, not having any words to say.
Black fell to his knees as he gasped for breath, Luna Black kneeling next to the Saiyan and began to heal the Saiyan. “Don’t ever... ask that question… it always leads… to bad things…” Black gasped as he felt his energy being restored.
Sombra collapsed as his fur, horn, and eyes returned to normal. “There’s no way anypony could survive that.” Sombra said utterly weak from the use of that particular technique. “That was all of our strongest techniques”
Eric returned to his base form as he utterly fell backwards. “The Fucker better be dead, I’ll take unconscious at this point.”
“DON’T JINX IT!” Deity Link said with clench teeth.
“Mr. Perfect Cell could have a word about that…” Black groaned.
“Oh-ho, you boys are going to be severely disappointed,” Luco replied.
“Sup bitch!” A voice of an Irish King cried out from the dust cloud.
“You jinxed it..” Link sai with a sigh
Shiva slumped. “I hate this place,” she growled. “I hate it, and I hate him like I’ve never hated anyone before.”
“Oh no…” Elia said, hiding behind the rubble to avoid getting injured.
“COME ON!!!!” Thanos swore, “FOR FUCK’S SAKE MAN!!!!” Thanos wailed.
“Fucking… knew… it…” Black gasped out.
“No…” Sombra uttered in horror.
“That attack wasn’t half bad, I got a good tan!” With a snap of his fingers the dust cleared and it revealed Ryker burnt, there were some flames on his khakis but he snapped his fingers and he made it fade away.
“That flame was supposed to consume you” Eric said in disbelief. “How did it not kill you?”
“BECAUSE HIS POWER LEVEL IS BULLSHIT!” the terra-drake boomed.
“..Power level? No, this is just pure hax; reality breaking Dodongo shit hax..” Deity Link said as he managed to get his face back to normal.
“Magic.” Ryker said, waving his hands in the air, “But the attack did manage to injure me. Like seriously, I then it made me break a b- Oh wait it did break one, my funny bone! YOHOHOHOHO!!!!” Ryker laughed, getting a top hat out of nowhere and laughing. He then became serious.
“...Anyone feeling like giving Ryker a giant middle finger of smoke or ki?” Deity Link asked with a slight slump in his shoulders.
“Now… I believe it’s time we have a change of scenery, don’t ya think?” With a snap of his fingers they were in a red city. Red everywhere, they were in the streets and when Elia looked up… There was a giant pentagram.
“We’re in hell.” Elia blinked, “We’re in fucking hell.”
“God damn it!” Thanos cried out, hitting his fist on the ground before going to his feet, dropping out of his transformations. “Square the fuck up!”
“You’ll have to catch me firrrsst~” Ryker said in a sing-song manner, he then makes a wheel out of threads, hopping on it he then rides away.
“AFTER HIM!!!!” Entity cried out, he then got an Elytra on and some fireworks. He then gets to fly after the bastard, Lucci turned into Full Leopard and ran after Ryker. Thanos goes to Steam Man and runs after Ryker.
Black ignited his aura, Luna Black spread her wings and the two flew off, giving chase to the Irish man.
Link played the song of soaring and quickly lifted off to go after the trolling Ryker.
Eric shifts into his Reaper form before Chasing after Ryker, Sombra was covered in grey magic before running off at near blinding speed after Ryker and the others.
Shiva, Luke, Kodo and Celine dropped to all fours and raced after Ryker like hunting dogs, bellowing for the hunt.
The terra-drake lifted her arms, and a car of stones formed out of the ground. Hopping in, she peeled out in pursuit.
“Alright, Blazy!” Luco said, snapping his fingers… only to open a portal that nearly scorched him with the aftereffects of Katakuri and Blazy’s battle. He snapped it shut with a grimace. “Right…” he muttered, sighing as he moseyed after the others.
As Ryker rolled away the first one to reach him was none other than the chad himself, Thanos.
“How did I get here? Plot?” Thanos said, turning around as he ran on the wheel.
“Probably a bit of Plot Armor in there too,” Ryker said with a shrug, Thanos then pulls out a blade that he got on the fifth floor. The cutlass.
“Anyways, I got you now.” Thanos said, grinning wildly, Ryker then pulls out Shank’s sword, Gryphon.
“On the contrary, I got you,” Ryker said with a grin, and thus the sword duel on a rolling object commenced. Totally not stealing from a certain Pirate franchise.
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Thanos and Ryker began their sword duel, and like true idiots they did it like Pirates.Thanos turned around and saw Sombra there sprinting next to the wheel. “Oh hi Mark,” Thanos said, ducking under an attack from Ryker and attacking Ryker back. Ryker simply parried the blow and they continued to clash swords.
Black and Luna Black both caught up to the group, The Saiyan seeing the two dueling on the spinning wheel. “Hey Thanos, don’t mess around with him!” Black shouted.
“I’d rather not see any surprising transformations he could do if we mess around too long!” Link shouted.
“What?!” Thanos cried out, he then looked behind Ryker and saw a building. “Ryker, turn, TURN TURN TU-” They both crashed into the building while still on the wheel. Ryker took this as an opportunity to slash Thanos’s shoulder, Thanos growled and slashed back. Cutting a piece of his khakis off.
“Do you know how expensive these are?!” Ryker cried out, Thanos then sliced the khakis again. “You did it again! How dare you!” Ryker growled, and cut Thanos’ massive forehead.
“OH THAT’S IT!!!!” Thanos began violently swinging at Ryker and they were now back onto the streets, a certain party of imps passing by.
“Okay Moxxie, if you were a horny owl, where would you-” Blitzo was cut off as a giant wheel holding two warriors went past them and ran over Moxxie, taking him with the wheel.
“Moxxie!” Millie exclaimed, before getting a shotgun out. “These fuckers gon’ pay!”
“We got him! Don’t risk yourselves!” Shiva yelled, as she and Luke shot by, throwing each other with a pack link similar to a belay rope.
“After that wheel!” Blitzo ran into a car, Millie was about to go after Blizo.
Before Millie could so much as take a step Moxxie was dropped at her feet with Eric standing in front of them.
“Take him and get out of here” Eric said to the imps
“Okay, who the fuck are you, and why are you wearing your human form in Hell?” Blizto said, pointing a finger at the Shadow Man.
Eric turned to the larger imp before sending a glare with his sockets. “Because we are humans.”
Black flew past them, but in that split second, “We’re not demons! NOW DO WHAT HE SAYS AND GET A FUCKING MOVE ON YOU STUPID DEVIL BITCHES!!!” Black roared as he flew at tremendous speed, leaving everyone in the dust.
“FUCKING HURRY UP YOU JACKASS!!!!” Lucci said, running after Black, glaring at both Eric and the imps.
“Okay, I can take an insult but I won’t take one from a human, get in the car Moxxie!” Blitzo said as Millie grabbed Moxxie and headed straight for the car.
Without hesitation Eric raised his Scythe to Blitzo’s throat. “Leave!”
“Alright.” Blitzo squeaked and backed up towards the car, Moxxie and Millie following his lead.
Seconds later, Shiva and the other wolves shot by, Kodo briefly stopping as he spotted Loona.
“Whoa-ho, hello,” he said with a grin at the hellhound, before Celine got him by the ear.
“Not the time, Kodo!” she barked, racing away as Kodo howled in protest.
Back on the Wheel, Thanos was pushing Ryker off, slowly but surely. Ryker was so close to being pushed off Thanos could almost taste it.
“I’m pushing you off!” Thanos said with a cackle, Ryker had a worried expression before it was filled with determination.
“No you ain’t!” Ryker began to push Thanos back, with a swear, Thanos slashed Ryker’s cheek. Blood seeped from the blow and with a snarl Ryker stabbed Thanos in his arm, Thanos inhaled deeply.
“AAAAAA MOTHERFUCKER!!!!” Thanos then kicked Ryker in his balls, letting out a squeak of pain, Ryker was back on the edge. “I will beat yo ass! Wait… Is that the Happy Hotel? Oh you cheeky bastard, we’re in the Hazbin Hotel Universe!” Thanos cried out.
“It took you just now to realize?” Ryker said, tilting his head, suddenly the wheel began to pick up speed. Both of the fighters looked down and they saw Lucci running the wheel like a hamster.
“Sorry Thanos, but we have no time for your antics, we need to speed things up.” Lucci then charged up, his Ki aura flowing around him as he ran the wheel.
“Oh I see what you did there, hilarious!” Ryker laughed, Thanos laughed afterwards, they were both idiots.
“Hey… Isn’t that Black I see?” Thanos looked behind him, Ryker peeked as well and saw the Saiyan coming in hot. “Hi Black!” Thanos waved at Black, the wheel began to pick up speed at a rapid pace. They both looked down and they were going down a slope.
“Lucci! Slow down!” Ryker yelped in fear, Thanos looked at Ryker and saw pure fear in his eyes.
“I can’t stop!” Lucci cried out, they all yelled in fear as they picked up speed. Careening down towards a building.
“AAAAAA!!!!” With a girly scream they all crashed into the building and they all halted. The wheel collapsed in a bundle of strings and the trio were buried in rubble and string. Thanos jumped out, Lucci just crawled out, now in his human form.
“Never again,” Lucci panted, “Never again.”
Thanos just nodded, “Agreed.” Ryker then bursts from the rubble and does a split kick, kicking both of the fighters into buildings.
“Okay, who’s next?” Ryker laughed, looking around joyously.
Ryker was then punched by a devastating attack, hitting him straight across the cheek by Black, sending him through multiple buildings. And like a dog, he came back and kicked Black in his face, sending him through more buildings. Ryker then faced everyone, they were now all in front of him, Ryker jumped back and onto an elevated platform.
“I believe it’s time I take off this ring of mine,” Ryker said, wagging his finger that held a ring.
“What’s a ring gonna do for you?” Thanos said, crossing his arms and looking up at Ryker.
“It could be an inhibitor ring, hiding his… true power…” Luna Black said, realizing the horror Ryker was about to release.
“CALLED IT!” Deity Link said with a face-palm.
“Correct!” Ryker cackled, he then took it off and immediately everyone fell to their knees. Unable to withstand the pressure of his true power, Lucci clutched his mouth before barfing. “And now… You all know how absolutely, positively… FUCKED you guys are!”
Black shakely got up, but with great difficulty, his legs and arms shaking like they were about to be turned to dust. “We’ll just… have to… see about… that.” Black grunted,
“Oh I’m not done yet…” Ryker then gets his Gauntlets on, it has a hellish glow to it. He then gets his boots on, it had a thunderous glow to it. As for his armor… It was impressive, replicating that of a Demonic Knight.
“...WWwwhhhhyyyy?” Deity Link asked as he shook his hands toward Ryker. “You’re invisible to most damage and you do this?!” he asked. The poor hylian went from pissed off to just being tired of it all.
Clutching his head, seemingly getting a migraine due to the pressure of his power. Eric slowly and shakely got to his feet. “B-Be that as it may...” Eric said, rising to his feet. “We will not cease trying to stop you.”
“Well then,” No one could see it but Eric was flung at faster than light speeds, crashing through multiple buildings before stopping at a mountain. He was flung into the wilderness of hell. “Come at me,”
Black huffed as he clenched his fists, “KAIO-KEN TIMES 65!!!” Black roared as his muscles bulked up a bit. Black winced as he wasn’t experienced with Kaio-ken past times 60.
Thanos looked at Black, lightning then struck Thanos and he was enchanted with a thunderous aura. Kicking it back up to Burst Man: White Hot Edition he covered his body in Tekkai Go and Armament Haki, “KAIOKEN TIMES FIFTY!!!!” Thanos roared, covering his fists in Ryou Haki to multiply his damage output. Thanos was alright before he looked at his rival, tsking, he decided to double it up. “KAIOKEN TIMES SIXTY!!!!” Thanos roared, he then became stronger than ever though he was straining.
Black grunted as he covered his right arm in Armament Haki, red lighting arched around him as it vaporized the ground beneath him. “AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH” Black roared as he charged forward, pulling his fist back.
“USE DDRAIG!!!!” Thanos ordered Black as he shot towards Ryker, a devastating hellish shockwave following Thanos as he flew at Ryker.
“REN KUGI TEN DRAGON FIST!!” Black roared as his arm bulked up, blood slowly flowing out of his arm. He threw his fist forward as he exploded into a Red dragon, it being bigger than usual.
“HELLISH FIST OF THE BLACK TURTLE!!!!!” Thanos’ right arm was covered in black flames. There was a Transparent Turtle around Thanos. Thanos shot his fist forward and a Black Tortoise shot towards Ryker.
“I don’t name my attacks, but…” Shiva and Luke glanced at each other, before she covered him in diamonds and flung him like a ball and chain. “Diamond Dog Chain Whip… attack, I guess…”
The Red Dragon and the Black Tortoise shot towards Ryker both then impact Ryker, Ryker was sent flying through some buildings. Thanos then hears a grunt of pain and he spots Black with his right arm, injured and nearly destroyed. Black grimaced at this before spotting Thanos’ gaze. With a look of determination they both nod and fly off towards the location they flung Ryker. Meanwhile Lucci slowly backed away from the rubble, shivering in fear.
“He’s gonna kill us all…” Lucci said softly, Brudus piped up.
“Do not fret, with the power of teamwork we can-” Brudus was cut off by Lucci.
“Don’t you understand?! Ryker isn’t going a fraction of his power! This may as well be a warm up to him!” Lucci cried out.
“...Don’t tell me this isn’t even his final form..” Deity Link said with a groan.
“Then we’ll hit him where it hurts,” Shiva snarled, rushing past them.
“You’re right; we must try,” Elia said looking towards the sounds of struggle. “Thanos and Black are putting their lives on the lines for us, we shouldn’t just let their struggle be for nothing.”
“...” Lucci was silent, having nothing to say about that.
“We need to go after Eric, he was flung pretty damn far,” Entity spun his scythe and rested it on his shoulder. “Lucci, come here, and whoever wants to come, join us.”
Entity then blasts off, Lucci follows him as they fly towards the location of where Eric was flung.
Meanwhile...
“DA DA DA DA DA DA!!!” Thanos and Black cried out as they launched their assault on Ryker, Ryker blocked and countered when he saw an opening. Thanos then swept Ryker’s feet before sending a burst of heat at his abdomen, sending him higher. Black shot towards the skies and kicked Ryker in his cheek before flying behind Ryker. Black’s foot had five Ki orbs around them, he then shoots the Ki orbs at Ryker’s back. Crying out in pain Ryker turned to face Black, appearing before the Saiyan and grabbing him by the leg. Flying down towards the ground Ryker slammed Black onto the ground.
“Hell Kick!” Ryker was then kicked in his face by a steaming hot kick from Thanos, sanding him tumbling. The Irish King rolled to his feet and look at Thanos, Thanos held his comrade stand up and then look at Ryker.
“Have any ideas on how to beat him?” Thanos said turning to Black, Black just glanced at the Titan.
“Other than fusion, no. But if we keep up the tempo, we can surely catch him off guard.” Black planned, Thanos nodded and looked at Ryker.
“Right, let’s go!” The duo shot towards Ryker, both had a Big Bang Attack charging up. They shot their left hands forward, “BIG BANG ATTACK!!!” The combination of the two attacks formed together and made a big Big Bang Attack.
“Hmph, God’s Swipe!” Making a Plasma Blade, Ryker raised it high before slamming it down. He cuts the Big Bang Attack in half, Thanos growls.
“Damn it,” Black shot forward and produced a roundhouse kick to Ryker’s neck, stunning him enough for Thanos to come around and launch a Ryou Haki punch to the King’s rib. Wheezing Ryker jumped back only to be kicked by Black who used Instant Transmission to teleport behind him. Black kicked Ryker towards Thanos, Thanos then kicked him into the air and he shot towards the skies. Both rivals flew high above Ryker and pointed their feet at Ryker, crashing down like an asteroid they hit Ryker in his gut, sending him into the ground.
“Hot Wind-” Thanos was cut off as Ryker grabbed Thanos by his neck.
“You two have done it now…” Ryker snarled, before a pack link shot into his head… and he saw he was holding Nora. He growled. “Damnit, Shiva; stay out of my head!” He then threw Thanos at the Diamond Dog. Black tried to move forward to catch him but... “PLASMA KICK!!!!” Black felt the full brunt of the attack, before Shiva transferred the pain right out of him and into Ryker. Nevertheless, the momentum still caught her off guard, and all three fighters were sent careening downwards and crashed into rubble.
“Tch, I had a plan but I forgot it,” Thanos swore, Black turned to Thanos, wearing a face of disbelief.
“Well you better remember it now!” Black said, looking up at the skies and seeing Ryker approaching. Ryker then vanished from their sights, Black’s stance tightened. “Where’d he go?”
“You’re too slow,” A chilling voice said, behind them.
“Oh, fuck,” Shiva swore, diving into Hell’s ground. She tried to drag Thanos and Black after her, only for her to get yanked through the ground as Ryker punted them across Hell. Crashing into building after building before finally stopping and hitting a thick enough building. The duo slowly slump down and hit their asses. Shiva popped her head out of the ground, coughing up rocks. They then see Ryker walking towards them calmly.
“Thanos, did you remember that plan of yours?” Black grunt as he forced himself to his feet. Thanos followed Black’s movement, going to his feet as well.
“I have this one attack that can stun him long enough for me to pull off an Omega Heat Crash,” Thanos told the Saiyan, as the terra-drake smashed her car into Ryker… only for him to tank the blow and throw her aside.
“And?” Black said, glancing at Thanos side-ways.
“It takes a while to charge,” Thanos explained flatly, Black swore, watching as Luco cracked another grenade at the back of Ryker’s head. Ryker turned to glare at the monkey man, and Luco wisely teleported away with a burst of fireworks.
“Great, just great I have to buy enough time,” Black said looking into Ryker’s piercing emerald eyes. His eyes took a yellow hue and his eyes changed to Gold yellow.
“How much time do you need?” Eric asked emerging from the surrounding shadows
“About thirty minutes,” Thanos said, cheekily.
“Thirty minutes? What kind of an attack takes thirty minutes?!” Black complained.
“An effective attack,” Thanos shot at Black, frowning at the Saiyan.
“We’ll do our best to keep him occupied,” Eric said, calling forth his Sacred Gear.
“Good, now don’t let him get a lick on me, if he does I’ll have to start all over again.” Thanos then closes his eyes and puts his palms together, electricity begins to flow throughout his body.
“We’re going to get our asses handed to us, aren’t we Black?” Eric asked as his gauntlet glowed.
“Probably,” Luke grumbled.
“Yup…” Black said, shaking his head, taking on the stance of Future Gohan.
“I figured,” Eric said, widening his stance like Monkey D. Luffy. “Let’s make it count then”
“Sup,” Ryker greeted, looking at the trio. “So Eric, welcome back to the party. Did you like the farm that I sent you to? Nice people.” Ryker greeted casually as he took on a stance.
But to Eric's horror, Black dropped out of Perfected Super Saiyan Rose and back to Super Saiyan God. The saiyans eyes widened as he let out heavy breaths. "No… no not now…" Black panicked.
“Stamina?” Eric asked in worry giving the Saiyan a side glance
"I haven't… fully mastered that form, it's basically breaking my body apart." Black explained.
“Wait, hang on,” Celine insisted, transferring a pack link to him. “I can sustain your stamina with my own.”
“Stamina break~!” Ryker said in a sing-song voice, gut punching Black and shredding Celine’s link to him. He then turned to Eric and fired off a Plasma bolt from his hand, Ryker then elbows Black’s nose, sending the poor man crashing into rubble.
The pile of ruble blew away as Black charged forward, to Eric's surprise, the Saiyan landed multiple hits on him. To the shadow man's eyes, it looked like Black stayed in his God form. Only Rumer could see what was happening as a shade of pink appeared for a split second.
Eric plunged his hand into the shadows, keeping his eyes trained on the King. Once Ryker slowed to a stop Eric grabbed hold of the King’s leg with his Sacred Gear, for a brief moment the green gem changed from green to blue.
Ryker looked at the two, his eyes switching between them, he then turned into plasma, appearing behind Eric. He kicked the Shadow Man towards Black and he began to pummel them both mercilessly. But in Thanos’ head….
“Bada da ta~ Imma chagrin’ my attack…” Thanos sang as the screams of agony the two were unleashing onto this world. MCU Thanos and Abridged Thanos sang as well.
Eric put a barrier around him and Black before grabbing the Saiyan and teleporting away. At the same time, Kodo and Celine sling-shot Luke at Ryker. But before Ryker could prepare to catch him, Luke spun and hurled Shiva into him. Shiva seized Ryker’s head, her pack links digging into his eyes.
“YOU DO THIS FOR YOUR DAUGHTER?!” she howled. “BUT HOW MANY DAUGHTERS HAVE YOU TAKEN?!”
He saw the destroyed city of Eliatrope again. But this time, every dead body was replaced with his daughter. He saw Nora with holes punched in her chest, Nora with threads punched through her body, Nora with fatal gashes… he saw his daughter dead in so many ways.
“OH YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!” Ryker roared in outrage, and tore Shiva away, hurling her at her family and sending them tumbling like bowling pins.
"I can't keep up this strategy of mine…" Black huffed. His God Form slowly healing his shattered right arm.
“If it’s any consolation, I managed to grab him with Draig,” Eric said, lifting the gauntlet as it shouted “Divide!”
“Yah yeet!” Eric was then Puny God’d when Ryker slammed him over and over again, “Bang! Slam! Crash!” Ryker said with glee before throwing Eric into Black, sending both of them into whatever building remained. His gaze fell upon Thanos, “What are you doing here boy? Aren’tcha supposed to be helpin’ yer friends?” Ryker approached the Titan, before a slurry of vines seized him again.
“Guys? Uh… That Irish guy is getting really close…” Abridged Thanos said, as the God approached Thanos.
“You don’t say? Don’t ruin the vibe!” Thanos cried out, “Bada da ta~ I’mma chagrin’ my attack!” Thanos sang.
Ryker yanked the vines and the terra-drake they were attached to, clotheslining her and sending her to the ground.
“Thank God I’m still high as a kite,” the terra-drake mumbled, taking a drag on another joint.
Before Ryker could stomp her into her beloved ground, he was then hit by a pressure blast that sent him into a building. Thanos looked to his side to see Black fully standing up, his hand stretched outward with his eyes closed.
“Divide!” Eric formed a pair of wings and took to the skies, “One by Land and One by the Air” Eric said as he aimed his hand at the King. “Shadow Hailstorm” Numerous arrows of shadow fired at the king
“Oh? Are you approaching me?” Ryker said, looking at the arrows, “Come as close as you like.” The arrows were then knocked away by some unknown force, “Didn’t I tell you that I had a stand? It is called… Green and Greener! It’s power is to control nature around it! It can also Ora Ora you out of existence! Just you look, Ker, Ker, Ker, Ker, Ker, KER!!!!” Ryker chanted as Eric looked like he was having a seizure mid-air though he was currently getting pummeled by his stand.
“Channel nature?” the terra-drake groaned. “That’s my thing!” Ryker shut her up with a stomp.
Black opened his eyes, a silver glow appeared around him as a pillar of light struck him, getting the Irish man's attention.
“Ultra Instinct… Impressive,” Ryker mused, “Though that means nothing, you’re still going to die, I think it’s time I change scenery again.” With a snap of his fingers everyone, including the others, were teleported to Punk Hazard. “He’s hot and he’s cold, he’s yes and he’s no.” Ryker sang. They were all on the Ice Side of the hot and cold island, mountains could be seen in the distance and a fiery side could be seen beyond the lake.
“Now Eric, do be a good boy and sit there while the adults talk.” Ryker said before flying at Black, using Future Sight Observation Haki to keep track of his movements.
Black didn't move as Ryker came charging at him, he instead took a deep breath as his aura began to grow in size. As the Irish man was about to attack, Black moved to the side slightly. Ryker stopped himself and went to sweep Black’s legs, using Plasma to boost his speed as he did so. The Saiyan barely moved out of the way as he went for his own attack, on the outside it looked like a glare. But to the Saiyan, it was hundreds of punches and kicks that were sent Rykers' way.
Ryker simply countered Black’s “glare” with his own. The two clashed as they stood idly, the ice beneath them began to shatter due to the force of their attack. Using his Stand he went for a kick to the back of Black’s leg.
The attack landed, but the Saiyan then used his opportunity to kick the Irish man in the jaw, stunning him. It landed as then Black twirled around and threw his fists forward. A pressure blast was sent into Ryker’s gut.
Ryker wheezed from the force but then grinned as he looked at Black, “Seven Thousand Tile Roundhouse Kick!” Using Plasma to enhance his speed, plus the boots he slammed a Ryou Haki kick into Black’s rib.
Though the Saiyan made no sound, the pained expression was all Ryker needed. This sent the Saiyan flying back down towards Eric and Thanos, Black planting his feet in the ground as he came to a halt. Kodo jumped between them, transferring any pain from Black into a pack link ball of agony, which he then promptly threw at Ryker. Black looked towards Thanos with a 'Are you almost done?' look.
Thanos hummed a song, he then snapped out of it as he looked at Black. “Oh uh… I’m almost there, three more minutes.” Thanos said, looking at Ryker who took out Yoru.
The Saiyan nodded as he jumped into the air and let out a primal roar, shaking the world around him as a galaxy shaped aura surrounded him.
Ryker raised the blade high, aiming it at Thanos instead of Black. “You look like you’re doing something important!” Ryker slammed the blade down and a mountain sized air slash shot towards Thanos.
“Black, Eric, Black, Eric, BLACK, ERIC!!!!!” Thanos yelped as the attack came closer.
“Uh, how about Vine?” the terra-drake asked, lifting her claw and causing the earth itself to shift, forming a shield around Thanos. “That’s my name. Vine, or Wildvine. Just… letting anyone who cares know.” She took another drag on her joint. “Yeah, I don’t think anyone cares.”
“I care,” Thanos said with a smile, “Learning someone’s name is always fun!”
“Aww,” Vine cooed. “You’re sweet.”
The slash of air then seemingly disappeared, along with Black as well, this shocked everyone, including the Irish Man. Ryker heard an aura behind as he turned around. He saw the Saiyan covered in a white and black shine of light that seemed blinding. He held a condensed piece of air in his palm. And he simply flicked his hand and it was dispersed.
“Bullshit.” Ryker said flatly.
“Oh-ho, that’s rich, coming from you,” Luco pointed out.
“Good point!” Ryker turned to Luco.
“Done!” Thanos then appeared behind Ryker and as the Irish King turned around he was met with a devastating double palm strike. “ZEUS’ THUNDEROUS FISTS!!!!” Ryker coughed up a helluva lot of blood, it also made Ryker freeze. “Now for the grand finale!” Flying to the other side of the Island he aimed at Ryker.
“We can talk about this,” He said through his teeth, he couldn’t open his mouth.
Shiva laughed. “You murdered more people than I can count,” she growled, before raising a claw and adding her power to the Titan. “We most certainly cannot talk about this.”
Eric raised his hand and added some of his power to the Titan covering his arm in spiked shadow armor
Thanos covered his fist in Ki, Armament Haki, Ryou Haki, Tekkai Go, Lightning, Heat, Steam, Magma Dragon Slayer Magic, Earth Dragon Slayer Magic, Alicorn Magic, Spiked Shadow Armor, and Dark Magic. Thanos approached Ryker at a rapid pace. “OOOOMEEEEEGAAAAAA!!!!!”
“Help! Nein, nein, nein!” Ryker said, trying to move his body.
“HEEEAAAAATTTTT!!!!!” Thanos clenched his fists.
“OH SON OF A-” Ryker couldn’t finish that as he was punched in his abdomen.
“CRASH!!!!!” A massive, hellish explosion followed after melting all ice in the vicinity as well as burning the clothes off of anyone nearby… Like Eric and Black. The aftermath of the attack revealed Ryker’s armor shattered and his gauntlets as well. Thanos kicked Ryker. “Jackass…”
Black appeared next to Thanos with a new pair of clothes, the white and black shine disappearing to reveal Black with white hair. He didn’t say anything with his stoic expression.
Ryker then shoots back up, grabbing the sides of Thanos and Black’s heads, before slamming them together. “Ryker…. Never… Dies…” Ryker said, spitting out a tooth, but it was replaced by another tooth. “Bitch.”
Celine’s ears flicked. “But… they aren’t female dogs,” she noted. Kodo snapped her snout shut.
“Talk about it later,” he insisted. “Anybody got a new plan?”
“Here’s one: RUUUUUNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Thanos then runs away as fast as he can, “AAAAAAA!!!!!” Thanos screamed as he ran towards the group.
“Is that John- I mean, Thanos?” Brudus asked, looking at Thanos running at them, screaming in fear.
Black cupped his hands together and held them in front of him, sending multiple pressure blasts. Holding him off to have the others enough time to run, he gave Eric, Shiva and her family a glare that told them to fucking run. Nodding, Shiva snagged Eric and the others with her links, and charged away.
“And I oop!” Ryker grabbed Black and threw him into the air, “Get fucked!” Ryker then shot towards the others. Going straight for Vine, he readied his blade, Yoru. “One Sword Style: Strongest Slash!” Sending a hellish black and green wave of energy towards the group with a singular slash Entity piped up.
“I can-” Entity was then kicked away by Ryker’s clone that he had made as Entity was piping up. Ryker’s clones surrounded the group as the slash came in.
“Fuck.” Lucci swore under his breath. Black appeared next to the group with a glare. He lifted his hand towards the slash, a condensed deep blue ki wave shot forward and clashed with the slash of energy. Shortly after, it broke through with an explosion, bits of the ki broke off and impacted the ground. Blue flames surrounded the area as they raged on, one of them fell onto Black and it burnt his shirt away.
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From the dust cloud Ryker had a new suit on. He then began to strut towards them, “Greetings piggies, which one of you want to be roasted pork?” Ryker snapped his fingers and hellish flames formed on his hands. “Oh and welcome to Punk Hazard, it’s hot and cold, yes and it’s no.” Ryker then began to hum the rest of the song before snapping back to reality, oe there goes gravity… literally, as Celine summoned her fruit, and sent Ryker into the air.
“I got this!” Thanos flew at Ryker and gave him a solid punch in the face… Though it didn’t work.Thanos began to punch him and kick him over and over again, as Shiva and Kodo added their own strength to him.
“Boom chicka uh! Boom chicka uh! Purple Dick-” The two Thanos’ began to chant. Kodo laughed and chanted along with them.
“What are you doing?!” Thanos demanded as he began to hit Ryker.
“We’re hyping you up,” MCU Thanos explained.
“It gets your adrenaline going and should help your strength.” Kodo added.
“Well it’s not helping!” Thanos cried out before Ryker then grabbed one of Thanos’ fists and sent a Ki blast to his gut.
“OH SHIT MOTHA FUCKAAAAA!!!!” The Thanos’ say before Thanos was launched towards an icy mountain. Luckily, Shiva maintained her hold on him, though the momentum sent her skidding several feet across the ground, transferring his pain into another ball of agony. Firing the attack at Ryker, she coated Thanos in diamonds before wrenching him back at the Irish King.
Black then charged in, appearing in front of Ryker and sending a flurry of attacks, and for some reason just an unnecessary amount of explosions happening around them. Ryker simply dodged the attacks, hands behind his back as he did so. Ryker then kicks Black in his forehead stunning the Saiyan before kicking him back down to the ice. Ki orbs followed his feet as he chucked the Ki orbs at Black. As the Saiyan recovered, he landed on his feet as he threw his hands forward, catching the ki orbs and dispersing them.
As Thanos’ diamond form sailed past Ryker, Shiva tugged her link like a kunai, pulling Thanos back towards Ryker’s head like a yo-yo.
“Oh son of a literal bitch,” Ryker swore, ducking under the attack and grabbing the ball, “Yeet!” Ryker then pulled on the Thanos-ball.
“And damn proud of it,” Kodo declared, catching his mother before Ryker could yank her into the air.
“Do you know who I am?” Ryker asked, distancing himself from the group.
“A manipulative fool chasing after somepony who left you” Eric said
“A murderer and a maniac,” Kodo answered.
“Aren’t we all murderers technically?” Thanos said, perking up, “Oh, a genuine demon?” Ryker perked up.
“A very misguided man,” Celine offered.
“A… bad guy?” Luke added.
“A former human who’s lost sight of what made him human?” Vine asked.
“A good man lost in his own path of dread…” Black said simply, his voice being warped.
“An overpowered boi?” Brudus said, tilting his head.
“Lucifer?” Entity offered, leaning on his scythe.
“A fucking donut,” Gordon Ramsey said, giving Ryker the middle finger, standing next to Shiva.
“A tyrant who abused his subjects,” Shiva growled darkly.
“A man who wants his daughter back?” Lucci said weakly.
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“I… Am Ryker O’Brian, God of Equus, Destroyer of Worlds, God of Destruction, the Displaced Slayer, the Grimm Reaper of Death, and wrecker of your shit.” Ryker said, glaring down at everyone.
Mud splashed against his face, courtesy of Vine. “Wreck that shit,” she said with a grin. Ryker actually smiled at that one.
“Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is only one Reaper” Eric said, his sword staff turning to a scythe.
“What is a God to a Titan?” Thanos said, putting a hand on his hips.
Black said nothing as he rolled his shoulder, a satisfying pop was heard as he got into a stance similar to Future Gohan.
“What are a couple of lost children in a blizzard?” Ryker replied.
“Dead?” Thanos said before he was slapped on the head by Elia. “What? It’s true!”
And just like that, with barely enough time for Shiva to dissipate her link, Thanos was sent flying, going faster than his dad had left him, just like when Eric was thrown away. With a scream that resembled that of Goofy’s, the scream fades away.
“Ding ding! Thanos was correct, now guess what I have?” Ryker then brings out a jar of dirt, “I got a jar of dirt, I got a jar of dirt, and guess what’s inside it?” Ryker said in a sing-song tone, circling the Displaced before raising the jar of dirt over his head.
“Let’s find out,” Vine replied, before flexing her talons. The jar of dirt exploded, and cascaded down onto Ryker’s face.
Ryker then grabbed something from the dirt… It was Luna, “Guess what I have here?” Ryker then wrapped his claw around Luna and began to squeeze her. His now Golden eyes turning into Orange, “Eric’s Luna!” Ryker exclaimed.
Eric stood frozen in place as his anger made way for fury and rage
Black and Kodo charged forward in an attempt to save her, but Shiva caught them both with links.
“Stop, you two!” Shiva yelled.
But Black easily tore her link to him away and continued to charge at the Irish man. As Black closed in on Ryker, his face full of determination as he prepared to attack, but it was to no avail.
“...Get fucked,” Ryker simply blinked and Black was sent flying.
Ryker flexed his Ki and kicked it up into one of his more dangerous transformations. He was outlined with a purple aura and nothing but radiation emanated from it, “Guess what the sun is? Plasma, guess what power I have? Plasma, which is very hot! I wonder… If you had a chance to save her, Eric… Would you choose between your friends… or you poor little doll? Ryker said, scratching the head on the Princess.
Eric stepped forward with his mind racked with the thought of losing his friends or his Princess, Eric looked towards his friends before looking down at the ground. “I can't... feel that pain again” Eric whispered as he turned back to Ryker.
“Eric, don’t you dare!” Kodo growled. “We can rescue her together! You can’t trust him!”
“Even so..” Eric said, pulling both Incursio and Murasame from his body. “I won’t lose somepony I love again” The Shadow Man turned to the others with both weapons raised. “And I will protect them with everything I have.”
“Everything you have?” Celine asked, before glancing at Sombra. “If you try to protect her, you’re turning your back on him. Don’t act like you don’t care; I can sense the history between you two.”
“No..” Sombra said, tightening his grip on his swords. “He would definitely kill me to save her, Especially after what I did...”
“You’re right Sombra'' Eric said, rushing forward and swinging Murasame at the unicorn… only for Kodo to block him with his own sword. “I would kill you to save Luna''
“If you would turn your back on the many to save the few,” Kodo growled. “Then you are no better than Sombra or I were when we were pawns of Umbra! You are a disgrace to the rank of Captain!”
“I don’t care!” Eric shouted covering incursio in Armament Haki and slamming the hilt into the Pup’s stomach. “I will not lose the one I love again”
However, the pup was expecting it, and burst into smoke, spinning around Eric and suplexing him to the ground. He spun to his paws, growing in size as his pack link tendrils stabbed into Eric and drained his shadows’ magic. “What about the ones WE love?” Kodo snarled. “I will not lose them again either!”
“Then I will only ask this once of you,” Eric said, stabbing Murasame into the ground. “Stand down” The Shadow Man switched Incursio to his free hand before grabbing the Pack Link, his gauntlet glowing blue. “DIVIDE!
Just before his pack link was severed, Kodo let one more memory push through to Eric’s mind. His family arranged perfectly to resemble Eric. Kodo was Eric. Shiva was Luna, Celine was Rainbow Dash, and Luke was Sombra.
However the memory was shattered as Eric used his magic to remove it.
“I know you want me to be reasonable, Kodo,” Eric said, pulling the one cut killer from the ground. “But I won’t be swayed. The Shadow needs to protect his Princess of the Night” Eric said, bringing both blades down on the pup.
Kodo matched his strike with his own blades, and did not falter. “And the wolf will not abandon his pack for the one again,” Kodo replied, before letting loose with a bark of superheated smoke, launching Eric into the air.
“Forgive me, pup,” Eric Kicked the air combining both Moonwalk and Shave.
Kodo’s attention was drawn to the sound of metal hitting the ground behind him, turning around and he was met with both of Eric’s weapons. Without warning the Diamond Dog felt something being clamped on his wrist, on his wrist was a bracer made from Sea-prism stone
Growling, but undeterred, Kodo lashed out with his pack link, which the sea-prism couldn’t contain. Catching Eric with a collar, he slammed the shadow man into the ground, drawing away his magic and using it to blast him further into the ground. “You betray our pack?” Kodo seethed. “There is no forgiveness for that.”
“Within this virgin of dark cold ore who shall swallow even your screams with her embrace. Suffer in anguish as your entire body is stabbed and skewered:'' Eric chanted as shadow tendrils wrapped around the dog pulling him off of the Shadow Man.
Yet as the shadow tendrils lifted Kodo into the air, they burned with electricity. “Suffer as I suffer,” Kodo chanted back. “Feel as I feel.” Overwhelming pain flooded the shadow man’s senses, before Kodo slashed away the shadow tendrils and jumped back to gain some distance.
“Eric please, stop this” Sombra pleaded
Eric glared at the Unicorn before vanishing into the shadows
“Quick, Back to back,” Sombra ordered the Diamond Dog
Sombra and Kodo put their backs against one another, their swords gripped tightly in their hands. Kodo slammed the hilt of his sword against the cuff, but even with the power of the pack link, the sea prism held firm.
“Help me get this off!” Kodo said, showing the unicorn the Sea Prism Stone bracer
“I can't,” Sombra said, keeping his eyes trained on the shadows. “That’s one of Eric’s special…”
Before he could continue, Celine jumped in. With a snarl, she smashed Kodo’s wrist, breaking it. Kodo yowled as his wrist snapped under her blow. But with a quick yank, Celine pulled the cuff off her brother’s mangled claw, before healing the limb with a pack link. She spun, putting her own back to the two, and linking them together with another pack link, Kodo’s injury spinning in another energy ball that she was prepared to hurl into Eric’s face when he showed himself.
“Damn, Celine,” Kodo seethed, flexing his claw. “You couldn’t find another way?”
“And let this traitor get at you more easily?” Celine growled, her teeth bared at the shadows. “After the loyalty our mother showed him; constantly turning down Ryker to fight for him and the others?” She grit her teeth as her fur pulsed. “Celestial BLAZE!”
Her fur exploded with the light of a sun, chasing away the shadows and depriving Eric of his power source.
“Look, please don’t blame him,” Sombra insisted. “He’s lost a lot of people he cares about. Too many to count, he’s just a desperate man trying to protect what little he has left.”
Before Celine or Kodo could utter a word to argue, a silver sword burst from Sombra’s chest, behind the unicorn stood Eric with anger in his eyes.
“I’m sorry Sombra” Eric apologized pulling Incursio from the unicorn before looking towards the Diamond Dogs. “Please...Don’t make me kill you too”
Unfortunately Eric saw the anger and determination in their eyes. “You betrayed us,” Kodo growled. “To betray the pack is death!”
“So be it.” Eric rushed the two.
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With her fur still shining with light like a miniature sun, Celine deflected Eric’s attack, while Kodo leaped over her and carved his sword down Eric’s chest. At the same time, Luke seized Eric by the back, digging into the scars his parents had left on him.
“Not my children, you traitorous bastard,” Luke snarled, before dragging his claws down Eric’s back, reopening the wounds while Kodo hit Eric with the remains of the sea prism bracelet.
“Face your fears,” Kodo chanted, as a pack link stabbed into Eric’s head. As he tried to fight, the shadow man saw his deepest, darkest fear: His eyes grew wide as did his anger and desperation grow.
As the vision made him furious, Kodo, Celine and Luke continued their assault like wolves with a deer, tying him in tendrils that dug into his skin like the string-string fruit or Walter C. Dornez’s monofilament wires. Judging by the snarls on the dog’s faces, they were more than ready to cut him to ribbons for betraying their alpha.
However they soon were drawn to Eric’s Dragon Gauntlet, which was screaming the same word over and over again
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Magic wisps poured from Eric’s eyes as he unleashed his raw magic forcing all three of them away. “Hate me all you want,” Eric said, firing a tendril and retrieving his Murasame. “But I guarantee you would do the same if it was Shiva or Celine being held by him.”
“I did, and it ruined me!” Kodo snarled. “I won’t let you do the same thing to yourself!”
“Even if he did,” Luke growled. “I’d stop him, like I should’ve done the last time.”
“Shave,” Eric muttered rushing Luke at a blinding speed
His instincts took hold as he jumped back, unfortunately Eric still managed to nick his finger. Eric reappeared a good distance away looking back at the Diamond Dog with regret and remorse.
“W-What?” Luke mumbled, as his claw blackened with a curse.
“One-Cut Killer: Murasame” Eric said as he watched in sadness as the curse spread from the cut. “No matter how shallow the wound, as long as it cuts the target they will always die.”
Instantly, Kodo snagged Eric with a link that he tied to Luke. “He dies, you die!” Kodo snapped, as Eric felt the effect of the curse spread not just from Luke, but to him.
“But it doesn’t matter,” Eric said aiming his arm forward as a red ball of energy forms, rearing his fist back Eric strikes the orb launching a massive beam engulfing Luke, at the same time Eric seizes the link in his sacred gear and destroys it
All three were blinded by the light the beam gave off, once the light faded all they say was the curse claw of their father.
“Dad?” Kodo whispered, blinking in disbelief.
“D-Daddy?” Celine whimpered.
Reaching into his pocket Eric pulled out a black pocket watch, opening the watch the two Diamond Dogs saw a white orb flow from the hand to the watch.
“With your soul I can bring you back once this is over,” Eric whispered as he closed the watch and returned it to his pocket.
However, his words were lost on the mother diamond dog, who plowed into him with a howl of unbridled rage.
“I JUST GOT HIM BACK, YOU…” Shiva forewent curses, cussing him out in barks, growls and howls as she ripped, tore and gutted him with her claws. Her tendrils turned into bladed tentacles, stabbing into Eric’s wrists and pinning them down as Shiva eviscerated him, barely seeming to care that she was ripping apart shadows.
“Killing me won’t bring him back” Eric uttered out. “I’m the only one who knows the spell to bring him back” Eric began to whisper something else but Shiva heard none of it
Shiva silenced him by grabbing his jaw, slamming his head against the ground. “Even if I couldn’t read your mind and discover the magic,” she snarled. “I would NEVER accept that. My duty as Alpha is to put my own desires behind the needs of the many. Something you’ve proven you can’t do! Despite being given the rank of a leader, you are unworthy of it!” She slammed his head against the ground again and again with every word after. “JUST! LIKE! HIM!”
Her memory flashed, but Eric had no time for her stories. Instead, he had spent it whispering another spell.
“...I Call upon the Iron Maiden!”
Tendrils wrapped around her body encasing it in a shadow cocoon… only for tendrils of light to snag her. Kodo and Celine fought to hang onto her as she was dragged into the darkness. Kodo kept his eyes on Eric, trying to keep his mother out of the shadows while also being prepared for any attack.
Unfortunately the cocoon was inching closer. “I never wanted this to happen, stand down. That’s all you had to do” Eric said using his powers to pull the children into their own shadows
“FUCK YOU, YOU… EDGELORD!” Kodo screamed as he was dragged under. “YOU SIDED WITH RYKER! YOU LET HIM BREAK YOU! YOU…!” Then he was pulled under, and spoke no more.
“A man can have everything, and yet nothing if he has nopony to love” Eric said somberly before looking at Shiva, who was desperately clawing her way out of the cocoon. “I won’t deprive them of a father and a mother.” Eric dispelled his magic. Shiva came out barking like a rabid animal, only to accidentally lunge right into Eric’s Shadow Zone to be with her children
Eric turned to Ryker. “What now Ryker! Please return Luna to me,” Eric said desperation clear in his voice. “Whatever you ask of me I’ll do it just return Luna”
"Uh…" Ryker leaned back, "Luke is still alive, his soul needs to be carried to the afterlife so…" Ryker then spun around randomly.
Luco shook his head, but didn’t interfere. “You see that, Blazy…” he started to say, before noticing Vine was the only dragon there. “Er… Viney? You see that? That’s the power a woman really has over men. You let em stick their dicks in ya, and they become putty in yer hands.”
Vine hummed. “I… think it’s a lot more than that,” she said, taking a drag of her joint. “I don’t envy being in a hostage situation. For now, I’m willing to see how this plays out.” She settled back on a leaf-like cushion.
“Ryker please nopony has to do this,” Eric insisted. “Just stop this”
Ryker's facade broke for a split second showing a face of remorse and guilt. Ryker then shook his head, "I only need one being to die. Please Eric, my love for my daughter is like your love for Luna. "
“That’s kinda creepy,” Luco muttered. “You want to fuck your daughter?”
Vine hit Luco on the head, sending him into the ground like Elmer Fudd with the elephant before letting out a breath of calming herbs. “Ignore him,” she said in a soothing voice. “He’s a troll. His words are nothing but the pimples on a gnat’s ass. Breathe...” She breathed. “Breathe…”
Ryker began to breathe heavily and his eyes turned Ruby red. "I… Okay, okay, I'm fine, everything is cool." Ryker shook his head and his red eyes turned back to green. "I am sick Eric, corrupted by love and slowly dying. As this fight progresses I'm slowly going bloodlusted and INSANE!!! It's a curse that the Void Dweller gave me!" Ryker said, glitching out.
“Then End this” Eric pleaded.
Ryker had a tear in his eye, "I… Can't. I've only had one purpose for seven thousand years, to bring back my daughter." Ryker's eyes turned back to red. "And that is what I'm going to do…"
Before Ryker could speak any further an electric current was sent through him which only made him chuckle. Turning around he saw Luna had grabbed hold of his ankle and was sending trillions of volts through his body
Ryker then summons a jar of dirt, "Back in the dirt young lass," Ryker then puts her in the jar o' dirt.
“Hehe,” Luco tittered drunkenly, his head poking out of the ground. “Moon in a Mason Jar.”
"You get the reference?” Ryker said, tilting his head towards Luco.
Luco’s head spun in the ground. “I’m Discord’s Disciple,” he slurred. “I LURRRVE pop-culture re-reverends?”
“References?” Vine asked, puffing on her joint.
“That!” Luco said with a nod. “Yessir.”
"...Well then you're going to love this!" Ryker then struck a Jojo's Pose, his top half of his clothing shot off. Ryker's bulging muscles showed and purple Japanese letters flosted around his body. "STANDO POWAH!!!!"
Luco tittered, but before Ryker could attack...
“Don’t!” Eric yelled. “Give her back, Ryker.”
"THEN KILL SOMEONE!!!" Ryker roared.
“Fine,” a familiar voice growled.
Without warning Eric was shot in the back of his head. He tumbled to the ground, Shiva standing behind him holding a smoking gun.
"Get fucked!" Thanos cried out, "Sorry, I am legally obligated to say that when someone gets wrecked."
“But…” Vine blinked, trying to register Shiva’s presence. “You got sucked into his chest? How…?” She glanced at her joint. “This really is that good shit!”
“Or…” Kodo brought forth a pack link, which revealed what had happened:
Several minutes earlier… The Shadow Zone
Shiva pulled herself up before looking around, she saw nothing but an endless black void, debris floating aimlessly around.
“SHOW YOURSELF, TRAITOR!” Shiva howled.
“I never wanted this,” Eric’s voice replied. Though Shiva could neither smell him nor see him, she could feel his presence all around her as he spoke. “It was for that reason I kept her away from the tower.”
Shiva looked down with a growl. “All those offers Ryker gave me. All those chances to just walk away…” She looked up. “Did they mean NOTHING to you?”
“I’m sorry,” Eric’s voice whispered. “Truly I am.”
Without warning, Kodo and Celine appeared from behind one of the broken buildings.
“Mother!” Celine cried, racing to her side.
“Mom!” Kodo howled.
Shiva was at their side in an instant, holding them close, even as her arms trembled, knowing of the one member of their family that once again could not join them.
Eric’s form materialized in front of them, his body fading in and out with the surrounding shadows. Instantly, Shiva and Kodo blasted at him with beams of blue light, but their attacks merely caused the form to flicker and distort, like they were fighting a hologram.
“Damn you,” Kodo spat. “You’re going down the same road I did! It will lead you to nothing but ruin!”
“Save your breath, son,” Shiva growled. “It’s wasted on men like him.”
Eric reached into his pocket and pulled out the same black watch that took their father’s soul. “Had I wanted I would have split all three of you up to wander aimlessly within my Shadow Zone, none of you would have found each other unless I wished for it,” Eric said, dropping to the ground. “But...I don’t want this to continue.”
Off in the distance a deceased body began to float by before stopping in front of the Shadow man. “I will return what I have stolen from you.” Opening the watch the Diamond Dogs were shocked to see a transparent Luke appear before them.
Shiva, Kodo and Celine blinked, stunned at the male’s appearance. Luke instantly moved forward, only for his form to dissipate when his family tried to touch him. Kodo nearly whirled on Eric again, but Celine stopped him from responding, her brown eyes far more patient and willing to give Eric a chance.
“This was one of Umbra’s greatest spells,” Eric said as his eyes filled with magic. “This is going to feel very unpleasant.”
Luke huffed. “Yeah, cuz dying was such a pleasure cruise,” he snarked.
Eric forced his hand into the soul before lifting him up, however he felt no pain, he just felt like an ice cold hand was resting on his stomach. With soul in hand Eric shoved him into the dead body, Eric’s magic began to cover the body as it changed the Race, Height, weight, and even the gender of the body until it resembled the spitting image of the Diamond Dog before his second death.
“Now it’s up to you” Eric said looking towards the Diamond Dogs. “You must give him a reason to wake”
Shiva still watched Eric suspiciously, but turned her attention to the diamond dog, winding a tendril around his head. “Luke,” she whispered. “We survived so much together; Beast Breaker’s pits, the Elements of Harmony, the Changelings, Umbra…” She lowered her head. “It may be my duty to put my personal desires behind the needs of the pack, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t kill me every time.”
Kodo clutched his father’s claw. “Please, Dad,” he said. “I know what I did was wrong, trusting Umbra over Celestia… I always saw losing you as the biggest consequence for my idiocy.” He looked up at his dad. “Please. I’ll never fall to the path of darkness again. I’ll accept being hated by the rest, but… please let me at least have you.”
Celine took his other claw. “I thought I could come to terms with you leaving,” she said. “But when you showed up, and got me off that meteor…” She rested her head against his claw. “Don’t make me go through losing you again, Daddy. Please don’t!”
Their pack links spiraled around Luke, making him glow like a pokemon about to mega-evolve. Then… he straightened and let out a gasp.
“That’s twice now I’ve come back from the dead!” he stammered. “Experience is not improving!”
But his family didn’t care. Knocking him to the ground, they cuddled and whimpered around him, sobbing in relief.
“I’m glad you’re alive,” Eric said before getting to his feet. “But nothing in this world is free.”
Shiva’s ears flattened. “What do you want?” she growled.
Eric pulled his coat back showing a single revolver at his waist, Pulling the gun from it’s holster, Eric loads it with a single bullet before turning it over and handing it to the Diamond Dogs.
“I want you to put a bullet into my skull” Eric said calmly
Celine blinked. “W-What…?” she started to say.
“Done,” Kodo said, snatching the gun up and aiming it at his head.
“Whoa-whoa!” Celine yelped, grabbing the gun before Shiva gripped the barrel, halting their quarrel. When she spoke, her voice was cold, but even.
“Why?” she asked.
“That won’t work in here Kodo” Eric said before shaking his head. “You need to shoot the real me, this is just my manifestation in the shadows.” Eric then looks to the Pack leader and looks at her with pure regret and remorse. “Because my mind is broken, I’ve betrayed my friends and I’ve taken away the one you love. I’m not fit to breathe at this point.”
“On that, we agree,” Kodo said darkly.
“Kodo!” Celine barked in protest. “Would you rather the Elements killed you instead of giving you the chance to redeem yourself?”
“Don’t answer that,” Shiva said sharply to both of them. “Remember, Celine; this isn’t about personal wants. This is about the pack.” She pulled the gun out of Kodo’s hand before turning to Eric. “You let us out of here, and we will do what needs to be done.”
Eric walks up to Shiva before clasping her paws around the gun. “I’m going to let you out of here, When that happens get as close as possible and shoot me in the head” Eric said stepping away from the Alpha. “This bullet is made from Sea Prism Stone” Eric explained before shoving his hands in his pockets. “I trust you the most Shiva, it has to be you. I’ve hurt you and yours enough.”
Shiva took a slow breath, and clicked the gun’s hammer back. “Thank you, Eric,” she said.
Shadows began to swirl around the four of them. “And if possible, please heal Sombra and tell him to not bring me back”
Kodo turned to Celine. “You hear that, Celine?” he asked. “When we get out of here, get to Sombra and help him.”
Celine gazed up at everyone with hurt doe eyes. “This doesn’t feel right,” she said.
“No,” Shiva admitted. “But it has to be done.”
“Thank you,” Eric said as they were engulfed in shadow
When they emerged from Eric’s Shadow Zone they saw Ryker putting Luna back into a Jar of Dirt and Eric on the verge of a mental breakdown.
“Don’t!” Eric yelled. “Give her back, Ryker.”
"THEN KILL SOMEONE!!!" Ryker roared.
“Fine,” Shiva growled.
Pulling the trigger, Shiva sent the Sea Prism stone bullet into the back of Eric’s head. Eric fell to his knees before falling flat onto the ground
“I’m….Sor…” Eric whispered as the light left his eyes
"Get fucked!" Thanos cried out, "Sorry, I am legally obligated to say that when someone gets wrecked."
“But…” Vine blinked, trying to register Shiva’s presence. “You got sucked into his chest? How…?” She glanced at her joint in understanding. “This really is that good shit.”
Kodo showed the whole thing to the terra-drake with a pack link, while Celine avoided her pack’s gaze, focusing on healing Sombra. Shiva, however, turned the gun on Ryker, who made Luna disappear into a small portal.
“E… Eric,” Sombra grunted through the pain
“Sh, don’t move,” Celine said as she worked her magic.
“He… needs… help” Sombra said trying to crawl to his friend.
Celine’s ears flattened. “I can’t do that,” she said, her voice cracking as she linked to Sombra, letting him see the conversation they had. Eric’s final words.
“I’m going to let you out of here. When that happens, get as close as possible and shoot me in the head. And if possible, please heal Sombra and tell him to not bring me back.”
“I… don’t care. He’s the… only family… I have left,” Sombra said, trying to get to his feet only to be knocked out by Celine, as she let Shiva’s play dead spell seep into her link.
“I’m sorry,” she whispered, struggling not to cry.
"You know, I just want to say that… Grievous is in Minecraft land…" Ryker then took a sip of his smoothie. "Which has NOTHING to do with the situation at all! Hah! I'm so random!"
Shiva sighed, lowering her gun. “You got your last murder,” she said. “Now let the rest of us go.”
"Alright, let's-" Ryker opened a book and saw something. "...GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!!!! THAT WASN'T THE LAST ONE!!!! I need one more!" Ryker roared in anger. "FUCK!!!!"
“WHAT?!” Shiva, Luke and the others yelled.
"I'm sorry Shiva, so sorry, I kinda need one more… Then you can go scot…" Ryker's eyes glowed, signalling that he's going deeper into insanity.
“Oh, no…” Shiva moaned, shielding Luke with her body, while Vine rose up from her cushion. Luco blinked out of his stupor, and teleported away with a flash of fireworks.
“I need… One…. More…. ANYONE!!!” Ryker said with a smile. Suddenly, Black had a migraine, and Ryker’s laughter filled his head. Black roared in pain as he clutched the side of his head, dropping out of Ultra Instinct and into his base form.
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“EYEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! TURN TO THE DARK SIDE YOUNG MICHAEL!!!!” Ryker ordered, “FEEL THE HATE FLOW THROUGH YOU!!!!!” Ryker cackled.
Vine watched the whole thing in horror. “STOP!” she cried, before clenching her teeth. “I’ll…” a sudden calm came over her. She took a long drag on her joint.
“GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!” Black roared as he fell onto his knees, writing in pain as he began to shake.
“Thanos is your rival, you will never surpass him with your… Puny strength. I can give you more…” Ryker’s voice echoed in Black’s head.
“That's… that's not t-true! I don’t want y-your strength!” Black shouted as he slowly began to rise into the air.
“You are nothing, you will always be nothing, without your Ki you’re just a weakling. You are but a leaf to be stepped on in the fall, Katakuri already crushed you, Eric crushed you… it’s only a matter of time before Thanos crushes you as well… “ Ryker said in a low chuckle.
“GET OUT!!” Black roared as he transformed into a Super Saiyan 2. His cries of agony began to shake the world as rocks shattered underneath him.
“YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE BLACK!!! YOU’RE NOTHING!!!! A LOSER, A FAILURE YOU NEVER WON AGAINST ANY DISPLACED!!!! You might as well seal your universe off and go crawl in a hole and die! But I can fix you, you can become the strongest! You can become stronger than Thanos!” Ryker said, his voice getting louder.
Black then began to get flashbacks to his time before being displaced, the time where he was outcast, his ‘friends’ using him only to throw him out.
“Stop thinking that way,” a new voice said in Black’s head. Smaller, but kinder. The voice of Celine. “I may not have known you for long, but you aren’t among those people. The ones here haven’t rejected you; they don’t want to use you. You are our friend!”
“Ah… Celine… What a wonderful failure! Black is a stupid monkey, even the guards said it when they saw him. And ponies are the kindest race out there, it’s because you lack aggression, you lack the will to WIN. That’s why you’ll never unlock Conqueror’s Haki, because you're no king, you’re nothing but a low class monkey.” Ryker taunted, immediately the voices of all who defeated Black, all who insulted him.
“Who are you talking to?” Celine replied. “Me? Him? Or yourself?”
Immediately, Ryker found himself back in that village. The day Kaido had raided and killed everyone. Rainbow Dash’s head bouncing away. Luna giving him her blood. Apple Bloom abandoning him.
“Ah… Trip down memory lane! Oh how I love that memory, it reminds me how I can only trust my family!” Ryker exclaimed, “Oh ponies, so kind yet so harsh. Me and you are alike Black, thrown away and cast aside like trash. The difference is that I have power, I can punish those around me, you can have power too you know…” Ryker mused.
“That power means nothing!” Celine insisted. “Not when you use it to only hurt and destroy.”
Undeterred, Ryker put more work into the Saiyan. Black roared in agony as the intensity grew as red lightning began to arch around him, the sky darkening as the Saiyan cried in pain. But… it all came to a stop. The Saiyan dropped out of the sky, falling onto the ground and onto his knees as he began to gasp for air. Luna Black ran over, but as she got close, she noticed his physique changed slightly.
The Saiyan had a slightly bulker build with veins popping out in places. But as the Saiyan slowly got up, he became silent.
“...Black…?” Thanos said, looking at the Saiyan. Approaching him, “Buddy? Buddy ol’ pal?”
He lifted his head, and to everyone's horror, a cursive R was planted on the Saiyans forehead.
The Saiyan answered her with a laugh, it growing in volume as it became devilish.
Majin Goku Black… was born...
Ryker began to laugh psychotically, and the whole island tilted sideways, Entity immediately stuck his scythe down to not slide off the island. “LET THE GAME BEGIN!!! EYEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!”
“Black, come on man, did you really listen to Ryker’s Sith mind tricks?” Thanos put a hand on Black’s shoulder. “Come on!”
Majin Black turned to the Titan, revealing his slitted pupils, “Oh… you're so wrong.”
“How many times do I have to teach you this old man? Get out of Black’s head,” Thanos sighed, somewhat annoyed at this, he then walked around and stood in front of him. “Black, be serious for once, this is coming from me of all people. This is a big bad-” Thanos then turns to Vine, “Oh and by the way you have a kickass name that fits,” Thanos said to the drake.
“Oh, thanks,” Vine replied.
The Titan was interrupted as he was punched in the gut, he turned to see a grinning Majin Black. “Your so predictable, letting yourself open to attacks as you get distracted.” Majin Black scolded
“Your mom’s predictable!” Thanos decked Majin Black in his schnoz, “Bitch ass motherfucker! No offence Shiva, Celine, by the way you two are absolutely adorable together.” Thanos complemented the two, even though they were currently stuck.
Black swung his head back, nailing the Titan in the forehead as this sent Thanos flying off in the horizon.
“Wee!” Thanos said as his voice faded away. “eeeEEEEE!!!” Thanos comes back and headbutts Majin Black, his head slamming into Majin Black’s. Sending the Saiyan crashing into ground, “No head is as hard as mine, I am so hard- Hold up that sounds gay.”
“I don’t know,” Vine tempted, wagging her tail at him. “With the right woman in front of ya, you just sound hot.”
“...Don’t tempt me.” Thanos said, frowning.
“And more importantly, don’t distract him!” Shiva barked, pointing at Black.
Indeed, the dark Saiyan got up and revealed to Thanos, he took no damage from his attacks. Transforming into Super Saiyan 4, he charged forward and grabbed Thanos by the neck and began to drag the Titan across the Island. Finishing it off by throwing him into a nearby hill and sending a devastating Ki blast.
“OH THAT’S IT!!!” Thanos was now in Burst Man, and decking Majin Black again in his nose. Burning it. “Fuck off!” Thanos grabbed Black and flew off into the skies so they could fight.
“The both of you, that's enough!!” Luna Black cried out as she then spread her wings, taking off and following the two.
“FUCK OFF!!!” Both of them roared at Luna Black before commencing their fight.
“You gon’ get it!” Thanos threatened, kicking Majin Black in his rib and hitting his chin. “ATATATATATA!!!!” Thanos began to box the shit out of Majin Black, puncing him over and over again before kicking him away.
The dark Saiyan then let out a burst of energy that created a shockwave, pushing the Titan back. Majin Black then began to charge a Kamehameha, looking at Thanos with a devilish grin. “Time to play catch.” Majin Black said as he looked down to the island. The Dark Saiyan then turned to the island and shot a massive Kamehameha at it, the attack flying past Luna Black
“Bet!” Thanos flew down to the Kamehameha, “Now it’s your turn!” Thanos then roared in effort as he flung it back to Majin Black. “I love this game!”
The Saiyan smirked as to Thanos’s surprise, Black flew through the beam as it flowed around him. It did nothing to stop him as he landed a devastating gut punch into the Titan. It being followed by multiple of them as the two began to fall back down to the Island.
Thanos grunted in pain, before covering his fists in Ryou Haki. Pulling a sledgehammer down onto Majin Black, he slammed the corrupted Saiyan into the ground. Following after the Saiyan and kicking the Saiyan down into a cavern, Ryou Haki bypasses his defences and makes it so that his lungs get kicked. As the two fell into the cavern Ryker began to tap dance, Elia was clapping.
Lucci glared at Elia, “What? He’s good,” Elia complemented.
“Indeed I am!” Ryker explained, getting a Top Hat out of thin air, and began to dance like a certain frog.
Shiva glared at him for a solid minute, before turning away and walking off, digging a hole in the ground, and sticking her head into it. The earth rumbled with her shriek of frustration.
“Join me Luco! It’s not like you have anything better to do!” Ryker said with a grin, getting a cane as well.
“You want me to dance with the man who murdered millions?” Luco demanded indignantly… before pulling out his own top hat and cane. “What took you so long to ask?” He promptly began tap dancing side by side with Ryker.
“I am a slow man,” Ryker said, smiling more.
As the bicker above continued, the fight between Majin Black and Thanos began to escalate as the corrupted Saiyan transformed into Super Saiyan Rose. This took the Titan off guard as he was then getting overpowered by Majin Black. Thanos couldn’t keep up with the Saiyan as he was kicked into the side of the canyon.
Black landed in front of him, pointing two fingers towards Thanos as 5 ki rings shot forward, flying onto the Titan and onto his neck, ankles, and wrists. They tightened and locked Thanos into the side of the canyon. Thanos formed a ki blade and brought it up into the air, getting ready to strike down the Titan.
“That’s enough!” Elia cried out, making her way down the cavern.
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The corrupted Saiyan stopped in his tracks as he slowly brought his ki blade down. Majin Black slowly turned his head over his shoulders and looked to Elia with a smirk.
“B-Black…? W-We can talk about this…” Elia stammered, backing away from Majin Black.
“So… you wanna play the hero?” The corrupted Saiyan asked as he turned around. “Alright… let me show you what happens to people who decide to play the hero, John.” Black said as he began to slowly walk towards Elia.
“L-leave me alone!” Elia summoned a blade of Wakfu and flew at Black readying her sword and prepared to slam it into Black.
The corrupted Saiyan merely scoffed as he used his free hand, slapping the sword out of her hand. This took her by surprise as the Saiyan grabbed her by the mouth and lifted her in the air. Majin Black then glanced at the group above and to Thanos. “Really, no one is willing to save her?” Black mocked.
“DON’T YOU DARE LAY A FINGER ON HER YOU BASTARD!!!!” Entity bursts from the ceiling, covered in flames, he then flung his scythe at Majin Black.
The Saiyan let out a hearty laugh and disappeared, Entity growled. The Saiyan reappeared in front of the minecraftian, and plunged his ki blade into his gut. Entity made an ‘Ough’ sound.
“ENTITY!!!” Thanos cried out, he then exerts more pressure into the bonds, slowly managing to do it.
Majin Black turns to the rest of the group, “If any of you decide to interfere, the same will happen to you.” Black laughed as he turned to Elia.
“I WILL GUT YOU LIKE A FISH YE DAFT CUNT!!!!” Thanos roared as he tried to release himself from the bonds. He was doing it, the rings started to crack.
Majin Black turned to the Titan, firing another ki ring and this time it covered his mouth. He tightened the bonds, drawing a little blood this time. “Oh, I’ll get to you in, aminute.” Majin Black laughed as he twisted the ki blade in Entity’s gut before pulling it out. Entity then falls down and hits the ground with a thud.
Glancing around, Kodo snuck over to Thanos, and linked with him. With the pup’s strength empowering him, Thanos then breaks his bonds. Going to Entity’s side, and checking his pulse. But as he did that…. Majin Black looked down on the Titan. “Oh don’t worry… he’ll respawn…” Majin Black laughed.
“You have a point but fuck you!” Thanos snapped, he then searched Entity for an Enchanted Golden Apple, while Kodo tried healing him with the link.
“As for you,” Black sang as he turned to Elia, who was hitting the Saiyans arm and letting out muffled screams. “Ryker does need one more after all.” Black said as he readied the Ki blade.
Elia tried to bite Majin Black and succeeded, biting into him like a feral hound. At the same time, vines wrapped around Black’s arm, restraining him as Vine stepped up, the earth forming a staircase that allowed her to ascend to Black’s level.
Black swore under his breath as he let go of Elia. “I tried to be nice…” Black muttered, the temperature slowly beginning to increase.
Vine shrugged. “It’s my job, big boy,” she replied. “And while I ain’t Blazy…”
“Oh hey Vine, how’s it goin’?” Thanos waved at Vine before feeding Entity the God Apple.
“Pretty good,” Vine replied. “Just gonna show Black here that just because someone’s second best don’t mean they ain’t something… nest?” She took a drag on her joint. “Eh, let me work on that.”
“Cool, uh… WAIT WHAT’S THAT-” Thanos tried to warn Vine but a clone of Ryker kicked Vine down deeper into the cavern.
Though Vine hadn’t noticed, flames had started to burn away at the vines. For a moment, everyone stared down in shock at where the terra-drake had gone… before another Vine stepped up next to Ryker, staring down at where her clone had gone.
“I’d hate to be her,” Vine noted with a grin, taking another drag on her joint.
“...Good thing I have me Irish Whiskey,” The Clone of Ryker opens a bottle and begins to take sip of it, “Tastes just like home,”
“Ah,” Vine nodded in understanding. “Mahogany…” she added with a smile.
Being the absolute troll that he is, Thanos squinted his eyes. “Mahogany…” Thanos said, TFS flashbacks playing in his head.
Vine merely chuckled, taking a particularly loud puff of smoke. Though it was hard to notice, the smoke was a pinkish hue. But as everyone breathed it in, their minds began to get foggy. Their limbs drooped, and an unexplainable urge came over them all to just drop to the ground and sleep.
“I’m just gonna… Hit the-” Thanos then sleeps standing up, like a damn horse.
Black stood up, a thin ki barrier protecting him from the smoke. Vine rolled her eyes at his resistance.
“Come on, Black,” she invited. “Take a load off. Calm down a touch. You might enjoy it.”
"Sure why not, in return, ILL BURN YOU TO ASH!!" Majin Black roared as two whips of fire formed in the Saiyans hands. He wiped around the vines trapping him as they bagan go burn away.
Vine sighed, her grin fading. “And here I was hoping plants would do the trick,” she said. “Oh, well…” Taking a breath, she dropped down into the hole her clone had dropped into. As she fell, the stones shifted around her, before rocketing up to catch Black, entrapping him in the earthen material.
A few seconds pass, before the ground began to rumble. The dirt rising into the air before a massive explosion followed. Majin Black flew out of it unscathed as he looked down among the island again. He cupped his hands together and brought them to his side as he charged a devastating Kamehameha.
Vine tilted her head before glancing at the island. “Hold on,” she said. “You’re not really gonna…”
Elia crawled out to land and wiped sweat from her forehead… She finds herself in front of Ryker. “Yeet!” Ryker then throws her into the Kamehameha, grinning wildly.
“HELL NO!” Vine yelled, snagging Elia with her vines, and yanking her to her side.
"IT'S THE END FOR YOU, HHAAAAAAAAA!!!" Black threw the blast forward as it shot towards the island, growin into the side of a small village.
“FOR FUCK’S SAKE!!!!” Ryker then slammed his body into Vine. However, the terra-drake… matched him? In that moment, Ryker and Vine locked eyes, and in her eyes, the Irish King saw a protective anger that had only shined in those glazed eyes once.
At the same time, Vine turned her gaze to the kamehameha flying at her, and her eyes glowed like solar beams. Her beam matched Black’s… and canceled it out.
“What? You didn’t know?” Vine asked, grinning at Black’s look of confused rage.
“Three Tails hasn’t released any stories about the terra-drakes yet!” Luco replied from the side.
“Who’s...?” Vine asked, before shaking her head. “Whatever. Either way… terra-drakes are designed to protect the earth and all it’s living creatures. If you’re looking to bust a planet…” she shook her head. “I’m sorry, but I can’t let that happen.”
“Women,” Ryker scoffed, his eyes turning full red he turned to Elia and yanked Elia close to him using threads. “GET OVER HERE!!!! FINALLY I WILL MEET MY DAUGHTER!!!! Sorry Elia, not sorry!” Ryker brought out Enma and readied himself to slay the Eliatrope.
However, Vine saw what he was doing, and threw herself forward. “If someone’s dying,” she said calmly. “It’s me.” Only for Thanos to come in like Officer Earl and tackle both Elia and Vine out of the way.
“I WANNA KILL SOMEONE!!!” Ryker whined, he then went to his knees and hit the ground with his fist. “I WANNA I WANNA I WANNA I WANNA I WANNA!!!!” Ryker wailed in anguish.
“You’re absolutely pathetic,” Shiva grumbled from the side.
“Would you do this if you mate, and children vanished?”
“No! Why do you think Luke was dead when I showed up?” Shiva demanded.
“Oh, you would, fucking literal bitch.” Ryker snapped back, “I WANNA KILL SOMEONE!!!! I’d even take Link, and he’s pathetic!”
Black used instant transmission to appear next to Elia, "Boo," Black Said as he grabbed her by the neck. Vine, however, grabbed his arm, and all three were teleported away.
As they reappeared, Vine realized where she appeared as she saw the sun was incredibly bright and it was night all the sudden. 'Welcome to the moon, Vine. 'Black said telepathically
Vine hummed. “Cool,” she replied, a bouquet of flowers forming around her snout. Instantly, she lifted up two moon rocks, and made a Goku Black sandwich.
Ryker slowly crawled towards Elia while she was occupied, “Finally, I got to kill a woman!” Ryker raised his blade, “Again!” As he got close… His teeth got sharper and his red eyes glowed brighter. “You’re gonna be the sacrifice!”
“Nope,” Vine said, yanking Elia away with a moon rock platform.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” The whole island then leveled up, the island splits apart into bits and pieces as Ryker roared in anger. Energy of Destructions formed around him as he snarled at everything, “I WILL RIP OFF YOUR CLAWS AS SHOVE THEN SO FAR UP YOUR ASS!!!!”
“Kinky,” Vine replied.
Ryker roared in frustration at this, and shot a beam at Vine. However, it bounced off her hide. She giggled.
“I did mention I was built to stop planet busters, right?” she asked.
“What about Multiverse busters?” Ryker snapped back, I defeated Galactus, I defeated Jiren, Beerus, and even the mighty Charavatin,” A hand was put on Ryker’s shoulder.
“Would you like to repeat that you son of a bitch?!” Ryker was then punched by… Asura, the force made his neck snap towards Shiva.
“I will strangle a baby if I… Baby…” Ryker slowly turned towards Kodo with murderous intent.
Kodo merely growled at him, his fur smoking and flickering with lightning.
“No,” Shiva growled. “No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no….”
“Oh Kodo… Would you like to join your step father?” Ryker cooed, tilting his head as he summoned Shisui.
“I WILL RIP YOUR DICK OFF IF YOU TRY, YOU CUNT!” Shiva roared, blasting her pack links at him.
“KINKY!!! SHARK ON DARTS!!!!” Ryker then spun like a drill, shooting towards Shiva instead of Kodo. The Energy of Destruction surrounded him and obliterated the pack links as they touched his body.
For a moment, Shiva kept trying to hit him, undeterred… until Luco dropped in front of him.
“Yoink,” Luco teased, before, with a flash of fireworks, Shiva, Kodo, Celine, Luke… even Vine, who was watching Asura with intrigue… all vanished.
Ryker stood there before going to his knees, dropping out of his mini-form. “Why. Can’t. Things. Go. According. To. Plan?!”
“Because you’re an asshole?” Luco offered. But when Ryker spun to him, Luco was gone.
“I CANT ARGUE WITH THAT!!!” Ryker said, “You have a good ass point right there! Now where is Elia?” Thanos said, turning around.
Luco reappeared, holding the Eliatrope. “Oh, you mean… this Elia?” he teased, shaking her by the neck before gripping her shoulders. “Toro-toro!” he tempted, swinging her like a bullfighter with a red cape.
While he was distracted Lucci appeared before Ryker, stepping on his foot. Ryker gasped in horror and knew what was coming, “Sai Dai Rin… ROKUOGAN!!!!” A devastating shockwave pierced through his body, Ryker then coughed an ungodly amount of blood. Lucci then stepped off of Ryker and he took two steps back before going to his knees, then on all fours. Blood seeped from his mouth and it hit the floor.
“Way to go Lucci!” Elia said, pumping her fist up as Ryker coughed blood once more.
Ryker then lunged up and grabbed Lucci by his neck, a red aura surrounding him. “Oh… I will rip out your spine and shove it up the dragon's ass, I will rip off Link’s head and slam it into Shiva’s corpse. I will murder you.” Ryker snarled as his grip tightened around Lucci’s neck.
“Oh nigga,” Lucci squeaked, Ryker readied his hand to pierce through his body and grab his heart… only for a burst of fireworks to replace Lucci with a blow up doll with a nuke strapped between it’s fake boobs.
Ryker stood there…. Silent. He didn’t blink, breathe, or move. “Where’s my fucking gun?” Ryker grabbed his gun and shoved it upon mouth , tempting to pull the trigger. Withaa grew and threw it to space, “I will go to an orphanage and drench the children in the staff’s blood. I will make sure that they suffer as I did, because apparently I can’t do shit to these weaklings.”
“Or maybe, you figure out that’s how all these displaced felt about you,” Luco replied.
“DIE!!!” Ryker shot a Hakai at Luco, the Energy of Destruction threatening to wipe out Luco’s mind, body, and soul. But, of course, the Disciple of Discord teleported away once again.
“Oh, hello there.” Someone said as Luco reappeared. Before Luco could turn, he was kicked away and Elia was yanked out his grasp. Before they could comprehend what happened, a death curdling scream was heard, echoing throughout the world. They turn to see Majin Black standing there with a devilish grin holding Elia by the through, a ki blade going straight through her heart. Her screams were silenced when Majin Black increased his strength on her throat, a deafening crack echoed throughout the battlefield. “Oops… looks like I put in a bit too much strength in that.
Suddenly there was a storm of Dark Ki surrounding Ryker. “YEEESSSS!!!!! THE TIME HAS COME EXECUTE ORDER SIXTY NINE!!!!” Thanos got up from the cavern, groggy after that nap.
“Okay, Vine come over here,” Thanos said wobbling, before going flat on his face.
“I CAN FINALLY SEE MY DAUGHTER!!!!” Ryker roared in delight, the Dark Ki storm formed into a portal and it forced Ryker back. “Come here… Nora,” Ryker slowly approached the portal as it pushed against him, as he did so. Lucci crawled after him.
“No… You… Don’t!” Lucci groaned, he was then kicked by Ryker as he approached the portal to the Dark Realm.
“Seven thousand years of killing, seven thousand years of guilt and regret… It all ends now…” Ryker said with a sadistic smile, he was but inches to the portal, “Bring me to Nora!” Ryker then went into the portal and it closed shut. Everything was silent, Entity looked at Elia’s corpse.
“We… Lost…” Entity said silently, he then dropped to his feet. “We lost… It was all for nothing! Ryker won!”
Suddenly, there was a burst of energy around Majin Black, the Saiyan roaring in pain as dark ki left his body as an explosion. The dust cloud shortly fell afterwards to reveal Black in his normal state on the ground unconscious, the cursive R now gone.
Shiva reappeared over Black, grimacing. “I should leave you, traitor,” she growled, lifting her link. “But if you were brainwashed against your will…” she sighed, and started to work on healing him.
In the depths of Black’s mind, his surroundings showing the dark future with his wrist being binded to the ground. Black saw the white wolf, her arms lifted as she slowly but steadily set rubble into place, trees back into the ground. Her back was to him, but he could feel her energy pulsing through his body, healing his wounds, despite having a cold edge of bitterness.
The Saiyan winced as he looked down to his hands, his chains being cut off. “You have every right to hate me…” Black mutters as the surroundings slowly begin to change.
“Do I?” Shiva asked softly. She didn’t turn to him. “Part of me was hoping that Ryker brainwashed you. That there was a part of you… beating on walls from the inside. Unable to stop yourself, but… unable to do anything.” She looked back to him, her brown eyes dissuading any lies. “Was I wrong?”
Black grimaced as the landscape flashed with memories: his fight against Thanos. Him killing Elia. “It was like hell, I was watching everything, my voice was muffled as I saw my… myself causing these atrocities… again…” Black explained.
Shiva’s eyes softened with sympathy. She nodded, as an image of her own formed on the field: Kodo, but larger. Darker. His snout was set in a grimace of pain, but his eyes flashed green and purple, and an outline of Sombra, laughing cruelly, enveloped his form. Shiva gazed at it with pain.
“I know that feeling,” she said gently. As she shut her eyes, and the image of the corrupted Kodo faded away, the cold tinge of bitterness left her energy. Yet, there was still something wrong with her energy; like it was being held back against a wall. She turned to Black, with the sharp eyes of a Queen.
“Just tell me,” she said. “That if Ryker comes back through that portal, and he still intends to kill us all, you won’t stand against us again.” She offered her claw. “I’ll be with you this time.”
Black’s gazed at the ground as he stared at the now fixed future. He looked to Shiva’s claw before looking into her gaze. With sudden determination, his gaze hardened as he lifted his hand, gripping her claw. “You’ve got my word. I put my soul on it.”
Shiva’s tail gave one wag, and she shook his hand, as they left the mental realm with a flash of light.
A distance from the portal Sombra slowly opened his eyes and made his way over to Eric. “You saved me..countless times. “Sombra said as dark magic engulfed his hand. Sombra clenched his chest before pulling a transparent aura from his body. “Now...Let...me..return..” Sombra ripped the aura from his body revealing it to be his soul. “The favor” Sombra said weakly as he fell to the ground.
The hand holding his soul went into Eric’s body and began healing him, Inhaling a large gasp of air Eric looked at the ground confused. Getting to his feet he saw Sombra on the ground Dead.
“No..” Eric said lifting his friend, his brother. “Why...Why couldn’t you have just left me to my death”
Eric turned to the portal leading the the Dark Realm, setting Sombra down Eric made his way towards the portal
The Dark Realm.
It was all white and black, there were husks of the damned walking about. It reminded Ryker of the land of the Forgotten, Ryker looked around. “Whew… That… Was exhausting, took a lot of energy out of me.” Ryker looked around and noticed that he was in a graveyard. “Nora!” Ryker called out, his voice echoing across the dimension.
“Nora it’s me, Ryker! I am your father!” Ryker then walked around the graveyard, “It doesn't make sense, it says I would be able to reach my daughter when I asked for it too.” Ryker then looks up and sees a skeleton on a cross, he then looks down at the plaque it read…
“Nora O’Brian.”
“Cause of Death - Starvation.”
“Age of Death 13.”
Ryker gasped and looked up at the cross, “No… No, no, no, no! ” Ryker reached to the skeleton and yanked the skeleton of his daughter to him. Ryker began to hug his daughter, “No, no, no, no… All those people I’ve killed… The friendships I’ve severed. It was all for nothing!” Ryker said shakely, he rocked the skeleton back and forth. Saying no repeatedly, he killed millions of people, destroyed civilizations, killed children, all of that… For nothing.
He killed everyone for nothing, he was a monster, a demon, he was a freak! Ryker dropped Nora and the voices of Shiva and the others rang in his head. He then began to claw at the sides of his head, “No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!” Ryker’s aura began to flare up, purple Ki surrounding him. “No, no, no, no, no, no, no,n no….” The purple Ki began to form into a sphere and it began to expand. Obliterating everything surrounding it.
“NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!! NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!” And then… The Dark Realm was destroyed.
Ryker shot out from a portal and rolled to his feet, chanting. “I’m a monster, a freak, a demon, I’m a monster, a freak, a demon.” Ryker chanted, “I killed everyone… For nothing… The people I viciously murdered… For nothing! Every night I think of those I killed, I believed that it was for a cause the only cause…”
“...” Thanos was silent, too shocked to even say anything. “R… Ryker…” Thanos reached out a hand towards Ryker.
“And now?” Shiva asked, her voice expressionless.
“Since I have nothing, I’ll destroy everything!” Ryker said, completely insane, “I MEAN EYEHEHAHAHAHHA!!! Might as well finish what you started!” Ryker went to his feet and got a bottle, popping the cork he then downed the bottle.
“Maybe,” Shiva said, before extending her claws. “Everyone… this is our last shot.” Her pack links flared out. “Either give me your power, or let this psychopath win, kill us all...” She grimaced. “And continue to use that annoying-as-ass laugh.”
Ryker is surrounded by an aura, an aura of Divine Light. He was then surrounded by energy of Destruction, adopting his Destroyer Form, six balls of Hakai surrounded Ryker. And they went in front of Ryker, combining and expanding into a huge ball, the skies began to darken and everyone was on the meteorite. Ryker’s eyes glowed red with Dark Ki and insanity as the area around him turned into dust.
At the same time, Shiva was surrounded by an aura of her own. Her links spread out almost like a mane of light, connecting to the others, and causing her to grow like Kodo had. As she rose to match and even surpass Ryker’s height, a ball of light formed in her jaws, shimmering with every color in the spectrum. Shiva’s eyes turned completely black, and the world around her stabilized, combatting Ryker's destruction.
Black woke up, slowly standing up to see what was happening. He saw Shiva using her pack links and using everyone's power. He grunted as he raised his hand and grabbed the pack link. "Take it all Shiva…" Black grunted as he transformed into Super Saiyan Rosé.
Thanos went to his full power, Lucci and Entity did the same, “TAKE OUR POWER!!!” They all cried out, going to their full power.
“TAKE DE BOWAH OF EBOLAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Elae roared, going to Super Ebola Three, Brudus howled and poured his power in as well.
Vine gripped Shiva’s link tight, the link turning green as she poured her power into it. “The earth stands with you,” she said.
Eric walked up behind Shiva and placed a hand on Shiva’s link which surprised her. “As does the Shadows” Eric said pouring Every ounce of power and strength into the Diamond Dog
Luco gripped a link, the colors of chaos morphing and shifting into the link. “So we’ll have a tomorrow to fight again,” he declared.
Suddenly, Blazy Blue appeared next to him, her talon closing over a link as well. She shared a small smile with her father, before the two of them turned to Shiva with confident grins.
Deity Link raised his hands to provide magic and the last remains of Black’s ki he lended him in that one battle.
As Shiva reared up, a giant wolf of light, she let loose with a howl, enveloping herself and the others in a blinding aura of light, expanding outward like a bomb.
The ball of destruction expanded, “He shot the wave of Destruction back at the attack, Destruction against Life. Unfortunately for Shiva and the others, Destruction was winning, “YOU CAN’T BEAT ME!!! I HAVE THE POWER OF A MAN WHO'S LOST EVERYTHING!!!”
“Well, let us show you the power of a man who protects! I am fighting for my friends and my daughter back at home!” Thanos roared, using more power.
"And that's why you'll lose! I FIGHT FOR THE ONES I'VE FAILED TO PROTECT, AND FOR THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY I HAVE NOW!!!!" Black roared as he went Kaio-Ken Times 65.
“I am fighting to save the Multiverse from freaks like you!” Lucci declared, charging up and going Kaio-Ken times thirty.
“I am fighting to see my loved ones!” Entity shot back, growling.
“I AM FIGHTIN FOR DA QUEEN!!!!” Elae declared.
“FOR JOHN!!!” Brudus barked.
“I’m fighting for the loves I have lost,” Luke said.
“And the love I hope to regain,” Kodo added.
“And the bond that will never be broken,” Celine agreed.
“I fight for tomorrow,” Luco said. “And all the fun it will bring.”
“Mm,” Blazy said, before pausing and realizing she was already giving her power. “Fuck it,” she said. “I’m fighting so I may fight again tomorrow.”
Katakuri was now next to Blazy, “I’m fighting to fight!” Katakuri said pumping his fist up,
Vine chuckled. “I’m fighting so I can get more of that sweet kush,” she said jokingly.
“I fight because I'm so done with this shit. You’ve killed too many lives especially my beautiful dark elf Light, you’re been toying with us since day one of this meaningless tournament with your crazed lust of fight and corrupted need to bring back ONE person. You’ve gone too hylian damned far!” Deity Link said, then lastly let a long sigh.
“I fight to protect my friends and to avenge the ones I’ve lost” Eric then looked to the Diamond Dogs. “And to fix what I have broken.”
“You see, Ryker,” Shiva said, indicating her pack. “No matter what our motivations, we stand together. And together is when we are truly strong. Together, we are more powerful than any weapon. Stronger than any shield. And together, we will beat you.”
“No… No… No!” Ryker said as he was slowly getting pushed back, “NOOOOOOO!!!!!” Ryker roared as he was engulfed in light. “DAMN DEUS X MACHINAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” And then… Everything went white.
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“We got him…” Thanos said, collapsing and dropping out of his form. Elae dropped down like a pile of bricks.
“For good this time? Like for real? No final forms, not coming back from the dead, no gods to fight…” Deity Link asks with hope, not wanting to remove the mask and Ryker suddenly pops out of the ground like an overgrown weed.
Cautiously, Kodo crept forward, and found Ryker’s bloodied body in the rubble. He was breathing, but injured and down for the count. Kodo flicked his tail in silent confirmation to Link’s query, his eyes not daring to leave the beaten menace.
“Everything… Since we began, the first round, the semi finals, the third place match, the finals, the tower and now… Ryker… It’s over. It’s all over!” Lucci said, going down into his knees.
“Everything is over… WE WON!!!!!” Brudus howled in victory and triumphant music began to play, Katakuri having a jukebox over his shoulder.
“What can I say, I love music,” Katakuri said with a smile, though no one could see it due to his scarf. Blazy could sense it, however, and smiled right back at him.
“GET FUCKED RYKER!!!!” Thanos approached the Irish King, grinning ear to ear.
“J...ust… K...ill me a...already…” Ryker said weakly, Thanos crossed his arms.
“And give you more of what you want?” Shiva huffed.
"Agreed… you don't deserve it." Black spat as he went back to his base form.
“He isn’t even worth killing” Eric said weakly as he went to retrieve Sombra
“Besides, we don’t kill,” Thanos turns to Eric, then back at Ryker, “Well, everyone but Eric and Sombra... don’t kill. You don’t get to pussy out of your actions, you’re gonna face them. Now how do we get back?”
“By doing this!” The voice of a familiar Eliatrope said, they turned to the voice and it was none other than Kyle. Kyle had forged a portal, “Now, your chariot awaits.”
“Alright, get in,” Thanos pulled out a stretcher out of nowhere. Ryker just stared at Thanos, “OH right, you can’t. Hah!” Thanos and Vine then put Ryker on the stretcher more than roughly. “Now, it’s time to find the Dragon Balls and revive all of our friends!” Thanos said, pumping his fist in the air as he went in.
“And then party,” Vine added.
“Well, that goes without saying,” Luco agreed.
“My bruddas, we may have suffered greatly during dis, but… We won, and with de Dragon Balls, you can revive your friends. You and Grievous could reunite!” Elae said, looking at Kodo.
Kodo smiled softly, but glanced nervously at Shiva. The white wolf had said nothing, merely watching Ryker with a look that implied she still wanted him dead.
“Mom?” Kodo asked gently.
Shiva sighed, lifting herself up. “Let’s just get out of here,” she said, sounding utterly exhausted as she limped after Kyle.
Kodo, Luke and Celine exchanged worried looks, as the white diamond dog left them all behind.
“I can’t feel mah dick…”
The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Departure.
"Ryker," Chill said, looking down at the Irish Man, everyone was here. "You were a good person, shame you were a shit man. Your punishment…"
"You were a bad son, really bad; maybe even the worst." A Red Soldier appeared, only to run off screaming.
"Isn't that the guy from Team Fortress?" Thanos said, raising an eyebrow as he ran off.
“Don’t bother asking. I stopped questioning this place much like I stopped questioning Pinkie Pie’s reality breaking shenanigans…” Link said with a frown.
Ryker's eyes lightened up, wanting death.
"Is to work under Abridged Alucard and do whatever he tells you to." Chill said, a look of sheer horror crossed Ryker's face.
"NO!!! PLEASE DON'T!!!!!" Ryker lunged Up and grabbed Chill's collar.
"Why's that?" Chill said, raising an eyebrow.
"A long, long time ago me and Jasper made a bet after No Nut November. Who can please the most women in a month, we spun a wheel and I landed on the Abridged Hellsing world. Unfortunately for me, Alucard was a woman then, so… my raw SEXUAL energy was so damn powerful. That it made Every woman around me go crazy, the Ring of Suppression also suppresses my sexual energy." Ryker explained.
"I don't believe you," Entity said flatly.
Ryker then puts his ring off and his eyes turn into a sexy pink. Ryker flipped his hair and his eyes laid upon Entities, "Hey Entity, want to make a name for yourself?" Ryker quickly put the ring back on. "See?" Thanos turned to Entity and he was blushing.
"I'm not gay, BUT." Entity raised a blocky finger.
“I’m pan, so take your best shot,” Vine noted with a crocodilian grin.
"You have sex with pans?" Elae said, raising an eyebrow.
"Shut up, you're drunk, and you’re high." Thanos said, pushing Entity and Vine away. Entity opened his mouth to protest but Thanos chucked Entity to Brazil.
Vine watched Entity go, before wisely sitting back and taking another puff of her joint.
"Did you fuck even the dead women?" Lucci said, raising an eyebrow. Ryker went silent. "Oh. My. God."
"SHADOW SHADOW FRUIT GOD DAMN IT!!!!!" Ryker cried out, "The point is my raw sexual energy was so powerful that I left an eternal impression on that world. The people of the past, future, and present want my dick! And I don't wanna become a sex slave to a crazy vamp-"
"Oh Ryky~" A masculine voice said.
"My time has come," Ryker looked to the skies, "You must continue your journey without me."
"But Dad!" Herobrine cried out, Chill then placed a ring on Ryker.
“DON’T GOOO!!!!” Arkham Knight pleaded.
“So long… Partner…” Lord Twigo said, wiped a tear from his eye.
"Hmph... I'll miss you." Akainu said, lighting up his cigar.
"...D-damn it I'm crying!" Bullet wailed, clutching his eyes and turning away from Ryker.
"This is... I... I'm sad man... All of the good time was had together..." Ganondorf said, sniffling.
"You did a gamble and you lost, I'll miss you even though you did awful things. You were a friend, never an enemy." Fujitora said turning his head downwards.
“Farewell,” Katakuri said with a sigh, looking downwards.
As the commanders bemoaned their leader’s punishment, Shiva sat in the back with her arms crossed. Her ears flattened as she looked down in guilt.
“He didn’t have the best means,” she noted to the shadows next to her. “But he did have a noble goal… and the loyalty of his pack.”
“That’s true,” Eric said, emerging from the shadows. “How’d you know I was here?”
Shiva smiled softly. “I’ve been working on the ‘telekinetic’ side of my pack links,” she replied. “Plus, shadows are… kind of your thing.”
Eric said nothing turned to the Alpha, he got to his knees and slammed his head into the ground. “I’m sorry...I am so..so sorry for everything I’ve put you and your family through” Eric lamented refusing to move from his position even with the blood dripping from his forehead
Shiva hesitated, her pack link glowing and creeping for Eric. Conflict shined in her eyes as she glanced towards her family. Kodo was avoiding looking at them, while Luke was looking to Shiva for confirmation on what to do. Celine was also looking at Shiva, but not as a follower. As she turned her gaze to Eric, she narrowed her eyes at her mother, her entire posture that of an Alpha herself.
“I’ll take any punishment you deem fit” Eric said to the Diamond Dog. “What I did was unforgivable, I have no excuse for the damage I’ve inflicted on any of you”
Shiva let out a slow breath. “You’re right,” she admitted. “Among my pack… loyalty is paramount.” She smiled sadly. “After all, we can’t face challenges alone. Even together, we sometimes don’t stand a chance. But we do better together than alone.” She flexed her claws, before turning back to Eric. “Be that as it may… I still understand why you acted the way you did. Luna was more than just a mate. You had something with her I…” Shiva grimaced. “Something I wish I had with Luke… but I’m too scared of the pain it would require to bring us together.”
She glanced again at her family. Kodo didn’t look at her, but Celine nodded with a smile.
“It’s not fair for me to add to the burden you already carry,” Shiva told Eric. “Especially with how I reacted. However, if what Thanos said was true, and Rainbow Dash and Maud Pie can be revived… I want them to know what happened. I want them to know that when you were put into an impossible situation, you prioritized those closest to you over those you had just met. I can’t say you chose wrong; I can’t say whether they should trust you or not. I only request that they know.”
“They will,” Eric said, lifting his head from the ground. “And you’re right Luna is important to me, That bullet I gave you isn’t... wasn’t for Devil Fruit Users. It was for me. Luna is the only reason I haven’t used it.”
Shiva nodded solemnly. “I thought that was the case,” Shiva admitted.
“I’m fucked up in the head, aren’t I?” Eric asked the Diamond Dog.
Shiva lifted her head, her eyes closed. “‘We’re all mad here,’” she quoted. “‘I’m mad. You’re mad.’ ‘What makes you think I am mad?’ Alice demanded. ‘You must be,’ replied the Cat, ‘Else how did you get here?’” She concentrated. “Lewis Carroll, ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ I believe.”
Eric couldn’t help but chuckle. “Thank you.” Eric said, rising to his feet. “For everything.”
Shiva almost moved to touch him, before pausing. Instead, she opted for a simple pack link, which sent a warm feeling of love and being loved between them.
Eric smiled as he moved towards the others before looking towards Kodo. “Be better than us, but stay true to yourself. You have such potential, don't waste it.”
Kodo was silent at first, but as he saw the sincerity in Eric’s face and words, he gave a solemn nod.
“Oh and if you disobey Alucard, he will shock you,” Chill said, raising a device with a button. Ryker then tried to punch it but roared in pain and writhed on the floor. “I forgot, you can’t touch it, if you do you’ll feel the pain of a mother giving birth.”
“GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!!!!” Ryker swore, “DAMN WOMEN ARE STRONG!!!!”
“You bet your ass we are,” Ryker paused and slowly looked around, seeing Sir Integra.
“... I leave my will to you Michael,” Ryker said, shoving a piece of paper onto Arkham Knight's chest. “Bye, and have a happy-”
“Tyky Ryky!” Alucard said, in his female form. Looking at Ryker.
“THAT NICKNAME WAS NEVER CLEVER!!!!” Ryker said, glaring at Alucard.
“Yes it was! It’s a blast of your past with this sass and loli-ass! I know I already used that line on Jolly Wolly but this is just way too fitting, kind of like your d-” Alucard was cut off when Ryker roared in frustration.
“SHADDAP!!!! SHADDAP!!! I will turn you into a FUCKING pickle! ANYONE HELP ME!!!” Ryker teleported to Shiva, “I will bring back Grievous, give you millions of gems, I’LL RIP MY DICK OFF!!!!”
“Not gonna lie Tyky Ryky, that’s pretty kinky.” Alucard said. Ryker glared at Alucard, allowing Shiva to slink away from him.
“So is this the one you love? He doesn’t look like much,” Sir Integra said, taking out a cigarette.
“Take the ring off.” Alucard said, looking at Ryker.
“No.” Ryker said with a frown.
“Take it off,” Alucard pursued.
“No,” Ryker said in a childish tone.
“Take. It. Off.” Alucard ordered, Ryker just blew raspberries at him. “That’s it, take it off myself,” Ryker found the ring and immediately, Sir Integra’s cigarette fell out of her mouth.
“Oh…” That was all Sir Integra had to say.
“Oh and take this, “ Chill tossed a Sea Prism Stone cuff to Alucard and he caught it. “In case he misbehaves.”
“Oh BDSM! I love that!” Alucard exclaimed, a portal formed behind him.
“LOOK IT’S RYKER!!!!” Ryker said, pointing at the sky.
“Where?!” Alucard said in his female voice, Ryker then proceeded to run away, before Vine snagged him with her vines.
“Why must you hurt me this way?” Ryker said, looking at Vine, his eyes flashing pink.
“Who says I’m bringing you back to them?” Vine replied, licking her crocodilian lips huskily. “I’mma get me some of that suh-weet Irish ass.” She puffed her joint like a cigar. “You know, sex while high is even better than regular sex.”
“Make sure you save some for us,” Luco replied, perched on the flaming back of an equally aroused looking Blazy Blue. “We got the whips ready and we know how to use em.”
“...Welp, off to hang myself, watch and lear-” Ryker made a noose out of thin air, and process to do a backflip. Only to fall in the arms of Seras.
“...I am severely attracted to you,” Seras said, her eyes turning red as she looked at Ryker’s emerald eyes.
“Fuck!” Ryker jumped up, snagging Katakuri’s sword. “There’s only one way to escape this hell and that is to-” Katakuri swiped his blade back. “Fucking… Die…”
“Ask before you try and kill yourself.” Katakuri said blankly.
“Can I kill myself?” Ryker said, looking up at Katakuri.
“No.” Katakuri answered.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Ryker roared to the heavens, he was then dragged off by Alucard and Seras to the portal to the Hellsing Abridged world. “I’LL SEE YOU ALL IN HELL!!!!”
“It’s a date,” Luco called. “I’ll be on the goddamn throne!”
And like that… They were gone.
“Now, Ryker wasn’t lying when he said Grievous is in the Minecraft world. Want to see ‘em?” Chill said, looking at Shiva’s pack.
Kodo jumped up. “Please?” he asked.
Chill made a portal and moonwalked in… And found himself in the Nether Dimension. Grievous was marching to the Nether fortress with three wolves following him.
“We’re so close to the fortress my packmates! We can slay that dragon and I can return home!” Grievous said, marching forward.
“GRIEVOUS!” Kodo cheered, briefly glancing at the wolves. “And more dogs!”
“Huh? I thought I heard something.” A dog was then killed by a fireball. “KODO JUNIOR NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Grievous cried out.
“He named one of them after me? WE MUST AVENGE HIS DEATH!” Kodo howled, racing into the portal with his sword drawn. “Alright,” he growled, looking around. “Who’s the dead meat that signed their own death warrant?”
“I can still hear his voice,” Grievous said, wiping a tear. “Alright-” Grievous then spots Kodo. “KODO!!!!!”
“STEP-DAD!” Kodo cheered.
“Excuse me?!” Luke stammered.
“KODO!!!!” Grievous took a step forward… And plummeted towards the lava, “GOD DAMN IT CHILL!!!!” Grievous cried out to the author as he looked down at the Ghast that was below him.
“WHOA-WHOA!” Kodo yelped, catching Grievous with a pack link just before he could land on a Ghast.
“Ey!” Grievous then hung from the link, “...Can you pull me up?”
With a “HEE-YUP!” Kodo yanked the link up, and Grievous was pulled back to land.
“... Did you see me burning down that village for charging me fifty emeralds for a stick?” Grievous said, raising his non-existent eyebrow.
“Eh, sadly no,” Kodo admitted. Before he could say more, Thanos drew their attention.
“I thought you were dead! Did you actually die?” Thanos said, walking through the portal.
“Sadly yes, but I lived.” Grievous said like he was telling a campfire story.
“Hey… Wanna hear a joke…?” Thanos said, a grin forming.
“Why not my friend?” Grievous said, putting a hand on his hip.
“Girlfriend.” Thanos said.
“I don’t get it.” Grievous replied.
“Exactly,” Thanos answered.
“Ohhh….” Kodo almost howled, before his howl petered out as he remembered who the joke was directed at. “Oh.”
Grievous looked down, now sad. “Ouch…”
“Anyways, let’s revive everyone! And we REALLY need to get you a girlfriend.” Thanos then carried Grievous off… Literally, he picked him up and went into the portal, Kodo right behind him before noticing the wolves following them.
“Uh, what about them?” Kodo asked, as the wolves sniffed at him.
“They’re my comrades and follow me wherever I go. But…” Grievous got off of Thanos and walked towards the wolves, “Rufus, Bailee, it has been an honor serving you two. However… You can’t join us, this is not your home, don’t say goodbye because there is a likely chance that I’ll come back. So wait for me, take care of the farm while I’m gone.” The wolves looked at Grievous. “Go!” Grievous turned away and pointed to the portal, the wolves went inside. “That… Was the hardest thing I had to do, a close second was fighting Ryker.”
“I’m sorry, step-dad,” Kodo said with a shake of his head.
“Seriously, what is that about?” Luke asked.
“I am the father now,” Grievous said jokingly.
“No way,” Luke declared. “I’m the one that banged his mother; what makes you think you can be the father?”
“I’m the one who protected Kodo from getting obliterated, fought side by side with him, AND is the only one that can teach him the art of being a gag character!” Grievous said, pointing a finger at Luke, “You are the lesser father.”
“I protected him from angry alicorns, fought side by side with him AND, I can teach him the art of being an Alpha Male!” Luke protested.
“But can you do this?” Grievous turned his body a full 360 and sprouted out his two extra arms. He also turned his head 360. “Ya can’t, I’m a cyborg.”
“Maybe,” Luke said. “But I bet you don’t have a girlfriend.” He pulled Shiva to her side. “And guess what?”
Grievous looked down… Sad, “My feelings, at least I didn’t get obliterated! HAH!!!” Grievous said, pointing a finger at Luke. “AND I can beat an Alicorn, beat that dipstick,”
Luke grumbled, and sunk down. Shiva rolled her eyes.
“Alright, enough of whatever... that… is,” she said. “Let’s go revive the others.”
“Alright,” Chill then snaps his fingers and seven giant balls that had stars on them. “These are the Dragon Balls, it only activates when one says NIGGA!!!!” The Dragon Balls glow and something shot to the skies from it.
“Oh my god it’s YOU guys again, what do you want?” Shenron said, raising an eyebrow.
“Revive everyone that was killed during a four days time!” Chill cried out, Shenron’s eyes glowed red.
“Your wish… HAS BEEN… Uh… I did your wish.” Shenron explained.
“Now bring ‘em here.” Chill said.
“Aight bet,” Nappa, Broly, Towa, Light, everyone was brought here. Including Tony Stark.
“Stop with the damn mahogany!” Tony Stark cried out, he then looked around, seeing he was now alive.
“MAUD!” Shiva cheered, racing to the grey earth pony. “You’re alive! Thank everything sacred!”
“Wait, how did…?” Luke started to ask, before Kodo showed them fusing into Mia. “Oh.” Luke blinked. “I got cuckolded twice?”
“Hah!” Grievous laughed at Luke, who grumped as Celine pat his side.
Eric ran and embraced both Rainbow and Sombra. “You two have no Idea how happy I am to see you two alive”
“I’m sorry Eric” Sombra said but Eric stopped him
“It doesn’t matter, you’re alive so it’s okay” Eric said, tightening his grip on the both of them before letting the three of them go. “But I need to tell Maud and Rainbow something”
Black looked around as the revived group looked at the new surroundings. He frowned as he didn’t spot the one being he needed to see. The Dark Saiyan looked up to the dragon, “Oi, where the hell is Nightmare?” Black asked.
“The one called Nightmare has been revived, but I couldn’t create her body, for she never had one of her own.” Shenron explained. The Saiyan frowned and crossed his arms.
“So she can never come back from the Otherworld or Hell?” Black asked.
“No, she can still come back, but she requires one of you to let her soul enter your body.” Shenron explained as this left the Saiyan hanging his head.
“Can you transfer her soul into my body?” Black asked as he stared up to the magical dragon. A few seconds later, his eyes flashed red.
“...Does that make you gay, or lesbian?” Link asked, confused since there’ll be a female soul in a male body alongside another.
"It's a fucking women," Elae countered, "Of course it is not gae,"
"You know shit's going down when the Ugandan Knuckles is the voice of reason," Entity said, leaning on his scythe.
“On second thought, never mind.” Link said, choosing not to open up that second can of confusion.
“Consider it done, now go fuck off.” Shenron said as he soon disappeared in a blinding flash of light. Black stared up to the Dragon Balls as they shot off in multiple directions.
Eric proceeded to move them away from the group before telling them Everything that happened. Their looks of horror showed for a brief second before they hugged the Shadow man, Once they let go they both activated their Devil Fruits and punched the Shadow Man in the face. In all honesty they took the news rather well compared to what Eric thought they were going to do. But, when Eric glanced at Shiva, she saw him nodding with a grin, any debt fulfilled and paid for.
“EYYY!!!!” Luffy cried out racing to Thanos, Nappa followed Luffy. Luffy, Thanos, Nappa, Entity, and Grievous all embraced. The Boys... Were reunited.
“I MISSED YOU GUYS!!!!” Thanos walied, tears shooting down his face. Luffy couldn’t even form words, he was a jumbled mess, sobbing as they hugged. The Boys were all crying as they hugged each other.
“Oh god…” Arthur said, going to his knees, “Never again, never again. Nope, never fighting.”
“You said it brother…” Elia said, on her back, exhausted.
“Oh lord… That was absolute hell.” Nox said, going to his feet.
“Yep. From now on, make love, not war,” Vine declared, moving closer to Arthur. “I can help ya get started, if ya want…” she added flirtatiously, before Light’s voice drowned her out.
“LINK!!!” Light raced towards Link, ready to embrace him. Link spread open his arms, giving her a tight hug as Light kind of football tackled him.
“So glad you’re back, my Light.” Link said happily. Suddenly a feeling of dread and bloodlust was felt behind him… When looked around he saw Nox.
"Indeed, Light has returned." Nox said forcefully.
“Ah! Hello Nox.” Link said as he slowly eased up on his hug.
"Hello Link," Nox replied, there was silence. "...So how do you like the Zoan Devil Fruit?"
“Not gonna lie, it's very different. It helped me out with Ganondorf, but not so much afterwards but I suppose it's due to lack of experience on my part.” Link said as he kept his arm wrapped around Light’s hip in a half hug.
Nox still had murderous intent, "Uh huh, I see, rather unfortunate that Ganondorf was a bit too strong for you. No matter, it would seem you need to be among Lions to understand them. That's what Lucci did, right?" Nox turned to Lucci.
"How the fuck did you know?" Lucci said, looking at Nox.
"I wasn't the first member of Kaido to be in your universe nor will I be the last." Nox said, waving a finger.
Link looked around curiously, wondering where the Ender Dragon was after the last time he saw her.
"Well then," Nox said, putting his hands together. "T'was a fun… conversation /threat but I must be on my way." Nox then vanishes from sight.
“...Threat?” Link asked with a mixture of nervousness and confusion.
"Don't worry, he's just… Trying to protect me," Light explained, she then notices one of Nox's Noxine's observing the two. Watching them like a hawk.
“Can’t blame a parent for wanting to protect their kid, eh, Link?” Shiva noted.
“Fair point. I would be the same with my daughter if there was a man she met I know little to nothing about.” Link said with a nod.
"You have a what now?" Light said, raising a concealed eyebrow.
“A daughter.” Link repeated, confused by Light's reaction.
"Meaning you have a wife, and are married…" Light said, blinking.
“Half right, just not married. It would draw too much attention if she was married to me, what with her being a princess.” Link explained.
"So you already have a lover?" Light said, her eyes opening wide with shock.
“Yes, but uh.. My world is normal when it comes to a male or female having more than one lover or spouse.” Link explained, realizing the hole he accidentally dug up.
“So… you aren’t bonded for life?” Shiva asked.
"…That feels wrong," Light said.
“It sounds wrong!” Shiva agreed.
“Different world, different rules of how couples or duology get married…” Link explained to Shiva before looking back at Light. “I’m sorry, I should have explained this but what with all the chaos with Ryker and the tournament.” Link said as he rubbed the back of his head. “I-I mean… I’d understand if polygamous’s aren’t normal you…” Link said, already expecting a worse case scenario.
"Is this what you always do? You gather women around and add them to your collection?" Light said, backing away from Link, "I'm sorry Link, but… I can't."
“Ah, no. You’re the second one.” Link tried to say, but was quickly cut off by Light’s anger.
"Who's to say you won't get any more lovers?" Light shot back.
“Except I wouldn’t. Luna is fine with there being another. A third she’d most likely berate me.” Link explained.
"...I need time, Link," Light explained, Nox shot up from a bush.
"YEEEEESSSSS!!!!!" Nox roared in victory before receiving looks. "Apologies." Nox sunk back down to the bush.
“..It won’t be a victory if you keep her single forever.” Link said with an angry stare at where Nox vanished into.
Nox tapped Link's shoulder, "Well, she already had her heart broken more than two times. I simply won't let my daughter experience that pain. Again ."
“Well..” Link said as he took a long breath. “I would protect her my whole life, even against a saiyan if I must.” Link said as he walked off. Link was serious when it comes to those he cherishes. Celine walked after him.
“I can smell wolf on you,” she noted.
“WHOA! Hey now!” Link said as he back peddled. “T-too soon!” he said very nervously as he held his hands up. The poor hylian isn’t even sure if Light would change her mind or not, it’d be too risky for Celine to be making the moves now or the fact it’d take years for Link to accept her in comparison to how he accepted Luna when she fell in love with him. Either way, he didn’t have to worry, as Celine’s brother appeared from the ground and shooed Celine away.
“Yeah, how much older is he from you?” Kodo demanded. “Obey the six foot rule, sis.”
“Excuse me, Kodo! How old was that hellhound you tried to flirt with!” Celine complained.
“YOU FLIRTED WITH WHAT?!” Shiva howled.
“RUN KODO!!!!” Grievous cried out.
“Not before I give my retort!” He turned to the rapidly approaching Shiva. “Celine was flirting with Link!”
“WHAAAAATTT!!”
“I WAS NOT!”
And thus, Link was left watching in confusion as the two pups chased each other away, their angry mother in hot pursuit. “... Multiverse, please tell me I wasn’t cursed to attract females...” Link said with a sigh as he resumed walking away, pain in his heart as he silently berated himself for listening to the voice in his head that day.
"GET VECTOR'D!!!!!" Vector shouted out, coming from a bush. He then pelvic thrusts, "OH YEAH!!!!"
A feminate orange hand came out of a portal, suddenly slapping the hell out of Vector before vanishing. Vector was just slapped by the goddess of power, Din.
“Black.” Broly said, looking at Black, “What did I miss?”
Black looked to Broly ashamed, before the legendary Saiyan could ask what was wrong. The dark Saiyan ignited his aura and shot off into the sky. Luna Black sighed as she looked at Broly, “Don’t take it the wrong way, a lot of things happened recently that he regrets immensely..” The Alicorn explained as she watched Black disappear into the horizon.
"Oh, okay cool." Broly mumbled, he then went off to talk with his friends.
“You know what time it is…” Nappa said with a smile, “IT’S PARTY TIME!!!!”
“YEEE-HAW!” Blazy cheered, sending out a burst of fireworks into the sky.
There they were, in an outside auditorium, tables filled with food that was bestowed by Arthur. Herobrine and Entity gave everyone some variety, chicken, golden apples, vegetables. The whole thing, then Katakuri took the stage.
Despite this being a party for a victory, Link however was not feeling up to it, preferring to sit alone away from everyone. That didn’t dissuade Celine, though; she approached him, briefly stopping to stick her tongue out at a very suspicious looking Kodo.
“...You love playing it dangerously, don’t you?” Link asked with a frown of disapproval toward Celine. The hylian moved a foot away, however Celine noticed him moving and followed, making Link’s attempt meaningless.
“I swear, I’m not - nor was I ever - trying to be a flirt,” she promised. “I’m just curious why you smell like a wolf,” Celine replied. “Do you have a dog…” Her nose twitched. “Or a dog and cat?” She noticed how close she was, and backed up. “I don’t mean to make you uncomfortable; Mom and Dad ran off to do… whatever… and Kodo’s got that General guy, and you were alone, and Pinkie always told me that no one should be sad at a party so...” She stopped herself. “Sorry; point is… why do you smell like you’re a dog and a cat when you look human?”
“The first one would be my Howling Stone,” Link explained as he held up the rock with the eye in the middle. “That lets me turn into a wolf. The cat part I suppose is when I ate the lion fruit.” he explained to Celine.
“Wow…” Celine whispered, sniffing at the Howling Stone. “Yep, that’s where the scent is coming from.” She perked her ears. “And… lion fruit? That’s sort of like that fruit Dad made me eat, right?” She shuddered. “Man, did it taste bad though.”
“Exactly. At the moment, I'm more used to the wolf form than the lion, especially the mindset of how a wolf thinks.” Link explained.
“I can understand that,” Celine agreed. “During the fight, I relied much more on my pack link than the floating power, because I’ve spent more time trying to understand the pack link. It’s sort of like when Twilight became a princess; she was given a lot more power, but I still feel like she spent too much time trying to learn how to handle the new power rather than focusing on what she was already good at.” Her ears dropped. “It… didn’t serve her well for a short while.” She paused, before looking at Link again. “Is Twilight a princess in your world, or… did she do something else with her life?”
“I only met her when she was a filly years ago, I don’t know how she’s been since then.” Link said as he held his chin in thought.
“I’m sure you all want some sweet music to pass the time as you are eating, so here’s what’s coming up. We have the Bald Boys coming up with the Straw Hats, Broly, the Diamond Dogs,, and Eric Von Shadow, but now give it up for… THE BALD BOYS!!!!” Katakuri then fades away, Luffy begins to clap with a grin ear to ear. Smoke filled the stage and four silhouettes could be seen.
“It doesn’t matter if you love me… Or capital M-E.” Nappa said, the smoke screen then fades away, showing Grievous, Thanos, and Jiren next to Nappa. They had office suits on with sunglasses.
“Just put your heads up,” The quartet looked towards the skies, “Because you are bald this way baby.” Lights began to shine down on the stage, a sick beat began to play as the Bald Boys began to nod to the beat. Tapping their feet as well, the crowd clapped with the beat as well.
“My momma told me when I was young… You’re gonna roam the stars!” Nappa raised a hand to the skies.
“Space!” An electronic voice spoke.
“She combed my tail, put my armor on.” Nappa then put his hand down, “And sent me off in my space pod.” It was now Thanos’ turn to sing.
“All you gotta do is shave your hair, and wax that bitch until it shines,” Thanos sang, the sun began to shine on his bald, it then reflected and the light pierced through someone’s chest. They then drop down, unconscious.
“Who gives a crap if all the children stare, just listen up and you’ll be fine!” Thanos said, the light then switches to Nappa.
“I’m beautiful in my way, Kami makes no mistakes, I’m on the right track baby I am bald this way! ” Nappa turns into a Super Saiyan and his head begins to shine, Nappa then begins to dance. The light then shines back to Thanos.
“Don’t fill yourself with regret, just power up and you’re set! ” Thanos said, charging up, his white aura making his head shine. “You’re on the right path baby you are bald this way,”
“Bald this way!” Thanos and Nappa sang, the light went to Jiren… And he says nothing.
“Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude JIREN!!! That was your line!” Nappa said, looking at Jiren.
“Yeah, I’m not doing it,” Jiren says, crossing his arms and looking at Nappa defiantly.
“I thought we talked about this,” Nappa said with a frown.
“Yeah, you talked, I said no.” Jiren looked away from Napp.
“Look, it took a long time to put this together, Grievous is in the outfit-” Nappa was cut off as Grievous interrupted him, he was covered in Kodo plushies. Kodo blinked in shock.
“I’m in the outfit,” Grievous said, looking at Nappa.
“That’s because you’re trying to drown out the fact that you’ll never get a girlfriend.” The stage went silent, Grievous then wailed, tears shot down his robotic mask and ran off the stage.
“JIREN WHAT THE FUCK!?!??!” Nappa cried out.
“Whoa jeez!” Thanos said, looking at Grievous as he ran off.
“I. Am. Not. Doing. Your STUPID song parody.” Jiren said, a red aura of Ki surrounding him.
“Wh-” Before Nappa could finish Jiren interrupted him.
“Fuck you that’s why,” Jiren then flew off.
“Alright, that’s the Bald Boys!” Thanos said, laughing nervously. “GRIEVOUS COME BACK!!!” Thanos cried out, running after Grievous, Nappa following him. Katakuri then went back on stage.
“Well that was embarrassing, anyway, next up is the Straw Hats! Oh, it looks like I’m in here as well.” Luffy walked up on stage followed by Arkham Knight, Lord Twigo, Jinbe, Entity, Arthur and Cooler.
Cooler got out a piano out of nowhere, and the others got their violins.
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“Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho,”
“Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho,”
They all sang but Cooler, Luffy wrapped his arm around Arkham Knight and began to kick at the air.
“Gather up all of the crew, It's time to ship out Bink’s brew! Sea wind blows to where who knows? The waves will be our guide!”
“Oar across the oceans tide, Rays of sunshine far and wide Birds they sing Of cheerful things in circles passing by!”
Katakuri sang, giving a fist bump to his little brother, Herobrine.
“Bid farewell to Weavers town Say so long to port renowned Sing a song, It won’t be long before we’re casting off! Cross the gold and silver seas A salty spray puts us at ease, day and night to our delight the voyage never ends!”
The singing stopped and the music sang for them. But it didn’t last long.
“Gather up all of the crew It’s time to ship out Bink’s brew Pirates we eternally are challenging the sea!”
Luffy sang, Arkham Knight and him were still kicking the air, they then stopped.
“With the waves to rest our heads Ship beneath us as our beds Hoisted high upon the mast Our Jolly Roger flies!”
“Somewhere in the endless skies Stormy winds are blowing by Waves are dancing Evening comes, it's time to sound the drums!”
“But steady men and never fear, tomorrow skies are always clear So pound you feet And clap your hands Till sunny days return!”
They all sang, though they noticed Cooler wasn’t singing.
“Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho,”
Everyone now noticed that Cooler was now singing, his beautiful voice shining above all others.
“Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho,”
The light now shone upon Cooler and everyone else quieted.
“Gather up all of the crew It’s time to ship out Bink’s brew Wave goodbye but don’t you cry our memories remain Our days are but a passing dream, everlasting though they seem ‘Neath the moon we’ll meet again the wind’s our lullaby.”
Cooler sang with beauty.
“Gather up all of the crew It’s time to ship out Bink’s brew Sing a song And play along For all the oceans wide!”
“After all is said and done You’ll end up a skeleton So spread your tale from dawn ‘til dusk Upon these foamy seas!”
Everyone sang, all were now grinning.
“Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho,”
The crowd noticed that the singers began to fall, Herobrine was the first. Katakuri the second though he fell on his stomach and not his back. Luffy and Arkham Knight kicked the air once more before falling on their backs. Lord Twigo was next to fall down.
“Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho, Yo-ho ho ho,”
Cooler was now the only one singing the others now
“Well, it would seem that we’re down to a quartet…” Jinbe falls down, “A trio…” Arthur falls down next. “And a duet…” And finally… Entity falls down, only leaving Cooler left, he clenched his teeth. “... …. A solo…” He plays for a while before he falls down too.
They all then jump to their feet, “WOO!!!!” Luffy said, pumping his fist in the air. “WE NAILED IT!!!!”
“Indeed we did!” Lord Twigo said, clenching his fist.
“That was rather sad, but awesome!” Cooler said with a smile. “I’ll buy you all drinks,”
“Well you go on with that, I need to stay up here and continue on with the festivities. Now… Broly is up!” Katakuri said, looking at Broly.
“Um…” Broly hesitated, looking at Katakuri.
“You don’t have to if you don’t want to!” Celine noted.
Broly sighed, "I'm transferring control over to him ,"
"Who's hi-" Before Celine could ask, Broly then grew to be ten feet tall with muscles the size of Black's head. He also had green hair.
"YEAH!!!!" Broly roared, he then shot towards the arena and slammed on the stage. "ARE YOU READY FOR SOME ACTUAL MUSIC?!?!?" Broly roared, the crowd roared. "WELL GET READY!!!!" Some Saiyans joined, all in Super Saiyan forms holding guitars and drums.
The guitars began to play, and the drums as well. Broly tapped his foot on the stage, causing the whole auditorium to shake. "Broly's legend first began in 1993!" Broly sang.
"With biceps bigger than Goku's head and a heart that longed to be free!" Broly sang, his rough voice being a badass singing one.
"Broly, Broly, Broly! Why are you so strong? Your power level is twice as high as your Saiyan hair is long!" Broly pointed to his hair, it was MASSIVE.
"Broly built a spaceship, he flew off into space! Searching for a man to fight so he could break his face!" Broly then slammed his fist into his palm.
"He landed on a planet, with his best friend Kublai Khan. They punched each other in the nuts and fought from dusk 'til dawn." Every man held their nether regions and winced.
"Broly was a mother fucker! Stronger than that robot trucker!" Broly pointed to Erebus who was drinking a can of Hetap.
"Broly's enemies are done… BROLY'S POWER MAXIMUUUUUUUUUUUM!!!!" Broly screamed into the mic, going Super Saiyan Four. He then drops the microphone. "That's it everybody, that's Broly. When Broly? Broly done! Just don't even ask anymore, just enjoy the festivities, and I'm out!" Broly shrunk back to his normal form.
"Oh." Broly mumbled, looking at the cheering audience, he then walked off… And trips. "Ow."
“That was epic,” Katakuri then brought out a notebook. “Now, who’s up next…? Oh it’s Shiva and her pack mates!”
Luco came on stage with a giggle.
“Yeah, about that,” Luco said. “Shiva and Luke are a little… ‘tied up’ right now. And when ‘someone’ - not saying who - tried to butt in - and maybe record it…” He rubbed a bruise on his head. “Let’s just say they politely and calmly told that person that they’d ‘prefer’ not to be interrupted.”
“Ha,” Vine chuckled. “Tied. Because they’re dogs. And...” Blazy shut her snout before Vine could continue.
“Luckily, the pups should have something,” Luco continued, glancing at Kodo and Celine as they came on stage. “Uh, right kids?”
Kodo rolled his eyes. “You can certainly call it something,” he admitted.
Celine chuckled at her brother’s disgruntled expression, before she tapped the ground in a beat .
“I might be crazy, but I wanna play,” Celine sang, before she and Kodo briefly danced.
“Sunshine ain’t here, but we don’t need a way,” Kodo sang, before he danced behind Celine.
“We’re fluffy bois all night and day,” Celine sang, before dancing behind Kodo.
“We got gems, making it rain, baby by the day,” Kodo sang, starting to smile as he got into it.
“Ha,” Celine jumped to Kodo’s side, before they sang side by side, wagging their tails in sync, and bopping their claws to the beat.
Because we’re doggies,
Wag along if you feel like a gem is close to you.
Because we’re doggies
Bark along if you think that a dragon is chasing you
Because we’re doggies
Howl along if you want a hug from me to you.
Because we’re doggies.
Wag along if you want to be best friends too.
“Can’t… bring us down,” Celine said. “We’re just to…”
“Canine,” Kodo sang in the back.
“Can’t bring us down,” Celine sang. “We’re just too…”
“High!” Vine sang, appearing in the background with a joint.
“No!” Kodo barked, chasing her off.
“Bring us down,” Celine continued. “Can not...”
“Doggy!” Kodo sang, jumping back in. “Because we’re…” They jumped side by side and sang as one:
“Doggies,
Wag along if you feel that a gem is close to you
Because we’re doggies,
Bark along if you think that a dragon is chasing you
Because we’re doggies
Howl along if you want to help us dig too
Because we’re doggies
Wag along if you want to be best friends too.
There was a clap, a very slow clap, Davy Jones had made his presence known. Once again standing in a bucket of sea water. “Beautiful, juist beautiful.”
“Cringe!” Someone shouted out from the crowd, Davy Jones pulled out a flintlock pistol and shot the being. The being fell down dead, Davy Jones spun the pistol before blowing on it.
“I git tae haun it tae you,” Davy Jones got out his pipe and blew on it. “You guys aren’t hauf bad.”
“Oh, and now SOMEONE wants to be a cool badass,” Fujitora said, turning his body towards Davy Jones.
“What kin ah say? I'm a late bloomer.” Davy Jones said with a shrug, “Though, there is a reason that I’m here,”
“It’s… To say… Sah!” Davy Jones put his crab claw to his chest. “Sohr… Ser… Saarrrrrrr… Sorry. For the uh… Whole you guys almost dying by us, I mean you guys got your arses KICKED. Phil would have destroyed you, Arlong nearly killed Shiva, I nearly killed you, Jinbe and Luke fought evenly, Luke had to help Shiva to win against Arlong. Shiva had to go berserk to beat Phil, you needed the help of Link and yeah… Wait, this is coming out wrong. I just want to say sorry, that’s all. And sorry Celine for almost wiping out yer entire family including yer brother…”
Celine blinked. “What?”
“Who I stabbed in the lung whilst underwater. Still don’t know how you’re still alive after that.” Davy Jones said, looking at Kodo in his eyes.
Kodo flared his pack link. “When I absorbed the magic from your curse, it healed my wounds alongside giving me your strength.” He grinned at the pack link threads. “If I wanted, I could also transfer my injuries to the ones who gave them to me, but… I’m not sadistic.”
Celine laughed at that.
“I’m NOT!” Kodo insisted.
"You carry your mothers traits when pissed off," Thanos said, "And… You haven't been pissed off… I think."
“Heh… yeah,” Kodo chuckled, avoiding Eric’s gaze. Davy Jones then takes his leave, he then scoots away, dragging his feet in the water bucket.
"Hm, it would seem that I have matters to attend to." Katakuri glanced at Blazy, "I'm transferring my current position as… Announcer to Arkham Knight." Katakuri said, he then walked off the stage and walked past Blazy. The Mochi Man began to speak to her in her mind, 'Follow me, I wish to show you something and no, it is not sex.' With a snap of his fingers a portal was made in front of them, Katakuri then walks in.
Blazy tilted her head, before following after. Luco watched her go with a disgruntled expression.
“They grow up so fast, don’t they?” Vine mused next to Luco.
“Too fast,” Luco replied morosely.
Meanwhile, Blazy and Katakuri arrived in the White Void, whiteness for miles wide. The portals closed verily, Katakuri turned towards Blazy.
"Blazy Blue, you are a worthy adversary, and one of the only people that can rival me. So I'll show you what is under my scarf, what it hides." Katakuri reaches for his scarf and then pulls it down. It revealed his teeth, he had an underbite and his mouth was akin to a pelican eel. He had scars that looked like it was a sewed that went to his… Well let’s just say it looked like Joker’s scar.
Blazy tilted her head, before merely smiling, showing her own teeth, which were more like a raptor’s fangs, but just as sharp. Her ears perked as she realized what Katakuri was implying.
“Did people make fun of you for that?” she asked.
“Possibly,” Katakuri said with a shrug, “When I first arrived in Equestria centuries ago, I didn’t have a warm welcome. My scars and teeth implied that I was a carnivore, which I’m not, so up came the pitchforks and torches. And down went my self esteem, I met another Katakuri Displaced and he gave me pointers. Told me to never show my mouth because… Yeah I would get raided by everyone in Equestria.” Katakuri explained.
Blazy winced in sympathy, glancing down at her talons. “Not the advice I expected,” she admitted. “When I showed up, it was due to my dad summoning me.” She chuckled. “He had already… built up a bit of a rep with the ponies, so me showing up and working with him earned me no friends.” She held herself higher. “But… Dad told me never to worry about what other people thought. He told me to wear what I was like armor, and then no one could ever use it to hurt me.” She flexed, her flames dancing across her yellow scales. “And… well, it’s worked so far.”
“Hm, you and I are alike, discriminated against all because we are who we are. Though, I am too deep in my lie and I can’t pull out, pause on that. “ Katakuri said, he then crossed his arms and pulled his mask up. “That is all, you are the only one that wasn’t a part of my family who screamed, shot me, punched at me. And for that you have my respect…” Katakuri then bowed to Blazy.
Blazy bowed back. “And you have mine as well,” she said.
“Now, t’would seem that we must make our return,” Katakuri opened a portal and it revealed Jack Sparrow and Captain Shining Armor dueling. He then closed it, “Oops.”
He made a portal once more and it revealed the auditorium, Katakuri then moonwalks into the portal, while Blazy bounced after him.
“Well-well,” Luco noted with a stopwatch in hand. “Record time; considering Shiva and Luke are still going at it…”
Blazy kicked Luco, sending him through the ceiling and into the sky.
“I was about to do that myself, though I would have to ask consent given that you are the daughter of Luco.” Katakuri then spots a pile of donuts. “Donuts…” Katakuri said, his eyes turned into donuts before he shook his head. “No, I must resist, I’ll eat them in the void… Alone.”
“Bummer,” Vine noted, already eating the fruit nearby. “Though… are we ever really alone?” Her glazed eyes gazed up at the sky. “I’m pretty sure those circle birds are real.”
“The White Void is full of nothingness, just like Luco’s brain. Nothingness.” Katakuri jokes, before clarifying. “That was a joke.”
“Heh,” Vine nodded, before narrowing her eyes. “Speaking of Luco, I think he’s coming back down.”
Indeed, the monkey man was soaring down like a sky diver.
“COMING IN HOOOOOOOTTTTTT!” he yelled.
But as he fell, Katakura and Blazy exchanged a look, and Blazy tilted her head at Luco, silently noting, ‘If you want to hit him, you’ve got my consent.’
“...” Katakuri runs away… Before coming back in his rolling donut form, bouncing up he pulls off Buzz Cut Mochi. “BUZZ CUT MOCHI!!!” Katakuri then swings him around… Before throwing him in the direction of Brazil. “SO LONG GAY BOWSER!!!”
“SO LOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGG!!” Luco cried as he was hurled away.
Blazy, Vine and even Kodo lifted score cards: 10, 10 and 10.
“I’m built different,” Katakuri looks at his arm, it was now severed but it regenerated, mochi forming into an arm. “Good as new, anyways, does anyone want drinks? Because they’re on m-” Suddenly a huge barrel of rum fell onto Katakuri.
“HAH!!!!” Grievous laughed, “Oh man I love puns.” Katakuri then picks the barrel of rum up and sets it down.
“Thankfully I didn’t land on my back or else I’d have to make World War II look like a fucking tea party .” Katakuri said darkly, “Anyway, have some rum! I can’t drink it because it requires me to show you my face, and I will not allow that to happen.”
Blazy shrugged. “Mm,” she replied.
“Ah, yeah,” Vine noted. “She can’t drink either.” She glanced around with a grin. “Wanna see why?”
Kodo’s ears flattened at the mischievous look in her eyes. “No.”
“What’s that? Yes?” Vine asked, before forming a cup and pulling out a pint of rum.
Grievous puts two corks in Kodo’s ears in case Vine says something naughty.
But Vine didn’t speak. Instead, she tossed the pint of rum right into Blazy’s face.
WHOOOM! A burst of fire billowed out from Blazy’s body, which she barely managed to redirect into Vine. When the smoke cleared, only two small, ashen stumps were what was left of the terra-drake…
Or so they thought, as Vine promptly popped out of the ground and leaned on Grievous and Kodo with a grin.
“And that’s why Blazy’s full name is Blazing Phoenix,” she declared, taking a puff of her joint.
“...Is it bad that I want to fight the dragon?” Grievous said, looking at Blazy, who merely tilted her head with an ominous smile.
“YES!!!!” Everyone cried out.
“I’m a Dragon Slayer, it’s part of the law of the code. Defeat on si-” Grievous slowly turned towards Vine, a creaking sound following.
Vine briefly noticed him staring at her, before looking behind her. When she noticed no one was behind her, she looked back at Grievous and sighed.
“Technically, I’m a terra-drake,” she pointed out. “Bit of a difference.”
“If it has a drake in its name it’s ripe to maim. Rip and tear until it’s done, but I’m not going to cause mass mayhem due to the fact that this is a party. I don’t want to make a panic at the disco .” Grievous then turned to The Readers with his eyes squinted.
“Anyway, I believe that is all for the singing,” Katakuri said, then looked at everyone. “It’s almost time for you guys to say farewell,”
“GOTTA DO ONE THING FIRST!!!!” Grievous then jumped to the skies and fell down next to Kodo, landing on his chest. He then shoots to his feet “Take-my-token-so-that-I-can-save-you-from-any-danger-possible!” Grievous said with a quickness that could rival Pinkie Pie. He then shoves a copy of his four swords, pushing them into Kodo’s chest.
“Oh, thanks,” Kodo said.
As he took the token, Luke and Shiva walked out, Shiva walking rather funny, but looking very satisfied. Luke’s look of satisfaction, however, faded as he noticed Kodo grinning up at Grievous.
“Shiva, can we go back?” Luke asked.
“We are going back,” Shiva replied. “Back home after we thank these guys for getting us this far.” She pulled him towards the group.
At that moment, the sound of a growing wind filled the air. Soon, Black’s figure soon appeared as he descended near the group, his face unreadable. He looked to Shiva for a brief moment before turning to Thanos. He walked up to the Titan, looking him in the eyes as a pained expression filled the Saiyan’s face. “Thanos, I never really apologized for what happened…” Black said.
Before he could get another word out, Thanos punched him in the face before embracing him. “Glad to have you back, best buddy.”
Black let out a groan before letting out a short laugh. “Yeah yeah… really deserved that.” Black said as he pat the Titan’s back.
Thanos began to increase the pressure of his hug, “Also, you didn’t apologize… Say sorry.” Thanos said with a frown.
The Saiyan’s face then began to turn purple. “I’m sorry Im sorry!!!” Black said hastily.
“Not just me… Say sorry to Celine, she tried to direct you from the dark side,” Thanos using Tekkai to toughen his body as he continued to squeeze the air out of his body.
“I didn’t get to choose! But I’m sorry Celine.” Black struggled to get out.
“Apology accepted,” Celine said. “Um… can you please not crush him, Mr. Thanos?”
“First, say sorry to Elia as well, and the entire kingdom while you're at it.” Black felt his ribs crack as he continued to squeeze Black. “Say it.”
“LOOK I’M SORRY ALRIGHT, NOW PLEASE STOP CRUSHING MY RIBS!!” Black shouted.
Thanos let Black go, “Good.” Thanos said with a chirpy smile.
Black clutched his sides as he let out heavy breaths. “I fucking hate you…” Black said with a painful laugh, going into Super Saiyan God to heal his broken ribs.
“Do you want to get crushed again?” Thanos said, raising an eyebrow, “I could’ve gone A LOT worse. Use my Netsu Netsu No Mi to boil your blood.”
“And I could’ve gone even farther in our first fight!” Black countered with a smile.
“Guys, come on…” Shiva started to protest, before Luke held her back.
“Let guys be guys, my queen,” he replied.
“Well, while you do have a point I have another counter for you. I didn’t even use Burst Man Blue Inferno.” Thanos shot back with a grin.
“OH, and I recall you kinda cheated at the end of our first bout, didn’t you?” Black said with a raised brow.
“You use Ultra instinct, I use Ultra instinct! DO DO DO DO!!!” Thanos then plays the trumpets.
“You never said I couldn’t use it.” Black said with a cheerful grin. “So technically, I won
“Fuck you man,” Thanos replied, “Who healed throughout the match and used boosted gear to double his power just to keep up with me?” Thanos said with a smile.
“Touche.” Black said with a laugh.
“Wait, how strong were you when you used that Final-Big-Bang-Kamehameha? Because I just noticed that and holy crap do I have some durability.” Thanos said, his eyes open wide.
“Hmmm…” Black put a finger to his chin, “Well, if we do the math, I could’ve wiped out a good hundred galaxies.” Black said with a wave of a hand.
“I mean, I survived snapping half the Universe once.... How many galaxies are their in a universe…?” Thanos then began to think more.
“To fucking many, but then again I’m not good at math, so I could be wrong.”
“WAIT!!! Black, remember when Beerus and Goku clashed it shook the universe. Making Goku Universal, he then had that same power in his base form and the og Black beats Goku making him Universal thus meaning… I SURVIVED A UNIVERSE DESTROYING ATTACK!!!!” Thanos calculated.
“...” Black’s eyes widened. “Man… Your one tough motherfucker.” Black said in disbelief.
“That’s shocking, honestly,” Thanos said, clutching his chest. “The boosted gear and… Oh… I’m going to test if I can survive shredding the Universe to atoms. That was a joke Black, I’m not gonna do it, it’s stupid.”
“Yeah, I’d rather you not do that…” Black said while shaking his head.
“Please don’t!” Vine agreed.
“Wait, with the Reality Stone, could I theoretically make a copy of Blazy and fight her over and over again, learning from her and when I fight the real one I could destroy her?” Thanos said, putting a finger to his mighty chin.
Blazy frowned at that, while Luco reappeared in a Brazilian poncho with his hands on his hips. “You destroy her, you destroy me first!” he declared.
“How about no one has the Infinity stones, go throw them in a black hole.” Black said with a wave of a hand.
“You do realize I could prevent the heat death of the universe right?” Thanos said, raising an eyebrow.
“That’s the natural order of things, we don’t interfere with things like that.” Black said while crossing his arms.
“But with everything gone… Where would we be? DAMN IT I’M GOING INSANE!!!!” Thanos cried out.
“Hey, stay calm!” Vine said, blowing calming jasmine smoke towards him. “Deep breaths.”
The Saiyan rolled his eyes, “The questions of the universe, Like what if Jiren had an actually good back story?”
“Yeah, and not some edgy Sasuke backstory. ‘Oh no my master or clan died! I must become the strongest’ fucking cliche. You have a good backstory, Shiva has the best. Eric the most tragic, me the most darkest.” Thanos said pointing to the others.
“Who the fuck talking shit about my back story?” Jiren yelled.
“FUCK!!!” Thanos carried Black under his arm and ran. “I GOTCHA BEST BUDDY!!!!”
“Let go of me! This is ridiculous!” Black yelled as he tried to get out of the Titans grip.
“Very poor choice of words,” They were at a lava pool that housed the Dragons, Thanos casually drops Black in it.
“MOTHERFUCKER!!!” Black’s voice slowly fading into the lava pool. He almost fell into the lava. Luckily, Blazy popped up from the lava and set him on proper land.
“Ah, Heath Ledger’s Joker, the best movie version.” Thanos said with a smile.
“May he forever rest in peace,” Luco agreed with a solemn expression.
Black went and jumped into the air, expecting to fly out of the area, but then fell to the ground. This left the Saiyan perplexed as he tried it again, he then let out a groan. “Oh this is fucking great…” Black growled.
John Cena then football tackled Black, picking him up before doing the Five Knuckle Shuffle. As Black hit the ground, John Cena made Black’s leg stick up. Thanos then jumped and his chest hit the ground. “One, Two, Three! JOHN CENA WINS!!!!” Thanos said, jumping to his feet.
Black gets up, dusting himself off before looking to Thanos. “Looks like I can’t use ki for awhile now Mr. clean.”
“Okay how the fuck? Also, fuck you, Drip Goku man.” Thanos said, pointing a finger at Black.
“Remember when Goku used Super Saiyan Blue Kaioken Times 10 the first time. Well after that he got something called Delayed Onset Energy Disorder. I used Kaioken Times 65 with Rose which was a bit much.” Black explained, crossing his shoulders.
“I have Autism, what’s your excuse?”
“Ass burgers,” Luco replied, pulling a burger out of his pants.
“Sus.” Katakuri said, pointing a finger at Luco.
“...Well, I’m gonna fly off. “ Thanos jumped to fly… And fell back down. “Fuck, I have that disorder too.”
“HA!” Black fell onto his back and began to laugh.
“I can still fly with my Geppo and Steam Mr. I don’t know the Rokushiki Techniques!” Thanos said, grinning.
“Heh, just you wait.” Black said as he held his hands to his side, “Imma bout to make Iron Man jealous.” Black said as he shot flames out of his hands, then proceeded to fly back to the group.
“BASTARD!!!!” Thanos was then punched by Asura. “You want to destroy a universe?! YOU THINK YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO THAT?!!??!”
“IT WAS A FUCKING JOKE MAN LIKE SER-”
Press B to make Thanos shut up.
Thanos was punched again… In his face, and just like before, his face… Went inside of his face. Thanos’ face came out, “Okay I deserved that, but it was a joke bro.”
“I don’t give a damn!” Asura said with a frown, “You’re the strongest bastard here... Right?”
“No, that would be Katakuri.” Thanos said, pointing at the Mochi Man.
Suddenly Phil Swift appeared, “I’ve come to object, Flex Tape is the strongest!”
“Go home Phil!” Thanos ordered.
“Let me show you the power of Flex Tape, Flex Tape is so powerful…” Phil Swift puts some tape on Blazy. “It can even survive Blazy’s flames!”
Luco grinned, and with a snap of his fingers, morphed his face into John Cena’s. “Are you sure about that?” he asked.
Sharing a mutual grin, Luco tickled Blazy’s nose. And with a mighty sneeze, she knocked the flex tape off her body, as it disintegrated into ash.
“... Flex Seal has a new exciting feature, weaponizing!” Phil Swift brought out a bazooka made out of Flex Seal Liquid and Flex Tape. “It’s so powerful…” He then shoots Arkham Knight making him get covered in Flex Seal Liquid, it then turns him into a black statue. “It even works on Arkham Knight!”
“MICHAEL!!!” Lord Twigo cried out, looking at Arkham Knight.
“BROTHER!” Kodo barked, racing to his side.
“Brother?” Celine stammered, before following after him. “Oh, dear, my new brother needs help!”
“With the power of Flex Tap, I can fix this!” The Flex Seal Liquid melts off Arkham Knight and he gasps for air.
“It was darker than my childhood.” Arkham Knight said, curling into a ball and shivering. “I saw everything in there, everything! I CAN EVEN SEE SHIVA AND LU-” Lord Twigo then puts a hand on Michael’s cybernetic mouth.
“Hush my boy, you are safe now.” Lord Twigo said, before looking at Phil Swift… Only to find him gone. “OH THAT RAT BASTARD!!!!”
“I’m running out of jokes! Quick Kodo, Celine, I must show you the things that are in my mind!” Thanos said, putting an index finger on both of their heads.
For a moment, there was silence. Both pup siblings exchanged a glance, then turned back to Thanos. Then they looked at each other… and then they walked off.
“Fuck this shit we’re out,” they said in sync.
“Aw! No, don't go!’ Abridged Thanos cried out. “We have Fried Chicken!”
“God damn it you scared them away with your eldritch chanting.” MCU Thanos said.
“Well EXCUSE ME Mr. Dictator man!” Abridged Thanos said
“Probably should’ve shown that stuff to someone used to chaos,” Luco replied, suddenly appearing in Thanos’ mind. “Hi by the way. I’m in your head.”
“DON’T OPEN THE HENTAI DOOR!!!!” The Titans cried out.
“What’s that? Open the hentai door?” Luco asked, promptly whipping the door open. For a moment, he gazed at what was inside, before shutting it and turning back to them with a haunted look in his eyes… which was quickly replaced with a wide grin. “Get me ten girls and five hours in this room.”
“No! You are not having sex in my mind! You guys didn’t tell them about the Shitpost Door did you?” Thanos said, turning to MCU Thanos.
“Nope.” MCU Thanos said.
“You mean, this door?” Luco asked, patting at the Shitpost door.
“NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Thanos roared.
But despite his protests, Luco opened the door, whistling at what was inside. Which was a bunch of crabs but with Shiva heads doing the Crab Rave dance. Rick Astley was in the sky singing and dancing, John Cena was currently wrestling Hitler as a bass boosted version of his theme was playing, Grievous was on top of Luke wielding a gun and had a Doom Slayer outfit, slaying succubi, and there was a bowl of pickles with Black’s face on it, Luna Black was eating said pickles.
Luco turned back to Thanos. “Your mind is a work of art, my friend,” he declared. “A work of art.” He immediately started taking pictures with a cell phone.
“OH MOTHER FUCKER!!!!” Thanos swore, “IF YOU SHOW EVERYONE THAT I WILL DESTROY YOU!!!!!”
“Oh-ho, Thanos. Buddy. Amigo. Hermano!” Luco cooed, spinning his eyes like Derpy. “How do you break something that’s already broken?”
“SUS” Luco turned around and there were giant Among Us Characters dancing with a bass boosted version of their remix version. On the Among Us Characters were Frogs dancing on top of them.
“My mind is fucked. Royally.” Thanos said with a sigh.
Luco just laughed. “You can’t help that, buddy. Everyone’s mind is fucked.” He giggled, and his giggle turned into a cackle. He let out a breath, as parted his mohawk to reveal a door of his own. “You might notice,” he said, opening the door. “That my mind is a little fucked itself.”
He giggled again as inside, Thanos saw a landscape similar to his own. Characters with their noses gone and giant mouths were literally beating beans and rice out of each other, only briefly being gagged by sandviches. Vaas Montenegro was getting chased by a billion Arthur Morgan’s screaming, “LENNY!” at the top of their voices, while a crowd of Cheshire cats were laughing at the spectacle. Professor Snape shot by like a bat out of hell, slapping the shit out of Harry Potter as the boy futilely tried to escape. Dutch van der Linde came up to the door, his face extending like a snake.
“hAVe SOME GAWDAMN FAITH, ARTHUR!” the entity roared. “i’M dutch PLAN der lin. And I had A GODDAMN PLAN!”
“SO BEAUTIFUL!!!” Abridged Thanos said, clapping his hands, as Luco shut the door on his mind with a bow.
As Luco and Thanos continued to mess with each other, Vine and Blazy parked themselves next to Black.
“So… this is making no sense to either of you two, right?” Vine asked.
Blazy just sighed tiredly.
“After the events of the past few weeks, nothing makes sense at this point…” Black said as he crossed his arms. “Hell, I doubt I can be surprised at this point.”
“Join the club,” Shiva replied.
Suddenly… Six different portals appeared, each had names on them. Thanos, Shiva, Link, Nox, Eric, Black.
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"Your time… Has come," Katakuri said solemnly. "You all need to return to your families now. Your heroism will be written in the history books."
Shiva let out a breath, before turning to the others. “Well,” she said. “Can’t say it was a complete pleasure - what with getting beaten up and nearly killed - but… it was nice to meet you all.” Her tail wagged. “And it was an honor to work with you.”
“The Honor was ours Alpha Shiva” Luna bowed to the Diamond Dog
“Thanks again for bringing me back,” Luke added to Thanos, glancing at the portal with trepidation. “It’s gonna be interesting seeing home again.”
Kodo gave Grievous one last bro-fist, before dropping a diamond into his claws. “If you guys have need of me,” he said. “The creed’s ‘the strength of the wolf is the pack, and right now this pack needs Kodo, Son of Shiva.’” He flexed his shoulders. “Hopefully, I’ll be older, and even more badass.”
“In your dreams, brother,” Celine said with a smirk.
“I’m coming too,” Vine said. When the diamond dogs stared at her in confusion, she shrugged. “Luco said he replaced you guys with my guys. I gotta make sure my girlfriends are okay.”
Shiva rolled her eyes, before grinning at the others. “Well, so long guys,” she said.
"Farewell guys, I hope I see you down the road in life. And remember, if you see an overpowered person, use one to kill one!" Thanos called out.
"Remember Kodo, dying is gay!" Grievous said before looking at Luke cheekily.
"Didn't you die?" Entity said, turning to Grievous.
"I got transported to the Minecraft world thus meaning I didn't die. So all of you are gay, except for me." Grievous responded to the Minecraftian.
"BYE!!! Use your Ki wisely, it's meant to protect not wreak havoc!" Nappa cried out.
"DON'T FORGET TO SEND US LETTERS!!!!!" Luffy cried out, his straw hat had been repaired.
Black looked towards them not saying a word, but gave them a smile. “Farewell…”
With a final salute, Shiva, her family and their terra-drake companion stepped through the portal and vanished back to their world.
Thanos then looks to the others, he then cracks them all a big smile. "It's time for us to go, this has been hell with you and I hope this never happens again. You were great comrades in battle, though I may be the winner of the Tournament. You are all winners to me, now, I must be off!" Thanos turns towards the portal.
"Hey Sombra," Grievous said, looking at Sombra. "Let's have a proper sword duel later in life," Grievous then turns towards the portal, standing next to Thanos.
“Better sharpen your skills, Grievous.” Sombra said with a smirk as he stood with Luna at the portal
"If you need some pointers on how to be an ass kicking feline, hit me up," Lucci chucked his token, a vivre card at Link, causing him to quickly react to catch it. Lucci then stands next to Thanos.
"Though our original mission wasn't a success we won," Entity then pats Elia. "Remember Elia, this won't be goodbye, call on my scythe if you need it." Entity hands Elia his token and he walks to Grievous.
"Welp, this has been a cool adventure. It's time we go back home! Yay!" Nappa whooped, he then slid next to Lucci.
"WOO!!!! I can't wait to see my crew! Goodbye!" Luffy said, waving goodbye to the others and standing next to Entity.
“See you later,” Brudus said, looking at the others before walking up to Lucci to stand by him.
"Boys," Thanos said, The Boys perked up. "Roll out." Thanos and his Boys then walk through the portal and leave.
"Well, it's time to go back to our Equestria." Nox said, looking at his children, Grab, Shield, Brute, and Light. Iron Man and Erebus just stood beside him.
"Farewell Goku Black and I hope we can cross fists once more!" Erebus said, tipping his trucker hat to Black. The Saiyan smiled and merely nodded.
"I've had enough of this, let's go already." Iron Man said with an exhausted sigh.
"Yeah, going home." Light said, diverting her gaze from Link.
Link’s ears lowered. A fine woman, archer, and good person.. Won’t be going with him. The hylian kind of deflated there. Link chose to not speak, for it was Light’s choice after all, and Link just felt too ashamed to try and speak her out of it.
"Alright, let's go home!" Brute said, pumping his fist in the air.
"Farewell, and I wish you all good luck in your future endeavors." Nox then tips his sedge hat and they all take their leave.
Black sighed as he looked towards the portal with a sad smile. The Saiyan walked towards it with Luna Black in tow. The Alicorn walked through first, leaving the Saiyan. Black turned around and gave them the famous Goku Salute. “Farewell, till we meet again…” Black said as he walked into the portal, it closed as his form disappeared.
“It was a great honor to fight alongside all of you” Eric said stepping through the portal with his friends.
As the others left Luco watched them go atop of Blazy.
“You know,” Luco noted. “This was fun. Seeing people getting murdered…” His grin faded. “Not so much fun. But seeing you fight…” His grin returned. “That was fun.”
Blazy grinned up at her dad. “Mm?” she mused.
“I don’t believe in planning, Blazy,” Luco replied. “We all know plans don’t survive contact with chaos. But… I do like the idea of doing another tournament.”
Humming in intrigue, he nudged Blazy. And with a final salute to Katakuri, the ignis-drake spread her wings and launched into the sky, vanishing with a burst of fireworks.
"Farewell… Blazy Blue." Katakuri said softly, looking to the skies.
“Before I go through the portal. Does anyone know where the Ender Dragon went?” Link asked curiously, his tone of voice still holding pain.
“Can you go already?” Katakuri said, pointing to his portal. “Also, she’s right behind you.” Link looked behind him and saw the Ender Dragon chillin’.
“Come on, as promised I’d like for you and your family to live in peace.” Link said as he went through the portal, not wanting Katakuri to be annoyed.
The Ender Dragon looked at her egg, resting on her back.
“The choice is yours to make,” Katakuri said, the Ender Dragon nodding and running into Link’s portal. The portal then closes, Katakuri then sighs. “It’s going to be hell cleaning this mess up…”
Ryker lay there in bed, Girlycard snuggled next to him, her head laying on his chest. It was night time and Ryker looked to the ceiling.
"They won, they've broken my pride and my body. I failed in my mission to revive my daughter… At least things can't get anymore worse than this…" Ryker said, closing his eyes.
"Ryker… Rryyyykerr…." The haunting voice of Nappa said.
"Please no…" Ryker begged, a tear falling from his chin.
"I'm haunting you." Nappa said with a chuckle.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!" Ryker roared out loud, shaking the entire planet.
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The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Chapter One, And So It Begins...
Chapter One, And So It Begins…
Eliatopia (Equestria 4194)
Ryker’s POV.
I sat upon my throne with a blank expression on my face, yawning I’ve been bored for millennia, and doing an event like this was my greatest idea yet. I had eight letters on my lap so I made a portal, sticking my right arm to the side and showing my palm to the air. An orange portal appeared, and I threw one in.
“One for Shiva…” I said throwing one in, I made another portal, “One for Thanos.” I threw one in, “One for Son Goku Black…” I continued to throw them in before I heard footsteps in front of me. Turning attention to the footsteps I see my Dragon Assistant, a female with cyan scales and a golden stomach. Someone else walked beside her an Eliatrope with a cyan hat and a golden colored gi. “Ah, the Elia Twins, my favorite assistants! What brings you here?” I asked them.
“We heard you were enacting the plan and we decided to go check on you, King Ryker.” The Eliatrope told me, I rolled my eyes.
“Jasmyn, how many times have I told you not to call me King Ryker? Call me Ryker!” I said with a jolly grin, Jasmyn sighed. “Now, Ryola, what is it you came to me for?” I asked the drake.
“Well, I want to make sure that you’re okay, you do remember what happened the last time you brought a Displaced here?” She told me, I growled, that damned clown.
“Don't mention that again please, now if you excuse me, I need to go back to work.” I threw the letters into their respective portals and I sighed.
“All done, now I must make haste.” I lifted my fatass from my throne and I walk forwards. Ready to meet the Displaced.
Outer Haven (Equestria 3521)
Ever since Outer Haven separated from the Crystal Empire, Shiva had gotten fewer and fewer appointments from her subjects. Which left her very unprepared for what came next.
Instead of a subject using the door… they used a portal. A writhing void of dark and purple energy.
The Diamond Dog Queen didn’t hesitate. Springing to her paws, her pack link crackled to life, making her white fur glow like Celestia… right as a letter flew through the portal, and landed at her feet.
Her eyes narrowed. She picked up the letter and narrowed her eyes at its strange runes. She growled.
“SKIPPY!” she barked.
The changeling - still cleverly disguised as a diamond dog - rushed in. “My Alpha?” he asked.
She sheepishly offered the letter to him. “I still can’t read,” she admitted, trying not to blush.
Grinning, Skippy took the letter, and translated its words for her:
“Congratulations,” the letter declared. “You have been offered a position for the Displaced Tournament (Presented by Hetap). The prizes are five different Devil Fruits, one wish, a life’s time supply of Hetap, and wealth! You can bring four allies in your quest. Do you want to join?
Sign Here _________
From Ryker, the King of Eliatopia.”
Shiva blinked in surprise, sharing a stunning look with Skippy.
“Before you ask,” Skippy replied. “I have no idea what even half of those things were.”
“I understood the wealth part,” Shiva noted, rubbing her claws with a curious light in her eyes. “If wealth translates out to diamonds, I think it could help keep our kingdom very happy.”
“I volunteer,” a voice barked. Skippy and Shiva turned as her son Kodo entered the room. Skidding to a halt, he bowed before his queen and mother. “Please, Mother; let me win this tournament. For the glory of Outer Haven. For the hopes of redeeming myself, I beseech you.” He gazed up at her pleadingly. “Let me do this for you.”
Shiva smiled softly. She brushed her son’s fur. “My son…” she began.
“Are you sure?” Skippy asked. “After what happened with Sombra… he may not be the best choice.”
“Officially, no,” Shiva admitted. “But it did say I could bring four allies. If I officially went…”
Kodo looked up with hope, only for his sister - Shiva’s daughter - to arrive.
“But what about the kingdom?” Celine asked.
Shiva turned to Celine. “You will lead them in my absence,” she assured her. “Let them know that we embark on a quest to gain great wealth for Outer Haven.”
Celine turned, only to find the diamond dog betas gathered outside.
“We heard ‘wealth,’” they admitted.
Shiva smiled at her subjects. “Take heart, my pack,” she declared. “If all goes well, your Queen will return with riches galore.”
The diamond dogs howled with glee, as Shiva looked to her son, who wisely did not draw attention to himself.
“Ready?” she asked.
Kodo chuckled. “This may be the weirdest mother-son trip we’ve ever taken,” he said, before taking her arm. “But I’ll take it.”
With a mutual smile, mother and son signed the contract. And the portal reopened for them. Sending them off to adventure.
Minos, (Equestria 69420.)
Thanos was walking to his palace, walking through the town, and waving back at everyone who waved at him, Thanos was having the time of his life. Smiling all the way, as Thanos reaches the palace, he turns his attention to his daughter who was all muddy.
"Did you have fun at the park, Golden Shield?" Thanos looked towards the young minotaur.
"Mmmhm! It was nice to see the boy from earlier!" She grinned, Thanos raised an eyebrow.
"You forgot his name already?" Golden Shield grinned sheepishly, "Well in any case we're here." Thanos arrived at the palace waving at the guards who protected its grounds. The guards nodded towards him, he arrived inside the palace and the Sally leaned on the wall next to them.
"Sally would you be so kind to escort this young lady to her quarters?" I asked her with politeness overflowing me.
"Well, since you asked SO nicely I guess I can. Come over her Ms. Shield." Sally walked off, Golden Shield following her, Golden Shield giving me one more last look before leaving. he sighed and sat on his throne. A portal opened next to his face and a letter came out and slapped his face.
“What the fuck?!” Thanos looked towards the paper, it was a letter, Thanos opens the letter, and his eyes opened wide.
“Congratulations,” the letter declared. “You have been offered a position for the Displaced Tournament (Presented by Hetap). The prizes are: five different Devil Fruits, one wish, a life’s time supply of Hetap, and wealth! You can bring four allies in your quest. Do you want to join?
Sign Here _________
From Ryker, the King of Eliatopia.”
Thanos raised his eyebrows at this, he gets up, the letter in his hand and he walks towards the training area, walking down the hallway to the area he sees Emerald Gauntlet and Grievous. "Hello you guys, follow me," Thanos ordered, the two complied and followed him, once they reach the training room. They see Entity and Lucci sparring, Lucci dodging a scythe attack from Entity and countering the attack with a punch to the gut. Entity wheezed and punched Lucci in the jaw, Lucci stumbled backward and grinned.
"You're improving Entity." Lucci commented he was about to lunge at Entity before he saw Thanos, "Oh hey Thanos, what's up?"
"I've been invited to a Displaced tournament, I can bring only three allies, I think. So... Entity, Lucci, Nappa come on up." Nappa appeared out of nowhere, Lucci and Entity nodded in affirmation. Grievous looked at him with a "WHHHYYYY???" look on his face.
"But why not me?!" He asked, Thanos, sighed.
"Entity needs screen time and he needs some action, and no, I'm not talking about that kind of action, perverts." Thanos turned around and signed it, an orange portal opening. "Let's go." Thanos walked in, Entity following as well as Nappa and Lucci. Leaving only Grievous and Emerald Gauntlet.
"Want some beer?" The minotaur offered.
"I could go for one right about now..."
Below Canterlot, (Equestria 2975)
The sound of a nail being slammed into the side of wood echoed through the forest. Black stood up with a smile, wiping off some sweat from his forehead. He had been making progress on his little cabin over the past week since he and Nightmare returned from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. He had gotten the walls up and was about to go call Nightmare to go get more wood, but the parasite showed up at the door frame.
“Hey Black, you don’t know anypony else besides the girls and me. Right?” Nightmare asks the Saiyan. This left Black a little confused, but regardless he answered.
“Yeah, and the two displaced that I’ve met in the past month, why?”
“Well, you got a letter…” Nightmare says as she pulls out a letter, handing it to the Saiyan who was left bewildered.
‘A letter, I’m pretty sure the populace isn't very comfortable with me, so who would be writing a letter to me?’ Black thought as he opened the piece of paper, reading it aloud.
“Congratulations,” the letter declared. “You have been offered a position for the Displaced Tournament (Presented by Hetap). The prizes are: five different Devil Fruits, one wish, a life’s time supply of Hetap, and wealth! You can bring four allies in your quest. Do you want to join?
Sign Here _________
From Ryker, the King of Eliatopia.”
Black blinked a few times before he let out a large grin. “A Tournament, one against another Displaced, I’m intrigued,” Black said as he looked at Nightmare, who gave him a skeptical look. “Oh come on, don’t be like that, you can come along as well,” Black said with a reassuring smile.
Nightmare scoffed, “That's not what I meant, for all we know, it could be a trap.” Nightmare explained, Black rolling his eyes on response.
“Nothing bad is going to happen alright, plus it did say I can get a lifetime supply of hetap!” Black said with a smile. He opened his hand and a pen appeared. He then proceeded to sign his name on there. Almost immediately, a dark portal opened next to them, holding power inside. “Come on, let's head out!” Black declared as he ran and jumped in, Nightmare sighing heavily as she followed. The portal disappearing behind them, leaving a crackling boom after.
Everfree (Equestria 374613)
The wind blows within the living forest known as Everfree; her gazing eyes ever watchful over her home. The peace is disturbed by the sounds of leather boots stepping into the dirt belong to a man who was forced to become a hero and take on the appearance of a fabled Hylian Link.
"...Strange, Celestia said the disturbance came from here, but I don't s-" Link paused as a portal opened up, allowing a letter to slowly drift into his leather gauntlet worn hands.
“Congratulations,” The letter declared. “You have been offered a position for the Displaced Tournament (Presented by Hetap). The prizes are: five different Devil Fruits, one wish, a life’s time supply of Hetap, and wealth! You can bring four allies in your quest. Do you want to join?
Sign Here _________
From Ryker, the King of Eliatopia.”
"...Devil Fruit? Hetap? What in the Flying Pot are those supposed to be?" Link asked with a frown on his face. "The one-time wish sounds more promising though." Link said as he thought about it. "Displaced Tournament..." Link repeated the letter's title; his mind swirling thoughts of possible powerhouses and god-like beings considering the vast void of the multiverse. "...I believe I'll give it a try. If things get worse, I can always leap back to my world using my Howling Stone." Link said as they served as warp points if the ones he judged meant to do any harm or misuse his trust. Using a very weak spark of Din's fire, Link wrote his name on the dotted line. When he finished, a portal opened up. Link raised his hood up, allowing the cloak’s enchantment to hide his face in a blank of darkness. Link went through to the other side and into the world that was hosting this tournament.
Ponyville, (Equestria 77777)
Phoenix’s point of view
Well, that’s a lot to take it. Going on a trip is one thing, but one day to pack?! The griffon kingdom didn’t seem so far that it would take a frickin week!
My thought process was interrupted by a rift appearing just in front of me. I had just stepped into my house, so I closed the door before turning back around. Now I had seen some wack ass shit, but this was up there.
Reaching my hand out forward, I went to investigate its purpose but was cut short. A letter suddenly shot out from the rift, hitting me straight in the nose. Groaning, I reached my hand up and grabbed it from my face before reading the inside.
“Congratulations,” The letter declared. “You have been offered a position for the Displaced Tournament (Presented by Hetap). The prizes are: five different Devil Fruits, one wish, a life’s time supply of Hetap, and wealth! You can bring four allies in your quest. Do you want to join?”
After reading it over again to check I didn’t miss anything, I determined that it was a waste of my time. Plus I already had other plans to divide and conquer and all that jazz.
And so, I set the parchment ablaze, letting it fizzle into ashes. However, the portal thingy didn’t take too kindly to that. In response, it grew in size, now standing taller than me, and began sucking me in.
“Oh hell no!” I shouted in refusal, but my attempt to escape led me nowhere, as I was soon enveloped by the mysterious rift before me.
Equestria - 16497/23 Griffonstone
In the lab of Victor Von Doom, a monitor started beeping. Doom looks overseeing the display. “Hmm, interesting.” With just a thought a device received its command and a small portal opened and a scroll appeared.
Doom didn’t pick up the message right away, first, he cast a few spells to determine if it was safe. Finally, he picks it up and reads the letter. “Hans!”
A dark shadow seeped in from under the door then took the shape of a seven-foot-tall man in a black suit and faceless white head. “Yes, my Sovereign?”
“I just got a message from some King of Eliatopia, a tournament of Displaced. Tell me do you know what Devil Fruits are?”
“Devil Fruits are magical fruits from the anime One Piece. I’m not familiar with all the details but they grant superhuman abilities.”
“What about Hetap?”
“I’m sorry my Sovereign, that one is beyond my knowledge”
Doom sat the note down and thought about it “I have no need for such items, but the possibility to study other Displaced. Very well Hans I shall join this endeavor. Summon Gilda, Maud Pie, and her pet Boulder.”
“Boulder? My Sovereign are you sure, he’s still… young.”
“Do you doubt my intellect, Hans?”
Hans bows “No sir, I’m just struggling to comprehend your brilliance.”
Doctor Doom snorts “You are getting better at covering your rear.”
Doom Snaps his fingers and his signature appeared on the invite. “Very well King Ryker, it’s your game.”
On The Shadow Damnation On The Sea… (Equestria 1293)
Aboard a black galleon ship, a dark figure stood watching the rising sun. His shirt and coat lay a few feet away, allowing him to display the large scar across his chest.
His brief enjoyment of the brisk morning air was interrupted by the sound of parchment hitting the deck. Turning his head, Eric Von Shadow found a bound scroll as it rolled to his feet. Picking up the scroll and unfurling it the captain began to read:
“Congratulations,” the letter declared. “You have been offered a position for the Displaced Tournament (Presented by Hetap). The prizes are: five different Devil Fruits, one wish, a life’s time supply of Hetap, and wealth! You can bring four allies in your quest. Do you want to join?
Sign Here _________
From Ryker, the King of Eliatopia.”
“Hmm… Interesting,” Eric mused, rolling up the scroll and gathering his coat and shirt.
Heading below deck, Eric quickly found his strongest and most trusted friends: Sombra, Rainbow Dash, and Maude Pie.
“Up you get, boy and girls!” Eric declared. “Meet me up deck!”
His voice boomed through the deck’s interior, and the three ponies wisely scrambled to meet him up top.
“Did you have to wake us at the crack of dawn?” Rainbow grumbled, rubbing the sand from her eyes… just in time for Eric to hand her the invitation.
“I received an invitation to participate in a tournament,” Eric explained. “It said I was allowed to bring four allies.” He grinned as Rainbow Dash’s eyes widened. “And I’m choosing the three of you”
“You don’t think this is a regular tournament, do you?” Sombra asked.
“It’s just a feeling, but something about this tournament doesn’t sit right with me,” Eric admitted, taking the letter back from Rainbow Dash. “Like whoever this Ryker is has an alternative motive.”
“So you’re bringing the three of us because we're the strongest on the ship” Maud summed up.
“Precisely,” Eric replied with a grin. He wrote his name onto the invitation, and the portal reopened.
“Eric?” Ask a voice that all four recognized. “Where are you guys going?”
Turning around Eric was met with the sight of Princess Luna, who was exiting the captains quarters. Eric showed Luna the invitation causing the alicorn to glare at the shadow man
“And you’re going? What if it’s a trap to kill you?” Luna asked her voice filled with concern
Eric made a move to speak but was stopped by Luna.
“Why is it that every time I turn around you get yourself into a situation that could get you killed?” Luna asked, placing a hand where Eric’s scar was located. “You almost died when we fought Chrysalis, and I lost you for two whole years.”
“Eric I don’t want to lose you anymore than I already have,” Luna said as bits of her hair turned to sparks of lightning. “I’m coming with you, whether you like it or not
Realizing that there was no persuading the princess Eric sighed as he motioned the princess to the portal. Eric and his four companions entered the portal as it closed leaving the inhabitants of the Shadow Damnation completely unaware of the absence of their five passengers.
Castle of the Two Sisters; (Equestria 1142)
Four Horsemen were sitting against the nearest stone wall of their currently broken home before a small portal opened up. A single rolled-up scroll landed on the ground.
"Someone sent that," a male clad in heavy armor noted, pointing towards the scroll
"Give me that," a masked male stated, snatching it up
“Congratulations,” the letter declared. “You have been offered a position for the Displaced Tournament (Presented by Hetap). The prizes are five different Devil Fruits, one wish, a life’s time supply of Hetap, and wealth! You can bring four allies in your quest. Do you want to join?
Sign Here _________
From Ryker, the King of Eliatopia.”
"That might be interesting," another masked male mused "We're all going right?"
"No," the other masked one stated "I'm taking Fury only. Someone has to stay behind and protect the world. Strife; you and War can take the next tournament."
"That's a bullshit excuse," Strife argued
"I'm the oldest if you haven't forgotten and I decided to take her. We don't know what this tournament contains and you'll get trigger-happy and War will cause more problems with the blade."
“Death is right," Fury added "Two go and the others stay behind. What about the prizes?"
"I'm not interested in wealth and no wish would undo the damages we've done. This is just because it sounds fun."
Death concentrated for a moment and summoned a portal onto the wall behind him and stepped turn; he was wearing dark purple armor with a skull-like design on the kneecaps of the boots and pauldron on the left shoulder. The only item missing from the armor by choice was a set of horns on his forehead. Now properly dressed; he decided on using the tip of his now current dagger; Harvester and pricked a finger; using the blood to sign the scroll. Once signed; a full-size portal opened up as Death and Fury stepped inside.
"Have fun," Strife called
Eliatopia (Equestria 4194)
The Displaced arrived at the entrance to Eliatopia Thanos standing beside Phoenix, Phoenix standing beside Black, Black standing beside Doom, Doom next to Shiva, they looked at each other confused about how they all got together at the same time. Thanos just grinned at Black.
“Long time no see, Black!” Thanos said Nappa popped up behind Thanos, Lucci, and Entity as well.
“It’s been a few months for me, How have you been?” Black asked the Titan as Nightmare arrived at his side.
“Meet the boys, this is Rob Lucci, a black man who turned white, and this is the White Reaper, Entity and you already know who Nappa is.” Thanos introduces the boys.
“Nice to meet you guys, so anything interesting happened when you went back to your universe?” Black asked.
“Well, I fought Kaido, in his Dragon Hybrid form, I killed him by kicking him to the moon and destroying the moon and uh… After that, we went back to our Universe and made the Reality Stone make the HyperBolic Time chamber, and I was taught Ki control and Kaioken by Nappa.” Thanos finished
“I met King Kai myself so don’t try me,” Nappa commented.
Black put up his hands and laughed, “Don’t worry I won't.”
“So are you going to Introduce your ‘Boys’ to everyone you meet or only for the special people?” Eric said putting his hands in his pockets as he approached the Titan and Saiyan
“Eyyy it’s you guys! Also, yes, I will introduce my boys to everyone. Hello Lesbian, I remember “killing” you. Oh and this is Lucci, basically Eric but with pure strength and he’s a leopard. This is Nappa my friend, and this is Entity_303, the White Reaper.” He introduces his boys.
“Is this creature always like this?” Asked Sombra
“Unfortunately,” Eric said before greeting the titan properly. “How have you been Jacob?”
“IT’S JOHN GOD DAMN IT!!!! Also, I’ve been doing fine, I fought Goku Black, he used Ultra Instinct and I use Burst Man, White Hot Edition. How are you doing Monohan?”
“Good, but Monohan died two years ago,” Eric said chuckling
“Edgy bastard.” Nappa laughed, “How edgy can one be?”
“It’s not Edgy, it’s the truth,” Eric said to the bald Saiyan. “I am Eric Von Shadow now and forever”
“Says the Edgy one, if you were to fight Thanos right now, he’d kick your ass,” Nappa commented.
“Really now?” Eric said, holding back his light chuckle. “And pray tell did Thanos tell you of the time we fought?”
“Indeed he did, but you both were holding back, not to mention can you turn the moon to dust like he did while fighting KAIDO!???!?!” Nappa said dramatically.
“True but can Thanos do this” Eric said as Nappa was pulled into his own shadow
Said shadow began thrashing around until it began shaking, pulling the bald Saiyan from the shadow realm Eric and the others found Nappa shaking in fear.
“I saw Popo, he was there! FIRST RULE OF POPO”S TRAINING DO NOT TALK ABOUT POPO’S TRAINING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“So uh… Sombra, you’re the second strongest right? Basically the “Zoro” of the group.” Lucci glanced at the unicorn
“I’m not familiar with who this ‘Zoro’ is but in terms of physical strength then yes,” Sombra said before glancing at the grey pony. “In terms of Devil Fruit then that title belongs to Pinkie’s older sister”
Entity and Maud were just having a staring competition, none of them said a single word, just silence. Thanos blinked at that and he shook his head.
“Wanna hear more about me and Goku Black’s fight? It was totally epic, I literally burnt an entire landscape for miles wide! Also thanks for the Netsu-Netsu No Mi.” The Titan thanked the shadow man.
“Perhaps another time Thanos,” Eric said offering the titan a smile. “We really must catch up after this, after all we haven’t spoken for over two years”
“I just wanna say… If you had seen the fight between Black and Thanos your jaw would be dropping like a fly. Anyways what are they doing?” Nappa looked over to Entity and Maud just staring at each other… MENACINGLY!!!!
“Should we be worried about your friend giving Maud a literal Death Glare?” Asked Rainbow
“Oh, I forgot you were there you Lesbian,” Thanos said blankly.
“Stop calling me that!” ordered Rainbow Dash angered by the titan’s choice of words
“Anyways, don’t worry about Entity, he’s the silent type sometimes and he just wanna compete against the bastard,” Thanos said, shaking his head, looking at the two.
“Don’t worry Rainbow he won’t pick a fight with somepony who can literally destroy an entire Island if she wanted” Eric reassured the Pegasus
“Can he turn it into ash tho?” Thanos said turning towards the shadow man.
“Okay, enough with this dick measuring contest!” Lucci shouted out, looking at Eric and Thanos. “Thanos stop trying to make it so that Entity could destroy an Island, which he can but just don’t say it! Eric, stop instigating him! Like, NIGGGAAA!!!!!!!!” Lucci said, throwing his arms up in the air. “Oh and Rainbow Dash, maybe if you got rid of that yee yee ass hair cut you’ll get some stallions inside ya, or better yet stop being competitive, nigga!”
While the group from Equestria 1293 and 69420 bickered with one another, Kado gasped as he looked at Sombra's direction and went to her mother's side.
“That’s Sombra,” Kodo whispered. “I-It’s him, right?”
Spotting the stallion, Shiva narrowed her eyes, putting herself between her son and the stallion.
“I got you,” she growled.
Eric heard this and immediately turned to the dogs before heading towards them. Shiva’s ears perked at the sight of the human, though her eyes kept darting to Sombra. Eric stood before them and blocked any path of escape using their shadows to form caged walls around them. Shiva briefly glanced at the caged wall of shadows behind them, before her pack link surged to life, spreading like wings across her back as she watched the shadow man, caution and anger fighting in her eyes.
“What the hell are you doing?” Lucci asked the shadow man.
“Though he may resemble the Sombra from your Equestria, he is far different from that monster,” Eric said, slightly irritated. “He has proven time and time again that he is on the side of good, Do not speak ill about my friend again or you will come to regret it.”
Kodo bristled, but Shiva calmed him with a pack link. She watched Eric with caution and curiosity, before lowering her head in a nod. “Forgive me, sir,” she said. “The Sombra from my world… possessed my son when he was still in my womb.” Her hand remained on her son’s shoulder. “It caused us… a few problems.” She gave Sombra another searching look. “But if you say that your friend is different, I’m willing to believe you.”
Eric’s gaze softened by a fraction. He withdrew his shadows, returning them to their proper place
“I can understand that,” Eric said, giving the side glance to Shiva. “In my Equestria, the source of Sombra’s evil and vile nature was through the remains of a king by the name of…”
“Umbra,” Kodo remembered. “I heard him talk of this Umbra. Some sort of… demon, right?”
“The first Tyrant King of the Crystal Empire who sought to immortalize his name,” Eric said, turning his gaze to his friend. “He possessed Sombra many times and the last time, he successfully managed to revive himself.”
Shiva stared at Sombra in shock. “That poor stallion,” she whispered. “I’m starting to wonder if we only dealt with Umbra then.”
“Before being taken over, he ordered me to kill him. I couldn’t bring myself to do it,” Eric said with regret clear in his voice. “I will not have him relive any memory of that constant nightmare.”
Shiva nodded. “I understand,” she said. “The worst kind of fight is against those you love.”
Kodo lowered his head in shame. “Umbra was just an influence,” he muttered. “He may have given me the suggestions, but I still followed them.” He covered his eyes. “I got so many diamond dogs killed, I…” His voice cracked. “I got my dad killed.”
Eric stepped up to the pup before kneeling down and placing a hand on his shoulder.
“Power leads to corruption, however it takes strength to break free,” Eric said lifting the pup's head. “You must keep a strong heart and a stronger mind.”
Kodo nodded. “Yeah,” he said. “I will.” He took a breath. “I know I messed up… and I’m going to redeem myself. Whether that’s by winning this tournament for my pack… or finding another way.”
“You realize what happened was wrong,” Eric noted with a nod. “That’s good. It shows how much stronger you are” Eric smiled at the pup. “Hold onto that strength and become stronger for both yours and your mothers' sake”
Kodo nodded, while Shiva smiled in gratitude. “Thank you, sir,” she said, gazing at him with reverence. “You know, it’s been far too long since I’ve gotten to see humans again, but…” She lifted a hand for him to shake. “But I’m glad to see you’ve lost none of your humanity.”
“You may be right,” Eric said, rising to his feet and looking Shiva in her eyes. “But I have none left.”
Shiva’s ears flicked, and her hand lowered. “What do you mean?”
“Tell me would you go back in time to kill a loved one if it meant saving your beloved from death,” Eric said with a look of pure shame and regret plaster on his face. “Even if it meant that the life of one mare would cause everyone you love and care about to die horrible deaths”
Shiva stiffened, sharing a look with Kodo, who backed away from her, his tail tucking. Shiva gazed down at her claws.
“No,” she said. “Not if I had to exchange one for millions. The cost is too much.”
“Well I did,” Eric said in regret. “I killed my best friend to save my wife, and in doing so I killed Princess Luna, as well as the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight Sparkle.”
Shiva looked away, blinking in shock. “I…” she mumbled.
“Ahem…” Nappa stood there at the three, “You’ve been talking for more than one hundred words, I’m also a fourth-wall breaker. No! I will ruin this moment! AND I’LL DO IT AGAIN!!!” Nappa shouted to the heavens.
“Forget it, I’ve moved on,” Eric said shoving his hands into his pocket before returning to his friends. “Just keep getting stronger kid, there will always be somepony stronger than you.”
Shiva huffed a hollow laugh. “A lesson I’ve been trying to teach him for some time,” she noted, before turning away with a sigh. “Wow, these humans are much different from how I remember them.”
“No… there’s far more to these humans,” Shiva whispered. “I can sense it, but…” It took all of Shiva’s dignity as a queen not to start shrieking in utter delight. “It’s been so long since I’ve been around humans from my home again!” She paused, glancing away. “A-At least while I was in my right mind,” she muttered.
Kodo winced and didn’t respond, remembering his part in that particular adventure. Meanwhile, Shiva crept up to Phoenix, her claw inching out towards his body. Phoenix in response gives the diamond dog a confused look, that turns into one of concern as Shiva presses her hand on his face. She feels around it, whispering inaudible words of shock under her breath. Phoenix slowly lowered Shiva’s hand with an uncomfortable look evident on his face and placed it back at her side (trying to figure out if she was all there) before turning back to the rest to size them up.
Realizing how uncomfortable she was making Phoenix, Shiva turned away, trying to suppress her blush.
Doctor Doom let out a grunt and looked around. Without saying a word he lifted his left arm and snapped his version of the Infinity gauntlet. “Nothing, so definitely in a different reality.” He then taps on his gauntlet and a panel opens and he taps a few commands. If anyone could detect it he was taking medical scans of those around him.
Turning his head he looked to Shiva “Human?”
Shiva swallowed, sizing up the massive armored human before her. “That’s… what you are, right?” She peered at him. “Unless you’re something more? Like, uh… what were those metal things that humans would make?” She lifted her claws before he could reply. “I’m sorry; I was a simple dog before I got these powers, so I am probably… out of my mind, right now.”
Link’s hidden eyes looked between each Displaced; his pupils widening at the few he saw. “...Thanos? Dr. Doom? Goku Black?!” he mentally shouted to himself. There were real powerhouses here. “...What’s the tournament host even thinking... Entertainment of the weak struggling?” Link mentally said before softly sighing to him. Link’s right ear twitched when one of them claimed they were humans here. “...I don’t think any of us are still human other than our minds..” Link said to Kodo as he looked over at the Diamond Dog.
Doctor Doom turns his head to look at Link “Speak for yourself, I am indeed human, though my mind is far beyond those of lesser intellect.”
He returned his attention to Shiva “I am indeed Human flesh and blood within this armor. So you're an uplifted life form?”
Shiva glanced at her claws. “I believe so,” she admitted.
“Perhaps I could have a drop of your blood for me to analyze?”
Awed by the steel-plated human, Shiva managed a nod. “I can work with that,” she replied. Offering up her arm, she bared her claws, and pressed into her fur, withdrawing a bead of blood that she offered up to the Doctor.
“Your offering is appreciated. The fact you harmed yourself wasn’t necessary,” He removed a small device from his belt and placed it on the wound, and collected the blood sample. “I’m curious if your uplifting bears' similarities to the High Evolutionary uplifted creatures.”
Shiva rolled her wrist, gazing at her healed wound with a pondering light. “Wish I could answer that for myself,” she admitted. “I’m still not fully sure who or what gave me this power.” She turned her attention to Kodo, who nuzzled up against her in concern. “But… I make it work for the ones I care about.”
Before Dr. Doom could respond, the conversation was cut off as Phoenix walked over. “In need of some data rust bucket?” The man in question went to respond but didn’t get far as he was cut sure by a spurting sound and a large stream of blood. Phoenix had rolled up his sleeve and amputated everything from his elbow onwards with a spear he had been carrying on his back. Shiva stared at his action in dumbfounded horror, but Phoenix picked up the arm, before presenting it to Dr. Doom. “You’re very welcome.” He in turn simply gave him a confused expression. After waiting a moment, Phoenix frowned. “Suit yourself,” the psychotic man exclaimed, before burning the limb to a crisp. Shrugging, his hand reappeared once more as he strolled away from them, hands in his pockets.
“...When I said human, I mean normal ones from the world we came from before Displacement.” Link explained as he gave Dr. Doom a curious look due to the armored man’s form of speech.
“A very noble trait” He then looked to Link then lifted his hand to his face and removed it. Revealing the twisted scarred but still recognizable human face. “Human in the flesh.”
Shiva winced in sympathy at the sight of his scars. Hesitantly, she reached up to him. “Is there… something we can do about your… injuries?” she asked, her paw glowing half-heartedly.
“Don’t worry about that Linky boy.” Thanos grinned, patting Link on his back, seemingly out of nowhere and undetected despite his height. After all, he is the tallest out of them.
Doom looked to Shiva. “Do not worry about my scars, I have come to accept them. They are proof of my might, of what I endured. To get rid of them now is to remove the proof of me being a Warrior.” He replaced the face mask “Besides, this is my true face now. The face of Doctor Doom.”
“I see,” Shiva said, lowering her hand and then her head in a bow. “Judging by your aura, I’d say King or Emperor Doom might be more appropriate.”
“Don’t forget yourself, Mother,” Kodo reminded her, looking up at Doom. “You stand before Alpha Shiva; Queen of the Diamond Dogs, Protector of Outer Haven, Bearer of the Pack Link, and...”
“Kodo,” she chastised. “Enough with the titles; you make me sound like some sort of false goddess.” She ruffled his head with a grin before glancing apologetically up at Doom. “Forgive my son. His love for his mother is strong; it can blind him to when we are clearly among our betters.”
“It is true I am the sovereign ruler of the world I found myself inhabiting. Most of the land I have conquered, Griffonstone, Equestria, and the Storm King’s domain. So the title Emperor is fitting. Those titles I got by fighting and conquest, the title of Doctor I got by learning and struggling to better myself. One can’t rule if they can’t master themself after all.”
Shiva nodded in understanding. “Indeed, they cannot,” she agreed.
Meanwhile, Shiva’s and Eric’s conversation was coming to a close, Black had been quiet about it, but he had been glaring at Sombra when he first laid eyes on the dark unicorn. ‘So after all this time… you show your face once again…’ Black mentally spat.
Sombra eventually felt an uneasy feeling, like a pair of blades were aimed at the back of his head. Turning towards the Saiyan
ng around Sombra was met with the angry glare of the black-clothed Saiyan: Goku Black, curiosity got the better of him considering he had never once met the creature before. So he had no idea what had elicited the level of anger and malice from the Saiyan, walking up to the Saiyan the unicorn attempted to understand the Saiyan's source of anger.
“You alright there?” Sombra said his hands laying against the hilts of the swords
“Oh, I’m perfectly fine…” Black said before disappearing, the Saiyan reappearing behind Sombra with his back facing the dark unicorn.
Sombra sensing malice intent, Sombra summoned his ‘room’ and swapped places with Goku Black, Immediately Sombra went to unsheathe his sword but stopped and exhaled.
“Forgive me, reflex.” Apologized to the unicorn. “It’s obvious you see me as an enemy and yet I have no recollection of you”
Black turned his head to look over his shoulder. “I too realized that you're not my Sombra, but that still won’t change my view on you. Not after what my Sombra has done to me…” Black said as he walked away from the dark unicorn.
Sombra exhales releasing his grip on his sword. “It would see my world wasn’t the only one who suffered because of Umbra...”
“...Linky boy?” Link asked with a raised eyebrow as he reached up to lower the hood, revealing to Thanos that Dr. Doom wasn’t the only one with a damaged face. In Link’s case, his right ear had been clawed, slash marks on his right cheek, and another claw mark down the middle of his face. “I don’t think Doom understands the difference between a human appearance and a normal unpowered human of our original world.” Link whispered as he covered the right side of his cheek over with his right to prevent the Doctor from reading his lips.
“Sup, the name is Thanos, and I’m wondering if you-” Suddenly everyone heard a loud slam, everyone ceased their conversations and turned towards the one who made the noise. It was a human with light brown hair and emerald eyes, in royal garb, he wielded a staff that was taller than Thanos himself, the human had leather boots and khakis on.
A single portal opened up as Death and Fury stepped through. Not knowing or caring about the others, they stood off to the side keeping to themselves.
Black looked confused for a second, “Is he wearing Khakis?” Black asked out of the blue.
“Is there something wrong with wearing… ‘Caw-keys?’” Shiva asked.
“Rarity would scream if she saw this..” Link whispered with a frown.
“I second that,” Phoenix added from the side.
“Third,” Eric said, approaching the two in agreement.
“Ahem…” The human coughed into his hand, “My name is Ryker, and welcome to ELIATOPIA!!!!!” Ryker said dramatically, throwing his hands into the air. “There is one more Displaced but they’re already at the stadium. If you have any questions hold them off for now, because we’re going to the stadium this instant.” Ryker turned around and walked forward, there was a huge archway above them that was a total of ten meters high. And as they passed it, they saw a huge lush green land that stretched out for miles but filling the green land were houses, much like the ones in Ponyville but bigger.
“If you have questions it’s best to ask them now,” Ryker said as he walked with his staff.
“Can I go home?” Phoenix groaned, as he slowly strolled along at the back of the group.
“No, not yet…” Ryker shook his head. This earned him a long-drawn-out whine from Phoenix.
Shiva spared a sympathetic gaze to Phoenix, before darting closer. “This ‘hetap’ and ‘devil fruits’ you spoke of in your invitation,” She noted. “Are they some form of treasure?”
“You could say that, Devil Fruits are incredibly powerful, you can turn into rubber, turn into dragons, and turn into literal magma! These are just a few of the types of Devil Fruits.” Eric explained informing those who had no knowledge of Devil Fruits
“Indeed Mr. Von Shadow, Devil Fruits are incredible.” Ryker said grinning at Eric.
“Wow…” Kodo breathed in awe. “Now I want one.”
“And this is hetap,” Black said as he pulled a can of it from his gi, cracking it open and taking a sip. “A brilliant drink from the parody Dragon Ball Z Abridged,” Black explained.
“I have no idea what this ‘Dragon Ball Z Abridged,’ is, but it sounds quite intriguing,” Shiva noted.
“It’s a fan-made show that’s a stupid kind of funny, like the three stooges,” Eric said as he followed the group with Sombra by his side
Shiva’s ears flattened. “I’m… afraid I’m not aware of the three stooges either,” she noted.
“Wait, I think I know what those are,” Kodo noted. “It’s like Pinkie Pie when she’s trying to entertain those baby twins.”
Kodo sniffed at the hetap from behind Black. “Smells intriguing, too,” he noted.
“Nothing my brilliance couldn’t replicate,” Doctor Doom refuted. “I’m here to study other Displaced, beyond that this game is of little consequence for me.”
“Indeed, you are very smart, that’s another reason why I brought you here,” Ryker commented as he moved with rhythm, some humanoid dragons waved at Ryker and he waved back. Five guards armed to the teeth saluted at Ryker.
“What of me, Ryker?” Link asked curiously as he crossed his arms, knowing he wasn’t exactly a planet buster or even capable of moving at the speed of light. At best, Link would compare himself to maybe Kid Goku, more or less.
“Well, you’ll just have to wait and see, Link, Champion of Equestria,” Ryker said while observing Thanos closely, detecting massive power untapped within the titan.
“I’ll assume that goes for the rest of us,” Kodo mumbled, his fur bristling as he sensed the impossibly high power levels from what had to be the competition. He looked to Shiva with fear; wondering how his mother would possibly win against beings such as these.
“Hmm... I don’t like this.” Sombra whispered to Eric.
“You feel it as well?” asked the shadow man under his breath to hide the conversation. “You don’t trust him?”
“I trust him about as far I can throw when I was still the prince,” Answered Sombra.
Feeling a hand on his shoulder, he turned to see a rather bored-looking Phoenix. “Don’t doubt your mother like that.”
Kodo blinked, before nodding and carrying on walking. Yet now with more of a plight in his mind, as he knew for certain he didn’t say that out loud.
“So you have alternative motives besides some game of sport.” Doom looks at Ryker and directs his armor sensors to get a strong reading of him.
“I’m simply bored and interested in this Generations power, nothing more nothing less, I am also interested in your adept intelligence Mr. Doom.” Ryker smiled looking back at Doom.
“Champion Of Equestria, at least this Ryker character used the most common of my titles and not the more weird ones such as ‘Hero Of Many Faces’” Link mentally said to himself as he gazed around the area curiously. Link would often look at the three main heavy hitters of the group, mentally debating using the Wide Angle, or just don’t bother as to avoid getting a headache from the large numbers presenting their strength and power.
Doom’s hands went behind his back as he walked his fingers casting a simple spell. Thanos would hear a whispering voice in his ear “I assume you are as devious as the true mad titan. If this is the case I don’t trust this Ryker. The reward for this game is as the saying goes too good to be true.”
Thanos leaned towards the doctor, “I know what you mean but I can feel his energy and it’s off the charts, whatever power this guy is hiding, it’s dangerous, I think we should play it safe until we find an opening.” Thanos whispered back.
As they spoke, Shiva’s pack links waved towards the two like seaweed in the water, sensing the use of magic. Shiva glanced up, her ears flattening as she heard their conversation. But she said nothing; the dog within her was unwilling to believe humans were capable of such trickery so soon after she had been reunited with them. “And yet… Chrysalis was the same way,” she couldn’t help but remember. Shaking her head, she kept walking, resolving to let things play out.
Black heard the conversation even though they were whispering, ‘Now that I’m thinking about it, there is something off about this king… There’s something off about his power...’ Black as thought about the two’s conversation.
Before either could continue, a curious Phoenix poked his head between the two before whispering out, “What are you whispering about?”
Nappa went besides Thanos, “Yeah, what is it? I wanna hear!” Nappa grinned, Lucci shook his head.
“It’s none of our business,” Lucci said, also looking towards Phoenix. “And you should know to stay in your lane pal, or there’s gonna be a wreck,” Lucci said, giving off an intimidating and deadly aura.
“I’m remembering killing Thanos from my own universe of origin, given we are both from similar concepts?” Doom mused. “How would one consider a comic book reality? Let just say I feel a bit of kinship with the Mad Titan here.”
Phoenix, whistled with his hands placed behind his head as if he saw and did nothing before returning to his spot at the back of the group.
“...This guy could give Ganondorf a run for his rupees…” Link softly commented at the man giving off the aura.
‘He could easily kill Umbra the Dark if he wanted to’ Eric thought to himself.
“Whoa, we’re here!” Ryker exclaimed, there was a stadium as big as the eye could see. “Alright, follow me, everyone, I’ll show you the locker room.” Ryker walked forth, seemingly not hearing all the comments that were said about him. He opened the door and an Eliatrope was there, she bowed towards Ryker.
“Welcome my king.” The Eliatroped greeted. Ryker just waved her off and went down a hallway, the hallway was long and there was a door at the end of it. As they reached the door everyone felt gravity intensify. Shiva pulled Kodo close on instinct, their pack links twining around each other defensively. Ryker opened the door and saw Fujitora and Necrozma arguing.
“I should be the one who eats the final slice!” Necrozma argues looking at the pizza, the blind man flipped to pokemon off.
“No, I should!” Fujitora growled, “I’m disabled!”
“That’s enough you two,” Ryker said and immediately the two stopped, Ryker opened up a portal and two boxes of pizza fell out of it and onto a table. “There, now go eat.” Ryker shook his head as he entered the locker room. The locker room had a gym inside of it and a gravity chamber, though the gravity chamber was far away and inactive, they could feel gravity acting weird around the blind man. “Now come on in, make yourself at home.”
Watching the gravity chamber cautiously, Shiva and Kodo entered, sniffing around where the pizza had been in the hopes of finding scraps.
Black walked to Ryker with a curious look, “Just out of curiosity, when will the tournament start?” The Saiyan asked the ruler.
“In twenty minutes, the bracket starts like this, Thanos vs Link first, Shiva vs Phoenix second, Death vs Doom third, and finally Black vs Eric last. Whoever wins gets a chance to fight the current champion, Katakuri, and the prize.
“So we’re to fight a Mochi man?” Asked Eric confusing most of the people who were not familiar with Mochi
“What’s Mochi?” asked Luna walking up behind me
“It’s a type of doughy pastry” Eric answered the Princess.
“Hehe, indeed but even if you guys lose to him, which is highly likely, you still get the prize, the champion yearns for battle. After all, he is the strongest, besides me of course, in this very realm.
“Is that so, well Imma go do a quick training session, anyone is free to join me,” Black spoke as he walked in the direction of the Gravity Chamber. Thanos follows the Saiyan determined to not lose.
“Puppy girl, works for me,” Phoenix said, shrugging as he walked over to the gravity chamber.
Dr. Doom shrugged and eyed the other fighters, his HUD display bringing up the info his scanner had picked up already. Thanos would be the hardest to fight given what he can detect this Displaced Thanos was even stronger than the one he remembers.
Upon hearing that he was going to be fighting Thanos, Link had a nervous expression on his face, however, the expression faded as his eyes landed on the golden gauntlet that Thanos wore, realizing that gauntlet won’t have any power in another universe, thus giving the Hylian some form of confidence. Link made his way over to the table, soon taking a seat as he started going through his gear, making sure most of the items were fully stocked thanks to his pouches void regeneration.
“I wouldn’t relax just yet,” Warned Eric as he walks past Link’s table. “Thanos holds the power of a heat-based Devil Fruit while at the same time knows both Haki and the Six Powers.”
Link just ignored the shadow man, only focused on his items, “No, no… That wouldn’t work…” Link muttered
Kodo glanced over at Phoenix, who shared a solemn glance with Shiva. Instantly, Kodo dragged his mother towards the ring.
“We need to get you ready to fight, NOW!” Kodo declared.
“No argument there, my son,” Shiva agreed, summoning her pack links in the form of lassos. “Care to help me out, Kodo?”
Her son smiled and summoned his own links. “Always, my Queen,” Kodo replied.
A beep from Doom’s gauntlet caught his attention and he looked down as the analysis of Shiva’s blood came up on his display. “Interesting” was all he said then returned his attention to Ryker. The oddity of the gravity didn’t hinder him at all as he looked around the Locker Room.
“Oh and here are the rules.” Ryker pointed to a poster behind them.
No killing
No healing
No hurting anyone in the crowds, that’s instant disqualification.
There are no Ring outs, fight until you’re knocked out.
No cheap tactics, aka no sand in the eye, or continuing to hit the opponent's injury and exploiting it, that’s dishonorable.
No immense damage to the arena (You’ll have to pay for it)
No Johns, we hate people with the name John.
Weapons are allowed but no weapons that could literally level up the planet
Have fun! :)
“If that’s all, I’m getting out of here, and oh, just remember guys… I’ll be watching you…” Ryker made a portal beneath him and he jumped in casually like he didn’t even sound threatening.
Black glared at the last place the king was before he jumped through the portal. He looked to Thanos before continuing his walk to the gravity chamber. ‘No healing, there goes that tactic, the area I can easily repair. But what the king last said… I’ve got a bad feeling about his…’ Black thought.
Phoenix eyed the sign, or more specifically, the second rule. I’ll have to ask about that……. He thought.
Shiva swallowed at the ominous tone in his voice, before giving a glare to the ‘no healing’ and ‘no damage to the arena’ part of the sign. “Change in plans, Kodo,” she noted. “I can’t use healing spells on this. And we might want to think twice before digging holes in the arena.”
Kodo groaned, before twining his pack link around himself. “Okay, not gonna be a problem, not gonna be a problem…” he muttered. “So… what do we do?”
Shiva looked down at her links. “You… keep doing what you’re doing,” she replied. “I’m just gonna have to change things up a little.”
Reading the sign, Link’s was now feeling more confident considering there was a ‘no killing’ and a no ‘blowing up the planet and the arena.’ “Have more confidence in yourself. No use having fear now as it may affect your combat performance.” Link said to Shiva.
“Your words are wise and kind, Champion of Equestria,” Shiva replied. “But fear has been my friend. As long as I don’t let it overwhelm me, it helps me focus; know when to use caution. And above all, to respect my opposition.” She caught her son with a pack tendril. “Something I’ve had trouble instilling into this one,” she added with a grin.
"No killing," Death muttered "I don't really want them passing through the Well anyways. More to answer to the Council about."
Ryker popped up once more and put a ring on Phoenix. “No healing factor too, sorry about that, if you take it off… I will destroy you…” Ryker said as he made a portal and walked towards it.
Wait, sir!” Shiva yelped, catching him just before he could leave. “Sorry, but I just needed to clarify…” she indicated her claws. “I’m a diamond dog, so… digging’s kind of in my nature. But, if you don’t want me digging in your arena, please let me know.”
“Since it’s in your nature, yes.” Ryker said, “I don’t want you to feel discouraged.”
Shiva bowed her head in thanks. Kodo cleared his throat, drawing her gaze.
“Right-right, I’m getting there, Kodo,” she added. “You said we could bring four allies, so… is that for battle, or just support?”
“Moral Support, after all, what are you without your friends?” Ryker said slowly turning towards Thanos, narrowing his eyes as his emerald eyes glowed. He turned his gaze back to Shiva. “Anyways have fun, and don’t go running off because if you leave this stadium… I will find you…” Ryker chirped.
With that, Ryker jumped back into his portal. Shiva exchanged a glance with Phoenix before the two parted ways, Phoenix pondering the info she had unintentionally given him.
“Noted.” Phoenix simply stated with a nod. Shiva glanced at Phoenix before looking down at where Ryker had gone.
“So…” Shiva asked worriedly. “‘Damage to the Arena…’ I’m guessing that includes digging holes in it?” When Phoenix glanced at her, she shrugged. “What? I’m a diamond dog?” He shrugged back and turned around, more info in hand.
“...I suppose draining someone’s health to heal yourself is also out of the question…” Link said with a frown, making a mental note to not use two of his armor’s enchantments.
“Welp, we have to go, I’m sure Ryker doesn’t want any non-fighters here.” Entity turned to the door and the rest of the boys left.
Doom looked around and then headed to Thanos “Thanos, do you have a tad bit of hair on that purple body of yours?”
“NO!!!” Thanos yelled from the Gravity chamber as Black did thumb push-ups while pushing his body in the air, Thanos doing sit-ups as well.
Link blinked at such a straightforward comment from Doom to Thanos. “..Not sure if that was an observation or a pickup line… ” Link mentally said to himself as he reached into his pouch. Link’s outfit went from green to red in a gentle flash. The Hylian has just equipped a unique red unique that held the enchantments of ocarina of time and a link to the past, granting immunity to heat and an increase in defense.
He shrugged and tapped on his gauntlet interface. “How about a drop of blood. I assure you, on my honor as a ruler, I would not be using it to gain an advantage during combat. After all, that would be considered dirty fighting.”
“One word; Corona.” Thanos grunted as he did his sit-ups, “And other diseases.”
“Five more minutes until the match between Thanos and Link begins!” Someone said on the intercom.
“Corona? The Eternal Thena went by that name… wait..” Looks over as if he was distracted in truth he mentally asked a question to Hans. “Ah, the Coronavirus. That was an airborne ailment.”
“...The coronavirus?” Link asked with a raised eyebrow. “Is that from another Equestria or something?” Link asked as he slipped on the Golden Gauntlets to help increase his lifting and swinging strength.
Phoenix facepalmed at the lack of brain cells in front of him before walking off into a corner to do some static stretches.
“...Hey, I was Displaced twenty or so years ago. This is the first time I’ve ever heard of it.” Link said as he held up his hands in self-defense.
“Same for me as well, I’ve been trapped with the shadows of the Crystal Empire for the last thousand years,” Eric said as a shadow covered his body before receding revealing Eric in his Captains Armor
“NICE ARMOR BROOO!!!!” Thanos yelled from the chamber, now doing finger-push-ups.
“What? This old thing?” Eric asked in a boasting manner. “This is just the armor I wore as Captain of the Crystal Royal Guard”
“Should’ve seen my armor when I went to war against the Equestrian Empire back in the old, old, old days. It’s destroyed now but I still have it in my heart.” Thanos said remembering the armor.
“Is it like the gold armor Thanos wore in the Avengers Movies?” asked the shadow man
“No, it was black armor that looked intimidating like you know Dark Souls intimidating kind of intimidating,” Thanos said, continuing his finger pushups.
“Never played Dark Souls but I’ll take your word for it”
Meanwhile, Nappa himself pops up from the ground in his Ghost Form, looking at Eric.
“Sup bitch, can’t do shit to me now can you?” Nappa said, having no shadow, grinning coyly.
“Having no shadow means nothing, I can still hurt you” Eric said to the ghost form of Nappa. “I can always search the multiverse and find….”
“Mr. Popo,” Eric said enticing fear into the bald Saiyan
“OH SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!” Nappa disappears into the floor verily.
“Thanos your friend is a punk ass with no discipline,” Eric said to the titan
“Ahem… Don’t mind him, he’s just an asshole and someone who just pisses people off for the hell of it.” Thanos finishes his sets of finger pushups, he then does regular pushups.
“I’ve noticed,” Eric said the shadows on his body becoming more prominent
“I never said a word,” Phoenix responded, giving Link a smirk.
“I’ve never heard of Coronavirus either,” Shiva offered to Link, before turning to Phoenix. “Is it bad?”
Phoenix walked over to the two of them and patted both their heads in a condescending manner. “Indeed, something wittle children shouldn’t worry about.”
“I’ve never heard of Coronavirus either,” Shiva offered to Link, before turning to Phoenix. “Is it bad?”
Phoenix walked over to the two of them and patted both their heads in a condescending manner. “Indeed, something wittle children shouldn’t worry about.”
Kodo’s fur bristled, but Shiva waved him off. “Sir, I’m sure you’re completely taken by my irresistible charm,” Shiva noted, partially sarcastically and partially coyly. “But I’m not a child.”
“Of course you’re not,” Was all Phoenix had to add before he made his way back to the corner and continued his stretches.
Rolling her eyes, Shiva turned back to her son, and the two continued to spar, Kodo’s attacks growing more intense as he glowered at his mother’s opponent.
“Well, you're very welcome.” That was all Phoenix had to add before he made his way back to the corner and continued his stretches.
Humming in thought, Shiva turned back to her son, and the two continued to spar, Kodo’s attacks growing more intense as he glowered at his mother’s opponent.
“That was a nice training session,” Black said as he walked out of the gravity chamber, his top gi was hanging off to his side with his turtleneck short-sleeve shirt revealing his muscles. “With all of these Displaced here, it’s always good to get the blood pumping before a fight,” Black said as he created a towel to wipe off the sweat.
“Thanos and Link, I ask of you two to come to the ring.” Said someone on the intercom
“Wish me, luck everyone, because I might need it” Thanos walked out of the locker room.
“Go fuck him up, Link!” Was all the input Phoenix offered.
“Don’t go too hard on him Thanos,” Black called out. Pulling the top part of his gi back on.
As Link made to follow him, Shiva let a pack link twine around his wrist. “Don’t let fear blind you,” she whispered to him. “But don’t forget to ask for its help. Its help may just guide you to victory.” Releasing him, she stepped back and nodded in encouragement.
Thanos stood there on his side of the ring, with his arms crossed, he sees Link going out of his entryway.
“May our battle be one that pleases the crowd,” Thanos commented before adopting the stance of Monkey D. Luffy.
“I believe the crowd will be surprised and wowed considering what we are…” Link said as he reached his side to pull out the Master Sword and the Hylian Shield. Link was thinking of using the Ordon Sword, but that poor thing would be broken in half like a stick between two fingers if he used that against Thanos.
Thanos grinned, meanwhile Ryker from his throne stood up.
“The battle begins in three!” Ryker announced.
Thanos clenched his fists. Link gripped his sword.
“Two!”
Thanos took a deep breath. Link took this moment to sync his mind up.
“One!”
Thanos popped his shoulders. Link shifted his legs into position, taking on his fighting stance, although with the sword and shield mirroring that of Skyward Sword Link.
“FIGHT!!!!”
Author's Note
Special thanks to these lads.
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The Displaced Tournament - Presented By Hetap
Chapter Two, Round One, The Mad Titan vs The Champion of Equestria
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(Fight, Fight, Fight!)
(Fight, Fight, Fight!)
Our Blood Is Pumping, Ready, Lets Go!
Holding Back My Tremendous Strength! (Go!)
(Woo-Hoo!)
Nerves Taking Hold!
(Woo-Hoo!)
Chaining Down Our Hope!
(Let’s Finish The Fight)
(Woo-Hoo!)
So, Let's Stop Our Plans!
(Woo-Hoo!)
See what This Tournament Brings, Joined As One, We Can Win The Fight~!
Just See What We’ll Achieve, With All These Possibilities!
We’ll Surpass Our Limit Break, This Tournament Will Be A Challenge!
Earlier…
Up in the box seats for the contestants and their companions, many began to converse with one another.
“So any idea who’s going to win this fight?” Rainbow asked.
“Hard to say, Rainbow,” Eric said, rubbing at his chin. “Thanos is a formidable adversary. Now, while he can’t use his stones outside of his universe, he still has mastery over all three forms of Haki, the Six Powers and has full control over his Devil Fruit.”
“An impressive roster of abilities,” Shiva admitted, shifting her gaze to the Titan’s smaller opponent. “But strength isn’t the only thing that matters in a fight.”
“Indeed,” Eric agreed, following her gaze with a grin. “If he’s anything like the games I played, Link is a resourceful little spitfire.”
“How so?” Luna asked with curiosity.
“Well for starters take a look at what he’s wearing,” Eric replied, causing his friends to get a closer look at the hylian’s attire.
“It’s just a red cloak and hood,” stated Rainbow Dash
“Precisely,” Eric said. “Link’s red tunic gives him a resistance to extreme heat. To the point where he can stand in an active volcano and not break a sweat. And let’s not forget about Link’s infinite storage.”
“Infinite Storage?” Sombra asked.
“Link can literally carry anything he needs on his quests. Be it extra shields, his other tunics, even weapons and equipment,” Eric stated with a smile, remembering the times he snuck out of his house just to play video games with his only friend. “Link in every Legend of Zelda game was literally a walking storage tank, and with his twenty years in his Equestria, who knows what kind of weapons he has now?”
“You forget,” Lucci reminded the shade. “Thanos has fought a whole war without the Netsu-Netsu No Mi. He is a master of Armament, Observation, and Conquerors Haki. To be frank, it would be a surprise if Link even wins. And not to mention Thanos’ transformations.”
“Transformations?” Kodo murmured, nudging his mother to make sure she was listening.
“And honestly,” Entity added to Eric. “With your opponent Eric, you should already dig a grave for yourself. Because there is no way you can beat Black: Thanos has spent a year in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber that he conjured up with the Reality Stone. It’s got ten times the gravity and we trained in there for a year. So we’re twice as strong as when we fought Kaido.” Lucci nodded in agreement.
“Then again,” Black spoke, crossing his arms, “I have no idea what you can do Eric, no idea what tricks you’ve got up your sleeve.” The Saiyan looks at the man, “So I’ve got to be on guard.”
“Not to mention he knows Ki Control,” Nappa added. “Thanks to me, and knows the Kaio-Ken, a technique that strains your body, but with Thanos’ strong body he can go up to Kaio-Ken times four before he strains, sure he strains but it’s bearable then. Anymore and it damages him, which shouldn’t be a problem considering his body is able to use all six Infinity Stones, twice.” Nappa grinned looking down at the Titan.
“Be that as it may,” Eric insisted. “Link is the type of person who is incredibly resourceful.” He leaned back in his seat. “Especially if he holds the power to turn into a wolf like he did in Twilight Princess.”
“Turn into a wolf?” Shiva commented. “Interesting…”
“Mother, you better not be thinking what I think you’re thinking,” Kodo chastised.
“Kodo,” Shiva scolded. “You know your father was the only male for me.” She peered at Link. “But if humans could turn into other animals… maybe it could explain what happened to me when I was sent to Equestria.”
“I can turn into a leopard,” Lucci commented, knowing cats and dogs don’t mix well.
Unfortunately, Shiva had little experience with her natural feline adversary, and only offered him a small, “Hm.”
“It would increase his speed and reflexes three times from the average Hylian,” Eric said, analyzing the combatants. “And let’s not forget that the wolf has a bite force around 1200 PSI. Trust me I’ve been on the receiving end of one of those.”
Unconsciously Eric rubbed a spot on his left forearm, Sombra and Rainbow - who were there when it happened - winced in sympathy. Shiva noticed their reactions, and scooted herself away in case he held a grudge.
“Can he outpower a final-big-bang-kamehameha?” Nappa asked, looking at Eric as he said that.
“I’m not sure,” Eric said, leaning forward entwining both his hands together, placing them in front of his mouth. “It would take a miracle.”
“It would take one.” Black interjected. “When I used that technique, I was pretty much at Perfected Super Saiyan Rose with 50X Kaioken. Thanos managed to stand up to that blast, but he was practically covered in blood, he lost his Armament Haki and he was pretty much out of breath. I’m surprised a gust of wind didn’t knock him over.” Black explained
“Hey Shiva,” Kodo noted, looking around. “Where’s your opponent?”
“Phoenix?” Shiva asked, looking for him. “I didn’t see him leave the waiting room.” She hummed. “Dr. Doom didn’t leave either. Maybe they’re still preparing?” She narrowed her eyes before nodding at Kodo. “Go see what they’re up to.”
“Alright, everyone welcome to the first ever Displaced Tournament!” They all turned their attention to Ryker who leaped off his throne and walked on air. “We have a lot of competitors today, so let’s get started.”
Kodo nodded, and went back to the locker room.
Reaching the entryway, Kodo peered inside, his ears flattening and his tail perking in intrigue.
Doctor Doom had taken his time in the locker room. Where Thanos and Link had worked out he scanned the equipment for any skin or sweat samples he could. Once finished he looked down and noticed that the DNA of Phoenix was finished being analyzed.
“Looking like a stalker there, rust bucket,” Phoenix noted from the corner of the room, his hands in his pocket. He slowly approached the Doctor. “Got what you need?”
“That depends,” Doom replied, looking to Phoenix. “Tell me, would you want to visit Earth again? Thanks to Shiva, I can open a portal to at least the Earth she came from. What can one of us Displaced do to an Earth that’s unprepared?”
“The earth I hail from is long gone, buddy,” Phoenix responded. “Went kablooey a long time ago.”
“That’s not an answer,” Doom chastised. “A universe right near the one you came from could still have an Earth similar enough you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.” Doom shrugged and lowered his gauntlet and started walking to the doorway.
Kodo backed up from the doorway, hiding in the shadows as Doom started to pass. Secretly, he feared for Shiva. Had she just given this human the key to their destruction? But before he could make a decision, Doom paused, forcing Kodo to stay still and silent.
“But my goal isn’t returning to Earth,” Doom continued. “As powerful as we Displaced can become, we are still pawns to those that brought us to our respective Equestrias. That power… I have seen before, the beyonders.”
“As much as I do agree with that sentiment, that is not why I’d rather stay in Equestria. The simple answer is...” Phoenix smirked ominously, “I never liked Earth all that much to begin with.”
Doom smirked behind his mask. “Phoenix I don’t agree with you. Earth I didn’t hate, the population on the planet. Their history has shown they are rather annoying. Now I wish to see this Mad Titan’s abilities.” As he walked past he sent a command via his communicator to his team.
Phoenix followed him, albeit purely because they were headed the same way, and frowned. “Couldn’t have said it better myself….” He mumbled. He stopped as he walked, just before he exited the room, and spoke at a volume so anyone in the room could hear. “Try concealing your aura next time! Eavesdropping is bad manners, kid!”
Kodo bit back a yelp, and gazed down at his claws. At first, he feared Phoenix was going to attack him. But instead, he continued by, leaving Kodo to his thoughts.
Cautiously, he crept after them, keeping his thoughts of reuniting with his mother on his mind just in case Phoenix read his thoughts again. And yet, he also couldn’t help but think:
Previously, he had thought that these ‘Displaced,’ as they called themselves, had been power houses. But if there was something even stronger than them… Kodo shook his head.
“Can’t worry about that now,” he thought. “Right now, just focus on seeing Mother through this. It’s the least you can do… after all the pain you caused her…” Kodo bent his head in shame, before continuing back to his mother, his pack link ready to share what he had learned with her.
Doom kept quiet and just headed to the Box, after all first rule of war was to let your opponent under estimate you, no need to alert these other Displaced that he has hearing in the super range so every mumble and whisper was recorded.
Ryker pointed to an entry way on the side of the arena. “In the left corner, weighing a total of 700 pounds, he is the eater of the Netsu-Netsu No Mi, the Hero of Villains, and the guy who will restore balance to his Equestria. Please welcome… the Mad Titan, Thanos!”
Out came Thanos, waving at the crowd with a grin.
“And in the right corner,” Ryker continued, pointing to the other entry way. “Weighing a total of eight Hyrule apples - and I thought Americans were weird with their systems - the Champion of Equestria, and the bringer of light. Please welcome… the Legendary Link!”
Link entered the arena, stopping only to face the titan.
“Challengers ready,” Ryker declared. “Prepare… and let the battle BEGIN!”
On the stage Thanos stood there, he looked at the Hylian and sighed, he closed his eyes. When he opened them his Conquerors Haki exploded across the arena. He suppressed it enough for it to only engulf the arena, yet the audience felt it: Entity felt light headed and shivered. Shiva bit back a yelp and sunk down in her seat.
“Mother?” Kodo whispered.
“I… saw my old master,” Shiva mumbled, clutching her head. “Before Equestria. Was that… Conqueror’s Haki?”
“Yep,” Entity groaned. “I hate it when he does that.”
“You’ll get used to it,” Sombra said blankly.
While in the Conquerors Haki Link saw Thanos change, his whole body radiated malice, his eyes turning blood red, he grinned widely and at the same time his teeth became blood red as well. Link didn’t see a Titan, he saw a demon. Thanos then stopped his Conquerors Haki, finally thinking it was enough.
“You have a strong will, handling my Conquerors Haki is an admirable feat.” Thanos praised, slowly getting into a stance similar to Monkey D. Luffy.
“Tch. I gotta be considering the Fokkeru the two witches often summon in Equestria and the anomalies that Celestia senses daily,” Link said as he twirled his master sword around.
“Alrighty then, I’ll go at you first, I don’t wanna kill you so I’ll be holding back.” Thanos then vanished from sight, the Eliatropes and Dragons all around raised an eyebrow and looked around for him, Thanos appeared before Link, cocking back his fist.
“Tekkai, Go!” Thanos said before he punched Link.
Link was quick and blocked the blow with his shield. But even still, the force and the speed of the punch had sent the lightweight champion careening a good ways away.
Link gently cringed as his back hit the floor. “Even without the stones, he still packs a punch.” Link mentally said. Link’s mind raced with his thoughts, first time having to fight something this powerful and fast. Taking out his bow and nocking an arrow, Link aims toward the sky as the tip of the arrow radiated with a bright glow. Those who knew of their Hylian History would believe at first for it to be the Light Arrow, however their expression changed when he fired it into the air; the arrow turning into a ball of light, soon exploding into a shower of light arrows honing toward Thanos.
Thanos looked up as the literal squadron of light arrows descended onto Thanos like bombs, but before they could hit Thanos held up a palm, towards the arrows.
“Steam Blast!” Thanos shot a small shockwave at the blast, the arrows disappeared from sight, Thanos just stood there and looked at Link. “My turn.” Thanos took a step, and ran at the Hylian. Thanos then launched a multitude of kicks while several feet away from Link, soon those kicks became air slashes. “Rankyaku!” Five waves of air slashes were sent towards Link. Thinking quick on his feet, Link crouched down, bracing for impact as the blasts of air pushed his back. As the air blasts cleared, Link moved his Hylian Shield back, only to pull out a new shield that reflected with the nearby lights, however keeping the gleam from hitting Thano’s eyes. It was too dirty of a tactic to do - similar to throwing dust - but that is not why he took it out. Sheathing his sword for just a moment, Link’s right hand crackled with fire, soon throwing a fireball at Thanos.
Just like when Rainbow Dash tried to hit him with fire, Thanos caught the fire and tried to extinguish it with his hand, but then at the same time the fireball exploded, knocking Thanos onto his back. Thanos blinked, out of pure shock.
“THAT WAS SO FUCKING COOL!!!!!” Thanos shouted out, jumping to his feet. “How did you do that?! Also since we’re fighting in a turn based manner get some Pokemon Music.”
“Alright I gotchu! Turn on the music!” Ryker ordered.
“Slob on my knob-”
“NONONONONONONONO WRONG ONE!!! I’m so sorry! I got it!” Ryker said as sweat began to fall down his cheek.
“Alrighty, let’s do this shit! Thanos uses Power-up Punch!” Thanos ran at the Hylian attempting to get a direct hit. Thanos tried to punch the Hylian in his gut, Link, once again blocked the attack. Though the force made him fall on his ass.
“Right, holding back.” Link said with a groaned, thanking the Goddesses above he had equipped the Golden Gauntlets, otherwise his arm would most likely be paste. “You’re hitting quite hard for doing just that, and here I am doing the same.” Link said as he reached into his pouches to pull out some kind of brown faced mask with white hair. Bringing it up to his face, the mask suddenly sprouted arms clinging to his face, but before Thanos could be grossed out, there was a brief flash, and suddenly a much bigger fist on fire coming straight toward Thanos’s jaw.
Just before the fist connected with Thanos he muttered something under his breath, “Tekkai.” His whole body became stiff and when the fist hit, Thanos didn’t budge. Thanos looked at Link, “Nice punch bro, but mine’s better.” Thanos’ body began to heat up, “My body has now reached one hundred and twelve degrees Celsius.” Thanos said, taking a step forward and punching Link right in his nose. The red tunic’s magic and the rock hardness of a Goron took most of the impact, however blood was drawn.
“The heat is not really much here, Thanos.” Goron Link said as he reached back, only to pull out a metallic hammer that would be recognized as the Megaton hammer, soon swinging it at Thanos with all his might in an attempt to send Thanos flying.
“Oh, I see now.” Thanos unsheathed his Infinity Blade and their weapons met, the strength of the two users sent all the dust on the arena flying.
Doom walked to the box seat and sat down. “Seems we are fashionably late, Phoenix.”
“It would appear.” Phoenix took a seat leaving one space between him and Doom.
Shiva’s tail wagged as Kodo returned to her side. “I’m sure you had a good reason,” she murmured, as Kodo’s link bound his claws to hers, sharing what he had seen.
A chime alerted Doom and he lifted his gauntlet and saw the reading. “To answer your question from earlier Phoenix, I didn’t get enough DNA in the workout room. So no I didn’t get what I was searching for.”
Phoenix pulled out a notepad and pen and jotted something down. He then ripped out the page and handed it to his accompaniment. “Here. After Shiva does a number on me, hand this to the doc in the med bay. Take as much blood as ya need!”
Doom took the note from his hand and looked down to find it had a consent form written on it. “You had spilled enough blood from before, I can clone an army of you. The divine energy I picked up in your DNA, however, I am not sure I could reproduce.”
“Well that’s good news for you. Cause if ya could,” Phoenix tilted his head round to eye Doom. “I’d have to kill ya.”
Doom shrugged “I have heard that before, or I remember others telling me that before. One thing I have discovered is I’m an oddity among the Displaced.”
“Don’t take it personally. Just wouldn’t feel comfortable with someone such as yourself wielding such power.” Phoenix placed his hands behind his head and crossed his legs to view the match more comfortably.
“I had already been a God once, Phoenix, or more to the point I remember being a God. It was beneath me.” Doom motions for a drink then sighed remembering his butler wasn’t here.
“That is precisely the problem,” Phoenix noted, before gaining an idea. “Now what if you wanted to become even more than a God?” He tilted his head slightly in honest interest.
“It was boring, no challenge. Just like how I took over the Earth I remember with mind control. There was no challenge, no thrill. Ultimately, Phoenix, having such power made life boring. I’m more worried about the beings who are bored. Bored enough to snatch random beings and give them power and drop them in other universes.” Doom sat back and looked down at the fight.
“Whelp, I’d rather that be the thing to quench their boredom than destroying said universes.” Phoenix got up and gave a small wave over his shoulder. “Cya dude.” He then made his way back to the waiting room, already satisfied with the details he had been collecting on the competitors in the ring.
Shiva watched Phoenix go with intrigue, before moving closer to Doom. “You talked about these beings,” she noted. “Bored enough to give random people power and drop them in other universes.” She glanced down at her claws. “So… are these beings the same ones that uplifted me… or… you also mentioned uplifting animals in your own world. So… who could’ve uplifted me and sent me to Equestria?”
Doom turned his head to look at Shiva “That I don’t know. Even with the vast power I remembered controlling, I couldn’t grasp the way beings beyond the borders of realities think. You are unique because of your Uplifted quality. Something so far other Displaced haven’t demonstrated to be part of their nature, just like how I remember being Victor von Doom of the Marvel Universe 616, but I know I am not him. By this time I don’t even think like that man because I have matured and grown beyond the limitations the writers have shackled that Doctor Doom with.”
Shiva turned back to Thanos and Link’s fight, pondering the Doctor’s words. “Intriguing…” she mumbled, before Kodo nudged her.
“Either way,” Kodo noted. “Does it really matter how you got here? I think you’ve done alright with what you had.”
Shiva chuckled. “Yes, but you're my son. You’re biased.”
Kodo pouted, but she could see a glitter of amusement in his eyes. “Well, I’ve got a good reason to be biased,” he replied, getting a chuckle out of her. Leaning next to each other, they continued to watch the match.
Back in the ring, Thanos and Goron Link both jumped back to gain some breathing room, Thanos sighed deeply.
“This is so fun! I actually feel happy, I’m always happy but still!” Thanos laughed before spinning his blade, walking closer to the Champion
“...You’re starting to sound like Goku.” Goron Link said with a chuckle.
“Shut it will you,” Thanos said with a grin.
Link shrugged as he held the Megaton Hammer over his shoulder. “Don’t let a Displaced Vegeta catch you talking like that.” Goron Link said jokingly as he put away his hammer, only to pull out a fairly sized ball and chain that would be less than half of Thano’s. Link started to swing it around with ease; causing the air to hum with its swiftness. With a strong swing, he sent the ball flying toward Thanos.
Thanos ran at the ball and punched it back at Goron Link, the ball slammed itself into him like a truck, however Goron Link caught it in his big goron hands, skidding back a bit.
“I know this is supposed to be a fight, but it’s feeling like a mettle.” Goron Link said as he put away the ball and chain. “I don’t mean to joke, but I’ve got a question..” Goron Link said with a friendly smile. “Bombs?” Goron Link asked as he pulled out a blue bomb with its fuse lit. “You want it?” He said as he rolled it toward Thano’s feet. “It's yours my friend.” Goron Link said with a slightly immature grin.
“... I know it’s a bomb but I must.” Thanos took the bomb and stood there until it blew up in his face. He coughed, “Crap, okay, okay, okay, my turn, like in any Pokemon Game there is a power up. So, IMMA MEGA EVOLVE!!!!” Thanos’ body started to heat up, steam started to radiate off his body. Thanos skin turned light purple. “Netsu-Netsu… STEEEAAAAM MAAAAN!” Thanos threw his head back and struck a pose, Thanos levitated, steam aiding him.
Outside of the arena building a portal opened and a figure dressed in a black suit and sporting a faceless head walked through. Once looking about he motions for others on the other side of the portal to come through. The second figure was a 7 foot tall replica of Ben Grimm however this version of the Thing had titanium alloy joints and granite like body. On its shoulder was the bipedal Maul Pie. She patted the large form “Boulder, it's like I told you the portal is safe.” Boulder grunts then moved forward, giving room for the last of Doom’s guests, his apprentice Gilda dressed in her version of the Scarlet Witch outfit.
Goron Link looked at the crowd, wondering what their thoughts were that the man with the body of a famous Mad Titan was acting like a total goofball. He got an answer with Shiva, who was covering her snout and trying not to crack up. “Just a moment there, Steam man.” Goron Link said, feeling off calling Thanos that. He gestures with his rock arm for Thanos to come on down. “I’d like to suggest something to you that’ll make the crowd get more excited.” Goron Link said before mouthing the words ‘In Secret’ toward Thanos.
“Alright, I’ll play your game.” Thanos grinned, Thanos looked at Link and then dashed at Link, a sonic boom appearing afterwards. Thanos appeared before Link. “Strong… RIGHT!!!” Thanos punched Link faster than the Champion could even see and punched Link in his gut. The force and speed once again launched the Champion far, this time slamming him into the arena. Goron Link left quite a small crater due to the form’s weight. “W-what is with you and punching hard?” Goron Link said as he slid down, slowly getting up a little shakily. Goron Link reached up, grabbing a hold of his face as he began to pull; tendril arms refusing to let go at first, but eventually he removed his ‘face’, causing a brief flash of light, and earning a gasp from the crowd due to the disturbing thing they had witnessed. Link casually walked up to Thanos.
“What I wanted to suggest is me slowing down time and giving the crowd a show. We’d be moving faster and surprising them.” Link whispered.
“I’m already fast, so that would be awesome! Lez do it!” Thanos appeared at the other side of the arena. “Choose your fastest form to keep up with me, because it’s time we go “all out”.” Thanos winked, which was disturbing, a great Titan winking at the Hylian. Link’s expression was half humorous and half embarrassed.
“..Right.. Fastest…” Link said as he reached into his pouch, soon pulling out a blue ocarina and bringing it up to his mouth. Link concentrates on the images of himself and Thanos before looking his eyes. The sounds of the familiar notes of the Song Of Time played in reverse were sound; soon moving gears and cogs would appear all around Thanos and Link as time slowed down. To the crowd, they would not notice anything different yet, but to the fighters below, they’d notice things moving in slow motion. Link reaches into his pouch again to pull out a mask that looked a lot like Link, except female. “..I didn’t expect to use this again, but..” Link paused to shrug his arms. “I did ask Rarity to make that suit.” he said as he placed it onto his face; the same effect playing as before. The mask changed him into a suit similar to Sheik, but to Thanos’s shock or surprise, Link… was a female.
“That’s sus. Mad sus man, that’s kinda gay but let’s not talk about that. Wait, wouldn’t that make you a futa? Nevermind! Let’s just fight.” Thanos said as he dashed off towards Link, breaking the sound barrier once more.
Doom leaned forward. “What benefit would being turned into a woman give Link? I don’t understand that combat strategy.”
Shiva glanced at Doom with a coy expression. “Are you saying females can’t match up to males?” she asked.
“Oh don’t misunderstand, my dear Shiva, It’s not that I don’t think women are dangerous. The most powerful foes I faced were female. Susan Storm could defeat every one of her teammates if given the desire. It just that Link combat tactics gain no benefit from changing sex from what I can tell.” Doom stated matter-of-factly. He looked down to his gauntlet and noticed his crew had arrived.
Shiva chuckled. “True enough,” she admitted. “Don’t worry, I see what you mean. I just remembered the diamond dog Alpha before me: he had a few opinions on what females were good for.” She watched Link fight with a grin. “It was rather satisfying to prove him wrong.”
“Glad to hear you set his misunderstanding straight. In the natural world, females tend to be more aggressive overall than males. Though there are exceptions, generally, females are more deadly in the animal kingdom.” Doom sat back again and once more looked for a servant for drinks. “Hmm.”
“Maybe,” Shiva agreed. “But ultimately, males and females are better when they work together. Males can be stronger; females can be smarter. But ultimately, it’s only when they’re united that they reach their full potential.” She nodded. “That’s one thing I always agreed with Twilight on; friendship can be magic, but teamwork makes the dream work.” She noticed him looking around. “Something wrong?”
“It is something I found on my Equestria. Male and Females were treated equally. Now species however were open for bias, but sexism was not an issue.” He looked back to Shiva. “I was just looking for a drink. Nothing to worry about.”
Accepting his word, Shiva turned back to the fight.
As Thanos drew closer and closer, Link stood motionless. Just as he got close, Link suddenly flipped high into the air, much higher than usual; the cloak's enchantment known as Roc’s Feather allowed him to jump high. With his - now her - hands lighting on fire, Link threw a barrage of smaller Din’s fires toward Thano’s.
Thanos verily dodges the attacks zigzagging closer to Link, Thanos tries to deliver a kick to his side, Link evades it, Link tries to attack Thanos and he evades it. They disappeared and shock waves appeared all over the arena, they were so fast even Lucci couldn’t see them. Thanos shot a Steam Blast at Link and she was sent to the ground, but at the same time Thanos was kicked in his jaw by Link. Both getting struck. Link, using the thinner agile body, backflipped away, twirling around into a somersault to land a distance away. Link twirled around as a green ball of light floated into the air, flying behind Thanos as Link suddenly vanished and appeared via the use of Farore’s wind. “Just don’t be getting ideas seeing me like this.” Link warned, half serious, half joking.
“Celestia was the only one for me, so... Yeah.” Thanos said as he started to float, “I should start using my Soru, basically the art of moving so fast your opponent can’t see you. And uh… Yeah. Soru!” Thanos vanished and uppercuts Link with his Gauntlet, he covered it in Armament Haki, multiplying the punch by two times, Thanos also added Tekkai Go to multiply the damage even more. “SHORYUKEN!!!!” Thanos cried out.
“Why can’t that moron take anything seriously?” Eric said planting his palm into his forehead
“It’s probably who he is,” Maud of Eric’s Equestria said, turning her blank expression to the shadow man. “Kinda how Pinkie can’t take a fight seriously without the aid of Pinkamena”
Doom raised a brow and looked on. “Now that is new, the Thanos I fought in my memories wasn’t able to generate an energy blast.” Doom then turned his scanners to max as his equipment started analyzing the energy signature.
Outside, the Slenderman Hans turned to Maud and Boulder. “Looks like everyone is distracted by the combat. Maud and Boulder set the crystals in place.”
Maud looked to a box she held then opened them revealing six black crystals. “I don’t like the feel of these Crystals, neither does Boulder.”
Gilda sighs “You said that already. They are under Doom’s control, just plant them like he told you. Hopefully he wouldn’t need to use them.”
“Snatch.” The box flew from Maud hands and over to the right of the small group. They all looked to see Phoenix, tossing it up and down in his hand. “Now hold on there buckaroo. Mind telling me what these thingies are?”
“None of your business, now return them or else.” Gilda stepped forward in her hands two orbs of fire form.
Shrugging, Phoenix chucked the box back over to her before walking off. “Don’t do anything stupid. Today isn’t a good day to get on my nerves.”
Hans' hand lashed out, stretching to catch the box. “Gilda, remember our orders, minimize trouble.” He then looked to Phoenix “These are nothing but a safety measure. Just in case of problems, we aren’t planning any. Given you are walking away looks like you aren’t seeking any.”
“Sure, let's go with that.” They heard from the distance, before Phoenix left their view.
Once Maud and Boulder got the box back, they both sank into the ground till ownly Hans and Gilda remained. There was no evidence that Boulder once stood there.
Back to the fight, Thanos and Link clashed once more before appearing on the other sides. Thanos let out a sigh, “This is getting epic, show me what you got!” Thanos said, taunting the now female Champion.
“I’m not even trying to kill you and you’re just egging me to do it?” Link said, unsure whether to laugh or be confused.
“Come at me, fight me, I will give you one minute to knock me down.” Thanos crossed his arms and went out of Steam Man.
Link let out a sigh, deciding how to use the Wide Angle ability to see Thanos’s current health, how much energy he has, their weaknesses and what their body resistances. Link saw his weaknesses, Ocean Water, Water, Sea Prism Stone. Resistances, Blunt forces, sharp objects, energy blasts, magical blasts, heat, magma, wind, and finally Bullshit. “..Alright, I’ve got something.” Link said as he removed the Linkle Mask, returning to his original form.
Taking out the Master Sword and raising it skyward. “This is just one of my more potent spells, but it's not the strongest. Think of it as me testing your durability..” Link said as his sword took on a glowing blue; swirling around with cold wind. Link was drawing in the cold air from the atmosphere and polar winds through the use of the Ether Medallion. The wind started to pick up all around the arena as energy built up. Soon, from the tip of his master sword unleashed a powerful wave that swept across the arena, quickly turning it into a winter water land of fierce polar winds and freezing cold from the atmosphere above. The blast would soon hit Thanos, coating him in a block of ice. Link knows that weaker enemies would be permanently frozen or shattered when hit by this spell, however with this being Thanos, Link is confident it shouldn’t kill the mad titan.
"Alrighty, let's do this!" Thanos cried out, he lifted his right leg up and slammed it into the arena, he repeated the process again with his other leg. "COME ON!!!!"
“If anything his tenacity to face a strong opponent is as strong as he is heavy” Sombra stated still feeling uneasy in the arena
“I FUCKING HEARD THAT!!!!” Thanos cried out as the spell hit him locking him in a block of ice
“Alright, lets get some music shall we?” Ryker said before pointing to an Eliatrope nearby, “Play it!”
The first two seconds of Never Gonna Give You Up plays before it shuts off.
“I swear to god Kyle you better get it right.” Ryker rubbed his eyes, Kyle laughed nervously
“Hey, Kyle’s doing his best!” A random Eliatrope said.
“Who said that?” Ryker asked, looking at part of the crowd.
“I did!” A gunshot soon followed afterwards.
“Shot through the heart, and you're to blame!”
“I SWEAR TO GOD KYLE YOUR NEXT!!!!” Ryker turned to Kyle, who tried to hide a snicker.
“Sorry, I had to, alright let’s go.” Kyle then puts on an ost.
Thanos sat there, frozen solid, suddenly he heated up and his ice prison exploded. Thanos stood there, now unfrozen Thanos checked his forehead, a single drop of blood appeared.
"All that for a drop of blood?" Thanos asked the Hylian.
“I did say it wasn’t my most potent spell.” Link said with a shrug.
"Hm, I see, alright then." Thanos said
“It’s difficult to give you my best without breaking the No Death rule.” Link explained as he scratched the side of his head. “Like I could have blown you up while you were frozen.” Link said as he sheathed his Master Sword, but kept his hand on the sword’s hilt.
"I doubt, doubt that anything from your arsenal could kill me." Thanos said, sure of his insane durability and his will to fight stronger than anything this Hylian could throw at him.
“Maybe I should go for the head?” Link said jokingly with a shrug that would remind Thanos of what Sans would.
"Oh fuck off will you?" Thanos chuckled slowly, bringing out his blade, then stopping. "You know what? I'm going to use the Rokuogan on you." Thanos said putting up his fists.
“Roku-what?” Link asked confused as he raised his Mirror Shield cautiously. Thanos let out a sigh and used Soru to appear at Link's side, Link held up the shield and Thanos put his arms in a unique pose.
"Oh shit." Lucci said as Thanos and Link locked eyes.
"Rokushiki Ogi: Rokuogan!" Thanos produced a shockwave that bypassed his shield and all of his natural defenses and hit him directly in his ribcage, harming his lungs as well. Link’s eyes went wide with fear, coughing up quite a lot of blood. Slowly as he shakely raised his hands to the sky; Link channels blue energy, then quickly hugs it against his chest to cause a strange diamond shield to manifest and surround him. This quickly ceases the pain, preventing further damage to him.
“Alright, think you’ve made your point..” Link said as he wiped his mouth of the blood. This was the second most painful he’s felt in his Displaced life next to the time he was impaled by the stinger of a manticore that almost ended his life.
"That simple shield won't stop this form of Armament Haki, able to even break platinum without the attack connecting." Thanos cocked back his right fist, covering it in Ryou Haki, he threw a punch and the punch knocked Link back but it didn't cause him any damage. "Ye fokin wot m8?" Thanos raised an eyebrow, ceasing the Ryou Haki.
“Nayru’s Love.” Link explained with a friendly grin, only for it to fade when it broke it in a pained chuckle. Sure, the barrier was preventing the pain, but mentally he knew there was damage down there. “Think I'll share with you the last surprise and do it now before I end up dead.” Link said as he reached into his pouch, soon pulling out what looked to be a white haired version of himself. Placing the mask on his face; there was a crackle of thunder before it erupted, blinding everyone in the stadium.
“So we finally get to see Fierce Deity Link” Eric said with a grin on his face
“Fierce Deity?” Luna and Shiva asked with equally confused expressions.
“The strongest mask in the Majora’s Mask game,” explained the shadow man. “So strong it could only be worn in boss rooms, otherwise the game would be too easy to beat.”
“What does it do?” Rainbow asked her eyes lighting up in amazement
“Well besides turning kid Link into adult Link, he gets a strength and health boost as well as the Deity Blade, a duel metal sword forged in a helix able to cut through the air with such speed it puts the Tempest Kick to shame!” Eric’s grin grew wider. “Every swing of that blade may as well be another sword entirely.”
“But will it be enough to defeat Thanos?” Goku Black asked
Kodo leaned forward with narrowed eyes. “We’re about to find out,” he noted.
"This is going to be amazing!" Entity squealed.
“This may be the miracle Link needs to defeat the Titan,” Eric said, trying to hide the excitement in his voice as he watched the transformation.
Thanos sighed, chuckling slightly, clouds formed over Thanos' head. Lightning then struck him, Thanos then radiated a blue aura, his Gauntlet lightning up by lightning like Thor's hammer. Thanos turned into his Steam Man form and covered his fists and boots in Armament Haki. "Ah, finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!" Thanos raised his fist high, grinning.
Link let out a humming laughter. “Come now.” Link began, his voice sounding lower than before. “A Kung Fu Panda meme to start it off the final round?” Link said as he slowly reached back, pulling out the helix sword that the Shadow Man was explaining; its blade singing as it moved through the air.
Thanos pulled out his Infinity Blade to make it a sword against sword battle, it lit on fire and had a lightning aura. "Let's go!" Thanos vanished from sight, he appeared before Link, a sonic boom following him. "Super Sonic, Thor's Blade!" Thanos swung his mighty sword at the Hylian Champion- No, the Hylian Deity. Link raised his sword, blocking Thanos’s own sword as a rush of energy exploded, causing some of the tiles to break and some of the crowd to fall over. Link extended with his other hand as fire built up in his palm, suddenly slamming it into Thano’s chest causing a rather powerful dome-shaped Din’s fire erupt very much like how it looked originally. Despite Link was inside of the dome, the flames favored him much like the Goddess Of Fire. Unfortunately, Thanos’ Heat-Heat Fruit allowed him to mostly ignore the damage.
"Alrighty then, I'll have to use this on you then." Thanos went into Daewi's stance, a stance Black was all too familiar with. Thanos threw his sword into the air. "First Stance, Fist of the Black Tortoise!" Thanos punched the Deity in his chest, "Second Stance, Vermillion Bird!" A pillar of fire erupted beneath Link, "Third Stance, White Tiger!" Thanos let out a barrage of punches and kicks, some connecting with the Deity some not. Suddenly Thanos went into a stance similar to the Rokuogan but couldn't be any different. "Last Stance, AZURE DRAGON!!!" A blue dragon went through the Deity followed by the most devastating shockwave anyone has seen digging a trench that was equal to a Kamehameha being shot. The wall was intact, but the arena wasn't. There was a lot of dirt and smoke as silent filled the air. Suddenly, from within the ground smog, a blue energy disc was flying straight at Thanos very quickly.
Observation Haki kicked in and Thanos ducked and evaded the attack, looking at the location it was thrown. "So you're still standing, huh?" Thanos crossed his arms as he looked at the smog.
“Of course, Thanos.” Link’s voice answered as a small melody was heard. The smog was split in half as golden angel wings sprouted from Link’s back after he had played the Song Of Soaring. The song’s magic was altered by his Displaced to be more than a glorified teleporter to a Owl Statue. Quickly flying up into the air and soon keeping himself float, Link brought his flex sword to his chest as blue energy started to charge along its edge. Link glances toward the crowd. “I do hope rupees will be of value here!” he yelled out toward the host of the tournament, Ryker, before looking down at Thanos as he began to swing his Helix sword wildly, unleashing more of those blue energy discs at the Mad Titan.
Thanos ducked under one disc, the other one coming close to his neck, Thanos blocked another disc sent his way with his Gauntlet. As Thanos evaded the attacks the audience could see the attacks coming closer and closer to Thanos. "SHIT!!!" Link fired more of the discs and one finally hit Thanos directly in the chest, Thanos stumbled back and was soon hit by a multitude of them. Thanos now getting hit by the discs, scratches appeared on his body and Thanos winced slightly but only the Deity's watchful eyes could see the wince of pain. Thanos stumbled backward and fell on one knee.
"Damn; how do you do that? First you turn into a rocky fat man, then go Rule 63 on my ass, then you turn into a fucking God?! Honestly not the weirdest thing I fought but still!" Thanos got to his feet. "Link, I admire you for your insane will, you knew that I was stronger than you but you played your tools right and you made me go on one knee and made me say the iconic "All of that for a drop of blood" schtick. You are truly, truly amazing, great with your items and your skills. Honestly I don't think I can pull half the shit you're doing." Thanos laughed.
“You’ve got a lot of power, although you’re a little reckless with it.” Link said as he rested his sword on his shoulder. “I had to dig deep into my pouches just to survive all of the blows, especially in inverted time.” Link said with a wink as he slowly glided down to earth. “I could keep going, but..” Link said as he reached up to pull off his face, turning it back into a mask. “But I think at that point, I’d be asking for a deathwish, and I’d rather-” He paused in mid-sentence as he stopped himself from giving into his lunge’s pain. “N-not have my wife Princess Luna crying when she learns i’m dead.” Link explained.
"You're married to Lulu?” Thanos laughed. “Everyone does love Princesses." Thanos said before putting his hands to the floor and crouching in a position Eric was familiar with.
“Hey I resent that,” Eric said jumping to his feet
"I know you do bud, Steam… Hopper!" Thanos shot steam out of his fists and he flew at Link, Link verily dodged out of the way but Thanos used steam to knock himself up. Thanos then bounced around Link like a ping pong ball going faster and faster by the second. Very punch Link was struggling to reach into his pouch, forcing his arm away every time. Link manages to pull out a mask; a rather dull looking one as he slips it onto his face.
“You’ve-” Link spoke in pain between breaths. “Won-already.” Link said as Thanos bounced off the air around Link like a ping pong ball. Link was hoping the Stone Mask’s enchantment would bore Thanos; to make him as interesting as a pebble on the ground.
"Yeah, but I wanna give the crowd a rousing finale!" Thanos said not being visible anymore
Without warning Thanos was tied and bound by thousands of shadow and light tendrils covering his entire body.
“Who the hell did that?!”
Author's Note
Special thanks to these lads.
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Side Chapter, The Heaven Trembles; Thack vs Mia, A Fusion Show Down!
Side Chapter, The Heaven’s Trembles; Thack Vs Mia, A Fusion Showdown!
Massive trembling shook the entire Colosseum. The Shadow Man tripped over his feet. “What the fuck?” Eric cursed quickly getting to his feet. “That felt like it came from the ring.” Immediately Eric ran to the stands to investigate the disturbance, in the ring Eric found two people he had no memory of seeing prior.
Meanwhile, Phoenix had been training inside the gravity chamber.He felt the large vibrations under his feet, and teleported off to investigate. Though, what he found was something quite odd to him.
“What in Faust’s name is happening,” Sombra said running in after the Shadow man
“Two fusions are dueling it out,” Nightmare responded, almost shouting at the sound of clashing fists as she ran up the steps towards him.
“Fusions?” Eric said confused
“What’s going on? Who’s fighting now?” Rainbow asked entering the stands behind Luna
“The fusion of Thanos and Black is fighting the fusion of Shiva and Maud! The earth pony wanted to know what fusion was like, and Shiva agreed to fuse with her. Then Black got an idea that could skip his long sleep by fusing with Thanos.”
“Maud? The Maud?” Rainbow asked not believing the dark Alicorn. “OUR Maud?”
“Don’t believe me, look closely at the fusions, you’ll see the similarities!” Nightmare continued to shout, the fight escalating quickly.
“How’d they fuse in the first place?” Eric asked Nightmare, soon seeing the slight anger in Maud’s and Shiva’s new form. “And better question why are they fighting?”
“Black’s Token made it possible! His tokens are his potara earrings!” Nightmare explained. “Thack insulted Mia, but I believe it was Thanos’ personality.”
“Oh now it’s all making sense now,” Luna said pinching the bridge of her nose. “If there is anypony here he hasn’t angered in this place, then it would be a miracle.”
“Gotta agree with you there, but we should talk about this later and get to safer ground, this fight is escalating too quickly!” Nightmare suggested to the three.
Immediately a large crack formed in between the Alicorn and the Shadow Man. “That’s a wonderful Idea.” Eric said forming a pair of wings on his back before grabbing those who had no wings with shadow tendrils
“Kodo, grab!” Nightmare ran to the shakened pup. He quickly grabbed her hand, Nightmare spreading her wings and taking off into the sky next to Eric. Looking back down to the stadium, Nightmare chuckled nervously, “I don’t think the stadium is gonna survive this…”
“I would have to agree with you, Nightmare” Sombra said, keeping his fathers sword in his hand. "Maud is a strong adversary. Combine that with her Devil Fruit, Haki, and Six Powers she is a force to be reckoned with. I was rather surprised she didn’t obliterate the ring further in her fight with Entity.”
“What I’m surprised by is how we were not being blown aw-” Nightmare was interrupted as a clash of fists had created a devastating shockwave. This pushed Nightmare backwards a good 10 feet.
“Let’s not forget that now Shiva has the Diamond-Diamond Fruit giving Mia’s attacks much more power than Mauds Tremor attacks” Eric said doing his best to keep his grip on the non-flyers.
“Also,” Kodo stammered out. “Her pack link lets her deal back the damage she’s taken. It’s almost like that status promotion thing Phoenix did with Mom. Every hit Thack gives Mia is only going to ensure Mia’s next hit hurts twice as bad!”
“Honestly I should’ve seen this coming,” Ed appeared. “Thanos and Black have extremely similar mindsets at times so it makes sense that they’d mesh very well.”
"God darn it Thack…" Nappa shook his head before offering Ed some popcorn, "Popcorn?"
“Thanks,” Ed gratefully accepted. “It’ll be a good fight as long as the fusions hold. I never did figure if Black’s tokens had the time limit. If they are from super, then they should mean this fight may only last as thirty miniyue to an hour,” the turned their heads to see Thack go fly by. “Or until they run out of energy,” Ed snapped and a red aura covered the field. “After Asta fought with the goddess, I was able to develop a barrier designed for this sort of fight so we’re good now.”
"Quick question, do you think you can handle both of them?" Nappa asked the Sage, "They're pretty damn strong."
“Not in my human form,” Ed noted. “They may give me a run for my money in my first form, push me to the limit, maybe go form two but they’d still lose. I may link to Truth but I’m the one in control unless I relinquish that control. And trust me,” Ed looked at the field. “You’d rather I stay in control.”
"Imagine a Perfected Super Saiyan Rose Burst Man White Hot Edition Kaio-Ken times ten?" Nappa laughed, "Yeah… That's… Scary."
“Forget the Kaio-ken times ten, what about the times 50 Kaio-ken?” Nightmare said nervously as Mia had now begun to be pushed back.
“Oh you wanna see scary?” Ed raised an eyebrow. “You should watch my fight with Eric then. Then you’ll see scary. I’m uber pissed at the fucker and plan on putting him through a much worse fight than Black had when I was in my first form.”
“I know your pissed and I will take everything you can dish out” Eric said to the Alchemist
“...Are you sure about that?” Lucci turned to the Shadow Man, “From what I hear he’s the strongest out of ALL of us?”
“I am aware of that” Eric answered the Leopard Assassin
“You know how Thanos’ has the most raw strength out of everyone here?” Nappa said looking at Thack evade an attack from Mia. “I think that changes if Maud and Shiva fuses…”
“It just might,” Kodo said with a grin. “Mom’s not a good fighter on her own, but she’s an amazing supporter in a pack. Her pack link allows her to absorb not just magic, but now ki as well, and she prefers channeling that energy into her allies rather than keeping it for herself like Tirek would. Even in this fusion form, she’ll be increasing Maud’s strength and skill higher and higher every time she manages to snare Thack with her link. And even if Thack’s got the energy to spare, every time he hits her, she’ll just channel the pain from the attack right back into him. So every hit from her is not just Maud and Mom, but also Thanos and Black’s strength added on.”
“Still, it would drastically change if I undid my seals,” Ed said as everyone’s head shot to the other side to follow Mia go flying across the field this time. “This is going to be like this old pong games the old timers used to play way back in the early nineteen hundreds.”
“You can say that again, but Thanos has a form of Tekkai that counters Mia’s ability to push back the force to Thack,” Nappa informed the young pup.
“Even so,” Kodo insisted. “I saw the fight between Maud and Entity. And Mom’s loyalty to her family is on par with the ancient wolf packs.” He nodded. “Thack made a serious mistake using family to provoke her.”
His words were proven true when Mia shot back across the field, and sent Thack skidding with another devastating punch that left a trench in the field, even as Thack leaped back to his feet.
“Shouldn’t we stop this?” Rainbow asked fear gripping her being seeing her friends destructive battle
“Ryker will deal with it, or whoever this Bullet guy. He’s probably one of his allies, any leads on him?” Lucci turned to the group with a raised eyebrow.
“Will he deal with it before or after they destroy the colosseum?” Eric asked keeping Lucci and Sombra in the air
“Yes.” Nappa and Lucci say at the same time, answering Eric.
“Eric can always drop you Leopard Man,” Luna said to the assassin.
“A few words, Geppo, and Ki flight.” Lucci countered, sharpening his nails with a… Nail File?
“You know you and Rarity would get along, you both use those girly nail files” Mocked Rainbow before Eric looked at her
“Says Miss Spa Mare,” Eric mocked with a glare causing the mare’s face to turn a shade of red.
“I am a Leopard, I have to keep my nails sharp! My only other options are to claw someone, and dig my claws into their bones. So Rainbow Dash, Nail Files, or Bones?” Lucci frowned, getting into his Hybrid form before going back to his normal form.
Down below, Thack responded to Mia’s punch with a kick that sent her into the wall with such force the stands above started to part with massive cracks, Pulling herself up, Mia felt something on the corner of her mouth. Dragging her wrist across the corner of her mouth Mia found a small spot of blood.
“Making a female bleed? How shameful of you, Thack,” Mia glared at the Titan Saiyan
“You know there was a wise Italian that once said, ‘Equal Rights, Equal Fights’ and I don’t discriminate.” Thack chuckled as Mia begins to feel the floor heat up, “No matter what gender, race or ethnicity you are, you’re going to get your ass kicked by me.”
“An equal opportunity asswhoper?” Mia asked, leaping off the ground and ensnaring him with another link. “You would do well in the Outlands of Equestria. Though I hope you’re less perverted than some of the animals out there.”
Mia covered her arm in both Devil Fruit powers before bringing it down on the Titan Saiyan causing the ring to split in four parts, Thack was sent flying into the arena’s wall. Thack then used steam to boost himself and to try and not hit the wall, fortunately it worked.
“Alright, if you want to play it that way…” Thack covered his fists in Ryou Haki, enhancing it with Tekkai Go and his Netsu-Netsu No Mi. Thack grinned getting in a stance that mirrors Vegito’s, “Then we’ll play it that way!” Thack shot off to Mia, flickering, reappearing and disappearing all over the arena before delivering a devastating uppercut to Mia. As Mia was shot up, Thack grabbed her leg with a grin and spun around before throwing her far, trying to give her the same treatment they had given Thack. But Thack felt the same injury that he had given Mia, Thack looked to Mia with a quizzical look before snapping his fingers.
“You must be using an ability that makes me feel the pain I give you, right? Because I sure as hell know you did not uppercut me in the chin,” Thack smirked, crossing his arms. “However, I have an ability just like that, Tekkai Utsugi. Thanos has mastered the art of Tekkai so that he can move freely while having it activated.” Though it didn’t show, the form of Tekkai was now activated.
“So, you can avoid feeling what we feel?” Mia mused sadly. “How close-minded.” She grinned, lifting a glowing golden string of a pack link that she had managed to hook onto his shoulder. “Oh, well, at least you’re willing to share something with us.”
The link glowed golden, and Mia used it to fling herself back to Thack at top speed, socking him in the gut. As Thack felt her fist bury in his gut, he felt not only her strength, but the strength of Thanos and Black behind the punch. Thack was sent flying back however he stopped himself and deactivated Tekkai Utsugi.
"Cheap ass mother fucker," Thack scoffed, before analyzing her to try and find a weakness. 'Let's see… If I use Tekkai Utsugi, I feel the pain of both Thanos and Black plus her strength on top of it. There must be some way I can avoid that. Wait, can she counter Ki Blasts?' Thack planned before smirking. Thack charged up a Ki Blast in hand, both purple and yellow started to morph together to form a Yin and Yang symbol.
"I think I may have found a way to take you down without harming myself." Thack took a step forward, the ground shifting to Thack's will alone. Thack then shot off to Mia like a rocket appearing in front of her only for Thack to pop up at her side. Thack shot the destructive Ki blast and sent her careening into a wall, this time Thack felt no pain.
However, Mia’s claws found the ki blasts, and crushed them down. Her arms glowed golden as she absorbed the residual energy, and she grinned darkly as her entire body was coated in diamonds.
“Diamond Body,” Mia whispered before bolting to the Titan Saiyan, vanishing from his view.
Immediately Thack felt a pain from his back. Mia, with the aid of the Shave Technique, had run behind the fusion and pierced his body with all ten of her fingers.
“Ten Finger Diamond Pistol,” Mia said, pulling her fingers from Thack’s back and using the Moonwalk to gain some distance from the fusion.
Thack stumbled forward wincing slightly, "You strike me behind my back? Not very honorable, at least I had the common decency to not strike a man behind his back." Thack chuckled, Thack used Tekkai Go, an enhanced version of Tekkai making his body tougher. It was Tekkai Go vs Diamond now.
“You insult my family and you have the nerve to talk about decency?” Mia asked forcefully. evading the Titan Saiyan. “Tempest Kick!” the fusion said backflipping adding more power to the technique
A gust of wind was fired at Thack
"The Japanese version is better! Rankyaku!" Thack went to a handstand and spun around, Thack fired off his version of the air slash.
The techniques collided with each other causing a massive gust to blow both parties back as their bodies were sliced by the opposing kicks
Thack did a backflip before landing on his feet, skidding to the side of the ring. The Fusion winced from where the attack made contact, “A very impressive attack, how about we finish this warm up?” Thack said, as he grabbed Thanos’ infinity blade, then coating it in Armament Haki.
“You’re on, Titan,” Mia said her body forming a thicker layer of Diamond with at the same time being covered in a white aura
“This is bad,” Eric said worry creeping in his voice
"Gura-Gura No Mi aura?" Lucci said, his right eye twitching slightly in fear.
“We need to stop this fight now,” Eric said attempting to move in before being blown back by a shockwave.
"HOW?!?!?!" Lucci looked to the Shadow Man, clutching his head. "Thack insulted Mia's family, that's a death sentence!"
“This will not be good for this planet!” Sombra stated, his eyes showing fear. “That’s Mauds full body Tremor! Every move she makes will cause whatever touching it to crack.”
"No shit Sherlock." Nappa frowned, "Well, might as well start digging a grave for ourselves."
Black’s black and purple aura surrounded Thack as his power began to increase. The fusion’s aura then moved its way to the infinity blade, sharpening the edges as the blade began to hum like a lightsaber. Mia made a single step towards the opposing Fusion, this caused the air around her leg as well as the ground beneath her foot to crack severely causing the entire planet to quake. At this, Thack smirked as he stuck his infinity blade into the ground, the Armament Haki and Ki disappearing.
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“You're gonna love this… trust me. What you see now is my normal state.”
"Dear. God." Lucci's pupils shrunk, Fujitora waltzes in, before sensing Thack.
"Oh… Oh no." Fujitora put up a hand to his forehead in pure unadulterated fear.
Instantly, Thack transformed into a Super Saiyan God, his hair turning blood red along with his eyebrows and eyes. He also started to emanate more steam “This is a Super Saiyan God combined with Netsu-Netsu Steam Man."
"Call the ambulance!" Lord Twigo clutched his head and started running off.
Shortly after, Thack’s hair turned pink with his eyebrows and eyes doing the same. Bright blue flames had started to form on the fusions back.“And this is Super Saiyan Rose combined with Thanos’ Burst Man, Blue Hell Edition. In simpler terms, let's call this Super Saiyan Blue Inferno."
"What's he doing?!" Katakuri jumped down from the heavens and fell between Eric and Lucci.
“He’s being stupid thats what!” Nightmare hissed as the pressure became heavy, she was starting to have a hard time breathing now.
Thack grinned, looking at the stunned Mia. He frowned as veins had started showing up on the fusion’s forehead. “Get Ready…” Thack hunched over, “This… next level… goes way beyond Super Saiyan Blue Inferno!!!” Thack began to roar to the heavens, the stadium and arena began to crumble beneath him as his aura turned into a sphere, pulsating a devastating amount of power. It then began to shake the planet, alerting the civilians to the massive power being thrown around.
Mia narrowed her eyes with a hum. “Impressive power,” she mused, another pack link forming in her claws. “Let’s see what I can do to replicate it.”
Swinging her link like a lasso, she hooked him once again. Her link thickened to the size of a rope, and pulsated with power. Mia grit her teeth, her fur spiking and turning a similar bright blue.
But the tremendous increase in pressure had begun to take a toll on the pack link, it slowly being pushed away before snapping, causing Mia to gape in dumbfounded shock. Thack continued to roar as his hair slightly grew in size, the blue hellish flames growing in size before turning pure white. Thack began to struggle as the flames flickered, feeling the growing pressure on his body. He lifted his head to the sky, letting out one more burst of power, yelling to the heavens as there was a bright flash of light. The pressure knocked Mia off her hooves, sending her flying off the ring and into a wall.
Mia shielded herself with a barrier, growling up at Thack’s new form. Thack’s body was now more the size of Thanos now, a pink aura surrounding Thack with a white aura to top it off. Thack’s hair had a white outline on it, similar to Ultra Instinct, lightning flew around the Fusion like it would if Black went Super Saiyan Two. Thack grinned, “This… Is Super Saiyan White.” His voice was echoey, more than it was before.
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Mia groaned, a small dart of light forming her claws. “Not sure if I’m about to put my hoof in my own mouth,” Mia admitted. “But since you’ve got so much brawn, it makes me curious…”
She flung her small dart, and like a humming bird, it zipped right through the aura and into his mind.
Instantly, the scene shifted. Thack found himself in a different stadium. Instead of blue or dark skies, a cavern enclosed the whole arena in shadows. The stadium was packed with red-eyed, jeering forms, all of them frothing at the mouth and chanting, “Blood-BLOOD-BLOOD-BLOOD!”
Before him on the blood-strewn sands were several shadowy creatures, with similar red eyes and white teeth.
“ How’s your brain?” they all asked.
“You can’t just ask that to someone, it’s like asking how’s your heart, you don’t actually know.” Thack chuckled, tapping his head with a finger, “If you’re asking about this big noggin, it’s fine.”
“You sure about that?” echoed around him, before a heavy blow to the back of his head sent him spinning.
“God fucking damn it, can everyone stop with the mind tricks for once!?” Thack roared as he got to his feet, the personality of Thanos, again, has shown itself. “Shiva nor Maud is capable of teleportation, so this must be a Genjutsu. Damn Genjutsus…”
Instead of responding, Mia went for another attack. Feinting a charge, she slid under his arm and delivered a hard mule kick with her hooves. the blow dealing more damage from their respective Devil Fruits, causing a crack to form in the back of the fusions thick skull
Thack growled as he stood back up to his full height, but he calmed himself. Taking a deep breath before exhaling. He closed his eyes, letting his mind loose. Mia circled the fusion before going for an attack, she tried to kick the fusion again. But Thack moved out of the way, taking Mia by surprise, only to feel a sheering pain in her gut. Thack had delivered a devastating punch into the fusion’s gut, cracking the diamond armor.
Mere milliseconds before she was launched away, Mia grabbed his wrist, and her pack link twined around it, glowing golden and absorbing more of Thack’s ki before she was launched skyward, letting the link shred as she went into the air. Flipping backward into a recovery stance, Mia cracked her neck before standing straight, flicking her arm Mia forms a white and green Ki blade over both of her arms.
Thack rotated his wrist where the link had grabbed him. He hit his head softly a few times, opening his eyes he no longer saw the illusion disappear. He glared at the fusion, the clearness in his eyes sending a wave of frustration through Mia’s features.
“You use that shit against me again,” he warned. “Then I’m going to stop going easy on you.”
But Mia had a new look in her eyes: a rage that Maud had never seemed capable of. With an almost defiant gleam in her eyes, she launched link after link like Spiderman, practically cocooning Thack in a glowing ball of light. With a mighty heave, Mia pulled a glob of energy that nearly split the seams of her link entirely.
Kodo stood up as the glob of energy entered the fusion’s body. “What are you doing?” he screamed up at her.
Lightning flashed from the fusion’s form. She was concealed in light. Her links shredded from the pressure, and Thack was pushed back as she tried to condense the energy down.
“I… will… match… you,” began to echo like a chant. “I… will… SURPASS… YOU!”
“MOM!” Kodo shrieked. “YOU’RE TAKING TOO MUCH! THINK OF MAUD!”
Almost like she could hear him, a small ball of energy deposited the shaken earth pony next to Eric. While relatively unharmed, there was a fear in Maud’s eyes that had never been there before.
“She’s trying to go Super Saiyan God,” Maud reported, worry in her voice. “She’s going to rip her body apart if she keeps going!”
“STOP IT SHIVA!!!!!!” Fujitora cried out running down the stairs and jumping down to the arena, “You’re harming yourself, stop it Shiva!”
Kodo lunged forward. Despite the energy trying to blast him back, he managed to fire off a dark pack link that managed to just barely touch the second sun his mother had become.
“MOTHER, STOP!” he screamed. “I’M NOT WORTH THIS MUCH DAMAGE TO YOURSELF!”
“I HAVE TO MATCH HIM!” her voice echoed back. “I HAVE TO SURPASS HIM! BECAUSE…”
Everyone felt her despair fall over them; like a storm cloud with icy rain.
“Because what am I worth otherwise?” she whimpered.
Kodo tried to yank the energy from her core. His link thickened like rope as he tried to pull the energy away.
“Everything!” he insisted. “You’re worth everything!”
“But I’m not as strong as him…” Shiva whimpered. The energy around her pulsated as her voice took on a bout of hopelessness. “I’ll… never be as strong…”
The ball of light exploded. Thack was flung nearly through the arena wall and out the other side. The members of the audience were pushed to the outside. And in the center of the rubble the stadium had become, Shiva plummeted and hit the ground hard.
The Diamond Dog was a mess. Her gem studded armor had been disintegrated; her once beautiful white fur blackened and burned to ash. Her skin was scorched and riddled with wounds where the energy had punched out of her pores. Her eyes were shut, and her chest didn’t move. Kodo was the first to reach her side. And when he put his ear on her chest… he heard no heartbeat.
“N-No…” Kodo whispered. “Not again…” He tried to pack link with her, but the link fizzled out as if she was already a corpse.
“H-Help…” he mumbled, before looking at the stunned audience members. “HELP!”
“UH I- C’MERE BOI!!!!” Nappa ran to the rescue, on Shiva’s side he starting to pump Ki in to her, basically trying to restart her life. Pulse after pulse, Nappa started to go Super Saiyan 2 to put more energy into Shiva. Nappa went down to feel her heartbeat, nothing, Nappa poured more energy into Shiva. Nappa went down to check… He felt a heartbeat! It eventually continued like normal and Nappa backed away.
“DOCTORS DEGREE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!” Nappa laughed, grinning ear to ear.
Despite his declaration, Shiva still didn’t move. And when Kodo nosed at her, he got no reaction.
“C’mon, Mom,” Kodo whispered. “Wake up. Think of Celine; you can’t leave her alone like this. Wake up!” He desperately pack-linked with her, but she still didn’t move.
“She’s most likely unconscious due to the stress of absorbing that much power.” Nappa turned back to the dog, Nappa shook his head, “This is why I don’t like when people push themselves.”
“That’s what I don’t get,” Kodo admitted. “Why’d she push herself like that? She’s always been so careful.” He looked down in guilt. “Was it… because of me?”
“No, it’s our fault.” Nappa admitted, “We’re all so stronger than her, Entity, Sombra, hell even Kyle may be stronger but… She realized that she can’t destroy a mountain in one punch, she can’t destroy the moon, she can’t cause an eruption with just her fists alone. She feels like she’s… Worthless, though that is not the case. Shiva has the potential to be stronger than all of us. However I’m not sure she wants to train with us who have YEARS of experience in combat.”
Kodo felt her brow. “Even if she wanted to,” he noted. “I don’t think she’ll be able to. At least… not for a while.”
“Indeed, I think it’s fair to say this… No more fights in our free time. Look how the arena has suffered, look how we’re changing, we’re falling into Ryker’s hand by being more and more competitive.” Nappa looked to the stands, the arena, the fighters… “No. More. Fights. In our freetime!”
As the other fighters processed Nappa’s words, Kodo gathered up his mother. “I’m gonna take her to the medical bay,” he said, easily hefting her up despite the size difference. “Hopefully, she’ll wake up soon.” He tottered off with her body.
Meanwhile...
Black looked to Thanos with a glare that pierced into the Titan’s soul, “You and I are gonna have a talk later,
“Pfft, don’t, I’m just gonna lock myself in my room for… Meh, a few years.” Thanos walked towards his room.
Thanos was taken by surprise when Black appeared in front of him, holding the Titan by the throat. The Saiyan held a ki blade milimeters away from Thanos’ throat. “I’m starting to get sick of you. Remember when you wanted to stop the joking act and wanted to be serious for this tournament… stick to that promise then… John…” Black growled, before letting go off the Titan, walking away as he went to go looking for Shiva.
“This is not a joke, I’m… I’m locking myself up. I’ve done enough damage.” Thanos sighed, he stood up and walked to his room.
“...Can… I need to check on her.” Fujitora said as the earth beneath him rose up and he went after Shiva.
“You're all idiots,” came Ed’s voice from everywhere. “You all never took into account how compatible you are with one another,” He explained. “Potara fusion is not fusion of two individuals together like the fusion dance does where the individuals must be in sync on every possible level to create a whole new being. No potara is the force fusion of two that takes the best qualities of both to create a pseudo entity where both souls are still present within the fusion at all times. Due to your high compatibility with each other this led to gleaming things from one another that were extremely personal,” The alchemist appeared out of the air. “It would be best if you didn't fight in a fused state right now, especially with what happened. If you want to fight that badly then fight as teams. Work through your shit before you jump back into the fray of things, but what do I know?” He shrugged. “I’ve only been around a few millennia,” Ed faded away like dust in the wind again.
Fujitora, Black and the others found Shiva in the medical bay. Kodo resting beside her, a pack link glowing between them. Shiva was still out cold, her expression set in a grimace like she was either still sore or suffering from a nightmare. Kodo, however, only had a look of sad resignation.
“She’s locked herself in her own mind,” he mumbled as the others approached. “It’s like… I don’t even know; I’ve never seen her do something like this before.”
“Curse it,” Fujitora sighed rubbing his forehead, “This is the worst thing that could happen on a day like this. The. Worst.”
“Who knows? She could have a mental breakdown. That would be worse than this.” Arkham Knight said, now being noticed for he was leaning on a wall, like a cool guy.
Kodo barely noticed. “Nah,” he said. “I’d notice if that was the case.” He tilted his head. “She’s just… well…”
He lifted another pack link up, conjuring up what was going on in her head: an image of the Canterlot throne room. There, Shiva paced back and forth, garbed in white queenly robes over her usual armor, links going out the various windows like a spider web.
“Yes, I’m aware that diamond dogs aren’t dragons,” Shiva was saying. “But I’m wondering if the power can be transferred. Dragons get stronger the more treasure they have, so why shouldn’t diamond dogs?” She paused, turning to another link like it was a cellphone. “Oh, good; Celestia. You’re finally back. Tell me, how strong would you theorize Day Breaker to be?” She grimaced as her link to Celestia pulsed and beeped. “Yes, I know it’s a form you’d rather keep under wraps, but you brought it out for my son; surely you can at least donate the power to defend us all from something that could destroy all of Equestria with a pointing finger.”
“Huh, that’s rather… Adorable that she’s in her mind. It will most likely give her something to cope with after this whole fiasco.” Arkham Knight said with a somewhat look of curiosity under his mask.
“Pretty much,” Kodo agreed, stroking his mother’s paw as she snorted in her sleep - probably ‘Celestia’ still being coy with her.
Arkham Knight inhaled through his teeth, “I could make her tea when she wakes up, does anyone want some tea?” Arkham Knight asked everyone, looking around. A mist sweeped over the room, and it soon died out. Zabuza appeared next to the Knight out of thin air with a tea set. Suddenly the wall next to Arkham Knight melted, making a doorway, and out came Akainu and Necrozma.
“What the hell happened here?” Akainu said, using his magma to light his cigarette.
“Uh… Why are you three here?” Necrozma points to Zabuza, Arkham Knight, and Fujitora.
“Don’t ask.” They all respond before drinking their tea that suddenly appeared in their hands.
“What’s this, a party?” Phoenix teleported in and stood next to Kodo, looking over his mother. “Uhhh, what did I miss?”
Kodo shook his head. “I barely understand it myself,” he admitted. “Mom used these… earrings from the Dragon Ball world to fuse with Maud. And then Thanos and Black fused as well. And their fusion started talking bad about me. And the fusion with my mom in it freaked out.” He indicated his mother. “At first, it was just a regular fight. But then my Mom went berserk; started trying to absorb way more energy than she was capable of. Screaming about how useless she was compared to everyone else.” He lowered his head. “Now she’s in some sort of coma; locked herself up in a memory where she was Queen of Equestria and researching ways to get stronger.”
“I see,” Phoenix spoke with a frown. “That explains the tremors.” Sighing, he kneeled next to Kodo, but didn’t make eye contact. “Kodo, do you reckon your mom would be pissed at me if I delved into her mind to speak with her?”
Kodo shrugged. “I don’t know,” he admitted. “She’s never been like that before; I mean, yeah she was never the strongest dog in the ring, but… she’s never let it bother her like that before. I don’t know if it was just her fusing with Maud or something else, but…” He sighed. “If you’ve got some way to snap her out of it, I won’t complain.”
“Got it, though, I’ll need to lay down just in case. I’ve never done this before so I’m not sure whether my body will go limp.” Phoenix began laying on the floor, and thought over his choice of words. “And don’t worry, this is safe.”
“I’ll take your word for it,” Kodo noted, settling between them. “You don’t need me linking you to her, do you?”
“That won’t be necessary.” Phoenix thought of his target, before closing his eyes and diving in.
He found himself in the Canterlot Throne Room. Shiva, dressed as a queen, was still pacing back and forth. Links were spread out across and out the room like a massive spider web, pulsing and glowing as various blobs of magic were sent back and forth.
“Yes, exactly,” Shiva said with a wagging tail. “You managed to combine all four alicorns’ power into Twilight. What if we tried something similar… but we added the magic of every pony on top of it?” Her ears flattened as whoever she was linked to responded. “No, that’s not ‘exactly what Tirek wanted!’ Don’t be ridiculous!”
“That would result in a magic overload, Lady Shiva.” Phoenix stepped towards her with his hands in his pockets. “The vessel being used would surely die. Living or not.”
Shiva glanced distractedly at him. “Oh, good, another one,” she said, sending a link out to him. The link formed a bracelet around his wrist. “I’m sure you’re aware of the threat that plagues our nation. Rest assured, we’re doing everything we can to figure out how to combat it. Ideas are surely appreciated.” Her ears perked. “Oh, like getting Tirek from Tartarus. Somehow, he held every pony’s magic ‘without’ dying. Perhaps there’s a way to take his durability…”
Yet, as she spoke, the link tried to carry Phoenix out a window and into a white void. He simply sliced the link off with the side of his hand.
Despite slicing her link away, Shiva didn’t even notice. She settled on her throne, completely lost in her own world. “Yes, Maud’s got a point. Maybe if we make ourselves completely unremarkable, no one will be interested in us.” She grimaced. “No, that won’t work: talking ponies and dogs living together? That’s way too interesting.”
Phoenix tilted his head at the plan destined to fail, before brushing it off. Squatting down slightly, he did a few stretches before seemingly vanishing. A moment later he appeared in the same spot, with all the links around him slowly falling to the ground in sliced up pieces. He whistled at his work.
Shiva tilted her head briefly, before sending all the links right back out again. “Celestia, hanging up on me is not going to make this problem go away. I know you’re used to foisting your problems on Twilight, but this is one problem she can’t handle on her own.”
“Okay, if you don’t answer me, or even pay me any mind, then I apologize for what I will do.” Phoenix stated as the newly linked pack links fell to the ground once more.
Shiva growled, ready to send out the links again, before a voice drew her gaze.
“Mom!” Kodo barked, appearing at Phoenix’s side.
Shiva finally turned, her eyes briefly warming as they settled on Kodo, before Kodo indicated Phoenix. Instantly, Shiva’s fur bristled, her tail tucked and a haunted look came over her. She shuffled backward, as the throne room completely shifted into a diamond dog cavern. Shiva vanished into a cave that shined with a pink light, as very… ‘erotic’ sounds began to emanate from inside.
“Uhhhh……..” Phoenix pointed to his chest in confusion and tilted his head, before turning round to see who she was addressing. Kodo already had his back turned to the sight.
“Like I said,” he noted. “It’s like she’s trying to keep herself locked in here. Minute I brought up the tournament…”
“YES!” Shiva’s voice cried out from the cave. “OH, BY EVERYTHING SACRED, KEEP ME IN THIS HEAVEN!”
Phoenix sighed. “Kodo, make sure you never do what I’m about to do.” Phoenix strode inside the cave, before a SLAP sounded.
An enraged bark boomed out, erasing the diamond dog cavern and creating a fighting pit in its place. Shiva bristled and snarled before Phoenix, now looking more like a feral wolf. However, seconds before she could lunge, Kodo got in her place.
“Easy, Mom,” Kodo said gently. “We’re just trying to help.”
Shiva’s eyes widened at her son’s appearance, before she chuckled brokenly. The fighting pit glitched and shimmered, bars like a cage forming around her.
“But no one can help,” she whispered. “It won’t be enough. No matter what plan I come up with… no matter how much power I pull… it’ll never match up to them.” She couldn’t even point at Phoenix without shivering.
Phoenix looked around the place, slightly confused, and looked to his feet. Satisfied with the conclusion he came to, he looked back to Shiva. He took a step towards her slowly, and reached out his hand for her to take.“Power aint shit and you know it,” He slowly knelt down in front of her. “Cool your jets so we can talk.”
Shiva shifted on her haunches. “What’s there to talk about?” she asked. “I can’t protect what’s mine. I can’t even help protect. Everyone else is so much stronger, and… I’m not...”
Phoenix cut her off. “You’re not YET.” He got up from his crouching position before taking a few steps back. “I get what’s going on now……” He pinched the bridge of his nose, before summoning a kunai. “Why is it always me……” Phoenix mumbled with a frown, before launching the kunai at Shiva.
Shiva barked and cowered down as the kunai shot at her.
“You’re in feral mode.” Phoenix stated, annoyed that he had to deal with it. “Well, if I can’t get through to you with words…” He didn’t finish, but instead shot towards her, placing her in a headlock. “I’ll force you to listen!”
Shiva merely keened, barely struggling against him, like she already knew it was pointless. Realising just how serious the situation was, and that he couldn’t use his normal methods, Phoenix released his grip on the dog and leaped back. “Huh. Well um…….. Here goes nothing.” Phoenix teleported in front of Shiva, looking her directly in the eyes, before wrapping her in a hug. He held her head tight, despite his hatred for physical contact, and stroked her fur. “Always me…..” He mumbled through his teeth, pissed at how fucking needy this woman was.
Shiva heard his thoughts. Her ears flattened. “Sorry to be a burden,” she said numbly. “I just… don’t understand why I’m here. I’m a supporter… but I couldn’t support Maud. Thack called my link ‘shit.’ Like it’s nothing. And I can’t go into different forms like he can.” She looked up. “Why am I even here if I can’t contribute anything?”
“Shiva, you’re here, because that bastard Ryker wanted you here. And now that you’re here, I’m pretty sure no one here wishes for you to leave. And if they do….. They can answer to me, Kodo, and Fujitora.” Phoenix finally finished by holding her tighter. “There’s no need to be so concerned about ‘supporting others’ or ‘becoming stronger’, just become the person you want to be.” Man, I should be a therapist , Phoenix thought to himself, surprised at how empathetic he could be despite his douchebaggery.
Briefly, Shiva’s ears remained flat in doubt. She looked back as a memory formed: her surrounded by diamond dogs. Leering at her with an ominous light, until she seized the biggest and scared them with the pack link. Yet, before Phoenix could protest, the image changed: it showed the same dogs, now surrounded by gems, with Shiva on their shoulders. Hailing her as an Alpha. A Queen. As Phoenix watched, some of the dogs shifted, into Fujitora. Into Phoenix. Even into Eric.
“They... don’t like me just for my magic,” she whispered, almost like she was trying to convince herself. “They like me… for me.”
Releasing her from his embrace, he nodded, before patting her head. “As touching as this is, if you start crying on me, I’m subbing out for Kodo.” Phoenix said in a sarcastic tone with a big toothy grin, trying to make light of the situation.
Shiva chuckled. “No need to worry about that,” she replied. “Dogs don’t have tear ducts. We literally are incapable of crying.”
“That’s where you're wrong, Shiva.” Phoenix said, taking a step back. “Tears still flood on the inside, no matter how well you hide it.”
Shiva hummed in thought, before letting her mindscape fade away into light.
During the mindscape...
“Looks like the alpha is having a nervous breakdown,” Ed said as he appeared next to the pup. “Perhaps if I directly linked your emotions to hers she’d listen more,” He looked to the youth. Ryker walked out of a portal next to Ed with tea. “Bout time you showed up.” He looked back to the diamond dog alpha. “Perhaps I should give her a few more endless bags with other gemstones for her pack? That would help ease her mind at least a bit.”
“Sup, I just wanted to see what was going on.” Ryker yawned before sipping his tea like a Bri’sh person. “So I hear that the arena is fucking gone, I decided to make a new one. If you want to check it out then go on ahead.”
“I'll be facing off against Eric in the Endgame battlefield,” Ed held up a hand.
“You know, since I may or may not have Dr. Doom slaving away in my lab, you can fight him in the actual tournament. But make sure you beat his ass before winning.” Ryker held a fist to Ed for a fist-bump, grinning evilly.
“I have no issues with the good Doctor and he happens to be a friend of my baby brother so that’s a no,” Ed said flatly. “I have beef with Eric and more importantly you,” he scowled. “I don’t take being pulled away from my girls lightly, especially when one of them is pregnant.”
“Ah, I apologize, you were the first thing that came to mind. Congratulations on one of your girls being pregnant by the way.” Ryker then sits down on mid-air, taking another sip of tea.
Before they could respond, Phoenix and Shiva awoke, Shiva instantly turning to Kodo. Mother and son touched noses softly, their tails wagging before Kodo gave up on pretense and hugged his mother in relief.
“Never pull something like that again,” Kodo whispered, his voice cracking.
“Fuck me!” Phoenix began panting for breath the moment he woke up. “That really drains a guy.” That was all he managed to get out, before falling back to the ground in a panting fit.
“Not into guys thank you,“ Ed commented.
“I know someone would among my ranks, her name starts with a T and I think she would like your d-” Ryker was slapped by Katakuri who had a rolled up newspaper.
“Stop that!” Katakuri growled.
“Here’s a spray bottle too,” Ed handed the mochi man a good size bottle full of water. Katakuri then sprayed it onto Ryker who hissed.
“God damn it what did you do Ed?” Ryker turned to the Sage with a “Why tho.” look in his eyes.
“Uhh, when’d you guys get here?” Guess I can’t sense presences whilst in that state, Phoenix thought.
“Quick question, what was that insane amount of trembling?” Necrozma asked, looking among the Displaced.
Shiva swallowed nervously and sunk down in her bed, before Ed thankfully answered Phoenix’s question first.
“I’m everywhere,” Ed shrugged. “I’ve been able to go wherever I want in this world since I figured out his void signature,” Ed pointed at Ryker on the floor being beaten with a newspaper. “That is a very satisfying sight I tell ya what.”
“Only because I allow you.” Ryker mused, waving his finger, Katakuri continued to hit him with the newspaper, “Also, Katakuri that’s enough.” Ryker then appears before Katakuri and flicks him on the head, sending him flying through a wall. Everyone heard crashing sounds and an “Oof!”
“Well… Get fucked Katakuri.” Akainu laughed, walking out the door to go and laugh at Katakuri in his face.
“I’ll be heading out for now,” Ed waved. “I have students in another place that actually summoned me for help,” Ed glared at Ryker.”And trust me Ryker, it's not cause you allow me. I needed Truth’s help before, now I don't…” He walked through a portal and it closed on itself.
“Facking horsefucker.” Ryker’s emerald eyes glowed before going back to normal, “In any case if you want to see the new arena. Follow me.” Ryker left the Infirmary with a sip of tea. Arkham Knight following not before stopping next to Kodo.
“Oh and If you think you can take me on… You are sorely mistaken.” Arkham Knight then left, followed by Zabuza, and Necrozma. Fujitora remained with the dogs.
Kodo watched him the Knight with a raised eyebrow. “Oh… kay?” he mumbled, turning back to his mother, who shook her head with disappointment.
“Is he really trying to form a rivalry with a one year old dog?” Shiva asked.
“In his defense he was broken down and rebuilt again, we’re all so stronger than him so he’s trying to find someone to fight. Kyle is too weak and he’s a cut above the rest, that’s why he’s with us.” Fujitora commented sipping his calming jasmine tea.
Shiva chuckled, glancing down at her claws. “Once, I would’ve said that was crazy,” she said. “But… considering what I did… maybe I can see where he’s coming from.”
“Yeah, what happened?” Kodo asked. “Why’d you keep going like that?”
Shiva’s eyes didn’t leave her claws. “I don’t… really know,” she admitted. “It was… strange.”
Kodo leaned forward. “Because of the fusion?” he asked.
She nodded. “It was deeper than a pack link,” she admitted. “I wasn’t just in Maud’s head. It was like I was Maud and she was me. And then when Thack started insulting you… it was like he was insulting Maud’s sister.” She shrugged. “And then when he threatened me about the link… it hurt. Cuz he’s got all those forms, and the link’s the only thing I’ve got. I couldn’t hold back.” She huffed. “Not that it really mattered… he was too strong for either of us…”
Kodo touched her claw. “Mom,” he said gently. “It doesn’t matter. You have nothing to prove.”
“But Kodo,” Shiva said, leaning against the backrest. “Dogs have to contribute to the pack. I’ve always prided myself on my pack link being able to contribute magic; to make dogs stronger and helping them…”
“But that’s not all you are,” Kodo insisted. “There’s so much more to you beyond how much power you can take or how strong you are.”
“Indeed, you are so much more than who you are… That doesn’t make sense.” Fujitora said to himself, “I’m not good at being inspirational.”
Shiva chuckled, resting a paw on his hand. “You’re just fine the way you are, Issho,” she assured him, before Kodo rested his paw on hers.
“Practice what you preach?” Kodo asked
She laughed, before nodding in agreement. “And so am I,” she offered teasingly.
“In any case, have a good day again if you would like to train in swordsmanship I would love to-'' Fujitora was cut off as a wall was broken down… Again. It was Lord Twigo!
“Did somebody say… Train in swordsmanship?!” Lord Twigo asked, pointing his golden sword to the heavens.
Phoenix had finally gained his bearings, and was able to focus on what was around him. “Fuck that was not fun……” He mumbled under his breath before standing up. “What’s this about swords and training? My mental capacity seems to be non-existent right now.” Phoenix stated, rubbing his temples.
“Fujitora and Lord Twigo were asking if we wanted to train in swordsmanship,” Kodo explained, his claw brushing the sheath of his sword as he glanced at Shiva. “I still think you need some more rest, Mom…” He turned to the two sword masters with a grin. “But I’m more than willing to learn.”
“Let us go to the… uh… To the uh…” Lord Twigo put a hand to his chin, “Hm… Fujitora would you mind-” Fujitora grinned.
“Nah, I wouldn’t Kodo, you’re going to be the first dog to go to the moon.” Fujitora walked out of the infirmary, Lord Twigo following him, “Don’t worry Lady Shiva, I won’t harm him. Much.”
“I’ll join you,” Shiva promised, starting to rise, only for her legs to remain non-responsive. She glowered at her legs. “Right after my body decides to get with the program.”
“I would join you guys,” Phoenix chimed in. “But for some reason I’m shattered after that.” He panted for a second, before gaining a face of realisation. “Oh wait.” Slipping his ring off, all of his earlier exhaustion vanished. “Forgot about that…” He began to follow the others.
“Phoenix?” Shiva said before he could leave. “Thank you. For… all that back there.”
Phoenix turned his head back to Shiva, before pulling a toothy grin. “Anytime!” He thought for a second, before turning back to the rest of the group. “Hey guys!” He shouted down the hallway. “Ima stay back! Not like I need to train in swordsmanship, and we wouldn’t want our gracious Queen getting lonely!” Phoenix then turned back around and smiled at Shiva, before pulling up a chair and taking a seat.
They were outside of the arena, for the first time since they had arrived here, and there was a little plate the size of a truck. Fujitora and Lord Twigo were on top of it.
“We’re going to the moon, come, let us embark on our quest for power!” Lord Twigo clenched his fist and threw it to the air, dramatically like the chad that he is.
Kodo chuckled as he climbed on board. “The Luna from my world thought that dogs worshipped the moon,” he noted. “She said we would always be howling at it.” He snorted. “I’m pretty sure I broke her heart when I told her the whole thing was just a coincidence; that wolves howl to communicate with each other, and that we’re just more active at night than in the day.”
“To the moon!” Fujitora unsheathed his hidden blade that was concealed in his walking stick, the plate started to levitate and it shot off to the skies. As it reached the clouds, everyone but Fujitora hit the plate unable to withstand the pressure as it ascended above the clouds. It then stopped, Fujitora pointed his blade at the moon and it became closer… And closer until it was but a hop, a skip, and a jump away from getting onto it.
“Tada~” Fujitora laughed, Lord Twigo got to his feet, shivering slightly.
“God I hate it when you do that.” Lord Twigo rubbed the back of his head, Fujitora shrugged at this.
Kodo, however, bounded off and onto the moon. “This is totally wicked!” he cheered.
“Indeed, though the tides are going to be higher, I do not see any other repercussions to this.” Fujitora jumped from the plate and onto the moon, Lord Twigo following him after.
“Okay,” Kodo said, calming himself. “So… how’s this going to work?” He hesitantly reached for his sword. “Do I use actual steel, or are there wooden swords anywhere? Or…”
“Actual steel, after all the real thing is always better than the fakes. If you want to I could get sticks.” Fujitora offered, Lord Twigo waved Fujitora off.
“Don’t mind him, he’s just worried that he might harm you. How about you show young Kodo a demonstration, but use it on me, my armor is overpowered.” Lord Twigo suggested, Fujitora looked to Lord Twigo then to Kodo.
“Wanna see something cool?” Fujitora grinned.
Kodo nodded eagerly.
“Alright then, get into position.” Lord Twigo walked a few meters away and Fujitora was as well a few meters away from him. Fujitora then sprints at the Holy Knight unsheathing his blade, Fujitora then appears behind the Knight. Sword between his legs unsheathed, Fujitora then slowly sheathes the blade.
“Ittōryū Iai: Shishi Sonson!” Lord Twigo received a vertical cut onto his armor, not harming his armor but it did knock the knight down. Fujitora walked over to Twigo. “Ta da~”
“That’s one of the many techniques of the Ittoryu style or the One Sword Style if you will.” Lord Twigo said as Fujitora helps him up, “Fujitora here is from Japan, he was so fascinated in the ways of the Samurai he became one.”
“So cool,” Kodo whispered.
“So, if you would like to have a spar with me, Lord Twigo, you can. Though you can’t harm me, I can harm you which is why I brought a wooden blade for me.” Lord Twigo sheathes his Golden Great Sword and brings out a wooden sword that was hidden inside of his armor. He coats it in Armament Haki. “Come at me young Samurai .”
Drawing his blade, Kodo activated his devil fruit. Turning into a cloud of smoke, he feinted with a lunge, passing by in a flurry of smoke before zooming around, forming a circle. Briefly, he spun around like a tornado, before lunging out from a random direction, his blade ready to carve across Twigo’s armor just like Fujitora had.
However the young pup failed to realize he was not dealing with the run of the mill opponent, he was dealing with a Holy Knight. Lord Twigo raised his blade high and swiped down, making a colossal air slash that could match the height of Katakuri. It made a trench in the moon not very deep though.
Kodo barely managed to dodge, his devil fruit allowing him to dodge in a cloud of smoke. Trying to take advantage of the Holy Knight’s swipe, he went for a swipe at his shoulder, careful not to go for a killing blow.
Lord Twigo sidestepped the attack, being trained in Observation Haki he was somewhat good at it. Lord Twigo went for an up slash, his wooden blade being coated in a demonic aura before doing so.
Kodo soared with the smoke away from the attack, sweeping low for a slash at the Holy Knight’s legs.
Lord Twigo saw this coming, he had seen enough of Karate Kid to realize he was trying to sweep the leg. Lord Twigo hopped above the attack and struck the pup with two of his mighty boots.
Briefly, Kodo tumbled across the surface before turning to smoke and righting himself. He skidded across the ground, before taking his sword in his teeth and running back to them on all fours.
“I’m getting Zacian vibes from this.” Lord Twigo said to himself while clenching his blade, Lord Twigo shot off like a rocket to Kodo and instead of attacking him… He appeared behind Kodo. “Ittoryu: Chimei-tekide wanai jikkō.” Kodo was hit by a series of blows, Lord Twigo had hit him so fast the attacks had not registered yet.
Even when Kodo turned to smoke, the blows continued to pummel him. He flung himself away, but still shook his head, trying to clear the impact of the blows.
“Right,” Kodo grumbled, clutching his head. “Showed me that right at the start,” he mumbled.
“Sorry didn’t quite catch that, would you mind repeating yourself?” Lord Twigo laughed before then appearing and disappearing all over the place. Going so fast he made ten afterimages, they then surrounded Kodo. ”Which one am I choose wisely and you win!”
Kodo hummed, lifting his sword and shutting his eyes. His nose twitched, scenting the air, sensing ki and picking up where the real Lord Twigo was. Picking up on the scent of Lord Twigo, Kodo locked onto one of the after-images and lunged.
Lord Twigo was actually hit by Kodo, for the first time in this match he was hit! Lord Twigo stumbled backwards, clutching his chest. “Nice shot young one, however that was your first blow on me. Now I think this concludes the spar as of now, good fight.”
Kodo lowered his sword and gave a bow of respect. “Thank you for your lesson,” he said gratefully.
Lord Twigo rests his wooden sword on his shoulder, “Now, what have we learned?” Lord Twigo raised an eyebrow,
“That offense can be risky,” Kodo offered. “And that sometimes it is better to wait and listen before striking.”
“Have you ever heard of the swordsman that couldn’t cut anything but he could cut steel?” Lord Twigo takes a seat on the moon he then sticks the wooden blade on the ground.
Kodo copied his motion, only for his blade to bounce off the ground. Blushing sheepishly, Kodo opted for sheathing his sword before settling on the ground. “I haven’t heard of that particular swordsman,” Kodo admitted.
“The swordsman could feel everything as it was living, sense their presence, if a rock would fall down onto him unexpectedly… He would evade the attack. He had the power to cut through steel and the breath of all things. Unable to cut a leaf yet could cut a chunk of rock.” Lord Twigo informed the young pup, “Only some can do this, Fujitora can cut through my armor but chose not to. If you fight someone with say… Steel or Sea Prism Stone armor, you wouldn’t be able to cut through it unless you had that ability.”
“Right,” Kodo agreed. “Because Devil Fruit Users are weak to Sea Prism, and I’m still… well… starting out.”
“To hear the breath of all things and connect your inner purpose, that is the miraculous power to cut through steel. Should you ever fight someone with strong armor like me or Arkham Knight, make sure you learn how to cut through steel.” Lord Twigo jumped to his feet and looked around, “So, who’s hungry? I hear the ramen shop has a new special.” Fujitora immediately appeared at Lord Twigo’s side.
“It is decided, ramen time.” Fujitora said as the plate from before moved towards them.
“Ramen?” Kodo asked, hopping onto the plate. “I’ve never had that before.”
“You’re going to love it, trust me.” Fujitora walked onto the plate, Lord Twigo following him afterwards. “Say goodbye to the moon.” Fujitora then made the moon ascend but Katakuri was on it.
“Wait Fujitora, I’m on here! Get me down for christ sake GET ME DOWN!!!!” Fujitora just grinned as Katakuri ascended to space.
“Oh, don’t worry about him, we One Piece humans can breathe in space.” Fujitora turned away from where he ascended the moon and went on down to town. Kodo had now got a closer look, the houses were similar to that of Ponyville’s. There was a tiny ramen shop and a bar next to it, the ramen shop mirrored that of Naruto’s. When they reached it, everyone but Fujitora saw a black scaled dragon there, with orange hair.
“Oh, it’s you guys! How are you two doing, and who’s the newbie?” The orange haired dragon looked over to Kodo.
“He’s one of the fighter’s comrades, he says he never tasted the beauty of ramen.” Fujitora informed the drake.
“That my friend, is going to change awfully quickly. My name’s Arthur by the way, the Dragon of the East some call me.” Arthur turns around and begins to cook up some ramen for the trio.
As he worked, Kodo started rummaging in the bag Ed had given his mother. “How much for the ramen?” he asked.
“Are you with Fujitora?” Arthur turned to the pup with a raised scaly eyebrow.
Kodo glanced at the blind swordsman. “Uh… yes,” he replied.
“Then it’s free.” Arthur went back to his work, going through cabinets for items and what not.
Kodo’s jaw dropped in awe. “A dragon giving something away for free,” he whispered. His tail wagged. “This place is awesome!”
“Well, for you see we dragons are not like other dragons. We’re actually born with an Eliatrope all the time, thus being twins. There is no dragon without its Eliatrope, mine is sleeping in the basement. While your dragons are greedy and only have one form, we have several, Human, Hybrid, and Full Dragon. Kind of like a Zoan Type Devil Fruit.” Arthur told Kodo as he put noodles in a pot and put it in the sink, he then started pouring hot water on it.
“Cool,” Kodo noted. He tilted his head in though. “If you don’t mind me mentioning, the dragons in my world aren’t exactly greedy for no reason; they have a magic in them that gives them a power boost the more treasure they have. Granted, the power goes to their heads if they aren’t careful, but it sure does intrigue my pack.”
“Hm, that’s a first, you Displaced are quite amazing.” Arthur comments right before the bar’s door next to the ramen shop bursts and out came flying a white blur. The white blur slams into a building behind them, Lord Twigo looks back and spots Entity, covered in blood, out came a bulky man with long hair. Kodo would have mistaken it for a Minotaur but it was a human.
“Douglass Bullet… of course.” Lord Twigo shook his head and turned back to Arthur as Bullet closed in on Entity.
Kodo could barely tear his eyes away from the man. “Douglass Bullet?” he whispered.
“He’s a man obsessed in combat, I guess you could say it’s kind of his fathers fault for constantly beating him and forcing the man to kill. Bullet is a soldier, ending an entire war with just him alone, all he knows is combat. And I guess Entity pissed him off or Bullet wants to see what he’s made of.” Fujitora sighed just as Arthur gave them their bowls of ramen.
“Eat up you three, I got noodles for millennium.” Arthur laughed, putting hands on his hips as a show for his pride.
And his pride was well-earned. One sniff of the dish in front of him caused Kodo’s eyes to dilate in sheer bliss. It took every ounce of self-control he had not to lunge and start devouring the ramen - bowl and all. Carefully and gently, he used the chopsticks nearby to scoop the noodles into his jaws. His leg started thumping like he was getting a belly rub.
“Life… is beautiful…” Kodo whispered in ecstasy.
“So unfortunate that it can be taken away.” Lord Twigo sighed as they heard a punch being thrown and Entity grunting. They all heard a bone crack and they winced. Kodo wisely kept his head down and focused on his ramen.
“So uh… Nice weather we have out here.” Arthur said looking up at the sky trying to steer away from the beatdown that was currently happening.
“Very,” Kodo agreed, wincing as he heard a hard THUD from behind him. He took another bite of ramen. “This stuff’s incredible. How do you make it?”
“Very simple just use some spices from the farm, and-” Arthur was cut off by a swear, “Some fire… The water was made from the Spring of Life, the water enhances your abilities ten fold and relaxes your body.”
Kodo almost spoke before a scream cut over him. “Sounds useful,” he mumbled.
“Infernal Twin Drake Attack!” The party heard as they felt a wave of heat hit their backs.
“Very useful, I found it when I was talking to Ember, the Dragon Lord at the time. We were having a nice walk when I tripped and fell in a hole, and boom, I found the Spring of Life.” Arthur said right after they heard weapons clashing.
“Ember?” Kodo mused. “The Dragon Lord at the time?” He hummed. “She’s the current dragon lord in my time.”
“You guys must be a few thousand years in the past, it’s been a while since we saw dragons like Ember. Since Evolution is a thing and our dragons and their dragons started to mate…” Fujitora then jumped as there was an explosion that went off behind them.
Kodo had jumped for a different reason, his face bright red under his fur. “I’ll take your word for it,” he said with a nervous chuckle.
“Ah… I see that you are not used to words that go around… “That”, so let us steer from this. Would you two mind telling Kodo the tale about how you were taught by the swordsman that could hear the breath of all things?” Arthur raised an eyebrow, Lord Twigo cleared his throat.
“Well, many years ago there was this swordsman that hailed from parts unknown. He had the strength to cut a cliff with just a casual swip of his blade, he was the strongest swordsman known to all.” Lord Twigo began, “One day he traveled to our lands, seeking for someone worthing to challenge him, he and Fujitora crossed blades and in the end, the blind swordsman could not match him. He decided to teach us everything he knew. The One Sword Style, Two Sword Style, and Three Sword Style. He had a bunch of swords in a bag that was as small as a purse, but his legendary sword was none other than the Dark Blade, Yoru.”
Kodo tensed at the mention of a dark blade. “I’m guessing Yoru was the most dangerous of the blades,” he noted.
Lord Twigo nodded. “You would be correct, Yoru was so powerful it could even leave a mountain tumbling with just a swipe of it. But beware, it is one of the Cursed Blades.” Lord Twigo said spookily.
Kodo nodded in understanding. “So… it has some sort of demon attached to it, right?” he asked. “O-Or it brings misfortune to those who wield it.”
“Both of your guesses are correct, Yoru comes at a cost, you will not be able to hold back against any foe, no matter the age, the height, or the gender. Let’s say you want to have a light sparring session with… A friend and you go for an attack, it would create a devastating slash that would make a trench deeper than the Mariana Trench.” Lord Twigo told the pup, probably knowing Kodo would not understand what the Mariana Trench is.
Indeed, Kodo was unable to hide his confusion. “So that’s… pretty deep, right?” he guessed.
“The Mariana Trench is 10,034 meters deep.” Lord Twigo put it in simpler terms, “Back to the swordsman, that kind of power even left Ryker surprised, so Ryker decided to use his blade… Enma the blade that can cut through Hell. Or Tartarus. In your case.” Lord Twigo then dug deep into his meal, using his chopsticks like it was natural to him.
Kodo shook his head at the power level. “Okay, but why would he want to cut through Tartarus?” he asked. “I mean, if it was to kill every demon that dwelled there, that’d be one thing. But if it didn’t kill them, and they got out…” Kodo shivered at the mere thought.
Lord Twigo let out a hearty laugh, “Kodo, my young boy, I’m not saying he would but rather it could cut through Tartarus. The blade is also a cursed one, it can steal someone’s Haki, if any normal swordsman touches them… Well they would turn into a husk.” Lord Twigo informed the pup.
Kodo nodded in understanding. “So, don’t touch the blade,” he summed up.
“If you are weak, however, you can overcome it if you have a strong will. Ryker and the Swordsman clashed. Their battle shook the Heavens and the depths of hell itself, but in the end the swordsman lost. It was his first battle he had ever lost, 12,745 wins and 1 loss.” Lord Twigo grinned just remembering the duel, Fujitora as well, Fujitora held up his empty bowl.
“Another round please!” Arthur took the bowl, smiling.
“Another round coming up!” Arthur then went off to his work. Kodo watched, his ears twitching in curiosity, but unsure of what to say.
“In the end, the swordsman had taught us and left for adventure, off to try and find more swordsmen like Ryker, which ends the tale of the swordsman that could hear the breath of all things.” Lord Twigo finished his tale, they then heard a smack. Fujitora went to his feet.
Kodo spun to watch, suppressing a grin as he remembered times where his parents had to break up fighting pack mates.
Douglass Bullet had his colossal hand around Entity’s neck, “Ya think you can stop Ryker now brat?” Bullet tossed Entity aside and covered his right fist in Armament Haki. “It’s been fun kid!” Right as Bullet was about to slam his fist down on Entity, it was stopped by Fujitora’s blade.
“That’s enough Bullet, don’t you see you have beaten him enough already?” Fujitora pushed Bullet back with a bit of Gravity. Bullet crossed his arms.
“Do you wanna fight, old man? Because you and I sure as hell know you can’t beat me.” Bullet grinned, trying to taunt Fujitora to engage in combat.
Kodo’s grin faded, and he nearly stood up, only for Twigo to wave him back, keeping him from taking a risk he shouldn’t.
“You know… I have worked on a technique that can destroy this planet as we know it. And more importantly, destroy you, so do you really want to take that risk, Bullet?” Fujitora used his Devil Fruit to levitate Entity, Fujitora pushed the Minecraft man towards the ramen shop.
“Oh? Then show me!” Bullet shot off at Fujitora like a rocket, Fujitora was caught by surprise and took a step back. Bullet cocked back a fist and was about to slam it into Fujitora… Only for a blade to block the blow. The wielder of that blade was Ganondorf.
“Okay, as much as I would like to see you two fight, that’s enough Bullet.” Ganondorf sheathed his blade Bullet just crossed his arms and turned around.
“Hmph, since you’re my best buddy, I can't hurt you.” Bullet then notices Kodo from the corner of his eye, “Oh? Who’s the dog? One of your friends Fujitora.” Kodo and Fujitora clenched their blades.
“If you lay a hand on him… I will drop a damn meteorite onto you.” Fujitora clenched his teeth, Bullet just scoffed.
“Try me!” Bullet shot off like a rocket once more to harm the young one, clenching his fist, covering it in Haki.
Kodo, however, was ready, and dodged into smoke, darting away and behind Bullet as he shot past him. Kodo reformed with his sword at the ready.
“I got no quarrel with you, sir,” Kodo said, his ears flat. “Just walk away.”
“Kahahaha! Oh really?” Bullet approached the pup popping his knuckles… And then being rendered unconscious by Katakuri via chopping his neck.
“I apologize, I think it’s time I escort him to his home. Again, I apologize.” Katakuri bows before turning into a donut shape and rolling off with Bullet in hand. Fujitora wiped the sweat off his forehead, while Kodo lowered his sword with a sigh.
“Are you okay?” Fujitora asked, his hands shaking from pure fear.
Kodo sheathed his blade, trying to still his trembling claws. “Well, he didn’t hit me, so… that’s good,” Kodo replied. He looked up at Fujitora with concern. “Are ‘you’ okay?”
“Uh… Physically yes, mentally no.” Fujitora sheathed his blade, Ganondorf just looked at the two and said nothing. Kodo spared the Gerudo a glance.
“Thank you,” he noted to Ganandorf. “For helping Fujitora.”
“You are welcome, however if it actually turned to a fight, me, Fujitora, and Twigo would lose. It was a miracle Katakuri was here to aid us and caught him off guard.” Ganondorf sighed in relief, sheathing his blade, Twigo just nodded, having a noodle moustache.
Kodo glanced at where Katakuri had taken Bullet. “Why did he want to fight so much?” Kodo pondered. “He’s already one of the most powerful people here, isn’t he?”
“Yeah but Katakuri is far more stronger, you know how I said his father made him a killing machine, born for war? I was not joking.” Lord Twigo reminded Kodo, “Not to mention he dreams of surpassing Katakuri. He has a Devil Fruit that allows him to make his ship into a giant mech, he can also make the mech turn into a giant rock golem. The size of a mountain, the strongest warrior he fought was someone named Cloven Diamond, and he killed that man. Punched a hole in his chest.”
Kodo swallowed. “So… not a good idea to provoke him?” he asked.
“Yes.” They all said at the same time, Entity got to his feet, leaning on his Netherite Scythe.
“Thanks for the… Help…” Entity squeaked before falling flat on his face.
“...I’ll just take him to the infirmary.” Lord Twigo picked up Entity and walked towards the arena, Ganondorf following him. It was now just Fujitora, Kodo, and Arthur there… With the addition of the locals.
“So…” Kodo broke the silence. “More ramen?”
“More ramen!”
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Eighth Floor! Team Displaced vs God of Pain, Herobrine!
Ryker kicked the being that the son of a bitch Luco brought into a portal, he was then drop kicked by Grievous. Sending him into rubble.
“HOLD ON!!!” Grievous cried out, another voice layered on top of his voice as an effect from Ultra Instinct. Grievous shot towards the portal, Ryker got up and smartly closed it off. Grievous then skids to a halt and glares at Ryker. “Where did you send her?!”
Ryker then dusted himself off and looked at Grievous, “Why I sent 'er to de meteorite, dahn't wahrry it 'as an atmahsphere and ahxygen fahr dat matter. And when I kill you and yooehr friends, I'll make de 'owlite 'owlers meet oehp again. It'll be a whahle family reunion!” Ryker declared, throwing his hands wide in the air. Grievous clenched his extra fists.
“And what makes you think I’ll go down that easily?” Grievous asked, Ryker then stopped throwing his hands in the air. But before the Irish King could get a word out he was gut punched by Grievous.
“GRGH!” Ryker clenched his teeth, he didn’t expect this amount of force to come from the Cyborg Samurai. Ryker was then launched but caught himself as he dug his fingers across the dirt, making trenches in it. “Tch, I dahn't know what din you 'ave wit Shiva ahr 'er family boeht you better lay down and die befahre you get 'oehrt.”
Grievous clenched his fists, “During the fight with Rubilax me and Kodo were one, he is the first one that isn’t a part of The Boys that I treat like a brother. No… Like a son and I know he has his father back but as long as I live, breath, and stand I will get her back. I will give Kodo a life worth living!” Grievous roared, his aura then burst and he shot his way towards Ryker. Ryker growled and flew towards Grievous.
“Dahn't wahrry Grievooehs, I'll make sure you 'ave a sahn, IN ANAHTHER LIFE!!!!” Ryker then attempts to punch Grievous in his jaw, but the man simply evades the attack. Grievous went for a knee strike to Ryker’s thorax but with Future Sight Observation Haki, Ryker predicted this and decked Grievous in his forehead. Grievous placed one of his mighty claws onto the ground to stop himself from getting launched.
“Perish!” Grievous cried, sending a fist Ryker’s way. Only for the Irish King to counter with his own punch, fists collide and send the dust around him flying.
“HRAH!!!” They both roared, sending a flurry of punches towards each other. Though Grievous had four arms his punches were countered by Ryker, each punch was met with another.
“Scream fahr me!” Ryker said with a psychotic grin, his shark like teeth having a shining red glow to them as he landed an uppercut on Grievous. Though the Cyborg kept his ground and didn’t budge, letting out a battle cry of wrath Grievous began to punch at Ryker faster.
“Never!” Grievous responded, Ryker was wide eyed at the sheer willpower of Grievous and his will to protect his friends. Ryker then growled once more out of anger, sending a fist into Grievous’ chest. Grievous was knocked back slightly but got his head back into the game, digging his claw into the earth to stop himself from getting flung like trash. Grievous then shot at Ryker again, throwing more punches at increasing intensity, he was doing it! He was actually pushing Ryker back!
Each punch sent Ryker’s way was blocked and dodged but those that didn’t landed a devastating blow upon Ryker. Soon all of the punches were being landed on Ryker as he was unable to counter attack any more. Grievous was going too fast for his Future Sight to react. Grievous then lands a solid uppercut on Ryker, sending him to the clouds.
“Damn you, to dink dat i 'ave to use soehch a fahrm ahn sahme boehcket 'ead!” Ryker then charged up, a light purple aura surrounding him as the surrounding area was heating up rapidly. He had a glowing light purple effect on his skin. “Sahlar Ahverload!” Ryker named his form, he then shot down at Grievous. Letting out a battle cry, Grievous lets out a battle cry as he waits for the Irish King.
“AAAAA!!!!” Ryker screamed.
“AAAAA!!!!” Grievous screamed back.
“AAAAA!!!!” Ryker continued to scream.
“AAAAA!!!!” Grievous continued to scream as well.
“AAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!” They both screamed as Ryker was still closing in on Grievous.
Their fists then clash, the two forces shook the planet as they continued to scream. They then stop and get some water to clear their throats. Ryker cleared his throat and as did Grievous, somehow. They then continued to scream and their power struggle. Ryker then stopped.
“Eh, dey're naht combing anytime soon, wanna watch de whahle series o' Wander Over Yahnder?” Ryker said, crossing his arms as he dropped out of his form.
Immediately, Blazy appeared, popcorn and soda in talons and a wide grin on her face. She was nodding so fast, her face blurred.
“BUT BLAZY…!” Luco whined, popping out from a portal, only for Blazy to smack him right back to wherever he came.
“They are taking too long… Yeah, I haven’t seen the show.” Grievous said with a shrug, still in Ultra Instinct.
“Me neither, boeht frahm what I 'eard, Sylvia is de best girl in dis show.” Ryker then used his Chaos Magic to bring forth a couch and a TV, accompanied with a remote. Getting some popcorn he sat down, Grievous did the same, while Blazy lounged over the seat of the couch, already happily humming the theme song with a bounce in her tail. Ryker then turns on the TV and the show starts playing.
As they walked up the stairs Thanos glanced at Kodo, who was still giving the way they had come a nervous side-eye.
“...Did you know Grievous had a pet Titanoboa?” Thanos said, quirking an eyebrow.
Kodo paused, looking up at the titan. “A pet… titanoboa?” he asked.
“A giant snake, like the Manticore eating kind.” Thanos responded to the Pup, “It was adorable too!” Thanos then snapped his fingers and a TV screen appeared. It shows Grievous with a tiny pet snake around his finger. “She was this big when he found her in the Everfree.”
Kodo tilted his head at the pet snake. “But she grew, right?” he asked.
“Yup!” The screen then flickered to the snake wrapped around Grievous, the snake was adorable even as an adult. “Her name… Was Rose, because she ate roses, like a lot.”
Kodo chuckled. “Sounds like she was a keeper.”
“Yeah, Grievous was a guy who did a lot of stupid things. One time he tried to kill a dragon just by throwing spicy peppers in its mouth, it worked but it took three days to take it down. And boy did he feel proud.” The screen then shows Grievous standing triumphantly above a dragon whose tongue was burnt to a crisp. “Don’t know how though…”
“How’d he do it?” Kodo mumbled. “I’ll say; Mom never even let us ‘consider’ fighting dragons. Seeing one like that, its’...” he shook his head. “It’s kinda surreal.”
“You ain’t seen nothing yet, he was a badass, and still is! The things he killed…” It shows Grievous defeating an Ursa Major, Cragadile, Manticore, a giant Timberwolf, a Kraken, a Hydra, and a giant dragon that made Torch seem like a baby. “He’s a professional killer, you were lucky to have him guide you during the fight with Rubilax.”
Kodo nodded. “Absolutely,” he agreed.
“Pfft… Wanna see Grievous do some stupid things?” Thanos said, trying to hide a grin.
Kodo glanced towards his parents, who were still busy with Eric, before leaning in close. “Yes,” he whispered with a grin of his own.
The screen then flashes to Grievous, Eden, Lucci, Luffy, and some others.
“I’m done with all of you, we’ll strike at midnight, I’ll get some wood.” A Woman with red hair then leaves.
“I’m going to follow her, who knows what’s out here.” Entity then runs after the corpse, the screen focuses on Grievous.
“Alright, thumbs up let’s do this! LEEEEROOOOOYYYYYY JEEEEENKINSSSSSS!!!!!!” Grievous then jumps off the cliff that was next to them and runs towards a prison. Everyone paused, none of them said a word.
“D-Did he just…?” The guy with a mask said, raising a finger and watching Grievous run.
“SAVE HIM!!!” Lucci cried out.
The clip ends and Entity and Kodo busted out laughing.
“IT NEVER GETS OLD!!!” Entity laughed, “Grievous always does this, sometimes to prove a point, other times just to piss people off.”
“...I feel so old even remembering that old meme..” Link said with a groan of disbelief.
“He reminds me of when I was younger,” Kodo admitted. “Tirek was attacking the Empire, and you know what my first instinct was?”
“Rip and tear until it is done?” Thanos said, raising an eyebrow.
“Rip and tear until it is done,” Kodo replied with a grin.
Shiva busted out laughing , barely keeping herself from dropping Eric as she clutched at her ribs. Kodo and the others glanced at her hysterical laughter in shock.
“IT WAS!” Kodo insisted.
Shiva just laughed harder, collapsing to the ground.
“Kodo, stop, she’s gonna break her ribs,” Luke insisted, holding back his own chuckle as he supported his wife.
“Grievous would be proud of you,” Thanos said, wiping a proud tear from his eyes.
“There was once a time when Grievous ran away from an army.” Lucci pointed out, Thanos then snaps his fingers. Making Elae turn into dust.
“I remember that! Wanna see it?” Thanos asked with a grin, snapping again and Elae formed together once more.
Link decides to be quiet for now as everyone else has their own flashback moments since obviously, Link has no memories of spending time with the quadra-lightsaber-wielding cyborg.
Thanos and Lucci held hands like brothers, in the background was Grievous running towards them with an army of Minotaurs behind him,
“START THE BOAT!!! START IT NOW!!!” Thanos looks outside and sees Grievous running away from a total of five hundred Minotaurs. Thanos and Lucci scramble to their stations, Grievous jumps onto the ship. Lucci then powers the boat, makes them boost and uses Geppo to push them far.
“Goodbye suckers! HAHAHAHAHA!!!” Grievous said before slapping his knee, he then clutched his knee and cried out in pain.
The clips ended, Thanos then did the okay sign.
“He’s also a good singer!” Entity said, from the background.
“Makes sense,” Kodo replied. “He’s good with music, Von Shadow’s good with music…” he chuckled. “Mom wanted me and Celine to be good at music too.”
Shiva pat Eric’s side. “Never to an extreme,” she assured him. “I promise you that.”
It's a long, long, long, way to Baltimare.
But when we get there we're gonna go and get some wares.
We're gonna rescue our friend
From an eternal prison that angers us to no end
This will a be very exciting adventure
But when we enter
We will remember
What our friend done to us
When we all unite
We will stand and fight
We'll stand up side by side
Nothing will beat us, not even the tides
They are not gonna be the winning side
The evil that we will vanquish will free Equestria
From the imbalance that will engulf the world
This will be a fun
Mysterious
Epic
Adventure!
“Peak music.” Thanos said, before there was a clip of Grievous being in pain. Getting hit by Celestia, hit by Kaido, getting wrecked by Eric, etc.
“...Why are these stairs so damn long?!” Lucci cried out, looking at the stairs. Lord Twigo then stopped.
At that moment, everyone could hear the little song heard from Super Mario 64 of running up the endless stairs. The music instantly halts as the group reaches the top.
“Halt.” Lord Twigo ordered, causing everyone to stop. “We were always there,” Lord Twigo turned to his left and there was a whole entire floor. It was the End Dimension and on top of a pedestal stood Herobrine.
Shiva’s ears perked, and she jumped in front of the others. “Wait,” she said. “I made a promise to Issho. Let me talk to him first.” Cautiously, she approached the pedestal.
“Hello, and welcome to the end of the line.” Herobrine greeted, “You guys might as well off yourselves because there’s no chance you can beat us.”
“We don’t want to hurt you, Herobrine,” Shiva insisted. “I promised Issho you wouldn’t be harmed; just let us pass and let me keep that promise.”
“Be quiet, I will not let you harm my father! He’s the only one, he’s my savior! Also, Issho is an idiot.” Herobrine spat before eating a Gapple.
Link facepalmed, and realized that each floor master they defeated had the same exact reasons for defending Ryker as if he was Jesus Christ.
Shiva chuckled. “Herobrine, be reasonable,” she said. “Do you really think we can actually hurt Ryker? Do you honestly believe we’re going to win by beating him up?”
“No, you be reasonable.” Herobrine points at Shiva, “You don’t know your own potential. None of you do, Shiva, you could kill EVERYONE here and you and your family could run off scot free.”
“He’s got a point you know” Eric said to the Diamond Dog
“And I don’t do that because I’m not a psychopath,” Shiva insisted. Herobrine didn’t respond to that.
“Though… tell us,” Luke asked. “Why are you called the God of Pain?”
Herobrine teleported in front of Luke and stared into his eyes. ”Look at me in the eyes,” Luke did as the young man said and the Diamond Dog fell into a white void.
“LUKE!” Shiva screamed.
“DAD!” Kodo howled.
He then hit the floor with a thump, getting to his paws he looked around, he saw nothing but… Nothing.
“So, Luke, you want to know why I’m called the God of Pain?” Herobrine asked, his voice coming from everywhere.
“Not anymore!” Luke shrieked. “NOT ANYMORE! I JUST GOT REVIVED!”
“Imagine being in this world for… A few years though no time has passed, tell us Luke, do you fear death?” The whiteness then turns red and what he’s standing on black.
“YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!”
“Luke.” He was surrounded by the thousands of vessels of Herobrine, they weren’t facing him, “Coward, failure, weakling.” The Vessels chanted as they turned their heads to Luke. All of their eyes on him as they beat him down words.
“Stop! Please!” Luke begged.
“Luke!” Shiva’s voice cut through the noise. “LUKE!”
Luke then blinks and finds himself back next to Shiva. The diamond dog’s fur had gone pale and he trembled in Shiva’s grip.
“The Penance Stare,” Eric said, finding the action similar from the move used by the Demon Bounty Hunter. “But not the same.”
“Imagine… That for decades! TEN YEARS I stood trapped in the void, TEN YEARS time didn’t pass, Ryker, my father worried for me. And guess what happened to the guy who did that to me?” Suddenly something dropped from the ceiling behind Herobrine, it was an Elia trope who looked like the human version of Luke. He was being played around like a marionette doll, strings attached to him, when they looked up they saw a giant Herobrine controlling him.
“You’re all in my game now, so prepare to run or die, your choice. Hehehehehe HEHEHEHEHEHE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!” The Giant Herobrine was then shrunk to normal size and he teleported on top of the End Ship. Immediately, multiple Netherite armored up Zombies armed with Netherite Swords, with Wither Skeletons, Water Zombies, Skeletons having the same thing. There were some Wither bosses here and there, the Nether Dragon chilling somewhere, some mutant mobs. And some giant Zombies.
“...We seriously need to help that kid out.” Entity said with a shake of his head, he then dodged an arrow.
“Meet my four underlings, Mr. Black,” A Wither Skeleton popped up, duel wielding two Netherite Swords. “Blade.” A Piglin Brute showed up with a sword. “Arrow.” A Skeleton appeared with crossbows for hands, “And my strongest… Uh… NoobMaster69.” A Water Zombie appeared with two tridents. Both were enchanted. Ehhhhh[Points fingerguns at this guy
“Why does it feel like we're in a minecraft animation song? I can’t be the only one… right?” Black asked as he got in a stance similar to Future Gohan. Luna Black summoned a dark blue sword with a crescent moon on it.
“...You’re joking, right?” Link asked in amusement of all the undead all around them.
“Oh, he is not joking, Link,” Shiva whispered. “As much as I wish he was… he is not.”
“We have an army against us, and you’re laughing.” Thanos frowned at Link.
“I mean, it's undead and skeletons…” Link said, the zombies were holding a line and the archers were in the back. They were soldiers.
Just as he said that, a giant Dragon shot pure magma at the Hylian. “Undead is not the only thing I have in my pockets,” Herobrine cackled as Fire Godzilla appeared with an Oozaru, “WHAT ARE ANTS TO A DINOSAUR?!?!? AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!”
“And what are dinosaurs to a god?” Black asked.
“What are the Dead to the Darkness” Eric said pouring shadow from his body as he cast numbing spell on himself
“What’s a god and darkness to the lord and savior Jesus Christ?” Thanos said with a grin.
“Aren't they technically the same guy?” Black asked with a raised brow.
“Fuck you.” That was the only thing Thanos could respond with.
“Screw you!” Black said as his aura appeared, with a tinge of black and purple in it.
“Displaced!” Thanos cried out, moving to the front, “Assemble!” Thanos got out his blade and ran to the front lines, Entity followed after with his scythe ready. Lucci just looked around before following Thanos, meanwhile, Elia just scooted herself to the back. Black and Luna Black charged forward together at their own section of the massive army, ki blade and sword in hand as their silhouette’s disappeared, a large pile of bodies and bones flying in the air. Sombra had all three swords drawn and began to charge as he covered the area in the invisible dome of his Devil Fruit, while Eric formed a pair of massive claws over his hands as he advanced with his Brother in Arms. Shiva admittedly scooted to the back as well, but sent her pack links out, powering up the others while Luke and Kodo jumped to the front, their fur glowing as Shiva powered them up. Link stacked in the back as he took out his Hero’s Bow. The tip of the arrow tip on a gentle glow of light.
“Rain arrows down upon them!” Arrow ordered the mutant skeletons, and the skeletons began to rain fire arrows down upon our heroes. Thanos just spun his Infinity Blade, knocking the arrows back. Luke fired aura spheres at the skeletons, providing cover fire as Link fired into the air, allowing a rain of holy arrows to come down onto the skeletons from above using the move known as Shining Shot.
“I’m going after Herobrine, stay back!” Entity said before chucking an Ender Pearl to the End ship, he then vanished.
“Go ahead Entity” Eric said slashing Skeletons left and right before summoning Ten tendril on his lower back and smashing them into the ones behind him like a series of tails
“Suit yourself, this portion is ours!” Black said with a grin as he dodge a sword, countering with a gut punch that went through a zombie. Luna Black nodded as she sliced through a skeleton.
“Get back foul monsters!” Luna Black shouted as she sent a magical blast through a group of skeletons.
“Got it!” Lucci said, before spinning around, “Diable Jambe, Kicks Combo!” Lucci then began to kick at the Zombies, making them fly away. He was then targeted by Blade. Blade shot his way towards Lucci, raising his foot high, Blade’s sword was met with a kick. Blowing the zombies away.
“COME ON YOU BILGE RATS!!!” Thanos cried out, Fire Godzilla roared and spewed flames down upon Thanos. “Magma Dragon’s ROAR!!!” Thanos shot magma from his mouth to counter the beast's hellish flames. Meanwhile the Ender Dragon flew towards Kodo.
“Yo Magma breath” Eric called out with a slight grin. “It’s “I’ve been meaning to ask” Eric Jumped back, forming a black bow in his hands. “Shadow Hailstorm”
Eric fired an black arrow into the sky, Immediately the arrow split apart and launched themselves at the skeleton army. “When did you acquire Dragon Slayer Magic?”
“I met a dragon and he taught me some shit,” Thanos said dodging an attack from Fire Godziilla.
“Yeah...I don’t buy that” Eric said blasting a wave of Shadow at the army
“Well that’s the best your gonna get, fuck face.” Thanos snapped, uppercutting Fire Godzilla, using Kamisori to appear back down.
“It was Edward, Wasn’t it?” Eric asked backing into The Titan’s back
“WHO ELSE DO YOU THINK YOU FUCKING IDIOT?!?!?!?!” Thanos roared, magma spewing out of his mouth. Dodging out of the way of a stomp from Fire Godzilla.
“Glad I wasn’t the only one who got something from him” Eric said
“HA!” Eric said, picking himself and dusting the bone and marrow off. “Never change,” Eric said to the Titan.
A group of zombies appeared around them, however before any of them could do a thing all there heads were severed from their bodies
“If you two are done, need I remind you we have and army around us” Sombra growled swing the blood from his blades
“Well, you two, stay out of my way and I won’t level this whole floor into oblivion.” Thanos said frowning, he then shot towards Fire Godzilla. Right as he left, the Mutant Skeletons shot Eric and made him a porcupine.
“Eric!” Sombra said, slashing the next volley of arrows. “Dammit,” Sombra glanced at Eric who was Desperately trying to remove the arrow. “Haki fueled arrows” Eric fell to his knees cough up a large amount of blood, It was then that Sombra’s gaze caught sight of a green earring dangling from Eric’s left ear
Taking the jewelry from the Shadow Man’s ear Sombra held it gingerly, “Maud said this brought Black out of his slumber.” Sombra stabbed his swords into the ground before attaching the Earring to his left ear. “Please Faust let this work”
Without warning Eric and Sombra are drawn towards each other, a smokescreen of shadow covers the area hiding the two from their attackers
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A dark figure slowly rose from the darkness, His fur was pitch black, while his endless ragged mane and tail were made from pure shadow, His attire consisted of a black overcoat that hung over his shoulders, a blood red shirt that held the Crystal Empire emblem, on his lower body he wore dark red pants and black boots which had specks of blood littered across them, attached to his hip were three sword sheaths slung over his back were an additional four swords, One gold, one black, one silver, and one katana. His expression held a mix of both anger and tranquility. His mouth curved into a grin which showed his fanged teeth, on his head was a long black horn which flowed a mix of grey and dark purple magic. His eyes had a combined color of Blue, Green, and Red while his Scalia retained his black color.
“So this is Fusion?” The Fusion said clenching his fists as he looked over his body
“And of course, he's edgier than before. Edge so sharp it could cut that meteor everyone told me about.” Thanos grumbled before kicking Fire Godzilla in the head rapidly.
“This is Strange and yet familiar like I’m still Sombra or Eric” the Fusion said as another volley of Arrows fired at the Fusion. “Cease your Senseless attacks!” The fusion said pointing his hand at the arrows, a black glow covered the arrows before they were cut to pieces and floated aimlessly in a grey dome
The army of skeletons just stood there, “Okay we value our lives so…” They all turned around and left to fight someone else. Meanwhile Mr. Black just stood there, looking down at Soric.
“The edgy people get edgier, of course. Why has there always been an edgy person?” Mr. Black complained, before rolling backwards, concealing himself.
And thus Oozarus came into view, stomping on the ground like giants, which they are. They screamed like mighty apes, which they are. And prepared for an attack, getting in a stance like warriors. Which they are- Okay I’m going to stop.
“You really want to tempt Fate you damn Dirty Apes?” The Fusion said in a deep commandign voice which layered Eric’s and Sombra’s, using the power of his Shadow Room The Fusion called forth his swords. “Just know you face Soric Von Shadow, the Seven Shadow Swordsman.”
Lucci snapped his head towards Soric and growled like a Leopard. “Never say that insult again, ever.” Lucci then kicks a hole through a Zombie.
Soric grabs two of the swords in his hands as his caot falls to the ground showing his shadow hair moving and shifting, His mane forms a hand which grabs Sombra’s Crystal Heart, the sword of his family, his hair turned to four separate arms and drew, Obsidian Blood, The Infinity Broadsword, Incursio, and Murasame.
“Seven Sword Style…” Soric said before jumping into the air before spinning at high speeds. “Shadow Dragon Slicer”
The Oozaru in front of Soric was chopped and diced to pieces however the Giant Ape was still living and breathing, with a toothy grin Soric looked towards the Oozarus. “Any more of you filthy apes want to share the same fate?”
“SAY THAT ONE MORE FUCKING TIME!!!!!” Lucci roared, his aura sending nearby mobs to oblivion. He was marching up to Soric but was held back by Elia, who dragged him away.
“Kill him when he’s not our ally!” Elia grunted out.
“It’s what they are,” Soric argued to the Cat man. “And besides you’re a Cat man not a monkey”
“Do you know what they used to call us? Dirty apes, negros, and monkeys so if you want to square up, I won’t hesitate to ask Thanos to fuse with me. AND FOLD YOU LIKE SOME LAUNDRY!!!!!” Lucci snarled, baring his teeth at Soric.
While Soric was distracted by Lucci, the Oozaru on Soric’s left went to stomp on the fusion. However with the combined level of Eric and Sombra’s Observation Haki they saw it coming before they even moved. Without a moment of hesitation Soric swung all seven swords
“Severing Shadow!” Soric shouted, cutting the apes leg off at the knees. “Next your friend is going to fire a beam at my blindspot”
As he predicted the other Oozaru fired a Ki Beam from its mouth directed at Soric’s back, Soric just smiled as his shadow hair grew in size and absorbed the blast.
“A good sound Strategy” Prainsed the Fusion before a purple mist came from his horn creating another Soric armed with all seven of his swords
“You handle the other one I got the legless one” Soric ordered as his clone went after the other Oozaru. The legless one roared like the savage beast that it was and fired off a Ki wave from its mouth.
Not having Time to dodge Eric switched places with the other Oozaru which had seven slashes across its face, Soric also saw his clone wasn’t looking too hot.
“Having Trouble?” Soric asked watching as the Ki beam struck the Oozaru instead of him
“Don’t worry I can do this all day” The Fusions clone said before charging the Oozaru
“I can do this all day.” Captain America said, standing in the middle of an army before vanishing from sight.
“Chaos magic~” Ryker sang from the intercom.
“That guy is getting on my -Our? Fuck it, my - nerves” Soric said
“That’s kinda gay Eric,” Ryker said with a snicker.
“He has a point!” Thanos called out from the background, “That’s mad sus.”
“Asshole,” Soric said to himself before grinning. “But I wouldn’t trade a Friend like him for any other”
“OOOHHHHH!!!!” Zarbon moaned loudly in the background.
“Seven Sword Style...Seven Thousand Shadow” Soric said as the Oozaru was split into long thin pieces. “Alright two down...Hey how are you….” the Fusion began before his clone was sent past him crashing into the ground
“Care to explain?” Soric said sheathing the swords in his hands before crossing his arms
“I don’t think it’s wise to use Umbra’s Cloning spell when fused together. I feel much weaker than I should” Soric’s clone said as it turned into black vapor and returned to Soric’s horn
“Good to know in the Future” Soric said to himself as he turned to the last Oozaru. “Alright Fat, Hairy, and Filthy, how do you want to do this. Tuck your non-existent tail between your legs and flee. Or you can fight and end up like your comrades”
“Live or Die, Make your choice”
Like true survivors the Saiyans put two index fingers and left. Vanishing from sight.
“You chose to live,” Soric said Sheathing the remaining five swords. “A wise choice on your part”
“I hope you get destroyed by Ryker!” Someone called out in the background. “Arrogant prick,”
“It’s not arrogance.” Soric said, turning to the voice. “And if you wish to fight me you’ll have to do it in Fifty-Three minutes”
“Give me some prep time and I’ll turn you into a bloodstain on a wall!” The being shouted out.
“Sorry but I’m not Vegeta,” Soric said as the shadows from his hair turned to bladed tendrils. “You either fight now or flee, Your Apes were smart and chose the former”
“Well, I have things to do so go fight the army while I exist.” The being said with a snark.
Soric went to ignore the voice and went to fight the army of Minecraft.
Kodo fell to all fours with a snarl, and let loose with a blast of ki from his mouth, empowered by the links from both his mother and his fellow displaced. The Ender Dragon opened its mouth and shot a purple fire from his mouth down upon Kodo. Their blasts collided in a brilliant burst of light… before Kodo’s ki suddenly switched into the tendrils of a pack link. The fire coursed down his gullet, as smoke burst from his body, and he began to increase in size once more, the ender dragon’s fire only fueling his growth. By the time the ender dragon passed overhead, Kodo was large enough to catch the dragon by its tail and fling it to the ground with a protective growl.
The Ender Dragon scrambled to it’s claws, letting out a roar, suddenly Endermen appeared around Kodo. They then just stand there, doing nothing.
“DON’T LOOK IN THE EYES!” Shiva barked, catching Kodo’s attention. “Entity’s mind remembers them; they only get aggressive if you look them in the eyes!”
Nodding, Kodo shut his eyes, and averted his gaze from the Enderman. Using his ears, nose and even Observation Haki, he stalked past the Endermen and began to track the Ender Dragon without sight.
“Of all the dragons we had to fight, why does it have to be this one?” Link asked with a frown, remembering years ago how the Ender Dragon is kind of the last of her kind other than her eggs.
Kodo then hears a hissing sound, followed by scents he didn’t recognize. Cracking his eyes open by a fraction, he finds himself surrounded by Creepers, he then spots the Ender Dragon snickering.
“Creeper,” someone whispered. “Awww man…”
“Mom?” Kodo asked. “What’s a Creeper?”
Before Shiva could reply...
Boom. They all then explode, levelling the pup up like he was a video game character. Sending the pup into the air, then the Ender Dragon swooped to get to Kodo and knocked him high into the air. Making his head hit the ceiling.
Unfortunately, Kodo was already turning into smoke, and blasted away into fog the second his head hit the ceiling. His smoking tendrils arced around the ender dragon, and he reformed, blasting a breath of ki right into the ender dragons’ chest and sending it into the ceiling instead before flipping and landing on the ground.
Letting out a cry of pain, the Ender Dragon glared down at Kodo. Puffing smoke from it’s nostrils, though there was a certain Mutant Zombie next to Kodo. Like Hulk to Thor, he just punched Kodo with Armament Haki sending the boy into an obsidian pillar. He then spots Lucci fighting off some Zombies.
Kodo snarled as he hit the obsidian pillar. Blasting another burst of Ki at the mutant zombie, Kodo returned his attention to the Ender Dragon. With a mighty leap aided by his smoke-smoke fruit, Kodo knocked the ender dragon off course, his jaws locking around her neck.
“...Help her!” Mr. Black cried out from the bottom and immediately a Hulk sized Mutant Zombie jumped and tried to crash into Kodo, only for Shiva to snag the monster with a pack link and yank him back down.
“God fucking damn it!” Blade cried out before getting suckerpunched by Lucci.
A song filled the air, and before anyone could find the source, Link was flying up and toward the Ender Dragon with angelic golden wings thanks to the Song Of Soar. “I’m sorry for this!” Link said as he swung the Megaton hammer into the Ender Dragon’s neck in an attempt to force her to drop Kodo. Despite the powerful smack, the Ender Dragon still flew.
The Ender Dragon then flees to the obsidian towers, Kodo still hanging on as he wrenched and tore at her neck. However, his damage wasn’t lasting for long, as the End Crystals healed her. As her wounds were healed, the Ender Dragon then spun around rapidly before flinging Kodo off towards Thanos. Who was currently fighting Fire Godzilla. Tucking into a cannonball, Kodo ricocheted off the Fire Godzilla’s head before landing next to Thanos, following up with another Ki Blast at the Fire Godzilla.
“Oh, hi Kodo.” Thanos greeted before Fire Godzilla tried to slap him with his tail, though Thanos caught the King’s tail. “Need a little help there buddy?”
“You seem busy already,” Kodo replied. “I can handle her if you need.”
“Nah, don’t worry, I have enough time. YEET!!!” Thanos then flings Fire Godzilla towards the Ender Dragon, somehow it hits and they hit the ground. “Strong like a bull.”
“Nice,” Kodo praised.
Link nose dived out of the way before Fire Godzilla was yeet’d like Bowser being thrown by Mario.
“So Long Gay Bowser.”
“Dude what is it with you and all the gay comments” Soric said strangling a group of Zombies before popping their heads off. “Are you some kind of Homophobe?”
“Nope, it was just in the game of Mario.” Thanos explained blankly.
“Looks like we’re going in the same direction, last one there is a rotten egg!” Using his steam, Thanos propelled himself towards the beasts, while Kodo gave chase with his smoke-smoke.
Though they both arrived at the same time, Thanos then grumbled. “Oh come on… Well, let’s get to… Wo...rk…” Fire Godzilla stood up and towered over Thanos. The deity then charged up a blast. “You handle-” Thanos turned to his left, where Kodo was, and saw him get once again carried off by the Ender Dragon, his teeth in her chest. “...Her.”
“On it!” Kodo called, his voice muffled as he ripped off the scales and dug into the flesh underneath.
“Oh for the love of Hylia..” Link said as he grabbed hold of his Howling Stone, quickly changing forms. The Song Of Soaring will remain in effect as he flies after the Ender Dragon. To Everyone, all they could hear from Link were a bunch of barks and growls, but to the ender dragon and the diamond dogs, they would be words to their language.
”Land… NOW!” Wolf Link demanded.
“You speak the tongue of the ancient Dragons?” The Ender Dragon inquired, still in the skies.
“I speak the language for all creatures who don’t speak the human tongue, Ender. I don’t want to kill you, land and I will try to get the others to cease their attack.” Wolf Link said.
“... I spent thousands of years fighting off dangerous creatures who want to take my egg, I will not listen to you!” Ender roared.
Shiva glanced up and grinned. “Luke!” she barked through the link. “Dogpile!”
Luke followed her gaze, and grinned. Clutching his link, he held on tight as Shiva yanked the link and threw him up to the Ender Dragon. Luke managed to land on the Ender Dragon’s back, and held on tight as she flew by. He wrapped a pack link around her neck, allowing Shiva to access her thoughts.
“Kodo, let her go!” Shiva barked, causing the giant wolf to drop, while Shiva focused on the ender dragon. “I understand your fear. Believe me, as a mother, I understand wanting to protect your child. But we are no threat to your egg. We are just trying to get back to our child. Our egg.”
Ender then paused, thinking about it. But during that time...
“Oh come on! Vessel 69!” Herobrine called out, suddenly a white eyed female appeared on the Dragons back. Luke spun, blasting at her with a force palm, though she managed to dodge.
“Yeet!” Vessel 69 then gets a knock back five shovel… And hits Luke off.
Growling, Luke adapted by yanking on his pack link, which had luckily wound around the dragon’s back. Luke and Shiva gave a massive tug, and the link solidified into a rope, pulling the dragon down and nearly sending her into a front flip, while also allowing Luke to land safely on the ground.
“Weee!” Thanos cried out, whizzing past Luke as he hit an obsidian pillar. “I’m okay!”
“Hylia damn it, That’s what I’m trying to prevent. My friends are only attacking as they see you as a threat!” Wolf Link as his voice got a little louder, trying to channel the alpha in him.
“...I… Fine,” Ender then slowly flutters her way to the ground. Herobrine growled.
“Alright, traitor, then RELEASE-” Herobrine was cut off as Lord Twigo came into view appearing before the Ender Dragon.
“Come at me you undead scallywags! I shall protect the queen of the End, for I am Lord Twigo. The Holy Knight!” Lord Twigo said epically, “I have this.”
Wolf Link landed, staring up at Lord Twigo of the unexpected decision of being the Ender’s knight. Wolf Link was going to say thank you, but he held back knowing it’d just be a bunch of barks and growls. Luckily for him, Shiva had the pack link.
“Awesome Wolf Link, thanks you,” Shiva translated to Lord Twigo.
“Go on and help the others, it looks like Lucci might need some help.” Lord Twigo said, as Lucci completely shreds the enemy lines like a guitar. Lucci then turns into his Leopard Hybrid form and completely curbstomps the. “I stand corrected.”
“HWATA!!!!” Thanos cried out, clashing fists with Fire Godzilla, though Thanos was outpowered and was flung to the ground. Fire Godzilla then slams his foot down upon Thanos, which Thanos catches. With a growl Thanos pushes Fire Godzilla off of him.
“Come on!” Thanos then jumps to Fire Godzilla’s face, and gets slashed by Fire Godzilla, a burn mark appearing on his chest. “Impossible!” Thanos exclaimed, before Fire Godzilla bit Thanos’ leg and began to fling him like a dog toy. Thanos was flung to the ground.
“Tch, this may be harder than I thought, Steam Man time!” Thanos then turns into Steam Man, his purple skin turning into a light purple as steam comes off of him. Thanos then flies at Fire Godzilla, clashing his fist with the Zilla.
“Thanos, catch!” Link yelled in his normal form at he throws his Ice Rod like a spear toward Thanos, its flight going far thanks to the Golden Gauntlets.
“Have a wolf too, while you’re at it!” Shiva declared, flinging Kodo to him as well.
Thanos catches them both and flung them at Fire Godzilla, “KODO AND BLUE THINGY DON’T LET ME DOWN!”
“ON IT!” Kodo roared. The tip of the rod, its gem slowly forms a frozen spear, allowing Kodo to pierce Fire Godzilla with the rod. In seconds, it was then encased with ice. Thanos then gives Kodo a thumbs up.
“You did it, my strange nephew!” Thanos said, waving at Kodo.
“Did I?” Kodo asked. “I really hope I did, because this feels like another fake out, where either the Fire Godzilla pulls something out of its tail, or someone gives it an upgrade, or…”
Behind him, the ice melted off and there was a deep growl. “Grr…”
“Well, it’s called the Fire Godzilla for a reason.” Thanos said with a shrug.
“Really? A Fire Godzilla, who in there right mind thought of that” Soric said as his shadow hair swayed in the air
“Eric Von Shadow? Who in their right mind thought of an ORIGINAL last name like that.” Herobrine called out from the air ship.
“Well considering his past it was better than keeping the last name Monohan” Soric argued to the Minecraftian
“Then don’t judge, jerk.” Herobrine called back out before evading an attack from Entity.
“I ain’t judging nothing, but Godzilla has atomic breath.”
“You just judged him, by saying, ‘Who in their right mind thought of that?’ So…” Herobrine then stuck back at Entity_303.
“I think I have an Idea how to get past him” Soric whispered to his friends as he raised his hands at the kid
“Stop Eric, you’re arguing with a child, and I don’t NEED your help nor do I want it.” Thanos growled at Soric.
Dark Magic began to cover Soric as his eyes showed the purple wisps. “Within this virgin of Dark cold ore who shall swallow even your screams with her embrace, suffer in anguish as your entire body is stabbed and Skewered,'' Soric chanted as dark chains and hooks wrap around Herobrine. “I Call upon the Iron Maiden!”
From the heavens comes an iron prison matching Herobrine shape as it opened up revealing thousands of serrated spikes, Herobrine was pulled in and the Iron Maiden closed.
“...You are a demon, you just harmed a traumatized and broken child.” Thanos frowned, glaring at Soric.
“Even if it kills him I can bring him back with my magic” Soric said before raising his guard. “But it didn’t kill him”
“Even still, are you crazy?! No wonder why-” Thanos then shuts up, turning away from Soric and continuing his battle.
Suddenly Herobrine reformed out of the Iron Prism, “You all forget, this isn’t my true form, if I revealed it this dimension would shatter due to my… Presence.” Herobrine said, his voice echoing like usual.
“Probably should have used Blood Sacrifice First”
“As I was saying, he’s called Fire Godzilla for a reason,” Thanos repeated, turning away from Soric.
Kodo sighed. “E-Yep,” he mumbled with a sigh, before whirling back on the creature with a howl of rage. He spun the ice rod and lunged. “COME AT ME, YOU JALAPENO CHUGGING LIZARD!”
And just like trash, Kodo was flung and landed in a basketball hoop.
“Oh, my word! Kodo!” Shiva and Luke barked.
Kodo poked a thumb/dew claw out. “I’m okay!”
Sans suddenly slides into view as he screams. “Gggiiiit.. DUNKED ON” before teleporting away with a ka-foosh.
Kodo blinked at where the skeleton had been before grimacing. “I’m slightly less okay and more confused.”
“That was a three pointer! Good on you!” Thanos said before flying at Fire Godzilla and striking it in it’s cheek.
“...Welp, that didn’t go well.” Link said in lost hope of it not ending quickly.
Thanos then kicks Fire Godzilla in its snout, the Zilla then roared and flung Thanos away. Fire Godzilla then begins to charge up a heat wave, Thanos then grins.
“Yeah! I can handle this! Don’t you worry!” The whole floor became blood red and everything became hotter than Rick Astley is.
...What?
Fire Godzilla then glances at Luke, flashing him a devilish grin.
Luke’s fur bristled. “Why’s it looking at me like that?” he asked.
“NO ONE BUT ME IS ALLOWED TO LOOK AT HIM LIKE THAT!” Shiva protested.
Thanos’ eyes opened wide. “Oh no.” Fire Godzilla then unleashes the wave. Thanos then grits his teeth and flies in front of the wave. His arms open wide.
“I should probably grab Luke and go, that’s a good idea.” Thanos said as the thing got closer.
“I do agree,” The Thanos that died spoke.
“Just grab him and go!” The Actual Thanos ordered Thanos.
“But what if I didn’t, would I be alive?”
“There’s a high percentage that we wouldn't, however...” Other Thanos mused, Actual Thanos roared in frustration.
“JUST DODGE IT!!!”
“But Luke would die, Wait WHY AM I-” Thanos cried out before he was absorbed by the beam, blocking the attack from reaching Luke. He then cried out in agony, his armor then melted off. Thanos still held his ground, not daring to budge an inch, willing to risk his life to save Luke. Thanos gritted his teeth as he was burnt before he screamed once more, unable to hold it in.
“Thanos,” Shiva screamed, before channeling as much strength into Luke that she could manage. “Come on, Luke; he saved your life, now it’s your turn to save his!”
“RIGHT!” Luke growled, lunging into the air. “WATCH THE POWER OF AURA! AURA STORM!’
He blasted a beam attack that would’ve made Goku and Lucario nod in pride. The Fire Godzilla was knocked off its feet, stopping the blast.
Thanos stood there… His top half ripped to shreds, scorches all over his body, blood dripping from his mouth. The melted armor burning his skin. The smell of burning flesh filled the area, his pupils were white and Thanos then fell flat on his chest. Not making a sound.
“Youch.. That’s gonna leave a mark...” Link commented from where he stood.
“Thanos!” Shiva yelled, quickly linking to him and trying to heal him.
“...Tha...That was… Two times…. I sa… ved your ass… You will r… repay me…. Fucker….” Thanos said though he was healing the radiation and raw POWER from the wave made him drift into an unconscious state.
Shiva shut her eyes in regret, before Luke clenched his fist.
“Damn straight, I will,” he growled, as his Mega-Evolution/Super Saiyan began to kick in. He rose up, his Ki and Pack Link sparking together.
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Fire Godzilla roared in victory, he had defeated the strongest out of all of them, the winner of the tournament. Surely the others would be cowering in fear and not dare to face him, but he was wrong oh so very wrong.
Luke rose, looking like the demonic love-child of a super saiyan god blue and a Mega Evolution Lucario. He smashed his fists together, and howled in challenge to the fire Godzilla.
“Kun Vulom!” Link shouted out, causing a sword to appear, looking like a mix of the soul edge and the death sword from twilight princess. “Assist Luke, be his weapon!” Link commanded as the sword flew to Luke’s claws.
Luke caught the blade, spun it once and launched forward, another bone blade of ki forming in his other claw and quickly being covered in a layer of diamonds and then armament haki.
Fire Godzilla roared and glared down at Luke. Firing off a radiation wave into the air to show dominance before attempting to squash Luke like a bug.
“Extreme Speed…” Luke growled, before vanishing out of the Fire Godzilla’s sight. Before the Fire Godzilla could try to look for him, Luke reappeared, carving his two blades across the side of the Godzilla’s neck before darting away and doing the same to the other side of his neck.
Fire Godzilla then fires off an atomic wave after Luke, firing it off at him. Lucci jumped onto one of the pillars to evade one of the attacks, then NoobMaster69 jumped after Lucci.
Dodging up and around the atomic wave, Luke continued to whale on the monster.
“Super effective…” the sword whispered as Luke began to carve through the scales that made up the Fire Godzilla’s armor. As he tore open a chunk of the Fire Godzilla’s scales, Luke backflipped back, and charged a burst of Ki in his jaws.
“Aura… STORM!” he howled, launching another devastating beam attack right into the softened scales on the Fire Godzilla’s chest.
Fire Godzilla let out a furious roar before the being slammed his head into Luke sending the pokemon/Diamond Dog into the endstone. Fire Godzilla then began to jump up and down, stomping on the Diamond Dog.
However, on his second jump, he got a burst of pain up his foot, like he had just stepped on a nail. From underneath, a furious Luke rose up, Link’s sword embedded in the Fire Godzilla’s foot.
“Sore Foot…” the sword whispered. As he forced the foot up, Luke withdrew the sword and punched his claw into the wound. The Fire Godzilla’s leg began to glow a bright white, before slowly turning an dead, ashen grey. At the same time, Luke’s aura became tinged with a fiery red, as the pack link drained the fire from Fire Godzilla, and incorporated it into Luke’s own ki.
Fire Godzilla began to glow, the fire drained away from him would cause an explosion. A nuclear one, Fire Godzilla began to expand and Thanos slowly got to his feet.
“Don’t.... Worry… I got this… Where’s that bastard?” Thanos said sluggishly, barely hanging onto consciousness.
“Oh, don’t you worry, my savior,” Luke said, grinning as the Fire Godzilla’s fire built up in his free claw. “I promised you I’d repay your nobility and kindness.” He launched the Fire Godzilla back and lunged into the air. “And that’s a promise I’m gonna keep!” As he spoke, he hurled the Fire Godzilla’s fire right into it’s already wounded chest, grinning as he forced the explosion into the monster’s chest.
“Ya still… Gotta… Repay… That…. W...ish…” Thanos then had a coughing fit, coughing up some blood. “I’m alright!” Thanos’ voice cracked, “I’m totally not dying.”
“Uh, yeah you aren’t,” Kodo agreed, wriggling out of the basketball hoop and linking to him, even as his form shrunk back down to his pup form. “We owe you way too much for you to be dying on us now.”
“...I did train Kodo, save…” Thanos then stopped, and drifted off into his mind.
“And he’s nearly mastered his Devil Fruit” Soric said with a smile
“LEAVE ME ALONE CARL!!!!!” Thanos cried out and threw a rock at Soric, hitting an obsidian pillar instead and killing a Zombie for it bounced off the pillar.
“Gotta love The Ope-Ope Fruit” Soric said with a grin
“Ch… oke on a... fat one D… avid!” Thanos said, giving him the middle finger, though he was facing the opposite direction.
“..Yeeeaa, Thanos, buddy, you’re tough, but don’t kill yourself trying to prove it.” Link said as he raised his hand, prepared to try and heal Thanos with a variation of Nayru’s love known as Nayru’s Care.
“Bitch I will turn you into an asian and sell you to the greeks!” Thanos said in a Skipper accent.
“Oh no, I’m not falling for the death threats, Thanos.” Link said as his hand continued to glow, hoving his hand toward Thano’s chest, neck, healing as much as he could caused by Fire Godzilla’s wrath. “You are as important as everyone else here.” Link said with a nod. Thanos is annoying and often scary, but the purple man has grown on Link, mostly due to the randomness Thanos often does and how deeply he cares about others.
“Kodo, status report!” Thanos said, his voice slurred.
“Healing you as fast as I can,” Kodo replied, glancing up as Luke let out another howl. “Meanwhile, my Dad’s… uh…”
They watched as Luke slammed into Fire Godzilla’s chest again, forcing the giant monster back as he whaled on the wound he seemed intent on turning into a hole in the beast’s chest.
“Doing that,” Kodo finally decided.
“... Hey, can you find Lucci for me? I lost him… Like my father....” Thanos said, rubbing his eyes.
Kodo shut his eyes, tracking Lucci’s scent, and turned, spotting him. “He’s… fighting one of Herobrine’s guys. Uh… Noob Master?”
Thanos then clenched his fists, “Damn you… NOOBMASTER69!!!!!!!!!” Thanos roared before running off, and tripping. He fell flat on his face, “...My face…”
“...Thanos, Thanos, Thanos.” Link said with a sigh and a shake of his head as he made his way over to him.
“Don’t you talk to me like that, Princess Molestia!” Thanos cried out, throwing beer at Link, he then spun around and was now in a war zone with Zombies flying and arrows being shot. Did I mention explosives? “I’m a goofy goober, yeah!” Thanos danced like he was insane. “I have brain damage! HAHA!!!”
“..I do NOT want to know where Thanos even got that name!” Link said as he was creeped knowing there was one out there in the multiverse.
“Shigan Madara!” Lucci cried out in the distance, punching NoobMaster69 with his fists; he then flung an unconscious NoobMaster 69. “Use that to lure Thanos in!” Lucci cried out. Thanos was then dancing like a retard, his tongue sticking out.
“Woopy doopy derpy werpy yadda dee yada doo! Wait for me Wander and Sylvia! Let me come with youuuuu~” Thanos said, spinning around like a ballerina as multiple arrows were being shot at him. Yet he was avoiding them.
Suddenly, a massive Blue and Black blast was seen in the distance as it wiped out a large portion of the mob army. Taking most of the group by surprise of how sudden it was.
A Few Minutes Ago...
As the group was facing the army together, Black and Luna Black had been taking on a large portion on his own. Black dodge an arrow as he retaliated with a ki blast with Luna Black attacking with a sword.
The two then backed into each other, looking over their shoulda before nodding. In perfect synchronization, the two barged at their own set of zombies and skeletons. The two working together as they tagged teamed each other’s portion of the army. A zombie was sent into Black as he kicked that zombie to Luna Black, who proceeded to slice it in half.
“Like old times?” Luna Black asked as she dodge and contoured with a magical blast.
“Sure!” Black agreed as the two went side by side, a group of zombies charged them, the pair charging back as they synchronized their attacks. They sliced through that group, only for a large portion of the army to come charging.
The pair smirked as Luna Black was behind the Saiyan as they pulled there hands back.
“KA… ME… HA… ME…” the two chanted together, a black orb of ki appearing in Blacks hand with a dark blue magic orb appearing in Luna Blacks hands.
A moment later as the horde got closer. The two thrust their hands forward in the “Father and Son Kamehameha” pose as the two ki and magical energy’s combined together, creating a massive Kamehameha that wiped out the horde. The two stopped the attack before looking at each other with a grin, bumping fists.
“Oi.” Blade said, readying his Netherite sword. “You wanna tussle with these ol’ muscles?” Blade said, pointing his sword at Black.
Black took his eyes off the Alicorn, glancing at Blade. “You think you can take me on?” Black said cockly.
“I might as well try!” Blade then lunged at Black, raising his sword high above his head. He then spins like Sonic The Hedgehog. “REEEE!!!!” He oinked.
Black readied his ki blade as he blocked the spinning Blade, grunting as he was pushed back. “Hey Lulu, go take on the army, I’ve got this guy!” The Saiyan roared as he spun, circling around Blade and slicing his back, the ki blade bouncing off the netherite. Luna Black nodded as she charged towards the army, sword at the ready.
“Grah!” Blade then turned around to swipe at Black, coating the weapon in Armament Haki. Black grunted in pain as the sword cut through his gi, although not cutting through the skin, it still hurt like hell.
“RRAAAHHHH!!!” Black roared as he threw his hand forward, a large ki blast impacting against Blade as he was sent hurtling through an army of zombies and skeletons. ‘Ohhhh, someone getting on your nerves Black?’ Zamasu asked coyly.
“Shut up Zamasu!” Black growled.
“ ROUGH!!!” Blade cried out, drop kicking Black in his forehead, slamming him into the obsidian pillar. “RARARARARARA!!!!” Blade begins to pummel Black as he is pinned to the pillar.
Black tried his best at blocking or redirecting Blades attacks as he was being pushed into the obsidian pillar. “Kinda interrupting a conversation here!” Black shouted as he let out a pressure wave, pushing back Blade.
“Does it look like I care?” Blade then picks up an enchanted trident, “Make it rain Herobrine!” Blade called out, Herobrine had a command block in his hand as he fought Entity. He then types in a command and it begins to rain.
“Would you care if it was a god that wanted to erase every mortal from existence?!” Black shouted, looking up to the sky to see rain.
He was then struck by lightning by Blade, continuing to strike lightning down upon Black. He began to sing, “Doin’ my job is so much fun!”
Black appeared out of the lighting as he began to run at Blade. As another lighting bolt struck, Black stumbled as continued to run. As Blade went for a swing, Black jumped, somersaulting over him and cocked his fist back.
“Wha?” Blade was then interrupted as a barrage of punches was sent into his back, each one more powerful than the last. Black stopped before sending a devastating kick that sent Blade into an obsidian pillar.
“...I can’t feel my dick!” Blade cried out, Black was then surrounded by Zombies.
The Saiyan began to heavily breath as that last attack took a bit out of him. Zamasu laughed, ‘You seem to be tired Saiyan, how about you rest, let me take rein of this body once more’ Zamasu offered.
“Shut up Zamasu, you won’t take control of me again!” Black growled.
“Attack!” The Zombies said, running at Black, their blades ready. Black clenched his fist, before spinning around quickly as a slice of ki was sent flying into a portion of the Zombies. The rest continue to charge at him.
Black blocks a sword before ripping it out of a zombies grasp. Black then stabbed the zombie before attacking the other undead beings.
Meanwhile, meanwhile...
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Entity clashed with Herobrine’s Pickaxe, Entity pushed Herobrine and the kid pushed back. Determined to not lose, Entity growled and kicked Herobrine in the stomach. Sending him crashing into the mast.
“Listen, kid, we only want to pass and get to Ryker. Stop this madness.” Entity ordered Herobrine.
“NO!!! I WILL NOT LET YOU DESTROY THE ONLY THING I HAVE LEFT!!!!!” Herobrine roared, shooting obsidian spikes from his arm that flew at Entity. The spikes extended to Entity like a power pole and were still attached to his body.
“Tch, he’s too hurt.” Entity then jumps over to evade tha attack, Herobrine then retracts his weapon and extends it back to Entity. And once more he dodges, the process repeats itself and each time Entity comes closer.
“GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!” Herobrine cried out, shooting lightning from his hands, Entity’s eyes widened at this. Not expecting an attack, he let out a wail of pain and as he was shocked. A foot met Herobrine’s face, nearly knocking him off the ship.
“Am I too late for the party?” Lucci asked, getting in a fighting stance and looking at Herobrine.
“We need to get the Command Block!” Entity said, getting his scythe ready.
“Then get it, I got this.” Lucci glanced at Entity briefly and the Minecraftian nodded, he then went for the block but there were some Vessels of Herobrine in the way. Lucci frowned before he was hit with a Pickaxe, due to his feline instincts, Observation Haki, and many other things he prepared a Tekkai for the occasion.
The weapon bounced off and made Herobrine stumble back, “Fist of the Black Turtle!” Lucci then punches Herobrine and he lets out a wheeze of pain. Lucci then kicks the kid in his face making him fall onto his back. “You can’t beat me, I’m a seasoned fighter, and what are you?”
“I’m the one that will kill you!” Herobrine got out a sword, a purple one he then swung it at Lucci. And it extends, it works like a spine with each part disconnecting. It then bends when Lucci evades the attack, the sword went after Lucci. Doing some acrobatics he evades the attack, Lucci then catches the blade with his palm. Pulling on it, Herobrine follows the blade and gets an Armament Haki punch to his gut.
“Gragh!” Herobrine cried out in pain, he then charges up a lightning bolt in his hands and slams it onto the ground. Lucci then gets up, he then goes into his Hybrid Form.
“Let’s fight lightning with lightning huh?” Lucci then rubs his paws and electricity begins to spark. Using Kamisori he appeared before Herobrine. “Eleclaw!” Hitting Herobrine with an electric powered fist, Herobrine cried out in pain. While Entity was done with the vessels. He closed in on the Command Block, Herobrine shot the Command Block off via obsidian.
“The Command Block!” They all cried out, the block lands in Thanos’ arms.
“...This seems important, HEY SHIVA!!!” Thanos cried out, “DO YOU KNOW HOW TO FETCH AND NOT GIVE IT BACK!???!”
“HECK YEAH!” Shiva replied, powering Luke as he landed blow after blow on Fire Godzilla. “I DID THAT WITH THE MAGIC OF PRINCE BLUEBLOOD AND MOST OF THE ‘NOBLE’ UNICORNS!”
“FETCH!!!!” Thanos then yeets the Command Block and breakneck speeds towards Shiva.
“NO!!!” Herobrine exclaimed.
But he was too late. Snagging the command block with another pack link, Shiva yanked it to her chest and burrowed underground. “Mine now, thanks!” she barked as she fled.
“Hrrr! AFTER HER!!!!” The Ghasts begin to spawn and they try to locate the Diamond Dog. While Kodo attacked the Ghasts and kept them busy, Entity then throws an Enderpearl down and spawns on the main battlefield.
“Let’s play a game of keep away! Throw it to me Shiva!” Entity cried out as Herobrine flew after Shiva, trying to track her through the pack link still connecting her to Luke.
The command block popped out of the ground and into Entity’s hands.
“Thanks, now all I have to do is put in the command /kill all mobs.” Entity said before a Keyboard appeared on the Command Block.
“Oh no you don’t!” Arrow cried out, shooting an arrow at Entity. Entity rolled out of the way.
“Can someone PLEASE take care of that skeleton?” Entity asked, evading the arrows as he struggled to type in the words.
“Like this?” Luke asked, twisting Fire Godzilla and flinging the giant monster right onto Arrow. The skeleton disappeared under the Zilla’s fiery tail.
“Thanks!” Entity called out, he began to type.
“NO!!!” Herobrine ran at Entity like a mad man, getting his Pickaxe ready. “DIE!!!” Herobrine raised his weapon high.
Unfortunately for Herobrine, Shiva popped out behind him and caught him with her links. The God of Pain was stopped dead in his tracks.
“OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE!!!!” Herobrine then proceeds to say every swear word in the dictionary as Entity put in the command. And immediately, all the mobs went up in smoke. “I hate you all and I hope you all suffer a horrible and gruesome death.”
“A horrible and Gruesome Death already awaits us if we fail” Soric said receding his shadows
“Is there a command for soap,” Shiva asked. “I want to wash this boy’s mouth out.”
“Remember Shiva, don’t drop the soap.” Entity said with a snicker and a soap bar appears in Shiva’s paw.
“At least if you’re not around me,” Luke added, appearing next to her, eliciting a chuckle from the female diamond dog.
“...Somebody once told me, hands off my macaroni…” Herobrine sang for he knew what was coming.
“And next time you want to use bad words,” she said as she held the soap in front of him. “Wait until you’re older.”
“C’MERE BOY!!!” Fujitora said, kicking down whatever wall was there, the other commanders there. Arkham Knight, Akainu, Zabuza, Ganondorf, and Bullet were all there.
Shiva froze, staring with perked ears at the commanders. “Hello,” she said neutrally.
“Join the defeated Commanders Club! We have cookies! I baked them!” Bullet then raises a cookie jar, Herobrine just deadpanned at them before Shiva nudged him towards them.
“Greetings my canine associate.” Fujitora said, not looking at Shiva as he slowly pulled Herobrine close with Gravity.
“Hello Issho,” Shiva said.
“Dear god it’s like a family reunion in here, '' Kodo told Arkham Knight, “You’re back, my brother.
“Bruh.” Arkham Knight said plainly, “...Wanna see something I didn’t use on you out of pure respect?” Arkham Knight asked, he then wore Anti Admiral Armor, like the Hulkbuster suit. “Completely made out of Sea Prism Stone, armed with Light, Ice, Gravity, and Magma… And a Dynastone.”
Kodo whistled in awe. “Thanks for not pasting me with that,” Kodo replied.
“You are welcome.” Arkham Knight replied.
“Glad to see You have made a recovery from Sombra’s final attack, Zabuza” Soric said
“Shiva and Fujitora are good friends, like siblings. We only need Grievous and Celine. Then and only then it would be a family reunion.” Bullet laughed, “Kahahahaha!”
“Well, Celine’s safe back in our world,” Luke replied. “So…”
“It’s for the best,” Shiva insisted. “She doesn’t need to be wrapped up in this mess. It’s better that she’s home where she belongs.”
The face of John Cena appeared next to Luke, “Are you sure about that?”
Shiva stared at the John Cena face, her fur slowly growing pale. “W-Why? Why should I not be sure about that?”
She, Luke and Kodo exchanged a horrified look.
“Where’s Luco?” Kodo asked.
“Probably up there with Ryker, annoying the shit out of him.” Zabuza replied pointing a finger skywards.
“Eh, I don’t know, I’m just a man who’s invisible. Now let me be clear-” John Cena then disappears.
“PFFTT!!! BAAAAHHAHAHAHAHHA-” Thanos laughed only to cough, “God damn it I’m dying, okay anyways why are you guys here?”
“We would like to congratulate you for coming this far, there’s only two more commanders to go, Necrozma and Katakuri. Necrozma is on the next floor.” Ganondorf answered Thanos putting two fingers up.
“Then Katakuri, and finally Ryker himself,” Kodo guessed.
“And then HOME!.” Link said with glee.
“You would be correct, though which one of you guys will fight… Katakuri?” Bullet asked, “He’s stronger than me, LEAGUES above me and Thanos struggled to beat me.”
“Did not.” Thanos said, giving him a middle finger.
“Alright, alright, but which one of you are going to fight him?” Bullet raised an eyebrow.
“Lucci should do it. Between all of us Lucci has more durability with his Haki and Six Powers” Soric said surprising some
“I will.” Lucci said blankly, “I had no action this entire story, so it’s time I make my presence known.”
“You do know you guys won’t be able to just skip past him right? You all are going to be there, Lucci probably can’t handle Katakuri’s two forms. Ultimate Katakuri and Ultra Instinct.” Zabuza pointed out, “You won’t be able to let one person fight him and move on. He will come after you.”
“So should we fight him together?” Shiva asked. “I’m not sure if that would go against his warrior’s code.”
“Yeah, he would blow up the tower if you guys did, and given how bad he stomped Black here though he was handicapped and so was Katakuri. That seems he would have no issue doing that.” Lord Twigo said, walking next to his Commanders.
Shiva hummed at that, giving another nervous look to the top, before she pulled out the Potara rings she had used to fuse with Maud. She and Luke exchanged a look.
“... You would be a fucking Futa, and if two fusions of different genders fuse, it would make the fusion collapse and split apart.” Bullet said, “So that’s a no go,”
“I call dibs fighting him first!” Lucci cried out from the background.
“So, you two fusing isn’t an option.” Thanos said, crossing his arms, “Now who would, I can’t fuse with Black because you need to be whole to fuse and well… He’s Bucky.”
“Well, you're wrong on that one Thanos.” Black said as he walked to the group with Luna Black in tow. “The only fusion that needs for me to be whole is the metamorian dance. You don’t need to be the same with a potara fusion.” Black explained.
“Do you honestly think that Thack can beat Katakuri? Thack is more of a wild card than a way to beat him,” Thanos responded to the Saiyan. “And besides, you remember what happened last time we fused.”
“Yeah, but we never used that fusion to its full potential.” Black countered. “Thack is the best possible fusion here to take on Katakuri. Unless you’ve got a better idea.”
“He’s got a point” Soric admitted to the Titan. “Take away the Magic, the powers and super techniques and Thack would be stronger than any fusion we could make here”
“Katakuri will curbstomp us, no cap, like you saw how much power he held back on you and he was TESTING you. If that was a test, I don’t want to know what an end of year course exam is.” Thanos said, his eyes wide open as he had both of his hands on Black’s shoulder.
“He held back because I couldn’t use my ki! Plus, all he wants is a good fight! If we give him a good fight, maybe he’ll let us pass and go face Ryker!” Black countered.
“I sincerely don’t know why you are yelling but I don’t want us to argue so I’ll leave it off at that.” Thanos said, letting go of Black and walking off. Black let out a big sigh and walked off, Luna Black looking between the two. She sighed while shaking her head.
“Thanos seems to be learning,” Lord Twigo said, taking some tea from Zabuza’s tray, he was passing tea around.
“Sir Thanos is afraid, and he’s got every right to be.” Luna Black said as she took a cup of tea. “But he shouldn’t throw in the towel.”
“Princess, I’ve been here for a long time, I’ve seen many things, ventured to many countries. But those two… I do not think that all of us combined are able to fight Katakuri farely, Katakuri has taken the likes of Jiren, Gol D. Roger, Aizen, and Isshiki.” Lord Twigo said, shaking his head.
“But that shouldn’t mean we give up. Cause what would be the point of scaling this tower?” Luna Black said as she looked at Lord Twigo. “Black has never given into a challenge bigger than him, even if it would kill him.” The Alicorn let out a sigh.
“Thanos has every right to be scared of Katakuri, he has been here since the beginning. He was Displaced to this world and when Ryker came along, they began to bond. They’re… Katakuri is very powerful, a good friend and an even better fighter.” Lord Twigo then takes a sip of his tea, “Katakuri his millenia of combat experience that dwarfs us all.”
Luna Black looked to Black as the Saiyan was scowling, seemingly talking to himself. “If we lose, Black will be the last one, Thanos won’t let himself become a commander to Rykers forces. And Ryker can’t kill Black because of Ed.” Luna Black explained as she saw Black strike the wall, being pissed at something.
“If Ryker kills us all… Perhaps even Thanos would submit to Ryker, having no other choice.” Lord Twigo shivered, “I dread of that day.”
The Alicorn turned to Twigo with a grin look. “Black would stop at nothing to beat Thanos into the ground if that happens.”
“...Black vs all of the Commanders? If you mess with one of us…” Lord Twigo began.
“You mess with all of us.” The Commanders all said at the same time.
Luna Black sighed as she took a sip of the tea. She then got a glimpse of an image of Black standing in a wasteland. In front of him were the forces and all the commanders under Ryker. The Irish man laughed while Black growled. The Alicorn shook her head at the grim future. “And he’ll keep on fighting, he’ll face all of you.”
“He would surely fall.” Lord Twigo finished his drink, meanwhile Thanos popped up next to Black.
“Hey Blaacck~” Thanos said in a sing song tone, “I got you a present~”
Black didn’t hear the Titan, the Saiyan having a mental conversation with Zamasu as the Saiyan growled.
“BLACK!!!!” Thanos roared in his face.
Black snapped out of the conversation, seeing a yelling Titan in front of him. The Saiyans' expression unchanging. “What do you want Thanos…”
“Take it, I found it up your ass.” Thanos held up a metal arm, “Take it or I’ll shove it back up.”
Black looked at the metal arm, resembling the one Bucky had after the events of Endgame. The Saiyan took it, examining it before attaching it onto his left shoulder. It took him a second for it to respond, but when it did the Saiyan spun it around.
“Fits like a glove doesn’t it?” Thanos said with a smirk.
The Saiyan smirked. “Yeah… thanks Thanos.”
“Hold on gotta talk to the others,” Thanos then gets in a Michael Jackson outfit and moon walks to the group. “Heyyy, yeah we don’t have a way to beat Katakuri.”
“What about me?” Kodo asked, walking up between Shiva and Luke. “I’m the same gender as my dad, and I’ve got most of Mom’s abilities.”
“Now that could work but I don’t think you can theoretically win, and remember he wants it to be honorable. That means no hax, no abilities that can nullify his skills, he wants it strictly honorable. Or else he’ll call Shaggy, El Hermano, Shrek, and Android 22 to kill all of you guys.” Arkham Knight said, waving his metal finger.
Shiva sighed. “Sorry, you two,” she said to her husband and son. “But it doesn’t sound like we’d be much use in a fair fight. We’re not built for one-on-one confrontations, after all.”
Luke and Kodo hummed in disappointment, but conceded and backed off apologetically.
“Now wait a minute, I’m a tough guy,” Lucci said sliding in, “If I can get a few good licks on him he could be the right amount of hurt for you guys to fight him, and remember, your efforts won’t be in vain. Each fighter taking on Katakuri will surely wear him out, and then FUSION time with one of our strongest fighters, not counting Black. So we may see Thanos and Eric fu-” Lucci was cut off as he was punched by Thanos.
“I WILL NOT FUSE WITH SOME EDGY PIANIST!!!!” Thanos declared, fire in his eyes. “I WILL NOT!!!!”
“While the fusion between Eric and Thanos would be significantly powerful I honestly doubt Eric wants to be in his mind for more than ten minutes tops” Soric responded by crossing their arms
“That sounds so wrong,” Kodo whispered with a shake of his head.
“Okay, we may see Thanos and… Me fuse, or Luke, or someone else.” Lucci said with a shrug.
“I could volunteer, fusing should be similar to having to work with any of the spirits of the Masks.” Link pointed out.
Luke hummed. “I feel a little weird fusing with anyone who isn’t my wife…” he admitted sheepishly, before Shiva pat his back.
“HIYOOOOOOO!” An eldly man known as Ed McMahon said in the background. The moment they turned, he vanished.
“...How does this universe keep making this happen?” Link asked with a shake of his head.
“Whatever gets us closer to finding out what that ‘Cena’ fellow meant about our daughter,” Shiva said.
“When we get to Ryker, we’ll have our answer.” Thanos said, he then readied himself. “Now, without further ado, let us go! We’re so close!” Thanos then marched on, “After we beat Necrozma there’s only that bastard Katakuri and Ryker left!”
“OO-Rah!” The diamond dogs barked in agreement, before following after him.
“Ebola!”
