"Black!" Zamasu shouted, looking down at the chasm that had been created when Rainbow attacked, though at the same time he understood what his past self apparently overlooked, that Rainbow's power over destruction was strong, maybe even stronger than Black was, "Are you alright?"
"I wouldn't be concerned with your past self," Rainbow commented, though as she floated up to where her second target was floating, however, Zamasu glanced at her and stared at the rage and anger in her eyes, while she glanced down at the chasm, "even if he managed to survive taking my Hakai attack, which caused the earth to split in such a manner, he shouldn't be able to use his..."
"I'm alright," a voice said, to which the two fights watched as Black, in his Super Saiyan Rose form, burst out of the rubble that he had been forced into and came to a stop when he returned to Zamasu's side, though Rainbow was pleased to find that her main foe was sporting several rips in his clothing, "Foolish mortal, did you really expect to get rid of me that easily?"
"Well, it was a Hakai type attack, so I expected you to die," Rainbow replied, though at the same time she chuckled, as she knew the surefire way to win this fight now, since she remembered what she did to Cell and what her father did to the Zamasu from their era, "Oh well, let's continue our fight."
Black and Zamasu charged at her in unison, like they did against Goku, Vegeta, and the others earlier, though the two of them extended their ki blades as they moved through the air, indicating that they intended on running her through like they did to Vegeta the first time they came to the future. She responded by extending her Lightning Blade on her right hand and waited for them to get close to her, though when they got close Rainbow swung her arm and caught Black's blade with her own. At the same time she noticed Zamasu move towards her backside, where she moved herself so she could flip over Black's head, though as that happened she noticed Zamasu's blade pass by where she had been standing, indicating that she had dodged the attack, before she landed behind Black and kicked him in the back. That resulted in the two evildoers colliding with each other for a moment, with Black's blade going through Zamasu while Zamasu's blade was deactivated... though moments later they separated and Zamasu's wound healed, to which they turned towards Rainbow once more and glared at her.
As Black and Zamasu charged at her again, however, Applejack flashed through the air and brought the side of her leg against Zamasu's head, sending him flying towards one of the ruined buildings, before she spun around and kicked Black square in the chest, sending him away from her sister for a few moments.
"I knew you would have joined the fight after my display of power," Rainbow remarked, though she was happy to see that Applejack was itching to get into the fight, especially after everything these two did to their friends and family, even if it was their future family.
"It would have been better if we attacked together, but at least they know not to underestimate us," Applejack replied, though at the same time she straightened her hat as she kept her eyes on Black, because she had a plan in mind that would use their abilities against someone that was weak to them, "Rainbow, I know that you might be targeting Black at the moment, for everything that he's done, but would you consider attacking Zamasu instead? Zamasu is, after all, immortal and you're the only one that can take him out of the picture at any moment."
"I'm surprised that you aren't asking me to 'Hakai' him already," Rainbow said, as the thought had crossed her mind for her to focus on the immortal Zamasu instead of the one that she was currently targeting, though she followed that up by sighing for a few seconds, "Very well then, we'll do things your way this time around."
Applejack smiled, as she was grateful that Rainbow was willing to listen to her idea, especially since she knew that the wrong phrase could easily cause her to kill Zamasu in an instant, but before she said anything else both Black and Zamasu returned to the air and glared at them.
"Your rage is delicious," Black said, to which he chuckled as his Rose aura wrapped around him once more, revealing that he had powered up more from the few strikes he had suffered from the two of them, before he simply stared at them as he and Zamasu entered their mirrored battle stances once more, "Come, show me the power that will make me the strongest god in all the worlds!"
Applejack decided to oblige Black's demand and rushed the pair with Rainbow, though as her sister punched Zamasu away from the area she avoided the jab that was coming her way and kicked Black in the chest, before spinning around and knocking him to the top of a nearby ruined building. The impact of the collision caused the entire structure to collapse on top of itself, though Black emerged from the wreckage and charged at her again, but this time around he seemed to understand that his ki blade wasn't working for him at all. This time Black intended to punch her out of the sky and loosed a fury of punches and kicks at her, though Applejack was well versed in this type of fighting and parried the attacks by doing the same thing with her own arms and legs, mimicking all of her opponent's attacks in perfect harmony. That, of course, caused Black to become annoyed with her, since he wasn't able to land a decent hit on her, before Applejack avoided the next attack completely and kicked him in the side of the head... sending him down to where this timeline's version of the Capsule Corp was resting.
At the same time Rainbow and Zamasu dueled each other in the sky, using their ki blades instead of their fists, though while it appeared that Zamasu had the upper hand Rainbow was merely playing with her foe as she parried his attacks with her own. The one thing that her opponent didn't know about her was that she had several more tricks in store for him, as at one point she kicked him backwards and disappeared into the clouds, only for ten of her to emerge with their Lightning Blades drawn, causing Zamasu to stare at her as he did his best to avoid her attacks. Fortunately, since her opponent had no knowledge of the Cloud Copy technique, or even how to fight it, Rainbow fought alongside her clones and confused Zamasu, as he could only target one of them and they were designed to feel the same. She had made sure that this technique made each copy felt like her, meaning that if she fought someone like Goku or Vegeta energy sensing would be pointless for them... and it served to work in her favor as she delivered a powerful punch to her opponent's chest, one that knocked him all the way back to the Capsule Corp building.
Rainbow and Applejack glanced at each other as they landed on the ground and faced their opponents, who were now standing up and dusting themselves off, though it was clear that both Black and Zamasu weren't happy with what was going on at the moment... especially since the girls were pushing them around, instead of what they considering should have been them pushing the two of them around.
"Stop this, Zamasu!" a voice said, to which the fighters stopped as Gowasu, along with Shin, appeared nearby, though Rainbow, Applejack, and the others of their group understood how this was possible when they saw the ring that Gowasu was wearing on his right hand.
"Gowasu?!" Zamasu stated, though the shock on his face revealed that he had no idea that their opponents had revealed their deeds to the Kaioshin of the past, or that Gowasu would come and see the future for himself, before he corrected his posture and glared at the two Kaioshin.
"Why are you here?" Black demanded, as he knew that his timeline had been altered already, with what their enemies had told them earlier, but he had to resist the urge to obliterate the two corrupt Kaioshin once more, especially since he and Zamasu were in the middle of a battle.
"Oh, I see what's going on," Zamasu said, as he noticed the silver ring that was on Gowasu's hand, the same one that Black had been wearing the entire time since he first met his counterpart from the past, "he's the Gowasu from your world... the one you would have killed had these mortal not interfered with our glorious plan. And he came to this point in time using his Time Ring."
"I learned that Beerus-sama and his friends were telling the truth when Shin informed me that you confirmed your guilt earlier," Gowasu said, referring to when Black and Zamasu had confirmed that Applejack had been right in her way of thinking, about the true origins of Black and why his energy was so similar to Zamasu's energy, before he turned his head towards Black, "Zamasu, I know that you discarded your old body for a new one, but I am deeply ashamed in what you have done to this timeline. How could you do something so terrible?"
"What's so terrible about this?" Black replied, though at the same time he grinned as he stared at the destruction he had caused on this world, only frowning for a brief moment as he considered the chasm that Rainbow had created, before facing Gowasu again, "If all the mortals are eliminated than true beauty can return to the world. There's no reason to explain everything to you, as you would not understand my ideals and would only try to stop me from completing the Zero Mortal Plan. Besides, now I get to kill you for a third time!"
With that said both Black and Zamasu ignored their current opponents and loosed a pair of ki blasts at the two Kaioshin, though before the blasts could hit their target a barrier of energy appeared in front of them and stopped the ki blasts from reaching their target... to which the two evildoers turned towards their opponents and found that Applejack was touching the ground once more.
"It seems that the two of you just don't learn that we're your opponents now," Rainbow said, though as soon as the last word left her mouth she dashed towards the duo and knocked them into the sky, forcing them away from Shin and Gowasu as Applejack lowered the barrier.
"Shin, since you and Gowasu came here can I assume that your here to watch the conclusion of this fight?" Applejack asked, to which Shin immediately nodded his head, as that had been the reason they came here if reasoning with Zamasu had failed, before she pointed to the platform she had created earlier, which was moving to a safe location while offering the people on it a good view of the fight, "Good, then take him to that earthen platform and make sure that he stays there, because things are only going to get messy from here on out."
"Excuse me for asking, but when did you become a Kaioshin?" Gowasu inquired, as the last time he had seen the two girls had been a few hours ago, not nearly enough time for either of them to develop the type of power that they were using at the moment.
"I'm not a Kaioshin... I'm actually an apprentice," Applejack replied, though she couldn't fault Gowasu from asking, since the only people who wore this type of outfit were the Kaioshin and their apprentices, or someone who created the specific Avatar like she had, "this is my Avatar of Creation form."
"A... Avatar of Creation?!" Gowasu stated, though at the same time he could see the power that had created this form, but even as he saw that he had to wonder how a daughter of a God of Destruction could obtain such a power, before realizing what Rainbow's attire had been, "Oh my... this is a lot to think about."
Applejack glanced up at the sky and flew into the air as she raced towards where her sister was fighting, where she intercepted Black and pushed him away from Zamasu, while at the same time avoiding the slash attacks that he sent in her direction as they landed in another part of the city. Her right fist made contact with Black's face and she pushed him back a bit, though as he brought his blade down on her she caught it with her open hand, her left hand, before it could even touch her. Even when Black attempted to punch her with his left hand, while she was distracted, Applejack quickly moved her right hand and caught the fist before it reach her opponent's intended destination, while causing the two of them to remain in that position for a few moments.
"You pony girls are equal to the warrior race known as the Saiyans," Black remarked, though while he was impressed by the power that his opponent contained, enough to keep him in this position for some time, he noticed that Rainbow was literally throwing Zamasu around like he was a doll, "Maybe I made a mistake in whose body I should have stolen all those years ago..."
"Don't you even think about what would have happened if you took either of our bodies," Applejack growled, to which she kneed Black in the chest, hard enough to know that one of his ribs cracked, before she kicked him hard enough to send him flying through three different buildings.
As Black came to a stop on the edge of a building, however, Applejack flew into him and kicked him further into the building, before they came out the other side and continued through several more buildings, though as they did so Zamasu tried to intercept them and forgot about Rainbow, who knocked him away instantly. As Applejack pushed Black away she heard Rainbow tell Zamasu that she was his opponent and that he was fighting her, where Zamasu replied that Rainbow shouldn't give orders to a god, before Applejack grinned as Rainbow knocked her foe into a wall and kicked him into the ground so hard that the ground cracked a little around the crater. At the same time, however, Applejack knocked her opponent through a few more buildings before they started to fight in the middle of one that was slowly collapsing, where she surprised Black by stopping the blade before it could touch her... with nothing more than her aura.
"Black, do you honestly believe that you and Zamasu can beat both of us?" Applejack asked, because at the rate things were going she and Rainbow were going to beat the two evildoers, though whether she killed Black first or Rainbow erased Zamasu first remained to be seen, "Because if you still think that the two of you have a shot at winning this, then you are sorely mistaken."
"No, the two of us can win this fight," Black said, though that was followed by Applejack striking him in the chest, enough to stun him for a few seconds, while she gripped him hard to make sure he didn't go anywhere.
"But that is where you are wrong, as there is something that you miscalculated," Applejack replied, giving Black a few seconds to listen to her before she continued, which was when she started unleashing the various phases of the Harvester's Barrage on her foe, "That body you are using, down to every cell, was made from Son Goku's long history of fights and training with those that share his sense of justice. Only Goku can use the limitless potential of his own body to the fullest, so someone like you would never be able to surpass him in any way... much less defeat me and my sister."
The last statement was followed by the final step of the Harvester's Barrage, the double kick with her hooves, though the energy released from the strike was enough to cause the entire building to shake before it crumbled around them, where Applejack removed herself so she could survey the damage she had caused.
"Why?" Black asked, though this time he remained still as his body worked through the pain he was in, which would become fuel for the next level of power that was soon to be his, "Why is there such a difference in our powers?"
"Because Rainbow and I were trained by a God of Destruction, mentored by his own Angel, and taught valuable lessons from both the Kaioshin and the Supreme Kai of Time for Universe 7," Applejack replied, though at the same time she landed beside Black and picked him up by his hair, while her energy gathered around her right fist as she prepared herself for what she was about to do, "When we were young we were able to force Frieza into using his final form through the sheer power that Rainbow possessed, we stood up to a creature that consumed people and used them as fuel for his own perfection, and defeated a terrifying monster that could have absorbed our power, but instead we toppled him as well. You, on the other hand, simply stole the body of a powerful warrior and called it a day... you deserve everything that has happened to you so far."
With that said Applejack slammed her fist into Black's chest and let the air crack as her Tremor Punch went into effect, where the ground around them shook before the cracks started to appear, forcing the ground around them to separate, on a lesser scale than Rainbow's chasm, while sections of the ground shattered and fell into the abyss. Black, on the other hand, felt some of his bones shatter until the intensity of the power that was being used against him, as it almost felt like Rainbow was fighting him again, while at the same time he actually coughed up some blood. Applejack watched as the tremor reached outside the limits of West City and struck the nearby mountain, which crumbled under the weight of her anger... before she let go of Black and kicked him in the chest, knocking him backwards and letting him hit the ground, where he remained for a moment before even daring to pick himself up.
When Black did pick himself up a few moments later, however, he left himself wide open and Applejack decided to show him just how bad of an idea that was by moving through the motions of the Harvester's Barrage again, but instead of ending with the kick from both her hooves she simply continued punching and kicking him.
"Y... You and Rainbow are just appetizers!" Black declared, though at the same time he tried to overcome the attacks that Applejack was throwing at him and found that it was impossible to parry her attacks, much less dodge some of them before he was hit, "Don't get carried away any further!"
As Black said that he found an opening and dodged the next attack, breaking the cycle that he had been trapped in, and attempted to backhand Applejack, though Applejack used a backflip to avoid the attack before she touched the ground again, where she rushed forward and punched Black in the side of his face, sending him flying into a ruined building once more. As he attempted to correct himself Applejack was on top of him, loosing another storm of blows against his body, causing Black to wonder how his opponent was able to keep up the pace without growing tired, though at the same time he noticed Zamasu and Rainbow dueling in the air. Rainbow was much faster than what he expected her to be, as she was literally running circles around Zamasu and was cutting into his body every now and then, though while he was immortal he knew that the cyan pony girl was looking for a weakness she could exploit.
The beating eventually reached an end when Applejack kicked Black and sent him flying into the building behind him, though when the dust cleared she discovered that Black was simply sitting where she had sent him, but that meant that he was planning something... which only made Applejack gather her ki into her hands for a moment.
"With both bodies and energy granted by the gods... you act like you own them, you arrogant mortals!" Black said, where he stared at his right hand for a moment, as if he was trying to figure something out, though as he closed his hand, however, he glanced up as Applejack loosed her Kamehameha and obliterated the building that he was in.
Applejack stared down at the wreckage and resumed her normal stance she took when she was floating, as she knew that Black was still down there, though a few seconds later a familiar pink color emerged from the wreckage and Black burst out of the rubble before coming to a stop when he was parallel with Applejack once again.
"I now understand how you and Rainbow suddenly became so powerful," Black commented, though at the same time he simply stared at Applejack, as if his sudden knowledge allowed him to overcome the power that Applejack was using at the moment, "it's anger, isn't it? The anger you and your sister felt when we revealed that we killed the future versions of your parents, that's what suddenly made the two of you grow so much stronger, didn't it?"
"No, you're actually wrong in that regard," Applejack replied, to which she held out an arm and beckoned to the clothing she was wearing, where she noticed that Black was looking at her with some interest, "Yes, Rainbow and I are angry over what you said, but that didn't awaken the power of the Avatar of Destruction and the Avatar of Creation, because we've had access to these forms for some time. Our power is our own, drawn from our many years of experience in fighting creatures that were stronger than us, before eventually becoming strong enough to do battle with a God of Destruction that tied with our father."
"Now that I realize it, it sounds so simple." Black said, though his tone suggested that he actually wasn't paying attention to what Applejack had said and was going his own way at the moment, to which Applejack sighed and crossed her arms as she let him talk, "Turn anger into power. It's an ugly method that only a mortal could come up with, so I had overlooked it completely."
With that said Black surrounded himself with his Super Saiyan Rose aura once more, causing Applejack to drop into her battle stance as she waited for him to make his move, though he surprised her a little bit as he simply raised his right hand into the air and pointed it towards the sky.
"Anger at the mortals who disrespect the universe." Black said, though this time around Applejack had the feeling that he wasn't talking to her and was speaking to himself, where she decided to remaine silent until he decided to speak to her again, "Anger at the gods who overlook that disrespect. And... anger at my powerless self for losing to a mere mortal."
Applejack watched Black, who was clearly losing his mind over her beating the tar out of him, channel his power into his right hand and created a ki blade, though that was when he pierced the center of his left hand and let some steam radiate from his hand as he adopted a crazed look for his face. Eventually Black gripped his right hand with his left hand and his energy went wild for a moment, though that was before he started pulling his right arm back and withdrew the ki blade. That was before his ki took on the shape of a long handle and he swung his arm, to which Applejack watched as a scythe appeared in Black's right hand, though she wasn't too concerned about this development, but also kept her eyes open for the real danger.
"Look, you appetizer," Black said, his disrespectful tone for his opponents, who weren't Goku, returning in full force as he stared at the ki shaped weapon that he was holding at the moment, before he pointed it at Applejack, "by turning my anger into power, I have gained yet another new power. If anger can be a source of strength... then the anger I hold, which is stronger than anyone else's, makes me the strongest in the universe. Allow me to show you the anger of a god."
Applejack waited for a few seconds and waited for Black to make his move, as the moment he swung his weapon she vanished and reappeared behind them, though the action of him swinging his new weapon carved a gash into the air itself, revealing what appeared to be a strange void that Black was vastly interested in. The tear in reality seemed to react with Black's energy, as clones of Black started to materialize out of thin air, though before they could rush at Applejack a group of Rainbow copies crashed into them and knocked them away. Applejack noticed that a single punch destroyed a single clone, though that was before they would reform and be joined by more of their kind, which Rainbow's copies did as well to make sure that Applejack and Black could fight without being interrupted.
While Applejack fought Black, however, she noticed that Rainbow was chasing after Zamasu at the moment, though she was firing smaller ki blasts at her target, which erased whatever they struck from existence, indicating that she was trying to end the fight now... though at the same time Black seemed to notice what was going on and used his Instant Transmission to aid his ally, causing the tear in reality, and the clones it generated, to disappear. Moments later the copies of Rainbow disappeared as well, to which Applejack engaged her speed and flew over to where the evildoers were standing together, only Zamasu appeared to be sweating despite his immortality. A few seconds later, after she landed on the ground, Goku, Vegeta, Frieza, Trunks, and Gale used the Instant Transmission to appear behind the group, where Goku and Vegeta were in their Super Saiyan Blue forms and Frieza was using his Golden state... indicating that they were ready to aid the girls in battle at long last.
"Are you two alright?" Vegeta asked, because while he knew that neither Rainbow or Applejack would willing let themselves be damaged against such enemies he just had to ask, as he suspected that the power they used would eventually take it's toll on their bodies.
"We're fine," Rainbow replied, though she smiled at Vegeta as Applejack nodded her head, indicating that they were both okay and hadn't been damaged, before they all turned their attention to Black and Zamasu, who were standing in the air, apparently discussing something between themselves.
"Look at yourself," Black said, as he couldn't believe that Zamasu was having trouble with Rainbow, since she hadn't used any powerful attacks since loosing the sphere that had created the chasm, "Surely with your immortality you can deal with one annoying mortal?"
"It seems that we have been making a terrible error in judgement," Zamasu replied, as he had seen the level of items that Rainbow had erased and knew that a direct battle with her would have only spelled his demise, something that Black clearly would have ignored, "these two mortals aren't mere bugs like we originally believed. If we're not careful, our ideals will disappear like dew."
"We have no choice then... playtime is over." Black stated, though at the same time he stared down at the assembled group of warriors, where he knew that his partner understood what he was telling him, "For these mortals who continue to ignorantly desecrate the gods... it is time to show them the true power of the gods."
"So your saying that the time is ripe." Zamasu said, though as he spoke he and Black drifted apart for a moment as he stared down at their foes as well, where his slightly terrified expression gave way for a smile that put Rainbow and the others on their guard.
"Mortals..." Black stated, though his grin widened as the Potara earring on his left ear started to glow, indicating that he and Zamasu were planning something terrible.
"...grovel before..." Zamasu continued, to which he carefully removed the Potara earring that was resting on his left ear, which was also glowing, before he held it out for everyone to see, where those that knew what they were doing gasped in surprise, "our luminance."
"So that's your move." Goku said, as he and Vegeta were familiar with the Potara fusion, thanks to their brief time as Vegito, and knew what was coming next, as well as the fact that their opponent was going to be stronger than ever.
Zamasu smiled as he slipped his Potara earring onto his right ear, causing the pair to emit faint waves of energy for a few seconds before they started glowing with a bright green color, indicating that the fusion between the two Zamasus was about to begin. That was immediately followed by the two of them being pulled towards each other before their chests made contact with each other, to which they started spinning around in the air before they were both consumed by a blinding light. A few moments passed before the blinding light disappeared, though while that happened the energy in the air died down and revealed the form of someone that looked like Zamasu, to which the group waited to see what happened next, while at the same time feeling an intense amount of power coming from their foe.
"My form is justice!" a voice said, one that sounded like Zamasu's voice, though at the same time the form extended it's hands as the energy started to disappear, revealing the person that had been created due to the fusion, "My form is the world!"
As the energy faded the group got a good look at their opponent, finding that the fusion heavily resembled Zamasu's form, yet at the same time supplemented with various traits that Black possessed, including his height and build. The fusion warrior had Zamasu's green skin, gray irises, eye shape, and white hair, though at the same time his face had Black's jawline and had somewhat smaller ears. The fusion's hairstyle looked mostly like Black's, or more accurately the hairstyle he got from his Super Saiyan Rose form, but it also had a long protruding bang over the right side of his face, representing Zamasu's mohawk. The fusion's attire resembled Zamasu's Supreme Kai attire, though it had the grey and red color scheme that Black's clothing had, along with a red sash, while at the same time the group noticed that he still possessed the Time Ring.
"Revere me, praise me!" the fusion warrior said, though at the same time that was followed by a new aura appearing around him, one that seemed vastly different than the auras that Black and Zamasu had before their fusion, "This noble and beautiful, immortal and most powerful god... Zamasu!"
Rainbow, Applejack, and their friends stood their ground, because now the tables had turned again and they had to be careful, as they had no idea what sort of power or skills this version of Zamasu possessed, but they would still fight to protect the future... even if that meant that Rainbow and Applejack had to reveal their own trump card in the process.