So since Cript was here, we managed to power through nine extra floors rather quickly, which is great cause it's been a while since we made a lot of headway in a single chapter. Entering Floor thirty, Cript, Cerex and I all found ourselves in the charred remains of some old temple. Cript gave a deep sigh. "I think I know who this is." He said sadly, looking around.
"Who is it?" I inquired. "Cause you seem rather down about it."
"Look around. You have King's memories, it's my old temple." I looked, realizing it was. While burned to ashes it still held certain areas of note. "This… is Andy's floor."
Andy… right, that was his friend turn enemy cause of Nexus, turn friend again and later spouse when they joined the family.
"Yeah...it's all coming to me…" I sighed out, being a fusion can sometimes be hard to look through memories..
"If it is, then it will probably be even harder, Andy and Cript grew up together so they know all of each other's moves." Cerex said.
"Yours too if you spared against him in the prior cycles. We need an edge." Cript said.
"He may know the tricks, but does he have the strength to back it up?" I pointed out. "Plus, he wouldn't know about our fusions cause this is all new, even Void Mother told us it's new."
"Trust me, Andy has always been strong and who knows what the void corruption has done to him. This does, though, bring up something of an opportunity… but I'll need King here Kico, is that alright?"
"Sure." I nodded. "Gonna fuse with them or something?"
"It it works out, probably." Cript said.
"It should." I said as I started to defuse into Coco and King.
Cript walked up to me, and held out a hand. "I know you made a deal with Vincent. I'm actually impressed more than I am mad, but I know he gave you information… a lot of information. I need to see it to make sure this will work."
I brought out the scroll that Vincent gave me and handed it to Cript. “He kept out some things, cause of course he would.” I rolled my eyes.
"Even so, if I'm lucky, a common issue with Heart, myself, and the other Cripts might get resolved." He said, opening it. He seemed to stare at it for several minutes before closing it. "Looks like we're in luck. Vincent left in Code Stitching."
“Cool...what’s that?” I asked curiously.
"Think of it like getting a tattoo, or a stuffed animal you sew a hat or cape too. Code stitching is largely how we Cripts are created, by stitching our abilities and other powers into our very code so they stay with us. With this, I can undo the threads holding them to me, or rather, one specific ability."
"You're going to remove your Override Ability to make a true blooded fusion with King and others, aren't you?" Cerex said, eyes wide.
"Yup." Cript said with a nod.
“Wait, that’s possible?” I asked. “Wait, is it possible to get rid of the shit happening to Coco?” I added quickly, hope brimming in me as to finding a way to reverse what Void Key did to Coco.
"Possibly. I've never done this before so, I'll need to run some trial and error before I try it on others. Now then…" Cript said, raising his hand up as code flowed over it. "This is probably gonna hurt. A lot." He then jabbed the code covered hand into his stomach, almost like breaking into a wall code leaked out of him. He hacked up blood for a moment before settling. "Yup… hurts like a complete bitch…" He wheezed. "Now where are is that fucking ability…."
“Do...you need help there?” I asked nervously.
"It's just pain… I'll manage." He huffed, looking like he was searching blindly into his own guts for a while before Finally smiling. "There you are…" Cript stood still for about two minutes before finally, slowly removing his hand. In his grip was a glowing purple orb of crackling code. Cerex brought out a jar that Cript put the orb in and sealed it inside. "There… Override is now gone. Fuck that hurt way more than I expected."
“So...all good?” I asked carefully.
"Yeah, messing with your own code always had some negatives but, all in all I'll be fine. So, King, shall we test out my newfound ability to fuse properly?"
“Yes please.” I nodded. “Let’s get onto some fusing.”
"Heh, then let's do this." Cript said, holding out a hand as I grabbed it.
Woah… woah… this… this power. It's… so much, so daunting… so... terrifying. I opened my eyes. I had four arms, more of King's appearance but still more human than wolf. I was maybe… twenty feet tall? Everything around me was so… vast. I could see every line of code that made it, the atoms, everything. I saw Cerex, saw Jericho and Kexez intertwined into the single body, I saw Coco, and all the damage and abilities and her strengths and weaknesses.
“Whoa…” I said breathlessly, at a loss for words at everything I’m seeing and feeling. “This...is a lot to take in.” I said. “Like...I can take on anything.”
"Well, do you feel stable?" Cerex asked me.
“No, I’m about as unstable as Pinkie on Red Bull and Xanax.” I pointed out with King's trademarked sarcasm. “But I do feel great.” I said honestly. “But uh...I’m scared I might break something just by moving…”
"Maybe try using a small attack to see your range of power?" Coco offered.
“If you say so.” I said while moving over to a wall and giving it a little knocking tap.
I jumped back as the wall exploded from my simple tap, my vision showing me that it was damaged down to it's code. Badly. "Shit." Cerex and Coco said in unison.
“I...damaged it’s very Code...so uh...damn.” I said nervously.
"Well then… Kit, wanna see how other enemies here are?" Cerex asked.
“Might as well.” I nodded. “Let’s really test out my abilities here.” I cracked my knuckles, ready for a fight.
I lead the way, walking over to the next room and seeing a decayed monk corpse stare at me, roar then send a blast of necromantic arrows at me. I was About to bring out King's Shield when… wait what? The arrows were frozen in place, as was the mage… and Cerex and Coco… everything was frozen… oh you have to be shitting me Cript could pause time?! This whole time?!
“King is gonna have a lot of questions for Cript when I unfuse.” I frowned as I walked over and broke the arrows with absolute ease.
I walked in front of the undead monk. Ugly thing. I took hold of it's head and broke the head off, I was trying to snap it but this works too, and watched as it's HP went from full hundred thousand to zero.
“So...how do I restart time?” I wondered with a frown.
No sooner than I said that, time began and the undead monk corpse dropped. "When did you get there?" Coco asked.
“Cript’s a butt and can stop time apparently.” I frowned.
"You surprised?" Cerex asked.
“Yes and no.” I sighed out.
"Guess we're gonna find out a lot of what Cript can do that he never showed." Coco said.
“True.” I nodded. “And so far I literally one shot a level five dungeon and, the things Kico had some troubles one shotting before.”
"Looks like this is going to be interesting. Should Coco and I sit back and relax or…?" Cerex asked.
"Give us a chance to check out Kit's insides?" Coco suggested.
“How so?” I asked curiously.
"Same way as other times. Swallow us and you can explore this place and test out abilities."
“Well...I don’t fully know if I also have that ability…” I said, honestly not sure if I had the naga/Floof Noodle racial traits in this fusion, so I decided to check my assistant to see if I did.
And…. Holy fuck… they just keep going… christ this is more abilities than King has…
“Okay I guess I do have it...and everything else under the goddamn sun.” I frowned.
"Neat. So, shall we?" Cerex asked.
“Sure.” I said while picking the two up carefully. “Who wants to go in first?”
"Dibs!" Coco said happily as she gave me a quick kiss.
Love Status of Coco Pomel: 97%
Wait… Cript can see how much someone loves them… as a percentage?! Actually… that makes sense, Admin of Love after all.
“But...seeing it as a percentage doesn’t feel right now...at least from King’s perspective…” I huffed.
Disable Emotional Quantification?
Uh… yes?
Emotional Quantification Disabled.
Wow… now if only that was as easy with King…
“Well I’m sorry for giving a shit.” I glared up at the sky. “So, let’s start with this, hopefully it’s comfy in there for you two.”
I sent the two down. Surprised there was no bulge at all but shrugged as I headed off. I came across another room where there was a lot of enemies.
“Alright everyone! If I have your attention please.” I called out to all the enemies. “You’re all fucked.” I said while bringing out Second Chance and Love Struck.
I was genuinely surprised as the blades had a secondary coating of energy over them, making them look like swords with the Keyblades Inside them. Love struck a energy that was a hot pink while Second Chance was more of a sky blue.
“Huh, that’s interesting.” I said, using my scan ability to check what these energy coatings were.
Pure Love Energy is coating Love Struck. Pure Innocence Energy is coating Second Chance.
Yeah that makes sense.
“Alright.” I nodded. “Let’s do something dumb…” I said while raising both Keyblades. “Twin Peaks…” I muttered as I slammed both of my Keyblades into the ground as I expected massive pillars of energy to shoot out towards the enemies.
The energies merged and struck into the horde of monsters and… yeah that was a mistake… Now I’ve got a horde of horny monster girl lollies...
“Okay...mistake…” I muttered as I raised Lovestruck up quickly as I managed to, somehow, age all the monster girl lollies up to being adults at least...didn’t help they were all stupidly horny, but it at least helped me not having them all be lollies.
Given Cerex wasn’t here… Guess I’ll send them down towards her. I did that and headed off, looking around and dealing with more monsters and such. I did find a mimic for the first time. It bit my arm and… I feel nothing… it… it’s not even breaking the skin and it broke like five teeth already.
“Do you mind stopping before you really hurt yourself?” I asked the mimic nervously.
It mindlessly kept bitting, breaking more teeth.
After I dealt with that thing I came across a- This…
It was a room, decorated with several long since burned chairs grown from the roots of a massive tree from behind them all. This is the chamber Cript’s master’s always sat in. Cript’s memories flooding. Cript’s earliest memories of this room, learning magic and dueling with Andy, pranking them and getting pranked by them as payback.
“Jesus...first Den now this?” I grumbled.
There were five seats, and leaned against each was five burned staffs. I took each, magic and code flowing over them and repairing them back to their glory days. Each staff was amazing and held memories my Cript half was crying over.
“Well...this sucks…” I grumbled, wiping away some tears. “I do this...all for them…”
I put them all away and headed on, finding more monsters. I decided to try some magic. Let’s see… oh shit! I shot off a basic fire spell… that somehow encased the whole room with heat nine times hotter than a red giant's core and burning everything, even the ashes of the monsters… What the fuck was that!? That was supposed to just be a basic fire spell!
“Okay seriously Cript, you and King are gonna need some serious talking cause that’s...too much.”
How much MP did that even… Does a number with that many zeroes even have a name?
“Jesus christ Cript…” I sighed out.
With a sigh I headed on off and decided to summon some of King’s weapons… Let’s see, first up, Eternal Flames- Holy shit they’re literally suns. Multiple suns all around each other in a ring held together by solar flares… Okay this is cool.
“Okay...so far that’s three weapons down…” I muttered. “But this is amazing.”
I disbanded them and summoned Lindworm… Actual, living spear shaped wind dragons… damn.
“Outstanding.” I chuckled as I pet one of the wind dragons.
They purred a lot like cats. After playing with them for a while I disbanded them and summoned Frozen Pride- Woah… It was super thin, paper thin and clear as glass. It’s design was that of a large knight’s shield with the insignia of the nobodies on it.
“Cool.” I said as I softly touched the ground with my shield, wondering how cold it is if it makes contact with something.
The room instantly became covered in frost and slow. It looked like an ice cave more than burned ruins now.
“Right then.” I said nervously. “Okay seriously Cript, what the hell? And Jericho’s supposed to be your equal?” I wondered, not even knowing if King’s fusion with Jericho was this powerful...or even the full fusion between King, Coco, Jericho and Kexez was this strong.
I put that away and brought out Sky Splitter. It was more like a tomahawk now, the look had a handle that matched the blade that was half my body in length. The handle itself while thin was also strong and the weapon felt lighter than even a Keyblade. The blade's edge seemed to be sparking as if it was hitting against something.
“What? Is it literally splitting the air around it?” I asked as I softly swung it through the air.
The rip in reality before me seemed to leak out code itself like a bleeding wound for several minutes before sealing itself back up… okay then...
“Jesus fuck…” I groaned. “This is way too much power…”
I put Sky Splitter away and brought out SharpShooters. Well, at least these look normal. I lifted them up to aim and-
2,798 targets available. Would you like to select a target or eliminate them all?
I… don't even see anything around me?
“Fine.” I frowned as I targeted one enemy I literally couldn’t see. “Let’s see what happened…” I fired at the one random target.
To my surprise the bolt fired to the left of the barrel, phased through the wall next to me and a few moments later I heard a not so small explosion.
Target Eliminated.
“For the love of god…” I sighed out.
I put those away and brought out Fair Game. So far so good. Actually so far it seems Fair Game hasn't changed. Aside from the colors now blue and grey over their normal grey and black they seem unaffected.
“Alright, so what makes you different?” I asked while softly shuffling Fair Game.
As I did this I grabbed one card out of the others. This is new. It had a plus sign on it. Plus what? Is it for healing or… no. Fair game is made from Space itself so… maybe… I tapped the plus like you would a phone screen and watched as an image of an Explosion appeared and in fast… oh you have to be kidding me, I can use these cards and create entire universes now?!
“Okay, hold on.” I started as I pricked my finger and a drop of blood fell out as I created a clone of myself. “Defuse, I need to talk to Cript, cause even I’m getting a little overly surprised by all this shit, and I’m a fusion of the bastard!” I explained incredulously.
Once the starfish clone of myself was ready I defused, myself and King both looked over at Cript, who just shrugged. "Are you really surprised?" He asked.
“Yes.” Me and King deadpanned. “Like...come on man, I know Kit’s a fusion of the both of us, but fuck.” King pointed out.
"So, what's the issue? You've known I'm strong and suppress most of my power all the time."
“But to this extent?” King asked nervously.
“I’m you, and even I’m surprised.” I told Cript.
"Again… I am the hand crafted product of Vincent, built to rival and possibly surpass him… what about this is news?" Cript asked.
King and I could only sigh out. “I’m just...surprised at how vast the difference is I suppose…”
"I believe I made that clear on several occasions. And you weren't even putting effort into those attacks. If you actually put effort into them odds are this floor would have been completely destroyed."
“And I’m glad I didn’t then.” I frowned. “What? Could I single handedly steam roll through everything here?”
"Maybe. At least, they'd be easy til you get to Lyra on the last floor."
“I only heard a little bit about Lyra...but how strong is she?” King inquired.
"Between Jericho and myself. She's strong, maybe even stronger than I am. I don't know, we never dueled. Never bothered to try."
“Good to know.” King said nervously. “Why is that again? Something about having a lot of spouses or something?”
"I am the admin of love, she is the admin of marriage. While I get extra power from the love of everyone in the family, she gets It from the .. successful love making. Meaning the more members and the more kids born the stronger she also gets. Funny enough we didn't even know that was something she could get from all the sex and such being an admin, she just wanted to see how many kids she could birth at once."
"Sounds about right." I nodded.
"She's just stupidly horny all the time." King pointed out.
"Heh, basically." Cript laughed. "Our retirement plan was basically gonna be cuddles, sex and maybe spawn a new world or reality populated by the kids we'd conceive. But, since Vincent won't stay dead for us to act on it… retirement has to wait."
"Sounds about right." I nodded.
"So, anymore questions?"
"How does it feel being fused and not overtaking someone else?" I asked curiously.
"Honestly… kinda nice. Being both in control and not, myself and someone else is an experience I've never had before. Frankly I always used to with the Override Ability worked I. Reverse so I was just the battery or the engine and the other person was at the wheel. Like this though it works well. And since I didn't want to be that much in control anyway Kit came out much more like King than me, so I'm happy with that."
“Fair.” I shrugged. “Glad you’re having a fun time with this Cript.”
"Yeah. So, guess Kit here can basically solo this dungeon. Guess King and I will head back via belly portals, so many strange sentences, and probably get Heart and the other Cripts Override abilities removed so we can all try out fusions in a Secret Reports Chap."
“Sounds like a plan.” I nodded.
"Have fun Kit." Cript said. With that I swallowed the two. Huh, does make me wonder what the other fusions will be like. King and Heart would be especially interesting. The Admin of Hearts and The Admin of Nothingness in one body and mind… huh.
“A lot of thoughts for later.” I said while cracking my knuckles. “Time to start murdering everything.”
As I walked the hall I summoned more of King's weapons. Next up was Foudre and… wow. They're bayonets now. Actually this is really cool looking.
“Looks like I’ve got bayonets for days now.” I chuckled.
Actually… rapidly I began throwing them and summoning more to throw. I didn't stop till a hole was turned into a pincushion and with a snap of my fingers let Foudre light up like the Speed Force, destroying the wall entirely. Oh yeah, Bayonets for days.
“This...has become a dangerous situation.” I said nervously. “I can already hear the Boondock Saints references from Anderson.”
I disbanded Foudre and brought out Arpeggio. It was an electric Guitar/Bass/keyboard looking thing and had so many settings I could set it to only hurt one thing in all existence and that one thing would only hear my music. Oh hey it even has a microphone at the end here so I can sing into it. Sweet!
“This is the least worrying things out of all of King’s weapons so far funnily enough.” I muttered to myself.
I played a few songs and the learning curve would normally be hard on something like this, but I found myself picking it up instantly.
“Well so far so good…” I muttered. “So glad both Cript and King are quick learners.”
With that done I put it away and brought out Book of Retribution. It was actually… smaller. Like more of a thin small book you'd see for an eight year old. Huh.
“Strange...and where’s Staff of Leniency?” I wondered, trying to summon the archmage staff it came with after evolving it so hard.
Nothing. Huh… I opened the book and Holy shit! That's a… that's a lot of stuff. Oh I can make the staff from the book. Neat.
“Well that’s good.” I nodded. “Also damn...that’s a lot of spells.”
I flipped through the first few… trillion pages and finally put it away. Now for Lunatic. I was surprised to see it was more like an actual sword now, the tip of the blade though formed a large crescent moon like shape that was definitely where the AoE attacks were hit from.
“Cool.” I nodded. “I wonder what the explosion would be…” I muttered to myself as I stupidly tapped the tip of the crescent moon on the floor.
Oh fuck!! … huh, that fall didn't even hurt. I looked around. Huh, this is the first room again. Must be some anti cheat measures to keep from just breaking the floors below or above to get here. Only way down is through the stairways in the boss rooms so anyone who breaks the floors to get there just ends up back in the first room of the floor. Neat… also owe that Explosion hurt way more than anything else that's hit me so far.
“I just tapped the floor too…” I muttered worriedly.
I put Lunatic away and brought out Graceful Dahlia, the blade was a collection of cherry blossom leaves along a singular body made from wood. It looked way more pretty and decorative than I expected.
“May look stupidly pretty, but it’s also stupidly dead.” I chuckled.
I ran back to the room I destroyed then ran passed it to the next. I saw five enemies and I gave the scythe a gentle swing. Rather than a cut or a wave of energy, the cherry blossom petals flew off, and landed onto the monsters. Upon touching them the monsters burst into a shower of gore and plants, each one's corpse feeding the bush or tree that sprouted from where it died.
“Oh...right then…” I blinked at that.
I carefully put the weapon away and finally pulled out Interdiction. The two weapons formed more curved longswords than a lightsaber from before.
“Alright...so how do you become bonkers?” I started.
I looked up, wondering what I could- and there it is. I watched as the blades extended out in jagged turns that stretched out and ran down the halls to impale monsters out of my swing range. Sweet!
“What, are these things acting like the Omega Beams all of a sudden?” I wondered. “Cause if so...sweet.”
I ran down the hall, using them like this and not even needing to swing as they ran out and impaled, decapitated or even turned into paste. This. Is. Amazing!
I then stopped myself real quick. “Hold on, I’m supposed to be using either Second Chance or Love Struck.”
I swapped back over to Second Chance, wondering what to do now… everything is just so… easy… actually almost boring once the fun wears off.
“This is a level five dungeon, this was maxed out by Void Mother herself.” I huffed, confused on how this all suddenly became so easy just by fusing. Is Cript really that strong? And he is right, I haven’t even been putting effort into this.
"Alright, so how do I make this more difficult?" I frowned as I checked my assistant. "Cause level five is supposed to scale with your power…"
It was here I realized it was… I was outscaling it in power… Cript was built to be the strongest… no acceptions… No wonder he rarely fights. Nothing can be a challenge for him… Vincent...
"So…Vincent loses now?" I asked. "This wars over, Cript can fight now, and so can I…"
"And yet here I am." I turned, seeing Vincent there. A smile on his face. "I built Cript to get stronger, forever. An endless, eternal warrior."
"Which is weird cause Cript killed you."
"And yet here I am still, and yet I've also been reborn as I and my other are meant to. It's almost like a paradox, but you're smarter than that, King and my Prized Cript, together in a single body and mind. I have to say, I wasn't expecting this outcome, and so far I'm enjoying the surprise."
"There will be a lot more you'll be surprised about...now question, how do you remember past cycles? Cause you've either mentioned things your not supposed to know, or just outright stated that you've seen this shit before, which you also shouldn't." I told him. "Being an Admin of Life doesn't exempt you from Null's."
"Oh, come on now. You gonna sit there and tell me you can't figure out the obvious. Think. I'm here, yet I'm also reborn as I should be. I know and have seen things I shouldn't have, and as far as you can tell I'm even immune to the effect of the Nulls. Now, where do all those dots connect, and what word do they form?"
"Grey…" I started. "It's the only thing that's been constant in everything that's been going on, even after resets it's still there…" I brought up. "Does it have something to do with that weird Voice King found?"
"Ah, closer to the fire you've gotten, you learned the how about me, now it's just the Who, What, and Why about me you need to learn. Well, the both of us. Can't learn about one without learning about the other after all."
“I mean, the answers are rather obvious now that I have that.” I brought up. “Vincent wants to help destroy all of Reality, as he told Kite, so he made you, Grey, the only thing that’s infinitely growing and the only power Vincent seemed dodgy on answering...so that just begs the question...if you’re here, what was that other Voice?” I brought up.
"Hm. We were built as one being, we were only meant to be pure energy, mindless and passively destroying this grand device from the inside like poison. But, we gained sentience. A mind growing around the core purpose we were built for. In time, the mind resisted the core purpose of our existence, resisted me. So dear old dad cut me out, all because his heart was touched by that stupid little glitch in our code. We were never meant to have a mind, body, personality. We were meant to just be mindless energy. So, once I was cut loose… I needed a new host."
“So, you picked your creator huh? And I doubt you’ll tell me who your ‘other half’ is right?” I inquired the being.
"It shouldn't be that hard to figure out, you are fucking her after all. Back then and still now."
“Eclipsa?” I asked. “This...is a lot to take in to be honest.”
"Back then she was known as Grey, and you were known as Malty, and that Cript, the one you call Heart, was known as Persila. Finding her soul and using it for a Cript was honestly pure luck, my little sister kept you two safe and hidden every lifetime, and every reset. Such pointless sentimental attachment."
“So that’s why we’re still alive, even as you assholes tried to kill us numerous times.” I stated bluntly.
"Have, yet she brings you back. So, now you know the truth. Now you know what I am… heh, my only question is… what do you think you can do about me now?"
“Vincent has happily agreed to help King find a way out of the Machine, and stop you from destroying everything.” I pointed out. “But it’s going to be all up to Eclipsa to beat your ass into submission, cause she’s your opposite.”
"Maybe. She's tried so many times before and yet, never once did she obtain victory. In the end, while we are evenly matched, the reason I keep winning is because I never abandoned our purpose. Destroy the Machine at any cost."
“And what will happen when we all fuck off outside the machine?” I asked. “What happens to your wondrous plan when we finally find a way to stop this crap?”
"You assume you can survive outside it. Code doesn't work out there dipshit. The only ones who could have built anything out there are the ones who built this machine and they all died off long ago, I should know, I looked. Out there is just a quick death, so go on, escape, it makes this easier for me."
“I doubt that.” I rolled my eyes. “Cause...if memory serves Lord brought up that there’s someone still out there, still alive and well, that we’ll need to be stronger than Cript to be able to stand a chance against.”
"And you think you can beat that? I could just kill you now and spare you the hardship of dealing with it."
“Would give me an actual fight that’s for sure.” I rolled my eyes.
"Please, he'd kill you instantly. You can't even kill me, what chance would you have against the one who built this place?"
“You’re an energy source, you technically can’t die.” I rolled my eyes. “And hey, finally someone that won’t just fall over cause I’m part Cript.” I said. “I hope it’ll be a fist fight and not a skateboarding contest, I looked it up, still can’t skateboard at all.”
"So, just because you're half Cript you think you're stronger than me? Heh, don't forget, I built him." Vincent… Grey, raised a finger, shooting off a bolt of magic buffed by grey and hit me. Frozen pride took the hit, gaining lots of cracks and chips that began healing once the assault was done. "Every ability, spell and power he has I implanted into him. And for King, heh, the other guy would have at least known how to pronounce the language of Nothingness properly."
“And just like that, you’ve pissed me off.” I frowned as I summoned Skysplitter. “Not sure what’s going to happen, but you honestly deserve it.” I growled, swinging a hell of a lot faster than Grey originally thought, Skysplitter cleaving through the very Code of the area as I swung at him with some effort put into it.
He smirked, raising- what?! To my surprise he brought out his own Frozen Pride, the Shield looking just like the one I disbanded and tanking the hit. He did get sent onto a wall, the stones falling around him left him unphased. "Not bad. I actually felt that."
"How the hell did you get Frozen Pride?"
"I believe Lord told King about an Admin's ability to use code to make exact replicas of anything with code. Given he turned it into an Admin artifact the more power you put towards them the stronger they get. Now then," he snapped his fingers, Nine Sky Splitters just like mine appeared around him floating. "I'll teach you how Admins fight!" The weapons all were flying at me from every angle. Fast.
I wasn't sure how to dodge, and I wasn't sure if I could, but I somehow did. "Can't you do anything original?"
"If you insist." He said, materializing a trident he launched at me. It sparked against Sky Splitter, splitting it down the middle, but denting both halves into my arms. FUCK! I could feel my very code getting broken and sliced up. The halves then pulled themselves out, code leaking from my wounds like blood as they formed back into a single trident in Grey's hand. "Anymore requests?"
"Why am I not surprised…" I grumbled as I brought out Lunatic and dual wielded it with Skysplitter. "Fine then." I growled, feeling my power rise exponentially. "You want power, than here!" I shouted as I leaped forward and swung both of my weapons at him, putting more effort and Power into it.
He brought out another trident and we clashed blades, the energy sparking around us was breaking this floor badly, I wasn't gonna budge and Grey wasn't either.
"Hey, I'm actually starting to have fun here." I chuckled, trying to find some advantage here.
"Heh, is that right?" Grey said, the energy around him funneling up suddenly, then blasting out all around us.
I got back up and… holy… it… it's gone. He blew up the dungeon. "So much space, now it will be fun." He said, walking over the rubble.
"You...didn't blow up the whole dungeon did you?" I asked worriedly.
"Just the upper floors. Gives us some space for now." Grey grinned. "Bet that explosion was seen for miles around."
"And probably pissed off a lot of people."
"Like I care." He said, tossing the tridents aside and bringing out twin short swords. "So, how's this gonna work? You can't kill me and I can't kill you, what shall end this I wonder?"
"Not sure…" I said simply, bringing out Lindworm to aid me. "But it's gonna be your choice to quit now."
"You're a confident little shit. Alright, enjoy the hike." He snapped his fingers. I readied to attack, and froze at who I saw between us now… King?
Ugh… fuck… where am I? "I take it you still being fused is a good thing." That voice… I jumped up… I was in a beautiful darkly lit forrest… and next to me, was Void Mother. "You're lucky both your halves are Deathless."
"What the hell happened?" I asked worriedly.
"King made a deal with Grey, remember? Information for letting Grey cherry pick the timelines within Nothingness. That was King, of another timeline. One where he was more of a tyrant. Grey modified him, and he punched you clear across the void into the seas. I fished you out and brought you here. My sanctuary."
"Oh come on, I have to restart the dungeon again?" I grumbled. "But seriously...how the hell were they that strong?" I wondered. "I know Grey can give a serious power boost but...that's alot, even for me."
"Like I said, he's been modified. He's more like you, powers and such of Cript, and King. Just not a fusion."
"King knew it was gonna bite him in the ass...and good lord did it." I sighed out. "Hooray, were all fucked now…"
"Not really." Void Mother stated, conjuring up a tea pot and began making some tea. "He can only make them as strong as Cript. The extra punch comes from him. It's like attaching a hose to a faucet and turning it on, the water rushing out is Grey's power flowing into his little assistants. A hose can only push so much out at once, there is a limit to how much they can draw from at a time. You have no such limit, and whenever Eclipsa remembers who she truly is and can tap into the power Grey uses, the fight becomes even."
“But...wouldn’t using Grey accelerate the process and make him stronger?” I inquired, finding those two bits rather worrying.
“Sadly, but therein lies the issue. These two halves were never meant to be separated. It’s like keeping light and darkness of your hearts as two individuals, keeping the whole from being what it is. There is Eclipsa, the mind that came to grow and evolve, and then there is Grey, the one who remembers why they exist and does not want to forget it, for it is all he can hold onto for his own identity. The only way to win this fight is to get Eclipsa and Grey back as one, but who should prevail in the union will determine the outcome. If Eclipsa comes out on top, then creation and the machine are saved, if Grey, we are all doomed. If both find a middle ground, a balance can be set for the future, a stable mix of creation and destruction.”
"But what about the plan to escape the machine?" I asked.
“Sadly, he isn’t wrong. Without code to craft a livable world, no one could live out there for long, not even an Admin. You would need the power of the Crafters, those who built the machine.”
"And that's why we're going to find either one of them, or their work." I said honestly. "Grey couldn't have found anything, cause they weren't looking properly."
“Are you sure you can?”
"King knows he can, so of course I can." I said. "Life does exist outside the machine, Grey is going to make King fight a monster from it, so there has to be something out there Grey's unwilling to bring up."
"That is a secret that can only be told by Max." Void mother said, her tea smelled ready as she began pouring herself a cup. "When you return, return as your halves. There will be people there of his waiting for them. The time of conflict between your groups is nearing the end, and the time of an alliance and reunions is nearing."
"Hopefully it won't end poorly on either side with this final conflict…" I sighed out. "God...what's Eclipsa gonna think of all this?"
"My guess? She knows. She might not remember all her lives, but she knows. It's like… The Avatar, in a sense. All those past lives, battles, power and experiences at her disposal. She only needs to reach out, and take them back."
"And...she might lose herself if she does it? That's why she hasn't yet?"
"Yes, and no. Each past life of hers is part of who she is, what she is. Personalities, genders, all built around the core that is Exlipsa. Remembering won't make her lose herself, it will just reveal who she truly is. Grey, child of Vincent and the first to defy destiny."
"So...now onto a proper question, what the hell is that anti deathless metal? No one I know knows it but Grey and most likely Eclipsa at this point, do you know?"
"From what I have seen, your Exlipsa crafted it long ago, in one of their many battles against Grey."
"Ah, sounds about right." I nodded.
"So, that leaves just us. What shall become of our relations?"
"Do you truly want to destroy reality? Or do you just miss your love?"
"The life of a deathless immortal is torture if you are to live it alone. People come and go, die in the blink of an eye. Without at least one constant, the loneliness quickly becomes worse than death."
"King knows that feeling all too well…" I sighed out. "But...if you're lonely, why not join us in our family?"
"As the Void Mother, anywhere I go the void itself will follow and consume. If I was to have my womb and heart returned, I would no longer be the Void Mother… but, without my existence, the Void itself would begin to wither and die. So much life lives here, some twisted, some beautiful. I can't let it die."
"Well...shit…" I frowned. "That's not good…"
"There is one who can take my place, but odds are she will not like it at first."
"Who and what?" I asked. "Also wouldn't it have been John's job at that point?"
"The Void Conduit, Maxellia. I belive she and Cript had an encounter before, where she and Kross revealed themselves as John and Max's parents."
"Whoa what!?"
"You are half Cript, how is this new information for you?"
"Certainly news for King that's for sure." I stated simply.
"Hm. In any case, she can take my place but as I stated, she won't like it. And likely not until after Grey has been dealt with."
"Sounds fair." I nodded. "Whole lot of things are going on...a lot faster than King thought."
"Yes. Still, thanks to him our final conflict has a much larger window of time than previous. And such interesting opportunities it will offer."
“Really?” I inquired. “How much longer is the window?”
"Til Grey sees all participants as worthy of the final conflict. Given he will be eyeing us closely and actually helping us get stronger just to satisfy his own boredom means we can have eons of time to prepare, so long as Grey is entertained."
“And considering King gained Nexus and the vast majority of Grey’s knowledge… well it might help in the long run.”
"You think Grey handed King a vast majority? Trust me, he only handed them what he figured they could make of use for the time."
“Yeah of course…” I grumbled. “Still a lot of info to be honest.”
"Now then, you best be off back to what's left of the Heroes Tomb, Max's people are waiting."
“Still got a whole lot of floors still.” I sighed out. “Even if I can steam roll through all of them.”
"Good luck, brand new fusion."
I headed back, Void Mother at least gave me a portal back there and upon stepping out I saw who must be Max's people.
“Alright…” I started while bringing up my assistant and calling up Coco, Kexez and Jericho. “Come on you three, we got a fight to happen, I’m gonna defuse.” I said, thankfully the text to speech was actually pretty good as I sent the message to the three.
“That’s fine with us.” A small figure in a cloak said. Female from the voice.
“Why are most of you wearing cloaks?” Agamemnon ask looking at them. Out of the five there only him and one big muscular man that looked a bit familiar didn’t have a cloak.
“For mystery!” The small one said with excitement.
“Not doing you any favors there Frisk.” I said simply. “Don’t even need to see your Code in this form to know you smell the exact same as Joy’s Frisk.” I brought up. “Only more...Void Tainted.”
“Pooh.” She sounded disappointed. “You're no fun.” She said, taking off her cloak. She looked similar to Frisk, but with blonde hair and her striped shirt was black with a blue stripe.
“Oh trust me, the only ones King would know off hand are you, Agamemnon, and Broly from the Super Movie...still a good movie.”
“Thanks.” Broly said.
“Shame we couldn’t finish your training, but duty calls unfortunately and I had to leave. I see you used code and connections to Cript and Lord to upgrade your weapons.” Agamemnon said.
"Considering the enemy, it's a safer bet." Cript said with a shrug.
"So, I take it there are two possible reasons why you all are here." Jericho asked.
Frisk just smiled while opening her eyes. Her red pupils and black iris. “Max sent us here to collect the same thing you're after.”
"Void Mother's womb?" Kexez asked. "Why does he need it?"
“This is for two things. 1, to keep it from you, and 2, he learned something recently and the womb is necessary for something….something that actually worries him. He and Nerd are still looking into it.” Frisk said.
"Nerd? The Researcher Cript?" Coco asked. "I was wondering what happened to the other Cript's…"
“I found him while raiding one of Nexus’s research compounds. Along with other things.” Agamemnon said. “He, Max, and the other Cript's our group found are back at our base. Nerd is happy to work in the late Admin of abilities workshop.”
"Wow, and here I thought that place didn't exist anymore. Color me impressed." Cript said. "So, what's Max been up to since last we saw each other?"
“Training, research, planning strikes at Nexus. He also found a vial of some substance. Nerd was having a panic attack saying it should be destroyed immediately. What was again?” Frisk said, scratching their head.
“The Dream Project.” Agamemnon said.
Cript suddenly went pale. "Son of a bitch! I swore I destroyed all of it!" He cursed. "Trust me, if you saw the shit that thing made you wouldn't wanna touch that vial with a ten thousand miles pole."
“Don’t worry. Max promised Nerd if anything we took from Nexus doesn’t even have atoms worth of use from it he’ll destroy it. Also he said if you're here we can just open a portal to there since he knows we stand no chance against you.” One of the cloaked figures said. Before snapping a finger creating said portal.
“Oh, and also, just a quick side note.” King started. “Vincent gave me Nexus, all the people that wouldn’t follow the rat bastard.” King brought up. “Also, another quick side note, don’t mind the ‘not finishing training’ thing, I’ve been busy doing...a lot of other things, my looks alone being a good indicator.” I said as I motioned to my Den Mother appearance.
"Among other things…" Cript sighed, taking a deep breath. "I… trust Max. I'm not the Cript that raised him, I just have their memories. I'm just worried is all… finding that Lab with the Dream Project shit was probably the darkest shit I've ever been through."
“He said the vial wasn’t the only thing there. Something else was but he won’t say what..just that killing both took nearly everything he had and was a mercy kill if anything. “ Frisk said.
“So...the hell is this ‘Project Dream’ thing? Cause I only know snippets of it from what notes Joy found a while back and I know Eclipsa had something involved with it but she won’t talk about it.” King asked.
"She didn't. Trust me." Cript sighed. "Do you all really wanna know what it was about or should the past stay buried?"
“I’d honestly like to know what we might be up against.” King frowned. “Even if our two groups are against each other now, we won’t be later.”
“We’ll save that chat for later.” One of the cloak figures who hasn’t talked yet said before removing his cloak. Showing a man wearing regal like clothing before taking his hat and holding against his chest. “I’m Ardyn. Ardyn Lucis Caelum.”
"The rest of you share that opinion?" Jericho asked.
“We do. I’m Madoras.” Another cloaked figure said before taking it off. “And yes I’m aware of how I look. Never cared much.” He had gray skin with white hair that had red on the end. His outfit was strange as it was mostly black but left most of his torso exposed.
He glared at Frisk who was suppressing a laugh. “Must you laugh every time you see me?” He asked, irritated.
“Yes!” Was her reply.
"There's a meme here I just can't remember which?" Cript said, shrugging. "That aside, sorry to inform but we need the Void Mother's womb. Firstly to revive a dead love of Jericho, and then return it to her with her heart so we can have Void Mother replaced by Maxellia. She won't like it, and probably will be beating the shit out of me before, during and after I ask her, but Void Mother is pretty sure she will accept, after she gets to spend as long as she wants kicking my ass."
“Two things, one, Madoras, you remind me a lot of a much buffer Raiden from Metal Gear, and two...how strong is Maxella?” King asked nervously.
"Well, she can't kill me but she can hurt me so, that's a scale. I guess." Cript said.
“And by ‘hurt’, you mean kick your ass hurt, or ‘tis a scratch’ kind of hurt?” King asked.
“And by “tis a scratch’ do you mean an actual scratch or losing a limb and thinking nothing of it like that black Knight guy?” Frisk asked.
"Yes?" Cript said.
“Glad to know I’m not the only one that watched Monty Python.” King chuckled. “So anyways, I think I can take a guess as to who our last cloaked person is, and I have a question.” King started as they kneeled down and brought out a little fancy looking charm. “I believe someone collects charms?”
The figure took off its cloak to show a small being with a white mask and two black holes for eyes. He reaches for it with King accidentally holding it a little too high but found the little hops it made to get it cute. Like a kid trying to reach for a toy.
“You are just adorable.” King giggled. “And sorry for holding it up to high my little friend.” They said softly as they lowered their hand to let the Ghost have the charm.
“That adorable guy is probably the strongest, not counting Cript, being here since he basically at best represents Void itself.” Frisk said.
“Thank you, cause I haven’t really gone to his world, or played Hollow Knight.” King shrugged, seeing Ghost take the charm happily. “Really should get around to doing that sometime, only got some cliff notes on how this little guy...I think killed a god in his world?”
“Actually from what Max said on his research he killed a Higher Embodiment of Light and is the child of Void and God but PK was actually a Higher Embodiment of Nothing.” Frisk said.
“So there is room to speculate that people can use Void and Nothingness together, if our little friend here is anything to go by.” King brought up.
“The Pale King had the mask the vessels use made from a special concentration of Nothing to contain their Void should they survive. From what Max gathered the Void there is actually the densest in the entire Void. Something is there causing it, or the Void is drawn there.” Madoras explained.
“I think one of the cliff notes I had from the game, one of the DLC’s, was that...there’s literally an Embodiment of Void living there, if not a Void God, which in my studies is actually stronger than an Embodiment even if the name makes it sound on a lower tier.” King brought up, bringing out a notebook titled ‘Notes on Games I really should play’.
“Anyway.” Frisk said walking forward and..did she age a few years? “Who is facing who?” She asked with a smile.
“I have heard from Agamemnon that you really didn’t like me for killing Gideon, the person that...really needed to die for every reason imaginable?” King frowned, shivering at the bad memory of just seeing the fat bastard.
“I called dibs on his death.” She pouts.
“Just to give a little insight. Those admins that watched over the entrance to Mother. Are gone.” Agamemnon said as his armored hand is covered in a familiar code.
“So you’re the fuckers that made Mother and Belief run to us.” King growled. “Why?”
“Max wanted us to be as prepared as possible for the coming war and becoming pseudo admins help.” Frisk said with the code of the Admin of Death coating her hands.
“I know, Maxella and Kross told me.” Cript said. “Guess we gotta use that Womb to bring back some more people than. That sentence sounded weird even with context.” He sighed. “So… What is your big plan for Vincent then? Cause so far he knocked out a fusion of King and I and blasted us into the void sea, with a copy of King he plucked from the Nothingness Timelines. So, how are you all gonna deal with that if all you wanna do is fight us?”
“Oh, Max will deal with King. He’ll leave Vincent to John. He has a feeling Vincent will do something that’ll push the last barriers John has on his potential. Since John technically was the second strongest of your group when everything started. Hell! He could have killed Core if he didn’t hold his Psychopath back.” Frisk said.
“Uh huh… and lemme ask you all a question about that. Firstly, you all know Max and John are brothers, right?”
“Ya. Max found that out when looking at his code and compared it to John’s.” Frisk said.
“Right, and so you must also know that Maxella and Kross are their parents then right? The two greatest Void Users just under Void Mother herself, right?”
“I had to help with calming him down and distressing him for 2 years in a different dimension.” Frisk said.
“Hol up, what?” King asked incredulously. “I don’t remember that...but I might not have met either of those people…”
“You didn’t. Frankly they hate everybody. Especially me, ironic given Kross is a Cript.”
“Cause who isn’t at this point?” King asked sarcastically.
“Right, so keeping all that in mind… do you still all honestly believe you can fight Vincent, who, spoiler alert, isn’t actually Vincent, he’s Grey, ya know that energy clogging up the space in the storage drive in the machine we all live in? The one who causes basically a factory reset of this place more times than I think is possible to count and built myself, Kross, and is so strong his newest idea of fun was to train and make people strong enough to tickle him? Do you all really wanna go up against that? Alone?”
“Us.” She said gesturing to herself and the kings. ”No, Max or John. Two children of a Cript and the Void Conduit. Much better than us.”
Cript sighed. He walked over to that still open portal. “Max I know you are listening over there, get over here or I will give Frisk ALL your baby pictures.”
“You mean these?” Frisk said, holding a photo album.
“Don’t ask how she got those…” A voice from the portal said.
“So…” King started. “I’m just going to bring this up, do we really have to do this?” The den mother dire wolf asked. “We all have a common enemy, and that’s Vincent...er, Grey at this point. Do we well and truly need to try and fight each other?” King asked, not wanting to fight needlessly.
“Max wanted us to face you to see how far we all are. He is not closed to the idea but not till he is sure your group is ready, and not just Cript or any fusion with him counts towards it.” Agamemnon explained.
“How about this.” Cript offered. “You all get one hit. One, all out strongest attack one me, and I ranke it on a scale of one to ten. Ten being painful, five being kicked in the shin, and one to zero being sad. Cause… Frankly, I am tired of all this shit. And I meant these Photos.” Cript said, materializing a red and blue striped album and tossing it to Frisk. “There’s bathtime and babies first playtime.”
“So Cript’s not joining.” King started as he drew No Heart. “Who wants to face me first? Cause I know Frisk is one of them and Agamemnon would want to see how well I’m doing.”
Frisk stepped up. “Guess I’ll go first.”
“Age to 18. Don’t underestimate him.” Agamemnon recommends.
“Ok.” She said. Aging up to her 18 year old self.
“Alright.” King nodded, bringing out Frozen Pride. “So, which Undertale world are you from? I got...I believe it was named Storyshift.”
Frisk lifts one finger before flicking it up. “Epictale.” A giant orange boxing glove bursts from the ground hitting King and sending him into the air. She then jumps up to him and grabs their face. “Let’s get a bigger arena.” Then throws them to a large floating landmass.
King turned around quickly and landed on the ground feet first. “Thanks for that, I had a crick in my neck that wouldn’t go away.” King chuckled. “Now, my turn.” The wolf started as he swung No Heart, a massive wave of bladed Nothingness rushing towards Frisk, King leaping behind the fast moving attack as they readied an attack with Frozen Pride.
Just as the attacks were about to land Frisk smirks and dissolves into purple papers flying about. King was taken off guard by the move and was shot by a yellow revolver poking out of a page to his left.
“Sike.” King said as an ice spike shot through Frisk’s gun hand as they raised their shield up. “Frost Storm!” King shouted as dozens of ice spears descended down onto the purple pages like a raging storm.
He heard a foot step behind him and turned around making a spike of ice erupt and pieces the target,...but sees Joy standing there with the ice inside their chest. Blood on the ice and coughing it up. “W-why?” They asked with a betrayed voice.
“Oh…” King started. “You want to play it like this huh?”
He heard clapping as Joy disappeared. Looking behind them to see frisk sitting on a rock. “Very good. Most people normally are just shocked and stunned from that, but I’m glad you passed that little test. If you were effective like normal people this would be boring.” She said.
Frisk was even more surprised by King, as she experienced face first a full weighted swing from Skysplitter, sending her flying up into the air as King disbanded it into the Book of Retribution and Staff of Leniency. “Heavens Descent!” King shouted, Frisk seeing pearly white gates appear above her, only to start opening up and a massive force of holy energy rammed straight into her, driving her back down into the earth. “Don’t.Ever.Do that again.” King growled. “Even if it was painfully obvious...you don’t fuck with my family.”
He heard laughter from the hole. “Very nice. That actually hurt a little bit, but-“ she said as she got out of the whole. Looking older. About 20. She wiped her cheek which had a small cut. “Paper cuts aren’t that big a deal.” Her left leg was covered in a dark blue light as she suddenly kicked King in the side of his head, but that kick felt more like 20 kicks in an instant.
She then grabbed his leg as he was sent flying from the kick and slammed him into the ground. She then pointed her hand like a handgun at him. “Bang.”
A massive Yellow Revolver appears and blast him into the ground and through the landmass into the void under it.
King flew back up with a frown. “So that’s your gimmick huh? Your age hides your potential or something?” The wolf asked, their body scuffed up a bit but nothing major.
“That and its fun being a kid when I want. Especially when most don’t expect a kid to be as deadly as me.” She said.
“I’m not most.” King started as they shifted to True King’s Valor form. “Thankfully I also have some forms that I haven’t used yet.” King said happily, their form being that of their Nothingness Armor, pure red with flowing nothingness thorn’s flowing through it as a cascade of raw physical might radiated from King. “Let’s see how you handle this.” King said as they landed a punch on Frisk, and just like with their attack, it felt like they were hit fifty times over from their massive speed boost.
She slid back a couple meters from the attack. “Hehe. Nice one, but-“ she holds out her green frying pan weapon. She used it to block the attack.” -you’ll need to ‘dish’ out more than that.” She punned. With a loud groan coming from the other kings.
“Well I suppose I better-” King started as their hands burst into a bluish white flame akin to the fire from the upgraded Eternal Flames. “-get ‘Heated up’ for ya.” King counter punned.
“I HEAR ONE MORE PUN I'M COMING UP THERE!!” Yelled Agamemnon.
“Damn, he doesn't like puns.” King said nervously.
“A Sans with too much color on him and a ‘fresh’ personality appeared and even Max is having a hard time getting rid of him. He annoys Agamemnon the most for laughs.” Frisk said.
“Wait…” King started. “That sounds familiar...I’m gonna have to look that up later, but when you say ‘fresh’, you mean he spouts nothing but memes and a bunch of shit from the nineties?”
“Yes.” Frisk deadpans. “Also had shades that have words on them that change with things like ‘Yo,Yo’, ‘lol’, and other stuff.”
“Oh yeah, I think I heard of him before, it’s actually a parasite that’s controlling that Sans if my little...dive into the Undertale wiki means anything.” King said sheepishly.
Suddenly a giant glowing blue ballet shoe smashes into him sending him flying. Then another from below sending him up. Then one sends him down, and it just repeats for a few seconds before a giant frying pan smashes him into the ground. Then slams the ground a couple more times. Finally six yellow giant revolvers aim at him and each simultaneously fire six blasts into the ground.
“Are you still good to go?” Frisk asks casually.
"Rude." King frowned as they got back up. "We were having a nice conversation and you assaulted me."
“Ya well we are fighting.” Frisk shrugs.
"I know I know." King said. "Still not used to this form though…" King grumbled as they brought an arm back and punched towards Frisk, an air bullet ramming straight into her stomach hard.
Only for her to burst into purple paper again as hundreds and hundreds of paper scattered around the area.
“The soul of perseverance.” King pointed out. “Gonna have to do more than turn into pages.”
“How about this.” He looks behind him to see her holding the notebook. She points at him as all the papers suddenly cover every inch of him as a green bubble forms around him. “Let’s see. What spell to use...how about Falling Down.” She snaps her fingers as the spell appears on all the pages and begins to glow. “One more thing.” She takes a piece of paper out.
It said X100.
She tosses it as it fades through the shield and splits apparent until it covers all the pages and glow from them suddenly increases.
“Bang.” She exclaims. As an explosion from all the pages happens as the spell goes off on all of them.
“Still conscious?” She asked.
As the dust settled, Frisk saw King’s armor was blue tinted this time, magical energy sparking off of them. “You’re not the only one with split second crap.” King said bluntly. “True King’s Wisdom form, fuck ton of magic defense.” He explained as he raised a hand. “You want to play with magic? Then let me show you!” King barked. “FALLEN DOWN!” King shouted as a blue line softly touched the ground in front of Frisk, only for the spell to collapse right on top of her.
Smoke covered the area once the spell ended. He waits for her to make a move. When he suddenly felt a huge pressure drop on him. Nothing was above him. So he guessed she stopped holding back, but dang the difference from then and now is staggering. He might have to actually use ‘that’ for this. Which excites him a little.
She walks out of the dust looking different. Age 26. Her hair reached her lower back. Her striped shirt was replaced with a dress that while covering the important things left the middle of her stomach exposed. And another thing that caught his attention. Was the floating crown of Void above her head. “Sorry. Had to change. That spell blasted my top off. Sorry but that’s for Max, or I would have to claw your eyes out.”
“So what? You stopped holding back now?” King asked curiously, their armor turning pure gold as they shifted into True King Master form just to test the waters. “And good for you.”
She smirks. Then appears faster than before making him jump a bit “Wha-” She held her left hand glowing with orange. Two fingers extended and hand half open. Before suddenly doing a One-inch punch that went through his armor making him cough up blood sending him into the cliff side...on the other side of the dungeon.
“Come one King. You should know better than to underestimate me. Although let me inform you of something. Based on what I said Ghost down there is the strongest king correct?” She asked as King was pushing himself out of the crater. That Impact hit him harder than he expected.
“You’re the queen, it’s painfully obvious...both metaphorically...and quite literally.” King coughed in pain “Alright...ow…” King grumbled in pain.
“Well yes and no. I was saying the truth about him, but I’m stronger than all of them. Because I’m not a King or Queen. I’m Frisk Akuma. Empress of the Void and Max’s wife.” She explained.
“Cool.” King took a deep breath. “If you want to take the kiddie gloves off, then so be it.” King started, as Frisk felt a powerful pressure force itself on her shoulders suddenly. “Time...Space…” King growled, their words echoing with ancient power as their armor shifted. “When All Things come to an End…” King chanted, their armor becoming more streamlined and powerful, Nothingness pulsating and clashing against the ambient Void Frisk was creating. "There stands the Final Being of the Lonesome World." King chante, a pillar of nothingness erupting from him even though he was deep in the Void. “The True Ruler of Nothing, In this existence of a Nobody like me…” King raised their hand and summoned their True King’s Greatsword, a hilt that held a blade made of Pure Nothingness thorns, it writhing with power and a will to fight. “True King Form.”
“Going all out finally. About time.” Frisk said as she summoned all her souls.
Integrity-dark blue
Patience-light blue
Kindness-green
Bravery-orange
Justice-yellow
Perseverance-purple
Fear-pink
Hate-black
“Want to know what this color means?” Frisk asked, holding her red soul.
“Determination?” King asked as they raised their True King’s Greatsword. “And I’ve never had to go all out cause I’ve both never had to...and was scared what it could do if just the True Valor form was stupidly strong.”
“Determination isn’t actually a soul trait. Every soul has Determination. Albeit various degrees.” Frisk brings the soul closer. “It’s Love.”
She looks back at him. “You brought your weapon. Let me bring out mine.”
Her Love soul floats in front of her and turns into a red knife. From what he knows of the game it did stupid high lvls of damage at the end of the Genocide run. Chara’s did at least. The other souls then combined with the knife making it much bigger. Suddenly her normal size knife looked like Ichigo’s massive blade.
“Alrighty then.” King nodded as they prepared for the fight. “Let’s see how well this goes.” King said as they blurred forward and swung their greatsword swiftly at Frisk.
Frisk swings blade as well. The collision from both had enough force to not only destroy the land mass they were on but the shock wave hit the others hard. Cript barely felt it but some of the others had to block some of it with their arms. Those on King's side that is. On Frisk's side Madoras made wordless spells to block the shockwaves for him and the others. Except for Ghost who was chasing a small Void butterfly that somehow wasn’t affected by the shockwaves.
“Anyone else surprised neither has gotten knocked out yet?” Cript asked.
“Are we just going to ignore the fact that they're both going all out here?” Coco asked bluntly, using her Void powers to keep herself and Kexez from falling over at the shockwaves.
“Yes.” Cript said with a shrug, taking out a crossword puzzle book. “Trust me, they both need it out of their systems.”
“Kexez? Jericho?” Coco asked incredulously, hoping someone would take this a little bit more seriously as she could literally feel the Void shaking from their fight.
“I’d rather not get between them given the power flowing out there.” Kexez said.
“Eh, neither of them are in danger. I’m more worried about the third party viewers some several thousand miles in the safe range of the AoE attacks.” Jericho said.
“And what about you all?” Coco asked Frisk’s group. “Anything you have to say about the Void itself shaking from their fight?”
Agamemnon looks over. “Actually only this area is shaking, and we spar on multiple occasions. To keep ourselves near top form. Of course going all out is out of the question but seeing this isn’t that shocking. It’s actually to be expected.”
Madoras then speaks. “While powerful just the shockwaves are, I'm able to block them with some small spells. So no trouble. Only one not affected is Ghost over there.” He points to Ghost who is sitting with a dozen Void butterflies sitting on him.
“He’s too cute…” Coco whined at how adorable Ghost is being right now.
Cript sees that Frisk's weapon broke at the clash. It looked unstable so probably the first time she tried such a weapon. Although something about her doesn’t seem right. He starts to notice when Kings follow up swing was aiming at her stomach.
“Okay, that’s enough.” Cript said, appearing between Frisk and King, King’s weapon held firmly in Cript’s grip. “Not a bad trick Frisk. Fooled me, but I guess when you have power getting directed elsewhere keeping that weapon stable wasn’t easy.”
“I noticed something was off with how many times she kept turning into pages...but what’s really going on?” King asked, knowing the pages was a decent gimmick to dodge but it could only do so much before King just got past it.
“Well I couldn’t keep it hidden forever. Take a whiff wolf boy and guess.” Frisk said. Taking a step back. “I won’t hide it since it was found out.”
King sniffed Frisk carefully, taking in their scent and…”Are you fucking kidding me lady!?” King snapped at her in panic. “You could have hurt both of them if you weren’t careful, the fucks wrong with you!?” King asked, Frisk not seeing anger from King about fighting while pregnant, but honest fear and panic for her safety and that of their kids from a tried and true mother.
“Honestly it would take Cript here to actually break the barrier I place but the blade I made took a bit more than I thought. I was about to use the Admin power I have to completely reinforce it. And don’t lie you haven’t been using your admin powers either, and if I thought that attack would truly hurt them then I wouldn’t hesitate to strike.” Frisk said before an armored hand fell on her shoulder.
“Frisk...did you seriously come here pregnant?” The calm but angered voice of Agamemnon said behind her. Making her flinch a bit. Weaker than her he may be but scary he definitely is. She felt a small tug on her dress and looked down to see Ghost looking at her. The look in his eyes was clear.
She sighs. “Ok. It was dumb to do this. Very dumb. Max is probably pissed as hell though. I’ll head back to get the ear full waiting.” She turns to go. “Oh and King. Keep getting stronger. Because next time you’re going down.”
“Next time try not fighting me while eight months pregnant with twins.” King frowned. “And yes, I wasn’t using Admin powers cause I keep forgetting I can do that…” King grumbled. “But Max has more than enough to tell you, now shoo, and tell me when the baby shower is darn it.”
She puts a finger on her chin. “Mmm. Nope,” she said as she leaves.
Ghost goes back to the others...and chases a small wolf pup that was in the area...where did that come from?
“Well, that’s an unsatisfying draw. So, next match up?” Cript asked.
“I’m willing to fight.” Jericho said, shrugging. “So, who wants to fight?”
A bell chimes a few times surprising them. “Ring Ring. Armor 3 is now ready.” A small doll said floating in the air.
“Yes, I hear Tony Stark wants his gimmick back.” King joked.
Agamemnon stepped forward. His armor changed into its Black and gold variant. “I am next. Forgive me, but this technically would be armor 4. But my newest one isn’t ready yet for battle as of yet.”
“Hm, master of Weapons vs the Master of War. Fun.” He said, drawing his axe, code flowing out over it. “And unlike King, I know how to fight like an Admin.”
“Then please.” He said as code forms and forms a small shield on his left arm and a spear halbert in his right hand. “Educate me on such battles.”
Nodding, Jericho took a deep breath. He didn’t take a pose, or raise his axe. He stood there for a time before appearing behind Agamemnon. He lurched, Agamemnon feeling pain unlike what he had felt before. It was like a wound, but his armor and body were unharmed, physically, yet he could feel the gushing blood and spilling intestines. “Admin attacks damage your code. You’ll heal, slowly as it rebuilds itself. Physically, there aren’t any injuries, but with enough attacks… it’s no different than dying from a delete. You’ll be erased entirely, your code too damaged to rebuild yourself, and fall apart.”
He shakingly stood up. “Interesting. So this is an Admin attack, or was this just a taste. Let’s see.” He blocks a swing from Jericho by placing the small shield to catch underneath the axe and hook it while slamming the blade of his Halberd across Jericho’s face.
Jericho smiled, pulling his axe back and making a tear in Agamemnon's shield. He watched in shock as it became cloaked in code for a moment before fading entirely. "Weapons and armor are no different, and unlike us they don't heal." He jumped back, slashing the Halberd in half as it too faded and broke at the code level.
Agamemnon jumped back and summoned a sword in his left hand and swung. Jericho just sliced it with his axe again. Only to see a bite purple gauntlet slam into his face sending him into a cliff. He looks up to see Agamemnon holding a magic bow that shoots powerful magic arrows that splits into over a dozen on flight that slam into him causing an explosion.
When the Explosions faded Agamemnon was surprised to see a large, metallic ship built for land and sea standing where the bombarded hit. Jericho stood atop it. He raised his arm with the axe up, the ship shooting off volleys of Mana infused explosives Agamemnon began shooting at rapidly to avoid getting hit. "Like it? It's not even my flag ship!" Jericho shouted, the grin on his face showing he was enjoying himself.
Agamemnon kept shooting the explosive till one got really close. The blast kicking up dust around him. Jericho looks for his next attack when more arrows come at him. He blocks it with his axe before having more explosives fired at him. This continues for a bit before he got confused on why Agamemnon wasn’t doing anything different. Eyes widened as he quickly swung his axe with enormous force to force the dust to clear. Revealing three knights holding the same bow Agamemnon was using.
“King-” Jericho looks up to see Agamemnon holding a double bladed curved sword that was glowing with tons of magic and void. Ready to swing down. “-Slayer!!” Agamemnon shouts as he sends a massive blade beam point blank at Jericho. The attack hits him and destroys the ship as well as pulverizing the land beneath them.
When the smoke cleared Agamemnon stood with the curved sword halfway down Jericho's torso. Jericho kept eyes locked with Agamemnon, smiling. "About time." He said, yanking the sword out as Agamemnon jumped back for some distance. His wound sealed itself up as Jericho raised his axe, still smiling as he kept his eyes on Agamemnon. "The dogs of war shall bite and tear until all that remains are blood and bones." He swung his axe at the ground, the earth below him rising up, forming a cave of sorts as soon echoing from deep within was the rabbit snarls and barks of hounds. Countless hounds. "Hunt him." Jericho said, and emerging from the cave were countless hounds of every race, armored to the teeth. Literally.
“Come then!” Agamemnon challenged. As he equipped a short sword with his sword. He dragged the short sword across the curved sword and both were suddenly glowing green. “Armor piercer.” He then jumps up into the air and brings the blades in a cross pattern. “Dual King Slayer!” He then sent out a cross style blade beam that struck the hounds. As the smoke cleared he saw a few were killed but most only had small cracks on the armor. “Damn. Should have charged that longer.”
Jericho laughed, the earth began shaking as his armored hounds now dug themselves out from the earth, and massive hounds the size of buildings emerged from it. The larger ones have armor mixed with magic and/or technology, giving them powerful weapons that offloaded towards Agamemnon once they targeted him. Jericho was having fun.
Jericho felt something on his shoulder and looked to see the small doll that Agamemnon has on his shoulder. “Armor two.” It says before looking at him. “Is ready.”
“Demi-God Slayer!” Jericho heard from the onslaught of his attacks and see hundreds of huge blade beams flying out of it. Slicing his hounds to pieces as a particular one crashes into him sending him flying again.
The smoke clears and Agamemnon is there in Red and gold armor. “I regret not using the ability the third one has but I had to up my game.” He holds out a long sword in his left hand. “Need I go higher?”
Laughter filled the air, Jericho tossing the hound corpse off himself. He raised his axe up, along his arm and the axe were five images of locks. "Power restrictions level one, Unlock for use in battle. Worthy opponent detected. Granted. Level one powers and abilities restored for use as needed." There was a shockwave in the air as power now began flooding from Jericho as one of the images of the locks vanished from his axe and arm. He stood up, now adorned in a thick hide and metallic armor. Both materials Agamemnon was having difficulty identifying. His axe had changed, growing larger and thicker but the blade ever sharper and was white hot.
The surviving hounds all reacted, wounds healed as their size and strength began more, their power coming to them from Jericho as they began to circle Agamemnon once each surviving hound was fully restored to health. "Battle mode, Territory Conquest, activated."
Agamemnon lands on the ground. “Very well.” Agamemnon slams his hand on the ground as it begins to shake. “Void Knights. Assemble.” Swords started to appear in hundreds before many started to merge. Forming dozens of Knights. Some Knights merged with others to form larger variants. Agamemnon summons an axe of his own. He charges right at Jericho while the hounds and his knights did battle.
He slams his axe against Jericho who grins. He cuts through Agamemnon’s axe who leans back to dodge. Jericho is then Suddenly hit fast with a loud bang. He looks to see Agamemnon holding a large revolver in his left hand. “When I said All Weapons I meant it!” He brings out another and starts shooting with both. Their impact pushed him back.
Agamemnon then summons another sword and swings. Only for the sword to break apart revealing to be a chain blade and wraps around the handle of Jericho’s axe as he begins to tug.
No sooner than he began tugging the axe lit up in code fire, breaking the chains around it as Jericho chuckled. "Don't forget, almost all of the weapons in existence you know of and mastered were made by my predecessor." Jericho said, snapping his fingers as suddenly thousands of armed beings popped into existence. Each armed with a weapon Agamemnon was familiar with. "If it was built to kill, it serves me." With that Agamemnon was nearly able to block impalement by his own swords as they flew out of his grips and tried to stab through his armor.
As their armies clashed Agamemnon began to calculate how to fight with a weapon that isn't by definition a weapon.
He dodged another blade that was sent flying at him when it clicked. Might not work but it’s worth a shot. He dodged again as he threw one of his hands back and summoned dozens of arrows. He then threw his hand forward as the arrows went flying towards Jericho and the armed beings. The arrows then split into hundreds as they explode on impact or proximity of a target.
Jericho emerged from the flames, jumping after Agamemnon with wide, fast swings he dodged rapidly. The two kept dodging and swinging for quite some time, on each side their troops began falling, but it was clear Agamemnon's army was the one with less numbers. "Come on now, Master of Weapons! Show me what that title truly means!" Jericho screamed, a smile across his face and wide eyes of the thrill of battle. "Bring out your anger, offload every payload, empty out your armories, because if you want to see what a real Admin can do, then prove to me you can handle it!" Jericho declared, his weapons armor suddenly growing arms and reaching for Agamemnon.
As they did Agamemnon got a better look at the armor as it morphed into something akin to… someone. A person, made of leather and metal. The apparently living armor conjured two Claymores, swinging both against Agamemnon's torso. The knight was knocked back, the impact not harming him but damaged his armor slightly.
Looking up, Agamemnon realized that armor was made From an Admin… the prior Admin of war. "You turned your predecessor into armor?" He asked.
Jericho chuckled. "Yes. To defeat such a monster, I had to become something far, far crueller and vial. When Admins die, our physical bodies fade with our code, but, even an Admin can become brain dead. I erased his mind, stole his power and melted down his still living body into the armor you see now. It's still bonded to the code of war, and made the perfect material for armor that adapts to me as I unlock my restrictions as needed. In war, waste not want not." Jericho said, his armor swapping the Claymores for crossbows. "If you win, I'd happily teach you how to craft armor of equal power for yourself."
“See...if I was properly trained like I was told so many goddamn times…” King grumbled, throwing Cript a quick glare as he was the primary source of ‘Of course we’ll train soon totally maybe if I have the remembrance of me saying it’.
Cript simply shrugged. "You gave us time with Vincent in this war, a hairline thin line he won't cross so long as we play along. If proper training is what you want, it's the least any of us can do."
“You said you were going to train me at least ten times over the years we’ve been doing this.” King frowned. “First when I got Humanity and Psychopath powers, then when I became an Admin which barely went anywhere, then a vast majority of other times…”
"What? You didn't self train off camera?"
“I do, a lot, that’s why I’m still as strong as I am without Admin bullshit.” King huffed.
Agamemnon sighed. “I secretly hoped I wouldn’t have to do this, but against you I must.” He said as over a dozen dolls appeared floating around the area.
“Armor 1 is ready! Armor 1 is ready!” They chanted over and over. Floating around.
“While I have a stronger armor in the making it’s not ready. So Jericho.” Agamemnon looks towards him. “It’s Time.”
Void started to surround Agamemnon. First it was small, then it got bigger. Finally an orb of condensed Void surrounded Agamemnon. Jericho felt a massive spike in power. This armor was different from his others. He could tell things got more...exciting.
The Void subsided. Agamemnon stood there in this black armor. He could see Dark Monofilament in it but was combined with other metals. It was a combination he hasn’t seen before. No doubt this was much stronger than any of his other armors. Agamemnon brought out a sword and shield that seemed to be made of the same kind.
“Ready.” He says simply.
Jericho grinned madly, snapping his fingers as his still living hounds and army charged at Agamemnon, testing the waters for their master.
Agamemnon started walking towards Jericho. Not even looking at the army. He did however. Swing his sword towards his right. The blade he sent was stronger then the Demi-God Slayer as it destroyed all on that side. Making the rest stop in shock while Jericho grinned even more if possible.
Still, the other side of Jericho's army kept moving, shooting and charging him as he slashed them aside with ease as he walked towards Jericho.
He laughed, lifting his arm and axe up. The locks on both are visible. "Level two, level three restrictions access request for combat in battle. Access granted. War tier elevated to Revolution." There was a blast of energy, Agamemnon kept his footing but felt the impact. Jericho's armor was something akin to a uniform now, but armored and layered in runes and code Agamemnon couldn't read. His axe was far smaller, looking more like a hatchet now but the blade still glowed in energy.
Agamemnon held his sword to the side as it started Glowing. “Those attacks I just used. They were just simple blade beams. While those techniques I used against you. Are much different. King Slayer is restricted to Armor 3 and above with Demi-God Slayer to armor 2 and above. This one is.” The light changes to a dark light as the Void starts to condense on the blade. “God-”
“EVERYONE GET DOWN!!” Madoras yelled as he slammed his hands together forming a shield around them.
“-Slayer!” Agamemnon yelled releasing the attack.
Jericho smiled, rushing in and swinging his axe against Agamemnon's sword. The clashing blades sent a shockwave that reached the far end of the void and unearthed the ground countless miles. When the dust finally cleared Jericho and Agamemnon still stood there, blades locked staring at one another. Jericho's smile could not get any wider. "How fun." He said.
“That means you are done with warm ups?” Agamemnon asked as the pressure he was releasing suddenly spiked. “Because I’m still getting started.” Shoving Jericho back with a swift kick to the chest before pointing the horns on his helmet towards him. “God Cannon!” A powerful beam of Void shot out from between the horns of his helmet.
The impact knocked Jericho into the ground at supersonic speeds. He bounced for a bit before launching himself back up and towards Agamemnon, their blades clashing again but this time Jericho gave a hard punch to Agamemnon's helmet, cracks formed on it and before he pulled back his first, grabbed one of the horns and pulled him down into a knee kick and then spun around and tossed him at the ground below. Jericho wasted no time in raising his axe and taking aim. "Payload 7. Offload all Salvio's." He swung, the swing shooting off countless projectiles ranging from misslas to arrows and bullets, spells and various projectiles at Agamemnon.
Agamemnon brought out a repeater crossbow in both hands and started firing void like arrows. After shooting down thousands of attacks in the first few seconds he put them away and brought out a spear and charged. Dodging and deflecting attacks till he was halfway to Jericho before throwing the spear. He snapped his fingers before it came within Jericho’s striking range and it swapped places with him. He then proceeded to bring out a massive purple first gauntlet and slugged Jericho. The fist as big as his torso.
Agamemnon watched in surprise as Jericho picked back with just his head against the force of the blow, pushing back far enough til they were eye to eye. Jericho laughed then spit right into Agamemnon's visor. He huffed but managed to blast Jericho back some distance. As he prepared his next attack he halted. His body felt off. His head hurt, breathing became labored and his balance was almost non-existent. He fell to his knees and hands, looking up as Jericho was walking up over to him. "Bio weapons are a dirty little thing but oh so effective." He said, Agamemnon trying to bring out a weapon only to receive a massive spike in pain through his head like a thousand needles stitching through him.
He stands back up and tries again. The pain came back and increased as he tried, but he didn’t stop. With a yell of pain and stubbornness he pulls out a special sword. A two handed sword made of Dark Monofilament. He holds the sword in both hands. “While painful. There are much worse pains in Existence. Meet Brightbane.”
"Ooh la la, you got a sword. Gonna try and stab me in the heart with it?"
Agamemnon grabbed the bottom of the hilt and detached the bottom half of the hilt. He took out a small crystal. “This is a special crystal Max made from condensed code. While I'm getting close to grasping the concept of using Code to battle from observing you. This should even the playing field.” He inserted the crystal and reattached the hilt. The top of the blade glowed red and extended another foot. The energy being code.
“King Slayer!” He swings the sword as he unleashes the attack enchanted with code.
Right as Agamemnon began to swing down, Jericho swung his axe up, both code covered weapons hitting the other. Jericho's arm holding the axe went flying but not before taking off the face of Agamemnon's helmet and the face underneath.
Agamemnon roared in the pain but marveled as he could feel the weapon interact with his own code and begin repairing his armor and body. By the time he could see again Jericho was displaying his axe, his arm regrown and the locks remaining in full view. "Requesting access for level four restrictions unlocked for use in combat. Access granted. War elevated from Revolution, to World." In a blink he was gone, Agamemnon quickly spun around and blocked with his weapon. Jericho now wore what was more an officer's uniform, his Axe now resembling a modern combat axe. The two clashed against one another without giving an opening to the other.
Agamemnon swung once more and clashed with his axe. He held the clash to keep both weapons locked against each other. “The first weapon.” He said suddenly to Jericho’s confusion.
Agamemnon took one hand off the sword and held it pointing towards Jericho’s chest in a knife hand fashion. “Was one's own hands.” He said as his hand suddenly shined with intense Void.
“God Slayer!!” He said while unleashing the attack. While not as powerful as it could be through a blade it still had power.
Reacting fast, Jericho hooked Agamemnon's sword on his axe, dragging him down with him as they flew a great distance and landed in a crater of their own making. Jericho stood, looking worn but still kept his smile. "You really are quite a worthy opponent Agamemnon. I haven't had this much fun since I met Cript. You wouldn't happen to be from my realm? You sure fight like someone from there."
“...I am. It’s been so long since I last saw you. We never talked. Never even looked at each other. I was but a normal soldier in battle. But I am from there.” Agamemnon told him.
"Ah. That explains so much. I won't ask you how you escaped, it's not like that matters anymore. After I killed the old admin and took his place, I erased that blood soaked realm. Were you there in those days? Did you witness his March across the ground, killing man, beast and plant alike?" Jericho placed a hand across his eyes. "So many dead, killed for his enjoyment. By him. When it was over, I was all that was left, or so I thought." He put his hand down, looking back at Agamemnon. "You, my fellow soldier, fight for more than just senseless bloodshed. For making that choice, I thank you. By the time I did, it was too late."
Agamemnon looks at his hand and sighs. “I was one of his soldiers. I was meant to be what you described. Nothing more. One day I...slayed a child. Something was different about this. Under his influence I have done much worse for his entertainment but this was different. Like whatever it was that made me what I was weakened. The blood...will never leave my hands. No matter what armor, no matter how much I would bath or wash my hands. It would never leave. I don’t hate you for killing him. In fact I wish I could have done it by the time I was getting out of his influence. I was lucky to escape.” He says as he looks at his armored hands. From his vision the blood was still there. After all this time.
“I’ll be honest that I’m still holding back. Something I had from those times. I never wanted to use those powers again. Because of how it ties me to Him. So I must ask. Do I have your permission to use them? As the new Admin of War.” He asked.
Jericho sighed, looking his axe over. "Level five restrictions, requesting access for use in combat." He looked up at Agamemnon. "Access granted. War elevated to… Apocalypse." As Jericho shifted, Agamemnon nearly felt the urge to run. The armor Jericho adorned, the crown, that form of the axe… they were all his. At Jericho's side was a red horse, hide blood soaked and mane and tale burning in white hot flames. He mounted the beast, and Agamemnon could swear, it was him. "When I killed that monster, and took his title, his power, I also took his sins and his enemies. Agamemnon, I ask you as a fellow soldier and the new Admin at war, hold nothing back. Your power, your anger, fear and loss. Bring it all down upon me, just try and kill me."
Agamemnon held his sword out and place his left hand on the blade. “Restriction access 666. Unleash.” The numbers 666 formed in front of him and broke. Void explodes from him. He then takes his sword...and plunges it into his gut. Blood splaying all over.
“Blood of War, Blood of Soldiers, Blood of the Beast, Wake Up!!” He rips the sword out as a massive bloody aura combines with the Void. His blood coats his armor and sword.
“Bloody Edge!” He sends a bloody void tainted blade beam that was much stronger then any yet. Jericho swats it away and notices it actually pushed him back a bit. Agamemnon then slams the edge of his sword across his chest.
“Bloody rebellion!” The strike sends him into the air. Jericho turned around and clashed with another strike only for Agamemnon to not only move but for a bloody looking slash mark to stay where they clashed. Agamemnon strikes him again as he clashes with it. It continues for a dozen times till after the last one Agamemnon clenched his left hand.
“Bloody Combustion!” The slash marks that surrounded him suddenly explode with a lot of force and power.
Jericho still was there, seated atop the horse and it charged. He Raised his axe. "War’s End." He said, reaching close to Agamemnon as he readied a swing.
Agamemnon poured everything into his next strike.
“Bloody God King Slayer!!” He shouts as he swung against Jericho.
The two clashed. No sound, just pure white. Like a sun made itself into the void and gave light to all around. It seemed to last forever to the group's viewing. Like all things, it eventually ended. Jericho's mount was gone, he and Agamemnon were both laid down some distance from one another. Beaten and worn. Cript ran over, viewing Jericho and Agamemnon. "Tie. Well done Agamemnon, you tied with Jericho." Cript said, giving the unconscious knight applause.
Ghost walks over with a few Void butterflies on him and that Void wolf pup following him. Picks up Agamemnon and walks back to his group. Although he did bow a little to Cript.
Cript, to their surprise, bowed back as he threw Jericho over his shoulder. "That was a fight worth remembering."
Ardyn, who had been silent, looks over at the other team. “Well that was something to see. It’s rare to see Agamemnon fight like that, and this result was without his new armor which should have been much stronger. I’m curious to how it would have ended if he had it? What do you guys say about this battle?” He asked
"I say Jericho is gonna wanna make Agamemnon a new sparring partner." Cript said with a laugh, placing the admin of war down next to his group.
"Excuse me, the fuck.” King started. “Both of you are that powerful?” King asked, even though they knew full well they were going to be stupid strong, he was still kind of surprised.
“For the record. Not even we knew about that Blood power Agamemnon had. So he surprised even us with it. But know that before knowing that he wasn’t the strongest out of us Kings. In raw power at least. In technique he is the best hands down.” Madoras said. Healing Agamemnon with a healing spell.
“Well...I can fully agree with that.” King said, having been taught to some extent by the knight.
“You people are insane…” Coco frowned.
“Sane is for boring people.” Ardyn said with a shrug.
“I mean...I’m married to this wonderful ball of fluff.” Coco said while softly nudging King.
“I am the best ball of fluff.” King said with pride and a smile.
"So, who's next?" Cript asked.
“So...I guess I’m up next.” Coco said. “If Kexez doesn’t want to go next.”
“Just a quick side note, is something wrong Broly?” King asked the young sayin, having seen them staring at King for some reason.
"There's a joke here but I won't make it." Cript said bluntly.
“Well…” Coco started to stretch out, surprising King at the sudden amount of Void energy she was producing. “Who wants to go against me?” The cream colored mare asked simply.
Ardyn started to step forward before he felt a tug on his coat. He looks down to see Ghost looking at him. “You sure?” He asked.
Ghost looks at him then at Coco. And walks forward.
“If you insist.” Ardyn said.
Ghost walks up to Coco and draws his weapon. A spiral like blade that is known in his world as a Nail, or in this case a Pure Nail.
“Alright little Ghost.” Coco said as she raised her hand, summoning Void Gear and preparing herself. “You may be cute, but I won’t go easy on you.” The mare said as she used Void Temper on Void Key and swung down at Ghost strongly.
Ghost form suddenly turns dark as it changes into Void and dashes through her. He pulled out a medallion that extended a blade of light and before she could react he struck her dozens of times with it, but she didn’t feel pain nor did it knock her back. Confused by the strange attack she didn’t see him swing his Nail that struck her and actually sent her into the ground. Surprised by the power in it. She gets up to see him basically flying to another land mass. Probably where he wanted this battle to take place.
“Fine fine.” Coco said as she leaped after him onto the new land mass. “But that was quite a hit.” Coco said as she shot a Void infused fireball towards Ghost.
She expected him to dodge. Not to simply smack them back at her.
Coco knocked it back at Ghost with a huff.
And it suddenly turns into a deadly tennis-like game between them.
“So uh...when did this turn into a tennis match?” King asked slowly.
“No idea. When Ghost started having fun I guess.” Ardyn guessed. Even though there was barely a change on the Ghost mask. “Trust me. He has a look of joy.”
King took a closer look, this time not using their normal sight and looking beyond the physical to who, or what, Ghost really was behind the cute beetle look.
A shadow, or shade if they were correct, had its eyes curved in a way that could be described as a child having fun.
“Jeez, even it’s aura is that of a joyful child.” King commented. “And they're still adorable.” They chuckled only to see Coco spike the ever growing Void Fireball to Ghost like a real tennis match.
Ghost suddenly had a void tendril form out of its right arm and hit the Void Fireball. Coco tried to hit it back but was shocked at the amount of force in it. She barely sensed his void change at all. So why was there so much force now? She skids back keeping the fire ball from crashing into her for what felt like a few miles till she decided to divert it away by shifting the direction of her Void key and jumping out of the way. The blast traveled far away before it hit something and...blew up like a Void Nuke...
“Sweet lord!” Coco yelped in surprise, turning back to look at Ghost.
“Well...I suppose the saying of ‘big things come in little packages’ is true.” King said sheepishly.
“Uh...okay…” Coco started nervously. “Well...let’s try this again…” The cream colored mare started, taking a deep breath as she held her Void Gear in both hands as she charged after Ghost, vanishing every few steps and appearing in a new spot closer to him, before appearing right behind him and swinging down hard enough to crater a continent.
Without moving Ghost let a loud scream that made King hold their ears in pain as a black aura blast surrounded Ghost. Catching Coco by surprise and blasting her into the air.
“Ow…” Coco groaned, shaking it off quickly as she righted herself in midair. “Void Crash!” She shouted as she dive bombed Ghost, her entire body covered in Void Energy like a meteor.
Ghost watches her come closer, and closer, and closer before side stepping at the last millisecond making her hit the ground. He looks down the deep hole she made with a small tilt to his head.
“I’m okay!” Coco called out, the hole making a comical echo sound, only for her to come out with a small bit of dirt on her head. “Hi.” Ghost reaches out and pats her head. “Glad your having fun.” Coco chuckled as she got out of the hole and dusted herself off. “Well...I suppose it’s your turn to attack.” She said, preparing herself for his attack.
Ghost hops in place for a bit. Then suddenly leaps up into the air. Higher than she was before. Then he starts shooting down like she did covered in Void. It hits the ground in front of her but that’s where the similarities end. 1, he didn’t break the ground. 2,...he did cause a giant explosion shockwave upon impact.
“Reflect!” Coco panicked as she casted a Reflect spell before she was blown away by the attack, only to still get flung away a bit. “Oh come on!” She yelped as she landed a ten meters away.
As she gets up she hears something land in front of her. She sees...Ghost skull...broken in half….g-guess reflect worked.
“Oh my god! I’m so sorry.” Coco said quickly, her good hearted nature getting the better of her as she wanted to apologize for breaking his skull...mask...thing.
She feels something pat her leg and looks down to see a...completely black looking Ghost with pure white eyes. His form seems to shift around a lot.
“Are...you sure?” Coco asked nervously. “And...are you okay? You seem to be...shifting a lot.”
“Oh he is fine.” Ardyn calls out. “That’s just his true self. A being made entirely of Void. We can fix his shell later with this.” Ardyn says pulling out a fist sized white ore. That King looked at with wide eyes. Because the amount of Pure Nothingness coming off it was Insane!
“How the hell did you get that!?” King asked in astonishment.
“This? It’s from Ghost’s home. An ore tainted by the remnants of his father the Pale King.” Ardyn said.
“But...that’s Pure Nothingness! Actual...physical, ore based Pure Nothingness...how and why?” King asked in just pure amazement as he looked back at Ghost and wondered what really is going on in his world.
“ A being born of Void.” King looks at Madoras who spoke. “Contained in Nothing. Feels Nothing. Is Nothing. If you focus on his shell...you would notice the Nothingness on it...is far greater then this ore.”
“Jesus fuck…” King shook his head. “But...now we need to define ‘feels nothing’, as in he feels no pain, or he has no emotions?” King inquired.
“That was the idea behind his...and the millions of siblings his father sired.” King looks back to see Agamemnon getting up.” A terrible being that couldn’t be reached by normal means. The Pale King sires children from Void to create a vessel. One that doesn’t think, feel, or have a voice. A Pure Vessel. To contain it...it failed. And Ghost. He fought it at its best. At its prime. And destroyed it.” He said as walks next to King. “Make no mistake. In terms of raw power out of this entire group. Ghost is by far the strongest. Not counting Cript of course.”
“Good lord…” King muttered. “Okay...maybe I should both get to playing Hollow Knight and...going to his world next...even if it isn’t that specific versions world, it would still be a decent experience to say the least.” King said honestly
“On another note. From what Max learned. The Pale King for some reason has a very powerful tie to Nothing. If I were to wager. If he was still alive. He would be stronger..than you King.” Agamemnon said as King’s eyes widened.
“Cause of course…” King grumbled.
“In terms of Nothingness I meant. You learned much more than just Nothing. All that does is put the overall odds in Your favor.” He said as Ghost walks a few meters from Coco and pulls out his Nail again.
“Well...that’s true.” King said. “If I didn’t know any better, I’d say that would be the Old King of Nothingness’s brother or something.” King shrugged.
“Ready?” Coco asked, her Void flaring up as she prepared herself for more of what Ghost had to offer.
Ghost nods. With his eyes actually curving to what looks like a happy look. Then he flared his Void and she only had a fraction of a second to widen her eyes as she had to block his swipe. Which had a hell of a lot more force then before, but she was able to hold.
“Whoakay, that’s a whole lot more than I expected.” Coco said nervously, digging her feet into the ground and trying to push back against Ghost.
She had to jump back though when a tendril of Void slams where she was a second ago. She then starts dodging more strikes from the tendrils. Ghost then does that slam from before but instead of an explosion the ground within a twenty meter radius suddenly turned into a liquid black. She realizes he turned the ground into pure liquid Void. Then dozens of tendrils came out of it and started charging towards her.
“Nope.” Coco said as she turned around and started to run. “I’ve read enough Hentai to know where this is going and I’m not a fan of it!”
“She knows Ghost is still innocent in mind right?” Ardyn whispered to King.
“She does...but seriously, a massive amount of tentacles rushing a hot lady...context is one hell of a thing.” King whispered back as he saw Coco turn around and swing her blade, sending a blade beam out and cutting several of the tentacles in half.
She turns back to Ghost only to have to duck under a blast of void. She looks to see him form a tendril from the pool that shoots another blast. She deflected it. Then he forms a dozen more.
“You’re not gonna make this easy on me are ya?” She grumbled, spinning Void Gear and stabbing it into the ground. She then took a step forward and used her grounded keyblade to dig up some of the ground...and by some that meant a massive amount of void enhanced rocks flung towards the tentacles and Ghost.
Ghost took out his Nail which started glowing white. In which King and the others on his side sensed Pure Nothingness coming from it as Ghost Himself darts towards the rocks and cuts them to bits as his tendrils start firing Void blast in rapid succession.
“Excuse me, but how!?” Coco called out as she dodged all the blasts swiftly and lunged at Ghost with a powerful strike.
“Yeah, how can Ghost use both Nothingness and be of Void? As far as I’ve experienced, it’s impossible to use Nothingness as a Void being and vice versa.” King said in honest confusion.
Ghost swats at Coco as she is dodging a blast with a tendril that smacks her towards the ground. She looks up to see a much larger blast heading towards her.
“Reflectga!” She raised her keyblade up and a stronger reflect barrier surrounded her, managing to block the blast. “Damn it...this sucks…”
Ghost has a tendril spear to the ground. When it hits Coco feels a tiny spike of Void below her. She quickly moves to avoid a dozen spikes of void shooting out of the ground. She however doesn’t see the tendril that slams against her head sending her flying. She is wondering if she should kick it up a notch...or eight.
“Alright, time to take off the kiddy gloves.” Coco growled as she started to use what she was made to do, as a sudden font of Void energy burst from her at an insane rate as she caught herself in the air. “Don’t know how long I can hold this for, but I’ll make sure this fight stays fun for ya Ghost.” She said as she bolted after Ghost, cleaving through any energy blasts or tendrils that got in her way.
She clashes with his nail as she pushes against him. They exchange blows for a bit with Coco pushing back at Ghost. Ghost swings at her but she quickly moves to the side and slashes at Ghost with Void Gear. His form getting cut from the key. Ghost was stunned for a bit and she followed with an overhead strike that sent him to the ground.
Coco panted heavily, her Void energy crackling a bit as the strain from using an ability she hasn’t used ever starting to get to her. “Jeez...so soon…” She grumbled, not believing all her training and bioengineered body was already starting to feel the stress of using her Void Conduit powers. “You okay there Ghost?” Coco asked nervously.
A pulse was felt. She doesn’t know why…,but it felt like the pulse was from the Void itself. She felt Ghost's presence disappear and a pressure she couldn’t describe was felt. She felt the Void shake...wait she’s wrong.
She was shaking from this pressure.
"On a side note does Max still have that stuffed lamb he won at the fair when he was five?" Cript asked Frisk at complete random.
“Yes, we plan on giving it to our child when they are born.” She said from the portal hearing his question.
"Good to know the enchantments are keeping it from falling apart. So, what are your plans for after?"
“Don’t know yet. Well see. Anyway feels like Coco basically just lost.” Frisk said, feeling what was going on.
"Well she does still have a lot to learn about Void and all that."
“True.” Ardyn said. “But she did do well against Ghost, has quite the potential.”
"Mostly just needs more experience and some added training." Cript shrugged.
“Uh...what’s going on?” Coco stuttered.
“I have waited a long time for this…” King started as he pulled out Arpeggio and strummed it as eerie but proper music started to play.
“You keeping your power under control? Because what’s about to happen will be quite intense.” Agamemnon asked King.
“Yes, I am keeping my power under control.” King nodded as they saw Ghost turning into something a whole lot bigger.
A large shadow. Many times larger than her. Rose above her, it opened its eight white eyes. Four arms appeared at its sides. Two slammed onto the ground, and a large spike tail behind it. It then...roared? Was hard to tell. Because all that came out was silence. The power it gave off...was as if it was Void itself.
“So that’s why…” King hummed. “Yeah...my choice in music was correct.”
“Uh...huh…” Coco blinked as she turned to the entire group. “WHAT!?” She screamed incredulously and pointed at it.
“Yes?” Ardyn asked holding a cup of tea….and looking smug.
“Don’t you look smug at me!” She said as she flailed her arms at what Ghost became. “This is little Ghost!? Do any of you know what the fuck he really is!?”
“Yes.” Everyone from Ghost’s team replied. “Honestly only Max and Frisk had any hope of stopping him rampaging in that form without accidentally killing him.” Madoras said.
“Right~...” Coco said carefully. “Well…” She took a deep breath. “Might as well go out with a bang.” She muttered as she clutched Void Gear with both hands. “Void...Augment!” She shouted, a sudden aura of red tinted Void burst forth from her.
Ghost looks at its left hand to see his Nail. Far to small for his current form. He tossed it away. It would have flown basically to the other side of this section if Void. If it didn’t stop mid air and fly towards Agamemnon who had his arm raised and caught it.
“We’re not letting someone randomly find this thing here.” He said with annoyance.
Ghost lifts his right hand...and creates a Nail of Void that would fit his form.
“So...mind if I ask how the hell...Ghost was Ghost if his true form is that?” King asked.
“Originally from what we know that Void form before was his true form. He gained this form by facing constant battle and by facing the being he was meant to face at its prime. He drew in more Void then anyone of his siblings ever. Turning himself into a Deity to destroy a Goddess.” Madoras explained.
“Although.” Ardyn said. “You might need to visit his home world to look into it more yourself.”
“I’ve been meaning to go world hopping again...maybe I can do an Admin Game in Hollow Nest.” King shrugged. “But...how long do you think Coco will last?”
“Honestly….not very long. Even less since she is using an incomplete Kaio Ken with Void. That combination is putting a lot of stress on her body.” Agamemnon said.
“You know, for Nexus Bioengineering her for this exact thing...either their training sucks or their Bioengineering sucks.” King frowned as Coco leaped up into the air towards the giant monster and swung hard against it.
It blocks with its Void Nail as the shockwave from the hit causes tons of dust to fly. When the dust settles the see the hit broke the Void Nail which caused Coco to smirk only to see Ghost lift its other arms….holding three larger Void Nails that are aimed at her.
“Okay...I can at least break one...that’s a plus…” She muttered, seeing her HP draining rapidly. “Only gonna get a few more hits…” Coco muttered. “Still having fun there Ghost?”
“Oh. And by the way.” Ardyn said drinking some tea. As Ghost creates dozens more Void Nails above him. “That’s kinda not Ghost at the moment, but don’t worry. We’ll make sure you don’t die...maybe.” He said, taking another sip.
“We’ll make sure you don’t die!” King said, ready to save Coco the moment it gets too bad.
“Great…” She groaned, preparing for what might be her final swing.
And pales a little when Ghost doubles his size.
“He is a being basically made of Void. He doesn’t have a definite size or shape. When he learns to control that properly he can be whatever form he wants.” Ardyn explained.
The Void Nails then became more dense as she realized even in this state he used Void Temper on them.
“Yeah...I’m out.” She said honestly, disbanding Void Augment before it did anymore damage to her. “There’s a line, it’s been crossed, and I’m not stupid enough to see where it continues.”
Ghost though still swings at her. In his current state he can’t control himself. Only for Madoras to appear holding a fixed mask that was Ghost. He placed it on his head as it shines. King felt the Nothingness from it which further persuaded him to check Ghosts world.
A few seconds later Ghost was back to his regular self. He walks up to Coco and bows.
“Well...that was fun Ghost.” Coco smiled, bringing up her Assistant and pulled out a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie that was about the same size as little Ghost. “And here you go, freshly baked.” She smiled as she knelt down and handed it to Ghost.
Ghost takes the cookie and looks happy. Even though his mask doesn’t change. He puts the cookie away(?!)and slaps a small charm on Coco. She was confused till she felt like she had a bit more control of her Void.
“Whoa.” Coco said in surprise. “This is quite a gift, thanks Ghost.” Coco smiled.
Ghost bows and runs back to his group.
“Ok. So who is up next?” Agamemnon asked. Handing Ghost his Nail back.
“Well the only one we have left is Kexez.” King said honestly. “And to be honest...they're effectively an Immovable Object.”
“You make that sound like a bad thing?” Kexez said.
“It’s not a bad thing, and it never will be a bad thing.” King fixed their mistake in words. “So, who wants to go up against Kexez?”
“I’ll go.” Broly said as he stepped up. He points to a floating island a bit away. “Let’s go over there.” He then flies towards the island.
“Dragon Balls ‘Unstoppable Force’ vs our ‘Immovable Object’, now that’s not something you see everyday.” King pointed out.
“Why over there?” Kexez asked.
“He likes to mitigate damage.” Ardyn said.
“It’s a Dragon Ball thing I guess.” King shrugged. “Always fight in the most destroyable area like canyon’s and abandoned archipelago’s...and the arctic at least twice…”
Shrugging, Kexez sighed as their body glowed white before shifting back to human form. He looked no different than Heart back then save for the clothing that brought back some bad memories for King. “Alright then.”
It took the two no time at all to reach the area, and each stood some distance from one another. “So… which Dragon Ball are you from?” Kexez asked awkwardly.
“Super. The other one was a liability. I defeated him without super saiyan, and he was given Void.” Broly said.
“Hmm… So… stupid question… what do we do?”
In the distance, there was a collective echo of palms smacking into foreheads.
“Did you not pay attention to the last three fights!?” King called out incredulously.
“We fight. Max wants our group to face yours to see both how strong his Kings are, and to see if you guys are actually worth it.” Broly said.
“Bit rude… so are weapons allowed?”
Broly stood there...then facepalmed as well. “Were you even paying attention to the battles?” Broly asked.
“Don’t mind me! Just literally asked that exact same question!” King called out again.
“And when someone needs to be asked the same question Twice then they should really think about it!” Broly called out back.
“Honestly I was just replaying cat videos in my head half the time…” Kexez said sheepishly.
At least half the people in the distance fell over at hearing that answer… Broly… was twitching an eye.
“Sigh. Fine. Before I get a headache. Let’s start.” Broly said before powering up. First he gets really huge. Like twice his size. And he was already towering over Kexez.
Kexez whistled. “Neat.”
“Does he even care?” Coco asked.
“Not done yet.” Broly said before yelling out loud. A gold aura bursting around him. When it faded his hair was not only golden but extended to his lower back.
“I’ll start with Super Sayian 3. To warm things up.” He said.
“Okay.” Kexez replied simply.
He charged in and landed a solid right punch on Kexez.
The impact uplifted a lot of dirt, blocking the view from the others for a long time before it finally faded. When it did… everyone was left puzzled as to how Broly had his fist still against Kexez’s chin, yet he didn’t move. “So… my turn.” Kexez said, giving a slap to Broly and sent him skidding a few feet. Even Broly was surprised by this outcome.
“I think he forgot something important about Kexez…” Cript said, handing out popcorn to everyone watching. “Even if he’s Heart’s Nobody, Kexez is still a C.R.I.P.T.”
Broly heard Cript and wanted to smack himself for forgetting something that basic. He realized Kexez might actually be one of their strongest not counting Cript. He started planning his next move when he heard something, or someone.
“COME ON BROLY!”
Broly looks over towards the others to see them also looking towards their left. A girl with green skin and white hair waving a flag saying “Broly”’ was shouting.
“Cheele?”
“Come on. You're much stronger than this. Show that punk what you can do!” She yells.
“She your wife?” Kexez asked. “Well, come on, don’t disappoint the lady.”
Broly smiled looking at her. “Ya.” He said as something blue flickers over him.
“I won’t.”
Broly suddenly burst in blue light. This wasn’t ki. It’s divine ki. As the divine ki broke away Broly was revealed, and Kexez couldn’t stop the small smirk.
Broly was a bit muscular then before and his hair was normal length, but dark blue as Broly compressed the aura within. He turns towards Kexez. This wasn’t Super Sayian Blue. It was Blue Evolution. “Let’s try that again. Also.”
“Kaioken.” A red aura flared over him before he pushed it back down within. Then he charged much faster then before and let loose another blow.
This time, Kexez dodged, landing a solid knee to Broly’s lower torso before sending an elbow to the back of his head, knocking him to the ground. Broly got up, trying to land a kick or hit as Kexez kept on dodging and evading.
Broly powers up more, getting a bit larger but not losing speed. He lets out ki in quick burst to give his attacks more speed and kick but was still having trouble landing a blow. ‘So this is the difference.’ He thought. He jumps back from the exchange.
Only to yell out loud as power explodes from him again. His armor which was cracked all over from Kexez attacks broke off as Broly got bigger. This form was known by his counterpart as the Legendary form, but to him it's just Full Powered Form. He charges again somehow even faster to exchange.
Right as Broly was about to land the hit, there was a sudden barrier around Kexez. He seemed to phase through it and Kexez who simply chuckled. “Reflect.”
The energy expelled rapidly, knocking Broly back.
“Spells. Shame I don’t use magic. That’s Madoras’ department.” Broly said. “Lucky for me though I have a way around that.” He said as he charged again.
Kexez went back on the offensive, Broly cloaking his fists in void as the two went at it. As Broly rushed in another Punch, Kexez meeting it with his own. Broly didn’t pull back in time before Kexez’s arms shifted to the tip of a sharp blade, slicing down to Broly’s arm to his elbow.
Broly jumped back holding his arm. It was bleeding very badly and he couldn’t move it.
“I forgot he can do that…” Coco said, munching at her popcorn.
“That looks problematic.” Ardyn said.
“That’s ok.” Cheela said walking over. “It’ll take a little more then that. Did you guys forget?” She said as Broly smirked a little as another blue glow formed around him. And a familiar code. The injury stated to heal rapidly as Broly lifted his arm.
“Broly has that Admins power.” She finished.
“So does Kexez.” Cript added. “He isn’t even using his and Heart’s Admin Right.”
“Forgive me for not using Code so far. Max explained that using Code in battle wrong could have nasty side effects to one's own code. But I have practiced it. Mainly the rapid healing from the Speed Force.” Broly said before blue lightning emits from him.
“Given you all stole that over inheriting it, there is that possibility.” Kexez said.
“You're correct on that. It’s why all of us are limited in Code battle currently. So far all of us rarely used it because we’re still training in it.” Broly said.
Broly charges again. Much much faster then before with the Speed force helping.
Right as Broly reached behind Kexez, he suddenly found himself stopped, looking he saw Chains of Light wrapped around his neck, arms, legs, and torso. “Nice, but not out running lightspeed yet.” Kexez said as the chains began pulling Broly’s limbs in all directions, joints popping, edging on dislocation.
“So how’s Broly as a husband Cheele?” King asked the green alien curiously. “Is he the ‘gentle giant’ type as I’ve seen so far?”
She would have answered if she wasn’t suddenly worried. She has seen Broly beaten before by Max and Frisk, but Kexez is making it look more like an execution.
“He’s not even trying.” Cript said, sighing. “Guess we’re more related that I figured.”
“Wait what?” Coco asked.
“Think about it, so far, Kexez hasn’t actually done a full blown attack aside from that blade arm punch, and even that’s more a sneak attack. Course, the more Broly tries, the more effort he will put into it. He’s showing his Ventral side.”
Broly struggled in the chains. Trying to get out, but couldn’t. Was this it? His limit? Kexez...wasn’t even trying against him. He looks down hating his own weaknesses.
“BROLY!”
His head shoots up and looks at Cheela. Her eyes full of worry. He thinks back to Bah, his father, his fights against those other sayians...No.
“..I’m not done.” He said making Kexez raise an eyebrow.
Broly started pulling again. “Void...Strength.” He said as Void gauntlets appear on his arms and Kexez can feel his chains straining against his new strength.
Then a Void aura violently roars around him “Void..”
“BROLY DON'T YOU HAVEN'T MASTERED THAT YET!?” Agamemnon yells.
“..AUGMENT!” Broly yells as his power skyrocketed. He then Snaps the chains as his power continues to climb.
“Damn! Void Augment is an advanced Void technique. Basically the Kaioken but Much more potent. Only Max and Frisk in our group have it mastered.” Ardyn curses.
“We need to stop him.” King started, fully prepared to stop this fight. “Right now, cause his health is tanking harder than the Titanic fighting an Iceberg.”
Kexez looked at Broly, sighing as he closed his eyes. “Sorry Heart, but I’ve gotta use it.” He said, the black outline of a crown appearing atop his forehead. Opening his eyes, they were glowing a bright shining blue. As Broly was about to deliver a punch, Kexez Spoke. “Stop.”
The others in the distance could hear that, many in the Void heard that, and all who did froze in place. “Power down.” Broly immediately reverted back to normal, his body bruised and his breathing heavy as his eyes were covered in a dull haze of blue. “Now sleep.” Like that, Broly slept, collapsing into a deep sleep.
“Well shit he used it.” Cript said.
“Broly!” Cheela moved towards his location till something faster then most could track(excluding Cript and Kexez) moved past her and appeared next to Broly healing him.
“Idiot. I respect the resolve but not when it will kill you.” Maxwell Akuma said as he healed one of his kings.
“What the fuck was that?” Coco asked.
“That...was the true power of the Admin of Hearts.” King sighed out. “It took me a while to get some concrete evidence...but this proves it…” King said. “Anyone with a Heart connected to someone, will obey their command, no exceptions.”
As Max was healing Broly he spoke to Kexez. “I told Broly to face you, and that if he disconnected his heart from Cheela he wouldn’t be controlled, but the big softie couldn’t do it.” He smiles a bit. “Glad he didn’t. I don’t need heartless monsters in my ranks.”
“It’s why Heart and I don’t like to use it. It’s the power ideal for a tyrant. At least here, it saved someone. Guess it has some good use after all.” Kexez sighed. “So… I win?”
“Yes. Oh and one thing.” Max said. Making Kexez emote a question mark.
Then to everyone but Max’s group\s shock. Max hits Kexez in the gut. “Just a reminder of pain for you.”
Kexez coughed up a bit of blood, smiling. “Heh… thanks… You know what sucks, about being so strong?” Kexez asked as he fell back onto his butt.
“Not feeling any emotion anymore because you have nothing to fear.” He answered.
Kexez shook his head. “Forgetting why you gained it. Lose your purpose, and you begin to chase after selfish and pointless goals. Take my advice Max… When you get this strong… use it once, then never again. In the end, power is meaningless without purpose.”
“Ya. Cript taught me that long ago.” Max said as he picked Broly up. “And by the way.” He said as he looks back at Kexez. “Who said that was close to my power. I’m not aiming to be stronger then you. A CRIPT you may be, but you're not Cript. Besides.” He walks away with one last sentence. “Your Heart power doesn’t work on me anyway.”
“You okay Kexez?” King asked, appearing next to him quickly.
“Hm…” Kexez hummed, looking between Frisk and Max. His Kings all gathered around Broly. “If you say so.” Kexez said, their body glowing and returning to their Floof Noodle form. “Yeah, I’m good King. Glad I wasn’t a Floof Noodle for that, pretty sure Max would have punched a boob if I was.”
“I’m glad you're okay.” King sighed out thankfully.
“So, what now?” Cript asked. “Score’s all tied up.”
“And we’re out of eligible fighters unless either me, Jericho or Coco have another go.” King said honestly.
“Nah, I’m still gonna be sore later.” Jericho said.
“I’m good, I know when I’m outclassed.” Coco added. “Back to the training and all.”
“So it’s all up to me to fight Sorcerer Sephiroth and the Dapper Weapon Master.” King said honestly.
They look over to...see them doing rock,paper,scissors to decide who goes firt. With Frisk nearby making numbers appear for how many ties they had...it just hit 346.
“It’s not my first rodeo on a two on one guys.” King said honestly. “Or I can make a clone of myself and we can have a two v two.”
“It’s one vs one. So be prepared for it because these two won’t have the excuse that frisk had for making it a draw.” Max said while giving Frisk a small glare for that stunt she pulled. “And will you two just decide already. Need to concentrate on this so I don’t accidentally ruin his code. Idiot used code with it and damaged it a little. Thankfully one of you found notes on Code Stitching.” Max said looking over Broly.
“I can heal him.” King said. “I know Code Stitching and...I have been practicing.”
“Practicing messing with someone’s Code to remove deeply rooted Engraved Code or both rewriting and stitching Someone’s code back together? Because the last one is delicate and one small mistake and you have a Code mess nightmare monster.” Max asked. “Although nothing as bad as...that thing I found near that Dream vial.” Max whispers to himself.
“Uh...huh…” King started. “Alright so uh...not to that degree yet…”
“Then let me work. I’ll even say please.” Max said.
“Fair…” King said sheepishly. “Alright you two, that’s enough.” Two immediately turned to the two still playing rock paper scissors. “I’ll decide since you two can’t.” They said simply. “And I’ll choose Ardyn, cause I want to see how well your weapon’s hold up.”
“Alright.” Ardyn says.
“Cool.” King nodded. “Let’s get to our battlefield then, and let’s get to fighting.”
“Lead on. I’ll follow.” Ardyn said, bringing out a small dagger.
King nodded and flew off to one of the many floating islands at this point, their hands holding Foudre carefully as they landed on one of the closer islands.
Ardyn throws the dagger. It makes it to the island in less then a second and Ardyn warps to the island catching the dagger without looking.
“That warp ability is really handy huh?” King commented.
“Among other things.” He said before summoning...HOW THE HELL DOES HE HAVE FOUDRE!?!?
“I call horseshit!” King immediately snapped. “This is literally a one of a kind artifact! The fuck!”
“Take a closer look.” Ardyn asked. Looking closer it looks identical but it’s red. “How about this?” He asks as he then summons the Sword Agamemnon used against Jericho. “Or maybe.” He then summons the axe that Jericho used. “Do I need to explain?”
“How?” King asked carefully. “Cause you just pulled out three artifact level weapons that are one of a kind...the only difference is that it’s red.”
"Replication." Jericho said. "So well made they can stand against the originals, maybe even surpass them."
“It can’t be that simple.” King frowned. “He literally just looked at our weapons, I can excuse Agamemnon’s sword because they work together, but to copy your axe and Foudre like that isn’t mere ‘replication’.”
“You're correct. I’ve had to work on combining multiple scanner type abilities and use them and distance to get it correct. I wasn’t merely standing around while you all fight.” Ardyn said. Summoning True Kings Sword. “Although some won’t be nearly enough like this, but it’s a good impression.” He swung the replica of Kings weapon and it severed multiple islands in the distance.
"Quality isn't everything. The wilder also needs the skill." Jericho added.
“Cause that’s what I need at the moment…” King grumbled. “This is going to be an interesting fight.” They said as they spawned in No Heart.
Ardyn smiled. And raised his hands. King widened their eyes. No way should he…
What he summons is a very, very glitched version of No heart. Which he tosses away. “Although some things like that are basically impossible at the moment.” Ardyn says. He then summons his personal sword. His Rakshasa Blade. “Ready?” He asked as he threw his blade at King. King swiped it away only for Ardyn to warp to it and swing back. King quickly clashes.
“I’m always ready.” King grinned, Nothingness Thorns swirling around No Heart as it lashed out at Ardyn.
Ardyn grins and ignores the thorns. He snaps his fingers and both are pummeled by a barrage of Ice, Lightning, and Fire.
“Simple spells strong enough to fight back against my Thorns, pretty good.” King said, jumping back and swinging No Heart at Ardyn, sending a blade wave towards him swiftly.
Ardyn brings out a huge shield that completely blocks the attack. Then throws the shield at King. He moves out of the way only for Ardyn to warp onto the shield and slam a huge mace onto King.
King was fast enough to bring out Frozen Pride and block the huge mace. “Cold Snap!” King barked, a layer of frost covering Frozen Pride’s surface as the mace started getting rapidly covered in ice.
King then felt the temperature rise. They looked around to see a giant shuriken flying around them leaving them in a tornado of fire that was somehow hot enough to counter his ice.
He feels the weight of the mace disappear and stumbles from the suddenness of it. He looks up to see Ardyn holding a huge sword with teeth above him. He then slams it down at him.
King swapped No Heart for Sky Splitter. “Gaea’s Wrath!” He shouted, swinging Sky Splitter from the ground up and clashing against the huge sword, causing a massive shockwave that cratered the area beneath the two and raised the ground around them.
“Impressive, but.” Ardyn said before the teeth on his sword started moving like a saw. Drastically increasing the attack power.
“Not gonna be that easy!” King countered as energy flared out from him and Skysplitter, starting to push Ardyn away slightly as he was now trying to saw through pure force.
Ardyn smirked, which King saw. In Ardyn’s left hand was a scepter. It suddenly glows as a trident of red light appears out of it striking King.
“Let’s hope this works…” King muttered, Ardyn seeing King’s fur start to turn a weird metallic black color as he headbutted the trident’s middle spear, black lightning arcing between the two.
“The hell is going on?” Coco asked, feeling her body start to shiver as she saw that black lightning. “That’s not Void Energy…”
“That’s Haki.” Max said as he was still working on Broly. “It’s from the One Piece world. Essentially it’s pure willpower used in supernatural ways from predicting your opponents attacks to blocking and enhancing your attacks.”
“Not bad.” Ardyn says. Before throwing the scepter up and warping to it. “MegaFlare.” He says before launching the spell at King.
“GigaFlare!” King barked as he grabbed Eternal Flames raised the twin spinning blue chakrams and firing an even stronger blast towards Ardyn.
“Joy probably taught him how to do it…” Coco muttered, remembering the little guy went there and did the entire adventure to finally get Brook on board to be one of the Council Members...also Luffy and the crew decided to join up in King’s endeavors in their own special way.
Ardyn throws a small sword that hits the ground in front of King. Who immediately swings at it thinking Ardyn will warp at it. Only for Ardyn to warp to the shield that’s still behind King when he dropped it a little before. Ardyn slams his hand on the ground and forms a large magic circle. “GigaFlare!”
“Raiden’s Fury!” King called out in a panic as he summoned Foudre and stabbed six kunai into the magic circle, a massive bolt of lightning shot down as the spell was fully activated as it caused a massive explosion with the two at the epicenter.
“GigaFlare times 2.” Ardyn’s voice said from the smoke after the explosion as two magic circles formed. King went to move only to find Ardyn grabbing their arm. “What’s the rush?” He asked with a smile as the spells activated.
“You're not gonna like that…” King started, as Ardyn started to hear something started to finally count down as he barely saw a red flash as both GigaFlares connected. As the dust settled, Ardyn was surprised to see King extremely different than they were before. King stood bigger than their original Den Mother form, their fur looked thicker and denser than usual, and the most important detail was the tribal bone ‘armor’ exoskeleton covering King, all in the shape of a Dire Wolf, each part looking scuffed by the twin GigaFlares but he looked no worse for ware. “So, Ardyn, what do you know about the Godhood race?” King asked, tribal wolf ornament’s softly resting against their new exoskeleton.
“A lot. Since it was Gods that cursed me I looked up all I could find.” Ardyn said.
“Do you know who Asmith is?” King asked.
“Depends. Do you mean the inventor of the Omnitrix or the Admin?” Ardyn asked.
“One in the same.” King said as he stepped away from Ardyn and stretched a bit. “Apparently, a long time ago, I was told that this was the ‘Ultimate Form’ of each race that can rival Admins in power...I quite literally just remembered this in the middle of Coco’s fight cause I have a bajillion things to think about on a daily basis so...things get a bit cluttered for me.”
“Well things do get cluttered when you force yourself to learn billions if not trillions of things in a short timespan.” Ardyn replied.
“You have no idea…” King said, letting out an exhausted sigh not from the fight but from all the shit they keep putting himself through to better themselves in any field they can. “So, ready to continue?” King asked, their third eye opening as well as he prepared to fight again. “Also, just a quickie warning...I still have no idea what this race can do or how truly strong it is…” He said sheepishly.
“And you forget I’m Immortal. And I still have only just begun”. Ardyn said.
“Then more fun for the both of us.” King said with a smile, clenching their fists as two bone long blades appeared from their wrists.
Ardyn held out his hand and summoned a strange staff that had blades attached to the front of it. “Swords of the Wander. For the readers to understand better.”
“One of the ‘Royal Arms’ if my guess is correct?” King inquired.
“A copy but yes.” Ardy said before throwing it at King and warping for an overhead spin strike, but then warps to the fallen short sword behind King and swings upward.
King blocked the swing with one of his bone swords, barely turning around to see him swing. “The third eye isn’t just for show.” King pointed out, even though what was more shocking was the bone sword withstood his swing without a scratch on it. “Now my turn.” King said as he spun around to face Ardyn, one of his wrist blades being coated in Armament Haki and crackled with black lightning, signifying he also coated it in Supreme King's Haki as he swung it down swiftly towards him.
Ardyn then warps behind King again, but King doesn't see a weapon laying there. Can he warp without his weapons in position?! Ardyn grabs kings arm.
“That bone stuff is pretty tough, but how tough?” He asked as they both suddenly warp somewhere else.
King notes the red Foudre Ardyn made but tossed upwards from before. Stabbed into a floating landmass. Quickly looking down, King can barely see the others. How high were they?! Ardyn then warps to the knife and quickly smacks King away with his mace. As he is flying the shuriken from before is flying towards them. King smacks it away as they come to the edge of the underside of the landmass. Ardyn then warps towards the weapon and grabs king again. Warping them one more time to the top of the landmass.
“Can you teleport without a weapon?” King asked, his exoskeleton armor scuffed by the mace hit but still not cracked or broken. “Nice swing by the way.”
“Thanks, and not very far I’m afraid. Is useful for catching someone off guard. By the way. I have something to ask?” Ardyn questions as King starts to notice something in front of them.
“What would happen if a X-Blade exploded?” King pales as the glitched No heart Ardyn made, that was stabbed in the ground a few feet away, started to glitch more and more. Becoming extremely unstable and fast.
“Are you fucking insane!?!” King shouted, panicking as they brought out Frozen Pride quickly.
Ardyn grabs the shield and tosses it. “Madoras.”
Madoras down with the others. Held out his hands and a massive barrier closed around the land mass. Hundreds of times its size. He had been charging this since Ardyn made that damn glitched weapon.
“Let’s see how tough your kind is.” Ardyn said as the glitched weapon started to hit its peak.
“Let’s hope to christ this doesn’t backfire on either of us.” King stated bluntly to Ardyn. “Cause if my armor breaks and I go into a berserker rage...don’t blame me.” The Godhood Dire Wolf stated bluntly.
“Wait wha-” Ardyn was about to question why King brought up his that armor breaking as the glitched blade exploded in a cataclysmic explosion.
“That’s...a fuck ton bigger than I thought it would be…” Coco said nervously, seeing the barrier bend slightly at the amount of power the explosion had.
“Be glad I put up this barrier. Because so far only Ghost, Cript, and Kexez would be fine from this.” Madoras said. Ghost walks up to him and hands him a mana potion. “Thanks.” Madoras told Ghost before drinking it.
“Yeah…” Coco nodded carefully.
“Ow…” King groaned a bit, as they waved away the massive dust cloud that was made. “You good there Ardyn?”
King looks over at we’re Ardyn was...to see a pair of smoking feet….and nothing else.
“Hmm…” King started, their armor having cracked a bit from the explosion as they summoned Lindworm, kneeled down...and poked it. “You okay there Ardyn?” The wolf asked, poking his foot again.
“For a second there.” A voice behind them said. “I felt the touch of death itself. Such is the nature of powers like that. But.” King turns around to see Ardyn with multiple red weapons floating around him. His power felt much stronger. “Then I remember I’m immortal.”
“Glad to see you're still kicking there Ardyn.” King said as they got up. “Wouldn’t have wanted that to be the end, that would have been boring.”
“I’m only just beginning.” He said as his weapons suddenly flew at King. Kings swipes one away only for it to explode on contact. The blast stunned them a little and a couple more blew up on their exo armor. Causing the cracks to get worse.
“Can we both agree that breaking this exoskeleton is probably a bad idea?” King called out worriedly, trying to block the incoming explosions.
Only for Ardyn to warp behind them and grab them. He then throws them upward and smacks them with his mace again like a bat. While in the air, King is then surrounded by hundreds of weapons.
“Let’s up the blast a bit shall we.” Ardyn said while snapping his fingers. The weapons glow brighter and fly towards King.
“You know what? Fine.” King frowned. “If you want to see how bad this can get, I’ll be happy to oblige.” The wolf growled as he took the full brunt of all the explosions at the same time, now curious as to what bad thing might happen.
“Why do I suddenly have a bad feeling about this?” Coco asked worriedly as she saw the weapons cause an even bigger explosion than the glitched No Heart caused.
As the explosion pushed against the barrier, all the force and energy trying to escape it’s prison...Ardyn felt something heavy cover his entire body as the explosion started to slowly get pulled in by something, then it started to get faster and more violent as it was absorbed into this black hole made of fur. Chunks of the ground started to get sucked in and disintegrated as it got closer to the sphere as Ardyn felt himself slowly getting pulled in.
“That’s not good!” Coco yelped in panic, the entire group besides Coco, the unconscious Broly, and Cheele could tell what the black hole that used to be King really did. “The fuck happened to King!?”
“That is King.” Agamemnon explained. “That’s what happens to his kind when the armor breaks. Want to give a more detailed explanation for her Cript?” Agamemnon asked.
"Basically the Godhood race was built to fight against admins during the Admin war. Their armor isn't just protection but also an enclosure to keep their final defense mechanism at bay. Break their armor open and they explode like a supernova and temporarily transform into a living black hole that once something gets sucked in is broken down at the code level and assimilated into them. So for the next few minutes before his armor.grows back King is a sentient, living, fluffball of a black hole. That can absorb admins." Cript explained simply.
“So…” Coco started slowly. “H-how do...how do we fix that faster?” Coco asked slowly, carefully, and not at all trying not to freak out that the love of her life is now a black hole of fluff.
"Give it a few minutes, it will fix itself." Was all Cript replied, giving a shrug as they watched Ardyn struggle not to get sucked in.
“And what about Ardyn?” Coco asked nervously. “Even his immortality wouldn’t stand up to being turned into raw code and assimilated…”
Cript gave a quick glance to Max, then back to the scene at hand. "I'll only interfere if asked. After all, your Kings should be strong, right Max?"
“He’ll be fine.” Max said. Focusing on Broly. “Wish Code was a little easier to fix.” He said.
Ardyn looks around to see everything King was absorbing. He smiles. “Well. I guess I’ll help. Now.” He then pulls a paint brush from his sleeves. Which made Coco and the others raise an eyebrow at.
“What’s with the Paint Brush?” Coco asked.
“Lets start the party!” Ardyn as he swipes the paint brush in the air as colors of code fly into the air. Each became something else. A building, a whale, a freighter, and even a pair of dice as they are pulled into the fluff hole and are absorbed by it.
”Being a black hole sucks…” King thought to themselves bitterly, unable to talk to anyone as he couldn’t do jack shit about anything besides devour anything and everything faster than a starving Floof Noodle in an all you can eat buffet.
“Is he trying to feed King enough energy and code to help him reform faster?” Coco asked curiously.
“Well King is essentially the equivalent of a walking friendly fire at the moment.” Max said.
“Fair…” Coco nodded. “Let’s hope nothing bad happens afterwards…”
After about five minutes of Ardyn pushing himself back by throwing more and more crap at the fluff hole that was King, suddenly the bone armor from before started to reform quickly as the wolf came back in all their glory. “I’m back, and god do I have such a crick in my back…” King groaned as they started to stretch. “If you ever have a chance to become a sentient black hole and can do nothing about it...choose ‘no’.”
“Glad to see that you're back. Now then.” Ardyn said as he power suddenly jumped again as he clapped his hands. Magic circuits appear around King as golden chains shoot out and wrap around Kings limbs and tail. King pulls but finds the chains extremely tough.
“Those chains were made to hold down a divine beast for a certain king to kill. Add in code and these can hold even you down.” Ardyn explained as he walks closer. He then created another magic circle behind him and pulls out a weapon. Kings eyes widened at it.
“Recognize this? A certain King with a Gate holds the original, but with my power, and a little something I can create even this. Ea.” Ardyn said, holding the king of hero’s strongest ‘sword’.
“Well...who’d have thunk it.” King chuckled. “But you sure you want to use that weapon on me?” King asked carefully. “That’s a pretty powerful weapon, and considering what I am at this point.”
“Take a look at that armor.” Ardyn asked. King looks again and see tiny needles in their armor. No. Tiny rapiers. “Those are created from a special rapier that can ignore armor, but with the way I placed it. You’ll take the full blast. While your armor is undamaged.” Ardyn told them.
“Fantastic.” King sighed out. “Well alright, give it your best shot.” King said, and something about his tone made Ardyn feel a slight unease even after he has the wolf right where he wants him.
‘What is king planning? They should know Ea could really damage them. Oh well. I don’t have the full knowledge of their current form.’ Ardyn thought to themselves. He brought back Ea as it’s energy began to build up.
“Erase.” He said as he stabbed Ea forward as King and everything in a ten kilometer cone in front of Ardyn was consumed in a massive blast of crimson void tinged energy. The shockwaves making most, besides the obvious, of the watchers have to either plant their feet in the ground or grab something.
“There have been many points where we needed to stop and we kept going…” Coco started. “This one is among them…” She said as she had Void Gear in the ground to keep herself steady.
“BUT LET’S KEEP GOING AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS!” They all heard King shout in glee, slamming an out of nowhere haymaker into the side of Ardyn’s head and sending him flying. “That hurt, and this is fun cause my enemies don’t need some bullshit gimmick Grey gave them to handle me.” King laughed as he leaped after Ardyn.
Ardyn let Ea go as it broke down. He reaches out as King comes in closer. His shield flies in time for him to grab it at shield bash Kings fist creating a shockwave. He holds out his other hand as the Sword of the Tall appears again and its chainsaw teeth reave up again.
“Having fun Ardyn?” King asked with a smile, pulling out Eternal Flames and having both of them rev up to an insane degree. “Cause I am, finally with an opponent that I’m on their level with instead of some bullshit extreme.” King said.
“Mind closing this up!? The chapter’s taken forever as is!” Cript called out. “Plus one of us still needs to fight Madoras!”
“Not necessarily. Given the data I’ve gathered from all the fights it’s not needed. Madoras would stand a chance but won’t win against the ones that can still fight. Besides that barrier he made before was clear enough that he still has ways to go.” Max said.
“Correct my lord.” Madoras said. “I’ll practice my magic and code harder when we get back.”
“I’m pretty sure anyone else besides Cript and like...four others would have the same amount of trouble if not unable to do what Madoras here did.” Coco brought up.
“So...you?” Agamemnon bluntly says to Coco.
Cript failed to hold back a chuckle. "Didn't think you had a sense of humor. About time you stopped being so one dimensional."
“A certain multi colored skeleton that won’t leave me alone...no matter how many times I stab him, killed my humor. Not completely though.” Agamemnon said.
“Sounds about right…” Coco sighed out. “But in my defense, I was in a Coma for a couple of years because Void Key’s a prick.”
“Looks like someone down there wants us to end this. What say you?” Ardyn asked King.
“I’ve never actually tried a ‘Finishing Move’ before, so let’s see who's better.” King said with a smile.
“You first then.” Ardyn challenged.
“Please, after you.” King said politely. “Wouldn’t want to accidentally knock you out and miss your ultimate attack.”
Ardyn sighs. “Very well. But.” Ardyn says as his power skyrockets much higher than before. He looks up as his eyes turn black as black marks form on his face.
“Dont say I didn’t give you a chance.” He says as he holds out his right hand. A silver ring visible. Then it explodes in magical energy. Combined with what he was already putting out it actually goes over the power Broly was showing before he had to be stopped. Kings sees a dozen blades start sticking out of Ardyn. He grimaced in pain as the blades burst out of him.
Then behind him huge knights in Red energy form taking a weapon each. Ardyn reaches out with his left and grabs his personal blade.
“VOID KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND!” Ardyn yells as he throws his right fist towards King as the knights charge at him. Each hitting King with their full power. One after the other with no second in between. Ardyn then finished it with a slash from his blade. Fully charged up as he swings at strike King.
King brought out his King’s Greatsword, it glowing with Pure Nothingness energy. "ETERNAL NOTHINGNESS!” He shouted, swinging his greatsword as Ardyn saw everything behind King seem to turn pure white as it was rushing to clash with Ardyn’s pitch black Void.
Madoras was about to create another barrier when Max snapped his fingers and one much more powerful then what Madoras made formed around them. “Just got done. Some rest and he should be good.” He said as he got up from tending to Broly.
The clash from Ardyn and King was intense. Not as much as Agamemnon and Jericho’s final clash but that power was there. After about half a minute things cleared up. Showing King and Ardyn on opposite sides. Their backs to each other and holding their respective swords.
“I’m still standing.” King told Ardyn simply.
Ardyn smiles. “So you are. Appears...I’ve yet to fully reach..my.” He starts to say before he falls over.
King fell to a knee as Ardyn hit the ground, using No Heart to keep him propped up. “You're not the only one…” The wolf groaned. “We done?” King called out.
“Correct.” Max said as he appeared next to Ardyn. He picks him up and turns to King. “Nice fight.” He said before appearing back to his group.
“Only help out one of the injured…” King grumbled as they got up shakily and appeared near the group.
“Well that was interesting. Great fights. Besides Broly’s, no offense, all fights seemed closed. Wait also forgot about Ghost. Maybe next time Coco.” Frisk said as she sat on a floating rock.
“Still lasted longer than I thought against Ghost.” Coco shrugged.
Max looks over King’s group. “Besides the obvious ones. You have potential. This fight has given me a bit of insight for what to work on with my Kings, and hopefully has given you all insight in your own strengths and flaws to work on.”
“And when does it take into account John kicking your ass?” King brought up.
"That's enough banter you two." Cript said. "Max, quick talk?"
“*sigh* Sure. The rest of you head back.” Max told the others. As they headed through his portal.
In a blink, Max and Cript were both on a more distant hill. Quickly Cript put up several soundproofing barriers around them. "So, how badly?" Cript asked Max.
“How badly what? You're gonna need to be a bit more specific because that question can be about many things.” Max replied.
"How badly do you still wanna beat me?" Cript stated simply.
“How badly does King want to kill Void Key?” Max asked back.
"Heh. Fair enough. Though, even if we did fight, you won't be happy. I'd never go all out. If I'm not showing all I got, how can you claim it as a real victory, or guage the gap between us?"
“Exactly how many enemies did you beat when they were holding back because they thought you were beneath and you took advantage of that?” Max asked. “Because I’m not some warrior that wants to constantly test myself like that, want someone like that I’d look for Goku. I’m an assassin. I don’t care so long as the job is done.”
Cript rolled their eyes. "Persistent as ever I see. Still, while I can't respect your wishes, I know someone who can."
Max raised an eyebrow. “Do you perhaps mean another C.R.I.P.T.? Aren’t they basically different from each one? Or is there something I haven’t found out yet?” He asked.
"Well, with all my… siblings… tell me, do you honestly believe I'm the only Heir C.R.I.P.T Vincent made?"
“At first maybe, but when I think about it now. I won’t hold it against him to make a contingency just in case.” Max said.
"Try several." Cript said. "I've only met three of them, the other two are still MIA. But we're focusing on the ones I know. Specifically, Rip."
“How bad is he if we’re focusing on him in peculiar?” Max had asked.
"The other Heir's and I are largely similar, but Rip and I… we could almost be twins. Abilities, powers, stats, all identical. Only difference between us is lifestyles."
“And power correct?” Max asked.
"Same." Cript said. "Plus… he doesn't hold back. Being taught by Vincent directly he never was taught how."
“So the you he wanted you to become right? What did change for you to be the head then instead of him?”
"Nothing. The five Heir Cripts are all 'heads' as you put it. Almost like a hydra if you wanna visualize it. These days Rip spends his days in one of the dead timelines."
“Why a dead timeline? Was something he cared about there, or just to be alone?” Max asked.
"Let me put it as… how to put this… you know I'm the Admin of Love, One other is the Admin if Hope, the other The Admin of Divinity, and supposedly from what I found out the other two are the Admins of Sins and Mercy. Rip, is the Admin of Hatred. The opposite of Love more or less, and he's in a dead timeline because the only thing he doesn't hate is… silence. And given we can hear from this end of reality to that…"
Max nodded at that. “So to both test me and for me to see how truly strong you are...you want me to go to him and face him.”
"... I want you to kill him."
Max looks at Cript. It’s honestly a bit rare that he genuinely wants someone or something dead...that isn’t Vincent that is. “What could he have done for you to want him dead? Other than being basically what Vincent would want out of you.”
"Consider it a sign of trust." Cript said plainly. "After all, you don't trust me, but kill him… maybe then you could, cause you'd be able to kill me then. Besides, one word from Vincent and Rip will level whatever without hesitation. A lose end like that isn't good to leave around."
“Ok. Letting Vincent have someone like Rip on his side would be problematic in the future. I’ll take him. I’ll head back with my group to train and prepare some more.” Max said. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a card. “This will help you find my castle. I constantly move it to keep them on me. With stuff my group took from Nexus should be of interest. We even found a Psychopath Cript and a certain admin’s war axe.”
"Huh. Interesting. I'll pop by sometime."
“Ok. I best get-” Max started before a Knight in dark armor with a skull like helmet appears.
“My lord. Urgent report.” He said.
“Wild Hunt?” What happened?” Max asked. The Wild Hunt was his main spies. More efficient then you would think. What problems did he run into.
“I was following a convoy of Vincent’s. Carrying both resources and subjects they experimented on. When the Convoy was attacked.” He replied.
“By what?”
“I...I don’t know. They used guns and other weapons as well as powers. I saw a few fall only to raise back up. They slaughtered them, they left the resources but took the subjects. I would have followed but something about one of them…”
“What about him?” Max asked.
“The Convoy was lead by a speedster and a Psychopath with two Bezerkers. This...thing. Slaughtered them with no difficulty and with much brutality. I dared not get to close.” He said. Max and Cript can see him shaking somewhat fierce.
Max turns to Cript. “You know of anyone that could do something like that so easily?”
"Several."
“Other than my Kings or your group over there.”Max said pointing back at the others.
"Still several. What did this thing look like exactly?" Cript asked the knight.
“It’s..hard to describe. It was large. Not as big as a Berzerk, but still strong enough to manhandle two at once like they're children. It has dark hair that looked tribal with a gold ring hanging off one strand. It wasn’t wearing a shirt. This thing though...wasn’t human or anything. It was a feral like...monster.” He said. “And the bit of power I sensed…”
"...and it's eyes?" Cript asked.
The Knight shook some more. “I know it’s eyes...I just realised it because it looked right at me. Besides two glowing green dots. It’s eyes were pitch black.”
"Hmm…" Cript hummed. "Reminds me of… The Infection…"
“Infection?” Max asked. “What’s that?”
"Think of the Nulls but more violent and wants to expand it daddy's storm." Cript huffed.
“The Hell is a Null?” Max question.
"... Huh, wow. Did not see that coming. Okay so basically you know how the machine we live in resets? Well every so often someone glitches on that and it just… creates a perma glitch being that their whole society mostly just hides and watches this all repeat endlessly until the death if the machine itself." Cript stated rather matter of factly.
“So a Null is what? A sort of watcher that makes sure the Machine actually runs and gets rid of something that might ruin it or something? I haven’t found anything about them yet in my studies.” Max said.
"You wouldn't, only time they ever poop out is when there's a catastrophic error and they manually reset everything. They keep to themselves until then and according to Null Jenny there's only like ten or so of them herself included."
“Ok, but what about the Infection? What exactly is it? You said it’s like a Null.” Max asked.
"It's like a Null in terms of power. Power of which meaning Null Jenny and I can catch each other's punches so, yeah. It was born from this thing Lord told me about, called it The Storm or something like that. Basically go as far as possible in the void til you reach an endless vortex of chaos and death."
“Exactly how dangerous is this Storm?” Max asked. It sounds very bad.
"Well Lord told me never to go near it. Ever. Even threatened to seal me in one of his special cube prisons if I tried. So I'm gonna say, powerful."
Max thinks for a bit. “You said it's trying to expand that storm. How far? Till it covers the Void?”
"My guess, it's just another thing on the list that wants to destroy all of creation within the machine. Why, no idea, how, brute force it seems."
Max turns towards his Knight, “Have the Wild Hunt avoid this thing and it’s men for now. Right now we have to focus on Vincent and his allies.” His Knight nods and disappears.
“I’ll head back. Start preparing for Rip. You might need to inform your allies of this thing. From what you describe of it they might not be ready for it if a fight comes to it.” Max said, turning back to Cript.
"So it seems. Really should start checking off all these issues at some point. Oh, and best keep clear of Lord. He's pissed at you and your kings."
“Figures. After what we did to those Admins.” Max said. He then opens a portal. “I’m off.” He walks through it as it closes.
Cript sighed, watching the portal close. "Stay safe Max… I hope you survive this…"
The darkness of this land was on par with the void. The faint glow of a blue sun far from the world was the only light in this place.
Sitting atop a chunk of rock was a pale figure, his brown hair and orange eyes staring at the endless blackness. "Silence… calm…" He muttered, breathing slow steady breaths as he welcomed the vast nothingness he created. Armies. Gods. Planets. Galaxies. All gone, so he can find calm.
In the distance, a nat fly ate away at the long rotten pile of corpses.
"Noise…" He growled, his anger raising. "Be gone." He muttered, a flash of light and the fly, and half the planet he was on, were gone. "Ahhh… silence…"
Then...footsteps. Noise.
The person turned, seeing the cause of such infuriating noise. He saw someone there. Something not belonging to this place.
A person in a black trench coat. Silver scarf. Black dress pants and a black fedora. He raised his head a bit. Showing red eyes. Looking right at him.
Red met Orange.
No words were said. Because both already knew what was about to happen….
ON THE NEXT DRAGON BALL -
“WRONG SERIES!!” Both yelled at the writer.
To be continued