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// Team A's Pressure! Yuki and Adreana on the assault! 
// Story: The Displaced Tournament of Power 
// by Uncle Iroh 
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Team A’s Pressure! Yuki and Adreana on the assault!


02:40:02


Ganondorf dragged Zeref to the edge, his legs still wobbly from their fight. Ganon was merely two meters from the edge, Ganondorf clenched his teeth and grabbed both of Zeref’s legs. “Looks like you’re going to the shadow realm, Jimbo.” Ganondorf spun around in a circle and threw Zeref off the edge. Ganondorf was then brought to his knees, panting. “There… It’s over… Finally, I got one out, gang…” Ganondorf said to his team through his earbud.

“Roger that, we’re still resting in a cave near the center, no one has found us yet, return there for me, please.” The voice of Arkham Knight reached Ganondorf.

“Allow me to pick you up, it will only be a few seconds, so brace yourself.”  Lord Twigo’s voice replied, Ganondorf nodded.

“Yeah, sounds good.” Ganondorf began to walk away from the edge, using Observation Haki to be wary of his surroundings. Suddenly, Lord Twigo appeared next to him.

“Up you go!” Lord Twigo heaved Ganondorf on his back and flew off at the speed of light, and in an instant he was transported to the cave Arkham and Noel were resting. Surprisingly, everyone but Herobrine and Akainu were there. The cave was hidden on the outside but was decorated on the inside, with Minecraft stuff supplied by Herobrine.

“What’s this all about?” Ganondorf asked, sitting on a Minecraft bed. Arkham cleared his throat.

“So, you guys heard about Zabuza’s defeat, right?” Arkham asked, everyone raised an eyebrow. “He lost to Ichigo, he had the sharingan and copied his Armament Haki, though it was still developing, it made a difference. Zabuza had no way of beating Ichigo, whatever he tried would be copied instantly, so he quit for the sake of us. So, how about we, the Commanders, take this pest out of the picture? Bullet and Fujitora are heavy hitters, but Ganondorf’s power could beat Ichigo. He could simply keep on making Spectral Knights, if he has the mana. That is why we have food from Minecraft, the food can supply Ganondorf with infinite energy as long as he keeps eating. And eventually, make an army strong enough to take this bastard out of the picture. That is Plan A of taking down Ichigo.”

“Alright, Ichigo is… Around Akainu’s level, right? No amount of soldiers can compete with that.” Necrozma shook his head, Arkham nodded.

“So in short, this Ichigo character is akin to a Blue Mage, but can copy abilities outside of that.” Noel said with a snort. 

“Which is why it’s called ‘Plan A’, I have different plans.” Arkham emphasized, “What say you, Noel, if you had an idea of how to take down Ichigo, what would it be?” The Knight turned to Noel.

“Hmm.. Considering how he can copy things, why not just use normal means of attack? No spells, no special attacks, just normal physical attacks with no names. What use is a normal punch that he can already do?” Noel suggested. 

“That introduces another problem, he could use his attacks but we can not. However, there are certain things he can not copy. Devil Fruits, the Advanced forms of Haki, abilities that are native to a race, essentially just attacks that no one else can do. Noel, you can use magic that no one else can use, right?” Fujitora asked the Drake.

“Other than the keyblader to a certain extent, yes. The fourth tier fire ‘ga’ spell, I know no one here knows, not unless you meant my Flare spells that change with my form?” Noel answered with a nod. 

“What we’re talking about are unteachable attacks, like Conqueror’s Haki. And Advanced Forms of Haki are essentially transformations, I’m sure as sugar a sharingan can not copy a transformation.” Lord Twigo crossed his arms, leaning on a log.

“Then yes as long as I don’t use the normal Flare spell, all the others can't unless they were Displaced as a Bahamut or have his powers.” Noel explained. 

“Plan B is like this: Noel, me, Necrozma, and Fujitora attack Ichigo. Fujitora can switch gravity to horizontal and push him out of the arena. If that’s not good enough, he could make gravity normal for us and we can try and push him off like that. I can use a Dyna stone to force him off, the explosion would take a chunk of the arena off with him, not to mention flinging him off. It would be worth it.” Arkham said, “Noel, Necrozma, Fujitora, do you have any opinions?”

“None other than allow me to grant everyone here some form of protection. The spells Shell and Protect will last five minutes, longer if I spend all of my magic.” Noel offered as his tail flicked about. 

“I could also use my Z-Crystal to stun him, stun him enough that he wouldn’t see an all out assault of us.” Necrozma suggested, “And with my transformation it would stun him longer since, y’know, space would be shattered.”

“And I could use an Impact Dial filled with Bullet’s punches and knock him back.” Arkham added.

“And with gravity pushing him to the edge, he would have nothing to do but fall off.” Fujitora smirked, Arkham nodded.

“Right, Plan B goes first, in the meantime, Ganondorf, Lord Twigo, and Bullet will work on Plan A. Lord Twigo already knows of his location, he is resting, if we hide our Ki we can kick his ass. Oh, and Noel, take this capsule, it’s a pill that will hide your life force but not hinder it in any way. It will prevent Ichigo from finding us should we jump him.” Arkham took out a capsule, stretching his arm to Noel. 

Noel took it between his clawed fingers, then tossed it into his maw, swallowing it. “And is ki sensing the only ability he has? What of magic senses?” Noel asked in concern.

“I’m confident that he can sense more, however, this pill will make it so that we’re invisible to him other than sight.” Arkham explained. Noel nodded in understanding.

“Now, let us see this Ichigo, shall we?” Fujitora stood to his feet.

“Right!’






02:40:03


Dillan watched all the fighting from a tree branch as he used his ki senses to keep an eye on all his teammates, his eyes falling upon a young man that was also standing on a tree, appearing to watch his own teammates.. "Sora huh? Which version?" He asked the man. 

Sora spared a glance for the young man before turning most of his attention back to Team A. “Kingdom Heart Two,” he replied. “With some three-five-eight over two thrown in and three thousand years of creative interpretation.” He chuckled. “You’d do well to take the game’s limitations with a grain of salt; I’ve evolved beyond them. What about you? What’s your deal?”

"Paradox gave me my Ultimatrix when I was about to kill myself." Dillan said nonchalantly. "My whole human family died… oh you mean my powers. Doy!" He said, slapping his own forehead. "I've mastered all the Ben 10 aliens from the show, a few not in the show, a couple thousand Pokemon scans… a Saiyan, nemekian, frieza race… the species of the cooler squad… if I remember correctly a cybertronian…"  

Sora held up a hand. “I’m gonna stop you right there. I remember basically nothing about Earth pop culture, so most of those names mean nothing. But basically, you’re a shapeshifter, right?”

"Basically yeah, though I have millions of forms that all have different abilities." Dillan said. "And one I locked that can alter reality itself." 

Sora’s attention snapped fully to Dillan, and he could feel a deadly intensity in his gaze. “A reality warper?” he spat. “Not a draconequus, is it?”

Dillan blinked a few times before chuckling. "Ok two reality warping transformations, I scanned Discord when I met him… now the ass won't leave me alone about a chaos duel." He said sticking out his tongue. "But that's not my cup of tea."

Sora eyed Dillan’s Ultimatrix warilly. “If I were you,” he muttered, “I would purge your device of his taint as soon as possible. No good comes from-” He cut himself off, shaking his head. “No, stop,” he muttered to himself. “Alex proved otherwise. They aren’t all…” He sighed and looked off into the distance again. “My apologies. My Discord is significantly more deadly and less sane than what I’m starting to believe is the norm.”

"Yeah, that's understandable. I live with the idea of the multiverse and everything that can happen will or has, my discord and Fluttershy are actually married with a child." Dillan said pointing to the stands where his discord, Fluttershy and a small filly with yellow fur, a color changing mane and wings with a jagged horn waved at them. 

Sora refused to look. “Another one with Fluttershy,” he muttered. “Is that the norm as well?” He let out another weary sigh before turning and smiling brightly at Dillan, all trace of his previous demeanor gone. “Anyway, we’re supposed to be trying to destroy each other, right?”

"I wouldn't say destroy just… best up." Dillan said with a similar grin. "Also just so you know, most realities I've heard of Discord and Celestia are together." He said before suddenly appearing in front of Sora. 

“That so?” A flash of light, and a blade was in Sora’s hand. Before Dillan could get a good look at it, Sora vanished. “Sol will get a kick out of that,” Sora’s voice echoed from somewhere in the trees. “And by ‘a kick,’ I mean he’ll head down to Tartarus and kick a ton of flank to blow off his rage. Now, let’s see what you can do.”

Dillan grinned and vanished again, before appearing behind Sora and kicking him out of the trees. He launched several blasts of ki at the blade wilder, once again vanishing. "Right back at ya!" 

Sora grunted, blocking the shots of ki with his blade before landing nimbly on a branch. “Okay, no hiding from this guy,” Sora muttered. “Pansy? Cookie? Clover? Be ready to intercept.” Three keyblades flashed into existence, orbiting around him. He dismissed Mysterious Stalker, summoning Oathkeeper and Oblivion to his hands. The former twitched upwards, spawning a small whirlwind around him. “Hope your whole strategy isn’t hit and run,” he said, pointing Oathkeeper upwards. “Because that won’t really work. Magnega!” A massive orb of yellow energy formed above Sora’s head, and Dillan found himself torn from cover in an instant.

Dillan grinned and grabbed the ball of energy, struggling to fight against it. "Not at all, I was just showing you I could sense your energy! And I'm not sure what this energy is but it's strong… might have to learn it!" He said, before kicking it away and slamming down his Ultimatrix. A bright blue flash enveloped him before he was replaced with a large four armed red being that flew at Sora at Mach speed. Sora started turning towards him, but he was too slow.

But his keyblades weren’t.

Biter slammed itself into the ground in front of Dillan, not even flinching as he slammed into it. Reaper followed up by swiping his legs out from beneath him. No sooner had he landed on his back than Ponderer appeared overhead, pointing straight down at him. In an instant, he was engulfed in a massive fireball.

All before Sora had finished turning towards him.

Dillan shook his head and grinned. "So your key blades are sentient? Cool wonder if I could scan them." He said before charging two large balls of energy within both his sets of hands. "Final ka-me-ha-meha!" He yelled firing a blast of blue and yellow at Sora.

Sora smirked, twitching Oathkeeper upwards again. “Reflega.” A transparent, crystalline barrier formed for a second around Sora. Dillan’s eyes went wide as his attacks ricocheted off of the barrier and blasted back towards him. Sora shook his head as Dillan was blasted off his feet, his blades returning to orbit him again. “Not sentient, no,” he said. “But they do act mostly at my subconscious direction. When I’m not actively controlling them, that is.”

Dillan nods, returning to normal before he grinned at Sora and transformed into a large plant looking creature with a red flower-like head. He tossed multiple large seed like objects on the ground all around them before green gas flowed from his palms and all the trees and seeds grew larger and reached for Sora. 

Oblivion switched out for Bond of Flame. “Oh sure,” he said, smirking. “Give me a definite elemental target.” He pointed his blades in two different directions while Ponderer pointed in a third. “Fira!”

Streams of liquid fire - almost like napalm - shot from the three blades, bathing everything in flame. Every scrap of vegetation was consumed, burning quickly away as the flames started to spread and reach for Dillan.

"It's called a distraction." Dillan said as another blue flash enveloped him as the flames began to freeze, creating a beautiful ice sculpture of ice made from flames around Sora. 

Sora cut the streams of fire, switching Bond of Flame back out for Oblivion as he looked around. “Pretty,” he noted, Oblivion beginning to glow with a yellow light. “But I’m afraid it’s blocking my view.” Sora reared back and threw Oblivion, the blade spinning through the air and shattering the ice in front of him. In an instant, the blade was back in his hand and flying in another direction. In a matter of seconds, the immediate area was clear of vegetation and ice, a charred clearing of stone. Oblivion returned to Sora’s hand once more and stopped glowing as Sora looked about the area. “There we go,” he said, smirking as Oathkeeper twitched again, refreshing his Aeroga spell. “Plenty of room to fight, now.”

The space was completely empty, no sign of Dillan before all the ice shards and what Sora can now see are frozen trees began to liquify, swirling and merging into a tall being made of ice with the hourglass symbol of Dillan's watch on its chest as the air itself and the ground began to turn into Ice. "Don't think it'll be that easy, this being wasn't even a thing until some enemies of mine made the species." 

Sora hummed to himself as he contemplated the being that Dillan had become. Shattered into a thousand pieces, and he pulls himself together just fine. This one might be tricky. He chuckled. Good. Been a while since I had to actually be clever in a fight. “I’ll admit, I’m impressed. What exactly are you, right now?”

"An iciclian." Dillan said with a grin. "Like my teammate, we when we want to can turn anything into ice and then use that ice to make ourselves stronger. If gone untamed we can even redose temperatures to absolute zero, and block out all light." Dillan said as Sora noticed they were suddenly encased in a large ball of ice as the air grew colder. 

Sora frowned. “Yeah, I’m just gonna nope right out of this one, then.” Oathkeeper switched out for Mysterious Stalker in a flash, and Sora vanished.

He observed the ball of ice from outside, blinking into Heartsight to keep track of Dillan. That’s a powerful foe indeed. Fire does nothing, and I can assume that Blizzard and Thunder won’t have much effect either. I hate to do this, but it looks like I’ve only got one option for fighting this guy. He stepped back several paces, swapping Oblivion out for a lion-themed keyblade. “Help me out here, Menagerie.” He pointed the blade upwards and summoned.

Sora watched as all the ice and snow that was made swirled into a blizzard whipping around and surrounding him as his visibility became almost non-existent with a pair of eyes appearing within the storm. "So you know, I have another transformation with the exact same powers as this one, but made of magma." 

“Good to know,” Sora said as a massive magic circle appeared behind him. “Because I’ve got a magma-themed guy as well.”

The circle turned white, a portal opening up within. A massive figure stepped out of the portal, crafted from jagged ice from head to foot. The ice titan roared as the portal closed behind it, Sora slenderwalking back a ways. “I’ll let you two icy lovebirds duke it out!” he shouted.

"How about no." Dillan's voice said before the area was engulfed in blue light again, and Sora and the ice figure became pinned to the ground unable to move as a large rock creature stood away from them with his hand glowing. "Got anything against gravity?" 

Sora chuckled, Ponderer twirling around. “Yeah, my own. Gravira!” A hemisphere of purple energy briefly consumed the area before vanishing, taking the enhanced gravity with it. “I can spell, and I can counterspell. Titan? Have at him.”

The titan roared again, splaying its arms wide. A portal opened above Dillan’s head, large boulders of frozen stone dropping down towards him.

Dillan grinned and suddenly merged his arms and legs into his body, becoming nothing but a ball as the stones began swirling around him as if he had his own gravitational field before the rocks got launched at incredible speeds at the titan. It flinched at each impact, but remained standing. It threw a punch which had more force behind it than Dillan had expected, sending him flying back to crash against one of the trees at the edge of the clearing.

Dillan rolled a bit with a cartoonist grin before he floated into the air. "Are you alive? Can you speak?" He asked as wind started swirling around him and all the leaves, small rocks, and even Sora and the titan began to move slowly towards him. 

“I don’t think it can,” Sora answered, using a small amount of gravity magic to negate Dillan’s pull on him and the titan. “It never has to me. Then again, its entire dialogue in Hercules consisted of ‘freeeeze hiiiiim’, so I doubt he’s much of a conversationalist even if he can speak.”

"They do say Zeus, and the fat one talks to hercules." Dillan said, grinning as his gravity powers pulled them closer still despite Sora's magic. "So I may be able to get a scan, but that's for another time!" He said before gravity suddenly shifted around them making the Titan and Sora fly into the air as if weightless, before going back down suddenly and rinse and repeat.

Sora endured a couple of these before crying out, flaring with light. Dillan found his control of gravity disrupted as Sora settled into a gentle hover, his clothes turned to blue. The titan crashed down harder, but managed to stagger to its feet. “That,” Sora growled, “was annoying. Ponderer? Keep a Gravira constantly at the ready. Counter any more gravity effects he throws out.” He leveled Menagerie at Dillan and switched it out for Oathkeeper, twirling Mysterious Stalker behind his back. “Time to go on the offensive.”

He vanished in an instant, appearing a few meters behind Dillan. A rapid-fire series of shots blasted from Oathkeeper, striking Dillan in the back. He slenderwalked again, attacking from a different angle. He repeated this a few more times before slenderwalking away, allowing the titan a clear shot to kick Dillan across the arena once again.

Dillan flipped around and whipped off a small bit of blood before grinning. "Ok this is fun." He said returning to normal again, this time however he transformed into a chimera with bits and pieces of different creatures. His head was that of a green bug with a pointed head, his left arm a short blue clawed hand, his right arm a mummy's arm, left leg a wolf's leg and right leg that of a red two toes foot. His torso is long and snake-like. "Time to kick it up a notch!" He said snapping his flawed hand as the titan shrank to the size of a chiwawa, before he snapped again and a small black hole appeared. 

Sora was gone. A flash of light from behind him was Dillan’s only warning before two heavy blades slammed into his back. He turned back and was met with a face full of Ultima Weapon as Sora unleashed a series of attacks, garbed in white, his eyes blazing a brilliant white. He rained blow after blow down on Dillan, Ultima Weapon and Fenrir ripping him a new one. Finally, he leapt away into the air, hovering high above as he switched out both blades for a single one, a draconic-looking blade which radiated fearsome, primordial power. “FIRAGUN!!!” Sora cried. Elemental Might fired, a massive stream of primordial flame spewing forth and smothering Dillan, setting much of the remaining forest ablaze. Sora kept up the stream for over a minute before finally relenting and hovering slowly down, coming to rest about a foot above the glassed, steaming ground.

"Right… you hate discord." Dillan's voice said before he was behind Sora now as a large black being with plugs on the end of its feet, hands and tendrils. Before suddenly hooking all six plugs into Sora's back and beginning to drain his energy rapidly while he was distracted. Sora cried out, his clothes flashing back to normal.

Biter and Reaper swung through the air, knocking loose and severing the plugs respectively. Sora dropped to his feet and rolled away, quickly summoning Mysterious Stalker and slenderwalking back. He panted a bit, but grinned. “Finally. Something I can handle.” He stood upright and summoned Kingdom Key to his other hand. “Your little shapeshifting routine is nifty, but it has one fatal flaw. It’s entirely reliant on that device.” Another slenderwalk and Sora was up in Dillan’s face, Kingdom Key pressed against the hourglass symbol.

“And devices can be locked.”

An ominous click sounded from the Ultimatrix.

Dillan reverted back to normal, blinking down at his watch. "Yeah ok." He said, vanishing from sight and reappearing a few feet away. He pulled out a small object and summoned a chest, pulling out two gauntlets and putting them on after removing his Ultimatrix and cracking his neck. "Let's see how you deal with my biomatrix!" He said, crossing the two gauntlets. "Fastback!" He said as he transformed into a blue being with a single blue eye and familiar tendrils with plugs. He vanished in a burst of speed before appearing behind Sora once again, the tendrils this time wrapping around him keeping him in place as his energy started to drain again 

Sora scoffed and slenderwalked easily out of Dillan’s grasp, sending Biter and Reaper to harry him a bit. “You really like that energy drain, huh?” He swapped Kingdom Key for Menagerie and flicked the blade along the ground. An orb of light followed the blade, flying off to land on the ground and forming a patch of grass beneath it. A large deer stood there, glaring at Sora.

“I know, I know,” Sora said, waving off the deer. “I’m sorry for summoning you so soon after Coco, but this guy’s got some sort of mana drain, and I could use your help.” Bambi rolled his eyes before bounding over to Sora, grass growing beneath his hooves wherever he landed. At his mere presence, Sora felt himself growing less fatigued, his energy restored.

Dillan appeared behind him and simply picked him up, tossing him clear across the arena before following him at mach speeds again. 

Sora appeared at Bambi’s side again, sharing a glance with the deer. “He doesn’t seem to get that I can teleport at will,” he said, casually pointing Menagerie at Dillan’s retreating back. “Firaga. Thundaga. Blizzaga. Seriously, you’d think he’d figure it out by now. Firaga.”

"Maybe I have." A high voice said in with an overlay before multiple waves of sound shot out of the trees and surrounded the deer and Sora creating an ear splitting screech. 

Bambi flattened his ears, wincing slightly. Sora’s reaction was slightly more dramatic as he dropped Menagerie, clasping his hand over one of his ears. He quickly slung the other arm over Bambi’s flanks and slenderwalked out of the circle of fire. Quickly, he blinked into Heartsight, scanning the area for Dillan.

Multiple small white creatures with dog like features surrounded them still, as more started approaching nearly a hundred different copies that also began shooting ear splitting sonic waves around them creating a bubble of sound around them.

Sora slenderwalked again, this time with a grin on his face. “Swarmer tactics?” he asked. “You’re seriously using swarmer tactics against a keyblader? Dude, how many times do you think I’ve been surrounded by hive-minded creatures with strange abilities.” He grabbed Reaper out of the air, both it and Mysterious Stalker flashing into even more scythe-like forms as Ponderer pointed upwards. “You’re basically asking for this one. Magnega!”

A sphere of yellow energy appeared again over Sora’s head, quickly sucking in every single creature surrounding him into a spiraling vortex. Sora leapt up right into the middle of the swarm and set Reaper and Mysterious Stalker to work, striking every clone in the swarm several times before the spell finally faded. Ponderer pointed towards them again as they dropped. “Fira!” A ring of fire formed around Sora and blasted outwards, sending the bruised and now singed clones flying in every direction as Sora alighted easily on the ground, Bambi trotting once again to his side.

All of the clones that were left jumped into the air and recombined, before transforming into a an orange creature with a large beak and flew high into the air. In an instant Sora noticed a flash of light before a giant red and white being came falling from the sky covered in a white aura, slamming his fists into the ground of the arena they were in while using the momentum to crack and break the ground making it begin falling into the void while kicking up a large cloud of dust. Sora and Bambi leapt back, studying this new form intently from a distance.

Through the dust Sora and Bambi suddenly got knocked through the air from a giant hand smacking them through the dust followed by a large blast of different colored energies as a combination of cosmic energy and ki struck the two before they could react. This proved to be the final straw for Bambi, who fell to his side before turning to mist and dissipating. Sora leapt to his feet, staring down this new threat. That’s a lot of raw power, he thought, flashing into Valor Form and switching his blades out for Fenrir and Metal Chocobo. He rushed forward into the dust cloud, blinking back into heartsight and quickly narrowing in on Dillan. He leapt and swung both blades, catching Dillan in the side and blasting him out of the cloud. He walked out shortly after and eyed his opponent.

A very tall creature, taller than the Titans stood before him. A giant red and white being that was holding his side glared at Sora, before yelling as ki pushed air rapidly in every direction creating hurricane five force winds. "You're in big trouble now Sora! Way Big!" He said before he fired a huge beam of cosmic and ki energy out of his mouth, combining it with beams from his palms. 

Sora dove to the side, barely avoiding the blasts. “You’re the one in trouble!” he shouted, switching again for Oathkeeper and Photon Debugger and pointing both at the sky. “You and Discord both! Bigger targets are just easier to hit! Let’s see how you handle some rapid-fire! RAPID THUNDER!!!”

A massive cloud formed barely above Dillan’s head. An instant later, he was assaulted by bolt after bolt of powerful lightning which wracked his frame with electricity. Sora kept his blades pointed upward, continuing the assault.

"Rrraaaahhhhhh!" Dillan shouted before he shifted again, as all the electricity was absorbed into a very familiar black creature with plugs on the end before it shot straight at Sora. However right before it got to Sora it shifted into the red for armed being punching Sora in the gut before Sora was suddenly pummeled repeatedly by each of the forms Dillan took during their fight giving him no time to react before he shifted again into a large yellow being that rolled into a ball and slammed into Sora at top speed and slammed him into the ground dragging him along.  

Finally, Sora managed to concentrate long enough to pull out Mysterious Stalker. He slenderwalked out from beneath Dillan, panting and groaning in pain. He spat out a bit of blood, a stream of it beginning to run down his face and over one eye from a cut on his forehead. “Okay,” he admitted. “That one hurt. A lot. But if you’re so eager to pull out the powerhouse techniques…” Oathkeeper appeared in Sora’s other hand. “Graviga!” A sphere of purple energy grabbed Dillan, pulling him into the ground and forcing him to a halt for a moment.

A moment was all Sora needed.

He slenderwalked high into the air, casting a quick Aerora to keep himself hovering. He dismissed all of his blades before spreading out his arms. Closing his eyes. Concentrating.

First one. Then five. Then fifty. Then a hundred. Soon, the sky was filled with almost a thousand keyblades, each one pointed down at Dillan. Sora opened his eyes, now glowing with power. He raised a single hand.

His hand fell.

His keyblades followed.

Dillan had no time to react as a swarm of several hundred keyblades pummeled him and the area around him. As soon as they struck, they vanished, appearing again around Sora and falling once more. After almost a full minute of this assault, it suddenly ceased. Sora remained hovering high in the air, breathing heavily as he stared down at the devastation he had wreaked. “Be honored,” he said, his voice carrying to the ground below. “Few have faced this technique. Fewer still have survived it.”

"G-gotta say, that was impressive." Dillan's voice said, standing in the rubble covered in blood and scratches as he pops his left shoulder back into place. "If it wasn't for my matrix abilities to keep me alive I'd be dead… but don't think this is over. I've only used roughly ten aliens… I have close to eighty unlocked right now!" He yelled, crossing his arms again with a grin as his biomatrix glowed. "Time for you to meet… Waytonix!" He yelled before he became a large red and white metallic robot similar to Way big but had tanks of blue energy along his wrists and in his chest. 

Sora sighed and lifted his arms again. Dillan’s eyes went wide as an even bigger swarm of keyblades - several thousand strong, at least - filled the air around him. “Ten minutes, then.”






02:59:57


Ten minutes later, the landscape below could have passed for a cousin of the Grand Canyon, but far more barren and lifeless. A haze of dust and dirt filled the air for several dozens of meters around the crater, warning everyone nearby to stay away. Sora gazed down at his opponent, sweat pouring down his face as he fought to keep his breathing slow and even.

Through thick dust a light blue light flowed out as Sora saw a ball of blue energy flickering in and out before Waytonix's hand came up and allowed Sora to Stand on it as he noticed the scrapes and bruises as Waytonix pants, with a slightly Shaky voice. "you know if I was a Saiyan right now… I'd be getting one hell of a zenkai boost… and I can see your running low as well… what do you say we just try to knock each other out with one final attack…" 

Sora took one more deep breath before letting it out with a long, long sigh. “Kid, I’m gonna level with you. I’ve still got plenty of goodies in my ol’ bag of tricks. This time flexing my magic to its limits has given me exactly the sort of time and rest I need to recover physically. I could go right back to whaling on you with my big yaying keyswords for another couple days if I had to, and within about half an hour, my magic would have recovered well enough to bring it back into the fray as well.” He smiled at Dillan and shook his head. “I admire your endurance and your versatility, and I would love to swap tokens so we could do this again sometime, but I think it would best serve both of us to retreat and lick our wounds.” He gestured to what was left of the surrounding area. “If nothing else, we both have to vamoose right now just to avoid some opportunistic buysomeapples coming in to mop up our collective remains; I haven’t exactly been stealthy or subtle this last quarter hour. What say you?”

Dillan grins and nods. "Sure… sounds good." He said returning to normal, handing Sora an egg with a yellow center and a blue Omnitrix badge in the center. "Here, this is my token… I actually have two. I updated it but both still work." 

Sora took the token, which vanished in a flash, replaced with a new keyblade. Dillan blinks as a light blue and black blade with an Ultimatrix symbol with the ultimate clips out on the hilt, the blade itself was long like a samurai sword but was twisted between the blue and black colors making it look like a DNA strand with three ends on the end. "Whoa… cool." 

Sora hummed and took the blade through a few different kata, pausing half-way through each one before switching to another. Finally, he performed one to completion and nodded, satisfied. “Took a while, there. Omniosis is a rather niche blade. Definitely a support weapon, though it has good strength as well. None of my spellsets really fit it, but I can sense a good deal of unlocked potential.” He dismissed the blade and nodded to Dillan. “I look forward to making it my project in a century or two.”

"Neat… is that what my keyblade would look like if I got one?" Dillan asked, arching an eyebrow. 

“Probably,” Sora said. “I got a good look at your heart while we were fighting. If you spent some time in my Equus, you might get one eventually.” He frowned. “Or maybe not. The keyblades in my world are… particular about their wielders. Specifically, they don’t get along well with other forms of actualizable magic; earth ponies make up almost half of the Equestrian Keyblade Army, while unicorns barely account for one eighth. Your magic-slash-ki-slash-whatever-you-have might disqualify you from keybladership.” He shrugged. “But it’s a big multiverse, and I know that there’s at least one other Sora displaced out there. Who’s to say the rules are the same across the board?”

"Fair enough… Thanks for the amazing fight." Dillan said, holding out a hand for a handshake. 

Sora took it with a grin. “Likewise. May you always walk in the path of light.” He summoned Mysterious Stalker, and vanished.

Dillan looked around at all the damages the two caused, before he turned into his Draconequus form and snapped his fingers, fixing it for the next group of fighters before vanishing himself. 





Sora appeared on the far side of the arena, quickly taking cover behind some rubble. He collapsed to his hands and knees, gasping for breath.

“Oh bucking yaying buysomeapples, I’m glad he bought that.”






02:57:01


Fancy gasped for breath as he finally exited the forest, stopping and turning back to stare at the barrage of keyblades that continued to rain down in the distance. “My word,” he muttered. “I had a notion that our general was powerful, but this is beyond the pale.”

“Yeah, didn’t see nothin’ like that while fightin’ the Dark Cloud,” Jazz Apple agreed, not even winded from their sprint.

“We probably would have,” Little Strongheart said, “but then he would have destroyed the orchard, too.”

“Remind me to get the full story from you,” Clutzy Doo mumbled, staring in awe at Sora’s spectacle before shaking his head. “Anyway, I don’t think our strategy will work anymore.”

Team A had been mostly hiding out in the woods ever since they’d sprung up, sneaking past powerful-looking opponents and watching the various fights. The plan had been to remain in hiding until they found someone to ambush. Unfortunately, Sora’s massive firestorm in response to Dillan’s draconequus form has smoked them out, forcing them to flee the cover they’d used for the tournament so far.

“Indeed not,” Fancy agreed, finally catching his breath, the only one unused to this sort of physical exertion. He took a look around as well. “Let’s hope we’ve evaded notice so far, at least.”

“You honestly thought your location wasn’t known,” came a voice from the trees. “I knew your every move since my trees came into play in this tournament just like every other fighter here. You best be on your toes as my chefs and cohorts are on you…”

Strongheart facehooved while Jazz looked smugly at her. “See? Told ya there was somethin’ watchin’ us in there! Never doubt an Apple when it comes t’ trees!”

“Great, you were right.” Clutzy crossed his hooves as he hovered above her. “In other words, your plan failed right from the start.”

Jazz’s smug smirk slipped away.

“Might we have the pleasure of knowing who we are addressing?” Fancy asked, glancing from tree to tree. “And would you mind showing yourself? It’s not very sporting to hide away.”

“Our lord has other things to monitor over your little group constantly,” came a new voice. 

Team A all turned to see two women in tealish-black armor, one with a scythe the other with a club.

“We shall give you an introduction in his stead though,” the one with the scythe spoke again, “I am Yuki, chef to Fairy King Gar,” she bows, “i didn’t mean to come off as rude with my earlier comment either.”

“Come off just fine to me sis,” The one with the club spoke up, “if you ask me you could really use that tone more often than the one you’re using now that makes it seem like you have a stick up your ass all the time,” she chuckles garnering an evil-eye from Yuki. “Anyways, names Adreana, hunter and secondary chef to Lord Gar.” She propped her weapon against her shoulder, “and you four can guess who these two are.”

She points to a green haired teen in a black coat, jeans, and purple shirt on a branch high in the trees above. He had a total of five swords sheathed on his back and one in his hand. 

Sitting on the same branch was a rainbow haired human with cyan wings and a rainbow tail. Her outfit consisted of arm and knee guards with a black tank top, black jeans and heavy boots while on her back was the iconic buster sword of FF7. 

The most distinct feature on the duo was the symbol on their capes, a white bull skull over a five pointed star.

“Rainbow Dash,” the girl said, “one of the leading magic knights of the Black clover kingdom.”

“Spike,” the boy said, “Captain of the Black Bulls magic knights of the Black Clover kingdom.”

“Spike?! Rainbow?!” Strongheart stared in shock at the two humans. “You- wha- wait.” Her eyes narrowed on Rainbow. “Rainbow… Dash? You’re a mare?”

“I’m more surprised to see Spike so grown up.” Fancy tilted his head quizzically. “I think. I’m not very experienced with judging human ages.” His gaze turned towards the two women who had addressed them first. “Or genders, for that matter. You two are… female, yes? Adreana called you sister, so I assume that’s the case.”

“Yea I’m a girl,” Rainbow says, “Last time i checked most Rainbow Dashes are girls.”

“Oh she’s a girl, trust me,” Spike proudly nods, “I know full well that she’s definitely a girl. She’s my girlfriend after all. And yes,I’m about twenty now. Last I checked anyways. I haven’t been to Canterlot for a birthday party in a while, but mom always keeps a room for me there.”

“That reminds me,” Rainbow taps her chin, “I wonder how Luna’s holding up? She was pretty worn out after she kicked that pony version of Celestia’s ass.”

“Yea I’m so glad she did that and knocked her butt out of the ring,” Spike sighs, “She’s luck I couldn’t stand to face off against any version of my mother or I would’ve killed her.”

Jazz leaned over to Fancy. “Who’s Celestia?” she whispered.

“A female equivalent to our Prince Sol,” he replied before clearing his throat and addressing their opponents. “Well, I suppose it’s our turn for introductions. I am Keyblade Master Fancy Pants, Marquess of Lower Manehattan and wielder of Calming Sea.” He gestured to his teammates in turn. “This is Mistress Little Strongheart, daughter of Chief Thunderhooves of the Thunderhooves Buffalo Tribe, wielder of Pact. Her fiance, Mistress Jazz Apple of Appleoosa, wielder of Rodeo. And Master Clutzy Doo of Clan Doo, heir to the Barony of Upper Cloudsdale, wielder of Bubbly Protector.”

“Wait!” Jazz turned to stare at a groaning Clutzy. “Y’all’re nobility?”

“Very minor nobility,” Clutzy grumbled. “All we’ve got’s the title, and we’d get rid of it if we could.”

“I agree with ya their dude,” Rainbow jumped down with ease. “Titles are bullshit, but they do have their uses.”

“Yea like when three of the six Elements of harmony are kidnapped by slavers and their rep is well known to everyone,” Spike growled with anger as he too jumped down with no effort. Now that they were on the ground they could make out the scars on Spike’s face, “Yea, they’re from that time. I also killed the asshole who took my sister with my own two hands. My teacher stormed the castle and rescued Fluttershy while slaughtering anyone stupid enough to get in his way…”

“Yes I remember this story for one of the transmissions about the founding of the Black Clover Kingdom between Lord Gar and his older brother,” Yuki lands next to Spike and Rainbow.

“Yea that was a good one,” Adreana chuckles, “After all was said and done the dude burned down an entire capital city!”

Strongheart stared at Spike for a moment before turning to Fancy. “Okay, is this some sort of warrior thing? Sharing tragic battle stories unprompted? Are we supposed to reciprocate?”

“I hope not,” Clutzy said, rolling his eyes in two different directions. “I doubt my stories of domestic chaos can compare to anything they have to offer, even with how proficient my Little Muffin has had to get with the fire extinguisher.”

“Not really, I just wanted to give some detail on the scars on my face so you wouldn’t ask later,” Spike shrugs. “You’d be surprised how many ask about them during my fights. It’s very distracting.”

“So how do you want to play this?” Adreana asks, “We pair up for one on one or fight in a battle royale. I’m itching to blow off some steam after Lord Gar had us run from that Omnitrix bastard. Chaos magic doesn’t even affect us either!”

Fancy turned and raised an eyebrow at his companions. “Refresh my memory: did any of you not surrender the Way of the Mystic?” All three shook their heads. “Right.” He turned back to Adreana. “I’m afraid that the first option would put us at a distinct disadvantage. Besides, our General wants us to use this chance to strengthen our teamwork. I suppose we will nest our little battle royale inside of this larger tournament.”

Four flashes of light heralded the arrival of their keyblades. The core of Fancy’s blade was a rod of bright gold, twin waves spiraling a crown that made up its teeth, his cutie mark dangling from a keychain attached to the ovular handguard. Clutzy’s was far less solid-looking, the blade made from a series of metal bubbles, a muffin sprouting from the bottom of a dark gray hilt. Jazz's keyblade had a guard shaped like an apple, colored like red leather. The shaft was a darker brown leather with a tiny stetson on the tip. The teeth were formed by a bronze-gold spur that jut out from the side near the tip. Strongheart's blade also had an apple-shaped guard, this time of deep, hardwood red. The relatively short shaft was a slightly lighter brown than her body, with three painted feathers sticking out near the tip to form the teeth and a single feather at the end of the keychain in lieu of a cutie mark.

Far above in the viewing area, Ed watched as the eight readied to engage one another. “Gar… you’re a mad genius…” he smirks.

“The last time I fought against a keyblade fighter was against Ayumi,” Spike cracks his neck with his feature become much sharper. A purple book enveloped in purple and green aura floated up next to him. “Emerald amethyst flame creation Magic, Draconic armor,” purple and green flame converted his body hardening into dragon like flaming armor.

“Yea and she was a bitch to fight,” Rainbow rolls her eyes as she pulled her buster sword from her back. All the team members noticed that the sword was much thicker than most oversized swords they’d come across in their time with their general. “I don’t care if she was a goddess of balance,” her own book floats up next to her covered in yellow aura as it opens. “Or my teacher, she was still a bitch of a fighter.”

Yuki and Adreana hit buttons on their weapon and then turned into what looked like pulsating lumps of flesh before reforming. Yuki’s turned into a gigantic carving knife while her sisters became flat. Adreana then took the bottom of her reformed weapons handle and pulled it off and connected it to the bottom of the blade and pulls them apart to form two swords.

“Be on your guard,” Fancy warned as he started backing up. “They seem familiar with keyblades, but we have no knowledge of their abilities.”

Clutzy and Jazz nodded. “Yeah, we got it,” Jazz said. “Y’all just stay back until we got ‘em figured out.”

Strongheart took a step back, behind and to the right of Jazz while Clutzy hovered low overhead. Fancy stood a ways back, keyblade pointed towards the group as he removed his monocle.

Clearly, they’d discussed their strategy; the time in the woods hadn’t been spent in hiding alone.

“Looks like Lord Gar was correct when he said to be on our toes,” Yuki comments as she revealed her wings again. With a single flap she took to the air.

“Always the careful one,” Adreana rolls her eye,

“Caution should always be taken when fighting Adreana,” Yuki added.

“I agree,” Spike spread his feet apart. That’s when team A noticed he wasn’t wearing any form of footwear, “So I’m going to put a damper on those plans!” He throws his hands into the air and four walls shoot up made of the arena floor separating the group so they were face to face with single opponents.

“Sorry but if i didn’t do something then gar would’ve,” Spike sighs. “He was talking about how he was toning to start manipulating the trees.”

Clutzy shot immediately higher, keeping an eye on everyone in the air and bringing Bubbly Protector into a defensive position. “Jazz! Strongheart! You good?!”

Strongheart eyed the wall behind her dubiously. “I’m not-”

Two hooves slamming through the stone interrupted her, the rest of the wall collapsing after a couple more bucks. Jazz trotted through the dust to stand close by Strongheart’s side, smirking. “Don’t be underestimatin’ earth ponies, y’all.”

“Yo,” Rainbow smirks as she slammed into Clutzy with her buster sword in mid air. “So you’re going to play look out?!” She laughs as she forced him back with a wave of thunder.

Clutzy grunted as his blade protected him from the lightning. “More a spotter, really.” He smirked. “As long as I’m flying, those walls are gonna hurt you all more than help.”

“Hun,” Rainbow point the tip of her sword and it quickly shifts into a double barrel cannon and she fires two round of energy into the wielder. Clutzy blocked again and started ascending rapidly, his eyes splitting in two different directions: one keeping track of Rainbow, the other on Jazz, Strongheart, and their opponents.

“Guess that means you two are a couple,” Adreana mocks as she charged in and brings her sword down hard forcing Jazz to block causing cracks to form under their hooves.

“Got a problem with that?” Storngheart leapt nimbly over Jazz’s back as the earth pony twirled her blade down, locking it with Adreana’s. Strongheart took the opening to strike for Adriana’s head with Pact.

“Let’s add some heat,” Spike smiles as she goes through a form and the walls of earth began to heat up and give off streams of steam.

“Fancy!” Clutzy shouted. “On Spike! He hasn’t moved!”

Fancy lifted his keyblade high. “Thundaga!” The lightning bolt struck with surprising precision, considering the walls blocking his line of sight. Spike was enveloped in a tower of electricity.

“Dude my girlfriend is a weather user,” he brought his sword up in a single motion cut through the electricity, “I can bathe in magma. What the hell is this shit going to do me!” He rushes in.

“Distract you!” Storngheart darted in close to meet him, swinging away with Pact.

“Little miss strong heart thinks she’s hot stuff,” Spike remarks as the blade hit his flame armor with a hard thud. “I had to cut my earlier fight short cause that other Spike pissed me off. Still not totally unpissed off either!” He inhaled and then let out a green flamer from his mouth causing the buffalo princess to jump back.

“Hey ever heard of a head butt?” Adreana smirks as got in close to Jazz and rammed her head into hers, causing her to stagger back a bit. “Dude you got a head like a brick,” she chuckles.

Jazz turned, swinging Rodeo into Adreana’s side, none the worse for wear. “I’m an Apple,” she grunted around the blade in her mouth. “Ain’t gonna find a thicker head than ours.”

“And I fight giant monsters to feed my king,” Adreana kept smiling as her blood lust started to show.

“Sister please keep yourself in check,” Yuki came down. “I do apologize for her rudeness. She is a bit of a… um… headcase…” the angel held up two fingers.

“Oh I’m the headcase!” Adreana shot back, “Who’s the one that froze a group of gangster ponies just for shooting our master with bullets! BULLETS!” She yelled at her sister as she held her swords in the air. “The fairy can shrug off machine gun fire as if it were a mosquito bite!”

“It was their fault for shooting!” Yuki pouted, “Besides,” she turned back the bemused Apple, “it was a simple flash freeze. So they felt no pain and died instantly.” She raised he cleaver to her face with an innocent child-like snicker.

“WE ARE NOT HERE TO KILL THEM!” Boomed the voice from earlier from the trees.

The shout was punctuated by a lightning strike that struck Yuki’s upraised cleaver.

“Dead on!” Clutzy shouted before darting overhead, Rainbow tailing him. “Jazz! Back up and get back to Strongheart!” The earth pony followed his commands, clearing out before a series of lightning strikes began to shower down around Yuki and Adreana.

“Just like Derpy,” Rainbow laughed. “You’re pretty good at flying. But how are you when it comes to fighting on the ground?!” Rainbow yelled as she rushed in and the dump crashed into three ground, “Not my best landing,” Rainbow taps her head and gravel shot out of her ear. “Yo Bubble butt, you still in one piece?”

Clutzy got easily to his hooves, his eyes spinning in opposite directions for a second before he got control of them again. “Oh yeah,” he said, casually waving Rainbow off. “I get worse than that all the time. Well, ‘used to get,’ more like.” He grinned happily at Rainbow and pointed to his right eye. “Sora paid to get this fixed in return for me joining up with the EKA.” He gave Rainbow a little frown. “Just finished with recovery, actually. Wasn’t supposed to be called into action until Sora finished his Equestria-wide tour.”

“Seems like you live a pretty quiet life dude,” Rainbow hefts her sword onto her shoulder. “I’m guessing you live in Ponyville as the mail stallion with your daughter?”

Clutzy nodded, a fond smile coming over his face. “Yeah. Just like your… ‘Derpy,’ right? Yeah, it’s a nice, quiet life.” He cleared his throat and looked aside. “As quiet as life in Ponyville ever gets, that is.” He turned back to Rainbow and hefted his keyblade up between them. “Of course, then this thing appeared while I was protecting my Little Muffin and her school. Ever since then…” he shrugged. “I mean, I can help ponies. Protect them like I protected my daughter. Not everyone can do that. And if I can, then I should, right?”

“Well, if you think you should then yea,” Rainbow shrugs. “Everyone thinks just because you have something then you should do something with it. Just because you have the power doesn’t mean you should use it man.” She explains, “Yea you have the power to fight and protect, but at the same time you don’t have to. I respect you for what you do dude, tot props there. Me, i chose to leave Equestria. Yea i go back and help from time to time but I live my life in the Black Clover Kingdom. I still do the whole hero thing and help there to but I recent had a blow to my personally stuff man. My best friend turned out to be a spy for her nation. I get why she did it. To protect her family totally justsified in her eyes, but it still hurt big time. Nearly cost me to give up my relationship with hot stuff over their,” she points to Spike, “Point being, I get it, but at the same time what we call right might be wrong for somepony at the same time. As long as it’s right to you, then keep following your path dude.”

Clutzy smiled warmly at Rainbow. “Heh, thanks Bli-, er, Rainbow. I guess in any world, you have a way of giving good advice.” He rubbed the back of his neck, his smile turning a bit sheepish. “Kind of makes me feel bad about this, honestly.”

“No need to feel bad about this man,” Rainbow shrugs, “Little secret that you may have figured out already is its just a game for the assholes on high,” she motions upwards to the stands, “I’ve personally met one of the OP guys and even though he’s op he’s still a pretty decent guy most of the time. According to my boss he’s got pretty sick keyblade too,” she smirks. “Ive never fought him nor do i want to. But Asta says he wouldn’t stand a chance, even though his older brother says Asta is stronger than him even in his maxed out human form. Physicality anyways..”

Clutzy waved her off. “It’s not that. It’s just, well…”

“Blizara.”

Rainbow’s eyes barely had time to go wide before she was encased in a solid block of ice. Fancy smiled as he removed the tip of Calming Sea from Rainbow’s back. “I believe he was apologizing for the less-than honorable tactics.”

Clutzy leapt into the air. “SorryRainbowgottogohelptheothersalsoyou’rereallycuteasafemalemaybewecanhangoutmoreafterallofthisokaybye!” With that, he rocketed off towards the others.

The ice starts to crack and fall off Rainbow, “like i said, no hard feelings,” Rainbow cracks her neck and then picked Fancy up by the scruff of his neck. “But as for you. The ice was very refreshing but I live in an area with tundra and hardships galore little money bags. Yea ready to get your tail whipped little man?” She reeled back and threw the stallion like a softball, “oops… I guess I was a little peeved at it,” there was a hard thud as Fancy collided with a tree and was trying to pull his head out of a knothole.

After a few seconds of struggle, Fancy finally managed to extract his head from the tree. He rubbed his jaw as he turned back to Rainbow. “As one of the few surviving members of the Equestrian nobility, I suppose I should face my upcoming beating with dignity and stoicism.” The grin he shot Rainbow was half cheeky and half fearful. “Unfortunately for the honor of the Equestrian nobility, I have very little experience with pain, nor do I enjoy its company. I apologize in advance for the shrieks of fear and pain that are likely to escape my mouth.”

“Blue has had nothing but good things to say about little dude,” Rainbow smiles. “He’s said that you one of the very few nobles that he can trust to be his true self around. Of coarse this is Bluebllod and from what I’ve heard from my boss and his older brother about other version of Blue, that’s a. Big thing in my book man. I’m guessing the version of the princess’s nephew in your world is often referred to as Blue Balls over Blueblood, am i right?”

Fancy frowned sadly. “Even if he had been, I would not repeat it. Quite apart from the crassness of such a moniker… it is not the done thing to speak ill of the dead.”

“True but at the same time,” Rainbow nods, “Their is one here that is the worst thing i can call evil. Luna said it was the one that was with the dragon dude Deltorix. He did all kinds of evil stuff to become an alicorn, and the Celestia from that world is a piece of work to. No offense, i get that royalty some times need to commit small acts of evil for the great good. I’ve done it myself. Not proud of the fact I’ve killed other living things but it was to protect creatures Asta liberated from being treated as less than sex dolls. You do get what I’m trying to say at least don’t yea? I don’t feel like going any deeper into my dark past money bags.”

Fancy’s frown deepened. “I’m afraid you will not find sympathy with me; your philosophy is… alien to my way of thinking. Perhaps there are little evils that one might commit in the name of a greater good, but I have never found such excuses to be satisfactory. More often than not, such a path leads to deeper darkness.” He gestured to Rainbow with a hoof. “Perhaps there are some few who can trot that knife’s edge, but most of my noble colleagues would have claimed to do so as well; to a one, they fell to darkness.”

“Hmhmhm,” Rainbow chuckles, “I wasn’t asking for sympathy, little pony. I’ve done things in order to protect those I care for and cherish. Both the man I love and the man I call my king follow the ideal of trying everything they can to dissuade a situation before resorting to outright violence and even then they only kill if they must,” her gaze narrows, “I wish we could follow your and it is a noble one that is for sure but a the same time, light can not exist without darkness to help balance it out. So if it means that other may follow the path of light then I will follow that path of darkness if it means keeping what I hold dear happy and safe,” she brought her sword up and it converted into gun mode, “You have my respect Fancy Pants so I won’t make you hurt anymore than necessary. With one shot I will blow you out of the ring.

Fancy grimaced and brought up his blade in a guarding position. “I doubt it. Since acquiring this blade, I find my durability to be far higher than it used to be. But I appreciate the effort.”

“I look forward to seeing you try and stop this,” Dash smiles as her grimoires floated up next to her. Something that Fancy had seen in the started of the fight but not since, “Just so you know,” she burred out and was then in front of him at point blank range, “your stance could use a lot of work,” She pulled the trigger, “Weather Magic, Tempest bullet,’ unleashing a maelstrom on the stallion he was sent whirling through everything off the edge of the arena while Dash staggered over, “damn it I used…. To much magic…” she collapsed and passed out.





“How you doin’?” Jazz asked, coming up alongside her fiance as she stared down Spike.

“Not well,” Strongheart admitted quietly. “That Thunder spell didn’t do a thing to him, and my strikes aren’t doing much better. I think we’re going to need your raw strength more than my speed.”

Jazz nodded and took a step back and behind Strongheart, a reversal of their position from before. “Be careful.”

Strongheart brought Pact up defensively. “Always.”

“So you’re tagging out?” Spike raised an eyebrow.

“Hardly,” Jazz scoffed. “‘S just that I’m usually better at protectin’ than attackin’, and Storngheart’s the opposite. But since I’ve got a better shot at hurtin’ ya, we’re switchin’ up the roles.” She smirked. “Don’ worry; I’m still plenty good at takin’ the offensive.”

“Really?” Spike says in in mock shock, “I guess I better get serious then,” He took a breath and controlled his blood flow causing veins to appear over his body.

Strongheart chanced an annoyed glance back at Jazz. “You just had to go and rile him up, didn’t you?” She sighed as Jazz rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly. “Can’t be helped. Aeroga.” Twin whirlwinds sprang into being around them. “Be ready with a Reflect if he starts shooting more than normal fire; I still haven’t really got that one down.”

“Oh and just so you’re aware,” Spike vanished and appeared in front of them in a blur, “I’m a martial arts type,” he says, “Dragon Breathing, Form three Dance of the Shenlong,” Spike danced around the duo in a flurry of purple and green flames a a snake like drake flowed along his twin sword he’d pulled from his back. In seven slashes he whirled around the couple, each receiving their own series of strikes for a total of fourteen hits. Spike was then a over them and in a crashing explosion of green and purple the snake-like dragons crashed into Jazz and Strongheart ascending rocket into tree.

Spike sheathed the blades on his back again. He lit out a breath, “Yopu two are still conscious,” he looked to them as as they staggers to their hooves. “Not gonna lie, that's pretty impressive for creatures who haven’t been through a hell of a training series, but i bit you guys have seen your own horrors too. Wanna keep going?”

“What the hay kind of arts is that?” Strongheart muttered, a hoof to her head.

“Pretty sure ‘martial arts’ is a minotaur term,” Jazz grumbled back, shaking her head. “Means fancy hoof-fightin’.” She and Strongheart glared tiredly at Spike. “Means he’s got alla your speed and alla my strength.” She winced and rubbed a sore jaw. “Prob’ly more.”

Storngheart’s eye twitched. “So, to recap, he’s too tough for me, too fast for you, and resistant to fire, lighting, and probably a lot of other magic?”

Jazz thought for a second before nodding. “Eeyup.”


“Believe it or not magic isn’t my forte,” Spike corrected. “This is actually the first time I’ve left my world. I’ve just experienced a lot of hell in terms of training. I am in charge of our defenses back home after all, that also means training new recruits and making sure no monsters get into the city.”

Strongheart’s eye twitched again. “So that’s speed, toughness, strength, training, and experience.” She and Jazz crouched low, their concentration suddenly intense. “Guess that just leaves one, choice, huh?”

“I reckon so,” Jazz replied.

“The ultimate technique.”

“The last resort.”

“I hate that it’s come to this…”

“...but he’s leavin’ us no choice.”

“Either do it or I’ll just knock you both out of the ring!” Adreana called out for the side.

Strongheart smirked. “It’s not for us to do.” As one, she and Jazz sprang into action.

They fled before Spike, rushing at Adreana and Yuki. “DEATH FROM ABOVE!!!” they shouted.

Spike barely had time to look up before a large gray posterior plowed him into the ground, leaving him and Clutzy both reeling in a small crater. “Oops,” Clutzy muttered, rubbing his rump. “My bad.”

“Oh shit….” Adreana says. “You did it now!”

In an eruption of purple and green Spike stood up with his eyes were red with skittles pupils . His armor turned jet black with purple and green edges. His hair had literally become green flame while her had four black back pointing horns along with black bat-like wings and a whip arrow tipped tail.

The drake grabs the stallion by the collar and pulled him to his face, “I’m pissed…” he remarks with green flame steadily coming from his mouth.

Just as he said that the ground of the arena started to shake, “What the hell is going on?” Adreana remarks as she forces Jazz back.

Strongheart and Jazz disengaged as one, their eyes on the ground. They turned to each other, their faces bathed in horror. In an instant, that horror stealed into resolve.

They turned back, leaping for Spike. Strongheart rammed Pact into his gut while Jazz turned and bucked up at his arm, forcing him to release Clutzy. “FLY!” Jazz shouted while Strongheart tried to keep Spike occupied. “THE GROUND’S ABOUT TO BLOW! GET OUT O’ HERE!”

Clutzy’s eyes went wide, and he hesitated only a moment before zipping up into the sky and out of sight.

“Where’s Rainbow Dash?” Spike asked.

“Fear not Spike I have her,” Luna waved as she had the weather pony on her back. “She used too much mana to get Fancy Pants out of the ring. I’m nearly out myself.”

“It’d be better if you two left then,” Yuki points out. “It takes too long for you grimoire users to recover your power.”

“Think you could give us a lift out?” Strongheart asked. “Whatever’s about to happen, I don’t think Jazz and I will be able to fight in it; we’re done.”

“I have more than enough power to maintain a spatial gate into the stands,” Luna nods, “But once we’re there, that means we’re done and out. Are you sure you want to give up?”

Jazz nodded rapidly as the shaking increased. “Ain’t no way for us to stay standin’ once this goes off, even if we did survive the blast. Let’s get on out o’ here!”

“You’re in no danger of dying here young Apple,” Luna reassured, “I doubt the Displaced overseeing this would allow any of us to die permanently anyways.” She murmured.

“You’re running out of time, Aunt Luna,” Spike warns.

“You best be careful in that state Spike,” Luna warns as a swirling dark blue portal opens to her left. “You’ve come a long way in controlling that demon’s power in training under Asta but that doesn’t mean you can rely on it.” 

Spike nods. 

“Into the portal if you don’t want to get mamed or burnt anymore than necessary.” She points. 

Without another word, Jazz and Strongheart dove through as one.

“Beat the crap out of them,” Rainbow smirks lightly at Spike as she and Luna walk through the portal into the stands.






03:10:21


Akainu stood up from his chair, finally standing tall. Akainu’s arms turned into arms of magma, he then slammed his arms into the surface of the arena and began to pour magma into the underground parts of the arena. Making the arena floor heat up.






03:10:24


The Ichigo Take Out Team stopped in their tracks, Arkham turned to Noel.

“Oh no.” Arkham said out of fear.

“..Oh no? Oh no what?” Noel asked in concern. 

Herobrine shot out of the ground, covered in flames, “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!” Herobrine screamed as he doused himself in water. Trying to cool himself off, Lord Twigo came forth with Ganondorf and Bullet.

“He’s doing the Krakatoa!” Lord Twigo yelled with urgency.

“Kraka-what?” Noel asked, even more confused than before.

“EVERYBODY! GET IN!” The trees and rocks around Bullet hit him and turned him into a golem, the golem’s stomach opened and everybody got in and braced themselves.






03:10:22


Sora took a deep breath as he leaned against a rock. “Okay,” he muttered. “I’m good. Time to-”

He leapt to his feet, instantly alert, Ultima Weapon and Mysterious Stalker in his hands. His gaze darted left. Right. Up.

Down.

“BUYSOMEAPPLES! AERORA!” A whirlwind launched his skyward as the ground began to heat up.





Cerberus and Bambi skid to a halt, jostling their riders a bit. “Woah!” Cloud overshot them before banking hard, turning back to hover before them. “What’s up?”

The two summons stared at the ground for a moment before Cerberus’s heads snapped up. In an instant, he had grabbed the three ponies in his jaws and flung them skyward.

“Gah!” Coco flailed for a bit before holding out her keyblade. “Dumbo!” A small elephant appeared beneath her, catching her on its back and flapping its massive ears to carry them further skyward.

“I’ve gotcha!” Cloud snagged Gleaming out of the air and followed Coco, grunting with exertion. “What gives, Coco?! I did NOT need to know what the inside of a giant mouth feels like! I’m into a lot of stuff, but I draw a hard line at vore!”

Coco shook her head as Dumbo continued to carry her higher. “I-I don’t know! He must have-” Her eyes went wide as she saw the ground start to shimmer with heat beneath them. “Wha-”

“HIGHER!” Gleaming’s shout caught them off guard, as did the small but incredibly thick shield which appeared below them. “WE NEED TO GET HIGHER! GO! GO! GO!”





"HOLY FUCK!!!!" Jackson yelled before doing a few hand signs and said.

"Earth style: earth Mountain Jutsu," Jackson said, putting his hands on the ground and making a huge mountain of earth.

Then Jackson did more hand signs and yelled. "ICE STYLE: DRAGON ICE FURY JUTSU!!" Jackson yelled before taking in a deep breath and blew out a large storm of ice to try and freeze the magma.

Alas, the magma was too hot and turned the ice into water. “Forget trying to cool it, just fly!” Deltorix said before he flapped his wings and took to the skys.





From Gar’s hidey hole he felt the vibrations of Akainu, “So he’s forcing the next stage. Things will be heating up once more.,” the monster smiled, “Time to move on with the next stage in my plan as well then.”

Roots and vines enveloped his body and low amounts of green light started to flow into him.





Across the broad arena the vibrations we felt caused a slumbering shinigami to start to stir inside of his own hiding place. He'd taken refuge here not long after he dealt with Zabuza, having underestimated his opponent in toying with him. Having gone into a sort of hibernation thanks to a genjutsu he placed on himself to allow his wounds  to close in his rest. In the meantime he set the genjutsu so he could train in the better use of his new acquired Armament Haki.

The rumbles were causing him to start to stir and close by was a group of keyblade wielding unicorns.






03:10:25


“Why is the ground burning up?!” Twilight screamed as she and her fellow princesses carried the others up off the arena.

“So, that was their plan.” Berserker commented.

“If you can hear this voice, get to safety as Akainu has unleashed his power upon us all!” Rang a voice from the trees.

“Oh fuck!” Quill shouted, turning to Zirconis. “Z! Give us a boost here!”

“Right!” Zirconis nodded, before clapping his hands together and placing them onto the ground. “Jade Dragon’s Pillar!”

Suddenly, a tall pillar of jade and emerald shot up from under the two dragons, raising them high off the ground.

“I forgot about that Minecraftian Boogie Man prick. He dug tunnels underneath the arena, mining resources. I’m surprised he didn’t fill it out with TNT.” Berserker informed everyone with a snort. “I guess he was done with it all.”

“…Bryan?” His Celestia spoke up.

“Yeah?”

“I don’t think we can keep going.” She told him with a heavy sigh. “The girls and I. This is starting to become…too much for us to handle.”

“…If you really want to bou out, I won’t stop you. I’m sorry I dragged you into this.” Berserker apologised to the girls.

“We don’t blame you, but I think we’ve learned enough.” Luna chimed in with a smile.





Akainu continued to pour magma into the arena, so much to the point that the arena began to shake and groan, as if saying it was full. Yet Akainu didn’t stop, he kept on feeding the arena, eventually he began to speak.

“MAGU MAGU…!!!”

The shaking intensified and the arena began to split apart and groan.

“KRAKATOA!”

BOOOOOMMMM!!!!!