//------------------------------// // Tale 4: Versus Wrath // Story: Tales From The Omniverse // by Lucar //------------------------------// Asura was walking on some path, with no real destination in mind, when a rift opened before him and out of it came Sweetie Void. The filly immediately spotted him. “Wow! I feel a lot of power in you!” “Who are you?” Asura asked. “I’m Sweetie Void, nice to meet you!” “Asura.” “Say, uh… I haven’t gotten a proper challenge in a while, and I can feel that you will give me one. So, do you want to fight?” “... I can see in your eyes that you aren’t innocent despite your appearance. Very well.” “Thanks!” So the two took position, a few meters from each other and facing their opponent. Then, after a few seconds, Asura was the one opening the fight, charging toward Sweetie. Because of her small size, he could only try to kick her. Sweetie Void avoided it by flying up before she punched Asura in the face, giving a small combo that eventually sent him on his back. Asura quickly got up and attempted to punch Sweetie right away only for her to teleport. Asura didn’t let himself get caught off guard and moved away immediately, avoiding a beam from behind. In return, he punched the air and sent a projectile of Mantra energy that hit Sweetie, opening her for Asura to charge toward her and punch her. One punch was enough to send her flying. She quickly recovered however and flew back toward Asura to punch him only for him to jump and to kick her. Asura then fired more energy projectiles after landing that Sweetie tried to avoid before she teleported. She appeared right above Asura and headbutted him. Asura countered the headbutt with his own headbutt, making the two clash. The demigod eventually grabbed the filly and threw her at the ground before he violently stomped on her. Sweetie turned her fur into spikes, forcing Asura to remove his foot, before the alicorn fired a beam at his head to make him step back. She then flew up to face him and breathed fire, burning and blinding Asura. Despite it, Asura attempted to punch her only for him to miss before she grabbed him arm and slammed him on the ground. Asura quickly rolled aside to avoid metallic Sweetie crashing on him. Asura got up and tried to stomp on her, and Sweetie teleported just before Asura to punch him in the chest, knocking the wind out of him. Asura quickly jumped backward and returned with several punches of his own. Sweetie avoided the first one, but got hit by the following ones ending with an uppercut that sent her high in the sky. Asura then fired Mantra projectiles at her. Sweetie Void tanked them and called her whip before she teleported back to Asura and began to attack him with it, forcing him to use his arms to shield himself from it. Asura eventually caught the whip only for it to divide into its ten cannons mode which began to fly around. Sweetie had to punch Asura hard to force him to release the piece he still held. The cannons then began to fire at Asura from all around him. Various projectiles were fired, from basic beams to ice shards, passing by lightning bolts and fireballs. Asura jumped away to escape the onslaught of projectiles, but the cannons followed him while Sweetie Void gathered darkness into a large ball that she threw at him. Asura growled, then, suddenly, four arms grew, giving him six arms. With them, he caught the darkness ball and sent it toward the sky before he fired Mantra projectiles (six at once) at the cannons, making them stop firing for a moment as they were pushed back. Asura then charged toward Sweetie and readied a punch that the filly answered with her own punch, resulting in a terrible clash that created a shockwave. More clashes followed, Asura attempting to punch Sweetie again and again only for the filly to constantly counter him, and he was even forced to use an arm to shield himself from beams she was firing from her horn. The cannons then returned and began to fire at him from behind. He decided to not care and continued to try to punch Sweetie Void. Eventually, Asura managed to pass Sweetie’s defense and to punch her, sending her flying through a tree. Suddenly, Sweetie Void teleported while keeping her momentum and appeared right beside Asura, punching him hard on the cheek and sending him flying just as far. Sweetie then levitated the tree she crashed through and hurled it toward the demigod. Asura was able to land on his feet, sliding for a while. He then saw the tree coming and quickly jumped aside. Sweetie appeared behind him, and Asura immediately turned around to punch her only for her to teleport again. Sweetie Void repeatedly teleported around Asura while the cannons arrived and resumed firing at him. Asura stopped them like before, and Sweetie used the opening to fire a giant beam that engulfed Asura and sent him flying again. Asura still quickly managed to put his feet back on ground while being pushed by the beam and was eventually able to fight it before he made it explode by compressing it with his six arms. Beside him was a boulder that he picked up just as Sweetie teleported beside him, and he slammed the boulder on her, crushing her under it. A few moments later, the boulder exploded. Sweetie Void floated up, her ten cannons turning into double beam sword mode around her. Her own hooves turned into blades. Finally, she resumed her assault on Asura, slashing with her weapons. Asura tried to avoid them, but there were too many, and he found himself slashed repeatedly. He managed to punch a few of the cannons, and even Sweetie herself, but he still received a lot of damage. Finally, he jumped away and spread his arms. Suddenly, countless arms appeared behind him. All the arms then merged into his two primary arms, the four others included, leaving only these two which glowed. Then, in a flash, the arms were suddenly hulkier. Sweetie’s swords went to attack him again, but to Sweetie’s surprise, the arms released bursts of Mantra that propelled Asura, allowing to maneuver around the swords to avoid them while approaching Sweetie Void at a speed that took her off guard. She was punched, and the next instant, she was a speck in the horizon. She ended up crashing into a mountain many kilometers away. When she flew out of the crater that she created, she grinned. Already, she could see Asura flying toward her, another punch ready. She readied her own punch. The following clash blew apart the mountain she crashed into, the other mountains around, and a huge chunk of the planet. To Asura’s surprise, Sweetie was the one overpowering him and sending him flying. She teleported her swords to her, put some of them back into cannon mode, and went after Asura, firing lasers at him from her cannons and from the air. Asura maneuvered to avoid them, sending Mantra projectiles at the cannons and the approaching swords, before he was blasted by Sweetie who teleported after him to intercept him and blast him again. She repeated it a couple of times before she teleported a last time above Asura and smashed him, sending him crashing through the planet. Sweetie was already at the other side, ready to attack him again, but Asura actually came out of the planet charging right at her and he grabbed her before he threw her. He then propelled himself after her, catching up to her, and used her momentum to give her a violent punch that sent her crashing into the moon, part of which blew apart. Asura went after her and joined her inside the moon, and the following clash totally blew it up. The two flew among what remained, moving around, clashing again, sending country-sized boulders at the other. Sweetie didn’t even bother with her cannons anymore. Eventually, Asura decided to go above, and his chest opened, revealing a reactor that released a huge quantity of Mantra. The next instant, his four other arms rturned, just as hulky as the primary ones. A storm of punches fell on Sweetie Void who materialized chield fists to counter it. In a matter of seconds, hundreds of punches were exchanged, each blows sending shockwaves that brock apart what remained of the moon even more to the point that part of it was reduced to dust. Sweetie Void suddenly cloned herself, creating a single clone that attacked Asura from behind, opening him to a barrage of punches from Sweetie Void with a final one that sent Asura crashing back through the planet again, blowing apart another chunk of it. At the other side, Sweetie was ready with a mountain which she threw at Asura as soon as he got out, the demigod easily breaking it apart with his punches. Sweetie Void then teleported behind Asura, grabbed him around the waist, and piledrived him into the ground at the sped of sound. Before she could get away or follow it with something else, Asura grabbed her by the head, keeping her in place as he got up, and gave her at least one thousand punches with his five other arms before he released her and sent her flying with a last punch. When she was just a speck in the horizon, Asura went after her. The two ended up flying all around the planet, clashing again and again. At a moment, Sweetie created a storm to attack Asura with winds going at hundreds of miles per hour and supertornadoes. Asura answered with a halo that sent multicolored projectiles of Mantra. At another, she lifted a whole ocean to throw it at him in the form of a titanic dragon. In return, Asura threw her into an awakened volcano. Eventually, Sweetie Void was the one sent crashing through the planet. When she got out of it, she sent tons and tons of magma at the approaching Asura. Finally, she called her ten cannons and charged her Ultimate Doom Laser, successfully hitting Asura with it. The demigod was sent far into space by it. But he was still conscious, and with a scream of rage, his chest opened, and the reactor unleashed an astronomical quantity of Mantra. Suddenly, Asura was even bigger than the planet itself with gray skin, still with his six hulking arms. A gray halo was also present behind him. Immediately, he went to punch Sweetie Void who was still on the surface of the planet. A fist the size of a continent approached her faster than expected for someone Asura’s size, and she found herself fighting to push it back to not be crushed. The ground was breaking under her, lava was coming out under her hooves. “NghhhhhhhhhaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Her eyes, mane, and tail left place to pure darkness, and she was able to push the fist back. She then flew toward Asura’s head, covering the distance in the blink of an eye, and punched him, knocking him back. In return, Asura headbutted her, sending the filly through the planet again and far, far, far into space. Asura then transformed his halo to use it as a jet booster, allowing him to fly and to go after her at unfathomable speed, reaching her in just a few seconds. As soon as he saw her, he began to fire Mantra projectiles able to destroy planets and stars. Sweetie teleported repeatedly to avoid them, then began to sing. “What were your piercing eyes looking at? What was echoing in your trembling heart?” She then cloned herself, creating hundreds of clones that scattered and surrounded Asura like a swarm of microbe-sized flies. One of Asura’s projectiles hit one of them, and the clone was blown up. Sweetie Void and the clones began to attack Asura from all sides, and Asura countered by spinning with his arms, swating many of them, sending them light years away into space. Asura targeted them with his projectiles, blowing them up. The real Sweetie Void fired UDL after UDL, powerful enough to blow up a star, and yet, they barely made Asura flinch, not that he didn’t receive damage from them, far from it. Asura actually decided to not mind the clones and to attack the real Sweetie Void to stop her, attempting to punch her, but she teleported to avoid it. Asura blew up a few more clones before he found Sweetie Void again and punched her next UDL just as she fired it, destroying it. He then punched her and her cannons in one go, destroying them while sending Sweetie far away, toward a planet. Asura sent a Mantra projectile at it, blowing it up. Sweetie Void teleported behind him however and joined her clones in attacking him. Asura was constantly knocked around by them, but it didn’t stop him from blowing up more of them after sending them away. The clones’ number dropped rapidly. However, he was taking a lot of damage. They approached another planet, and Sweetie Void decided to use the occasion to teleport to it and use her magic to throw it toward Asura. He easily blew it up like the previous one however. Asura was starting to breathe hard. He still continued to blow up clones and managed to punch the real Sweetie Void, sending her away to fire Mantra projectiles at her. The real Sweetie Void suddenly grew in size until she was as big as Asura, allowing her to tank the projectiles. She then flew back toward Asura to punch him, only to clash with his own fist, again. The two then exchanged punches again, for several minutes, until they ended up punching each other at the same time, sending each other flying. They then fired projectiles at each other, the projectiles destroying each others. For many more minutes, it continued. All the while, Sweetie’s remaining clones continued to attack him. Sweetie Void eventually shrunk back to her normal size and teleported. Asura searched around, but then, he felt an explosion inside his mouth, followed by more explosions inside him. He ended up spitting orange blood. Eventually, Sweetie Void teleported out and fired a giant beam at Asura’s head. It was finally too much for Asura who lost consciousness. The Mantra escaped him, and he returned to his normal size, losing his arms and only leaving his two primary arms not hulky anymore. Sweetie Void stopped singing and returned to normal, grinning. She immediately healed Asura and teleported the both of them back on Gaia. “One of the best fights of my life,” she said. “Thank you, Asura. I will remember it. Mmh... I think that I should rebuild the moon.”