//------------------------------// // Chapter 39 - Rematch // Story: The Cosmic King // by Theyellowninja13 //------------------------------// "Ugh, why do I need to have a cape?" I asked, as I turn around to Luna and the royal tailor. I could feel the cape swoosh around as I did so. "Because you're going to need a cape if you're to be my prince." Luna replied, making me roll my eyes. Not even a week after being able to go back to Ponyville, Luna wanted me to live at the castle again, which I agreed to, as long as I was still able to use and live in my house in Ponyville. Plus she seems a bit... clingy. Not that I mind. It's just that I think she wants another kid, but I'm definitely not ready for that. Even though I'm almost 21. And I'm married. And I've been around for about a million years. I sighed, as grabbed the edge of my cape and look at it. The only good things about the cape are that it's soft as furry kittens wrapped in fluffy blankets that just came out of the dryer. And that it's Cosmic Purple with some yellow in it. "You do realize this is a choking hazard right? I can just wear my armor, or just go Cosmic. No one will even care." "But the cape makes you look even more handsome!" Luna pointed out, and I looked back into the mirror. 'I look like Superman. Screw Superman. Acting like he's so perfect. Just because he has no limits. I have no limits too! I could just punch him in the face. Probably break his nose too.' "I look like Superman. I don't like Superman." I said, putting emphasis on the 'like.' "Besides, this cape won't survive a battle against a Titan, let alone a god or a crazed scientist." I start to take off the cape. "I'm not wearing it." Before I could let go of it, the tailor grabbed it in her magic, and floated it somewhere. I saw Luna's sad face, as she still isn't used to the ways of now. I walked over to her, and booped her nose, causing her to scrunch up her face. When she recovered, she looked back up at me. "Connor... I..." "Boop." I booped her nose again, trying to get rid of her sad face. When she recovered from that, her smile returned. "There we go. Don't be sad. It'll take a while to get used to all this stuff, but I'll be there for you. Now let's get some food." She nodded, and we left the room, before walking down the hallway, heading for the dining room. On our way to the dining room, we came across a few Minotaurs. Probably because a few of their leaders have come over for peace talks. But no matter who the Minotaurs were, they were revering me as a god. Probably because I am. But I asked them about it, and they said that I was basically apart of their 'mother species.' They think I'm a human, which I still also associate myself as. But makes sense Minotaurs would consider Humans their 'mother species' as human plus cow/bull equals Minotaur. We kept on walking, until I noticed something strange. I looked out the corner of my eye, and I saw a Minotaur wearing a cloak covering his own body. But the strangest thing was the energy I felt from him. Then, I noticed him raise his covered arm, and I heard a familiar click sound, before I tackled Luna to the floor in time to dodge a bullet. "Connor! What was that for!" Luna yelled, wondering why I shoved her to the floor. I stood back up, and faced the cloaked Minotaur. "It seems your skills haven't faded, old man." He said. I chuckled. "I'm not that old. I just aged about 5 years. And what about you? You look pretty different, yet still wear the exact same clothes you did that day." "I trained in an alternate universe where time moves differently. I trained for a thousand years, and only a few months passed by." He responded as he held his hand up again, preparing to shoot me. "Only a thousand years?" I said, before I was suddenly right in front of him, my hand on his gun. "I've trained for a million." I took the gun from his grip, and slammed it into his head, before kneeing him in the gut. He recovered, and jumped back. Luna ran up next to me, wondering what was happening. "Connor, who is that?" Before I could respond, He spoke up. "Oh, allow me to introduce myself." He flipped back his hood, showing both of us his red hair, and red eyes full of hatred. "I'm Murphy Derum. The Cosmic King of Destruction. I was the one who created the action to give us our powers." Luna was confused. "Wait, so if he's the Cosmic King of Destruction, then what does that make you?" She asked me. "I'm just the Cosmic King. I don't have any extra titles. He took the title of destruction because that's the power he got from the lightning bolt. I would have that power, but he was too close." I answered, and Murphy just laughed. "That lightning bolt was the best thing to happen to us! Much better than you being a depressed teen who wanted to adventure, but couldn't, and much better than me getting beaten up by my abusive mother!" He said with a crazed laugh. "What about your father?" Luna asked. "Was your father abusive as well?" "Nope. My father was one of the kindest people I knew! My mom murdered him in a 'car accident.' And she also chopped up my brother. 'Course she threatened me, and made me unable to get help from the police." He held out his hand, and the gun I was holding quickly flew back to him. "You know what I did after getting my powers?" He put the gun against his head. "I put a gun against her head, and pulled the trigger." "Now she's dead." I finished. "I know that song too. Now, are you here to kill me, or just talk?" "I'm here to kill you, of course. I'm just waiting for you to go outside. This place is too cramped for a good fight." He replied. "Outside in five? I need to get some food." I asked. "See you then." He then jumped out of the nearby window. I grabbed Luna, picked her up, and started running down the halls. We quickly arrived in the dining room, where I proceeded to stuff my face full of food. As I was, Luna decided to speak up. "Connor! Why didn't you just fight him then and there?!" I swallowed, before responding. "Neither of us wanted to destroy the surroundings. Plus he actually seems to care about life, as he only wants to fight me. Plus, neither of us want to kill each other. He just wants to beat me in a fight due to me beating him, and I just like fighting. Heck, I'm practically a Saiyan! All I need is a tail, and it would be complete." I stuffed an entire thing of cheese cake down my gullet. "Sorry Celestia, but I'm taking that." I muttered. I felt the food give me some energy, and I got ready to fight. "See ya Luna. Gotta fight!" Tapping my fingers against my forehead, I appeared in the castle gardens. "Now, where are you?" I looked around, but didn't see my rival anywhere. I heard a faint 'thwip' sound, and I turned to it, only to feel something hit me on the forehead, and make my brain rattle around a bit. I shook my head, and reached up, pulling out a bullet from my forehead as the skin covered back over my metal skull. 'So that's how it's going to be, huh?' Hearing another 'thwip' I rolled to the side, and saw as the bullet fly through the air. 'So he's in Canterlot somewhere?' Getting behind some cover, I peeked out for a minute, and almost got hit in the eye, but I figured out where he's firing from. Jumping out from behind cover, I quickly flew over to the small tower Murphy was shooting from, only to see a lone rifle. "Clever. He's figuring out how to control guns. So he could be anywhere in the world, and still fire guns accurately. 'Thwip.' I dodged the next bullet, only to feel another go straight through my heart. I fell to the ground, and coughed up some blood as my chest healed back up, and I spat out the bullet. "Time to get serious." I stood back up, and ducked under a bullet, before back-flipping and spinning to avoid two more. I grabbed the nearby gun, crushed it in my hand, and filled it with energy. I threw it into the air, where it quickly flew off, and I followed it. Within a few seconds, I brought my knee down upon Murphy's neck, snapping it. When he managed to recover, he coughed a bit, and stared at me. "How did you find me?" "I've had tons of experience. I can track you by using a gun created from your own energy." I said, as I threw the ball into his face, before it blew up, sending him onto the streets of Canterlot. I flew after him, and socked him in the jaw. I kept attacking him until he managed to block. He then flew back a few feet, and wiped the blood off his mouth. "Well, guns aren't my only power. I am the god of destruction, and many things fall into that category." He held out his right hand, which was covered with a white glove that had strange symbols on it. He snapped, and suddenly I was blown back a few feet, as my entire body regenerated it's skin back. Another snap, and I managed to roll out of the way in time. "You're not the only one who can reference that show!" I quickly turned around, and clapped my hands together, creating a humming sound, before slamming them against the ground, which in turn created a bright blue light that travel through the ground, and came up under Murphy and grabbed his hands and fingers, preventing him from snapping. "You may control fire. But I still have a metal arm." Murphy chuckled. "Then what about your leg!" With a large explosion, the stone blew up, and he flew straight at me. Taking a step back, I kicked him in the face with my mechanical right foot, which I filled with plenty of power, and sent him flying out of the city. "Wrong leg." I said with a smile, before blasting off after him. He managed to recover in midair, and we had a little staring contest. After a few minutes, he fired a laser beam out of his eyes, and directly into mine. "GAH! CHEAP TRICK!" I yelled, as I grabbed my melted eyes, and tried to get them to regenerate. While my eyes were regenerating, I blocked his blow, and dodged a few of his bullets. When I could finally see again, Murphy was looking at me surprised. "How did you dodge without seeing?" "Oh, you didn't know? You see, my eyes aren't yellow just for show. I can see practically everything around me. I can't even turn it off. You don't want to know what it's like to be looking at you, and not only see you, but see your skeleton, your thermal reading, sound, light, muscles, everything. I'm forced to see absolute everything, even when blinded." I created my sword of Cosmic Energy. "Now, enough chit-chat. Time to fight!" I flew at him, and swung, cutting him in half, before blasting him with an energy blast, sending both his upper and lower bodies flying. Before they could go far, I grabbed his legs, and threw them to the ground, before blasting them to smithereens. I flew after his upper body, and slammed it down into Ponyville, before flying after it. Right before I reached it, he shot me through the neck and the bullet blew up when it got completely through, temporarily paralyzing me, and making me fall to the ground, as my spine regenerated. I rolled out of the way of his shotgun blast, before flipping to my feet, and moving my left arm up in time to block his Cosmic Powered sledgehammer, but also breaking the bone in my arm. I yelled in pain, as I kicked Murphy away, before getting behind cover to avoid his barrage of bullets. I looked down at my arm, and cringed at the site. It was bleeding profusely, and some of the bone was sticking out of it. "That's not going to be usable for a long time. Gonna need a quick battlefield replacement." I started to look around, trying to figure out what to do. "Got'cha." I heard a voice say, and I turned around to see Murphy pointing an RPG at me. "Boom." He pulled the trigger, and I was blasted into a few buildings, before landing in what appeared to be a pony mechanic's garage. "Perfect." I muttered, before getting up, and grabbing some pliers, before removing my broken radius, and storing them away in my pocket dimension, before grabbing a thick piece of metal. Using my right arm, I curled it into a cylinder, and broke off the extra size I don't need, before burning it with my flamethrower arm, and imbuing it with some generic Cosmic Energy from the universe. Now that it's done, I shoved it into my arm, and gritted my teeth in pain, as I forced my skin and muscle to grow over it. "Come out wherever you are!" I heard Murphy call out. Smiling to myself, I grabbed a piece of the rod I cut off, before jumping out of a window, and throwing it at Murphy, before snapping my fingers, and causing it to blow up. 'He may be the Cosmic King of Destruction, but I happen to be an inventor, and I love making some bombs for situations like this.' Murphy's assault launcher blew up in the explosion, and he got flung into a building. I charged after him, and managed to put my left arm up to avoid his sledgehammer again. Only this time, my arm didn't break. Murphy look confused. "Battlefield repair." He nodded in understanding as I looked behind him, and smiled. "Rainbow NOW!" I yelled, and Murphy quickly turned around, only for me to kick him in the back of the legs, breaking them, and forcing him to his knees, just in time for Rainbow to collide with his head, knocking him back, and allowing me to move out of the way, for AJ to buck his head into the air, and his body followed, before I threw a few bombs up with him, and fired a few Cosmic blasts as well. He fell to the ground, his body a smoking wreck. "You give up yet? You otta' know by now that you can't beat Connor!" AJ exclaimed, as she hoof bumped Rainbow. "Excellent timing you two. I'm glad you were able to get my quick message I sent you." I complimented them. "Are you sure he's gonna be okay though?" AJ asked. "He took one heck of a beating." "He'll be fine." I said with a small smile, as Murphy slowly started getting up, and laughing. "You think it's over yet? I'm not through just yet." He voice rang out, as he yelled in rage, before his body burst with fire. "I've got a few tricks up my sleeves. What do you think of my fire form?" "Looks pretty cool. You even managed to prevent yourself from looking like the human torch." I idly commented. Murphy sighed in relief. "Oh good. I was worried about that. You know how hard it is to completely turn yourself into living fire without looking like someone else?" I shrugged. "Kinda. I had a problem with some Living Light a while back. Gained a Living Lightning form for when speed is key. Almost came close to looking like it." I rolled my shoulders. "So, you ready to fight now?" "Sure." He charged at me by turning into flames on the ground, which I quickly flew backwards to avoid. But, unluckily for me, I hit a building, and he was able to get underneath me, and burn my shoes into the ground, using the rubber from it to create black smoke that made it harder to see. Then, while I was trying to dispel the smoke, he set fire to a lot of things, making it harder to figure out where he's at. I managed to clear the smoke, and I looked around, floating a bit above the air, as my shoes regenerated. "Where are you?" "Right behind you." I turn around in time to see a giant lava bomb blow up in front of me, and I saw sent flying away. I crashed into another building on the outskirts of town, and I shook my head, dispelling my dizziness. When I got a good look around, I noticed that I was in my house. "What a kwinky dinky." I said, still a little shaken, as my body healed from the lava. I looked over to see Murphy slowly walking through the hole in my wall, and I quickly crawl away, before feeling something in my hand. I look down to see a very familiar object. 'Oh jeeze, it's that thing. I thought I got rid of it after Lyra gave it to me. Go away, I don't need you at all.' I trying shaking my hand, but the arm seemed to be a little hot, and the thing was sticking to my hand. 'Wait a second. I could use this.' I stopped shaking my hand, and looked to see Murphy getting really close. "Hey, think fast!" I yelled, as I managed to throw the thing right at Murphy's face, which was still fiery, and it caused the thing to melt. But before it could evaporate, I threw a few ice bombs at him, dispelling his fire form, and freezing it straight to his face. "Oh man! What the hell is this?! Ugh, get it off!" He yelled as he tried to pry it from his face. Using it to my advantage, I flew forward, and slammed my right fist into his face, before activating my rocket punch, sending him flying back even farther. I flew up again, and managed to catch up, before reattaching my hand, and slamming him into the ground. 'I feel like Android 16.' After I slammed him into the ground, I stomped down on his arms and legs, before activating my hidden blade on my arm, and putting it at his throat. "I win." I said with a smile, as I channeled some electricity into my hand, and grabbed the burnt rubber thing from his face, and threw it aside. I noticed Murphy's face was covered in rapidly healing burns. "Fine. You win." He quickly moved his hand towards the thing, and burnt it to smithereens. "What the hell was that anyways?" I shook my head. "You don't want to know. Trust me. But you might want to dunk your head into lava. Or a Class 12 sun." Murphy's eyes widened, and he disappeared in a purplish reddish flash. After he disappeared, I started laughing. Not because it was funny, or anything like that. I laughed because I won, and was exhausted. Then I fell to my knees, and breathed heavily. I looked down at my left arm, and pulled out the metal rod, putting it in my pocket dimension, and took out my bone fragments, before putting them back in. I seared the bones together with a bit of lightning, and took my shirt off, before using it as a makeshift shoulder sling. "I hate getting Cosmic Wounds like that. They take forever to heal." Well, they take a normal amount of time to heal, I'm just used to healing quickly. I turned around, and looked at the partially destroyed Ponyville, before walking back to it, planning to fix it. 'Luna is so gonna be pissed at me for breaking my arm.' I chuckled a bit.