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// Essence Reaches the Next Level of OP 
// Story: The Songs of True Madness 
// by Kaffeina 
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Alternate Chapter Title- Essence Fights Connor And They Fuck Up The Lore Beyond Belief Thus Pissing Off Jsyrin and Leaving Me in The Doghouse EDITED EDIT: Completely canon to Displaced 



“SPAAAAAACE!” I yelled, as I let the zero G fly me around the recently destroyed solar system. Floating around me was the debris from the blown up planets. I’m glad I showed up soon, or otherwise the Infection would have spread to other solar systems. The current one I’m in, was the birth place of a virus called the Infection, a small parasitic species that came from a meteor, and can make the most mightiest planets fall within a month. It latches onto a host body, who quickly produces more, and even gives them various powers and limited adaptibility. I sensed it from Equestria, and quickly came to save any survivors, and blow up the Infection. Unfortunately, the fight took a bit of my energy away from me, and I’ll need a while to recharge, so I’m doing it by referencing.

I stopped in place, as a shiver wracked my body. I felt a high power level nearby. At first I thought it was myself again, but then I realized it was coming from a different source. I turned around, and came face to face with the high power level.

“Hello!” I was greeted by the cheerful voice of a cat-eared woman, her tail flicking about.

My mind went blank for a moment, as I processed what I was seeing. “Umm.. if your looking for the catpeople universe, it’s over in that direction.” I pointed to a different universe. I shook my head. “Sorry, who are you?” Seeing this creature suddenly made me self-conscious about my own Saiyan tail, wrapped around my waist, and hidden under my clothes.

“Right, you have no idea who I am, do you?” She smiled, “Those catpeople are a project of mine, but I am, well now what name should I use…. I’ll just use all of them. I am Essence, The Musician, Madness, and so on. You?”

‘Oh man, a colored name. You don’t see many of those around nowadays.’ “I’m Connor, the Cosmic King.” I responded. “I’ve been called many things as well, the god of lightning, the child of a million plans, god of crafting, hero of Equestria, the one who died, and a lot of other references.”

The cat woman shrugged, “Meh. Heard worse names,” the woman’s face suddenly switched to a frown. “Cthulhu, get out of mommy’s head. I told you this last time.” She said this and the said being materialized next to her before disappearing. “Kids…”

“Last time I had one, she was murdered.” I clenched my fist, trying to hold back some anger, not for being reminded of Nebula, but hearing the name Cthulhu. ‘Gotta look that up for why that name angers me.’

“Cthulhu? He’s an Elder God, so yeah. I however am an Influence and several other things. I’m something like… I’ve actually lost count of how many cycles old I am,” she said, going off on a tangent and apparently hearing my thoughts.

‘Guess I’ll have to fix my head again. I hate people accessing my mind.’ “I’m at least around a million years old by now. I age really slowly though. Took several thousand years just to grow out of puberty.”

“About the head thing, nothing works against me on that, sorry. It just happens, what with being Madness and music embodiment and all. Last check, I know I’m over several quintillion years old,” she said, looking rather casual about it.

“Pfft, quintillion? That’s not that old.” A familiar voice spoke up, as my older self showed up, floating right next to me.

“What the hell are you doing here! Go back to waiting for you to show up once I disappear!” I yelled.

“Well, at best guess, I’m at least as old as the Omniverse, and older than all but one Multiverse,” she said, “Ever met DEATH?”

“Yes.” We both spoke at the exact same time. “All kinds of different versions. I prefer the Simpsons one, but younger me kinda likes the Marvel one.”

“No, no. D-E-A-T-H. All caps, see?” She gestured to the letters she had just listed.

I looked to my older self, as he went into thought. “Well, I remember waiting around for a while before the big bang. I’ve seen a lot of different versions of death, and was death once. Can you describe DEATH? Might ring a bell.”

“...The literal creator of everything? Um… Aura of incredible power, kind of like the one I give off, that’s the best I’ve got,” she shrugged. “Does the older you know his exact age?”

“Hmm… hang on a sec… HEY FUTURE ME! COME HERE!” Future me yelled, and an even older version of me showed up.

“How many of you are there?!” I yelled, not knowing about this one.

“What’s up?” Future future me asked.

“Ever heard of DEATH? All caps? Created everything?” Future me asked.

“Well, I remember bringing a fight into the fourth wall, and having to use the creator of our story to find a way back. Technically, he is the creator of any place we go to, and is part of a multiverse that is even bigger than our multiverses that fanfics are apart of.” He said, remembering back to a moment in my future.

“Why the hell am I even here?! I don’t want to spoil my future!” I asked.

“I don’t ever remember doing this.” Future me responded. Future future me nodded. “Probably some kind of memory wipe will occur at some point in the future.”

“DEATH created even our authors, for instance, my author happens to have multiple stories and several characters. I just happen to one of her thirty or so Void Dwellers/Displacers,” Essence said.

“But how would you know that?” I asked. “Technically, you would have no way of knowing if that’s the truth for our author’s universe, or universes. DEATH is just a creation of several different, or perhaps one author, only for fanfics. For all we know, any one of humanity’s many religions could be true, Christianity, Judism, Islamic, Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Norse mythology, or even my personal favorite, Acreusism.”

“Well, a few things. I’m talking about the Omniverse, which is ALL Multiverses combined. Another, if I’m here, your author has agreed to this to some degree. And lastly, all of those exist somewhere in the Omniverse,” Essence said, in a matter-of-factly voice.

Future future me sighed. “Well, people originally thought that there was only one universe. Later, they discovered the multiverse. After that, they discovered the omniverse. And even later, they discover something larger than that. It’s like atoms. They just keep getting smaller.”

“We could discuss philosophy all day.” Future me pointed out. “But, we’re all curious of why are you here?”

Essence shrugged, “Dunno. Just kind of, pop into places. Although, if this is another Omniverse.... Then I’ve seriously broken current power levels in my Omniverse by… who knows. Oh wait…” Essence waved a hand, revealing a play-by-play of something she had done back when her Omniverse was much younger. They watched as she started messing around with a ball of her power, accidentally dropping it and creating a small tear. “Okay… Fast-forward…” The video sped up and revealing a small trail of Twilight’s magic expanding the tear, this caused by her magic affecting Essence’s powers. “And there is our answer. Well. Looks like I’m the first in both Omniverses to connect them and you, my new friend, are the first inter-Omniversal traveler.”

“Wait, what?!” I yelled, before tapping my ear, and activating a comms. “Sam! You there?! Can you hear me?!”

“Yes. I can hear you Connor. What is it?” Sam’s voice spoke into my ear.

“I just found out that we’re from different omniverses, instead of universes.” I spoke, turning it down to avoid Sam’s yelling.

“How did you not know that?! You’re supposed to be god!”

        “Hello! I’m Essence! Anyway, this is slightly my fault. Sadly, when you’ve got several, uncounted total, copies of one mind, working in sync, things like this happen. Thankfully, I have enough information to do this,” she lifted up her hands and the tear suddenly appeared next to them. “Okay,” she grabbed the tear and stuffed it into a bottle. “That said, your friend here is a god, not the god. I made a tear in the boundry of the two Omniverses, thus unwittingly allowing travel between them when Twilight used her magic on Connor here. Don’t sweat the details, I’ve-” Essence’s face suddenly flinched, “taken care of it. Now, excuse me as I attempt to deal with the arrival of another uncounted total number of my minds into my head and the massive MASSIVE increase of power.” She turned to Connor, “I now have reason to believe I am everything I was for my Omniverse I am now THAT for this one. Thus doubling my power and allowing the trolling of one of my author’s friends.”

“You know what? I’m going back to killing Metroids. I do not have enough phds in quantum physics to understand this.” Sam’s voice spoke back, before cutting off.

“So, now that we just broke another barrier. What do we do now? Break another barrier across omniverses?” I asked.

“One sec,” Essence snapped her fingers and looked at Connor, “Yeah, at your current power level, you are a Godly. So, your chances of doing it alone, or at all, are nil. But, if you like, I may be able to do it again.”

“Hang on. If he’s a godly. Would I be a meta? He’s got .0001% of my power, and I can kick people into the fourth wall, which might count as another omniverse.” Future future me pointed out.

“Yeah. You’re a Meta, however, I want you to see something,” Essence snapped her fingers again, and revealed her power to future future me.

“That’s a lot of power.” Future Future me muttered. “Kinda reminds me of my successor.”

“Keep watching,” she said.

“So you can increase your power. Do you want me to go… ‘OH DEAR MERCIFUL… WHATEVER! YOUR POWER!’ because I kinda don’t care about power anymore.”

I was hiding behind my future selves, afraid of the super high power.

“Please. I’ve battled Broly. His power is maximum. This is nothing compared to it.” Future future me assured.

“Dude. I can literally dissolve entire Multiverses in under 0.0000000000000000000001 seconds. Broly is nothing. I was put in a bet in my Omniverse and LITERALLY whopped Broly’s ass so bad, he started crying AND he shit himself. It only took a billionth of a second. In case you are wondering, I’ve taken to disguising my power level. Want to see the real numbers?” Essence grinned and in that moment, neither Omniverse, nor any at all, had seen that crazy of a grin.

“Hey, didn’t Distan use to smile similar to that?” I pointed out. “Not as evil, but still very similar.”

“You haven’t seen the Broly I fought. My powers actually turned him into what I imagine him. His power would not stop increasing. I freaked out when it went into the gogles, and then made gogle look inferior. My powers involve references, so he would not stop increasing his power. I died a lot.” Future Future me mentioned.

“Wait, have either of you fought Doomsday yet? He just revives whenever someone kills him, and becomes stronger from that.” Future me asked.

“...Bring it on then. You want proof, I’ll fight both of them. AT THE SAME TIME.”

“Umm… I’m not summoning Broly. Unless you want to sacrifice your own powers to summon him, he’s not coming here. Last time we fought, I had to put a lock on him. Unless someone got rid of their powers for the entire fight, they couldn’t summon him. Plus, the powers had to be around god-like.”

“Really? You do realize you’re probably talking to the strongest entity in either one of our Omniverses? Well, maybe aside from DEATH, but he won’t tell me his power level,” Essence said, nonchalantly.

“Fine, if you are going to even try to do that. I guess I’ll just have to change the locks.” Future Future me snapped his fingers, as his body glowed cosmic purple. “Now, only the weakest person in the current omniverse can open it. No one with any power can open it, and the second someone with powers tries to fight Broly, he’s locked back in.”

The look on Essence face said she knew exactly what would happen here, “Alright if you insist, anyone else I can fight? Because,” she snapped her fingers, clearing an image of Broly, “I can just do this,” she snapped her fingers and the lock disappeared, “and this,” Broly’s cheering was ceased as the lock reappeared. “However, as this is your Omniverse, I’ll refrain. You can choose my opponent.”

“I choose GARY STU!” Future Future me yelled.

“Nah, no one can beat Gary. That would be unfair, as his powers can trump any logic breaking powers.” Future me suggested. “What if the strongest version of us fights her?”

“Ugh, you know how weird that guy is.” Future future me groaned. “But, he might be our best bet.” He snapped his fingers, and another version of us shows up, but this time with a different appearance.

“Gary? Another one? How many times do I have to kick his ass. Hello, new Connor, or, [Insert Strongest Version of Connor Here]!” Essence smiled and said cheerfully.

“The name isn’t Connor. It’s only one of my names. I’m actually fused with my two brothers, and am at 100%. So, while you can defy logic, so can I.”

“Logic?” Essence asked innocently, “Who said I only defy logic?”

Other guy smiled. “Mind if I change perspectives here? I’d prefer not to give out my name, so I don’t spoil anything?”

“Be my guest, it won’t affect me,” Essence waved her hand dismissively.

“TIME TO YELL! PERSPECTIVE CHANGE!”

“There. Much better.” I said, cracking my neck. “Hey, current me. I’m going to alter the universe, add some of my own time’s stuff. You okay with that?”

“Yeah, I’ll just change it back.” He shrugged.

“Good. Now, ready to fight?” I smiled, with one of my upper canines sticking out of my teeth..

She grabbed her head and spun it around on her neck before stopping it and nodding, “Let’s go, but first, MUSIC!”

The nearby area burst with energy, before either of them moved an inch. I snapped my fingers, creating a cube of lava around Essence. It took a second but I heard whistling, only to see her wearing a bath towel and… washing her hair in the lava. “PERV!” She laughed and the lava disappeared. “My turn,” she gave an entirely too psychotic grin before it began raining literally everything in existence. You name it, it came from the sky. 

“Idiot.” I yelled, as I grabbed a falling pie, and stuffed in down my throat, before feeling my power greatly increase. I charged forward, only to use afterimage at the last second, and the afterimage punched Essence in the face. Or, rather, it should have.

“Nice, but trivial,” her voice came from above me and I looked up to see her literally turn bright enough to light up the entire Omniverse, both of them.

“Well, screw you too.” I said, wishing I had to capacity to flip her off, but I don’t like doing stuff like that. I pulled a small piece of metal, turning off the light. “It’s not nice to create massive light pollution. You know how many people you just blinded? How many doctors?”

She snapped her fingers and the light thing never happened, “No one, actually. In fact, by switching that event, I created two new Omniverses. Fun! Anyway, enjoy this!” She started spinning and I suddenly found myself as a mouse, in Equestria at Fluttershy’s cottage. I squeaked, as I turned myself into Jerry, and created a giant hammer, smacking Essence in the face as she smacked against a wall, turning flat, before peeling off, and floating down like a piece of paper, landing in a book, that fell down. I took this moment to turn back to normal, apologize to Fluttershy, and teleported above the planet, seeing Essence already there.

“So, interesting view, isn’t it. I like fighting above the planet. It’s so serene. Plus it’s ominous.” I muttered, looking at the planet below. “Times like this make me appreciate my powers. I’m glad I was shot. I’m glad I died. I’m glad I was chosen for these powers. By the way, how did you get your powers?”

“Well, I was born/made with them. DEATH created me from the Void, of course, he had no idea what he was getting into,” she said, looking down. “After this, wanna be friends? You seem to get the whole, Madness thing. Oooo~ It’s colorful now. And italicized!”

I smiled. “Sure. You seem like the fun kind of sort. But I’m not usually like this. I’ve been fighting Discord style. And it’s getting rather boring. There’s only so much you can do with randomness. Tell me, how good are you at fighting physically?”

Essence shrugged, “I’ve picked up some. Weapons or fists-type of thing?”

“Both. I’m part god of destruction, so I have an affinity with weapons, but I usually use fists. Shall we bring this down to the planet?”

“Well, I’ve been called The Warrior and The Strategist so… And yeah, sure,” she shrugged.

I smiled, as a bullet from a sniper rifle coming from the planet hit Essence. “Good luck. And bet you can’t catch me.” I deactivated my flight, and fell to the planet, before suddenly falling faster than any speed imaginable.

Essence shrugged and flipped upside down gliding towards the ground at a leisurely pace. She started whistling the tune to a unnamed song.

It didn’t take long for me to slam against the ground, my body almost pulverized. I pushed myself up, as my body inflated, ignoring the blood loss, as it quickly regenerated. “I LOVE THAT! NOTHING IS AS FUN AS SLAMMING INTO THE GROUND AT FAST SPEEDS!”

“Not sure about that,” Essence said, gliding down to me, “Ask Amnesia.”

“Who’s Amnesia?” I asked, stretching my arms.

“One of the people I displaced. Poor kid looks like a girl,” Essence shook her head. “We still fighting?”

“Yeah. I just really like falling.” I smiled, before charging forward, pulling my left fist back, before driving it forward into her face.

Her head barely flinched and her muffled voice came from behind my fist, “Can we still use our powers?”

“Yeah, just nothing chaotic. Stuff for more like fighting. So maybe flight, super strength, etc.” I still had my fist in her face, for some peculiar reason.

She pulled my fist away and looked at me innocently, “Does this count?” She suddenly connected roundhouse kick with my head and… there was a loud ringing sound as I lost sight for a few seconds, leaving me disoriented and feeling like all my atoms had been torn apart and reassembling at super sonic speed, and like I would throw up.

“That was strange. But the funny thing about that, is that you just did the same to your leg. I added reflective properties to my skull a long time ago. So, it follows the principle of ‘I’m rubber and your glue.’” I smiled.

She looked down and I followed her sight as I saw the strangest thing I had ever seen, and that’s saying something. Her leg had turned into… dubstep waves? “Hmm... “ she poked her leg which returned to normal, “That was an interesting feeling.”

I chuckled. “How do I know what dubstep looks like?” I questioned, before quickly flying backwards, and pulling my arms back behind my body, and charged up a familiar attack. “KAMEHAMEHA!” I yelled. “REFERENCE UPGRADE!” The beam glowed purple, as it was infused with the power of DBZ.

“Oh… This thing again?” She raised an eyebrow as it struck her directly in the face. She disappeared behind a cloud of smoke, and I raised an eyebrow, and pulled my hands out from behind my back. I watched as the cloud turned into bubbles and floated away leaving… her holding the thing as it began flashing billions of colors per second and emitted musical notes and an odd reality warping aura. “Kamehameha reference upgrade? Try ETERNAL DUB-DISCORDANT REALITY HYPER NOVA!” 

“IT’S OVER 9000!” I screamed, causing the sheer power of references to shatter the ball of energy. Only for her to reform it and look at me with a bored and annoyed look as she held it up, hand on her waist.

“What! 9000! That’s impossible!” Nappa yelled from somewhere.

“IT’S OVER 9000!” The ball shattered again. 

It reformed and she waved her hand over it, “Ha. Reference-proof,” she let it loose and the beam started flying at me, and I quickly threw a kitten at it.

“YOU MONSTER!” I screamed, watching as the beam came closer to the kitten. “YOU WOULD KILL A KITTEN?!”

In that second, I had made a VERY bad choice. The beam arched around the kitten and she turned BEYOND red with rage, “Nobody. NOBODY. Makes me harm a kitten,” she said.

I quickly shapeshifted into a kitten. Of course I still had my robotic body parts, like my eye, my arm, and my leg. The beam arched towards me and she appeared, grabbed my tail, and I turned back into my previous form in time for her to throw a second ball of the energy into the first as it connected with my face. I had under a second to think the words, What have I done, as I was sent through a rip and then another, flying through two new Omniverses before crashing into a building. I cleared my head after about half a minute and noticed a large sign laying on top of me.

Disabled Puppy Orphanage

“She just threw me into a puppy orphanage?!” I felt my body filling with anger. “NO ONE EVER HARMS A DOG! NOBODY!” I quickly fixed the building, as I climbed out of it, before running forward, running around the planet I was on, getting faster and faster. “HYPERLIGHT ACTIVATE!” As my body reached speeds only I could surpass, I teleported back into my universe, as I charged at Essence. To my surprise, she grinned at me and I raised a fist only for another copy of her to appear just in time for her foot to connects with my head, sending my head flying off into space, as my body quickly slows down, and is ripped apart by myself stopping so quickly. I looked to Essence, my skull regenerating back on my head, metal and everything, before looking at Essence with pure anger in my eyes.

“I will murder you. You had me kill a puppy. YOU HAD ME KILL A PUPPY YOU HEARTLESS MONSTER!” I charged forward, dodging her attack, before delievering a punch that sent her flying back this time. I caught up to her, and slammed my fists down on her head, slamming her to the ground, before pointing my arm at her, and firing a massive energy blast forcing her miles deep.

I felt a tap on my shoulder, “Hi! So, you ripped through two Omniverses right? Say hello to me, and me, and me!” I turned around to see three of her.

“Hello! Nice to meet ya!” The other two said before all three kicked me back through the tears, the original version I was fighting placing them in the jar with the first tear, before I went slamming into Canterlot castle, disintegrating several floors and landing in Luna’s bedroom in front of her and a massive bowl of ice cream, a spoon hovering in front of her astonished face.

“I knew it!” I yelled. “You were holding back on me!” I snatched the ice cream from her, and tried to take a spoonfull of it, but I broke my hand. “Why is ice cream the strongest substance in the world!”

The three Essences reappeared and the original looked to the other two, “I got this, ladies.” They saluted and stepped into her, increasing her power by several thousand exponents.

“Connor? Who is this?” Luna asked, still on her bed.

“Some person who kills puppies without a second thought.” I responded, before jumping out a window, and flipping down before jumping through a different room. I looked around, noticing I was in a kitchen. “These places have fun scenes.” I quickly got to work, making a plan, while Luna distracted Essence. Hopefully.

“That’s a lie. Its his fault for picking up the puppy. Besides, he played dirty first, throwing a KITTEN,” I heard her yell, somehow knowing she had leaned out the window to do so, “in front of my attack and changing himself into one as well.”

“You do realize the kitten was immortal right? And invulnerable?” Luna pointed out. “It wouldn’t have taken any damage. Besides, even if it wasn’t, how could you be sure it was a real kitten? Could have been a ball of energy that looked like a kitten. Connor’s playing you like a fiddle.” Luna smiled.

Essence laughed, causing me to shudder for some reason, “That doesn’t change the fact he almost made me kill one of my precious creations, no matter what it really was. Besides, nothing is invulnerable to me. I am, in fact not being played like a fiddle because,” she raised her voice before stopping dramatically, “HE’S NOT IN THE KITCHEN!”

“Then, the egg will fall onto my face, poisoning me, and removing my powers. Then…” I muttered under my breath, but stopped once Essence showed up. I grabbed a frying pan from the stove, one that was cooking an egg on it, before slamming the pan into Essence’s face, sending the egg flying onto the ceiling, where it stuck, as the lava I created at the beginning of the fight finally arrived, landed above the kitchen on the lavaproof floor I created a few years back, and started cooking the egg.

“Lava-proof! I saw that coming from a mile away!” She grinned, “Or did you forget? I’m inside your head~” She sang.

        “Thanks for reminding me. Also, you should remember this, ‘I’m rubber and you’re glue.’ So, whenever your in my mind, I’m in your mind.” I gave a dark smile.

Essence’s face went flat, “Then go ahead, take a look.”

I mentally smirked, as my body quickly destroyed itself from reading her thoughts. I felt huge amounts of pain that further increased my powers, before I faded from existence.

[POV SWITCH]

I watched as he disintegrated from existence and looked over at Luna, “You want him back?”

She looked at me and jumped, “WHO ARE YOU AND HOW ARE YOU HERE!?”

I shrugged and smiled, “That’s a yes.” I began reforming his body and mind and upon finishing, placed him under the egg from earlier.

[POV SWITCH]

“I’m back! AND I’M STRONGER THAN EVER!” I started laughing, after my body was reformed, but the egg that landed on the ceiling fell onto my face, and some of it got into my mouth. My brain stopped for a moment, as I just processed this information. “GAH!” I screamed, trying to spit out the egg, but all that came out was black gunk. “Oh crap.” I fell to my knees, as my powers faded.

“And hence, avoid looking into the mind of the Mad goddess,” Essence smirked.

I chuckled. “You think I’m down? I’m just getting warmed up. This isn’t the first time I lost my powers against an opponent stronger than me.” I stood up, and flicked my arm, as a small staff popped out, and I grabbed it, before forming it into a bigger staff.

“Um, hello?” SHe tapped her head, “I know. Besides, it wouldn’t be any fun if you were. As a crutch, I won’t break the staff. If I do, I’ll replace it, deal?” She held out a hand.

“Actually, the staff is supposed to be unbreakable, but I haven’t added the ‘non-logic’ attack shielding yet. But I would advise against breaking it, unless you want to be teleported to a dimension where our powers don’t work.” I shook her hand.

“Meh, I’m Anti-logic, I work everywhere, but I’ll still avoid breaking it,” she said, “Where shall we continue this?”

“Right here is good. But I’m sure the chefs are annoyed at us.” I dodged a thrown knife. “HEY! Watch where you’re throwing that thing! You should know about my fear of sharp knifes!” I sighed. “How about the courtyard?”

“Sure,” she snapped her fingers, taking us to the courtyard, “I’ll have the terrain and such rest from any damage after a few minutes.”

“So,” I twirl my staff around, as a purple skintight suit with yellow streaks appeared on my body. “Ready to fight?”

“Yeah, let’s go for it,” she said.

My staff glowed purple, and I charged forward, before quickly sliding against the ground, and try to knock Essence off her feet. When I got behind her I quickly got to my feet, and blocked the incoming blow with my staff.

“Not bad, not bad,” she said, smiling, before swinging a sword, from nowhere, at me.

I barely blocked it in time, and quickly broke my staff into two parts, before activating the electricity, and Nightwinged Essence in the face with a million volts of godly electricity. She blew a puff of air out of her mouth at the electricity and it suddenly wore a top hat and started dancing.

I quickly slid back, and frowned. “That’s just rude. That’s like changing the genetic code of someone’s child.” I deactivated the electric function, and pointed both sticks at Essence, before two lines fired out, and attached to the walls behind her. I smiled, not sure what the hell I was doing, but trying to make it look cool, as the grappel function activated, and I was flung forward really fast, before impacting the wall, face first.

“I’ve been doing that for cycles, except, most of the time it’s to stop some defect, or stop them from going Hitler on their world,” she said, slightly muffled considering my face was in rock, and I pushed myself out of the stone wall, and shook the rocks out of my ears, before turning around, and attaching the two pieces of my staff together.

Essence just shrugged and clapped, sending out a huge sonic boom, moving literally as fast as Mach 881742, causing me to be thrown into the air, before I fell down, crashing into the Canterlot statue garden. I got to my feet, and noticed myself right next to where Discord’s statue used to be.

“Grrr… won’t get me next time with that trick.” My staff glowed with light, and I fired a powerful beam at Essence, before being flung back from the recoil. I hit the back of my head on some rocks. I blinked, before closing my eyes, trying to ignore the pain, as I got to my feet, and fell back down. “Forgot about that.” I muttered, as I waited for the blood to finish messing up my head so I can see. “Stupid orthostatic hypertension.”

She floated down from above, upside-down, having dodged the beam. “You know, once you can your powers back you can assure that never happens again when you loose them.”

`        “Sorry. That condition is ingrained in my body. It doesn’t happen when I have my powers, but I have to worry about it whenever I don’t have my powers.” My vision returned, and I got to my feet, holding my staff in a defensive position.

My staff glowed, and I felt my body be temporaily empowered. I rushed forward, and drove my staff into Essence, and quickly fell backwards, screaming at the innuendo. “GAH! I need a better name for my staff!”

“Like what, the rape-stick?” Essence joked before kicking me directly in my crotch. “Oh shit… my bad,” she paled.

“You jerk.” I coughed up some blood. “Low blow.” I tried to get up, but fell back down. “Didn’t your parents teach you any manners?”

“It was an accident,” she humphed, before continuing, “And what parents, DEATH created me, but I grew up on my own.”

“I kinda wish you only did that when I had my powers. At least then, I could regenerate, and prevent that from happening again. I actually don’t care about what gender I am.” I finally was able to stand up again, and wiped the blood from my mouth.

“Here,” she waved her hand, regenerating my crotch and apparently creating a cup around them.

“I don’t need that.” I took it off, and cracked my neck, glad the pain was gone. “At least now, I have an idea I can do.” My staff glowed black, and suddenly my suit changed into my own personal batsuit. “I’m Batman.” I spoke in a gravelly tone.

Essence face went flat, "Your parents are dead."

“I am the one who flaps in the night.” I referenced back.

“More like faps…” She answered, before making me spit a bit in surprise.

“Hey, at least I don’t see Samus as … what other people see her as. I only care about the suit. Screw everyone else.” As soon as I finished speaking she snapped her fingers and turned me pink, with purple polka dots.

“Seriously! PINK! I understand that I like purple, as my powers are colored the same, but seriously! Why pink?!” I yelled, not really enjoying the color.

“Okay, is this better?” She asked before I felt a warm fuzzy feeling. I looked down and the floor seemed a bit closer, I was about to ask what she had done when I found myself embraced in a hug, “Aren’t you just the cutest thing!”

I pushed myself away, stumbling a bit. I looked at my right arm, and noticed that it changed slightly in shape and was a lot shinier than the metallic grey I prefer. “Well, haven’t been like this in a while.” I looked down at my body. “This is still weird.” 

Essence looked depressed, “You didn’t have to stop the hug…”

My brain freezed as I just realized something. “Did you just take away my height?” I spoke, my voice trying to go dark, but it couldn’t with this body.

Essence eyes widened, “Oh...my… THAT’S JUST TOO ADORABLE! You tried to be maddened and instead you just look flustered,” she grabbed me in another hug and I struggled to get out.

“Grr… the last time I was this young, things got a little destructive. You’re lucky I still have my memories, or you would be dealing with a very mentally messed up child.” I try to push way again, but Essence wouldn’t let me. “GET OFF!” I yelled, and pressed a button on my arm, causing it to push Essence back, and I got a bit of space in between us. “SELF DESTRUCTION TECHNIQUE!” My arm vibrated rapidly, before glowing white, and it blew up, as I closed me eyes, hoping to be taken with it.

After a minute or two of nothing, I opened my eyes to find myself smothered in another hug. “Stop it,” I demanded. “Let go!”

She kept holding on and I noticed some smoke coming off her back, before she spoke. “You’re too cute to die,” she said, touching my bleeding side, regenerating it all.

I looked to my destroyed right side, smirking that my arm still couldn’t go back, and glad that I lost it completely a while back. ‘I need to get to my lab, replace my arm.’ I thought to myself, and tried to push myself away from the infuriating cat woman.

She let go and snapped her fingers, filling me with the warm fuzzy feeling again. I pushed away from her, and looked back down, noticing my normal body back. I smirked, before running to the edge of the statue garden, and jumping off, falling down to the city below. I landed on my left leg, which dampened the shock. ‘Gotta get my powers back. Gotta get to the lab.’ I ran across the rooftops of Canterlot, quickly making my way to Ponyville. I skidded to a stop, as Essence showed up in front of me.

“Ah, ah, ah~” She sang, dropping a barrel on top of me.

I pushed the barrel off, and got back up. “I’m kinda surprised that you changed me back.” I said, trying to figure out a way to escape.

“Well, I couldn’t fight you while you looked like this,” she said, holding up a picture of a small girl, it looked like this. 

I cringed at the sight. “I don’t know how to respond to that, so I’m just going to do this!” I jumped into the air, and my left foot burst to life, as it started giving me some minor flight abilities. “See ya.” I quickly flew to Ponyville, before deactivating my foot above my house. I landed softly, and quickly ran in, before entering the secret passageway to my lab.

It didn’t take long for the elevator to stop, but I quickly ran in. “GLADoS, activate security protocols!” I yelled as I ran to a certain device.
It started up, but then I heard an explosion, knowing full well it had likely taken the upper part of the lab with it, “LUCY~ I’M HOME~” Essence’s voice rang out.

“Activate project 10245! Password Pie is God.” I felt my machines whirring, as one of my last hopes powered up. Essence crashed into my lab, activating all the security systems, from lightning fast turrets in those games that you need to do something else to deactivate them, because you can’t get past them, to plasma cannons.

She started strolling forward, spinning a cane next to her and singing the song from Mary Poppins that the chimney sweeps sing. The, well, everything bounced off the cane and back at the cannons and other weapons.

As she approached, I smirked, as metal came up out of the ground, and surrounded my body, before attaching itself, making a full body suit. Once the entire thing was fully attached, I yelled out one final thing. “SUIT! ACTIVATE!” The machines whirred, as they crunched into my body, causing blood to spurt out of the machine, fusing my very being into the suit.

I took a step forward. “Like my new suit? It’s designed to fight creatures like you. It requires the ultimate sacrifice to use, I give up my body, and now I’m in a suit that can never break, no matter how little or none logic you use.”

“Well la dee, frickin da!” she said, holding up her hands and throwing an anvil that looked like it had a gravitational pull, at me.

I throw my fist back, and break it like it’s nothing. I smile, as I charge forward, and slam Essence through multiple walls of my base, before ending up in the educational television room, after running through the giant clams, and cheese grater rooms. I scream, before running out of the room. “Why did I make that room?”

“Because you were bored?” Essence, now floating beside me, asked.

“Maybe. I really like references.” I stood up straight, before punching Essence in the face, sending her flying back into a wall. I pulled both of my fists back, before firing two powerful beams at her, sending her flying back even farther.

She crashed down, landing on her feet and sliding backwards leaving two deep indentations in the ground. “I figured.”

I smirked. “Time for my final attack! I’ll end you with this blast!” I poured my energy into my chest, as a huge light started shining from it. As it got more and more powerful, I started laughing maniacally. “PREPARE TO DIE!”

Right before I fired it, a loud yell came from overhead. “INCOMING!” It sounded like my voice, but before I could figure out why, I felt something impact my head, and turn my entire suit to pieces. I fell to the ground, my entire body bleeding, as I looked to the attacker. “Oops… sorry.” It was my skull that got kicked off my head near the beginning of the fight.

I coughed up some blood. “Well, that was anticlimatic.” I felt my body getting better, as my wounds healed themselves. “Hey, my powers are back!”

“Nice,” Essence said, only to for her fist to come hurtling towards me and she began punching me in the head rapidly, around some one-hundred twenty strikes a minute.

Once she stopped, I felt incredibly dizzy. “I choose bacon.” I blurted out. I fell backwards, too dizzy to get up.

“Ouch, that looks painful.” My other head pointed out. 

Essence just looked at him, “And that’s how you know this was planned from the beginning.”

“What?” Both heads asked. “That’s not how it usually works. We send messages to our past self on what happens. We have the ability to see the future, but we don’t like to use it, so we trust our future self’s judgement on what we should know.” The other head responded.

Essence grinned, “I’m called The Strategist, remember? When I first read your mind, I saw that your skull could destroy that suit, hence why it was sent speeding off. I knew we’d end up here, just in time for it to crash into you. Besides, every time I fight you, it’s different. You send a message back, I change my technique.”

“Technically, our plan isn’t over yet. But I’m done fighting. This was nothing but a spar between friends. I don’t want to destroy everything again.” I responded, feeling less dizzy. “I have about a thousand satellites pointing straight at us, preparing to fire blasts similar to the suit that was destroyed. But I don’t like dying. So, if it means the battle’s over, then I give up.”

“Is it over?” Essence asked.

“Yes. That’s what give up means. You know as well as I do that our fight would eventually lead to me using a last resort invention, that gets messed up, and everything in both of our omniverses is destroyed.” I got to my feet, balancing against the wall. “I’m going to sleep for a week after this, then I’m going to have a huge migraine.”

“Yeah, I knew. Really don’t feel like recreating four Omniverses, so yeah. It’s over. As for your need for sleep and future migraine,” she snapped her fingers, appeared next to me, and kissed my forehead. “Ta da! All gone!” She smiled.

I ignored the action, not in a mood to be angry, as I snapped my own fingers, repairing my lab and house. “I got a bar somewhere around here, wanna get a drink before you go? Got all the good stuff.”



I chuckled. “I think so. It took a while, but I managed to replicate the same material the notebook from Scribblenauts is made out of, so we have an endless amount of any drink you want.” I tapped a few buttons on the wall, causing a full blown bar to pop out of the wall. “Brewster, a cup of Phazon please.” The pigeon nodded, and handed me a cup of the virulent mutagen.

“Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster please,” Essence asked. Brewster passed her a cup of the green drink. SHe took a sip, “Ah, that’s nice. You should try it,” she held out the cup to me.

I gently grabbed it, and took a sip, before shrugging. “Alcohols don’t do it for me. I only get something by drinking poisons.”

She shrugged and took a deep gulp, peering into the glass, “I know what you mean. I have to drink the Void itself for anything to happen. Even then, it has to have some empty universe in it. I just happen to enjoy the flavour.” 

“Well, I’m seriously addicted to Phazon. Probably because I was drenched in the stuff when I was on Sam’s world. Luckily for me, I don’t have any of the negative effects, other than the occasional extra limb, and the increased strength.” I took another sip of the Phazon, ignoring the blue lines spreading across my body.

“Yeah, easily fixable though, huh?” She said, tapping her cup filling it with her previously mentioned drink, “I call it the Voidic,” she took a sip, “care to try?” She offered me the cup.

“I’ll try.” I look over to see the floating head, trying to get up to the bar.

“Oh, forgot about you.” I chuckled, before helping him out. “So, what, you now HeadConnor or something? You really remind me of Headpool.”

“Well, hold this for a second,” she handed me her drink and reached into a tear she created and pulled out a phone, “Let’s see… Any messages from any of the Omniverse creators… One from DEATH… One from LIFE… One from COSMIC... and one from...AETHER. Good thing I can pretend to be their versions of me, as I’m not that different. I’ll start with COSMIC,” she tapped a button on the phone and a voice came out, chilling me.

“Essence, I just got word you were fighting Connor as well as that your power level jumped up to damn near mine,” Mother COSMIC said. She rolled her eyes and mouthed the words, she’s lying, she’s the only one who told me her power. 

“You and I both know that it’s pretty far above yours by now,” Essence looked at me, Is it okay to talk about other Omniverses with her? she mouthed.

I shrugged. Our race is very… what’s the word… protective, or likes to assert its dominance only in it’s omniverse. Hard to describe, but your lucky I was the one who was sent to investigate your appearance. One of my successors might not be as friendly. I mouthed back.

Essence sighed and spoke into the phone, “Just a fun spar, nothing to worry about. As for my power, I found a very old version of myself and we merged,” she lied casually. I may have to wipe the thing about the tear from your mind, unless you can keep it a secret. Also, I’m not risking her, or anyone else, attacking any of the other Omniverses. Looks like I’ve got another job description.

So do I. I’ll work on my end to stop any wars. I also erased the memory from the other Connor’s minds. To them, this never happened. I mouthed.

Mother Cosmic spoke again, “Very well, just make sure you’ve cleaned up.” The phone hung up and Essence sighed, “On to the others. I’ll tell DEATH about you but LIFE and AETHER are very… adamant about there not being any new Void Dwellers/Barrier Walkers/Cosmic Beings/Ether Runners in their Omniverses. So, try to keep quiet real quick.”

She tapped AETHER and the phone was answered by a voice similar to Mother COSMIC’s, “Essence, what in the bloody fucking hell have you been doing?”

British, Essence mouthed, “Just got into a spar with a friend, everything okay?”

“That had better not be someone new,” AETHER said, sounding very stubborn, “You know what’ll happen.”

“Yeah yeah. It was Augustine,” Essence tapped a few buttons, sending, I assume, a message to the Augustine character. This one was the one with the puppies.

“Very well, make sure you’ve cleaned up,” AETHER disconnected.

“This is very annoying,” Essence said.

“I don’t even know what’s happening anymore.” I muttered. “So, should I just stick to my own omniverse, and make sure no one breaks through? I don’t really want to deal with another war across universes.” 

“Well, avoid AETHER and LIFE. I’ve got all the portals here anyway,” she held up a jar. “Let me just talk to LIFE and then I’ll speak with DEATH about it. Honestly, he seems the most reasonable of the lot,” she said.

I sighed, chugging down the rest of my drink. “Being a god is a lot of hard work.”

“I’ll say,” Essence said, tapping at the phone. “Hey LIFE.”

“WHAT IN HELL WERE YOU DOING YOU LITTLE MOTHER FUCKING SHIT! WHAT THE FUCKING HELL YOU DESTROYED THREE DAMN MULTIVERSES!” The voice shouted, causing me to flinch and Essence to sigh.

“Are they fixed now?” Essence asked.

“Well of course, they repaired as soon as you disappeared,” LIFE answered.

“So what’s the problem,” she asked.

“Just… Don’t do it again,” LIFE said before hanging up.

“So, is that it?” I asked. “Those are a lot of people.”

“DEATH is next, he should be okay though, as we didn’t fight there,” Essence said, tapping the phone.

“Yes Essence?” a bored sounding voice came through the phone.

“Hey DEATH. I’ve got a new Void Dweller here,” she said.

“So that’s where you’ve been,” he said, sounding disinterested.

“Hello.” I spoke up, hoping that was a cue for me. “The name’s Connor, The Cosmic King.” 

“Mhm. Essence, I hope that’s not all you called me about,” the voice said.

“No, I need to talk to you later,” Essence said, “We’ll be going now.”

“MHm,” DEATH said as she hung up the phone.

“That was certainly an interesting call.” I spoke up. “DEATH is quite a lively fellow.”

“That’s definitely true,” Essence said, “Back to our drinks then?” 
“I already finished mine.” I gestured to the several empty bottles in front of me. “Anyways, a lot of people are going to be questioning what the fight was about. Luna’s probably worried, and I need to go out and buy some more cheese. I trust you know the way out?” I stood up, picked up HeadConnor, and walked over to the door. “Is there anything else you need?” 

“Nope, I’ll leave. You have fun protecting your side of the rips. I’ll take care of my side and the others,” she said, floating up and starting to unravel before disappearing completely. 

I sighed. “Weird day.”

“Tell me about it.” The head I was carrying mentioned.

“You don’t know the half of it.” I walked out of the door, preparing to fix some of the other damages caused by the battle.