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Harmony of Heroes: Ultimate Multiverse Explorers - Lucar



Several months after her adventures on Popstar, Sweetie Belle decides it's time to start new adventures in new universes

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Chapter 144: Final Battle Against The Ultimate Life-Form

Everyone was feeling tired after this adventure and all these difficult battles. Physically, mentally, or both. Even Sweetie Void and Kirby. But these two could and were ready to continue contrary to the majority of the other heroes. Galacta Knight, Bandana Dee, Dedede, Meta Knight, Marx, Dark Meta Knight, Phantom, and Apple Death were also coming. Apple Death was especially needed because she held Leongar's soul pieces. Elfilin, having not fought much during this adventure, also wanted to follow them despite the danger. He could always be of help.

Everyone else returned to Waddle Dee Town to recover.

Admittedly, Bandana Dee, Dedede, Meta Knight, and Dark Meta Knight wouldn't have been against a rest but they felt that they could continue, and the first three didn't want to leave Sweetie and Kirby while the last one was here essentially because of Marx and because he wanted to prove himself against Meta Knight.

So the smaller group of heroes flew to the laboratory island, passed through a hole, and landed directly in the hallway leading to the room that originally contained Elfilis, where they fought Leongar.

Echoes of the pre-recorded woman from the tour could be heard, repeating "And here we are" and "ID-F86" among other things. The air was orange and opaque as if there was a mist. Nothing but orange could be seen beyond the windows.

All of this gave off an atmosphere that chilled the heroes. Claustrophobic, uncanny, unsettling, ominous, disturbing... If the heroes weren't experienced warriors and adventurers, they would so nope the heck out of here. Everything screamed DANGER. Impending doom.

No doubt about it, Elfilis was close.

But despite all this, the heroes advanced, ready to face whatever awaited them. Before long, they reached the large door at the end of the hallway and entered the containment room.

And right here, floating inside some psychic bubble, was Leongar, curled up into a fœtal position.

The woman's voice still echoed in the air.

The heroes approached, and Sweetie Void looked at Apple Death.

"Go on.

Apple Death nodded and released Leongar's soul pieces. Three hundreds in total flew out of her body and entered Leongar's. The psychic bubble disappeared, and Leongar landed on his knees.

Then, after a few seconds, he got up and opened his eyes, looking at his paws, seeing that he was back to himself.

Most of the heroes still remained careful, but Elfilin and Kirby cheered, gaining Leongar's attention. Without saying a word, Leongar caught the closest heroes, which were Kirby, Sweetie Void, and Elfilin, into a hug.

This proved to the heroes that Leongar didn't mean harm anyone, and some began to release their guard.

Sweetie Void happily tapped Leongar on the chest. "Welcome back, big guy. Your friends miss you. Let's bring you to the town."

Leongar nodded with a small happy growl, only to release the three heroes and to hold his head in pain. A purple aura appeared around him, and he curled in pain, trying to resist something something.

"Yeah, that was too easy," Dedede said as he readied his hammer.

"Why couldn't it be easy for once?" Bandana Dee questioned with a whine.

"A huge amount of psychic energy is entering him. Elfilis must not be far," Sweetie Void said as she stepped back from Leongar.

The lion then opened his eyes, which now glowed purple like when he had been possessed the first time, and roared, energy coursing his body.

The following fight quickly revealed to be the same as the one they had when Leongar had been possessed the first time. He had the same powers, starting by the cross-slashes sending X-waves at various heights. The difference here was that the heroes were less numerous.

The three knights, Marx, and Apple Death flew to the ceiling to avoid the waves. The others either jumped aside, jumped above the waves if they were low enough, or ducked under them if they were high enough.

Apple Death was the first one to attack, sending purple lightning at the lion. Despite the painful electricity coursing his body, Leongar continued to send waves, then eventually stopped and went on all fours before he charged toward the heroes, fangs and claws ready to turn them into bloody pieces.

He targeted Sweetie Void and tried to bit her, the filly not moving from her position. Instead, she caught Leongar by the mouth and lifted him before she threw him head first at a wall. The others quickly used the occasion to attack him all together before he could recover.

Leongar eventually got back up and turned around, swinging his claws at Meta Knight and Galacta Knight, moving out of the way of a giant sword coming out of a mirror, breathing a powerful laser to counter Marx's own mouth laser. Phantom caught him in her power, and cannons appeared and fired at him from all directions. He could only tank them as he tried to stomp on Bandana Dee who rolled out of the way, then on Kirby who used the Dragon Fire Ability to burn him and to fly away from his stomping foot.

Leongar returned on all four and caught Dedede in his mouth by the left arm. He slammed him around, tried to slam him on the other heroes, then eventually threw him at Sweetie Void who managed to catch him before she healed him. Leongar then almost caught Phantom in his jaw but she teleported away before she made a giant spiked ball drop from the ceiling on his head. Sweetie Void then materialized a hand-shaped shield and used it to grab Leongar's muzzle and keep it shut. He fought the hold strongly, but she held on.

Now, they only had to worry about his claws, which Leongar was swinging around wildly, sometime sending energy waves from them.

Sweetie Void called her whip, cloaked it in fire, and attacked Leongar with it. Her weapon cracked hard on his fur, leaving behind burn marks and little flames.

"Release that lion, Elfilis!" she shouted.

She was answered by Leongar trying to claw her.

Apple Death used her powers to gather debris from all over the room and beyond to form a golem that she took possession of. The golem was as big as Leongar, and she caught the lion's paws in its hands, holding him in place. This left him totally open to everyone who attacked at will.

But then, a black mist appeared over Leongar and a ghostly version of Fecto Elfilis back in his larva form Fecto Forgo came out of it, eyes glowing like two lights and black mist dripping out of them.

"Here they are," Meta Knight said.

Before the heroes could attack, Fecto Forgo entered Leongar's body. The heroes all moved away from him as black mist covered his head, and he roared loudly, the hand-shield keeping his muzzle shut exploding.

"So, he is even more possessed than before?" Phantom questioned.

"Eeyup," confirmed.

"With Fecto Forgo now inside his body, it really is a full on, total possession," Galacta Knight said. "Now, he is even more powerful."

Leongar showed this as he brought his paws together into a ball and slammed them on the ground, sending a shockwave coursed with lightning bolts. Because of these lightning bolts, not even the flying heroes were safe. Thankfully, the lightning bolts didn't move along the shockwave, so passing between them was easy, especially if the heroes were far enough so the space between the bolts was wider. They still got Dedede and Apple Death's golem which were too close and too big.

Leongar slammed the ground a few more times, each slam more powerful than the last, releasing faster shockwaves with more lightning bolts. Then, he followed right away with a mouth laser that he swept outward quickly. The laser was even more powerful than before and damaged the ceiling, causing debris to fall all over the room.

Meta Knight and Apple Death used their telekinesis to grab the debris and to throw them at Leongar, burying him under a pile. Leongar quickly broke out of it with a roar, sending the debris in all directions. He then swung his claws around, sending energy waves that were faster and more powerful than before. One hit Apple Death, cutting her golem in two, another got Dark Meta Knight on the wing, making him crash. Galacta Knight managed to slice one apart, protecting Dedede.

Marx disappeared into the ground, and his shadow moved until he was right under Leongar. Seeing this, Leongar stopped attacking and waited, rising a foot. Just as Marx came out of the ground, Leongar brutally stomped on him. Everyone still used the opening to attack Leongar, starting with Sweetie Void giving the lion a big punch that sent him flying into the stone throne, saving Marx from under his foot.

Dedede cloaked his hammer in ice and slammed the ground, sending spikes of ice toward Leongar as he recovered from Sweetie's punch. Leongar tried to move out of the way, but Kirby, now in Stella Knight form, used the Grand Hammer to bonk the lion hard and keep him in place so he was hit by the spikes. Phantom then materialized some big robot with spiked gloves and made it punch Leongar repeatedly on the face alongside Apple Death's golem which the ghost reformed.

Leongar caught Phantom's robot and slammed it on Apple Death's golem, then let out a mouth laser on the two of them, destroying the two, only to receive a drop slash from Meta Knight which left him with a bad cut from shoulder to leg. Lightning then struck him from Galacta Knight. However, as electricity coursed Leongar, the lion caught Meta Knight, making him receive some of the electricity. Dark Meta Knight and Bandana Dee quickly made him release him with a double strike on the arm holding him. Sweetie Void then blasted Leongar through the window right into what remained of the Eternal Capsule that contained Fecto Forgo.

Getting up, Leongar held his head in pain. Then, Fecto Forgo's ghost came out of his body and charged energy while Leongar jumped back through the window and began clawing around, the claws leaving trails of fiery psychic energy. Every now and then, he also slammed the ground again with his paws gathered into a ball, sending shockwaves with lightning bolts.

While Leongar attacked, Sweetie Void decided to directly attack Fecto Forgo while they were still charging energy. She blasted them, but while the attacks definitively hit them, they didn't react.

Then, Fecto Forgo teleported right beside Leongar, in the middle of the heroes attacking him. Leongar jumped away. Once the lion was far enough, Fecto Forgo released a powerful blast of dark energy that extended to a large area. Some of the heroes were able to escape, but others didn't react in time or weren't so fast. The ones caught in the blast found themselves with their whole body hurting very badly.

Once the blast disappeared, Sweetie Void immediately healed everyone. It still left quite a shock, but they didn't have time to idle as Leongar attacked again with his mouth laser, and this time, Fecto Forgo attacked alongside him by firing dark energy balls. When these balls hit the floor, they released shockwaves.

Apple Death joined Sweetie Void in targeting Fecto Forgo while the others dealt with Leongar. Fecto Forgo randomly targeted the heroes, but Sweetie made sure to deflect the balls sent at her friends, letting them focus on Leongar. No matter how much Sweetie Void and Apple Death attacked Fecto Forgo, the ghost wasn't reacting, still sending dark balls.

Galacta Knight using his space beam finally seemed to be too much for Fecto Forgo and their hold on Leongar. The laser fully hit the lion and badly wounded him, sending him on his back. The Fecto Forgo ghost disappeared, revealing itself to just be a projection, and the real one came out of Leongar's body before he lost consciousness.

Fecto Forgo took a more solid form, gaining magenta and cyan colors. Their eyes then glowed, and their body turned into the same blue gelatinous liquid that the heroes had to fight when they chased Elfilin the first time, including the tentacles, but this time, they kept their form instead of becoming some blob.

The heroes readied themselves for what they hoped was the last fight against Elfilis.

But then, a butterfly came, distracting everyone including Soul Forgo.

"Wait. Is that...?" Sweetie Void began, recognizing the butterfly.

The butterfly landed on Soul Forgo's nose.

The next instant, Soul Forgo disappeared into particles of light which then gathered into the butterfly. Soon enough, the butterfly disappeared inside a ball of light which grew. After a few seconds, the ball exploded into butterflies of light, leaving behind a familiar masked being.

"Morpho Knight?!" Sweetie Void exclaimed.

"Who is this?" Elfilis asked.

"Wow. I didn't expect to see him again!" Bandana Dee exclaimed.

"Did... Did he absorb Fecto Forgo?" Phantom questioned.

I did, the butterfly warrior answered in their heads. Fecto Forgo... Fecto Elfilis... was at their most vulnerable, and it was time for me to intervene to put an end to their threat. Fecto Elfilis, like Void, is older than Death. The battle against them would have never truly ended. They would have always come back. Absorbing them was the only way to end this.

"Oh. Well, that's perfect. Thanks, Morpho," Sweetie Void said.

"Yeah. I had enough of that thing," Dedede said.

Behind, Apple Death, Phantom, and Elfilin could only watch in wonder.

"Can someone tell us what's going on? Who is this guy?" Apple Death asked.

"We... aren't actually sure who and what Morpho Knight is," Sweetie Void answered. "But do not worry, he isn't an enemy."

She is right. I do not intend to fight this time. I only came for Fecto Elfilis.

""This time?"" Phantom repeated.

Elfilis gulped. "Does this include me?"

No. As long as you don't follow the path of your other half, you won't have to fear me.

"Well, I guess that this is over then. Kind of anticlimactic in my opinion. Oh well," Marx said.

"Good," Dark Meta Knight said.

Now, with Fecto Elfilis' soul imprisoned within me for eternity, I shall bid you... Uh?!

Suddenly, Morpho Knight grabbed his head in pain and began to struggle, exactly like Leongar when he got possessed earlier.

"Uhh... Sir Morpho? Are you alright?" Bandana Dee asked worriedly, not liking where this was going.

"Oh no... You have got to be kidding. Please, tell us this is a joke," Sweetie Void pleaded.

Their... power... is... stronger... Can't... resist...

"Oh COME ON!!!" Sweetie yelled.

The struggle eventually ended, and when Morpho Knight opened his eyes, they now were glowing purple. The now possessed butterfly warrior then flew up, and his sword appeared in his hand.

"You just had to jinx it, Marx!" Sweetie Void shouted at the jester who simply laughed in return.

A shadow flew over her, and suddenly, Galacta Knight in his light form clashed with Morpho Knight. However, Morpho Knight immediately managed to push Galacta Knight's sword aside before he attempted to slash him. Galacta Knight avoided the slash and, in the blink of an eye, flew around Morpho Knight to attack him from behind.

Only for Morpho to turn around even faster and to attack first.

If it wasn't for Sweetie stopping him with one of her own swords, Galacta Knight would have received a very bad hit. At least, she was holding her sword with her magic, so Morpho Knight wasn't able to push it aside like he did against Galacta. And while this happened, Sweetie fired at Morpho with her nine other weapons in cannon mode. However, after a few hits, Morpho flew away, avoiding by the same occasion a swing from Dedede and cutter blades from Marx.

Phantom then sent some Phantom Cubes to catch Morpho Knight in her power, but to her surprise, he was able to destroy them!

"Oh, this fight will suck."

With this, Phantom had no choice but to materialize her sword to join the brawl more directly only to be overpowered and sent flying into Leongar's unconscious body.

Oh right, he was still here. They should get him out of here. Phantom promptly sucked him into a rift to Waddle Dee Town. Then she flew back toward Morpho Knight with her sword while the butterfly of doom was busy raining fiery sword waves on everyone else while regularly teleporting. The guy could even control the speed of these waves to trick them. Like, he first sent a couple of slow waves (still rather fast but not too fast), easy to avoid, but then, he sent a fast as heck wave that caught the target off guard.

At least, Sweetie was seeing the good side of this: they may be less numerous than the first time they fought Morpho Knight and they may not have the unifying power of the Friend Hears anymore, some of them became much more powerful since then. And Apple Death and Phantom were very good too. Defeating Morpho Knight should be... not too hard.

But then, Morpho Knight rose his sword and gathered energy before releasing it in the form of some ghostly construct shaped like Fecto Forgo. Morpho Knight sent a whole group of them that flew after the heroes. Thankfully, they were rather slow, and Sweetie Void was able to absorb them. Still, these ghostly things were enough distraction that it opened the heroes to Morpho's next attack: with one swing of the sword, he sent a whole fire wall, and he repeated it several times to send walls that were horizontal and diagonal (at various angles).

The heroes were almost hit by the first waves as Sweetie Void finished absorbing the ghostly Fecto Forgos, then they avoided the following ones as they approached Morpho Knight. Sweetie Void teleported to him followed by Phantom, and Morpho Knight was forced to stop sending fire walls to defend against them. As the others arrived one by one, he eventually disappeared.

For a couple of tense seconds, nothing happened. Then, Morpho reappeared behind Bandana Dee. The Dee barely rolled away in time, avoiding being cut in half.

Morpho then disappeared again, but this time, Sweetie was ready. As soon as Morpho reappeared again, this time behind Dedede, Sweetie teleported beside him and fired point blank a big beam that sent Morpho crashing into a wall. Kirby flew toward Morpho and used the Fighter Ability (no upgrade yet) to pummel him against the wall until he teleported and rammed Kirby from behind, crushing him against the wall. Marx then teleported behind Morpho and kicked him away.

Sweetie Void went full void mode and used her swords turned black to attack Morpho Knight, dealing huge amounts of damage with each successful hits. It wasn't easy, Morpho divided his sword into two bigger ones and was able to parry most of Sweetie's swings.

Morpho Knight then began to teleport around while fluttering his wings, sending these waves that turned the heroes against each others. Dedede was the first victim, followed by Dark Meta Knight, and then by Apple Death.

Thankfully, while they didn't have the Friend Hearts anymore, Sweetie Void could still use the corresponding energy to bring them back to their senses. Dark Meta Knight still almost skewered Marx with his giant swords popping out of mirrors before Sweetie sent the energy in a heart shape at him. But Marx, having spent most of his time with Dark Meta Knight, knew this attack and easily avoided it.

The real tragedy almost came when Apple Death almost touched Bandana Dee. He didn't have any power to resist her Death Touch. He would have been killed right away. Instead, Elfilin was able to push him back just in time, and he was the one who got touched in his place. Thankfully, the Touch didn't work on him.

Sweetie Void didn't lose time using the heart energy on Apple Death, leaving Dedede for last. Dedede only swung his hammer at Phantom who had no problem avoiding him.

Meanwhile, Morpho continued using the waves, but everyone was able to avoid them after that.

Meta Knight and Galacta Knight sent tornadoes around, one of them successfully catching Morpho Knight as he teleported to send more waves, stopping him. Recovering from this, Morpho Knight grew his swords until they were absolutely gigantic and began to swing them around. Their size allowed him to reach all the heroes, even across the room. Meta Knight parried one, but the force and the weight behind the sword still sent him flying into a wall. To make it worse, Morpho Knight used little vortexes to attract the heroes where he wanted them to be before he struck. And whenever he hit the ground or the walls, the swords created fire walls that moved around along the corresponding surface.

But after a few seconds of this, Sweetie Void parried one of his swords with her own weapon turned into a giant sword. At the same time, Kirby revealed a new upgrade of the Sword Ability to parry the other sword.

The Morpho Sword.

"Oh hey! You copied Morpho Knight! Good job, Kirby!" Sweetie Void shouted.

Dedede sighed. "I shouldn't be surprised."

Thanks to the Morpho Sword, while Kirby used one giant sword to parry one of Morpho Knight's giant swords, he used his other giant sword to attack Morpho Knight who teleported out of the way. Kirby also teleported, and the two began to clash around. Sweetie Void joined them. Between the two of them, Kirby and Sweetie Void were able to land some bad hits, and Sweetie Void eventually sent Morpho Knight flying toward Phantom.

Phantom immediately materialized some cubes and, this time, was able to hit Morpho with them, getting him in her power. She then caught him and slammed him into a carpet of spikes. But then, the next instant, Phantom saw her arm sliced off. Morpho Knight thus freed himself and followed this right away by an attempt to behead her. But Phantom teleported away and recreated her arm.

With Phantom gone, Morpho Knight targeted Kirby next and, in a flash, gave him a big burning slash. He did the same to Meta Knight, Apple Death, and Galacta Knight before Bandana Dee threw his spear at him. Morpho Knight flew aside to avoid it, only to be on the path of a sword wave sent by Dark Meta Knight which cut him. Sweetie Void then wrapped him with her whip, shocked him, and slammed him repeatedly on the ground. After that, Kirby sent a ghostly Fecto Forgo of his own that flew after Morpho Knight, but the butterfly warrior cut it in two, destroying it.

Both Sweetie Void and Galacta Knight opened a rift that fired a space beam. the beams crossed at Morpho Knight's position, but he teleported before they could reach him. Meta Knight then threw debris with his telekinesis, but Morpho Knight either avoided them or destroyed them, only to be hit from behind by Dedede who sent him crashing through the window into the part of the room with the Eternal Capsule. Sweetie Void fired another space beam after him, but Morpho Knight teleported again, avoiding the beam.

Sweetie Void then flew aside, just avoiding Morpho Knight's sword from behind before she punched him in the face. Morpho punched her back, then attempted to slice her only to clash with one of her swords before he found himself blasted away. Apple Death sent sharp bones at him, but Morpho recovered midair and sliced them.

Only to receive a big darkness-powered slash from behind from Sweetie Void which cut the fabric of space and time. This badly hurt Morpho Knight, leaving a big gash on him that leaked energy taking the form of butterflies, but it still wasn't enough to defeat him.

Morpho Knight planted his sword into the ground and created fire tornadoes that he manipulated so they went after the heroes. The tornadoes moved everywhere, and it was difficult to avoid all of them. But while Morpho Knight was manipulating the tornadoes, he had to keep his sword planted, leaving him totally open, and Sweetie used the occasion to slash him again, leaving another gash, and Kirby and Galacta Knight joined her in slashing him. Morpho Knight quickly let go of his tornadoes and teleported away from the assault, but they at least got time to very badly hurt him.

Where Morpho Knight reappeared, Meta Knight immediately sent sword waves by dozens, but only the first one hit him before Morpho Knight blocked the following ones, then flew out of the way of the rest, only to fly right into a giant sword coming out of a mirror. At this, Dedede inhaled Bandana Dee and spat him toward Morpho Knight, and the Dee's spear pierced right into him.

Morpho Knight suddenly began spinning, sending fiery waves in all directions at random speeds. Anybody getting too close would be cut to shreds.

So, instead of approaching, Sweetie Void gathered her ten swords into a single big sword of darkness and slashed the air. The slash cut Morpho Knight through his spinning, and also cut the whole room behind him, the chamber with the Eternal Capsule, including the fabric of space of the dimension.

This made Morpho Knight stop his attack, a big gash crossing his body. He seemed to barely hold himself together, but he was still continuing. He released a huge amount of energy that took the form of a powerful tornado surrounding him. The tornado quickly grew in size and finished to destroy the ceiling, sending debris flying in the sky. The heroes were ready to leave the room if the tornado continued to grow, but thankfully, it stopped before reaching the walls.

The tornado then disappeared, but now, Morpho Knight's swords were absolutely burning. He then sent a sword wave so fast that the heroes barely avoided it in time. The wave continued its course, slicing through the wall of the room and beyond.

Morpho Knight sent more waves, slicing through more of the building. Then, he rose his sword and brought it down, sending a vertical wave thar vertically cut the room, and the building behind, and the whole island beyond, in half.

Sweetie Void teleported beside Morpho Knight to attack him, but Morpho teleported away and sent ghostly Fecto Forgos flying everywhere in the room. He then teleported, sent more ghostly Fecto Forgos, and teleported again. The Fecto Forgos were now bigger and slightly faster, but they still were no match to Sweetie Void absorbing them. It still took some time, and some of the heroes were almost touched by these things.

Marx cried black blobs that bounced after Morpho Knight while Sweetie was busy absorbing the ghosts, but Morpho Knight destroyed them. They revealed to be a distraction however as Kirby teleported beside Morpho Knight with a giant sword ready and slashed down, vertically cutting the butterfly.

Seemingly ready to drop on the floor, Morpho Knight instead planted his sword into the ground. An orange glow spread all over the floor of the room, and the heroes understood that they had to leave, so they either ran out the door, teleported, or flew through one of the holes. Powerful flames then erupted from the glow, totally filling the room with them.

However, Morpho Knight kept his sword planted and spread the glow beyond the room, faster and faster. Soon, it was everywhere in the laboratory, and it continued spreading until reaching the limits of the island. Seeing the glow everywhere, Dedede filled himself with air and began to float away, taking Bandana Dee on his back. All the others were flying, and they all left the island. Finally, flames erupted and totally engulfed the island. Everything was put on fire. Nowhere was safe to land anymore.

Morpho Knight could probably turn a whole planet into hell this way, it was scary.

So Sweetie Void fired an Ultimate Doom Laser into the island and hoped that this will finally do the job. The whole island exploded.

They saw Morpho Knight propelled away by the explosion, crashing through several floating boulders before he stopped himself, still conscious, to everyone's surprise. However, he was visibly struggling even lifting his swords now.

Sweetie Void slashed him one last time, and this seemed to be it.

Morpho Knight's body began to glow, more and more rays of light coming out of it. Energy escaped him. He wasn't moving anymore.

I'm sorry.

Morpho Knight then exploded into energy shaping into butterflies that flew away and disappeared into the air. However, some of that energy remained and gathered back to reform into a figure that immediately teleported away.

Sweetie Void knew right away that that figure was Fecto Elfilis, but now, she felt some of Morpho Knight's energy within them.

She growled. "They escaped."

The whole dimension then began to collapse, like what happened to the other dimension after they destroyed the Master Crown.

"Seems like they left the dimension," Galacta Knight said. "We should leave too, quickly."

Everyone nodded, and Sweetie Void opened a rift back to Waddle Dee Town. Everyone flew through it.

Only to see that something was wrong. The sky was now like when they fought Fecto Elfilis, distorting and rippling, but it was grey now.

"They didn't lose time," Phantom said.

Everyone in Waddle Dee Town was looking at the sky, many of them in fear or in worry. The executives of the Beast Pack were around Leongar who was still unconscious. Clawroline had her arms wrapped around him.

"Hey guys! So, good news, as you saw, we saved Leongar. Bad news, Elfilis escaped," Sweetie Void said to the crowd. "And... Oh boy... They are close," she felt as she looked at the sky, above the coliseum. A white curled up figure dropped from the sky and revealed themselves.

"What? They remade their body?" Present Sonic exclaimed.

"Yeah. It seems like they absorbed Morpho Knight's power and were able to use it to create a new body. They... They are even more powerful than before," Sweetie Void said, looking very worried.

Now, Elfilis was almost as powerful as Void.

"Morpho Knight?" Ness questioned.

"Later," Phantom said.

Chaos Elfilis, instead of attacking, rose their now black and red spear with a golden spearhead at the sky. Then, a vortex opened.

With Popstar in it, the planet starting to approach, again.

"Right from the start?!" Dedede shouted. "We won't be able to defeat them in time!"

"Oh no!" Elfilin shouted.

Panic spread in the town. It looked like they were doomed.

Sweetie Void opened a rift to her Equestria.

"Everyone, escape through it!" she shouted.

Nobody needed to be told this twice, and they all ran toward the rift, the heroes trying to keep some order so they didn't run over each others while Gorimondo transported Leongar.

Without losing more time, Sweetie Void, mane and tail in darkness again, flew at Chaos Elfilis and engaged them in a terrible battle. Her ten double swords of darkness closed on them, only for them to teleport away before they slashed and sent fast and massive waves of red energy that Sweetie Void avoided. In the far distance, Sweetie Void saw the waves slice skyscrapers, making them collapse.

Already, objects were floating everywhere, attracted by Popstar, and pieces of Popstar were raining everywhere. It was only a matter of a few minutes before the two planets collided.

Dedede was right, there was no way Sweetie will be able to defeat Elfilis in time, especially now that they were so powerful. She may have to use her Soul form.

But then, Stella Knight Kirby, using the Ultra Morpho Sword, no doubt his most powerful Ability, arrived with an absolutely HUGE sword and slashed at Elfilis only for them to parry successfully with their spear. Sweetie Void then rammed into them, sending the both of them toward the abandoned city in the distance where there were less risks of accidentally killing someone. That city was the first city she traversed with Kirby and Bandana Dee after arriving on this world. She already felt nostalgic about it.

But it wasn't the moment to think about that. They crashed through several skyscrapers until Elfilis put their hand together into a ball and smashed Sweetie Void hard, sending her crashing into a road. Kirby then appeared and beheaded Elfilis, only for their head to reform, their body turning gelatinous for a bit. Kirby quickly teleported to avoid a thrust that would have impaled him.

Galacta Knight arrived in turn, still in his light form, and rained hundreds of Heart Spears at Elfilis in an attempt to seal them and end the fight right away, but Elfilis twirled their spear and knocked the Heart Spears away. Out of the rain, Sweetie Void returned and sent a wave that horizontally sliced Elfilis in half, as well as many skyscrapers behind them, but Elfilis didn't react to having lost their bottom and continued to twirl their spear to knock away the last few Heart Spears while their body reformed.

Once the rain stopped, Elfilis summoned dozens of purple outlined spearheads and sent them at their three enemies. They summoned a second wave of spearheads, then a third, then summoned more spearheads directly surrounding the heroes in circle formations, closing in on them, again, and again, and again.

"GILGAMEEEEEEESH... HERO TIME!!!"

Gilgamesh suddenly came out of a skyscraper and slashed Elfilis with his eight weapons. Sadly, the instant death effect of Zantetsuken was ineffective on the alien. It just sliced them in half only for them to reform again. Phantom and Apple Death followed, respectively slashing with a sword and piercing with a bone before they got away to avoid a counterattack, Elfilis regenerating again.

"Mmh... How do we defeat something that can't seem to be defeated?" Gilgamesh wondered when he landed inside a skyscraper.

"Each blow on Elfilis weakens them a bit," Sweetie Void said as she got close. "Just continue attacking. And thanks for helping us."

"Poyo!" Kirby suddenly gained everyone's attention and pointed at Popstar.

Popstar which was now very close.

However, while Earth was still approaching the vortex, it didn't seem to be the case for Popstar anymore. In the contrary, Popstar seemed to move back.

It was then that they saw none other than Void approaching.

Sweetie Void gasped in joy. "Void! He is here! He is finally back! Oh, now, Elfilis is screwed."

Void, with white wings with red extremities like Kirby had in his Stella Knight form, stopped approaching when he spotted Elfilis, and Elfilis quickly spotted him too.

Father... everyone heard a voice, certainly Elfilis, say with obvious spite.

Void just looked sad. "Elfilis. I hoped to never see you again.

..........

"COULDN'T YOU HAVE TOLD US THAT YOU HAD ANOTHER ROGUE CHILD?!!" Sweetie Void yelled. "I THOUGHT WE HAD DEALT WITH ALL OF THEM!!!"

Void divided himself into two copies, and one went to fight Elfilis while the other flew to the heroes. The Void that went to attack Elfilis began by sending a storm of lasers that Elfilis countered with their own giant laser.

"I'm sorry, Sweetie Belle, but Elfilis is a painful subject to me," Void said. "I tried to forget them, doing as if they never existed."

"Why? What is different between them and your other... uh... creations like Zero? You didn't care about them."

"That's because Zero and the others were born from my folly and hate, pawns to spread pain and destruction. Elfilis, however, was born out of love, like Galacta Knight, back when I was myself. What makes them very special, however, is that they were my very first creation. My firstborn. Created before everything else. I love them so much... And it made their betrayal all the more painful."

"Oh... Oh... I'm sorry..."

"Elfilis gained a hunger for power and began to absorb any other life-forms I created. I couldn't bring myself to destroy them, so I banished them to another universe. What a surprise it was to hear that the humans captured them and used their power to enter my universe. I thought that it was perfect. They were contained, they couldn't hurt anyone anymore, they were left behind forgotten, so I just let them like that and hoped that that was the end. Foolish..."

There was a moment of silence before Galacta Knight cleared his throat. "Ahem. So, how do we deal with them, father? Morpho Knight told us that they will constantly return, no matter how many time we defeat them."

"Mmh... Speaking of Morpho Knight, what happened with him? I can feel his power within Elfilis."

"He appeared and absorbed Elfilis, trying to keep them contained within his body. But Elfilis revealed to be too powerful and was able to take possession of him. We had to fight him to force Elfilis out of him, and it seems like Elfilis took the occasion to absorb his power," Sweetie Void recounted.

"I see. Then, it could be our chance. I can feel that Morpho Knight's power is fighting off Elfilis, making them very instable. It should take some time before they properly absorb it. So we can use the occasion to deal a fatal blow to Elfilis and leave their soul very weakened. Then... I guess that I could definitively destroy them..."

Void really looked sad at the prospect of destroying Elfilis for good.

"Ah could do it in yer place," Apple Death said. "Ah can do stuff with souls."

Void shook his head. "This is my burden."

They were interrupted by a gigantic shadow copy of Elfilis appearing behind the skyscrapers. The shadow swept its spear down at the copy of Void that they couldn't see behind the buildings.

"They have grown so powerful. They are very close to surpassing me in my current state."

Sweetie Void groaned. "If only you having feelings didn't make you weaker..."

Void smiled at her. "Don't worry about Popstar. Copies of me are pushing the planet away from the vortex. I shall send more copies to push this world away too. Good luck."

At this, the copy flew away.

"Well, at least, we won't have to worry about the two planets colliding," Phantom said.

"Did he say that he was pushing planets?" Gilgamesh questioned.

"Oh yeah. Void is a God. He can totally do that," Sweetie Void said.

At this, the group returned to fight Elfilis. Gilgamesh had to jump from building to building (or what remained of them after Void and Elfilis' passage). Contrary to his Phantom counterpart, he couldn't use the wind to fly.

They joined the battle just in time to see Elfilis fire a laser into a rift. That same laser then came out of another rift, and Void avoided it, only for the laser to enter another rift and to exit yet another. This repeated, the laser entering and exiting rifts while Void flew around to avoid it. All the while, Void used two swords to send waves of fire, ice, and electricity at Elfilis who constantly teleported out of the way.

Gilgamesh cast Haste, Protect, and Shell on himself and also on the others, which took some time, and they all attacked Elfilis.

Phantom began by sending a wave of Phantom energy. Elfilis prepared themself to cut the approaching wave, but Kirby then distracted them with his giant sword. As soon as the wave hit them, giant monsters appeared and began to throw at them the objects that were still floating because of Popstar's gravitation, including the buildings. However, this wave also hit everyone else, so Phantom had to be careful not to accidentally hit someone else with the thrown objects. At the same time, she attacked Elfilis directly with her own cannon.

Gilgamesh was impressed by Phantom's power, but he didn't let his awe stop him as he cast spells like Missile and Electrocute. Since Elfilis was flying, he couldn't use his swords unless he wanted to constantly jump from the buildings around, so he had no choice but to use long range spells.

Maybe he should have kept his guns and rocket launchers. At least, he had one of these gunblades.

After Elfilis avoided a thrown car, they used their giant shadow-self to horizontally cut one of Phantom's monsters in half while they clashed Galacta Knight, not reacting to the purple electricity sent at them by Apple Death. Then, they were punched in the face by Void. The punch sent them crashing into a building where Sweetie Void teleported and grabbed their head. She slammed their head on the building's surface and dragged them along it before she threw them at Kirby who slashed them. Again, they reformed.

Elfilis was readying themself to attack Kirby, but they then had to avoid a falling spear created by Void. More spears began to rain wherever Elfilis was, forcing them to constantly fly around. One spear got their left ear, but they still could fly thanks to their psychic power the time that it reformed. All the while, Phantom continued firing at them with her cannon, and Gilgamesh cast Electrocute again. Apple Death was now sending numerous sharp bones, and Galacta Knight, energy waves powerful enough to cut buildings to pieces.

By now, Earth and Popstar were rather far from each other, but the vortex continued to pull objects, so any building destroyed began to float around, ready to be used as projectiles or as platforms.

Annoyed, Elfilis flew at the ground and thrusted their spear into it, creating several giant tornadoes of red energy that began to move around, sweep anything they encountered. The tornadoes were as big as the buildings and caused huge amount of damage to the city, sending countless debris of various sizes to fly everywhere, risking to ram the heroes. Getting hit by something the size of a house was not on their agenda, so the heroes did their best to avoid everything while attacking Elfilis whenever they had the occasion. Gilgamesh actually used the flying debris against Elfilis by kicking them right toward the alien. Seeing him do it, Sweetie Void and Kirby copied him while Apple Death used telekinesis to throw them.

By the time the tornadoes disappeared, part of the city was transformed into a field of debris still flying around because of the vortex. At least, it wasn't raining pieces of Popstar anymore.

Kirby created a giant ghostly Fecto Forgo and sent it chasing Elfilis. The ghost thing passed through the flying debris, continuing its path toward its target.

Elfilis gathered energy into their spear and threw it before teleporting. The spear passed through the ghost, destroying it, and continued its course toward Kirby who quickly moved aside. The spear passed beside him and continued, eventually reaching a building that hadn't totally crumbled further away. The next instant, there was a huge explosion that engulfed a big part of the city. The heroes were caught in the blast and were blasted away, but they all quickly recovered, excepted Gilgamesh who crashed head first into the remains of a building.

Elfilis reappeared beside Void, ready to attack, but Void avoided the following swing and pierced Elfilis with his arm turned into a needle.

Phantom's monsters were still present, and one of them threw a floating building and threw it. Void quickly teleported away, but Elfilis didn't and instead sliced the building in two, the two pieces passing at their left and right. They then teleported further up in the sky, opened a portal, opened many more all over the city, readied their spear, and placed its head into the portal. Bigger versions of the spearhead came out of the other portals all over the city. Elfilis then charged a laser from the spearheads, and fired.

Giant lasers rained all over the city, each laser causing an explosion that destroying everything in a large radius.

Sweetie Void grabbed Gilgamesh and teleported. The others all either teleported too or flew away VERY rapidly.

Not much was left of the city once the deadly rain was over. Just a large area of pure devastation with floating debris everywhere. Some of it was being filled with the water of the large river that traversed the city.

Sweetie Void appeared not far above Elfilis and threw Gilgamesh at them. Gilgamesh used Zantetsuken with his eight weapons to cut Elfilis into little pieces, then was caught by Sweetie Void again who turned herself into a horse big enough for Gilgamesh to ride.

Inside his mind, Gilgamesh was squealing.

Before Elfilis could totally reform themself, Void materialized four Master Crowns that he put in a circle formation. The crowns gathered energy in the middle, then fired a huge laser that Void made sure was pointed at the sky and that it would miss Popstar. The laser totally engulfed Elfilis who screeched.

When the laser disappeared, Elfilis was left as a gelatinous mass that began to reform itself again.

While Elfilis reformed itself, Kirby came and sent several giant fiery waves that cut them to pieces again. Galacta Knight sent a space beam. Phantom pierced them with a giant thunder spear. Apple Death materialized a giant dragon skull that fired a large beam. Sweetie Void fired an Ultimate Doom Laser (making Elfilis screech again). Gilgamesh then jumped at Elfilis again and cut them with eight more Zantetsukens.

The gelatinous mass dropped to the ground, still reforming itself. However, something spherical, red at the exterior, yellow and cyan at the interior, now protruded out of their back.

"That's their Soul!" Void exclaimed.

"Uh. Doesn't look like before they were absorbed by Morpho Knight," Sweetie Void said.

"It must be the instability caused by them absorbing Morpho Knight's power," Apple Death said.

"It doesn't mean they won't be powerful once we get it out. Remain on your guard," Galacta Knight said.

"Wait. You mean we are going to fight their soul?" Gilgamesh asked.

Sweetie Void didn't answered and looked at Kirby. "Kirby, do your thing."

"Poyo!"

Kirby flew toward Chaos Elfilis and inhaled, wrapping himself around the orb, Elfilis' soul. He then began to pull while Void grabbed Elfilis' spear and stopped it from being mentally manipulated.

After some seconds during which Elfilis struggled, Kirby succeeded and fully pulled the Soul out, leaving behind a lifeless corpse. In addition of being red, yellow, and cyan, the Soul revealed to have a star-like core, like the soul pieces, but more intense.

The Soul remained floating above the body which turned blood red, gelatinous again, and disintegrated into several smaller orbs that began to orbit the Soul.

Suddenly, the sky took a dark purple hue and the Soul transformed into a powerful black hole. Everybody flew away from it right away, resisting its pull. Gilgamesh held on Sweetie Void hard. Debris in a large radius around the Soul were sucked in, disappearing inside the vortex. Even pieces of the ground were pulled in.

When the black hole disappeared and the Soul returned to normal (and the sky was grey again), everyone immediately went on the offensive. The Soul flew away, forcing the others into a chase. While flying, it erratically teleported, avoiding many attacks, before the red orbs grouped into two orbs which fired two powerful lasers at two random targets. The lasers were small, but powerful. Anyone hit by them found themselves with a hole in their body that Sweetie Void quickly healed. The lasers then continued their courses, even into the ground, leaving holes in the earth/rock.

The Soul fired, teleported, fired, teleported again... It was impossible to guess who will be fired at, so it was very difficult to dodge the lasers. And because of the Soul constantly teleporting and moving while flying away, it was just as difficult to land a hit.

So everyone who could teleport began to erratically teleport too, and the ones who couldn't simply flew at random very rapidly.

Gilgamesh hoped that this wouldn't last long because he was starting to feel sick.

The Soul stopped firing the lasers and teleported faster, this time teleporting randomly among the heroes chasing it. Then, they suddenly stopped, and the red orbs entered the Soul before they were launched out in the form of six red cutter blades that the target, Galacta Knight, barely dodged. The Soul then teleported again, this time near Phantom who immediately teleported to avoid the second set of cutter blades. The Soul teleported a third time, beside Void, and sent out this time two sets of cutter blades, one after another. Void didn't dodge. Instead, he sent his own cutter blades which countered the Soul's and even cut them, allowing them to reach and cut the Soul.

The Soul stopped using the cutter blades and teleported away of the group before the orbs formed a ring around it. Each orb them emitted a laser and began to move at random directions. The lasers were sweeping everywhere, back and forth, and keeping track of all of them was difficult. They were doing lots of damage to the landscape, leaving deep gashes everywhere, pretty much cutting down mountains in the distance.

Sweetie Void could swear that one of these mountains was the one that they traversed at the beginning, with all the rolling boulders.

The heroes constantly attacked while dodging the lasers. But then, the Soul suddenly stopped and turned back into a black hole, turning the sky dark purple again. The heroes almost flew into it, barely stopping in time.

While resisting the pull, Sweetie Void charged energy into her horn. When the Soul finished its attack and returned to normal, she unleashed all that energy in the form of a small beam that pierced it and exploded inside it. This didn't destroy the Soul, but it was quite damaging.

Suddenly, the Soul turned into a giant fireball, turning the sky orange, and charged toward the nearest mountain and totally shattered it, sending boulders flying everywhere, including toward the heroes. While the heroes avoided the boulders, the Soul, still a fireball, entered a portal and exited from another right behind the heroes, ending up ramming Void, Phantom, and Galacta Knight. The Soul then entered another portal and exited from yet another to ram the heroes again, but this time, everyone avoided it and even attacked it in return.

The Soul continued to attempt to ram the heroes as a fireball by entering and exiting portals, managing to ram Kirby at a moment, before it stopped and suddenly dissolved into countless paint-like orbs of energy that flew toward the sky which took a reddish tint. The paint-like orbs then violently rained on the heroes, but Sweetie Void and Phantom both put up a shield to protect everyone from it. The orbs still ended up destroying the shields, but by then, Gilgamesh cast Haste on everyone again, allowing them to move fast enough to fly away from the remaining orbs. Gilgamesh also took the occasion to recast Protect and Shell.

When the orbs stopped raining, the Soul reformed and, right away, surrounded itself in a blue aura, the sky turning blue too, before it began to bounce around, getting bigger and bigger with each bounce. After some bounces, once it was absolutely giant, the Soul crashed not far of the heroes, sending on the ground a shockwave with lightning bolts coursing it, similar to Leongar's attack. However, where the lightning bolts of Leongar's attack had been immobile, these ones moved counterclockwise, making it a bit harder to avoid them. The shockwave itself was also much faster than the ones released by Leongar. The Soul then crashed a second time, sending a second shockwave with lightning bolts that moved clockwise this time. Then, it did it a third time, this time with lightning bolts that moved both clockwise and counterclockwise.

While it bounced, the heroes continuously attacked it, but it was difficult to predict its movements so they missed a lot. When the Soul crashed for the last time, Void actually used the occasion to teleport right above it before crashing into it hard, crushing the Soul between himself and the ground. This kept the Soul immobile long enough to allow the others to land some big hits. Phantom pierced it from all directions with dozens of iron spears. Apple Death made bones come out of the ground to pierce the Soul from below. Galacta Knight sent a powerful wave that would have cut anyone else in two, the wave leaving a big gash in the ground behind the Soul. Gilgamesh cast Hurricane (once Void moved away). Sweetie Void caught a floating boulder from the mountain the Soul shattered earlier, sculpted it into a spike, and threw it at the Soul. Once the spike pierced the Soul, Kirby used the Grand Hammer to pound it further into the orb.

While everyone attacked, the Soul returned to its normal size, the blue aura disappearing and the sky returning to grey, and it emitted the lasers from its red orbs, forcing the heroes to move back. The Soul then flew away, resuming the chase. Once the Soul stopped sweeping the landscape with all the lasers, it resumed grouping the red orbs into two orbs from which it fired powerful lasers at the heroes while regularly teleporting.

Gilgamesh finally had the thought of casting Disable, stopping the Soul from attacking, and it couldn't even teleport anymore. However, the Soul quickly broke from it (as Gilgamesh expected). It still opened it long enough to allow Sweetie Void to form blades of energy on her right wing before she accelerated and cut the Soul with said wing, also allowing Gilgamesh to slash the Soul by the same occasion with his eight weapons.

When the Soul could attack again, it gathered all its red orbs into a single orb which moved under it while the sky turned black. A huge amount of energy gathered into the orb, and Void gasped.

"It will fire a beam powerful enough to blow up the whole planet!"

Hearing this, everyone attacked with everything they had, only for the Soul to fire its laser. However, Kirby teleported in the path of the laser and began to inhale, his mask moving to his forehead. In his Stella Knight form, Kirby's inhaling was as powerful as when he was Hypernova, so he was able to inhale the laser. The Soul continued to fire the laser for several seconds however, hoping that it will be too much for the pink puffball. But Kirby inhaled everything until the laser finally stopped.

However, the Soul decided that it wasn't done and already started to gather energy to fire another laser, which it fired just after Kirby spat the first laser back at it. This started a terrible clash between the two lasers, but Kirby will quickly lack juice to continue firing his, and the Soul didn't seem ready to stop firing his.

But then, Elfilin arrived and, with a determined scream, gave energy to Kirby, allowing his laser to overpower Elfilis' laser and to start to advance. Kirby was starting to feel that his laser was reaching the end however, and it won't reach the Soul in time.

Then came Void with a giant sword vertically slashing the Soul, including the red orb firing the laser. The red orb was destroyed, stopping it from firing the laser. Right away, Kirby's laser hit the Soul and, while not engulfing it as the laser wasn't big enough, pierced it. The laser continued its course toward the sky, toward Popstar.

Seeing this, Void panicked and quickly made his copies push the planet out of the way. He barely succeeded in time, and the God sighed in relief, along with everyone else.

Meanwhile, the Soul started to lose shape. Rays of energy escaping it appeared, its body began to glow, and the Beast Pack members Elfilis absorbed even appeared for a brief instant. The Soul began to shrink little by little until it disintegrated into particles, leaving behind only a very small orb of light. The orb floated here for a few seconds, then slowly moved toward Elfilin.

Elfilin only watched as what remained of Elfilis let itself merge with him.

Thus, the Ultimate Life-Form was whole again, but this time, Elfilin was the one in control.

Right away, Elfilin looked at the giant vortex in the sky and used his newly recovered powers to easily make it disappear while turning the sky back to normal.

The battle against Elfilis was definitively over, and they will never have to worry about them ever again.

Author's Note:

-First of, I added Orbeetle to the list of Pokémon that Sweetie Void has, in the comment section of this blog. I had totally forgotten about this one.
-Secondly, the next chapter may take some time to get out. I have a bit of rewriting to do to add some stuff from the Kirby Return To Dreamland Deluxe game to A Sweetie Dreamland. I also wish to rewrite a bit of the Undertale arc, like I said previously I-don't-remember-where. The problem is that I feel lazy to do all that rewriting... So it may take some time to gain the motivation. 😅

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