Chapter 71: Crakkthulx
It only took a few seconds before Crakkthulx recovered enough of his senses to stop himself from being dragged away from the planet by Sweetie Belle. He did so by grabbing her in a telekinetic hold before sending her away. The planet could still be seen far in the distance, still far too close in Sweetie's opinion but she understood that getting Crakkthulx further away won't be as easy now that his guard was up.
"W̷̰̠̞̣̬̔͆͐H̷͔̠̩̦̖͖̜̾́̍̚͝ͅO̵̤̳̰̗͈̎ ̵̛̻̮̝̫̻́͋̔̂̅̕͝A̶̗̯͕̬͂R̶̹̺̪̤̬̃̈́E̸̛͈̼̗̙̩͗̅̌̔̐̔̈́ ̸̩̀̿̑̐̊̌Y̷̞͗͜O̵̧̺̩͂̆͂̄͆̚U̸͇̟͋̏̆̚,̸̤̫̣̫̞͖̄̌̑̈́̕͝ ̵̡̪̗͇͔̬̃̏̒̍̓Y̶̢̺̱̳͔̤̮̗͗̚Ỏ̵̰͈̤̬̭̆̚͠U̶̡͍̹͖͍̣̞̮̅̈ ̸̱̖͈̤͛͛̃͝W̶̮̘̖̱͖̉̈́͐̋̅̅̕͠H̸̲̗̥̏͑̂̊͒̄̍͘Ǫ̸̊ ̵̫̼̱̃́͆́̓̅͆͝P̶̖̹̱͗́̋͑I̴̖̋́̑̑̑̓̈́̀T̴̺̜͓̑́̏́̉̐͝ͅĪ̷̱̟̺̳̱̹͋̈́̇͒͑ͅF̶̡̭̦͉͕͈̦̽́̄̉͆̕͝Ư̶̻̯̬̇̍́͑̅͊͠L̸̰͚̝͈̫̟͖̹͂L̷̡̳̼̞͌̕͠Ÿ̵̡̠͉̠̊̋̆͒͝͝ ̶͖̗̘͚̍͗̌̓̌͊͋Ḋ̵̢̨̙̱͈͌͑̈́̕Â̵̘̑R̷̬͈̝̯͙͍̀͊Ę̴͎̹͆̓͊͂̄̎̑ ̷̛̦̀̈́́͝T̷̤̏́́̈́̈͠O̶̡͉͍̠̓̂͐̇͠͝ͅ ̷̹̄͂͠F̵̞̪̥̳̈́͆͗͠A̶̛̻̪̝̲̪̤̼͊C̵̠̹̽̒͘͝E̵̠͇͎̻̖͈̭̽ ̴̪̥̪͈̗̀͗̅̇ͅM̵̘̳͕̆́́̓̓È̶͇͎͕̽̂͝ ̵͉͇̳̳̑̀̒̅̽̀̈́́W̴̭̫̒͒̿́ͅH̸̗̗̪͖͍̾È̴̱͔͙̗̝̼͕̓̂̈́͒͌̚͠Ņ̸̹̗̣͈̠̠̿̀͂͜ ̵̳̺̹͎̙̥̂̾Ỳ̴̰̠̦̲͖̉͂͆̈́͜Ó̸̪͙̯̣̝̳̑̏̃̄̀̅U̴̢̥̓̄̀͂͒̽͋R̷̨̛̼͇̲̫͖̀̿̽͒̽̾̕ ̵̤̱̽̓F̴̬͈̖̆̉̃̈́̀̄̂A̸̬̖͇̥̒̋̏Ţ̵̹̭̳̽̈͋̏E̶͔͍̟̋̌͑̈̒̐̍͘ ̷̻̳͇͆̾͋̓̃̒̊I̶̢̘̝͔̬̙̙͑S̶̮̱̬̦̐̐́̃ͅ ̵̘͇̺̟͉̳̊̓̏̈́Ä̸̧͕̮̟̙́͛̉̿́͜L̷̨̯̩̿̄̇͒R̷̤͈̘͚͌̈́̈Ȩ̷̮̮͓̤͖̽̍̒̀̏̓͘͝A̴̳̟̬̘̻̳̋̿͜Ḑ̸͙́͒̾̔Y̵̩̝̪̙̼̻͊́͑̏͑̍̽͘ ̶̺̈͊W̴̡̧̻͔͖̙͙͆̎̒̊R̶̲̤͖͚͐͠͝I̶̝̜͍̯̬̫̲͋̉̎́̒͠T̷̮̠͓̬̅̅̾͒͘͜T̷̨̹̭͙͇̙͔̄̇̈́Ę̶͙͈͍̃͌́̌̍̑͝N̸̨̫͓̯͍̆̈́̐̐̚?̸̡͓̝̳̘͍̈̐̈́͗̃̿"
Sweetie Belle gave him an overly dramatic bow. "I am Sweetie Belle." She looked back up at Crakkthulx, eyes now nothing more than two black holes. "The filly who will tear you to pieces."
"B̷̛̖͓̙̹̌̍́̾̒͘ͅO̵̢̖͔̓̈́͜L̶̺̈́D̴̢̝̥̤̤̝̗̯͌̉͝ ̸̱̟̹̯̫̱̱̼̽̏̅͋̊̉C̴̡̧̹̩̣̎̇̄͂̃̂͊̕L̸̛͚̤͂̈́̈́̈̊̈́͠Ā̵̖͋̏Į̸̥͇̲͕͉̬͊͒M̷̤̰̠̈́͐͛ ̴̥̰̺̤̩̳͊̌͛͒͘͘͜͠C̴̡͇͚̘͔̜͉̙̾̓̅Ȯ̶̼̥̇̏͘̕͝M̸̢̛̪̙̘̏̎̓͗̏ͅĨ̷̧̡̡̘̫͚̪̰N̷̛͈̻͗̃̚̕G̷̺̫͓̽̃̆̾̄̈́ ̴̗͉̩̹̺͖̒̒̑̆̇́͛F̶̬̰̲͈̳̗͍͐R̴̤̲̮̲͚̈́́͜O̶̜̞̝̔̆͘M̶͎͓̓̅͂̈ ̸̋̇̒͜A̸̬̥͍͌͂͋́̽̐̓̕ ̵͇̦̙̬̃̽̃͑̕M̷̙̂̕I̸̡̭̝̭̦̓Ć̸̥̻͍̗͎́̒̓̃ͅR̵͕̱̼̭̝͇̈́O̶̢͈̟͙̯̥̦̯̚B̸̢̭̤̀͊͝Ĕ̴̫̦̘̗̲́̕ ̸̢͕̪̭̤̑̿W̶̧̺̜̞͙͚̪͎̎̅̊̓H̴̬̘̰͇̄͆͋̒͒̈́̓͂Õ̵̡͙̗͎͓̏ ̸̨̞͚̯̈́̇͌̂͊I̷̧̅͂̎̃͗Ś̵̥̮̖̠́͗͑ ̶̨͉̰̥̰̞̒͠ͅͅA̷̡̛̫͙̲̝͒̀̄̊̇̔̈B̴̥͗̔̍̏̋̄͌͘Ǫ̵̼̳̹̭̔̃̓̅̈́́̉͘U̴̢̟̩͔̬̱͒̂̈́̄̂̕̕͜T̷̤̦͋ ̵͇͙̱̼̱̙̖̹̇̀̽̈́̽͊T̴̮͕͈͇̓̈́͠Ǫ̸̜̫͚́̈́̈́͋͌͐̕͝ͅ ̵̬͚̔̅̑̒͘͝͝F̸̯̜͙͈̠͛̈́̂͌Ì̶̧͎̥̤̟͈̥̿̎̇G̵̬̘͈̪̍̂͑́̓͝H̵̺̫̤̣̳̯͍͝Ţ̷͚͕̦̓̀̈́ ̶̡̟́͂͋̈́̒̈́A̷͎̔̿̐͐̊͒̀ ̶̝͖̭̗̜̈͗͌́̌̊͛͝G̶̰̜̓̈́̽͐͐͝Ơ̷̫̟̦̘̦̋̓̅Ḑ̸̙͈̹̩͓̔̌ ̶̝͙̪̋̄̈A̷̡̘̞͙̬̯̼̜͋͘Ļ̶̛͎̩͈̝͐̾̕͠Ö̸̫̝̰͎̗̩͐̍̃̏̚N̸̨͈̪͔̣̣͕͂̏͒̀Ę̸̣͖́̽.̶̟̀́̂"
Sweetie Belle rubbed her head "Ugh. Could you stop speaking, please? Your nonsense is giving me a headache. A God? Really? You're just an idiot with too much power. And I know what I'm talking about because I'm also a God wannabe. I encountered and fought real Gods and they would roll their eyes at you."
"I̷̡̡̻͇͚̱͌̋ ̴̩͍͓̩̫̾̅͜A̵͎̳͓͋͠M̴̤͓͇̞̩͔̅͆ ̶̛͚̤̳̃͊͠͠Ǎ̷͔̯̄͝ ̸̡̞̗̫̪̳̮̍̑̃ͅG̵̨̨͎͍̾̒̀̅̍̔̕͠Ǫ̵͔̰͔͕͉̐͊D̷̻͓͐̑̿̕͠,̴̱̹̬̋͂͋͌͂̋͝ ̸̖̳̟̩̈́̃͊̽̌Ÿ̴̨͕̲͎̠͚̱͎O̴̫͉̤̫͌̌͛͌́U̶̜̞͈̰̰̙͋͂̇ ̷̻͙̩͔̥̪̞̲͋̔́͊͗̚F̴͇̟͕̃̿̊̇̚Į̷̭̠͕̗͉̳̞̽̎̓̇̽́̏͝L̵̨̫̼̼͈͙͉̇̿̿̚T̷̡͇̝͓̮̪́̓̓́̒͊ͅH̵̢̳͚͇͖̟̆́͊̍̓͜Y̸̧͓̮̫͋͝ ̶̡̢̜̬̝͓̓ͅG̸̦͑͊́A̸̡̩͑̏͊̽̐͂͝R̸̟͙̰͍̰̿N̴̛͉͖͎̏̐͑̇͒͐͆!̷͈̣͈͓́̓̒̒̿̈́͘ ̸̫̖̺̪͛Ṅ̵͉̱̩̜͗̈̀̊̕͠Ő̷͍͔̮̯̻̘͔̱͛̇̊͝͝B̶̛̪̿̇̿͐͑̕O̷͔̼̊̄D̸̫͔͕́Ý̷̻̈́͒͊ ̷̛̗͎̣͍̝̜̍̏̾̅͒̇͜͠Ṯ̴̡̪̳̫̙͗A̸̛͓̩͙̲̎̄̉̇̕L̶̜͉͍͈̺̬͐̾̌ͅĶ̵̣͍̺̖̼̽́̅̈́͜S̶̛̫͉͓̲̮̓̏̊̇̆̕ ̷̢̩͋̾̃̽̚͘͜͝Ţ̶̠̙̩̤̻̰̫́̎O̷̦̥̰̗͌͒̀͒͛͋̊ ̸̛̙̫̪̗̎̑̋̇̂͛̚M̴̹͎̗̲͑͘͝E̸͚̗̱̪̞͗̅̒̃̑̉̓ͅ ̵̡͉͍͓̯̉͑̿L̵̢̮̙̘̜̙͓̭͘͝I̷̢̢̛̹͈̳̲͚͂́̓̇̈́́̾Ḱ̵̛̠̖͆̋̐̽̒͝E̸̩̠̭̽͒͑͂̑̃̾͘ͅ ̵̗̺͔̀͌͂̊̊T̸̙̯̏͒͌̒̑͛̚H̵̜͖̪̆A̶͍̾́͑͆̽̋͜T̷̢̡̝̙͔̰͎͐̾͂̕̚͠ ̶̧͚͙̾̎̒̀̆̉Ą̷̱̣̏̿̆͋Ǹ̶̡̯̫̮̲̄̽̐̀D̵̨͔̟̥̫͓̀̑̿̾̊̓͝͝-!̷͙̰̊"*
Crakkthulx's rant was interrupted by Sweetie Belle using one of her fist-shields, an XXXXXXL version, to punch him right in the eye.
"I told you to shut up! I don't care if you are a God or just an oversized ugly mutant squid, it won't change that your existence will end tonight!"
Space suddenly distorted and shook before the filly's head began to hurt as if it was about to explode.
"Ì̸͎̅̏̏̑̈̈ ̸̱̓͆͑W̶̨̲͎̭͛̇ͅȈ̵̢̫͙̺̄̓̋͝L̸̡̞̬͚͍̲̱͂Ļ̵̻͍̙̺̈́̎͌̂͊ ̶̢̮̤̙͇̳̻͊B̷̛̜̻̯̭͍̠̪̏̿̔̈́̀͋͝R̶͍͈͑I̸̢͙̟͍̒̓͂͌ͅN̴̼̝͉̭̬̍̊͆̽̾̉̎͘G̷̢̻͎̭̯͚͔̈́͌ ̷̨̨͚͓̳͈̈͌͘͠Y̸̻͉̟͋O̶̢̜̬͍̦̽̈̕͠U̶͓̓͑̍̋́͝R̶̢͈̯̟͖̻̈́̈́̏͐̌͑͜͝ ̷̩̀̾S̸͓͉͂O̴̘̭͛̃͊́̂̎̋̌U̷̼̫̻̬͓̜̒͑̌̑͑̌̀͝L̵̢͉̈́͆̎̒̉͒̆̕͜ ̴̫̣̕͜Ḕ̷͙́͛͂̇̕͘T̸̡̨̹͍͚̫͇͌͘Ȩ̶̛͈̫͎̻̜͉͌́̃̂͑͒͝R̷̖͚͍͓̣͒̈N̷̨̢̹̩̓̓͜Á̷̙͕̣̾́̍̈́̾͂͘L̸̻͔̤̰̱̖̥̎͆͝͠ ̵̡̧̡͖͎͕͖̀̂͆́̀͗͝Ḁ̸̭͑͆̿͋̓͌̚G̵̡̳̻̺̝̦̤̈́̍̃̈͊̂́ͅƠ̸͎̌N̷̡̰̲̝̭̆̚ͅŸ̵̦̙͓̻͖̭́͋̀̇!̷̨̱̪͕̻̣̟̇̾̃!̸̹̈!̴̥͍̅̽͋̂̓͝͠"
Sweetie Belle felt him try to enter her mind, and she quickly worked to strengthen her walls to keep him out. She quickly felt that this guy was on a whole other level than Mewtwo as her defenses crumbled one by one. So, instead of remaining in the defensive, she gathered her ten cannons in a circle around her horn, unleashed her full power (making her mane and tail turn first into fire, then into a black nothingness), then quickly sang a brief "Ah ahah ahaah~ Ah ahah ahaah~" to power herself up before she unleashed the most powerful Ultimate Doom Laser she ever unleashed, more powerful than the one she used against Dark Samus by far. So powerful that nothing could stop it. NOTHING. Excepted the most powerful Gods.
Crakkthulx's head was utterly disintegrated. By the time the beam was gone, nothing remained above the shoulders. Even part of the shoulders and of the torso were gone.
However, the ten cannons were now red, overheating, and Sweetie Belle was forced to put them back in her personal pocket dimension to let them cool down.
At least, the assault on her mind had stopped.
But she hadn't won yet. Crakkthulx's body began to regenerate. While this happened, she rammed into him again at full speed and dragged him further away from Mario's planet. She also constantly fired from her horn beam after beam into him. Every now and then, they passed beside groups of planetoids of various shapes and sizes and even crashed into a few of them, pulverizing them with their speed and Crakkthulx's mountainous size, the bigger ones hurting him. But eventually, Crakkthulx recovered his senses again as his head finished to regenerate, and he caught Sweetie Belle in a telekinetic hold for the second time, this time throwing her into a nearby planetoid that was just a giant ball of lava that exploded when she crashed into it.
Despite the heavy burn she took, she charged right back at Crakkthulx only to teleport when she was almost hit by a tentacle. Because of the smaller eyes on the small tentacles on his head, he had no problem spotted where she appeared and immediately attempted to slap her with another tentacle. She avoided it, materialised a very long sword of energy, and sliced it, making Crakkthulx growl in both annoyance and pain. Sweetie Belle followed this by firing beams at him, and used her sword to open holes in the fabric of space and fire even more beams. But quickly, Crakkthulx used space-bending to close the holes before they could fire their beams, and used his tentacles to protect himself from the rest.
Crakkthulx gathered three of his tentacles and created from their tips a giant dark ball of energy that he sent at Sweetie Belle. The filly easily avoided it, then sliced another tentacle that attacked her. But then, a tentacle slapped the dark ball back toward her, and she barely avoided it again, taken by surprise. Crakkthulx continued to slap the ball back and forth with his tentacles like a game of pong, the ball gaining in speed and in power each time. Eventually, Sweetie Belle had enough of this and punched the ball to send it toward Crakkthulx's face. You could almost see the "!" above his head before the ball hit him. When he recovered, the first thing he saw was a cloud of hundreds of little energy balls that flew toward him and exploded all over him upon contact.
Then, he was vertically sliced in half by a sharp wave of energy, followed by several others that cut him into multiple smaller pieces.
However, as Crakkthulx put himself back together, he began to fire continuous beams from the tips of his tentacles. Sweetie Belle had to slalom between them to avoid being turned into ashes, even using black holes to intercept some, before she eventually called back her cannons - which had cooled down - and used them to fire another full-powered Ultimate Doom Laser. Seeing that she was prepared the same laser than earlier, Crakkthulx concentrated his own beams into a single point before his big eye, and fired another, more powerful laser from said eye into it. From that point then came a huge laser that went toward Sweetie Belle as she fired.
The two lasers clashed.
Resulting in an explosion worthy of a supernova. Sweetie Belle barely escaped it with a teleportation, still getting some very bad burns. Crakkthulx had to shield himself with all of his tentacles, his arms, and his wings while he was blown away, losing a huge part of his body that slowly regenerated.
As soon as the explosion was over, Sweetie Belle came back and pressed the occasion by constantly firing beams, by piercing him with thousands of space-spikes, by cutting him into pieces with weapons of energy or fire or ice or whatever, and by punching him with giant fist-shields. As soon as he recovered enough, Crakkthulx returned fire with his lasers again while he raised his arms and materialised above thousands of balls of energy that he rained everywhere around him. Some of them hit Sweetie Belle while she tried to dodge them, and she eventually decided to just send her own energy balls at them, the energy balls causing huge explosions that decimated dozens of Crakkthulx's own balls. Because of the diversion, however, she was almost burned to ashes by one of Crakkthulx's lasers and she barely escaped. She made him regret this near death experience by gathering a lot of energy into a ball before she teleported it inside Crakkthulx's head. The ball then exploded, blowing up the head.
Crakkthulx's grabbed the fabric of space with his claws and stretched it, intending to tear Sweetie Belle apart. The filly countered this simply by cutting space open, the tears making so the space Sweetie was in wasn't stretched anymore. Better, since Crakkthulx's didn't immediately stop pulling, the tears grew huge and the space-beams that came out of them were devastating.
Then, a wave of familiar energy hit Crakkthulx, and the next thing he knew, a small star appeared out of nowhere and dropped right on him, very badly burning him before he managed to destroy it.
"Uh, you joined me?" Sweetie Belle asked, immediately knowing what happened.
"Of course!" Phantom answered as she flew to her side. "You really thought that we would remain there waiting for you to finish this guy? But damn. This star took a lot of energy to create, and this guy destroyed it so easily! If only I had the Chaos Emeralds."
"Where's Apple Bloom?"
"She's coming. She wanted to do something first. Aaand I think that's her."
Sweetie Belle was about to look at where Phantom was looking, but before she had time, Crakkthulx was suddenly punched in the face by a colossal pony-golem seemingly made from various planetoids.
Sweetie Belle and Phantom whistled.
Apple Bloom punched Crakkthulx a few more time before he recovered his senses and punched back, his punch blowing a big hole in the golem's head. Apple Bloom then sent in return powerful bolts of purple electricity, but despite this, several tentacles wrapped themselves around the limbs of her current body.
"Come on, girls! Don't leave me hanging!"
Almost immediately, the tentacles wrapped around her limbs were sliced off, freeing her.
"Of course!" four Sweetie Belles shouted at once. "Let's kill a "God" together!"
A huge laser cannon appeared above Phantom's shoulder. "Heck yeah!" And she fired.
Sweetie Belle smirked.
"You think of yourself the most powerful
But I think that you're very pitiful
You're the boss because your name's a mouthful
But you are nothing more than a big fool."
"You think it's the time to- Uh?" Phantom interrupted herself when she felt something within her.
Apple Bloom could also feel it.
And they quickly understood, the two of them grinning.
Phantom laughed. "Are you serious? You can sing to boost us?"
"Eh. Mah Sweetie Belle can do the same, but it isn't as powerful," Apple Bloom said.
"You destroy universes because you can
Too bad for you that I am not a fan
In this goal, you corrupted a whole clan
But after centuries, we'll end your plan!"
As Sweetie Belle continued to sing, Crakkthulx sent his lasers toward the three fillies, the laser easily burning through the giant golem. Apple Bloom didn't mind this, grabbed one of the tentacles, and made it face Crakkthulx's chest, causing the laser fired from the tentacle to pierce him. Meanwhile, one of the four Sweetie Belles teleported behind Crakkthulx and grabbed one of his wings with her magic before she reaped it off from his back while the three others sliced the tentacles to reduce the number of lasers.
As for Phantom...
With one giant wave of Phantom energy, she materialized a whole armada of futuristic spaceships, the best of Eggman, that began to fire at Crakkthulx.
"You can create your own army?!" one of the Sweetie Belles asked in surprise.
Phantom grinned smugly at her. "As easy as I breathe."
"Ah can have mah own army too! But Ah never tested this... Well. Ah guess there's a first time fer everythin'," Apple Bloom said before the golem's eyes glowed with more intensity. "Y'all who became Crakkthulx's puppets, return to us and help us give the one y'all called "Lord" an one-way ticket to the same afterlife ya went to because of him!"
And in the following seconds, a huge army of ghostly figures slowly appeared like a mirage behind the golem, with at their head six beings the Apple Bloom and the others fought and killed not even an hour ago.
Cankentriops (back in his first form), the Branches of the Pentacle, and their army of Cankens, now all real ghosts instead of just being ghostly.
And they now all obeyed Apple Bloom.
"Attack!"
And Crakkthulx found himself under the assault of two armies, plus the three fillies. The armies were quickly reduced in numbers however as Crakkthulx easily destroyed them with his overwhelming powers. Still, they were a good diversion that gave the fillies several openings to land their deadlier attacks. One of the Sweetie Belles fired her full-powered Ultimate Doom Laser for the third time, disintegrating Crakkthulx's head again. Phantom sent another star that left almost nothing but bones by the time Crakkthulx managed to destroy it. And Apple Bloom turned two of the golem's legs into something like spears before she used them to impale Crakkthulx repeatedly, the "spears" letting out electricity each time that they hit.
"What will it take for him to die?" Phantom asked.
"Either we manage to destroy his whole body in one go so there's nothing left to regenerate from, or we do like against Cankentriops and attack until he loses all his juice," Sweetie Belle answered. "But it may take some time... He still has a lot left, I can feel it. At least, he isn't regenerating his energy like I do."
"Well, I still have plenty of energy too, so I'm ready to continue the fight for hours if I have to," Phantom said.
"Me too!" Apple Bloom shouted as she impaled Crakkthulx again while firing lasers from the golem's eyes. "But Ah wouldn't mind if we end it right now! Too bad mah Touch of Death doesn't work on him. Ah tried."
"Touch of Death? Like, you can kill people just by touching them?" Phantom asked.
"Eeyup! Remember, that's how Thanatos killed mah Sweetie Belle. And since Ah took his powers, then Ah got it too. Haven't used it yet."
Suddenly, Crakkthulx managed to plant one of his claws into the golem. From where he planted it, energy began to accumulate. Apple Bloom understood what he was doing and immediately flew out of the golem, just a couple of seconds before it exploded.
"Consarn it!" she exclaimed before she looked around at the Cankens. "Time ta take another trick out of Thanatos' book..."
She called upon the Cankens who gathered around her. Seeing this, Sweetie Belle and Phantom did their best to make diversion so Crakkthulx didn't attack her. Little by little, the Cankens assembled to form a giant body that looked like a purple pony skeleton enveloped in a cloak of black mist. Then, a giant scythe made of bones materialised in the skeleton's hooves.
The result wasn't as huge as the golem she previously possessed, but it was certainly more powerful.
And she showed it as with some swings of her scythe, she sent powerful spinning crescents of energy that cut through Crakkthulx like through butter (helped by Sweetie's boost since she was still singing). In return, Crakkthulx fired from his big eye a powerful laser that Sweetie Belle intercepted with a portal. Another portal opened right beside Crakkthulx's head, and the laser came out of it with no chance for him to dodge. Then, giant chains appeared and wrapped themselves around Crakkthulx before they pulled him into a giant shredder made of several rollers of seesaws.
"Geeze! Hardcore much?" Sweetie Belle asked to Phantom as she couldn't stop a wince. She saw some gorish stuff since she started her adventures, sometimes caused by herself, but she wasn't used to THAT level of gore.
"It's effective. That's what counts."
Crakkthulx wasn't halfway through the shredder that he managed to destroy it with the lasers from his tentacles. While he regenerated from this, he decided to fly away, forcing the fillies to fly after him, which is what he wanted as he began spinning while firing his lasers from his tentacles. This made them terribly hard to avoid, especially for Apple Bloom. The chase didn't last long however because one of the four Sweetie Belle quickly teleported in Crakkthulx's way and stopped him with a mighty punch. At the same time, another Sweetie Belle rapidly caught up with him and sliced him in half, and Apple Bloom followed by cutting several of his tentacles with her scythe. Finally, several giant spears appeared from nowhere and turned him into a pincushion, followed by two small stars. Sweetie Belle even readied another Ultimate Doom Laser, and Apple Bloom was ready to destroy anything that would remain after that.
Crakkthulx quickly teared open a hole in the fabric of space to escape into the void. The two stars collided and exploded, part of the explosion going through the tear and badly injuring him. But then, one of the Sweetie Belles appeared before him, to his surprise.
"Where do you think you are going?" she said in an amused tone before she punched him and sent him back through the tear where he was welcomed by the Ultimate Doom Laser.
In return, Crakkthulx sent purple lightning from one of his claws at the Sweetie Belle who fired the laser, getting her only for Phantom to stop him by materialising mode giant chains and wrapping them around his arm before using them to violently pull and tear it off. Crakkthulx made her pay this by slapping her with one of his tentacles, sending her flying very, very far. But then, Apple Bloom pierced him from behind with her scythe, and Crakkthulx suddenly felt an intense burn spread to his whole body, feeling as if his insides were melting. Probably some kind of powerful poison of something like that. He could even see his skin start to decay around the wound inflicted by the weapon. It was slow thanks to his regeneration, but it was still spreading.
"Do ya fear Death?" Apple Bloom asked, still behind him.
Crakkthulx answered by pointing a tentacles at the area that was decaying and fired a laser with it, the laser burning said area and destroying the scythe as well as a part of Apple Bloom's body. This stopped the decay from spreading, and he soon stopped feeling the intense burn. But all the while, the four Sweetie Belles didn't stop from attacking him from all sides.
And then, Phantom returned, charging toward Crakkthulx with a copy of Eggman's Death Egg at a dangerous speed. The Death Egg collided nose first with him like a meteor before Phantom made it explode. The explosion propelled Crakkthulx backward right into a group of giant energy balls that exploded when he crashed into them. Crakkthulx recovered and surrounded himself in a sphere of thousands energy balls that he sent in all directions, followed by a second wave that homed in on the fillies. Apple Bloom, however, was able to grab several of them into a telekinetic hold and merged them into a bigger ball before she sent it back at their maker. However, Crakkthulx copied her and sent the ball back at her, only for her to cut it in half with her scythe, the two halves passing at her left and right. He still got himself cut into pieces - again - by the four Sweetie Belles. Apple Bloom then planted her scythe right into the big eye and did like earlier, spreading some poison that decayed the organic tissues around. And in the eye? It was absolutely Hell, even for Crakkthulx.
His shriek forced Phantom and the Sweetie Belles to cover their ears, the one singing even stopping because of this. Apple Bloom, however, was unaffected and planted the scythe deeper into the eye. Thanks to the huge pain Crakkthulx was in, Sweetie Belle (ears plugged with cotton) was able to do what couldn't until now: she began to absorb Crakkthulx's energy right out of his body. It wasn't the miracle solution however. It was like pumping the water out of the ocean. While she managed to drain a huge quantity in just a few seconds, it would probably take many, many long minutes before she would be done. And it wasn't made easy by Crakkthulx constantly trashing from the pain and randomly firing lasers and other stuff in all directions. Phantom helped with this by wrapping the tentacles together with huge chains she made.
Draining Crakkthulx's energy at least seemed to have the effect of accelerating the spreading of the decay. Already, the big eye had turned into a mush that seeped away into space, and the skin around began to disappear to show the skull which also showed signs of decaying. Before long, nothing was left but a giant hole where the eye had been, and the majority of the skull was in the open air, slowly breaking down.
Of course, Crakkthulx was still alive and his regeneration was still attempting to fight off the decay, but he was losing more and more the battle. After two minutes, the head was entirely gone, and most of the upper body was already following, Apple Bloom always making sure that her scythe was in contact with a part of him. The arms and the wings were eventually left to float by themselves, and the Sweetie Belles threw them into a star that Phantom materialized just in case the decay would stop spreading on them so Crakkthulx would be able to regenerate from them. After a few more minutes, all that was left were the tentacles, and Phantom simply sent the star at them. Sweetie Belle had to quickly teleport Apple Bloom away before it hit.
The tentacles disappeared into the star before they could start to regenerate or do anything.
The star exploded.
And nothing was left.
Unbeknown to the fillies however, one of the smaller "head-tentacles" had managed to fly away as the fillies had been busy dealing with Crakkthulx and his attacks while he trashed around, a small pair of wings having formed on it. Once it judged that it was far enough, it began to regenerate.
It judged wrongly.
Sweetie Belle teleported not far behind it, front legs crossed as she gave it a deadpan expression. Then, she used all the energy she absorbed from Crakkthulx to fire a single giant purple beam that engulfed the tentacle and left nothing of it.
Sweetie Belle was joined by the two others, Apple Bloom letting the Cankens return to the afterlife now that the fight was over, and the three hugged with shouts of victory.
"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS, GOD SLAYERS! YAY!!!" They clapped their hooves/hand together at the last part.
"Technically, he wasn't really a God, but close enough I guess," Sweetie Belle said with a giggle.
"Ah can't believe we were able to defeat this guy! He was so powerful!" Apple Bloom exclaimed.
"We are powerful too," Phantom said with a grin. "Good job with that whole decay stuff by the way."
"You weren't bad either, throwing stars and a freaking space station at him and all," Sweetie Belle said before she felt something. "Uh, something is coming."
She looked in the direction from which she felt whatever was approaching and saw a comet coming. She immediately knew that it wasn't an ordinary comet.
Soon enough, the comet stopped not far of the trio, revealing it to be some kind of starship which had for main structure something rather similar to the pods from SkyTown back in Samus' universe. It was peach-colored with purple outlines, and it was divided in two, with the upper part being a tall and round roof-like structure ending in a spire surrounded by two rings of platforms while the lower part had what seemed to be the engines (three smaller ones surrounding a bigger one in the center). Between the two parts was a purple star-like reactor that was itself surrounded by a ring of platforms. A few more platforms were floating around some remaining in place while others circled the star-like reactor, and domes were visible here and there, including two that were part of the spire on the two top rings. The bigger ring seemed made of different matters as there was an area made of earth while there were others made of different metals or stones. There was even a dome at the end of a pathway out of which water came and disappeared into space into two waterfalls. Also, only the top ring was closed, the two others being open, and there were a few different structures present here and there, like what seemed to be a library.
At first, everything was closely clustered, but once the ship fully stopped, everything deployed into their places.
"We're okay girls. That's just the Observatory Comet. Mario and the others told me about it," Apple Bloom informed. "Obviously, our fight gained Rosalina's attention."
"Who is she?" Phantom asked.
"Ah don't know much about her. She's apparently some kind of guardian of the cosmos."
"This is a good summarization of what I am," a monotone, reverberating feminine voice suddenly said from not far, taking them by surprise.
The origin was a very tall (for a human of Mario's kind) and beautiful woman that the fillies swore wasn't present here the previous second. She resembled a lot like Peach, but had a paler skin and platinum blonde hair reaching her waist and obscuring her right eye. She was wearing a cyan dress and had a star-shaped silver brooch as well as earrings. She also possessed a silver crown, and even had a wand that ended in an hollowed star.
And she was floating, so she at least had the ability to levitate. And probably teleport.
Behind her were several little chubby star-like beings, mostly yellow-colored.
"I am Rosalina, and I thank you, in the name of everyone, for saving our universe. I witnessed the battle from afar. As much as it was my wish to intervene, I understood that I would have only bothered you. I was still ready to step in if it had taken a turn for the worst, at least as a diversion or to gain time. Thankfully, it never came to this."
"With the three of us together, there was no way we would have lost to that thing," Phantom said.
"Exactly! And I still had some aces up my sleeves, as well as a joker," Sweetie Belle said.
Both Phantom and Apple Bloom raised an eyebrow. "A joker?"
The alicorn simply answered with a wink.
Rosalina's smile became a bit bigger. "You are from Earth? Allow me to bring you back there. Come on the Comet."
"Thanks!"
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Impatient side: Finally! This adventure is done.
Game loving side: I really wish I could see this Mario adventure in a game. It would be cool to see all the cutscenes.
… well that was awesome
question are you going to do a special episode with mlp's G5
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Nope.
Well that was entertaining,and so,all that remains of the Mario Arc is the aftermath and then into the next universe.
Which,if we are starting with all the OG Characters(and leaving for the last the two secret ones that are from different universes),then definitely we’re going to StarFox now.
So, power-wise I guess Rosalina is not as powerful as Sweetie Belle or Kirby?
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She has obviously some powers. Levitating, teleporting, creating force fields, telepathy, but we haven't seen much other stuff from her. Even in Smash Bros where it was the perfect occasion to see more of her powers, almost everything she does is twirling her wand. In the end, she doesn't seem to be more powerful than the likes of Kamec, although she seems to compensate with agility skills as we see in Mario 3D World. So she could defeat Kamec, but clearly not in a magic duel.
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Yeah Like,For Starters,she could have Remembered that as a Queen,her Voice in the situation also mattered.
She could have opposed Asgore,at Best she would be able Make him understand,at worst the Final Decision rest on the Monsters themselves.
She also could have been,I don’t know…a good wife?,Maybe don’t just abandon her Husband who so obviously was in deep grief because the Death of Their Children and thus,not in position of thinking Straight?
After trying one of those and don’t working,Then and just THEN,she could have considered just Ditching it all.
I don’t Hate her,I’m just able to see that she really wasn’t that Great.
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Exactly! And even after leaving Asgore, she could have left the Ruins with the first human to protect them. Especially since, in the current case, the first human was a defenseless seven years old little girl.
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Hey, is the Mario Arc Aftermath chapter almost ready?
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I'm well advanced in it. But I was slowed down a bit because I did a rewrite of chapter 35. More info in the last two blogs if you haven't seen them.
Now I really want Kirby to fight along side these three, even if it’s just during the final battle against Galeem and Darkon. Maybe he could copy Phantom’s and Apple Bloom’s powers with Copy?
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He would first need to swallow them to memorize their powers and be able to use them at will.
i know these are meant to be Lumas, but I can't help but see the Sparks from Sparks of Hope.