HW: Hello once again fellow denizens of the interweb!
HM: Why are you talking like that?
HW: Meh. Just felt like it.
HM: So...
HW: Oh, yeah. That... Ahem. Well, it has been brought to my attention-
HM: He promises not to inflict readers with confused, lost, and/or mind-bombed status conditions.
HW: ...sure... I'll try.
HM: He means, "I am very sorry for any confusion and brain injury I have caused."
HW: On a happier note-
Mega: That's a matter of opinion!
HM: Also, when it looks like we just... well, you'll understand when you reach it, we will have done it to avoid a MAJOR logic bomb.
HW: And, so we give you,
THE EPIC FIGHT TO THE DEATH
ROGUE The Anti-hero Vs GHOST The Deity of Death and Demise
FIGHT!
LM: Tickets cost 1 read apiece.
HM: Wha! But you hate-
HW: This is the only thing that could smother the flames of flamers...
Chapter Ω: Requiem Of Souls
Song of the Hero
END
"How... how did you cut me? I am Death! I am a God!"
Cool and collected, Rogue grinned diabolically; "You mistake yourself. You are not death; you are the god of Death. With the right item, any physical being can be slain. With this blade, I shall fell a god!" In a blur, the dark purple antihero vanished leaving only his afterimage. Then, Ghost felt something. He whipped around to see Rogue, and his dual blades. And with one strike, Ghost's body was gone.
"I... I did it! I actually did it!" Solo gleefully cheers towards the heavens. But then he felt an all to familiar presence.
A ghostly being flickered in and out of existence, as if it was unable to fully manifest on the human plane. As it started to gain more shape, it took a disturbing form, for this being of violet aura, interwoven with orbs of nothingness, became Rogue. With a crackling voice like sound exposed to radiation, the being cackled; "Hello again, did you miss me?"
"You do realize I only killed you like, thirty seconds ago."
"What! Only 30- wow, I need to work on my astral projections... Wait, umm shouldn't you be, I don't know, terrified? I mean, your deity enemy responsible for the genocide of your people just turned in to you. This is serious nightmare material here!"
Rogue just shrugged and replied; "Fortunately I am not afraid of humanoids nor fizzy violet sparkles so that doesn't impress me at all."
As Mr. Sparkles changed into crimson red static, he raged; "I. Am. A. GOD! I am more than a mere-"
"Hey, can you please stop ripping of that old video game? I mean, seriously. You shouldn't reference alternate timelines when-"
"Dude, please, my head is killing me. I don't want to talk about timelines. Can we please just get back to me killing you?"
Then, Rogue stabbed him in the back. His blade went strait through Ghost, right through his heart. Rogue withdrew his blade and Ghost fell.
Prodding Ghost's corpse, Solo interrogates; "Ok. So... are you actually dead now?" Silence. "Wow... that was underwhelming" he monologued, "I guess I did it. Yay..." He knew he should be happy for avenging his people yet instead of feeling whole again, he felt cold and alone. Just as he was sinking into the maws of depression, he heard Ghost's form dissipate. And he heard a voice. His head darts to where the voice came from, and he sees the Reaper.
The Reaper noticed Solo and casually greeted; "Hmm? Oh, hello Solo." Solo stands in shock and terror. Whether this is because he was just greeted by a skeletal robot donning a black cape and wielding a scythe or because next to said death entity floated Ghost's ghost, we may never know because just then, Solo flickered out of existence.
"Really? Really? Why do I get the strange ones?" Lamented Skull Man.
"Umm, am I supposed to answer that?" asked Ghost.
"...NO."
"It's over. Give it up Chronos!" Declared Geo.
Chronos, battered and beaten, lied crumpled on the floor. He smiled and spat blood at the duo. Then, he defiantly chuckled at their ignorance.
"What's so funny Chronos? You like getting beat to a pulp?" Nervously taunted Paradox.
"You have no clue, do you?"
Fearing the answer, Paradox reluctantly asked: "About what?"
"The fact that I have all ready won, you ignorant mortals! Any moment now, we will all cease to have ever existed! Victory is mine!"
"How will you win? You will disappear too!" Panicked Geo.
"That's what he wants. To never have been born."
"And that dream will come true thanks to you all!"
"How?"
"You Mr. Hero! All of you killed beings that lead to your existence! Dark killed Wily, Hub will or has already killed Dark, Bass killed Regal, and any second now Solo will kill Ghost!"
"How will that change anything?"
"I took them out of their timelines BEFORE key moments! Mu wasn't slaughtered yet, Regal didn't plot to take over the world, and Wily didn't start working with Light! You realize what the effects will be, don't you Paradox?"
Terrified he turns to Geo and explained; "Your timeline would not exist, no mega man timeline would..."
"CORRECT! Stay sharp, nothingness beckons!" Chronos yelled and then he disappeared.
"Wait, I want to exist!" yelled a disappearing Geo.
"...What have I done?"
BLAM!
"Why? Why did you get Geo killed! Why?" Roared Omega-xis as he beat Paradox.
"What the bloody hell? What- WHAT THE BLOODY HELL? You're alive?"
"Um, duh. But you won't be if you don't get Geo back NOW!"
Just then, as Mega had Paradox's neck in his hands, everything disappeared.
And all was white and blank.
For, the Universe decided to hit reset, and in doing so, a new timeline- a new parallel universe, was born. Paradox and Mega watched the history of this universe play out in fast forward.
"What in the name of the three sages is going on?"
"Shush! You are seeing the history of this everything."
"Wha?"
"Umm... World take Mega men, tweak past, and put back in time? Got it?"
"Finally, you say something I can understand- wait, were you mocking me?"
"NOPE!"
"...Good..."
Then they watched. The saw how the universe modified the past so it reached the same present, minus the deceased. Light worked with Cossack to create Protoman and Light found away to modify that soul in protoman so it would work with computer programs. Then, Omega and Paradox re-entered the universe.
"Where are we? Well Para-" but Paradox was gone. "...Ditcher."
Once Mega adjusted to the light, he realized he was at vista point and headed to Geo's house.
"Heh, guess I can check off messing with time on my to do list."
"Not yet."
"Huh? Who said that?"
"Yo!"
Omega looked up and he found him. On top of Geo's house, sat a strange yet some how familiar being.
"Why are you on Geo's roof?"
The humanoid robot smiled and replied; "I wanted to talk to you in private."
"Ok... who the hell are you?"
"Wow, that hurts... Oh, I guess you never saw me. That was Eon... Um, hi. I'm r€∑µ$"
"What was that? I couldn't hear your name?"
"Uhg, just call me Arc."
"Arc, Arc?"
Grumbling something about unenlightened mortal waste, Arc walked away. He materialized something and then opened a portal. He turned and said, "It's a brave new world. Enjoy your retirement."
"What was that? What do you mean, retirement?"
Arc stopped. Still facing away, he explained; "In this universe, you and Geo are not the heroes. So, try to relax. This is how heroes die, yet remain immortal. Their incarnations change, but their souls remain the same."
"You have totally lost me."
Arc turned and with tears in his eyes, he said,
Mega Man is now dead,
You and Geo still shall live,
But the soul of the hero must move on,
Or he too, shall die.
Then, Arc left.
"What do I do now?"
Then, Mega heard Geo calling his name.
"Well, I guess I can wait and see."
Reality- µ
"I'm home?"
"Hey, where have you been Gaia? It's been a year since I've see you!"
"A-A-Arthur?"
"Yep! So how have you be- whoa!" he exclaimed, shocked by Gaia's death hug.
"I missed you all so much!"
"Heh, we missed you too. Last year felt like an eternity without you."
"You don't know the half of it..."
[Unknown location]
"So, all's well Arc?"
"Yes. What about you Alpha?
"Rogue, or should I say Gaia, is back home."
"How's Hyp. doing with cleanup?"
"He's almost done transferring everyone to a new Verse."
...
The END?