Chapter 11: The Hardest Worker

With their little training session out of the way, Mew and Kairi climbed the staircase to the next chamber for Aurian Jupiter. It was a quick climb, considering there was really no need to discuss anything after their break. At the top of the staircase the two of them came across a rather simple environment. The walls and shelves were lined with various weights, with a few exercise machines spread around to help lift some of these weights up. Mew folded his arms together and said "Huh…Guess Jupiter is a weight-lifter. Must have borrowed some machines off of Seth too."

"That's really weird…" Kairi says with a little bit of disgust in her voice. Mew glanced over his shoulder and asked "What? What's wrong with wanting to lift weights?" "Too much muscle mass looks disgusting on anyone. And if this Planetary Aurian has been training with weights for as long as they've been around…Uuuughh." Kairi has a bit of a chill down her spine as she tries to think about an overly ripped person.

Mew then turned around and looks at her fully, saying with a smile "Oh come now, that's a pretty quick judgment call to make. Tell you what, I'll take a look at the weights and tell you how many pounds Jupiter lifts, and that'll determine how ripped they are. For all you know, they could lift just small weights to keep their figure up." "Alright, humor me Mew. Go right ahead and check the weights." Kairi said while gesturing forward with her right hand.

Mew nodded his head and then turned back around, walking over to the closest set of weights all lined up on an incredibly thick rack. He then takes the lightest weight from the rack and lifts it up, feeling a bit of pressure in his muscles as he does a quick flex with them. "Hmmm…Doesn't feel too bad. Lets check the num-" In the middle of speaking he flips the weight around and finds his eyes voluntarily widening in absolute disbelief as he sees the rather large number of one-million tons on the side.

Mew's expression becomes dumbfounded as he sucks his own lips in a bit and quickly places the weight back into the rack, folding his arms together as he finds himself unable to understand just how any of this was possible. "I know I can lift that much…But to think that this is just Jupiter's lightest weight…" Mew mumbles to himself while Kairi walks up to him from behind and says after poking him once in the back of the neck "So what's the number? Come on, tell me."

Mew turns around and with the images of a building-sized person composed of muscle mass refusing to leave his mind Mew finds himself acting awkward for once as he struggles to mention to Kairi "W-Well…You see, it's nothing big…Just one-million tons…" He quickly said that last part with a quiet gasp while averting his gaze to the right, but Kairi caught him and said with her mouth slightly agape "O-O-One million tons? That's ludicrous, that is so incredibly ludicrous…"

At a loss for words, Kairi lays a hand against her forehead and shakes it slowly back and forth, but then she comes to a realization and looks up at Mew past her hand and said "Y…You just lifted that weight like it was nothing though. You barely have any muscle mass either, so I guess Jupiter could just be an incredibly strong person without necessarily having insane looking muscles." "Hmmm, I suppose that's a good point there Kairi." Mew remarked after blinking twice, the period of time spent doing so getting rid of the imagery of those incredibly ripped people in his mind.

"But yeah, I guess speculating appearances isn't going to mean much. We should just going into the portal before we spend too long talking again." Mew said to get the two of them focused back on their mission. Kairi pointed out however as she pulled her hand away from her face "Wait a second though, we're going to JUPITER next. You know, the planet with the highest gravity and littlest land mass? How the HELL is a battle there going to even work?"

Mew paused his advance towards the portal and looked up while deep in thought, saying not long after "You make another good point…Yeah, I doubt the portal would send us directly to Jupiter, that'd be pretty unfair to both the Planetary Aurian and us…We'll probably end up fighting on one of Jupiter's 67 moons." "Oh yeah, forgot that there's like that many other locations for us to fight. Then again, you have to wonder why we didn't go to Venus' moon…" Kairi remarked, and with an awkward scratch of the back of his head Mew pointed out "Ummm, because Venus doesn't have a single moon. I'm guessing they don't teach astronomy that much in your classes?"

"…I-I just forgot about that, don't accuse me of being stupid because of that, Mew." Kairi said with a little bluntness mixed in with her embarrassed as her face turned red outside Mew's line of sight. Mew just chuckled at Kairi and told her "Awww, you know I'm just giving you a hard time. Lets get a move on." He then waved his hand forward and began advancing towards the portal, with Kairi folding her arms together and letting out a sigh before following Mew through the portal.

By now the time-space jumps had become natural for Kairi to experience, but this jump went on just a second longer than usual because the two of them were going further out past Earth than ever before. Once the jump was finished and the two heroes landed outside of the portal, they landed atop a surface filled with rocks and ice, an abundance of craters spread around unlike anything seen on the other planets thus far. But this was no mere planet, obviously, but rather one of the moon's orbiting Jupiter just as Mew predicted they would land on.

After a careful observation of the moon's surface, Mew looked up and to the right and saw the gas giant planet known as Jupiter "staring" at them both from far away with it's central red "eye". Even thousands upon thousand of miles away from the planet, the two of them could slightly feel the pull of gravity coming from it, and Mew shivered at the thought of getting any closer to the planet. He was perfectly content staying on this moon, saying to Kairi as he puts on a nervous smile "You know…I'm perfectly fine with some planets not being inhabitable."

"I-It's definitely colder here than it was on Mars…" Kairi says with a shiver in her voice, and to help her out as she wraps her arms close to her body for warmth Mew snaps his fingers and creates a warm veil of air around her body to protect her. Kairi immediately feels results as the chill leaves her body, and she turns to Mew and hesitantly says "T-Thanks…" Mew nodded his head to accept the appreciation and then looked down at the planet's surface, commenting after a few seconds of humming "This must be Callisto…"

"I honestly thought for a moment that we were sent to Neptune, but that would've ruined the order. So now that we're here, how are we going to find Aurian Jupiter?" Kairi inquired, and Mew pointed up while stating "I wouldn't worry too much about that, they'll probably be coming here in a matter of seconds." Kairi looked up at that moment and saw a figure moving fast through the depths of space unimpeded by it's pressure. The figure was rapidly descending towards Callisto, and a mere second before they landed they flipped themselves around and crashed down hard on the surface, applying only enough force to crack the ground a few feet around them.

The person was kneeled down with their head hung forward and one hand laid against the ground, so all Mew and Kairi could see of them at the moment was their long red hair that was tied into a ponytail and a navy-blue rugged scarf wrapped around their neck. The person then lifted their head up and revealed they were a female thanks to their face, which had bright blue eyes and a pumped-up grin on her normally sculpted head. The person then ripped her hand from the ground and stood upright in an instant, showing that she had a pretty well-defined muscle tone across her entire body that fit well with her curved frame and six-pack abs. She has light pink-orange colored skin, tons of tape around her hands, a black sports bra for her solid average breasts, and blue jean-shorts that were clearly fitted to be bigger than what would be normal considering the muscle mass in her legs and thighs. Surprisingly, she doesn't wear shoes.

The girl was pretty tall as well, considering from afar she didn't have to lift her head up even an inch to look Mew straight in the eyes, and as she laid her left hand against her thigh and thrust her right fist out she exclaimed in a very eager, youthful tone with a hint of a southern accent "Welcome to my domain, bitches! So you two must be the ones who've been defeating all of my allies so far!" Mew waved his right hand out towards Kairi and said with a nonchalant smile "That'd be us alright. And you must be Aurian Jupiter." Jupiter swung her arm out to the side before stating with a smile "You're damn right I am! So what're names?"

"I'm Mew, and she's Kairi. We're on our way to take down Gravitus, but we first have to defeat five more Planetary Aurians." Mew stated happily, and Kairi raised her right hand up and waved at Jupiter while nervously stating "H-Hi there…" since she was still intimidated by the muscles Jupiter had, even though she was definitely not as monstrous as she expected her to be. Jupiter punched a fist into her hand and grinned energetically, telling her two guests "I'm not stupid you know, I know how this whole shtick works. So, you think you can tackle Lord Gravitus, eh?"

"W-We wouldn't have come this far unless we were!" Kairi said with a slight stutter in her voice, and Jupiter blinked a couple times before pointing forward with her right finger and saying "…Hey, are you intimidated by me or something?" Mew gestured out to the right at Kairi casually and answers for her, saying to Jupiter "She's just got a problem with women that have large muscles. Don't know why, it's just the result of hard work."

Jupiter then lays her hands into her shorts and leans forward, grinning brightly at Mew before telling him "I like the way you think. I can tell just by looking at you that you are incredibly strong as well." Mew folded his arms against his chest and said in an appreciative manner "Thank you very much. But surely you have more logic to this than just my looks." Jupiter lifted herself up and scratched the side of her head while smiling brightly, telling Mew nonchalantly "Well to be perfectly honest, you don't look like anything special. Your body is average sized and all…But you DID get past Aurian Earth, so obviously you must be something special."

"I AM the Elemental Overlord, after all." Mew commented with a tiny bit of arrogance in his voice, and Jupiter snapped her fingers in front of her chest and remarked "Well well, so you are. Excellent! This is going to be the greatest fight of my life! You won't believe how hard I've trained to face people like you!" Mew then said with a bit of praise in his voice "You know though, we did also beat Mars, doesn't that matter to you? He wasn't a slouch."

"Eh, that doesn't really matter." Jupiter was blunt in her nonchalance as she turns her head and scratches the right side of it, and with what Mars said earlier it could easily be inferred that the two must have some personal history. But Jupiter discarded the topic by quickly looking at Mew and saying "So yeah, I've decided I want to fight you! I'd probably consider fighting your girlfriend if she had a little more confidence in herself, but meh…"

As Jupiter shrugged an arm up beside her face and spoke so quickly those words, Kairi suddenly widened her eyes and found her face flushed with an embarrassing shade of red while Mew let out a very impressed whistle at Jupiter's boldness. "G-G-Girlfriend?! What gives you the right to accuse me of being that?!" Kairi exclaimed before Mew said "You're pretty confident in yourself to make such a comment, Jupiter."

Jupiter looked surprised and said "You aren't a couple? Huh, then why are you both here? We've never had two people going through the Planetary Gauntlet at the same time before." "Well there's a first time for everything." Mew said, and Jupiter nodded her head fiercely once and exclaimed "Like fighting a god!"

She then leaned forward slightly and grabbed onto the back of her scarf, pulling out the end of it so it could wave out past the back of her body. She then held her fists out a bit and cracked the knuckles, preparing herself for the heat of battle with a big, almost childish grin. Mew looks at Kairi and says "You might want to be careful here Kairi. This is definitely going to be a hard-hitting battle." "Yeah. Hit her one hard in the face for calling me your girlfriend!" Kairi exclaimed with a firm, angered glare in her eyes.

Kairi then flipped Jupiter off real quick from under her folded arms and turned around to put some distance away from the start of the battle. Jupiter lifted her eyebrows and said in confusion "Boy, what's her problem? I was just joking around." "Yeah yeah, I'll get to that eventually. Before we begin though, couple questions…First off, what's your name?" Mew inquired quickly while gesturing a pointer finger at Jupiter.

Jupiter replied energetically as she punched her fists out "Beat me and I'll tell you." Mew shrugged and said "Fair enough, but I'm really wondering how you got racks strong enough to hold all those wei-" "HEY!" Jupiter suddenly blurted out at the highest possible volume, surprising Mew and making his heart pump rapidly as he stays frozen in place. Jupiter then lifted her eyes up a bit and said "It's rude to keep a woman waiting when they are itching for a fight."

Mew folded his arms together and nodded his head, telling Jupiter "Hmm, can't say I've heard that before. But then again, you seem to be a woman who enjoys a good fight." He then held his right hand out as though ready to summon his sword, but he went slowly so he could stall out the conversation. Jupiter was having none of that though as she stated to Mew "I hope this casual conversing means you aren't taking me seriously. I've trained hard to face guys like you, don't think I'm a slouch in any sense of the word!"

"…Fine, I guess enough with the formalities then." Mew said, and with his right arm extended out all the way he called forth the flames ready to summon his sword. However, Jupiter smirked as her body was surrounded by a white aura and she suddenly ran forward, tearing up the moon's surface with her bare foot while defying logic and kicking a powerful gale behind her until she stopped in front of Mew and threw her right fist directly into Mew's chest while he was in the middle of summoning his sword.

Mew as shocked as could be when for the first time ever someone had actually launched an attack on him before he brought out his sword, and as his mouth was held agape he twitched and gasped for a few seconds before Jupiter's punch launches him away while the gale from earlier catches up and throws debris out on both sides of Jupiter's body. Mew flies backwards for a couple seconds before Jupiter sprints forward and gets behind him, slamming her elbow behind her to strike his backside with enough force to make him lurch backwards in an arch while a shockwave of raw power rips into the surface of the moon, forming a crater that drags Jupiter and Mew down as Jupiter keeps her elbow pressed into Mew's body for a couple more seconds.

Once the crater was deep enough, Jupiter pushes Mew away from her elbow so he can go flying right into the side of the crater, his body colliding with it and bounding up the jagged slant until he landed back on the surface of the moon and started tumbling for a few feet. But after the surprise of Jupiter's first attack had worn off Mew breaks out of his roll, catching himself and landing perfectly on his feet as he skids back and looks up right as Jupiter leaps out of the crater and pulls back on her right fist ready to go in for a mighty punch.

Mew lifts himself up halfway and braces himself against the ground with rocky supports around his legs as he holds his hands up front and center, using one as a support in the back of the other and putting all of his strength into catching Jupiter's punch the moment she thrusts it forward. When the blow collides, Mew prevents the disruption of the planet's surface with his powers but still feels a little vibration inside of his body. He wraps his fingers around Jupiter's fist and holds her at bay while she floats in mid-air with a grin of heavy enjoyment on her face. Though Mew held back Jupiter's punch, she still momentarily felt as though he had been punched in the face by half of the strength Jupiter was currently exerting.

"Hehehe!" Jupiter chuckled with innocent delight before all of a sudden Mew started to feel a lot more pressure on his hands and body. The supports around his legs were cracking, and it was clear that Jupiter's strength was increasing. "What? I thought she was already using her full strength!" Mew thought to himself, but then he looked at Jupiter's arm and noticed something very interesting happening. Her arm was growing in size, her muscles bulging out slowly until the limb was double the size it was before.

Before Mew was overwhelmed by Jupiter's strength and his grip was loosened around her enlarged fist, Mew took her and spun his body around to quickly throw her against the ground. Mew then lets go of Jupiter's arm as it reverts back to normal at her command and leaps back, saying as he takes a moment to catch his breath "Can't say I saw this coming…Are you some kind of mutant?" Jupiter spins herself around, tearing a circle into the planet's surface before she springs right onto her feet and says with her energetic smile "Nope! I'm just a really hard worker!"

Jupiter immediately sprung at Mew while talking and threw her right fist down as Mew was forced to lift his left hand up to block it. Mew once more felt himself being punched in the face despite this, and he began to suspect that Jupiter's aura was responsible for this feeling. Before Mew could clasp onto Jupiter's hand she pulled back and spun once around, throwing a kick into the side of Mew's body while her leg muscles were enlarged like her arm was moments ago. Even with enough time to put steel on the side of his body to cushion some of the kick, Mew is still budged along the ground to the left as he grimaces a bit in pain.

He retaliated to Jupiter's attack by swerving to the right a bit and thrusting his hands out to send a very hot fireball at her as big as her body. But upon landing on the ground Jupiter crosses her arms and enlarges them both to double their size so she could block the fireball with ease. As the flames disperse around her Jupiter spread her shrinking arms and grinned, but then Mew knew to take advantage of her being distracted to get right in her face and throw a flaming uppercut right into her chin while standing sideways.

Jupiter's head was knocked back a couple inches, but she quickly recovered and responded by thrusting her head down and ramming it right into Mew's own. But Mew figured this would happen and thus was ready to meet her force by butting their heads together and pressing as hard as they can. As their stubborn foreheads press together, Jupiter smirks and fiercely widens her eyes, enjoying the battle to the best of her ability. Mew smiles as well, but that's because he had a plan up his sleeve for this situation.

With his right hand still out from his uppercut, Mew quickly goes for Jupiter's neck and wraps the back of his elbow around it, hoping to pull her down to the ground eventually. But Jupiter responds by bringing both of her arms out and grabbing Mew by the sides of his body. She then pulls her body back all the way while picking Mew off the ground and piledrives him headfirst behind her, burrowing his head underneath the surface of the moon and up-heaving large chunks of the ground in the process. As Mew takes a heavy blow to his skull from that piledrive, he thinks to himself "Ok…Time to try something else."

With his arms partially buried under the surface of the moon, Mew waits until Jupiter has let go of him and lifted herself upright before he quickly digs into the moon with his bare hands to get underground. Though the blow to his head did dizzy him, he was able to focus enough to keep tunneling away underground. While Mew was making his next move, Jupiter turned around and noticed the start of his tunnel as she leaned forward, and with an intrigued grin she laid a hand against her fist and cracked the knuckles while saying "Alright…What are you trying here?"

She anticipated Mew's next move, but she did not have to wait long as the ground trembled below and her body was lifted up thanks to a large area of the moon's surface being separated into platforms thanks to Mew's underground efforts. Jupiter rose high up along with the rest of the platforms, and she quickly ran to the edge of the one she was on and looked down to see Mew standing at the bottom of the platforms while his forehead bleeding slightly from the earlier blow.

Mew finally had a chance to draw his sword out at this point and upon doing so he swung it up in an arc and sent an explosive wave of flames straight towards Jupiter's platform. The attack connects and blows the platform up, but not before Jupiter leaps off and dives straight down towards Mew while laying both of her arms together before her face. Mew took command of some of the platforms as they continued to rise out past the moon's gravitational pull, and with yet another defiance of the laws of space he set the platforms ablaze and threw them at Jupiter like they were meteors to try and slow her down.

But Jupiter threw out swift chops on both sides of her body in timing with the meteors' approach, ripping them apart with a single attack like they were paper. She then prepared to cross her arms again, only for Mew to leap out from his platform and break away from the floatiness of space with his flight in order to charge right at Jupiter and before a downward, diagonal slash of his blade while it was on fire. For the first time in this battle, Mew is able to strike Jupiter with enough force to send her flying back, but she in turn was able to make Mew recoil back ten feet with her crossed arms.

As Mew is forced to swing his sword out to the side while letting out a "Tch!", and he watches as Jupiter slams back first against the bottom of one of the platforms and forms a rather large indent within it. Cracks spread out throughout the platform, but they don't mean anything at first for the structure of the platform until Jupiter opens her eyelids and flexes her muscles a bit which causes the entire platform to crumble apart and free her from it. She slowly drops towards another platform directly below her, but she lines herself up with where Mew was at and has another idea in mind.

Not only was Jupiter lined up with Mew, but also with another of Jupiter's moons miles away. As Mew charged at her, Jupiter bent down and laid her hands against the platform, waiting for Mew to get halfway towards her as she doubles the size of both of her legs, and then she leaps forward from the platform as fast as the fastest comet and punches Mew right in the chest before he could even react. Mew is then sent rocketing through the depths of space, with Jupiter performing a quick spin before she suddenly takes flight and pursued Mew to the next moon.

After flying through space for a good thirty seconds, Mew crash lands on the surface of Ganymede and grinds through miles of the thick ice and rock surface while gritting his teeth to bear the pain of everything his body is feeling. Once his momentum slowed down enough Mew now had to adjust himself to the greater gravitational pull this moon had while he slammed his elbow against the ground and performed a flip of his body to get out of the gargantuan trench being dug into the surface with his body, allowing him to stop the remainder of his momentum by using his flight.

By the time he recovered, Jupiter had already crash landed on the moon and was completely unimpeded by the cold temperature. She wasted no time in leaping across miles of the moon to get back over to Mew, her mighty leap putting her in the air right in front of Mew. But even with how fast things were going, Mew was beginning to understand how Jupiter's abilities worked. He had just one last test to make, and he fulfilled his goals on that end by flying backwards approximately two feet instead of taking Jupiter's punch head-on. The aura around her body extends outward half the length of her arm and just nicks Mew in the chin with a punch, and that was when Mew smiled happily.

But he had to get right back into the heat of battle as Jupiter quickly pushed herself forward with a punch from her other hand, and Mew swung his head to the left while using both of his hands to grab Jupiter's fist. He manages to avoid the extension of aura punching him in the face with this move, and while Jupiter was excited to see him catching on Mew twisted his body around while still holding onto her fist and quickly pulled her from where she floated and threw her towards the icy surface of the moon.

Jupiter spun around and landed on her feet while cracking the ground, but before she leapt up for another attack Mew dispelled his sword and quickly held his arms out, calling upon the ocean waters buried under the frigid layers to rise up and erupt in a mountain sized blast that consumed Jupiter's entire body. Mew then instantly froze all of the water with a thrust of his hands downward, trapping Jupiter inside the middle of it all. But Mew knew he wouldn't be able to hold her for long, and she even began to expand her arm muscles to crack the ice apart as he thought that.

As such, Mew pulled both of his arms back while swerving his body to the right, and charged up flames quickly and heavily between his cupped hands. The very moment Jupiter splits the ice mountain in two and punches straight up towards him, Mew thrusts both of his hands out and fires a gargantuan beam of flame from his hands that is able to consume the remains of the ice mountain and Jupiter simultaneously, and as the flames crash against the surface of the moon it boils the dormant waters underneath it in roughly two seconds.

Mew puts his all into his flames, but they are only able to slow Jupiter down instead of managing to stop her entirely. Jupiter thus breaks out of the flames face first in a matter of seconds with her hair and clothes untouched and with an energetic grin she clocks Mew right in the side of his jaw, which stops his onslaught of flames and makes the bones in his mouth crack slightly. But before she could go for a punch on the other side of his face Mew holds his right hand up and catches it, then swings his other hand out and punches Jupiter in the forehead with all his strength.

Mew could feel that slowly but surely he was hurting Jupiter with all of his attacks, it was just that she was so incredibly battle-hardened that she was able to keep going as though she was always at full strength. Mew did admire that strength she had, but only remained focused on that admiration for a moment before he let go of her fist and flew straight back to get some distance away from her. He then drew out his sword and went for an attack on her midsection.

But as his blade connected across Jupiter's skin, it amounted to nothing more than a paper cut, though Mew immediately raised his sword up and went to cut down at her body. Jupiter raised her arms up and blocked the slash by increasing her muscle mass by fifty percent. But Mew dispels his sword and steps forward so he could thrust his right fist underneath Jupiter's arms and hit her square in the abs, specifically firing off a blast of electricity into the cut he just made so he could hopefully reach her nerves.

His efforts earn him a thrust of both of Jupiter's arms into his forehead, which knocks him back a few feet and makes some blood come out again. But as Mew laid a hand on his forehead he grinned, with his efforts proving worthwhile as Jupiter stumbles back a couple feet while limping her arms down beside her body. Jupiter smiled and said "Nice move…But you think it'll keep me down for long?" Jupiter kept her arms' muscle mass increased and then sprinted right at Mew, going for a rapid series of fisticuffs his way.

Mew rapidly swings his hands up to block every attack, even if it meant taking the brunt of her aura punches in the process. It didn't matter to him at the end of the day, as he had figured Jupiter out by now. He kept his cool and took whatever punches Jupiter threw out, even as she switched things up from fisticuffs to two hard-hitting thrusts from both her arms. The impacts of her fists with Mew's palms do push him backwards across the ice despite his resistance, and the ice itself was shattering apart below Jupiter's feet.

Mew did have one concern as he continued to mount his defense, and that was "This battle is tearing apart the poor moons…" It was a rather odd concern to make in the midst of battle, but he is distracted enough by it that Jupiter is able to thrust a hand through Mew's swinging arms and grabs onto his face. Jupiter immediately slams Mew against the ground and shrinks her arms down back to normal mass and exclaims enthusiastically "You and I are going for a ride!"

She then triples the muscle mass of her legs and leans forward to keep Mew pressed against the moon's surface, sprinting forward without any loss of speed as she drags Mew forward and her aura flares up as bright as a comet. Jupiter lifts her head up and looks towards another of the planet's moon, grinning brightly before exclaiming "Lets go! Lets go! Starlight Slipstream Beatdown!" With all of her strength, Jupiter leaps right off of Ganymede's surface and speeds right through space until she reaches the next moon, where she slams Mew against the surface and leaves a noticeable indent in place.

She then pulled Mew right out of the moon and leaped away to another one, repeating the process over and over again until she had covered sixty-six of Jupiter's moons, not once being threatened by the gravitational pull of the gargantuan planet. As she leaps from planet to planet, her aura leaves behind streaks of bright white in space like they were burning comets, and at the end of her assault Jupiter finally returns to Callisto and piledrives Mew two feet into the moon's surface.

Kairi was not far away from where Jupiter had landed, and she was nearly thrown onto her backside by the tremor Jupiter sent through the moon. Mew was greatly battered by Jupiter's assault with blood dragged out from both of his shoulders and kneecaps, but he knew his moment of victory was almost here if Jupiter is using this much effort. However, as Juipter let go of his body she shrunk her legs back to normal mass and leaped up off the moon's surface while pulling her right fist back.

All of her aura gathers back into her body, and Jupiter pools it into her right arm as she multiples her muscle mass in it not twice, not thrice, but FIVE times. Her enlarged arm glowed as bright as a dwarf star thanks to her aura, and Mew remarked to himself as he stays inside of the impact zone "O-O-Oh…" Kairi didn't have to sense Jupiter's power to realize that she'd be in trouble if she stood on the moon, so with widened eyes she leaped off and took flight a safe distance away. After pulling her right arm back for a few more seconds to ready herself Jupiter exclaimed "BUSTER MOON!"

Then came the moment of truth for this entire battle, as Jupiter thrust her fist right down into the moon's surface right down into where Mew was buried. Immediately, Jupiter's punch digs into the moon and spreads large cracks throughout the entire thing, all of them erupting with the aura Jupiter poured out until Callisto simply shatters into multiple large pieces with a resounding crack. Kairi looked on with her mouth as agape as could be, and she wondered if Mew could even survive something like that.

Jupiter, meanwhile, deflated her fight fist back to her regular muscle mass and stood herself over the large crater in the chunk of the moon she had created, finding that the chunk was just barely holding itself together. Jupiter panted a bit and hung herself forward slightly, looking down into the crater and noticing a shattered metal shell that looked like Mew's body if it was put together. Jupiter states to herself "He must have tried to defend himself…Hehehe, but to even force me to use five times my muscle mass…You were a strong opponent Mew, and I'll definitely respect that-"

Before Jupiter was finished talking, she was suddenly slammed straight in the gut by a very powerful punch, and this makes her face freeze up in complete surprise before she gets a chance to see her assailant. As Jupiter's body limps forward, it is revealed that Mew had struck her with all of his remaining strength while standing beside her, a serious but tired look on his face as he pulls his fist away from Jupiter's gut and lets her tumble down into the crater defeated. He then lifts his head up and takes a deep breath, ignoring the cracks in his bones as he sighs and leans his head back and forth.

Once he had given himself a breather, Mew turned around and leaped down into the crater to go after Jupiter, floating down as she stopped tumbling and laid on her back at the bottom of the crater near the broken metal shell Mew had used. By the time Mew had gotten down into the crater, Kairi had landed on the ground close by and looked a bit disturbed by all the blood on Mew's body as she took a quick look at him. Laying a hand close to her chin, Kairi said "Holy crap…Are you alright Mew?" Mew just shrugs as Kairi runs over to him, telling her with the most nonchalance he could muster "Oh no big deal…I just survived being slammed against sixty-seven moons of various density…Just another day in the life…"

"…I thought you said you had low defenses or something?" Kairi pointed out with a curious tilt of the head, and Mew remarked "Well yeah, my defense could be a lot better than it is at the moment, but hey, what can you do sometimes? I'll explain more once Jupiter gets back up." Mew then turns to Jupiter as Kairi said "You sure she'll be up soon? She looks pretty out to me."

"Of course she's not out of commission. Look at her, she's got like the biggest grin on her face." Mew says while gesturing down at Jupiter's body, and as Kairi leans forward she sees that very grin before her mouth suddenly opens up and Jupiter bursts into very merry laughter. Jupiter then sat herself up and kept her legs stretched out, laying her hands atop her kneecaps while giving Mew a very energetic smile and telling him "Let me tell you something Mew…You gave me the most kickass fight I've experienced in years!"

"Hehe, glad to oblige. You really did train hard to get your strength up to this level, Jupiter, and that trick of further increasing that strength by expanding your muscle mass was cool as well. How'd you accomplish that?" Mew said, and Jupiter opened her eyes but gave Mew a quick wink before explaining to him "Eh, I had a little bit of magic done to me to help me out there. Seriously, there was a time when I looked exactly like the musclebound freak Kairi there was worried about seeing. Couldn't have that freakish appearance when I got a job to commit to."

"You have a job?" Kairi inquired, and Jupiter said with a dumbfounded look on her face "No shit, I'm part of the Planetary Aurians. I'm pretty much a Galactic Cop/Superhero. I'm surprised a purebred Aurian wouldn't know that." "Don't fault her, she thought all of you were myths until today." Mew happily defended Kairi with a raise of his hand past his crossed arms.

"…That's weird." Jupiter stated bluntly, but then Mew asked her "I think what's weird is you saying you're a Galactic Cop when you're under Gravitus' thumb." Jupiter swung her right arm down and admitted casually "Oh boo-hoo. Gravitus might be an asshole, but he doesn't get in the way of our jobs unless he REALLY needs us. So I'm still free to kick-ass and bust villainous heads like I have since I lived on my home world."

"…So how exactly did Gravitus recruit you to his side then?" Kairi inquired, and Jupiter admitted with a melancholy sigh "Oh, he kicked MY ass hard. So I decided to just stick by his side and keep getting stronger so I could one day hopefully beat him down. But truth be told, I think you have a better shot at it, Mew." Mew then extends his right arm out and says "Assuming we make it past the rest of your allies."

Mew and Jupiter then shake hands, with Jupiter commenting with a brimming grin "Oh you shouldn't have too bad of a time. Just be careful of my si-Errr, never mind that." Jupiter stopped herself from saying something pretty obvious, but it was clear only Mew caught that and didn't feel like saying anything afterwards as he pulled back on his body and folded his arms together before immediately asking "By the way, I do believe you owe me your real name now that I won."

"Noel. You can call me Noel from now on." Jupiter quickly said, showing respect to Mew for his victory without any hesitation. Mew smiled and said to her "Again, it was an incredible battle we had…But I just have to wonder…" As Mew awkwardly turns his head left and right at the floating pieces of Callisto he asks the most important question of them all "Just what is going to happen to this moon now that you broke it?"

"Oh? This thing? Saturn will probably fix it up later when she gets a chance. I tend to do this a lot with the moons around here. You know how it is, sometimes you don't know your own strength…" Jupiter's response was rather casual for something so catastrophic in nature, and Mew just grinned and replied "Yeah, I think I can relate to that." Leading to Kairi turning away from them both with a disgruntled look as she whispered "Both of you are monsters…"

Mew heard that though, as he glanced to the left to acknowledge Kairi before looking at Jupiter and telling her "So I'm guessing you aren't going to be resting for long, Noel?" "Of course not! I'm going to get back to training on another moon until Saturn can come by and fix Callisto. Try not to beat her up to bad because of that, ok?" Jupiter inquired with her voice full of energy showing she was raring to go, and with a nod of his head Mew gestured two fingers beside his head and told her "Then we're off. Once we find the portal we'll go off to Saturn."

"Not before you tell me just how you survived my Buster Moon." Jupiter requested with another wink of the eye, and Mew sighed as he was in the middle of turning around before folding his arms back together and explaining "When I saw your attack coming, I created a carbon shell to act as a decoy while I dug a tunnel into the moon, hoping that I'd be able to use a sneak attack on you once you broke the moon. One thing I noticed about your battle style is that while you are able to keep your body going through a lot of hardships, you burn through your aura rather quickly, and it was once you had gotten rid of enough of it that you weren't able to survive one more attack from me."

"Really? That's all there was to it? Hahaha, brains and brawn…You're just full of surprises. Hey, if things don't work out with your girlfriend there, you can always try and take me for a spin sometime." Jupiter exclaimed as though she'd be very delighted if Mew said yes, but instead Mew awkwardly chuckled and told her "Eheheh, that's alright Noel. Catch you later though, hopefully." While Mew was focused on Jupiter, Kairi quickly flipped her off again for the girlfriend comment, and then the two of them got off the chunk of Callisto and flew back to the portal that was floating somewhere down below the rock.

Once the two were gone, Jupiter suddenly collapses right onto her back and says with a groan in her voice "Ooooooww! My muscles are really sore now…So that's what it's like to combat a god…He was a real freak of nature, but he really did impress me. If I wasn't in space, I'd be sweating like I was a waterfall right about now…" Jupiter then cracked a grin and said with some of her remaining energy "Man sis, I don't think even your insane luck will help you against this guy…" Jupiter then closed her eyelids and fell asleep, her light snore being heard by no one but herself as she relaxed her body after her hardest fought battle ever…

Next Time: Enter the Galaxy Heroine