At first, there was only pure whiteness, but after a minute the void transformed into a long, column-lined hallway lit up by dim torchlight. A small window containing that same white nothingness shone at the far end where the door should have been, yet its light did not shine on the walls or floor nearby.
The whole place was quiet.
Winter was nowhere in sight, but Weiss was not so foolish as to try to call her out. If Winter did not know where she was already, doing so would only alert her to her presence.
Weiss instinctively jumped back towards one of the nearby columns, careful not to make too much noise on the hard tile below. Compared to the distant reaches of outerspace and the lightness she felt while soaring over Vale, the pull of gravity here seemed much stronger.
Although the heiress had never been here before, something about the place seemed familiar. Perhaps if Shrek had not graced this world with his presence, Ozpin and Cinder would have fought here over the inheritance of the Fall Maiden. But Shrek did come, and so those events never came to pass.
At the far end of the hall ahead was a large pair of metal doors where the life support machinery for the Fall Maiden should have been. Although instinct told her otherwise, it was possible her sister might have been hiding there.
Weiss cautiously made her way towards it, with both her lightsaber and Myrtenaster in hand.
"Hello again, sister."
That same, overwhelming sense of dread overcame her, but this time around, Shrek was no longer around to protect her. Weiss turned around uneasily as her more powerful sister approached from behind.
"Do you like it? I have made this place into my private sanctuary, for me and me alone. Much like The Doctor's TARDIS, I can use this facility to traverse through the multiverse as I please. I have never let anyone other than my most loyal servants inside this place before, so consider yourself lucky, sister.
"I'll admit, I do get quite flustered whenever my dear Shreky-chan is around, but now there will be no more interruptions. This realm is now cut off from all the others, so that means none of your friends can save you. You are all alone, exactly where I want you."
For a moment, the Fairy Godmother's spell loosened its grip, and Weiss shook her head to snap out of it. "Talk all you want, but we've beaten you every step of the way here!"
Winter chuckled at her sister's declaration. "Yes, yes, you've had your little victories here and there, but I was never in any real danger of actually losing. And besides, how can you call upon the power of teamwork when your teammates aren't around to help you?"
Winter gestured at the empty space behind Weiss, who simply looked on with fury.
"I may not have my Stand to back me up, but face it, Weiss, you're absolutely helpless!"
"SHUT UP!"
Conjuring a glyph underneath herself, Weiss propelled herself forward and prepared to strike down on her older sister, only to be met by a block from one of Winter's summons in the shape of Ruby.
"Do you have any idea of how predictable you are? I could see that type of move coming from a mile away!"
With the power of her ogre strength, Weiss kicked through the crystalline conjuration, and then followed up her attack by launching her lightsaber at Winter and firing a spray of Calico bullets. Winter simply flew out of the way and then lunged at Weiss with her own blade swipes, launching Weiss into one of the columns.
"How pathetic."
Weiss slowly pushed herself back up, and then backed off before Winter could land another blow.
"I'm an ogre now, sister…"
"Yes, I can see it quite plainly! How is it that a filthy, talentless runt like you gets to become an ogre before I do?"
It then occurred to Weiss that Winter's sonic screwdriver was incapable of transforming people into ogres, despite having no problem with other creatures.
"I was meant to be Shrek's beloved companion! How is it that disgraceful sluts like Cinder and Yang get to go on adventures with him instead of me? I was meant to have Shrek and his ogre powers, so why do you get to inherit that legacy? You were never meant to be the chosen one!"
Even as Weiss was still recovering, Winter kicked her in the gut, sending her tumbling down the hall.
Yet, in spite of this, Weiss stood back up. "Hit me all you like, but even if you hit me with all of your magic spells, I will not surrender to the likes of you!"
"And so what? Try all you like, but in the end your death and defeat are inevitable!"
Weiss once again leaped at Winter with her two blades, this time conjuring up an extended arm behind her should she try to retreat. However, her older sister simply fluttered out of the way, and then launched a blast of raw energy from her magic wand, which Weiss blocked with her lightsaber.
"Do you think the power of your own determination alone will suffice to defeat me? I have worked toward your demise ever since the day you were born, so don't even think about lecturing me on that willpower bullshit!"
With two sudden wave-dashes, Winter circled around Weiss and then punched her in the face with one of her blades in hand, sending her spiraling into the ceiling. As the younger sister began to fall down, the Fairy Godmother followed up with a blade skewering through her stomach, after she threw her back towards the ground before Weiss could make an opportunistic decapitation.
"I made it this far," Weiss said as she struggled to get back up. "I'm not going to give up just because of you. And even if I die here today, my friends will hunt you down!"
"How adorable," Winter chuckled. "What does it matter if Shrek is the strongest being in all of existence if he can't even reach me? I can pick and choose my battles at my leisure and even if he does find me, I can simply pull back into my own pocket or reality and then reappear in some other plane of existence! I'm the Fairy Godmother, remember? So long as I…"
The moment Weiss saw Winter draw her sonic screwdriver once more, she left Myrtenaster dangling in the air, and then fired upon it with her Calico.
Though, with a swift flick, Winter simply swept the wand out of the gun's line of fire, and then put it away.
"Dammmit…" whispered Weiss.
"Of course, it would never be that easy," Winter continued. "If a simple fluke like that were all it took to defeat me, I would have been long dead by now. Face it, Weiss, I am stronger than you, I am smarter than you, and I am far more pretty than you ever will be!"
"Well if you're so goddamn pretty," said Weiss, "why did Shrek abandon you?"
Winter's eyes twitched at this.
"I might not know all that much about him, but Shrek doesn't seem like the sort of person who would abandon just anyone." Weiss paused for a moment, reflecting on some of the stories Yang had told her on the way to the spaceship. "Qrow hated Shrek for almost his entire life, yet Shrek still came for him in the end."
"That's enough!"
Winter whipped out her magic wand once more, preemptively swerving out of the way in case Weiss attacked, and then tried blasting Weiss with it, tearing a wide, gaping crack in the middle of the hall.
"Shrek would never love someone as haggard as you or Qrow! I love Shrek! I love Shrek with all of my heart and soul! None of you bastards are worthy for the likes of my handsome Ogrelord!"
Winter made another wide sweep with her wand, launching forth a wide golden beam which tore right through the middle of the room. Parts of the floor began to collapse inward, revealing a large, round chamber made of crystal tile down below.
"You have nothing! You are nothing! You're just a stupid, worthless, unkempt, vagabond! There will be no happily ever after for you!"
As Winter made another attack, Weiss dodged out of the way once more. "You know, I didn't really give a crap about Shrek until just recently. But hey, I'll take any help I can get."
"Errghh! How can you possibly be so insolent?"
The Fairy Godmother made another lunge for Weiss with one of her blades, but Weiss simply leaped down into the large chamber below, whose glassy windows looked out into a bright, snowy abyss.
In her descent, Winter sheathed her blade, reached into a pouch strapped to her hip, and then drew out a single Pokeball.
"Pikachu, I choose you!"
Once the ball had enlarged in her hands, Winter threw it on the floor below. A stream of bright light then flew out of it, and the infamous rodent materialized just a few feet away from it.
Without saying a word, the yellow Pikachu swayed from side to side with a dead look in its eyes. There were bruises, cuts, swellings, and splotches of blood in several places.
Even though Weiss didn't really watch that much anime, she recognized the creature instantly.
"You…"
Winter merely giggled at her sister's horror. "Yes, Weiss, this is Ash's Pikachu. I have traveled to realms far and wide, collecting whatever things I found interesting. I'll admit that I had to use a bit of coercion to get that pesky rodent into the blasted Pokeball, but now, I am a genuine Pokemon master."
"You heartless bitch! Couldn't you have at least captured a Pokemon for yourself without stealing someone else's?"
While saying this, one of Pikachu's arms fell off, after which the yellow rodent attached it back on with the help of the Fairy Godmother's magic.
"What? It would have been far less satisfying doing things the old fashioned way. Besides, there's more where that came from!"
Winter pulled out two more Pokeballs from her pouch, and then threw them on the ground below.
"You see," said Winter as the balls poured out their contents, it was never my intention to fight you by myself when there was just the slim possibility of you besting me in a duel. I brought friends just for the occasion."
When the flashes cleared, two all too familiar human figures emerged as opposed to actual Pokemon.
"What the…" said Weiss. "Okay, now this is just bullshit."
Saber, fully donned in her anti-magic combat armor, stood at the ready, with wind gusting around where her sword should have been. Although maintaining her stoic composure, there was a glint of pink in her eyes due to the effects of the Fairy Godmother's love magic. Aside from her longer side-tails, her hairdo looked kinda similar to that one person whose name Weiss kept forgetting, though it seemed to be a lighter shade of blonde.
Standing next to her appeared to be a young, roughly Japanese-looking warrior with blood-soaked bandages wrapped over her eyes. She did not seem to be armed with any weapons, though that was a moot point, seeing as she was the princess of the Fire Nation.
"Recognize them?" said Winter. "They'll be the last thing you'll ever see!"
As dangerous as her opponents seemed, the situation did not seem entirely hopeless, as Weiss figured she could line up their attacks against each other.
After deploying two more Pokeballs, containing an over-farmed Veigar and Fox Mccloud, Winter made another flick of her wand, which caused the whole room to pulse with a turquoise hue.
"Ah yes, sister, I have disabled friendly fire for this dimension, so now we shouldn't have any more pesky complications."
Weiss grit her teeth. Although she could not tell whether the spell had the effect described, Weiss had no reason to believe the Fairy Godmother was merely bluffing.
Weiss was vastly outnumbered and outclassed, and furthermore she did not have any allies to fall back on. On top of that, as the former heiress was examining her situation, Winter took this opportunity to deploy her last remaining Pokeball, containing a hulking Frankenstein of a monster whose nigh infinite health pool only cemented her advantage.
"You weren't the only one who was busy, sister," said Winter. "As you were having fun going off on your little adventures, I was making sure my minions were properly fed and cared for. It might have taken a few hundred thousand sacrifices in terms of manpower, but I'm sure the costs were well worth the eventual payoff."
"You think the darkness is your ally?" said Veigar, who began to step ahead of the rest of the pack. "You've only discovered its existence! I was born in it! Raised by it! And when I discovered…"
Weiss simply looked on dumbfounded. "The fuck?"
Even as the little black mage continued to ramble on and on, there didn't seem to be any signs that he had been possessed by the Fairy Godmother like the others.
Sometime during this, Winter used her magic wand to silence Veigar and then began to speak herself. "Okay everyone! Mommy needs you all to do a special favor for her. I know many of you are just itching to go, but I'd like for you all to try not to get in each other's way, okay? Now, my children, eliminate this wretched delinquent from my sight!"
All of Winter's underlings then turned their eyes back towards Weiss, who slowly backed her way towards the edge of the chamber.
Winter then unmuted Veigar's voice. "…and so even if you may think otherwise, Shrek will never come to your aid! And now that the tables have turned, I will show you no mercy!"
Veigar then lifted up his rod and then launched a baleful strike of pure cosmic energy towards Weiss. As much as she tried to dash out of the way, the bolt continued to follow her.
Azula, hearing her movements, then channeled a shot of lighting towards her general direction, prompting Weiss to leap up onto one of her glyphs as the others rushed forth. Seeing as she would be unable to dodge Veigar's bolt, Weiss conjured a glyph to shield herself. Yet even though it had saved her from the brunt of the force, the resulting explosion threw Weiss back to the far end of the chamber, crashing through the window and out onto the snowy hillside.
Weiss felt the cold instantly, though it was nowhere near as cold as being out in outer space. She had half-expected to land into a void like when she had initially entered the demiplane, but she didn't pause to reflect on it too much.
Shortly after, several more crashes followed as Fox, Sion, Saber, and Pikachu chased after her. Something about the crystal dome she had fallen from reminded the former heiress of some old observatory she had visited in Atlas, though its proportions and dimensions didn't look like it could house the initial hall she had entered through.
Weiss was still quite wounded from her skirmishes with Winter before, but she was quickly recovering due to her innate ogre will.
Fox was the first one to reach her, and before she could react, the professional space furry delivered a rapid barrage of kicks, sending her into a boulder down the rapidly descending slope. Even in her fall, Fox came after her, though Weiss was quickly able to roll out of the way before he could continue his combo.
As Weiss struggled to stand back up, she felt the hard edge of Saber's sword cut into her, followed by an electrical discharge from Pikachu. Because of the sword's innate anti-magical properties, it not only tore but seared through her chest. Even Weiss's innate ogre healing seemed to be unable to mend the wound.
Weiss thought that she could try and isolate each of Winter's minions now that she was outside where she could take advantage of the terrain, but their constant pressure made that maneuver difficult, especially with Fox, Pikachu, and Saber's swiftness.
Farther upslope, she could see Sion, Veigar, and Azula running for her, with the Fairy Godmother high above them.
"What do you have to gain by continuing to oppose me, sister! No matter how hard you try, you will never have your happy ending! Just consider yourself lucky I don't have enough Pokeballs to unleash the hounds upon you!"
With a few flicks of her wand, Winter conjured a platform for Azula to stand on and provided Sion with thick, adamantine armor and a pair of eagle-like wings.
While Weiss had been distracted with these recent developments, Fox dashed in from down the slope, throwing her aside, and then spun around to blast her with his laser pistol.
The former heiress tried recovering from this, but Sion was rapidly descending upon her. As he charged, a blast of raw energy burst forth from his axe and came hurtling down toward her.
Weiss instinctively projected one of her glyphs to block the attack, which dissipated instantly upon contact, and then rolled out of the way before the giant could cleave his axe into her skull.
However, this maneuver had allowed Pikachu to quick-dash right underneath the heiress, and then prepare his ultimate attack.
"PIKA!"
-KABOOM!-
The thunderous blast sent Weiss hurtling up towards the sky, and while it distanced her from Saber's next assault, it left her wide open to a fiery spear from Azula, pushing her farther down the high hill.
Weiss's whole body was numb with pain. The whole world spun around her as the chill seeped into her skin.
Am I done for?
Weiss immediately snapped out of her state of helplessness, springing herself back onto her feet. Even though she ached, she had survived much more significant injuries.
She just had to concentrate all her might and determination.
Using the power of The Force, Weiss was able to push Sion back a bit by focusing on his axe, though the others continued their advance. For whatever reason, she seemed unable to soar through the air as she had done against Nora, but that fact did not discourage her.
Far in the distance, Winter had conjured up a soft, pillow-like cloud for Veigar to ride on.
Weiss didn't have any immediate plans to fall back on, as she had only gotten this far through sheer dumb luck. The terrain wasn't steep enough for an avalanche to have any significant effect, and Weiss was mostly on flat ground by this point anyway.
Before Weiss could finish her thought, Saber came leaping in once more, her invisible blade raised up high. Weiss tried blocking the attack with one of her glyphs, but the sword simply slid through the glyph as if it were nothing, though luckily Weiss was able to rolled out of the way preemptively.
As the heiress backed herself further away, all seven of her adversaries drew in close.
"It's all ogre for you!" said Winter. "Do you not see how pointless your endeavors are? In this world and all others, my magical powers are unrivaled by any god or man, and with these powers, I HAVE MADE ANIME REAL! The whole cosmos and multiverse bows to my whims! What chance do you have when you're just a dirty old vagabond whose talents consist of nothing but swinging a pointy stick?"
Weiss seethed in fury as her older sister continued to taunt her. As much as she would have liked to strike back, the others would simply rush in and intercept, so there was not much she could do.
She could run and try to evade her adversaries, but there did not seem to be a solution in sight.
In her desperation, Weiss prayed to Shrek, but no answer came.
What do I do now?
She could fight on, but sooner or later, her own dust supplies and stamina would eventually run dry.
And then, a voice came to her.
Weiss Schnee, Gandhi's voice echoed, only you can defeat the Fairy Godmother.
It wasn't the most useful advice at the moment, but any encouragement at this point was better than nothing.
Another voice came soon after.
Trust your inner senses, said Master Yi as Weiss imagined his visage floating before her.
At first, the statement puzzled her, but in the span of that very moment, Weiss had achieved enlightenment.
Weiss threw aside her lightsaber and Calico and then held Myrtenaster with both hands. An eerie green aura began to form around her, and as the heiress closed her eyes in meditation, her open wounds began to seal. A thin white glow formed along the length of her blade, and a low hum radiated from it.
Winter instantly realized something was amiss. "The hell is going on? Minions, stop standing around and stop her!"
Saber was the first to dash towards Weiss, but Weiss would not budge. When Saber swept her blade into Weiss's side, Excalibur simply bounced off Weiss's body, even though the heiress had no armor to speak of.
"H-how is that possible? Not even Shrek can resist the power of Saber's anti-magic!"
Winter made a graceful sweep of her wand and channeled a great beam of plasma towards her younger sister. Yet even though the landscape burned around her, whatever burns Weiss suffered began to heal up instantly.
Weiss's sister looked on in horror as the theme to Space Jam began to linger through the air. "No… This cannot be…"
When Fox moved in to deliver a series of rapid kicks, Weiss exited her trance and drove Myrtenaster through Fox's skull. His body made a soft thump on the exposed soil. Weiss stepped forward, and then turned her rapier horizontal as if it were a samurai sword. Even though most of Winter's henchmen had been compelled by her love magic, even they were reluctant to approach the heiress in her new heightened sense of awareness.
"Do something!" Veigar screamed to the Fairy Godmother as he moved away on his cloud.
Winter used her magic wand to revive Fox Mccloud and then tried casting a flurry of spells at her sister, though none of them seemed to do any permanent damage.
"We're all gonna die! We're all gonna die!" screamed Veigar.
"Get a hold of yourself!" Winter shouted back. Even though she still wasn't sure how Weiss was able to shrug off her attacks, she knew panicking wasn't an option. Yet when Winter turned back to face Weiss, she saw a visage so serene and disinterested that it chilled her to the bone.
"You know," said Weiss, "I don't really know if the world would have been better off had you not intervened. Maybe I was wrong to have stolen Nora's pancakes, but it was through your interference that it escalated to this level. You thought you could play the role of the Fairy Godmother, watching me suffer as you relaxed on your corporate throne, but I am not your goddamn entertainment, sister! The whole world is in shambles because of you!"
"SHUT UP!" screamed Winter as she fired a beam of silence towards Weiss, who simply deflected it with a slight tilt of Myrtenaster.
"I may not be as strong as you, sister. I may not have as many pets who can do my bidding or take my wounds for me, but I will destroy you. I do not care how much you love Shrek, I will destroy you for all the suffering you have wrought and for all the pointless deaths this war has brought!"
As she spoke, the glow around Weiss grew stronger and stronger, and her own ancestral blade began to crackle with strange, spiral-like energy. During this time, Sion had attempted to tackle Weiss and stun her with a concussive blow, but the combined power of Weiss's determination, Force, and willpower threw him back like a nuclear blast.
"I might not be as strong as Nora, Shrek, or Yang, and I may not know know to copy weapons and techniques like Velvet, but I am more than a match for you, Winter. For the longest time, all of these so-called Shrek disciples have claimed that I was the chosen one, and now I know why.
"I do not know which one of us has worked harder over the years, but the suffering I have endured over these past years more than makes up for your lifetime of scheming! While you were sitting comfy in your high corporate tower, I've been fighting for my damn life! With every skirmish I have been through, with every person I have slain or defeated, I have been growing stronger, even if I needed my friends to help me. Maybe if I had taken the time to examine my own talents, I would have used these skills earlier. But it does not matter. In these last few weeks alone, I have earned more than enough experience to take you head on!
"I have wandered the lands of Remnant to fight for the common hobo. I am a highlander and Jedi Master, heiress to the legacy of the ancient Indian chiefs. I have trained under the guidance of Gandhi, Master Yi, and Muhammad Avdol, from whom I have learned the arts of Kung Fu, Wuju, and Yu-Gi-Oh. My sword is the manifestation of my soul and will.
"The songs of spring sing in my favor, for your time is now ogre, Winter. I am your judge, jury, and executioner. Heaven's Great Shrekoning bears down upon you, and I shall show you no mercy."
"EAAAAAAAGHHHHH!"
In a fit of panic, Veigar leaped down from his high cloud and tried capturing Weiss in his Event Horizon.
But already it was too late.
"There can only be one!"
As Weiss's jam reached its full height and her spirit took on the demoknight's immortal grace, the heiress closed her eyes and held her blade upright.
"Wuju Style: Alpha strike!"
Just before the mage's stunning circle could land on her, Weiss dashed through the air with blinding speed, faster than even Sanic the Hedgehog. Saber, Sion, Veigar, and Fox all felt the full brunt of Weiss's attack, with Fox going down instantly.
"NOOOOOOO!"
Veigar awkwardly tried running away with his stubby little Yordle feet, but when Weiss was done, she landed right next to him, and then sliced him in two.
With two additional kills on her hands, Weiss reactivated her ultimate once more.
"GET TO THA CHOPPA!" Sion called out with a voice that resembled Arnold Schwarzenegger.
With Saber close behind him, Sion sprinted towards Weiss while activating his powerful shield. The Fairy Godmother nearly dropped her wand, shocked at Weiss's newfound surge in strength.
Once again, Weiss swept through the air at impossible speeds. Although she was not able to penetrate through Sion's shield or Saber's armor, her strike obliterated both Pikachu and Azula instantly.
Seeing her defeat was imminent, the Fairy Godmother rose high into the air and summoned an ogre-sized, well-farmed Nasus, even though doing so risked creating an opening for Shrek to break into the demiplane. He let out a mighty ogre roar, and a whirlwind of sand began to circle around him as he conjured a circle of fire down below.
"Your soul will be measured, for now we approach a time of Great Shrekoning!"
Weiss leaped down from Azula's platform, raising Myrtenaster up high as she accelerated her reflexes and attack speed for a third time. Even as Sion tried to block her attack, Weiss punctured through his shield and armor with several dozen consecutive strikes, all in the span of a single millisecond.
When Sion tried to strike her down with a concussive blast, Weiss blocked it with a glyph, and used the force of the blow-back to propel herself towards Saber, whose sword slowly turned visible.
-CLANG!-FSHOO!-
The initial clash of Myrtenaster and Excalibur threw Weiss back a bit, but almost instantly she rushed back in and continued her onslaught. Even though Excalibur was vastly superior to Weiss's own sword, the heiress pummeled Saber much faster than the Servant could adjust to block her. With an attack speed equivalent to ten-thousand Meta Knights, Weiss struck at each and every weak-point in Saber's magic-resisting armor, until she was able to land several blows into the Heroic Spirit herself and eviscerate her into dust.
"The cycle of life continues, but your time is now ogre!"
When Nasus landed nearby, Weiss turned her attention back towards the giant hound dog and rushed towards him, just barely evading a cleave from Sion and jumping out of the way of one of Winter's blasts. Yet even as she felt the sands of time tear through her ogre flesh and felt the withering effects of Nasus's immortal curse, she was not impeded in the slightest.
Nasus roared. He then swung down with his siphoning staff, but before it could hit, Weiss conjured a block of ice to take the blow for her. Activating her ultimate once again, Weiss began to ascend up Nasus's giant form, slicing and dicing every cubic nanometer of his body with her ultra-fine blade until he collapsed into nothingness.
She then turned her attention back towards Sion, leaped off what remained of Nasus's body, and struck her rapier into Sion's hulking chest. The powerful warrior attempted to power through Weiss's attacks, but even with his nigh infinite health pool and monstrous regeneration, Weiss struck with quadrillions upon quadrillions of blows, negating whatever advantages he may have gained through his eons of farming common minions all within the span of less than a minute.
Once Weiss had finished her assault, the green menace simply tipped over and said, "I'll be back."
"NO!" cried out Winter. "This can't be happening!"
The Fairy Godmother fled out into the horizon and conjured up twelve dozen miniature suns and a golden barrier to shield herself with, followed by an arsenal of ten billion nuclear warheads, hurling them all towards her sister.
Yet, ignoring the fallout from the nukes that landed nearby, Weiss began sprinting through the air, occasionally running across some of the warheads as they passed by.
In desperation, Winter used her magic wand to summon forth a Tarrasque, Pun-Pun, fifteen battlecruisers, Gandalf, Dumbledore, Abraham Lincoln, Andross, Mewtwo, Baby Bop, Kevin, Theodore Roosevelt, Avatar Aang, Luke Skywalker, and Kung Fu Jesus. Yet for every person or object she summoned from another dimension, there was always the risk of Shrek penetrating through her layers.
Even with their combined strength, Weiss slew them all.
Once the former heiress was within a few hundred feet of her older sister, Winter backed off once more, unleashing a time-stopping spell and a burst of blue flame, yet neither of these slowed Weiss's advance.
"Prepare to get dunked, Winter!"
The Fairy Godmother backed off once more, and a duel disk appeared on her left arm. In a final act of desperation, she reached into her pouch and pulled out five cards containing the five component parts of Exodia.
As she slapped each card onto her disk, the Egyptian juggernaut appeared behind her, reaching its arms out forward.
"EXODIA, OBLITER…"
-SLASH!-
With a single strike, Weiss struck through Winter's duel disk, tearing through her Yu-Gi-Oh cards and puncturing into her arm. Weiss then roundhouse kicked her sister in the side, and then slashed into her at least a million times before striking her down into the snowy landscape below.
-CRACK!-
In her fury, Weiss heard a loud, audible crunch as her enchanted blade struck through Winter's wand and shattered it completely. As Winter descended, her wings began to break apart, and the image of Exodia began to dissolve.
Now that she had defeated her opponent, the surge of power from Weiss's highlander status began to dissipate, and slowly she descended to where Winter's corpse had landed.
"It's all ogre now," Weiss remarked to herself.
At last, Weiss had managed to eliminate the source of all her ills, yet as she looked at her sister in her lifeless state, there was something profoundly unromantic about it. Was she expecting her sister to die in an explosion of brilliant light, fitting for her demise? Was she half expecting that landing the final blow would magically erase all of society's woes now that Winter's magic could no longer work its ill will? Or was she expecting that somehow magic would fade away once the Fairy Godmother was no longer there to maintain it?
Weiss did not know the answers to any of these questions, but for the first time in her life, she finally felt that she could be at peace. Yet, if this was all there was to the Great Shrekoning, was it truly worth all that she had struggled for? There was also the question of how Weiss would get back to Remnant, seeing as she was unfamiliar with the nuances of inter-dimensional travel.
Yet, before Weiss could fully reflect on her sister's death, a portal opened behind her, and out from it came Shrek, Yang, Ruby, and all the rest of Weiss's comrades.
"Weiss!"
Ruby ran up to her partner and gave her a great big hug.
"Well, I'm certainly glad to see you."
Weiss returned the favor.
"She's gone for good, right?" asked Ruby.
"Looks like it."
The others began to spread around the area.
"Sweet Jesus!" said Roman, "What the fuck happened here?"
"Yeah Weiss!" said Nora. "You've gotta tell us when we get back!"
"Looks like you've been doing a lot of cleaning up around here," Shrek added. "I guess you really are the chosen one."
"Sorry that we're late," said Ozpin. "It took us a while to crack into the Fairy Godmother's secret dimension. I'm just glad that you're alright."
"Yeah," said Yang, "we were worried sick about you."
"Well," Weiss responded, "I'm alive, somehow. But thanks for rescuing me, everyone. I'm not sure I would have been able to find my way out without you."
"So," said Shrek as he picked up what remained of the sonic screwdriver, "I guess we should all start heading back. We've got a lot of stuff to fix up once we get back, especially with all the damage from that last fight."
As people began heading back towards the portal to Shrek's TARDIS, Weiss looked back around the snowy, wreckage-filled landscape, before turning her attention towards the dome back on top of the hill.
"Hold on. There's a few things I still want to check out."
A/N: This part took quite a bit longer to write than I expected, though I wasn't rushing to fill my usual deadline. I was originally going to write this part and the next part as one long chapter, but this part bloated a lot more than I expected. The next chapter is mostly going to be tying up loose ends and providing some sense of closure.
While I was writing this, I was looking up flavor text for some of Sion's abilities, and I noticed that his toolkit has changed a lot from what I remembered when I was playing LoL. I don't know how much everyone remembers of past!Sion, but since past!Sion is what I'm more familiar with, past!Sion is what I used when writing this chapter. His W and E abilities look similar to what is current incarnation looks like, namely being a spellshield and a max-health-gaining mechanic, but his other stuff looks different. I don't remember what his passive was, but his old Q, I think, gave him a smart-tracking stun (or whatever the right terminology for that is), and I think his ultimate gave him life-steal and attack speed. It's been years since I've played LoL, so my memory might be a bit fuzzy on that account.
I was initially going to introduce the infinitely scaling trio (Veigar, Sion, and Nasus) sometime while Roman was hanging out in Nora's headquarters, but I never got around to doing that and I couldn't find a good way to insert them into the plot until now.
I hope that Weiss acquiring Master Yi's abilities isn't too much of a Deus ex Machina. The idea came into my head while writing this chapter, and since the idea was sufficiently flashy enough, I figured I'd might as well use it, seeing as Weiss had trained with him much earlier in the story. I probably could have come up with some other way for Weiss to defeat the Fairy Godmother, but I figured this solution was well-grounded enough, especially considering the sheer madness of some of the previous chapters.
I don't know if I executed the conduct of this fight well enough, or if this fight was sufficient to live up to the chaos of the previous battles, but I hope it was acceptable.
I know that the big fight is now over, but I hope you'll all stay tuned for the final chapter/conclusion of this story, since there's quite a few things that I need to wrap up.