A/N: This one shot is the second part of the Symphogear Z one shot. I decided to make a second part mainly due to the fact I had the idea for what I wanted to do for Cibiki, but ran out of pages allowed for the first part. With that out of the way, Enjoy!
Symphogear Z Part 2
Last time on Symphogear Z: Maria, Kirika, Shirabe, Tsubasa, and Miku were assimilated into Shem-Ha, leaving Hibiki and Chris to fight for their lives in an unwinnable situation. But thanks to Genjuro tagging in to fight, the wielders were able to fuse into a new warrior who calls herself Cibiki thanks to Elfnein's newest invention. But will Cibiki be enough to put an end to Shem-Ha's rein of terror? The battle for Earth concludes, now.
The Ultimate Battle! Cibiki vs. Shem-Ha!
The warriors stared down one another in total silence. After some time, Cibiki got into a fighting stance as Shem-Ha simply readied a blade generated by the vambrace on her arm. "Go!" The fusion shouts, rushing their foe who blocked just as fast as they struck. The two fighters clashed blow for blow with Shem-Ha landing some strikes on Cibiki and the fusion landing even more on the self-proclaimed Goddess, eventually sending them falling to the Earth in a massive crater.
"To think we were afraid of you moments ago. How pathetic." Cibiki scoffed.
"You dare mock a God?!"
"No. I mock a freak who believes they're hot shit."
Shem-Ha became irritated by the fusion's taunts, but eventually started to chuckle, which quickly turned into full-on maniacal laughter.
"Eh? You broken or something?"
"Far from it. If anything, you've taught me something." The fusion was confused by Shem-Ha's praise(?) "I've been treating you as if you were just the sum of your parts, but clearly your power has multiplied far greater than that. If anything, it has given me an idea. So allow me to bless you... With the last thing you will ever see!" Suddenly, ShemHa was surrounded in a bright ball of multicolored light. The fusion thought nothing of it at first, seeing it as another pathetic attack they could easily counter, but then the air was filled with a chourus of voices, voices that belonged to the fallen Symphogear wielders, coming from within the ball of light.
"What is going on in there?" The fusion said as they shielded themselves from the intense pressure that started to emanate from the ball. When the light dissipated, the fusion was met with a sight that shook them to their core, Shem-Ha clad in a silver set of armor with purple, green, blue, pink, and light blue accents running across it. "Y-You... You're using all of their Gears at once!"
"And it is all thanks to you both. And once I destroy you, your Gears shall join them and together, we'll be the strongest being in the universe." Shem-Ha stretched her hand out to the fusion. "If you surrender now, I promise the process will be quick and painless. Your friends are waiting for you."
Disgusted by Shem-Ha's newfound form and pride, Cibiki shot at the stretched out hand. "You can take your sick offer, and shove it up your ass!" The fused warrior goes in for a punch to the gut, which was blocked by a new blue sword, followed by several pink accented sawblades which the fusion was able to barely dodge. "Very well. If you won't take my offer, then you shall suffer a fate worse than death!" The battle rages on, now with both warriors wielding multiple Symphogears. This time, however, Shem-Ha was the one on the winning side of the battle, not allowing Cibiki to land a single attack thanks to her new arsenal of weapons forcing them to fight super defensively. Eventually, Shem-Ha managed to send the fusion to the Earth as they had done to her using a combination of Tsubasa's Blue Flash and Maria's INFINITE†CRIME, wounding the fusion in the process.
"Do you not see how useless fighting me is now? Or are you still so desperate to fight for a planet that could care less about you as it is now?"
Cibiki snarled at Shem-Ha as she got up from the crater. "Guess I don't have a choice anymore..." Cibiki pulls out an injector full of LiNKER and injects it into herself, restoring her injuries immediately. "Round 2!"
"So you wish to be crushed even further." Shem-Ha sighed at the fusion's determination. "Very well. If that is what you wish for, then I sha-"
"I'm not finished!" Cibiki smirked as she pulled out a second injector, this one filled with a blue liquid.
The light dissipated around Chris and Hibiki, revealing a new woman in their place, exciting Elfnein "It worked!"
The woman looked at her body, noticing the red and yellow armor and her long light brown and white hair, and smirked. "So it has. Alright, time to make that bitch pay!"
"Wait!" The woman stopped to hear out Elfnein, who was holding three injectors filled with three different substances: LiNKER, Anti-LiNKER, and a new blue one.
"What is this, Elfnein-chan?"
"I call it Super LiNKER. It'll increase your power to that of your EX form while still being in your base Gear form."
The fused warrior smirked at hearing this. "Well then, don't mind if I-"
"Wait!"
"What now?"
"Super LiNKER is still in development, so I'm unsure about what could happen to a wielder using this, let alone two wielders fused together. For all I know, you could become stuck this way forever."
This got the fusion's attention immediately. Their thoughts turned to how their lives would be affected by staying fused. Would Miku still love them as much as she loves Hibiki? Would Shirabe and Kirika still see them as their senpai? They ultimately decided to not think about it further. "Fine. Then I'll only use this if I absolutely have to."
"Thank you. Now go get them... Chibiki? Hibis?"
The fusion chuckled at the scientist's struggles. "Call me Cibiki."
With some hesitation, Cibiki puts the Super LiNKER up to her neck and injects it into herself, Immediately feeling a massive boost in power. "This time, I won't be holding back!" The fusion became engulfed in a bright white light, but Shem-Ha was unfazed. "So you wish to perish in your EX form." Shem-Ha chuckled to herself. "It matters not what form you take, you cannot win."
"Then how about I bring about a form no one has seen before!" Cibiki began to shout as loud as they could, the white light changing into a much brighter red and yellow spiral of light.
Shem-Ha was forced to shield her eyes as the pillar kept growing. Eventually, the light began to fade, allowing Shem-Ha to see her opponent once more, and being utterly shocked by what she saw and felt. "W-What kind of sick joke are you playing? This isn't your EX form!"
"You're right. Because it's something far greater!" The light that engulfed Cibiki fully dissipated, revealing the fusion with an entirely new Gear with two sets of wings, a yellow set above a red one. Along with the new armor and wings, Cibiki's light brown and white hair gained a yellow and red hue to it, matching the bright aura that surrounded them. "This is the power that will end you! This is Super Cibiki!"
Shem-Ha looked at the blazing fusion warrior and looked down at herself and noticed her hands were shaking with fear. This angered the self-proclaimed goddess. "Call yourself whatever you like, it doesn't change your fate! You will rue the day you thought you could match the power of a God!"
Cibiki simply smiled, seeing victory in sight from her opponents fearful expression she tried so desperately to hide. "Then it's time to put your money where you mouth is, 'God.'" Before Shem-Ha could even blink, Cibiki delivered a punch straight to her gut. "You've rambled on long enough!"
The fight continued with Cibiki dominating Shem-Ha in every way she could. Countering her attacks, sending attacks like Kill Juliet and 100 Saṃsāra right back at her, even going as far as riding atop blasts from Shénshòujìng's mirrors. "How is this possible? No mortal should be this strong! What are you!?"
Cibiki simply smirked, charging energy into her gauntlets as she approached Shem-Ha. "It's as I told you..." Cibiki's gauntlets transformed, revealing several missiles attached to them. "I am Cibiki, the one who will bring about your end!" Cibiki unleashed a massive flurry of punches and kicks on Shem-Ha, placing the missiles all over her body before landing one last punch that sent her flying away, pressing a button on the gauntlet that activated the missiles, causing a massive explosion.
Cibiki Style: Mega Deth Impact
Shem-Ha crashed into the mountain Cibiki originally sent her into, furious and in massive pain. "Why... Why am I unable to regenerate!?" Suddenly, her armor shattered and vanished as well, leaving her in her outfit from before. "What's happening to me?!"
"Anti-LiNKER." Cibiki suddenly appeared in front of Shem-Ha, holding a third empty injector that had small droplets of a red substance inside of it. "Honestly surprised it worked just as well on 'Gods' as it did Symphogear users." Enraged, Shem-Ha lunged at Cibiki, but this time she was far to weak to stand a chance against Cibiki, eventually being grabbed and thrown effortlessly into the air by the fusion. "Time to settle this with my all!"
"Gatrandis babel ziggurat edenal
Emustolronzen Finé el balal zizzl
Gatrandis babel ziggurat edenal
Emustolronzen Finé el zizzl"
Cibiki's energy errupted into a massive pillar of light that became giant projections of Chris and Hibiki who joined their hands together before fusing into a giant projection of Cibiki with a giant gun that charged and fired a laser at Shem-Ha that engulfed her in a bright light. "I am a God! I cannot be defeated by mere mortals!"
"Unfortunately for you, I am no mere mortal!" From within the laser, Cibiki approached Shem-Ha with a massive gauntlet at the ready. "I am Cibiki, the godslayer!" Cibiki pierces right through Shem-Ha causing a massive explosion from within the laser that eviserated Shem-Ha.
Cibiki Style: Godslayer Bullet
Once the light dissipated, Cibiki landed on the ground, dusting off her hands as she looked up at the sky with pride. "Good riddance. Now to go about fixing this mess." Cibiki grabbed the bodies of the fallen Symphogear users and flew back to base as quick as she could before her power would run out.
The next day
In the medical wing of S.O.N.G., the fallen wielders all started to wake up again after being revived by Cibiki, with Miku being the last to wake up. "...ein-chan she...ing up!"
Her vision was blurry, but Miku could see two people standing before her, Elfnein and another girl who looked awfully familliar, but at the same time didn't. "Hibiki? No. Chris?" Miku rubbed her eyes to get a better view of the woman standing next to her bedside, realizing it was neither of the people she thought it was. "Oh. Sorry, you just looked like some people I know."
"It's okay Miku." The woman said, confusing Miku with the sort of echo in her voice. "Technically, I'm both Hibiki and Chris." The woman chuckled, but Miku was still very confused.
"It's a long story, Miku-san." Elfnein then proceeded to catch Miku up to speed on what happened following her death.
"So, long story short, Chris and Hibiki are stuck like this?" Miku wasn't sure how to feel at first, but eventually, she came to terms with it. "That's fine. I don't mind sharing Hibiki with Chris."
"T-Thanks?" Cibiki was unsure how to respond, but she was just happy that Miku still loved her despite the changes. "Now come on! The others are waiting for us!" Cibiki dragged Miku out of the hospital bed and back into the mess hall where everyone else was. "We're here!"
"Glad to see you're finally awake Kohinata." Tsubasa said, sitting next to a woman with wild red hair that she didn't recall ever seeing around S.O.N.G. before, that or the younger girl sitting next to Maria.
"Umm, Cibiki?" The fusion looked to Miku. "Are the girls next to Tsubasa-san and Maria-san new here?"
"Oh I forgot! When I went to revive everyone with Caduceus, I also tried to see if Maria-san's little sister and Kanade-san could be revived as well. Only downside is that now the staff can't be used for 2 years thanks to that, but it's worth it to make Maria-san and Tsubasa-san happy." Miku was surprised by this revelation. "I was just lucky that I was strong enough to actually pull it off. I guess that's one great thing about this new bo-" Suddenly, Cibiki started to glow, before separating into Chris and Hibiki. "dy. Huh? I'm me again!"
"Thank God!" After taking a moment to celebrate being herself again, she immediately took off her wristband and took off Hibiki's Gungnir pendant before something could happen. "Give me back Ichaival you idiot!" Without hesitation, Hibiki takes off the pendant and returns it to Chris, who gave her back Gungnir.
"What happened?" Elfnein ran into the room after noticing the disappearance of Cibiki's energy, seeing Hibiki and Chris immediately. "You defused! How did you do it?"
"Dunno and don't care. But you can bet your ass I'm never doing that again!"
"Come on Chris-chan, you can't act like you didn't enjoy i-" A flustered death glare from Chris was all it took to shut Hibiki up. "Alright, alright, I take it back."
"Well whatever the reason, I'm glad you two are back."
"Glad to be back Elfnein-chan." Hibiki immediately embrased Miku in a hug now that she was herself again. "Because now I can be with my Sunshine again!"
With the battle against the monstrous Shem-Ha Mephorash over, our heroes celebrate their victory with their new friends. But what awaits the wielders in the future? Only time will tell, next time on Symphogear Z!
"Damn! I sure did miss a lot!"
"You can say that again, Kanade-san."