UnderPiece! The Story of The Upcoming Pirate Queen!

by MULTUS

Muffet D. Baker, a Spider-Girl in a world where there are pirates, ability-giving fruits, government oppression, and infinite islands must strive and try her hardest to claim the title Queen of The Pirates by finding the treasure that W. D. Gaster left! Collecting crewmates on her voyages, she will make sure that her extinct race may someday flourish. That is her wish as a pirate!

61. The War of Apex Predators!

Wealth, Fame, and Power! W. D. Gaster, The King of The Pirates, had all those and the rest of what the world had to offer! Through many battles and trials, he had reached the pinnacle of the world's virtues and had nothing left but an illness that plagued him.

He brought himself in and was held at a worldwide public execution. Before he was executed, a man from the crowd asked:

"Where did you hide all your treasure?!"

To which the King of Pirates smiled and said:

"You want my treasure? You can have it! I left the most important treasure in the world on an island! Go and find it! 'For the next pirate that finds the UnderPiece, will be claimed the new King of The Pirates!"

Those were his final words before he was executed. He smiled to his death.

With those words, the world was flipped upside down as he created The Golden Pirate Era! People and already existing pirates from around the works started to sail the seas in search of the treasure that W. D. Gaster claimed to be-

The UnderPiece!

It had been Twenty Years since, and people have yet to find the treasure he was talking about. Except for one girl, who is now going to change the world by storm for the sake of her people.

This is the story of Muffet D. Baker and her way to becoming Queen of the Pirates!

Hydra stood upon the tallest tree, It was noon. All he did, was look upon form the tree and gazed at the heavenly doors of Olympus' apex, and waited for those pearly gates to open.

Because that was the sound of the bell.

His transponder snail was ringing. While still looking at the doors, he picked up the phone and held it up to his mouth.

"Hello?"

"Lord Hydra, everyone is gathered up around the base of the main stairs like you said. We'll wait on your cue!"

"Good...! Now, I want you and the other Pantheons to wait on the village outskirts of the Continent, preferably on the West side of Constricta..."

"W-what for sir?"

"Simple. Thus it is confirmed that at least two of their members are already on Constricta, right?"

"Uh, yeah?"

"I know that spider girl...she isn't going to leave her friends behind...I wouldn't. Especially since she is still able to fight and has had a week and a half to heal and think of a strategy to take me down. If I know her and her possy, then she'll most likely take advantage of the war to wait 'till I'm exhausted to attack me with her gang."

"That's...surprisingly keen of you sir. But what if our soldiers need assistance and we are not there?"

"Don't worry Prometheus, I'll lead the army, not only will it make the war go a lot smoother, but it'll put me at a distance gap from the enemy. You see, I'm not scared of Zewz...I'm scared of them. Which is why you and the other Panethons will stop them before they even get to me! Is that understood?" Hydra said asserting his position as King and General.

"Yes sir! I'll relay this information to the others immediately. May the gods be with us on our conquest!" Said Proemthus before hanging up.

Hydra continued looking at the door in the sky.

After another few minutes, the sound of a battle horn was heard as the gate doors were slowly being opened. Afterward, Zewz's army started funneling down the stairs in Phalanx form. Shields as white as clouds and spears as long and pointy as pikes.

In seemingly endless waves, they occupied every space of those steps and continued downward. Zewz's general was leading the charge, however, Hydra didn't see Zewz in sight.

"Heh! He wants to do this like 'that' huh? Finally, the King grew some balls!" He said as he leaped off the tree and onto the base of the mountain-high steps.

"IT IS TIME MY PEOPLE! MY FAMILY! MY FRIENDS! LET'S TAKE BACK OUR LAND FOR GOOD!" Hydra said to the crowd of millions of Minks.

They all raised their weapons and chanted out Hydra's name, readying their defenses and getting prepared to counter the infamous phalanx formation.

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(20 Minutes Later)

Muffet and Christie stood shoulder to shoulder on their stolen ship with their arms folded, just looking at Constricta from the close sea before they were about to dock.

Everyone on the ship had gotten new clothes due to their previous clothes either being torn or smelly from the elements they've been in.

Muffet dawned a purple wool hoodie with black horizontal stripes on it, she wore it with the hood on. She wore baggy greyish-brown pants and the same color winter boots.

Christie wore the same style and designed clothes as before, but everything that used to be grey was now black, and was once orange, which was a dark royal blue. She wore the same color pants.

Susie was the proudest of her apparel. She was scaringly able to find her Deltarune Dimension clothes in a shop that only she could see. After shopping, she told them that the shop she went to sold her cool stuff, but when they checked, it wasn't there. Not only that but the spot where it was wasn't seen by any of them even before she told them where the shop was. It was like it only existed when she got there. All she knew, was that the shopkeep seemed to be this stuff, but falling apart, toy cat. One of its eye-buttons fell off, but it was healthily fine as it sold her clothes.

Regardless, she adopted back her spiked choker and bracelets. She wore an extra set of those around both her biceps. A black robe devoid of a hood or sleeves that cut off around her shoulders, with a dark pink outline around the lining of the robe. a black belt with the buckle being a yellow heart. Magenta baggy khakis pants that were stuffed into her dark purple boots that had belts around the shin and toes parts of the boots.

She was damn proud of her for getting up. It reminded her of who she was, her nature.

And Kris.

Petrichor bought a red flannel shirt that she turned into a crop-top by tieing the bottom of it and loosening the buttons that would cover her chest and jean shorts. She wore no cowboy boots with tassels.

Undyne wore a black jean jacket with a white T-shirt underneath. Dark blue ripped jeans and the same snow boots as Muffet. She had spent most of her time trying to fix Bonetrousle, which she had remarkably done.

After her fight with Lillian, after she had dawned a weird form of sword style, she had...come to like it. Bonetrousle in her mouth, and two quadrents in each hand. Normally, she would practice muscle mass, but now she focused more on muscle memory to be able to refine a form of self-taught swordsman technique. Granted, with a week of training she accomplished very little if not, nothing at all. But she did at least find a way to make herself feel more comfortable while trying to take up the act of weapon fighting as opposed to straight brawling with her fist.

It came from a deeper part of her to try this new style of fighting. Yeah, she loved hand-to-hand combat and was good at it, but, Muffet was already notoriously infamous for her strikes and hits. Susie was known for her fluidity in her abilities, Ralsei was...Ralsei, but when it came to herself, she was generally a jack of all trades. Every single ability she gained on her adventures conflicts with each other. She is a close-ranged fighter physically, but her Devil Fruit gives her the ability to fight at an enormous range. However, her Haki reinforces her physical fighting side instead of relying on her Devil Fruit that can't be coated in Armament Haki. And then now, she had been given Bonetrousle by Papyrus which changes her style of fighting from fist to bladed weapons.

To Undyne, if there was one thing she wanted, it was diversity amongst her colleagues to make sure everyone felt like an expert in their craft. This is why she took it upon herself to try and learn the ways of bladed combat. So, about to dock on Constricta, she stood on the mast, Bonetrousle sheathed on her back, and two Determination Tridents in each hand, looking ou to see the future endeavors they will catch themselves in.

Off in the distance, Undyne saw the sight of a massive explosion, maybe a small village in diameter towards the middle of Contristca, towards the base of the mountain-high staircase. That followed by the distant echoes of screams and wails of men and women participating in the war. Some parts towards the inner rings of the island were either completely scorched, torn down, just straight disappeared, or just entirely concaved into the ground. they had arrived when the war had just been in motion.

"Up ahead! Seems we made it just in time, seems that both sides are still testing each other's firepower, millions still seem alive and the battle cries are fresh, perhaps we can end Hydra before more people have to die!"

Christie and Muffet looked back at Undyne.

"Exactly what we plan on doing!" Both of them said giving them a thumbs up.

Petrichor jumped from the port of the ship to the extended outward and pointy figurehead, crouched in a very similar way to a gargoyle on a building and covered her brows with her hand to go see a bit of the havoc for herself.

"How shall we approach the island 'Lil sis- I mean, captain?" Petrichor said with a cheeky smile.

Muffet laughed. Although Petrichor and Muffet had yet to do the sibling bonding ceremony of exchanging a bowl of sake and promising on their lives to be bond siblings, they didn't feel the need to. They truly acknowledged each other as siblings at heart, that's all they needed.

"No need to call me that dearie~ if it makes you feel weird, my name is fine. And hmm...any suggestions guys?" Muffet said turning around and gesturing her hands to everyone else on the ship.

Susie coughed in a way that got everyone's attention.

"According to Cassidy's insight, Hydra isn't like our former enemies, he is smart and a somewhat genius tactician. His experience outranks all of us and his connections also do."

Undyne raised a brow.

"What are you saying by that?"

"What I'm saying is...he knows we are here regardless of it making it known or not. Which means the best course of action is, if he knows we are here, the most we can do is split up so that he at least doesn't know where we are positioned."

Muffet smiled.

"Seems like a good plan to me dearie~ Any objections?" Muffet said giving everyone a sly smirk.

Everyone one by one gave her a wide grin.

"I see! He'll have eyes for me and Christie, so we'll go ahead and just skip right to the main fight. I'm counting on you guys to take out enemy of his strong henchman if he has any, and if there isn't, come meet us at the top of Olympus, we'll need as many people there as we can. If you physically can't attend, then at least try and cause the least amount of civilian causalities as you can. This is a Captain's Order, do I make myself clear dearies~!" Muffet said with both strong conviction and friendly encouragement.

"YES MA'AM!" Everyone said except Christie. Christie just smirk and rolled her eyes.

"A secret mission too, try and find Hera, Fuhu, and Ralsei! We'll most likely see them trying to help stop the war too, but if they aren't there, I rather you find them first before coming up to Olympus with Christie and me." Muffet said as the ship finally docked on the shore.

Christie gave Muffet a side glance and a smirk as she turned her legs into springs, Muffet stretched her arms out to the nearest tree, ready to slingshot herself towards the inner part of Constricta.

Then, they shot off!

Everyone else looked at each other. All three women hopped off the ship and onto the shore.

"So, how should we split?" Undyne said frantically looking around to see where to venture off to first.

"How about you go down the middle, I would flank clockwise and try and circle my way towards the moshpit at the center, to both scout for those three and divert attention," Petrichor said.

"I guess that means I'll do the same but the opposite side."

They all nodded in agreement. Undyne was the first to split off from the three into the direction she was told.

"YOU DUMBASSES BETTER NOT DIE ON ME! I BETTER SEE YOU AT OLYMPUS!" Undyne said as her voice trailed deeper into the forest.

Susie and Petrichor exchanged no words and just a fist bump before running off into their respective directions.

(Meanwhile, with Ralsei)

After a week...A week of torture and abuse...Ms. Atlas, held strong. The white room was now paved and hardened with her blood, turning some parts so the room crimson and some parts a light pink.

However, all she did in her cell, was smoke her Courage-filled cigarette. Her Courage was the only thing keeping her alive at all. She knew that she had to be strong so that the fate of her crew would be secured. Her Courage had some healing properties, well, not necessarily healing, but she found out that with enough practice of Courage, it acted as a pain nullifier. If she had felt the true amount of pain she had gotten from this encounter, she wouldn't have gotten past day two.

The only other thing keeping her alive was the thought of Muffet in Yetera...

Everyone on her crew talks about that behind Muffet's back, but that fight against the Chaos King, and the state she was in, and the fact that she got back up and still overperformed in that fight was the apex of their faith in Muffet. That moment was a symbolic motivation tool in the crew, and honestly, between them, a fangirl moment that they wish to never admit to Muffet. Because honestly, it was quite embarrassing to say to someone. However, keeping that in mind, everyone knew that, unless proven otherwise, they were not allowed to fall if they weren't in the same condition as Muffet in that fight.

That being said, her torture stopped since the war began. Everyone who had been on Olympus had evacuated, except Zewz, but Zewz was more attentive to the war than to interrogate her. So she sat alone in her jail.

Then...she began to hear the sounds of something acidically withering away. Ms. Atlas raised a brow before slowly starting to get up. The sound became more and more apparent. And if her hypothesis was correct, there was only one thing that could be going on right now to cause a sound in her area.

She was relieved.

Ms. Atlas took a long drag of her cigarette before flicking it away again.

She then looked down at the ground to her left, as if expecting something. Then, erupting out of the ground through chunks of rocks he was too excited to fully break through and purple acid was Fuhu.

Fuhu then excitedly tackled her and started to lick her, without the acid.

Ms. Atlas had remembered this same thing happening when Muffet and Undyne were imprisoned in StarDrop. Fuhu was always a get out of jail free card, literally. She lightly patted it because she didn't have the energy to do much else.

"Hey, Fuhu, what took you so long boy?" She said continuing to pat it. All it did was pant aggressively in her face excitedly.

She giggled. Then, she slowly got on top of Fuhu and laid on his back. The poor cupcake spider felt the weak heartbeat and fragility of Ms. Atlas' body and frowned. It whimpered as it looked around and saw the bars.

Fuhu looked around the room, it had found Ralsei because of an overwhelming scent it had picked up that was entirely hers. However, it was expecting it to be because he was simply getting closer, no the fact that the walls, ceiling, and the floor were coated in her blood in copious amounts.

Fuhu was an animal, but it had thoughts, it had consciousness, it was a smart animal.

It knew immediately what went down in this room, or at least a summarized idea of what went down. Now, Fuhu was mad.

Fuhu was furious.

It jumped towards the bars and busted them open with a headbutt. Ms. Atlas widened her eyes a bit when it did.

"Woah! Easy boy, just take me to the WOAH!" Ms. Atlas tried to say as Fuhu took off into the hallways of the chamber, trying to find its way to the surface.

(Meanwhile with Hydra)

Hydra had scaled the mountain by hand, after a couple of minutes, he had burst through the bottom of the continent with savage intentions and looked around maliciously. He looked to his left and right, he started to sweat, direct sunlight hadn't touched his black scaley body in many months.

"...So, it has finally come to this...are you happy, Gordon?" Zewz said.

Hydra turned around. Hydra had found himself in the middle of Zewz's kingdom. A kilometer in the distance was his castle, right now he was in the villas, a labyrinth-like societal infrastructure and city planning. Buildings and complexes with multiple stories lined the streets. Zewz was standing there on the opposite side of the street from him.

The Old King wore quartz battle armor and held a broadsword made entirely out of quartz.

"Of course I am, Zewz, this is the memorious day! The fall of the tyranny that even ones such a Morial sought on bringing down. You've had this a long time coming Zewz!"

Zews shook his head.

"Is that your reasoning for doing all this? Or is this all because of what happened to Lexi on that fateful day?" Zewz said giving Hydra a genuine sorry eye.

The lizard man flinched and slowly let out a sigh before turning immediately into his hybrid form.

"It was a promise we made Zewz, you wouldn't understand. Don't you have someone you care about?" Hydra said with a slight grin, knowing somewhat the answer.

Zewz clenched the hilt of his blade.

"I did...and then you took him away from me!"

"Oh? Do you mean that bird guy? You should've seen his face...when I snatched him out of the air...It. Was. Priceless." Hydra said as the quartz sword was immediately rammed through his chest.

Blood spurted from his mouth instinctively, but he didn't care.

"Heh. So you let all your men and women fight in this war so that I and you can duke it out alone...? There are kids in that war too, aren't there?"

Zewz was silent.

"Heh. Now go on and tell me again, who IS the villain here? The unable women, elderly, and children aren't fighting on my side, even I have a heart that's still beating!"

Hydra kicked the King in the chest, it got him off him. He took out the sword from his chest and the wound instantly regenerated. Hydra just quickly dropped it to the ground as the King caught his footing and generated another sword out of Quartz.

"You claim you love your people, but riskily send any of them out to die and cover it up that it needs to be done. When all of this could have been averted if you hadn't tried to colonize this land! Your imperial mindset is what caused all of this Zewz! This war, everyone's blood is on your hands!"

Zewz continued not to speak.

"I, Hydra Gordon! Will become The King of Constricta! And no one can stop me! Not anyone, and not even you and your pathetic Seki-Seki No Mi. That Special Paramecia that allows you to freely control quartz! And yet, you had these Minks mine for quarts for years to assemble this second Continent! You slave drove these people when you could've done it easily yourself!" Hydra said as he lunged at Zewz, to which Zewz parried with his sword and immediately back-peddled.

Hydra looked back up at him with hungry eyes, wanting that man's blood for what he did to not only the Minks, but the only person to have ever stood by his side through every situation, his true love. He would win this fight, all for her.

Zewz made a giant cube out of quartz and tried to squish Hydra with it, but Hydra caught it and overpowered Zewz's control of it and just tossed it off the side of Olympus. He roared as he continued his onslaught. Zewz rushed at him too.

He raised his sword and brought it down as they both ran past each other, clashing sword and claws and immediately turning around to do it again. Hydra revved up a blast, the same blast he used against Muffet to secure the fight between them, in his mouth. King made a giant shield out of quartz as soon as he shot it. The explosion incinerated the shield the mass of the surrounding area, even creating a slight smokescreen from the heated water.

Zewz tried to swipe away the smoke with his right hand to quickly get back to visual contact with his opponent, however, when he did he didn't see Hydra there anymore. He frantically looked around and couldn't find him.

Suddenly, coming from the direction of the sun's rays, Hydra came in at missile speed and dug his knees into Zewz's chest, slamming him against the ground and dragging his body along and through the quartz rode as if he were a surfboard through the water.

"HAVEN'T HAD THAT MANY DUEL'S HAVE YOU, ZEWZ?!" Hydra said mockingly as he continued the pressure on this old man's chest for a few more seconds before jumping off.

Zewz coughed out lots of blood.

When Hydra landed he looked more pissed.

"YOU HAD PEOPLE FIGHT FOR YOU! YOUR LACK OF FAITHFUL AND TRUE INITIATIVE LED US TO THIS! I HAD TO FIGHT ALL MY LIFE TO GET TO THE LEVEL THAT I AM NOW!" Hydra said lunging at the man again, coating his fists in Armament Haki.

The King turned the surrounding houses into block long and wide tendrils and then summoned them to converge and slam into Hydra.

This caught Hydra by surprise as the first tendril slammed into him, causing him slight pain as he flew into another tendril he also had no time to avoid. It slammed into his back and he gritted his teeth from the sudden pain. That latest attack launched him into the sky to which another tendril was snaking its way to him.

Hydra clenched his fist again and punched the tendril before it could make contact, destroying it immediately. The fight was now taken to the air. Swerving behind him, reaching Hydra in the air was another tendril. Hydra sensed it and turned around and gave it a left hook coated in Armament Haki.

Another tendril from directly below him was making its way. Hydra flipped over it and slide down it like a slide with his bare feet. Zewz started to sweat. Another tendril came and tried to ram Hydra off of the other tendril, but Hydra jumped over and onto it before using it as a platform to launch himself towards Zewz.

They were face to face, but before hydra could continue his strike, Zewz summoned a quick pillar, the same one he used to torture Ralsei, and nailed him in the stomach, making him roll along the ground to then get immediately pummeled by the remaining tendrils.

Zewz scoffed.

"No doubt you are stronger than me in every aspect, that, I can acknowledge. That being said, you are fighting on a whole Continent made out of my Devil Fruit. It seems the playing field is even."

As soon as he said, Zewz let out a massive roar that blew away the tendrils around him into rock chunks. He fronts flipped back on his two feet and caught his breath. His wounds healed almost instantly as he was doing so.

"The truth is Zewz, only one of us can take hits, once I get a decent blow on you, it's over. Even with infinite quartz at your disposal, it's a tale as old as time. Which will win? An immovable object, or an unstoppable force?"

Both of them got into a stance.

And then, two other presences were felt, both Hydra and Zewz looked around and to their surprise, two women were seen with their arms folded looking down at the fight.

"Jeez you two, do you know the bloodbath that is down there? Those stairs were a hassle!" Christie said stretching out her limbs.

Muffet giggled.

"Hey, Hydra dearie~ I see you brought a friend with you, who's this~," Muffet said sinisterly.

The two captains now made it to Olympus thanks to their quite speedy Devil Fruit abilities. Granted, still wore them out just a bit to get through the entire continent and have to fight people up the staircase to get here.

Zewz looked uneased by this situation.

"Spider-Girl...now you want to come?! And why is the World Government butting in on this?!"

Hydra looked at those two women and then back at him.

"Long story, look, are you ladies wanting to stop me? It seems you're already too late. After I'm through with this jackass I'll happily give you two a rematch!" Hydra said secretly excitedly. Although, he was angry that his Pantheon's couldn't warn him about their arrival and advancements.

However, he was smart enough to realize that it would be because that the Pantheons were busy with her crew that they were busy and took that as a slight success. If the entire crew was here to interfere with him now, he'd be somewhat concerned.

"Who's he though?" Muffet said rudely pointing to the King.

The king, furiously said, "I'M THE KING OF OLYMPUS!"

"Ooooh! That's you? my bad! Huehuehue~" Muffet said giggling to herself.

Christie laughed with her.

"I don't want to fight you, I'm only here for Hydra, we have a score to settle."

Hydra then thought of a plan.

"You know Spider girl...Besides our little fight, I didn't touch your crew at all. Your little doctor stood behind and managed to kill not one, but two of my faithful colleagues. So, I only roughed her up in retaliation, you would do the same if someone killed members of your crew. And yet, I spared her...him on the other hand...once he took her, I haven't heard from her since." Hydra said slowly pointing to Zewz.

Zewz started to sweat.

Muffet's attention was split between looking confused at Hydra and angry at Zewz, not knowing who to believe.

"What did you do you her?!" Muffet said believing Hydra more.

"S-she killed my right-hand man-"

"Correction," Hydra said, "I killed him, he's lying."

Muffet, looking at Christie, gave off certain vibes. Christie understood and did her version of Susie's lie-detecting ability.

"Hydra...hasn't told a lie yet," Christie said dumbfounded by that fact.

Muffet then gave Zewz a cold stare as she took several steps towards him.

"What did you do?!"

"I-I-" Zewz tried to explain.

And then...

"Muffet...!"

Muffet looked off to the distance behind Zewz, to see where that voice was coming from.

It was Ralsei, and Fuhu carrying her. Fuhu had searched the main floor for a while for a hat, to which he settled on a bejeweled fedora to place on Ralsei's head so that she wouldn't burn up in the sun. He was now running at Muffet.

She immediately saw the condition Ralsei was in.

Zewz...was frozen scared. Hydra smiled. Christie just looked at Ralsei's mangled body with a grimace.

No one moved while she had her moment.

Fuhu ran up to Muffet and spoke in their native language. Telling Muffet all that happened in that cell and what happened to Ralsei. The instant he finished speaking, her eyes widened and her fist clenched. Bloodlust, the thickest it has ever been, filled the entirety of Olympus. Zewz was even more scared and frozen in place, Christie just crossed her arms and looked away from the scene, and Hydra was just laughing maniacally.

She immediately turned around to go kill Zewz before...her hand was grabbed by a fuzzier hand.

"Muffet listen-"

"I know you are against brash violence, but now is not the time-"

"I'm not here to talk you out of it dummie...Ever since you left, I have been trying my best, for the sake of the crew. You don't understand Muffet, you guys would be nowhere without me hehe...Listen. I've been running around this place, for weeks, making sure you guys don't get killed when you arrived...Muffet, I killed people, I made alliances I never thought I'd make, I made my stand-alone decisions- I found my source of Courage Muffet! This is me now, your coward of a doctor, working behind the scenes so that I can carry everyone on my back as you would do. With everyone gone...I was the captain of our crew, I thought that if I could be like you, everything would go alright. I tried my best, but in the end, the War still happened, I lost Hera in the heat of battle, god knows if Ronaldo is still alive...I tried my hardest for the team Muffet, I love you guys...I've done more than enough but, I won't feel like I have until you tell me that I've done enough...did I serve you, well captain...?" Not Ms. Atlas anymore, but Ralsei was speaking.

Muffet's bloodlust calmed down. Only Petrichor was able to do that. Or at least she thought. She turned around to Ralsei, poor Ralsei, and saw her condition. Even then, she was smiling, with a singular tear of Courage running down her left cheek.

"Yes Ralsei, you did great. More than great, thank you for toughening up and taking care of our crew's name while we were out...you can rest now, your captain has the rest taken care of. Thank you Ralsei, for being the MVP of this adventure this time, I appreciate it, we all do. I'll make it up to you back on the ship, okay~?" Muffet said motheringly sweet as she knelt and lightly hugged Ralsei's mangled body.

Ralsei patted her captain on the back before passing out from blood loss.

Muffet got back up on her feet. She then smacked the hat right off her Ralsei and instead...she took hers off. She then placed her hat on Ralsei, she deserved it. The spider girl then looked at her pet.

"Take her back to the ship, or find Undyne, whichever is more convienent and safe for you. I want you to stay far away from this location little buddy, we'll come to find you once this is over. You've done a lot too." Muffet said rubbing the bottom of Fuhu's chin like a dog.

Fuhu gave an excited yelp and quickly went off to go descend the mountain in hopes to find Undyne or anyone that can help Ralsei.

Muffet watched him run off before turning her attention over to Zewz. The intention to kill was lingering but not as much as before. Zewz eased up a little, angling himself to accommodate two foes that he must face.

Silence fell between them four.

"Hey, Christie, safe to say that he did something to your man," Muffet said pointing to Hydra, all he did was smile.

Christie then sharply looked at him and hopped down from her high ground to meet him.

"You take care of him, dearie~ I have a few words with this King. So tell me, dearie, ~ you attempting to take all of my crew and even me, did you do it because you felt an obligation to the navy...or was it because you couldn't stand to see us animal-humans succeed?" Muffet said slowly walking up to him while stretching out her six arms to warm them up.

Christie was doing warm-up stretches too.

"And you Hydra! This time, I won't go down so easily!"

Hydra only laughed before cracking his knuckles.

"I don't expect it to be! A true battle of leaders! A battle of Apex Predators! A battle of representatives, Pirate, Mink, Navy, and Royalty. Give it your best everyone!"

Muffet flexed all the muscles in her body as her eyes glew with Perseverance.

Christie crouched turning her legs into springs.

Zewz summoned the tendrils again while also brandishing his sword.

Hydra just coated his arms in Armament and continued in his base form.

Just like that, the battle on Olympus began.

(Meanwhile, with Undyne)

Undyne had spent a lofty amount of minutes straight running through the forest without breaking a sweat, she cut through rundown villages and dead bodies along the floor. Being both from either Mink or Human.

"Damn, I hope Hera is safe wherever she is...what kind of mom am I?" She thought to herself as she pushed through a shrubbery threshold.

Leaping through the forest, all at once, the chaos of war hit her. Immediately an explosion occurred next to her from what she recognized to be a cannonball. Minks and Humans flying both wholes and in pieces flew by her. She was jostled and tripped to her side where she fell into one of the divots into the ground made for trenches towards the Mink side.

She immediately recovered from the sudden shock and tried to pull herself up. To which she saw the battles that were happening in these trenches, humans trying their best to engage in swordfights wearing quartz armor against the Minks.

Undyne sniffed the air and all it smelled of was gunpowder and blood and viscera, not one bit of the area smelled like a forest nor anything from nature. It was a man-made mess. She almost vomited when she inhaled and opted to just breathe out her gills instead of her nose. She finally picked herself up fully and analyzed the situation.

"Shit I'm not sure if we should be taking sides in this war, we are supposed to be preventing casualties, but what if I'm attacked, or there is a definitive wrong side. From how I've been told, the humans are the wrong side, this was the Minks land...I...don't know what to do!" Undyne said in her mind as she shook her head to brush off the thought and took a leap out of the trench, taking one last look at the struggling Minks, fighting for their lives.

She pressed on towards the staircase to which seem so far but so close. The staircase was insight, but to have to go through more miles of War induced chaos would hinder her a bit.

Dead bodies laced the floor, a few gunshots flew by her head but because of her familiarity of high-speed fights, especially sparring against Muffet's gear second, it made naturally fast enough to barely dodge these shots. A few humans mistook her for a Mink and attempted to engage her in a fight as she try to run by them. The first guy attempted a sword swing at her neck, to which she slid on her knees to avoid the strike.

If she wanted to, she would turn the tides of the war just by assisting the Minks, but she didn't want to get involved in a fight that wasn't hers to be in. Her beef was only with Hydra, no one more.

Two more guys fired cannonballs at her while she ran, she ran on top of the nearest sandbag barricade and jumped over both of them. When she landed she rolled on the ground and continued her sprint with faster speed, blitzing past her aggressors while causing a gust of wind as she did. The more she ran through the battlefield, the more she noticed the destruction done by this war. What was once a forest that housed happy villages, was now turned to ash and craters from the impacts of war, more dead bodies lined the floor, and people fighting for their lives amongst the rubble and corpses. It made her sick.

Infrastructure was burning down and falling in front of her, more chunks of road and debris flying due to the cannon fire that felt like carpet bombs.

"FOR HYDRA!"

"FOR ZEWZ!"

She kept hearing these things from directions that she felt no care for anymore. Everything around her was a sensory overload. She lost concentration and tripped a couple of times in her pursuit to get to the staircase. Her attention was being diverted from the rapidness and radical shifts in the war. Every time she looked around it got worse, Minks biting Humans in half with a simple bit, Humans slicing women and men entwine with their swords.

Friendly fire happening on accident, crossfire amongst cannons, bullets colliding in the air. Body parts flying, debris flying, screams, echoing pains, chanting, roars, screams, blood, rock, soil, houses, shacks, weapons, cannonballs, guts, bones. Those were things she saw just in a second of trying to remain conscious.

This was war.

The more she ran, she eventually got to another batch of Zewz's soldiers that came in as reinforcements, they saw her and on sight, they rushed her. She was too bewildered by everything around her that she didn't have time to register how many of them there were.

She did a light jump over them but to her surprise, there were more of them than she anticipated and landed in the middle of them. The men separated and surrounded her.

"Look, guys. I'm not here to fight, I mean, this is insane! Do you see what's happening around you!" Undyne said out of breath and looking around in a panorama seeing through the guards and only seeing the images of war. Her pupils were trembling from legitimate fright.

As bloodthirsty as she was as a fighter, the events happening here made her unsettled to the bone. It was the fact that these people were being mutilated and manipulated into doing so by two people using them to only look after themselves. It was the difference between killing someone in a duel and watching a nursery being burned down. One of those didn't need to happen.

"In the name of Zewz, we order you to stand down."

"I can't! Let me through, I don't want to fight!" Undyne said looking around again to see that they were all inching closer to her with spears and swords in hand.

"You'll have to get through us!" One of the guards said.

Undyne just held her hands out, trembling, she was unsure of what to do, she knew she was ordered to save as many lives as she can. But how can she? It was impossible to do, it was war, what was a simple person to do?

"Get her!" The guards said as they all went in for the attack.

Undyne flinched and shed a singular tear before summoning two spears in her hands.

And then...

A giant impact was made, someone was hit hard, and then a large crater followed by debris flying was made. A flash screen was made, as if a blinding light was emitted onto the battlefield, blinding everyone taking part in the war.

Everyone stopped what they were doing to look at the light. The whole war was captivated to see what just happened, millions of people looked in awe.

From the ball of light that emitted the flash, came out a little girl. No one knew who the girl was, except one person.

This girl punched the soil and then lifted her hands to raise it to make a podium, high enough for everyone to see. She then quickly climbed up the podium she made, visibly having blue blood run down her head and a couple of bruises, whatever she was doing before getting here, was a fight.

Once she got to the top of the podium she screamed out.

"EVERYONE! STOP FIGHTING!"

The yell of this small girl shook everyone on the battlefield, millions of people stopped fighting and heard her voice.

Undyne shed another tear, but this time, of happiness.

"MY NAME IS HERA! WHETHER YOU KNOW ME AS THE ANCIENT WEAPON OR THIS ANCIENT SAVIOR, I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT THIS WAR IS A LIE! YOU ALL ARE KILLING EACH OTHER, INNOCENT PEOPLE, FOR A CAUSE THAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE REAL! BUT LET ME TELL YOU, HYDRA GORDONS AND ZEWZ HAVE BEEN USING YOU AS PAWNS FOR THEIR SPITE WAR! IS THIS WORTH FIGHTING FOR?! YOUR TRUE ENEMIES ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE LED YOU TO BELIEVE THAT YOU WERE BETTER THAN THE OTHER WHEN IN REALITY, HUMANS AND MINKS ARE EQUAL! UNDERNEATH THE APPEARANCE, WE STILL FUNCTION AS THE SAME BEINGS! OUR RACE HAS NO FACTOR AS TO HOW WE SHOULD TREAT EACH OTHER- AND I SHOULD KNOW! FOR A FEW MONTHS, I HAVE BEEN ON THE SEA WITH NEW FAMILY, WHICH CONSIST OF A DINOSAUR LADY, A GOAT MINK, A SPIDER-WOMAN, And...my mom...A FISHWOMAN! NOT ONCE DID WE JUDGE EACH OTHER BY OUR RACE, BUT BY THE HEARTS WE HAD AS INDIVIDUALS, AS PEOPLE. WAKE UP PEOPLE, IS THIS A WAR YOU MORALLY FEEL GOOD ABOUT?! DROP YOUR WEAPONS! AND PLEASE EVERYONE, STOP FIGHTING! Please...stop fighting...I'm tired of fighting..."

Hera said before breaking out into tears. When she did, a wave of unknown invisible force swept the battleground, the same way Zewz and Hydra did, but this time...it was stronger.

She had the will of a King.

Everyone slowly looked around to the people they fought with, and the ones they were fighting, letting Hera's words sink in. The war was stopped, even for a few seconds. No one had the will to fight anymore.

Undyne was too proud of her daughter to be crying any more tears.

"HERA!" Undyne said dematerializing her weapons and waving at Hera with both hands.

Hera heard the voice and directed her attention to where she heard it.

"MOM! YOU'RE FINALLY HERE-" Hera said before another flash of light was caused.

This time it was a beam of light piercing right through Hera's chest, clean through. The beam then made its way to the mountain, the beam came from the pit, so to have to pierce through her chest, meant that it would hit the middle of the staircase. The beam created an impressive explosion upon impact.

Hera, however, fell lifeless as the beam struck her. The podium then dematerialized and she fell from it. Immediately rising from the pit, was a man with glowing eyes and white hair and silver armor with clocks engraved into them. After his blow, he floated in the air and looked around.

Everything happened at literal light speed. It took Undyne a few seconds to finally comprehend what happened.

With that notion, everyone felt the sudden rage again by Helios' action to continue the War. The mayhem ensued after.

Undyne dashed through hundreds of people to get to where Hera was. She jumped and caught Hera's body from mid-air.

"HERA! HERA! ARE YOU OKAY?! SPEAK TO ME!"

Undyne looked at her eyes and felt her pulse, it was faint. However, Hera still gave her mom a kind smile and eyes.

"You're here mom...seems I was too late, heh..."

"Of course, I'm here, we are going to get you to Ralsei, and she'll..." Undyne tried to think, but she didn't know where Ralsei was. And there was no other doctor on the island.

"It's okay...Imma be fine, the rest of the crew needs you...they need you to win...and...and...I'm so sorry..." Hera said with a tear running down her face.

Undyne was bewildered.

"Why are you sorry?! Don't be sorry-"

"No...! When I was left alone, I found out that...I was prophesized to be the savior of the war...and when I heard the news...I was a coward! I ran! I ran like a little girl when faced with responsibility and I ditched you guys, I even wrote a note about my resignation from your crew and I ran away from the island in a weak attempt to not face action...However, the only thing that did was make me feel responsible for something else...disappointment and sadness for my friends and family, everything we did together means so much for me! You all fought for me countless times, and the one time you need me, I leave. I rather die here to be the savior than live the rest of my life knowing my family doesn't love me anymore...So, I swam back, destroyed that note, and came back here...but it seems I'm too late for the prophecy to matter, heh...Looking at me crying like a baby...even now, I don't feel like I deserve to be your daughter. I looked up to you because even when placed with an almost impossible task, you followed orders with a smile and vigor...I couldn't...that's why I'm sorry...for disappointing you..."

Just like that, Hera felt limp in her blue arms.

Undyne was speechless and did nothing but softly cry tears of disbelief onto Hera's body. the blue energy in her fading away.

The human soldiers around her noticed that her guard was down, and twenty men came in rushing with their weapons. She just stood there, oblivious to the world around her. The noise of war was muffled around her, it was a complete sensory overload, she just continued to be sat there, looking at the dying body of her daughter.

Just then, Fuhu came in, with Ralsei on his back, parkouring on heads and debris to get to Undyne in this war.

Undyne was still in the trance of grief, she didn't even acknowledge Fuhu incoming. Then slowed their approach as they somewhat stopped for a second to understand what was a cupcake spider doing here with a goat on his back. the fishwoman continued to lay there, focusing on nothing but her thoughts, lost in them, everything around her was black. She felt like her soul left her body, she didn't want to believe she was real. She felt lost.

But then...there was a light...an orange one, breaking through her perpetual darkness.

"Hey, idiot," said Ralsei as she used Fuhu's speed to charge up a punch using her Courage to make a barrier around her hand. That punch woke Undyne up from her train of thought. Once she collected some of herself, she noticed Fuhu and Ralsei.

"There you guys are- guys Hera! Ralsei, can you-?" Undyne said before she was hit again by Ralsei.

"Shut up idiot, forget about Hera, are you about to let us die too?" Ralsei said the twenty soldiers were a few seconds away from their pincer attack.

Undyne got up and summoned spears, but she still didn't know what to do. She was never prepared for a situation like this, she still didn't know whether it was okay to attack the people in the war or not.

"I-I don't know if it's my place to do anything...I don't know what to do Ralsei...HELP!" Undyne said.

She, for once, felt helpless, as strong as she was, she was out of her element, she didn't want to do anything wrong, especially in a war. So for once, she found the courage in herself to call out for help.

She called for help...

And somebody came...

"As a part of the Navy, when someone calls out for help...It's my duty to help them. So, this setting is my place to intervene whenever someone needs help, this whole continent needs as much help as they can, whether they be friend or foe. I'm morally obligated to help those no matter the cost! SIPHON!" Said Ronaldo as all the twenty guards fell limp to the floor due to a lack of energy.

He appeared next to Undyne and gave her a look in the eyes.

"Your mom fought in countless wars, back at the HQ, we heard many stories of her war duties and pledges and oaths she took to do more than the best she could in those situations," He picked up Hera with one arm and picked up Fuhu, with Ralsei, with the other arm, "You have more intuition than I do, so tell me, what would Morial do?" Ronaldo said with a stern tone.

Undyne thought about it. Her mom probably wouldn't have caved in from any of this. Instead of focusing on what she couldn't do, she should focus on what she can do.

Just then, Helios noticed her group of people huddled up and aimed and shot three light beams, the same ones that hit Hera, at them. Ronaldo was caught off guard by this and so were Ralsei and Fuhu.

However, Undyne moved in the way of them, showing her back to the beams, all of them piercing her through the back, her arm, and thigh. Ronaldo seemed freaked out that she tanked those attacks for them so fast, how did she even know he fired them and when to intercept them when she had her back facing him.

Undyne only smiled at Ronaldo.

"I can still find an alternate way to save lives...that's what I can do! Now, take them away from here, use your ability to heal them if you can. I'll take your shift from here!" Undyne said with blood dripping down her mouth.

Ronaldo only nodded begrudgingly before taking off. Helios scoffed as he lifted his finger to go shoot another light blast, to which, Undyne jumped up and coated Bonetrousle with Armament and swung at his arm, it knocked his hand off course and he missed the blast entirely.

She smirked in his face as she did.

"You are eager to let those mice live?"

"They aren't mice-!" Undyne said Helios punched her in the gut at light speed, his whole arm going through her body.

He scoffed and looked to see where Ronaldo had taken off to.

However, his arm was grabbed. He looked at his arm and couldn't believe his eyes.

Undyne was still alive despite an entire arm being sent through her body.

"One of them is a good friend-!" Undyne said summoning gauntlets out of Determination and coating them in Armament Haki. She grabbed his arm with both hands.

"One of them is like family to me-!" Undyne then started to have her eye brim red, even from her socket too, with a green glowing dot as pupils. The blood coming down her mouth was disappearing. She started to pull herself off his arm, Helios was too scared to move, he just watched in awe.

"And that little girl..." She completely pulled herself off his arm and immediately used her overwhelming Kindness to heal her wounds and immediately dawned the armored form that she used again Lillian, "WAS MY BELOVED DAUGHTER!".

She created a shockwave out of her power that pushed him away. It pushed away from the people below her and created an area for them to have their fight. Helios was still shocked that someone was able to survive that.

Especially with his invincible Devil Fruit.

Undyne fell to the ground in her full suit of armor and got ready. She put Bonetrousle horizontally between her teeth and had a quadrant in each hand.

Three sword style.

"You think you have what it takes to keep up with me, hm? My Pika-Pika No Mi is a Logia that allows me to become light itself. My fruit is entirely invincible! What do you plan to do?"

Undyne raised a Quadrant in his direction.

"Beat your ass!"

"Hm, decent plan-" Helios said before dodging her swipe attack with ease.

Faster than she could keep up with, he navigated behind her and kicked her at light speed across the battlefield. People seeing this watched in awe as she was launched through the ground as if it was water. Before she could realize what had happened to her, he was behind her and kicked her in the air before appearing above her just to slam back down.

She caught herself in her landing and picked herself up, the instant she did she was greeted with Helios aiming at her point-blank. Before she could dodge, he let the attack go.

It connected and she was caught in an explosion that made everyone in the surrounding area fly away from the wind pressure. Helios just kept his arms folded and looked at the smoke, waiting for it to clear to confirm his kill.

Just then, an array of quadrants surrounded and proceeded to try and pierce him. With his speed, he dodged all of them with ease and proceeded to launch more and more beam attacks in the direction of the smoke. Causing a carpet bomb of explosions as it connects with something physical.

A giant mushroom cloud was made on the battlefield, this only enraged the War more. The nauseating noise of war was only amplified.

Eventually, the smoke cleared and Undyne was sent back almost back to the forest, most of her Determination armor pieces completely blasted off. Where the pieces of armor used to be, was just smoldering and melting metal, some even went beyond the armor and burned her flesh. This is the first time someone matched her when she went into this form. Besides Lillian.

She took deep breathes as she slowly summoned two tridents in both hands and firmly kept Bonetrousle in her mouth. Half her helmet was entirely blasted off, so all he was able to see was a glowing red and green eye.

Undyne attempted an air attack by jumping vertically and sending spears in his direction while making air slashes with her swings. However, the instant she attempted the jump she was met face to face with him almost immediately. He smiled in her face as he delivered a roundhouse kick at light speed.

"BEACON LANCE!" He yelled as the blow connected, Launching Undyne directly through several trees and yet again dragging her body along the floor as the ground was water and she was a motorboat.

Whatever pieces of armor that were clinging on to her form, was now entirely stripped from her. Undyne still kept her consciousness, she rolled on her back as she was still grinding against the floor and managed to gain footing.

Helios was immediately behind her and readied a sword made out of light to cleave her in half.

"The speed of light is pretty much God in the eyes of new pirates, only those considered Emporers of the seas could keep up with such a speed, let alone a plebian like you. So die, in the name of Hydra!" Helios said bringing down his sword at light speed.

Just then, Undyne caught it from behind her head.

Helios was shocked by this sudden energy Undyne gave off, almost like it wasn't Undyne. then, Undyne chuckled, but it didn't sound like her previous chuckle, it sounded like a more refined and older woman. Just then, Undyne grew in size and muscle mass, a simple two more feet in height, and added sixty more pounds of muscle that distributed throughout her entire body. Her hair grew distributed and became an ever-flowing ponytail, he clothes almost shredding apart from her new size but kept itself together.

This wasn't Undyne anymore...this...was Morial. Without the armor.

"Trust me, newbie, Emporers are much faster than whatever you are, I would know! Gwehehehe!" Morial said summoning a quadrant in her free hand while using her other hand to crush his light sword.

Helios back peddled away from her in fear at the speed of light. However, Morial was still an equal distance away from him.

She was keeping at his pace!

Helios had never felt such fear before, he didn't exactly really know who this woman was, but anyone who can keep up with his speed was a threat in itself.

He flew into the sky at the speed of light, Morial did a vertical jump and kept up with his speed while doing so. He launched a beam of light at her face, to which she summoned a helmet out of Haki-infused Determination and headbutted through it. The beam of light split into two and ended up on the flight path of the people of the war.

"Heh! Take notes daughter!" Morial said as she summoned spears using Undyne's Devil Fruit.

Since they were inhabiting the same body, they both technically had access to this power. However, Morial didn't feel the need to use it until this moment, where it would finally be of use to her.

She summoned about 100 spears, and then the two explosions happened, destroying almost an acre of land and people in it in the process. Morial then turned the spears...not yellow, not red like how Undyne had it. Undyne only had three colors to her spears, Yellow ones that bounced off surfaces and ricochet, Blue ones that acted as regular spears, and Red ones that explode. However, Morial turned them green and then launched them at the craters.

When the green spears made contact with the people and craters...the damages that were sustained by the blast were healing infractions per spear. With 100 spears, the craters reformed their original mass, and the people that were injured were fully healed.

Morial grinned and Helios used this as a chance to strike. He dashed at her at light speed from behind and prepared a swiping kick to the back of her neck. To which she was able to counter it with a block from her quadrant that she coated in Armament Haki. It was of a weird color, but it was enough for him to feel the impact he dealt on the quadrant onto his shin. He then immediately tried to retreat towards the shore of the island to which she cut him off.

This game of chase continued for tens of more seconds before Morial felt like she didn't want to play around anymore and grab him by his shirt while coating her arm in Armament Haki so that she could grab him. Then, she tossed him back towards the forest's outskirts that immediately led him back into the edges of the war.

Helios was so scared by this entire encounter that he was actively looking for ways to escape rather than fight her. He looked around in fear as he saw Morial air dashing his way to him, he lightly held up his guard as he was too shook to fully keep up his guard.

However, as she was in her flight path, Morial's physical appearance started to fade and deteriorate back to Undyne. Going back to her dimensions and weight class. Undyne took a deep and sharp breathe as if caught surprised by the transformation the entire time she was in it now realized that she wasn't where she was before.

Helios noticed this and as soon as it clicked in his mind that Morial was no longer present, he came in at light speed and gave her an ax kick back onto the Constricta soil. Undyne's pupils almost faded away as she bounced against the floor spewing a hefty amount of blood from her mouth, a few bones cracking under the sudden pressure and new force that she had faced.

Helios then appeared above her body and held up a blast of light in his hands, letting it cook.

"It'll take me mere seconds if I'm unlucky to refind your friends. That little girl was the only one capable of stopping me, her ability to copy whatever she touches was a problem, she even became light itself too, that's how she was able to appear in the war and have a square fight against me. And she claims you to be her mother? How? You are vastly weaker than her-" Helios said making the blast in his hand bigger and bigger. Undyne just laid there, prepared to face the brunt of the attack.

However, another voice was heard.

"Helios, how long are you going to take?" Said a younger woman behind him. Helios turned around to see that it was Cassidy.

Undyne saw this too.

"Heh! The brat finally chose to leave the party and switch sides again huh?"

Cassidy chuckled and took out her flintlock revolver.

"Of course, why do you think I'm here about to watch you perish?" Cassidy said aiming.

Helios was confused.

"Wait Artemis, you two teamed up, why didn't you report this to Hydra?" Said Helios.

Undyne and Cassidy gave a glance at each other. Undyne gave her a face of confusion but also slight happiness coming from Cassidy. Cassidy gave her a look of confidence.

"Because as the fishwoman said, I left the party and switch sides...I don't have to explain myself!" Cassidy said as she shot.

Not at Undyne, but at Helios. Helios caught the bullet with his bare hands and gave her a condescending look. Cassidy just blew the smoke out of the muzzle of her gun and proceeded to take out both her sawed-off shotguns and draw them. Undyne slowly got up behind Helios and started to...

Stretch out her arms? She was treating him as if he wasn't there anymore. As if the fight was done.

"Wow, that was by far the lamest betrayal reveal I've ever seen. And now because of it, nothing is stopping me from murdering you two women right-"

"Oi Cassidy, go long!" Undyne said taking out Bonetrousle again and getting in a batting position.

Why wasn't she caring anymore, he wondered.

Cassidy played along and started to back up a few steps before aiming down her shotguns. Helios tried to turn his body into the light to speed blitz them in under a second for disrespecting him, but, when he tried to move, his body felt weak. He took a sharp glance at the bullet and realized then...

It was a Sea Prism stone bullet.

Before he could yell out anything to anyone it was too late.

"SEE YA DORK!" Undyne said as she flexed her arms and core so hard her thyroids bulged violently through her skin.

Her swing hit him in the back of the head, sending him limp because of the sea prism bullet. He's ragdolling body was sent in the direction of Cassidy. And before he knew it, he was sent face-first into the barrels of Cassidy's two shotguns.

POW! POW!

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After a few seconds, Undyne gathered herself and walked towards Cassidy, both of them covered in copious amounts of blood. Undyne just gave her a toothy grin and leaned forward her body so that she can get to the same height level as Cassidy and gave her a condescending but happy look.

Cassidy was flushed and looked away.

"So! First of all, thank you, but, how did you know I was here?"

Cassidy gave her a sassy look.

"Are you a knuckledragger? That fight could be seen from anywhere, all it was was a light show. The hard part was waiting for the fucker to stand still...granted, that was my last Sea Prism bullet, those shits are super tedious and expensive to make." Cassidy said reloading her guns, "And uh...you're welcome." She finished and blushed.

Undyne gave a hearty chuckle.

"Second, what was it? What was it that was the deciding factor for you?"

The cowgirl catgirl sighed.

"Look, it was difficult okay! But, someone recently" She clenched her heart for a reason Undyne didn't know, "recently told me that sometimes it's better to do what's right than what I've been ordered to do. And, I have been feeling like Hydra has a good heart and good intentions...It's just the way he's going about it that I don't like- I mean, look! A war?! I had to run by it to get here I puked TWICE! This has to stop, and from the looks of it, you guys are the best chance."

Undyne just patted her head and ruffled her hair, her cat ears flared up and she slowly nuzzled into her palm before pulling herself away.

"Don't do that! Don't make it weird!"

"Just had to try it at least once, gwehehe! Well, if you want to help out, you can either help the others in their fights or help Muffet and Christie on the top of Olympus, they need all the help they can get. I'll join you soon, first I'll see what I can use what my mother taught me to help ease the tides of war."

Cassidy nodded and started to run off. Undyne smirked.

"Hey!"

Cassidy turned around.

"I forgive you! And I appreciate you and what you're doing now! Now go!"

Cassidy only just gave her a scoff before running off in the opposite direction from her. However, when she turned away from her, a singular tear went down her face.

"Goddamn it!" She said having to run through the entire battleground again.

(Meanwhile with Ronaldo, Ralsei, and Hera)

Ronaldo, after successfully saving them from Helios, dashed through the battleground of the war, using his ability to zap the energy out of the soldiers to stop fighting and ultimately stop killing each other. However, with the millions of people participating in this war, his efforts were rather minuscule when considering the large scale. He knew this, and he decided that any lives saved are better than none.

He was using his siphoned power to then redirect it to life energy into Ralsei and Hera, slowly and slowly their wounds began to mostly heal.

Keyword, mostly.

His life siphoning was able to heal things that were blatantly broken in the human body, but in terms of removing the feeling of pain, soreness, or perfectly healing what had been broken, it was all still there. He could heal a shattered bone but leave it still with imperfect bumps and ridges on it despite it being healed. So essentially, until someone found proper doctor care, they were only able to heal back to about 60% of their power.

Which honestly, to them, was better than zero, or whatever percent they were at before. The explosion where Helios made into the staircase when he attacked Hera made it so that it made Zewz's soldiers have to resort to jumping off the sides of the staircase and using their swords to grind against the walls as a form of vertical slide until they reached the bottom. Ronaldo used this as a spot to place down Hera and Ralsei while keeping them safe from harm from both parties.

He gently placed them down and clamped his hands on his knees to try and catch a breath.

Fuhu just went to Hera and repeatedly licked her face, trying to wake her up.

"...F-Fuhu? Heh, easy boy easy boy." Hera said waking from her daze, still hurt and tired, but most animated than before.

Regardless of that, the spider cupcake pet tackled her with all his force and continued to lick her. She tried to push him off but gave in to the affection and the weight of him.

Ralsei hopped off Fuhu the instant it dashed to Hera and she caught her footing. She then looked at Ronaldo, seeing him tired. She frowned.

She walked up to this dark-skinned man and gave him a lightly placed hand on the shoulder.

"Thank you for helping us out back there. And they said chivalry is dead, teehee." Ralsei said looked just as physically tired as he was but trying to find some way to ease the mood.

He laughed too.

"This is the most I can do, for at least you two," He then stood up straight and looked at the war below him, "These people still need me. If I can use my ability to save people, then it's worth going out and doing, even if my lungs burn...or I die trying."

He looked off stoically into the ongoing battle. Ralsei stood next to him and looked off too.

"You're doing good by doing this you know. I hope your peers see what you are doing-"

"It's not about the recognition. It's about doing the right thing, even when no one is looking. That's what Christie would've done..."

Ralsei looked at him and gave a slight smirk and a hefty pat on the back, but because of the height difference, it was more like a pat on his tailbone.

"I wouldn't feel too distant from her, she is fighting Hydra above us as we speak."

The instant she said that Ronaldo instinctively looked up excited.

"R-really?!"

"Yep, she and Muffet are up there, fighting...I guess I should be doing the same." Ralsei said taking a step out of the indent in the steps and onto the main steps.

"You're going to fight with them? Even with your body still aching?" Ronaldo said in quite a decent amount of surprise.

Ralsei looked at her two hands slowly.

"I know Hydra can probably beat me in one hit, but with my abilities, I don't think I can do much to stop the War, in terms of the job you're doing. If I can still find a way to help my captain and your friend, then that's more than enough."

Ronaldo only smiled.

"You know, your crew would make pretty great Navy soldiers!"

"Heh, thanks but," she created a dome below her using her Courage, "But we like our freedom!" she finished as she increased the size of her dome at a speed that made her fly high enough in the sky to continue onto the higher part of the steps and continue her voyage up back towards Olympus.

Hera heard Ralsei's words as she looked at Fuhu. She got up and gave it one last pat before looking off into the war. She took pride steps next to Ronaldo.

"Powerful speech earlier. I know it doesn't look like it, but those people are still moved by your words. You gave them the verbal backup, but now you need the physical proof that they need to trust you entirely."

"I know, everything that has happened has led me to go to Olympus and do something, the only thing I know to do though is to just arrive at Olympus, I don't know what to do afterward. The only people that would know are probably Hydra himself or Zewz, but I likely doubt they'd stop whatever they are doing right now to tell me. I need someone who also knows and has nothing but free time on their hands."

Ronaldo respectively scoffed.

"And where are you going to find someone like that? I get that you're the chosen one, but there's no way that you can just magically summon someone who can-"

Cassidy crawled into the dent, taking several deep breaths the same way Ronaldo previously was. She gave them a singular pointed finger that insinuated that she'll say something but she needs a second.

"*pant* *pant* Oh god! Who the fuck designs stairs like that!"

Ronaldo covered Hera's ears.

"Language! We have a kid here-!"

"Shut it you! *Pant* those stairs *Pant* are evil-! *Pant*...anyways, oh shit, you're still not angry for me you know, shooting you in the head?"

Hera tilted her head.

"You shot me in the head? That was you?"

"Forget about it, um, why are you here?"

Hera examined Cassidy a bit more before walking closer to her. Cassidy felt uneased by the entire situation, she slowly backed up. Hera just continued her walk to Cassidy.

"Oi! Oi! Ease it there!" She said taking out her pistols.

Hera regardless just went up to her and lightly tapped her on her hand. She closed her eyes for a bit. Then she opened them with a new glow to her eyes.

"You know the prophecy regarding me, don't you?" Hera said, which immediately made Ronaldo and Cassidy give her a weird and scared look.

"Uh...yeah? Hydra wouldn't stop telling me about it. He hid the prophetical writings in his secret room compartment- and you want me to take you there don't you?"

Hera only gave her childlike aggressive and excited nods and puppy eyes.

Cassidy sighed before looking at Ronaldo with a "help me" look. Ronaldo only gave her a shrug.

"Hey! It's your turn to babysit. I'll leave you two to it!"

And just like that, he took a power leap out of the hole and closer to the battlefield to continue his job.

The cowgirl catgirl sighed.

"Alright, you're coming with me. I don't know why you want to see it, but if it means so much I'll do it. It's nearby actually."

"Thank you! And also-" Hera said as she jumped up and smacked Cassidy hard across the face.

"What was that for!"

"I read your memories! You DID you shoot me...! But I forgive you, hehe." Hera said as she gave Cassidy her hand, gesturing her to take her hand and guide her. Just as she did, Fuhu ran underneath her and acted as her ride. She giggled as he did.

Cassidy smiled.

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Ralsei was running up the staircase, already tired. These stairs were hell to go upon. However, just as she had that thought, she saw the last straggling batch of Zewz's soldiers go down the opening of the staircase and start running down it towards her.

She had assumed that everyone at the War currently should already have been there. She was only expecting to be good support for Muffet and Christie, but now she had to deal with this.

However, when she just put up her guard, several gunshots were heard from behind her. It whizzed past her head as they went by her and into the bodies and heads of the soldiers in from of her with perfect accuracy.

Ralsei turned around scared as she saw Cassidy and Hera riding on Fuhu, Cassidy having her sniper aimed down with the muzzle smoking. She put down her sniper and gave Ralsei a wave of hello and so did Hera as Fuhu crawled on the walls around the mountain with them on top.

She raised her brow, wanted to ask questions, but just continued her journey upwards.

"Gotta admit, she's an amazing shot...Honestly, we could use a sniper in our crew. We should find one soon."

(Meanwhile, with Susie)

Susie eventually made it to the rightmost flank of the war, on the West side of it, there were more abilities here than she saw anywhere else. It was mostly straight gunfights or sword fights, but she saw some people with Devil Fruits here.

She saw someone turning people into babies with a singular touch, but her head was crushed by a Mink's claw made out of snow.

It was a wild sight.

What caught her eye though, was a man that was seemingly deemed the General of the entire frontier. He was a man of large stature, being about ten feet tall, a low black haircut, scar down his right eye that keeps his right eye shut, brown skin complexion, brown eyes, and a nose ring.

Just as she noticed him, his body started to morph as he was running at a group of Minks holding up shields in the direction of him while other Minks behind those were aiming through the cracks in the formation with muskets and old flintlocks.

Susie too had decided not to take a side in the war and only was looking to see where Ralsei, Hera, and Fuhu was, so she decided to look past what the General was about to do, but was curious as to what he was transforming into. So she just positioned herself on top of a nearby large rock and watched from the distance.

She watched as the General had turned into a Minotaur and grew five more feet in height as he did. He gained about eighty more pounds of muscle as he used his hybrid form to completely ram through the Mink's defenses, shattering them like pins with a well-done strike.

She winced as she saw that, but then shifted her eyes to see Undyne run towards her in the distance. Susie smiled and waved as she saw that Undyne was already considerably damaged, she then felt slight concern, but Undyne's equally as happy face made her come to the rational conclusion that whatever she had gotten herself caught in, was already resolved.

Undyne saw the group of people battered by that Minotaur rush and jumped over them while tossing a Spear of Kindness down onto them, healing them while they were on the brink of death, allowing them enough health to stay alive until the war was over and not fight.

The General saw this as he turned away to go aid his men elsewhere, he looked furious.

Undyne completely ignored him as she super jumped over him and right in front of Susie. Once she did, they fist-bumped and then clashed forearms together before then transitioning that into a hug.

They had done a secret handshake.

"What happened to you dude?" Susie said eyeing Undyne up and down.

"Just got into a scuffle with one of Hydra's henchmen. Seems you were right on that call, never doubted you though! Gwehehe! Cassidy helped me out. And so did that Ronaldo guy, he's doing a lot to prevent deaths like me with his ability." Undyne said rubbing the back of her head, her knuckles brushing against Bonetrousle as she did.

"Heh, of course! Wait, Cassidy helped you out? Did it have something to do with those lights I saw through the trees coming towards over there?" She pointed in the direction in where she could have sworn she saw a bright light coming from.

"Yeah, the guy could turn into light, move a light speeds, it was a doozy. If Cassidy wasn't there, I would've died. Pulled the same move she did to Lillian, but we can't count on her to do more of that again, that was her last sea prism bullet."

"Really now? So what, she's on our side now?"

"More like a temporary truce, she looks like she still doesn't want anything to do with us, but she also acknowledges that Hydra needs to be stopped and so does this war. She should be out helping Muffet and Christie as we speak since I don't see her anywhere on the field. OH, and also, I found Hera, Ralsei, and Fuhu!"

"Oh shit?! Now I don't have to play hide and seek anymore I can help out Muffet from here! Also, what's that new green spear thing you got going on?"

"Oh that, my mom taught it to me, long story- but hey! Now I get to use my Kindness offensively! I can heal people from a distance, but at the cost of how much Kindness I have in my tank. I appear to have run out not gonna lie. So I'm gonna go up and help those two morons if they need us, Gwehehe!" Undyne said crossing her arms.

Susie just laughed with her for a while before giving her a serious eye.

"Listen though. Something freaky is going on with Hera. She was fighting that light guy before me by becoming light herself and using that to attack him. But the point is, when she was shown to me, she was physically older and talking about how she was the savior of Constricta. I don't know what that is all about or what that means, but she seemed very determined about it. the freakiest part though, when she spoke, I think she released some of that Conqueror's Haki that the Mew chick was talking about."

Susie listened intently to this.

"That's only for natural-born leaders right? What are you theorizing here?" Susie said crossing her arms.

"What I am saying is...I think the story and prophecy that Cassidy was talking about and what Hydra was scared of might be true. I don't know how my girl is going to do it, but, I have faith in her..." Undyne said looking towards Olympus.

Susie growled.

"Okay, but like, why are you telling me this?"

"Because...! In that prophecy, it only talks about Hera being the savior and saving the people of Constricta, but...we are not people of Constricta, nor are we in the prophecy. It's just her. Meaning that regardless of whether victory is assured somehow, that doesn't mean at all that we survive until that happens. That's why I came over here in the first place before I go up...be careful Susie. Don't want you dying."

Undyne turned around to get a good leaping start on her way to the mountain-high staircase. However, Susie stopped her by placing a hand on her shoulder.

"Hey, we spent all our time after being brought by Lillian to that other ship either getting to meet Christie, Cassidy, and Petrichor, or just us doing our own thing to prepare for this day. So I didn't get time to talk to you or say this to you..."

Undyne flinched. Whenever Susie spoke, it was more or less either a straight insult, a passive-aggressive remark, or just sass. Especially when she opened up soft like that. Undyne then turned around and sighed.

"Okay, what did you want to say-"

Undyne was immediately bearhugged by Susie for a good few seconds before she let go.

"What you said to me before you sacrificed yourself and almost died trying to save my life, I appreciate. I know the crew feels the same way, but only you and Kris actively and forwardly cared about my aspirations and tried everything in your power to help me reach them. I...never really had a mom growing up, never saw or even knew her name...I didn't think I'd ever need one. Then, after spending time with everyone on the ship, Muffet feels like a good friend, Ralsei seems like a mothering friend, but I don't consider you as a friend. You've been...well-" Susie gritted her teeth and looked away while mumbling something so low Undyne legitimately couldn't understand.

Undyne chuckled.

"Speak up, I couldn't hear you."

Susie did the same thing but slightly louder, it was still not enough for her to hear.

"One more time, for the whole class~," Undyne said egging her on, cackling as she did.

"I...view you as a good role model okay...If I did have a mom, I would kinda want her to be exactly how you are. You're...cool." Susie said hating every syllable that came out her mouth.

She hated it but, with Undyne being right about their lives not be guaranteed, and that they are in a War and even before getting there most people were already pretty beat up, she felt that she had to say it to just in case.

Undyne gave her a look. Susie finally faced her, and when she saw, she had no words. This wasn't a look that she thought Undyne could do, it wasn't like her to have this look on her face. Even her body language was unlike her, her face too.

Regardless, when Susie looked at her, she couldn't help but feel a bit watery in her eyes.

Undyne's eye had solemn and disbelieved bags under her eyes, in a thousand-yard stare but of pure thought. Her muscles for once were not tensed her flexed, she let loose. Her mouth was slightly opened in awe and her face was the face of a mother who thought their child had died just for them to return years later, happy to see them again.

"Y-you look like a dork like that! Just go already!" Susie said looking away again, rubbing her eyes with her forearm.

Just as she did, the Minotaur guy lunged himself towards her while she was caught off guard, her Justice flared as this was a sneak attack. She instinctively took out her hammer to counterattack.

However.

Undyne, regardless of not being in the physical position to be ready for a sneak attack from behind, instinctively grabbed Bonetrousle and did a 180-degree spin, slicing the Minotaur's chest and sending him back the opposite way, faster than Susie could react.

"WE ARE HAVING A MOMENT HERE JACKASS!" Undyne said.

Susie couldn't be any more proud.

"Well, I guess that means that I have to ruin the moment too..." Said a man next to the rock they were on. He then started to climb up the rock, and at the same time, The Minotaur General was getting back up.

Susie sensed the imminent danger and gave a glance at the man below them and then back at Undyne.

"Just don't die, remember? I'll meet you up there!" Undyne said she hopped down in the direction of the General.

Susie took that as a hint that she would be the one in charge of the random man climbing to her location. She looked down from the rock, and the man had a horned helmet on, the horns twisted wickedly toward the sky made his eyes and face visibly unseeable. He was meaty but muscular in build. He seemed to have a toga and skulls as pauldrons. His skin was an unusually dark pink.

Once she and the mysterious man locked eyes the man proceeded to lock eyes, the man then punched the giant rock, making sure his hand was dug deep into the piece of rock. The formation of it then started to crumble, Susie then hopped off it to avoid clumsily falling along with the rest of the rock.

She ended up landing back to back with Undyne. The Fishwoman then gave her crewmate a grin and a side glance as they stood back to back walking in circles as their opponents were doing the same. Eyeing each other down and not losing direct line of sight with their target, waiting for one of them to make a move.

"Heh! Susie, need you to answer something for me real quick. Our job is to save as many lives as we can, right? Well, what if defeating one person from one side is cost-effective towards the overall war and prevents more lives than if they were kept fighting. Would that be a smart move?"

"Well, that's a good loophole to the plan, can't argue with that. Sure, but uh, you aren't going to Olympus to help Muffet and Christie? Not even looking for Hera?"

Undyne looked to the sky, more importantly towards the direction of the infamously and cartoonishly long and high staircase. She did not spot Cassidy while running back to the war, not even now. She did spot Ralsei running up the staircase and Ronaldo currently continuing to use his Devil Fruit to neutralize the possibility of casualties. Seeing that Cassidy and Hera are missing and that they would have had to cross during their travels, she knew that wherever Cassidy was, Hera was. Most likely assisting her, because when she remembered when Cassidy immobilized her and made her watch her fight Ralsei for the first time. She seemed to know Hera's purpose more than anyone.

She smiled.

"Hera's in good hands right now. The thing we must do now is defeat these guys so that we can get to Muffet and help out as soon as we can."

"As if we'd let you!" Said both the Minotaur and the curved horned helmet man as they both charged at their intended targets.

Undyne and Susie gave an animal-like excited show of teeth before retaliating. Undyne proceeded to collide headbutts with the Minotaur and a shockwave was created that pushed away from the debris around them. Undyne however, seemed excited with this clash.

The General looked at her weirdly as a streak of blood ran down both their heads.

"What are you excited about, you are engaging in life or death combat!"

"Gwehehe! Sorry! It's just that lately, I've been fighting people that are either untouchable or way ahead of me. This though...feels right at home!" She said as she took out Bonetrousle from behind her back and flexed her arms.

"Wanted to test out these moves! Let see if they work!"

The Minotaur General backed up and proceeded to take out his war-scarred battle ax from his waist. They charged at each other, winding their attacks savagely and brutally.

"BONE SPLITTER!" Said the Minotaur. Undyne dodged it by sidestepping it, she knew she was faster.

However, that attack was powerful enough that, when it hit the ground, it caused rippling damage that went on for a couple of meters behind her. Regardless she stood on the pole of the ax and held Bonetrousle as if it were a sword more than a spear.

She jumped and stabbed Bonetrousle into the pole of the ax for a good sturdy place to follow up her attack. Then, while still holding on to the end of Bonetrousle, she did a handstand on the flat bottom end of Bonetrousle and proceeded to pendulum swing onto the sharp end, using her body as the pendulum and the bottom end, mixed with her gripping it, as the point of rotation. Causing her bone trident to violently rupture from its place at such a force and speed that not only did it split about his ax in two, but acted as an independent force, spinning in a circle vertically as it climbed up the pole of the ax and towards the General himself.

The General was generally amazed by the fact that she knew how to do that. While that was hapopening, Undyne dashed from on his ax, to behind his head, ready to deliver a roundhouse kick in the opposite direction of the impact of the currently violently rotating bone trident.

"PIRAHNA POOL!" Undyne yelled as the blow came to the back of his head and forced Bonetrousle to also pierce through the skin of his forehead. The Minotaur let out an echoing scream in pain as that happened.

Regardless, the Minotaur reached his hands behind him, to which Undyne was surprised that he survived that blow and had already calmed down her combative mindset just enough for this to catch her off guard. Once he did, he slammed her over his head and right onto his ax that she had severed.

Undyne quickly coated her back in Armament Haki, saving her from the surely fatal piercing attack. However, with the force he swung her at, the impact force was still great. And with the alignment of her spine with the very thing and sturdy object in the way of such a massive force, the impact with her spine still unsettled her and cause some parts of her spinal column to either crack or slightly be bent out of place.

Blood ejected from her mouth and she stared at him angrily.

"Goddamn, you have a strong head!" Undyne said as she saw him tear out Bonetrousle from his face and aggressively toss it on the floor and step on it, snapping it in half.

"You dipshit I just fixed that-!" She tried to tell him as he one hand-tossed her through the ground, right past Susie who was already in quite a clash battle with her opponent.

Susie was scared of this man's outfit, it unsettled her, which she knew was the purpose. Regardless, they clashed, her hammer with his Armament Haki covered head.

"Who are you? You must be working with Hydra, judging how I conveniently didn't see you participate in this war until you saw me."

The man only laughs.

"I see you're quite perceptive! I'll humor you, my name is Hades!" He said as he backed up away from her and proceeded to pick up a few pebbles off the ground from the massive rock he destroyed.

"Moa Moa! 50 times fold!" He said as he charged up like he was about to toss a few pebbles at her.

Susie scoffed as rushed him. Hammer drew, ready to come down on his head for not taking their fight seriously. She saw him tossing pebbles at her as a sign of disrespect.

Then he tossed the pebbles.

Then suddenly, her body ached all over. Not only that, but it caused her to rupture blood and stop in her tracks. She felt as if she had been...shot. Repeatedly.

She looked down at her body and saw small hole-shaped wounds in her body. Were those the pebbles?

The instant she thought that she looked back up and saw that the man was picking up more rocks. Now, she felt fear. She has no idea what the hell he did, nor how to predict it next.

"JUSTICE FORM! JUDGE'S MALLET!" Susie said as her Justice soul collided with her hammer and increased its size by ten times.

Hades chuckled as if he found something ironic.

"Moa Moa! 100 times fold!" He said as he tossed the pebbles.

She winded her hammer and swung it to try and deflect the upcoming pebbles, however, what she saw next didn't make her happy. The pebbles she saw coming her way, expanded and grew up to 100 times their size. They were all the size of boulders.

Susie was able to swat away one, but the other few not only clobbered her but also Undyne who was getting up nearby her after being tossed by the General. Both of them felt some of their bones crack as he did so, as he also coated the boulders in Armament Haki. Solidifying the maximum damage output he could. They flew with the boulders towards the inner part of the war, closer to where Hera had given her speech.

The General and Hades gave each other a look that tacitly made them agree to team up to finish off their opponents first before battling with each other, and both of them came sprinting with their superhuman prowess towards them.

Running by the bodies and trenches and smells of burning and decaying corpses. The screams of millions and the cries of more. This didn't bother them. They were here for this.

Out of the piles of rock and debris, Undyne punched through the rock that was on top of her and pulled herself out. A few seconds afterward, Susie did. they both stood next to each other taking deep breaths. They both now knew the gimmicks of their opponents but had to take serious damage to find out.

"Okay. I now see that his Devil Fruit allows him to multiply the properties of something on contact." Susie said almost kneeling from the small holes in her body. None of it was fatal, but somewhere through her joint sockets, making it harder for her to do anything.

Undyne couldn't stand up straight, and on top of her injuries already, she felt somewhat exhausted. Her clothes were hanging on to dear life at this point, just like her. She lifted her eye patch and tilted her head downward aggressively, a few pebbles falling out of her open socket.

"My back! Goddamn it, if Muffet didn't mess up my back at Yetera, I probably would've eaten that attack. Now I'm back to hunchbacked. Also yeah, my guy has a tough skull, makes sense. What do you recommend?"

Susie laughed looking at her friend with the same pain as she was feeling.

"I was gonna ask you the same."

They both laughed but quickly stopped as they saw their opponents in the distance finally. The scarring images of War were already like regular static to them. Everyone around watching the fights was too scared to interfere so they left them alone.

"Okay, for that guy, try to eliminate the things he can toss at you. It seems he excels at long-range fighting, so try and close the distance."

"Heh, that's that fighter tactician I know, thanks. And hm, for that guy, you already broke his weapon, how about you keep it at a distance."

"That's not too bad! Gwehehe! Question though, why aren't you using your Devil Fruit?"

Susie sighed.

"I don't know, I don't like to. No offense, but I wanna be strong without it and have it as a backup. I don't want to rely on it as much. Like you do."

Undyne gave her a soft look before smiling, she then turned around. She used the bits of Kindness she got from Susie's words to heal herself enough to fix her back. She then patted her head.

"Well Susie, you're plenty strong already, but you got to know that Devil Fruits are not a cheap way of power. These things are super rare and one of kind, the fact that you found one, and a strong one at that, means that you were MEANT to have it! You have to own it! Make people know what you offer and why to fear you! Your Devil Fruit IS you, it represents you. By hiding it, it means you aren't proud of what you are. I know for a fact that if you used it, these jokers would've lost by now." Undyne said proudly.

Susie looked at her and back at their opponents closing the gap, they had about thirty seconds left before they would get there.

Undyne smiled. And then...she sat down and crossed her arms.

"I want you to use your Devil Fruit to stop these guys with the strongest attack you can with your fruit. If you don't by the time they get here, I'll let them kill me!" Undyne said with a smile.

Susie on the other hand was so bewildered by this, she dropped her weapon out of verbal shock.

"WHAT?! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THAT DUMBASS?!"

"Gwehehe! Surprise me! Be innovative! Unless you wanna see me and potentially you get maimed by those two. As strong as the bull guy was, if I was at my peak strength like earlier, I could easily wash these two. Which means I'm entrusting this to my trusty subordinate."

Susie kept pacing back and forth from Undyne proudly sitting down to the impending danger. Now that they were getting closer, the man had about twenty pebbles in each hand, ready to toss them. She knew both of them couldn't survive that guy's next attack, let alone whatever the General was going to do.

"Can I just gravitate them towards the ground like always?!"

"Nope! If fighting Lillian meant anything, it's that those who are stronger than you either power or health-wise can manage to walk out of it. And judging by your posture and impact of the latest attacks, you're too weak to apply a force strong enough to keep them there."

"So what do you want me to do then?!"

"Your ultimate attack!" Undyne said with eyes of promise and a devilish smirk.

"I don't have one!"

"EXACTLY! Muffet has plenty, I have my Giga Suplex and Mega Spear. Now show us yours, think hard!"

"I don't think I can with my ability-"

"Nonsense! The sky's the limit!" Undyne said pointing to the sky.

Susie then looked at the sky and thought about it. She then used her extensive knowledge that she knew could be used to think of something. And then...she did. She smirked.

"Actually doofus, the sky isn't the limit..."

Undyne looked at her with a raised brow. Just when she did, Susie's Justice flared through her eyes. She was bringing out all of her Justice at once.

"I'LL AIM MUCH HIGHER! ULTIMATE JUSTICE FORM! INTERSTELLAR KARMA!" She then channel her Justice into a condensed ball and placed it on herself, to enhance her stamina and strength for a couple of seconds.

Susie slammed down on the soil with the butt of her hammer. Purple glowing rings signifying her gravity powers surrounded her and stacked vertically toward the sky. Even through Olympus. She continued this until her Justice ran out and she immediately sat down exhausted.

"Welp that was it!"

Undyne was actually kind of scared.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?! YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!"

Susie just laughed and Undyne was freaking out, she believed that Susie would at least do something.

Hades and the General got into range of them. However, they both stopped to look at the sky. As if they felt something happening up there.

Slowly and slowly, everyone in the War stopped fighting to look up in the sky. The temperature changed, the air grew to rapid speeds and force as it blew through everyone aggressively. The sky turned darker.

"Susie...what did you do?"

"I'll answer that question with another question...You know, I've never seen this Giga Suplex of yours...mind showing it to me for the ultimate combo attack?"

Undyne again gave her a raised brow of confusion.

And then. Part of Olympus came falling as a massive boom was heard as if a nuke occurred. Then, what they saw next scared everyone on the battlegrounds down to the bone.

The debris of an entire chunk of a continent was not what they were worried about.

What Susie had gravitated from the sky...was an entire Meteor!

A meteor the size of a small island crashed through the sky and came hurtling towards the residents of this Continent! Undyne saw this and smiled so wide her smile reached ear to ear. She actively got up as if all her wounds were not there and started feeling giddy like a little girl.

"THAT'S YOUR SPECIAL ATTACK?! YOU WANT ME TO COMBO INTO THAT! I FEEL SO HONORED!"

Undyne was filled with...

Determination!

She was determined to not let her friend down!

"Go nuts. If you don't manage to blow this whole meteor away, a lot of people will die." Susie said with a tired smile as Undyne immediately used her new slimmer of power to dash to the preoccupied opponents and get them both in a bearhug by their waists. They tried squirming but to no avail.

"GOING UP!"

Undyne launched both of them with all the strength of Determination in her legs into the sky towards the meteor. As she did, she saw Ronaldo attempting to go put an end to the meteor before it touches the ground too.

"Hey man! Got any spare power?"

"Funny you ask, heh, Transfer Siphon!" Ronaldo said as he gave half of his gained energy to Undyne, who was then able to do her Giga Suplex attack at max power.

Undyne then transferred her power, her Determination, and Ronaldo's borrowed energy, into her arms and then tossed them with all her might, hopes, and dreams, into the meteor. Ronaldo, at the same time, channeled all of his power into a singular 'Hot Finger' attack. Which, with all that power, acted like a straight-up energy-infused fireball of massive scale.

"HOT FINGER!"

"GIGA SUPLEX! ROYAL SPEAR!"

Then this mess of ultimate attacks mixed and caused an explosion that caused a shockwave that disrupted the entire battlefield and brittle the base of the Olympus staircase. The shockwave also was enough to forcefully send Ronaldo and Undyne back to the ground, tired and zapped of energy. A giant smoke cloud was made with the impact.

Everyone looked up to see if they did it, however, through the smoke was a broken meteor along with the unconscious bodies of both Hades and the General. Undyne and Susie were happy because of that. However, smaller meteorites came out of the smoke, although the main threat was gone, people still had a chance of dying due to the new falling debris.

They all had no power left.

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Just then, they heard a woman sing out a melodic tune as if testing her vocal range with a warm-up. Then, all the meteorites were diced to pieces. And with a short whistle, all of them blew away.

Undyne, Susie, and Ronaldo turned back to see who it was. All they saw, was an undead mermaid slithering along the battlefield next to them.

"M-Ms. Batistte?!"

"An Admiral?!"

"Shyren?!"

Shyren didn't respond until Undyne spoke up, she stopped in her tracks and tilted her head to Undyne, and stared at her blankly for a while before smiling and giggling.

"It's funny, your mother's ultimate move was a chokeslam."

And just like that, with a whistle, she vanished from sight.

All three of them looked around scared before quickly getting up, hurt. Susie propped Undyne's arm over her shoulder and proceeded to assist her in walking.

"You gotta stop over-exerting yourself dude, it's scary. We gotta go help Muffet now, we finished our job-" Susie said as both of them were tiredly limping to the staircase to Olympus.

"Hey, Susie?"

"Yeah?"

"From earlier, I wanted to tell you...If I was your mother, I would be so proud to have a daughter like you."

Once she said that a green wave of Kindness washed over her, making her healed enough to not need to limp and walk normally.

After she said that, she picked up Susie and carried her on her back, so that she didn't have to walk in pain and that she could get some rest until they got to their location. Susie was going to argue about it, but the warmth and smoothness and the size of her back were so...comfortable to her. She rested her head on her back, hearing her heartbeat, it was enough to make her fall asleep.

"Don't tell... anyone...about this..." Susie said slowly being lulled to sleep.

Undyne only gave her a soft passionate eye before looking to Ronaldo.

"Hey man, you know, you could always join our crew too. You'd fit right in, be a shame to probably never see you again after this endeavor."

Ronaldo chuckled as he pulled himself together and got up.

"Heh! I'll pass, how can I be the King of the world to Christie's Queen of the world if I'm dawdling with pirates? Don't worry, you'll be seeing more of us in the future. I guarantee!" Ronaldo said with a confident smirk on his face. His shirt and sweater were torn off by this point, his chest and abs showing proudly as he looked off into Undyne's eyes and waved her goodbye as he continued his noble duties.

She nodded.

"Good Answer!"

Undyne happily turned around just to see Petrichor standing proudly over her, looking a bit roughed up, but not entirely wounded or even mortally harmed. It seemed that the challenge that she had faced like the rest of them was too easy for her.

Like the opponent she had to fight was just an inconvenience.

"You ladies ready to head up? Also, have you seen the three people we were sent to find?"

"Yeah, all that's left to assist Muffet! Also...what happened to you with your target?"

Petrichor only slowly dangled her stinger in front of them, blood dripping from the tip, and even some bone fragments stuck to it. She then proceeded to like the blood playfully as all of her cogs on her legs and arms turned and whirred, the compressors of her tanks of rainwater were being compressed to redistribute the rainwater.

"Don't worry about it~?" She said playfully menacing.

This made Undyne's spine shudder, as she just shook her head.

"Well- glad you won. Now let's go!" Undyne said taking a hefty jog towards the staircase.

Petrichor whipped off the blood from her tail and gave Undyne a raised brow.

"I'd be able to carry Susie for you with my tail. You'd move way faster that way."

Without having to think about it, Undyne cut her off.

"Nah! She'd wake up immediately if it was you, this is an Undyne and Susie thing, you wouldn't understand." She said smiling getting to the steps.

Petrichor thought about it too for a bit before smiling and joining them in their run to their captain. The lady of rainwater would have to get to re-adjust to this new feeling.

The feeling of self-control, companionship, and most of all...

Insubordination.

They now headed up to where the true battle awaited. The war had been going on for a few hours, hundreds of thousands already dead, more wounded. They had to put an end to it soon. A battle against someone who can't die, a worthy fight of Apex Predators lies ahead.

(Meanwhile with Cassidy, Fuhu, and Hera)

Fuhu had dropped off Cassidy and Hera into the secret hole indent that Hydra had med on the side of the mountain. It was a small cubby hole.

"This...is it?" Hera said looking around.

"Ugh, no, hold on." Cassidy as she reached under her red shirt and took out her golden locket. She opened it and stare at it for a while. The photo of Hydra handing her Devil Fruit when she was way younger. With the words 'Best Investment Ever' engraved on the bottom.

She looked at it with angry solemn eyes for a few seconds.

Afterward, she sighed and planted the locket into an obscure part of the wall that housed a small circular hole. When she inserted it in her locket, it made it a part of the wall as the wall towards the inside of the mountain caved in. The wall slide down as it revealed another room inside. One more ancient to her.

It was a cylindrical room about ten meters in height and five meters in radius. All of which filled to the brim with engravings in the wall with writings of Hera's tale, books scarcely placed everywhere and pieces of parchment that seemed to be journal logs of things that Hera couldn't make heads or tails of.

"What is this room...?"

"It's what you think it is. This room is where you'll find everything you need to know about yourself. I hope you know, that once you finally know your purpose, you can never go back to the life you once had."

Hera walked sightly around the room, lightly placing her hand on the wall and gliding it along with the engraved text.

"Whatever I need to do to save everyone I care about, I'll do it," Hera said reading the words around her more intensely.

Cassidy just watched for a short while before turning to Fuhu. She furrowed her brows, and then she relaxed them.

"You know, I still can't get used to you."

Fuhu then squirted web in her face, with an angry expression on his. She sighed.

"Yeah, I deserved that, for you know, shooting you. But look-," she bent down and picked up Fuhu with her hands, "I know you know English. So look! If you go to help save lives, you'll die, and if you go and try and help your owners...you'll die. So, I kinda, want you to do something for me..."

Cassidy went to go whisper something into its ear. Fuhu was mildly uncomfortable having her do that, it growled. However, the more she whispered her request, the more it calmed down. Once she was done, she placed him down.

"Can you do that for me?"

Fuhu looked at the ground, and then back at her, and then out into the open. It glanced at her, almost like a warning, before slowly crawling to her and...licking her. It then sprawled out of the hidden room and out into the battleground.

Cassidy sighed again, she then looked back at Hera who was already mildly existentially confused, her eyes glowing more and more white with each sentence.

"I respect your sacrifice."

"And I respect yours," Hera said with a serious tone.

"What do you mean?"

"This is a hard thing for both of us, we are both doing the same thing. The only difference is, I have to do this. You had a choice, and you chose this. So, I respect your decision." Hera continued her search.

Cassidy just watched her look around for a little while longer before leaving the room.

Heading up towards Olympus.

(Finally, back with Christie and Muffet)

Christie stood there looking at Hydra, Muffet stood there looking at Zewz and vice versa. The tensions were high, the stakes were higher.

With the sound of a distant cannonball being shot, the fight began.

Christie turned her legs into springs and sprung towards Hydra with superhuman speeds, she turned her right arm into spring and condensed it in on itself to add the elastic tension to her punch when she springs it back out.

Hydra sidestepped and she missed him entirely and ended up hitting a building behind him, causing her to keep the momentum because of her springs and she bounced back towards him. He caught her punch on her return and tossed him over his back and onto the ground.

"Devil Fruit Awakening!" Christie said as her eyes turned into a dark hue of blue and so did her springs that were previously gray.

The ground below her turned into spring and it completely absorbed the impact of the attack, and in return, launched her aggressively skyward. She made sure to hang on to his arm as she was sent skyward so that he could be airborne with her. Hydra jumped on air with his impressive strength and speed to keep himself in a state of flight to continue the fight, as Christie was doing the same by springing off the air, turning the air into springs.

Meanwhile, Muffet stretches her leg in the air before using the elastic force to slam it back down on the man in front of her.

"GUM GUM! SPIDER STOMP!" She yelled as Zewz backstepped away and avoided the attack.

The force of that simple attack shook and crumble the city block. Zewz brandished his sword and came in to go for a thrusting jab. Muffet swerved her body to the side before grabbing the sword with her middle and top right hand while charging a left hook with all of her left arms.

The two hands placed on his sword were clenched and she easily shattered his sword as if she had gripped old soap. The left hook mashed with his chest plate and sent him flying towards the nearest building. Making him crash in his Quartz.

Muffet smiled.

"What's wrong Zewz dearie~ Can't handle a punch from a little girl? Is it the fact that I'm not a full-blooded human that bothers you? Is it because I'm not human dearie~? Come and show me why you believe your race stands above all else's!" Muffet said pounding her chest and yelling over at the debris that she sent him flying in.

"Silence woman!" Zewz said as he summoned the same barrage of tendrils that he used against Hydra over at Muffet.

Muffet giggled like an excited little girl as she flexed her arms, really showing her very thin frame definition of tight but maximum capacity muscle gains. Her hair flowing out of the hoodie she has on and swaying in the wind as her eyes glew purple. Just as she had done against Verde.

She couldn't keep a count of how many tendrils there were, but she knew that it was pointless to count because even if she destroyed all of them, he could just grow more the instant they die.

She ducked under the first one and began her sprint towards the King of Olympus. She jumped over the second tendril. Just as she did, another one followed up above the one she just jumped over. She used all three of her right hands to punch it in an aggressive right hook that completely shattered it from view.

"Not the first time I've had to deal with a tendril attack huehuehue~! I dare even say Bronzio's tendril is still scarier in comparison." Muffet said entirely dodging the tendrils with ease as if she had practiced and read his moves. When in reality, she wasn't lying, Bronzio set a pretty high bar.

Zewz was annoyed with this, his attacks weren't doing anything to her. Why was she so happy and confident?

It was as if she was using him as a warm-up.

He controlled all of the tendrils to converge in front of her like a wall.

"HONEYCOMB QUARTZ!" He said as he pushed forward his giant wall of quartz.

Muffet only blew into the thumb of her top right hand, blowing in the bone of the thumb, inflating her bones in her entire top right arm. She then channeled the burst of air through her body and into her leg.

"GEAR THIRD! GUM GUM...!"

She stretched back her giant-sized leg, the size to completely cover an entire ship. Then she flung it back in the direction of the wall.

"SPIDER GIANT BUSTER!" Muffet said as she effortlessly kicked through the entire giant wall, turning it into smaller rocks and pebbles.

Afterward, she blew out the air through her mouth to get to Zewz faster through air travel and was immediately about to pass him, Zewz only watched with wide eyes. It was as if everything was in slow motion, as she passed by him and cocked back another punch, she gave him a sly smirk.

"You aren't that strong, are you." That is all she said as she quickly gave Zewz the smoothest and best-formed right hook in her life. A shockwave was made as she did it, sending Zewz scattering along the ground like a rock across a lake, knocking down some of his kingdom's buildings as he did.

Zewz was able to catch his footing and just look off into the distance to try and see how far away did this spider girl just sent him. He seemed to be in disbelief.

Muffet just stood her ground and stared at him and didn't move until he came at her. Giving him a both chaotic but calmed face at the same time. Like a fit of hidden anger knowing that it will be dispersed very soon.

He started hyperventilating. Muffet on the other hand hadn't broken a sweat yet.

Meanwhile, Christie and Hydra had continued their air fight quite for a while, before Hydra was able to grab her and then bit her using his teeth on her shoulder. She screamed in pain, a singular Hydra tooth of his was the size of a dagger. He then gripped her by her two wrists before delivering a dive kick to her stomach on her stomach while coating his legs in Armament Haki.

She coughed out blood as she was sent like a missile back to the quartz ground, the part of the city she crashed into being turned into a 20-meter crater.

However, the instant the damage was done to the land, she came back up just as fast. Hydra wasn't expecting her to make that fast of a recovery from that attack. She gave him an uppercut to his bare stomach as that gave a shockwave similar to that of what Muffet did to Zewz.

Hydra spat out all his saliva fluids upon being hit in the guy. Christie then followed up by dashing above him to give him a downward left hook to his right cheek to send him back to the ground. However, Hydra's tail grabbed her right as she punched him and both of them were sent back to the Quartz kingdom.

Right as they landed, Hydra used this opportunity to toss him the direction of the direction, to make sure she took the fall damage. He was successful, Christie spared no time to show him the pain he caused her. She was trying to break free from his tail's grip. However, it was futile, his grip he had with his tail was too much for her.

Hydra opened his right hand to show to her his massive and sharp claws, he then gave her a devilish grin as he went to go slash at her. Just as he tried to do that, with a quick flash of white, his tail was severed from his body as Zewz came by and cleaved it with his sword.

This allowed Chrisite to break free and catch her breath as Hydra turned around to see who it was. When he did, he was immediately able to see Muffet running after him.

"Oi! Don't run away!" She said chasing him by running by Hydra and back up the opposite side of the crater, the direction that Zewz ran.

Hydra was mildly confused. That confusion was enough to allow Christie a surprise attack on the reptilian man. She coiled her arm into itself again and shot it forward at his left cheek. He was able to coat that point on impact in his strong and refined Armament Haki, it allowed the attack to be almost entirely nullified. Her hand hurt once she made that impact.

He grinned as he saw her falter in self-confidence, she then went for a back-handed punch to sweep her away to his far left. She saw this, but he was too fast for her to even make a proper defense. The back of his fist collided with the left set of ribs and she went tumbling along the floor. She coughed up blood upon the attack landing, but she was determined to get back in the fight, so she immediately caught her footing, springing her legs and shooting back at Hydra.

"Come on Christie," He said as he collided fist with her, "I know you're stronger than this! What happened to all that strength you had the first time around?"

He spoke with confidence and pride. Christie returned the smile.

"And I know you're stronger than this too! How about we skip the warm-up!" Christie said invitingly.

They both laughed and then immediately got serious, no words.

Christie activated her Awakened Devil Fruit on his arm, turning it into a spring. Hydra looked at it with surprise, he didn't know that she could affect other beings with her Devil Fruit. She then condensed his arm like how she would her own, and then his spring of an arm shot forward, but just as it did, she deactivated her power. The sudden collected energy from the tension of the spring and it releasing converted into kinetic energy as the spring was no longer there, so the energy needing to be released exploded into Hydra's arm, bursting it entirely.

Hydra's eye opened as he yelled in pain and shock that she was even capable of that. Christie looked at him and grinned.

"Cobra Coil!" She said naming the attack.

Hydra immediately responded by going full throttle too and delivering a punch so fast with his last arm that her body was a blur as she flew down multiple city blocks. A dome-like explosion of rubble and debris was created upon impact. He sighed as he regrew his right arm.

"So she has an insta-kill move? She seems quite capable with her Devil Fruit, her arms are entirely sea-prism stone, I have to have constant Haki on my arms and allow not too long of contact with her arms to be safe from its effects. If I can break her arms, that's a good outcome. Ultimately, I have to find what's the drawback to her ability, there's no way she can keep up this Awakened Devil Fruit state." He said speaking to himself as he heard the crack of wind, meaning that something shot off with incredible speed.

He took an immediate backstep as he held up both his arms like a boxer to block her incoming attack. Christie came in and collided her punch on his forearms. She attempted her 'Cobra Coil' attack again, so which his regrown tail grabbed and whipped around her elbows and tossed her up and then back down to the floor. She then turned her legs into springs to land on the floor from his tail attack, using the collected tension in the spring to shoot back up with twice the force.

"Going up!" Christie said as she used the force to lift Hydra from where he was and then do to him the attack he was attempting to do to her.

Hydra came in headfirst but used his arms to catch his fall in a handstand. He then brought his tail to him to pull Christie in front of him, after that he gave her a twin kick in the stomach. She coughed up blood as she was launched into the nearby building, but then bounced off it and redirected herself back to him.

"No matter how many times I toss you away, you always come back!"

They then exchanged another punch, multiple punches, the ground cracking before them with each punch. Hydra side-stepped, to which she pursued and chased for another clash. Blow for blow they clashed and continued to change the location of the fight.

Meanwhile, Muffet was swinging with her web rooftop to rooftop, acting as a pendulum to maneuver her way through the kingdom in a new and more flexible style. She spotted Zewz summoning two giant swords out of quartz from the ground and began to try and swing those swords. She then grappled her hands onto the first one before stretching her head back and then bringing it back to the sword with her elastic force.

"Gum Gum! Spider Bell!" She said as the move connected and destroyed the entire giant sword.

However, she had to worry about the second sword coming her way. She turned around and stretched all her arms back with opened palms.

"Gum Gum! Spider Missile!" She said as she continued with her attack. However, once she did, Zewz came up behind her with his sword already charged up. Muffet gave a glance of shock as she was already in the middle of an attack and couldn't deal with him.

He then gave her a vertical slash down her back that both cut her and sent her to the ground. Not being able to go through with the attack, she wasn't able to destroy the other giant sword. Ultimately it led to her being a victim to the attack that was able to shatter most of the surrounding infrastructure around her for two whole city blocks.

"It wasn't supposed to be like this Spider-Girl! I was ordered to host the event of capturing you out of convenience for the World Government. They knew the state of this land for years but just wanted a chance to see my kingdom fall-"

Muffet burst from the large pile of rubble on her body with a cut on her back and some blood dripping down her mouth in some traces.

"I don't care! Politics don't make sense to me dearire~ I don't know much about how the world works, leaders, Kingly duties, and the approaches of war don't make sense to me at all. What I do know is my sense of morality and how people should do when they have a good heart. Weak King or not, your heart isn't that of one no matter how much you try to convince others and yourself that it is. On these seas, you have to sacrifice, you can't have what you want and have everything at the same time!" Muffet said balling up her fists aggressively.

Zewz landed down the street from her, his face saddened and with the look as if he gave up. Muffet put her hands to see his reaction. He weakly put up his sword, not physically, but the sword felt as if it lost the drive it had before.

Just then, Muffet and Zewz looked up, for some reason, the sky was glowing brighter and everything felt hotter as if the atmosphere was burning up. Not only them but Christie and Zewz temporarily stopped their fight to look up.

The longer the four of them stared up at the sky to realize what was going on, they widened their eyes in quick fear as they saw a meteor coming at them from above.

"Holy Shit!" Hydra said as he retreated from the fight to gain cover.

So did Christie who just was scared of the incoming meteor and ran away in the opposite direction. Muffet, although scared of what that meteor might do, stood her ground where she was, Zewz stood his ground too, watching as this ball of fire was going to crash onto his land.

"This is the result."

"I'm very much aware, girl."

As soon as the meteor was spotted, it crashed through the Eastern side of Olympus, slightly in front of the staircase, where the War was taking place. Even if it was just the Eastern side, the impact cracked and brittle through some outer parts of Olympus, leaving cracks and tremors all around.

Olympus' foundation, to accommodate for the habitants of the Minks was built so that the center, where the kingdom is, had a sturdy foundation. In the outer parts of Olympus, there was no foundation holding it up, so something with that much of an impact would shake most of the land.

Muffet was barely able to hear a faint voice as the meteor was about to crash onto the soldiers of war below.

"...GIGA SUPLEX! ROYAL SPEAR!..."

It was the voice of Undyne, Muffet knew that it was her attack and smiled. Not only was she proud that she was able to save the people below by attacking the meteor, but she was ultimately happy that Undyne was able to survive whatever she had to go through prior.

Hydra came back out from behind a house to see if the coast was clear. He had planned for a lot to happen, but never a meteor. It was the first one he has ever seen.

Christie did the same, she came out of a random pile of quartz and looked to see if what just happened was real. She gave Muffet a look, but Muffet was again too bust fighting with Zewz, she was dodging multiple giant axes made out of quartz. She smiled, this had meant that regardless of the meteor, she continued their fight. Nothing was stopping her.

She needed a teammate like that.

Hydra yelled and flexed all of his muscles to get his fighter blood pumping again. The force from that wiped away the nearby weak structures and debris away from his fight with him and Christie.

He coated his arms in Armament Haki, Christie saw this and immediately sprang her legs, knowing that she had to continue her own too.

(Meanwhile with Ronaldo)

He looked to his left, and then his right. His lungs inflamed with exhaustion and overexertion. The waves of soldiers seemed endless, those he zapped the energy from in the beginning had regained it and got up just to continue in their bouts. He was able to save hundreds from untimely fates by quickly transporting them back to their villages while unconscious.

The truth of the matter was, it was like trying to steal the ocean by using a simple coffee cup. It was impossible, no matter how many he scooped out, it was too much for him to possibly do even if he had the stamina and determination to do it.

It had been about ten minutes since he saw Undyne and Susie, and he had been trying his hardest, racking up enough energy for himself to fight, but not to last long. The sounds of war and the sights were both numb to him but also ever-increasingly sickening. There was more recognizable red on the floor than its regular black. He couldn't make heads or tails on which side was winning, all he knew was that the war was at its climax, everyone that needed to be here was here.

He was looking from the bottom of the staircase. Then, he looked up to see the giant 'C' shaped hole that the meteor left in Olympus.

"Damn, everyone participating in this War doesn't even know the main conflict. The power that the ones really at War possess. Everyone is over up there, purposefully fighting away from the general War battlegrounds so that no one would see the true main result of the war. They don't need praise or attention or recognition, they just need to know that they did what they sought out to do...that they are the ones victorious and set the example...So...What am I doing here? What am I contributing? These people can't be saved without proper truth, and people are fighting and may even die because they are fighting the people that matter. Instead of trying to do the pointless...why don't I lend those up there above me the power they need to end these jokers!"

Ronaldo turned around and smiled, and looked up towards the staircase.

"CHRISTIE! I'M ON MY WAY! YOU BETTER NOT HAVE DIED!"

He then ran up the staircase, tired and worn.

But having something to prove!

(Back with Muffet and Christie)

In terms of the fight between Christie and Hydra, as strong and agile Christie was, Hydra was just another tier. Their exchanges only ended with Hydra being the one to deal permanent damage.

Muffet had found her fight with Zewz to be annoying. She knew she was stronger than him in every way, but his never-ending distractions of quartz kept making it so that she could never get to him directly. If anything she was growing tired attack and fighting quartz instead of him. His supply was the entire continent itself, so his versatility in his defense and attack was seemingly never-ending.

Some even got to her physically, mostly because of her fatigue, but also the rate and amount he was making these attacks from the ground were sometimes overwhelming.

"You coward of a King, fight me fairly!" She said punching through another tendril only to see 18 more in her view." Muffet sighed as she got ready to have to fight more of his annoying onslaught.

However, just as the tendrils were going to reach her...

"Courage Spectre!" Ralsei said as a giant beam of Courage came in and blew up some of the tendrils.

Zewz and Muffet looked over, so did Christie and Hydra.

Ralsei had just climbed up the steps, the first person to reach the main battle, was indeed, the support.

Muffet and Christie smiled. Hydra just remained unphased by the overall means of this news. Zewz was angry.

"How are you able to destroy my quartz, Ms. Atlas?!"

Ralsei calmly walked to Muffet's position from where she was. She had to pass by Christie and Hydra to get there. She still calmly walked by them as if Hydra wasn't a threat.

He scoffed at that.

"Hmph, do I not scare you anymore goat girl?"

Ralsei laughed in return.

"My beef isn't with you, not now at least, I have a few things to work out with the King over there. Plus, I know this girl would protect me if you tried anything on your end." Ralsei retorted with a bit of sass and prissiness. Hydra only smirked because he knew she was right, he didn't want to hurt her anyways, not now anyway, Christie was his main obstacle right now.

She pointed at Zewz.

"And for you, I've done it before! Except now, I'm in a position to fight back."

Ralsei got into the vocal range of Muffet.

"Ralsei dearie~! You came back, were you able to see the others while down there?"

"First of all, those stairs are hell! Secondly, I only saw Undyne and Hera and Ronaldo, they are all fine."

Christie smiled at that news, her heart jumped.

"Take your darn hat back, you'll need it," Ralsei said playfully as she frisbee tossed Muffet's hat back at her.

Muffet jumped and caught in her mouth like a dog before placing it back on her head. She then turned back to Zewz and put her arms up. However, she felt a furry hand on her arm.

"Don't worry Muffet...I got this guy, go help Christie with Hydra. We need everyone we can on him."

Christie was already mid-combat with Hydra as they spoke, Muffet looked at the fight and then back at Ralsei.

"How do you know she needs immediate help? She looks fine."

Ralsei then formed a pole out of Courage and hit Muffet over the head with it, Muffet rubbed her head in pain.

"Who's the doctor here...? Exactly."

"You became scarier since the last time I saw you."

"Look! Christie has been keeping her cool as to not worry you and your fight. I got this guy Muffet, count on me, as your friend and crewmate to take on this guy."

Muffet gave one long look from both Ralsei to Zewz, and then Christie and Hydra. She did have a point, having to fight Hydra by herself was a scary thing, even she knew that if she fought him herself, it wasn't going to look good for her.

"...Okay dearie~ go kick his ass. Once you're done, converge on me and Christie, it's right as you say. We need as many people to attack him as we can." Muffet said as she gave Ralsei a fistbump and started running to Christie and Hydra.

Zewz then looked at his new opponent and felt somewhat happier with this outcome. Although the feats he had seen Ralsei perform, he would much rather deal with that than Muffet's overwhelming offense and trick Devil Fruit to counter.

"So 'Ms. Atlas' how do you plan on trying to carry everyone on your back now?"

Once Zewz said that name, Ralsei gave him a stare with her left eye, summoning a hat made out of Courage and the same orange light cigarette that she was smoking earlier. She scoffed as she took a drag.

"I don't plan to suddenly become as strong as my peers after this fight...nor do I expect to even close the gap instantaneously, nor do I aim to BE strong...but If I can provide more and more use to them as time goes on and become more and more useful...then that's what I strive to do. The first step," She exhaled before her eye, which she was using to stare him down with, glew with Courage, "Is making sure that I defeat you."

Zewz laughed. He then proceeded to summon tens upon tens of the same sized tendrils he has been using since the beginning of the Olympus brawl. Ms. Atlas just took another drag.

Seeing her nonchalant attitude towards his seemingly menacing attack got him riled up as he launched a singular tendril at her to signify that she should be terrified of his power. However, just as he did, she raised up her palm and shot out a beam of Courage. Once the two collided, Zewz's tendril gave out from the amount of force that came out of the blast.

Ralsei laughed.

"You know, not the first time I've had to deal with a tendril attack teeheehee~! I dare even say Bronzio's tendril is still scarier in comparison."

Zewz grey angrier hearing that comment twice.

"Who is this Bronzio guy you two talk about?"

"Teeheehee, don't rush it old man, you'll meet him soon," Ralsei said as she made her hands glow with Courage, readying herself for a fight she honestly couldn't tell if she could win. Regardless, she stood her ground, if her captain couldn't rely on her, then was she really their support.

Lately, she has been feeling that she would end up getting replaced, not that she would have a say, everyone else on the crew was monstrously stronger and more experienced than her. Which was why she felt useless, she wasn't as strong as them, and she didn't have anything to make up for it. The only relevance she had on the ship at this point was the fact that the ship they rode on was hers. Without that, she felt like she was lagging behind so far in the race that she felt like she was stuck at the beginning.

Just then, she heard the sound of a gunshot. Yet again, everyone in the field stopped their fight to look at the new variable being at play in this grand fight. Muffet had just gotten to the fight with Hydra, she was somewhat already bruised up, Christie was more than bruised up but still ready to continue. Hydra still seemed seemingly in mint condition, Ralsei still seemed a little banged up from her previous week but just had a re-vitalization in health and energy. Zewz looked somewhat injured but they knew it would take a lot more to put a prideful King down.

Together in their current state, they all looked in the direction of the entrance to the Kingdom of Olympus, where the top of the staircase led, and there they saw their new challenger.

*Click Clack Ka-ting*

A singular sniper shot casing was heard hitting the floor in an eery ringing fashion as the actual bullet whizzed by Christie's head and in the direction of Zewz's tendrils. Once the bullet made contact with the tendril, it exploded, but the bullet proceeded to bank off the exploding tendril and into the others in an aggressive ricochet, annihilating every tendril that stood in Ralsei's way. Zewz looked frightened as all he was able to see was the aggressive and sassy tip of a cowboy hat in the distance.

Cassidy took aim and blew the smoke off her muzzle. Hydra smiled, everyone else felt a bit indifferent about her appearance. All she did was give Hydra a glance.

"Seems you need help, ready to lend a hand, Gordon. And also, fuck those stairs!" Cassidy said positioning herself to aid Ralsei in her fight with Zewz.

It had seemed that fate had it so that the upcoming people that would attend this brawl would have to choose between fighting either Zewz or Hydra. Many different variables were at play here, everything here was already chaotic and the fight was not even close to over.

After Cassidy had positioned herself, everyone resumed their deathly combat. Ralsei raised her arms and channeled her Courage into beam-like attacks that traveled their way to Zewz's position. He tried to block it with a wall of quartz, but as it was being formed, Cassidy shot it down with another sniper shot that went through and destroyed the wall and sliced his right cheek.

All he was able to do was dodge out the way of the beam attack as all he was able to see was Cassidy aggressively reloading her sniper, cocking it with malicious intent while keeping eye contact with him.

He was being hunted.

The beam attack went by him and hit a random civilian's building, blowing it up to more and more bits. Ralsei gritted her teeth, ashamed that she missed it. Although, she was honestly surprised that she was even capable of doing this type of attack, to begin with. If someone had told her before that she was capable of doing this, she would call them crazy. Although, her being able to do this had been the reason for most of their victories, against The Chaos King and Bronzio it really came in handy.

All she knew was that her beams were selectively strong, this time around, she knows that her beams aren't as strong, nor would it matter. She was already weak compared to everyone else here, maybe she should focus on being more crafty with her abilities than a one-trick pony.

Cassidy yelled out across the battlefield.

"Oi, goat girl! Make sure to watch your head!" She said taking aim.

Ralsei nodded and continued her assault, Zewz regained his posture and took a running start at the Soul Parlour's support. He brandished his sword and came in to cleave her down the middle. Ralsei, being significantly shorter than this man, was only able to create a shield above herself by raising her palms in the direction of the attack and blocking it.

The sound of the clash sounded like tossing a rock at the unbreakable glass. She wasn't expecting a sound like that to be made from a clash like this. Regardless she backrolled out of the way, Zewz raised a brow as he put two and two together and raised his sword in a guarding position. The bullet Cassidy shot deflected off his sword. She scoffed as she cocked her sniper again.

"Nice shot! Don't try and go for accuracy, go for damage!" Ralsei looked back at Cassidy giving her commands as she summoned a disc-like shield for herself.

Cassidy took aim.

"Who are you to tell me what to do?" Cassidy said slowly aiming her crosshairs at Ralsei.

"Well, I know you won't shoot me although you've done before. And plus, you mean to say someone as great a shot as you can't do it?" Ralsei said with a smile.

Cassidy smirked as she took her crosshair off of Ralsei and back onto Zewz.

"Watch your mouth goat woman Tukukuku~!" Cassidy said with a genuine laugh and snicker.

Zewz was annoyed with the banter and continued to rush Ralsei. Hand-to-hand combat scared Ralsei, so this new ground she was trying to hold scared her more than anything Cassidy could potentially do in any way.

She blocked his sword attack with her frail build and small shield, his strong force, and her physique made every attack move her upper body around from the recoil. She had to frantically adjust her footing and shield placement immediately after each hit. Each strike she knew that Zewz really wanted her dead.

"What's wrong 'Ms. Atlas'? What happened to what you were saying about wanting to see me fall?"

Ralsei was too busy using her tiny muscles to try and repel the sword attack that was grinding against her waning shield. Regardless she smiled.

"It's still in the plan! Right, sniper?"

Zewz immediately looked around as he saw many shields around them in different angles and placements. Cassidy reached into her hat before taking a singular toothpick and placing it in her mouth, clenched by her teeth. She then took out both her Flintlock revolvers and aimed at two randomly placed shields.

"You betcha!" Cassidy took aim and shot at random shields along the sky and field in random but calculated order.

The bullets than were deflected off the shields and into other shields and platforms, making the battlefield around Ralsei and Zewz becoming a deathtrap. Bullets were ricocheting around them in frantic order that only Ralsei and Cassidy knew the pattern of.

Zewz disengaged in the clash with Ralsei to go pay more attention as to where these bullets were going to head. Ralsei smiled as she took steps back and practically danced around him, watching him struggle.

"Like I said! I merely support! I'm not meant for combat, but when it comes to helping my teammates, this is the result of my influence!" Ralsei said as she was effortlessly dodging bullets.

Zewz growled in anger as she was taunting him. He quickly just resorted to creating walls around himself, but those were immediately brittle down and eventually destroyed as more bullets came in and tore it apart. Some bullets hit and impaled his quartz armor, he quickly tried to patch up the holes, but when he did, more were made and even pierced him.

He glanced at Cassidy, she was concentrating really hard on nailing all her targets in quick succession, cracking a sweat but continuously never missing. He realized then that if he just simply stopped her, this attack would fall apart instantly. Zewz raised his hand to Cassidy, a few pillars raise from the ground to her left and right, and went to go hit her off course. However, just then an orange dome was created around Cassidy except around the barrel of her guns, allowing her to continuously shoot.

Zewz gave an angry look at Ralsei who gave him a confident and cocky smile.

"Focus on me big guy!" Ralsei said growing a vein on her forehead, expelling a lot of her power to raise her hands and rearrange the shields in the field, changing the ricochet pattern entirely, she knew Cassidy could keep up. She proved to be reliable as she saw early when she saved her going up the staircase.

"You damn Mink!" Zewz said as he was struggling to block all the incoming shots coming from everywhere at once.

Ralsei tried to gauge how much Courage she had left in her, it wasn't a lot. She only had enough to keep up this attack for a few more minutes, but her next shields for herself and beam attacks would be lackluster at best. She had to try her best to support Cassidy in ending this fight fast.

Zewz, at least for now, was backed in a corner!

Meanwhile, with Muffet and Christie.

"GUM GUM SPIDER MISSILE!"

"BULLPOINT COLLIDER!"

Both the team captains went in for their version of an all-armed rush, Hydra only retaliated in his Hybrid form by blocking it with his chest coated in Haki. He then used that shock force to push them off him, they both took a couple of flips backward before landing together and getting into a stance.

He licked his teeth with an open demonic smile.

"You girls are something else, you know that right? You're helping me take care of that joker, you know, if you surrender now, I'll enlist you as my main generals- hell, even Commanders! After I become the rightful ruler of this land, I'll eventually work up from Warlord to Emporer status!" Hydra said before maniacally laughing to himself.

"And is that your real intention, huh Gordon?" Christie said giving him a stern look.

He quickly but smoothly stopped laughing and gave her a sly look.

"Oh no of course not, but a King has to constantly look to his people's future doesn't he?"

"Huehuehue~ at least he's a passionate and loyal King, right dearie~?" Muffet said nudging Christie on her arm.

"Yeah, but that doesn't excuse what he wishes to practice in his Kingdom. Sorry Gordon, but we would rather die here than be a part of your future plans."

"Yeah, same dearie~ we have goals too!" Muffet said punching her fists together.

Hydra then smiled happily as he balled up his fist.

"Then please, die for me!"

All three of them rushed each other again, Muffet stretched her left arms the furthest she could back and launched it back forward. Christie condensed her right arm using a spring and charged up her punch. Hydra went in for a twin punch covered in Armament Haki. And just like that, all three of them exchanged blows with each other, all three of them expressing some form of painful discomfort with the exchange before shifting their expressions to that of hardened warriors as they distanced themselves from each other with a force and speed that shook the area around them.

Hydra went back after the rebound and brought out his claws before trying to slash Muffet with them. She was barely able to dodge and Christie came in to assist her and grab the arm that Hydra was going to use to claw her. She then used his arm as a form of balance beam as she brought her legs up over his arm using her grip on his arm as balance and turned her legs into springs before kicking off into his face.

His head was rocked back but he got over the force and directed his attention over to Christie and tried to grab her with his free hand. However, Muffet grab his arm and attempted the exact same thing, but this time, she mimicked her 'Spider Railgun' attack but with her legs instead of arms.

"GUM GUM! SPIDER COMPACTER!"

The attack was able to push Hydra off them before he got used to the pain of the attack and grabbed her legs, stopping her attack.

"Uh oh-" Was all she was able to say before she got pulled towards him and punched towards the ground using Armament Haki, a giant impact being made into the ground as he did.

Christie came to assist her but was immediately shut down by him grabbing her face and doing the same to her what he did to Muffet. He had them both planted into the ground, afterwards, he laughed like a mad man as he took one leap away from them and charged the blast of pressurized water in his mouth and shot it out where they were.

That shot made the dent they were in deeper, turning the ground from quartz to some form of grossly corroded mud. Whatever was the chemical makeup of that attack, it wasn't just hot water. Muffet felt it when she was hit by it when she first fought him. It felt almost acidic and corrosive at the same time. Like it was just a ball of pressurized acid.

Regardless they both popped out of the ground ready to fight. With slight burn marks on their face, they stood there in their stance taking deep breaths.

"Damn, you were hit by that, but like, much bigger?" Christie said recalling the first fight Muffet had with Hydra.

"Yeah, trust me, not something I wanna do through again dearie~"

Hydra playfully tossed a rock at them to get their attention.

"Honestly, you two are boring me. Go into that 'Gear Second' crap that you two were flaunting before. Then we can get started!"

Christie and Muffet looked at each other.

"Wait, you have an attack called 'Gear Second'?"

"An attack dearire~?! That's a whole mode I have-"

"What are you talking about- me too!"

"No way! Mine came first! Change the name of yours!" Muffet said sticking out her tongue childishly.

"What?! No! Change the name of yours, I won't even say mine until you change yours, I don't wanna be reminded about your mode name." Christie said crossing her arms and looking away.

"And? I just won't say mine either since you wanna copy me!" Muffet said as she pouted and looked away.

Hydra just watched this bickering occur with interest, he couldn't get a read of them. It was really hard to believe that they were working together and not in a race.

"Well, okay I'll just fight you two without it." He said hungrily dashing at them.

Both girls widened their eyes out of fear.

"GEAR SECOND!" They both quickly screamed as they managed to block his attack last second as a cloud of smoke circled the three of them.

Hydra smiled as through the smoke he felt intense energy and the glowing of Royal Blue and Purple eyes through the smoke.

"YES! NOW GIVE ME A SHOW!"

All three of them moved so fast out of that position that they seemingly went out of view, the only thing to be seen as a trail of steam coming from Christie and Muffet's bodies. Hydra was still able to keep up just fine with their new speeds comfortably.

They were clashing at the speed of sound, Muffet's attack clashing onto him, indenting her fist into his body as he returned the same heavier and meatier punch. Christie was trying to catch him at unfavorable positions but his reflexes were on another level as he was able to catch her in the attack, forcing her to be only predictable with her bouncing.

"MACH SPIDER MISSILE!"

Muffet launched her attack as it connected with his chest and caused him to cough up blood as Christie came in with the follow-up.

"SUPER BULLPOINT COLLIDER!"

Her twin fist attacked connected onto his chest and sent him tumbling through the quartz before he inhumanly regain his ground and just as inhumanly caught up to their position and clothes-lined both of them with Armament Haki. Both of them squirted some blood from their mouths.

They both flew off the same distance away that Hydra got launched before getting some solid ground again. Once their footing was resettled, they both rush him, Muffet going to his right and Christie going to his left. Hydra raised his forearms, parallel to his attackers so that their incoming punches were blocked by his bulky and Armament Haki-infused arms.

Once their punches landed and were deemed ineffective Hydra used his tail and coiled it around Muffet's legs. He then whipped her around to Christie and ended up using Muffet as a rope to bind up Christie. Seeing as how he grabbed her by her lanky end and her body composition being rubber, he was able to effectively do this, and in no time, both of them were snared up in each other.

"Dammit, idiot! Get yourself off me!"Christie said trying to squirm out of Muffet.

Muffet was trying to do the same.

"I would love to dearie~ but struggling isn't helping-"

As soon as she said that, both of them heard the sound of an attack charging. They flicked their heads to what they assumed the noise was, and they were right. Hydra was charging up his pressurized blast. This made Muffet and Christie frantically move around while tangled even more but to no avail.

The blast connected with them, the shockwave and impact of it shook Olympus around them, the ground that was already cracked by the meteor began to crack even more. The land of quartz was now losing all of the pristine beauty it once had.

The blast left a giant crater that left a heavy thick ball of steams and vapor, almost creating a smokescreen that completely left the bodies of Muffet and Christie ambiguous. Hydra stood at the edge of the hole and carefully tried to look through the smoke to sense their energy to see if they survived.

He couldn't directly discern the correct outcome, but it was apparent that he did not feel adrenaline or hear the sounds of an advance being made on him. Which meant that he either evaporated them, or they were merely unconscious from the impact. Normally he would go check, but there were a few problems with that plan.

First was that the crater and ball of mist were so grand that it would take him a while to find the bodies, and that was assuming that he didn't just outright evaporate them. The second reason was that there was currently an ongoing battle going on across from him. That should take his top priority.

On Cassidy's end, this repetitive action was easy to keep up, but the problem was that the end result was becoming less and less effective. Zewz continued bringing up shields to block her bullets. Without Haki anymore and her fruit her ability to aim as a sniper was the only strength she possessed.

Ralsei wasn't too effective either, her platforms kept disappearing one by one as their long battle continued. Zewz realized this but had to wait till Cassidy was no longer able to shoot.

"OH ZEWZ~!" Coyly said a man coming from the sidelines.

Cassidy, Ralsei, and Zewz looked over to see where the voice was coming from. Charging at him and tackling the King of Olympus was Hydra in his hybrid form. He ended up tackling him with enough force to not only send both of them tunneling through the quartz ground, but the shockwave of that was enough to shatter all of Ralsei's weakened platforms entirely.

The sudden depletion of them caused a toll on her, the platforms and her beams were somewhat an extension of herself. Her life force and stamina were put into making those mirages happen, so when they were harmed, she was too. So, when the plethora of platforms was destroyed she coughed blood and flinched aggressively as if she cracked ribs.

Ralsei took a knee and started to breathe heavily, she took Zewz being preoccupied with Hydra as a chance to regain some of her stamina. This was the most she has had to physically move in a fight, and even then she mostly just ran in circles around him distracting him while occasionally shooting beams at his quartz.

"I don't how the others do this for hours!" Ralsei thought in both petty anger and respect.

Cassidy saw that the fight had taken place in a place where her positioning did favor her and used her free time to run up to Ralsei. Her flashbangs on her sash that were wrapped from her right shoulder down to her left waist were jangling along with her holstered guns as she ran.

"You alright goat girl-?"

"It's *pant* Ralsei!"

"Yeah whatever, can you keep fighting or not?"

"Hehe, well if I'm being honest with you, I've had no time to heal for a long while, even starting to participate in this war I was well in my death bed. I've pushed past my limits already and I'm already feeling the toll."

"Why the need to tell me all of that?"

"Because think about it, me and you currently aren't the strongest people on this land right now, we work for someone. Have you ever looked at your superior and wondered how do they always find the energy and will to continue fighting? I constantly do, love or hate Hydra, hasn't he been doing all he can too? Do you respect it?"

Ralsei's words made her think for a while. She turned her body from facing Ralsei to facing the fight Hydra was having. The instant she did, she saw that Hydra was stabbed through the chest by a buster sword while pillars came from around him and pierced his body at a different angle, and yet, he was still smiling and laughing, fighting through the pain with a smile.

"...I do..." said Cassidy as she took out her sniper while sitting in front of Ralsei with her legs crossed.

The goat girl eyed Cassidy as she did so, her aura felt different. It felt as if she took this to be her sniper spot not because it was effective, but like she was inviting Ralsei to watch her work. She raised a brow before smiling kneeling down and placing her hands on both her shoulders, casting a weak dome around both herself and Cassidy. the muzzle of the gun peaking out the dome.

"Sorry...this is the most I can do, for now, I need a while to gather myself...but I have faith in you," Ralsei said in a soft voice.

Cassidy froze.

She was filled with...

Less Hatred?

"...It's okay, thank you for the cover...Randal-"

"Ralsei."

"Yeah, Roofus."

"Now you're doing it to be a jerk!"

Cassidy smiled as she took aim and tried a couple of potshots at Zewz, however, after dodging her shots for minutes on end, he had caught on to the timing of her shots and blocked it while being preoccupied with Hydra's onslaught.

Zewz charged up a right hook using a quartz gauntlet while Hydra charged up a left hook coating it in Armament Haki. They collided punches, both of them not budging but just standing there, continuing to force the other to give in.

This fight had remained at a stalemate for an annoying amount of time, that's what both of them thought. Something needed to happen, somehow Christie and Muffet failed to try and weaken Hydra enough to tilt the scales. A catalyst needed to occur.

Something at all.

Just then, both of them felt immediate pressure, they kept their fists clashing, but they were being driven further into the ground. Both of them were greatly confused.

Cassidy, who was watching the fight from her scope was confused too, and then, she gained a nervous smile. A smile that meant she knew what was happening, but didn't know what it meant for her. Ralsei was confused for a second, looking through Cassidy's scope, before immediately catching on.

A giant breath of air was taken in, and then the battlefield went silent.

...

"HYDRA...! ZEWZ...! MORIAL IS HERE TO PAY HER DUES! I'M COMING TO KICK YOUR ASS!" Undyne said speaking for both herself and her mother. Susie was also sen next to her, holding her hand in the direction of Hydra and Zewz.

Ralsei was happy seeing her friends being okay and somewhat healthy, however, when Petrichor was seen next to them, Ralsei instinctively cringed.

"AH- WHAT IS THAT?!"

Hydra grew a sinister smile while Zewz grew a frown. Petrichor only giggled by the sudden surprise.

"DAUGHTER OF MORIAL! LET OUR BATTLE REMIND ME OF YOUR RESPECTED LINEAGE!" Hydra said in the most excited voice he has exclaimed in his life.

His hype and sheer strength were enough to immediately break out of Susie's increased gravity. Susie furrowed her brows as she looked to Undyne swiftly.

"He's stronger than that-! You two, go!" Susie said stopping her use of her Devil Fruit to again reengage in combat by taking out her trusty Warhammer.

Undyne laughed from her spot with the same energy as Hydra.

"YOUR CAPTAIN'S BLOWS WERE TOUGH, BUT NOT ENOUGH TO BRING ME DOWN! HOW WILL HER SUBORDINATE FAIR?!" He said almost introducing Undyne as if she was a contesting in a fighting ring.

"YOU'LL SEE THAT I'M MADE OF TOUGHER STUFF THAN MY CAPTAIN! NOT ONLY ARE THESE PUNCHES FUELED BY THE WILLS AND HOPES OF MY FRIENDS AND CREW, BUT THOSE THAT YOU TWO HAVE WRONGED! PREPARE YOUR SELF FOR-"

Undyne cast her full body armor out of her Determination and coated it was light Haki. She charged up a punch right her right hand that glew with her Determination. Both of them went for the punch at the same time, but Undyne struck first. Hydra coughed out blood, not spit this time.

"THE SPEAR OF JUSTICE!"

She continued through with the punch, letting her Quadrent flow from her fist after the punch. It sent him flying and explode on impact. Afterward, she snapped her fingers and summoned four spears from her Kindness and sent them towards Ralsei, the pit that Muffet and Christie were in, and Susie.

Once Ralsei received the healing, she made her barrier stronger. Cassidy noticed it and smiled and she took aim.

Zewz came in sliding through the Quartz, ready to drive his sword through Undyne. Undyne stood still and let the attack connect. When it did, the sword shattered. Zewz's face grew surprised and worried as Undyne looked down at him with the most animalistic show of sharp long teeth. She then puffed out her chest, and the force from that pushed Zewz back a few feet.

"I AM THE HYPE!" Undyne said as she immediately followed that attack with a punch to Zewz's left cheek.

That punch alone cracked his skull. Zewz was sent flying off his feet as she landed the attack right into Hydra who caught him and tossed him aside. Hydra attempted the rematch with Undyne, but Undyne was all for it.

She laughed so loud the rocks around her shook as if there was an earthquake. She then snapped her fingers and thousands of blue spears were made right behind her, causing a sight more blinding than Ralsei's beams. That blinding light was enough for Hydra to flinch and halt his approach. When he did, Undyne pointed at him and the spears came in rushing to him, he dodged a good portion, but it was inevitable that they caught up to him and pierced him tens if not hundreds of times.

Undyne took this time to rush to him and uppercut him in the chin to leave to be more vulnerable to the onslaught of spears. Hydra twirled aggressively and blew back the spears. They all dematerialized, and now he was seen in a bloody and punctured mess, but that didn't last for long as he regrew his body but still looked hurt by everything that happened.

Petrichor came in and dove past Undyne as Zewz came back and tried to ambush her with a giant sword.

"TRUFFLE SHOT!" Petrichor said she used her stinger's hydraulics to spring out her stinger with pressurized force and completely obliterated Zewz's sword. All she did was smile as she did so, the instant she did, a sniper shot was heard and the bullet connected with Zewz's side. He spewed blood as he took a knee to take out the bullet.

"Can't let you hurt the best friend of my Sis. Sorry man." Petrichor said with a smile.

Susie walked up to Ralsei and Cassidy.

"Nice shot Cass', it's great to see you again Rals'! Glad you're okay."

"Nice to see you again Susie! No time for formalities though, Christie and Muffet are in that hole, get them out of there!"

Susie nodded as she took a heavy march towards the giant steam-filled pit. She shook her head in shame and facepalmed while she made her way. She couldn't believe that Muffet and Christie, their strongest forces, were already somehow stuck. They are lucky that Undyne is scarily close to their Captain in strength so that she could stall them for a bit.

She eventually got to the pit and loomed over it, admiring the landscape in general. She had read up on how Olympus looked, it was said to be a paradise, but seeing it now, it looked like an apocalypse.

"Hey! You two, I know you didn't die from whatever happened here. What's taking you so long?! Undyne even healed you two, so stop your bitchin' and get up."

She heard nothing but faint groans.

Meanwhile, Undyne and Petrichor were still fighting in the midst of gunshots while in a moshpit with Hydra and Zewz. Hydra made contact with Undyne's chest with a kick and it was enough to crack the armor and cause her to show recoil of pain, but she powered through it and returned with an elbow to the face. She quickly turned around to cross her forearms in an 'X' formation with her gauntlets to block the overhead swing of Zewz's swords. It forced Undyne to take a knee from the force of the blow. Hydra took this makeshift ramp to run up Undyne's back and vault over her to punch Zewz across the face. All the while, Petrichor was waiting at the end of Hydra's landing point to deliver and backflip-kick to his chin that caused him to flip backward as a response. Hydra then spun around his tail and it managed to hit all three of them and pushed them back.

Cassidy's bullet went in the path to go past Hydra and to Zewz who was in front of him, but while in its path, Hydra gave it an aggressive hit with his elbow and made the bullet's trajectory go in a sharp 90 degree turn to Petrichor. It caught her off guard and ended up piercing her shoulder. The sharpshooter regretted shooting the shot but recocked her gun.

Meanwhile, Susie was still trying to get them out of the pit.

"You guys are being babies, that attack couldn't have hurt that bad."

They were now on a talking stage. It felt like she was a negotiator in a hostage situation, or like a parent trying to reason with two children as to why to eat their vegetables. She sighed aggressively.

"You don't understand Susie dearie~ He's hitting us with some magic water!"

"Yeah, that shit hurts!"

"YOU BOTH LITERALLY HAVE FACED MUCH WORSE, WHY IS THIS THE EXCEPTION!"

"DEARIE~ NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, BOILING MYSTERY LIQUID ALWAYS HURTS!"

"It's like acid, hot water, and lava, all mixed with heat smoke from a geyser! YOU HAVE TO BE HIT BY IT TO KNOW!"

"LIKE I WOULD WANT TO BE HIT BY IT! JUST COME OUT!"

"NO DEARIE~ NOT UNTIL HE AGREES TO NOT USE THAT ATTACK AGAIN!"

Susie banged her head on her Warhammer. She then turned to Hydra and projected her voice so that he would be able to hear her.

"HYDRA! THEY ASK IF YOU CAN STOP USING THAT WATER WHATEVER MOVE!"

Hydra was seen giving a flying roundhouse kick to Petrichor while Undyne was trying to get him in a chokehold while dangling from his neck.

"Aqua Departure?"

"Yeah! That!"

Hydra was then kneed on the spine by Undyne, causing him to kneel before grabbing her arms and tossing her away from him while she flew into Zewz and both of them were dazed.

"What? No way!"

"Guys he said no-"

"THEN WE WON'T COME OUT!" Both of them said like kids whining about not getting a toy.

Undyne and Petrichor were fighting for their lives against Zewz and Hydra. Undyne was surprisingly capable of withstanding the combating pressure of facing two major enemies at once. She had only received the liberty of attacking the main foe only at Yetera. This was why she was fighting harder than usual, this was a liberating thing for a warrior like herself.

"You hit like your Captain! I'm betting Morial's proud of what you're becoming!" Hydra said as he bulked up with scales and charged at them with a lariat rush, spearing Undyne and Petrichor with the strength to bust Undyne's Armor and to dent Petrichor's cybernetic enhancements. They crashed through multiple dunes of debris.

"NOW WE ARE GETTING TO THE FINAL ACT. LET'S REALLY GO ALL OUT ZEWZ!"

Hydra said as he started morphing his body to his gigantic Zoan Hydra form. All ten heads swaying his presence causing a shadow to loom over everyone else on the field. His scales were at his thickest, his muscle becoming that of iron from how huge they were in comparison to his body. He coated his teeth in Armament Haki as he used all of his ten heads to roar across the land, causing massive parts of Olympus to fall from the foundation and on Constricta below.

Zewz returned the favor by absorbing the fallen chunks of Olympus and combining them with his body. Even using some of the still stable parts of Olympus to fuel his body, turning into a giant knight of himself made entirely out of his quartz.

Everyone else on the battlefield looked up in awe as they saw the final stage of their fight. Somehow they had to manage to defeat these giant behemoths of enemies. They were already fighting with broken bodies, this would have to require massive amounts of collaboration and a miracle.

Susie sighed as she saw Hydra and Zewz transform.

"...Look Ronaldo is up here with meat!"

Just like that, Christie and Muffet erupted from their smoke coffin with noticeable burn and blister marks on their bodies.

"RONALDO?!" Christie said.

"MEAT?!" Muffet said.

Susie then grabbed them both by the scruff like dogs and tossed them towards Hydra and Zewz. They stood next to each other disappointed that they fell for that but now toughened up as this fight was inevitable. Undyne, Petrichor, Susie, Cassidy, and Ralsei slowly walked up to them. They stood in a line from tallest to smallest, that being Petrichor, then Undyne, then Christie, then Susie, then Cassidy, then Muffet, and then finally Ralsei.

However just as they were about to rush together, they felt a reimburse of energy as if they had gained a few hours of rest suddenly. Just then pulling up between Undyne and Christie in the final formation, was Ronaldo.

"Hey guys, sorry I'm late-"

Christie then embraced him in the hardest hug she had ever given in her life.

"RONALDO?! DON'T YOU EVER LEAVE ME AGAIN YOU JACKASS!"

This made everyone smile. Ronaldo just rested her chin on her head.

"I would love to talk about this more with you Christie, but first we have to live past this."

They all looked up still acknowledging the looming threats.

Zewz and Hydra already began attacking each other in their giant forms, causing ground-splitting tremors with each blow. The winds blew everything that wasn't the flat surface away from sight. Everyone stood their ground with their arms folded, emitting a glow from their soul's light. Lights of light blue, red and green, yellow, yellow and purple, yellow, black, purple, and orange were all to be seen.

Everyone looked at Cassidy, noticing a black glow, not knowing what kind of soul that was. They ignored it to focus on the topic at hand.

"So, what's the plan Muffet?"

Muffet and Christie looked at each other.

"Well, it's too late for us to try and slowly raise our power until we are forced to fight at max. We are already incredibly exhausted. Our best bet is coordinating our strongest attacks while going at full power at the beginning. No holding back dearies~!"

Everyone nodded.

Petrichor's water tanks and eyes glew aggressively with her Integrity, Undyne summoned her armor again, Ronaldo just flexed all his muscles, Christie activated 'Gear Second', Susie applied Interstellar Karma on herself, Cassidy reloaded all her guns, Muffet activated 'Gear Second' while stacking it with Gear Third once again, Ralsei created a saucer below her feet with her Courage while her hands and eyes glew aggressively with the same Courage.

Everything was set and stage for this final showdown, the final act of Constricta, it was all or nothing.

Time until the verdict of which side will prevail...

FIVE MINUTES!

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Hera had to endure the rumbling and aggressive tremors that plagued the room in which she kept herself. The overwhelming power from their fight was having negative effects on Olympus' weak structure. Hydra's secret room being a part of the foundation of Olympus, meant that Hera had to face quakes while trying to read.

After Cassidy has left her in this room, she had studied up on everything the room had to offer. The problem was...she still didn't feel complete.

She didn't feel any different.

She had re-read every scroll, book, glyph, ciphers, article, and wall drawings that there were in the room multiple times. The room was now a mess that perfectly resembled Hera's mind. She slammed her fist down on the cartographer table that was used to display one of the scrolls that she couldn't tell if it was her 7th or 8th time reading.

"God damnit!"

The bioweapon then slammed her head down onto the table and let it sink there.

"The legend says, I, Hera, was meant to free the habitants of Constricta by killing the darkened beast, Hydra...in an island of snow? That doesn't make any sense, I'm here, I've never been on an island of snow, Constricta is far from it! What the hell!"

Hera slammed her forearms on the desk and then slide them aggressively along the smoothen sheet of paper on the table, causing the table due to the force of the friction to fly across the room, shattering along the wall into splinters. The sounds of the ongoing war below were not helping her think straight either.

"I can't! I...just can't do this...I don't know what to do..."

Her fingers were brushing her hair in circles, trying to calm her down by massaging her scalp, but she couldn't muster the elegance to make it as pleasant as an intended massage, but instead agitated her skin.

Slithering was heard around her, familiar slithering. Then, a shadow loomed from the opening of the room.

"So, y-you've chosen this, can't say I'm not surprised...I'm quite happy actually..."

Shyren calmly and respectfully slithered her way past Hera and picked up a journal from the floor, Hydra's personal journal.

"W-what are you doing here?"

"Seeing how the war turns out, it's nearing the end, honey. Why are you cooped up in here?" She said solemnly looking around the walls, knowing the answer herself.

"I-I need to know. If I don't then...then...! I-!"

Another quake happened, this time, one more aggressive, a way more aggressive one than before. She heard the sounds of Olympus crumbling, distant grunts from her friends, screams from her friends. She knew that they were having to ultimately fight her fight for her, and she felt all the worse about it. They were risking their lives for a war that didn't concern them in the slightest, their only standpoint was that this was Hera's journey and that they had to support her side no matter what.

Like how real parents should. Like how real role models set the example.

Shyren stashed Hydra's personal journal in between her bust. Her bust was matured enough to fully encase it, but with her perfect fitting clothes, it was tightly held together between them. That and she had no other place to put it, no pocket was big enough.

She then got up.

"You thought that by reading what your destiny was...that you would magically unlock your potential and awaken yourself to what you were supposed to be?"

"It's the only way!"

"Really? Did it work?"

"Well...well..."

Shyren only nodded.

"Well, you have another problem on your hands...if one more tremor h-happens, t-then all of Olympus- the foundation, will snap."

"WHAT?! But- everyone is still fighting up there!"

"Yes, and they are doing this fight up there for a reason. Why do you think they bothered making the fight stay up there when they could easily have it on Constricta?"

Hera thought hard about it as the dust of quartz were sprinkling from the ceiling, indicating a soon collapse.

"To make them not worry about the real fight and to end before anyone could claim them as heroes because that's not what they want. They...they...they don't want to bring harm to those who didn't deserve to be here."

Shyren only nodded after hearing the latter part of her realization. She promptly got up from her seat on her own tail that was coiled and started to slither out.

"Wait! Why did you ask me that, what do I do?!"

It was too late, Shyren already left the room, with a pleased smile on her face. Whistling a cheerful tune in the midst of the war.

She knew the fate of this war now.

It was ending sooner than she thought.

Hera frantically looked around the room trying to find any clues as to what to do. Does she fight with Undyne and the rest? Does she try and find the solution in this room? Does she try again to get the people to stop fighting and warn them of the collapse of Olympus?

As soon as those thoughts filled her head...all she heard faintly in the distance was...

"AQUA DEPARTURE!"

Just like that, her eyes widened, she knew the force of that attack would be enough to set Olympus off its weakened stem of a foundation. She had to act fast. She tried thinking like Susie, she tried thinking like Ralsei, she tried thinking like her mom, all their plans of advice wouldn't work. She needed someone's advice, someone to guide her, who could she look up to, what would she do now?

She was lost in panic, not knowing what to do.

Then...she thought about Muffet and what she would do...

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And then...she had an idea. It was simple, it was dumb, it was reckless, and she shouldn't have even had the thought in the first place. But if there was something Muffet taught her, was that miracles reward those who try.

"I'm not a little girl!"

She took one stomp into the floor with her right foot.

"I'm not a coward!"

She took one stomp onto the floor with her left foot.

"I'm Hera The Undying!"

She put her arms up.

"THE SAVIOR OF BOTH WORLDS!"

Aqua Departure was shot, and from the screams she heard, a few people dodged it and a few got hit by it. From the impact of the blast, Shyren was right, starting from the room Hera was in, Olympus, cracked like a twig.

Everyone on Olympus felt the immediate tilt and no one was prepared for it. Everyone was fighting with everything they had, a bloodbath stained the pearly white ground of Olympus to form almost a Rorschach-Esque design across its face.

However, everyone heard Hera's words as she screamed her battle cry. They all prepared themselves for the inevitable fall, Muffet, Ronaldo, and Susie being pissed that the inhabitants below would have not only an entire landmass fall on their heads but having to see the real fight behind the scenes. That was not what they wanted.

Just as everyone was sliding off the landmass...the landmass stopped tilting. It was then slowly being brought back up to its original ninety-degree position that it head before it was perched on the mountain. Everyone was quite confused as to why that was.

Not before long...people started to guess what was happening.

Hera...the 4th Secret Weapon...Part of the Soul Parlour Pirates...stood there between the rest of the mountain and Constricta...

Holding it up with her bare hands by the foundation.

She was not only lifting an entire landmass, but the people on it and will continue to hold it there until they finished their fight. She was screaming in pitches that she didn't know could leave her vocal cords and breathe like a rabid animal. Her eyes almost popped out of her head as she used all of her artificial power to do this feat.

Once everyone knew, excluding Zewz and Hydra, they all screamed out for her.

"HERA! DON'T LET GO!"

They roared that in both desperations but also with the most appreciation, hype, love, care they could muster in a short phrase. They were all to that point in stamina that even speaking was a detriment.

Hera, hearing the words of her family and friends, was able to lift Olympus slightly higher and had less of a bearing on her body. Even then, it didn't feel like much changed besides her lung capacity.

"JUST FINISH IT...FINISH IT NOW!"

And with that, everyone spared no time to continue the fight.

"Undyne!" Susie said as she ran towards Undyne with a knowing eye.

Undyne nodded as she brought up her leg like how a dog would before urinating which allowed Susie to jump and land on her calf. Undyne then kicked off which acted as a major boost through the air, allowing Susie to get to her opponents fast.

While Susie was flying through the air, Ronaldo was running around with Christie right by his side, both of them went to go for Zewz who was sweeping the floor with his giant sword swing. Both of them were barely able to run around it as they took a power leap into the air. They both charged up a punched that connected with Zewz's armor, busting it open and revealing Zewz himself controlling the giant version of himself via core.

Once they did that, they both smirked as Undyne launched a spear at Zewz that connected with his chest instantly, making him fly out of his giant suit of armor, making the giant version of himself crumble instantly.

Zewz spewed blood from his mouth as his pupils almost faded away. Muffet ran by Undyne, still in Gear Second but had long abandoned Gear Third a while ago. She dashed by her first commander with a smile.

"Nice one Undyne!"

The fishwoman smiled as she ran alongside her Captain at the same speed, rushing towards Hydra who was the main concern from the beginning.

Cassidy and Ralsei were still bastioned next to each other but continuing their original plan of shooting onto the platforms to create a bullet hell. Susie and Ronaldo were the ones that were hit with the previous Aqua Departure, so they were already almost out of the fight. Christie by far sustained the most injuries so she was almost out of the fight too.

Zewz, when he landed on the floor, sought to it that he would repair the foundations of his land, so he tried to reconnect the seams between the empty spaces.

Just then, a single thread of quartz came out from underneath her and whizzed past her cheek, cutting it open and making it leak blue blood. Regardless she still kept her strength up to make sure both landmasses were safe from their impending doom. However, the more she held it up, the more she felt capable.

She didn't know what they meant.

Susie finally made the jump towards Hydra, he tried swatting her out of the way with one of his heads.

"JUSTICE FORM! JUDGEMENT'S MALLET!" She said as her Warhammer became engulfed in her justice and became 150 times its size.

She then used it to hit it over his head and onto the ground, splattering it instantly making the other nine heads scream in pain as Undyne and Muffet made their way to the base of him. Undyne then summoned a giant spear and tossed it at his stomach from below. She was able to pierce him.

This pain annoyed him so he coated his giant foot in Armament Haki and began stepping below him. To Undyne's unfortunate circumstance, she was caught victim of the giant attack and was sent into a large crater with a boom that made every crater before look like a pothole. Her pupil faded out as her armor was busted and she laid there lifeless.

"UNDYNE!" Muffet said as she shedded a singular tear from each of her five eyes and use Gear Second to dash up to Hydra's stomach.

"GUM GUM! MACH SPIDER RAILGUN!"

An uncountable amount of match speed punches rapidly targetted his stomach which caused him a large sum amount of pain before he used his tail to grab her. He then coated it in Armament Haki as he began to squeeze her, making Muffet wail in pain.

He then swung his body around and used his Armament-infused tail to hit Susie who was still airborne, causing Susie to take a collision course right into Ralsei, where he had aimed. Both of them connected skulls with each other as they were both dragged along the quartz floor, both seeming nigh-unconscious from that. Cassidy's combo attack was now gone and she had to rely on her raw aim again.

All the while, Petrichor ambushed him from behind and appeared on top of one of his heads. He noticed her too late as she charged up her Hydraulic Scorpion tail.

"TRUFFLE SHOT!"

Her stinger attack was enough to blow up the top half of one of his heads. Causing him to scream more in pain as he shook her off him. While she fell she turned around back to him to see what he would do next, but to her surprise, it was another Armament infused stomp attack that landed. She too was sent unconscious.

All the while he still was squeezing Muffet with the grip of his tail. Ronaldo and Christie saw this go down, they both nodded before they split up. Ronaldo went to go help Muffet while Christie went to go finish Zewz.

Christie used springs to bounce her way over to Zewz, he wasn't expecting her to approach so fast, so he couldn't guard himself in time. Although, due to his injuries and lack of stamina, he couldn't physically do much anyways.

She was seething with rage.

"THIS PUNCH- YOU'VE HAD IT A LONG TIME COMING! THIS IS FOR THE MINKS, THE CITIZENS OF OLYMPUS! THE NAVY, MY FRIENDS, MY BEST FRIEND! BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, THIS IS FOR THE PAIN THAT YOU MADE THAT LITTLE GIRL GO THROUGH, NOW-!"

She springed not only her forearm but her bicep and shoulder too.

Finally...mustering all the strength she could from her rage, she unknowingly coated it in Perseverance, her Justice, but most importantly...her newly unlocked Armament Haki.

"WORLD PUNCTURE!" she said as the punch connected with his unguarded stomach.

The punch was so grand that his pupils faded away, blood erupted from his mouth and other open wounds, a shockwave was made that was proceeded by a wave of quartz to be lifted from the ground, but most importantly, causing his body to tunnel through Olympus from the surface, to the core. Embedding him in his quartz.

Ronaldo had managed to catch up to Muffet and lend her some of the energy he had zapped from Zewz, whatever was left anyways. However, it was enough for her to bust free from his grip and land back down on the ground. She landed next to him, to which Christie caught up to them afterward.

Hydra looked at the three of them.

"You three are the only ones left that stand in my way. You've come this far but..."

Just as he said that the wounds they gave him and the heads they exploded, all regrew.

"You can't beat someone who can't die!"

One by one, all ten heads charged up an Aqua Departure attack. Muffet, Ronaldo, and Christie prepared themselves, not knowing what to do about the situation. Everyone that needed to be here was and was seemingly knocked out. No one was coming to save them.

Muffet giggled with both excited glee and dread.

"Well dearires~ if I'm being honest, we tried all we could, and I'm not entirely sure we can survive this next attack huehuehue~! So if you want to get stuff off your chest say it now!"

Christie looked to Ronaldo...but chose to stay silent.

Ronaldo looked to Christie...

"Hey, Christie, these past years together have been the best I could have possibly asked for. My good-for-nothing lazy ass wouldn't want to go anywhere in life because I had no motivation. But, when I met you, you've pushed me to do a little better every time. I know I may seem like I don't care and take everything lightly, and although that may be true, the only thing I am serious about...is how I feel for you. Without you, there is no happiness, without you, I wouldn't have gotten this far, and although this might be the end, I would happily do it all over again if it meant that I could re-live life with you."

He got into a stance while saying everything he said with a serious face that kept looking at Hydra.

Muffet smiled, Christie was just left speechless and stood there. She would rather let the attack hit her than not absorb every word Ronaldo had just said.

"One produces energy, the other takes it and shares it...a perfect match huehuehue~," Muffet said getting even more ready for the attack.

"AQUA DEPARTURE-"

Right as he was about to shoot it, the sound of a sniper shot was heard. One of the 'Aqua Departure's' was blown up while still inside his mouth and it caused the head to explode. Hydra swiftly turned around, knowing who it was, but couldn't believe it anyway.

Cassidy cocked her sniper with a thousand years stare of regret, pity, and fear. Regardless, she eyed him down the entire time as she did it.

"Cassidy...What is the meaning of this?" Hydra said taking away the other blasts and reverting back into his Hybrid form.

His face showed genuine concern.

"Get a grip dude...this isn't right...look!"

Cassidy gestured her hand around herself.

"This is not what we wanted to do, this isn't what Lexy would have wanted!"

"AND WHO ARE YOU TO SAY THAT?!"

His eyes got cloudy.

"NO ONE KNEW HER LIKE I DID. AND NO ONE KNEW ME MORE THAN SHE DID! AFTER I LOST MY CREW, FRIENDS AND MENTOR, SHE WAS ALL I HAD. AND THIS CURSED LAND TOOK THAT FROM ME! JUSTIFICATION IS KILLING ME!"

"BUT KILLING ISN'T JUSTIFIED, HYDRA!" Cassidy said screaming back.

Hydra flinched as he grew worried bags under his eyes. He began to softly shed a tear.

"You're just like her..."

Everyone who was present and listening eyed Hydra strangely.

"What do you mean by that?" Cassidy said.

"What? Do you want me to tell you the truth?!"

"Yes! And while you're at it, what kind of jackass gives someone a locket that claims that giving me the power was the best investment ever?"

Hydra gave her a worried look again, this time more sullen.

"...What are you talking about...?"

"When you gave me the Magma Fruit, why would you say that was your best investment ever? Like I was some financial pawn?!"

Hydra now...started to cry more, without sobbing. Emotional singular heavy beads dripped down his cheek.

"No no... Cassidy...I wasn't talking about the fruit...I could give less of a shit about the power...the best investment I ever made...was putting time into raising you..."

Everyone felt that. Christie and Ronaldo and...someone else sensed it, he wasn't lying. Cassidy's whole attitude changed, her eyes became cloudy as well.

"W-what are you-"

"I made a promise to Lexy...that I would take care of the baby after she passed and spare it from wrath..."

Cassidy trembled.

"Y-you said that you gave the child away. When I grew up with my parents, I-"

"Cassidy..." He said as he slowly walked to her, now in his base form.

She kept stuttering over her words and averting eye contact.

"Y-you said that y-you didn't want to get involved in the kid's life s-so s-so-"

"Cassidy..." He said as he got to her.

He walked right up to her and softly placed a hand on her cheek, he knows that's how Lexy liked it whenever she needed someone to calm her down.

It ran in the family.

"...You are the baby in that story..."

Cassidy just looked him dead in the eyes as her eyes were completely shrouded by tears.

"I lied so that you would feel impartial to my wishes, so you can choose to follow me out of your own volition. I gave you away, yes, but that was to also make it look like those people were your parents. Cassidy...you are the sixth child of the Kingdom Lexy was from...you are her sister. All the skills of a gunslinger weren't taught to you by your family, but by the skills of those in your generations who died before you...You are a Princess Cassidy..."

Hydra got on his knees and hugged her. Everyone else was too bewildered to say anything. Cassidy was so confused about everything around her, she had to soak in a lot, she valued this man, but hated him. she didn't know what to do.

In her rage, she took out her two pistols and started to unprofessionally shoot them into his chest, as if she were on a tantrum. Regardless, Hydra stood there and continued to hug her as she cry into his chest.

"I love you Cassidy like how any parent would love their kid. Although you're not my kid directly, you've shapen up to be quite the independent, strong woman. That's the most I can ask for the future of the one I raised. No matter what you do, I can't hate you, you and Lexy have that effect..."

Cassidy stopped shooting, her hands were trembling. Slowly...she dropped her pistols and softly engaged the hug with him too.

"I-I... don't hate you too."

Hydra smiled as the last tear was dropped.

"Good, that's all I wanted to hear before all this was over" Hydra then used her when she was vulnerable to deliver a chop to the nape of her neck.

He hit her in the pressure point that allowed a quick knockout. Making her unconscious in the most non-brutal way mankind can offer. HE softly placed her down.

Muffet got mad.

"HYDRA!"

He turned around as he transformed back into his Hybrid form.

"You three can't stop me now, after I kill you, this place will fall. And I can move on. I'm not entirely evil, but I'm a man who is entirely convicted to keep a promise to a person I love and care about. Now you go ahead and tell me, am I the bad guy here?"

Ronaldo didn't know how to answer that. Muffet was too enraged about what just happened for multiple reasons, all of which bounced in her head aggressively.

Christie spoke up.

"We get that, but don't try and excuse genocide. If this woman was as nice as you say, you know in your heart she wouldn't allow genocide in her plan."

He only nodded.

"I suppose you're right. However, you shouldn't tempt a man who has nothing to lose."

"What about Cassidy?"

He gave a soft glance to her.

"Hence why I'm fighting you in my Hybrid form instead of the natural Zoan form. In her honor, I'll make it fair."

The silence and tension were thick. Everyone stood there eyeing each other.

Hera, trying her best to hold up the landmass was starting to feel over-exhaustion from her duty but tried with all her might to persevere through it. Just then, Zewz came down from above her and slammed onto the floor next to her, gasping his last breaths. Christie had hit him that hard.

She only looked down at him with pity. She knew that this meant that her friends and family were making headway into finishing this.

Zewz then looked at her.

"You...you're the reason Olympus is standing."

"Y-yes. You're welcome-"

Just as she said that a rod of quartz pierced her stomach causing her to almost lose grip on Olympus making it wobble a bit. Everyone that was unconscious rolled off the side of the landmass and dropped, except for one person.

The people that fell off were caught by a blur, and then, to never be seen again.

"W-what are you doing?! Are you crazy!"

"If Olympus falls, it'll be the end of Hydra and the rest, they'll surely die from the plummet."

"You're insane-"

A rod of quartz was shot through Hera's chest, but she didn't budge. Blood streamed down her mouth as she continued her stride.

Muffet, Christie, and Ronaldo rushed Hydra in their final stand. Muffet stretched back her arms and his him with her 'Spider Rocket' attack, causing him to be sent back a bit, while Christie came in with springed punch which he block and then proceeded to backhand her.

Ronaldo seeing that happen to her, charged at him in rage. However, Hydra caught him by the neck and smiled.

"I thought you would have died a long time ago. Beat it!"

Hydra then one-inch punched Ronaldo in the chest, cracking his ribs and sending him straight off Olympus unconscious.

"Ronaldo!" Christie said reaching her arm out in vain.

Hydra gave both of them a quiet look.

"It started with you two, and it will end with you two...I'll give you both extravagant farewells.

Hydra brought his palms to the sky and tilted his head upwards while opening his mouth.

"GEYSER NEBULA!"

Hydra created an Aqua Departure the size of a quarter of the landmass from his mouth. Christie and Muffet flinched as now they were sure that they couldn't survive this next attack. The charging of the attack shook the ground and levitated the pebbles around them.

However, when Hydra looked to the sky, looking past his attack, he saw something.

His eyes widened.

The sky became blinding.

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Susie smiled.

"You know, technically...if we are being technical, it started with us THREE. I have a say in this climax too you know. Good thing that hitting me with an ally counted as an unjust form of attack, allowing me to charge up enough to try this move again. Have to thank Undyne though, she sacrificed getting hit by your stomp to be able to send healing spears my way to ensure that this would happen."

Susie sat up through a pile of debris with a cocky smirk as she summoned another meteor, using her gravity to drag it down from space. This move was risky, first, she had to be lucky that there was even a meteor in the spot where she was, second, she had to make sure the enemy was weakened for it to work. Anyone stronger than her could easily destroy that meteor. The most important thing was that it required almost all of her power from both sources to conjure. Not really the smartest of attacks, but if landed, was guaranteed to do a lot.

Christie's and Muffet's eyes turned into stars as their jaws dropped.

"THE METEOR FROM EARLIER CAME FROM YOU?!"

Hydra was in a tough spot, scared of what might happen if he doesn't take care of it, he shot his attack towards the meteor before it could get to him.

"Bingo-" Susie said with a devilish smirk as both the ultimate water blast and the meteor collided.

Zewz shot more pillars through her body, Hera was still holding on to dear life. Zewz grew angrier with her.

"Why?! Why do you still stand?! Give up, girl! There's nothing left for you to do!"

She gritted her teeth.

"That may be so! But because of that, I shall carry this burden because it is what I desire for my friends and family. The people down below don't deserve what's happening to them because you don't want to take responsibility! I will for you then!"

Hera said this...and her eyes began glowing white.

The explosion of extreme heat and rock mixed with hot water hitting and shattering the rock turned into an explosion of element-created snow. Since both attacks were extremely large, the snow exploded and covered both Olympus and Constricta in snow.

Hera saw the snow...her eyes widened. This was now an island of snow! She started to remember her talk with Shyren, and why she left. She retraced her words...

It hit her!

"I'll rule over them because I know in my heart, I can lead these people to a better tomorrow, together! I was raised better than that! And I will save these people because...these people don't deserve to be in this situation!"

That was the philosophy that Shyren wanted her to adopt. She couldn't rush her mentality, it had to evolve. She understood that now.

Her eyes glew white, and soon, her entire body. The white glow then shattered off her like glass and what was before Zewz was a new person entirely.

Hera was now standing at 5'11. Her hair went in beautifully down right to behind her thighs. Her body had matured to that of a woman's as she adopted clothes that resembled a royal pajama. She smiled with glee and she now comfortably lifted all of Olympus with one hand effortlessly. Just as she did, she heard clapping, but not from Zewz.

"Don't worry sweetie, I'll hold it for you. Seems you have on least job to do."

Shyren slithered next to her and lifted up Olympus with just a finger. Hera knew what she meant by that, but before she left the room, she gave Shyren a hug. At first, the undead mermaid didn't know how to feel about it, but, she felt her heartbeat once again.

"Thank you for everything! I'm sorry I was an annoying spoiled kid, I should've-"

"Just go sweetie, we'll talk about this later- and h-hey, you were never annoying or spoiled to me...I knew you were capable all along."

Hera smiled at her bio-mom as she jumped through the ceiling of the room and tunneled her way to the surface.

Shyren just looked down at Zewz. She grimaced. She then took out Hydra's journal from her bust and tossed it at Zewz's face, he grunted.

"On second thought, after reading that...I think you should be the one to hold this."

Shyren then left her position, letting Olympus fall straight down back onto the foundation without it toppling, but in the process, right on top of an almost dying Zewz.

"NOOO-!" Was all was said from Zewz before the two halves were smacked together with him in the middle.

Caught in between Olympus and Constricta, Zewz's blood drips down on them, dead.

Muffet, Christie, Hydra, and Susie had poked their heads out of the snow. Hydra got himself out and looked at the foes who were on their deathbed.

"What a nuisance-"

He looked around the landscape and saw...snow. He shivered, not because of the snow.

"Oh no..."

The ground started shaking as he finished saying that, and it was before long until...

"HYDRA!"

Hera burst from the ground in front of Hydra and grabbed him by the face with the strength that even Hydra knew, that it was over.

"THIS WAR, IS OVER!"

The snow swirled around her in a spiral as she spoke, white lightning shooting from the sides of her eyes trying to contain her fully realized power.

Hera then slammed Hydra's face into the ground and started to drive him through the entirety of Olympus being the thing that successfully destroyed Olympus entirely. Massive chunks of quartz were falling down onto the people below, who had originally stopped fighting once the introduction of snow was made.

Muffet wrapped her arms around Christie and Susie and puffed her stomach into a balloon so that they could land safely.

After drilling Hydra all the way down to the bottom of the mountain. She tossed him in the middle of the battlefield, everyone who was left in the war, which was still a good amount of people on each side, around almost 500,000, all watched. After he landed on the floor, she stomped on his chest and held him there with her foot.

"Everyone! The war is over! Hydra Gordon's, Warlord of the World Government...was simply a warmonger that wanted revenge on King Zewz, who although committed crimes against humanity, is now currently deceased! This is what I was talking about, we don't need to keep fighting because of the appearance of other people, at the end of the day, as long as we all have the ability to feel empathy, we are the same beings! Brothers! Sisters! Let down your arms, no more bloodshed shall be shed today, but instead, love! I, Hera...The Undyne, the predetermined savior of Constricta, shall now take over as representative and Queen of this land!"

Her words echoed across the entire landscape. She was right. With Olympus gone, both sides' leaders out of commission, they knew that this war, that they already had suspicions on, was a lie. Although the truth had hurt, it would hurt more if they continued afterward.

So then everyone, one by one, dropped their weapons.

"Starting now, Constricta is a nation that encompasses every race!"

Muffet, Christie, and Susie landed on the other side of the mountain from where Hera was giving her speech. They did that purposefully. They all started to breathe heavy breaths. Just as they were getting comfortable, Shyren appeared in front of them and dropped off the now waking up bodies of those fighters who fell off Olympus.

Muffet didn't even care that Shyren, an Admiral was there, she instantly stretched out her arms and hugged her crew and friends regardless.

Susie and Christie cared though.

"Whoa! Ms. Batistte?! What are you doing here?"

"On vacation." She said with a smile.

Susie questioned her.

"Why did you help us?"

Shyren giggled.

"Don't get me wrong, on any other circumstance I would have you all under arrest, but there are four reasons why I'm not. One, it's a favor of Hera. Two, favor of Morial for this specific battle. Three, I'm on vacation like I said, I don't want to work on my vacation days. Lastly four, you pirates did alright today, morally, it wouldn't feel good if I arrested people who were in the right."

Everyone just stared at her.

Finally, someone who gets it.

"That being said, I ordered Navy ships to come here, and I ordered a specialized ship on my end that will be vacant. I will not disclose your position, as I merely summoned ships here to help clear out the civilians while Hera and I try and rebuild the structures here to make it habitable. Just stay back here a while and relax, Hera will come to pick you up when we are done. Good job today you guys~!" Shyren said both bossing and cutesy.

She slithered off without anyone replying and they all just looked at each other.

All of them groaned together, which then quickly turned into a roar of victory.

"WE DID IT!"