Chapter 8: Against the Gigantic A.I. Virus
A/N: I'm back after a very long hiatus! Sorry for not uploading for a very long time.
"W-w-what is that!?" Tails stuttered as he, the other two inventors and three members of the Future Foundation watched the scene unfold through the monitor.
"A better question, Fails! WHO is that!?" Miu corrected.
"Hey! Don't call me that!"
"Is that... Junko Enoshima!?" Makoto recognized.
"But how is this possible?" Byakuya questioned. "She should be dead!"
"It probably must be her A.I." Azriel deducted. "But how could she even program her A.I.? By the looks of it, she's not a programmer, nor an inventor like me, Tails and Miu."
"The only programmer we know who could do such a thing is the late Chihiro Fujisaki." Kyoko spoke.
"He's the Ultimate Programmer in our class, and the first person I met to program an A.I., or what he called it Alter Ego." Makoto added.
"But what do you mean late?" Tails asked. "Is he...?"
"Yes. He died during our time in that killing school life back at Hope's Peak Academy." Makoto lamented.
"Junko must've analyzed Chihiro's programming skills with her glance and applied one onto herself." Kyoko concluded.
"She did that… with just one glance?" Azriel spoke in a surprised manner.
"Yes, that's why she's the Ultimate Analyst, learning skills from other people with just a single glance."
"Oh, I hope Sonic and the others can handle her." Tails worriedly said.
"She looks so hot! But I'm hotter anyway." Miu spoke, only to be jabbed by Azriel. "Hey!"
"Wh-what…what's going on…?" Hajime breathed.
"A-Am I hallucinating…?" Sonia trembled.
"I-I've seen so many weird things happening here… but this… this is clearly way out of hand!" Fuyuhiko added.
"Kyaaaah!" Mikan screamed.
"Sh-she's huge!" Akane exclaimed. "She's way too huge!"
"Yeah, it's huge alright!" Hiyoko exasperatedly agreed. "You don't have to rub it in!"
"It'll be alright, my Dark Devas." Gundham then comforted his four hamsters. "Our saviors from above will bring us salvation and destroy that colossal being."
"Oh, such a beautiful stature I could—" Before Teruteru could even continue, Mahiru flicked his ear. "Ow!"
"Even in a situation like this, you're still thinking of that!?" the photographer scolded.
"I was right. Here we have the embodiment of despair herself." Nagito said. "We just hope that our rescuers will defeat her with their weapons of hope."
"Yeah." Chiaki agreed. "Knowing them, fighting the boss in its final form will be no problem for them."
"Junko Enoshima…" Joie angrily muttered. "I knew it would be you."
"M-mama mia!" Luigi stammered. "She's so huge!"
"I see." Gigantic Junko finally spoke. "So that's your reaction to seeing an extra-large high school girl… To be honest, I expected more of that."
"That's because we're experienced to these kinds of things!" Sonic spoke.
"I-Is this the virus's true form you're talking about, Joie?" Usami fearfully questioned. "She's so big!"
"Huh?" Junko tilted her head. "But the final boss in a certain action game is much bigger."
"That's right." Sonic agreed. "I've seen bigger bosses than you in my adventures before."
"I'm with Soni here." Kirby added.
"I see, I see." Junko sighed as she leaned down. "An estimated bust size of fifteen meters, huh? My breasts are hopelessly huge." Then she leans down further more. "Hey, hey… Want me to squish you in between them? Big breasts feel good, y'know?"
This had led the four Dragon Quest Heroes to blush.
Eleven's shypox kicked in as he buried his face on his hands in embarrassment.
"Nope! No thank you!" Arusu angrily barked.
"Ugh, not that kind of Puff-Puff." Solo groaned.
"Geez, you don't need to bring that up!" Eight sheepishly spoke, as Eleven snapped out from his embarrassment.
"Yeah! I'm trying my best to keep this story out from inappropriate things!" Joie agreed.
"Aw, then it's so hopeless to make a rated M scene, right?" Junko pouted.
"Don't you even start!"
'…And I thought I'm the only one who can break the fourth wall…' Jewel sweat-dropped.
"So you're responsible for turning this peaceful world upside down!" Ashvini assumed.
"Yep! That's me alright!" Junko immediately replied, putting up a childish personality complete with a kawaii face. "I was trying to make this place a total chaos when you guys showed up and ruined everything."
'That sounds awfully the same thing Tsumugi had said to me…' Joie thought with a deadpan.
"Uh, is it just me, or did her personality change?" Sora pointed out.
"Yeah, she does this all the time." Joie replied, her expression unchanged.
"She's right, you know." Junko returned to her normal personality. "I get easily bored of my personality… Like, I already got bored of my personality who gets easily bored."
"I get easily bored too when sitting still." Sonic stood and scratched his head. "So I go out on adventures and stuff to sate my boredom."
"Really?" Junko blankly spoke. "That sounds like a boring stimulation."
"Well, to you actually!" Sonic's angered expression returned.
"Well, I know someone who has a blank personality, but she never gets bored of it." Joie said.
"But, judging by your sound from earlier when you changed personality, you're not bored at all." Sora spoke.
Junko sighed as she once again changed her personality into a gloomy emo, and mushrooms sprouted on her head. "I'm bored of getting bored… Jeez… Even when I'm dead, I still get bored… This sucks…"
"Even when you're dead?" Cloud murmured.
"Joie! Can you hear me?" Azriel suddenly spoke through Joie's Comm Air Pod.
"Loud and clear, Azriel." Joie replied, pressing her finger on her Comm Air Pod.
"That thing in front of you is an Artificial Intelligence of a person who died! Or more like her Alter Ego!"
"I know that. Thanks for the reminder."
"Wha?" Junko perked up as she switched her personality in her childish one again. "You know me? Oh, I'm so acknowledged!" Then she switches back in her normal persona. "But… seriously, where'd you come from? I don't have any data of you guys."
"That's because we came from a different universe!" Kirby declared.
"Oh, and here I thought the multiverse was just a theory." Junko spoke as she changed her personality into a smart person, with her hair in a ponytail and a pair of glasses, whilst holding a clipboard. "And now these unfamiliar faces prove the theory to be true." Then again, she switches back into her normal appearance and personality. "And what's with the weapons? Are you gonna fight me like that boss battle in an action game?"
"Since we got off topic, then yes." Sephiroth replied. "We're going to bring you down."
"Yeah! We're not gonna let you make these students suffer the same way your classmates went through!" Joie declared.
"What?" Junko recoiled. "You… you know about my classmates? Wow, that's so unpredictable of you. And that's coming from a person who can predict the outcome. And yes, I'm trying to recreate the killing game if it wasn't for you guys."
"Joie, if you said classmates, then that means… is Junko a student of her former school?" Jewel asked.
"Yes. A former Ultimate student of Hope's Peak Academy." Joie replied.
"Bingo! You got it right!" Junko laughed. "I used to be the Ultimate Fashionista, but I got bored because of me being the Ultimate Analyst, so I made up my own new title befitting me, the Ultimate Despair!"
And this made Sephiroth stop in his tracks, and Sonic, Cloud, and Eleven noticed this.
"Uh, I advise you not to say that word in front of our friend here." Sonic cautiously warned.
"But why?" Junko asked. "I looove despair so much! That's why I wanted to recreate the killing game."
"Seriously, stop it." Cloud gripped his weapon tight as he noticed his former nemesis shaking tremendously. "You don't know what he had just gone through, but please, don't rub it in."
"Aw, don't be such a killjoy!" Junko pouted. "Why do you guys hate despair so much—?"
"Alright, that's it!" Sephiroth snapped. "I had enough of your rambles about despair! If you really want despair, then I'll show you despair!" His wing reappeared and flew straight to Junko's face.
"Uh-oh." Sonic mumbled. "Seems like Junko just made Seph go berserk."
Junko then flawlessly swung her head away from Sephiroth's attack.
"Come on, guys, we gotta defeat this A.I.!" Joie declared.
"Come on. You just don't know what I'm capable of." Junko smirked as Joie and the group.
Joie and Ashvini then started by drawing energy balls at the giant A.I., but Junko simply swatted them away with her hand. Eleven and Arusu both fired their Kafrizz at her, but she simply blows them away. Luigi then threw his hammer, hoping to score a hit on Junko. Sora then joined by casting Firaga, but Junko extinguishes the fireball with her one hand, and caught the hammer with the other.
"Mario, help me up!" Sonic called as he began to spindash in place.
The red plumber then swung his hammer and hit Sonic like a golf ball, and the blue hedgehog was launched straight to Junko's head, but the giant A.I. catches him like a baseball, and threw him away to the ocean.
"Sonic!" Mario cried.
"I'll go get him!" Ashvini then zoomed to catch Sonic before he could hit the water.
Junko laughed. "Seriously, this is all you guys got?"
"We're just getting started!" Jewel retorted as she grabbed her Blast Pink Tourmaline and launched energy blasts at Junko, but the A.I. swatted the again.
Just then, Junko felt a sharp pain on her cheek. "Ow!" She held it, and felt something wet and viscous. It was her blood. She then looked at the one who did it.
"That was just a lucky hit!" Junko barked at Sephiroth; his eyes full of fury.
Sephiroth said nothing as he launched Megaflare at Junko. Junko yelped and swung her head to dodge it. After that, Junko tried to hit the one-winged angel with her hand, but Sephiroth quickly flew away.
Junko then catches a blue ball right after Sephiroth dodged her attack.
"Not again!" Sonic exclaimed inside Junko's hand.
"How did she know that!?" Ashvini gasped from afar.
Junko then threw Sonic on the concrete floor of Jabberwock Park, creating a crater.
"Sonic, no!" Luigi yelled as he rushed into him.
"It's just not fair that you all guys go offensive." Junko spoke and then raised her hand. "Now it's my turn!"
"Look out!" Joie yelled as Junko brought down her hand to slam it into the group.
The ones under the hand are Mario, Cloud, Eleven, Solo, Kirby, and Sora, who hurriedly ran away before the hand could flatten them. Usami used this advantage by drawing a magic circle around the hand, and the tornado appeared; its sharp wind scratching Junko's hand.
Junko pulled out her hand in pain and brought out her other hand to slam it into the other group, who were Luigi, Sonic, Joie, Jewel, Arusu, and Eight. Sonic was still too injured to stand, while Jewel was using her Healing Garnet to heal his injuries. As they saw the incoming hand, Arusu and Eight thought ahead, and initiated Kacrackle Slash, freezing the giant hand in the process.
"Youch! Too cold! Too cold!" Junko yelped as she pulled out her frozen hand and blew hot air to melt it. "Ah, much better… except for my nails! It's ruined!"
"How did she melt the ice so fast!?" Arusu yelled in exasperation.
"As the Overseer of the Neo World Program, I can create everything!" Junko triumphantly replied, then seriously frowned. "But while you're battling against the Monobeasts I made, I can't seem to put you under my influence… What's wrong with it?"
"Oh, maybe one of the inventors did this?" Jewel assumed.
"Now that I think about it," Azriel piped in. "Miu, did you put something else in the Virtua Transfer's program?"
"Oh, I just put some of the antivirus programmings I found in your computer to protect them from any viruses they encounter." Miu explained.
Azriel was silent for a few seconds before speaking. "Normally, I would scold you for touching my programs without permission, but…" He then gave Miu a thumbs-up while grinning. "I thank you for your advance thinking! That was so genius of you!"
"Hah! That's why I call myself the gorgeous girl genius!" Miu triumphantly grinned while puffing her chest.
Azriel then playfully smacks Miu's head lightly. "You don't have to brag about your beauty! All I need is your genius mind, that's all!"
"Ow…" Miu groaned, then smiled. "You know, I kinda like it when you hit me if I said something perverted… And that inspires me to create an invention for this…"
"Seems likely." Joie replied to Jewel.
Joie then shoots energy rays with her magic paintbrush, but Junko blocked them with her hand.
"But, how did this virus get downloaded in this program?" Usami asked as she launched a tornado with her wooden stick.
"Maybe someone created her own A.I. while she's still alive." Cloud assumed.
Junko countered the tornado by blowing it hard. "And that someone was me! Or more like my real-life counterpart!" She then blew harder again to create a gale.
The group tried their best to hold on to prevent being blown away. Junko then felt that something was coming behind her. She swung her head sideways to dodge a fireball, and the fireball is coming directly towards Sora.
"Uh-oh!" Sora then quickly casted Reflect to bounce the fireball back at Junko, and scored a hit.
"Gyah!" Junko cried in pain while she covered her face. "I thought I saw that coming!"
"But if Junko said she was dead, do you mean…" Ashvini landed next to the group.
"It's true..." Junko replied as she uncovered her face. "I did end up dying the last time…"
"You what?" Sonic stood up as Jewel finished healing her.
"I-I'm sorry, okay… I didn't mean to go so fast… I-I couldn't help it, you know… it was my first time…"
"Are you saying that you killed yourself?" Eleven asked.
"Yeah, you're right. Geez." Junko then dodged again from Sephiroth dashing at her.
"She's always dodging our attacks like she was predicting it." Cloud spoke as Sephiroth landed beside the group.
"That's why she's the Ultimate Analyst, analyzing every move we're about to do." Joie muttered.
"But we managed to land lucky hits on her." Usami piped in.
Junko then raised both hands to slam them into the group, and Jewel brought out her Shield Tanzanite to create a forcefield around the group. Sephiroth then made the forcefield stronger by casting Scintilla before the hands hit the forcefield, cracking it a little.
"We're here to stop you from tampering with this world's programming, and the way to get out of it!" Joie exclaimed once the shield is down.
"You mean the Graduation Program?" Junko assumed while she pulled her hands away. "Yeah, I was going to do that as well."
"To create a world in your own image, and upload yourselves to anyone who died inside this program, am I right?"
"Yep, yep! You're correct! My, how come you know all my plans?"
"It's all thanks to my research!" Joie then fired energy bullets at Junko. Ashvini joined in as well to fire the same thing, but Junko caught the energy bullets with her bare hand and shot them back at the two.
Eleven and Solo quickly stood in front of them and casted Bounce onto themselves to block the energy bullets away.
"But thanks to you entering here, I didn't have the time to tamper with the graduation program." Junko pouted. "Oh well, looks like 'Operation: Junko-fy All Mankind' has failed, and I won't be able to have my Junkoland."
"Junkoland!? That sounds eerily similar to Eggmanland that Eggman was trying to make, but we won't let you get away with it!" Sonic then began to dash to the gigantic A.I. and ran on her body.
"Hey! Get off me!" Junko then tries to swat the blue hedgehog off her body.
Sonic then began to aim his Homing Attack at Junko's head, but Junko immediately slams the hedgehog to the ground.
"Anybody, give me a boost!" Kirby called as he pulled out his hammer.
"On it!" Eleven then picked up Kirby and threw him in the same manner during their battle against the Snake Mech.
As Kirby reached Junko's eye-level, Junko turned into her kawaii personality. "Aww, you're so cute." Then turned back to normal. "But you're too cute to be vicious."
Junko then flicked Kirby away, as the latter screamed in the distance.
"Kirby!" Eleven cried.
"Really, is this all you guys got?" Junko mocked, then turned into her boisterous personality with her hands signed in a rock n' roll sign, and her tongue sticking out. "Gyahahahaha! That's so friggin' hopeless!" She then raised her hand to slam it on the group.
The group then dodged the hand in separate ways. Arusu and Solo began to climb onto Junko's hand.
"Ugh! Not again!" Junko grimaced, and then try to swat the two.
Arusu saw this coming as he pointed his sword toward Junko's incoming hand and stabbed it. For Junko, she felt like she was pricked by a thorn.
"Agh!" Junko cried.
Solo continued to climb and attempted to slash Junko's neck, but Junko swatted both him and Arusu off of her arm.
Mario and Luigi simultaneously threw their hammers to Junko, but she caught both of them and threw them back at the Mario Brothers, leading them to jump away.
"Thunder!" Sora yelled as he thrusted his Keyblade in the sky, and yellow lightning struck Junko, who cried in agony.
Then, Junko was hit by Kirby's Warp Star, and Kirby landed next to the group.
"You guys are not half bad, I had to say." Junko remarked. "But hey, if you're curious about who uploaded me here, I'm glad to tell!"
"I know who brought you here," Joie retorted. "But it doesn't matter if it's one of the people we're trying to rescue!"
"Yeah! What matters is that you must be erased from existence!" Jewel added.
"Oh, even if he's the one who killed the student council of Hope's Peak?" Junko asked.
"That was you and your sister's doing!" Joie exclaimed. "You forced them to kill each other! And you framed him for that!"
"How smart of you to see through that! Yeah, it was me, along with my big sis, but that brought everyone so much despair!"
Hearing the forbidden word again, Sephiroth seethed and rushed to stab Junko in the eye, but Junko swung her head away to avoid that.
"Seriously, stop saying that word!" Sonic yelled. "The more you mention it, the more berserk Seph goes!"
From behind Junko, Sephiroth had prepared a Gigaflare and fired it on Junko's back. Junko saw this coming and swatted the Gigaflare back at him. Alarmed, the one-winged angel teleported away and reappeared next to the group.
"What are we gonna do!?" Usami trembled. "She's so hard to defeat!"
"Don't worry, guys! I have an idea!" Jewel smirked as she pulled out her Size Peridot.
The lime gemstone began to glow, and so as the group, and they began to grow.
"W-what is this?" Ashvini stammered. "Why are we growing?"
"That's thanks to Jewel's Size Peridot!" Joie happily replied.
The group continued to grow until they reached Alter Ego Junko's size. Some of them had their feet submerged on the ocean while the other had them still on Jabberwock Park.
"Oh yeah!" Sonic pumped his fist.
"Wha-? how-?" Junko stuttered.
"Now it's a fair fight!" Usami spoke.
"A fight among giants!" Jewel cheered.
"W-what the—!?" Kazuichi gasped. "Now these rescuers are huge too!"
"You gotta be kidding me!" Akane exclaimed.
"GAHAHAHAHA! Now that's what I call fair and square!" Nekomaru laughed.
"Seriously, what the heck is going on in this world!?" Fuyuhiko exasperatedly asked. "It's getting weirder and weirder!"
"I'm as clueless as you are." Peko agreed.
"This is what I call an 'out-of-this-world' experience." 'Byakuya' muttered.
"Kehehehe. Such power of our saviors." Gundham chuckled.
"You can do it, guys!" Ibuki cheered.
"YEAH! GO BEAT THAT BLONDE SHREW INTO A PULP!" Nekomaru shouted.
"This is getting intense! A fight between hope and despair rages on!" Nagito spoke.
"I agree with you, Nagito." Chiaki said, despite his strange behavior. "Now that they're the same size as that girl, I can tell that this will be a fair fight."
"Well, if you wanna play fair, I guess I could play fair too!" Junko then stood up and materialized a certain golden katana in her hands.
"Where did she get that?" Luigi asked.
"Didn't you hear me?" Junko scoffed. "I'm the Overseer of the Neo World Program and I can create everything in this world!"
"Alright, enough with the explanations!" Arusu barked. "Time to finish this!" He then rushed to the Ultimate Despair, with each of his steps creating big waves. He brought down his sword on her, but she blocked it with her own katana.
Seeing it as an opening, Solo rushed ahead to prepare a blow on Junko's side, but Junko saw it coming as she kicked Solo in the abdomen with her boot. Cloud came in charging, and Junko pushed Arusu away and clashed swords with the ex-SOLDIER. Despite the size of Junko's katana, it can withstand Cloud's Buster Sword.
Mario and Luigi came charging in with their hammers and tried to smash Junko, but she jumped away, causing their hammers to create a large wave. Mario then fired a fireball at her, but she blocked it with her katana. Sora was next as he initiated Sonic Blade on Junko, but Junko kept dodging every thrust Sora executed.
Sephiroth rushed at Junko, with Masamune in his hand. He then executed Octaslash on her, but Junko jumped up, dodging his attack. When she landed, it created a huge splash. Sonic charged in with a kick, but Junko got a hold of his feet and slammed him into the water, creating another big splash.
Jewel pulled out her Energy Rock Crystal and shot energy balls at Junko, and she managed to land some hits on her. Kirby, with his hammer charged up, lunged at Junko, only for her to step away, resulting in Kirby smashing the water instead. Junko attempted to slash Kirby, but the puffball immediately dodged it. Eight then fed Munchie a Spicy Cheese, and the pig rat breathed out a Flame Breath on Junko.
"AAGH!" Junko cried in agony as she was being burned by Munchie. After Munchie's Flame Breath, Junko's hair got singed. "My hair! You ruined my hair!"
"Well, that's what you get!" Eight taunted.
Before Junko could restore her hair, several energy shots were fired by Joie and Ashvini with their paintbrushes, making her jump away. Usami came rushing in and drew a magic circle around Junko, creating a tornado damaging her. Junko managed to restore her hair and went for Eleven. Eleven blocked her attack with his shield and tried to slash her with his sword, but Junko leaped away.
Junko then rushed towards Joie, who just created a barrier to block the sword thrust. Usami then fired energy bullets at Junko, scoring some lucky hits on her. Luigi then casted a thunderbolt on Junko, adding another damage to her. Sonic got up and initiated a Homing Attack on her, but he missed her due to Junko dodging him. Sephiroth flicked his fingers to cast Shadow Flares on her, but Junko blocked them with her sword.
"Heh. Even with all of you combined, you are no match for me!" Junko boasted.
Ashvini then drew light arrows and shot them at Junko, but the latter jumped away to dodge the barrage. Kirby charged at Junko with his sword and clashed with her. Junko managed to push the puffball away and went for him with her golden katana for a thrust.
"Kirby!" Usami yelled as she hopped in front of Kirby to take the blow. The golden katana went through her fluffy belly.
"Sami!" Kirby cried.
Junko pulled out her sword just in time to see Sora charging at her with his Keyblade ready to smash her, then she jumped away to dodge it.
Usami then exploded, and Sora and Kirby happened to be the nearest to her to be blasted away.
"Usami, no!" Sora exclaimed fearfully.
Back on the first island, the students had witnessed Usami's/Monomi's explosion. Then they felt a strong gush of wind blow past them and immediately stepped back as a strong tidal wave crashed into the shore.
"Monomi, no!" Mikan cried.
"Blast that wretched giant blonde female!" Gundham grunted. "How could she eradicate our stuffed ally!?"
"Don't worry." Chiaki spoke. "She will come back."
"It's okay! She will respawn!" Joie assured. "She had a few spares with her!"
"She's right!" They then heard Usami's distant voice from the central island. "No need to worry! I'm okay!"
Everyone looked at the source of the voice to see the pink-and-white stuffed rabbit standing on the shore in her normal size.
"I'm glad you're okay, Usami." Jewel sighed in relief along with the others.
Joie then caught a glimpse of the students standing on the shore of the first island. "The students! Usami! Take care of your students! We'll handle this!"
"Okay!" Usami nodded as she headed for the bridge leading to the first island.
Usami then finally reached the island where the students reside.
"Everyone, you shouldn't stand in a danger zone!" Usami warned. "Our rescuers will handle that giant blonde girl!"
"I'm glad that you're okay, Monomi— I mean, Usami." Chiaki said.
"There's no way I would leave my students hanging!" Usami chimed. "But we better go back to the hotel. You'll be safe in there."
"Yeah, she may have spares, but not as many as Monokuma would have." Junko scoffed. "Now, where were we?" Suddenly, she gets hit by a giant gold sword on her head. "Ow!"
"Continuing our battle, I guess." Eleven spoke, with his left hand outstretched and his mark glowing brightly. He had just casted his Quadraslash on Junko.
Junko then whips her head to the right to see Sephiroth just in time charging toward her. The two then clashed and locked swords.
"I'm getting tired of using this sword." Junko sighed. "Might as well use magic for this."
"What are you—?" Before Sephiroth could ask a question, his face was hit by a fireball thrown by Junko, and took more steps back. "You lowly—!"
"And now she's using magic too!?" Arusu yelled. "Well then, take this!" He fired his Kafrizz spell at Junko, who dodged sideways to avoid it.
"How about this!" Jewel used her Lightning Topaz and zapped Junko.
"Ow!" Junko yelped. "That stings!" She then proceeds to electrocute Jewel back by casting a lightning bolt on her.
"Kyah!" Jewel screamed in pain.
"Jewel!" Joie yelled.
"Hey! Copying is my thing! Ven!" Kirby called out.
Eleven knew what Kirby wants, so he pulled out Erdwin's coronet and tossed it to Kirby, who caught it with his head, wearing it automatically. Kirby then charged up his Kafrizz and fired right at Junko, and he successfully land a hit on her. Right after that, Sonic executed his Homing Attack on her and scored a hit.
Mario and Luigi nodded to each other and began to work on their Super Fire Bros. attack.
While the Mario brothers are charging up, Sora then rushed towards Junko for a slash of his keyblade, but Junko recovered quickly and flawlessly dodged Sora's attack. Ashvini drew a sword with her paintbrush and attacked Junko. Solo joins in, his sword lit in flames as he executed Flame Slash on the giant AI. Junko saw this coming and created energy blasts on both of them. Cloud casted his Blade Beam towards Junko, but she immediately dodged it. Joie then shoots energy beams at the AI, but misses due to Junko jumping away. Eight dives in, his sword covered in yellow lightning, and casted Zapple on Junko, but she reflected it with her sword.
Mario, who has finished charging up his Super Fire Bros. attack with Luigi, launched the gigantic fireball at Junko. Junko smirked before using her sword as a baseball bat to reflect the giant fireball back at Mario. The red Italian had little time to react as he got hit by his own fireball and was sent flying straight to Luigi. He crashed into his brother and suddenly, got shrunk into their normal sizes and crashed into Jabberwock Park.
Jewel noticed this and panicked. "Oh no! The Size Peridot's effect is starting to wear off!" However, she failed to turn her attention back to Junko as she was kicked straight to the central island as well. She also shrunk into her normal size and crashed next to Mario.
"Jewel!" Joie cried, but she was punched by Junko in her gut and fell into the island, returning to her normal size as well.
Sora charged at Junko, and she kicked him on his stomach toward the island. Sonic then spindashed towards her, but Junko swings her body away.
"WHOAA!" Sonic screamed as he shrunk into his normal size and crashed into the island.
Kirby, covered in flames, dashed towards Junko, but Junko grabbed the puffball and threw him to the island. Ashvini tried thrusting Junko with the sword she drew earlier, but Junko telekinetically stops the fairy and tossed her to the island.
"Ashvini!" Solo yelled as he dashed towards Junko, with Gigaslash ready to unleash, but the AI just grabbed his arm and grinned evilly at the Zenithian hybrid.
"Oh, seeing all of you despair fills me with excitement." Junko chuckled as she watched Solo slowly shrink; the Size Peridot's effect on him wearing off.
Junko then noticed Sephiroth charging in, anger plastered on his face. She tossed Solo into the island and blocked Sephiroth's attack with her sword.
"I knew what you went through, silver boy." Junko taunted. "And that even makes me even more excited."
"I will perish you…!" Sephiroth growled.
Junko then eyed the remaining fighters with still the same size as her charging toward her. Those are Cloud, Eleven, Arusu, and Eight. Junko's eyes glowed cyan and the four were telekinetically stopped.
"Only if you can." Junko whispered as she tossed the remaining fighters towards the island.
The group was beaten up badly, and now on their normal sizes due to Jewel's Size Peridot's power timed out. They were covered with scratches and bruises, with little drops of pink blood dripping from their slightly deep cuts.
"How… can an AI be that strong?" Sora spoke weakly.
"I warned you, didn't I? I'm the Overseer of this world, the Neo World Program, and with it, I can create everything!" Junko repeated with her superior personality before switching back to her normal one, then she leans onto the island, watching the group struggle to stand up. She was so pleased to see their despair. "As for the powers I used on you, I was secretly watching how you fight against my Monobeasts. Then, my Ultimate Analyst instincts kicked in and suddenly learned most of your skills."
"As expected…" Joie murmured.
"As I said earlier, even if you outnumber me, you're still overpowered." Junko continued. "Now, what should I do to you guys…?" She taps her finger on the cemented ground, causing a slight vibration to the group. "Well, I was thinking about killing you guys right now, but I have a better idea! How about you guys join my killing game? It'll be so much fun!"
"Well, only for you!" Sonic retorted, before grunting in pain.
Junko laughs. "The more the merrier, right?"
The group eyed the AI Ultimate Despair with fright and anger in their eyes, while Junko's sinister smile widen even more.
Usami and the students witnessed the defeat of the group against Alter Ego Junko. They were standing in front of Hotel Mirai.
"Joie… Jewel… Sora… Kirby…" Usami murmured fearfully.
"This can't be happening…" Chiaki whispered.
"I'm disappointed in them." Nagito shakes his head.
"I-I hope they're okay." Mikan stuttered.
In the Neo World Program's control center, the inventors and the Future Foundation members were shocked to see the defeat of the rescue group.
"I expected much more from them." Byakuya stated. "How disappointing."
"Sonic…" Tails muttered, then turned to Azriel. "They need help!"
Azriel had a look of determination on his face and pulled out a tiny case from his pocket. "I'm going in!"
"Wha-?" Miu shot him a look. "That thing is dangerous! You can't just go in there without a superweapon or stuff, you stupid-!"
"I'm not stupid, you dingbat!"
"Eep! Sorry!"
"But I have a backup plan in case something bad happens." Azriel opens the case, revealing a computer chip inside.
"Wait, what's that?" Makoto asked.
"I call this the Ultra Antivirus Chip! It destroys all types of viruses in any software."
"What? How would a simple chip can destroy a virus that big?" Byakuya asked.
"It's not just a simple chip! It's the Ultra Antivirus Chip! I spent years inventing this thing, and now, I will gonna give them the upper hand with this!"
Azriel inserted the Ultra Antivirus Chip in the Processing Unit, plugged the Virtua Transfer out, and gave it to Miu. "Miu, I need you to bring me in there!"
"Are you crazy!?" Miu retorted. "You're gonna get yourself killed by that big-breasted A.I.!"
"Just trust me! I'm an inventor like you! I guarantee that the chip will work on her!"
"W-whatever you say!" Miu then unintentionally hugged Azriel. "J-just... be careful out there."
Azriel was taken aback by Miu's sudden contact, but then shortly returned the hug. After a few seconds, they pulled away from their hug. Miu pushed the Virtua Transfer's first button, and Azriel dematerialized. She then plugged it back into the Processing Unit and pressed its second button.
"Good luck, Azriel…" Tails murmured.
"Oh, it turns out that you transferred yourselves from the outside world with a tiny contraption, huh?" Junko just analyzed the group where they came from. "That's pretty risky of you guys, but you fell right into my trap!" Just then, a laser beam shot right through her arm, leaving a glitching wound. "Hey! Who did that!?"
Joie looked up and saw a figure diving into the glitching sky, and landed in front of the bruised group with a rumble.
"Azriel!" Joie exclaimed in joy.
"You came in time!" Jewel added.
"Heh! I wouldn't leave you guys hanging in here." Azriel grinned while cocking his Laser Beam Blaster.
"Another one appeared from the sky!" Kazuichi yelled. "Is it another rescuer!?"
"Oh, what a miracle!" Sonia gleamed.
"A new hope found." Nagito chuckled. "Just as I was hoping for!"
"WE BELIEVE IN YOU, GUYS!" Ibuki cheered as loud as she can, her voice about to reach as loud as Nekomaru's.
"YEAH! WE'RE COUNTING ON YOU TO BEAT THAT SHREW!" Nekomaru joined in.
"Usami, help our rescuers once more." Chiaki instructed. "We'll be fine here."
"Okay!" Usami nodded. "Since I can feel that the influence of the virus is dissipating, I can feel my magic coming back. 'Miracle Make-Up!'"
"Ugh, great." Junko grunted in annoyance. "Another one ruins my plans again."
"Your reigning days are over, you oversized shrew!" Azriel fired his blaster at Junko.
Junko attempted to make a shield, but she was hit on her arm again. "What!? Why won't my powers work!?"
"That's thanks to my Ultra Antivirus Chip!" Azriel exclaimed triumphantly. "Since it identified you as a virus, it nullified your abilities to corrupt this program even further!"
"Heh, I should've expected more of you, Azriel." Ashvini smiles at her stepbrother. "Thanks for the help."
"Anything for my sister!" Azriel smiled back. Azriel considered Ashvini as a real sister despite their status as stepsiblings, and Ashvini thought the same way.
Azriel then healed the group with a single wave of his hand.
"Whoa! How'd you do that!?" Sonic exclaimed.
"On my way here, I met the true Overseer of the Neo World Program who gave me permission to be an Overseer." Azriel explained. "That's where I got this power."
"Alter Ego?" Joie guessed.
"Yep! And she's right on my side!" Azriel conjured a hologram of a young 'girl' with short, light brown layered hair and hazel-colored eyes. 'She' wears a long-sleeved dark green jacket, a white shirt with a large Peter Pan collar secured with a thin dark ribbon, suspenders, a box-pleated, mid-thigh length brown skirt, knee-high black socks, and white mary janes adorned with a ribbon on each of them.
"Hello, nice to meet you." The hologram spoke.
"Uh, to clarify you, Azriel, Alter Ego is a 'he'." Joie sheepishly clarified.
"Oh, uh, whoops." Azriel sweat-dropped. "Sorry for misgendering you, Alter Ego."
"It's fine." Alter Ego dismissed. "But enough of that. We have a virus to delete." He then disappeared into Azriel's hand.
"You rascal!" Junko yelled at Azriel. "You will pay for everything you've done!"
"Huh? I didn't do anything bad." Azriel shrugged before Eleven casted a Bang spell on Junko, which left another glitching wound on her right shoulder.
"No! I can't repair myself!" Junko cried.
"It's working!" Azriel exclaimed. "Let's finish her off now!"
Before the group could attack Alter Ego Junko, a rainbow beam struck Junko's waist, making her scream in agony. The group turned to the source to see Usami in her Magical Girl form flying towards the group.
"Usami!" Jewel called. "Decided to rejoin the battle?"
"Yep! Now that my magic is restored thanks to some Antivirus, I can now use my magic to delete this virus for good!" Usami cheered.
"You little pests!" Junko then proceeds to slam her right hand on the group, but they quickly moved away to avoid being crushed.
Eleven, Arusu, Solo, Eight, and Sora proceeded to attack her hand, leaving glitching cuts, and Sora slammed his keyblade on it, and the whole hand glitched, unable to move anymore.
Junko then slams her left hand on the other group, which in turn jumped away. Mario, Luigi, Kirby, and Cloud attack it. Mario, Luigi, and Kirby then smash the hand with their hammers, disabling it.
Junko's head was then grabbed telekinetically by Ashvini and Sephiroth with the former using her paintbrush and the latter using his right hand. The two nodded to each other and pulled Junko's head to the ground headfirst.
Sonic initiated his Homing Attack on Junko, recoiling her in the process, and Usami proceeds to fly around Junko and tie her up with her rainbow rope.
"Everyone, let's now destroy this virus and save this world!" Usami declared and everyone cheered.
"Alright!" Azriel opened up a digital keyboard and typed something. "Do your worst, everyone!"
As soon as Azriel finished typing, the Smashers in the group started glowing in a strobing rainbow aura and their eyes turned golden.
"Aw yeah! It's Final Smash time!" Jewel cheered. "Luigi, bring us straight to Junko's face!"
Luigi nodded and unleashed his Final Smash. He pulled out his Poltergust G-00 and sucked everyone around him. He then aimed above him and launched the group to Junko.
Mario then unleashed his Mario Finale, blasting two gigantic flames to Junko's face. Junko screamed in pain upon contact with the violent flames.
Sonic had his 7 Chaos Emeralds with him and turned into Super Sonic. Kirby had his Ultra Sword Super Ability confirmed and Cloud had broken his limit once more and executed Omnislash on Junko, followed by Sonic's and Kirby's barrage of attacks, ending it with Cloud and Kirby initiating.
The Dragon Quest Heroes summoned the other heroes from different eras from their world, who locked their swords and conjured lightning. The four then brought their swords together, as lightning infused them. Together, they yelled "GIGASLASH!" and brought down the devastating attack on Junko.
Sephiroth then planted an illusion in Junko's mind where the sun exploded and caused a Supernova that destroyed the planet. This caused Junko in a daze.
Joie, Ashvini, Jewel, Azriel, and Usami aimed their weapons together (Magic Paintbrushes for Joie and Ashvini, Extreme Diamond for Jewel, fully charged up Laser Beam Blaster for Azriel, and Magic Stick for Usami) at Junko, and blasted a very powerful beam that shot through Junko's forehead. This resulted in the AI crumbling and falling apart.
"Now to seal her away!" Sora was the final one to unleash his Final Smash. He fires a beam of light and conjured a giant Keyhole. The Keyhole then turned into the Door of Darkness and sucked Alter Ego Junko's remains in. Sora then seals the Keyhole with the same beam, causing the Door to explode, thus finishing the virus once and for all.
The explosion had released millions of yellow fragments twinkling like stars (which they're shaped like six-pointed stars) that slowly rained all over Jabberwock Island. The group watched in awe as they watched the fragments rain upon them.
"The Hope Fragments…" Usami breathed. She had kept her Magical Girl form since Alter Ego Junko's defeat. "We did it, everyone! We defeated the virus and save the Neo World Program!"
"I couldn't have done this without you, guys," Joie smiled.
"Yeah! We all did it as a team!" Jewel added.
"Agreed. Together, we've taken down the biggest threat to this virtual world." Ashvini nodded.
"Well said, Ashvini." Azriel grinned.
"Thank you, everyone, for saving this world." Alter Ego reappears from Azriel.
The sky then returned to normal, and everyone cheered on their accomplishment.
Back at the Hotel Mirai, the students are also watching the raining Hope Fragments in awe.
"Whooo!" Ibuki cheered. "They did it!"
"Yeah! They surely wrecked that giant blonde girl for good!" Akane joined in.
"At last, the battle against the colossal being has come to an end." Gundham chuckled. "Isn't that right, my Dark Devas of Destruction?" His hamsters squeaked in delight.
"I'm glad they defeated her." Chiaki smiled as she puts her hand on her chest.
"In the end, hope reigns supreme over despair." Nagito said.
Hajime then caught a Hope Fragment in his hands and stared at it in awe.
"Wow, so p-pretty." Mikan spoke as she caught one as well.
"It's a sign of our rescuers' victory." Hajime spoke out.
Then, everyone celebrated the group's victory as they tried to catch as many Hope Fragments as they can.
In the Future Foundation's Neo World Program control center, Tails, Miu, Makoto, Kyoko, and Byakuya witnessed the defeat of Alter Ego Junko.
"Yay! They did it! They destroyed the virus!" Tails cheered, and then raised his hand to high-five Miu, but however, the Ultimate Inventor reluctantly raised her hand as well, and Tails happily high-fived her.
"Heh, that Ultra Antivirus Chip really did the job." Byakuya smirked.
Just then, they heard a pop, which startled the five.
"What was that?" Makoto panicked.
"It came from the Processing Unit!" Tails rushed to the program's Processing Unit and spotted a fried flash drive. Luckily, it was not the Virtua Transfer. He then unplugged the fried drive and inspected it. "Whoa, look at this."
"It must be the source of the virus." Kyoko assumed.
"It got friggin' fried!" Miu exclaimed.
"Yeah. Azriel's Ultra Antivirus Chip sure did fry this to crisp." Tails agreed.
"Who could've plugged this thing into the Neo World Program?" Makoto asked.
"I dunno." The two-tailed fox shrugged. "But according to Joie, it must be one of the students that we're trying to rescue."
"That might be the case." Kyoko nodded in agreement.
"You know, I haven't made any friends in my entire life because... you know." Miu spoke after a while. "But now, I have two of them, and even better, they were inventors like me!" Then, she turned to Tails. "Hey, Tails. Can we do that high-five thingy again?"
"Sure thing! That's what buddies do!"
Then Tails and Miu did the high-five again.
"You two sure get along." Makoto smiled.
"We only met for a while, but after our collaboration, we immediately became friends for working together!" Tails grinned.
"Yeah, with our golden brains combined!" Miu boasted.
Tails, Miu, and Makoto shared chuckles and giggles together. Kyoko only smiled, while Byakuya simply looked away with eyes closed.
To be Continued…
A/N: And that's a wrap for a battle against Alter Ego Junko Enoshima! It took me a long time to write about the battle scene, and I think it turned out pretty well.
The next chapter will be the aftermath of the battle, and Joie reveals everything to the students. I'll see you in the next chapter!
